Greece debt cut Europe's biggest banks hit

  The banking industry has described its agreement with Greece to cut its debts as "unprecedented". A group of banks and other in...

Bank tax dodges halted by retrospective law

  A bank in the UK has been forced to pay more than half a billion pounds in tax which it had dodged by using "highly abusive" tax...

The daily Sun had systematically paid large sums of money to “a network of corrupted officials” in the British police, military and government.

A day after presiding over the publication of his new, damn-the-critics Sun on Sunday tabloid, Rupert Murdoch was confronted with fresh alle...

European court rules against Italy for expelling migrants

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Italy had violated it human rights obligations when it deported a group of Afri...

Belarus fights Europe to retain death penalty

Belarusian MPs have blasted a recent resolution of the European Parliament on death penalty in Belarus as an attempt to interfere in the cou...

Fishing skippers fined £720,000

  Seventeen skippers behind one of Scotland's biggest fishing scams have been fined a total of £720,000. The group admitted making ille...

MEP arrested on suspicion of European parliament fraud conspiracy

MEP has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud the European parliament. West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire, 43, was arrested al...

Oscars warn Baron Cohen against red carpet stunt

  Oscars organizers have warned flamboyant British actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen not to try to pull a stunt at this weekend's Academy...

Murdoch slashes price for new Sunday tabloid

  Rupert Murdoch on Thursday fired the opening shot in his battle to reclaim Britain's Sunday newspaper market by announcing his newly l...

Labour suspends MP Eric Joyce after Commons 'assault'

  Labour MP Eric Joyce has been suspended from the party after he was arrested over allegations of an assault in a House of Commons bar. Po...

A4e boss Emma Harrison to step down from government role

  Emma Harrison, David Cameron's "families tsar", is to stand aside from the role in the wake of revelations that former emplo...

Barclays clocks up 1,500 complaints a day

  Barclays has been clocking up over 1,500 complaints a day as its staff share £2.5billion bonuses. The bank had 281,484 customer gripes be...

Indonesia moves foreigners out of riot-hit prison

  Indonesia started moving foreign inmates, women and children out of an overcrowded prison on Bali island Thursday after two days of riotin...

Labour MP Eric Joyce suspended after 'head-butting' Tory Stuart Andrew in House of Commons bar

  The 51-year-old remains MP for Falkirk but cannot take the Labour whip in the Commons until the conclusion of the police investigation. ...

Foreign and female inmates to be evacuated from Bali's Kerobokan prison

  FOREIGN inmates including the 12 Australians held at Bali's notorious Kerobokan jail are set to be moved later today amid fears they c...

Confusion surrounds Australian prisoners held in Bali riot jail

  Confusion surrounds Australian prisoners held in Bali riot jail Scott Rush, is escorted by two policemen after being moved out from Kerobo...

Fraud: Organised crime - Bogus claims gangs cast a wider net

  According to the Insurance Fraud Bureau, the cost of organised fraud to the industry is approximately £200m per year. While this is only a...

Banks forced to hand back £1.9BILLION to customers

  Banks have been forced to hand back £1.9billion to customers who were wrongly sold Payment Protection Insurance as part of a 'loan pro...

Investment Bankers Get Payouts Ahead Of Expected Loss Announcement

  Royal Bank of Scotland is to pay out just under £400m in bonuses to its investment banking staff for their work in 2011, according to Sky ...

Bailed out banks now worth HALF £1,000 per person cost of saving them as they get ready to report £6BILLION losses

Bailed-out banks worth just HALF the £1,000 it cost each person to save them - as they get ready to admit £6BILLION losses RBS cost £45.5bn ...

As Old Francs Expire, France Makes a Small Mint

Greece may be scrambling for revenue, but the French treasury has just banked some 550 million euros for doing nothing — simply letting the ...

Iran Court Starts Trial in $2.6 Billion Bank Fraud

Tehran court began hearing the trial of 32 defendants on Saturday in a $2.6 billion bank fraud case described as the biggest financial swind...

Contempt case against Quinns adjourned

  CONTEMPT OF court proceedings by Anglo Irish Bank against bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn, his son Seán Quinn jnr and nephew Peter Darragh...