EU cookie implementation deadline is today

A year after its implementation in May 2011, the European Commission's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive will finally star...

Google plans to warn more than half a million users of a computer infection that may knock their computers off the Internet this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers...

Under European Union law, Greece cannot leave the euro.

That is the theory. But in practice, any protection the law offers investors could be difficult to enforce, according to lawyers trying to p...

Former Lloyds worker Jessica Harper in £2.5m fraud charge

A former head of security at Lloyds Bank has been charged in connection with an alleged £2.5m fraud. Jessica Harper, 50, of Croydon, south ...

Bankia shares are suspended in Madrid

Trading in shares in the Spanish lender Bankia have been suspended in Madrid. The market regulator CNMV said it was "due to circumstan...

Catalogue debt problems rising

Unaffordable debt from mail order catalogues is prompting more calls for help to a charity than payday loans, mortgages or rent. The Money ...

35 jobs lost as Belfast's Lansdowne Hotel closes

The Lansdowne Hotel in north Belfast has gone into liquidation with the loss of 35 jobs. James Wong, a director of the Welcome Group, which...

Three killed in northern Italy earthquake

Three people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Italy near Bologna, according to reports. The quake that s...

‘Save euro’ plea to Germans as Spain slumps

BRITAIN yesterday piled pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to save the euro. 6 comments Related Stories PM: Make or break for e...

Spain’s banking crisis reached Britain’s high streets last night when the credit rating of Santander UK was cut.

In a sweeping reassessment, ratings agency Moody’s announced in Madrid that it is downgrading 16 Spanish banks because it could not be sure ...

Italy's banks shaken as economic slump deepens

With the world's third largest debt after the US and Japan at €1.9 trillion (£1.18 trillion), it is big enough to bring the global finan...

Speculation is mounting that a British-based trader dubbed 'Voldemort' is behind a $2billion loss for America's largest bank.

  The man, also nicknamed the 'London Whale' and the 'White Whale', is suspected by financial analysts of making massive and...

Spain Takes Control of Its Top Real Estate Lender

Spain has seized control of Bankia, the country’s largest real estate lender, as a first step toward recapitalizing the company and before o...

$100-million bank-card fraud bust nets 38 arrests in Quebec

Thirty-eight people have been arrested in a crackdown led by the RCMP early Wednesday on an international bank-card cloning ring in the Mont...

Rangers takeover 'still on course' says administrator

Rangers' administrator believes it can secure the club's future before the end of the week, despite American tycoon Bill Miller with...

Clinton Cards prepares for administration

Troubled retailer Clinton Cards has warned it expects its largest supplier to begin steps to place it into administration later on Wednesday...

Brink's Mat the reason that Great Train Robber was shot dead in Marbella

The Brink’s-Mat curse even touched on the Great Train Robbery gang of 1963. One of them, Charlie Wilson, found himself in trouble when £3 ...

British tourist falls to her death from hotel balcony in Magalluf

23 year old British tourist has fallen to her death from the third floor balcony of her hotel in Magalluf, Mallorca. Emergency sources said ...

Four of the last reporters and photographers willing to cover crime stories have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz state

Four of the last reporters and photographers willing to cover crime stories have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz st...

Greek far-right parties could end up with as much as 20 percent of the vote in Sunday's elections. The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has intensified the xenophobic atmosphere in the country.

At night, the streets leading to Omonoia Square are empty. That wasn't always the case. The area was the premier multicultural neighborh...

Locked Up Abroad is different.

Reality TV is, at its core, about letting viewers revel in the bad decision-making of others: those who speak without thinking, who backstab...

Low fare airline bmibaby to close

Low fare carrier bmibaby is set to close later this year, threatening the loss of hundreds of jobs and the ending of its flights. The carrie...