Users of Twitter and Facebook are to be warned about the dangers of committing contempt of court when posting comments online. Dominic Grieve QC, the attorney-general, is to publish advisory notes on ...

The White House will ask Congress for $2bn in emergency funds to tighten its southern border and secure support for changing the law to allow the speedier repatriation of unaccompanied children who ...

Why are we seeing many airlines stop flying to Israel's Tel Aviv airport? On Tuesday at 12.15 EST, the Federal Aviation Administration, the chief US aviation regulator, banned US airlines from flying ...

Italy's coalition government says it is going ahead with a 40 per cent sale of state-owned postal services operator Poste Italiane as part of a wider privatisation plan to reduce public debt. Fabrizio ...

Tech companies including Apple, Google and Netflix have been redefining the idea of television for some time. But Amazon's announcement on Wednesday of its Fire TV set-top box was not just about how ...

Japan's zombie houses, which account for roughly one in seven homes, reflect a dwindling populace and what one analyst calls a "scrap and build" mentality. The population peaked in 2008 and with a ...

Barclays chairman Sir David Walker once described his chief executive Antony Jenkins as a mixture of "stainless steel and passion". To sceptics, those may sound like the perfect ingredients for a car ...

In this hair-raising chamber version of Sondheim's gory musical chiller about the demon barber of Fleet Street you don't just watch as Sweeney lathers up his victims, you feel the flecks of shaving ...

A US Senate investigation report last year alleged that Goldman Sachs had used its ownership of a Detroit warehouse company to boost queues to earn more profit by offering incentives. "The LME has ...

Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, has suggested Berlin is prepared to speed up the pooling of EU bank rescue funds if levies on banks to finance the system are also raised more swiftly.

The first magazine with a moving, high-definition video cover will be launched by Jefferson Hack today in an attempt to meld the worlds of print and digital publishing. The creation of the limited ...

China's first initial public offering for more than a year got off to a flying start, with the stock rising more than 40 per cent on its first day of trading. Shares in Neway Valve rose sharply on ...