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As the search engine prepares to unveil plans for its joint venture Chinese website, local employees and legal experts say it could continue operations there in some form

Thousands of British Airways passengers found themselves on Saturday boarding unfamiliar aircraft from carriers including no-frills Ryanair and Air Finland as British Airways mounts a huge operation to cope with its first strike in 13 years

Bob Diamond, president of Barclays Capital, has been awarded up to £6m under an incentive scheme revealed a month after waiving a cash bonus for 2009 in an attempt to calm rising public anger over bank pay

Washington indicates it will consider the Franco-German aerospace group as a prime contractor if it decides to re-enter the competition to supply air tankers to the US air force

The UK lender said loan losses had declined faster than expected in the first three months of the year and it would consequently make a profit this year

Rio Tinto and Chinalco confirmed plans to form a partnership that will develop a rich iron ore deposit in Guinea in what is expected to be the first of a number of joint ventures

Shares in Palm lost more than a quarter of their value after the US-based smartphone maker warned of disappointing sales this quarter and several analysts expressed concerns about the company?s viability

Royal Dutch Shell has announced a ?significant new oil discovery? in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico that could have the potential to be a hub

Carl Icahn, the ctivist investor which has built a 20% stake in Lions Gate, has extended a tender offer to all available shares in the independent Hollywood studio

The US food company has begun its integration of Cadbury in earnest, catapulting nearly all of the confectionary group?s top executives into its top 50 management team

President Barack Obama made an emotional final pitch to Democrats on Capitol Hill to pass healthcare legislation, telling lawmakers that Sunday?s vote would be as historic and significant as the creation of Social Security and passage of civil rights protections

As the search engine prepares to unveil plans for its joint venture Chinese website, local employees and legal experts say it could continue operations there in some form

Commission wants European Union governments to reach an explicit agreement on a financial standby facility for Greece to help it overcome its debt crisis

India?s central bank announced a surprise 25-basis point increase in its key policy rates ? the first rise in nearly two years ? in a bid to head off inflation that is poised to cross into double digits

Pope Benedict apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Irish clergy, saying he felt ?shame and remorse?

The unresolved Greece situation plus monetary tightening in India, pared risky assets? weekly gain

Surgeons from the UK and Italy have for the first time enlisted a child?s own stem cells to grow a replacement organ inside his body; two years after conducting a similar procedure on an adult, they said it had much improved ? making it potentially useful for a far wider range of transplants

Bob Diamond, president of Barclays Capital, has been awarded up to £6m under an incentive scheme revealed a month after waiving a cash bonus for 2009 in an attempt to calm rising public anger over bank pay

For golf and the television networks that cover it, Woods?s decision to rejoin the tour next month is an answered prayer: simply put, the game depends on him. When Woods competes in a tournament, the television audience is 40-60 per cent larger than when he is not taking part

Britain: A labour model mixing flexibility with elements of regulation is helping keep further winters of discontent at bay ? but there is more hidden joblessness and strikes are still brewing

President Barack Obama made an emotional final pitch to Democrats on Capitol Hill to pass healthcare legislation, telling lawmakers that Sunday?s vote would be as historic and significant as the creation of Social Security and passage of civil rights protections

As the search engine prepares to unveil plans for its joint venture Chinese website, local employees and legal experts say it could continue operations there in some form

Commission wants European Union governments to reach an explicit agreement on a financial standby facility for Greece to help it overcome its debt crisis

Pope Benedict apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Irish clergy, saying he felt ?shame and remorse?

The head of the International Monetary Fund wants a new European agency, backed by industry financing, to be set up to deal with failing cross-border banks

The chairman of the Senate banking committee wants the justice department to investigate alleged accounting wrongdoing at Lehman Brothers and prosecute those who might have broken the law

Thousands of British Airways passengers found themselves on Saturday boarding unfamiliar aircraft from carriers including no-frills Ryanair and Air Finland as British Airways mounts a huge operation to cope with its first strike in 13 years

For golf and the television networks that cover it, Woods?s decision to rejoin the tour next month is an answered prayer: simply put, the game depends on him. When Woods competes in a tournament, the television audience is 40-60 per cent larger than when he is not taking part

India?s central bank announced a surprise 25-basis point increase in its key policy rates ? the first rise in nearly two years ? in a bid to head off inflation that is poised to cross into double digits

International community formally condemns plan to expand Jewish settlements in occupied east Jerusalem, in the latest sign of a growing rift between Israel and some of its closest allies

The unresolved Greece situation plus monetary tightening in India, pared risky assets? weekly gain

US stocks pulled back amid investor worries over Greece?s debt crisis, Chinese policy on monetary tightening and domestic political uncertainty over healthcare reform dampening risk appetite

Carnival stood out in a choppy London market on Friday amid optimism ahead of the cruise operator?s results next week

The euro came under renewed pressure this week as fears over Greece?s fiscal problems weighed on the single currency

Crude prices slip back to just above the $80 mark, but palladium rises, buoyed by strong China car sales and a recovery in the US car market

European shares on Friday retreated from their 17-month highs reached earlier in the week as concerns over Greece?s debt problems persisted.

Asian stocks finished the week on a high, capping four straight weeks of gains, helped by monetary easing from the Bank of Japan, positive US data and the Federal Reserve?s decision to keep rates on hold at ultra-low levels

Standard & Poor?s to launch benchmark for commodities next month amid investor fears over US regulatory clampdown in commodities trading

Heavily indebted Italian electricity group says the ?13bn planned flotation of a minority stake in Enel Green Power, its renewable energy business, is to be dual listed in Italy and Spain

Europe?s repurchase market is showing strong signs of recovery following its near-collapse in the wake of the Lehman crisis in September 2008

The future of President Obama?s Healthcare reform now rests in the hands of America?s first female Speaker of the House of Representatives

The technology industry thrives on patricide. Ultimately, slaying dad is the only way to get to the top of the heap, pushing aside an old idea of how computing works to make room for a new one, writes Richard Waters

In Thailand, democratic institutions no longer provide an orderly means of resolving political differences, so the way is open to more visceral appeals, writes Christopher Caldwell

The continued colonisation of Arab land by Israel puts beyond reach the Palestinian statehood Netanyahu professes to accept, writes Philip Stephens

From the onset of the financial crisis in 2007 and the subsequent recession, inflation targeting regimes broke down in spectacular fashion,writes Samuel Brittan

Spanish hopes of moving the peace process definitively toward a final settlement look like overblown bluster, writes Richard Youngs. But Europe could help, by supporting the grassroots

By allowing counterinsurgency to lead Afghanistan policy, we risk militarising every other endeavour there, writes Tyler Moselle

It would be insane for Germany to embark on an expansionary wage policy that led to higher unemployment, writes Otmar Issing

Tests show that those who buy supposedly ethical products were more likely to lie, cheat and steal than those who did not, a paradox described as ?moral balancing?, writes Matthew Engel

Although social businesses do not usually grow as quickly as commercial ones, they do not shrink as much either and weather recessions more successfully, writes Geoff Muligan

In what may have been an offhand remark, the head of the competition regulator has said the industry's charging structure is something his organisation could be looking at in the next few months

Investment banks are facing an imminent inquiry into the fees they charge clients, the chairman of the Office of Fair Trading signalled in comments likely to provoke alarm in the City

The Japanese company has been recruiting bankers across various industry groups in Europe and the US as part of plans to build a worldwide mergers and acquisitions franchise

UniCredit chief confident of board backing for domestic operations overhaul in spite of opposition from some large shareholders

The group is to re-organise its non-retail operations and hand leadership of the global unit to a former top Lehman Brothers banker who had planned to leave the Japanese bank this month

Profumo confident of board backing for a reorganisation of Italian bank's domestic operations

The head of the Japanese bank's operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa is set to become the highest-profile departure since the takeover of Lehman's European and Asian business

US investment bank founded by veteran dealmaker Robert Greenhill is to buy Australian rival for up to $182m in shares to help extend its footprint in the Pacific Rim

The acquisition of Lehman's US operations, which had a strong equities franchise, has finally given BarCap's chief executive a platform to build a global equities business

Barclays Capital is broadening its reach in Asia in order to achieve its target of becoming a top-tier global investment bank

Shares in one of the City's last independent merchant banks rise almost 8% on the back of upbeat first-half results as specialist lending boosts its banking business

Barclays rapidly-drowing investment arm is looking to recreate the partnership models of Goldman Sachs and Lazard

Bob Diamond has built Barclays Capital from a nonentity to a top-flight investment bank but there are doubts whther it can survive regulatory pressure

Big part of BarCap's success stems from its ability to foster an entrepreneurial culture that does not stand on hierarchy

Tens of thousands of UK investment bankers could be caught by a new government proposal that banks should disclose pay details for anyone earning more than £500,000 a year