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Interpol and U.N. to launch anti-corruption academy

Reuters - 59 mins ago

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. anti-crime agency and Interpol said Monday they would create an academy teaching officials worldwide how to curb corruption, which sucks roughly $1 trillion a year out of the global economy. More »

  • A man walks past a branch of Iceland's Kaupthing Bank in Reykjavik October 9, 2008. REUTERS/Bob Strong

    UK lending Iceland's Landsbanki money

    Reuters - 1 hour 33 mins ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's central bank is lending Iceland's Landsbanki up to 100 million pounds to help it repay Britons with money deposited at the bank, Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Monday. More »

  • A website is reflected in the eye of a computer user in Leicester, central England, in this July 20, 2007 file photo.

    Lost MoD drive may hold details on 1.7 mln people

    Reuters - 1 hour 59 mins ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - A missing Ministry of Defence computer drive could contain details of as many as 1.7 million people who had shown interest in joining the armed forces. More »

  • U.S. economist Paul Krugman (L) and Deutsche Bank Asia chairman Dr Hubert Neiss leave the meeting room after attending conference in Jakarta in this August 29, 2000 file picture.

    Bush critic Krugman wins 2008 Nobel for economics

    Reuters - 2 hours 3 mins ago

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - U.S. economist Paul Krugman, a fierce critic of the Bush administration for policies that he argues led to the current financial crisis, won the 2008 Nobel prize for economics on Monday. More »

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) listens to France's President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris October 12, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

    World governments bail out banks

    Reuters - 2 hours 14 mins ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Governments across the world launched multi-billion dollar bailouts on Monday to shore up tottering global banks and Britain called for a new Bretton Woods agreement to reshape the world financial system. More »

  • European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy talk to reporters in the courtyard at the Elysee Palace in Paris October 12, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

    Euro zone rescue plans mark new era in ties

    Reuters - 2 hours 27 mins ago

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A banking rescue plan agreed at an emergency euro zone summit mark a breakthrough in cooperation among the 15 members of the single currency area, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday. More »

  • British interpreter "became spy for Iran"

    Reuters - Monday, October 13 01:02 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier became a spy for Iran after becoming angry at being passed over for promotion and what he perceived as racial discrimination, a court heard on Monday. More »

  • Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev visits Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, October 11, 2008. Russia fired a long-range Topol missile from Plesetsk on Sunday.

    Russia tests long-range missile

    Reuters - Monday, October 13 12:45 pm

    PLESETSK COSMODROME, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev oversaw the test firing of an intercontinental Topol missile on Sunday and vowed to commission new generation weapons for Russia's armed forces. More »

  • A customer uses a cash machine in Loughborough, central England, October 8, 2008. REUTERS/Darren Staples

    Bank bail-out to take big stakes in top banks

    Reuters - Monday, October 13 12:20 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain waded in with 37 billion pounds of taxpayers' cash to bail out three major banks on Monday, in a move that could make it their main shareholder. More »

  • Prince Charles looks around a new eco-centre during a visit to the Roots and Shoots environmental and educational charity in south London June 12, 2007. REUTERS/Alastair Grant/Pool

    Could Charles appear in "Doctor Who"?

    Reuters - Monday, October 13 11:55 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Charles has been invited to appear on the BBC's "Doctor Who" programme -- and his office has not ruled out his taking part. More »

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