Government tightens bank regulation
The government will tighten up how it supervises banks, scrutinises bonuses and punish misconduct harder as it tries to prevent a re-run of the credit crunch. Full Article | Video
G8 agree temperature limit
Limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius may help a post-Kyoto treaty. Full Article | Full Coverage
Google calls time on the Age of Windows
Google declares war on Microsoft by seeking to unseat the globally dominant Windows operating system. Commentary | Full Article
Another British soldier killed in Afghanistan
LONDON (Reuters) - Another British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday, the 176th British fatality since the war began and the seventh to die in a week. Full Article
Hu abandons G8 as ethnic unrest continues
URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Paramilitary police fanned out in the far-flung Chinese city of Urumqi on Wednesday to try to stifle unrest days after 156 people were killed in the region's worst ethnic violence in decades. Full Article | Video
Bats and balls the key to economic bounce
There are strong grounds for optimism that our love affair with sport may help lift us out of our current economic malaise. Commentary
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