Secret emails reveal that the UK’s biggest drug company distorted trial results of an anti-depressant, covering up a link with suicide in teenagers.

In an effort to reconcile with a world in which consumers are increasingly turning to online publications for their news, Time Inc. has announced the latest and largest round in a series of recent layoffs.

A Starbucks that occupies a corner of the Forbidden City faces closure after an online backlash against a foreign franchise in the former home of the emperors of China.

The military-industrial-complex [would] cause military spending to be driven not by national security needs but by a network of weapons makers, lobbyists and elected officials. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Last Saturday afternoon Eva Voorhees heard the clatter of feet on the roof of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Mitchell where she works in the photo department — but it wasn’t the pitter-patter of reindeer.

A centerpiece of the Iraq Study Group’s report is its advocacy for securing foreign companies’ long-term access to Iraqi oil fields.

Shoppers could soon pay for goods using a microchip implanted under the skin, according to a report in The Times newspaper recently.

Two percent of adults have more than half of the world’s wealth, including property and financial assets, according to a study by the U.N. development research institute published on Tuesday.

There are about 100,000 government contractors operating in Iraq, not counting subcontractors, a total that is approaching the size of the U.S. military force there, according to the military’s first census of the growing population of civilians operating in the battlefield.

A Halliburton subsidiary agreed to pay the government $8 million to resolve accusations of overbilling related to the firm’s work for the Army in the Balkans, the Justice Department said yesterday.

Legal authorities should consider criminal prosecutions against AWB Ltd and senior company executives including former chairman Trevor Flugge, the inquiry into AWB’s bribery of Saddam Hussein’s regime has found.

Within the next two weeks the Ministry of Defence will award BAE Systems a £200 million contract to create the UK’s first unmanned fighter jet, The Times has learnt.

A controversial law to open up Europe’s vast market in services won the backing of Euro-MPs yesterday, paving the way for caterers, travel agents and a host of other professionals to set up shop in other European countries.

A ban on television adverts for junk food has been agreed by the media regulator, Ofcom, after three years of rancour between health campaigners and the advertising industry.