The Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition and the Trade Justice Movement have welcomed the Companies Act, given royal assent this week

The two giant Swiss investment banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, are under investigation over possible manipulation of the market in US government bonds.

Halliburton scored almost $1.2 billion in revenue from contracts related to Iraq in the third quarter of 2006

Starbucks, the coffee giant, was yesterday accused of using its might to deprive Ethiopian subsistence farmers of tens of millions of pounds a year.

The adoring fans of the famously troubled Nirvana frontman are furious after learning that he topped a rich list of dead celebrities.

Ken Lay’s death wiped away his convictions. Andrew Fastow got a reduced six-year sentence.

In 2003, Haider Muhsin Saleh, was living in Dearborn Michigan. A former opponent of Saddam Hussein, he had once been imprisoned and tortured by Saddam’s secret police in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Across the country, some teachers complain that President George W. Bush’s makeover of public education promotes “teaching to the test.” The President’s younger brother Neil takes a different tack

MySpace founder Brad Greenspan alleged on Thursday that the 2005 sale of the popular social networking site to News Corp was one of the “largest merger and acquisition scandals in US history”.

Multinational drug companies have been lobbying ministers in an attempt to subvert the independent appraisal process and get their expensive new medicines approved for large-scale use in the NHS.

Andrew Fastow, who helped engineer the financial trickery that sank Enron Corp. and then helped convict his former bosses in the scandal, on Tuesday got four years knocked off the plea deal he had made, receiving a six-year sentence instead.

Stocks fell sharply in the online gaming industry at the beginning of September, after word spread of a second Internet gaming executive arrested by U.S. authorities.

Last week saw the Devon-based independent financial adviser Langtons hit with a £63,000 fine. The regulator found it was in danger of exposing customers to advice from untrained advisers and ill-judged product promotions.

The United States’ top 400 wealthiest people are now all billionaires for the first time, Forbes magazine has reported in its annual survey of the country’s wealthiest people.