• China’s Toys containing lead too toxic

  By Alan E. Moses This has become stupid as we are so concerned about toys from China and disregard the other heavy metals...

   

• Wolfowitz ‘tried to censor World Bank on climate change’

  By Andrew Gumbel The Bush administration has consistently thwarted efforts by the World Bank to include global warming in...

   

• Iraqi government on brink of collapse following cabinet walkouts

  By James Cogan The political survival of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is in doubt following the withdrawal from his cabinet...

   

• Biometric Recognition Used To Personalize Ads

  By J. Nicholas Hoover In the film version of Minority Report, a personalized ad that knows about past purchases greets a...

   

• Banks guilty as charged

  COMPUTER COCK-UPS THAT SINK CUSTOMERS Mirror  Much of the misery created by rip-of f overdraft fees is caused by banks’...

   

• Lies, scams and threats – banks are condemned

  GraÍnne Gilmore and Elizabeth Colman Britain’s banks and building societies have lied to and threatened customers who...

   

• No charges over cash for honours, CPS confirms

  By Philippe Naughton The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed today that nobody is to face any charges from the long-running...

   

• FBI’s Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats

  By Kevin Poulsen FBI agents trying to track the source of e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington high school last month...

   

• Advertisements That Watch You Smile

  By Trinity Hartman German researchers have developed a new tool to recognize emotions as they flicker across the human face....

   

• ‘Use children as medicine guinea pigs’

  Children should be used as guinea pigs in clinical research to speed up medical breakthroughs and improve treatment for them,...

   

• Unpaid tax ‘to be taken from banks’

  IC Wales People who do not pay their tax bills could have the cash taken directly from their bank account under proposals...

   

• Carlyle Group in talks with Virgin Media over possible $19.6 billion bid

  The Associated Press The Carlyle Group private equity firm is in discussions with Virgin Media Inc. over a potential bid...

   

• Corporate greed, corruption, and the coming collapse of America as we know it

  By Mike Adams NewsTarget The U.S. government, once crafted as a system that would serve the interests of the people, has...

   

• The Cashless Society Has Arrived

  By Robert Samuelson It’s one of those vast social upheavals that everyone understands but that hardly anyone notices,...

   

• BAE ‘paid Saudi prince £1bn in secret’

  By Sadie Gray The Independent British arms company BAE Systems secretly paid a Saudi prince more than £1bn over a period...

   

• White House turns to veteran diplomat to head World Bank

  - Robert Zoellick nominated as Wolfowitz successor - Choice of respected figure an attempt to mend fences Richard Adams and...

   

• Bush ignored warning on Iraq War chaos

  ‘Sadly, the administration’s refusal to heed these dire warnings – and worse, to plan for them –...

   

• Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, U.S. Study Says

  JAMES GLANZ Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq’s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted...

   

• World Bank steps up pressure on Wolfowitz

  Krishna Guha The World Bank’s executive board on Friday ratcheted up the pressure on Paul Wolfowitz to step down as president...

   

• Walmart Spied On Protesters

  prwatch.org In 2006, Wal-Mart “had a long-haired employee infiltrate an anti-Wal-Mart group to determine if it planned...

   

• Wal-Mart Defends Corporate Spying

  Wal-Mart defended corporate security practices after a fired security worker confirmed a newspaper interview Wednesday in...

   

• One-man cashless society

  We will be living in a cash-free society by 2012, if the chief of Visa is to be believed. But research shows 81% of people...

   

• Ex-Reagan official Stockman charged with fraud

  David Stockman, a former top budget official in the Reagan White House, was charged Monday with overseeing a sweeping fraud...