FTSE 100 makes early gains
All eyes are on the stock market after the FTSE 100 Index suffered its biggest points drop in a single day. The FTSE opened brightly and gained more than 100 points...

Obama has narrow lead...
White House hopeful Barack Obama has a narrow three-point lead over his Republican rival John McCain...

Call for UK emissions to be cut by 80%
UK greenhouse gas emissions should be cut by at least 80 per cent in the next 40 years, the Government's...

Dozens injured in Thai protests
About 70 people were injured when Thai police fired several rounds...

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EU leaders want global credit solution
Britain, France, Germany and Italy have called for an international conference "as soon as possible"...

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Interest rate cuts expected
The Bank of England is widely expected to cut interest rates this week amid fears that the UK economy...

Germany insures savings
Germany offered a blanket guarantee on banks deposits in a bid to contain a spreading credit crisis...

Mandelson consulted Blair...
Peter Mandelson said he consulted Tony Blair before accepting his new job...

Government confirms B&B nationalisation
Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley will be nationalised and its savings business sold to Spanish bank Santander...

Washinghton bails out Wall St with $700bn
The global economy has been thrown a lifeline with a rescue package for US banks finally being agreed in Washington...

Ant & Dec survive Afghan rocket attack
TV stars Ant and Dec came under fire while visiting Afghanistan to present a bravery award to troops...

New internet watchdog unleashed
Fresh efforts are being made to ensure the internet does not pose a threat to young people...

Crisis talks on US economy 'fail'
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is meeting US President George W Bush in Washington for talks on the international economic crisis...

HSBC axes 500 UK jobs
About 500 UK jobs are being axed at HSBC as part of a worldwide cull within its investment banking division...

Personal details of teachers go missing
A disc containing the names and addresses of almost 11,500 teachers has gone missing in the post...

Macca spreads his peace message
Sir Paul McCartney brought his own "message of peace" to the Middle East as he played a concert in Israel for the first time...

Gordon Brown fights back
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sought to re-establish his authority as Labour leader during his speech to the party conference...

Finnish school gunman dies
A student who shot and killed ten people at a vocational school in Finland before turning the gun on himself has died in hospital...

BA suspends Pakistan service
British Airways has suspended all flights to Pakistan indefinitely after a deadly terrorist attack there earlier this week...

Mum jailed for 'evil' Naomi murder
A father whose wife murdered their disabled daughter has called her actions 'evil'...

Brown speech bids to silence critics
Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing for the toughest test of his political life when he addresses the Labour Party conference...

Jurors to retrace Menezes' final steps
Jurors will retrace the final steps of Jean Charles de Menezes before he was shot by police marksmen...

Doubts over US bail-out to hit shares
European shares are set to fall on growing scepticism about Washington's rescue plan for the ailing financial sector...

Bush to address United Nations
President George Bush will suggest ways in which the United Nations (UN) could be improved in his final speech...

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