Wall Street deals in money, politicians in votes and that’s why the House of Representatives, Democrats as well as Republicans, rejected the US government’s $700bn Wall Street bailout plan yesterday.
Many congressmen and women face re-election in November and they’ve been …
Read Full Story »Researchers at the University of Milan claim to have a discovered a natural alternative to Viagra, the aptly-named horny goatweed.
Horny goatweed is a Chinese natural remedy and by tinkering with it the researchers say they can produce a compound that …
Art tycoon and former adman Charles Saatchi, married to celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, has lost his chubby mien by subsisting solely on a diet of eggs, three for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Saatchi, 65, has always been his own man when …
Premiership football is supposed to be all about money these days so how pleasing was it to see hard-up Wigan beat moneybags Manchester City (recently bought by the Abu Dhabi United Group) on Sunday.
This came hard on the heels of …
As Hull City celebrated their stunning victory at the Emirates on Saturday, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was so devastated by the defeat that he referred to the victors as “West Brom”.
Indeed, Wenger’s touchline demeanour as he threw his cup down …
Former building society Bradford & Bingley has joined Northern Rock in government administration, making it the last of the building societies that became banks to exit the City.
Building societies started turning themselves into banks in 1989 when Abbey National, then …
Not content with stealing a ship containing 33 T-72 tanks and demanding a ransom variously estimated at $20-35m, the Somali pirates in question seem likely to cause an international incident too.
At the moment the Ukrainian ship is hemmed in by …
