He lambasted the Prime Minister for a "criminal waste" of £12.5bn of taxpayers' money on the cut in VAT and called for an early General Election, ...

In 2000, the company boasted that it would be investing $1bn in renewable energy between 2001 and 2005. But since then it appears to have produced no ...

By Bertrand Benoit in Berlin The German government’s second fiscal stimulus could reach €50bn ($68bn, £47bn), nearly double the amount expected just a week ...

... as congressional leaders warned that an emergency $775bn fiscal stimulus package was unlikely to be passed before Mr Obama's inauguration. ...