British Banks face supertax costing billions

The BRITISH Chancellor promised the biggest shake-up of economic regulation since 1997 - blaming Gordon Brown's reforms for leaving public finances in ruins...

Mumbai Massacre: 'Put your hands up if you are British,'

India's financial capital, Mumbai, was rocked by a series of gun attacks and blasts last night that targeted luxury hotels and restaurants – and especially British and American visitors. At least 80 people were reported to have been killed and up to 250 injured....

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Source: belfast telegraph

Paradise flattened in storm's wake

The BBC's Andy Gallacher is the first British journalist to reach the Turks and Caicos Islands which were battered by Hurricane Ike last weekend. Here he describes what he saw. Read more