A resigning director claims banking titan Goldman Sachs has become a ‘toxic and destructive’ firm focused on milking clients for everything it can.
France’s Christine Lagarde faces solid competition from Mexican and Israeli contenders as the IMF board begins deciding on a new leader.
The world’s largest emerging economies has slammed Europe’s push to lock up the International Monetary Fund’s top job.
Battle lines were shaping up over the choice of a new leader for the IMF on Friday as it searched for a successor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The resignation of IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn promises to set off a succession battle pitting the developing world against the West.
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/ 6 February 2011
From McDonald’s burgers in the United States to sugar in Bolivia and chillies in Indonesia, food prices across the globe are soaring.
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/ 14 February 2009
It is the battle between Saudi romantics and the police, who each year try to convince the public that Valentine’s Day is a heathen holiday.
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/ 4 February 2009
The way you spot a Somali pirate in a sea of fishermen, says a top French naval commander, is not the AK-47s on his skiff — it’s the ladder on deck.
Tax returns released by former first couple Hillary and Bill Clinton revealed they earned -million over eight years, and questions were raised on Saturday about the sources of much of their wealth. Analysts and media focused on the -million Bill Clinton earned for speaking engagements.
The family of a gunman who shot dead 32 people has apologised for the ”excruciating grief” inflicted on a United States campus, saying as the nation mourned that he had made ”the world weep”. ”Each of these people had so much love, talent and gifts to offer, and their lives were cut short by a horrible and senseless act,” said a statement issued by the family.