Gas canister man storms office

One of the country's busiest shopping streets has been closed as a man wearing gas canisters stormed into an office and threatened to bl...

Busy London street evacuated over ‘hostage situation’

POLICE have been called to a potential hostage situation after Tottenham Court Road in London, one of the country’s busiest shopping streets...

Credit card fraud websites shut down on three continents

Three men have been arrested and 36 criminal websites selling credit card information and other personal data shut down as part of a two-yea...

Hacking scandal: the net tightens on the Murdochs

  Rupert Murdoch's grip on his media empire was dramatically challenged yesterday after his company was labelled a "toxic shadow st...

France and Germany want to suspend the Shengen Agreement

They say they want a temporary suspension while the crisis continues. Spain will being introducing border restrictions during the European C...

Britain's biggest banks in £2bn crash over Spain fears

UP to £2billion was wiped off the value of Britain’s biggest bank yesterday amid worries over Spain’s ailing finances. Lloyds Banking Group...

TagAZ files for bankruptcy

The Rostov Regional Commercial Court registered an application filed by Taganrog Motor Works (TagAZ) for its own bankruptcy. The hearing da...

The developer behind an ambitious £350m plan to build the world's largest indoor ski resort in Suffolk has been declared bankrupt.

SnOasis, which planners were told would create 3,000 jobs in Great Blakenham, was already years behind schedule. Godfrey Spanner, the man ...

Former Newcastle Knights Chairman and prominent lawyer, Michael Hill has revealed he has been declared bankrupt as a result of several failed property investments.

Mr Hill helped found the Knights 25 years ago and also built the successful legal firm Turnbull Hill lawyers, but in recent years has opera...

Warren Sapp has been on something of a losing streak over the last few weeks, and things appear to be on the verge of going from bad to worse.

 Just days after news of his having recently filed for bankruptcy hit the wire, reports are now emerging that the NFL Network will probably...

Administrators appointed to Houston Fashions

Administrators have been appointed to a Northern Ireland fashion retail chain which employs 68 people. Houston Fashions was established mor...

OFT says 'no licence' to broker Yes Loans

  One of Britain's biggest personal loan brokers, Yes Loans, has been successfully shut down by the Office of Fair Trading after preying...

WESTLIFE star Shane Filan has started a court battle over massive debts.

A property company set up by the Irish boyband singer, 32, ran into trouble owing £4million. He applied for a legal agreement in London this...

Pensioner shoots himself at Greek Parliament, refuses to 'search for food in garbage'

77-year-old Greek man has committed suicide in central Athens by the nation’s parliament, shooting himself with a handgun in apparent financ...

Stolen Tax CD Case: Germany Outraged over Swiss Arrest Warrants

  The tax office in the Barmen district of the western German city of Wuppertal is a yellow-and-gray building from the 1970s, directly oppos...

Financers and Sex Trafficking

  THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com. Damon Winter...