SAC: federal grand jury indicts hedge fund for insider trading
Federal grand jury indictment alleges that SAC maintained elite group that has traded on insider information since 1999 A federal grand jury has indicted SAC Capital, the embattled hedge fund … Continue reading
NSA surveillance critics to testify before Congress
Democrat congressman Alan Grayson says hearing will help to stop ‘constant misleading information’ from intelligence chiefs Congress will hear testimony from critics of the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices for … Continue reading
Spain train crash: rail investigators recover ‘black boxes’
Train driver Francisco Jos Garz n, 52, arrested Black box data crucial in finding out why train was speeding Seventy-eight killed in crash near Santiago de Compostela The black boxes … Continue reading
Mali election: thousands of displaced people face exclusion from vote
Majority of Malians who fled war in the north fail to receive voters’ cards, leaving them without a voice in Sunday’s polls The vast majority of the half a million … Continue reading
Spain train crash: attention focuses on driver, Francisco José Garzón
News agency reports Garz n telling emergency services: ‘I hope there are no dead – they will be on my conscience. I want to die’ Several Spanish rail experts have … Continue reading
Bradley Manning defence gives closing arguments in WikiLeaks case
Manning’s attorney David Coombs told supporters on Thursday ‘tomorrow, you’re going to hear what the truth sounds like’ The defense was summing up its case on Friday in the court … Continue reading
Italy arrests 51 in Ostia anti-mafia raids
Police operation in coastal suburb near capital is described as one of the biggest ever anti-mafia sweeps in Rome area As temperatures soar to around 40C this weekend, thousands of … Continue reading
Ariel Castro pleads guilty over Ohio abductions to avoid death penatly
Ohio man – charged with 997 counts including kidnap and rape – agrees deal with prosecuctors that will spare him death penalty A man accused of abducting three woman and … Continue reading
Small signs of change in Iran as Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration approaches
Hope is tempered by caution both among Iranians and in the west, where some see an opportunity to repair relations A young Iranian couple, Masoud Bastani and Mahsa Amr-Abadi, both … Continue reading
Russia faces vodka boycott in backlash against anti-gay law
LGBT activists target brands including Stolichnaya and Russian Standard in response to ban on ‘gay propaganda’ There’s nothing more Russian than vodka, so when gay and lesbian activists decided to … Continue reading
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