Since the worldwide oil windfall is growing by the day some of the planet’s strategic missing links could soon take

I saw that some issues we considered cultural were actually about things such as abuse of power.. To judge from the carpet of ash and dog-ends littering the floor, Kevin likes his cigarettes. Yet he did me the courtesy of asking if I minded if he smoked....

The deal would also have netted them a very low interest rate. On Tuesday, the society launched a new deal offering 7 per cent cashback - up to a maximum of £10,000 - on its variable interest rate of 6.1 per cent. Borrowers had to agree to sign up for at...

He was immediately put in a lunatic asylum because of the diagnosis - by the German authorities - that he was mad!"It was then up to him to prove that he was quite sane, which he did, convincing them he had only done this in order to escape." On his...

He's arrogant, he's vain and she plays on that vanity." Morrissey has revealed that Stone used to scream at the top of her voice before every take. "It was quite strange, to the point where it really freaked me out. I realised it was just to release the...

Under the new pension plan, employees can choose to retire at 55. For members of the old final-salary scheme, the retirement age is 65 for men and 60 for women.Last week, British Airways, which has one of the biggest pension fund deficits in the UK,...

At about £33bn, its market value is more than six times A&L's. Agricole has 22 million customers, against A&L's 5.5 million. But still most banking experts think a price of £6bn would not add up for Agricole and may destroy value for its...

This is a deal that deserves to succeed, even if the possibility of a higher counter offer from Deutsche B? cannot yet be entirely discounted.Where does all this leave the London Stock Exchange? The LSE still has Nasdaq, even if this would now be...

He added "'Are we having a bad interview here?' Yeah, I definitely think so. It's very disappointing, but oh well, I'll never see her again."The interview was not included on Moyles' weekly podcast, a selection of highlights from his show.Radio audience...

Fosca (Death) is the sole stock character who appears here undisguised, lurking halfway up the Golden Staircase to claim his victims. The Gold Rush shows that today's taste for laughter tempered by grim reality has its roots in commedia, or, strictly,...

Just over six months ago, I was one of a group of film people brought together by the American Film Institute to vote the 10 best American films of the year The group seemed nervous. Mr Mathew says that his original plans included drawings of a boat named...