"On one desperate day - Wednesday 16th September, the UK government increased interest rates to 15%. In theory ... support at $1.40 and hitting a Q2 2001 low of $1.37. Dollar appreciation in ...

Wall Street fell at the open, placing US equity indices on course for their first back-to-back decline in more than a month. The benchmark S&P 500 shed 0.4 per cent after the opening bell in New York.

The National Superior Court of Specialized Criminal Justice in the capital, Lima, imposed the sentence after years of legal wrangling, including a dispute over whether Toledo, who governed Peru from ...

Martyn Blake, 40, was dramatically cleared today after being accused of shooting dead Mr Kaba, 24, 'without justification' to stop the fleeing suspect escaping police.