UK-based mining giant Vedanta Resources is threatening the health, livelihoods, human and religious rights of entire communities in India due to its unethical practices, a major new report said on Tuesday.
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The FTSE 100 rose by almost half a per cent on Wednesday following the news unemployment in the UK fell by 33,000 in the final quarter of 2009.
Reports claim the union Unite, which represents British Airways (BA) cabin crew, is to meet with its US counterpart Teamsters later today.
Unemployment in the UK fell by 33,000 in the three months to January, with the jobless rate standing at 7.8 per cent, official figures have revealed.
The FTSE 100 continued to build on gains made on Tuesday to open this morning up over a third of a per cent.
Honda has recalled 412,000 cars in the US after customers complained that brakes felt "soft", in yet another blow to the Japanese carmaker industry.
The markets in London ended trade slightly up on Tuesday with British Airways (BA) leading the blue-chip gainers.
The British government must do more to cut its £178 billion budget deficit, a report by the European Commission has said in a pre-general election blow to Labour.
The FTSE 100, Britain's leading shares index, was up 0.64 per cent at 36.03 points to 5,629.88 at 09:40 GMT on Tuesday morning.
The FTSE 100 suffered a disappointing start to the week on Monday, slipping over half a per cent.
British Airways has announced 60 per cent of its customers will be able to fly as planned during strike action due to be carried out by cabin crew later this week.
Lip gloss, hair straighteners, garlic bread and cereal bars have all made it onto the nation's typical 'basket of goods' used to calculate inflation.
The owner of Calvin Klein, Philips-Van Heusen, has bought the clothing group Tommy Hilfiger for $3 billion (£2 billion), it has been confirmed.
The government has today announced greater protection for credit card users, with a range of new measures which the industry will need to introduce.
The FTSE 100 began the week down 0.3 per cent on Monday morning, with Xstrata leading the slump as it slipped 2.26 per cent in early trading.
The UK property market has experienced its "slowest March ever recorded", the latest house price index claimed on Monday.
The eurozone is on the verge of agreeing a multibillion-euro bailout for Greece after weeks of crisis which threatened the continent's single currency, reports claim.
The markets in London closed up 0.15 per cent, at 8.39 points to 5,625.65, by close of trade on Friday, with banking shares again leading the gains.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers was in part the fault of the firm's senior executives and auditors Ernst & Young, a report has found.
The union Unite has announced that its British Airways (BA) cabin crew members will strike from March 20th for three days and then for four days from March 27th.
The FTSE 100, the UK's leading shares index, inched higher in early trade on Friday as banks gained, the index raising 0.04 per cent by 09:10 GMT.
The FTSE 100 opened slightly down on Thursday with the banking sector suffering in the first hour of trading.
A five-year-old British boy kidnapped while on holiday in Pakistan has finally been reunited with his father after his family paid a £110,000 ransom.
One in seven female students has been the victim of serious sexual assault or physical violence while at university, a new survey has discovered.