Financial Times

Australian prime minister calls leadership vote after Rudd resigns and says she cannot win election

The two plans show that there is strong support for reforms to the bafflingly complicated US tax system but division about how much revenue the system should raise

Australian prime minister calls leadership vote after Rudd resigns and says she cannot win election

The unit which has long underpinned Hewlett-Packard’s finances is facing structural problems that threaten its position as the company’s cash cow

The rally in the price of crude oil denominated in European-currencies is likely to have a negative impact on the continent’s economic growth

A former staff at Otkritie had allegedly contacted a Threadneedle employee about a trade in more than a billion Argentinian warrants

Property tycoon receives apology after information was ‘inadvertently miscast’ when obtaining warrants during investigation into Kaupthing

The intensifying assault on the city of Homs killed dozens, including two western journalists, sparking fresh pleas for international action

Steffen Seibert, spokesman for Angela Merkel, insisted that Berlin saw no need to increase the size of the €500bn European Stability Mechanism

Risk appetite blunted by lacklustre economic activity data from the eurozone and China, and doubts over Athens’ ability to enact reforms

The failure of talks between Iran and the IAEA over Tehran’s nuclear programme has triggered dismay among western powers

Republican presidential hopeful is ‘a person of faith’ who talks of evil and comes across as having the credentials of a preacher

Anglo-Dutch oil group is poised to expand into Mozambique with the proposal to buy the Aim-listed company, one of Anadarko’s junior partners

Terrorism and piracy fears spur more than 50 heads of state and foreign ministers to convene for discussions on the volatile African state

Alessandro Profumo, former chief executive of UniCredit and one of Italy’s most high-profile bankers, is frontrunner to take over as chairman of the bank

Liam Fox’s call to strengthen employers’ power to fire workers is an attack on working people that will not create a single job, say unions

Award-winning war correspondent at the Sunday Times Marie Colvin is killed along with a French photographer in the shelling by regime troops

A US district judge threw out racketeering charges that alleged the bank participated in a scheme to attract investor money to Ponzi scheme

Financial policymakers at the Bank of England were unanimous in backing more financial stimulus at their meeting in February

The carmakers are in advanced talks about an alliance that would see them join forces to build cars and components on the continent