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Conservative party woes

From UK 1:52pm

Cameron ‘losing control’ of Tory party

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Conservative MPs complain PM is running an elitist government

From COMPANIES 5:06pm

Conservative MPs face fracking challenge

Gas xtraction zones mainly in southeast

From COMPANIES 5:59pm

H&M rethinks production after Rana Plaza

Brand looking at Africa and Latin America for sourcing clothes

The Monday Interview Karl-Johan Persson, chief executive, Hennes & Mauritz
H&M calls for increases in Bangladesh pay

From COMPANIES 4:07pm

Report points to LVMH operation on Hermès

Leaked document from regulator says group built stake in rival

From WORLD 4:59pm

Saudi prince urged arrest, it is claimed

Prince Abdulaziz bin Mishal al-Saud allegedly lobbied king

From WORLD 1:36pm

New era as Swiss bank secrecy declines

Many private banks are already adapting their model

The Top Line Spain’s short-term banking pain will be longer-term gain
Switzerland Haven feels pressure to conform with global data sharing rules

Person in the news: Jamie Dimon

Joe Cummings' illustration of Jamie Dimon

Should America’s most famous banker remain chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase?

The HIV hunter

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

©Roberto Frankenberg

Thirty years ago Françoise Barré-Sinoussi found a virus in an Aids patient. It won her a Nobel Prize

Weird computer

©Alamy From COMMENT 3:22pm

China: More crooks than patriots

The biggest threat is posed by criminals the state is ill-equipped to police, writes Kathrin Hille

From MARKETS 4:32am

Investors attack ‘lax’ Luxembourg fund rules

Group angry at receiving no regulatory help after losing money

From COMPANIES 1:06pm

US banks’ corporate loans spark risk fears

Flatlining profits sees some lenders easing terms to win business

Warning on dash for junk bonds
On Wall Street Return of risky lending practices
Companies find ways round bank squeeze

©AP From GLOBAL ECONOMY 1:07pm

Bailed-out Jamaica in last-chance saloon

Rescue could be final opportunity to avert catastrophe

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Temples at Lalish

On holiday in Iraq where the horrors of tyranny are being replaced by hospitality and hope

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Image of the giant, active galaxy NGC 1275 was taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in July and August 2006. It provides amazing detail and resolution of fragile filamentary structures, which show up as a reddish lacy structure surrounding the central bright galaxy

©Getty Darwin’s theory of natural selection is helping cosmologists understand the universe

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©Raymond Biesinger Are online friends good for the soul? Not really according to a number of studies

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