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Oil price breaks through $126 a barrel

Crude surged to a new record high as concerns about supplies to the US mounted after Opec blamed a weak dollar for the recent spike in prices rather than a lack of production

Citigroup considers $400bn asset sales

Bank moves to restore double-digit growth

Hizbollah seizes large parts of Beirut

Shuts down pro-government Hariri media

Repossession orders jump to 15-year high

Highest level since 1993

Hunter seeks to block Dobbies issue

Entrepreneur seeks to thwart Tesco

EDF adds to its UK nuclear options

Power company buys land around nuclear sites

FT index confirms slowing housing market

House prices fell 0.2% in April

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Live debate: US primaries

Thursday: How is the internet changing American politics? Submit your questions to a panel of experts discussing digital politics at the US embassy in London, or watch the event live

Are we living in an intellectual dark age?

Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman’s blog: Have Prospect and Foreign Policy overlooked the great minds of our era when compiling their list of the top 100 public intellectuals?

    China’s development

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      Comment

      The financial crises of capitalism

      Samuel Brittan

      The beginning of wisdom is to recognise that booms and busts have been a feature of capitalism from the start, writes Samuel Brittan

      Tibet’s case for self-rule

      The country’s sense of identity and the gross oppression of its citizens are much clearer than in Kosovo’s case, writes Paul Harris

        We must repel barbarians from Auntie’s gates

        The BBC enriches Britain in ways that will only be seen when it is gone and it is too late to rebuild it, says Stephen Fry

        Restore ethical finance standards

        Ethics is not only acting correctly; it is also not trying to avoid regulation even if one thinks one can get away with it, writes Evelyn de Rothschild

          Lex

          Grand Theft Auto

          Let’s hear it for violence and mayhem. Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest instalment of the videogame franchise published by New York-based Take-Two, racked up sales of $500m this week after seven days on release – more than double the record weekly take for any movie

          Global imbalances

          The cure was said to be a cheaper dollar and a US recession. Now that America’s currency has dropped by about a quarter on a trade-weighted basis since early 2002, and its economy has ground to a halt, are global imbalances being resolved?

          Editorial comment

          The dollar danger is not over yet

          Verbal intervention on the US currency and euro is welcome – but it is time for verbal intervention on the rupee and renminbi as well

          Bomb-proof banks

          The best advice to Wall Street is to restructure swiftly. Take the pain but appoint someone to take the flak – the more uncharismatic, the better

          Burma’s tragedy

          Let us at least hope this cyclone undermines the junta, whose response to this tragedy has already earned it a place in the annals of infamy

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