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- Queensland picks banks for A$7bn rail IPO
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:43:38 GMT
The Queensland state government has appointed five banks to run a A$7bn share float of Queensland Rail?s coal and freight arm, expected to be Australia?s biggest listing this year
- CFTC urges end to derivatives secrecy
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:05:04 GMT
A leading US financial regulator called for the prices of derivatives trades to be disclosed in the same way as stock prices, saying only large Wall Street banks benefited from the current lack of transparency
- Disappointing data weigh on sterling
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:00 GMT
Sterling lost ground on Tuesday as disappointing economic data and renewed concern over the UK?s banking sector and fiscal health weighed on the pound
Times Online Top Stories
- Psychiatric report said Jon Venables was ?a negligible risk?
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:53 GMT
A psychiatric report that paved the way for the release of Jon Venables, one of James Bulger?s killers, concluded that he posed a ?trivial? risk to the public, The Times has learnt.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/96f36b7/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65749995715/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/158283447/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65749995715/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/158283447/a2.img" border="0"//a
- Pope's brother: I hit children while working at boarding school
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:19 GMT
The Pope?s brother gave a rare insight yesterday into a pervasive culture of violence at Roman Catholic institutions, admitting that he hit children while he was choirmaster at a German boarding school.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/96e2805/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65749987539/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/158214149/kg/39/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/65749987539/u/0/f/440134/c/32313/s/158214149/kg/39/a2.img" border="0"//a
- McQueen?s final collection: a haunting, beautiful spectacle
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:01:00 GMT
It was probably the smallest show in Alexander McQueen?s history and not the one he had originally planned. That was to have taken place in the Conciergerie, a favourite venue of his and the gloomiest of Marie-Antoinette?s prisons.img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.timesonline.co.uk/c/32313/f/440134/s/96f39d7/mf.gif' border='0'/
BBC News
- 'Bali bomber' killed in Indonesia
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:36 GMT
Indonesia's president confirms security forces have killed the last main main suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings, Dulmatin.
- Iran president in key Afghan trip
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:25:41 GMT
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in the Afghan capital Kabul for talks with President Hamid Karzai.
- Northern Rock sees reduced losses
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:09:07 GMT
Northern Rock says that it made "good progress" in 2009, after reporting a sharp fall in its annual losses.