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The digital entertainment company made its most serious bid yet for the internet-connected television market, slashing the price and size of its AppleTV product by more than half

The former chancellor admitted that Britain’s levy on bonuses had failed to change banking behaviour over pay, as ‘imaginative’ financiers devised ways to avoid it

Stock markets surge as investors took global surveys of manufacturing output to show the world economy was recovering rapidly and chances of double-dip recession had receded

Barack Obama fulfilled what had initially been his biggest campaign selling point to bring the US war in Iraq to a close – ’to be as careful getting out, as we were careless going in’

Book by Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin is an undisguised attack on the perils of excessive immigration

US universities are producing too few engineers to meet industry demand, Indian outsourcing companies say, leaving such businesses little choice but to hire foreign skilled workers to fill jobs in America

Corporates argued forcing them to process OTC derivatives trades through clearing houses would cause a huge drain on cash, possibly hurting European economic growth prospects

The US president declared that ‘the hard work is only beginning’ after he held one-on-one meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as his administration embarked on its most concerted effort yet at brokering peace in the region

General Motors’ sales in its core US market sagged in August, potentially complicating its bid to drum up investor support for its forthcoming public share issue

Private-sector employment in the US fell for the first time this year in August, underscoring fears that a recovery in the labour market is faltering, but a surprise rise in manufacturing activity offered a glimmer of hope for the sputtering economy

World’s third largest supermarket chain is among a pack of more than 10 bidders in the first round of an auction for the south-east Asian assets of Carrefour, the French retailer

Richard Fuld, former chief executive of Lehman Brothers, accused the Federal Reserve of worsening the financial crisis by allowing his investment bank to fail in 2008

The Paris mansion of Liliane Bettencourt, France’s richest woman has been raided by police in the latest twist in a family row that has escalated into a political scandal

German industrial group that hit financial trouble after a controversial swoop for rival car parts supplier Continental sheds new light on its business in a step that reflects a growing willingness to court outside investors

UK manufacturing suffered a sharp slowdown in August amid uncertainty about the nature and extent of public spending cuts and adding to fears that the economy is weakening

India’s aspiration for glory as the host of the upcoming Commonwealth Games is facing a new threat with a serious outbreak of dengue fever in New Delhi

Tony Blair claims Gordon Brown lost the election because he abandoned New Labour and lost the support of business, in memoirs that give an implicit endorsement of David Miliband as the party’s future leader

Asian shares are extending gains as the first fall in US private sector payrolls since January has failed to outweigh positive manufacturing data out of the US and Asia that is giving risk assets a good start to September

The UK is to introduce one of the world’s most ambitious attempts to police online marketing next year, when the Advertising Standards Authority extends its regime to corporate websites, social networks and mobile applications

President Barack Obama declared it was ’time to turn the page’ on disagreements over the war in Iraq, as he marked the end of the US's combat mission and attempted to chalk up a success