GDP across the eurozone rose by 0.9 per cent in the second quarter.Despite the economic pause across the Atlantic, the US contributed twice as much to total OECD growth – 1.3 percentage points – as the euro area during the second quarter.On an annual basis, OECD GDP grew by 3.1 per cent in the second [...]

A further £52m was shelled out by Hammerson to redevelop and refurbish the centre in a four-year programme.The company is regarded by many City experts as one of the most adept developers in the sector, with an emphasis of ploughing back sale receipts into improving its properties before selling them on at a premium.John Richards, [...]

Thierry is said to be a known “marginal” or drifter, with a criminal record.M. Help us.”French police say that there is some doubt about whether the couple are half-brother and sister, as they claim. They are not letting us talk to the [French] consulate or our families. Finally, they told Portuguese authorities that the owner [...]

It will need a serious, investigative approach to the NHS, education and politics, to a degree that will make its still-substantial celebrity quotient look ludicrously out of place.If circulation begins to fall and he reverts to pre-11 September Mirror coverage, then his current protestations of a journalistic rebirth will look to have been no more [...]

It is also part of the new post-11 September geopolitics – specifically, Mr Bush’s need to calm down the Middle East conflict so that it has as little impact as possible on Muslim opposition to the war in Afghanistan.Much has been written about the efforts of the US and its allies to court the Arab [...]