Republican frontrunner opens new line of attack on Barack Obama after last week’s jobs figures, claiming real unemployment rate is above 15%

by Yu Zhixiao, from Xinhua BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) — Russia and China’s double veto of an Arab-European draft resolution on Syria Saturday was aimed at further seeking peaceful settlement of the chronic Syrian crisis and preventing possible drastic and risky solutions to it. It was the second time since last October that Russia and

A former Scotland Office minister is calling for a "double referendum" to decide Scotland's constitutional future.

We are lucky it is a leap year.  It gives us an extra day to save the country. Here are two graphs, both from the Financial Times.  This one shows the UK’s Nominal Gross Domestic Product.  It shows the development of the double dip recession we are facing. The figures are up to October 2011. 

In a major blowout, Mitt Romney crushed Newt Gingrich 46.4% to 31.9% in the Sunshine State, with Rick Santorum taking 13.4% and Ron Paul bringing up the rear with 7%. Romney's victory was telling in that he won big in a number of important groups. Women overall abandoned Gingrich for Romney by a 22 point spread, and married women dumped Newt by an almost two-to-one margin, 28% to Romney'...

‘A double-digit shellacking’. That’s how Gingrich endorsee Herman Cain described Mitt Romney’s 14-point win over Newt Gingrich in last night’s Florida primary. It has certainly helped Romney get over the drubbing Gingrich gave him in South Carolina ten days ago, and recertifies him as the presumptive nominee. A big Gingrich win would’ve blown the race wide open....

European banks are preparing to tap the emergency funding scheme for up to twice as much as was supplied in December’s €489bn debut auction

Britain's economy is in the grip of its first double-dip recession for 35 years, City forecasters believe.

The IMF is seeking to more than double its war chest by raising at least $500 billion in new resources to help countries deal with the fallout of the eurozone debt crisis, but the plan faces roadblocks from the United States and other countries. More »

Owen Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to today’s inflation figures: