Sebastian Vladescu was forced to step down as the prime minister shook up his cabinet in response to huge political pressure over the government's unpopular austerity measures

When gender testing first came to the Olympics in 1966, Ukrainian track and field stars Tamara and Irina Press disappeared from the sports scene. Yet the methodology is still disputed. I'd like to suggest a quicker and easier test: identifying movie preferences. Generally speaking, women love films about loss and self-sacrifice (Love Story, Casablanca) whereas men prefer stories of conflict a...

SCOTLAND'S finance minister John Swinney has faced calls to publish details of his spending plans ahead of all-party talks on the issue today.

I note I am, according to something called Finance Centres International, the 485th most influential person in the world of offshore. Well, thanks guys. Four questions then. Why is Dan Mitchell 244th? Because Dan’s a better campaigner than Ritchie?

Finance Minister Sammy Wilson questions the need for the Human Rights Commission in Northern Ireland and says a number of quangos must be cut.

Ian Cowie, really: Regular readers will be familiar with the mathematics because I have been banging on about this since the Budget of March, 2007. Here’s one example of how the poverty trap works. Anyone entitled to claim tax credits – and that includes nearly half of all pensioners – whose annual

Tony Blair has set up a company that can provide investment services to funds and individuals.

The NI finance minister says his Executive colleague Conor Murphy has questions to answer about his handling of the recent controversy at NI Water.

Oooooh, horrors! Despite receiving billions of pounds in taxpayer support during the credit crisis, high street lenders are refusing to pass on the full benefit of historically low interest rates to customers, figures show. Instead, they have used the cheap cost of borrowing to drastically increase

After what appeared to be the economic collapse of Scotland's banking and financial services sector in 2008, there is new hope emerging that the worst is over and it is on