With Greece and Spain owing billions of euros to pharmaceutical groups and arrears slipping again larger groups are taking remedial measures

I’ve got a new little netbook to travel with. And the littel bastard just keeps running out of memory. I’m already running Firefox without downloading images. And that seems to take 250 MB or so of the 1GB RAM available. As far as I can tell cache is set  to 4096. I really shouldn’t be

Private sector bondholders say failure to do so would betray principles agreed at October summit which thrashed out broad terms of deal

Earlier this month, Christians were given an ultimatum by the Islamist group Boko Haram and its various affiliates to leave Northern Nigeria on pain of death. This weekend, Boko Haram struck in a series of coordinated attacks that left over 176 Christians dead and scores wounded in the northern city of Kano. The Islamists targeted several police stations and other public buildings, including the b...

The eurozone was braced for more pain today amid reports that France is set to be stripped of its gold-plated AAA credit rating.

Dave gets a sudden pain in Salford in the latest episode of our political sitcom by Iain Hollingshead.

Rail commuters preparing to return to work after the Christmas break face fare rises of up to 11% from Monday, watchdog Passenger Focus says.

Two films about an alcoholic writer and troubled painter suggest we’re more interested in artists’ pain than their art.

Kent County County has announced it needs to save £97m from its budget for 2012-2013 with more pain to come.

ECB president breaks taboo to discuss costs of any eurozone break-up while playing down bank’s role