The Office of Fair Trading and Get Safe Online have joined forces to urge internet users to be vigilant against online fraudsters as recent research shows that online scams are on the increase.

Hank Paulson's plan to federalise the bad loans currently poisoning Bank's balance sheets is on a knife-edge. If it falls, we could have the worst day's trading since 1987, or if it is finally approved, we could have the best day's trading since urm... last Friday. Every crisis has a cause rooted in the economy (except black monday, which was caused by black-box trading overwhelming markets). This...

From PA: The head of a child sex abuse police unit hit out today at having to spend thousands of pounds on buying valuable information from internet firms. According to the BBC, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has spent more than £170,000 on gathering internet data since it was founded in 2006. The sum, which

This site was created to support an exhibition hosted by the British Library. The online version offers a good basic introduction to the history of British expansion through the East India Company and the development of the British Empire during the 17th-19th Centuries. It uses online images, maps and prints to give added interest. Also provided are quizzes, interesting facts and some suggestions ...

It's been a day of fraught trading on the world's stock exchanges. The FTSE100 ended down 145 points at 5,261. To put that into perapective, as recently as the 19th May, the FTSE 100 was trading at around 6,300 so the market has shed more than 1,000 points in less than two months, a massive decline and clear evidence we are in a "bear market".On Wall Street, it's been the same story of gyrating in...

CLIMATE CAMP 2009: CARBON TRADING AND ACTION PLANNING WEEKEND LONDON, 21/22 MARCH Everything you were gagging to know about carbon trading, and how we can put this new-found knowledge into practice at the G20 and beyond! Day 1 Workshops and discussions on the problems with carbon trading, with speakers from the Cornerhouse, FERN, Carbon Trade Watch and the World Development

The Office of Fair Trading has told 11 financial management businesses with 'look alike' websites posing as official or charity advice sites to close them down immediately, and is warning consumers to take care when searching for debt advice online.

After having embraced carbon trading to fight climate change, the European Commission is now eyeing an EU-wide trading scheme for sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) to improve air quality.

A pilot scheme allowing parents to check with police if someone close to their children has a history of child sex offending is being expanded.

The former City minister said that high-frequency trading also known as black box trading had been a “contributing factor” in the harsh swings which have led to more than £300bn being wiped off the value of British shares since the beginning of July. He wants both the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the