Barclays “to hand over Qatar documents” to Serious Fraud Office Barclays is set to hand over much-disputed internal documents relating to its dealings in Qatar to the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Bloomberg has reported. The bank has been under investigation by the SFO since 2012 concerning two emergency cash injections received from its Middle Eastern investors in 2008 during the financial crisis. The money Barclays [...]
The seven weird habits of highly successful people, from Bill Gates to Marissa Mayer and Warren Buffett Bill Gates has revealed that he used to keep tabs on his employees' movements to assess when they were and were not in work – and if, like him, they were diligently in on the weekend. But he's not the only business leader with a quirky obsession or two – here we take a look at some [...]
Violence breaks out in Athens’ Syntagma Square during mass rally against pensions reforms Violence has broken out in Athens' Syntagma Square during a mass rally demonstrating against pensions reforms. Images from the protests show riot police dealing with outbreaks of a fire after a group of masked individuals were seen throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at police. Witnesses told Reuters that fights erupted between protesters and police on the [...]
Campaigners attempt to test Google “Tories are/Labour are” autocomplete “conspiracy theories” February 4, 2016 A conspiracy theory that Google is blocking negative auto-suggestions for "Conservatives are…." is being put to the test by campaigners trying to train the search engine into offering particularly mean ones. Google was forced to deny "conspiracy theories" that its £130m tax bill is linked to censorship of the search terms around the Conservatives. Users [...]
