Business & Commerce
HSBC profits rise despite write-downs
HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, has written off $3.2bn in the first quarter of 2008 as a result of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and credit turmoil.
People & Society
UN to resume Burma aid flights on Saturday
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says it will resume aid flights to cyclone-struck Burma on Saturday.
Business & Commerce
Bank leaves rates unchanged at 5%
UK interest rates have been left on hold at 5 per cent, following May's meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
Politics
Johnson bans booze on London transport
London's new Mayor, Boris Johnson, has unveiled Plans to ban the drinking of alcohol on London's transport system.
People & Society
UN aid arrives in Burma
Two UN planes have touched down in Burma bringing much needed supplies to the one million survivors made homeless by Cyclone Nargis.
Sport
Scolari offered £3.25m to replace Eriksson
Manchester City have approached Luiz Felipe Scolari about replacing Sven-Goran Eriksson as the club's manager.
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Mandela concert line-up announced
Queen, Leona Lewis, Annie Lennox and the Soweto Gospel Choir are among the acts that will appear at a concert for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in June.
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