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00:16 - U.S. Justice Department tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail
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00:14 - MI6 spent £200m bribing Spaniards in second world war
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00:14 - When Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin: suckling pigs and savage brews
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00:13 - Ai Weiwei releases heavy metal single Dumbass
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Business

Reuters
6 min. ago

U.S. Justice Department tells lawmakers no bank is too big to jail

"No institution and no individual is immune from prosecution because of its size," Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's criminal division, said in testimony before a...

Scotsman
19 min. ago

Bowl maker secures backing for exports

LAWN bowls maker Thomas Taylor, which was founded in Glasgow in 1796, has secured a £450,000 funding deal from Bank of Scotland to help it expand in Australia. The company, which turns over about £3.4m a year, has...

Scotsman
19 min. ago

Scotland’s flagging hotel industr’s Easter boost

SCOTTISH mid-market hotels received a substantial revenue boost in March, with Edinburgh and Aberdeen reporting the best performances. New figures from accountancy firm BDO show that room yield – the industry’s...

Scotsman
19 min. ago

£6m weather aid package unveiled

Details emerged from the Scottish Government on who would be eligible for the £6 million of weather aid cash with sheep, cattle and arable farmers all being eligible to apply for funding. Sheep producers who have lost...

Scotsman
19 min. ago

London blocks calls for livestock levy repatriation

The prospect of Scotland getting its hands on £1.4 million of livestock levies annually going into the English meat promotion board slipped away this week with Whitehall rejecting the Scottish Government's latest...

Scotsman
19 min. ago

Business briefs: Shell | Johnston Press | Wood Group

Plans to redevelop the Shell Centre on London's South Bank have been approved, developers have said. The 1.45 million sq ft scheme will transform the 1960s office site, providing new offices for Shell and other...

Politics

Scotsman
15 min. ago

Leaders: George Osborne’s Plan B | Poor healthcare

WHILE David Cameron was embarked on his latest round of diplomacy in Europe to try to get EU agreement on tackling tax avoidance by multinational companies, his Chancellor, George Osborne, was back in London...

Scotsman
15 min. ago

Tavish Scott: SNP needs to send positive message

This week, the independence debate featured claim and counter claim. So, too, in the previous week. But the over-riding theme once again was a mismatch in weight of argument and analysis. On Monday, the Treasury...

Scotsman
15 min. ago

Michael Kelly: Police have right to quiz services

With the advent of devolution, is there still a role for local government to play, asks Michael Kelly Our police rarely have the ability to surprise us. However, just when I thought that the new Police Scotland had...

Scotsman
15 min. ago

Murdo Fraser: Scottish Tories move with the times

A shift to embrace further powers for Holyrood will put party back at the heart of the political landscape, writes Murdo Fraser ALBERT Einstein reputedly defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again...

Scotsman
15 min. ago

Bill Jamieson: Get real about our debt problems

The independence debate has avoided the subject of our economy - but it must be confronted, writes Bill Jamieson Over the past few days I have had a strange and discomforting sense of living in a parallel universe....

Scotsman
15 min. ago

Iain Gray: SNP closures court disaster

There is no justice in SNP plans to close 26 courts - a decision that will a have a serious knock-on effect  on the viability of our towns, writes Iain Gray This week, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill laid...

World News

The Independent
1 min. ago

Postcard from... Ubeda

More than three-quarters of a century after it was destroyed in the Spanish Civil War, and after 18 years of restoration, a statue attributed to Michelangelo is set to make its return to the small Andalusian town of...

Guardian
7 min. ago

MI6 spent £200m bribing Spaniards in second world war

General Franco meeting Adolf Hitler at the Franco-Spanish border in October 1940. Photograph: Lapi/Roger Viollet/Getty Images MI6 spent the present-day equivalent of more than $200m bribing senior Spanish military...

Guardian
7 min. ago

Wartime MI6 had secret plans for 'liquidation or kidnapping' of targets

August 1945: British wartime prime minister Clement Attlee, seated right, with US president Harry Truman, and Stalin. Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin stands behind, centre. Photograph: Yevgeny Khaldei/Corbis MI6 drew...

Guardian
7 min. ago

When Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin: suckling pigs and savage brews

Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill pictured at the Livedia Palace in Yalta in 1945. Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images A colourful description of how Winston Churchill spent a night drinking with Joseph Stalin in...

Scotsman
9 min. ago

Hunger strike for Pussy Rioter in parole row

A MEMBER of the band Pussy Riot who was jailed over a protest against president Vladimir Putin in a Russian cathedral said yesterday she was starting a hunger strike after she was barred from a parole hearing. Maria...

Scotsman
9 min. ago

Ai Weiwei releases heavy metal single Dumbass

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei moved into the musical world yesterday with the release of the first single from his debut album, a song called Dumbass that takes inspiration from his detention in 2011. The video...