In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy. China is now the world's top producer of the cells -- the t
MPs have approved the new independent body which will run their expenses system - despite a row about a former Lib Dem MP who will sit on its board.By law the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) must have a former MP on its panel. B
WASHINGTON House lawmakers are ready to clear a significant hurdle in their drive to slap new financial restraints on big Wall Street institutions and to demand greater op anniss from the nation's central bank. Motivated by the crisis that caused a
PHILADELPHIA - Gov. Ed Rendell says a Greek company that makes solar panels will open a new manufacturing facility along the Philadelphia waterfront. Athens-based Heliosphera plans to open the plant in Philadelphia's redeveloped Navy Yard. Pennsylva
Mitchells & Butlers has approached the Takeover Panel regarding the influence recently wielded over the pubs group by Joe Lewis, the Bahamas-based billionaire, it said on Monday. The company made the announcement about the “increasingly difficul
LONDON Six years after the U.S.-led invasion of , a panel probing role in the war began Tuesday, with the chairman declaring that he would get to the heart of what had happened.The five-member panel is scrutinizing the period from 2001 until th
The candidates to run the body set up to oversee the clean-up of MPs' expenses have been announced.They are former judge Lord Justice Scott Baker, auditor Professor Isobel Sharp, former MP Jackie Ballard and businessman Ken Olisa. If confirmed by MP
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