A credit to your cause
When I first went to Paris, as a teenager at the beginning of the 80s, I can remember my surprise at seeing begging accepted as part of everyday life. I'd thought that b...
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Africans say UN must pay for genocide
The Organisation of African Unity is demanding payment of "significant reparations" to Rwanda by the countries that failed to prevent the genocide of 1994, when 800,000 p...
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Fayed renews legal fight for British passport
Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed demonstrated yesterday that he has no intention of giving up his fight for a British passport when he opened a new round in his six-year ba...
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Union chief accused of ?130,000 fraud
Allegations that Roger Lyons, the general secretary of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance Union defrauded the union of nearly £130,000 from "shell" bank accounts...
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Kidnappers' hideouts penetrated by DJs and relatives' requests
The late-night show on Memories Radio churns out a stream of Mexican cowboy music and romantic ballads interspersed with calls from listeners all over Colombia.
It soun...
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Clobber the taxman
With-profits bonds from life insurance companies are an attractive option for investors who want to earn higher income than they would from a building society deposit, wh...
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How gene blueprint will affect insurers
As scientists this week announced that we now have the draft blueprint for human life, insurance buyers and companies are asking how this breakthrough, perhaps the greate...
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Time for tax cheats to confess
Crackdown: Gordon Brown is targeting tax and benefits fraud
If you have any dark secrets from the taxman you may now be drinking at the last chance saloon, as this we...
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More aid for childhood jab victims
Children left disabled by routine vaccinations for diseases such as whooping cough and measles are to get increased payments from the government. After a 20-year campa...
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Rich? Don't want to pay tax? Here's how
For anyone with real money the first tax-planning decision is whether to avoid or evade payment.
Tax evasion is a criminal matter. It involves hiding money where the au...
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