Report: Insurer AIG reportedly could be split

Beleaguered insurer American International Group Inc. could be split into at least three separate government-controlled divisions in an effort to save the business, according to a report on Thursday by the Financial Times.

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Pearson shares rally after upbeat trading update

Shares in Pearson PLC, the owner of the Financial Times newspaper and Penguin books, rallied around 5 percent after the company indicated profits for 2008 would be ahead of market expectations despite the difficult economic environment.

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FT Expands Free Web Site Use

The Financial Times is expanding free access to content on FT.com but not giving up on paid subscriptions for unlimited use, the company said Monday.

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Report: China Had Pollution Deaths Nixed

Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution has caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported.

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Nov. 25: Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi, the Financial Times' Chyrista Freeland and Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post discuss the divide between the recoveries of Wall Street and Main Street. (Other)

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The White House has lately assaulted its critics at Fox News – one of the most popular and exuberantly conservative cable news channels.

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"Citigroup is to be fined over derivatives transactions that were partly designed to help foreign clients avoid taxes on dividends," British daily the Financial Times has reported. 

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How much trouble is the Republican party in? Plenty. Compounding its recent miseries, too numerous to mention, Arlen Specter, the independent-minded senator for Pennsylvania, has gone over to the other side. [...]

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Dick Cheney, US vice-president, has endorsed the use of "water boarding" for terror suspects and confirmed that the controversial interrogation technique was used on Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaeda operative now being held at Guantnamo Bay.

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And then... the FT got it right! Finally.

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Iran has built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday.

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The Financial Times, one of the most respected and widely read newspapers on the planet, features an editorial today that openly admits the agenda to create a world government based on anti-democratic principles and concedes that the term "global governance" is merely a euphe …

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It would surely surprise many journalists to know just how much contempt there is for the press among scientists in all fields.

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No. 1 of 4-part article on how to cope in a recession. This segment features cash management -- maintaining keen awareness of where you as a first step to taking strategic actions to stay solvent. Maybe even to grow.

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Post-Election Musings

There have been some surprises: 1. Those who I expected would vote Democrat displayed extremely conservative leanings and tendencies (I'm referring here to people I know personally, not political figures).

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The Financial Times, the respected business daily, endorsed Barack Obama on Monday to become the next US president, even though it prefers the trade policies of his Republican rival John McCain.

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Confronting the Israeli Lobby is vital because it plays such "a decisive role (and) world-historic impact on the present and future of world peace and social justice." Ignore it and consider the peril of America hurtling from small wars to greater ones with no end in sight.

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BBC Worldwide, the broadcaster's commercial arm, could be handed over in its entirety to Channel 4, according to official proposals to plug a funding gap of up to £235m in public service broadcasting.

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If ever there were a symbol of India's ambitions to become a modern nation, it would surely be the Nano, the tiny car with the even tinier price-tag. However, the Nano has run into trouble because of a messy tussle over land with dispossessed farmers.

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The impressions in Europe of the presidential election from Die Tageszeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and The Financial Times Deutschland. Says one: McCain only hopes that the evangelical base will gather behind him with new fury.

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Parliament has passed a non-binding resolution instructing the government: • to cut diplomatic ties with Russia; • to annul treaties on Russian peacekeeping.

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By Mikheil Saakashvili

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Georgia did not believe Russia would respond to its offensive in South Ossetia and was completely unprepared for the counter-attack, the deputy defence minister has admitted.

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It is a year since the European Central Bank was forced to inject €95bn into the eurozone banking system, bringing home what many had suspected – that the fallout from the US subprime mortgage crisis in the US was causing serious pain to global financial markets.

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The Financial Times reports: Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk radio host, has signed an eight-year contract extension said to be worth as much as $400m.

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According to reports, she is being lined up to write for Alphaville, the paper's news and analysis blog. It is also understand that the the fifth in line to the throne will contribute to How to Spend It, the paper's quarterly glozzy magazine

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The west could be sleepwalking into a war on the European continent. Georgia, which burst into view with a moving display of democratic ambition during the Rose Revolution of 2003, is teetering on the brink of war with Russia over the separatist Georgian enclave of Abkhazia.

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Britain's Financial Times newspaper, which has bigger paid circulation in the United States than its home country, weighed into the bitter Democratic nominating contest– offering its endorsement to Sen. Barack Obama.

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Online advertising technology company, Phorm, which collects information about the browsing habits of internet users in order to display more relevant advertising, has called on members of the internet community to examine its technology after fears over privacy.

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