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• U.K. House of Lords rejects detention plan
LONDON - Britain's House of Lords rejected a controversial plan to extend the amount of time police can hold terror suspects without charge from 28 to 42 days and the government said it would abandon the proposal. The 309-118 vote came after an ...
• U.K. to inject $63 billion into British banks
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, and Finance Minister Alistair Darling outline the bailout plan at a press conference at 10 Downing Street on Monday. LONDON - The British government injected $63 billion into some of the country’s leading ...
• U.K. threatens to sue Iceland to protect savers
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Britain added to the financial chaos engulfing Iceland by declaring Wednesday it planned to sue over lost deposits held by thousands of Britons with Icelandic bank accounts. The news from London even overshadowed an emergency ...
• Help on loans, budgets, investments, more
Q: Should I pull out my money from my employer's 401(k) retirement account now? I want to retire in four years. I am over 59, and will put the money in a money market paying 5.53 percent at my credit union. -Phyllis, California A: If you don't need ...
• AIG spent thousands on execs’ hunting trip
This was an annual event for customers of the AIG property casualty insurance companies in the U.K. and Europe, and planned months before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's loan to AIG," company spokesman Peter Tulupman said Wednesday. AIG ...