How many billions will Britain get from the great Swiss tax amnesty?
British attempts to recoup tax from swiss bank accounts are put in the shade by america’s policy of prosecuting swiss bankers reports Faisal Islam.
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As Spain begins a general strike in protest at pro-business labour reforms, Spanish journalist Roman Orozco warns that austerity is turning the country from a welfare state into a state of fear.
Channel 4 News learns the number of British bankers leaving the UK for Switzerland fell by 16 per cent in 2011, despite claims the 50p tax rate would encourage wealthy financiers to leave the country.
England risks violating international standards on human rights over its “excessively punitive” youth justice system, the EU’s rights watchdog warns Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke.
A coach carrying a Belgian school party crashes into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland, killing at least 28 people, 22 of whom are children.
Whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, says it has released a cache of more than five million emails from US global security company, Stratfor.
As a pair of armed robbers bound and gag a security guard to steal dozens of ancient artefacts from the Olympia museum in Greece, Channel 4 News goes hot on the trail of the illicit antiquities trade.
British attempts to recoup tax from swiss bank accounts are put in the shade by america’s policy of prosecuting swiss bankers reports Faisal Islam.
Taxing civil servants is one thing, but experts tell Channel 4 News that, if it is serious about tackling tax evasion, the UK should look to the US, which is waging “economic war” against Switzerland.
Jobs are at risk and petrol supplies in the south east could be hit as the Coryton oil refinery stops production. But the energy minister tells Channel 4 News talk of panic buying is premature.
Prime Minister David Cameron today set out his vision for capitalism with ethics to stem the worst excesses in the business world.
As Kim Jong-il’s body is put on display in a glass coffin in Pyongyang, the spotlight turns to Kim Jong-un, his father’s likely successor as North Korean leader.
Residents of North Korea are mourning the death of their “dear leader”, Kim Jong-il, after the 69-year-old suffered a heart attack on a train at the weekend.
As North Korea’s official news agency names Kim Jong-un as his father’s “Great Successor”, Channel 4 News looks at the state he has inherited.
As Wayne Rooney’s England ban is reduced to two matches, football commentator and author John Anderson writes for Channel 4 News on the striker’s history of disciplinary problems.
The Governor of the Bank of England warns banks to brace themselves for a potential eurozone collapse by increasing reserves, adding that the BoE has “contingency plans” for a euro meltdown.