Drug firms probed over Iraq cash GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca have been asked to hand over papers as part of a probe into bribes allegedly paid to Saddam Hussein's former Iraq government. The Serious Fraud Office is examining allegations of bribes paid to secure lucrative contracts in breach of Iraq's 1996 to 2003 oil-for-food programme.
Hicks to ask for reduction in weekly visits to police The freed 'terrorism supporter' David Hicks is expected to ask a court to reduce the requirement that he report to police three times a week to once weekly. The 12-month Australian Federal Police order under which Mr Hicks can live in the community requires him to begin reporting in person today to an Adelaide police station where his fingerprints will be checked against records obtained hours after his release on Saturday.
Bhutto 'blocked from hiring US bodyguards' Benazir Bhutto was so fearful for her life that she tried to hire British and American security experts to protect her, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. But the plans collapsed because President Pervez Musharraf refused to allow the foreign contractors to operate in Pakistan, according to senior aides.
Individual privacy under threat in Europe and U.S., report says Individual privacy is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group has said in a report. Both Britain and the United States fell into the lowest-performing group of "endemic surveillance societies."
Hicks to ask for reduction in weekly visits to police The freed 'terrorism supporter' David Hicks is expected to ask a court to reduce the requirement that he report to police three times a week to once weekly. The 12-month Australian Federal Police order under which Mr Hicks can live in the community requires him to begin reporting in person today to an Adelaide police station where his fingerprints will be checked against records obtained hours after his release on Saturday.
Bhutto 'blocked from hiring US bodyguards' Benazir Bhutto was so fearful for her life that she tried to hire British and American security experts to protect her, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. But the plans collapsed because President Pervez Musharraf refused to allow the foreign contractors to operate in Pakistan, according to senior aides.
Individual privacy under threat in Europe and U.S., report says Individual privacy is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group has said in a report. Both Britain and the United States fell into the lowest-performing group of "endemic surveillance societies."
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