$12bn hoax &#39;cruel&#39;
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Bhopal - A hoax played on the BBC that US giant Dow Chemical was to pay $12bn to those maimed in the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster was slammed Friday as &quot;cruel&quot; in this city where thousands died.
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This is a mirage or a sight to behold. This is something you can&#39;t trust with your own eyes, or maybe what you&#39;re watching is real.
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Transport Minister's mythspeaks... We said they'd be sorry when the Ten Downing Street e-petitions system first opened for business. And just a few months later we are confronted by the spectacle of a 'stop road pricing' petition soaring effortlessly past the million mark, and Transport Minister Douglas Alexander trudging round the media claiming that the signatories have been misled by "misplaced fears", "falsehoods" and "myths."â¦
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The campaign, dubbed &quot;Digital Joy,&quot; will cost the companies tens of millions of dollars for its duration in the US to the end of 2004.
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Business & money: Â· Scant detail 'designed to antagonise', says analystÂ· Debt suspected to have soared to Â£300m
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Geopolitical fears following news of the killing of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto hit the pound as well as the dollar, with the euro hitting a new record high of 0.7338 against the UK currency.
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Says recruitment firm that wants its share of the pork IT firms are ripping off the government by charging more than twice the market rate for staff, according to a recruitment company.â¦
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It didn&#39;t take long for the ghouls to come creeping up to take advantage of the Asian disaster. Scam artists have started circulating bogus e-mails pleading for &quot;any donations you can afford&quot; for the &quot;Tsunami Disaster Help Fund.
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"Money has never been part of this thing and no money will be made from this"  A Dutch reality television show in which a supposedly dying woman had to pick one of three contestants to whom she would donate a kidney has been revealed as an elaborate hoax. via The Age
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Fraud is costing the UK at least Â£20bn a year, or Â£330 for each person in the UK, a police study warns.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: Never have so many of us appeared so well-off yet felt so poor - and we used to believe obscene wealth was victimless.
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There are claims charities in Wales could lose over Â£24m as lottery money is diverted to the 2012 London Olympics.
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Business & money: An emergency loan of Â£1.6bn and speculation about the sub-prime fallout have rocked the bank.
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By Stephen Foley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. More than Â£6bn was wiped off the value of the UK&#39;s two giant pharmaceuticals companies yesterday as they and the US regulator attempted to quell a furore over drug safety.
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When the Chinese government said scandalous TV footage of a Beijing snack vendor stuffing steamed buns with flavored cardboard was a hoax, some quipped that even the news in China is fake.
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A television show in which a woman would donate a kidney to a contestants was revealed as a hoax Friday. Presenters said they were trying to pressure the government into reforming organ donation laws.
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Business & money: How $100bn vanished - mighty institutions and powerful figures undermined by pitiful property deals