FIVE-STAR hotels, bottles of vintage champagne and private Cessna plane trips: welcome to the world of BBC expenses.

THE BBC will make public the total amount it spends on its stars, but will continue to keep individual talent fees secret, the corporation announced yesterday.

ENERGY companies who fail to pass on falling wholesale gas and electricity prices to consumers could be forced to reduce bills by government action.

NEW defences will be built to thwart cyber-terrorism as Britain faces growing risks of attack from other countries and groups such as al-Qaeda, the government announced yester

A MAN who won £100,000 on a National Lottery scratch card cannot collect his winnings because he does not have sufficient identification.

The parliament has adopted in the first reading draft law on changes into the Law "On state budget of Ukraine for 2009" concerning the volume of living wage and minimal salary, submitted by the Party of Regions. The ForUm's correspondent

MP from the Party of Regions faction Taras Chornovil intends to suspend his permission to exhume the body of his father Vyacheslav Chornovil. He said that in an interview, the ForUm's correspondent informs. "I have taken a decision to suspend

The Party of Regions has blocked the VRU podium, the ForUm's correspondent informs. The deputy chairman of the PR faction Oleksandr Yefremov explained the actions of his political force: "The matter concerns the law on increase of the living wage

The residents of the cities again decided to deal with farming and gardening. After the crisis coming, people again have time and have no money. So summer-2009 is popular with seeds, spade and fertilizer. In spring 'dacha residents' planted potatoes

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called for the transfer of the right to administrate income taxes of individuals to local budgets, she said at a meeting with chairmen of regional state administrations. according to Ukrainian News. Tymoshenko said that new

The President Viktor Yushchenko is convinced that any changes into the Constitution should be taken by the consent of the people. "Any change to the Constitution should be open and transparent, elaborated and adopted on consent with the people. This

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that she will definitely participate in upcoming presidential elections, and has no doubt about her victory. She said at a press conference in Lviv on Thursday that she would run for president to

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has said he is positive about the results of Ukraine's first year as a member of the World Trade Organization, Kyiv Post reported. "I want to tell you that last year we had a $14 billion

The BYuT states that PR hopes to dismiss the VRU, and there fore they block the solution of staff issues. The leader of the BYuT faction Ivan Kyrylenko told journalists today, the ForUm's correspondent informs. According to him, in one

The Home Minister, who is on a two-day visit to Orissa, met the victims living in relief camps set up after a series of communal clashes following the killing of 85-year-old VHP leader Swami Laxmananda Saraswati in August last year.

The water level at the Krishna Raj Sagar reservoir has hit a rock bottom and this prompted Karnataka Chief Minister, B S Yeddyurappa to issue a statement that the stipulated amount of water for the month of June will not

The operations undertaken by the Pakistan Army in the Swat Valley of the Malakand Division in the North West Frontier Province since April have started coming in for some criticism because while the Pakistan Army has claimed to have killed

An emerging Indian-American leader in California, Anish Mahajan, has been nominated by US First Lady Michelle Obama for the prestigious White House Fellowship for the year 2009-2010. 34-year-old Mahajan, a health services researcher, is the only Indian-American to figure in

Monsoon hits mumbai.

RIL senior vice president (commercial) B Ganguly wrote to NTPC on Friday expressing his company's willingness to sign Gas Sales and Purchase Agreements for the state-run firm's Anta, Dadri and Faridabad plants.