Threats of layoffs, privitization fuel violence

Company hopes to offer new item in time for Christmas selling season

The purchase will expand Agilent's product portfolio into atomic and molecular spectroscopy and imaging and vacuum technologies.

The move risks fueling tensions with China after other recent anti-dumping decisions against Asian economic giant.

TPI Index shows total contract value down 22%

Future of A400M in doubt after delays

Sluggish sales and a strong yen batter the Japanese electronics manufacturer.

Hackett Group study shows only 22% of companies are able to forecast mid-term cash flow.

CEO sees 'little evidence' of demand growth and predicts a long, sluggish recovery.

Employees opting out of management track, survey shows.

SIR Paul McCartney will marry his girlfriend Heather Mills "some time next year" it was announced yesterday. Romantically, the 59-year-old former Beatle, who lost his

HOMECOMING 2009 and The Gathering are both welcome signs of Scotland and the Scottish Government's interest in its Diaspora.

SO Dara O'Brian and Michael Parkinson are bemoaning the fact there are not enough funny women around to invite on their shows.

AMBULANCE chaser is a phrase often used to describe a certain type of lawyer who - it is alleged, m'lud - is so keen to obtain business that he or she will try to sign up

PRESIDENT Barack Obama's willingness to acknowledge that he had chosen his words badly in his response to the incident involving Harvard professor Henry Gates jnr and a M

A NEAR-FINISHED draft of an entirely different column was unceremoniously dumped last week, when the Fair Access to the Professions report hit my desk on Tuesday morning. All

WHEN you were up, you were up; when you were down, you were down; but when you're only half-way up, you're neither up nor down."

WALKING across John Rennie's wonderful bridge over the Tweed in Kelso on Saturday - heading for the Border Union Agricultural Society's show in the idyllic setting of

A SPECTRE is haunting Britain. Fear stalks the land. Older people are scared to go out, younger people are demonised. There is a sense of malaise about the decline of good man

IF SCOTLAND aims to be a world leader in the art of contradiction, the nation surpassed itself this diaspora weekend. The sky over the revellers in Holyrood Park - about 30,0