Corus is to face prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation into a fatal blast furnace explosion in 2001.
Three workers were killed and another nine were badly injured at the Port Talbot steelworks.
Len Radford, from Maesteg, and Andrew Hutin and Stephen Galsworthy, from Port Talbot, died after the explosion
Iraq has suspended business dealings with Australia’s monopoly wheat exporter AWB, the company has said.
The suspension will remain in force until the completion of an inquiry into allegations that the firm paid bribes to the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
“AWB is disappointed by the decision,” said chairman Brendan Stewart
Takafumi Horie, the former boss of Japanese internet firm Livedoor, has been indicted on charges of breaking securities laws, according to reports.
Together with three other Livedoor executives, Horie has been in custody since 23 January, when he was arrested on suspicion of misleading investors.
The Kyodo news agency said they are accused of spreading false financial information about a takeover in 2004
Supermarket giant Asda discriminated against trade union members, an employment tribunal has ruled.
Workers at a depot in Washington, Tyne and Wear, had voted against a move to bring their conditions in line with non-union workers at a similar depot.
The company was found to be in breach of trade union legislation and faces paying out £850,000 in total – up to £2,500 to each of the 340 workers
Insurance giant American International Group has agreed to pay more than $1.6bn (£920m) to settle state and federal charges of accounting abuses.
Under the settlement, AIG also agreed to change the way it carries out its business to ensure proper accounting practices in the future
A leading US digital rights campaign group has warned against using Google software which lets people organise and find information on their computers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the latest version of Google Desktop posed a risk to privacy.
This is because a feature in the software lets Google keep personal data on its servers for up to 30 days
A former CIA official has accused the Bush administration of “cherry-picking” its intelligence on Iraq before the 2003 invasion.
Paul Pillar writes in the Foreign Affairs journal that the White House used the intelligence to justify a decision it had already reached.
Mr Pillar was the national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005
Meat from whales caught under Japan’s “research” programme is so abundant that it is being sold as pet food, according to a UK conservation group.
Thousands of tonnes of whale meat has been stockpiled as more animals are killed each year, says the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS).
The Japanese government has attempted to sell the whale meat to schools but the price has continued to fall
The internet giant Yahoo has been accused of providing China with information that led to the jailing of a second internet writer.
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders claims that Yahoo released data which led to the arrest of Li Zhi.
The online writer was jailed for eight years in 2003, after posting comments that criticised official corruption
The looting of Iraq’s oil wealth is unprecedented in the history of corporate crime, writes criminologist Dave Whyte The neo-liberal transformation of Iraq is portrayed as a humanitarian venture. Western corporations and occupying governments now talk of the liberation of Iraq from the “tyranny of Saddam’s planned economy”. On the day that major hostilities were […]