Day August 21, 2005

Rushing to beat an October deadline when the biggest overhaul of the bankruptcy law in a quarter century goes into effect, rising numbers of Americans have filed for protection in the four months since the law was changed, seeking to…

From Sue Mississippi probably will file criminal charges against accounting giant KPMG because it created a tax strategy that the state says illegally let WorldCom, now called MCI Inc., shield billions of dollars from taxes, sources close to the case…

Police knew Brazilian was ‘not bomb risk’ Police officers from the team involved in the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes did not believe he posed ‘an immediate threat’. It was only when they were joined by armed…