The former chief executive of the Bank of the Commonwealth, of Virginia, Edward Woodard Jr., and three others were convicted on Friday of conspiring to defraud the bank of $71 million before its collapse ... Read more
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was made an “assisted witness” on Friday in an investigation by French judges into allegations of possible fraud ... Read more
MARIETTA, Ga. — In the state where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born and a legacy of lynching still informs politics, it is never easy to suggest that a leader of the civil rights movement ... Read more
Hong Kong — China’s top anticorruption agency said on Monday that a former state bank executive faces accusations of pocketing huge bribes, making him the latest senior official to face charges ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The e-mail, from Steve Jobs of Apple to James Murdoch of News Corporation, reads as if one old sport were trying to cajole another into joining a caper: “Throw in with Apple and see if ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The e-mail, from Steve Jobs of Apple to James Murdoch of News Corporation, reads as if one old sport were trying to cajole another into joining a caper: “Throw in with Apple and see if ... Read more
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgarians turned out in record low numbers on Sunday to choose a government to replace the one that resigned after angry and unfocused demonstrations and a bloody crackdown here in the ... Read more
According to the air bill slapped on the crate that arrived at Kennedy International Airport from London, an unnamed painting worth $100 was inside. Only later did federal investigators discover that it was by ... Read more
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif began talks on Sunday to form a new government, as partial election returns suggested that he and his party would have a commanding hold on ... Read more
PARIS — A small tempest of allegations has gathered in recent days over one of the closest allies of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is himself under investigation on charges he manipulated ... Read more