The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought.

While the bankruptcy filing rate for those under 55 has fallen, it has soared for older Americans, according to a new analysis from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, which examined a sampling of noncommercial bankruptcies filed between 1991 and 2007.

Fairtrade coffee is well established and widely available, so why do you still have to ask for it specifically in the mainstream coffee shops? We've been writing to them and asking.

Bayer CropScience is facing scrutiny because of the effect one of its best-selling pesticides has had on honeybees.

The price of oil has recorded its biggest weekly drop, slipping under $130 a barrel on Friday. Crude prices have fallen more than 11% over the past four days, knocking $15 off a barrel of oil in that period.

China has resorted to stealth intervention in the currency markets to amass US dollars, using indirect means to hold down the yuan and ease the pain for its struggling exporters as the global slowdown engulfs the economy.

A local company is recalling kerosene in several states including the western Pennsylvania area because of concerns it may contain gasoline and be explosive.Pittsburgh Terminals Corp., of Coraopolis, says customers in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio

Investors with shares in Protherics, the UK biotech group that specialises in cancer and critical care treatments, have struck gold

Or does it?

Well, there are many many Americans out there with sketchy credit reports not entirely of their own making thanks to downsizing,etc. I can't get an auto loan without huge interest and i am not alone!