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Tax bills for higher earners in Jersey could go up as islanders see the effects of the new income tax system come into force.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was set up in 1861 to examine that the sums of money agreed by Parliament for public spending were properly spent.

New York City could lose 165,000 jobs as a result of the crisis in the financial sector, the city's chief financial officer warns.

New York looks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for a third term as the financial crisis intensifies.

Venezuela's Supreme Court upholds a ban on some 270 people from standing in local and state elections in November.

India's audit agency says rare documents go missing from the National Library in the eastern city of Calcutta

The interim government in Bangladesh sets up a Truth and Accountability Commission to tackle the country's endemic corruption.

A call goes out for Jersey people to help a Treasury board which considers tax appeals.

The corruption allegations against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Up to £1.5bn of tax credit payments were lost to error and fraud in 2006/07, a report says.

A commission to inform the electorate about the Lisbon Treaty rejects allegations about its independence.

Google faces motions at its shareholders' meeting on Thursday covering censorship and human rights.

The rate of farmer suicides in India's Maharashtra state has risen, despite relief schemes, a government report says.

Anyone applying for some of the US investment package for NI must sign up to the MacBride Principles.

Northern Ireland is in line for a US investment package which could be worth hundreds of millions of pounds.

There were 800,000 delays on the railways in 2006/7 costing the public £1bn in lost time, according to the National Audit Office

Wall Street bonuses fall almost 5% in 2007, as the sub-prime crisis prompts a more frugal attitude.

His diaries provide an intimate glimpse of London 350 years ago, but there's an uncannily modern ring to one aspect of Samuel Pepys' life - his workday.

Older people are languishing in hospital because of a seven-week waiting list for home-helps, a report says.

National Audit Office boss Sir John Bourn, who has faced calls to resign in a row over travel expenses, is to retire.

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