AP Photo/Paul Sakuma CEO Steve Jobs speaks at a 2009 Apple event in San Francisco. Apple’s touch-screen tablet, expected to be unveiled Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, could give publishers an alternative to Amazon.com’s Kindle. Edit Note: Special LIVE video coverage of the Apple press conference Friday... 

Volunteers in Louisiana clean a pelican covered in oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon rig. Taxpayers in the US and UK will now have to bear some of the clean-up costs from the spill Photograph: Reuters BP is poised to spark fresh controversy after it emerged today that taxpayers on both sides... 

A protest by Bangladeshi garment workers, who are mostly women, in Dhaka yesterday. Millions have accepted an 80% increase in wages. Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80% after months of violent... 

Hypo Real Estate was one of seven European banks to fail a health check on the day that seven US institutions were taken into federal receivership. Photograph: Diether Endlicher/AP More than 100 banks in the US have now collapsed so far this year after another seven were taken over by regulators... 

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Lord Prescott’s maiden speech was remarkable because, with the aid of notes, it was almost word-perfect. Photograph: PA The prospect of John Prescott’s maiden speech in the Lords hung menacingly over parliament today, like the raincloud which finally broke over Westminster in late...