David Cameron lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National cemetery. He later said British foreign policy should focus on business. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Business people may become British ambassadors in the future as part of a shakeup of foreign policy designed... 

The FSA said ex-Northern Rock finance director David Jones lacked integrity. Photograph: AFP/Getty The former finance director of Northern Rock, David Jones, today hit out against the Financial Services Authority as he was handed a life-time ban and fined £320,000 for allowing the bank to... 

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... 

Fuller’s profited from the hot weather – although sales of its own brewed beers like London Pride were down. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Pubs and brewing company Fuller Smith & Turner has cashed in on the recent scorching temperatures which drove drinkers to guzzle... 

A woman sits with her child in a forest village near the mining site of Vedanta’s alumina refinery. Photograph: Parth Sanyal / Reuters Mining company Vedanta today dismissed as “incorrect” an Amnesty International report that accused the firm of human rights abuses and damaging... 

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn argues that ‘Global Solidarity Tax’ would be passed on to customers and investors. Photograph: Stephen Jaffe /Reuters An international group of finance experts from Brazil, Japan, France and Britain, including the boss of the UK’s main chartered...