Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:10:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General David Kotz testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this September 22, 2011 file photo. In early 2009, federal investigators finally closed in on Houston financier R. Allen Stanford. For more than a decade and a half, Stanford had run an alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme from his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua. U.S. authorities had been nosing around Stanford's empire but hesitated to open a full-blown probe. To match Insight SEC/STANFORD REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman, and Acting ...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:20:06 +0100 (AP) - Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman, and Acting Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Emily McMahon, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, before the Senate's Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the taxation of mutual fund commodity investments. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Meredith Alexander, former member of the Commission for a Sustainable ...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Meredith Alexander, former member of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, speaks to a reporter at the headquarters of Amnesty International in London January 25, 2012. Alexander has resigned in protest over a sponsorship deal with Dow Chemical because of the company's ties to the Bhopal gas disaster that killed thousands in India in 1984. The Games' organisers chose Dow to make the hundreds of plastic panels that will decorate the outside of the main stadium in a contract that has angered many Indians, including current and former Olympic athletes. Picture taken January 25, 2012. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS SPORT OLYMPICS DISASTER)
Charles Casto (2nd R), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:10:01 +0100 (Reuters) - Charles Casto (2nd R), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission official, and a team member from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspect the emergency power generators with other IAEA members (wearing white helmets) at Kansai Electric Power Co's Ohi nuclear power plant in Ohi, Fukui prefecture, January 26, 2012. The IAEA inspection team visited Ohi nuclear power plant on Thursday as part of a review of tests conducted by Japan to prove the safety of its nuclear reactors in the wake of the Fukushima radiation crisis. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN - Tags: ENERGY DISASTER POLITICS)
United Nations - African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur ...
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:40:02 +0100 (Reuters) - United Nations - African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Joint Special Representative (JSR) and Joint Chief Mediator (JCM) Ibrahim Gambari gestures as he speaks during an interview in Khartoum January 25, 2012. Gambari hopes that peace in Darfur can be achieved in two years but he warned that the death of major rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim could complicate efforts to end the decade-long conflict. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah (SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS)
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