High earners will be able to keep more of their multimillion-euro pensions after the finance bill rowed back on some of the extra tax liabilities introduced last year.

Two British Free Tibet campaigners have left China after they were arrested for unfurling a Tibetan flag and banner outside the Olympic stadium, their campaign group said today.

THE Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour yesterday, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the games.