THE trader accused of a $2.3 billion (€1.7bn) fraud at Swiss bank UBS is “sorry beyond words”, his lawyer said yesterday, as a court remanded him in custody for another month.

A UK trader wept in the dock today as he appeared in court accused of a £1.3bn fraud at Swiss banking giant UBS.

I READ with interest the Government’s proposals to heap yet more misery on the beleagured Irish motorist.

A FORMER sports editor of The People was jailed yesterday after defrauding his paper of more than €440,000.

A rogue City trader was jailed for two-and-a-half years today after he admitted covering up trades that lost his firm nearly £3m (€3.64m), triggering a dozen redundancies and pay cuts across the board.

ISRAELI MPs last night approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan, clearing the way for a withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Palestinian territory for the first time.

IN an election-day attack, two Palestinian gunmen opened fire yesterday at a Likud Party office and at passengers in a nearby bus terminal in the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean. Five Israelis were killed and dozens wounded in the attack.