A fully bearded David Letterman opened his first talk show in two months by walking out amid dancing girls holding picket signs for striking TV writers.

An international legal expert has hit out at the Justice Minister's recent proposals to tackle gangland crime.

By Tom Kelly, New York THE family of a man killed in the World Trade Center has accepted a million-dollar award in the first settlement from the US Government’s disaster compensation fund.

A former top executive with Cisco Systems has been indicted by a Federal grand jury for allegedly running a multi-million dollar stock scam.

An executive at Cisco Systems, the world's leading maker of internet equipment, has been arrested and accused of embezzling more than £7m.