Sam Coates, Chief Political Correspondent
Gordon Brown will arrive in the Gulf today to ask oil-rich states to use their vast wealth to steady the fragile world economy and to boost British business.
The day after Barclays raised £5.8 billion from funds in Abu Dhabi and Qatar, to avoid taking money from the Treasury, the Prime Minister [...]

By Amy Wilson
Libya will take $7bn of assets out of Swiss banks and stop supplying oil to the country, as an acrimonious dispute that started with the arrest of Colonel Gaddafi’s son escalated.
The north African country said the moves were a protest against the “poor treatement of Libyan diplomats and businessmen by the [...]