Apple senior executives Peter Oppenheimer,  Timothy Cook and Phillip Bullock being sworn in before this week’s US Senate hearings during which Ireland was dubbed a “tax haven”. Photograph: Daniel Rosenbaum/the New York Times

Sovereign states struggling to adjust fiscal capacity to highly mobile capital in a period of recession have thrust the issue of corporate taxa(...)

Apple Operations International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc, is seen in Hollyhill, Cork. Photograph: Michael MacSweeney/Reuters

Former Apple executives claim the almost tax-free status enjoyed in Ireland by the iPhone and iPad ma(...)

IMF chief Christine Lagarde arrives for the second day of a hearing by French magistrates in Paris into  her role in a €285 million arbitration agreement with a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy. Photograph:  Charles Platiau/Reuters.

International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde began testifying for a second day at a Paris court investigating her decision t(...)

Tributes have been paid to George Moore (62), one of the most successful Irish-American businessmen of his generation, who died on Wednesday night. Photograph: UCD

The death has taken place of George Moore (62), one of the most successful Irish-American businessmen of his generation. Mr Moore died on Wedne(...)

US president Barack Obama has offered his most vigorous public defence of drone strikes, describing them as legal, effective and necessary. (...)

A file photograph of US jobseekers standing in line to meet with prospective employers at a career fair in New York City. Photograph:  Mike Segar/Files/Reuters.

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, pointing to resilience in the labour mar(...)

Diaspora matters

Diaspora, a term once associated only with the exile of the Jews from Israel more than two millennia ago, has moved to the centre of the global(...)

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. Deputy Mick Wallace is to lodge a complaint with the Standards in Public Office Commission while Independent Deputy Clare Daly said Mr Shatter’s actions were “galling”.

Independent TD Mick Wallace is to lodge a complaint with the Standards in Public Office Commission today over Minister for Justice Alan Shatter(...)

“No Drama Obama is immersed in drama so over the top it could have been scripted by Shonda Rhimes and Karl Rove . . . The one-time messiah seems like a sad sack, trying to bounce back from a blistering array of sins that are not even his fault. He went to Baltimore on Friday to talk about jobs. But no one was listening.” Photograph: Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images

I went to New York last week to cover the TV presentations for the new season, shows such as Scandal (...)

A single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million (...)

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