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It was to have been the ultimate symbol of a new Britain at the heart of Europe. The iron road beneath the Channel, ending aeons of UK isolation from its [...]

Ron Sommer is not a man used to compromise and old habits are dying hard. Since leaving the United States and Sony to become chairman of Deutsche Telekom, Sommer has [...]

Every seven year old knows the story. Sixty-five million years ago, a mighty cloud of dust kicked up by a meteorite caused a change in climate that wiped out dinosaurs, [...]

It was, by any standard, an extraordinary meeting, conducted amidst secrecy almost uparalleled in the rough and tumble world of business mergers. In the cabin of his private Dassault Falcon [...]

Like the information technology industry whose evolution it mirrors CeBIT - the world's premier IT showcase, being held in Hannover from 14 to 20 March - has undergone significant change. [...]

The highly infectious phase of acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, defined as the interval between the appearance of HIV RNA in plasma and the detection of HIV-1--specific antibodies, contributes [...]

These guys got straight A grades in school, but with a note from teacher: `Does not play well with others' In the primate kingdom, mergers of neighbouring groups occur only [...]

American criminal investigators have widened their investigation into allegations that Reuters, the world's leading news and financial information organisation, stole vital computer data from its arch-rival Bloomberg. FBI agents who [...]

The death of Gianni Versace will bring one of fashion's most dynamic and high-profile empires to a sudden halt. It is a style powerhouse that generates an annual turnover of [...]

On the beach at Manta, one of Ecuador's main Pacific ports, the handicraft sellers have expanded their souvenir ranges. Alongside the traditional carved turtles, palm trees and sea-birds carved from [...]

QUITO -- The Hilton hotel and an American Airlines office in Quito were damaged by two bombs set off by a leftwing group protesting against economic measures introduced by Ecuador's [...]

Ecuador's finance minister, Mauricio Pozo, compares himself to the head of a household who has recently found work again and needs to get the family finances in order. With bills [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, Ecuador's president, has ordered the military into Guayaquil port, the country's biggest facility, as part of a plan to 'cut out corruption at its roots' in [...]

QUITO -- President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador has raised fuel prices and cut public sector wages to try to close a Dollars 2bn (Pounds 1.2bn) financing gap and satisfy the [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez became president of Ecuador yesterday, three years after leading a short-lived coup that toppled the presidency of Jamil Mahuad at the height of an economic crisis, [...]

QUITO -- The International Monetary Fund agreed yesterday to send a mission to Ecuador 'which would aim to conclude agreement on an economic programme' that would underpin a stand-by loan [...]

QUITO -- SunTrust, the first US regional bank to report results for the fourth quarter, reported a 5 per cent drop in earnings as rising expenses and tight margins related [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador has launched a round of tenders for oil and gas exploration in four blocks off its Pacific coast, which state oil company PetroEcuador said would require investment [...]

QUITO -- Van Oord Marine Contractors of the Netherlands will begin work in February dragging the access channel to Guayaquil, Ecuador's busiest port, after winning the Dollars 16m concession. It [...]

SAO PAULO, BUENOS AIRE, QUITO and CARACAS -- The website of Mexico's main employers' organisation carries the pictures of 10 alleged members of 'Los Villegas', a notorious kidnap gang. 'If [...]

Lucio Gutierrez entered the presidential palace in Quito this week in somewhat different circumstances from the last time he did so, almost three years ago. In January 2000 Colonel Gutierrez [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, the former army colonel who led a coup nearly three years ago, is set to become Ecuador's new leader after yesterday's presidential election, according to preliminary [...]

QUITO -- A leftwing politician who led a military coup just under three years ago yesterday held a commanding opinion poll lead as campaigning ended ahead of Sunday's presidential elections [...]

QUITO -- Allegations that Alvaro Noboa, the wealthy South American businessman and one of two run-off candidates in Ecuador's presidential election, gained control of his family's banana business by defrauding [...]

QUITO -- A Canadian consortium today takes over the administration of Quito international airport as part of its concession to build a new Dollars 400m airport to serve the Ecuadorean [...]

QUITO -- US banana importers want Latin American growers and exporters to help them boost Dollars 4bn retail sales of the fruit in the US, the world's biggest market. 'Bananas [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador's private oil sector was expected to take stock this week after SRI, the country's tax agency, won key points over Canadian oil company EnCana in a lawsuit [...]

QUITO -- A volcanic eruption has wiped out most of Ecuador's harvest of summer flowers being grown for the peak Valentine's Day season. El Reventador belched into life this week [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, the Ecuad-orean presidential candidate, has widened the lead over rival Alvaro Noboa ahead of final elections on November 24. Mr Gutierrez's platform of fighting corruption, increasing [...]

Ecuador's capital, Quito, was at a virtual standstill yesterday (pictured above) as ash continued to fall on the city following Sunday's eruption of El Reventador volcano, Nicholas Moss reports from [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador will post several thousand police to provinces bordering Colombia by January, in an attempt to increase security and prevent a further spillover of problems from its northern [...]

LONDON and QUITO -- Trade ministers from 34 western hemisphere countries meet tomorrow in Quito to try to remove obstacles to an ambitious plan to negotiate by 2005 a free [...]

QUITO -- Lucio Gutierrez, the former army colonel and leftwing populist who emerged yesterday as one of two final candidates in Ecuador's presidential race, sports an unusual ensemble: fatigues and [...]

QUITO -- Among the colourful banners and candidates' posters hung by voters in shops and houses in Quito, the orange number 12 has been most prominent. Ecuadorean elections are something [...]

When Ecuador's finance minister, Francisco Arosemena, meets investors in New York today he is expected to outline a programme that goes some way to satisfying the International Monetary Fund. But [...]

QUITO -- Ecuador police suspect that a British oil technician, missing in the Amazonian jungle near the border with Colombia, has been kidnapped. Ecuadorean soldiers captured two Colombian Farc guerrillas [...]

QUITO -- Energy Development Corporation, a US oil and gas exploration and production company, will today open an electricity generation plant in Ecuador as part of a Dollars 300m natural [...]

QUITO -- Terra Nova, a British insurance underwriter at Lloyd's, was ordered by an Ecuadorean judge to pay Dollars 10m (Pounds 6.4m) for environmental damages caused by an oil tanker [...]

Eliseo Gomez, president of Spanish oil giant Repsol-YPF's operations in Ecuador, has made way for Carlos Arnao, an Ecuadorean. The appointment is a novelty in Ecuador because Arnao is the [...]

QUITO -- Carlos Julio Emanuel, who resigned as Ecuadorean finance minister last month, was today facing arrest ahead of a possible trial for his role in an alleged Dollars 100m [...]

QUITO -- As Ecuador's dollarised economy approaches its second anniversary there is no shortage of well-wishers ready to impart advice for a healthy future. One prescription comes from the International [...]