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Byline: Richard Price President Trump launched a cruise missile strike Thursday to punish the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad for the alleged use of chemical weapons. Assad's apparent sarin attack [...]

On June 16, 2016, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') issued a proposed rule (available here), which, if adopted, would result in a revamp of its disclosure requirements for [...]

On December 11, 2015, the US Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') issued a proposed rule1 to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the [...]

On August 18, 2015, a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in National Association of Manufacturers v. Securities and Exchange Commission ('NAM'), [...]

Over the last few years, a number of key jurisdictions have adopted regulations requiring companies engaged in natural resource extraction activities to disclose the payments they make to governments and [...]

On September 10, 2014, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the 'SEC') announced enforcement proceedings against officers, directors and major shareholders and publicly-traded companies for violations related to beneficial [...]

On April 7, 2014, the SEC Division of Corporation Finance (the Division) issued responses to nine frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the reporting requirements regarding conflict minerals originating in the [...]

Mine is a youngish, slightly tatty 'hood: video clerks, personal trainers, life coaches, voice-over actors and lots of chain-smoking older women with small dogs. The night of the blackout it [...]

From Mr Richard Price. Sir, I suppose it was rather predictable that, having spawned a very lucrative source of fees in the shape of international financial reporting standards, the Big [...]

From Mr Richard W. H. Price. Sir, Bravo to Philip Coggan for taking the BBC to task ('Attenborough's bogus question', May 27/28) about the one-sided view portrayed by Sir David [...]

Byline: Richard Price This morning (some deer always bear twins) here's two foxes - blethering, quite the thing - a blink past a station not safe to name. It's playtime: [...]

MY first memory of boarding the IRT was of not boarding the IRT: my mother getting on at the Simpson Street station in the East Bronx while I daydreamed on […]

Day 1 was weird enough without the blackout, thanks. I was awakened at 6:45 a.m. by someone calling, looking for a Richard Price, but not sure he had the right […]

Article by Caroline Woo and Richard Price All manufacturers regularly make decisions about the kinds of information which should be included in product labels, advertisements and other promotional material. There [...]

SHE PROBABLY didn't know it at the time, but it was Jemima who started it. On holiday in the South of France early last year, she confided in a friend that her relationship with Hugh Grant was not going as well as she had hoped. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A new procedural code in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provides for the arrest of ships as security for claims, even when UAE courts do not have jurisdiction under Article 122 of the UAE's Maritime Law. The new code, together with the UAE's increasing port and anchorage activity, makes the UAE a very suitable place for creditors to seek security for their claims.

TEARING a letter open with idle curiosity, the pretty young woman's eyes widened in shock. Staring back at her was the face of a fellow student with whom she had shared a drunken one-night stand. It wasn't his face that had startled her, however, despite the would-be seductive look in his eye. The photograph -- one of several she received -- was singularly revealing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

EVERY woman of a certain age dreams of fitting into her daughter's clothes. Few, however, would aspire to the reverse. Yet when Madonna attended a film premiere with her daughter recently, it was Lourdes who was wearing her mother's coat. Nothing shocking in that, you may think, until you pause to consider that the girl is nine years old and her mother 47. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

She has the looks, the millions and the footballer husband. But what X-Factor star Cheryl Cole DOESN'T boast about in glossy magazines is the violent and criminal background she is desperate to escape … FOR a woman who seems to work every hour God sends, Cheryl Cole has an extraordinary -- some might say infuriating -- knack of looking as fresh as a daisy. On Saturday night, ten million viewers marvelled at her megawatt smile and impossibly glossy hair on The XFactor, despite the fact that she was suffering with a severe dose of the 'flu. Her pop group, Girls Aloud, are sitting pretty at the top of the album charts; her already lucrative X Factor contract is up for renewal, with an opening bid of £1.5 million a year; and at the end of a hard day's preening she goes home to the sprawling Surrey pile she shares with her husband, Ashley, a Chelsea footballer whose salary dwarfs even Cheryl's substantial income. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THIS WEEK STEVEN GERRARD DEFENDED A NOTORIOUS GANGLAND FIGURE IN COURT. WHY? BECAUSE HE'D SAVED THE ENGLAND PLAYER AND HIS WIFE FROM A THUG WHOSE FAVOURED MEANS OF TORTURE IS A HOT IRON: WHEN the name of the character witness was read out to the sleepy jury at Lincoln Crown Court this week, even the doziest of their number sprang to rapt attention. Steven George Gerrard MBE -- captain of Liverpool Football Club, occasional captain of England and role model to millions of impressionable youngsters -- wished it to be known that he had 'the utmost respect' for the man who stood in the dock. Never mind that the defendant, John Kinsella, was a known gangster charged with tying up a security guard during a £41,000 robbery. Gerrard and his father, Paul, were happy to vouch for the defendant's character in an open letter to the court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Following the death of his fiancée Natasha Collins -- whose body was found in a scalding bath earlier this year after a cocaine overdose -- fear the worst. 'This is completely out of character,' says his 68-year-old mother, a retired art teacher. 'I'm spending every waking moment praying he will turn up safe. Mark never gave me the slightest inkling that he might do something like this. 'He can't have missed the appeals in the media, so I can only assume he wants to be left alone. I can't even bear to consider any other possibilities.' Yet with every passing hour the most unthinkable possibility of all becomes ever more likely: that the guilt which has consumed him for months has driven him to take his own life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

HER friends say she's been left so broke her credit card was refused at Sainsbury's… HIS friends say she's turned the children against him -- and it's breaking his heart… One year on, we reveal the human cost of the most rancorous divorce in showbusiness. THE MORTIFIED blonde standing at the supermarket checkout with her head in her hands looked strangely familiar to her fellow shoppers. A full week's shopping for a hungry family of five, packed carefully into the trolley by her side, would have to go back on the shelves. Her credit card had been rejected. Then, as if this were not embarrassment enough, a young lady in the queue whispered archly to her friend: 'Perhaps she should phone a friend.' Cue barely muffled snorts of laughter. 'Can you believe that's Chris Tarrant's ex?' hissed the second woman. 'He must have a good lawyer if she can't even afford to shop in Sainsbury's!' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ONE NIGHT last week, a lone animal rights campaigner crept into a turkey barn in East Anglia to take a look at how the other half live. The birds he went to see are the lucky ones: free range Norfolk Blacks, a highly prized breed, destined for the Christmas dinner tables of folk who pay a premium to ensure the animals they eat are treated well. So it may come as a shock to cast an eye over the images of abject misery captured in that Norfolk barn late on Wednesday night. Covered in the filth of their own faeces, the bedraggled and half-blinded creatures could barely lift their heads, let alone run around. Lying here and there were several completely immobile birds, barely alive if not already dead. Those strong enough to stand upright were practically bald, with open wounds and weeping sores on their heads, backs and wings as a result of cannibalism provoked by the stress of their conditions. A case of animal cruelty headed for the courts? Not a bit of it. In turkey terms, these pitiful specimens are living in the lap of luxury. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHO knows what Roy and Anona Hopkins expected to happen when their daughter Katie became one of Sir Alan Sugar's potential apprentices? There is, of course, the small matter of a £100,000-a-year job should she go on to win the series. At the very least, the boost to her profile would do no harm to her CV. It is a fair bet, however, that they didn't bank on Katie becoming a national hate figure through her Machiavellian wrangling on the hit TV show. Nor would they have anticipated their impeccably brought-up middle-class daughter hitting the headlines for wrecking three -- yes, three -- marriages. Spare a thought, then, for the retired electrical engineer and his respectable wife who opened a newspaper this week to be confronted by images of their naked daughter straddling a married man in a public field. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BACKSTAGE at the Brit Awards, Joss Stone is in full flow, tossing her frazzled pink mane to and fro as she holds forth about her 'amazing' new record. Utterly oblivious to the lateness of the hour and the fact that this is her umpteenth interview, the 19-year-old shows no sign of tiring at the sound of her own voice and is clearly enjoying the attention of the two men who are hanging on her every word. Then, after a rambling five-minute monologue (delivered in that peculiar high-pitched transatlantic drawl which betrays nothing of her Devon roots), she finally looks down for a moment and stops mid-sentence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHE is six months away from her 40th birthday and admits -- with typical candour -- that, as a mother of three, her breasts have long since 'disappeared'. So when Ulrika Jonsson first set eyes on the racy outfits she was expected to wear on tonight's celebrity game show Dancing On Ice, she was understandably taken aback. 'They're not acceptable,' she announced. 'I'm taking them home to have them altered.' An attack of modesty from the famously liberated Swede? Not a bit of it. The costumes, it transpires, were not revealing enough for her liking, so she arranged to have them altered by a tailor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SIR Mick Jagger will be preparing to sing, in just over a week's time, just as he has done for much of his adult life. But on this occasion there will be no stadium roar, no spotlight and no big screen to broadcast his performance to a crowd of adoring fans. Compared to his record-breaking appearance in Brazil earlier this year, when two million people gathered to hear him sing on Copacabana beach, this will be small beer. And yet to Sir Mick it will mean everything. His audience, an intimate congregation of friends and family, will be gathered together to remember Joe Jagger, the Rolling Stone's much-loved father, who died last week, aged 93. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

She flirts with David Beckham and parties with teenagers. But ten years after her divorce Fergie is still alone and now even her daughters are trying to find her a man. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS A STATEMENT of intent, it couldn't have been clearer. When David and Victoria Beckham's marriage was described in print as being 'on the rocks' and nothing more than a cynical business arrangement, the couple were quick to call their lawyers. The message was clear: this story is untrue and we will do everything in our power to prove that our marriage is harmonious, contented and -- most importantly -- genuine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AT THE weekend, it was revealed that actress Sienna Miller and her boyfriend Jude Law have split up, because of her affair with Law's actor pal Daniel Craig. It adds yet another dimension to the debauched goings-on among the fashionable group of friends known as the Primrose Hill set, named after the exclusive area in North London where they live. Fellow members include supermodel Kate Moss and Law's ex-wife Sadie Frost. Here, we look at the lives and loves of some very close friends indeed… [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ALAN PARTRIDGE has always had a hilariously troubled attitude to sex. Whether gyrating on the stage of a strip club, wearing nothing but a leather thong and a comfy multicoloured jumper, or berating a one-night stand for spilling chocolate mousse on his bedcovers, the fictional television presenter has never failed to amuse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of hearing songs by singer James Brown at the age of 14.

Relates the changes in the life and attitude of the authors upon leaving the academe and transferring to a fisherman's house in Martinique. Finding a balance between academic commitments and field research; Scenes of daily life; Relating form to content and imagination to scholarship in crafting books; Challenge of writing a book about Martinique.