Cyprus leader invites family firm probe

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• Cyprus leader invites family firm probe
• Cyprus finance minister quits after talks
• Obama proposes $100m for brain research
• Bakrie sets sights on Indonesia’s top job
• North Korea to restart nuclear facilities
• Lapid Facebook post provokes storm
• UN backs global arms trade treaty
• Putin decree targets elite’s foreign assets
• Ex-minister admits to secret Swiss account
• Chávez casts shadow on Venezuela poll

Cyprus leader invites family firm probe Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:43 AM PDT Nicos Anastasiades has urged judges investigating the country's banking disaster to examine last-minute transfers of money from Laiki bank before its collapse

Cyprus finance minister quits after talks Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:49 AM PDT Michalis Sarris resigned on Tuesday after wrapping up negotiations on a €10bn bailout agreed with international lenders

Obama proposes $100m for brain research Posted: 02 Apr 2013 07:07 AM PDT President says project could stimulate the economy and keep the US competitive in the race for innovation with other countries

Bakrie sets sights on Indonesia’s top job Posted: 02 Apr 2013 06:18 AM PDT Aburizal Bakrie, the tycoon-turned-politician, makes the case to the FT that he is the man to propel Indonesia's thriving economy to the next level

North Korea to restart nuclear facilities Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:30 AM PDT UN chief Ban Ki-moon says the stand-off has gone too far and called for calm amid what he called 'aggressive rhetoric and military posturing'

Lapid Facebook post provokes storm Posted: 02 Apr 2013 04:52 AM PDT A Facebook post by the Israeli finance minister evoking an imaginary middle-class couple has drawn widespread criticism for being out of touch

UN backs global arms trade treaty Posted: 02 Apr 2013 11:35 AM PDT Treaty seeks to regulate the $70bn annual exports of conventional weapons, ranging from small arms to tanks and missiles

Putin decree targets elite’s foreign assets Posted: 02 Apr 2013 12:05 PM PDT Top-level bureaucrats and politicians have their hand forced after stalling legislation that would compel them to close offshore accounts

Ex-minister admits to secret Swiss account Posted: 02 Apr 2013 10:06 AM PDT Cahuzac, who had denied any wrongdoing, confessed to investigating judges and said he had been 'caught in a spiral of lies'

Chávez casts shadow on Venezuela poll Posted: 02 Apr 2013 05:18 AM PDT Nicolás Maduro, the anointed heir, invokes Hugo Chávez's name to thwart Henrique Capriles's second bid for the presidency in elections on April 14

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