Actor Honor Blackman with protesters from the Equitable Members Action Group outside parliament last year in a demonstration against the lack of compensation for policyholders. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Victims of the Equitable Life scandal reacted with fury todayafter a government report suggested... 

ESPN television sportscaster Erin Andrews arrives at the 2009 ESPY Awards in Los Angeles in this file photograph. CHICAGO — Erin Andrews has sued several hotel chains for negligence and invasion of privacy in connection with the secret videotaping of her by an Illinois man. The videos were taken through... 

reCAPTCHA seems like a perfect match for Google: it’s a project that generates CAPTCHAs and uses the results to digitize books. “reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. (…)... 

BP has made $7bn from a sell-off of its assets but investors fear the oil company may make more radical changes. Above, BP chair Carl-Henric Svanberg. Photograph: Albert Gea/Reuters “The board believes that there are opportunities to divest assets which are strategically more valuable... 

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released by Scotland on compassionate grounds. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images The new coalition government regards the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie plane bombing as a “mistake”, Britain’s ambassador to the US has said. Sir...