Launching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the ones that led certain farming regions to be known as the ‘suicide belt’, Monsanto has been reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous royalty charges. The farmers state that Monsanto has been unfairly gathering exorbitant profits each year on a global scale from “renewal” seed harvests, which are crops planted using seed from the previous year’s harvest.

                     PA  |  Posted: 19/08/2012 08:56 Updated: 19/08/2012 08:56    

Former chancellor Alistair Darling has urged his successor George Osborne to come up with "another plan" before "immeasurable" damage is done to the UK.

Telegraph.co.uk 

Lord Rothschild has taken a near-£130m bet against the euro as fears continue to grow that the single currency will break up. 

9:55PM BST 18 Aug 2012