30 July 2008 JEDDAH - Employees in the Kingdom may be in for a surprise when they learn that undercover agents are filing secret reports on their job performance.

The claims that are starting to pour into insurance companies responsible for covering directors and officers of financial companies caught up in the subprime lending scandal are expected to test Side-A coverage of the D&O policies, experts say.

TOP real estate agents face legal action for quoting misleading low prices to prospective buyers, after months of inquiries by the Office of Fair Trading.

BANSKO, Bulgaria — Once an idyllic hamlet of red-tiled roofs, this Bulgarian ski town is now crammed with empty new apartments, unfinished hotels and huge, idle cranes that mar the breathtaking view of the Pirin mountains.

Through the large show windows of his estate agency on a street corner in the once up-and-coming south London neighborhood of Streatham Hill, sales manager James Brooks can look out at what once were five competitors.