May 16 2008: How the ongoing war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has affected its people

Added: 2008-05-16

In pictures: Conflict in Congo

Category: varial news

Benfield to be hit by lack of catastrophes

Benfield, the British reinsurance broker, warned that the absence of major catastrophes would see full-year profits fall "marginally below" last year.

Lenders pull out of mortgage deals

Lenders are frantically withdrawing many of their mortgage offers – sometimes with less than an hour's warning – as severe funding constraints mean that they are unable to meet demand for the most competitive deals

BoE injects £5bn to ease liquidity fears

The Bank of England moved to shore up Britain's battered banking sector by injecting £5bn of three-day money into the markets to ease fears about a liquidity crisis following Bear Stearns' problems.