Homeless people in parts of north Wales are being offered work placements at businesses and organisations to help them reintegrate into society.

Food regulators moved to ban artificial additives from hundreds of products yesterday, three decades after parents began complaining that their children suffered mood swings after consuming brightly coloured sweets, cakes and drinks.

The tape recordings that Richard Nixon made, almost obsessively, of everything that went on in the Oval Office helped bring down his presidency. And now a similarly thorough archive of video footage threatens to create a world of embarrassment – and legal liability – for Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer.

Centrica has intensified talks with RWE that could see the companies launch a joint £11bn bid for British Energy by the end of this month.

Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of Guardian Media Group, has resigned as an independent director of Tesco after the supermarket group issued a writ for libel against the Guardian and its editor, Alan Rusbridger.

The wave of disruption spreading across US airports in recent days shows little sign of abating, as airlines are forced to ground fleets of aircraft at short notice in response to growing concerns in the US about aviation safety regulation.

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