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The authorities in New York have filed several charges against Bank of America and its former top executives, accusing them of deceiving shareholders over the take-over of the investment bank Merrill Lynch.
The former chief executive of Bank of America and the former chief financial officer are alleged to have
commit
ted an
enormous
fraud by duping shareholders and taxpayers who paid billions of dollars to bail out the bank.
There have been celebrations in the streets of Naples following a European Union decision to give protected status to the Italian city’s most famous
culinary
creation: the pizza. The city is widely acknowledged as its original home. Duncan Kennedy reports.
For 25 years, pizza-makers in Naples have been trying to get their product protected. And now it is. Being granted a TSG, or Traditional Speciality Guaranteed label by the EU, it means that all pizzerias
aspiring to
supply the real thing are in future supposed to be vetted by a special commission that will check standards. They include using only San Marzano tomatoes and fresh buffalo mozzarella cheese.
A lawyer representing Michael Jackson’s doctor said his client is preparing to
surrender
to the authorities in Los Angeles in connection with the singer’s death. BBC correspondent in Los Angeles says it’s been reported that Dr. Conrad Murray is likely to be charged with