LAS VEGAS-- A defense lawyer says a federal indictment accusing a millionaire Las Vegas businessman of wire fraud contains weaker criminal charges than those prosecutors alleged when they accused him last summer and of heading an elaborate international Ponzi scheme.
NEW DELHI-- Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan appeared to be caught in a verbal slugfest between India and Pakistan after he wrote a magazine article that led to heated exchanges between the rival nations.
LONDON, Jan 11- Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of internet phone service Skype, believes the next hot tech business will just as likely spring from Istanbul or Sao Paolo as from Silicon Valley or the coolest districts of London.
*Critics say socialists turning France into museum. To be sure, Hollande's headline-grabbing 75 percent income tax band may well be prompting well-off French to consider lives as exiles in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland or Britain.
*Herbalife says Ackman analysis riddled with mistakes. Dec 20- Activist investor Bill Ackman ramped up his campaign against Herbalife Ltd on Thursday with a three-hour presentation in which he called the weight management products company an unsustainable "pyramid scheme."
Dec 20- Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, best known for taking big positions in stocks in hopes of pushing for management changes, is taking on weight management Herbalife Ltd as his big end-of-the-year short.
fiscal cliff "standoff keeps tax rates low for households making less than $1 million a year, but millionaires get the benefit of lower taxes too, according to a non-partisan study released on Wednesday.