The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former senior accounting professionals at a Milwaukee-based headphone manufacturer with accounting fraud, books-and-records offences and related misconduct arising from the embezzlement of more than USD30 million from the company.

TRACE, a group dedicated to the reduction of bribery, has released a report on demand-side bribery in Brazil.

When Calvin Otta left his laptop in the seat-back pocket on an airliner, it was stolen before he could go back and look for it. But software embedded in the firmware led police to the home of the thief.

Many countries have claimed a need for and reliance on foreign workers. But if the recession is teaching one thing, it's that populations do not like large numbers of foreigners - even "invisible" foreigners - coming into their country. And governments are beginning to listen. What will this do to the labour pool?

There has been no public release of any environmental impact study on the proposed building of a new Low Cost terminal as the existing Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) outgrew its existing shed. But there has been considerable development at the current LCCT and there is space for more... and the main terminal has oodles of excess capacity.

As the teams lined up for this year's Belgian Grand Prix, four of the top five cars on the grid carried realistic hopes of winning this year's world Championship. Hamilton, Webber, Button and Vettel were just ahead of Alonso, the remaining possible winner of the Championship. Vettel's kamikaze tactics were in evidence again - and then there were two.

California has issued criminal charges against the owner and two managers of San Jose-based electronic waste recycler Tung Tai Group, after the company allegedly submitted USD1 million worth of “fraudulent and fictitious” reimbursement claims for more than 2 million pounds (weight) of electronic waste that they never recycled.

Actor Paul Hogan flew into Australia last week to attend his mother's funeral. And the Australian government wouldn't let him leave...

The Anti Money Laundering Network has identified a security hole in installations of Joomla!, the popular CMS platform, that allows fraudsters to place files to act as landing pages for spam-scams including a phishing expedition targeting customers of a South African bank.