Thief buys car with Gazza’s credit card

September 16th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit thief reportedly used a pair of knickers to cover his head, in a bid to disguise himself during a drunken shop raid. Chelmsford Crown Court was told that Michael Callaghan, 43, had forced a shop assistant into a cupboard before taking 200 pounds from the till, reports the Daily Star.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - A UK anti-terror cop has been revealed in court to have used his Scotland Yard credit card to buy items from a sex shop. Detective Constable Matthew Washington, 37, is said to have wasted thousands of pounds of taxpayers' cash by abusing his expenses for more than a year.

July 16th, 2009 LONDON - Despite having tracked a thief who stole his computer, an English salesman failed to have any arrests made because cops felt it to be "too expensive" to collar the person. Twenty-eight-year-old salesman Dale Fryer, of Cramlington, Northumberland, called cops after two 500-pound laptops were stolen, but their inquiries came to nothing.

July 14th, 2009 Markit says being probed by US DoJLONDON — Trading information services company Markit Group Ltd., said Tuesday it is being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department in relation to the market for credit default swaps.

May 16th, 2009 LONDON - Bianca Gascoigne, the estranged step-daughter of former England football great Paul Gascoigne, has been warned that she is a "borderline alcoholic" in danger of ending up like the latter. The 22-year-old tearaway, burst into tears when the medics also revealed drink had left her with the brain of a 64-year-old.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - Visa is testing a credit card with an in-built display for its efficacy in reducing online fraud. The Emue Card's developers have revealed that it generates and displays a unique code each time it is used.

May 9th, 2009 Hackers breach UC Berkeley computer databaseSAN FRANCISCO — University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, putting at risk health and other personal information on 160,000 students, alumni and others. The university said data include Social Security numbers, birth dates, health insurance information and some medical records dating back to 1999.

May 5th, 2009 NBA approved for renewal of credit facilityNEW YORK — Lenders have renewed the NBA's league-wide credit facility, from which 17 of its teams have borrowed $2 billion since it was established in 2003. The NBA said on Monday that approval of the credit by a group of banks led by J.P.

May 2nd, 2009 LexisNexis warns 32,000 of possible data breachNEW YORK — The LexisNexis online information service is warning 32,000 people their personal information may have been improperly accessed in a credit card fraud scheme that postal officials say bilked hundreds. New York-based LexisNexis says in a letter mailed Friday that former customers of the service may have viewed information including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.

April 22nd, 2009 14 schools earn top scores on BCA report cardINDIANAPOLIS — Colleges and universities are doing a better job at being inclusive in women's basketball coaching hires, according to the latest Black Coaches and Administrators hiring report card. The latest grades, released Wednesday, showed 14 of 16 schools received A's for their hires in 2007-08.

April 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's Yuki Bhambri has been handed a wild card for the $15,000 BHEL International Tennis Federation (ITF) men's Futures that begins at the DLTA complex here Monday. Yuki, who won the junior Australian Open in January, will open his campaign against Israeli qualifier Saar Steele Tuesday.

April 11th, 2009 LONDON - Danish referee, who officiated Chelsea's Champions League quarter-final first leg at Liverpool last Wednesday, made a shocking revelation that a Stamford Bridge official had told him the club would not welcome bookings of their players who risked suspension for the return leg. Claus Bo Larsen, the referee, said during a security meeting on the morning of the match 'a representative from Chelsea said: 'Claus Bo, you should just remember that we have some players who have a yellow card already and we are not so excited if they get one again''.

January 13th, 2009 LONDON - US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Tuesday said the bank has other powerful tools to fight the economic downturn besides short-term liquidity to financial institutions. He said the first set of tools that are closely tied to the central bank's traditional role as lender involve the provision of short-term liquidity to sound financial institutions.

January 8th, 2009 LONDON - There is good news for Roberto Cavalli fans as the designer will introduce a snakeskin 'Cavalli' MasterCard March 1. The card will be available in all his boutiques worldwide and via the designer's website.

December 27th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police Sunday said a 50-year-old woman of Indian origin based in Bangkok is suspected to have been running an e-ticket scam worth millions of rupees from India and four people have been arrested in this connection. Naeem Ahmed, 24, Shahid Iqbal, 25, and Feroz Alam, 23, all resident of West Bengal, were arrested from Kolkata Dec 20.