A Unite union picket line during this year’s strikes by cabin crew. Photograph: Max Nash/AFP/Getty Images The Unite union said today that British Airways’s £164m quarterly loss underlined the importance of the carrier reaching a deal with its cabin crew. The disruption caused by... 

Conrad Black leaves a bail hearing with his wife, Barbara Amiel, in Chicago on 23 July 2010. Photograph: John Gress/Reuters Prison seems to have been good for Conrad Black. The disgraced peer and former media baron, returning yesterday to the same Chicago court where he was sentenced in 2007,... 

Snow Fairy, ridden by Ryan Moore, crosses the finishing line to win the Darley-sponsored Irish Oaks. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Snow Fairy proved that her Epsom Oaks victory was no fluke by romping home a runaway eight-length winner of the Irish equivalent at The Curragh yesterday, for Ed... 

Anglo Irish Bank is to become part-owner of troubled Arnotts store in Dublin – even though the bank was blamed during protests in March for Irish financial troubles. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA One of Ireland’s most famous shops today came under the partial control of the country’s... 

Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Deghayes. Having studied the notes of his interrogations, he says much has been cut out or blacked out. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth / Reuters A former Guantánamo Bay detainee says that key exchanges from his interrogation by British security service...