Corporate Law Minister Chris Bowen flagged in December the idea of multiplying by five the penalty for breaking sharemarket trading rules. But he reneged on his plan, outlined in a consultation paper, after stockbrokers lobbied the government to keep the existing penalty at $1

A national renewable electricity standard might pass Congress this year as a stand-alone measure, Thaddeus Huetteman , chairman of the Environmental Markets Association , said in an e- mail. Such a standard was part of cap-and-trade legislation that passed the House last year and stalled

The patent was announced by Fate Therapeutics Inc., a closely held San Diego company that has an exclusive license from MIT and Jaenisch, one of the company’s founders. Shinya Yamanaka , a researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, “was the first one to do it, we had the idea first,”

Thomas Legg, the retired civil servant who led an investigation into the expense claims, said 392 lawmakers and former lawmakers had been asked to repay 1.12 million pounds ($1.77 million) that had been paid out to cover costs for their housing, cleaning bills and furniture. The Daily Telegraph