US computer firm Apple withdraws a Jewish or Not Jewish mobile phone application from its French online store over legal data collection issues.

Unions schedule a nationwide day of strikes and demonstrations for 30 November, in protest at changes to public sector pensions.

A report identifies 16 firms from the developing world that are best showing how to tackle environmental and social challenges.

Revenues at Comet electrical stores have fallen 22%, owner Kesa confirms, while non-UK businesses also saw falling turnover.

A British soldier dies after being shot while on patrol with Afghanistan's police in Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence says.

London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Stoke Mandeville are revealed as the venues for London 2012's Paralympic torch relay.

The government says the World Conference on Racism was marked by "open displays of unpleasant and deplorable anti-Semitism" and should not be celebrated.

An operation is under way to rescue four men trapped in a drift mine in the Swansea Valley.