Google's executive chairman denies that the company fixes its search results to promote its own websites and services.

Barack Obama tells the Palestinian president he will veto a bid for UN membership but Mahmoud Abbas will not drop the plans, the White House says.

A 24-hour public transport strike hits Greece and a mass protest looms in Athens as anger mounts over a new raft of tough austerity measures.

The eurozone's private sector contracted in September for the first time in two years as the debt crisis continued, a survey indicates.

Energy business E.On is cutting up to 500 jobs at its head office in Coventry and at its centre near Nottingham.

Head teachers are to vote on whether to take strike action this autumn against cuts to their pensions.

Nurses are not getting enough practical, hands-on training and the NHS is becoming too reliant on untrained healthcare assistants, says a nurses' leader.

British archaeologists find an ancient shipyard in Italy that built or maintained ships for the Roman empire.