UK drugs company AstraZeneca rejects the improved "final" £69bn takeover offer from US firm Pfizer.

Ryanair's full-year profits have fallen for the first time in five years.

US drugs giant Pfizer makes an improved £69bn offer, worth £55 per share, for British firm AstraZeneca.

Bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst gives her first public concert since her Eurovision victory and is lauded by Austria's leader for promoting tolerance.

A Labour Party plan to increase the level of the minimum wage by pegging it to average earnings, and pictures aplenty from the TV Bafta red carpet are in Monday's newspapers.

England captain Steven Gerrard believes the young talent named in the squad for the World Cup in Brazil is "scary".

A private funeral is to be held later for Elena Baltacha, the former British tennis number one, who died of liver cancer aged 30.

Britain's longest-serving postmistress, Esther Brauer, decides to retire because of computer problems after 61 years in the job.