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

Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest, is the latest European lender to raise money from investors to improve its capital strength

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 suicide blast in a popular part of the the Nigerian city of Kano kills four people, police say.

Police searching for two prisoners who absconded while out on day release from prison arrest a 51-year-old man for being unlawfully at large.

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.

Three-time F1 world champion Sir Jack Brabham - who famously won the title in a car he built himself - dies aged 88