The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, has said 2011 would be a "horrible" year of cuts in jobs and living standards for many.

Police in India arrest a Citibank employee accused of defrauding clients out of millions of dollars.

Fines imposed by the UK city regulator almost tripled during 2010 to £89m, figures compiled by the Financial Times show.

Server overloads and a bug in Windows caused the two-day Skype outage, the net phone firm says in its blog.

A fire ravages a 13th-Century Belgian abbey famous for its brewery but the monks escape unhurt and the vats are intact.

Recycling chickens past their best-before dates and selling them on to shops serving black communities is 'racist', a South African politician says.

A new £32.3m bridge over the River Thames is given the go-ahead by the government.

A review of quangos in 1980 suggested the name should be changed as it was a source of embarrassment to people who worked for them, newly-released files show.