UK retailers Mothercare and Clinton Cards issue profit warnings after the winter weather hit their businesses.

Engineering group Costain says that it has "significantly" increased its bid in a takeover proposal for outsourcing company Mouchel.

It will be "some months" until coal mines affected by floods in Queensland are fully operation, the state's mining minister says.

A judge in New York dismisses a lawsuit which claimed that Barclays had failed to disclose its exposure to bad US mortgage debt.

Fate has come knocking at door number 243 more than any other in the UK, according to a price comparison website.

A series of decisions to cut costs contributed to the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a US presidential panel has found.

A growing number of people are paying rent or mortgages with money borrowed on a credit card, the charity Shelter says.

Most global car executives do not see a reasonably priced electric vehicles being available in the next five years, a survey suggests.