The STUC releases a discussion paper on the future of Scottish manufacturing ahead of its annual congress in Ayr.

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says it expects to bring the plant to "cold shutdown" within nine months.

The president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, warns that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis".

China's central bank raises the amount of money that lenders must hold in reserve for the fourth time this year, as it battles rising inflation.

Some BP shareholders are calling for the oil giant to sell off up to half of its assets as part of a radical restructuring, a newspaper says.