Thousands of Jobcentre staff are to go on strike on Monday in a dispute over working conditions and management targets.

UK companies need to start spending some of their spare cash in order to ensure a durable economic recovery, a report says.

China's property price growth slowed in March, as fewer Chinese cities saw an increase in the price of new homes.

Top officials from the IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank are due to begin bail-out talks with Portugal shortly.

Dutch consumer electronics giant Philips puts its ailing television arm into a joint venture, as first-quarter profits fall.

Dividends paid by UK firms were up 10% in the first quarter of 2011 and will rise by 13.6% for 2011 as a whole, research suggests.

Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades its ratings on Irish banks to junk, renewing pressure on the eurozone's weaker countries.

China's Huawei, one of the world's top global providers of telecom equipment, says earnings have risen on overseas growth.