US consumer confidence falls to the lowest level since November 2010 on concerns about unemployment and stagnating wages.

Up to 4.7 million taxpayers will be sent letters later this year telling them they paid too much or too little income tax in 2010-11.

The UK motor industry invites students, teachers and career advisers to visit factories in an effort to make young people chose engineering.

Japan's factory output rises at a faster-than-expected pace as the economy continues to recover from March's earthquake and tsunami.

The former Justice Secretary Jack Straw is calling for reform of the motor insurance industry, to prevent insurers referring their clients to personal injury lawyers without permission.

China and Germany sign trade deals worth $15bn (£9bn) as the leaders of the two countries meet in Berlin.

Councils in England will be allowed to keep the business rates they collect rather than paying them into Treasury coffers, under new government plans.

Greek politicians are to vote on harsh austerity measures that have sparked nationwide strikes and the worst rioting in Athens for more than year.