Parents must each earn at least £18,400 in 2011 so their family can live to an acceptable standard, a charity says.

Baidu, the biggest web company in China, will partner with Microsoft to provide English-language search results.

Two-thirds of Tesco Bank customers who were locked out of their accounts last week have now logged back in online, the bank says.

Mongolia selects three preliminary winners to develop the highly sought-after Tavan Tolgoi coal deposit in the Gobi desert.

France's Christine Lagarde is to become the first female managing director of the IMF, at a time of heightened global financial nerves.

Australia's central bank leaves interest rates unchanged at 4.75% amid growing signs of a slowdown in the economy.

Train maker Bombardier, which missed out on the £1.4bn Thameslink contract, says it will cut more than 1,400 jobs at its Derby plant.

Japan's minister for reconstruction announces his resignation just a week into the job, after making insensitive remarks to governors of tsunami-hit areas.