Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has revealed he paid $6.9m in tax in 2010 on taxable income of $40m.

Energy companies are not always offering the cheapest deals to customers wishing to switch supplier, a consumer group claims.

US lawmakers approve a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, calling it the most significant in 16 years.

An Australian court temporarily bans the sale of Samsung Electronics' tablet computer in Australia.

China's trade growth slows in September, raising fresh concerns about the impact of a global economic slowdown on its economy.

Private rents are now unaffordable in 55% of local authorities in England, the housing charity Shelter says.

The IMF cuts its Asian growth forecast for 2011 and 2012 on continuing worries about eurozone debt and new fears for the US economy.

A £400m factory making carbon-fibre wings for Airbus' new A350 airliner securing the jobs of thousands of workers, officially opens in Flintshire.