The government's national insurance holiday scheme is 'a total flop', argues the Labour party.

Families with children will be hardest hit by the government's tax and benefit changes aimed at cutting its deficit, a charity argues.

Chinese oil company Sinopec agrees a $2.2bn (£1.4bn) deal with Devon Energy, giving it access to shale deposits in the US.

Samsung Electronics gets approval from the Korean government for its plans to set up a memory-chip factory in China.

A table of some of the possible scenarios facing European leaders trying to resolve the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

Ahead of a key European Union summit, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel sets out to remake the eurozone in her own image.

After European leaders' latest efforts to solve the debt crisis and prevent the implosion of the euro, what are the likely outcomes and how might they affect us?

An Ecuadorean appeals court upholds a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (£11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution.