Kenya cancels plans to import crude oil from Iran following threats of sanctions, an official at the Kenyan energy ministry says.

A gang which used a novel trick to make cash machines think no money had been taken is arrested in India.

Senior members of Ulster Bank are at Stormont later on Thursday to try to explain the crisis to a committee of assembly members.

The Bank of England announces it will pump a further £50bn into the UK economy through its quantitative easing programme.

The European Central Bank has reduced its key interest rate from 1% to 0.75%, a record low for the eurozone.

Telecoms regulator Ofcom may force BT to cut the price of internet access outside London.

Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond says some traders at the bank were "reprehensible", as MPs question whether they have got the full facts.

Former chief executive of France Telecom Didier Lombard is placed under formal investigation over a spate of suicides among staff at the company.