More than 2,000 dairy farmers are holding fresh protests over the prices they are paid for their milk, campaign group Farmers for Action says.

A government-backed review of the financial industry by Professor John Kay is expected to accuse the City of an obsession with short-term profits.

A new UK-developed app allows users to send files and weblinks to each other's smartphones via "digital birdsong".

The government could force finance companies to hand over the details of wealthy individuals taking advantage of aggressive tax avoidance schemes.

The euro falls to a 11-year low against the Japanese yen amid fears that debt problems in Spain are worsening.

MPs accuse the Treasury of making the government's clean energy revolution unworkable and raise the risk of higher household bills.

Shares of Asia Pacific Breweries rise after Heineken makes a bid to buy the remaining stake in the firm it does not already own.

Sir Michael Rake, deputy chairman of Barclays, has ruled himself out of the running to become chairman of the under-fire bank.