Amazon has shown off three new Kindle Fire tablets, two of which will be made available in the UK from late October.

Online retailer Amazon is to create more than 2,000 permanent jobs in the UK over the next two years.

Facebook finalises the purchase of photo-sharing website Instragram for much less than the original $1bn offered.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban rejects as unacceptable the conditions attached by the IMF to a new 15bn-euro (£12bn; $19bn) loan.

The British luxury car company Jaguar Land Rover has announced plans to build two of its models in China.

Lufthansa cancels hundreds of flights this weekend as cabin staff begin a nationwide strike affecting six major German airports.

The leader of the UK's largest union warns there could be more co-ordinated strikes in response to the government's spending cuts.

Asian stock markets rise, joining a global rally, after the European Central Bank unveiled a plan aimed at easing the region's debt crisis.