Premier Foods agrees to sell its Branston range of pickles and sauces to Japanese vinegar company Mizkan.

Royal Mail is to create 1,000 jobs in the UK over the next four years as part of a £75m investment programme for its parcels business.

Baidu, China's biggest search engine, sees a 60% rise in quarterly net income as it continues to attract increasing amounts of advertising.

Oil giant BP reports a fall in profits for the last three months, but increases its shareholder dividend by 12.5%.

A quarter of small businesses are completely unaware of changes they will have to make to the way they report tax deductions, research suggests.

Greece reaches agreement with its international creditors on new austerity measures, but the deal needs parliamentary approval.

An alleged rogue trader accused of gambling away £1.4bn tells a jury how he "lost control in the maelstrom of the financial crisis".

Scott Forstall and John Browett are to leave Apple, in the wake of problems with the firm's mapping software and disappointing quarterly results.