Profits at KPMG in the UK jump 27% to £455m, boosting the bonus pot and partners' pay at the accountancy and advice firm.

Japanese business confidence jumps to its highest level in six years, according to the Bank of Japan's latest Tankan survey.

Power from the new Hinkley C nuclear generator will be too expensive, the boss of one of the UK's biggest energy consumers says.

Google acquires the engineering company that developed Cheetah, the world's fastest-running robot and other animalistic mobile research machines.

Thailand's Nok Air and Singapore's Scoot plan to set up a new budget carrier in Bangkok amid growing demand for low-cost travel in the region.

Councils will be allowed to expand beyond their current boundaries to provide new housing if Labour are elected in 2015, Ed Miliband is to say.

Employees of internet retail giant Amazon are taking strike action in Germany in a long-running pay dispute.

Motorists no longer need to find their motor insurance certificate when taxing their vehicle, under changes that come into force on Monday.