EU milk quotas are scrapped, bringing an end to more than 30 years of efforts to prevent overproduction.

A decade of strong growth in Scotch whisky exports came to an end last year as overseas sales fell, according to new figures.

People who have large amounts of money in their bank accounts "temporarily" will be soon protected in the event of their bank going bust, the Bank of England says.

Labour will end the "epidemic" of zero-hours contracts that are "undermining family life", Ed Miliband insists.

Google announces that a range of computer-on-a-sticks and laptops costing as low as $149 (£101) are joining its range of Chrome OS devices.

Some of India's richest businessmen have appointed their wives as company directors to comply with a new law.

The fast-food giant McDonald's says it will raise the pay of more than 90,000 US employees to at least $1 above the legal minimum wage.

The billionaire investor, Warren Buffett, says if he ran the US Federal Reserve, he wouldn't raise interest rates significantly.