French telecoms group Bouygues rejects unanimously a near €10bn takeover offer by rival group Altice.

China's food safety watchdog asks three local milk producers to recall infant formula powder found to contain high levels of nitrate, state media report.

An application to start the first fracking operation in the UK for four years is to be decided later.

Police raid the offices of Toyota Motor after the arrest of Julie Hamp, a senior American executive, on alleged drug offences.

Australia says it will join a China-led infrastructure bank as a founding member, contributing 930m Australian dollars over five years.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras heads to Brussels to meet creditors ahead of a summit designed to seal a deal to avoid a Greek debt default.

France's GDP grew by 0.6% in the first quarter after a rise in corporate profit margins and strong household spending, official figures show.

Shares in supermarkets lead the FTSE 100 higher after news of a merger on the continent between Dutch-based Ahold and Belgium's Delhaize.