Thousands protest in the German capital Berlin against the planned TTIP free-trade deal between the EU and US.

Tax on tobacco should be raised to persuade smokers to quit, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health says.

The former boss of Anglo Irish Bank has been arrested on an extradition warrant in the US city of Boston, the state US Attorney's Office says.

The world's two biggest brewers, SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch InBev, go into the week having until Wednesday to agree on any potential takeover deal.

Twelve North Sea gas fields are sold by the Russian oligarch who bought them earlier last year but was forced by the UK Government to sell them.

The European Investment Bank could recall loans it gave to Volkswagen, its president has told a German newspaper.