British Gas has written to more than 2,000 of its customers after their account logins were posted online.

The UK's top companies have reached a "major milestone" in increasing the number of women in their boardrooms, but more needs to be done, a new report is expected to say.

One of Australia's biggest lenders, ANZ, posts a record annual cash profit of 7.2bn Australian dollars ($5.1bn; £3.34bn).

Shares in Asia were looking for direction on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates unchanged.

Australia's biggest supermarket chain, Woolworths, said that profits would fall by up to 35% for the six months to December.

Spanish banking giant Santander, which owns Santander UK, said net profit rose nearly 5% in the third quarter from a year ago to €1.7bn (£1.22bn).

Barclays third-quarter profits fall as it sets aside £560m to compensate foreign exchange customers and to settle two claims over mortgage-backed securities.

Royal Dutch Shell reports a loss for the third quarter, after taking charges to cover the cost of halting major projects such as drilling for oil in the Arctic.