A major rescue operation is underway in Serbia after the region’s worst flooding in decades claimed the lives of 37 people, with thousands more forced to...
Over the next decade the peer-to-peer industry will grow rapidly and reach $1 trillion (£0.59tn) globally, according to a report from US-based venture capital firm Foundation...
Excessive executive pay is moving up the agenda for investors, with household goods giant Reckitt Benckiser and online grocer Ocado both on the receiving end of...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon has called on everyone, from business leaders and politicians to investors and citizens, to work together to tackle climate change. He argues...
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has announced a new £500 million scheme intended to boost electric and hybrid vehicle take up. The sum will be spent...
With the UK’s European Parliament election to be held on Thursday 22 May, the environmental charity WWF has asked the five leading political parties what a...
The Labour party is reviewing its “financial arrangements” and could move loans worth more than £1 million to social bank Unity Trust breaking ties with the...
Reports suggest that the governance structure at the Co-operative Bank will be blamed for its troubles over the last year in a publication looking at the...
The UK government is to demand that companies list their true owners on a public register, in a move that business secretary Vince Cable says will...
Campaigners are urging the British public to be aware of the dangers of skin cancer, after new figures revealed that rates of malignant melanoma are several...
The speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has said that the behaviour of some MPs at prime minister’s questions will put off members of...
The Co-operative Group has announced losses of £2.5 billion for 2013, marking its worst performing year in its 150-year history. The group said the “heavy losses”...
Lord Myners, who resigned from the Co-operative Group last week, has defended his review into the governance structure of the organisation, saying he wants to “protect...
What are the odds that climate change is the work of natural processes, rather than human activity? As small as one in a thousand, according to...
British drugs firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been accused of bribing doctors to promote its products in Lodz, Poland. The allegations follow similar claims in China last...