Europe's gravity probe, Goce, is returned to health after being knocked offline because some onboard systems got too cold as the satellite circled the Earth.

Whitbread, the hotel and coffee shop owner, seems to have put the recession firmly behind it.

Where there's muck there's brass. Luckily for Ashtead, America is very mucky right now.

Diamond's appointment is seen by some as Barclays thumbing its nose in the direction of the government

George Soros, the billionaire financier, is giving $100m (£65m) to a human rights organisation in one of the largest acts of philanthropy so far this year.

Bob Diamond smiles formally out of his latest photograph: serious but welcoming - like the Barclays branch behind him.

Vodafone is planning a multi-billion pound share buy-back following the £4.3m sale of its entire stake in China Mobile.

Bob Diamond fulfills his ambition of becoming chief executive of Barclays to a muted response from the City.

John Thornton, the former head of Goldman Sachs in Asia, has emerged as a frontrunner to succeed Stephen Green after the HSBC chairman agreed to become the UK's new trade minister.

Few would have guessed that when David Cameron headed off on his Cornish holiday last month, one of the last calls he made was to a Church of England priest.

Giant spiral galaxies caught "feasting" on their smaller neighbours

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Banks accepted lowly returns on their cash from the European Central Bank on Tuesday, highlighting the appeal of the ECB's safe-haven status in the ongoing environment of money market tension.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=JvLKy8cnZNs:yL_P14dUkKk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=JvLKy8cnZNs:yL_P14dUkKk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=JvLKy8cnZNs:yL_P14dUkKk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=JvLKy8cnZNs:yL_P14dUkKk:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=JvLKy8cnZNs:yL_P14dUkKk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/JvLKy8cnZNs" height="1" width="1"/

BP admits consquences of an oil blow-out in the North Sea was 'never considered in detail' in its emergency spill plan filed to the Government.

BRUSSELS/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland extended its guarantee for short-term bank liabilities, including corporate and interbank deposits, as expected on Tuesday as the government sought to reassure investors about its financial position.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=BcSlIU3HoKQ:7czkdGL8ipI:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=BcSlIU3HoKQ:7czkdGL8ipI:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=BcSlIU3HoKQ:7czkdGL8ipI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=BcSlIU3HoKQ:7czkdGL8ipI:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=BcSlIU3HoKQ:7czkdGL8ipI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/BcSlIU3HoKQ" height="1" width="1"/

The oil rig operator involved in BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster has denied "bullying and intimidating" its North Sea staff, insisting any problems were "isolated incidents".

Food inflation hits one-year high in August as the effects of sharp price rises in wheat, sugar and other commodities filtered through.

The rest of the week promises more uncertainty for the banking industry as financiers await the announcement of the new capital rules agreed yesterday in Switzerland.

LONDON (Reuters) - Central bank and regulatory officials agreed tougher new global bank capital rules on Tuesday but will keep investors on tenterhooks about the details until Sunday when formal endorsement is expected.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=QI2-ONG77yw:pnp_FEPRWqw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=QI2-ONG77yw:pnp_FEPRWqw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=QI2-ONG77yw:pnp_FEPRWqw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=QI2-ONG77yw:pnp_FEPRWqw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=QI2-ONG77yw:pnp_FEPRWqw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/QI2-ONG77yw" height="1" width="1"/

LONDON (Reuters) - Change swept through the top of Britain's banks on Tuesday with Barclays appointing its investment banking supremo Bob Diamond as chief executive and HSBC announcing its chairman is to go into government.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=1P3iL6wGrQQ:qiGUtNrOA80:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=1P3iL6wGrQQ:qiGUtNrOA80:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=1P3iL6wGrQQ:qiGUtNrOA80:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?a=1P3iL6wGrQQ:qiGUtNrOA80:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Reuters/UKBusinessNews?i=1P3iL6wGrQQ:qiGUtNrOA80:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/UKBusinessNews/~4/1P3iL6wGrQQ" height="1" width="1"/

A massive expansion is to take place at Europe's largest onshore wind farm in East Renfrewshire.