LONDON | Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:45am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Bank has a capital shortfall of 8.6 billion pounds, Britain's banking regulator said on Thursday, a day after the UK government signalled plans to return the part-state owned lender to the ...

Thursday 08.00 BST. European stocks joined the heavy sell-off seen across Asia on Thursday which started overnight in the US and was triggered by the Federal Reserve's confirmation that it expects to start easing its asset purchases later this year.

LONDON, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BT announces today that Gavin Patterson will succeed Ian Livingston as chief executive of BT Group plc.

The prospect of an eventual �tell Sid�-style sale of shares in Lloyds Bank was raised by George Osborne as he claimed Britain's economy had emerged from �intensive care�.

U.S. Treasury yields are sharply higher and the dollar is strong but global stocks and emerging-market assets are weak after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke set the stage Wednesday for a gradual tapering of the Fed's measures to stimulate the U.S.

BEIJING | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:56am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - Wanda Group, China's largest commercial real estate developer, aims to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, ...

The Environment secretary will say that using GM will make use of farm land and �free up space for biodiversity, nature and wilderness�.

LONDON | Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:42am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined a property agent nearly a million pounds for defrauding vulnerable people, the largest-ever fine for a sole trader in the consumer sector.

Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England who has spent more than two decades at Threadneedle Street, is to be made a life peer.

A survey of 30,000 people by the watchdog group, Passenger Focus, showed the travelling public are increasingly frustrated by the lack of staff at stations, delays and squalid lavatories on trains.