LONDON�The British government is considering breaking up Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC, the country's Treasury chief said Wednesday, a potentially radical move that underscores policy makers' mounting frustration with their inability to arrest a ...

A top businessman who threw his weight behind the Government's savage cuts is to be made an unelected minister and handed a peerage.

US government bonds came under heavy selling pressure overnight after Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman, said the central bank could begin scaling back its $85bn-a-month asset purchase programme later this year if the US economy continued to improve.

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, ...

Britain should embrace the benefits of genetically modified crops and push other EU countries to drop their opposition to GM food, the environment secretary will say in a speech on Thursday.

The Financial Conduct Authority has fined a �sale and rent back� agent nearly �1m for deliberately misleading vulnerable homeowners, the largest ever fine for a sole trader.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said his successor and the U.K. banking industry have �unfinished business� to do in reforming the financial system and reviving the U.K.

Passenger satisfaction with Britain's crowded, late-running and over-priced railway network has plummeted to the lowest level in six years, a damning new survey by official watchdogs reveals today.

While sales of trainers and tracksuits at JD Sports are sprinting along, the group's camping and other clothing stores have not quite broken out into a jog so far this year.

Royal Mail has begun a court battle with the Communication Workers Union after thousands of postal workers voted to boycott deliveries of rivals' mail and to oppose privatisation.