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.

Asian shares headed for the biggest loss since September 2011 and European stock futures slumped on concern the Federal Reserve may phase out stimulus and as China's cash crunch worsened.

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

BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhuanet) --Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's largest property developers, plans to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Wang Jianlin, chairman of ...

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

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.

LONDON: The British government will amend a parliamentary bill to introduce the central recommendation of the banking commission to allow bankers to be jailed for reckless misconduct, David Cameron has told MPs.

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.