The benchmark index of leading shares advanced 32.57 points to close at 6,755.63 on Monday, its highest since September 2000, as global markets continued to power upwards.

WASHINGTON� Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and surprised experts, ...

David Cameron failed to raise Google's tax affairs when he met the company's chairman Eric Schmidt in Downing Street yesterday, it has emerged.

High inflation has cost the economy �10billion over the last three years, according to Ernst & Young. The accountants warn households face spiralling energy and food bills and rail fares.

Ryanair wants to more than double its share of the European short-haul market to 20 per cent in the next five years. The target was revealed as the budget carrier brushed off higher fuel costs to post a record annual profit of �569 million.