The first thing that BT retail boss Gavin Patterson did on Wednesday morning was check the new season football fixtures to consider which games to pick for the telecoms group's new sports channels being launched next month.

By David Milliken. LONDON | Wed Jun 19, 2013 9:02pm BST. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economic recovery is not yet secure and more needs to be done to ensure the country's banks no longer pose a threat to taxpayers, Bank of England Governor ...

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, offered the firmest timeline yet for tapering US central bank asset purchases, saying that the central bank's $85bn monthly programme could be slowed this year and end altogether around the middle of next year.

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, ...

Union chiefs today said 96 per cent of delivery, sorting staff and Posties "opposed the privatisation of Royal Mail" in the first poll of workers on the Government's plans.