• A 31-year-old man has been arrested in London on suspicion of terrorism offences, Scotland Yard has revealed.
  • A female zoo worker who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park in Cumbria has died, police say.
  • Google is aiming to massively expand the number of people with access to the internet, by rolling out services across the developing world.    
  • NEW YORK (Reuters) - Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc , opening another front in an eight-year battle over credit card fees paid by retailers, on Friday asked a federal judge to declare that the fees do not violate antitrust law.
  • The UN cultural body’s report identifies weaknesses in the UK’s planning laws and calls for a strengthening of legal protection for heritage sites
  • The electronics and gadgets retailer Maplin has seen profits fall by a third as the company battles challenging market conditions and invests in modernising its stores.    
  • After quenching the thirsts of beer drinkers for 800 years, one pub is calling last orders for pints.    
  • Ruling means IMF head must be available to be called by prosecutors as a witness at any time.    
  • IMF chief Christine Lagarde arrives at a Paris court for questioning over a payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister.
  • HSBC will "significantly reduce" its use of tax havens, after the bank's chairman, Douglas Flint, says the use of these financial centres had got a "bad name".    
  • LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC's Chairman Douglas Flint called for an acceleration in the speed of reform within the industry as the bank was criticised by shareholders for compliance failings and accusations it aided tax avoidance.
  • The red, made from a Rondo grape, is a fiery 15 per cent proof – an alcohol level normally associated with Provence or Southern Italian wines
  • NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets edged lower on Friday on worries the U.S. Federal Reserve may curb its stimulus program, while the dollar recovered against the euro to trade flat after better-than-expected U.S. durable goods data for April.
  • The Co-op is considering selling or even shutting down its struggling banking business as it looks for ways to fill a capital black hole.    
  • The Co-operative Bank is to stop lending to new corporate customers as it seeks to repair a major hole in its finances - dealing a blow to efforts to ease the borrowing squeeze on small businesses.     
  • Mutual seeks to repair its balance sheet after bonds downgraded to ‘junk’ status by exiting capital consumptive corporate loans
  • Co-operative Bank has stopped offering new business loans amid concerns over its capital position and talks with UK regulators.
  • The Co-operative Bank has stopped offering loans to new business customers, in a move designed to quell growing concerns over its capital position.    
  • LONDON (Reuters) - Co-operative Bank said on Friday it had stopped offering loans to new business customers, in a move designed to quell growing concerns over its capital position.
  • Just days after Yahoo! sealed its $1.1bn for Tumblr, the technology company has reportedly made a bid for Hulu, the online video site partly owned by News Corporation.    
  • BP, Shell and Statoil have been named in a proposed class action lawsuit over alleged oil price rigging, following the launch of a European Commission investigation into the oil giants.    
  • Germany's push for wind and solar and its retreat from nuclear power is driving electricity costs to untenable levels and destroying support for the green agenda, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.    
  • The ascent of Germany, on and off the pitch, has not been lost on UK observers, with policymakers looking to Berlin for economic inspiration
  • After £98.4m of licence fee payers' money, the Digital Media Initiative is put out of its misery.    
  • Chile's environmental authorities have fined the world's largest gold miner $16.4m for "serious" violations at its unfinished mine near the border with Argentina.    
  • Unlike more than 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Exxon Mobil has no protections against bias based on sexual orientation in its official equal employment opportunity statement.    
  • DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Deutsche Post has filed a complaint with the European Commission against a German law that will require government agencies and public services to use a rival encrypted email system.

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