Google's executive chairman denies that the company fixes its search results to promote its own websites and services.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange criticises a UK publisher for releasing drafts of his autobiography without his approval.

Barack Obama tells the Palestinian president he will veto a bid for UN membership but Mahmoud Abbas will not drop the plans, the White House says.

A 24-hour public transport strike hits Greece and a mass protest looms in Athens as anger mounts over a new raft of tough austerity measures.

David Cameron says he is "desperate" to get the Middle East peace process moving, as he holds talks in New York with Barack Obama.

The eurozone's private sector contracted in September for the first time in two years as the debt crisis continued, a survey indicates.

Energy business E.On is cutting up to 500 jobs at its head office in Coventry and at its centre near Nottingham.

Head teachers are to vote on whether to take strike action this autumn against cuts to their pensions.