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Field trials of a genetically modified crop containing Omega-3 fatty acids normally found in oily fish could begin in the UK this year, after a field trial application is submitted.

Microsoft posts better than expected earnings on the back of strong Xbox sales and demand for its cloud services.

The US bans India's largest drugmaker Ranbaxy from producing and distributing drugs for the US market from its Toansa facility in Punjab.

A new study sheds light on how fish evolved into the earliest land animals millions of years ago.

Shares in China's Lenovo, the world's biggest PC maker, rise after the firm agrees to buy IBM's low-end server business for $2.3bn (£1.4bn).

The government publishes figures which it claims show that most workers have seen their take-home pay rise in real terms in the past year.

Fracking can boost the economy and encourage businesses to return to the UK, David Cameron will say when he addresses world leaders at Davos.

Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones and TVs, reports a drop in quarterly profit for the time in two years.

Bill Gates, the founder for the technology giant Microsoft, says he would like to see the amount of money spent on international aid increased.

The UK's £15bn Crossrail project is "on course" to be value for money despite rising costs, the National Audit Office says.

Tickets for some of the biggest plays and musicals in the UK are being resold online for vastly inflated prices.

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In the last two years the number of women delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos has has fallen, despite efforts to boost them. Mishal Husain reports.

Davos 2014: The BBC's Robert Peston talks to US Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, about China, Iran, and whether the global economic recovery is real or a false dawn.

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew tells the BBC to act "cautiously" with Iran and it is "not softening" its position on sanctions,

Actor Matt Damon says the number of deaths from lack of access to clean water and sanitation is "completely unnecessary".

The president of Barcelona football club quits after a Spanish court decides to investigate last summer's signing of Brazil forward Neymar.

The jobs problem will define the next two to three decades, Google chairman Eric Schmidt says at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Consumers are now free to switch telecoms providers if their contract prices rise unexpectedly.

Argentina's currency the peso sees its sharpest one-day fall since the country's 2002 financial crisis.

Britain should turn swathes of its upland pastures into woodland to help prevent flooding, former environment minister Lord Rooker says.

McDonald's, the world's biggest fast-food chain, says it plans to open up to 1,600 outlets this year despite a slip in global sales.