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Building Societies are warning the government about a future house price bubble, unless it plans how to end its Help to Buy programme.

Former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes has been charged by the Serious Fraud Office in connection with its investigation into the manipulation of Libor.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is to set up its new global headquarters at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

The geometric shape of a room can be mapped using the echoes from a sound recorded by four microphones placed inside a room, research finds.

Easyjet has agreed to buy 135 new aircraft from Airbus, in a deal announced on the second day of the Paris Air Show.

Chancellor George Osborne has fought back against claims that he forced Stephen Hester to stand down as head of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

The parent company of Airbus, EADS, has said that it believes deliveries of its new passenger plane, the A350, will begin by the end of next year.

Adrian Coles, Director General of the Building Societies Association, says "confidence is returning to the housing market".

Chancellor George Osborne unveils plans to stop businesses hiding their profits from the tax authorities in offshore "shell" companies, at the G8 summit.

The rate of consumer price inflation (CPI) increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says.

Switzerland's parliament is set to vote on a controversial bill on Tuesday which would allow Swiss banks to pass client information to the US tax authorities.

Diego Maradona wins compensation from two Chinese firms for using his name in an online game, Hot-Blooded Soccer, without his consent.

Sport England warns the Lawn Tennis Association that it must drive up participation figures or face losing valuable funding.

Europe's plans to explore Mars with a satellite in 2016 and a rover in 2018 take a big step forward with the signing of new industrial contracts.

The issue of tax havens will be discussed today at the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. The BBC's North America correspondent Jonny Dymond reports that if President Obama is looking for offenders, he might like to look quite close to home.

Vodafone faces a potential bidding war for Kabel Deutschland after US firm Liberty Global makes a rival offer for the German cable TV firm.

Thousands of people march through Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, over rising public transport prices and the cost of staging the 2014 World Cup.

But who gains most from the continent's rapid growth?

The Chinese telecoms giant, Huawei, is heating up the already highly competitive global smartphone industry with a product launch in London.

A homeowner said they did not think they had to pay their TV licence fee because they claimed their pet was related to one of the Queen's dogs, it is revealed.

Singapore's oil refineries are getting new technology to help safeguard their future.

China is launching a new carbon trading scheme in the country's southern city of Shenzhen.

Creating a third runway at Heathrow Airport would be "cheaper, quicker and better for the economy" than building a new airport, Heathrow bosses claim.

Six ways the new EU-US trade deal might affect you

Action is needed to fight a "quiet epidemic" of oesophageal cancer, which is on the rise in the UK, particularly in men, say cancer experts.