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The Church of England will sell investments worth £12m in companies where more than 10% of revenue comes from the "worst-polluting" of fossil fuels.

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Home-owners wanting to take advantage of tumbling mortgage rates are being warned to look out for high fees attached to them.

Shares in the professional social network site LinkedIn fall sharply in after-hours trading as the company cuts its revenue forecast.

The German government blocks a plan by Commerzbank to increase bonuses for its top performers to 200% of their basic salary.

Apple acknowledges some of the functions on its new smartwatch may not work properly when it is worn over tattoos.

Airbus is to file a criminal complaint over alleged US industrial espionage following reports in German media, AFP news agency says.

The second-hand car company Carcraft is to close, with the loss of about 500 jobs across the UK.

The Russian central bank cuts interest rates by 1.5 percentage points, following a recovery in the rouble amid signals that inflation has peaked.

One of the founders of high-profile tech start-up Secret is shutting down the anonymous messaging service.

While the housing market in central London continues to cool, house prices across suburban Britain are taking off, according to official figures.

Thousands of former staff at Woolworths stores will not receive compensation for redundancy, following a European Court of Justice ruling.

Consumer prices in the eurozone scraped out of deflation in April after four months, official data shows, boosting hopes of economic recovery in Europe.

Europe's largest aerospace group, Airbus, sees a big rise in first-quarter profits, thanks to the sale of its stake in Dassault Aviation, but jet orders fall slightly.

After dropping more than 1% on Wednesday on the back of weak US growth figures, the FTSE 100 loses more ground in morning trade.

Online property website Zoopla says it has agreed to buy price comparison site uSwitch for £160m.

Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony expects operating profit to more than quadruple because of higher gadget sales and cost-cutting measures.

Profits at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell beat expectations as increased profit margins at its refinery business help to counter the fall in oil prices.

IAG, the airline group that includes British Airways and Iberia, reports a profit in the first quarter of the year for the first time.

Chinese online search giant Baidu sees its slowest revenue growth for nearly seven years in the first quarter of 2015.

Legal and restructuring costs pushed Royal Bank of Scotland into the red for the first quarter of 2015.

The boss of TSB bank, Paul Pester, tells the BBC he wants to 'take on the big guys' and would look at buying some of the UK's smaller banks in order to do so.

Travel operators do not expect Australian visits to Indonesia to drop, despite calls for a boycott after the execution of two Australians.

India is cracking down on foreign-funded NGOs, with nearly 9,000 seeing their registration cancelled. Pratiksha Ghildial reports.