BUSINESS

The number of new tenants rose by 3.4% in May, according to LSL Property Services.

Woman dressed in Converse baseball boots, low cut jeans and heavy makeup to fool exam officials in Paris.

RBS shares bare brunt of confusion over when and how Chancellor George Osborne plans to return bank to private sector.

Pfizer's 15-year grip on the UK erectile dysfuction treatment market goes limp as patent expires - opening door to cheaper generic rivals.

Al Noor Hospitals sold 38.5m shares, or a 32.9% stake, at an offer price of £5.75 each

High Court settlement paves way for regulator to use settlement money to pay back investors which were scammed

Ofgem, Britain’s electricity and gas market regulator, plans to roll out a new payment system in December, 2013, to help people reduce their energy expense

Employment lawyer says banks likely to ramp up fixed salaries to offset European Union bonus caps.

E-Commerce company James and James questions the BRC’s sanity, after the proposal of an online sales tax

Industry-funded watchdog to improve oversight of its 6,500 securities arbitrators following embarrassing criminal indictment

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to buy hedge fund administrators Butterfield Fulcrum in a bid to expand its business globally.

US court ruling leaves room for appeals to Supreme Court in fight to claw back $30bn.

Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft will supply 365m tonnes of oil to China over 25 years.

Pre-tax loss increases to £40.7m from £6.2m last year, as Flybe goes ahead with its restructuring.

EU finance ministers are in Luxembourg to discuss how and when Europe's bailout fund can rescue troubled banks.

Japan's banking giant pays quarter of a billion dollars for deleting information from $100bn in wire transfers relating to US sanctioned Iran

William Hill slashes baby name odds for Mary after man in top hat and tails places bet on way home from Royal Ascot.

Average vote against executive pay hike deals at FTSE 100 companies tumble by 18%

Finance ministers to forge new rules on who should pay for bank bailouts - big savers or the ordinary taxpayer.

People's Bank of China asks state-owned banks to restart fund supplies to ease liquidity crunch.

3% drop is FTSE 100's biggest one-day fall in two years as investors fear QE tap to be turned off in US.

As Tictail, the e-commerce platform, launches in the UK, IBTimes UK catches up with CEO Carl Waldekranz.

But low interest rates have boosted the mortgage market and the country is now staring at an overheating property market.

BC partners has agreed to buy German academic publisher Springer Science and Business Media from EQT and Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC).

Italy is battling recession on a war footing and will invest €3bn on public infrastructure in 2013, creating 30,000 temporary jobs.

The European Commission has given France and Britain two months to respond to a request to lower charges for passenger and freight trains to use the Channel Tunnel, or face possible court action, the Commission said on Thursday (June 20).

The Markit flash manufacturing PMI rose to a 16-month high at 48.7 from 48.3 in May.

ONS reports retail sales rise to £6.8bn a week in another positive indicator for ailing UK economy.

Bank of England regulators say five banks - RBS, Lloyds, Barclays, Co-operative Bank and Nationwide - have capital shortfalls.