Chain could fetch £70m for its portfolio, which includes restaurants in Copenhagen, New York, Paris and Tokyo including london eateries Quaglino’s

Chief executive says the exchange is in talks with regulators over potentially millions of dollars work of customer compensation disputes

Cameron says he will examine ‘no fault dismissal’, as publication of so-called Beecroft report this week threatens to worsen coalition relations

War chest built up to purchase loans as many of the continent’s stricken lenders seek to sell assets and shrink their way to health

Chief of Samsung Electronics China says overall market for technology goods in the country will likely grow about 7% this year, down from 10% in 2011

The world’s first concrete plans are being devised to protect the broader financial system in the event that any of seven leading cross-border groups were to collapse

The postponements and defaults of contracts are the clearest sign yet of the impact of the country’s economic slowdown on global commodities

The alliance’s leaders meet to try to extricate themselves from the country over the next two years without letting it slip back into a civil war

Controversial proposals are back on the agenda. They were backed by some leaders in the past but forced off the agenda by the German chancellor’s objections

Megrahi’s second appeal was dropped on his release from prison so whoever placed the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 may now never be known