MP who accused party of talking too much about Europe is leading backbench revolt to ensure in/out vote held by 2017

But judge tells UK Uncut that deal was 'not a glorious episode in the history of the Revenue'

Amazon may employ thousands of people in the UK, but its European headquarters is in the tax haven of Luxembourg, where it employs several hundred staff.

Alliance Boots, the pharmacy and drugs giant behind Britain's best-known chemist, said yesterday it plans to keep expanding into new markets and in areas where it already has a strong presence.

Google's market value rose beyond $300bn last night after its shares closed above $900 for the first time.

President says economic situation in France is ‘serious’ and eurozone provides little comfort

Chain reduces prices in stores at risk from nearby competition

Mysterious absence led to speculation over whether search giant was hiding an ailing chief

HSBC today warned that it could cut up to another 14,000 jobs worldwide as chief executive Stuart Gulliver continues to take the axe to the cost base of Europe’s biggest bank.

Severn Trent today rejected a takeover approach worth up to  £5 billion from a consortium of foreign investors, saying it “completely fails to recognise the existing and potential value” of  the FTSE 100 water supplier. However, the City predicted another bid would emerge.

The builder behind London's Olympic velodrome and the M25 widening has revealed the full extent of the damage wrought by spending cuts on its UK business.

Oh, how they laughed. Explaining George Osborne’s absence from Treasury Questions, Chief Secretary Danny Alexander was on side-splitting form. “My right honourable friend the Chancellor is in Brussels today at the Ecofin council,” he told MPs, “exercising the considerable influence that Britain enjoys as a full member of the European Union.” Boom, boom!

Honduras's ancient metropolis ‘found’ using revolutionary 3D mapping technique

There is something curiously lacklustre about much of this show. Why? It is not that the majority of these representational portraits – there are more than 200 of them in all - are not good examples of their kind.