US banks kick off their earning season, with JP Morgan Chase the first big outfit to report its fourth-quarter results.

The cost of car insurance could be cut if the government restricted the huge number of subjective "whiplash" injury claims, a committee of MPs says.

A UK university is to open a campus in Bangkok - in what is claimed as the first such UK branch to be established in Thailand.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is expected to confirm plans to reduce its investment banking division in a statement later.

The US military says it is investigating a video that appears to show Marines joking as they urinate on dead Taliban fighters.

Hospitals in England must do much better at improving productivity if patient care is not going to suffer in the coming years, experts say.

Brain scans show changes in the brain of internet addicts similar to those found in drug and alcohol addicts, preliminary research suggests.

The evil villains in James Bond movies are being blamed for giving nuclear power a bad image, says the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry.