Actor Steve Coogan says he fears changes to press regulation recommended by the Leveson inquiry may be delayed by political "obsfucation".

US car giant Ford says it will cut several hundred jobs in Europe because of declining demand, including in the UK and Germany.

The Liberal Democrat party leadership is defeated over government plans for secret hearings in courts in England.

The organisation that sets the Libor inter-bank rate says it could give up that responsibility, in the wake of a scandal over rate-rigging by Barclays.

Spanish police ringing parliament in Madrid fire rubber bullets at protesters taking part in a mass rally against austerity.