Obesity surgery is often seen as a quick fix with proper consideration not always given to the risks, a review of cases in the UK shows.

Microsoft sees profits fall 22%, after deferring some revenue ahead of the upcoming releases of Windows 8 and its latest version of Office.

EU leaders plan to launch joint eurozone banking supervision next year, officials say, in an apparent Franco-German compromise deal.

MPs criticise the UK financial regulator's failings over Royal Bank of Scotland's damaging takeover of a large part of Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says 130 projects in areas of England "that need it most" will share £1bn aimed at boosting economic growth.

The cost of renting a home in England and Wales rose by 1.1% in September to reach a new record high, a survey suggests.

Police say they are looking into comments on BNP leader Nick Griffin's Twitter account about a gay couple at the centre of a landmark legal case.

Young people who suffer brain injuries are more likely to commit crimes and end up in prison, research suggests.