Britain had a bad summit, but the euro zone had a worse one.

Israeli entrepreneur legally changes his name to that of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded Belgium two notches Friday, following a move earlier by Fitch Ratings to lower its outlook on France's triple-A rating.

The ongoing eurozone debt crisis is the single greatest threat to Britain's current state of national security, claimed the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir David Richards on Wednesday.

It was billed as a summit to save the euro. It may be remembered as the day Europe lost patience with Britain, as most of the continent threw its lot in with EU founding members France and Germany and committed to binding their economies ever more tightly.

The moment, behind closed doors, that David Cameron lost his EU argument last night.

OSLO (Reuters) - The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.

Europe divided on Friday in a historic rift over building a closer fiscal union to preserve the euro, with a large majority of countries led by Germany and France agreeing to forge ahead with a separate treaty, leaving Britain isolated.

Ratings agency Moody's downgraded the debt of BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA), Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), and Credit Agricole (CAGR.PA) on Friday, citing deteriorating liquidity and funding conditions.

Germany and five other triple A countries put on notice.

Thomson Reuters Corp Chief Executive Tom Glocer is stepping down at the end of the year following a slump in the share price in recent months.

Kazakhstan on Thursday launched the first metro system built in Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a $1.1 billion project in its earthquake-prone commercial capital Almaty.

Following a criteria revision, credit ratings firm Standard and Poor's has upgraded the ratings of several Chinese banks while a few top U.S. banks were downgraded.

International companies are preparing contingency plans for a possible break-up of the eurozone, according to interviews with dozens of multinational executives.

Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, signed a $3 billion deal with Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) to finance projects and organise debt issuance for the Kazakh state railway firm, the companies said on Wednesday.