EU leaders begin budget negotiations hours later than planned, amid deep divisions over spending priorities for the next seven years.

The US Federal Aviation Administration has granted permission for Boeing to carry out test flights of its 787 Dreamliner planes.

A South Korean YouTube parody of Les Miserables - featuring snow-shovelling airmen, a cruel senior officer and a love struck conscript - becomes an online hit.

An activist shareholder is demanding Apple share out more of its $137bn (£87bn) cash pile to its investors.

The north-east US coast is braced for a major snowstorm that has already caused school closures and hundreds of flight cancellations.

Profits at the New York Times triple as a surge in the newspaper's online subscriptions more than offsets weak demand for advertising space.

Tunisia is preparing to bury murdered opposition politician Chokri Belaid amid huge tension surrounding his assassination on Wednesday.

Yemen's president calls on Iran to stop backing armed groups in his country after coastguards seized a ship carrying missiles and rockets.