Drugs giant AstraZeneca has revealed positive results for a new cancer drug.
Chemicals and plastics giant Ineos is set to spend two billion US dollars (£1.6 billion) on building three manufacturing plants in the Middle East for the first time.
A museum is in talks to acquire the Donald Trump Baby blimp.
Embattled construction firm Kier has issued a shock profit warning, with bosses revealing profits are expected to be £25 million lower than expected.
Fonterra, the large New Zealand dairy co- operative, which has long been admired by the Irish dairy industry, has issued a second profit warning in three months.
Curlews could be erased from their heartlands across Ireland and the UK within a decade because of intensive farming, which is destroying their wetland habitats.