ADMINISTRATORS for troubled retailer Peacocks should begin to have a clearer picture of the chain’s future today, as the deadline passes for second-round bids.

Financial bids for developing 20,000 km of national highways can now be invited. This follows a nod by the Cabinet Committee of Infrastructure (CCI) accorded to a proposal of the Highways Ministry here on Thursday.

BRUSSELS — European leaders will attempt to close one chapter in the debt crisis on Monday by putting the finishing touches to a pact on balanced budgets and reforms they hope can unlock economic growth, despite the persistent problems over Greece.

European leaders attempt to close a chapter in the debt crisis with a pact on balanced budgets and reforms.

Mexico's conservative ruling party is gambling that a country known for machismo is ready for a female president and have chosen a devout Roman Catholic and popular former congresswoman as their standard bearer.

A bid to host a new Green Investment Bank is formally submitted by Edinburgh amidst claims it is the front runner.

ALL second round bids for in administration retailer Peacocks will have to be lodged today.

Deutsche Bank is expected to slim down the list of possible buyers for its asset management unit and may require binding bids to be submitted on Wednesday, according to a report from Wall Street Journal ...

The O'Charley's casual dining chain said Monday that Fidelity National Financial, a title insurance firm that already owns 9.5 percent of the restaurant company's shares, plans to buy the rest of the Nashville-based company for $221 million.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The French military electronics giant Thales is negotiating with Saudi Arabia for a contract, worth up to $3 billion, to upgrade the kingdom's air-defense network, particularly those guarding key military and government sites.