The solar-powered aircraft backed by the companies Solvay and Schindler has been developed over eight years on a budget of about €90m

Two Spanish founders of a recruitment site spotted the networking power of Facebook to link candidates and hirers, writes Maija Palmer

Jacques Borel calls on coalition to lower rates to revive sector, including restaurants, and forecasts creation of 320,000 jobs if implemented

Shareholder spring means many are focused now on how the pot of ‘spoils' in financial sector could be more equitably divided

Alessandro Profumo among 20 due in court over use of Luxembourg-based offshore financial scheme set up by Barclays and used by the Italian bank

Marrying Asian money to desperate European groups has long been a dream, but suitors may have to wait until crisis point

Logistics group is to settle with the German government to resolve a six-year dispute about a VAT exemption that pitted Berlin against Brussels

Spanish group names independent lawyer Luis García del Río as its representative on the nationalised Argentine company's new 17-member board

Flights divert to Metigha after Tarhouna rebels demand return of their missing leader Abu-Ajilah Habashi, highlighting Libya's fragile security

Minority shareholders had claimed UK group's bid to form alliance with Rosneft had damaged TNK-BP as it had failed to include it as partner

Industry commissioner Antonio Tajani rules out EU-led fix for the sector ahead of a meeting of the European Union's Cars 21 grouping

Joint venture by Swiss and German media groups to extend its web presence by taking control of Poland's largest internet portal for €217m