After eight years, Sir Howard Stringer steps down from the Japanese electronics giant Sony.

Share prices fell in Asia after the US Federal Reserve announced it could start to wind down its stimulus-providing bond-buying programme later in the year.

Brussels says passengers going through the Channel Tunnel are paying over the odds, because Eurotunnel is overcharging the train companies for using the track.

China's manufacturing activity weakens further in June, falling to a nine-month low as demand falls, according to a preliminary survey by HSBC.

The Federal Reserve maintains its $85bn-a-month (£54bn) asset purchase programme, but says it could begin scaling back later this year and ending it completely in 2014.