Monarch, Juan Carlos, who instituted democracy has abdicated due to personal reasons.

The new driverless GoogleCar has been designed with no steering wheel and no brakes, while the Skype Translator makes international connections more accessible.

Nestle advances its new skincare business with a $1.

The hard cider market nearly doubled last year because Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) so completely dominates the industry with its Angry Orchard brand that it largely alone moves the needle.

Shares in C&C jumped the most in more than five years yesterday as the drinks company boosted its dividend and said the Irish market was now "on the right trajectory".

On Monday, London was named as the best city for "economic clout" by a new industry survey.

Unilever (UNA) has said goodbye to its Ragu and Bertolli pasta sauce business, agreeing to unload it to Japanese food manufacturer Mizkan Group for about $2.

UK's Dixons Retail has agreed to divest its loss-making Electroworld business in central Europe to local rival NAY, ahead of its £3.

C&C Group set to launch range of Irish craft beers to be produced in Clonmel.

Drinks group C&C has reported its fifth consecutive year of earnings growth, and is targeting a mid-single digit operating profit increase in its current financial year.

European Union antitrust regulators will decide whether to clear the £3.

Germany's Siemens is currently working on a formal asset-swap offer for Alstom's power business that could come to light later this week, seeing France take a stake in a resulting rail-focussed French group, sources told Reuters this week.

In just over five years, researchers warn that Britain will have run out of oil, coal and gas.

UK company Carphone Warehouse and Dixons Retail have agreed a £3.

For the first time, a woman will command a UN peacekeeping force, after Norway's Major General Kristin Lund was appointed to lead troops in Cyprus.

Coca-Cola is closing two of its four fruit juice plants is Russia in response to falling demand in the country, putting at risk hundreds of jobs in a business which the US company had bought for $276 million only four years ago.

Improving air quality is a major challenge facing all European countries, both in order to combat climate change as well as to minimise the direct effects of breathing polluted air on human health.

The UK is in second place among European countries for its education services, and sixth overall in the global education league table.