BP shares rose on news the company had capped the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Dave Martin/AP BP’s shares jumped more than 5% this morning as British investors welcomed last night’s capping of the well which has been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico since... 

Conservative donor Andrew Cook has admitted he wanted to invest in Sheffield Forgemasters. Photograph: John Giles/PA The first sleaze row of the new government deepened today when a millionaire Tory donor, who successfully lobbied for the cancellation of a government loan to a promising engineering... 

Online Stock? Nowadays, more and more people are struggling to get involved or invest in the stock market. However, many of them are afraid because of the complexities of the market. With the advancement of technology today, online stock trading had become very popular. Through it, you do not need to do the actual... 

The government hopes its new licensing regime will give residents more power to tackle antisocial behaviour. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Residents are to be given much stronger powers to object to the licences of “problem” pubs and clubs being extended or renewed, under... 

Glaxo has won permission from the US FDA to keep diabetes treatment Avandia on the market. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP GlaxoSmithKline is taking a £1.57bn charge to cover legal costs and settlements over two controversial drugs, Avandia and Paxil, and the closure of a factory in Puerto Rico. The... 

Crispin Blunt, the prisons minister, wants to take addicts and the mentally ill out of the system and place them in secure treatment centres. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Tens of thousands of offenders may be able to reduce their sentences by making personal apologies to their...