easyJet plc today announced that from 1 May 2013 John Barton is to join the easyJet Board as a non-executive director and will take over from Sir Mike Rake as the company’s non-executive Chairman. Sir Mike will stand down from the Board on the same date. John Barton is also Chairman of Next plc and

A new 5 euro banknote enters circulation on 2 May. It is the first in a series of new banknotes issued in the common European currency. Eight further notes are planned. The new notes include greater safeguards against counterfeiting. The new, so called 'Europa' series, will display a watermark and a hologram depicting a portrait

Barcelona, who have changed the face of the game in recent years, were handed a footballing lesson when they were crushed 4-0 by Bayern Munich in an extraordinary Champions League semi-final first leg on Tuesday. The Catalans, winners of the trophy in 2009 and 2011, had no answer to Bayern's power, speed, pressing and resolute

The name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was listed on the U.S. government's highly classified central database of people it views as potential terrorists. But the list is so vast that this did not mean authorities automatically kept close tabs on him, sources close to the bombing investigation said on

A former personal secretary to Osama bin Laden was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, for the second time, for participating in a conspiracy to kill Americans that included the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. Wadih El-Hage, a Lebanese-born U.S. citizen and former al Qaeda member, was one of four people

Bank of Ireland said its staff costs fell further and its loan portfolios performed as expected in the first few months of 2013, continuing the positive momentum seen in the second half of last year. The only Irish lender to escape nationalisation after an unprecedented property crash, the bank posted a 40 percent drop in

British bank Barclays said first-quarter profit fell a quarter from a year ago, as a hefty bill for the cost of a restructuring plan by its new chief executive offset a solid performance by its investment bank. Adjusted pretax profit for the three months through March dropped to 1.79 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) from 2.4

A few hours after midnight one Sunday last month, as negotiations over a rescue for Cyprus dragged into a second day, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici fell asleep. Most euro zone ministers in Brussels that night failed to notice, continuing to pore over the details of the multi-billion-euro deal. It fell to Christine Lagarde, French