Chancellor Angela Merkel moves to reassure savers that their deposits in German financial institutions are safe.

The UK Treasury is trying to establish the details of a German plan suggesting it would offer a guarantee of its bank deposits.

The German government and banks agree a 50bn euro plan to save one of the country's biggest banks, the finance ministry says.

The worlds of gambling and those of hungry children in impoverished, rural areas in South Africa could not be further apart. Yet one unique website is going all out in its attempts to form a bridge between the two. The

Check out Sprint's latest all-touch smartphone with a VGA screen and blazing fast networking in our HTC Touch Diamond review.

These ultra-slim cell phones and smartphones boasting storage capacity from 1GB to 16GB want you to forget about Flash based MP3 players.

There's a new version of the N-Gage app available for all compatible phones which (amongst other things) fixes the infamous 10,000 points bug. You can download the new version straight onto your device by opening the app, selecting "Options" and

It seems that Russian Mobile Review impressario Eldar was also at Thursday evening's launch of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (running S60 5th Edition, etc) and he's put together an amazingly detailed set of photos and well arranged thoughts on the

We've tested the five best flip phones on the market, offering sleek designs as well as great call quality and performance.

We get our hands on the alluring TouchFLO 3D interface in our video review of the HTC Touch Diamond for Sprint.

Nokia's Italian online shop currently has the SIM-free N85 listed as "in stock" with a price of 439 euros plus taxes, so presumably the handset's Europe-wide release is imminent (or it's just a mistake on the Nokia Italy site?). (Thanks

In the UK Mobile Choice Consumer Awards, apparently. It won best phone and best smartphone, although best camera phone was also Symbian OS-powered, the awesome Samsung i8510 - of which more in an editorial tomorrow. 'Reader's choice' went to the

Passengers flying from Brussels Airport to a European destination will discover a new shopping centre. The opening of over twenty new airport shops, bars and restaurants brings pier A to the world top in terms of airport retail. "With an

Boeing will provide a Performance Improvement Package for British Airways' 777 fleet that will result in a one percent fuel efficiency gain, along with the emission reductions that come with reduced fuel usage. The package will be applied to the

Air France is celebrating its 75th anniversary on 7 October 2008, commemorating its rise, since it was founded in 1933, to the position of one of the word's greatest and most prestigious airlines. Two books will be published to mark

Arik Air, the growing private airline based in Lagos, Nigeria, has signed a firm contract for the purchase of three Airbus A340-500s. This order makes Arik Air the 10th and latest customer for the A340-500. The acquisition of the new

Airbus, today, officially opened its first final assembly line outside of Europe. The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, together with the Party's Secretary of Tianjin, Zhang Gaoli and Airbus President and CEO Tom Enders inaugurated the Airbus A320 Family Final Assembly

Boeing successfully completed a high-pressure test, known as "high blow," on the 787 Dreamliner static test airframe at its Everett factory today. The test is one of three static tests that must be cleared prior to first flight. During the