Top three from the BBC
The US economy created 243,000 jobs in January, while the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%, official figures show.
Around 20% of unemployed people who have been on the government's main welfare-to-work scheme, the Work Programme, for at least 6 months have been found a job, the BBC has learnt.
Virgin Atlantic is forcing successful job applicants to pay for their own criminal record checks, Radio 4's Money Box reveals.
Top three from CNN
A trader accused of fraud over a $2.3 billion loss in unauthorized trading reported by Swiss banking giant UBS pleads not guilty in a London court. The trial of the trader, Kwaku Adoboli, is due to begin September 3.
Greece's finance minister angrily rejected a German plan for the eurozone to impose a budget overseer onto Athens in return for a new ?130bn bail-out, saying it would improperly force his country to choose between "financial assistance" and "national dignity".
There was a whiff of inevitability about the decision by Stephen Hester, the Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, to waive his £1M ($1.57M) bonus late last night, as the political and media furor mounted.
Top three from the New York Times
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