Toyota has issued a worldwide recall for about 437,000 of its flagship Prius and other hybrid vehicles in the latest of a series of embarrassing safety problems to hit the Japanese carmaker.
Mixed signals on US jobless rate
The US unemployment rate has reached a five-month low of 9.7 per cent, despite US employers reporting that they cut 20,000 jobs from their payrolls in January.
Studios lose Australia piracy case
A court in Australia has ruled that internet service providers cannot be held responsible for their users illegally downloading movies and TV programmes.
