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Standard Chartered's Islamic division is seeking banking licences in three African countries in order to offer its services to the continent's large Muslim population.

Sixty years on since the launch of Premium Bonds, the state-backed savings product remain popular amid low interest rates.

The funds will come from a variety of sources and will include conventional and Islamic tranches.

Indonesia's finance ministry sold IDR3.56 trillion ($273.01 million) of Islamic bonds at an auction.

The government is urging us to find out more about the new 12-sided pound coin, due to go into circulation next March. How much do you know already?

Indian construction workers brought in to work on a luxury hotel in Havana are being paid 10 times more than their Cuban counterparts, reports Will Ross.