The addition of a mobile payments service to Apple’s next iPhone could help to boost sales of the larger-screen phones and claw back market share lost to mobiles running on Google’s Android platform.

MasterCard Inc faces an EU anti-trust probe into bank fees on foreign card payments such as when tourists go shopping in the 27-nation bloc.

Investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained today - the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified US documents.