Four major banks have pleaded guilty to trying to manipulate foreign exchange rates and six banks were fined nearly $6 billion (€5.4bn) in a settlement that substantially ends a global probe into misconduct in the $5-trillion-a-day market.

Oil giant BP faces being drawn into the foreign exchange (forex) rigging scandal after it emerged that it has been investigating whether its traders were linked to the manipulation of the £3 trillion-a-day market.

A spate of bloody attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, hours before the start of the Mexican Open tennis tournament.