Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as mortgage approvals for UK house purchases fell to 56,200 in May ...

Germany, Czechia, Poland and Hungary reached record temperatures of more than 40C on Sunday ...

Case focused on White House’s March 2025 firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter ...

Wimbledon gets under way with the men’s world No 1 and defending champion, Jannik Sinner, opening proceedings on Centre Court ...

Court sides against Republicans after deciding earlier this term to let Louisiana effectively dismantle Voting Rights Act ...

Chris Johnson, one of the few players to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a single NFL season, says he has been diagnosed with ALS ...

England are chasing a huge total of 373 to win the series against New Zealand in Ben Stokes’s final Test match ...

If you both agree on a date when you will either commit to one another or move on, you can avoid a drawn-out breakup or years of loveless coupledom – in theory Name: The sunset stipulation. Age: About ...

Justices find president does not have constitutional authority to fire Federal Reserve governor without cause ...

Novels were starting to seem like a thing of the past for me, until I found a book I couldn’t put down. Is there anything better, asks Zoe Williams ...

In The Good Life, To the Manor Born and beyond, the star played domineering snobs with pinpoint comic timing – yet she still made them feel like old friends. No one will do it better ...

Trial begins of Simon Levy, who denies killing Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins and attacking third woman ...