Vodafone says that its talks about selling its 45% stake in Verizon Communications are "advanced" as it puts a value of $130bn (£84bn) on the stake.

Venezuela's finance minister Nelson Merentes says the economic policies of late President Hugo Chavez and his successor are yet to be successful.

Defending champion Serena Williams reaches the US Open quarter-finals with a straight-set win over Sloane Stephens.

Almost a quarter of all prisoners in England and Wales were kept in overcrowded cells in the year to April, figures obtained by a prison reform charity suggest.

The deputy prime minister confirms which families will be entitled to free childcare for their two-year-olds when a government scheme is extended next year.

The average height of men has risen by almost 11cm since the mid-19th century, experts have found.

The UK is failing to implement European rules designed to give equal pay to agency workers, according to the trade union umbrella body, the TUC.

Pop star Lady Gaga delivers a set of entirely new material as she opens the month-long iTunes Festival in London.