Wages are set to rise by more than inflation for the first time in almost six years as the UK economy enters a "long period of low inflation", EY says.

Almost 4m families are one month from homelessness because they have enough money to pay their rent or mortgage for only a month, housing charity Shelter says.

UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama discovers.

As many as 85,000 people in Scotland could be employed on zero-hours contracts, according to the Scottish Trades Union Council.

A Chinese consortium buys Glencore Xstrata's copper mine in Peru in a $6bn (£3.6bn) all-cash deal, marking one of China's largest mining acquisition.

South Korea's state health insurer sues three tobacco firms, including the local unit of Philip Morris, to offset treatment costs for diseases linked to smoking.

Starting salaries for graduate jobs, even in the best-paid fields of medicine and dentistry, have fallen 11% in five years, new analysis suggests.

The FTSE 100 falls in early trade following another sell-off in US stocks on Friday and with renewed concerns over the situation in Ukraine.