The International Monetary Fund approves a bailout for Ukraine, to help the country's beleaguered economy.

Struggling supermarket Morrisons announces it will cut prices by as much as 17% on some products, in a bid to win back customers.

Senate Republicans block a Democratic-backed rise in the US minimum wage, as the two parties stake out positions ahead of November's election.

Labour would limit annual rent increases in the private sector to give a "fairer deal" to tenants, leader Ed Miliband says.

Former Nokia chief executive, Stephen Elop, receives a bigger-than-expected pay-off, as the firm finalises the sale of it handset business to Microsoft.

Both sides of the independence debate need to "step up their game" in the final months of the campaign, according a survey of Scottish businesses.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff announces an increase in social security payments and tax cuts ahead of her re-election campaign in October.

Annual house price growth in the UK has hit double digits for the first time in four years, according to the Nationwide Building Society.