David Cameron is to press ahead with plans to force large firms to publish data on the gender pay gap among staff, saying he wants to eliminate the problem "within a generation".

Asian shares are mostly higher after a breakthrough deal in Greece for a bailout package from creditors provided some resolution in the debt crisis.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announces that Scotland has enjoyed a record year for inward investment.

Greece's prime minister faces a battle to convince his colleagues and coalition partners to support the terms of a third eurozone bailout.

The rate of UK Consumer Prices Index inflation fell to 0% in June, from 0.1% in May, official figures show.

The UK housing market appears to be "waking up" after a quiet period in spring, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has said.

Gatwick Airport has called the Airports Commission's choice of a new runway at Heathrow "unfair".

Oil prices fall by more than $1 a barrel after a deal is reached with Iran on limiting its nuclear activity in return for the lifting of economic sanctions.