Fire evacuations in Greece and Turkey while temperatures in Spain and Portugal hit 46C

Delivery platform caused outrage with offer to incentivise outdoor work during heatwave

The increasing ubiquity of AI makes it harder to authenticate who someone is in the digital realm

Ryanair calls for European Commission to intervene to prevent future disruption

The government has a plan to exploit its abundant fossil fuel resources to help ward off the ill effects of Trump’s tariffs

Bets on GE Aerospace, Microsoft and Visa help activist fund to first-half profits

Figure leads investors to scale back bets on interest rate cuts and helps push Wall Street stocks to record high

Big asset managers added to holdings in bet that sell-off sparked by doubts over Rachel Reeves’ future would be shortlived

European Commission to propose mechanism to issue common bonds to fund member states in emergencies

Ministers row back on reforms of Companies House requirements in drive to cut red tape for smaller entities

Technology can make a boring job even more boring and an interesting job even more interesting

Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance

The heads of Airbus and BNP Paribas join intense lobbying effort against new regulations

Policymakers at central bank fret that a surging currency increases the risk of inflation undershooting

Private capital group’s European insurance unit in talks for a 100% stake in retirement savings group

Dispute erupts over ‘artificial’ targets as PM prepares to set out government’s 10-year plan for health service

Easier scenario and changes to requirements allowed Wall Street bank to ratchet up shareholder payout

Stargate joint venture with SoftBank seeks more computing power to run powerful AI models

Truce with Rwanda is a test case for Donald Trump’s transactional diplomacy

Legislation will raise costs for companies that extract lithium, nickel, cobalt and magnesium

If the double act is no longer working, the core problem may not be Reeves

President says Vietnamese exports to US will be subject to 20% levy

Drug group chief Pascal Soriot frustrated with UK but shareholders worry about country losing FTSE’s largest company

Political judgment of Starmer and close allies in doubt after U-turn on planned cuts to benefits

Legislation’s deep healthcare cuts and implications for national debt spook some Republicans

CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd warns ‘dating apps are feeling like a thing of the past’

Chancellor faces some unpalatable options in the wake of Labour’s costly retreat on welfare

Electric-vehicle maker grapples with increased competition and blowback from Elon Musk’s political activism

Former UBS CFO transferred investments worth £78mn to his wife but argued they had not become ‘matrimonialised’

UK prime minister says he ‘in lockstep’ with chancellor who will be in the position for a ‘very long time to come’

The UK prime minister is weak but Labour MPs are deluded about fiscal reality

Reduction in weapons shipments makes Kyiv more vulnerable to Russia’s escalating attacks

Eleventh-hour climbdown on reforms leaves government facing a fiscal shortfall

Official review finds blaze caused by ‘catastrophic failure’ at local substation

The US appears to be turning its back on a scientific consensus that has relegated several diseases to history

Robey Warshaw partner and former chancellor is leading a review of options

The PEM convention would reduce exporters’ post-Brexit difficulties with supply chains

Five vessels hit with limpet mines this year shortly after visiting Russian ports

The democratic socialist candidate to be mayor of New York mistakenly believes that the economy is a zero-sum game

A legislative win for the president could hurt his party given the tax and spend measure’s low popularity