A timescale for the race to replace Ed Miliband as Labour Party leader is to be drawn up by the party's National Executive Committee.

The Bank of England cuts its 2015 growth forecast from 2.9% to 2.5%, as governor Mark Carney unveils his quarterly inflation report.

Private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to Labour ministers on subjects ranging from Army equipment to the dominance of supermarkets are published after a legal battle.

The USA 4x100m relay team are stripped of their London 2012 Olympic silver medals because of Tyson Gay's drugs ban.

Russia delays for about a month the return of three astronauts on the International Space Station after the recent failure of its supply spaceship.

David Cameron is to set out new powers aimed at tackling radicalisation, saying the UK has been a "passively tolerant society" for too long.

A global school league table from the OECD puts Asian countries at the top, the UK in 20th and the US trailing in 28th place, behind countries including Vietnam.

Secret letters sent by the Prince of Wales to Labour government ministers a decade ago are to be published later, ending a lengthy legal battle.