The retrial of Amanda Knox over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher is to open in Italy, but the American will not be in court.

The UK economy is recovering – but how balanced is the growth that is being generated?

Labour says it cannot promise to renationalise Royal Mail, which is due to float on the stock market, but will impose new customer service obligations.

Industrial giant Siemens is to cut up to 15,000 jobs, a third of them in Germany, as part of a cost-cutting programme.

Fewer people than expected are choosing to opt out of new workplace pension schemes under auto-enrolment, according to official figures.

Teachers could be won over to performance related pay but need reassurance about its fairness and efficiency, claims a right-leaning think tank.

Children born to mothers under 30 are more likely to die than those born to older mums, a report on child mortality in the UK suggests.

Six titles, including books about bees and Margaret Thatcher, make the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.