Repeated debilitating heatwaves this summer are likely to have cost the UK economy more than £4bn in lost economic output by the end of July, new analysis shows. Green thinktank Verdant had suggested June’s unseasonally hot weather had an economic cost of £2.36bn. Updating its assessment to include»»»

LONDON: An Israeli rights group and Palestinian community organizations have asked a court to overturn approval for a Jewish religious school in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah, saying the project would be built on land expropriated for public facilities needed by Palestinians. Israeli nonp»»»