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As PM Modi readies for his Head of Government visit to the UK in November there are several important matters.

In a first of its kind penalty issued by the Iranian government, the country has banned a weekly newspaper, 9th Dey Weekly, managed by ultra-conservative lawmaker Hamid Rasaie for criticising its recent nuclear deal with the West.

Real Estate Voice

Today we are hoping to exchange on a property in the crème of London, Mayfair. We were supposed to exchange on this property on Friday and were told if we did not we would lose it by Monday.

Italian police has arrested 11 suspects linked to fugitive head of the Sicilian Mafia, Matteo Messina Denaro; one of them, a former boss who ran a sheep-based code secret message system for the mobster.

Unemployment in the eurozone is neither improving nor getting worse, despite hopes that the latest figures would show a further drop in the jobless rate. The unemployment rate stayed at 11.1 per cent in June from the same level the previous month. Economists had been expecting a small decrease in the rate to 11 per cent. The lowest unemployment rate in the bloc in June was recorded in Germany (4.7 per cent) and the Czech Republic is also faring well (4.9 per cent).

Pakistan hangs teen, faces global reproval...

Despite a storm of protests clogging the Pakistani government, the country has executed Shafqat hussain who was convicted of killing a child when he was a minor.

United States Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly in consideration for entering the 2016 presidential race, a move which will throw yet another obstacle in Democratic Hillary Clinton's way.

Week commencing 07/08/2015