Attitudes to sexual orientation in the workplace are changing, but there’s still more to do. By Amy McLellan

Economic Outlook: Immigrants tend to be younger than the indigenous population, and that helps the demographics, crucial for fiscal health

Economic Life: The US can 'grow' out of its indebtedness: Debt is being accrued there by 300 million people, but in another 40 years there will be 450 million to pay it off

Total liabilities including future pension and health commitments exceed £2trn, or roughly £80,000 per household

Computacenter; UK Coal

The full genetic code of the potato plant has been deciphered by scientists who say that it will lead to the rapid development of new disease-resistant varieties of the world's most important non-cereal food crop.

The gap between the fastest and slowest growing English regions widened further in June, according to the latest Lloyds TSB regional Purchasing Managers' Index, published today.

The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) today added its voice to the growing chorus of concern about Britain's faltering economic recovery.

All too familiar pictures of hunger in the Horn of Africa have returned to our screens as recurrent drought, soaring food prices, conflict, and entrenched poverty leave 12 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya without enough food and water to live.

Theo Fennell has said his eponymous jewellery firm is targeting the US and China, as the company forecast a return to profitability this year.

Outlook Here's some news from the Office for National Statistics that may surprise you. Contrary to the widely held view that Britain's economic recovery is grinding to a halt, corporate profitability is at its highest level since the final quarter of 2008. There are some caveats to that headline finding – the figures are for non-financial corporations and are slightly out of date, covering as they do the three months to the end of March – but still, this is not the picture of corporate UK most of us have in our minds.

The profitability of the services and manufacturing sectors fell in the first quarter of 2011, official figures showed today, adding to worries about the strength of the UK's economic recovery.

Britain's entrepreneurs remain optimistic even as evidence of a slowdown mounts, a survey reveals.

After a decade of delay and stalling, the first compensation cheques are finally arriving