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British recruiters saw the weakest growth in hiring in more than a year and a half last month, as signs of an economic downturn made workers more wary about changing jobs and businesses more cautious about hiring, a survey showed on Friday.

ANL, also the publisher of The Mail On Sunday and MailOnline, said on Thursday it "utterly and unambiguously" rejected the allegations.

British companies are the most downbeat about the outlook for their profits since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2020 despite widespread plans to raise prices, a major survey showed on Thursday, adding to signs of gloom about the economy.

Dreamt up in the 1960s to attract tourists, Spain's three-course "menu del dia", or set lunch menu, has long been seen as the best deal in town.

Euro zone government bond yields edged up towards September's multi-year highs on Thursday, with analysts reckoning that the recent bond rally was too early as inflation might still surprise on the upside.

A Dutch court on Thursday ordered the government to bring conditions in Dutch emergency asylum centres up to European Union standards and said vulnerable refugees should no longer be housed there.

Spain is planning to relocate the remains of two far-right figures linked to its 1936-1939 civil war who are buried in grandiose sites, a minister said Thursday.

Britain's battered pound will be around 3.6% stronger in a year, according to a Reuters poll in which analysts were divided, however, on whether the currency would reach parity with the U.S.

UK government talks tough on immigration -- again

For many of her Tory critics, Truss is already drinking in the last-chance saloon just a month into her premiership.

UK-based investors pulled a record 2.4 billion pounds ($2.74 billion) from equity funds in September, funds network Calastone said on Wednesday.

Euro zone government bond yields rose on Wednesday, but stayed well below multi-year highs, as concerns about systemic risks and economic slowdown led investors to lower bets on where interest rates might peak.

Denmark's centre-left Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday called a general election for Nov.

Europe may limp through the cold winter months with the help of brimming natural gas tanks despite a plunge in deliveries from former top supplier Russia only to enter a deeper energy crisis next year, the head of the International Energy Agency said.

Train travel in Britain was disrupted on Wednesday by the latest in a string of strikes by railway workers over wages.

A 65-year-old grandmother was brutally mauled to death by a pack dogs at her house in the Vauxhall area of Liverpool on Monday.

As of writing, the petition has 36,812 signatures.

Prime Minister Liz Truss will on Wednesday press her message that Britain needs "to do things differently" to kickstart stagnant growth, using her first speech to the party faithful as Conservative leader to try to restore her dwindling authority.

A slowdown in Spain's economy, caused partly by the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will force Spanish banks to increase provisions to cover potential losses, Bank of Spain Governor Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Tuesday.

A public inquiry into Britain's response to and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic got underway on Tuesday, with a promise it would get to the truth, and expose any wrongdoing or culpable conduct.

The head of the European Union's powerful lending arm has urged leaders not to backslide on climate targets amid the energy crisis and signalled a joint action plan from the world's top development banks at next month's COP 27 summit and on Ukraine.

Some of Britain's top open-ended property funds are rolling out new measures to manage investor exit requests, as challenges in meeting redemptions continue to rise amid a sell-off in some UK risk assets.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss had hoped her governing Conservative Party's annual conference would be her crowning glory, but instead she was forced into a humiliating U-turn that has left her, and her team, fighting for credibility.

Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss defended her contentious plan to kick-start economic growth through tax cuts, despite expectations Tuesday of a second damaging U-turn.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has refused to rule out cutting benefit payments by less than soaring inflation to help fund her tax-cutting growth plan in what is likely to spark the next political rebellion over her economic plans.

British interior minister Suella Braverman will set out plans on Tuesday for new powers which would ban migrants who cross the English Channel from claiming asylum, a government source said.

Vodafone said it would have a majority 51-percent stake and CK Hutchison the remainder in a non-cash deal.

Rishi Sunak, Truss's defeated rival for the party leadership, and her scandal-tainted predecessor Boris Johnson are among many senior MPs staying away from the conference in Birmingham.

Britain's debt-fuelled economy remains threatened by recession and the pound mired by trouble despite the government of new Prime Minister Liz Truss performing a swift tax U-turn.