UNITED KINGDOM

The U.S. Labor Department's jobs tally due Friday is likely to show nonfarm payrolls increased by 175,000 jobs last month.

They were high school sweethearts, sort-of.

Theresa May could be Britain's next prime minister if she beats Andrea Leadsom in a September ballot.

Roger Federer and Andy Murray will be in semifinal action at Wimbledon on Friday.

Singer Ciara and football player Russell Wilson got married Wednesday in England.

The former Beatles drummer turns 76 Thursday.

Months before it actually happened, the June 23 vote in the U.K. to take itself out of the EU was making businesses cautious when approaching mergers and acquisitions.

According to Fitch’s latest report, credit ratings of 15 countries were downgraded in the first of half of 2016 compared with the record full-year high of 20 in 2011.

Six real estate funds in the United Kingdom, with assets of over $19 billion, have announced temporary halts in withdrawals after the vote to leave the European Union.

NATO officials are expected to approve the deployment of four battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland as they nervously watch Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent actions.

At 2.6 million words, the Chilcot report is a deep dive into the U.K.'s policy before, during and after its decision to participate in the invasion of Iraq.

The class action lawsuit, to be filed in the United Kingdom, relates to the unlawfully high cross-border transaction fees set by MasterCard.

Aviva Investors and M&G Investments announced a trading freeze on their property funds Tuesday, a day after Standard Life Investments made a similar move for its $3.8 billion fund.

The measures, outlined by the central bank’s Financial Policy Committee Tuesday, could potentially free up to $197 billion for lending to businesses and households.

Ian Wilmut, creator of Dolly the sheep — the world’s first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell — has called for the creation of a biobank that holds tissues of endangered animals.

Standard Life Investments announced it is halting trade in its $3.84 billion U.K. property fund. Last week, along with three other real estate funds, it had cut the value of its holdings by 5 percent.

After Brexit, many Asian central banks are willing to ease monetary policy as a prolonged period of uncertainty threatens a wider downshift in trade and investment.

The U.K., reeling under the impact of the Brexit vote, will “barely escape a full-fledged recession,” the rating agency said in a report released Monday.

The Brexit campaigner stepped down saying he had achieved his political ambition with a victory for the “leave” camp in the EU referendum.

London law firm Mishcon de Reya said Sunday it would start legal action against the British government to ensure a parliamentary debate before invoking Article 50.

Saturday's election was meant to end political turmoil that had seen four prime ministers in three years.