Britain’s weekend media was packed with stories reporting how a housing shortage is fuelling surging property prices.

If technology is just devices and ideas — ideas which are easy to copy and devices which are easy to ship — why do differences in technology persist between countries, asks Ricardo Hausmann.

With Jean Claude Trichet preparing to step down as president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, an Italian banker with more than enough experience, is the person likely to step into his office, writes Kyran Fitzgerald