Consumers are conditioned to free returns. But as retailers introduce fees, shoppers may need to start reaching into their wallets to send back purchases. Some of the biggest business winners of the Covid-19 pandemic were e-commerce retailers. In the US, Census Bureau data shows $571.2bn (£473bn) of goods were sold online in 2019. The next…

By James Landale BBC diplomatic correspondent, Granada Rishi Sunak will call on Thursday for more co-ordinated European action to tackle the rising numbers of irregular migrants arriving on the continent’s borders. At a special summit of European leaders in Spain, the prime minister will say the situation is “immoral and unsustainable”. He will demand “creative…

The finalists in this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have been announced. Here is a selection of those that were whittled down from thousands of entries submitted from professional and amateur photographers from around the world, along with comment from the photographers. The winners will be announced on 23 November. Jason Moore, taken in Perth,…

A new translation of Homer’s Iliad has just been published by Emily Wilson, who was the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English. The classicist and author Natalie Haynes talks to her about what the epic poem can tell us today. One of two great epic poems by Homer to survive from ancient Greece,…