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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Monday 12th July 2021
5. Sir Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.
The UK entrepreneur flew high above New Mexico in the US in the vehicle that his company has been developing for 17 years.
4. Food prices could rise by about 5% by the autumn – and turkeys and pigs in blankets could be in short supply this Christmas – as shortages of delivery drivers, abattoir staff and other workers drive up pay and other costs.
3. According to a study by Aviva, 47% of employees were less career-focused because of the pandemic.
Around two in five people said they could never switch off from work.
2. G20 finance ministers have backed an "historic" plan which will see multinational companies pay their "fair share" of tax around the world.
The plan to battle tax avoidance puts in place a minimum global corporate tax rate of 15%.
1. The UK's largest employers' body has urged the government to bring forward changes to Covid self-isolation rules.
The CBI says it would ease firms' staff shortage problems and help ensure the next phase of lockdown reopening is a "confident" not "anxious" process.