News Headlines - 15 July 2013

▽Gay marriage clears the House of Lords - Telegraph

The Queen is expected to be asked to give her approval to the Bill – one of the most radical pieces of social legislation of her reign – by the end of this week.

▽Kate Middleton's baby due by 'end of the week', says Duchess of Cornwall Camilla | Herald Sun

THE world's press has been camped around the clock outside St Mary's Hospital in central London for two weeks now in the vague hope of catching mum-to-be the Duchess of Cambridge as she arrives to give birth.

▽More than 2,400 British bankers paid over €1m, says EU regulator - Telegraph

Nearly 2,500 UK-based bankers took home pay packages worth more than €1m (￡864,460) in 2011, according to figures released by the EU's banking watchdog.

▽Spotify responds to Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich criticism | Music Week

Spotify isn't keeping quiet after seeing its business model slammed by Radiohead duo Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich - telling Music Week that it is striving to be "the most artist-friendly music service possible".

▽Apple reportedly seeking outside expertise to make iWatch | guardian.co.uk

Apple has turned to outside expertise to find staff for its wearable computing projects, which will not be launched until 2014, according to the Financial Times, which says that a senior member of an "iWatch" team was tempted to stay by a big pay rise.