Image copyright Getty Images Carlos Ghosn, who is in custody in Japan, has resigned from French carmaker Renault, according to reports. The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, told Bloomberg Television that “Carlos Ghosn just resigned last night”. Mr Ghosn has remained at the helm of Renault while being held in Japan since 19 November …
Image copyright Getty Images Real Madrid has topped the table of the world’s 20 richest football clubs, displacing Manchester United with record revenues of €750.9m (£674.6m). Man Utd slipped to third with Barcelona making it the first Spanish one-two since 2014-15, said Deloitte. Its Football Money League, based on season 2017-18, also shows the combined …
Image copyright Getty Images US tech giant Microsoft has confirmed that its search engine Bing is currently inaccessible in China. Social media users have expressed concern that the search engine might be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors. Chinese authorities operate a firewall that blocks many US tech platforms, including Facebook and …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption High Street shops are under pressure as never before UK shops and retailers employ 70,000 fewer people than they did a year ago as the High Street continues to decline, a survey indicates. In the final three months of 2018, the number of employees in the retail sector fell …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption At the “Dining in the Dark” event there weren’t even candles Putting both your hands on someone’s shoulders a few minutes after you’ve just met, feels strange, a little too intimate. But at the “Dining in the Dark” experience at Davos, we have no choice. We have to hold …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption‘The perception was women didn’t fly aircraft’ Claire Banks is about to fulfil her childhood dream of flying planes for a living. After almost a decade as a physiotherapist, her aviation career is now ready to take off. The 36-year-old from Lancashire in the north of England …
Image copyright Daily Mail The Daily Mail is calling for a web browser alert that criticises its journalism to be changed. The NewsGuard plug-in currently brings up a warning that says the newspaper’s website “generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability”. It has given this advice since August. But the matter came …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Former Barclays chief executive John Varley Senior Barclays bankers paid Qatar £322m in secret fees during the financial crisis in return for bailout funds, a court heard on Wednesday. The case against four former executives has been filed by the Serious Fraud Office over Barclays’ £11.8bn rescue. The bank …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Deutsche Post DHL’s chief executive, Frank Appel, says the firm has prepared for Brexit The boss of the world’s largest logistics firm says that his company could profit from a no-deal Brexit. Deutsche Post DHL’s chief executive Frank Appel said in the long run Brexit would not benefit the …