Darling issues warning to bankers
It would be "disastrous" for bankers if they returned to their old ways and repeated past mistakes, Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned.
Speaking as reports suggest a return of the City bonus culture, Mr Darling said some people there were too complacent and "need to be brought back to Earth".
Feed the poor
By Shilpa Kannan
India Business Report, BBC World, Delhi
Finding rice to feed her family is a daily struggle for 30-year-old mother Pushpa.
Pushpa lives with her ailing in-laws, five children and her husband in a crowded slum in east Delhi.
Man’s world?
By Clare Matheson
Business reporter, BBC News
One of the biggest differences you notice with the current crop of construction students at the Astins Institute in Battersea is that they’re just so, well, delicate.
The six are quite a contrast to the usual, hairy, butch builder - mainly because they are women.
These girls are the ones Astins Ltd managing director and co-founder Dominic Tutt believes will be the vanguard of his campaign to bring more women onto big building sites.
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