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Image copyright Sirius Minerals Image caption The Woodsmith mine site near Whitby Workers on the huge Woodsmith mine may have breathed a sigh of relief after its struggling owner Sirius Minerals received a takeover bid. Anglo American will buy the mine for £404m, or 5.5 pence per share. But since the shares were being bought […]

Image copyright Getty Images “I customarily killed old women. They all died, there by the big river. I didn’t used to wait until they were completely dead to bury them. The women were afraid of me.” No wonder. That’s the account of a man from the Aché, an indigenous tribe in eastern Paraguay, as told

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The industry has had little to cheer throughout 2019 Toy sales in the UK fell by 6% for a second year in a row in 2019 as politics overshadowed the traditional festive buying season. The general election in December and Brexit uncertainty during the rest of the year affected

Image copyright Sophie Mutevelian/Netflix The emergence of new competitors has started to dent Netflix’s growth in the US. The streaming giant said it added just 420,000 subscribers there in the most recent quarter. It blamed the “low membership growth” on “new competition” as well as its recent decision to raise the price for its streaming

Image copyright Getty Images Vodafone has become the latest company to leave Facebook’s digital currency project, Libra. The Libra Association has seen an exodus of backers including Paypal and Mastercard amid regulatory scrutiny. Facebook announced in June last year that it would launch the digital currency in partnership with other members of the association. But

Image copyright Getty Images Boeing has said it does not expect its 737 Max plane to return to the skies before the summer, which is longer than initially expected. The jet has been grounded since March after two fatal crashes, which together killed 346 people. Boeing has said it is working on a software update

Image caption Environmental activist Melati Wisjen “It is a lot of responsibility – if you would have told my 12-year-old self that it would be at this level of intensity, opportunity and possibility, I wouldn’t have believed you,” says 19-year-old environmental activist Melati Wisjen of her environmental campaign work. “But it has just become this

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Coca-cola’s head of sustainability Bea Perez Coca-Cola will not ditch single-use plastic bottles because consumers still want them, the firm’s head of sustainability has told the BBC. Customers like them because they reseal and are lightweight, said Bea Perez. The firm, which is one of the world’s biggest plastic

Image copyright Getty Images Sainsbury’s plans to cut hundreds of management roles as the supermarket chain integrates further with Argos. The supermarket will merge more teams across the business, including in commercial, retail, finance, digital, technology and human resources, it said. Sainsbury’s said the proposals were part of £500m cost savings plans that had previously

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom” – Trump US President Donald Trump has decried climate “prophets of doom” in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where sustainability is the main theme. He called for a rejection of “predictions of the apocalypse” and