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Image copyright Getty Images Bosses of Britain’s leading firms will be paid more within three working days of 2020 than the average employees’ annual wage, according to research. FTSE 100 chief executives starting work on 2 January will by 17:00 GMT today have been paid more than the average wage of £29,559, the report suggests. […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tata Steel runs the UK’s largest steel works in Port Talbot The chairman of the Tata group has said the company “can’t have a situation where India keeps funding losses” at its Port Talbot steelworks. Natarajan Chandrasekaran, chairman of the Tata Sons group which owns the steelworks in Port

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Georges Duboeuf applied traditional methods of winemaking to his craft Georges Duboeuf, one of the great wine merchants of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 86. He was best known for turning the release a little-known French product – an ordinary red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau

Image copyright Getty Images The man in charge of next week’s giant CES tech expo has said that Ivanka Trump has done “great work” and will help it focus attendees’ minds on job-related issues for the future. A decision to offer the US President’s daughter one of the show’s “keynote” sessions has caused controversy. Critics

Image copyright Platform Property Image caption Features in this seaside property are more at home in the arcades Buying or selling a home can feel like an endless merry-go-round for anyone caught up in a tortuous house move. In one £1.5m property in East Sussex, the fairground nature of many property transactions has been taken

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: How new apps are using AI to rival personal trainers How much tech can you take? Next week aims to stretch your horizons, as well as your credulity, as thousands of new products are launched and demoed at the giant CES expo. Artificial intelligence, 5G, foldables,

Image copyright Reuters There is “overwhelming evidence” that the costs of HS2 are “out of control” and its benefits overstated, the deputy chair of its review panel has said. Lord Berkeley said the high-speed rail line, linking London and northern England, is likely to cost over £108bn. A vocal critic of HS2, the Labour peer

Image copyright Getty Images The number of people who have never worked has increased over the past two decades, a new study by the Resolution Foundation think tank suggests. The study suggests 8.2% of people aged 16-64 – some 3.4 million people in total – had never had a paid job, despite a spike in employment. That

Image copyright Getty Images Mitch Kahn remembers how, when fighting began in the second war in Iraq, prices for US crude oil spiked $10 per barrel overnight. That would have meant a profit of $50,000 if a trader had made the smallest purchasing trade possible. Or, just as big a loss if the trader had

Image copyright Getty Images Across Britain, people are spending more money on vegan products, and plant-based diets are trending online. With major supermarkets catching on and stocking up on vegan-friendly food – BBC News asks what’s behind the rise? The number of vegans is on the up A vegan diet involves cutting out animal products