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Image copyright Getty Images Britain’s cyber-defence centre has thwarted more than one million cases of suspected payment card fraud in the last year, its annual review reveals. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said a dedicated anti-fraud effort stopped the cards being abused. It said it had stopped more than 1,800 cyber-attacks aimed at UK […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Prohibition aimed to outlaw the manufacture and sale of alcohol across the US Economists have a bit of an image problem. People think we shamelessly massage statistics, overconfidently make terrible predictions, and are no fun at drinks parties. Perhaps some of the blame for this lies with the man

Parker with Nike athlete Eliud Kipchoge on 12 October after he became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours, beating the mark by 20 seconds. Nike has announced chief executive Mark Parker will step down from the role next year, just weeks after the company’s Oregon Project closed down. Earlier this

The United Auto Workers union confirmed that one of its members, Roy A. McCombs, died after being hit by a vehicle on a General Motors picket line in Tennessee on Tuesday. McCombs was struck by an automobile traveling near the entrance to the GM plant in Spring Hill, south of Nashville. WKRN reports that the

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Infosys CEO Sahil Parekh has not responded to the allegations Indian software giant Infosys is investigating allegations that senior executives have been increasing profits through irregular accounting. The probe follows complaints by a group of whistleblowers against the CEO and CFO, the company said in a statement. Infosys shares

Image copyright AFP Image caption Sharm el-Sheikh attracted hundreds of thousands of UK visitors each year Direct flights from the UK to Sharm el-Sheikh are to resume after the government ended a ban imposed in 2015. Flights to the Egyptian resort were stopped after 224 people died in the bombing of a Russian airliner, linked

Image copyright Alamy A firm founded by the youngest entrepreneur to secure investment on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den is on the brink of insolvency, the BBC has learnt. Gripit Fixings makes a product designed to fix heavy items to plasterboard. Its inventor, Jordan Daykin, was just 18 when he appeared on the programme. However, Mr

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWorkers at the troubled bus manufacturer Wrightbus celebrated earlier this month after a deal for its sale was agreed The new owner of bus manufacturer Wrightbus has said recruitment will start in the coming weeks. Bamford Bus Company, owned by English industrialist Jo Bamford, has now formally

Image copyright WeWork Japanese investment giant Softbank is set to take control of WeWork after the office sharing firm’s plans to raise money via stock markets collapsed. WeWork’s board has reportedly accepted an offer in which Softbank will buy billions worth of shares, including $1bn from co-founder Adam Neumann. The rescue deal provides much needed

Ernst & Young now admits it should not have offered a women’s leadership training last year that was full of outdated and demeaning advice for women. The same day that HuffPost reported on the contents of the seminar, called Power-Presence-Purpose, the giant accounting firm distanced itself further from the program, which it had initially said was