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Image copyright Sam Allard/RSC Image caption The RSC, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, said the decision had “not been taken lightly” The Royal Shakespeare Company is to end its partnership with BP at the end of the year following criticism of its links to the international oil giant. The RSC said it “could not ignore” the “strength […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Airbus’ A380 was unfairly subsidised, WTO says The US has been given the go-ahead to impose tariffs on $7.5bn (£6.1bn) worth of goods it imports from the European Union. It is the latest chapter in the 15-year battle over subsidies for Airbus and its American rival Boeing, and sparked

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Liverpool beat Tottenham to win the Champions League final on 1 June An online retailer has been censured for sending a mass email telling competition entrants they had each won tickets to the Champions League final. Zavvi, sent personalised emails to subscribers telling them they had won a VIP trip

Image copyright Hannah Eachus It’s easy to list some of the many everyday items invented and patented by women – the dishwasher, windscreen wipers, the board game Monopoly, to name but a few – but the world is still failing to take full advantage of women’s innovative ideas, a report suggests. Women inventors account for

Image copyright AFP/PA Image caption Dame Moya Greene, Dame Minouche Shafik and Emma Walmsley are backing the campaign A group of 100 of the UK’s most successful businesswomen have launched a campaign to close the gender pay gap. Some of corporate Britain’s biggest names are behind the #MeTooPay initiative including Dame Minouche Shafik, potentially the

Image caption Mr Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in the 1980s Martin Gilbert is to leave Standard Life Aberdeen after nearly four decades with the business. The vice chairman of the group and chairman of Aberdeen’s investment arm said he would step down in September next year. Mr Gilbert co-founded Aberdeen Asset Management in the

After the travel agent Thomas Cook collapsed, hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers found themselves without return flights home. In response, the Civil Aviation Authority launched the UK’s largest peacetime repatriation operation, “Operation Matterhorn”, to bring more than 150,000 people back to Britain. BBC Transport Correspondent Tom Burridge met some of the people flying from Mallorca

Image copyright Getty Images Metro Bank has announced that its controversial chairman and founder Vernon Hill is leaving the embattled lender. The bank said in July that Mr Hill would be stepping down as chairman but would stay on as both a non-executive director and president. However, Metro Bank now said he will leave by

Image copyright Reuters Tesco has announced that its chief executive Dave Lewis is stepping down after five years in the role. Mr Lewis said the decision was “personal one” and Tesco chairman John Allan said he had accepted the resignation with “regret”. He will be replaced by Ken Murphy, who has held senior positions at

Image copyright Climeworks Image caption Direct air capture takes CO2 straight out of the atmosphere “This is the future of aviation,” Oskar Meijerink tells me in a café in Rotterdam airport. His company, in partnership with the airport’s owners, is planning the world’s first commercial production of jet fuel made, in part, from carbon dioxide