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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWhy do some tumble dryers catch fire? Some 65,000 fire-prone tumble dryers have been found during a recall campaign by Whirlpool, but hundreds of thousands still remain in UK homes. The manufacturer extended its safety programme to offer free replacements in July after the regulator stepped in, […]

Image copyright Alamy Sainsbury’s has become the latest supermarket to target packaging waste, pledging to halve the amount of plastic used in its stores by 2025. Its customers will have to change their behaviour to achieve the “bold ambition” it said, for example by buying milk in plastic pouches. It is also inviting the public

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption First-generation or second-generation technology? It may depend on where you live Nearly a third of all energy companies fitting smart meters are still installing old technology. Government guidance says that since the middle of March 2019 customers should only have been given second generation smart meters. However eight companies

Image copyright Getty Images Half-price cinema tickets, cycle to work schemes and gym passes have long been part of employee benefits programmes. But with research showing 84% of millennials look to leave their jobs within the first two years, employers want to tailor their perks packages to their employees’ needs. Emerging technologies such as data

Image caption Kava is a popular drink across the South Pacific It’s a typically humid afternoon in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, an island nation scattered across hundreds of miles of Pacific ocean. The cicadas are loud, the mosquitoes are in search of a bite, and in a makeshift bar, a Ni-Vanuatu woman scoops

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ren Zhengfei says a Western buyer could modify his firm’s products to meet the US’s security concerns Huawei’s chief executive has proposed selling its current 5G know-how to a Western firm as a way to address security concerns voiced by the US and others about its business. Ren Zhengfei

Image copyright Reuters British Airways has started emailing passengers to cancel flights two weeks ahead of another strike by pilots. The industrial action on 27 September is expected to affect hundreds of flights and tens of thousands of passengers. The dispute is over a pay-rise which pilots say is not high enough. Pilots staged a

Image copyright Getty Images Google is to pay French authorities almost €1bn (£900m) to end a long-running investigation into its taxes. The settlement includes a €500m fine and additional taxes of €465m, but it is less than the tax bill authorities had accused Google of evading. It rounds off a four year investigation that saw

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Levi Strauss boss Chip Bergh was one of the signatories The leaders of 145 US companies have sent a letter urging Congress to enact stricter gun laws as pressure builds on lawmakers to respond to gun violence. The letter calls on Congress to expand background checks and create new ways

Image copyright Getty Images Sir Philip Green’s Topshop and Topman fashion chains suffered an almost £500m net loss last year, amid tumbling sales and a raft of one-off charges. Its latest accounts showed a loss of £498.5m loss for 2018, compared with a loss of £15.6m in 2017. The results also showed that sales fell