Europe

One of Britain's most successful retailers, Sir Stuart Rose, on why he is happy to pay more tax.
The former Marks & Spencer boss, Sir Stuart Rose, has said he is happy to pay extra tax while the UK is going through a difficult time.

Cancer cells can develop resistance to drugs.
It may be possible to extend the usefulness of cancer drugs by preventing drug resistance in tumours, say researchers.
A study, published in Science Translational Medicine, showed a chemical reaction went into overdrive as resistance developed. Scientists said drugs were already on the market which interfered with the process.

The Russian search company Yandex takes center stage as Seedcamp Week gets underway in London, bringing together up and coming entrepreneurs with investors and mentors.

From Russia, with entrepreneurial expertise. Kickstarting this year's Seedcamp week in London is Ilya Segalovich, chief technology officer at Yandex. If you've never heard of it, you might want to get Googling.

The world's first clinical trial of brain stem cells to treat strokes is set to move to its next phase.
An independent assessment of the first three patients to have had stem cells injected into their brain at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital has concluded it has had no adverse effect.

The assessment paves the way for the therapy to be tested on more patients to find a new treatment for stroke.

The hope is that the stem cells will help to repair damaged brain tissue.

Scores of letters written by John Lennon have been sold at auction over the years

More than 250 letters and cards sent by John Lennon to his family and friends are to be published for the first time.

Author Hunter Davies, who wrote the only official biography of The Beatles in the 1960s, is trying to track down every missive written by the singer.

"I've found a lot of letters that nobody's ever seen," he said.
Davies, whose book comes out next year, said it was the first time Lennon's widow Yoko Ono had given permission for his private letters to be published.

(Reuters) - Russia said it had lost track of a newly-launched, multi-million-dollar telecommunications satellite on Thursday, the latest in a series of setbacks that have dogged its space industry.

The $265-million Express AM-4 satellite, described by its makers as the most powerful satellite ever built in Europe, launched late on Wednesday aboard a Proton-M rocket from the Russian-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan.

The Russian space agency said the first stages of the launch went smoothly but communication with the satellite was lost due to a failure of the Briz-M upper stage.

Global Economy
What's a bright, ambitious Western company to do?

China is where the customers are - and where the customers are increasingly going to be.

But China, too, is perceived to be the country where technology mysteriously transfers from in-coming companies with know-how to companies which want to know how.

That, at least, is the pervasive view of influential German business leaders.
Artur Fischer, for example, is the head of the Berlin stock-exchange who got his fingers burnt in China.

Today London, and for the first time ever the suburbs, holds it's breath.

It is reported that for the first time ever in it's history the 'met' has called in "every able bodied police officer" including the voluntary special force.

Police in the US, Britain and the Netherlands arrest more than 20 people in connection with an investigation into high-profile cyber attacks.