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Japan’s Nissan has reduced its full-year profit forecast as a safety inspection scandal hit earnings. The carmaker expects operating profit of 645bn yen ($5.7bn; £4.3bn) for the year to March 2018, down from previous guidance of 685bn yen. It also saw a sharp

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India’s biggest airline IndiGo apologised to a passenger after video emerged of him being tackled by staff.The video released on Monday allegedly shows IndiGo staff manhandling the passenger on the Delhi airport tarmac last month. It has sparked public outcry on

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One year ago, India’s government withdrew most of the large denomination bank notes in circulation in a surprise announcement aimed at cracking down on wealth that was unaccounted for. The move disrupted life across India – an economy heavily dependent on

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Bjorn Ihler read Anders Breivik’s book only a week after jumping into lake Tyrifjorden in Norway to escape the terrorist’s bullets.Bjorn was one of the survivors on Utoya island where Breivik killed 77 people in July 2011.What Bjorn found in the far-right

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Meet 29-year-old Hakan Sevgin. He is helping to improve consumer products and shops around the world.A Turkish man who lives in Istanbul, Hakan doesn’t work for any retail firm. Instead he is a stage lighting manager

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Choices for shoppers in English town centres are shrinking, according to research for the BBC.A survey of 12 government-funded “Portas Pilot” towns found nearly 1,000 shops had disappeared in five years.The towns were awarded a share of a £1.2m fund,

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“Good progress” has been made on protecting consumers from authorised push payment (APP) scams – where people are tricked into sending money to a fraudster – a regulator has said. The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) said progress was being made

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Media playback is unsupported on your device “I like to solve problems,” says Uddhab Bharali.”I like to make [people] a little more comfortable with themselves, or a little independent.”This is what drives Uddhab Bharali to keep inventing. He

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