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Microsoft has confirmed it's ready to offer more than $26bn to buy the business networking site LinkedIn. The price represents an investment by the Windows software giant of around $250 dollars for every LinkedIn customer. Our technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, did a double interview with the two leading figures in the story - Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, and Jeff Weiner, the boss of LinkedIn.

Stockmarkets around the world appear to be pricing in the possibility that the people of Britain will vote to leave the European Union in next week's referendum. The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has warned that an exit vote could be the beginning of the end for the 28 nation bloc. We hear from our reporter Rob Young, who is touring continental Europe to get an outside perspective on the British debate: first stop Norway.

Some of America's top military figures are meeting with international development activists in Washington to look at ways of working alongside each other. The US Global Leadership Coalition has been organised to examine how Washington can increase its international influence through so-called "soft power".

We cross to Hong Kong for a preview of the latest Disneyland franchise in China -- Disneyland Shanghai opens later this week.

And insight from FT correspondent, Lucy Kellaway, on why successful people seem to be trumpeting their failures as a way to get ahead.

(Photo: LinkedIn chief executive Jeff Weiner (left), with Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella and LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman (right). Credit: Microsoft)