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US Appeals Court Upholds 'Net Neutrality' Rules

A US court says internet service providers must treat all web traffic equally.

A US Federal Appeals Court has upheld the US government's so-called "net neutrality" rules that require internet service providers to treat all web traffic equally. We get reaction from the Federal Communications Commission official who was in charge of defending the government's case.

The presidential primary season in the US election race to succeed Barack Obama is now over, as polls close in the Democratic Party's Washington DC vote.

German government bonds have for the first time been trading at negative interest rates, meaning they lose money for their owners. We speak to the chief economist of Berenberg Bank in Hamburg.

And a court in Los Angeles has begun hearing a civil lawsuit on whether the rock group Led Zeppelin stole the opening chords of their classic hit, Stairway to Heaven from a 1967 instrumental track called Taurus, by the band, Spirit.

Fergus Nicoll in London is joined by guests on opposite sides of the Pacific - Kimberly Adams is from our US partner Marketplace, and Tony Nash is Chief Economist at Complete Intelligence in Singapore.

(Photo: An activist's banner from a rally in Bangalore, India in April 2015. Credit: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)

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