Imran Khan Claims Pakistan Election Win
Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.
Pakistan's elections have still not yielded an official result, but it's pretty clear that Imran Khan the former cricket legend will be the next prime minister. But is this disputed election going to give him legitimacy? We hear from Madiha Afal of the Brookings Institution in Washington.
Facebook's shares have had a rough day after its latest user and sales numbers fell well short of expectations and the share price dropped almost 20 percent. It's a decline of $124 billion in market capitalisation, the largest ever loss of value in one day for a US traded company. We speak to Hannah Kuchler from the Financial Times in San Francisco.
Every second the world drinks 35,000 cups of coffee, so it's little wonder that it's a 200 billion dollar industry. Now new figures show how more and more of that money is finding its way back to coffee farmers. Jonathan Josephs reports from Attendant, a caf茅 in East London.
Love Island is a reality TV show that puts a group of attractive, if not always very bright, young people together in a Spanish villa in their swimwear and manipulates them into forming couples. A group of economists says that appearing as a contestant on the show for eight weeks is likely to get you more money over the course of your life than graduating from Oxford or Cambridge universities. Kristine Dislere from Frontier Economics takes us through the figures.
And we're joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite sides of the Pacific; David Kuo, Director, The Motley Fool, who's in Singapore, and Bec Wilson, Vice President for North America of Change.org in New York.
Picture description: Newly elected Pakistani Prime Minister and leader of Pakistan Movement for Justice Imran Khan addresses to the nation after the general elections results are announced in Islamabad.
Picture credit: Muhammad Reza/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
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