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People have taken to the streets in Hungary to protest changes to overtime laws. Valerie Hopkins of the Financial Times speaks to us from Budapest. US stocks have suffered one of the worst weekly falls in a decade as trade tensions with China, interest rate rises and a possible government shutdown rattled markets. Chris Low of FTN Financial in New York gives us his take. In Spain, the Christmas lottery, El Gordo, will be held this Saturday. It's one of the biggest jackpots in the world, but our reporter explains that festivities could be marred in some parts of Catalonia as demonstrations are expected against a cabinet meeting being held there. In the centenary year of legislation being passed allowing British women to vote, a third of MPs are now women. But female representation has been slow to filter through to the upper echelons of business. Anne O'Donnell is chief executive of a management consultancy Procorre, and tells us about her plan to increase female representation in senior posts around the world. Plus, we hear why the Christmas jumper business is a year-round operation and how a song celebrating the humble sausage roll has become the UK Christmas number one in the music charts.

(Photo: Demonstrators in front of the Presidential Palace in Budapest, Hungary. Credit: Getty Images.)