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Disney+ subscribers more than double since November

Over 26 million people have signed up since the launch of the streaming service.

Over 26 million people have signed up to the streaming service Disney+ since it launched in November. Announcing the company's quarterly results, Disney's chief executive Bob Iger said the numbers had "exceeded even our greatest expectations." We get analysis from Zoe Thomas, 大象传媒 North America technology correspondent.
Shares in electric vehicle maker Tesla have quadrupled in the last six months. That's despite several analysts previously predicting the company would go bust, due to its high debts and spiralling costs. Tim Higgins, automotive and tech reporter at the Wall Street Journal, tells us why Tesla's fortunes appear to have changed.
And as a London City worker - reportedly earning more than 拢1 million a year - is suspended for stealing sandwiches, we ask psychologist Emma Citron what drives people to behave in such ways.
Jamie Robertson is joined throughout the programme by Tony Nash, chief economist at Complete Intelligence, who's in Houston in Texas and Stefanie Yuen Thio, joint managing partner at TSMP Law in Singapore.

(Picture: A Disney logo on a smartphone. Credit: Daniel Fung/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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