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The plastic in the ocean

Why plastic ends up there and how to stop it

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India election: Modi's report card

Fergus Nicoll travels through Indian Prime Minister Modi's home constituency of Varanasi

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Europe votes for uncertainty

With the EU parliament becoming more fragmented, how will it affect business sentiment?

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Romantic fraud

The cruel multi-million-dollar business of scamming lonely hearts online

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Is Google too big?

Is Google's share of our attention and data too dominant? We ask Eric Schmidt

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A turbulent time for low cost airlines?

Is the industry suffering in Europe after years of relentless expansion?

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Jobs for prisoners

The challenge of getting ex-offenders back into work

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The cost of farmed Atlantic salmon

How has it become so popular and what does that mean for the environment?

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Is it time to tax robots?

With ever more jobs being automated, should the automatons be taxed the same as humans?

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Oil, guns and pollution

Oil giant Shell tells us why it struggles to clean up its operations in the Niger Delta

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The rise and fall of viral marketing

Can a bear in an ad help sell more washing machines?

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Who is afraid of Huawei?

The cost of the angst about China's telecoms giant

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The global trade in trash

Asian countries have told the West to stop dumping its plastic waste on them

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Big Brother backlash?

Facial recognition is a powerful tool, but it raises questions about how it can be abused

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Have we forgotten to be happy?

Should public happiness be the ultimate goal of government policy?

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The next financial crisis

Could the fund management industry be the epicentre of the next big financial earthquake?

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Wine and trade wars

The US-China trade war has seen wine exports from California's Napa Valley dry up.

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Hostile environment for immigrants

How Western immigration policy is prioritising populism over business interests

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Istanbul's vexed elections

The Turkish city votes again for a new mayor after March's election result was overturned

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The next agricultural revolution

Do we need to transform the way we grow food if we are to head off disaster?

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Advertising in a digital age

Is the future of advertising really all about data?

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The Facebook currency

Why Facebook's Libra project will attract the attention of regulators

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Life in an unrecognised state

How do you do business when nobody officially accepts that your nation even exists?

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Get a job?

Is unemployment in the West so low because people have simply given up on finding work?

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Protecting kids from porn

The UK plans compulsory age verification for access to online porn - is it a good idea?

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Shutting down the internet

Government shutdowns of the internet are having an economic impact

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Making money out of music festivals

It's not as easy as it looks

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Money management for millennials

The financial literacy gap

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Isolating Iran

New US sanctions are forcing firms to choose between their US and Iranian businesses

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Fast fashion: The ugly side of looking good

The hunger for quick short-lived clothes is bringing garment sweatshops back to the UK

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