Amazon and Apple hit by EU tax crackdown
Image copyright Alamy The European Union has launched a fresh crackdown against tech giants Amazon and Apple over tax avoidance.Amazon has been ordered to repay €250m (£221m; $293m) in back taxes after the European Commission said it had been given
Europe ‘to bill Amazon for Luxembourg back taxes’
Image copyright Alamy Amazon is facing a bill for hundreds of millions of euros in back taxes linked to an alleged "sweetheart" tax deal with Luxembourg.The European Union's (EU) competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is expected to announce a recovery order
New Zealand advert challenges casual homophobia
Image copyright Rainbow Youth Image caption A dropped pie can be many things, but it's not gay An advert is calling out New Zealanders over the negative use of the word "gay" through the medium of a dropped pie.LGBT rights
Trump impact?
Image copyright Nottingham Business School Image caption Nottingham Business School - part of Nottingham Trent University - has seen international student applicants increase by 25% Mention Nottingham in a conversation and for many people the first thing that comes to
Royal model
Image caption Sheikha Hind represents a young, modern face for the blockaded Qatari ruling family If the personal is political, then Sheikha Hind, a senior member of Qatar's ruling royal family, gives a very direct answer to her views on
Reality Check
Image copyright Getty Images Will they or won't they? The Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has told the BBC the region will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, following a controversial, illegal independence poll which Spanish police tried
Sydney and Melbourne could face 50C days ‘within decades’
Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Summers in Sydney and Melbourne will get hotter, researchers say Australia's two biggest cities could swelter through 50C days within a few decades, a study has found.Sydney and Melbourne are likely to endure such
UK Commuters Run Off Train ‘Panicked’ as Passenger Reads Bible, Preaches ‘Death Is Not the End’
(BBC) — Passengers forced open the doors on a busy rush-hour train and climbed on to tracks after becoming “panicked” in the carriage. It happened outside Wimbledon station in southwest London at 8:30 BST as a man apparently began reading
Fractured nation
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRiot police were seen using batons to block voting The sight of masked police smashing their way into polling stations was evidence - if any were needed - that Catalonia's independence drive
Yahoo 2013 data breach hit ‘all three billion accounts’
Image copyright Reuters Yahoo has said that all of its three billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013.The company, which was taken over by Verizon earlier this year, said an investigation had shown the