Small changes promise big differences to female chefs mixing work and family life

Business practices undergo seismic change with flexible policies becoming standard

With a £15,000 award, the competition aims to find the best proposal for a business book

The Evolution Garden takes visitors on a chronological walk through plant life, with some surprising associations

Cotoneasters, a plant gardeners gravely underrate, have performed beautifully this mild ‘non-winter’

Supply chains at breaking point as surge of coronavirus patients with kidney side effects hits supplies

GPs and charities warn patients dying from coronavirus are suffering unnecessarily

Warning of potential harm from tendency to use invasive equipment too quickly

English providers warn of funding shortfall as pandemic adds pressure to sector

The office is evolving, but are we more productive? We look at what motivates employees and how leaders get things done. Plus: canteens get a refresh, hiring by algorithm, future-proofed corporate culture, and gig work shakes up white-collar jobs

Baltic Dry index shows two-thirds drop in vessel leasing rates since start of December

China’s exports show signs of recovery but demand falters in US and Europe

Trade union issues warning as coronavirus fears leave 11,000 crew members stranded at sea 

Industry forecast to suffer $25bn hit this year as coronavirus changes working life

Spate of arson attacks on telecoms masts fuelled by disinformation over pandemic’s origins

Social media giant eyes new audience in India but deal may not leave it with much to take home

Cable company added Three as a new customer for so-called ‘backhaul’ network

Liberty Global’s buccaneering owner sets his sights on Telefonica’s O2

The flower is a motif found in writers from Eliot to Proust to Turgenev

There’s more to the Swedish interiors giant than Billy bookcases

Warmly burnished and gently cryptic, this is easy listening at its most enjoyable

New album channels protest music and social comment through Delta blues mythology and psych-rock

A reissue of the group’s 1981 debut recalls a fecund period in Accra’s musical history

Analysis shows Bame groups exposed to greater socio-economic and work risks

Less pollution and fine weather create ideal conditions for studying constellations

Indigenous protests over gas project are snarling rail traffic and hurting businesses

Alstom will have its work cut out to get the Canadian group’s margins back on track, but greater scale would help it compete with industry leader CRRC

Tory manifesto pledge aimed at ‘levelling up’ the regions of Britain faces uphill struggle

Termination of Northern contract signals wider problems with privatised system

Naturalist and broadcaster says £106bn rail scheme will destroy 700 wildlife sites

Tourism in east Africa’s renowned wildlife reserves has collapsed amid the global shutdown

Safety and commercial concerns remain but football, rugby and cricket begin talks to resume play in pandemic

Airline’s shareholders support plan to gain state-backed loan guarantees in move to avoid bankruptcy

French patient who fell ill in December found to have had Covid-19 after samples retested

Plant-based alternative sales jump 200 per cent in US amid slaughterhouse closures

Sales rise but company warns revenues will decline as bar and restaurant closures hit beverages

Kellogg and Kraft Heinz see chance to win back customers who had shifted to healthier brands

Steve Easterbrook lost his job after relationship with colleague but kept stock options

Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss UBS's cultural faux pas in China, Deutsche Bank's plan to set up a 'bad bank' and Facebook's bid to shake up the payments world. With special guest Jan Kvarnström, bank restructuring expert.  

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Don Weinland, Beijing financial correspondent, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Caroline Binham, financial regulation correspondent and Elaine Moore, deputy head of Lex. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Lloyds Bank and its offshore banking problems, the latest on the regulatory tests facing Facebook's Libra initiative, and how banks have fared in this year's US Fed stress tests.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Nick Megaw, retail banking correspondent, Hannah Murphy, technology correspondent, and Kiran Stacey, US regulatory correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss Facebook's recent talks with the world's central bankers on its plans for a digital currency, whether the UK's challenger banks can maintain their astonishing rate of expansion, and a potential scandal at JPMorgan as three of its metals traders are charged with market manipulation. With special guest Tom Merry, managing director at Accenture Strategy.

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ECB prepared to cut rates again, says its chief economist

Swedbank admits to money-laundering failings

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Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, Mehreen Khan, Brussels correspondent, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Henry Sanderson, commodities correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

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David Crow and guests discuss Standard Chartered chief Bill Winters' 'voluntary' pay cut after a dispute over his pension allowance, Citigroup's confidence in the City of London regardless of the outcome of Brexit, and gathering clouds for Facebook's much hyped digital currency, Libra. With special guest David Livingstone, chief executive of Citigroup in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Contributors: David Crow, banking editor, Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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Patrick Jenkins and guests discuss what the latest stress tests tell us about the health of UK banks, racism in US banking after recent revelations about the treatment of black customers at JPMorgan Chase, and predictions for the year ahead. With special guest Laurie Mayers, associate managing director at Moody's.

Contributors: Patrick Jenkins, financial editor, David Crow, banking editor, Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent, and Laura Noonan, US banking editor. Producer: Fiona Symon

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In Iraq and Syria, citizens have been hard to persuade of the need to stay inside

Policymakers should use this opportunity to broaden, not trim, health benefits

Over decades the Republican party has reconfigured itself into the party of the white and the South

From business closures to movement restrictions, some countries’ policies show first signs of easing

Find any country in the customisable version of the Covid-19 trajectory charts

Pandemic is causing the biggest disruption in decades to economies across the world

On the occasion of his British Film Institute retrospective, Ken Loach, the acclaimed director of films such as Kes, Land and Freedom and the Cannes Palme d’Or winning The Wind that Shakes the Barley, talks about the state of political filmmaking. He is in the studio with Raphael Abraham, Peter Aspden and Lucian Robinson. Produced by Griselda Murray Brown  

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