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Quirky job benefits: Free bacon, bicycle repairs

Free bacon and bicycle repairs are among the quirkier job benefits on offer in the U.K., according to Glassdoor.

Chinese insurer Anbang agrees to buy a US hotel chain, Starwood, after it offers more than the previous suitor, Marriott International.

Banks are demanding the repayment of more than $1bn (£690m) of loans from Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya.

Two former Porsche executives have been acquitted in a German court.

Corporate credit poses a significant opportunity for investment due to aggressive easing by global central banks: Pimco

An Iranian shipping company has resumed trading with the West after six years, but relations with the country are far from normal.

An argument has broken out among ministers and environmentalists in the U.K. over whether paper coffee cups used in takeaway chains should be taxed.

Hotel operator Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has struck a deal to be acquired by Chinese insurer Anbang for $78 per share in cash.

The BBC went along to the annual Design Indaba festival in Cape Town, South Africa.

Suggestions by a cabinet minister that the government may scrap cuts to disability benefit are played down amid a growing Conservative row.