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Tax evading tycoon not prosecuted

Tax inspectors failed to prosecute a property tycoon who did not submit returns or pay any tax for 24 years, documents seen by the BBC reveal.

The Argentine president may have helped Iranian officials cover up their role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

Rising oil and metals prices boost commodity-related stocks, helping to pull the FTSE 100 higher.

Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer and the drop in oil prices around the world has hit the cost of living.

Campaigners say they are disappointed that Virgin’s planned £3bn investment in broadband will not benefit rural areas.

The eurozone economy grew by a stronger-than-expected 0.3% in the last three months of 2014, helped by rapid growth in Germany.

Aer Lingus reaffirms its support for a £1bn takeover offer from British Airways owner IAG, saying it believes the deal makes commercial sense.

Trinity Mirror – the owner and publisher of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror – apologises to “all its victims of phone hacking”.

Ngozi Dozie, co-founder of Cafe Neo in Lagos, Nigeria, talks to the BBC about building up his coffee shop business.

Many of India’s three million sex workers want the trade to be legalised but opponents fear an increase in trafficking.