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Hester will receive no bonus for 2013

£2bn wiped off RBS shares after chief executive Stephen Hester is forced to quit

Blow for Osborne after paving way for multibillion sell-off

O2 cutting 400 more jobs, says union

Union leaders today claimed that mobile phone giant O2 plans to make a further 400 workers redundant.

The elderly with experience fear joblessness more than the young

UK unemployment: Over-65 workers hit record 1m with modest growth in jobs market

But unemployment rate remains well above pre-crisis levels and pay growth is still weak

Underpaid and underworked: Real legacy of recession is falling wages and productivity

Workers settling for less just to stay in a job, survey claims

Making a stand: the cast of the revived 'Hard Feelings'

Oxbridge hedonists and jobless rioters – sound familiar?

Doug Lucie says his 1980s play about privilege and the disaffected still rings true

Fall in jobless set to boost incoming Bank Governor

Signs of recovery in the jobs market will add more fuel to hopes of an economic revival this week even as workers' salaries fail to keep pace with inflation.

Jonah Lehrer: The writer resigned from The New Yorker after being exposed

Plagiarist Jonah Lehrer finds words (his own) to tell story

Writer Jonah Lehrer first learned he had been rumbled, as a plagiarist and fabricator, from a voicemail.

Ed Miliband will pledge to restore the 'contributory principle' to the welfare state

We made mistakes on welfare, admits Ed Miliband as he pledges Labour cap on social security spending

'We will tackle the deep, long-term causes of social security spending and tackle the costs of failure like housing benefit'

Draw Something is an example of how volatile the social gaming industry can be

Creators of drawing app, OMGPOP, out of the picture at ailing game designers, Zynga

Developers of Draw Something find themselves out of work

The Maflow car component plant, in Trezzano sul Naviglio, on the outskirts of Milan, crashed with €300m debts in 2009, shedding all but 80 of its 320 staff

How being laid off paid off for Italian car workers

In the face of a seemingly never-ending recession, a group of Italian workers is attempting to reassume control of its own destiny by occupying the factory that laid them off – in order to start their own business.

Simon Read: Women may be more sensible with money, but why?

Last week the charity Debt Advice Foundation warned that more women than men are likely to apply for personal insolvencies this year.

Soaring unemployment levels in crisis-stricken Greece have led to a worrying increase in homelessness in the past two years

In Greece, losing a job often means losing a home

Redundancy and homelessness are grim legacies of austerity measures

French soldier attack: Known radical Islamist arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder Cedric Cordiez

A known radical Islamist was arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a French soldier yesterday, after DNA discovered on a juice bottle was used to identify him.

Hamish McRae: Whisper it quietly – but there are chinks of light in Europe's darkest hour

Economic View: Reform fatigue is mounting as visible results in growth and jobs fail to materialise

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