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Law Suit Filed Against Yahoo Over Security Breach

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A law suit has been filed in a California court accusing the internet giant Yahoo of gross negligence over a huge security breach. The legal action comes the day after Yahoo revealed that hackers had stolen 500 million customers names, email addresses, telephone numbers and dates of birth in what could be the largest publicly disclosed cyber-breach in history.

France and India's latest deal signed a fighter jet deal worth almost nine billion dollars. India is buying thirty-six Rafale fighter planes in one the biggest deals ever for the French aerospace industry. It's India's first major purchase of fighter jets in almost twenty years. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Shilpa Kannan talks to Susannah Streeter abut the aircraft and why India is so interested in it.

Amelia Costigan is a Director of Catalyst, a nonprofit organisation in New York which aims to accelerate progress for women through workplace inclusion talks about whether she thinks women should be given specific leave for period pains?

Danny Samson, Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne provides comment throughout the programme.

(Picture:Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Copyright: Getty Images.)

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