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America's General Motors announces another big recall of vehicles and faces the tricky act of balancing safety with reputational damage - what does this tell us about the state of America's auto giant?

We look at the deepening potential pitfalls of doing business in Ukraine and ask why political events in Thailand and Ukraine aren't making more of an impact on global markets.

Our reporter Faarea Masud finds out why here in Britain - one of the richest economies in the world - there's been a huge increase in the number of people having to go to food banks and soup kitchens.

And here's one for the tweeps and those who regularly unfriend- the business of new words and how they make it into the dictionary.

Plus we ask whether the american economy is losing its dynamism and entrepreneurial flair with guests Ben Casselman of the website FiveThirtyEight and the Motley Fool's David Kuo in Singapore.