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Shell's $70bn merger with BG Group is one of the biggest deals of the year, but the takeover could hit trouble over rights to key oil and gas fields in Brazil that would erode the potential benefits of the deal for the Anglo-Dutch oil giant.

Police in London reveal up to 70 safety deposit boxes were opened by thieves when they broke into a vault in London's Hatton Garden jewellery quarter over the Easter weekend, stealing an estimated $300m worth of goods. So just how safe are safety deposit boxes? We ask David McGuinn, president of Safe Deposit Specialists in Houston, Texas, and an adviser to banks and vault-owners on their security systems.

The University of Cape Town in South Africa removes a statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes from its campus after a month-long protest by students, who called it a symbol of institutional racism. Meanwhile Afrikaans protestors in Pretoria have been protecting a statue of the nineteenth-century colonial leader, Paul Kruger, after it was vandalised earlier in the week. So we ask when, if ever, is it a good idea to get rid of statues of people who have gone out of favour?

As the premier event in golf - the Masters at Augusta, Georgia - prepares to open, we ask why there won't be any Chinese players teeing off and why China has such a fractious relationship with the game.

And we head to New York to sample the green-tea trend sweeping the US.