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Facebook Results Are Out

Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.

Facebook's latest results suggest things aren't going quite the way Mark Zuckerburg planned. The number of monthly users isn't growing as fast as shareholders would like, and Facebook's revenue is also not growing as fast as expected. We hear from Connie Guglielmo, Editor-in-Chief of CNET News. James β€œWhitey” Bulger, an 89 year-old former gang boss from Boston was something of a legend - not least because his life was the subject of two major Hollywood films. Now he has been found in his cell in a high security federal prison, apparently beaten to death. We hear from Tim White, a New England investigative reporter based in Rhode Island. In the UK, prime minister Theresa May's government relies on support from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, because it does not have a majority in the House of Commons. With the Irish border a key issue in the Brexit negotiations, we find out more about the DUP's stance from Sammy Wilson, who is the party's finance spokesman. The annual US China Entertainment Summit is getting under way in Los Angeles, organised by the Asia Society and according to the summit organiser, the producer Janet Yang, there is still an appetite for joint US-China productions.

Plus our reporter Elizabeth Hotson looks at the health of the burger industry in the UK.

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