France's public broadcaster, France Television, has taken the first step toward eliminating advertisements from its programming. The evening prime-time slot will be absolutely ad-free beginning on Monday.
From rogue investor Bernard Madoff to rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel (pictured), it was a year of superlatives — the biggest bailouts, the largest swindles. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert reviews the best, worst and simply unsurpassable of 2008.
BHP Billiton's proposed purchase of Rio Tinto, the biggest would-be merger in history, is just one of the more than 1,300 mergers and acquisitions abandoned in 2008. The total value of lost deals is estimated at over $900bn.
