How far could and should companies go to spy on their rivals? We hone in on the risks of businesses falling victim to industrial espionage, and what they can do to prevent it. Experts say small- and medium-sized companies in particular often overlook the threat.
Swedish furniture manufacturer IKEA said Friday that it was firing its risk management director and three former managers at its French division over allegations they paid for access to secret police files on staff and customers.
MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Tues. 27/3/2012: Was Mohamed Merah a French secret service informant? So says a former head of an intelligence agency here in France. Also, an Italian paper says Merah travelled to Israel in 2010 - with the support of French spy agencies.
German weekly Der Spiegel is reporting that some conservative European leaders have made a pact not to meet up with François Hollande before the elections. Meanwhile, Ikea France has been accused of spying on its staff and on disgruntled customers. Finally, girls in France are being damaged by the over-sexualisation of society. This is according to a report by a French senator from the ruling conservative party.
Iran's Supreme court overturned the death sentence for former US Marine Amir Mirzai Hekmati on Monday, the 28-year-old Iranian-American who was accused of espionage, of being a member of the CIA, and of "trying to implicate Iran in terrorism."
Teachers are front page news today, as both main candidates appeal to the teacher vote - or, in Sarkozy's case, the votes of parents who think their children's teachers don't work hard enough.
An Iranian judge condemned US-Iranian Amir Mirzai Hekmati to death for being a CIA spy, a report said Monday. Hekmati was shown on Iranian state TV saying he was a CIA operative sent to infiltrate Iran's intelligence ministry.
Anger reaches fever pitch on the streets of Pakistan after a NATO attack killed two dozen of its soldiers. How will Washington salvage ties? Meanwhile, the operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima plant says the meltdown may be worse than it first thought - an eyewitness report takes us to the heart of the damage. Finally, we head to South Korea where the state offers substantial rewards to people who grass up law-breakers.
Iran's military shot down a US reconnaissance drone after it "briefly violated" Iranian airspace, local media reported on Sunday. NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan declined to confirm whether a US drone was shot down.
Armed with a poisoned needle, a North Korean agent posed as a defector in order to reach South Korea. His mission was to kill an anti-Pyongyang activist. But the spy was unmasked by local authorities and arrested. Our reporters, Marie Linton and Guillaume Bression, met with the defector he was supposed to murder.
