Roger Hearing is joined by ABC broadcaster Sinead Mangan in Australia and Forbes editor Steven Bertoni in the US.

GDP in the US fell at an annualised rate of 0.6% in the three months from April to June, a welcome improvement on the government’s initial estimate of 0.9%.

Canada’s federal government says it will not extend the annual bonus paid to bilingual employees, to workers who speak an Indigenous language on the job. But Canada has more than 60 Indigenous languages, and about 500 federal employees frequently speak an Indigenous language on the job. So can their budget stretch this far, or is it time to ditch the bonus all together?

Channel 4’s content boss Ian Katz has said the relaunches of old television shows such as Big Brother and Gladiators are “depressing”. But is he right? Entertainment commentator Gita Amar shares her thoughts.

(Picture: A graph is pictured before the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 14, 2019 in New York City. Picture Credit: Getty Images).