Judging by Cannes, industry excess is a weighty issue

EXCESS baggage is the blight of air travel. You know the problems: it costs you an arm and a leg, you have to join another queue, your partner shouts at you for buying too many books, and, if you are as heavy as I used to be, you worry each time you go to the airport that you will be charged extra just for being yourself.

Rio might tweak deal to pre-empt FIRB, investor concerns

THERE is increasing speculation that Rio Tinto and Chinalco will publicly announce revisions to their proposed alliance before the Foreign Investment Review Board makes its ruling later this month, and there are some good reasons why.