Good week for:
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Sir Chris Hohn was paid a record £343m after a year of soaring profits at his Children's Investment Fund, say James Hurley and Dominic Walsh in The Times. Equivalent to £940,000 a day, it's thought to be the highest amount ever paid to an individual in Britain. Hohn is one of the UK's biggest taxpayers, paying around £58m in tax last year.
A woman walking along the beach in Thailand after a rainstorm found a lump of whale vomit worth almost £190,000, says Sam Baker on Mailonline. Siriporn Niamrin and her neighbours confirmed that the oval-shaped find was a 12-inch wide, 24-inch long, 15lb chunk of ambergris, a rare ingredient used in the perfume industry. If verified by experts, its estimated value will be £186,500.
Bad week for:
Ann Herbert, the general manager of Nike's North American division, resigned after a Bloomberg investigation found that her 19-year-old son had used a credit card in her name to buy $100,000-worth of limited- edition trainers to flip them for a profit from his reseller business, West Coast Streetwear, reports Lauren Thomas on CNBC. She had been at the company for over 25 years.