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well on the way to 2 billion friends facebook gets more popular, more profitable and more powerful than ever before. plus, driving a brexit bargain why britain s the place to snap up a cut price supercar. welcome to world business report. i m sally bundock. also in the programme: a rare bit of good news for mexico s car industry but first. we start with facebook because despite predictions of a slowdown, the world s biggest social network keeps getting more popular, more profitable and more powerful. late on wednesday it reported quarterly numbers that were much better than expected. they round off another year of rapid growth that has seen it become one of the biggest advertising businesses on earth. its massive reach has also of course raised concerns about the amount of influence it can have and the reliability of information that s shared on it. so let s give you an idea of how big facebook now is. by the end of last year, over 1.86 billion people around the ....
the people of france go to the polls in a matter of hours for the first round of one of the most important and unpredictable presidential elections of recent times. combating terrorism is a key issue, after the killing of a police officer in the capital on thursday. additional security forces will back up around 50,000 police officers nationwide for sunday s vote. lucy williamson reports from paris. in the lull before france s presidential vote, those out campaigning today weren t supporting politicians. this rally was for the police. black balloons for those killed in the line of duty. pink for the family they leave behind. their message, the police need protecting too. i am a wife of policeman and i am very, very angry because i love him and i don t want that someone come here and kill him like that. one of the balloons was for xavierjugele, attacked on the champs elysee on thursday night by a lone gunmen with an automatic weapon targeting policemen in the heart of pa ....