It also makes quick-charging power systems for forklifts, and its research arm is exploring new technologies such as a compact wind power system.

FORBES: Top Earnings Growers

Yet the ECB only wants the job if it gets new powers, and access to funds, to restructure and wind down ailing banks, all backed by a credible system to guarantee bank deposits.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

One interesting straw in the wind is the new legal opinion that the provision that publishers who don't join a self-regulation system could face tougher damages in the courts, if they're sued for libel, may break human rights law.

BBC: Week ahead