British grocery chain Tesco is the country's biggest supermarket, Europe's largest private employer, and the world's second-largest retailer — second only to Walmart.

And it's a total basket case.

After revealing in late September that it overstated profits by £250 million, the grocer revised that number upward today to £263 million, culminating in the resignation of Tesco's chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent. 

Tesco's new CEO Dave Lewis has been left to pick up the pieces, while at the same time dealing with a separate but equally massive problem: disastrous global sales results. The share price has dropped by more than half in the last 12 months.

So what went wrong?

Tesco started as a market stall in East London in 1919.

Jack Cohen was in his early 20s when he began selling military surplus goods from a market stall in Hackney, after leaving the Royal Flying Corps at the end of Word War I.

Soon, Cohen owned a cluster of stalls and established a wholesale business.

In 1934, Cohen opened a food warehouse in North London to serve his consumer stores.

A few years later he began expanding to the London suburbs. 

The Tesco brand name came from the first three letters of Cohen's tea supplier, T. E. Stockwell, combined with the first two letters of his own last name.

Tesco listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1947.

It took years for Cohen's warehouse chain to become an actual set of consumer groceries. Tesco was floated on the stock exchange with a share price of 25 pence. 

When Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, started driving northwest from Texas in 1994, they were setting off on a journey to create one of the biggest e-commerce sites in the United States, based in Seattle. Although they took that first long road trip alone, it didn't take Bezos — with his grand vision and boisterous laugh — long to start pulling in talent. 

Brad Stone's book "The Everything Store" along with a conversation with early employees Tom Schonhoff and Mike Hanlon helped us figure out the names of some of Amazon's first critical employees. (The first 10 employees are listed in the order they were hired, though the others are not. If you know someone else who was there in the earliest days, let us know!) 

Some early Amazon employees have become entrepreneurs. Others are angel investors. A few are happily retired.

Eric Benson and his wife, Susan, joined Amazon together.

Date worked for Amazon: 1996 - 2001

Most recent Amazon title: Engineer

What he's doing now: Retired

Benson he joined the company as an engineer. He and Susan, his wife, would always bring their dog Rufus to work with them because of the long hours. The corgi fast became something of a fixture at the company. 

One of the many things Benson worked on was the site's "Similarities" system, which recommended books based on what users had already read. He completed the preliminary version in only two weeks.

The Bensons are still together today, living in Washington.

Date worked for Amazon: 1996 - 2001

What she's doing now: Board of Directors of Seattle's Town Hall 

Benson was part of Amazon's editorial staff (employees wrote all the first reviews) and she would eventually win the title of editor in chief. She told Stone that, in the early days, the assumption was that employees wouldn't even take a weekend day off of work. 

She and the rest of the editorial team were responsible for crafting witty messages for site visitors recommending new products that they might be interested in, a job that became nearly obsolete when Amazon built an algorithm called Amabot that automatically generated recommendations in a standard format.

Nick Strauss did a little bit of everything at Amazon.

Date worked for Amazon: July 1996 - 2001

Most recent Amazon title: Catalog specialist

What he's doing now: Business intelligence trainer at T-Mobile

Strauss had a variety of jobs at Amazon, including answering customer service calls, writing code, packing books, giving presentations, and "anything else you can imagine."

Wall Street is the kind of place where sometimes truth is better than fiction.

Remember, Martin Scorcese's 2013 smash 'Wolf of Wall Street'  was based on one former financier's memoir, proving sometimes you can't make this stuff up.

And there are a million of these stories all over The Street. They run the gamut from multi-billion trading losses to messy divorces and millionaire madams.

So here are the 10 true Wall Street sagas — and the corresponding must-cast actors — that should be movies. 

This story was first published on November 19th, 2013.

10. 'The Rise and Fall of Jon Corzine.' Corzine went from top dog at Goldman Sachs to a senator and governor to seeing his firm MF Global collapse in spectacular fashion.

Starring Charles Dance (AKA Tywin Lannister)

9. 'The Collapse of Bear Stearns.' The top brass at Bear were known for their wild boys club, but it all came crashing down when JP Morgan almost bought the bank for $2 a share as the market crashed.

The architecture featured in a film is just as important as the actors on screen.

Most of the time, films are made in studios because things are easier to control or because what the director wants just doesn't exist. Houses like the ones in "Jumanji,""The Wizard of Oz," and "Beetlejuice" are awesome works of art, but when the projects wrap, they are usually destroyed.

While making our Real-World Locations of Iconic TV Homes list, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at some of the iconic movie homes that existed before the films were made and remained standing long after the credits rolled.

This list is by no means definitive, but we tried to pick films from various genres and decades so that there is something for everyone.

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The Overlook Hotel from "The Shining" is in Oregon.

Location: Mount Hood, Ore.
Movie: "The Shining"

Stephen King was inspired to write "The Shining" while staying at The Stanley Hotel in Colorado, but for the hotel's exterior shots in the 1980 film, Stanley Kubrick used the Timberline Hotel in all it's snow-covered glory. The lodge building is a national landmark, but there are also luxury condos on the property that are not as creepy. There is no hedge maze, unfortunately, but we wouldn't want to get stuck in that thing anyway.

Luna Schlosser's House in "Sleeper" can be found in Denver.

Location: Denver, CO.
Movie: "Sleeper"

Built by Charles Deaton in 1963, the “Structured House” became known as the “Sleeper House” when Woody Allen's sci-fi comedy released 10 years later. The concrete clamshell house was used for the film because it looks like it belongs 200 years in the future. It sold at a foreclosure auction in 2010 for only $1.5 million, four years after someone paid $3.4 million for it.

The 4-bedroom McCallister house in "Home Alone" is in Illinois.

Location: Winnetka, Ill.
Movie: "Home Alone"

If you're going to make your family disappear so that you can be home alone, there are worst places to do it. The 4,250-square-foot Georgian style home was bought in 1988 for $875,000 and sold in 2012 for $1.6 million. Even though it houses a small army in the film, the house only has four bedrooms, and the master suite takes up most of the west side of the house. "Home Alone" director Chris Columbus used rooms inside the house for the film as well, but there is no mention of an evil furnace in the basement.

Condé Nast Traveler readers rank the best cruise lines in the world, including large ships, midsize-ships, small ships, and river cruising vessels.

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Large Ship Cruise Lines #6: Cunard

Readers' Rating: 81.434

Anticipate "elegant public spaces" and "a wide variety of excursions" from Cunard's three liners—Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria—which make transatlantic crossings and extended journeys around the world.

This most venerable of cruise lines (two of its ships were christened by the Queen of England) caters to an older, dignified crowd, but there are family-friendly itineraries as well.

Large Ship Line #5: Princess

Readers' Rating: 81.707

Encounter an "outstanding crew" on this 18-ship line that sails to the Caribbean, South Pacific, Europe, and South America, among other destinations. Staterooms feature soft tones, wood detailing, and big TVs.

The latest addition to the fleet, the Regal Princess, launched in fall 2014 and includes the SeaWalk, a glass-bottomed walkway extending out over the water.

Large Ship Lines #4: Celebrity

Readers' Rating: 83.174

Celebrity's fleet sails seasonally up the East and West coasts, around the Caribbean, Europe, and South America, with year-round itineraries in the Galápagos Islands aboard the Celebrity Xpedition.

Cabins are "well laid out and exceptionally comfortable," and the varied onboard activities ensure that "there is something for everyone." Of note: The oh-so-peaceful Solarium is the adults-only pool complex aboard Solstice-class ships, including Solstice,EquinoxEclipseSilhouette, and Reflection.

Lorry Lokey, founder of media-relations site Business Wire, has listed his stunning San Francisco apartment for $6.25 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. 

Lokey bought the home for $4.6 million in 2006, but he isn't looking to turn a profit on his real estate. A signer of the Giving Pledge, Lokey plans to donate the money the apartment fetches in an effort to get closer to his goal of donating $1 billion. 

The 2,200-square-foot apartment is gorgeous, with views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, and downtown San Francisco.

Located in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood, the apartment has incredible views of the Bay.

Lokey makes his primary residence in Atherton, but he often used this space for entertaining guests. He told the WSJ that he'll miss seeing his guests' reactions to the view.

Source: Wall Street Journal

You can't really blame them for having that kind of reaction — the view is amazing.

LeBron James was not surrounded by All-Stars during his first tenure in Cleveland.

Until he got to Miami, the best players he ever played with were Larry Hughes, Mo Williams, and Carlos Boozer (for one year).

Now that he's back in Cleveland, we took a look at what some of his very best former Cavs teammates are up to today.

A few are still in the NBA, a few are in broadcasting, one is in Lebanon, and one is living the dream life in rural Kansas.

Delonte West played with LeBron from 2007 to 2010.

He now plays alongside Michael Beasley for the Shanghai Sharks, which are owned by Yao Ming.

Source: CBS

Kevin Ollie played with LeBron in his rookie year in 2003.

San Francisco is filled with coffee lovers and shops that are dedicated to offering the best roasts around. 

The folks at Yelp helped us create a list of the best places to satisfy your caffeine craving in the Bay Area.

From coffee artisans who spent years perfecting their bean blends to the inventors of the coffee companion the "toast cup," these are the best coffee shops in SF.

10. Four Barrel Coffee

375 Valencia Street

Mission

Four Barrel Coffee roasts its beans in-store and offers a welcoming environment. Make sure to ask for your coffee with "no room" so your cup is filled to the brim.

Yelp user Chris P. commented, "If you have time, try the pour-over station and order some great coffee. Once you order, the barista will let you smell the freshly ground beans. They have pour-over coffee down to a science."

Note: Yelp's search results are based on an algorithm that is designed to provide the best results based on a number of different factors including review text, ratings, and number of reviews. Because several factors are taken into account, this is why you may see a 3.5-star restaurant with 500 reviews showing above a 4-star one with 15 reviews.

9. Blue Bottle Coffee Co

66 Mint Street

SoMa

Inspired by the origin of coffee in Vienna, the founder of Blue Bottle Coffee Co. made it his mission to offer customers coffee at the peak of its freshness using the finest, and most responsibly sourced, beans. The coffee shop also bakes its own cookies and pastries in store.   

Note: Yelp's search results are based on an algorithm that is designed to provide the best results based on a number of different factors including review text, ratings, and number of reviews. Because several factors are taken into account, this is why you may see a 3.5-star restaurant with 500 reviews showing above a 4-star one with 15 reviews.

8. Beanstalk Cafe

274 Bush Street

Nob Hill/Union Square

The Beanstalk Cafe is the perfect place to grab a quick yet delicious bite to eat and enjoy coffee from the best roaster in the Bay Area. Don't miss out on the "toast cup"— bacon and eggs in a crispy cup of toast.

Yelp commenter Mary M. stated, "I routinely get an Americano and add... nothing!  Because the coffee is that good... it's so super good."

Note: Yelp's search results are based on an algorithm that is designed to provide the best results based on a number of different factors including review text, ratings, and number of reviews. Because several factors are taken into account, this is why you may see a 3.5-star restaurant with 500 reviews showing above a 4-star one with 15 reviews.

Beverly Hills has a new star moving into the neighborhood. Jennifer Lawrence just plopped down a cool $8.2 million for Jessica Simpson's old pad, according to real estate website Trulia.

Lawrence bought the property from an unknown buyer after Jessica Simpson sold it in October 2013 for $6.4 million.

Simpson isn't the only one: Paul Hogan, Ellen DeGeneres, and other industry bigwigs have all called this mansion home, Trulia reports.

The mansion has 5 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms for a total of 5,500 square feet. The gated and walled property was custom built in 1991. 

Lawrence joins a neighborhood of stars, as Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, who just moved in down the street.

The property is fully walled and gated, offering the ultimate in privacy to its A-list owner.

The house is also located in one of the most private and secure celebrity enclaves in Beverly Hills.

A formal living room delights guests with classical touches like hanging chandeliers. Adjacent to the living room is the formal dining room.

Halloween is right around the corner, which means that you're probably desperately searching for last-minute costume ideas.

But that's no excuse for being unoriginal.

Every year, there are those costumes that you can't seem to escape. How many twerking Mileys and Macklemores did you see last year?

Exactly.

Here are this year's pop culture costumes you'll want to avoid. 

Pharrell's hat was everywhere this year — it even has a Twitter account. We've all had enough of Pharrell's hat.

The Ice Bucket Challenge went super viral this year. Perhaps it's time to give it a rest.

Another Hunger Games movie year, another Hunger Games Halloween.

When Apple unveiled its new iPads earlier this month, the company boasted that there are now 675,000 apps optimized for the iPad in Apple's App Store.

That's a lot to choose from. And, of course, some apps are better and more useful than others. 

Whether you're planning on buying a new iPad soon or are just looking for something different for your current iPad, this list will help you sort through the hundreds of thousands of apps Apple has to offer. 

Monument Valley ($3.99)

Monument Valley is an incredibly relaxing puzzle game with captivating imagery. In fact, it won a design award from Apple earlier this year. The gameplay is extremely simple: Rotate each map to guide Princess Ida through mazes and optical illusions. It's a brief game, so you won't find yourself accidentally spending hours exploring Monument Valley's puzzles. 

Paper (free)

Paper is a must-have app for artists. The sketching app comes with a variety of brushes and pencils to choose from, although you'll need to buy others within the app if you get tired of the current tool set. You can also store tons of pictures and sketches in different virtual notebooks within the app. 

Evernote (free)

Evernote is certainly among the best apps out there for taking notes. If you use your iPad in class or for work, Evernote will neatly organize and index all of your content. In fact, Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson wrote an entire 93,000-word book using Evernote. In addition to taking notes, you can also store photos, Web pages, PDF files, and more. 

The McLaren P1 is insanely fast. In fact, with a top speed of 217 mph, the P1 is one fastest cars money can buy. 

But McLaren is not a company to rest on its laurels. They've decided to make the P1 faster, more powerful, and much, much more expensive by building the P1 GTR. In an interesting twist, the GTR will only be available to the 375 very wealthy and very lucky individuals who own the original P1 street car.

When I say much more expensive, I mean $2 million more expensive. While a run-of-the-mill P1 came with a price tag of roughly $1.2 million, the GTR will require the buyer to write a $3.2 million check.

The P1 GTR is the latest in a recent wave of track-ready hypercars, such as the Ferrari FXX, Ferrari 599XX, and Pagani Zonda R. Like others in this segment, the GTR will not be street legal. Instead it will be constructed purely for track-based fun.

As blisteringly fast as the McLaren P1 may be, some drivers wanted a more raw driving experience.

The GTR edition will be a track-only special edition — it will not be street legal.

However, the GTR won't be eligible for any of the world's sports car racing series. As a result, it will be mainly a plaything for the world's wealthiest, like other cars of its type such as ...

The U.S. is full of incredible places to live — cities, yes, but also numerous unique smaller towns and villages that people call home.

After examining data on nearly 300 suburbs, we put together a list of the 50 best suburbs in America. For this list, we considered suburbs with populations between 5,000 and 100,000 within 40 kilometers of the nearest metropolitan area. We also factored in average commute times, median household income, poverty and crime rates, public school ratings from GreatSchools.org, and a measure of housing affordability. 

Click here to see our full methodology. 

Our list was dominated by the Midwest, or more specifically by Ohio suburbs. This is likely due to several factors, most notably a reasonable cost of living.

Andy Kiersz compiled the data for this list.

50. Kirtland, Ohio

Population: 6,866

Great Schools score: 9

Residents who live in the "City of Faith and Beauty" take an average 25.4 minutes to commute to the nearby Cleveland-Elyria metro area. The median household income for this small town (less than 17 square miles) is $85,938.

49. Bellbrook, Ohio

Population: 6,943

Great Schools score: 10

The median annual household income in Bellbrook — $73,168 — may seem low, but cost of living is relatively low as well, and nearly 82% of homeowners spend 30% or less of their income on housing costs. Average commute time to Dayton, the nearest metro area, is just 21.8 minutes.

48. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

Population: 6,194

Great Schools score: 10

Home to the liberal arts school Swarthmore College, the town of Swarthmore is conveniently located near the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro areas. Commuters are looking at an average commute time of 24.3 minutes. 

Luis Suarez's Barcelona debut will come on the biggest possible stage, El Clasico against Real Madrid on Saturday.

It will be his first competitive match since he was suspended for biting an Italy player during a World Cup game.

Over the past five years Suarez has become the most hated man in soccer thanks to a succession of bizarre incidents.

These controversies include red cards, diving, biting, and alleged racism.

He bit Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a group stage game at the 2014 World Cup.

He bit an opponent while playing for the Dutch team Ajax in 2010. He was banned for seven games.

Source: BBC

He also bit Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic during a game in 2013, resulting in a 10-game suspension.

Source: Mirror

The age of Internet ubiquity has arrived.

The world is moving beyond standalone devices into a new era where everything is connected.

We've created a slideshow highlighting the key trends and forecasts for the entire Internet-connected ecosystem, including connected TVs, connected cars, wearable computing devices, and all of the consumer and business tools that will soon be connected to the "Internet Of Things."

BI Intelligence is a new research and analysis service focused on mobile computing, digital media, payments, and e-commerce. Only subscribers can download the individual charts and datasets in Excel, along with the PowerPoint and PDF versions of this deck. Please sign up for a free trial here.

"Destiny" has been revered as one of the best video games of the year. 

It made $325 million in its first five days. The game was an instant hit, even before it was officially released. 

Now that it's been out for awhile, people are finding some pretty cool hidden things in the game, called Easter eggs. 

In fact, Bungie is no stranger to hiding Easter eggs in its games. In its contract with Activision, there's even a stipulation that it must provide Activision with a list of all the Easter eggs. 

Bungie pays homage to its roots with a little nod to the man who started it all, Master Chief.

Go to Mars and do the Garden's Spire mission. When you're done with the mission and get to the Iron Line door, clear all the bad guys, but don't go through the red door. Instead, go to the left and go through a big glowing blue door. Walk down the hall until you reach another door, called Trenchworks. Kill more bad guys and then walk outside. You'll see a command tower. If you walk around to the other side of it and look up, the tower looks like Master Chief's helmet.

(Via IGN and Redditor SmokingGhost)

You can play soccer!

When you're not busy saving the world, go to the Tower hub. On the left side of the map, under some stairs, you'll find a soccer ball that you can kick around. 

But a soccer ball isn't the only ball in the game.

There's also a large purple ball in the Tower hub. This time it's on some crates to the right of Bounty tracker. When you interact with it, it flies up in the air like a balloon.  

This isn't the first time a ball has been spotted in a Bungie game. A soccer ball was an Easter egg in "Halo 2," and was later seen in other "Halo" titles.

High school never ends.

On Friday, Reuters reported that relations between ECB president Mario Draghi and German leaders, most notably Bundesbank head Jens Weidmann "is totally rotten, it's beyond repair."  The feud over how to steer the European economy has become personal, according to the wire service. 

This story led to a flurry of jokes about central bankers behaving like mean girls. Thanks to Nick Bunker, we were left thinking: what if central bankers were set to quotes from "Mean Girls"?

And thus a brief slideshow was born.

“I hear her hair’s insured for $10,000.”

"On Wednesdays we wear pink."

“I’m sorry that people are so jealous of me, but I can’t help it that I’m popular.”

The identity of Banksy, the ever-elusive graffiti artist who has risen to superstar status over the past 20 years, is still unknown to the general public.

But that hasn't stopped him from selling art pieces for millions of dollars, compiling books of his work, and making documentary films about his escapades, all while becoming a household name the world over. 

Recently, a new Banksy work was itself vandalized, thrusting his name back into the spotlight.

Since he's been back in the news, we put together a list of some of Banksy's most clever and brilliant pieces to refresh your memory. 

Banksy's most recent work, a homage to Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," trades the famous earring for a yellow alarm box.

This robot graffiti artist tagging a wall with a barcode (what else?) was part of Banky's well-publicized and shadowy residency in New York City last year.

Another one from Banksy's attack on New York City, this time in the Bronx, pokes fun at graffiti and its begrudging acceptance by the upper-class art world.

Donna Karan is selling a seven-acre portion of her 10-acre beachfront estate (known as "The Sanctuary") in Turks and Caicos for $39 million.

Currently listed with Christie's International Realty affiliate Regency, the Caribbean island property is comprised of two vacation villas and a guest pavilion in the Parrot Cay resort.

Each house has four bedrooms with second-floor master bedrooms and its own infinity pool. The interiors are very zen with plenty of white couches, wooden floors, and art works from Bali and Africa.

As a part of the Parrot Cay resort, the new estate owners will have access to the beach, a spa, two private butlers, a personal chef, and daily maid services.

There's also a 24-hour manager, sporting facilities, restaurants, and boutiques on the island. Sounds just about perfect.

Welcome to Donna Karan's gorgeous seven-acre estate in the Parrot Cay resort on Turks and Caicos.

The property is comprised of two villas that have four bedrooms a piece.

Both homes were designed by Cheong Yew Kuan, a world-renowned Singapore architect.

There's no doubt about it — pollution is a big problem all over the world.

Garbage production alone is a concern, with the World Bank reporting that solid waste generation is on track to exceed 11 million metric tons per day by 2100. Smog, the result of highly polluted air, is a major public health issue in places such as Los Angeles, Mexico City, and various cities in China and Southeast Asia. And garbage and chemical dumping is a serious issue for water quality around the globe.

These images, taken by photographers around the world, bring these problems into sharp focus by showing us the ways in which our youngest generation is forced to adapt to a polluted and garbage-filled planet. From swimming in sludge-filled rivers to playing atop garbage heaps, these children show us just how big a clean-up we have ahead of us.

Water quality is a big concern in many countries around the world. Here, children wade in the garbage-filled Manila Bay in the Philippines.

This boy swims in the garbage-infested waters of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad, India, looking for offerings thrown in by religious worshippers.

This boy strolls through a polluted canal in Benguela, Angola.