Business week in pictures

Battersea Power Station is set to be saved in a £400m deal after a Malaysian consortium was appointed as the preferred buyer for the landmark building on London's South Bank Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

A woman looks at a smartphone as she sits in a cafe in Beijing. The number of devices connected to mobile phone networks will overtake the number of people on Earth within five years, according to the technology group Ericsson Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

The remains of high street chain Clinton Cards have been purchased by an American greetings cards firm in a deal saving 4,500 jobs and up to 397 stores Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Inviting followers on Twitter to 'show us what makes you proud to be British' as part of a diamond jubilee promotion must have seemed like a good idea at the time at Starbucks. But after tweeting the invitation to nearly 2,000 Irish followers of its Twitter account on Tuesday, the coffee giant has been on the receiving end of a backlash over its seemingly shaky grasp of political geography Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, left, chats with Spanish treasury minister, Cristobal Montoro, during a government's control session in Madrid, Spain. Spain is warning that Europe's single currency will unravel unless its leaders decide within weeks to centralise budget and tax policies in the eurozone and agree on a strategy to pool responsibility for failing banks Photograph: Juanjo Martin/EPA

Greece's pre-electoral climate has become more explosive after a high-profile neo-Nazi MP assaulted two female politicians from leftwing parties on live TV. The brawl, a first in the nearly 40 years since democracy was returned to its birthplace, broke out during a morning talkshow when Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman of the far-right Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) took umbrage at deputy Rena Dourou declaring that his party 'will take the country back 500 years' Photograph: Reuters TV

The LVMH Hotel Le Cheval Blanc in France. Helicopter skiing in Alaska or a getaway to luxury goods group LVMH's exclusive hideaway in the Maldives are the current trends for the growing number of millionaires, according to a report Photograph: Hemis/Alamy

A child sleeps at a shop selling whisky in Hanoi, Vietnam. Whisky producers are turning the taps on as drinkers thousands of miles away in the botecos of Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai's upmarket watering holes knock back Scotland's national tipple with gusto. Diageo, owner of Johnnie Walker and Bell's whiskies, said it was already scouting locations in Speyside – known as the whisky triangle because the rugged landscape is home to more than half of Scotland's distilleries – and the Highlands for the first of potentially three new malt distilleries Photograph: Kham/Reuters

Designer Martin Grant walks with models wearing Qantas uniforms old to current, in Sydney. Qantas shocked the market on Tuesday by warning that annual profits could drop by over 90% this year due to a combination of hard-up Europeans cancelling their holidays and sharply rising fuel costs Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP