Business week in pictures

An Airbus A380 plane at the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport. Ryanair opened talks with Boeing and Airbus about ordering up to 300 more aircraft Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images

US theme park operator Six Flags – which runs Los Angeles's Magic Mountain, Chicago's Great America and Montreal's La Rond – declared itself bankrupt Photograph: Angela Weiss/Getty Images

Pub group Punch Taverns was forced into a £375m emergency cash call to meet a looming debt repayment deadline Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

The government's car scrappage scheme has created 60,000 orders for new vehicles, Lord Mandelson said Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Bob Diamond, chairman of Barclays' fund management arm BGI, is in line for a payout of £22m following the sale of the business to BlackRock for 3.5bn Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters

British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh asked the 40,000 staff to work without pay for a month Photograph: Michael Nagle/Getty Images

Barclays' cash machines went on the blink in the south of England Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP

New York's federal court published angry letters from the victims of fraudster Bernard Madoff Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

The rising cost of DVDs, TVs, clothing and footwear caused Britain's inflation rate to remain above the government's 2% target Photograph: David Levene

At the annual Mansion House gathering of City grandees, Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, called for banks that are 'too big to fail' to be cut down to size, causing a rift with the chancellor, Alistair Darling, over the future regulation of the City Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

Sainsbury's reported a sales increase of 7.8%, one of the 140 year-old retailer's best-ever performances, while Tesco reported its best UK sales growth for two years Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The World Bank said China's economy was expected to grow 7.2% this year Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters