Week in pictures: September 24

Worries over Bank of China's exposure to sub-prime mortgages sent its shares sharply down. Photograph: Kevin Lee/Getty

Lindt and Sprüngli warned that rises to raw material costs are likely to impact on chocolate prices. Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian

ChoicesUK, the loss-making DVD, video and computer games retailer, is to go into administration, threatening the loss of 1,800 jobs. Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP

Bus and rail operator Stagecoach today said the recent UK flooding has not stopped it beating its financial forecasts Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

European leaders announced a breakthrough deal with Moscow that could see Siberian gas flowing to the households and heating systems of Europe. But hundreds of thousands of families faced a freezing weekend without heating amid uncertainty over whether the deal settling the dispute between Russia and Ukraine would stick Photograph: Patrik Stollarz/AFP

Stephen Nelson was ousted as chief executive of BAA after failing to make fundamental changes quickly enough at Britain's largest airport operator. Read the article Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty

Tension between Photo-Me International, the photo booth operator, and its activist shareholders came to a head yesterday as the two shareholders called for the immediate removal of chairman Vernon Sankey and chief executive Serge Crasnianski. Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian

Hygiene-to-pest control group Rentokil has suffered a 12.9% fall in first-half profits but a rise in rat infestations last month has boosted its UK business. Photograph: AFP

Troubled cable TV company Virgin Media suffered a fresh blow with the news that its chief executive, Steve Burch, was leaving immediately for "family and personal reasons". Photograph: PR

Things were also looking up for BHP Billiton's Chip Goodyear, whose remuneration reached £23.8m Photograph: Martin Argles/Guardian

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates in the world's second largest economy on hold Photograph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

Royal Mail is pressing the regulator Postcomm to allow it business rates Photograph: Bruno Vincent/Getty