'Failed Londoners'

Cabbies claim that Uber is breaking the law by using an app as a taxi meter to determine the price of rides and is seeking a High Court ruling on the issue, which is expected to take several months.

"We have nothing against competition but we feel that Transport for London has failed Londoners by allowing Uber to operate outside the law," said Steve McNamara of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association.

Up to 12,000 drivers are expected to take part in the protest.

Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Pippa Mills said organisers had failed to discuss the protest in advance, so the following conditions have been imposed by on the demonstration:

The protestors may assemble in Whitehall SW1, north and southbound carriageways and Parliament Street SW1, north and southbound carriageways.

The demonstration must not start before 14:00

The demonstration must not end later than 15:00

No-one will be allowed to join the demonstration when the area is deemed to be congested by the tactical commander of the event

Uber now serves more than 100 cities in 37 countries and has high-profile backers including Google and Goldman Sachs.

It has 3,000 registered drivers in London.

1982 World Cup - Rossi hat-trick sinks Brazil

The team stands out as a glorious example of football's expressive possibilities, accumulating perhaps the most stunning series of goals any side has ever scored in the course of a single World Cup.

And there is a run of eight consecutive goals in which Zico either scored or was instrumental in the build-up.

An astute tactician - a quality which helped him in his role as Japan manager at the 2006 World Cup - Zico is aware that that Brazil team was not perfect. Eder played wide on the left, but there was nobody carrying out a similar role on the other flank, leaving right-back Leandro isolated.

"I think we got a little lopsided," he concludes. "Today, analysing it as coach, I think that if we had had time to train with our midfield quartet it would have been fine.

"We would have been able to adapt; but halfway through the World Cup I think our coach [Tele Santana] should have looked at myself, Falcao, Cerezo and Socrates to take one of us out, bringing in Paulo Isidoro to do a job on the right."

Even so, he is acutely aware of having been part of something magnificent, knowledge that has always helped dull the pain of defeat.

"Brazil played well, everyone loved it, but we didn't win," he says. "I've always seen football as a game. You lose or win. I've never looked back on it with desperation. We did what we could.

Zico was known as the 'White Pele' for his goalscoring ability and playmaking skills

"I did everything possible. I prepared myself as well as I could to play well and to represent my country. We didn't win - so be it."

But he does recognise that the defeat of the 1982 side might have been bad for the game: "Perhaps it left the lesson that the important thing is to win no matter how.

"If you have to kill a move, stop the game and make fouls to win, it shall be done."

In common with many of his old colleagues, he sees plenty to celebrate in the recent rise of the Spain/Barcelona school. Spain are the current world and European champions, Barcelona have won numerous domestic and European trophies, all with a distinct possession-based brand of play known as tiki-taka.

"I do recognise them as our heirs," he says.

"They use an element that Brazil used to use, and that was ball possession, moving the ball from one side to the other, they tire their rivals out, and this is something we did.

"But," an observation repeated by almost all his 1982 team-mates, "we got to the opposing goal faster than Spain or Barcelona".

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Brilliant Brazil crush Spain in the final of the Confederations Cup

He was happy to celebrate Brazil's 3-0 win over Spain in the final of the Confederations Cup in 2013, and sees it as a blueprint for home success again this year.

"I hope to see the same approach from Brazil as in the Confederations Cup; trying to impose its game, trying to impose its rhythm, trying to impose the fact that they are playing at home; because that is the only way they will have the fans with them," he says.

"We have great players; but if you start off squeezing your opponent, going for the goal and marking well then the fans are with you, and this makes a difference."

We shall soon find out if it will be enough for the World Cup to be kind to Brazil's class of 2014.

Angela Ahrendts

• Company: Burberry

• Global MPW rank: 50

Indiana native Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, says "high school summers were spent as a lifeguard and swim instructor at a local pool."

Nancy McKinstry

• Company: Wolters Kluwer

• Global MPW rank: 38

Wolters Kluwer CEO Nancy McKinstry got her first job at the age of 13, working at a summer camp kitchen in the small town of Portland, Connecticut, where she grew up. "At 6:00 am I would help the cook make breakfast, then walk back home, and return to help with lunch and later dinner. The job helped me appreciate a strong work ethic and to really think about what I wanted to do; food services didn't seem a good fit."

Annika Falkengren

• Company: SEB

• Global MPW rank: 23

When she was 14 years old Annika Falkengren, CEO of Swedish bank SEB, packaged goods at a grocery store during two weeks of summer. Through her teen years she also worked for a big Swedish bookstore chain, Akademibokhandeln.

"I really liked that there was a lot of discussions about literature and authors among the staff," she says. "I learned from them and discovered the pleasure of reading."

Harriet Green

• Company: Thomas Cook

• Global MPW rank: 35

Harriet Green, Group CEO of Thomas Cook, say she first paid job was as a waitress at a pub that was part of a chain. The corporation ran contests for "up selling" — getting customers to order extra appetizers or buy a more expensive wine than planned.

"My specialty was to sell a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape at a cool £35 back then, nearly twice the price of a meal," she remembers. "The tavern was in the country so I would target the jockeys!"

Carolyn McCall

• Company: EasyJet

• Global MPW rank: 46

After finishing her degree in history and politics at Kent University, Carolyn McCall took her first job teaching history at Holland Park School in London.

She says, "Like all first jobs you learn quickly and develop skills which stay with you throughout your career. In teaching I learnt from other teachers how to be a clear and good communicator. I was always in competition with some sport lesson so I had to make things interesting, and I had to manage time well. I also learnt how to remember names and empathize with the kids I taught to get the most out of them. These are all learnings I've taken to every role since."

geijlsngi15 The effect is very visible - someone born to a father of 22 is already 5-10 per cent more attractive than those with a 40-year-old father and the difference grows with the age gap.'

In contrast, women pass on a maximum of 15 mutations to their baby, regardless of age, according to the study published in the journal Nature.

Surveying a group of six men and six women, researchers showed them each 4,018 photographs of 18-20-year-old men and 4,416 of women the same age, and asked to rate their attractiveness.

Those with older fathers were consistently rated less attractive.

However, the offspring of older men, though less attractive, are likely to outlive their peers with younger fathers, it is claimed.

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