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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Friday 22nd April 2022
5. CNN's new owner says it will close the US-based news channel's streaming service just a month after it launched.
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) spent $300m developing the service but it got off to a slow start, attracting just 10,000 viewers a day so the company will issue refunds to subscribers after the service is shut down on 30 April.
4. The Co-op supermarket has announced plans to ditch use-by dates on its own-brand yoghurt in a bid to reduce food waste.
The company said the label on packets and containers will instead be replaced by a best before date as guidance.
3. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants a free trade deal with India by the end of this year.
Australia and the UAE have recently struck deals with India, so hopes are riding high.
2. Ukraine's president has told the world's finance ministers his country needs $7bn (£5.4bn) every month until the summer to keep functioning.
Volodymyr Zelensky also said "we will need hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild all this later".
1. British consumer sentiment tumbled in April to its second-lowest reading since records began nearly 50 years ago, as the worsening cost-of-living crisis hurt households' confidence in the economy and their personal finances.
Market research firm GfK said its consumer confidence index fell to within a whisker of an all-time low hit in July 2008, in the midst of the global financial crisis.