With Jean-Marie Messier's resignation from Vivendi this month, we count at least ten CEOs on our list who have left under a cloud in the past year.

FORBES: Under fire

On Tuesday, he was cleared on one count of indecent assault by the jury of ten women and two men.

BBC: David Tweed

It has simmered all year over a subject that seems, on its face, bureaucratic and routine: the ten-yearly count of America's population, which will next take place in 2000.

ECONOMIST: The census

Whereas in Britain, for example, the jobless count has fallen sharply over the past ten years, the number of people claiming incapacity benefits has carried on rising.

ECONOMIST: Welfare to work