Thursday newspaper round-up: Air safety, Apple, Costa Coffee

(Sharecast News) - Pilots and cabin crew at European airlines feel increasingly under pressure to work long hours and hide signs of tiredness at the expense of safety, according to a major study. Cost cutting and profit chasing at airlines has "systemically weakened" safety, and many exhausted employees feel too intimidated to challenge management decisions, the research by Ghent University in Belgium found. - Guardian The UK government has renewed its confrontation with Apple over access to customer data by demanding a backdoor into the tech company's cloud storage service - targeting British users only. The Home Office had previously sought access to data on Apple's advanced data protection (ADP) service uploaded by any user around the world, triggering a clash with the White House. - Guardian

Sir David Beckham is in line for a $34m (£25m) payout after advertising tie-ups with the likes of Stella Artois and Hugo Boss delivered a record year for his brand. DRJB Holdings, the holding company that oversees the former footballer's separate brand and TV production business, paid dividends of $75.7m to shareholders including Sir David, according to newly-filed accounts. - Telegraph

Donald Trump has been temporarily defeated in his bid to dismiss a leading Federal Reserve official amid an ongoing battle over central bank independence. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court said Fed governor Lisa Cook could keep her job for now and deferred a decision on her status until January 2026 so it could spend more time hearing legal evidence on the matter. - Telegraph

The world's second-largest coffee chain after Starbucks has received a bid from the private equity house behind Gail's and Pizza Express. The special situations division of Bain Capital, an American investment firm with $185 billion of assets under management, has submitted a first-round offer for Costa Coffee understood to be in the region of between £1.5 billion and £2 billion, after Coca-Cola put the UK's biggest coffee chain up for sale. - The Times