A technical glitch in Visa Inc.'s debit processing service has caused inaccurate transactions in some prepaid accounts, including the charging of $23 quadrillion to a cardholder in New Hampshire.

Visa said Wednesday the prepaid transaction errors were caused by a temporary programming error in the service, including the $23,148,855,308,184,500 that appeared on Josh Muszynski's Visa debit card account when he bought a pack of cigarette at a gas station.

A technical glitch in Visa Inc.'s debit processing service has caused inaccurate transactions in some prepaid accounts, including the charging of $23 quadrillion to a cardholder in New Hampshire.

CRC Public Relations, Visa Inc.'s public relations firm, said Wednesday the prepaid transaction errors were caused by a temporary programming error in the service, including the $23,148,855,308,184,500 that appeared on Josh Muszynski's Visa debit card account when he bought a pack of cigarette at a gas station.

Burger King has removed posters in its stores in Spain showing a Hindu goddess endorsing a sandwich and issued a public apology for the advertisement that offended Hindus.

"We are apologizing because it wasn't our intent to offend anyone," Denise T. Wilson, spokesman of Burger King, said in an email, according to The Times of India.

The chief executive of British Airways has asked employees of the troubled airline to take an unpaid leave or work without pay for a month to help the firm recover financially.

BA boss Willie Walsh said he and chief financial officer Keith Williams will be working unpaid for a month and urged 40,000 staff nationwide via e-mail and the firm's in-house newspaper to emulate them, the airline's spokeswoman Kirsten Millard said on Tuesday, according to Yahoo! Finance.

A Missouri mom was shocked to discover their family's Christmas photo had been with as an advertisement in Prague, without the family's knowledge or permission.

Danielle Smith got a call from a friend who was vacationing in Prague and saw the family's photo in a store window, The Intelligencer reported.