Earnings for part-time FTSE 100 directors rose by 4% last year to £64,000, according to Income Data Services – double the sum 12 years ago.
The proposals follow a price cap announced in July by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that limits repayments to no more than double the sum borrowed.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to double the sum it is spending to create a mosquito-killing technology that relies on CRISPR gene editing.
The Palestinian Authority is to pay $5,000 (£3,134) to each prisoner released under the deal, more than double the sum pledged by Hamas, Israel Radio reported.
The same month, "Blue Star," by Joan Miró, sold at Sotheby's for close to $37 million, more than double the sum it earned at auction in Paris in 2007.
Mr Tapie is now taking his battle to a civil court where he is hopeful of being awarded more than double the sum originally ordered.
The price comes to about $384 a square foot, or more than double the sum paid for the most expensive parcel at 300 Madison, the skyscraper under construction a block away on 42nd Street.
Five medals was the minimum target set by UK Sport and there will be a detailed investigation into the level of return on an investment in the Winter Olympic and Paralympic teams of £32m, more than double the sum from Sochi.
A surge in the number of people pulling money out of their retirement funds will give George Osborne a £700m windfall this year, more than double the sum predicted at last year's budget, when the new pension freedom rules were first announced.
Indonesia's economy took a $16bn hit this year from forest fires that cloaked south-east Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, according to the World Bank.
