2014年8月6日 星期三

2014-08-06 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC News   
Employers prefer 'soft' skills in graduates, study says  BBC News
Employers prefer "soft" skills rather than technical knowledge in graduates they are recruiting, a study suggests. A survey of 198 employers in the UK indicated, for graduates, being good at communicating, a team player, confident and analytical were all more ...


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Forty years after Nixon and the talk of impeachment goes on  Financial Times
Forty years ago this week Richard Nixon resigned as president of the US, an epochal event. He thereby staved off almost certain impeachment and conviction by Congress for “high crimes and misdemeanours”, the standard laid down in the constitution, ...


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  Manchester Evening News   
Whelan: My regret at pulling out of United swoop  Manchester Evening News
Wigan Athletic owner Dave Whelan today tells of his regret at pulling the plug on an £11.5m deal to buy Manchester United. The JJB Sports founder shook hands with then Reds owner Martin Edwards on a buyout in the 1980s but both parties got cold feet.

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Last-minute holidays: Top ten websites for finding and booking a break  AOL Travel UK
Looking for a last-minute holiday? Whether you fancy a luxury country break in the UK or an affordable beach escape in Asia, you'll want to know the right place to search. The internet is teeming with sites trying to lure us in with promises of discounts and ...


   

  The Guardian   
40000 Iraqis stranded on mountain as Isis jihadists threaten death  The Guardian
Displaced Iraqis from Sinjar flee from Isis troops towards the autonomous Kurdistan region. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images. Tens of thousands of members of one of Iraq's oldest minorities have been stranded on a mountain in the country's north-west, facing ...


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Badminton: Preliminaries  BBC Sport
Phew! That's everything all over in Glasgow for another action-packed day. Hands up if you want some more on Wednesday? Nice one. Day seven in a sentence: Hockey hots up and Delhi divers defend their titles. Also in action: Can Olympic long jump ...


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Political spouses are safest kept out of the spotlight  Financial Times
My husband, my hero.” Sarah Brown's emetic speech to the Labour party conference in 2009 must rank as one of the most flagrant attempts in politics to play the “wife card”. In rich tones, she described her husband Gordon, then UK prime minister, ...


   

  Goal.com   
are Tottenham learning from past mistakes?  Goal.com
While the Saints are on the verge of losing an astonishing seven key players, last summer Tottenham recruited just as many following Gareth Bale's exit. That window was prematurely hailed as a masterclass of wheeling and dealing from the north Londoners, ...


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Cocoa farmers trying chocolate for the first time is a must watch  Gizmodo
You would think that chocolate is universal. Something that is everywhere, that everyone can enjoy. It's not. There are people who have never tried it, even the farmers who break their backs to harvest cocoa beans for a few cents in the Ivory Coast. Watch their ...


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Better educated, healthier people have a greater chance of higher incomes, says ...  Financial Times
Asia's past successes in reducing poverty are under threat. More than 80 per cent of Asians live in countries where inequality is widening. The same forces that drove the region's rapid growth for the past 30 years – globalisation, new technology and market ...


   

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