2014年8月12日 星期二

2014-08-13 U.K. Spotlight


Facebook invades your personality  Financial Times
Facebook's quarterly earnings, released last month, have surpassed most market expectations, sending its stock price to an all-time high. They have also confirmed the company's Teflon credentials: no public criticism ever seems to stick. Wall Street has ...


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Fantasy Premier League Tips: 11 Best Cheap Players For 2014-15  WhatCulture!
The quickest, and cheapest ways to get the best out of your fantasy football team in 2014-15... Joseph Dempsey. Contributor. 132,071 views. Peter Byrne/PA Wire/Press Association Images. The World Cup may be over but match-starved football fans need not ...


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  The Guardian   
Iran puts support behind Maliki's successor as Iraqi prime minister  The Guardian
The widespread support for Abadi is expected to help him to form a broad-based government. Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images. Iran turned its back on Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday, and congratulated his designated successor as prime ...


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Bankers reflect on work-life-pay balance  Financial Times
In these dog days of summer, Jamie Dimon is still at work and holding forth in the corporate dining room. Despite being diagnosed with throat cancer, JPMorgan's chief executive is not obviously ailing and is bearing – if perhaps not grinning through ...


   

  Metro   
Helen Wood's run in to trouble with Big Brother yet again (Picture: Channel 5)  Metro
Big Brother's Helen Wood has run in to trouble with producers once again, landing another formal warning for her behaviour following a row with Ashleigh Coyle. The controversial housemate had behaved better in recent weeks despite being reprimanded ...


   


Paypal ignores bug discovery that lets anyone bypass two factor authentication  Inquirer
Paypal logo A SECURITY RESEARCHER has discovered a way to bypass Paypal's two factor authentication (2FA) security authentication and hack into an account. "On the 5th of June, 2014, I found a complete bypass for Paypal's 2FA service, in which ...


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  The Guardian   
Russian aid convoy heads for Ukraine amid doubts over lorries' contents  The Guardian
The Russian convoy stops behind a police escort near the city of Yelets, about 220 miles from the Ukrainian border, on Tuesday night. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters. A huge Russian convoy allegedly carrying humanitarian aid was on its way to ...


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  Mirror.co.uk   
Female beauty pageant judge spared jail after grooming and sexually assaulting ...  Mirror.co.uk
A female beauty pageant judge who groomed a young girl with cigarettes and booze and sexually assaulted her has been spared jail. Obsessed Charlotte Holl swapped 1,200 text and social media messages with her impressionable victim, touched her inner ...


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Five British telly programmes America is in love with  BBC News
For the first time ever, the US will get to suffer through every sob story, out of tune singer and WTF moment from The X Factor in the UK. Starting on AXS TV in September, American audiences will get another chance to warm to Cheryl Fernandez-Versini ...


   

  The Guardian   
UK steps up role in Iraq with move to aid Kurds and Yazidis against Isis  The Guardian
An RAF Hercules prepares to drop aid to Yazidis besieged in Iraq. The UK is now sending Chinook helicopters to airlift the refugees. Photograph: Cpl Neil Bryden RAF/MoD/PA. Britain is intensifying its involvement in Iraq by flying military equipment on behalf ...


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