2014年8月17日 星期日

2014-08-18 U.K. Spotlight


Draghi is running out of legal ways to fix the euro  Financial Times
In an interview with the Financial Times last week, Matteo Renzi struck a defiant tone against suggestions by the European Central Bank that Italy needs to implement more structural reform. Still, the Italian prime minister missed a trick. He should have said ...


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  The Guardian   
Ukraine says it destroyed Russian vehicles that entered territory  The Guardian
Ukrainian border guards patrol near the small Ukrainian city of Novoazovsk in the Donetsk region. Photograph: Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images. Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko has told David Cameron that a column of Russian armoured ...


   

  BBC News   
Thousand-strong robot swarm throws shapes, slowly  BBC News
Engineers in the US have built a swarm of 1,000 little robots that can shuffle into specific formations on command. Continue reading the main story. robot swarm. Each of the identical robots is given a picture of the required shape, and then they work together ...


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The way we eat now  Financial Times
He was carrying a bow and arrow, a dagger and an axe. He had a net with him, woven from hemp, which may have been used for trapping rabbits or birds. And, not too long before his death, he had eaten a meal of wheat, meat and vegetables – perhaps not ...


   

  The Guardian   
Row as horsemeat file shelved  The Guardian
A laboratory worker extracts beef from a frozen lasagne for DNA testing after news that meals were contaminated with horsemeat. Photograph: Pascal Lauener/Reuters. The official report into the causes of the horsemeat scandal has been shelved until at least ...


   


If we don't attack Isis, they will attack us  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
So that's all right then. We can all relax, and go back to playing boules. The Yazidi are apparently off the mountain, there's a nice new Iraqi prime minister in office, Isis have been stalled outside Irbil, and Hitler has agreed to watch the fifth Test match with an ...


   


Biliousness in business does no favours for investors  Financial Times
In recent weeks we have seen an outbreak of bile in the business world. A disagreement between Amazon, the online retailer, and publishing conglomerate Hachette over the terms on which ebooks are sold has become a public slanging match. Amazon ...


   

  BBC News   
Mathematics helps find food crops' climate-proof genes  BBC News
Researchers are developing mathematical models to identify genetic material that could help improve food crops' resilience to climate change. Impacts - such as drought, pest and disease - could hit harvests and undermine global food security. Scientists ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
A black president couldn't stop the Ferguson race riots  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Protestors raise their hands during an impromptu rally to protest the shooting of Michael Brown. (Photo: AP). Violence continues in Ferguson, Missouri. It began on August 9 with the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager cut down by ...


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  The Guardian   
EU backs supply of arms to Kurdish fighters in Iraq  The Guardian
France's Laurent Fabius, left, and Denmark's Martin Lidegaard during a meeting of EU foreign ministers to disucss the Iraq crisis. Photograph: Virginia Mayo/AP. The EU has backed the supply of arms to Kurdish fighters to help fend off the threat of Islamic ...


   

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