2014年9月5日 星期五

2014-09-06 U.K. Spotlight


America's midterms will not break the deadlock  Financial Times
The US capitol is gripped by dysfunction. Republican hostility towards President Barack Obama is obstructing progress on domestic initiatives such as immigration reform, and international ones such as the administration's efforts to secure new agreements ...


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Scottish independence: if Britain breaks up, the rest of the world would think we ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
In this intensely competitive world of big units – China, America, India, Russia – a tiny archipelago called Great Britain possesses the sixth biggest economy on Earth and the ability to exert global influence. But what happens if Scotland chooses independence ...


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  BBC News   
Moto 360 circular smartwatch released by Motorola  BBC News
The firm said it believed the model offered a stylish design after what it suggested had been a series of unappealing wearable tech launches by its rivals. The release of the watch comes at a time of transition for the business. Sales of Motorola's smartphones ...


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In the face of Ebola a little panic is a healthy thing  Financial Times
The outbreak of a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and now Nigeria and Senegal has turned west Africa into a battleground between the promise of globalisation and its terrors. An instance of the promise is a remarkable ...


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The ECB is blowing smoke in our eyes  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Mario Draghi has played a weak hand with skill, as always. He is a superb actor. Yet the package of measures unveiled by the ECB yesterday is pitifully small and mostly window dressing, an effort to buy time with a mix of vague gestures and outright ...


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Monkey see, monkey do – marmosets learn from movies  New Scientist
Screening an instructional monkey movie in a forest reveals that marmosets do not only learn from family members: they also copy on-screen strangers. It is the first time such a video has been used for investigations in the wild. Tina Gunhold at the University ...


   


The Taliban were not very communicative but they were polite, writes Ahmed ...  Financial Times
When Osama bin Laden wanted to deliver a message to the west, he summoned a journalist or a television network. Before the attacks of September 11 2001 he even gave press conferences. He was available to the media as a physical presence. This was ...


   


The BBC Trust still has a lot of questions to answer about Jimmy Savile  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The appointment of Rona Fairhead as Chair of the BBC Trust has been widely welcomed after the moral squalor of the Chris Patten years. If Rona Fairhead is to present a genuine contrast to the compromise and lack of accountability tolerated by Chris Patten, ...


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Bitcoin trader admits unlicensed money transfers  BBC News
The operator of an exchange for the virtual currency Bitcoin has pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business. Charlie Shrem from BitInstant.com admitted the charges in a New York federal court hearing. Another Bitcoin trader, Robert ...


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  The Economist   
The search for MH370 Deep secrets  The Economist
FINDING two previously unknown volcanoes would normally be cause for celebration by those mapping the sea floor in a remote and little-explored area. But not when the discovery is part of the effort to find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

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