2014年10月2日 星期四

2014-10-03 U.K. Spotlight

  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
Tomorrow, David Cameron has to stamp out Ukip's bonfire – once and for all  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
On Tuesday 1 October 1985, the Labour Party won the 1997 general election. That was the day that Neil Kinnock finally cast aside the caution that had defined his leadership, and confronted head on the militants who were threatening to destroy his party.

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Israel: What wine did King David drink?  BBC News
A scientist in Israel is on a mission to find out what kind of wine was drunk in Biblical times. The project - which is part-funded by the government - also aims to re-launch its production. Several barrels of wine are already standing next to Elyashiv Drori's ...


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America can only beat Isis by spending more on defence  Financial Times
President Barack Obama has responded to the horrible actions by the forces of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) and to the sharp turn in American public opinion by promising to degrade and eventually destroy this powerful terrorist group. But, not ...


   


Monster neutrino solves cosmic-ray mystery  New Scientist
A COSMIC coincidence could be the first clue to the origin of a high-energy neutrino spotted in Antarctica – and may help pinpoint the source of high-energy cosmic rays that bombard Earth's atmosphere. Cosmic rays are massive charged particles that barrel ...


   


Nine things we learnt from David Cameron's conference speech  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
There's an upbeat mood here in Birmingham as Tory loyalists head back to their constituencies in the wake of the Prime Minister's conference speech. Here are a few immediate thoughts that occurred in the hall… David Cameron's biggest asset? He feels like ...


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David Cameron's Conservatives are tax-cutting fiscal hawks  Financial Times
This is what it looks like when a prime minister throws the sink – and the mains, and the kitchen itself – at winning re-election. David Cameron was always going to take risks in his last big speech to the Conservatives before their date with voters at the general ...


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Satellites detect 'thousands' of new ocean-bottom mountains  BBC News
It is not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth, but that is what a US-European research team has done. What is more, these peaks are all at least 1.5km high. The reason they have gone unrecognised until now is ...


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Nick Griffin time may be over, but we know exactly where BNP voters have gone  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
So the era of Nick Griffin is finally over. Like the Bay City Rollers without Les McKeown, the BNP will struggle on without him. It is a sign of terminal decline when a fringe party expels the figure who – however nasty – has become identified as their icon.

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The fatal flaw in the west's fight against Isis  Financial Times
Preventing the collapse of Iraq was one thing. Waging an open-ended war is quite another. ©Ingram Pinn. Istanbul has lost none of its magical energy. Turkey, though, has mislaid its geopolitical compass. Not so long ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ...


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Watson supercomputer looks for genetic heart danger  New Scientist
SUDDEN cardiac arrests kill someone every 5 seconds. Now the fact-finding power of Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-winning supercomputer, is being harnessed to help assess the genetic risk behind the condition. Unlike a heart attack, which happens because of ...


   

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