2014年10月5日 星期日

2014-10-06 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC News   
Cat Watch 2014: What's it like being a cat?  BBC News
Cats are at a crucial point in their evolutionary journey as they transform from solitary hunters to domestic pets, a study by the BBC and the Royal Veterinary College has revealed. Our felines are adapting quickly to life in densely-packed cities, changing their ...


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Trust and its absence in a fractured society  Financial Times
Making the case that the concept of trust is a useful tool to understand society is not difficult in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The word “credit”, after all, is derived from the Latin for trust; and credit dried up in July 2007 when banks stopped lending to each ...


   

  AutoExpress   
New 2015 Land Rover Discovery Sport revealed in Paris  AutoExpress
The new Land Rover Discovery Sport has made its debut in Paris - both inside the show hall and outside on the River Seine. The car was shown to the public for the first time on a huge 80-metre long barge on the River Seine ahead of the main event.

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  BBC News   
Iranian rescued trying to reach Bermuda from US in bubble  BBC News
An attempt by an Iranian exile to travel more than 1,000 miles (1,600km) from Florida to Bermuda in a giant inflatable ball has ended in failure. Reza Baluchi, an endurance runner, was rescued by the US Coast Guard on Saturday after suffering from fatigue.

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London's Science Museum's Making Life Worth Living photo exhibition captures ...  Daily Mail
Standing against moulding wallpaper in a small, dank bedroom, a woman known only as Mrs M, looks grimly at the camera as she clutches one of her four young children close to her chest. Her three others, two boys and a girl, huddle beneath two grubby rain ...


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  The Guardian   
David Cameron promises to cut taxes and scrap Human Rights Act  The Guardian
David Cameron launched an audacious bid to woo voters in next year's general election by pledging to raise the personal income tax threshold by £2,000 a year as well as lifting the 40% tax band to £50,000. Casting the Conservatives as the “trade union for ...


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  BBC News   
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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Does David Cameron realise how miserable a second term would be?  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Even as the Lib Dems gear up for their party conference in Glasgow, I can't stop thinking back to the Tory conference, and to one thing in particular. David Cameron is obviously as determined as ever to win the next election. What I can't quite work out is why ...


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  Daily Mail   
Lynda Bellingham cancer: Bowel cancer patients left undiagnosed for YEARS  Daily Mail
But the terminally ill 35-year-old is determined to remain positive and enjoy what time she has left. In October 2010, Katie was diagnosed with bowel cancer, a disease more commonly associated with the over-50s. Her late diagnosis — two years after her first ...


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weapons of peace over the rhetoric of war  Financial Times
The barbaric murder of Alan Henning is a fresh call for more efficiency in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis). There is a great deal of confusion in this war. France is leading loudly and the US is leading from behind. Iran is on the side ...


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