2014年10月15日 星期三

2014-10-16 U.K. Spotlight

  Daily Mail   
Anni said 'wedding was a sham and Dewani was weird, controlling and never ...  Daily Mail
The woman who holds the key to the secrets of Anni Dewani's turbulent relationship with her husband told police she believed he was lying about the sequence of events surrounding her murder. Sneha Hindocha, Anni's cousin and best friend, said she was ...


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Tunisia still holds dream of freedom  Financial Times
Sometimes I stare at the art on my living room wall to remind myself that I hadn't dreamt that day in February 2011. I've had Mohamad Abla's mixed media painting for almost two years but it's never felt as unreal as now. The oil on photography depicts a simple ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk   
$13m lawsuit proves Red Bull doesn't give you wings  Telegraph.co.uk
It is hard to imagine that anyone who saw Red Bull's advertising slogan would actually believe the caffeinated soft drink "gives you wings", but in litigation-hungry America the claim has been officially falsified. Benjamin Careathers, a regular consumer of the ...


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  BBC News   
France's credit outlook cut to negative by S&P  BBC News
Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's has cut France's credit outlook to 'negative', due to concerns about the country's struggling economic recovery. However, it affirmed France's AA/A-1+ rating, the third-highest rating. "We believe that...a recovery of the ...


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Throw in the towel and give up on failure  Financial Times
Failure, long embraced by the doyens of the start-up community as a vital step in any entrepreneur's career, may be slipping from its pedestal. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, recently called it “overrated”, and he is not a lone detractor.

   

  Telegraph.co.uk   
Jim Slater  Telegraph.co.uk
Some investors just seem to have an uncanny knack of getting it right. When Jim Slater's stock-picking column returned to these pages in August, more than 50 years after his first appearance under the pseudonym of the “Capitalist” (see foot of this article), ...


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  BBC Sport   
Jules Bianchi: F1 bosses to implement 'virtual safety car'  BBC Sport
Formula 1 bosses are to implement changes to ensure drivers slow down for on-track incidents, and pursue the idea of a 'virtual safety car'. F1 is determined to learn lessons from the accident in Japan that left Frenchman Jules Bianchi in a critical condition ...


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Technology will hurt the banks, not kill them  Financial Times
Technology has its eyes on banking. Apple is expected this week to launch Apple Pay, its touchless payment system for iPhones; venture capital funds are pouring money into “fintech” start-ups; and Marc Andreessen, the technology entrepreneur, talks of “a ...


   


Game of Losers: the numbers show David Cameron and Ed Miliband face ...  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
No one won the 2010 general election. The Conservatives did not win because they did not get enough votes. They did not get enough votes because too many people voted for other parties, especially the Labour Party. The Labour Party did not win either.

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  BBC News   
Day in pictures: 10 October  BBC News
Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world during the past 24 hours. Lava flow and ash clouds released from the crater during the eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano This long exposure photograph shows the lava flow and ...


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