2014年10月26日 星期日

2014-10-27 U.K. Spotlight


Portsmouth postmen return to work after walkoutover dismissal of colleague  Portsmouth News
AROUND 150 postmen who stormed out after a colleague was sacked over a disagreement with a manager returned to work today. Royal Mail bosses have agreed to their demand for a review over managerial practices, beginning from next Tuesday.

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Reasons to be bearish on US banks  Financial Times
At the end of September, US financial funds had their largest inflows in six months as markets discounted rate hikes, according to data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The flow data, though, has been volatile all year as banks and other companies have ...


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  WhatCulture   
19 Sexiest Celebrity Selfies You Need To See  WhatCulture
Kesha bent over with her a** in the air? Welcome to the world of celebrity selfies. Grahame Herbert. WWE Editor. 49; 273k views. instagram. Celebrities go on about privacy, yet many of them are all too willing to post sexy selfie snaps on Twitter or Instagram.

   

  Daily Mail   
Comfort eating? Chinese woman, 26, spends an entire WEEK in KFC after being ...  Daily Mail
A Chinese woman spent an entire week in a KFC eating fried chicken wings after being dumped by her boyfriend because she 'needed time to think'. Lovesick Tan Shen, 26, from Chengdu, in China's southwest Sichuan Province, went to the fast food chain in ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
The EU has just given us another 1.7 billion reasons to leave  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
If you're anything like me, you'll struggle to visualise £1.7 billion – the sum Eurocrats are demanding in a backdated surcharge because Britain's economy is doing better than expected. To put it in context, £1.7 billion would allow us to hire an extra 60,000 ...


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  The Guardian (blog)   
The little-known musicians behind some of music's most famous moments  The Guardian (blog)
Well-connected … Billy Preston in 1974 with George Harrison. And President Gerald Ford, obviously. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS. Dave Simpson. Tuesday 21 October 2014 12.28 EDT. Share via Email · Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share on ...


   

  BBC News   
University of Zimbabwe condemned for kissing ban  BBC News
A student kissing ban imposed by the University of Zimbabwe is "nonsensical", a student representative has told the BBC. A circular from the university authorities said those "caught in an intimate position" on the Harare campus would be disciplined. "In this ...


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Obamacare's drip-fed success  Financial Times
Until recently it was seen as the political equivalent of Ebola. Yet President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act – known to friend and foe alike as Obamacare – is rapidly settling into America's landscape. In politics, its virulence is receding: Republicans are ...


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El Clasico: Real Madrid v Barcelona - Golden Years special  Daily Mail
There are some truly special rivalries in world football, and right near the very top of any list is 'El Clasico'. Two of the great names of the global game, Real Madrid and Barcelona, clash at the Bernabeu this weekend, and Sportsmail's nostalgic picture series ...


   

  BBC News   
Prototype paper test can detect Ebola strains  BBC News
DNA-programmed blotting paper could soon be giving doctors a simple disease test that will reveal an infection in 30 minutes for just a few pence. Researchers have proved the technique works by developing a prototype Ebola test in just 12 hours, and using ...


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