2014年11月10日 星期一

2014-11-11 U.K. Spotlight

  BBC News   
Obama backs net neutrality plan  BBC News
Open net access should be seen as a basic right that all Americans should enjoy, President Obama has said. He said he supported net neutrality, which means all data travels on cables with the same priority. There should be no paid prioritisation system that ...


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  New Statesman   
From Portsmouth to Kobane: the British jihadis fighting for Isis  New Statesman
What motivates the young men who leave Britain to join the murderous fanatics of Isis in the Middle East? Shiraz Maher spoke to dozens of them inside Syria to find out. by Shiraz Maher Published 6 November, 2014 - 10:00. Tweet WidgetFacebook Like ...


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  Daily Mail   
Jan-Michael Vincent, recovering alcoholic admits he's lucky to be alive  Daily Mail
Once the highest paid actor on TV, Jan-Michael Vincent now lives out his days as a recovering alcoholic who almost died two years ago after an infection forced him to have his right leg amputated. In the mid-80s, Vincent earned $40,000 an episode as ...


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  The Guardian   
Lena Dunham apologises after critics accuse her of sexually molesting sister  The Guardian
Lena Dunham at a launch event for her book Not That Kind of Girl at London's Southbank Centre, 31 October. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage. Alison Flood. Wednesday 5 November 2014 15.50 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via ...


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  Telegraph.co.uk   
Poppy memorial time-lapse at Tower of London from dawn to dusk  Telegraph.co.uk
In the lead-up to Remembrance Day, volunteers have been planting hundreds of thousands of ceramic poppies in the lawn around the Tower of London to remember those who died in the First World War. The Telegraph filmed a time-lapse of the field of ...


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  BBC News   
Samsung picks Vietnam for $3bn smartphone factory  BBC News
Samsung Electronics has announced plans to spend up to $3bn (£1.8bn) to create a new smartphone factory in Vietnam. The facility would operate alongside another $2bn plant the company already runs in the country, which began production in March.

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China's economy is choking on a surfeit of stimulus  Financial Times
When European officials pontificate about an urgent need to forget, at least temporarily, the golden rules of fiscal and monetary policy with the aim of rescuing their economies, their Chinese counterparts fall silent. Yet China's economy has been slowing for ...


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  Daily Mail   
Millions face being fined as Dartford toll road axes booths  Daily Mail
Three million motorists face being caught on camera and fined as Britain's busiest toll road dispenses with traditional toll-booths. From the end of this month, the Dartford crossing over the M25 – used by up to 50 million vehicles a year at a rate of up to ...


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  BBC News   
Breakthrough science prize: Big names add glitz to ceremony  BBC News
Top scientists have been awarded huge cash prizes at a ceremony on Sunday in California. The Breakthrough Prize is backed by leading technology entrepreneurs, such as Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The awards ...


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Printing money to fund deficit is the fastest way to raise rates  Financial Times
What is the right course for monetary policy? The International Monetary Fund seems to answer with forked tongue. Its latest World Economic Outlook urges that monetary policy should stay loose to stimulate growth. Yet its Global Financial Stability Review ...


   

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