2014年11月19日 星期三

2014-11-20 U.K. Spotlight


Nigeria's chaotic strategy against Boko Haram is failing  Financial Times
In Potiskum, a northern Nigerian town, hundreds of schoolchildren last Monday stood on their assembly ground with their teachers, a daily ritual before the start of class. Within seconds, 48 would be dead and more than 70 wounded, victims of a suicide bomb.

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  Telegraph.co.uk   
What's it like to win £13.8m when you're 26?  Telegraph.co.uk
In August 2000 26-year-old Dean Allen and his father were working for the same Essex printing firm. His girlfriend of three months, Louise Collier, was also employed there, in the company's accounts department. On Tuesday August 8 she became privy to ...


   

  BBC Sport   
McLaren run Honda turbo hybrid engine for first time  BBC Sport
McLaren have run new partner Honda's turbo hybrid engine for the first time at Silverstone. The team, who are starting a 10-year works partnership with the Japanese manufacturer in 2015, have built an interim car to test the engine. The car had a ...


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El Corte Inglés reflects Spain's woes  Financial Times
or many visitors to Spain, El Corte Inglés is as much a symbol of the country as Barcelona's unfinished cathedral or Madrid's Prado museum. The department store chain is emblematic of Spain in other ways, too. The business takes its name – which means ...


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John Lydon: 'I've spent £10000 on iPad apps'  Telegraph.co.uk
Tweet John at @lydonofficial. How did your childhood influence your attitude to money? Well, there wasn't much money there, so there was no jealousy or wanting somebody else's possessions. The problems began when we got TV. Adverts would say, “A ...


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  BBC Sport   
Scottish subtlety wins over Irish on a night of ugly, intoxicating football  BBC Sport
William Butler Yeats wasn't at Celtic Park on Friday night, but his near century-old line about a "terrible beauty" would have made a handy intro had the Irish poet been perched in the press box with a typewriter at his fingers. Scotland's win over Republic of ...


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Russia may pivot to the east but it cannot escape its European destiny  Financial Times
een in historical perspective, Russia's latest turn to the east is not new. “From the shores of the Pacific and the heights of the Himalayas, Russia will dominate not only the affairs of Asia but those of Europe as well.” The Russian statesman who wrote those ...


   


Hackathon develops tech tools to fight Ebola epidemic  New Scientist
EBOLA has a new enemy: an army of hackers. Alongside health workers and fast-tracked vaccines, software developers are now part of the campaign, putting together novel tools which could save lives. Earlier this month, teams of physicians and graduate ...


   

  BBC Sport   
World Tour Finals: ATP chief won't leave London to 'chase cash'  BBC Sport
The man who brought the World Tour Finals to London says he will not "destroy" the event by taking it into "a market where fans don't come". Chris Kermode was the event's managing director before taking over as the ATP's executive chairman last year.

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  Daily Mail   
The letter from a five-year-old rape victim that shames every police officer ...  Daily Mail
When Sara and Peter's five-year-old daughter was raped by the 12-year-old son of a close friend, the couple were distraught. Not only had their youngest child's innocence been shattered in the most unspeakable manner, but she had endured a horrendous ...


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