2014年12月15日 星期一

2014-12-16 U.K. Spotlight


Financial Times
   
A long search for safe travel for India's women   
Financial Times
I first arrived in New Delhi 20 years ago this month. I didn't have a car, so my transport options were the three-wheeled autorickshaws that careened around the roads — and could be flagged down anywhere — and the neighbourhood taxi stand where drivers ...


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BBC News
   
Absent Pharrell Williams dominates BBC Music Awards   
BBC News
Pharrell Williams has walked away the big winner from the first ever BBC Music Awards. The US producer-songwriter was named best international artist and won song of the year for his exuberant, gospel-inspired single Happy. Ed Sheeran was named ...


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'Stop this interview' - cereal café dodges poverty question   
Channel 4 News
London's newest novelty cafe, Cereal Killer, opens its doors today in Brick Lane - but is £3 for a bowl of cereal in one of London's poorest boroughs excluding the local community? Please wait while this video loads. If it doesn't load after a few seconds you ...


   


Financial Times
   
Bankers, like alcoholics, must first admit they have a problem   
Financial Times
They really can't help it, can they? Like alcoholics in a liquor store, the investment banks cannot resist an illicit swig whenever they think nobody is looking. That is the conclusion from the fines imposed on 10 US investment banks last week for breaking the ...


   


GiveMeSport
   
Gary Neville destroys Jamie Carragher on Twitter   
GiveMeSport
Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville are now team-mates in Rupert Murdoch's super Sky All-Stars, intent of monopolising the market of televised sport. If only that pesky Jake Humphrey could somehow disappear, then Gary, Jamie and Ed Chamberlain would ...


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BBC News
   
Lima climate talks face major breakdown, US warns   
BBC News
The head of the US delegation at UN climate talks has warned of a "major breakdown" in the process if negotiators fail to come to an agreement at a meeting in Lima, Peru. Talks remain deadlocked by divisions between rich and poor countries over the scale ...


   


Financial Times
   
Too big to resist: Wall Street's comeback   
Financial Times
There will be another crisis. No law can stop it, no regulator can foresee it. Matt Kenyon illustration ©Matt Kenyon. When Washington is on the brink, who has the clout to persuade legislators to keep government open? The obvious answer is the US president.

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Parentdish
   
Nicky Morgan grilled by children on maths, Michael Gove, smacking and library ...   
Parentdish
And now Nicky Morgan has been equally evasive when asked by a 10-year-old whether she knows what the cubic root of 125 is. Nicky shuddered and said: "I think that's one that I might just have to go away and work out. I think politicians who answer maths ...


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Lima talks set up climate deal for a 'bad outcome'   
New Scientist
The timetable is in tatters. Hopes of a successful climate deal in Paris next December suffered a setback at the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru, at the weekend as talks left the proposed timeline for a deal in pieces. In particular, nations are now under no ...


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BBC News
   
UN members agree deal at Lima climate talks   
BBC News
Delegates have approved a framework for setting national pledges to be submitted to a summit next year. Differences over the draft text caused the two-week talks in Lima, Peru, to overrun by two days. Environmental groups said the deal was an ineffectual ...


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