2014年12月22日 星期一

2014-12-23 U.K. Spotlight


The Guardian
   
E-cigarettes can help smokers quit or cut down heavily, say researchers   
The Guardian
A man uses an e-cigarette. Researchers found that 9% of smokers who used the devices were able to quit smoking within a year. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA. Denis Campbell, health correspondent. Tuesday 16 December 2014 19.05 EST. Share on Facebook ...


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BBC Sport
   
Formula 1 in 2014 in numbers - All the stats you need to know   
BBC Sport
He is the only driver to win at least one race in his first eight seasons in F1. Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel all raced for parts of a season before going on a similar run. (Prost took part in 11 races in 1980, before winning every year from ...


   


Financial Times
   
Is the west clinically depressed?   
Financial Times
To some people, the future will always be behind them. Rarely, however, has such gloom covered most of the western world at the same time. Even during those brief moments — the stagflation of the 1970s, for example — it faded with the crisis. Today's ...


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CBS Local
   
Raiders Moving To Los Angeles For Next Season? CBS Insider Says They're ...   
CBS Local
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – There may be just two games left for the Oakland Raiders franchise, according to a new report from CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora. La Canfora reports – sighting league sources – that both the Raiders and St. Louis Rams ...


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A Christmas Card from The Medical Detection Dogs   
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Last Sunday the Telegraph hosted its 25th Christmas Charity Appeal and generous readers rang in to donate and speak to a range of Telegraph personalities. One of the charities chosen this year is close to my heart and I have followed its development since ...


   


BBC News
   
Sony hack: North Korea threatens US as row deepens   
BBC News
North Korea has threatened unspecified attacks on the US in an escalation of a war of words following the Sony Pictures cyber-attacks. In a fiery statement, the North warned of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and "the whole US mainland".

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The Independent
   
Could cannabis oil reverse the effects of cancer?   
The Independent
In the summer of 2012, George Wilkins, a documentary filmmaker, was in his friend's health food shop when a customer walked in, looking exceptionally ill. "He walked up to the counter and asked for hemp oil to help treat his lung cancer," explains the ...


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Financial Times
   
China has all the gifts but no guilt at Christmas   
Financial Times
Christmas lost its soul in the west around the time that I stopped believing in Rudolf, and it's been a source of angst for those who care about such things for all the decades since. But in China the holiday never had much soul to begin with. That's what makes it ...


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BBC Sport
   
Sebastian Vettel's departure influenced by Ricciardo's pace   
BBC Sport
Sebastian Vettel's decision to leave Red Bull was influenced by the pace of his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, team boss Christian Horner says. The German, who won four titles with Red Bull from 2010-14, has joined Ferrari after a year in which Ricciardo won ...


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How to retire at 55   
Hargreaves Lansdown
Stuck on an overcrowded train to work at 6am, with your neighbour's umbrella dripping on your newspaper, do you ever think 'I can't wait to stop working?' Do you ever daydream about lie-ins, long holidays and neglected hobbies? But transforming that ...


   

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