2015年3月1日 星期日

2015-03-02 U.K. Spotlight


Daily Mail
   
Train returns to China from Spain on the world's longest rail route   
Daily Mail
The newly railway route is the longest in the world, longer still than Russia's famous Transsiberian railwa,y linking Moscow to Vladivostok, near Russia's border with China. The train's 82 shipping containers transported goods made in Zhejiang province, ...


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BBC News
   
Sir Richard Owen: The man who invented the dinosaur   
BBC News
The Victorian scientist who coined the word "dinosaur" has been honoured with a plaque at the school he attended as a child. But who was Sir Richard Owen? Dinosaur fossils have been the subject of mystery, superstition and scholarly wonder for millennia, ...


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The Guardian
   
America's cult of the newscaster-hero has swallowed itself   
The Guardian
George Clooney's 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, one of 'a whole genre celebrating the heroism of journalists'. Photograph: Snap Stills/REX. Contact author. @HadleyFreeman. Wednesday 25 February 2015 14.32 EST Last modified on Wednesday ...


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ITV News
   
Biggest solar eclipse in 16 years set to plunge Britain into darkness   
ITV News
The biggest solar eclipse for 16 years will block out as much as 90% of the sunlight across parts of the UK next month. . Credit: PA. The moon will pass in front of the sun on Friday, March 20, casting a huge shadow over the Earth. The partial eclipse will last for ...


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WhatCulture
   
14 Craziest Fan Theories About WWE   
WhatCulture
The foundation of pro wrestling are built upon a lie, which perhaps explains why fans are reluctant to trust anything as truth in the WWE. All sorts of crazy fan theories have developed around Vince McMahon's empire. Identifying what is a work and a shoot ...


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The Guardian
   
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'   
The Guardian
While US military and intelligence interrogation impacted people overseas, Homan Square – said to house military-style vehicles and even a cage – focuses on American citizens, most often poor, black and brown. 'When you go in,' Brian Jacob Church told ...


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Financial Times
   
Watershed moment for Lloyds as dividend payment set to resume   
Financial Times
Lloyds Banking Group is set to resume dividend payments for the first time in more than six years, as the government announced it had sold another chunk of its stake in the taxpayer-backed lender. The bank, which has one of the biggest shareholder registers ...


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BBC News
   
Hundreds attend funeral for homeless man 'Tea Cosy Pete'   
BBC News
Hundreds of people have attended the funeral of a Swansea homeless man who was affectionately known as Tea Cosy Pete. Brian Burford, who died of a stroke in January, was a familiar face to many after living on city centre streets. His funeral service was ...


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Natalie Bennett doesn't deserve our sympathy   
Telegraph.co.uk
Looking on Twitter, you'd think that Natalie Bennett was on her death bed. The Green Party leader is now trending across the social media site with people saying how 'sorry' they feel for her, how much they want to give her 'a cuddle' and bring her some ...


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Microsoft Windows 10 features, release date & news - USB Type C support   
Expert Reviews
You have to wonder if Microsoft's been a little bit Machiavellian with Windows. By giving everyone the much-derided Windows 8, which managed to be a bit rubbish and annoying on touch-screen and desktops alike, it's now reinstating a whole bunch of ...


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