2015-01-31 U.K. Spotlight

Financial Times   

A tipping point for Japan's foreign policy   
Financial Times
n Japan “I am Kenji” has replaced “I am Charlie” as the rallying cry of choice. The Kenji in question is Kenji Goto, a respected freelance journalist captured by militants from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) in Syria. On Saturday, a video was released ...

2015-01-31 U.K. Health

Yorkshire Post   

Hull patients face worst A&E waits in England   
Yorkshire Post
WAITS FOR treatment in a Yorkshire A&E unit were the worst in England last week, new figures have revealed. Only 71.2 per cent of patients were seen within the four-hour target at Hull Royal Infirmary in the seven days to last Sunday. The hospital has been ...

2015-01-31 U.K. Science

The Guardian   

UK Synthetic Biology Centres tasked with addressing public concerns   
The Guardian
An extra £40m for synthetic biology research in the UK comes with support to encourage responsible innovation. Social media analysis offers a heads up on new research ideas and potential public concerns. Chemical droplet on a lawn of sporulating ...

2015-01-31 U.K. Sports

Daily Mail   

Premier League set to act over Jose Mourinho media snub after Costa charge   
Daily Mail
The Premier League are taking action over Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho riding roughshod over regulations that require him to hold a press conference the day before a game. Mourinho refused to meet the media on Friday before Saturday's ...

2015-01-31 U.K. Entertainment

New York Daily News   

Jamie Dornan talks sex scenes wtih Dakota Johnson   
New York Daily News
To say Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson went out of their comfort zones to film "Fifty Shades of Grey" would be an understatement. Johnson, 25, and the 32-year-old hunky Irish actor posed for a series of shots in the March issue of Glamour for 12 editions of ...

2015-01-31 U.K. Technology

The Register   

Google forced to - gasp! - OBEY the LAW with privacy policy tweaks   
The Register
Google has agreed to change its privacy policy to comply with the Data Protection Act following an investigation by Blighty's data watchdog into its harvesting of personal information. The giant ad broker was slapped by the Information Commissioner's Office ...

2015-01-31 U.K. Business

Daily Mail   

Greek leaders divorced from reality, says Berlin after Tsipras asks for debts to be ...   
Daily Mail
Germany and Greece drew battle lines last night in a spiralling row over the repayment of massive bailout loans. Berlin said the demands of Alexis Tsipras's new far-Left Greek government for some of its debts to be written off were 'divorced from reality'.
The Syriza shock   The News International
Greece's Varoufakis: 'No debt talks with EU-IMF troika'   BBC News
Berlin says fresh Greek aid 'not on agenda'   Reuters UK
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Eurozone consumer prices fell sharply in January   
MarketWatch
Consumer prices in the eurozone fell more sharply and more broadly in January, heightening the risk of a slide toward deflation that the European Central Bank hopes to halt and then reverse through its new bond-buying program. The European Union's ...

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Channel 4 News   

Winston Churchill's funeral barge sails the Thames once more   
Daily Mail
Back in 1965, it was the cranes – bowing in that famous tableau of mechanical mourning – which 'undid' members of the Churchill family. Yesterday it was the crowds on the bridges. Exactly 50 years to the very moment when Sir Winston Churchill was carried ...

2015-01-31 U.K. World

Irish Times   

Dozens dead in bombing of mosque in Pakistan   
Irish Times
An explosion ripped through a Shia mosque in southern Pakistan during weekly prayers yesterday, killing more than 40 people and wounding at least 50 in an apparent suicide attack, hospital officials said. The bombing, in Shikarpur, about 480km north of ...