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By By JULIA WERDIGIER, on June 18th, 2013 David Green, the director of the Serious Fraud Office, plans to revive the agency’s reputation with a criminal investigation into the rigging of the Libor.
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By By DALIA SUSSMAN, on June 17th, 2013 A majority of Americans oppose supplying military aid to Syrian rebels, but they are not paying much attention to the situation there, new national polls find.
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The decisions of two district councils to use their HK$100 million government grants on community projects of their choice have renewed a debate over whether taxpayers’ money is going into advancing the people’s interest or that of politicians. The 18 district councils each have a one-off grant of HK$100 million from Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to improve neighbourhood facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By PAULA SPAN, on June 17th, 2013 An informal group discusses philosophical thoughts on dying at a monthly gathering in New York called Death Cafe, one of many such get-togethers around the country.
Continue reading The New Old Age: Tea, Sugar and Death: Cafe Groups Ponder the End
By By BEN RATLIFF, on June 17th, 2013 Swans came through with grooves in their Sunday afternoon performance at Bonnaroo. But they refused to be groovy, and that felt like healthy dissent.
Continue reading ArtsBeat: A Shot of Sublime Dread at Bonnaroo
By By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED, on June 16th, 2013 Weyerhaeuser says it plans to buy 645,000 acres of timberland for about $2.65 billion, adding that it is weighing a sale or spinoff of its home-building unit.
Continue reading DealBook: Weyerhaeuser Buys Timberlands and Weighs Selling Its Home-Building Unit
By By NICK BILTON, on June 16th, 2013 From the outside, most smartphones look the same, and technology companies seem to be making a bigger effort to distinguish themselves by the interface experience.
Continue reading Disruptions: Mobile Competition Shifts to Software Design
By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Google revealed top-secret plans yesterday to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing the internet to the two-thirds of the global population now without web access. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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A serving police officer and a woman are arrested as part of a probe into the “plebgate” row involving MP Andrew Mitchell.
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By By ROBERT MACKEY, on June 15th, 2013 The Lede is following developments in Iran, where voters went to the polls on Friday in the first presidential election since the disputed contest in 2009.
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By By MICAH COHEN, on June 14th, 2013 Polls have found that public support for intervention in Syria increases sharply under circumstances where it is confirmed that the Assad regime used chemical weapons.
Continue reading FiveThirtyEight: Polls Show Chemical Weapons Affect Public’s View on Syria
By By LYNN ZINSER, on June 14th, 2013 The rain-delayed first round finished up at Merion Golf Club and the second round began, with Phil Mickelson sitting atop of the leader board.
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> When US federal officials recently confirmed the existence of a massive National Security Agency programme that has been collecting Americans’ phone data for years, they argued it was needed to fight terrorism. But that acknowledgment has opened potentially seismic rifts in the nation’s legal system, allowing defendants to argue that the government is holding a massive trove of evidence that is necessary to their cases – the kind of evidence that, when it is collected by police, is commonly turned over to defendants. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An influential committee of British lawmakers accused search company Google of dodging its taxes on Thursday in a scathing report that said the US Internet company took on highly contrived arrangements serving no purpose other than to avoid paying its fair share. The report came after testimony by Google Vice President Matt Brittin, who tried to persuade members of parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that his company was transparent and fair. Committee chair Margaret Hodge rejected arguments that Google’s advertising sales take place in Ireland and not the UK. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By DAVID W. DUNLAP, on June 14th, 2013 A huge artwork incorporated in the dome of the Fulton Center subway hub under construction in Lower Manhattan will let in daylight in distinct ways and help define the station.
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By By LYNN ZINSER, on June 13th, 2013 A rain delay stopped play at the U.S. Open for three and a half hours, but golfers are back on the course at Merion Golf Club — for now.
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By , on June 13th, 2013
Thousands of children have been killed in unrest in Syria since March 2011, according to a new UN report on children and armed conflict.
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Facebook is adding support for clickable hashtags to help users keep track of popular topics on the network, a move experts say may boost ad sales.
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By , on June 13th, 2013
Thousands of bright children are being let down by England’s non-selective secondary schools, inspectors warn.
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By By ADAM NAGOURNEY, on June 13th, 2013 The app, which has maps that point the way to hidden entry gates, escalates the war between homeowners and a less-privileged public that wants to share the California coastline.
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HK$100m grants to district councils spark debate on public interest
<!– google_ad_section_start –> The decisions of two district councils to use their HK$100 million government grants on community projects of their choice have renewed a debate over whether taxpayers’ money is going into advancing the people’s interest or that of politicians. The 18 district councils each have a one-off grant of HK$100 million from Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to improve neighbourhood facilities. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading HK$100m grants to district councils spark debate on public interest
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