London’s skyline would look very different today if some of the plans for towers and skyscrapers that have been proposed in the past had been built.
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VIDEO: The skyscrapers London never saw
Over the past half-century, the amount of time college students actually study — read, write and otherwise prepare for class — has dwindled from 24 hours a week to about 15, survey data show. And that invites a question: Has college become too easy? Read full article > >
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Is college too easy? As study time falls, debate rises
Crime on Wales’ railways has fallen by a quarter over the past year, figures from British Transport Police show.
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Railway crime falls by a quarter
More than £10.5m worth of proceeds of crime has been recovered in the past year in Scotland.
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Crime cash seizures top £10.5m
Owners of disused buildings in north Wales are being warned to make their premises secure after two suspicious fires in the past couple of days.
As a culture, we’re unhealthily obsessed with our mothers. For the past several months, I have been deluged with e-mails wanting to know if I have made plans yet for Mother’s Day. Only a few of these have been from my mother. Read full article > >
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Alexandra Petri: Time magazine and our mommy porn fixation
The company, led by its technology investment banking chief, Michael Grimes, has shepherded 28 technology initial public offerings in the past year. Facebook is next.
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DealBook: Morgan Stanley, Where Money and Tech Meet
In the past year, New York has issued nearly 1,900 notices of violation for the growing industry of short-term rentals not in compliance with a new state law.
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City Closes Illegal Hostels and Puts Pressure on B-and-B’s
The UK has seen a dramatic change in the weather in the past few days, changing from drought warnings to flood alerts.
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VIDEO: From drought to flood in one week
North Wales Police are the only Welsh force to see an overall rise in crime over the past year with burglaries up 22%.
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Crime up in north, down elsewhere
Tesco unveils details of a plan to invest £1bn to try to improve its UK business, as it announces a 5.3% rise in profits in the past financial year.
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Tesco to spend £1bn on UK revamp
Local authority pension schemes are still a “ticking time bomb”, the Taxpayers’ Alliance warns, despite their financial health improving over the past year.
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New warning over council pensions
The Washington Capitals have relied on young goaltenders with various levels of inexperience in each of the past three postseasons. This year, however, the Capitals’ reliance on a netminder green to the rigors of the Stanley Cup playoffs won’t be by design. Read full article > >
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Capitals turn to a confident Braden Holtby in net against Bruins, with Neuvirth and Vokoun injured
Scientists are increasingly confident that the uptick in heat waves and heavier rainfall is linked to human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, posing a heightened risk to the world’s population, according to two reports issued in the past week. Read full article > >
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Reports link heat waves, deluges to climate change
Figures from the music industry indicate that earnings from Scotland’s music festivals have almost trebled in the past six years.
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Music festivals show rapid growth
Capitals turn to a confident Braden Holtby in net against Bruins, with Neuvirth and Vokoun injured
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
