Daily News Roundup - 24 January 2007
Here is today’s roundup of stories.
[Update 9:00am: A slight hiccup this morning in that I uploaded the file without the content by mistake (don't ask but it involves new templates and processes necessitated by the musical introduction). Now corrected.]
Comment
Larry Elliot (Comment is Free)
- Davos 08: What a difference a year makes
What a difference 12 months makes. This year it was standing room only to listen to the bear’s bear, Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley, explain where it had all gone wrong.
Alan Rusbridger (Comment is Free) - Davos 08: From gestures to action
An impromptu interview with rising academic superstar Paul Collier spiced up a session of rather bland ruminations on Africa
Dan Kennedy (Comment is Free) - Googling the New York Times
What would you get if the powerful internet company bought America’s leading newspaper? A new-media powerhouse, that’s what
News
- MPs ready to decide pay increase
MPs are due to decide whether to back Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s call for a below-inflation pay increase.
Simon Bowers (Guardian) - Meet Robert Tchenguiz: he’s lost £560m and counting.
A series of collapsed corporate deals and plunging stock market sentiment have led to a fall in the paper value of three Tchenguiz investments of more than £560m in less than 12 weeks.
Mail (Mail) - Britain IS heading for a recession, warns billionaire investor George Soros
The bleak warning from George Soros follows a rollercoaster week on the financial markets demonstrated yesterday by the FTSE 100, which rose on Tuesday, falling again and the plunging Dow Jones rallying to finish up 300 points.
NYT (NYT) - U.S. Olympians Devise Solution to Smog: Mask
Mr. Wilber, a 53-year-old scientist based here at the United States Olympic Training Center, has spent most of the past two years vying with his counterparts from other nations to devise smarter, safer ways for athletes to face noxious Beijings air.
Davil Millward (Telegraph) - Boeing 777s had six other engine failures
The type of aircraft that crash-landed at Heathrow last week has had six other engine failures logged by American investigators, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
James Hider (Times Online) - Hamas spent months cutting through Gaza wall in secret operation
A Hamas border guard interviewed by The Times at the border admitted that the Islamist group was responsible and had been involved for months in slicing through the heavy metal wall using oxy-acetylene cutting torches.
Times Online (Times Online) - Cash carrot for obese people to lose pounds
Obese and overweight adults in England could be paid to lose weight under plans being considered by the Government.
Times Online (Times Online) - £200m tax reprieve for small businesses
Three months after announcing in his first Pre-Budget Report a new flat rate of capital gains tax at 18 per cent, the Chancellor will rewrite his own rules before they have even come into effect.
Obituary
- Sir John Harvey-Jones, manager extraordinaire, died on January 9th, aged 83
By the time he reached its boardroom, ICI was rapidly becoming less imperial, less chemical and less industrial.
Scotland
- New waste approach to be outlined
Measures to be announced are expected to contain provision for waste-to-energy plants as well as increasing recycling targets.
Wales
- How bloggers impact on Welsh politics
A Welsh Assembly Government minister says the outcome of coalition talks was influenced by blogging.
Yorkshire
BBC (BBC) - Dog leash goths hounded off bus
A goth who leads his girlfriend around with a dog lead and collar was stopped from getting on a bus amid fears for passenger safety, a bus firm confirmed.
(Ed: No comment, beyond unpublished speculations as to which politicians should be on the leash.)
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