Cameron: Parenting Classes 'Not Nanny State'
New parents are to be offered practical classes and advice videos to steer them through the first five years of their child's life. Read more ...
New parents are to be offered practical classes and advice videos to steer them through the first five years of their child's life. Read more ...
Tokyo authorities are considering relaxing rules on the preparation of blowfish, which can be poisonous. Read more ...
Facebookâs stock is likely to see volatile trading over the next few weeks and months, even as some experts predict that its strong initial pricing will tamp down any first day âpopâ. Exchanges will begin accepting stock orders as early as 6am in [...] Read more ...
David Cameron is set to step up his demands for action to tackle the eurozone crisis as he heads to the United States for a two-summit weekend with world leaders. Read more ...
Alan Partridge is to make a long-awaited return to TV after Steve Coogan signed a deal to move the character to Sky from the BBC. Read more ...
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Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, and Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachsâ chief executive, are among the business leaders listed as potential witnesses in the insider trading case against Rajat Gupta, a former head of McKinsey. Also included on [...] Read more ...
China’s home prices fell in a record 46 of 70 cities tracked by the government in April from a year earlier as officials pledged to keep restrictions on property purchases that have sapped buyer demand. Read more ...
If you now Google street view the Södertälje Volkswagen headquarters, you will see the red Fiat parked directly under the Volkswagen sign. Read more ...
Good old Warren Buffett and his folksy ways. A bunch of newspapers like the Clinch Valley News, the Hickory Daily Record and the Goochland Gazette will fit right in alongside Dairy Queen and See’s candies in Berkshire Hathaway’s collection of quaint Americana. It’s nice to see a well-meaning billionaire sparing $142m in small change for the h [...] Read more ...
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, will testify before the US Senate banking committee in the wake of a $2bn trading loss on credit derivatives. JPMorgan said Mr Dimon would appear before the panel after its chairman, Tim Johnson, said [...] Read more ...
What Indian calligraphers have to do with disaster relief in Japan and free media in Liberia.Since their invention in the early 17th cen [...] Read more ...
She has already won six Grammys and two Brits for her heartbreak album 21 - and today Adele was crowned Songwriter of the Year at the prestigious Ivor Novello Awards. Read more ...
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The US Department of Commerce has proposed anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese solar cells, raising the threat of a trade dispute and dividing the American solar industry over the decision. The tariffs were set at about 31 per cent for 61 [...] Read more ...
The Prime Minister, whose son Ivan died in 2009, sent a hand-written letter to Paula and David Holmes, from Lancashire, (pictured) after their 10-year-old daughter Katy died of cancer in January. Read more ...
James Herring pleaded not guilty on two counts of capital murder in an Arkansas courtroom Tuesday after he allegedly fatally stabbed his wife of approximately one week in the chest with a knife that read 'Freedom.' [...] Read more ...
If Mark Zuckerberg needs a reminder of the impermanence of success in Silicon Valley, he should look no further than his companyâs new home. The cluster of characterless buildings, built along the south-east shore of the San Francisco Bay, belonged [...] Read more ...
Who is right â the International Monetary Fund or the market? Until a couple of weeks ago, nervous investors had ignored the IMFâs recent assessment that about 70 per cent of Spainâs banks looked essentially healthy and instead had sent all bank [...] Read more ...
If the source of her rage wasn't at first clear, the woman from Superior, Wisconsin also flattened the tires of her ex-husband's truck and sprayed the word 'cheater' on the side. Read more ...
Russia's parliament is to debate a Bill that could see protesters being fined around £18,000 for "breaking the law" during a demonstration - a steep increase from the current £2 penalty. Read more ...
The cost of liquefied natural gas has surged to within a whisker of its all-time high in the critical Asian spot market as Japan bids for cargos of gas to offset the loss of nuclear power and supplies decline after a terror attack in Yemen. The [...] Read more ...
Greece's credit rating has been downgraded due to the "heightened risk" that the political and economic crisis could drag the country out of the euro. Read more ...
The frenzy of hype and excitement surrounding the flotation of Facebook peaks this morning as its shares go on offer in the biggest flotation of an internet-based company in history. Read more ...
Mike Craven is partner at Lexington Communications which sponsored this week’s ConservativeHome event on the Coalition two years on: ‘back to growth’. The business/political audience heard from Tesco’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Lucy Neville-Rolfe; Joe Greenwell, chairman of Ford in [...] Read more ...
Mark Field is Member of Parliament for the Cities of London and Westminster. Follow Mark on Twitter. Sarkozy is history, the Greeks are in paralysis, the Coalition has for the first time experienced mid-term electoral blues (just wait until May [...] Read more ...
New French President Francois Hollande last night unveiled his cabinet of which half its members are stylish women. Read more ...
The wooden ship that has nearly all except its copper sheathed hull disintegrated is approximated to have sunk 200 years ago leaving behind ceramic plates, glass bottles and boxes of muskets across the ocean floor. Read more ...
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He also repreats his make-up or break-up warning to the €urozone.. Background report. Read more ...
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A £1 BILLION programme of British aid for education in three east African countries has failed to teach basic reading, writing and maths skills to most of the children involved, an independent report has found. Read more ...
