The Guardian:
• Satellite operator says revenue from in-flight broadband services has risen by 10%• Anglo American appoints Sir Philip Hampton• Hiscox enjoys 'benign' quarterWith just hours to go until Kraft either launches a bid for Cadbu (Read More)
BBC:
Can Europe compete with Silicon Valley when it comes to smart young web start-ups? When so much of the venture capital money is still based in Palo Alto and Mountain View, it's hard to start a business in Shoreditch or Stuttg (Read More)
Reuters: Sports News:
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - With the U.S. PGA looking to foster closer ties with China, it was fitting that Phil Mickelson was the first winner of a World Golf Championship event in the country at the HSBC Champions over the weekend (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Public health campaigns make a fetish of BMI – body mass index. In reality, it's a fat lot of good compared to a tape measureAcross Britain, pharmacists are being marshalled as the front line troops in the battle of the bulge (Read More)
National Review Online:
Barack Obama ran a healing campaign. He offered sonorous themes of a country no longer to be divided by blue-state/red-state animosities, by race, by income -- or by much of anything. In turn, we were to suspend disbelief ove (Read More)
National Review Online:
Marriage won a 31st victory last week with Maine’s Question 1, a referendum to repeal the state’s same-sex-marriage legalization law. Brian S. Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, talked about (Read More)
BBC:
Newly crowned WBA champion David Haye says he expects to encounter little difficulty in his first title defence against American John Ruiz next year. (Read More)
Financial Times:
Mining group appoints has Sir Philip Hampton, the new chairman of RBS, as a non-executive director in what the South African-based mining group promises will be a shake-up in its boardroom. (Read More)
L.A. Times - Asia:
The president is embarking on the visit to Japan, China and other key nations even as he faces key issues at home. North Korea's nuclear program is a top priority for the U.S. (Read More)
New York Times:
An expensive six-month marketing push helped “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” open at No. 1 at North American theaters over the weekend.
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World News from Times Online:
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez yesterday ordered the country’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying soldiers should be ready if the United States attempts to provoke a war between the Sou (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Business:
TUESDAY Record Keeping and Accounting for a Small Business. Workshop on accounting principles, financial statements, general business records, taxes and other items. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., American Bar Association, 740 15th St. N (Read More)
Financial Times:
Additional funding from George Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire philanthropist, will support "further crucial development for the next five years" for young... (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. is near a decision to send an envoy to North Korea, just as American and South Korean officials are speaking more directly about their goal of breaking Pyongyang from a pattern of provocation and extortion. (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
Michael Gerson ["Obama cedes the center," op-ed, Nov. 6] wrote that President Obama's health-care reform is "ideologically divisive" and that passing it would "smack of radicalism" and "reinforce polarization." His column was (Read More)