Reuters: Mergers News:
MUMBAI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - India's Reliance Industries is offering about $12 billion to buy a controllinginterest in bankrupt chemical company LyondellBasell Industries[ACCEIN.UL] to create one of the largest petrochemical fi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Ministers in minority governments live from day to day, hoping to find the right moment to call the general election that will give them a decisive majority but fearing that it will be forced on them at a time when their unp (Read More)
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Call them 'twitchers' at your peril: how birdwatching has taken off in Britain. By Kate KellawayBirdwatching – when it is non-birdwatchers you are talking to – produces an almost uniform reaction: amused condescension, as if (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activitiesThe security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the John Joseph Moakley courthouse on Boston' (Read More)
The Guardian:
Robert Yates returns to the streets of Liverpool, where he grew up, to report on a story of deprivation and hopeIn a parade of shops on County Road in Walton, north Liverpool, a couple of signs compete for attention. "Slip! T (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The way we treat people with dementia suggests we're a long way from being the caring country we claim to beEven after last week's storms, a praetorian handful of leaves still gamely cling to the lower branches of the oak in (Read More)
Reuters:
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to buy 10 percent of India's Essar Oil as part of a deal where it would sell three European refineries to the Indian firm, the Economic Times reported on Saturday, citing peopl (Read More)
Reuters:
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to buy 10 percent of India's Essar Oil as part of a deal where it would sell three European refineries to the Indian firm, the Economic Times reported on Saturday, citing peopl (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
It's good news that the government is considering how to make mapping data freely available under public sector information regulations (A new landscape unfolds, Technology, 17 November). But care must be taken to make sure t (Read More)
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Clare Clark on a tangled family webMaya de Jong, an 18-year-old girl from small-town western Australia, moves to Melbourne. There she tentatively embraces her adult self, renting a room in the house of an experimental film-ma (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Giles Foden is carried along by a holistic view of the salmon's lifecycleWhen Richard Shelton's first book The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge was published in 2004 it was acclaimed by Telegraph and Guardian readers (Read More)
The Guardian:
Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and JanacekOne of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• World ruling body launches probe into Athletics South Africa• Ministry claims 800m world champion will keep gold medalThe International Association of Athletics Federations said today it is still working with Caster Semenya (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildrenEd Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The wild escalation of top salaries goes across both sectors – and so must the solution: a high pay commissionIf ever there were a need for a high pay commission to put some rationality into out-of-control top pay scales, thi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
C4 documentary drama to portray the monarch in key moments since the 1950sPlaying the Queen brought Helen Mirren international fame and enough awards to fill a trophy room. Now five more British actors are taking on the role (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxesIf someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would make a fortune today: the only thing anyone can find (Read More)
The Guardian:
The Anglican church should no longer put the virtue of uniformity above the need to challenge prejudice and suffering"United we stand, divided we fall" is a common saying. Likewise there is a Japanese proverb "A single arrow (Read More)
The Guardian:
Have your say on all of the day's big stories, be sure to post your favourite links and also follow us on Twitter8.40am: Good morning and welcome to our daily sports news blog. You're probably familiar with the concept by now (Read More)
Ahmedabad-Cities-The Times of India:
As many as 15 students from St Xavier's Gandhinagar will get an opportunity to put to test the knowledge by reading The Times of India's student edition Newspaper In Education. (Read More)