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Tumblr bought by Yahoo for $1.1 billion just six years after its 26-year-old founder started it
US tech giant Yahoo has snapped up Tumblr in a major US deal that will reportedly net the blogging site's 26-year-old founder a 250 million US dollar (164 million) fortune six years after he started it.The $1.1 billion (720 million) deal makes New Yorker David Karp - who attended high school for only a year - the latest internet whizkid to scoop an astronomical windfall from a web ...
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Video Man dies after flat fire in Belfast
One man is threatening to lift the veil of secrecy that surrounds Coca Cola's 'secret formula' as he claims to publish a copy of the original recipe in a new ...
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In pictures A preview of the Chelsea Flower Show 2013
Famous faces from Dame Helen Mirren to Joanna Lumley have turned up to view the stands, royal guests including, the Queen and Prince Harry will also be visiting the show today. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the show and to celebrate the occasion the ban on garden gnomes has been lifted for one year only. The gnomes will be auctioned off as part of the 'Chelsea Centenary ...
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Still behind bars Abu Qatada loses latest bail battle
Qatada was locked up in Belmarsh prison in March after allegedly breaching a bail condition which prevents him from turning mobile phones on in his house.The terror suspect, who recently pledged to voluntarily leave the UK after years fighting deportation, must remain in custody after immigration judge Mr Justice Irwin refused to grant him bail at a hearing of the Special Immigration Appeals ...
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UK tries out new model for gene testing in cancer patients
cancer doctors , aims to find a way to allow more cancer genes be tested in more people. Researchers announcing the 2.7 million pound (2 million pounds) project, funded by the Wellcome Trust medical charity, stressed this was not a response to reports last week of Jolie's decision to undergo surgery to reduce ...
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Britons warned to expect hazardous weather with flash flooding and hail stones forecast for Scotland
The Met Office have released an amber weather warning across parts of south east Scotland and are asking residents in those areas to "be prepared" for severe ...
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The Tories need to get over gay marriage and swivel-eyed loons or give Jean-Claude Le Lunatique a chance
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Tanning addict Sarah Willmans shock confession I cant quit sunbeds
A 'real-life Barbie doll' is so addicted to tanning she sneaks behind her husband's back and gets up in the dead of night just to get her sunbed fix every day.Sarah Willman has been tanning for 20 minutes, five days a week, since she was 14.After each session she will ...
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Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp cuddle up in last photo - four days before he shot her dead
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British workers feeling less secure – and more stressed
pay cuts and diminished control over their jobs among the biggest concerns, according to a national survey of employees' wellbeing.More than 3,000 workers aged between 20 and 60 were interviewed in 2012 for the latest in a six-yearly Skills and Employment survey, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.The first findings from the ...
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Bank of London and The Middle East opens first overseas representative office in Dubai
Bank of London and The Middle East (BLME), the largest Islamic Bank in Europe, announced the opening of its representative office in the Dubai International Financial Centre ...
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British MPs to debate gay marriage plans
The British government's controversial gay marriage legislation returns to the Commons today with Tory MPs and activists deeply split over the ...
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New England Kit Compared To Old German Strip
The new England football kit has been revealed and was instantly compared to West Germany's 1970s outfit by some fans. New sponsor Nike have opted for a simple design, with a rounded collar and navy badge. But fans have taken to social media sites to vent their displeasure at the kit's likeness to England's great rivals. One user wrote: "New England kit? looks more ...
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Cannes Atlas Takes on Colm Meaney-starrer A Belfast Story
German sales group Atlas International, one of the true Cannes' survivors, has boarded a pack of high-profile genre titles for its Cannes slate, including Irish ...
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Fernandinho wants to join Manchester City
Fernandinho has declared his desire to leave Shakhtar Donetsk and join Manchester City in the Premier League next season.The 28-year-old has been linked with a move to the Etihad Stadium and has confirmed on Twitter that he would like to make the move.When he was asked by a City fan if he wanted to join Manchester City he wrote: "Yes my friend!!!"Shakhtar won the Ukrainian League for ...
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Met confirms Scotland Yard to be sold
SCOTLAND Yard has confirmed the location for its new headquarters as the force prepares to sell off its current landmark site amid budget cuts. The Metropolitan Police has to save more than STG500 million ($A783.64 million) and cost-saving measures include moving out of New Scotland Yard on Victoria Street in Westminster, central London. Its new headquarters as of 2015 will be the Curtis Green ...
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Ukrainian billionaire sues business rivals in London
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian billionaire industrialist Viktor Pinchuk is suing two of his compatriots in London's High Court, saying they failed to hand over an iron ore business for which he paid $143 million (94 million pounds).The Krivy Rih Iron Ore Combine is one of Ukraine's top ten iron ore producers and made a net profit of about $100 million last year.Pinchuk, a son-in-law of ...
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England reveal new shirt … with a German flavour
England have unveiled their new international shirt, with immediate comparisons being made to previous West Germany and Germany shirts.The Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere revealed the image of the shirt - the first to be designed under England's new deal with Nike - after returning to watch a training session at his old school, The Priory, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.Wilshere tweeted: ...
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Gay marriage David Cameron takes on the wreckers among Conservative MPs in key vote
David Cameron will tonight take on traditionalist Conservative MPs who are trying to sabotage his plans to legalise gay marriage in the latest trial of strength between the Prime Minister and his ...
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Camerons avoids taxing questions for Google boss despite new whistleblower
Mr Schmidt will attend a meeting this afternoon as a member of the Government Business Advisory Group.Mr Cameron had been expected to raise Google's aggressive tax avoidance - for which it has been strongly criticised - at the fringes of the meeting.But in a briefing this morning the Prime Minister's official spokesman suggested that Mr Cameron would only discuss the general position ...
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Robert Fisk Where else but Northern Ireland would a killer on a school board even be mooted as a possibility
The Brits have always been sending their experts to Northern Ireland to show the locals how to do their job. The G8 summit is going to have 3,600 of the boys and girls in blue arriving from the mainland in a month's time to teach the Police Service of Northern Ireland - ...
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British Soap Awards a winner on ITV
BBC1 's returning Jason Isaacs detective drama Case Histories on Sunday night, attracting nearly 6 million viewers.The British Soap Awards averaged 5.7 million viewers and a 24.9% audience share over two hours from 8pm - the most watched show on any channel on Sunday.Case Histories began its second series with 4.9 million viewers and a 20.8% share over 90 minutes from 8.30pm.Other ...
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Dubai is top target market for new retailers but London keeps crown as worlds retail capital
During the Eid holiday last year, Dubai malls opened around the clock for two days of the four-day weekend, with consumers flocking to the world's biggest shopping centre, the Dubai Mall, above. Sarah Dea / The ...
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Digiweb acquires London-based Viatel
Irish alternative telecoms operator Digiweb has purchased UK-based Viatel for an undisclosed sum, creating an enlarged pan-European group with revenues ...
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France Child MurderBritish man confessing murdering his own 2 children in France UK News
The man, named by the Foreign Office as Julian Stevenson, was held after the bodies of his son and daughter were found by police in his flat in Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyon. Their throats had been slit. The children have been named in local reports as Mathew, 10, and Carla, five. Stevenson – who was said to be unemployed – had been living in France for some time, possibly around ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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