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  • Russian judoka commits suicide

    Russian judo champion Elena Ivashchenko committed suicide because of her failure during the London Olympics. Russian judo officials said Monday that Elena Ivashchenko, 28, a four-time European champion (in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012), jumped from a 15th floor in the Siberian city of Tyumen, Saturday, reports Xinhua. "Her depression started after her defeat at the Olympic Games. She really punished ...

  • Goya drawing to be auctioned off in London

    The Goya drawing "Si yerras los tiras!" (If you miss the mark!), a political allegory in which the figure may be King Ferdinand VII, will be sold at auction July 2 in London, Christie's said. The drawing, which is expected to sell for between 1.2 million and 1.7 million euros ($1.6 million to $2.2 million), is from the artist's "Black Border Album" and belongs to a private collector. The album ...

  • UK parliamentarians call for reckless bankers to face jail

    By Matt ScuffhamLONDON (Reuters) - Britain should introduce laws making it possible to jail "reckless" bankers and claw back past bonus and pension awards, an influential panel of lawmakers said on Wednesday.The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, set up by the government last year after Barclays was fined over the manipulation of global interest rate benchmarks, said deep ...

  • UK food producers grocers sign up to healthy label scheme

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's major food manufacturers and retailers have agreed to follow the same system of nutritional labelling as part of a government initiative to tackle obesity and poor diet and ease the financial burden on health services.The UK's Department of Health said on Wednesday labels would combine both traffic light colour-coding and nutritional information on how much ...

  • 10 things we learned from the London 2014 menswear collections

    Unisex dressing was a big talking point at the men's 2014 spring/summer collections - with JW Anderson leading the way with his halter top. But what were the other trends on ...


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Take Shelter

Take Shelter

In Jeff Nicholss Take Shelter, Michael Shannon gives the performance of the year as Curtis, a blue-collar Midwestern family man whose increasingly intense nightmares about an approaching storm begin to haunt his waking hours and compel him to construct and stock an elaborate stor ... ...

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  • Jail threat for reckless bankers among proposals to clean up banking system

    George Osborne is facing pressure to radically overhaul Britain's banks by introducing a new law to jail bankers for "reckless misconduct" and force bankers to wait up to 10 years to receive their bonuses.The proposals, among the key measures recommended in a major report by the parliamentary commission on banking standards, also include a call on him to consider breaking up the ...

  • A year on Julian Assange stays put in Ecuadorean embassy in London

    Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for questioning about sex crimes allegations, ...

  • Bankers stripped of secrecy as data swap embraced

    Catherine Bosley ZURICH: For almost eight decades, many Swiss bankers had an easy job taking in often untaxed money from wealthy customers from around the world. Now, the country's first ...

  • bluebird bio Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- bluebird bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on transforming the lives of patients with severe genetic and orphan diseases using gene therapy, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,941,176 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $17.00 per share, before underwriting discounts. All of the ...

  • Fraser Institutes B.C. Secondary School Rankings Show Academic Improvement at 26 Schools

    Twenty-six secondary schools across British Columbia have seen their academic performance improve over the past five years, according to the Fraser Institute's annual school rankings. The list of improving schools includes twenty-one public schools, of which nine are located in the Fraser Valley and Southern B.C., eight on Vancouver Island, two in the Interior and Northern B.C., and one in ...

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