Section: The Week (The United Kingdom)
MPs urge government to do more to support dairy farmers
Credits: FRED TANNEAU/AFP/Getty Sharp falls in price of milk mean more producers are going out of business every week One-Minute Read Tuesday, January 20, 2015 – 11:03am A cross-bench committee of MPs has urged the government to help struggling dairy farmers, warning that more are going out of business every week because of sharp falls in...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 19 Jan 2015
BOKO HARAM: ‘FIFTY CHILDREN KIDNAPPED’Islamist terror group Boko Haram is said to have carried out another kidnapping, days after satellite photos helped show the extent of a brutal massacre by the group. Army sources in Cameroon claimed the group had taken 50 children and 30 adults. The group kidnapped more than 200 girls in Nigeria last...
Week in pictures: 11 – 17 January
Sunday, January 18, 2015 – 6:30am Description: PARIS, SUNDAY: More than one million people take part in a unity march in the French capital after 17 people died in last week’s deadly attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Kosher supermarket. Credits: David Ramos Description: CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY: A hippopotamus swims in its enclosure...
General election 2015: David Cameron goes to DC for photo op with fave bro
Countdown to May: daily comment from The Mole plus latest polling and best media coverage Election Watch Monday, January 12, 2015 – 9:43am Back from the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ march in Paris, David Cameron hits week two of the general election campaign with another ‘world leader’ moment in the offing – the prospect...
David Cameron meets Angela Merkel: what’s on the agenda?
A single unguarded comment by Merkel ‘could torpedo Cameron’s promised EU renegotiation’ Briefing Wednesday, January 7, 2015 – 10:21am See related: Pegida: Germany dims lights against ‘pinstripe Nazi’ protests German Chancellor Angela Merkel is paying a flying visit to the UK today in what some say could be one...
PM ‘must persuade Merkel he’s not bluffing about leaving EU’
Alt Text: The Mole Tory eurosceptic David Davis says German leader must understand Cameron is not sabre-rattling Column The Mole Wednesday, January 7, 2015 – 10:18am David Davis, the leading Tory eurosceptic and former Minister for Europe, warned David Cameron this morning that he must convince German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the UK...
2014: the year in numbers – from five to 700 billion
Credits: GIANLUIGI GUERCIAAlt Text: Oscar Pistorius on day of verdict Five years in jail for Oscar Pistorious, 6,800 dead from Ebola, 551m voters in India Briefing Wednesday, December 24, 2014 – 10:13am By any standards, 2014 was a dramatic year. A new fault line opened between Russia and the West after Moscow annexed the Crimea, the...
Russia crisis: how much have sanctions hurt Moscow?
Credits: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/GettyAlt Text: A woman walks past a board listing foreign currency rates outside an exchange office in central Moscow Analysts estimate sanctions have cost Russia $140bn this year and Moscow’s ultra-rich $51.4bn Briefing Wednesday, December 17, 2014 – 11:43am See related: How to invest for the new Cold...
Google Year in Search: Malaysia Airlines and Suarez top 2014 stories
Description: LOS ANGELES, MONDAY: Jennifer Lawrence attends the premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 at Nokia Theatre. Credits: Kevin WinterAlt Text: Jennifer Lawrence at The Hunger Games premiere Jennifer Lawrence heads the global list of people trending on Google, beating Kim Kardashian and Julie Gayet One-Minute Read Tuesday,...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 16 Dec 2014
SYDNEY SIEGE DEAD PRAISED FOR HEROISMThe two hostages who died in yesterday’s siege in a Sydney café have been praised for their heroism. Archbishop Anthony Fisher said café manager Tori Johnson had tried to grab a gun from Man Haron Monis, only for it to go off and kill him. He said Victim Katrina Dawson died shielding a pregnant friend....
