Paul Mason
Chill wind blows across the world’s economic landscape
The indicators show China, Japan – and even the McDonald’s burger chain – are facing economic slowdown. How will the eurozone respond?
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World renowned music teacher jailed for raping students
A recorder teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, one of Britain’s leading arts schools, is jailed for 11 years for raping and indecently assaulting young female pupils during lessons.
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Siobhan Kennedy
UK banks to pay massive fines for rigging foreign exchange market
First it was Libor. Now Britain’s biggest banks are poised to disclose massive fines for their role in the manipulation of the global foreign exchange market, or Forex.
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Banking on bitcoin? Why many more may do so soon
Average UK bank customers may not be using the fast-growing internet currency bitcoin just yet, but as CNBC’s UK Business Editor Helia Ebrahimi reports, authorities would do well to take it seriously.
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World Cup 2014: the amazingly good vs the frankly annoying
From spray foam to odd boots, football commentator and writer John Anderson picks his World Cup highlights and pet hates. Do you agree?
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Can Holland avenge three World Cup final defeats?
Squaring up to Argentina in the second semi-final, the Netherlands are hoping to avenge past failures. The Dutch team have made it to the final three times, but have yet to win the World Cup.
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What we should hate about the World Cup
Love the World Cup? Football commentator, writer and curmudgeon John Anderson focuses on the things which will make us want to kick a hole in the TV screen over the coming weeks.
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World Cup stories: Brazilian flair, English resolve (1970)
The 1970 Mexico finals – the first to be televised in colour – gave the world a host of defining images: Pele’s dummy, Banks’s save and, most memorably, Carlos Alberto’s goal.
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World’s biggest cyber crime gang thwarted by police
Exclusive: behind the scenes as police across the world hit a notorious group of cyber criminals responsible for hacking into computers, stealing up to half a billion pounds and blackmailing victims.
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Will ‘cocos’ make the banks go pop?
In the City they are hot property. Cocos (contingent convertible capital) are meant to protect taxpayers. So why the nickname “death spiral securities”? CNBC UK Business Editor Helia Ebrahimi reports.
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Jon Snow
Time to see the world through Russian eyes?
The vote is done. Crimean matters have come to a head. But how did we get into the mess, which now has ‘the west’ scurrying around looking for reprisals against Russia?
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What happened in Syria when the world was not watching
With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria.
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Liam Dutton
A meteorological world without the world wide web?!
As the world wide web celebrates its 25th birthday, I take a look at how the internet has changed since I first heard about it and how it has benefited the world of weather.
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Siobhan Kennedy
RBS boss outlines plans after bank posts £8.2bn loss
Ross McEwan missed an opportunity to do something bold on Thursday. For starters, here’s a good way to restore trust in Britain’s most mistrusted bank.
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Waterworld: Britain’s wettest winter on record
From the storm surge in December through the wettest January on record, Channel 4 News tracks the stormiest winter in memory which has left two people dead and thousands flooded and without power.
