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  • Dalian Wanda Group to buy UK yacht maker and hotel property Dalian Wanda Group to buy UK yacht maker and hotel property

    LONDON - China's largest premier commercial property and entertainment conglomerate, Dalian Wanda Group Wednesday entered into 320million pounds definite acquisition deal with leading British yacht company, Sunseeker International Ltd, under which Wanda will acquire a majority shareholding of 91.81% in pre-eminent luxury motor yacht manufacturer. Under the agreement, the remaining 8.19% ...

  • Spain urged to pursue further reforms to generate growth and jobs Spain urged to pursue further reforms to generate growth and jobs

    MADRID - Spain risks high joblessness and sluggish growth for years unless its government together with Europe takes "urgent action' to generate growth and jobs, the International Monetary Fund stated Wednesday. "While there are signs the economic contraction may end soon, the outlook remains difficult," IMF said in its annual assessment of the Spanish economy. "But unemployment remains ...

  • Females prefer biological fitness than other traits in potential mates

    A female's mating decisions are largely based on traits that reflect fitness or those that help males perform well under the local ecological conditions, a new study has found. Males' bright colors, flashy ornaments, and elaborate songs are examples of fitness-related traits that females appear to have evolved to prefer, according to the study from the National Institute for Mathematical and ...

  • Johnny Depp opens up about vision problem

    Actor Johnny Depp, who often sports tinted glasses, has revealed he has been "basically blind as a bat" in his left eye. He ha said he suffers the problem since birth. He is also near-sighted in his right eye and says he relies heavily on his prescription spectacles for his vision. "Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision," thesun.co.uk quoted the 50-year-old as ...

  • Study explains why appetizers matter more when youre dining out with friends

    According to a new study, first impressions of experiences have a greater impact when consumers share the experience with others. "When consumers consume an experience alone, the end of the experience has a greater effect on their overall evaluations. On the other hand, when consumers consume an experience with others, the beginning has a greater influence on how they judge the entire ...


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The English Patient

"The English Patient" is a is a huge, brooding expanse of a film that intricately tangles love and tragedy and passion and anger and violence and war into one giant collage that sometimes threatens to engulf the viewer with all its complexities. Yet, the true irony is that, after leaving the theater, I felt like there wasn't as much to the film as I had felt there was while watching it. The story ... ...

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  • Cancer in numbers - infographic

    cancer in their lifetime by 2020, a new analysis reveals. There were 324,579 new diagnoses of cancer in the UK in 2010. But projections drawn up by Macmillan Cancer Support suggest that by 2020, 47% of the population will be diagnosed with cancer at some point before they die.This infographic looks at some of the statistics around cancer ...

  • Fundraisers how to get more meetings with millionaires

    The greatest barrier to major gift results is not spending enough time in front of wealthy people. Even when fundraisers understand this (some don't), the most commonly used and rarely effective tactic to persuade wealthy people to meet or attend an event is to send emails. Of the people who understand that using a phone can be more effective, many make mistakes which can easily be avoided. ...

  • Today in healthcare Thursday 20 June

    too many mentally ill people are being held in police cells and have called for a rethink of how powers are used to detain people in a "place of safety". If there's a story, report or event you'd like to highlight – or you would like to share your thoughts on any of the healthcare issues in the news today – you can get in touch by leaving a comment below the line ...

  • CQC may name officials responsible for hospital cover-up

    The NHS regulator has announced it will review the decision not to release the names of those involved in the cover-up following a series of infant deaths at Furness General ...

  • Asia dominates worlds most expensive office spaces report

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five of the six most expensive office areas in the world are in Asia, as demand by global companies to locate their outstripped the supply, according to a semiannual report released on Thursday by real estate services company CBRE ...

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