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Report: Apple director York hospitalized

Technolgoy News - 1 hour 5 min ago
The Wall Street Journal reports that Jerome York, a member of Apple's board of directors, was hospitalized after suffering a brain aneurysm.

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The five best print exhibitions

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

The Printmaker's Art

Some of the most beautiful and accomplished prints made during the last 500 years, including iconic images by Durer, Blake, Rembrandt, Goya, Piranesi, Hogarth, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, and D Y Cameron.

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. To 23 May.

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The Sketch: Bercow must play his cards right

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

The Prime Minister declared there were many more small businesses now than this time last year. "Yes," my colleague in the Press Association said, "but last year they were all big businesses." That was better than anything said on the floor of the House, so there it is for the next thousand years of internet historians.

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Five arrested over kidnap of British boy in Pakistan

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Five people have been arrested in connection with the kidnap of the five-year-old British boy Sahil Saeed after a "substantial" ransom was handed over for his return.

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New website gives wannabe students vital information about drop-out rates and earnings

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Garry Bodsworth, 32, grew up on council estates in London and Essex and received poor advice while at school about higher education. "It was more by luck than design that I ended up going to university," he says.

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Rosie Waterhouse: Universities must take action on Muslim extremism

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

One cold lunchtime at City University London, 100 male Muslim students were praying in rows on the ground. Above on a balcony, a dozen female Muslim students, dressed in black and wearing the niqab – a veil covering their face apart from their eyes – handed out leaflets. These said they were demonstrating because the university had allocated a "multi-faith" space as their new prayer room. "It is impermissible for Muslims to offer prayers in a place where other than our Lord, Allah, is worshipped", it said.

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Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Channel 4 News presenter and journalist

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, 39 on 5 April presents Channel 4 News. He chairs the current Teachers TV debate on parents' involvement in their children's education (www.teachers.tv/video/41892)

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Micky Jones: Lead guitarist and mainstay of the Welsh band Man

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

The Welsh band Man are the closest Britain has come to the free-wheeling spirit of the psychedelic groups that came out of San Francisco in the mid-1960s, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Formed in Swansea in 1968, Man have gone through a multitude of line-ups, with Micky Jones, guitarist and founder member, the only constant.

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Geoffrey Woolley: 'Times' Letters Editor whose pages helped set Britain's public agenda

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

For three decades, from the year of the coronation, 1953, until the period of the Falklands conflict in 1982, Geoffrey Woolley was a potent, if unseen and largely unknown, influence on British public life. As Letters Editor of The Times he was the final arbiter of what and whose letters were published, which were afforded prominence as lead-letters, and at what point any long-running, controversial correspondence should be terminated. Fifty and more years ago – before the emergence of The Independent, The Guardian, and the Today programme – letters to The Times played an almost exclusive role in setting the public agenda, and Woolley's judgement was pivotal. Above all he was fair to those with minority or dissenting opinions. Woolley refused to be pressured by anybody – least of all by MPs.

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Market Report: Man under pressure amid dividend fears

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Payout worries haunted Man, the hedge fund group, which fell as the benchmark FTSE 100 index firmed up last night.

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Jones's rapid recovery gives Bruce reason to be cheerful

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Kenwyne Jones will be able to play a part in Sunderland's Premier League run-in after being spared a lengthy spell on the sidelines.

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Storrie blamed for Pompey crisis

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Portsmouth's administrator Andrew Andronikou claims the former chief executive Peter Storrie must bear part of the blame for the economic problems that has engulfed the club. Andronikou was speaking after the Premier League confirmed a nine-point deduction as a sanction for Portsmouth going into administration, action that should guarantee relegation.

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Terry's accident adds to Chelsea's age-old problems

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

The Chelsea captain John Terry was breathalysed by police officers following an accident at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday night that left a security guard with a badly bruised leg.

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Glenn Moore: Mourinho: a man with a very special plan

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Although he paid lip-service to sharing the glory with his players, Jose Mourinho could not resist ensuring that everyone knew who was the architect of Internazionale's victory at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. The players were praised for following the plan, the plan drawn up by... Mourinho. So what was it?

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Abramovich's dream carries a high price tag

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

It has reached the point at Chelsea where every time they get a bad result in the Champions League you wonder if the manager might have to pay for it with his job. It is hardly the basis upon which to run a harmonious, settled club.

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Zamora spots flaws in 'ageing' Cannavaro

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Bobby Zamora is looking forward to renewing his confrontation with World Cup-winner Fabio Cannavaro tonight at Craven Cottage as Roy Hodgson's side look to overturn a 3-1 deficit to make it into the last eight of the Europa League.

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Reina provides welcome lift for awkward Lille task

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Pepe Reina's timing reaches levels few sometimes see. Try watching the way the goalkeeper will place a cushioned, volleyed pass to his team-mates at Liverpool's training ground. "A couple of days ago in training, Stevie [Gerrard] asked for the ball and... Pepe volleyed it straight to him," the Liverpool manager, Rafael Benitez, said yesterday. "He's very good with his feet, but a little bit better with his hands."

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Friends of world leaders with a plan for Anfield

World News - 1 hour 11 min ago

Liverpool fans have witnessed too many false dawns to harbour illusions about the latest possible saviours to be linked to their football club, but they can perhaps be forgiven that there is some serious money around this time. Rhone Group's senior partners include Robert Agostinelli, whose ex-wife Mathilde is a senior executive at Prada. He is an acquaintance of French president Nicolas Sarkozy and has spoken with deference about Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi. Both Agostinelli and Steve Langman, another partner at Rhone, have invested in the Republican presidential campaigns of John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.

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