Tech entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel says that Uber is the ‘most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley,’ and that it is ‘on the cusp of going too far.’ http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/11/07/peter-thiel-uber-lyft.cnnmoney/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
Japan’s big pension fund is ramping up its international stock holdings. It appears Japan started buying more U.S. equities this week. http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/07/investing/japan-pension-buying-us-stocks/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
www.europlan.ro Social Network EUROPLAN is again true! After hundreds of exercises original portal subdomains, knowing various names (NEWSNET; Euronet …) Europlan became a reality! It is undoubtedly the first Romanian social network that has similar capabilities facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Surely there EuroTV network with Usersbook catalog, but that is a network of professional […]
[Watch moment of sentencing above] PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for killing… http://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/21/oscar-pistorius-to-finally-learn-his-sentence/20981532/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D549162
Boris Johnson has refused to accept a challenge from Paralympian Hannah Cockroft to spend a day in a wheelchair around London. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/boris-johnson-refuses-to-accept-london-wheelchair-challenge-from-hannah-cockroft-9773382.html
Lindsay Lohan was certainly shining after her performance in the West End’s Speed the Plow last night. http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/star-of-the-night-lindsay-lohan-shines-at-after-party-for-speed-the-plow-9771889.html
Paloma Faith has toured the world, had a portrait of herself exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall, and attended a host of VIP parties, but at university the singer found it tough to fit in. http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/paloma-faith-on-meeting-ricky-wilson-whilst-working-as-a-podium-dancer-and-why-freshers-should-split-up-with-anyone-before-uni-9770792.html
During the next decade, more homes will be built in Wandsworth than any other London borough. http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/new-homes/wandsworth-building-more-new-homes-any-other-london-borough
A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was run over by a car during a police chase in west London. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-officer-run-over-by-car-in-west-london-9770578.html
The BBC was today forced into a humiliating apology after a Question Time discussion about the murder of Alice Gross was branded “insensitive and horrible” by her grieving sister. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bbc-sorry-alice-gross-sister-insensitive-horrible-question-time-debate-9771633.html
Pop stars are mostly pretty unmissable. Entourage in tow or not, in some cases they carry an aura on their person. The people turning around and double-taking might not quite recognise who they’re looking at yet, but in a few months they’ll see the face on Tube adverts and hear the songs on every […]
The boss of Britain’s biggest rail firm today risked the wrath of passengers by saying he aims to alleviate train overcrowding – by making it easier to stand. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/if-you-want-a-seat-travel-later-on-a-slower-train-top-rail-firm-boss-tells-commuters-9772106.html
Since my last epistle, London has been bestowed, via the Michelin-star bunny, with numerous new twinkling droppings, sending booking systems wild. One star went to Gymkhana, shooting one’s odds of a last-minute Friday night venison keema naan down to ‘more chance of a heavy petting session with Tom Hardy’ level. One each for City […]
The French reacted with anger today after a senior John Lewis executive described their country as “hopeless and downbeat”, saying that even the food and wine was better in London. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/the-french-hit-back-after-john-lewis-chief-said-their-country-was-hopeless-9772469.html
Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear team had to abandon their cars and flee Argentina after being pelted with stones by furious locals. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/jeremy-clarkson-pelted-with-stones-as-top-gear-crew-abandon-cars-and-flee-argentina-9772716.html
Lindsay Lohan was certainly shining after her performance in the West End’s Speed the Plow last night. http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/star-of-the-night-lindsay-lohan-shines-at-after-party-for-speed-the-plow-9771889.html
Tory plans to strip European judges of their power to enforce human rights in the UK have been condemned by the party’s own former attorney-general http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4225561.ece
The possibility of a mansion tax will influence prices as the election nears http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/life/property/prices-investment/article4224462.ece
Shock news: Lindsay Lohan can act a bit. It’s not quite the opening line we disaster-hungry hacks were sharpening our nibs for http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/stage/theatre/article4225443.ece
A church-going mother-of-two has been uncovered as one of the internet ‘trolls’ who bombarded the family of Madeleine McCann with vile abuse http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article4225487.ece
The actress was due to discuss Peter Rabbit. Instead she lets rip about the evils of technology, Greenpeace and why she can’t vote Labour http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/article4225025.ece
A knife-wielding suicidal teen was saved by police officers in Bromley yesterday after they stopped him from jumping off the top of building. http://www.london24.com/news/knife_wielding_suicidal_teen_grabbed_by_police_as_he_threatened_to_jump_1_3793018
Detectives have released images of a man they would like to speak to after a woman was flashed at on a train at Kilburn Park Station. http://www.london24.com/news/crime/police_hunt_kilburn_park_tube_flasher_1_3793770
The first Briton known to have caught the deadly Ebola virus in the current outbreak has been released from north London’s Royal Free Hospital. http://www.london24.com/news/health/ebola_victim_released_from_north_london_hospital_1_3755703