Google Big Tent: Ed Miliband, Eric Schmidt and more
Q but you effectively pay a licence for using Google to Google Ireland.. there’s a huge amount of money leaving European tax jurisdictions and going to Bermuda and no tax paid on it.
“The no tax part is not true. We love the UK, it’s a huge operation for us, we have 3,000 employees, doing a huge development in Kings Cross, we care a lot about this, Google is free to the citizens of the UK as to the rest of the world, we work very have not only tofollow the rules but to make the world a better place.”
Q – but [...]
NEWGEN Men’s Lucky Seven
The British Fashion Council and Topman have awarded seven up-and-coming talents with NEWGEN Men sponsorship for the Spring ’14 season. First-time honorees include Agi Sam (designed by Agape Mudmulla and Sam Cotton), Astrid Andersen, and Nasir Mazhar, while Matthew Miller, Lee Roach, Shaun Samson, and Martine Rose are returning NEWGEN veterans. The designers will receive funding to present their lines at the London Collections: Men, which kicks off June 16, and join the ranks of former winners like J.W. Anderson, James Long, and SIBLING. [...]
FBI kills Florida man with suspected ties to Boston bomb suspect: NBC
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Wed May 22, 2013 8:49am EDT
MIAMI (Reuters) – An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, NBC News reported.
NBC said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the agent.
The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. The newspaper quoted the friend, Khusn Taramiv, as saying Todashev was being investigated [...]
Gunmen kill 12 in Baghdad brothel
22 May 2013
Last updated at 09:47 ET
The attack in a brothel comes a week after alcohol shops in the same Zayouna district were also targeted by gunmen
Seven women and five men have been shot dead in a brothel in Baghdad, state and medical officials say.
Unknown armed gunmen are said to have burst into the brothel in the well-to-do eastern district of Zayouna on Wednesday afternoon and opened fire.
Prostitution is prohibited under Islam, the dominant religion in Iraq.
The killings come two days after multiple bombings kil [...]
Women are breaking through the ‘concrete ceiling’
We’ve all heard about the glass ceiling, but it looks the concrete one might be harder to crack.
According to the National Women’s Law Center, in 2010 women held a tiny percentage — 2.6 — of the U.S.’s 8.4 million construction jobs, the same percentage they held in 1983. The NWLC faults “barriers such as gender stereotypes, sexual harassment, a lack of awareness about opportunities in construction, and insufficient instruction.”
But while women may not be gaining ground in trades like carpen [...]
Australia batsman David Warner fined for Twitter outburst
Link to video: Michael Clarke defends David Warner’s Twiiter rant, tips him as captain
The Australia batsmen David Warner has been fined A$5,570 (£3,600) for his Twitter outburst against two cricket writers at the weekend after being found guilty of breaching Cricket Australia’s code of behaviour.
Cricket Australia issued a statement late Wednesday saying its code of conduct commissioner, Gordon Lewis, imposed the maximum financial penalty for a first offence under Rule 6 of the code relating to & [...]
Children Who Have CT Scans May Face Higher Cancer Risk
WEDNESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) — Children and teens exposed to radiation during CT scans are 24 percent more likely to develop cancer, according to a large, long-term study.
The risks, however, are still low: Among a group of 10,000 young people who each had one CT scan, only about six extra cancers would be expected to occur within 10 years, according to researchers from Australia and Europe.
The researchers said doctors should carefully weight the risks to patients when making decisions about [...]
Courts to hear birth control lawsuits
Obamacare’s birth control mandate will go before four different appeals courts over the next three weeks as private businesses that object to the policy on religious liberty grounds bring a barrage of lawsuits that opponents hope to get before the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as this fall.
On Wednesday, two for-profit companies will ask the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to strike the requirement that they provide employees with insurance coverage that includes birth control and other drugs that they say can cause abortion. Three other compan [...]
Encouraging signs for bee biodiversity
Declines in the biodiversity of pollinating insects and wild plants have slowed in recent years, according to a new study. Researchers led by the University of Leeds and the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in the Netherlands found evidence of dramatic reductions in the diversity of species in Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands between the 1950s and 1980s.
But the picture brightened markedly after 1990, with a slowdown in local and national biodiversity losses among bees, hoverflies and wild plants.
Professor Bill Kunin, Professor of Ecolo [...]
Clearwire board approves Sprint’s revised bid
Just a day after Sprint upped its bid to acquire Clearwire, the latter’s board has said that it’s the right deal for the company.
In a statement released on Wednesday, Clearwire’s board announced that it has approved the new deal with Sprint. The board has also asked shareholders to vote in favor of the acquisition when they meet to place their ballots on May 31.
NEWGEN Men’s Lucy Seven
The British Fashion Council and Topman have awarded seven up-and-coming talents with NEWGEN Men sponsorship for the Spring ’14 season. First time honorees include Agi Sam (designed by Agi Mdumulla and Sam Cotton), Astrid Anderson, and Nasir Mazhar, while Matthew Miller, Lee Roach, Shaun Samson, and Martine Rose are returning NEWGEN veterans. The designers will receive funding to present their lines at the London Collecitons: Men, which kicks off June 16, and join the ranks of former winners like J.W. Anderson, James Long, and SIBLING.
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Man with ties to Boston bombing suspects shot during FBI questioning
A man with ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed by an FBI agent while being questioned in Florida, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
The man who was shot, Ibragim Todashev, 27, was not suspected of having played any role in the bombing that killed three people and injured scores more in April, they said.
Instead, law enforcement officials said Todashev was being questioned as part of the FBI’s effort to find and talk to anyone who had any contact with Tsarnaev, the older bombing susp [...]