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BBC World News, 01.12.08 19:31 UTC

Sports Personality name shortlist

The top 10 contenders for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award have been named.
Beijing  Olympic  BBC Radio  BBC  BBC Sport  sports editors  +11 more

BusinessWeek, 01.12.08 19:04 UTC

Global Economy: No Help from China's Consumers

Hopes that China's growing middle class would ride to the economic rescue have been dashed as Chinese hunker down and save
Shenzhen  Beijing  McDonald's  Starbucks  real estate  bank  +9 more

Times Online Business, 01.12.08 18:02 UTC

Stella McCartney poaches Lanvin director

Gucci has sought to pave way for further expansion at Stella McCartney, its British fashion house, with the appointment of Frederick Lukoff as the new chief executive. Mr Lukoff, 39, was poached from ...
Tokyo  Moscow  Hong Kong  Beijing  Paris  Lanvin  +6 more

International Herald Tribune, 01.12.08 14:02 UTC

Beijing reaches clean air goal for 2008

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Wired, 01.12.08 13:32 UTC

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops

KUNMING, China (AP) -- Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential - rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in ...
Beijing  Kunming  MANILA  The Associated Press  Alabama  Yunnan  +24 more

The Independent, 01.12.08 12:33 UTC

Funding cuts 'could affect Olympic medal tally'

Funding cuts expected to be announced this week could hit Britain's medal hopes at the London 2012 Olympics, it was claimed. As much as £100m in private sector investment out of a £600m pledge to the ...
LONDON  Beijing  Olympics  Olympic  shadow sports  Britain  +5 more

WashingtonPost World, 01.12.08 12:01 UTC

Hu Sees China Losing Its Competitive Edge

President Cites Reduced Global Demand
Beijing  People's Daily  the People's Daily  official state media reports  China  Hu Jintao  +4 more

Seattle Times, 01.12.08 10:04 UTC

Briefs | Skiing: Austrian Maier earns his 54th World Cup victory

Skiing Maier triumphs in Super-G: Hermann Maier of Austria won a super-giant slalom Sunday for his 54th career World Cup victory. Maier, who hadn't won a World Cup event since January 2006, prevailed ...
Squaw Valley  Franconia  Seattle  Aspen  Tokyo  Lake Louise  +33 more

The Independent, 01.12.08 02:02 UTC

Ben Ainslie: 'I can only win one medal per Games & dash; I've done all I can do'

When Ben Ainslie was 15 he won a junior world championship sailing a Laser Radial, a class of dinghy. Someone at the BBC, noting this splendid achievement, decided that it would be nice to invite him ...
Madrid  Atlanta  Beijing  Qingdao  LONDON  Liverpool  +20 more

Times Online Business, 01.12.08 00:38 UTC

Starbucks slows down to taste the coffee

It imported sophisticated, American cool all the way from Seattle, the America of Frasier and Niles bickering over a latte brought to your nearest high street. So unstoppable was its advance that it ...
Seattle  Beijing  the Times  Starbucks  coffee-shop chain  Australia  +8 more
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