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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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...