'I'm doing God's work.' Meet Mr Goldman Sachs
Number 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it. The men and women who arrive in the watery dawn sunshine, dressed in...
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General Motors drives Germany to despair
The directors of General Motors met for dinner last Monday in advance of an eagerly anticipated board meeting the following day. It was a chance for them to get to know one another.
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Are the central banks blowing new bubbles?
Another month, another ?25 billion in quantitative easing from the Bank of England. The latest addition to the Bank’s asset purchases will take the total to a nice round ?200 billion.
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Take heart from bosses’ optimism about Britain
The chief executives of our large banks and retailers have ideal seats from which to watch the UK economy. The bankers see how stretched individuals are on mortgage payments, how much they are putting on credit cards and into savings accounts. They have...
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Anglo American recruits banking grandee Sir Philip Hampton
Sir Philip Hampton, chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland, is being lined up to join the board of Anglo American. An announcement could be made as early as tomorrow.
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Microsoft sees a silver lining in the cloud
When he considered joining Microsoft two years ago, Stephen Elop compiled a list of questions to ask the software giant. If he was going to make the leap from Juniper Networks, the internet router maker where he had been promised the chief executive’s...
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Aurum Holdings agree debt swap
THE owner of Mappin & Webb, Watches of Switzerland and Goldsmiths is poised to agree a debt for equity swap to halve its borrowings.
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Strike ballot for British Airways crew
BRITISH AIRWAYS yesterday came a step closer to having its flights grounded over Christmas when cabin crew unions said they would hold a strike ballot.
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Phone giants Vodafone and BT eye more cuts
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Cadbury to slam Kraft’s ‘cheap’ hostile bid
ROGER CARR, the Cadbury chairman, will issue a caustic rebuttal to Kraft, the American food group, when it tables a ?10 billion hostile bid for the Dairy Milk maker tomorrow.
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Tory minders gag right-wing allies in the ECR
THE Tory party, struggling to contain embarrassing outbursts from its new partners on the east European right, has sent its media minders to control their public image.
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Families ready for UK's first three-way kidney swap
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Mail strikes spawn cheaper rivals
THE deal to suspend postal strikes has come too late to save Royal Mail from a new wave of competitors.
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Women MPs revolt over childcare vouchers
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Youth's hunted over woman's firework murder
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Dyson children clean up with ?45m payout
SIR JAMES DYSON, the inventor who convinced the world that vacuum cleaners could be fun, has given ?45m of his fortune to his three children.
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Gang film audiences to be frisked at 1Day
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Blue whales reclaim old feeding grounds
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Libel threat to force Us papers out of Britain
AMERICAN newspapers and magazines may stop selling copies in Britain and block access to their websites because of our draconian libel laws.
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Briton led to death by Tony Christie song
A BRITISH tourist who went to Amarillo in Texas because of the hit song by Tony Christie which bears its name has been shot dead in a bar.
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The Arctic Sea gives up its secrets
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Secret files show Sir Mark Thatcher's role in Wonga coup plot
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Sir Mark Thatcher said he was a spy for South Africans
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Army wants to retreat in Afghanistan
ARMY CHIEFS are drawing up plans to withdraw British troops from outlying bases in Afghanistan.
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Is it time to pull out of Afghanistan?
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Dark motives of army base killer
A MONTH after his arrival in Texas in July, Major Nidal Malik Hasan walked into Guns Galore, a weapons shop near the sprawling Fort Hood military base, and spent $1,000 on a high-powered, Belgian-made semi-automatic pistol that is said by its manufacturer...
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Berlin all fired up for wall-to-wall partying
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Vanishing glaciers jolt smokestack China
AS an expedition from Chinese state television worked its way across the remote Tibetan plateau earlier this year, the explorers were amazed by what they found.
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Jungle angel was Barack Obama’s mother
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Heurelho Gomes heroics deny brave Sunderland
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Cesc Fabregas and Andrey Arshavin round off comfortable win
As if it is not satisfying enough for Arsenal, the Premier League’s top scorers, that 17 players have embroidered their names on the score sheet this season, they are now enlisting opponents to provide a few extra ones for them.
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England into final of the Four Nations
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Dan Carter helps stretch All Blacks domination
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Non-believers fill the church of green gods
‘Al Gore, who art in thy fully offset private jet; Nobel-prized be thy name; thy carbon-free kingdom come; on planet Earth (otherwise known as Gaia) as it should be after Copenhagen; give us this day our daily meat-free diet; and forgive us our emissions,...
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Dosh is the only thing that sticks to the likes of Teflon Terry
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Fight for a good school is making criminals of parents
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Memo to Cameron: no more promises
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Busy-bee MPs have lost their real purpose, so let’s cull some
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Bond Street rings up record for shop rents
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Gordon Brown triggers row with call for bank supertax
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Trinity Mirror closes final pension schemes
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Supermarkets launch massive price Christmas war
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GM boss Carl-Peter Forster set for Jaguar
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Secret ?165bn loan keeping Lloyds alive
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP is being kept afloat with ?165 billion of loans and guarantees from the Bank of England and other central banks around the world, The Sunday Times can reveal.
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Home Office covered up immigration risk
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Sir Mark Thatcher said he was a spy for South Africans
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Army wants to retreat in Afghanistan
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'I'm doing God's work.' Meet Mr Goldman Sachs
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Alan Sugar: I’ll fire myself – that’ll learn you
Stonily quiet at the back of a big, blank office on a weird, wind-whipped Essex trading estate, Sir Alan Sugar — ’skewze me, Lord Sugar — looks small, angry and alone. The businessman’s face, normally the rough beige of a Farley’s rusk, is oddly white...
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'I survived so please let Baby RB live too'
WHEN Vicky Rhodes was born suffering from the same condition as a baby at the centre of a right-to-life case, doctors told her parents she might become a “physical and mental vegetable”.
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City bosses fund bid to cut crime
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Lobbying row as ex-minister Paul Boateng lands defence firm job
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Lord Falkland uses loophole to net ?140,000
A HEREDITARY peer whose ancestor gave his name to the Falkland Islands has admitted “exploiting a loophole” in the rules to claim more than ?140,000 in expenses from the House of Lords.
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Briton led to death by Tony Christie song
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Climate change may push migrants to cooler Britain
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Secret files show Sir Mark Thatcher's role in Wonga coup plot
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Home Office covered up immigration risk
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Atheist Damien Hirst to display oil paintings in St Paul's
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The ISA: the great child protection racket
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Drama reveals Queen's spats with Margaret Thatcher
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Greenfield sites targeted for new wave of nuclear power plants
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Kate Winslet's wow factor is worth ?60m to the British economy
THE Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet is a ?60m national treasure, according to an analysis of her value to Britain by economists funded by the government.
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Met chief Sir Paul Stephenson attacks light-touch justice
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Gordon Brown triggers row with call for bank supertax
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His last lonely walk
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Gordon Brown and US in G20 clash over Tobin tax on banks
A row has broken out over a possible new tax on banks just hours after Gordon Brown suggested the move, with the US signalling its opposition to the plan.
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US rejects Gordon Brown's G20 plans to tax transactions
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UK tourist killed in Texan shooting
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Kevin McDonald pegs Manchester City back once more
Manchester City's inability to win games continued as they battled from behind but then lost their lead against Burnely to draw in the league for their fifth draw in succession in the league.
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Gordon Brown calls for global banking shakeup
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Jonny Wilkinson leads England into half-time lead
Jonny Wilkinson's boot gave England a 9-5 lead at half-time against Australia in the Investec Chellenge match at Twickenham.
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Phil Mickelson takes two-shot lead in Shanghai
A round of 67 saw Phil Mickelson move up from a two-shot deficit against Tiger Woods to a two-shot lead after 54 holes of the HSBC Champions tournament on Saturday.
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Stuart Broad sent for scans on injured shoulder
Stuart Broad has been sent for precautionary scans on his right shoulder after sustaining an injury today, the ECB have confirmed.
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Gordon Brown sparks fresh row over Tobin tax for banks
Gordon Brown has raised the possibility of a new global tax on banks as a repayment for the billions of pounds of taxpayers money they have received.
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Correction: Rita Alay Libera Del Curto
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David Haye mustn’t aim too high in fight with giant Nikolai Valuev
The scrawny Israelite shepherd boy called David was armed with a sling when he confronted the 9ft Philistine Goliath.
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Berkshire Hathaway generates ?3.2bn profit for Buffett
Warren Buffett, the world’s second-richest man, saw third-quarter profits triple at Berkshire Hathaway, his investment vehicle.
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BA to cut tenth of jobs after losing ?292m in disastrous summer
British Airways plans to cut its workforce by more than a tenth as it struggles with mounting losses. The airline said yesterday that 4,900 jobs would be lost — about 12 per cent of staff — by March.
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Is private equity brave enough?
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BA to shed more than one in ten jobs as it slumps
British Airways plans to cut more than one in ten of its workforce this year as the airline struggles with mounting losses. BA said on Friday that it would cut 4,900 jobs, about 12 per cent of its staff, by next March.
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Mark Hughes happy with Manchester City's record compared to other 'Big Four' clubs
Mark Hughes, the Manchester City manager, believes he could have driven himself round the bend as he reflected on a series of missed opportunities in the Barclays Premier League in recent weeks.
Harry Redknapp has no regrets over sale of Darren Bent to Sunderland
Harry Redknapp is adamant that his decision to sell Darren Bent to Sunderland last summer will “never haunt” him, in spite of the striker’s fine start to his career on Wearside.
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Didier Drogba: my son told me I had to change my behaviour at Chelsea
It was not his three-match Champions League ban, the prospect of being sold by Chelsea last summer or the disapproval of some fans that convinced Didier Drogba to change his ways, but being reprimanded by his young son.
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