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...Britain's national newspapers may disagree on politics, but they agree on the story of the season: Su Doku is here! An addictive puzzle in which the numbers 1 to 9 must occur only once in every row, column and box within a grid, Su Doku has Britons hooked. Since its debut in the Times last November, almost every major paper in the country, desperate not to miss any chance to build circulation, has acquired a version. Tabloid variants come with celebrity endorsements and last week, after the Guardian launched its puzzle, the Times fought back with the first mobile...
...free." While paid circulation among British national newspapers skidded 2.5% in the five months to March, distribution of Associated Newspapers' Metro reached the 1 million mark last year, making it the fourth highest-circulation Monday-to-Friday paper in the U.K. And it's not just Britain. London-based publisher Metro International (no relation to Associated's title) last week rolled out its own Metro in Porto, Portugal, the 56th edition since launching in Sweden 10 years ago. And 20 Minutes, set up by Norwegian media group Schibsted in 1999, is thumbed in 20 cities across France, Spain and Switzerland...
...March. Aiming to prop up circulation, Associated late last year launched Standard Lite, a free, slimmed-down, lunchtime version of the evening title. Sources close to the company say only one-third of Standard Lite's readers are willing to buy the bulkier, paid-for evening version. And Britain's Office of Fair Trading last month ended Associated's exclusive rights to London Underground stations to distribute Metro, clearing the way for rivals to offer a free afternoon paper through the same channels. Whoever wins, "We think the Evening Standard would have to go free pretty quickly" afterward, warned Deutsche...
This being Britain, fastidious attention is paid to class issues, even among the criminal classes. That's especially true of XXXX, yearning to breathe more rarefied air. His apartment is done up in white-on-white style--chic photos on the wall, excellent Scotch on the coffee table, which is, of course, artily shot from the floor, looking up through the glass. This is, we think, a provisional environment, blank, characterless, impersonal. What he really wants is something darker, more traditional...
...check on the table and said, "I won $4,000 playing a video game!" Since then, Wendel has been world champion of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL)--the gamer's equivalent of the NBA--three times. Over the next three months, he'll play in tournaments in Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Germany, France and Finland, and all over the U.S. and Asia. Outfits like the CPL are bent on becoming big-time spectator-sports leagues like the NFL or the NBA. After all, Wendel says, football and basketball "used to be just games too. But now they...