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...pictures of London's financial crisis...
Kangaroo Route. Qantas is now flying its A380s from Sydney to London three times a week. They're 10% more fuel efficient than other jumbo jets and loaded with wi-fi, quieter engines and 17-in. monitors in the Marc Newson-designed first-class cabin. Ergonomically designed seats - complete with a small foot rest - improve the comfort level even in coach. It all makes the 22-hr. flight a little more bearable...
Funny thing is, CRE and Ossie did trade in currencies - they were just lousy at it. SEC documents show that in June 2008, CRE shifted $12 million from its Atlanta fund to Deutsche Bank in London. In short order, it lost $8 million in European currency trading. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...single unit of Britain's poor, battered currency? Not much - apart from power, influence and an entrée into the highest echelons of the British establishment. These are the potential byproducts of an agreement reached on Jan. 21 by Russian oligarch and politician Alexander Lebedev to buy London's largest newspaper, the Evening Standard, from its current owners Associated Newspapers for the nominal fee of one pound sterling...
...rich Russians. But Lebedev, still only 49, is no ordinary oligarch. He even rejects the label with its connotations of bling-bling lifestyle and financial secrecy, and in September confided to the Daily Telegraph that the economic slump had shrunk his fortune by two thirds. (See pictures of London's financial crisis...