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...world is in the grips of a perilous market crunch, the boom is over and tough times loom. The U.K.'s FTSE-100 stock index has nosedived in recent days and is down about 35% in the past year. Three famous British banks have already imploded - Northern Rock, HBOS and Bradford & Bingley. And after a dramatic plunge in the stock price of other banks, the deeply rattled British government came to the rescue on Oct. 8, announcing an emergency $88 billion recapitalization package. The City has been through enough slumps to know what to expect next: layoffs, shrinking bonuses...
...been downhill ever since. First came the run on Northern Rock, the stricken bank that the government ended up nationalizing and whose near failure raised serious questions about the effectiveness of U.K. banking regulation. Then came a damaging political storm over the taxing of "non-doms" - wealthy foreigners who move to Britain and are taxed only on their U.K. income. Following last month's rescues of HBOS and Bradford & Bingley, the big question now is what sort of new regulatory measures will be put in place as a result of the current market meltdown. Fraser, the City's policy head...
...York Times foreign correspondent for Dexter Filkins brought the image of the war-torn Middle East to Cambridge last night, with his vivid description of walking into an Afghan town with celebrating Northern Alliance soldiers who believed the Taliban had evacuated. “It was a double cross,” Filkins said nonchalantly, “we nearly didn’t make it out alive.” Then he moved on to tell another harrowing story. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the George Polk award, Filkins, who joined The Times...
...afford education for their children usually shelve daughters' education first. According to UN figures, 42 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not in school in India. The national literacy rate of girls over seven years is 54%, compared to 75% for boys. In India's northern Hindi-speaking states, girls' literacy rates are particularly low, ranging between 33% and 50%. Far more girls fail to complete their education - or even enroll. "I want to be a VIP when I grow up," says Priya Verma, 11, to a burst of laughter all around. "That...
...respectively on Tuesday, continuing a trend set at the beginning of the week as the FTSE 100 racked up its biggest fall in 21 years. Last month the government was forced to nationalize the mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, and earlier this year it took over another debt-ridden bank, Northern Rock, guaranteeing the deposits of retail customers. Britain's protection scheme for private-sector banks guarantees deposits only up to $87,500, causing some jittery savers to look on enviously as some European Union countries announced full protection for all retail accounts...