Friday 11 July 2014

Technology

Google concedes Guardian link deletions were ‘incorrect’...read more http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/07/11/google-concedes-guardian-link-deletions-were-incorrect

Digital warriors battle to get African games on phones...read more http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/digital-warriors-battle-to-get-african-games-on-phones/40498074

China opens access doors leading to Google after a month of hiatus; shutters them again...read more http://www.techienews.co.uk/9714887/china-opens-access-doors-leading-google-month-hiatus-shutters/

 

Business

Portugal banking crisis sends tremors through Europe...read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10960563/Portugal-banking-crisis-sends-tremors-through-Europe.html

Forecasts for North Sea oil tax revenues slashed by 25%...read more http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/forecasts-for-north-sea-oil-tax-revenues-slashed-by-25-9599253.html

 


UK

MPs back strikers and condemn Conservative plan to rein in unions...read more http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/mps-back-strikers-condemn-conservative-7405182

Celebrities pledge £500,000 to Labour at party fundraiser...read more http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/10/labour-party-fundraiser-500-thousand-antony-gormley

UK cities will exceed EU pollution limits until 2030, figures show...read more http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/10/uk-cities-breach-eu-pollution-limits-2030

 

World

At least four servicemen killed in eastern Ukraine...read more http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/11/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN0FF1IA20140711

Germany orders US intelligence chief out of country...read more http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/germany-orders-us-intelligence-chief-out-of-country-1.1861871

Abdullah Holds Powerful Cards In Afghan Election Crisis...read more http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan-abdullah-powerful-cards/25452496.html 

Women bishops: what are the issues?...read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10959016/Women-bishops-what-are-the-issues.html

Top Stories

Israeli air strikes on Gaza continue as US offers to broker ceasefire...read more http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/israeli-air-strikes-gaza-continue-us-barack-obama-offers-broker-ceasefire

UK lawmakers criticise government and advisers over Royal Mail sale...read more http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/11/uk-britain-royalmail-privatisation-idUKKBN0FF2OA20140711

Obesity surgery could be offered to a million more people on NHS...read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10960538/Obesity-surgery-could-be-offered-to-a-million-more-people-on-NHS.html 

Monitoring the public? Thanks to Snowden and Co, this is just the beginning, says JAMES SLACK...read more http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2688243/Monitoring-public-Thanks-Snowden-Co-just-beginning-says-JAMES-SLACK.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490