Новости за 03.09.2015

Growing up in my small city Idlib, Syria, I always knew I was different. I didn’t know what the difference was or what it was called, but I knew I had a secret to guard. That was a decade ago. Even in my worst nightmare, I didn’t dream that one day my beautiful country would implode. And I couldn’t possibly imagine that one day I would address the UN Security Council on behalf of all refugees including LGBT people like me.

ComRes found that changing the EU question from Yes/No to the format forced on David Cameron by the Electoral Commission cut a 27-point lead for Yes to an 18-point lead for Stay In.

We knew that America’s justice system, and in particular its prisons, was one of the least attractive aspects of the world’s richest civilisation. With the largest penal population on the planet, often serving in dangerous and neglected conditions, America’s network of federal and state penitentiaries sometimes calls into question the nation’s very claim to be a civilised nation, along with routine use of the electric chair and an insane attitude towards gun control.

There’s a leadership battle. The party is torn between left and right. A candidate considered unelectable unexpectedly wins, creating an ideological rift. The knives come out, with fears the party will never win an election again. But the new leader sticks to their guns. They doggedly push through, and cause the biggest ideological shift in the party’s history.

Did you know that more than half of the shares of British-registered quoted companies are foreign-owned? Well, they are: 54 per cent of all UK quoted companies are owned abroad, up from 31 per cent in 1998 and from less than 5 per cent at the beginning of the 1980s. We all are aware that many companies operating in Britain are owned abroad, with some industries such as motor manufacturing almost entirely foreign-owned. But these are supposedly British quoted companies, those that are domiciled in the UK. Читать дальше...

The Second World War started 76 years ago this week. What followed in the years from 1939 was death and the displacement of people on a scale never before seen.

So why is Isis blowing to pieces the greatest artefacts of ancient history in Syria and Iraq? The archeologist Joanne Farchakh has a unique answer to a unique crime. First, Isis sells the statues, stone faces and frescoes that international dealers demand. It takes the money, hands over the relics – and blows up the temples and buildings they come from to conceal the evidence of what has been looted.

It took four years for Michael Grandage to find a play that would tempt Nicole Kidman back to the London stage for the first time in 17 years, and he discovered it in an unlikely place: the slush pile.

I was trapped underneath him. He pulled my trousers down. My body went stiff and limp and stiff again as tears dripped down my cheeks. From this moment I changed and my life changed too, forever.