Unique user figures for January 2008 show 5.0 million visitors for MySpace and 4.1 million visitors for Bebo.

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Yet figures from CB Richard Ellis, a leading agent, now show only a 1.5% quarterly fall in the City in January-March, while West End rents actually rose, for the first time in three years.

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Projections by Asian Demographics, a research organisation, show China's total population, which hit 1.3 billion in January, inching up to 1.31 billion in 2019 and declining rapidly thereafter.

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