• We estimate that wages and salaries rose 7.8% y-o-y in the past four weeks, exceeding the growth rate of 6.4% y-o-y in the past three months even though year-over-year comparisons are getting tougher.

    FORBES: Analyst: Signs Point To Lower Unemployment

  • Spain is the current European Under-21 champion, has won the UEFA Under-19 tournament five times in the past decade and reached five Under-17 championship finals in the past 10 years, winning twice.

    WSJ: La Roja: How Spain Became the World's Best Soccer Team

  • But at least 51 people elsewhere in the United States have died from heat-related -- or heat-exacerbated -- causes in the past two weeks.

    CNN: Northwest heat endangers crops

  • Given that the population has increased by one-and-a-half million in the past 25 years, and two-and-a-half million people in this city were born in other countries, some of which are at war with each other, it is a miracle the place is as peaceful as it is.

    ECONOMIST: It��s a London thing

  • Republican lawmakers used the pro-forma sessions - as Democrats have done in the past - to prevent the president from using his recess appointments power.

    BBC: Obama recess appointments found unconstitutional

  • The main reason for the resulting rise in the number of mini-countries is the shift from empire or dictatorship to self-determination, especially in the past quarter-century.

    ECONOMIST: How big should a nation-state be?

  • Pew also found that 12% of all Americans age 16 and older who read e-books have borrowed an e-book from a library in the past year -- and they're generally pretty happy with the experience.

    CNN: E-book lending: Your public library's best kept secret?

  • The comment hate being hurled at Google is partly derived from general monopoly-busting sentiment, but there is also a stuck-in-the-past misunderstanding of what Google has become.

    ENGADGET: Editorial: FTC and Google -- why the right decision feels so wrong to so many people

  • But the double dip - the ups and downs in the figures over the past four years - is much less important than the overall result.

    BBC: UK GDP: A nasty surprise and a puzzle

  • We can't prepare students for careers in business just by talking about the way business is done today--or was done in the past--or by adhering narrowly to case studies.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The chief executive Lyn Hill-Tout points to changes on wards which - in the past - were singled out for criticism.

    BBC: Divisions in Stafford over scandal-hit hospital

  • And the mere threat of such a prospect may - as it has in the past - prompt a redoubled effort to shore up the European Union and its faltering common currency, the Euro.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Farewell to 'Europe'?

  • In it, an ICI executive was quoted as saying the lobby no longer claims to represent investors--as it has in the past--but only the fund business.

    FORBES: Insult And Injury

  • The GS4 loses most of the well-polished curves prominently featured in the past-gen flagship, as it's designed with broader corners and a filled-out back, both of which are signs that Samsung has veered away from its "inspired by nature" mantra.

    ENGADGET: Samsung Galaxy S 4 review Mobile

  • By the 1930s, the horses had been replaced by cars with the completion of the aptly named Going-to-the-Sun Road, a heart-in-your-mouth rollercoaster that climbs past cascading waterfalls and gaping cliffs up to the continental divide at 6, 646ft-high Logan Pass.

    BBC: Glacier National Park by train

  • The MP - who has been an outspoken critic of the prime minister in the past - will be asked to explain her actions to the Conservative Party Chief Whip Sir George Young when she returns from Australia.

    BBC: Nadine Dorries prepares for I'm a Celebrity

  • He said the press - having failed to regulate itself in the past - must create a new and tough regulator but it had to be backed by legislation to ensure it was effective.

    BBC: Press 'need to act' after Leveson

  • The impressive conventional military strength post-industrial states have procured in the past half-century has helped to determine the shape and nature of modern warfare.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: China's assymetrical strategy

  • With the help of a nationwide network of volunteers -- many of whom have benefited from the group in the past -- everything is free.

    CNN: Breaking down barriers so foster kids can find a family

  • InfoBuzz said it would also like to hear from people with a family member in custody - now or in the past - who would like to take part in an independent focus group to help advise the charity.

    BBC: Gloucester Prison family support service secures funding

  • But the core of the problem for Spain - reflected very clearly in the market movements of the past few days - is economic growth.

    BBC: The vicious euro circle keeps turning

  • How he interact with General Douglas Lute, the Iraq-Afghanistan war czar - to use the phrase - who has been skeptical in the past?

    NPR: Joint Chiefs Shake-Up Leaves Questions

  • Tottenham's alternative for athletics is to redevelop and enlarge the existing Crystal Palace stadium - the main home of the sport in the capital over the past few decades - but with only 25, 000 seats.

    BBC: Olympic stadium

  • Even former president Jerry Rawlings, the architect of "macho-men" violence in the past, is now campaigning -- not for any political party candidate -- but for peace.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Coutts has beefed up its non-resident Indian team in the past half-year with six new hires in Dubai, London and Singapore, bringing the bank's NRI team to 60 including support staff.

    WSJ: Banks Woo Indians Living Abroad

  • The new Kinect -- which we've heard of in the past -- is said to capture up to six people at once, and an alleged image demonstrating the difference between new and old versions of the camera puts much higher specs on said device (1920x1080 color resolution, more trackable joints, improved depth resolution, etc.).

    ENGADGET

  • Gavin Miller, CEO of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, was asked directly whether he could see the festival - which has been in June for the past two years - return to August.

    BBC: Future of Edinburgh's festivals brought to book

  • It was a dramatic end to an often tepid match as Uruguay, who were without the suspended Luis Suarez following his goal-line handball that helped them past Ghana in the quarter-finals, only showed real attacking intent when they fell two goals behind.

    BBC: Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands

  • Peruvian President Alan Garcia is a Washington ally and has clashed with Mr Chavez - a fierce critic of the US - in the past.

    BBC: Venezuela recalls envoy in Peru

  • The reworked framework will require councils' policies to encourage brownfield sites - those already built on in the past - to be brought back into use.

    BBC: Minister: Planning changes 'sorely needed'

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