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/ 24 December 2007
Whether it’s drug dealers shooting at Santa in Rio, a father selling off a present to punish his son in Canada, or Manila authorities banning carols, Scrooge would have a field day this Christmas. In Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, suspected drug dealers fired gunshots at a helicopter flying Santa Claus into a slum to deliver presents to poor children.
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/ 24 September 2007
The jostling for dominance among the world’s leading stock market operators has seen many alliances and feuds, but it has rarely had a day as dramatic as last week, when some of the Middle East’s most powerful sovereign funds took the sector by storm.
I wake up, and for a moment everything seems normal — I’m in a fairly nice hotel room, tucked up in a double bed. To my right there’s a TV and DVD combo hovering above a wooden desk, next to which a door leads to the toilet. Then the sheep start bleating. Because I’m not in a hotel at all, I’m in a glass box in the middle of a field in Oxfordshire, England.