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Sauber to fast-track Russian teenager into F1

This content was published on Jul 15, 2013 Cash-strapped Sauber announced on Monday a partnership with three Russian entities, including the National Institute of Aviation Technologies which is headed by the 17-year-old driver’s father Oleg. The other two are the Investment Cooperation International Fund and the State Fund of Development of the North-West Russian Federation. Sauber said in a statement that a development…

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Tennis ace Hingis served up with another award

This content was published on Jul 14, 2013 Hingis, 32, became the fourth-youngest person to receive the honour, having won five grand slam singles tournaments and nine other doubles and mixed titles during an illustrious career. She was ranked the number one women’s player for 209 weeks. “Thank you, tennis. You gave me the world,” she said at the ceremony in Newport, Rhode…

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‘Live simply to let others simply live’

This content was published on Jul 14, 2013 “After the Second World War and until the 1973 oil shock, our parents believed that everybody benefited from economic growth. But 30 years of liberalism and unrestrained deregulation, the legacy of Reaganomics and Thatcherism, put an end to this grand illusion once and for all,” says the 32-year-old family man. “Now is the time to…

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Russia convicts dead lawyer in ‘shameful’ trial

This content was published on Jul 11, 2013 The court on Thursday also convicted Magnitsky’s former client William Browder, a Briton who has spearheaded an international campaign to expose corruption and punish Russian officials he blames for Magnitsky’s death in a Moscow jail in 2009 while awaiting trial. Browder was sentenced to nine years in prison in absentia, which underscores the dangers faced…

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Match-making donor campaign launched

This content was published on Jul 11, 2013 Every year in Switzerland around 1,000 children and adults are diagnosed with leukaemia and defects of the immune and metabolic systems. In many cases, these life-threatening diseases can be treated with transplantation of blood stem cells, which are responsible for the formation of blood cells. But as the organisation points out, because there are billions…

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HSBC list reveals some of its secrets

This content was published on Jul 10, 2013 The figure was revealed on Wednesday in a French parliamentary report. The report also described a variety of legal, technical, diplomatic and procedural issues that began almost as soon as the French tax authorities received five DVDs of data in December 2008. The report, explaining why it had taken so long to act on the…

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High-tech hut suffers from success

This content was published on Jul 9, 2013 The much-vaunted high-tech building was supposed to produce 90 per cent of its energy from solar panels, with a generator fuelled with a few hundred litres of rapeseed oil used as backup during bad weather. Instead, the generator has been running fulltime, using around 7,000 litres of diesel during the climbing season. Since the hut…

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Deportation flights could be improved, says report

This content was published on Jul 8, 2013 In four cases, passengers were forced to take sedatives against their will, the commission said in its repatriation report on Monday. It said it was particularly concerned about the use of ketamine, saying that from a medical point of view, the anaesthetic “didn’t seem appropriate for dealing with states of mental agitation which can arise…

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Keeping their eye on the ball

This content was published on Jul 8, 2013 According to Perschke, “on the surface, the experience seems to be about the ball itself as an object, but the true power of the project is what it can create for those who experience it”. “As RedBall travels around the world, people approach me on the street with excited suggestions about where to put it…

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‘Riding an e-bike is like climbing Everest with oxygen’

This content was published on Jul 7, 2013 The alarm clock buzzes at 4:30 am. Staub prepares and eats his breakfast – Birchermüesli with fresh fruit – fills a thermos with a drink for the ride, and shuts the house door behind him. Clad in warm clothing – adjusted for the season and the weather – he hops on his bike and turns…

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