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Food-storage losses for small- holder farmers in developing markets are “extremely low,” according to Michael Lipton, a development economist and research professor at the U.K.’s Sussex University.
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Before he was elected prime minister in 2010, David Cameron presaged the latest breach in Britain’s fraught relationship with Europe.
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As a child, London Mayor Boris Johnson wanted to be “world king.” After an Olympic fortnight that had crowds chanting his name, Conservative lawmakers are floating the idea that he could yet be prime minister.
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As Britain celebrates the triumph of its athletes at the London Olympics, Prime Minister David Cameron is struggling to contain rifts in his two-year-old ruling coalition.
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Sony Corp.’s U.K. unit was fined 250,000 pounds ($394,500) by the country’s privacy regulator over a 2011 hacker attack that put the personal data of 77 million PlayStation users worldwide at risk.
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Gartmore Group Ltd. , the U.K. fund manager founded by the Cayzer shipping dynasty, has been sold five times over the past 20 years. Its sixth sale, being run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., will take place without its biggest asset and liability -- star fund manager Roger Guy .
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British Prime Minister David Cameron threw a party Oct. 14 to celebrate his predecessor Margaret Thatcher ’s achievements. This week, he will set out plans to tackle something even she couldn’t in her three terms: the U.K.’s welfare state.
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In April 2010, Labour Business Secretary Peter Mandelson called Barclays Plc’s then-President Robert Diamond the “unacceptable face” of banking in a dispute over his pay.
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At the News International party last month, Rupert Murdoch got the reception he’s used to in London, with political figures of every stripe and from the prime minister down paying court at the Kensington Palace event.
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Yesterday’s split among lawmakers on the U.K. Parliament’s Culture Committee over whether to criticize Rupert Murdoch highlighted again the closeness between News Corp. and Prime Minister David Cameron’s Tory party.
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