England v Pakistan - as it happened The Observer | Good morning Well, wasn't that something special? As exciting a day's Test cricket I've seen along with all four days of Edgbaston 2005 and the Friday of the Lord's Test against West Indies in 2000. I think Jonathan Trott and Mohammed Amir are shoo-ins for two of the five Wisden Cricketers' of the...
BHP Billiton Profit More Than Doubles The New York Times | LONDON — BHP Billiton, the mining company that has made a hostile takeover bid for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, said Wednesday that full-year profit more than doubled because of higher raw material prices. | Profit for the year ending in June rose to $12.7 billion from $5.9 billion a year e...
It would be a tragedy for Britain if my friend William quit The Daily Mail | Quitting? William Hague is said to be considering leaving politics in the wake of the storm over his aide Christopher Myers | There have been few more extraordinary political resurrections than that of William Jefferson Hague. | From his humiliatin...
Friday quiz: literary quotes | Michael Tomasky The Guardian | I was thinking that we haven't done much literature in these quizzes. There's a reason for that, which is, compared to a lot of people I know, I haven't read a lot of things. I have some deeply embarrassing gaping holes. I've never read Jane Austen...
Campbell reports Q4 profit rise on better margins The News & Observer | CAMDEN, N.J. -- The Campbell Soup Co. reported a larger fourth-quarter net income Friday, a time when the temperature rises and its soup sales traditionally drop. | Sales did fall by 1 percent, but improved margins, largely due to productivity gain...
A brief look at SA’s coal-mining industry Mining Weekly | Most coal production in South Africa – about 53% – is from opencast mines, with the balance being produced by bord-and-pillar (40%), stoping (4%) and longwall mining (3%). Coal-mining operations are clustered in the country’s Mpumalanga provi...
Stop Fish Lake mine project: B.C. First Nations CBC | First Nations in British Columbia are warning the federal government that they will stop at nothing to prevent a mining company from destroying a fishing lake to process copper and gold. | Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet is expected to deci...
Quiz of the week's news BBC News Continue reading the main story | 7 days 7 questions | It's the Magazine's 7 days 7 questions weekly quiz - a chance to find out how much news from the past week you've read, heard and watched... and how much has stayed lodged in the old grey matter....
Fishing Legacy Fades From Some New England Ports The New York Times | Filed at 12:27 p.m. ET | PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- Mike Secondo remembers the days when Plymouth's docks outshone its rock. | Tourists swarmed the town pier in the 1970s and '80s, ...
Defensives lead FTSE higher, commodities wane Insurance Newsnet | Britain's top shares rose by midday on Thursday, with commodity stock weakness outpaced by gains in defensives, led by drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline after U.S. authorities recommende...
Coal seam excavated for heritage in Caerphilly woodland BBC News Geologists have excavated a section of a coal seam to give visitors an unusual glimpse of mining heritage. | A 9m-high basin was cut away on an embankment in the Wern Ddu woodlands near Caerphilly. | The British Institute for Geological Conservation ...
Small Talk: Britain's only listed potash miner signs deal with Chinese The Independent | Will they or won't they? That was the big question in the mining industry last week: would the Chinese launch a counter-bid for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan to rival BHP Billiton's $40bn hostile offer? As the world's biggest mining company, B...
How Margaret Thatcher planned to undermine miners' union The Guardian Open Platform | Secret plans to run down the domestic coal industry and defeat any future strike action by unions were being drawn up by Margaret Thatcher even before the year-long miners' strike had ended, cabinet papers reveal. | The plans were approved by a gro...
Margaret Thatcher blocked Soviet aid for striking miners, files reveal The Guardian Open Platform | She was the prime minister at the height of her powers, using every arm of the state to crush the striking miners. He was the Soviet heir apparent who had authorised a large donation to help striking comrades in the UK. | Now newly released Downing...
