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As banks struggle to grow in a sluggish economy and in the face of massive changes in regulation, agricultural lending presents an opportunity to grow and diversity.
Jamie Dimon’s performance over the past eight years more than justifies his position as chairman and CEO.
There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich, an inter-faith charity says.
The Turnaround of the King of Burgers
An 18-year-old man dies after being struck by a car while walking along the Glasgow to Stranraer road in Ayrshire.
Despite the criticism Microsoft’s new console has received, it is poised to be a massive hit.
Do Hewlett-Packard’s recently reported second quarter earnings signify a recovery and ultimate bottom for the troubled company?
Note from dshort: One of my economic correspondents, James Ross, called my attention to the fact that the NYSE has released new data for margin debt, now available through April. I’ve updated the charts in this commentary to include the new numbers. The New York Stock Exchange publishes end-of-month data for margin debt on the NYXdata website, where we can also find historical data back to 1959. Let’s examine the numbers and study the relationship between margin debt and the market, using the S&P 500 as the surrogate for the latter. The first chart shows the two series in real terms — adjusted for inflation to today’s dollar using the Consumer Price Index as the deflator. …
A suicide bomber has blown herself up close to an interior ministry building in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, officials say.
A backlash of anger following the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby leads to several people facing charges over social media posts.
An injured turtle found by a fisherman in Florida has been returned to the sea after being treated at a rescue centre.
China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal. Coal has contributed to China’s pollution problem, and the coal mines are said to be the deadliest in the world, killing thousands of miners a year. To combat the recent slump in coal prices, the coal industry is said to have asked the government to restrict coal imports to China through quality control. Some argue that the slump is being driven not by oversupply, but because of a lack of demand. But with China continuing to industrialize at a rapid pace, the importance of coal is unlikely to diminish in the coming years.China is the world’s largest energy consumer. …
This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble …
Before the tornado tore apart Moore, Oklahoma, school kids had been celebrating, their principals say. FULL STORY
Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg sets a scintillating pace in an incident-packed final practice session at the Monaco Grand Prix.
A couple and five children are taken to hospital after a fire destroys their touring caravan at a park in Gwynedd.
More than 50,000 people attend the beatification in Sicily of Don Giuseppe Puglisi, a Roman Catholic priest murdered by the mafia in 1993.
A driver whose car became embedded in the side of a house when he crashed is out of hospital and has returned home.
Ethiopia’s prime minister opens a ceremony of Africa’s 54 leaders celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity.
Sou Fujimoto’s buildings are designed, he says, with people’s behaviour in mind. The resulting spaces are captivating and intriguing. Here is a selection of his groundbreaking work
A man suffers burns to his hands and face, and a broken leg, as he escaped from a house fire in East Lothian.
The last drop-in MMR vaccination clinic is being held on Saturday as figures in the Swansea measles epidemic suggest a slowing down of new cases.
Belfast City Hall’s historic stained glass windows are protected as a precaution during the G8 economic summit next month.
Seven marines and at least four militants are killed as troops tackle Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines, the military says.
As an exhibition of Patrick Caulfield’s work opens at Tate Britain, the playwright David Hare recalls his friendship with the painter whom he came to respect as the artists’ artistMy favourite photograph of Patrick Caulfield was taken by Jillian Edelstein in 1999. The artist is sitting low in a battered brown leather chair, wearing blue worker’s overalls that are splashed with paints of many colours. His hand is resting below his lip, and he’s looking straight at the camera, as if he had nothing to fear from its scrutiny. On his face is an expression, both amused and impenetrable, which anyone who met him will recognise at once to be characteristic. But above all you can’t help noticing how handsome Patrick is.Of course the looks of an artist ought not to be a factor in judging their art. …
With the Turner-nominated artist the subject of a Tate retrospective, we’ve gathered together some of his most notable works
There’s never been a better time to visit Marseille. It’s this year’s European Capital of Culture and a new Eurostar service makes it easier than ever to get thereThis summer, Eurostar is running a Saturday service right across France to Aix-en-Provence. This is the farthest a direct train has ever travelled from London, covering 750 miles in just over six hours.But it’s the psychological distance between stepping on in King’s Cross and off in Aix that really counts. It isn’t just that the Mediterranean weather is likely to be better. There’s something about the play of light and shade on the honey and pastel buildings and on the streets lined with plane trees. …
New exhibitions of works by Marc Chagall and Honoré Daumier show the wild imagination and audacity of French modern artFrance invented modern art. The French Revolution gave art in Paris a courage and appetite for experiment that vivify it like chocolate in a brioche. By the early 20th century, the city had become the unquestioned centre of all that was new. Picasso dismantled reality in his cubist still lifes. Brancusi created dream images of fantastic birds. …
The area of Scampia outside Naples, has the infamous reputation of being one of the biggest drug-trafficking sites in Europe.
The woman who has supplied the wheel of cheese for Gloucester’s famous annual cheese-rolling event has been told by police she may be liable for legal action.
A zoo keeper has died after being attacked by a Sumatran tiger in the big cat enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Cumbria.
Lance Lynn pitched two-hit ball over six innings, and David Freese and Allen Craig each had a home run and three RBI, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-0 on Friday night for their third victory in a row.
Lance Lynn pitched two-hit ball over six innings, and David Freese and Allen Craig each had a home run and three RBI, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-0 on Friday night for their third victory in a row.
Jeff Baker hit a two-run homer and Lance Berkman added a three-run shot, both off Seattle starter Joe Saunders, and the Texas Rangers beat the Mariners 9-5 on Friday night.
Jeff Baker hit a two-run homer and Lance Berkman added a three-run shot, both off Seattle starter Joe Saunders, and the Texas Rangers beat the Mariners 9-5 on Friday night.
Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: Together against the oddsThis picture of my parents was taken in 1963, a year before they got married. It intrigues me, in the circumstances, that they managed to pose for a studio photograph like some confident, conventional, middle-class couple.Mum was very shy – though she ended up as an infant school deputy headteacher – and her background could hardly have been less middle-class. Her own mother slept 10-in-a-bed growing up in Southwark, south London, and had no shoes. She and my grandpa, who was homeless for a spell and illiterate all his life, met after he found her drunken father spread-eagled on the street one night and carried him home to her in a wheelbarrow.As for Dad, he was a recent West Indian immigrant – a well-connected government official back in St Kitts & Nevis, who danced with Princess Margaret once during a royal visit and whose brother Weston would go on to serve as deputy governor general of the islands. But that did not count for much on my grandparents’ council housing estate.Dad found work and rose through the ranks at the Inner London Education Authority, at County Hall (now overlooking the London Eye). …
Michael Cuddyer hit a home run and a two-run double after coming off the disabled list, Tyler Chatwood beat San Francisco for the second time in seven days and the Colorado Rockies blanked the Giants 5-0 on Friday night.
Michael Cuddyer hit a home run and a two-run double after coming off the disabled list, Tyler Chatwood beat San Francisco for the second time in seven days and the Colorado Rockies blanked the Giants 5-0 on Friday night.
But 22.3% of parents think what they say has little influence, a report says.
Roy Hibbert scored 29 points, David West knocked away two passes by LeBron James for huge turnovers in the final minute, and the Indiana Pacers evened the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat in Game 2 on Friday night.
Two men are questioned on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after RAF jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistan Airlines plane in UK airspace.
Two men are questioned on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after RAF jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistan Airlines plane in UK airspace.
