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Worldâs greatest polo players participate at the Cartier Queenâs Cup in 2012
04:47 PM | CCP-Luxury.com
Sixteen high-goal teams will play in The Cartier Queen’s Cup competition in 2012. The world’s greatest players, including Adolfo Cambiaso, Gonzalito and Facundo Pieres, Juan Martin Nero and Pablo MacDonough, will be in action at Guards Polo Club over the next three weeks, playing at the top of their game to ensure that it is their patron who steps forward to receive the historic silver Queen’s Cup from HM The Queen.
Letters: G8 leaders can help fight malnutrition
04:01 PM | The Observer
David Cameron does indeed have a chance to act on global malnutrition this week at the G8 summit ( Wood shavings for dinner: G8 urged to tackle scourge of malnutrition , 17 May). However, millions will continue to die or suffer chronic malnourishment unless he and other world leaders stop giving financial and political support for the failed industrialised food system that has exacerbated hunger and environmental degradation.
Gibraltar's jubilee party sends signal to Madrid
04:48 PM | Guardian
Political tensions have escalated again between the UK and Spain over a territory eager to prove once more that it is 'more British than the British' In Gibraltar, said chief minister Fabian Picardo, children learn history fast. "They can say 'the treaty of Utrecht' when they are around a year old," laughed Picardo, an Oxford-educated socialist with a picture of the Queen in his office.
IKEA fires French managers in wake of spying probe
06:00 AM | My-Retail Media
IKEA, the world’s largest furniture retailer, has sacked four current and former managers at its French operations after allegations emerged that illegal police files had been used to spy on staff and customers.
Facebook IPO: an anatomy of Wall Street overreach | Heidi Moore
04:01 PM | The Observer
Before trading, Facebook's bankers were ready to count their profits in billions. By close, they'd had to bale out their own IPO The day of Facebook's first day of trading as a public company brought with it a strange perspective: the highest manifestation of a social media bubble and its ugly aftermath, all in the span of a few hours.
