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UK
Cruise control
Councils to put the brakes on ‘coasting’ schools
New powers will give councils a range of options for dealing with schools whose results consistently fail to improve, from sending a letter home to teachers’ parents to keeping teachers in the classrooms at lunchtime.
news briefs
- Jonathan Ross suspended without pay from BBC: Friday Night… show nominated for award
- Christmas must-have ‘Baby Pee’ line of urinating dolls dropped after Haringey case
- Royal Navy board Somali pirate ship: ‘Wanted DRM-free copies of Spore’
Business
Taking a pounding: ‘Tortured’ economy failed by government
An outraged public has demanded to know why so-called experts ignored all the warning signs that money moguls were unfit to care for a vulnerable and fragile market.
World
Obama-nation: Republicans blue as 52% of US unites behind Obama
In a decade-defining moment, the United States of America this week elected its first Democrat president for almost eight years.
Science & Technology
Turned on: Collider start-up gives nerds large hardon
Scientists at CERN have flicked the switch allowing protons around the ring of the Large Hadron Collider for the first time, resulting in the largest concentration of arts-graduate journo-bullshit in human history. And not the end of the World.