Diets, skiing and subtlety July 4, 2011 1 NOVAK’S parents, Srdan and Dijana, wanted their eldest son to become a skier but, despite playing on the slopes near their Belgrade pizza restaurant, he took to tennis from an early age and was spotted, aged eight. 2. Djokovic puts his incredible purple patch – he has won 50 of his last 51 matches, [...]
Cavendish livid with rival for kamikaze approach July 4, 2011 MARK CAVENDISH blasted Tour de France sprint rival Romain Feillu for ‘kamikaze’ tactics and insisted he should not be written off after being beaten to victory on stage three in Brittany by American Tyler Farrar. Farrar claimed the United States’ victory on the 198-kilometres route from Olonne-sur-Mer to Redon ahead of Feillu (Vacansoleil) and Jose [...]
Easter spots England advantage July 4, 2011 RUGBY UNION: England’s Nick Easter believes the staging of the Tri-Nations between Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in July will given northern hemisphere teams an advantage at September’s World Cup. “This time the northern hemisphere teams might have a little bit of an advantage over the southern hemisphere teams in terms of the scheduling because we’ve [...]
Singh clings to Open hope July 4, 2011 GOLF: Former world number one Vijay Singh has been offered an Open Championship place but may not be fit enough to take it. The double USPGA winner pulled out of last week’s AT&T National in America with back trouble.
Bankers facing jobs bloodbath July 4, 2011 INVESTMENT bankers are facing the prospect of mass lay-offs as the City struggles to cope with an ongoing period of low trading volumes and depressed revenues. City A.M. understands that Credit Suisse plans to announce hundreds of job cuts this Thursday following a headcount freeze put in place in London last month. The bank has [...]
Murdoch tabloid in fresh blow July 4, 2011 A PRIVATE detective working for News of the World hacked into murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s mobile phone while police were searching for her in March 2002, a lawyer for her family said yesterday. Mark Lewis, solicitor at Taylor Hampton, said police had told the parents of Milly Dowler that Glenn Mulcaire illegally accessed and deleted [...]
FTSE exceeds 6,000 mark July 4, 2011 THE FTSE pushed on from last week’s bullish trading yesterday, edging past the morale-boosting 6,000 mark to print its highest score since May. The blue-chip index added half a per cent (27.78 points) during the day to close at 6,017.54. Strong gains in oil stocks more than offset a dip in the fortunes of several [...]
Britain needs its own Ronald Reagan July 4, 2011 HERO-WORSHIP is always a mistake. No statesman is perfect: all make mistakes. But Ronald Reagan – of whom a statue was unveiled in Grosvenor Square yesterday – was one of the few major figures of the 20th century to leave their country in a hugely better state than they inherited it. He helped America regain [...]
DSK election hopes fade July 4, 2011 FORMER IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn will try to counter-sue French writer Tristane Banon if she files a claim of attempted rape against him as expected later today. The revelation is the latest twist in the ongoing sex claims surrounding Strauss-Kahn. Banon says the politician attacked her in early 2003 when she was 22. Strauss-Kahn has appeared [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 4, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES PAULSON ENJOYS $500M LEHMAN BOOST AS VALUE OF BOND RECOVERS Paulson & Co, the hedge fund that made billions from betting on a collapse in mortgage-backed securities during the financial crisis, has made more than $550m from a recovery in the value of bonds it bought in failed investment bank Lehman Brothers. BRUNSWICK [...]
