Miami vice: $60m for ultimate pad November 3, 2011 AN almost comically opulent property in Miami’s private Indian Creek Village is soon to come to market. The home, 3 Indian Creek, neatly shows that when it wants to be, America still means bigger and better. Courageously out of sync with high unemployment and a fresh wave of economic woe, this house is an unapologetic [...]
Machine Gun shoots, badly misfires November 3, 2011 Film MACHINE GUN PREACHER Cert: 15 THE true story of a drug-dealing criminal who is moved to help kidnapped children in war-ravaged Sudan, Machine Gun Preacher has explosions, sermons, and Gerard Butler in the lead role of Sam Childers. The real-life Childers found God in 1992 after years of violent crime and travelled to Sudan [...]
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND | HELENA LEE November 3, 2011 COLLABORATORS Collaborators, a new play about Stalin, is on at the Cottesloe theatre and stars Simon Russell Beale and Alex Jennings. The evening may already be sold out, but day tickets are available, from £12. The play will also be broadcast to cinemas across the world on 1 December as part of National Theatre Live. [...]
Cottagers should be no match for in-form Spurs November 3, 2011 IT hasn’t been an easy week for Tottenham with manager Harry Redknapp undergoing minor heart surgery, but the operation seems to have been a success and nothing will please him more than a win at Fulham on Sunday. Spurs have been superb lately, scoring at least twice in seven straight league fixtures, with six victories [...]
Top class Union Rags looks best Breeders’ Cup bet in Juvenile November 3, 2011 THE curtain comes down on another flat season at Doncaster tomorrow and I’m prepared to give old friend ZUIDER ZEE one more chance in the November Handicap (3.10pm) at 12/1 with Ladbrokes. John Gosden’s four-year-old may not be brilliantly handicapped but he is ultra-consistent, has won over course and distance and gets his ideal ground. [...]
US factory orders up but service sector growth slows November 3, 2011 US service sector activity growth eased in October to its slowest level in three months, but new orders for good from factories unexpectedly rose, suggesting economic growth remains patchy. In other U.S. data reported on Thursday, new claims for unemployment benefits fell below 400,000 last week for the first time in five weeks, suggesting a [...]
Greek PM to scrap referendum November 3, 2011 Greece’s Prime Minister has said that the referendum on the the Eurozone bailout plan will no longer go ahead – and it was never his intention for it to happen. “The referendum was never an end in itself,” George Papandreou told the cabinet according to statements released by his office and reported by Sky News. [...]
ECB cuts rates in surprise move November 3, 2011 The European Central Bank cut interest rates by a quarter point to 1.25 per cent in a surprise move on Thursday, acting boldly to support the ailing euro zone economy at President Mario Draghi’s first policy meeting in charge. The move gave an immediate boost to stock markets, which will be looking for any signal [...]
FTSE weak as investors eye G20 November 3, 2011 The FTSE 100 tracked falls in Asia as leaders of the world’s biggest economies gathered in France for a G20 summit set to be dominated by the threat of Greece falling out of the Eurozone. The leaders of France and Germany, angered at Greece’s shock move to call a referendum on its latest bail-out plan [...]
Service sector growth slows November 3, 2011 Britain’s dominant service sector grew at a far slower pace than expected last month despite firms cutting prices to drum up business, adding to signs that the country may slip back into recession, a survey showed. The Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the service sector slumped to 51.3 in October from 52.9, falling short [...]
