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This is Gates's hair apparent

12.02.10 MULTIBILLIONAIRE Bill Gates's court victory decides that a child cloned from one of his hairs need not inherit his empire 		 
Meet the Russian computer genius

14.10.10 KYRA Alysen is a euro trillionaire after the Stock Market flotation of her software company, K
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Lease is more

16.11.10 HIGH street giant Top 2 Toe is to scale down its retail business in favour of a wardrobe leasing service 		 

Boomerang brings big returns

12.01.10 BRITISH AIRWAYS this week took delivery of Goliath, a revolutionary, 1,000 passenger plane


Tagging the truants

16.06.10 Education minister defends plans to electronically tag absentee school children

  • The euro is to be legal tender in Britain. After a decade in which use of the euro has steadily increased, the Treasury said that from now on it would be accepted by all banks, retailers and government departments. The Tories, who adopted a policy of permanent opposition to monetary union five years ago, said it was entry into the single currency by the back door. But government sources said Labour was merely reviving the Tory idea of 'competing currencies' from the 1980s. DS

  • Independent Kurdistan is demanding the incorporation of Kurdish areas of western Iran into an enlarged state. Following last year's civil war in Syria, Kurdistan annexed the small Kurdish areas of eastern Syria, giving the state its greatest boost since the break-up of Iraq in 2005. The Turkish government has expressed extreme concern over the prospect of a greater Kurdistan, fearing that it would then pose a threat to the substantial Kurdish-speaking areas of southeast Turkey. PR

  • The 'one child' family policy in China has resulted in a whole generation of only children, now in their mid-twenties. Young women in China are focusing on careers rather than home, and American universities are reporting a significant increase in the number of them who are applying for MBA courses. PF