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London home sellers cut price for second time in 3 months

Bloomberg London home sellers cut asking prices for a second time in three months and waning buyer interest hints that the slowdown may continue. Prices dropped 2.4 percent in June — the biggest for that month since 2010 — leaving them down 1.4 percent from a year earlier, Rightmove Plc said on Monday. Nationally, asking prices slipped 0.4 percent, pushing ...

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Google ‘will do more to suppress terrorist propaganda’

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc.’s Google says it is creating new policies and practices to suppress terrorism-related videos, a response to UK lawmakers who have said the internet is a petri dish for radical ideology. Google will increase its use of technology to identify extremist and terrorism-related videos across its sites, which include YouTube, and will boost the number of people who ...

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Nurturing our capacity for regeneration

Sparkling in the sunlight that inspired 19th-century romantic painters of the Hudson River School, Sing Sing prison’s razor wire, through which inmates can see the flowing river, is almost pretty. Almost. Rain or shine, however, a fog of regret permeates any maximum-security prison. But 37 men — almost all minorities; mostly African Americans — recently received celebratory attention. It was ...

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