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Britain was never a real EU member anyway

One could argue — and some, like UKIP leader Nigel Farage, already do — that the concessions British Prime Minister David Cameron obtained late on Friday from other European Union leaders in order to stay in the bloc are meaningless. Or one could rejoice in a victory as Cameron does. That won’t change a fundamental fact: The UK is not ...

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India Post rides e-commerce wave

Alwar / AFP With his rickety bicycle and sackcloth mail bag, 62-year-old Indian postman Chet Ram does not look like a worker at the vanguard of an e-commerce revolution delivering everything from mobile phones to cow manure. He pedals miles each day in rural Rajasthan state, ferrying packages to villages and takes payments in cash because most of his customers ...

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Apple ‘spaceship’ gears up for launch

Cupertino / DPA When it’s Apple, you know it’s going to be big and bold. And so it is with its new headquarters or “Spaceship Campus,” which will cover 260,000 square meters and has a circumference of 1.6 kilometres in Cupertino, California. Computer-generated images of what it will look like show something resembling a giant glass doughnut, with a green ...

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