17-Dec-2013 11:10

Ten reasons to be optimistic about 2014 - Telegraph.co.uk (blog) :: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100250647/ten-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-2014/

Warnings over text-sharing apps - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25354641

Meet the co-parents - The Guardian :: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/dec/15/meet-the-co-parents-modern-families

Syria: Saudi prince's anger over royal biopic - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25401836

Austria swears in EU's youngest foreign minister Sebastian Kurz - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/25407573

Early Polynesians used binary to ease mental arithmetic - New Scientist :: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24766-early-polynesians-used-binary-to-ease-mental-arithmetic.html

BT default porn filter turned on for new customers - Metro :: http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/16/bt-default-porn-filter-turned-on-for-new-customers-4233004/

Schäublefreude revisited - The Guardian (blog) :: http://www.theguardian.com/global/economics-blog/2013/dec/16/wolfgang-schauble-finance-minister-austerity

Students cleared to return to all 4 Harvard campus buildings evacuated over ... - Seattle Post Intelligencer :: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Students-cleared-to-return-to-all-4-Harvard-5069064.php

The lights may soon turn on again in the White House - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9d679056-6330-11e3-886f-00144feabdc0.html

Why stagnation might prove to be the new normal - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/87cb15ea-5d1a-11e3-a558-00144feabdc0.html

Osborne joins a futile quest for the holy grail of economics - Financial Times :: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8f20787e-61a9-11e3-916e-00144feabdc0.html

Tory peer caught 'clocking in' at House of Lords to collect £300 daily expenses - The Times (subscription) :: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3951359.ece?CMP%3DOTH-gnws-standard-2013_12_16

Ancient hand bone dates origins of human dexterity - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25398642

UK troops have done well in Kabul - Cameron - Independent Online :: http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/uk-troops-have-done-well-in-kabul-cameron-1.1623291

Wifi could be killing plants, a school experiment found - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10522047/Wifi-could-be-killing-plants-a-school-experiment-found.html

Nick Clegg accuses Theresa May of 'illegal' plans to cap EU immigration - The Independent :: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nick-clegg-accuses-theresa-may-of-illegal-plans-to-limit-eu-migrants-9009012.html

Sherlock: Mark Gatiss on Holmes' return from the dead - Irish Independent :: http://www.independent.ie/videos/entertainment/sherlock-mark-gatiss-on-holmes-return-from-the-dead-29845248.html

Arctic sea ice up from record low - TG Daily :: http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/82891-arctic-sea-ice-up-from-record-low

Airports Commission shortlist: New runways considered at Heathrow and Gatwick - The Independent :: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/airports-commission-report-third-runway-at-heathrow-and-second-at-gatwick-are-option--but-boris-island-left-off-shortlist-9009536.html

Poorer than your parents - post-war pensions boom 'is coming to an end' - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/10521587/Poorer-than-your-parents-post-war-pensions-boom-is-coming-to-an-end.html

People born in '60s and '70's 'no better off' than predecessors - AFP :: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jK1loIXRD7joyRnsJSpkoXy0608w?docId%3D00642e69-8095-4829-8559-10b6bfa0d1ff

UK inflation rate falls to 2.1% in November - BBC News :: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25413641

Flat-pack three-storey home 'as easy to build as a bookcase' - Irish Independent :: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/flatpack-threestorey-home-as-easy-to-build-as-a-bookcase-29845480.html

US NSA debates amnesty for Edward Snowden - PCWorld :: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2080640/us-nsa-debates-amnesty-for-edward-snowden.html

Watch Friends star Matthew Perry debate drug policy on Newsnight - Metro :: http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/17/watch-friends-star-matthew-perry-debate-drug-policy-on-newsnight-4233454/

Metropolitan Police rule out SAS role in Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed deaths - The Independent :: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/metropolitan-police-rule-out-sas-role-in-princess-diana-and-dodi-al-fayed-deaths-9009715.html

Ashes 2013-14: Five ways it all went wrong for England - The Guardian (blog) :: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/dec/17/ashes-2013-14-five-ways-wrong-england

Edward Snowden offers to help Brazil over US spying in return for asylum - The Guardian :: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/edward-snowden-brazil-spying-asylum

Stonehenge unveils its new visitor centre - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/10521069/Stonehenge-unveils-its-new-visitor-centre.html

'No credible evidence' Diana murdered - New Straits Times :: http://www.nst.com.my/latest/no-credible-evidence-diana-murdered-1.435576