Glynwed shares rose 11p to 231p, valuing the group at £560m.. Informa Group, the business publisher whose titles include the daily maritime newspaper Lloyds List, yesterday stepped up its presence in the United States market with an agreed £31.5m take-over of MCM Group, an electronic financial news and analysis service. Informa Group, the business publisher [...]

A Finnish UN worker accused of killing an East Timorese woman in a hit-and-run traffic accident has left the country, a UN police spokesman has said. The man, whose name was not released, did not attend a hearing in the capital, Dili, on January 10, UN civilian police spokesman Antero Lopes said.He said police received [...]

Analysts believe proceeds from the sale could surpass the £22bn raised in Britain’s auction.Vodafone shares closed down 5.75p at 281.5p. France Telecom was up 5.9 euros at 141.8 euros.France Telecom is being advised by Morgan Stanley and CSFB, and Vodafone by Goldman Sachs and UBS Warburg.. Moss Bros, the men’s clothing company, yesterday delivered further [...]

The Home Office, Foreign Office and police are allowing him to remain.Captain Strasser’s forces were accused of torture and murder during his four-year rule, and last night Amnesty International demanded he be brought to justice for alleged crimes against humanity.Amnesty said Britain had an obligation to arrest and detain Strasser for alleged human rights abuses. [...]

When it recognises a face, it actually visualises that face.The simple engineering trick that one does is to interconnect the neurons, the cells to one another, so that they recognise what each other is doing, and the whole consensus of these neurons working together comes up as a known image; that gives Magnus its power.BM: [...]

There are no videos, no sound clips, and no natty little animations Just the data. This means the disc will even run on a 386.pounds 25, Headmain (01273 476151). There’s a saying in the computer industry that whenever an important new development comes along, Microsoft ignores it for a couple of years and then ends [...]

Treasurers at Conservative Central Office banked pounds 7,129,567 during the months April, May, June and July 1996 and recorded pounds 6,794,000 of that as “anonymous”, according to documents seen by The Independent. The first records ever to leak from Smith Square show that frantic fund- raising was under way at a time when outsiders believed [...]

Forest Robin is a bit of a monkey, but is rated only 42 and a horse only needs to be able to keep out of its own way to win off that sort of mark. He stays a mile and a half and started the season on handicap mark of only 45 on turf. He [...]

Certainly Alex Ferguson was not taking anything for granted, preaching the need for care and aware the limited Lodz of Old Trafford would be a different animal when seeking to overturn a 2-0 first leg disadvantage. After the opening minutes when Lodz put us under some pressure, we settled into a game of possession. I [...]

I explain to him that the essay seemed to me to be one of the most pretentious pieces of crap that I’d ever read That it communicated nothing. That it read like the work of a pretentious teenager, heady on some ill-digested diet of Sartre, Husserl and others. It’s heroic of us to have done [...]