China's six million graduates
There are now six times as many graduates as they were a decade ago - over six million in total. The figure is the highest number of graduates anywhere in the world.
3:23 am • 20 July 2011
“One or two of the committee’s members have since said that they felt too intimidated by the threat of what might be done to them by News International journalists if they insisted. So they didn’t.”
— How the Guardian Broke the News of the World Hacking Scandal - Newsweek
8:21 pm • 18 July 2011
“Ben Bernanke earlier on Wednesday had given his most explicit warning yet on what would happen if the debt ceiling is not raised.
In testimony before the House financial services committee, the US Federal Reserve chairman said a recession on the scale of 2008 would be “certainly conceivable” and that it would have “a very adverse effect very quickly on the recovery”.”
— Obama walks out of US budget talks - FT.com
1:41 pm • 14 July 2011