http://www.sfgate.com/mexico/mexicomix/article/Mexico-s-newly-listed-World-Heritage-site-6373925.php By Christine Delsol Updated 3:06 pm, Thursday, July 9, 2015 print_article|article-6373925|article-share-redesign|7 comments_jump|article-6373925|article-share-redesign|1 Read more [...]

Comments (0) THERE are plenty of interesting buildings to take in around Bedfordshire, including notable listed sites dotted across the town. Some you may recognise but others you might never have guessed are listed buildings or structures. For example, who would have thought the Elephant House at Whipsnade Zoo was designed by eminent modernist architect, Berthold Lubetkin, and is Grade II listed? Grade I buildings are of 'exceptional interest', Grade II* are Read more [...]

The owners of an iconic 19th Century Colne building are to meet with Pendle Council planning bosses after dozens of listed status stone flags were torn up. Flags forming the entire front yard area of the Grade II listed Old School House in Exchange Street were ripped up in late June. Having written to the owners of the building, it’s become apparent that they made a genuine mistake in their removal of the stone flags Neil Watson, Pendle Council The flags have since been sold Read more [...]

The European exchange-traded fund and exchange-traded product industry gathered more assets in the first half of 2015 than in the first half of any previous year. European ETF and ETP flows are on course for a record beating year. According to industry consultants ETFGI, the first six-months of the year saw $40bn in net new assets flow into ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe, well above the record of $32bn set in 2014. In June, ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe saw net inflows of $978m. Read more [...]

LONDON — July 10, 2015 — Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Canada increased 2.6% in the first half of 2015, according to ETFGI’s preliminary ETF and ETP global insights report for the first half of 2015. At the end of June 2015, the Canadian ETF industry had 367 ETFs, with 521 listings, assets of US$68 Bn, from 11 providers listed on 1 exchange.“June was a difficult month for most markets around the world. The SP 500 index ended June down 2% for the Read more [...]

UK housebuilders got a boost on Friday on news that Chancellor George Osborne is set to unveil planning reforms that will speed up housebuilding. Osborne is expected to announce changes that will give automatic planning permission on all brownfield sites so it will be easier for people to build extensions and fast-track infrastructure projects. Under the new rules, town halls that take too long to process applications will face fines and central government will have more power to intervene Read more [...]

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In addition to the revelation that Project Morpheus is playable to the public at Sand Diego Comic Con (SDCC), an event which begins today at 9am PST, virtual reality (VR) will be featured in a special panel entitled ‘Virtual Reality, Project Morpheus, and the Future of Gaming’. This session will stand out from the crowd as a dedicated VR panel, as while there are undoubtedly many which will feature the technology at present it remains the only panel on the SDCC line-up dedicated to VR. The Read more [...]

Several Hong Kong-listed mainland Chinese companies pledged not to sell off their A share stock investments and their majority shareholders will not sell off shares but consider increasing their stakes in the listed companies. A rout in mainland equities has dragged Shanghai and Shenzhen indices and the Hong Kong market to their lowest in almost four months, abruptly ending a rally that has lifted markets here to 7-year highs in mid-June. The People’s Insurance Company (Group) of China said it Read more [...]

Stockton is home to one of the lowest paid secondary schools in England. The average pay for a full-time teacher working at Our Lady and St Bede RC School, Elm Tree, is £25,632 a year, according to latest data from the Department for Education. This makes it the least well-paying secondary school on Teesside - and the second least well-paying in England. Egglescliffe School was the second least generous school in the area when it comes to average teacher pay - with full-time teachers earning £34,715 Read more [...]