Hints and tips:
...Finback was considering buying a stake in Gideon Cyber Systems LLC, according to the term sheet....
...When we took a long boat ride through the slow-moving channels, I was struck by the absence of birds....
...The Scottish Highlands, perhaps: those enormous skies, the stark beauty, the cold, clear water....
...The silhouette of the great ringfort of Dún Conor rose against the night sky....
...My expectations of finding comfortable lodgings in these stark surroundings are not high, but Casa das Penhas Douradas confounds them utterly....
...“At the peak, I was number seven in the country on Angry Birds.” He’s proud of this? “Of course!” he says, smiling but entirely serious....
...► Sky Blue Farm, 123 Fraleigh Hill Road, Millbrook, New York, $27m Where In the Hudson Valley, known as New York’s ‘hunt’ country, 90 minutes’ drive north of New York City....
...Both Boeing and Airbus are now building big birds that are soaking up far more cash than they expected because of the delays of getting these programmes and their technology right....
...My lodgings were at Ballinderry Park, one of Hidden Ireland’s selection of private houses that rent out rooms....
...They, in turn, were astonished to find 18-year-old boys who knew so little about the birds and the bees....
...It’s still early, before the day’s thermals have carried the vultures high into the sky....
...Character-building alternates with brief bursts of image music, such as the kite-flying contest that fills the Kabul sky with darting, colourful fabric-birds....
...Lodging in estancias is recommended for the amazing sense of space and for the wildlife which can be seen....
...US and European governments are negotiating with Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical group, to buy $1bn (£565m) worth of Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug that can treat bird flu in humans....
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