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How can you help kids get a good start? In this heartfelt and personal talk, Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State, asks parents, friends and relatives to support children from before they even get to primary school, through community and a strong sense of responsibility. (Filmed at TEDxMidAtlantic.)
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The World Economic Forum in Davos is renowned for world leaders and chief executives of top international companies networking to solve the world's problems. But they are also joined by young and talented young people from around the world.
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Insufficient infrastructure spending remains "the biggest risk" to Africa's economic growth, says the boss of mobile phone network Bharti Airtel.
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The number of jobless people fell by 37,000 between September and November to 2.49 million, official figures show.
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Ian Marchant is to step down as chief executive of energy firm SSE after more than 10 years in the job.
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The International Monetary Fund warns again of a weakening global economic recovery, despite government efforts to stimulate growth.
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Sky says some of its users are experiencing slow download speeds after it signed up a large number of new broadband subscribers.
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The British prime minster's promise of a referendum on EU membership, should his Conservative party win the next general election, has been criticised by senior European figures.
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Unemployment figures show that, despite a drop in the number of people out of work, many people are still looking for a job - but there are hundreds of thousands of job vacancies.
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Pensioners should receive an annual summary of their income and the tax they pay - the equivalent of a P60 - to make the system clearer, an advisory group proposes.
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The economy was ignored, but that must change, observers say
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The world's biggest producers of tea agree to join forces in Sri Lanka, raising the prospect of a cartel controlling the price of the popular drink.
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Families are being left financially vulnerable as interest on existing debts is eroding money set aside for emergencies, a charity warns.
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Swedish flat-pack furniture giant Ikea has reported record profits thanks to "more value conscious" consumers in the economic downturn.
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Glaciers in the tropical Andes have shrunk by an average of 30-50% since the 1970s, according to a study.
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"Substantial headwinds" to a UK economic recovery remain, including the value of the pound, minutes of the Bank of England's last policy setting meeting show.
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Labour will lead a Commons debate today on allegations that thousands of construction workers, have been blacklisted to prevent them getting jobs on major public projects - including the Olympics.
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A senior executive at the world's second-largest PC producer has said that the company "doesn't see PCs going away anytime soon".
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France says it will welcome any firms that leave the UK after an EU exit, as British business leaders react to plans for an EU vote.
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The financial industry still has a long way to go to fix itself, the IMF's deputy director general tells the annual meeting of the world's elite gathered at Davos, Switzerland.
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Colin Matthews, chief executive at Heathrow Airport Ltd, told the Today programme's Even Davis he is "really sorry for every passenger who got caught up with the disruption and the cancelations."
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The BBC's education correspondent Luke Walton has been talking to staff and pupils at a school in Kent.
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The World Economic Forum is opening its doors in Davos with 2,500 business leaders and 50 heads of state attending the gathering in Switzerland.
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A fall in in the number of people out of work has been welcomed by the Minister for Employment Mark Hoban.
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There is a lot of talking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but not all of it in the formal setting of a speech or a debate.
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