Singapore will give first-class passengers no ordinary bland flight cabin, but a plush wood-and-leather affair that it has designed after studying how the world's five-star hotels do it.

ECONOMIST: Asian airlines

The health secretary said he had reached the conclusion after studying the evidence, adding it was his personal view over what remains an "incredibly difficult question".

BBC: Abortion law: David Cameron has 'no plans' for new rules

After studying Google's revised policy in depth, the agency said it believed Google had failed to place any limit on the "scope of collection and the potential uses of the personal data", meaning it might be in breach of several of the bloc's data protection principles.

BBC: CNIL president Isabelle Falque-Pierroti

After studying the large set of image-data, the cluster revealed that indeed it could, in addition to being able to develop concepts for human body parts and -- of course -- cats.

ENGADGET: Google simulates the human brain with 1000 machines, 16000 cores and a love of cats

Another easy step with great consequences would be to encourage capable foreign students studying at our universities to stay here and work after graduation, and make it easy for them to become U.S. citizens.

FORBES: The State of the Union? Not So Great

The companies decided to end the program for developing the compound, called Dimebon, after it failed to meet two primary endpoints in a phase 3 trial studying its use with the existing treatment Aricept in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's.

WSJ: Medivation, Pfizer Alzheimer's Drug Fails to Meet Study Goals