• Although the East India Company flourished a very long time ago, in a very different world, its growth, longevity and demise have lessons for those who run today's state companies and debate their future, lessons about the benefits of linking a company's interests to a nation's and the dangers of doing so.

    ECONOMIST: The East India Company

  • Greenfield says that swimwear only makes up about 5% of the summer inventory in Scoop's New York stores, although at her East Hampton and Miami stores it's more like 10%.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Syracuse will play next season in the Atlantic Coast Conference while Connecticut will stay in the realigned Big East although the Huskies could be enticed to head to another conference if asked.

    WSJ: Connecticut beats No. 6 Syracuse 66-58

  • Although the South East, and Kent in particular, is seen as an affluent part of the country - youth unemployment in the county is higher than the regional average which is 5.2%.

    BBC: Youth unemployment is a priority for South East

  • Modern Europeans entered Europe from the Middle East, although the dates are uncertain.

    BBC: What is anthropological genetics?

  • He also said that rising food prices were an aggravating factor of the unrest in the Middle East, although not its primary cause.

    BBC: Food prices at dangerous levels, says World Bank

  • Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed concern Monday that statements about Syria could further destabilize the Middle East, although he did not single out the United States.

    CNN: UK highlights questions for Syria

  • National Rail said most train operators were running normal timetables again, although disruptions still affected East Coast services in Scotland and between Leeds and London.

    BBC: Motorway crash in Oldham amid further ice warnings

  • Leather bookbindings, pigments for paints and majolica (white-glazed pottery) all came from the East, although the Venetians never succeeded in imitating the perfect ruby glaze of Iznik pottery.

    ECONOMIST: Venice and the East

  • Greece can at least point to a relatively harmonious relationship with Bulgaria, to its north-east, although the presence of Slavic-speaking Bulgarian ethnic kin in northern Greece has not been friction-free.

    ECONOMIST: Why Greece struggles to get along with its neighbours

  • Meanwhile, the man who had been renting a guest cottage at the home owned by Sohus' mother also left town and the couple's truck was later traced to him on the east coast although it was never found.

    WSJ: Final arguments set in Rockefeller impostor case

  • With sales volumes down across Scotland, the majority of areas saw little or no change in the "reality gap", although both Edinburgh and East Lothian has bucked the trend, with the average property being sold for more than the asking price.

    BBC: For Sale sign

  • Moreover, the chances are that it would evoke outrage throughout the Middle East (although Arab governments would privately rejoice at the event), and probably provoke an Iranian reaction that could involve a very large war as the Israelis are attacked by, and retaliate against, Iran's proxies in the Levant and throughout the world.

    WSJ: Eliot A. Cohen: There Are Only Two Choices Left on Iran

  • Although it had successes like East is East, it recently suffered a series of box office flops, including Charlotte Gray, starring Cate Blanchett.

    BBC: Channel 4 plans FilmFour cuts

  • In East Africa, although nuts are available, chimps don't eat them.

    BBC: Cultural habits of chimps

  • Although inflation is falling in most East European countries, it is still far higher than in the euro zone.

    ECONOMIST: The ECB heads for turbulence

  • The North East Somerset MP added although there were significant differences between the parties, there were agreements on basic philosophy.

    BBC: Jacob Rees-Mogg

  • Liberal Democrat-controlled Bath and North East Somerset Council said although the current signage was compliant with Department for Transport regulations, it would consider ways to make this "even clearer".

    BBC: Bath bus lane fines could be refunded after tribunal ruling

  • Although the overall birth rate in the east is low, highly educated women do not have fewer babies, as in the west.

    ECONOMIST: But eastern and western Germany may never quite meet

  • Zoellick also said that rising food inflation is part of the reason for the unrest in the Middle East and Northern Africa, although not its primary cause.

    FORBES: Trading Food Inflation

  • "Although the Midlands now joins the South East and other parts of the UK in drought, the reasons behind the Environment Agency's decision are slightly different, " he said.

    BBC: Drought may last until Christmas: Environment Agency

  • He also points out that, although British pupils are worse than their East Asian counterparts at arithmetic, they are better at higher-order mathematical skills such as geometry and handling data.

    ECONOMIST: New skool rules, OK? | The

  • Also chosen was the Bourne estate on the east side of Poole which although located in the same town as upscale Sandbanks, has a large proportion of council, housing association owned and privately rented accommodation, and high levels of anti-social behaviour.

    BBC: Lottery to give ?200m to 'forgotten' communities

  • The U.S. stock market outperforms all other major bourses in Europe and the Far East inclusive of emerging markets, although China is in a comeback mode.

    FORBES: The Fed Is Your Oldest Best Friend

  • Most Islamic countries in the Middle East also retain the death penalty, although they execute relatively few people.

    ECONOMIST: The cruel and ever more unusual punishment

  • The death rate from heart disease, although falling, remains higher in Wales than in England, although lower than in the north west and north east of England, areas with similar social-economic issues.

    BBC: Heart disease: Drive to reduce deaths in Wales

  • Much of the detail had been outlined previously by Transport for London (TfL) - such as a grid of cycle routes and the junction review - although the really eye-catching addition is the east-to-west " Crossrail for bikes".

    BBC: Cycling Crossrail: First of many bumps in the road

  • Although his country has not gained as much influence east of the Caspian as he hoped, it has made headway, helping such Turkic-speaking countries as Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to tilt their markets, especially in oil and gas, away from Russia and to the West.

    ECONOMIST: CHARLEMAGNE

  • Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan (also known as Karuna), a former head of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) and now a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (the main component of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance government), may also become more prominent, although his main base of support is in the east.

    ECONOMIST: The uncertain future of Tamils in Sri Lanka

  • Although Notre Dame is currently a member of the Big East and will leave the Big East to join the ACC in 2014, its football team remains independent of any conference.

    FORBES: Playing In A BCS Bowl Game Would Mean A Big Payday For Notre Dame

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