• In court on Thursday, Mr Nadir said he only learnt of the prosecution's allegations in December 1990.

    BBC: Asil Nadir says doctors warned him against return to UK

  • Mr Clooney, 46, said he had only learnt of the situation this week, and hoped the matter could be resolved.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Clooney hospital punishes staff

  • She had eventually learnt of them from the novels of Mary McCarthy who, like Miss Fletcher, had been a student at Vassar.

    ECONOMIST: Lucille Fletcher

  • Evidently impressed by what he had learnt of Mr Rove during the inquiry, it wasn't long before Mr Bush invited him to work for the Republican National Committee in Washington.

    ECONOMIST: Karl Rove | The

  • Shaw, who only learnt of her inclusion in the team 10 minutes before play when Gunn pulled out because of a calf injury sustained during the warm-up, was particularly impressive with her seam bowling.

    BBC: World Cup joy for England women

  • "It was with great sadness that I learnt of the deaths of Captain Tom Sawyer and Corporal Danny Winter, one a proven mentor and leader and the other an NCO of great professionalism and experience, " he said.

    BBC: UK troops killed in Helmand named

  • The prime minister only learnt of the resignation just before it was announced on board a plane taking him and a group of businessmen on a foreign trip (Downing Street have asked me not to identify its destination for security reasons).

    BBC: An old-fashioned resignation?

  • Mr Speaker, emerging from all the experience and lessons learnt of the last decade is the clear conclusion that we are strongest when we combine the resources of our military, police and security and intelligence services with effective diplomacy and when we work closely with international partners to confront the new global challenges and bring about change.

    BBC: In full: Brown security statement

  • And Mr Adams, who learnt most of his political skills from doctrinal debates with fellow inmates of the Long Kesh prison camp, is nothing if not a hard man.

    ECONOMIST: Gerry Adams��s promised land

  • Mr Morrison said the company had been pushing ahead with those changes, which had not been fully implemented at the time of the Deepwater Horizon accident, and introducing new systems and technologies as a result of the lessons it had learnt from its investigation of the disaster.

    CNN: BP claims it now leads the way on safety

  • Many of its members, it is true, are moderates, keen to stress that they have learnt the folly of extremism from the Taliban.

    ECONOMIST: Politics and Islam in the Frontier

  • Thanks to his mother who bribed a teacher at a state school, Marc escaped the narrow confines of the world of East European Jewry, learnt to speak Russian instead of Yiddish and eventually made contact with the bourgeois, cosmopolitan society in St Petersburg.

    BBC: Chagall and the art of passion and drama

  • Japan learnt the art of writing from China between the 5th and 7th centuries AD.

    BBC: The art of Japan

  • It is time that bosses and workers learnt the advantages of living without it.

    ECONOMIST: Does your company really need an annual pay round?

  • He studied geography in Aleppo and learnt a bit of chemistry during a stint working in a pharmacy.

    ECONOMIST: Syria��s rebel fighters

  • Mr von Brauchitsch borrowed a sports car from a cousin and learnt the rudiments of racing on minor tracks.

    ECONOMIST: Manfred von Brauchitsch

  • "One Nation Labour has learnt the lessons of the financial crisis, " he said.

    BBC: Miliband: 'Labour didn't listen on immigration'

  • He has also hired a marketing expert and has learnt the intricacies of trading on the burgeoning South African Futures Exchange.

    ECONOMIST: South African farming

  • But both have learnt the cost of allowing duels to become brawls.

    ECONOMIST: German politics

  • For the film Enigma, he learnt the fundamentals of code-breaking to play Tom Jericho, a mathematics genius at the centre of the film.

    BBC: Scot to play Dylan Thomas

  • As a body, it has never fully learnt the art of bluffing, threatening and cajoling others to get its way in the world.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • On a personal note I learnt a lot of skills that will be beneficial to me in my work as a volunteer with Scottish Athletics and UK Athletics.

    BBC: Games Maker volunteer points the way

  • It's a party that has learnt the lessons of history.

    BBC: Miliband urges Labour reinvention

  • School inspectors have found that the introduction of the national curriculum, with its detailed lists of what should be learnt, has in the case of science led to more focused lessons.

    ECONOMIST: School curriculum

  • After its first four attempts at malls, which were a disaster, Mr Allen now thinks Seiyu has learnt the tricks of the trade, offering super-cheap leases to the crowd-pulling stores so that money-earning small retailers will want to open up too.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese retailing

  • Most of the people selling imported consumer goods in Russia learnt their trade at a time of high inflation and a rudimentary banking system.

    ECONOMIST: As winter draws in

  • Following in depth analysis of his style, he learnt to make up time by maintaining greater control of the sled over the course of his runs.

    BBC: Legend of the luge

  • "In just under half of the schools, pupils learnt how to keep themselves safe in a variety of situations but not all had practised negotiating risky situations or applied security settings to social-networking sites, " the report says.

    BBC: Poor sex education leaves pupils vulnerable - Ofsted

  • The key lessons I've learnt are the importance of being persistent and flexible in your mindset.

    BBC: Viewpoint

  • "UBS has still not learnt from the mistakes of the past, " said the campaigning shareholder Brigitta Moser-Harder.

    BBC: UBS banker gets $26m 'golden hello'

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