Early indications in the UK suggest it rose to number 3 in the smartphone list for April despite only launching on the 27th, and to second at the start of May.

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Home Office figures suggest domestic abuse rose 25% in England and Wales during England match days during the last World Cup in 2006.

BBC: Match-day domestic violence 'up 50% in Staffordshire'

Police linked this approach to Rose, though there is no evidence to suggest he committed any contact offences against children.

BBC: Child sex offender jailed for Facebook approach to mother

All signs suggest that private equity net asset values rose for an eighth consecutive quarter between January and March.

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Quarterly figures from the National Association of Realtors, American estate agents' trade body, suggest that prices are slowing, but still rose by 10.3% in the first three months of 2006 compared with a year earlier.

ECONOMIST: America's housing market is losing its effervescence

The number of teachers who quit their jobs in English state schools rose by almost a fifth in one year, official figures suggest.

BBC: Numbers of teachers who quit 'up by a fifth in a year'

Estimates from the International Labour Organisation suggest the number of people unemployed in emerging economies rose by 8m in 2008 to 158m, an overall jobless rate of around 5.9%.

ECONOMIST: Unemployment

Yet principle and past suggest that at some point when the gap between actual reality and the vision through the rose-coloured spectacles becomes very large, then the lenses splinter.

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