Isabel Coral, who is in charge of CMAN, the high-level commission which looks after reparations, admits that results have so far been patchy.

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On this score, London looks much better than Athens, which overspent by a factor of far more than two and the great record-breaker, Montreal, whose citizens were paying for the 1976 games for decades.

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The air has been thick with talk of 3D technology, and in particular, the LG Optimus 3D, which looks to be one of the coolest devices which we have seen so far.

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That ten-month time lag gave the makers of anti-virus software programs time to issue a fix, preventing Chernobyl from spreading as far and wide as last month's Melissa virus - which now looks a harmless prank in comparison.

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That figure looks relatively manageable when set against Ireland's recapitalisation of its banks, which has so far amounted to almost half of its GDP.

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So far, the decline from the February highs looks like a correction, not a significant top, which makes watching the key support levels quite important.

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