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Chip designer ARM co-founder Hermann Hauser tells BBC 4 why his business has decided against dual listings in London and New York Stock Exchanges for its IPO. He said-"The fact is that New York of course is a much deeper market than London, partially because of the Brexit idiocy the image of London has suffered a lot in the international community."

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This BBC report looks back at the Solomon Islands which were part of the Guadalcanal campaign in World War II and the importance of the Pacific. In 1943 a Japanese destroyer sank an American ship under John Kennedy in these Pacific ocean waters. About  80 years later his daughter Caroline Kennedy, ambassador to Australia in the Biden administration, takes a trip to this Pacific region and islands of Samoa and Tonga, with Wendy Sherman. China is seen as planning a base in the Solomon Islands which is on the southern sea route near Australia.

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The bicentenary of Napoleon is remembered in 2021 in France and the French speaking world.  Napoleon helped defend the French revolutionary ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, in the period 1789 to 1799 including the efforts of the French Army in Italy and other countries freeing people from feudal powers. In the period that followed Napoleon ruled France 1799-1812 during which he introduced new ideas of the Civil Code and revolutionary France to countries in different parts of the world. It was in Britain and the Iberian Peninsula that his policies faltered and his regime was seen as tyrannical after the early years.  George Washington was a contemporary of Napoleon and brought both these ideals that the French Revolution cherished to the American colonies, and yet did not seek anything beyond this-as he said the "approbation of good and virtuous people is the limit of my ambition." The British education of that time he received may have made a difference. ...

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Rolls-Royce, British manufacturer of aircraft engines for Airbus and Boeing, is expected to reduce losses of 1 billion pounds per quarter later in 2021 and turn cash positive in 2022.

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Joni Mitchell is honored for her work at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm six year ago. She said: "I think the polio was a rehearsal for the rest of my life." after receiving her medallion. Howard performed Mitchell's classic song "Both Sides Now."