BBC: The UK must work to become one of the top five tourist destinations in the world, David Cameron has said.

The country was not "doing enough" to rise from its current sixth place, the prime minister added.

Speaking in London’s Hyde Park, he urged people to be more "proud" of the UK and seize a "huge" opportunity to attract overseas visitors.

A report last month suggested tourism’s contribution to the economy could grow by more than 60% to £188bn by 2020.

The number of jobs directly and indirectly linked to tourism could rise by 264,000 to 2.89 million in that time, said the study for Visit Britain.

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The scammers have stolen about £675,000 from customers at a top high street bank, which remained unnamed last night. About 3,000 people are thought to have been hit between July 5 and August 4 - and the theft is said to be still going on.

Accounts have been raided after people had their computers infected by a new Trojan virus - known as Zeus v3 - as they surfed the net.

Mirro UK: The software steals a customer’s online banking ID and, if there is more than £800 in the account, money is transferred to a different account. Internet protection firm M86 Security discovered the scam which is believed to have been carried out from Eastern Europe.

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Sport 24: Après plus d’un mois de silence, Patrice Evra revient en détails sur le fiasco des Bleus en Afrique du Sud dans Le Figaro. L’ex-capitaine tricolore charge une nouvelle fois Raymond Domenech et égratigne au passage Lilian Thuram.

Parice’s words are best read in French not English, gut we have our commentary in English.

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Hey Patrice everyone deserves a second chance even your pitiful team’s performance. how can such talent not een have the personal individual pride to perform better. Oh well...nevertheless everyone deserves redemption.

But the French simply don’t know how to manage difficulties and failures. Their expectations are so high only the supernatural divine might be able to please the French. But then again, even God might not want to try, why, when negativity is the natural French response to everything.

Failure isn’t the problem in France, fear of failure keeps France the most overanxious developed nation on the planet. No wonder they consume the most tranquilizers and antianxiety medications in the world!

France is at the bottom of the football/soccer world so the only direction now is UP! Don’t waste time with blah blah blah, or explaining to people who simply don’t care what you say, go out on the field and prove you’re better than egotistical, arrogrant and overpaid brats/

The strike, oh that’s so French we’re now sure what the big deal that was made by the French and the French press about the team strilke. We thought is was natural French behavior.

Washington Post: A group of French factory hands have just written an illuminating chapter in the history of the global economic crisis, bending reluctantly to a growing realization that France can no longer afford all its lavish social protections.

General Motors has confirmed it has paid a symbolic EUR1 (US$1.32) forautomatic transmission plant in Strasbourg.

The plant is currently owned by Motors Liquidation Company (MLC), but GM has been locked in a dispute with the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) union concerning its apparent refusal to sign a productivity agreement.

Three other labour organisations at the Strasbourg factory have already inked a deal, although the CGT has agreed not to oppose the new working practices that could see a 10% reduction in costs.

The plant is currently closed for a holiday period and will reopen on 16 August.

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Daily Mail: Some of us can sleep through anything while others are jolted wide awake by the slightest sound.

Now, in research that will be embraced by millions of bleary-eyed Britons, scientists have worked out the secret of a good night’s sleep.

Research shows it is all down to bursts of brainwaves deep in the brain.

Those of us who produce the most of these electrical flurries, known as spindles, sleep the most soundly.

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NYT: President Obama convened a forum this week to celebrate the 50th anniversaries of 17 African nations, but he did not invite a single African leader to help him do so. Was this, as the African news media and independent commentators see it, an expression of distaste for abusive rulers? Was it an extension of Mr. Obama’s own conviction — already enunciated — that bad government is at the heart of the continent’s woes and that “Africa doesn’t need strongmen, it needs strong institutions”? READ MORE

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MTV: British pop singer Robbie Williams married American actress Ayda Field on Saturday (August 7) at the couple’s California home. Williams’ spokesperson, Murray Chalmers, confirmed the nuptials in a statement.

"Robbie Williams and Ayda Field were married yesterday, August 7, in a ceremony held in the grounds of the home they share in Los Angeles," Chalmers said. People magazine reports that the couple first met in 2006 and swapped vows surrounded by 75 guests. READ MORE

Reuters: Saudi Arabia and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion are testing three servers in the kingdom in a bid to resolve a row over the Canadian firm’s popular messaging service, a regulatory official told Reuters on Sunday.

"Three servers are being tested, one for each of the three mobile operators. We’re waiting for feedback (from the telecoms firms)," said an official from the Communications and Information Technology Commission’s technical department.

The official said the testing began after talks on Thursday between Research In Motion (RIM.TO) RIMM.TO and the Saudi regulator. READ MORE

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