UPDATE (4 36 p.m. EST): Fox Nation changed its leading headline.
When Blair visited Clinton in the Oval Office in 1996, just before his election campaign and the American president's re-election, he remembers "feeling very awed", hoping that the meeting wouldn't be too short – leading to headlines of "Blair snubbed" – and "praying" that the meeting would overrun.
A raft of technology news is leading the headlines.
Danny Crichton: All right, so before we get into the regular topics, kind of the venture world that we usually talk about, I want to do a digression unto the public markets because in the last 48 hours they've been leading the headlines.
It's not hard to imagine pupils turning to dollar signs at EA HQ when they figured out they could monetize a hugely popular side of their market-leading game, leading to headlines like "My Teenager Spent $4,500 on FIFA Microtransactions" from 2015, and a more recent situation in Canada where a kid ran up a bill of over $7,000.
It's not hard to imagine pupils turning to dollar signs at EA HQ when they figured out they could monetise a hugely popular side of their market-leading game, leading to headlines like "My Teenager Spent $4,500 on FIFA Microtransactions" from 2015, and a more recent situation in Canada where a kid ran up a bill of over £5,000.
And some of the biggest problems happened outside Fannie and Freddie's reach altogether, in properties such as commercial real estate and luxury housing (leading to headlines like Bloomberg's "Rich Default on Luxury Homes Like Subprime Victims". The delinquency rate for homes worth more than a million dollars has been higher than the overall rate for much of this year).
"The sheer extent of the carnage can overwhelm and numb the sensibilities," said the Times in a leading article headlined Nous sommes tous Français.
The Financial Times, in a leading article headlined "A deft blend of prudence and politics", refers to the pensions reform as "a bold initiative ostensibly aimed at encouraging thrift".
It's leading article, headlined "Great to be British!" concluded: "With Qatada put on a plane, the Lions thrashing Australia at rugby and the Wimbledon jinx finally broken, it really was a wonderful weekend to be British".
