Iberia merger After almost a decade of talks over co-operation, BA last week announced that it was in advanced merger negotiations with the Spanish airline Iberia.
Thatcherism, and the enthusiasm with which it was embraced by so many in England, made a lot of Scots begin to realise that we were, after all, meaningfully different en masse from the English; more communitarian, less convinced of the primacy of competition over co-operation.
Thais have taken to the streets recently to protest the listing of a big brewer on the stock exchange, the privatisation of an electricity firm and suspected corruption in government, but not the overall direction of the economy.Even the heated debate over co-operation with the IMF and other meddling foreigners seems to have lost much of its resonance.
Last month, the meeting between Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Mr Modi in Delhi over co-operation in oil exploration in the South China Sea had raised some eyebrows in the Chinese media.
The addition of so many tax breaks to the package appears to have won over the co-operation of Republican leaders, although lengthy negotiations remain.Fiscal conservatives are resigned to a big expansion of deficits in the short term but they want an early commitment to deal with entitlements as well.
Until they are over, the chance of co-operation between the two main parties looks slim.The point of Mr Ponnambalam's murder is unclear.
The calls from the US came as coalition divisions over Europe risked scuppering negotiations over British co-operation on EU police and criminal justice measures.
Some Canadians worry about privacy; others have concerns over what co-operation in regulation could mean for standards in Canada.
That played on Indian anxiety over maritime co-operation and the placement of Indian radars on atolls in the Maldives, and reinforced a growing sense that commercial interests are threatened.
Although the committee disagreed with the commissioner's findings over how much she owed, it did censure Ms Miller over her lack of co-operation with the inquiry.
The school promised that in return for co-operation over not insisting on prosecution, it would ensure that Jones never taught again.
