Trade Policy: Ty Lawson scored 25 points, Andre Miller had 20 points and nine assists and the Denver Nuggets beat the Oklahoma City Thunder, 114-104, Tuesday night. US Airways Group Inc. yesterday launched an $8 billion bid for Delta Air Lines Inc., a move that would create the nation's largest carrier and possibly trigger other airline mergers in an industry recovering from a major downturn.U.S. consumers should be able to reclaim control of their personal data from data brokers, websites and other companies, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.     Polly Toynbee rightly identifies education and culture as our most valuable international assets (1 March). Our research clearly shows that these – and the English language – are vital in attracting talent, trade and tourism. She is also right that perceptions about UK immigration policy must not be allowed to pull out the welcome mat from under hard-working international students.There is a clear case for continued investment in education and culture – but those of us who are able must adapt to an age of austerity. Public service organisations like the British Council, the BBC and UK universities already look to the world to earn and partner to deliver more public benefit at less cost to the public purse. For entrepreneurial public services and private sector providers in education and culture, the global demand is immense. To know the UK is to love the UK – but it starts with seeing all the world as our stage and throwing open our own doors wide enough to let talent in.John WorneDirector of strategy, British Council• Polly Toynbee could have gone further. Post-graduation, overseas students should be encouraged to set up businesses in the UK and contribute to the economy, rather than take their ideas back to their home countries. This year our business incubator has applied for – and been granted – visas for two of its design graduates under the graduate entrepreneur scheme, granting leave to stay to skilled overseas graduates endorsed by their universities. But applying is unnecessarily complicated. As Universities UK, the British Venture Capital Association and many business forex growth bot recently expressed, Britain needs to capitalise upon its investment in the education of skilled individuals. It should allow them to work in the UK before returning to their own countries with a strengthened network of UK business contacts, goodwill towards this nation and every future likelihood of placing orders with British companies.Dr Paul ThompsonRector and vice-provost, Royal College of ArtInternational studentsHigher educationStudentsguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Computers and the Internet can open up new worlds for the elderly.     A chilling report highlights the agency's primary purpose. A banner bearing Dwyane Wade's jersey number hangs in the arena the Milwaukee Bucks call home, in tribute of his days as a standout at Marquette.     Matt Harvey was not his usual dominant self Wednesday night, but the Mets pulled out a victory with a ninth-inning rally and a 10th-inning grand slam.     The first trip to Europe for Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes included a harrowing and interesting trip to an English soccer game in Manchester. It did not take Dan Hurston long to get involved in his new neighborhood. Hurston moved about two years ago to Annapolis Landing in Riva and is already vice president of the homeowners association. Offices charged with ferreting out corruption among U.S. border and immigration employees are engaged in a turf battle that has delayed some investigations and threatens to undermine a host of enforcement actions, records and interviews show. Mrs. Obama may have been criticized for handing out the Best Picture award at the Oscars, but her appearance on NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” has been immensely popular. The larger-than-life German artist, famed for his apocalyptic postwar landscapes, softens up a bit in “Morgenthau Plan,” a new show at the Gagosian Gallery.     Mr. Coles coached Miami University in Ohio and Wally Szczerbiak to a memorable N.C.A.A. basketball tournament run in 1999.     When a city construction worker became stuck in mud deep underground, rescuers had to improvise a solution for a problem none trademiner had seen before. Just about every NBA team would like Dwight Howard.     MOSCOW - Two separate legal proceedings this week are freighted with significance for Russia, helping determine whether the country will move closer to the West or remain an arm's-length acquaintance, widely regarded with suspicion. The White House proposed Thursday to trim an additional $6.5 billion from federal programs this year as Vice President Biden opened talks with congressional leaders aimed at funding the government through Sept. 30 and averting a shutdown. The dispute at the Flathead Reservation centers on a proposed bill that would specify who is entitled to the water, and how much they can take from the reservoirs and ditches.     The Finnish phone maker released its remarkable Lumia 1020 phone with a 41-megapixel camera - but it's still missing native apps for low-quality Instagram, Vine and SnapchatThere's no doubt about it: photographs taken with Nokia's new Lumia 1020 device are enormously impressive if you print them out onto a large-format high-quality print measuring, say, 1.3m wide by a metre deep. Here at Pier 42, where the launch took place earlier on Thursday, there are a number of prints showing photos taken in the past few days here in New York.One of the most striking (not online yet, but coming at Nokia's press site) shows a view towards the apartments overlooking Central Park. The lines of the apartments are razor-sharp; the grass in Central Park is vigorously green; the pools of water are pellucid blue. Viewing it online doesn't really do the 41-megapixel shot justice. Along with the other dozen shots hanging in a sort of gallery, you need to see it published professionally to comprehend it. And that's before you learn that it was taken from a helicopter. "That's a challenge for most smartphones," said one of Nokia's engineers, who has worked on the device for quite some time. "But we've got optical image stabilisation…" He wasn't too fazed at the specifications leaking out ahead of the official announcement. "41 megapixels is just a number," he said. "That doesn't tell you what it's like to tinnitus miracle here's a strange thing: if Nokia were to release the 1020 as a stand-alone camera, stripping out the mobile phone element, it would certainly bomb. The compact camera market "is in free fall", to quote the writer from Amateur Photographer (who is also out here as a guest of Nokia). People have given up buying compact cameras because they're digital, just like their smartphones, and take nice pictures, just like their smartphones, but they don't have the capability to send their pictures to social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine or Snapchat. And the cameras on smartphones are generally "good enough" - just as MP3-quality sound has generally been found to be "good enough" by the vast majority of buyers.By making the Lumia 1020 a superlative camera that has a phone attached, Nokia seems to be going after a very specific segment of the market: "prosumers" who want to take really good photos and have the connectivity that a smartphone provides. It's not, however, going to attract the sort of people who want to take a picture and upload it to the main social networks.Price of successFor one thing, there's the price. The Lumia 1020 will cost $299 upfront for the basic 32GB model plus the cost of a contract from AT&T in the US; for comparison, the AT&T iPhone 5 is $199 for the base 16GB model before the contract. (Update: the 32GB iPhone costs $399, so the price is the same if you equalise those specifications. However there isn't a 16GB Lumia 1020, which means price-conscious buyers might stop at the 16GB iPhone.) For another, there's the fact that it's Windows Phone - which still doesn't have native apps for Vine, Instagram or Snapchat. Chief executive Stephen Elop points out that there are third-party apps which will do the posting to Instagram (via Hipstamatic, a company which went through its own near-death experience last August when it laid off all but one of its staff). You can post to Instagram via Hipstamatic, and then read Instagram via an app called Instance. And there's a Snapchat-compatible app.Yet none aquaponics 4 you review is like having the native apps. And the question of whether ordinary people will really pay top whack for a fantastic camera is already answered by the compact camera market; and of whether they'll pay top whack for a top-end smartphone seems increasingly to be "no" as sales forecasts for the Samsung Galaxy S4 are revised down, along with those for the iPhone.So what is the purpose of the Lumia 1020? I think it's to show off a top-end capability that Nokia can then push down to its lower-end phones - rather as Samsung does with the Galaxy S range, where the top-end phone is the flag carrier for the cheaper range that follows it. People who appreciate high-quality photography (in terms of pixels captured) tend to assume that everyone will want just the same, if only they're shown the chance to get it. But this is rather like the argument that hi-fi manufacturers fooled themselves with a decade or so ago, thinking that by offering "24-bit" audio quality on Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio they would tempt people away from lo-fi MP3 listening. Sound argumentThe reality is that most people listen to music in very low quality from car radios, small bookshelf speakers, lousy headphones. MP3s weren't, and aren't, much worse - sometimes, better - than what they used to get. And you have to have ridiculously good hearing to distinguish the difference in 24-bit sound (and even that might be imaginary). SACD and DVD-Audio died like dogs in a ditch.Now, we're much better at distinguishing differences in quality in photos, particularly when they're printed out; but viewed on a 5in smartphone screen or even a standard laptop screen, the lack of quality in most of the photos we take isn't visible. Nokia's best hope may be that screen technology improves so rapidly that the difference in picture quality becomes more visible. For the meantime, though, it will be the cheaper Lumias - the 520 and 610 particularly - which will be the bedrock of its sales. (In fact, as I wrote this article, Kantar WorldPanel ComTech tweeted that vitiligo treatment 520 had helped Nokia to reach its highest smartphone share in the UK since April 2011 - back in the days when Nokia still sold Symbian. It didn't however specify how high that is.)Even then, what Stephen Elop really needs more than Lumias with fantastic cameras is for Vine, Snapchat and Instagram to write native apps for the Windows Phone platform. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be in his hands.NokiaSmartphonesMobile phonesPhotographyInstagramVineCharles Arthurguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds     Postdoc Stephen Steiner (right) and graduate student Richard Li are part of the research team.Photo: David Castro-Olmedo/MIT Is Evil Doing a food-burning activity? Oh, the distractions of dieting.     Jack Black is a revelation as murderous but sweet-natured funeral director Bernie Tiede in Richard Linklater's pitch-black comedyThe latest handbrake turn in Richard Linklater's varied directorial career is a black-as-pitch comedy drawn from a real-life story: that of the 1997 murder of wealthy Marjorie Nugent by funeral director Bernie Tiede. What marked the crime out was a groundswell of local sympathy for the perpetrator: the apparently charming, helpful and sweet-natured Tiede was held in much more affectionate esteem than the crabby 81-year-old he killed. Linklater depicts events with a total straight face: ballasted by lots of talking-head footage (some with the actual townspeople involved), the film scrupulously avoids taking any kind of moral position. In a frankly inspired casting coup, Linklater puts Jack Black in a moustache and suit as the oleaginous Tiede; and refuses to make any attempt at discerning his inner motives. Black's performance is a revelation: foregoing his usual repertoire of jiggling, tics and head-waggling craziness, Black ensures Tiede is a satirical creation of considerable substance. Really impressive.Rating: 4/5ComedyRichard LinklaterJack BlackAndrew Pulverguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds Wen Jiabao, in a break from the past, sent signals reaffirming the party’s heavy-handed approach to the nation’s political and economic

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