Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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Protesters form a human chain around Cuadrilla Resources site in Balcombe, west Sussex, Britain, on August 18, 2013. The extraction by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, faces strong opposition from environmentalists and communities near potential production sites. (EPA/BOGDAN MARAN)

UK’s fracking future in doubt over concerns about cost, environment

by Sam Hardy | Sep 13, 2013 | Business

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In May this year, an article in this newspaper reported on the US’s hydrocarbon revolution, with the country set to overtake Russia as the world’s largest gas exporter by 2015. Now the shale revolution is beginning to reach Europe’s shores,...

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Manchester United’s manager Alex Ferguson walks before their Champions League soccer match aganist Besiktas at the Inonu Stadium in Istanbul in this September 15, 2009 (REUTERS/Osman Orsal/Files)

Alex Ferguson bows out

by Sam Hardy | May 8, 2013 | World

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—When Alex Ferguson was appointed in 1986, Manchester United and English football in general was unrecognizable from what it is today. United—the embodiment of a new, commercialized and globalized English Premier League—was at the time...