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NPL portfolio for sale with dozens of hotelsMore than 70 hotel units are up for sale as part of Alpha Bank’s Jupiter loan portfolio.This is the first time that investment funds will have the opportunity to buy such a big package of tourism facilities, mostly small and medium-sized, due to borrowers having failed to repay loans.Kathimerini understands that most such NPLs concern hotels located on the islands of Myconos, Cephalonia, Syros and Santorini and in Athens, as well as some on Crete and Rhodes. The portfolio includes a loan taken out by a company which owns a 34-room unit on Myconos, a 275-room hotel at Hersonissos on Crete, a 135-room unit on Rhodes and a 148-room complex on Cephalonia, among others.
Brexit blamed for price rise for Christmas turkeysFall in pound and uncertainty has led to farmers paying more to attract or retain EU workers
Glitch in Yale's smart security system sees Brits 'locked out' of homes This glitch appears to have prevented customers from being able to get in and out of their homes, and from being able to arm and disarm their alarms.This is not the first time smart systems have failed, and over the summer, Google Home and Chromecast devices went down across the world due to a glitch.An outage at Amazon Web Services last year, meanwhile, prevented users from being able to turn on their lights and control their locks.
Murderers can be tracked down using ancestry websites under a new technique created by researchers It works by providing new ways for police forensics databases - which can often be patchy - to be used alongside the wealth of data contained in public gene databases, such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe. These are used by consumers who send in their own DNA samples for analysis to discover more about their family history.The data on these sites is so large that experts believe it’s possible to use them to identify six in every 10 people in the US who are of European descent, even if they have never provided a DNA sample.Only 2 percent of the population needs to have done a DNA test for virtually everyone’s genetic information to be represented in the data.While it could help solve crimes, it raises wide-ranging privacy questions: if someone uses a consumer website to trace his ancestry, should that information also be used to identify members of his own family in a criminal case?
£7,000 to bag a rare deer … how trophy hunting came to the home countiesAnimal rights groups are outraged as overseas tour companies offer expensive shooting packages in UK conservation parksMany Britons probably think that trophy hunting is something that happens abroad. But anyone looking to bag an animal’s head to grace that empty spot on their wall needs only to head to deepest, darkest Bedfordshire where they can shoot rare deer, or, for the financially stretched, wallabies and sheep.
Leopard in a tight spot saved from drowning in deep well thanks to a big liftHow exactly do you save a leopard from a well?That was the predicament facing wildlife rescuers in India after a big cat fell into a village's nine-metre-deep well.They had been there before - and in deeper water - so employed a trusted method to good effect.Watch as the team in Yadavwadi employ a wooden ladder and a trapdoor cage to lift the leopard out of the tight spot.
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