 | | Thursday, August 07, 2014 | | |  | | |  | This week we look at the sex business—and the way that technology is making it more like a normal service industry. In our briefing we dissect the data on the prices and services of 190,000 prostitutes around the world. That inevitably involves some fairly explicit charts which not all readers will appreciate. In our cover leader we argue that the internet is making the buying and selling of sex easier and safer—and governments should stop trying to ban it
John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief | | | | | | A three-day ceasefire in Gaza between the Islamists of Hamas and the Israeli army started on August 5th. Negotiations to extend it and to open the way to a more comprehensive settlement got under way in Cairo. Before the lull the death toll had exceeded 1,800 Palestinians, three-quarters of them civilian, according to the UN; Israel lost 64 soldiers, two civilians and a Thai worker
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MORE FROM: POLITICS THIS WEEK » | | | Rupert Murdoch gave up on an $80 billion bid for Time Warner, just three weeks after news broke that his 21st Century Fox group had proposed it. Time Warner rejected Mr Murdoch's advances and shored up its defences to thwart any hostile attempt by the media tycoon to appeal directly to shareholders. One factor behind Mr Murdoch's rare defeat was the relative performance of the share prices since the bid was made public: Time Warner's had soared, while 21st Century Fox's had fallen
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