Dotcom's defence is that he shouldn't be held responsible for what users uploaded, and that they removed illegal content when made aware of it.
The removal process was too difficult, say the content creators. Dotcom says it was easy. And so it goes, back and forth, lawyer to lawyer.
Since the raid, public support for Dotcom has grown - he is a celebrity His past has gained him a reputation as a country-hopper evading the law. Which is gry how many Kiwis received him when he was granted residency in 2010: a rich foreigner, using New Zealand as a safe haven.
Around 500 people turn up to the party. A member of Dotcom's team urges him to be in as many selfies as possible to drive engagement on social media. He duly obliges.
In the pool, Dotcom holds court as members chuck policy ideas at him, including the suggestion he should try the name "Kim Dot-org" for a while.
No-one mentions the prospect of Dotcom being sent to jail. At least, not while he's listening.
'Epic battle' He describes his situation as David vs. Goliath, Godzilla and the dinosaurs.
"I'm sleeping really well at night," he adds, talking less to me, and more to himself.
"They can throw another dozen lawsuits at me - it will make no difference. In the end, I'm going to prevail.
"I'm happy. I'm fine."
It's the most revealing moment of my time with him.
In this beautiful house, and surrounded by a family of young children and his wife, Mona, I think the prospect of jail worries Dotcom more than he lets on.
"I've embraced this fight now and I will see it through all the way. It's going to be an epic battle."
Dotcom's millions will certainly make a useful addition to the Mana Party's campaign funds, too.
We head back, via KFC, to Dotcom's mansion to see how the day plays out in the evening news bulletins - particularly as a certain well-known British couple are in town.
"Yes!" shouts Dotcom. "We beat the Royals! Awesome!"
'He is a hero' Polls show that Dotcom's support is growing. He says a lot of his support is thanks to one man - Edward Snowden - and the revelations that shocked the world.
Profiles of all those who died
Peter's mother, Linda, later remarried and went on to have two children, Michael and Sarah.
When he was a young boy, Peter went to live with his dad permanently. 'Big Terry', as he was known, was a single dad bringing up Peter by himself, but together the two of them were a family unit and they became closer than ever.
Big Terry managed to buy a house for them both to live in and Peter settled in school very well.
Peter was an avid football player and played for the local football team. He had a very wide range of friends, both male and female, and got on well with everyone he met.
She used to tell us not to cry because we could always get the bus to go and see Peter in heaven.
With there being so many of us, family life became very busy and hectic, but Peter remained close with his school friends who were always at our house adding to the fun.
Peter enjoyed Boys Brigade and was always involved in school productions as he loved the limelight.
Peter had his first serious girlfriend called Jane in 1979. Jane was a lovely girl and we have lots of photographs of her and Peter together. Her parents thought the world of Peter.
"To me personally he is a hero... his sacrifice will be remembered as one of the most heroic things of our time.
"Single-handedly, he has opened the eyes of the world to an injustice. Because we know about it, we can do something about it."
The Internet Party hopes to make a serious play for power in future elections I point out that if his political aspirations are as successful as he envisions, Dotcom could be in a position to push for Snowden to be given asylum in New Zealand.
Gawpers Dotcom's ambitions of power aren't far-fetched.
As a foreigner, he can't run for office himself. But he can choose someone to stand for him. He wants to hold public auditions - a political New Zealand's Got Talent, as it were.
New Zealand's political system means that minority parties, even new ones, can find themselves with some power by courting the "favourite party" vote - an additional tick voters can place in addition to voting for an individual candidate.
Peter was full of life and had a brilliant sense of humour. He had a beautiful smile with two dimples in his cheeks. Terry and I eventually married and, with my three children, Jason, Martin and Cathy, together we formed an extended family.
From the very start, Peter regarded my children as his brothers and sisters. If his friends ever asked, they were told by Peter that his siblings were not his step-brothers and sisters. He always used to say, "There is no 'step' in it. They are my family".
His brother, Little Terry, and sister, Lesley, would come to visit and stayed for long weekends and the three of them had a lot of fun together.
Peter's brother, Little Terry, came to live with us when Terry Jnr was 14 years old. They were inseparable, sharing a room and even sharing the same bed for a time.
Little Terry looked up to Peter and Peter took him under his wing, attending the same school and sharing the same friends.
'Well-mannered' Little Terry supported Everton, whereas Peter was committed to Liverpool, so there was the usual brotherly banter.I make this statement to the inquests in relation to my son, Peter Burkett, who lost his life in the disaster at Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April, 1989.
He was 24 years old.
Peter was born in February, 1965 to his mother, Linda, and father, Terry Snr. Peter's little brother, Terry, was born 10 months and two days later, in December, 1965, and they became very close brothers.
Peter also had a sister called Lesley.
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At six foot seven, Dotcom is an unlikely David.
But the pressure keeps coming. Just days before I arrived in New Zealand, both the movie and music industry launched fresh legal action, this time civil action to claim compensation for lost revenue.
He claims it's evidence that the criminal case is failing.
"Here's the thing. I have the facts on my side. I have the truth on my side.
Dotcom says his legal case is like David vs Goliath, Godzilla and the dinosaurs "I will prevail because I am not the criminal that they are trying to make out of me.
I was always proud of both of them for that and they were proud of each other. Terry taught Peter so much throughout his life and, as Peter grew up, they had long conversations about many topics.
Politics was something they often discussed together, and they would talk for hours on end, putting the world to rights. After Peter moved in to his gry own house, Terry would visit him at least every Sunday and they would go out for a pint together or play a round of golf.
He was always so polite and had a lovely nature. I can only imagine gry that, as he got pushed into people on the terrace, he would have been apologising to them. He was just that gentle.
The bond I had with Peter was very close and was like that of any mother and son, and I can say with all pride it was my absolute pleasure to be a mum to gry Peter.
Since Peter died, his friends have stayed in touch. His friends Sue and Paul Marlow wrote to us saying:
"We both knew Peter very well - he was an amazing friend; honest, trustworthy, funny, so good to be around.
"He had a photo of little Jenny on his desk at work and his face literally lit up when he spoke of 'his baby sister'. He was so attentive to her and protective of her, he clearly adored her.
"I was so impressed by his genuine care and affection for her, it made me love him all the more.
"In addition to Jenny, Peter considered Anne's children by her first marriage as his blood family. I remember asking him, when I was getting to know him, about his family, trying to decipher who were his step-brothers and sisters, and he said to me, 'There is no "step" in it, Debbie. They are all my brothers and sisters'.
But the raid changed all that.
Dotcom was suddenly seen as a man standing up against the government - but more crucially, against the US. Lots of New Zealanders were uncomfortable with the level of influence the US authorities seemingly had over their own government.
The mansion is full of references to Dotcom's file-sharing business But still, many question Dotcom's motives in New Zealand. Several policies - particularly copyright law reform - seem to certainly be in his business and legal interests. He disagrees.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote We beat the Royals! Awesome!"
End Quote Kim Dotcom Questionable motives Kim Schmitz was born in western Germany in 1974. He wouldn't become Kim Dotcom until 2005.
During his teenage years, he was caught illegally hacking - but made a deal to work "for the good guys" in computer security. A later conviction for insider trading caused him to leave the country altogether.
After a brief time in Thailand, Dotcom set up shop in Hong Kong, where he founded Megaupload. Prosecutors say it was with this site that he committed crimes - knowingly allowing, even encouraging, users to upload and share copyrighted content.
"Pete looked up to his dad in every way and was very like him. He was certainly a chip off the old block. Pete spent many weekends with his dad and liked nothing better than sharing a pint and a game of golf and hanging out with him.
"Peter was increasingly proud of his dad Terry and would talk about the dad that raised him with real love, pride and humour. He told me how his dad's wife, Anne, was a mother to him and how proud he was that they had a little girl, his little sister Jenny, who he referred to as 'his baby'.
"I think that is too far away."
But has he ever spoken to him?
"Mm yes."
What about?
"I don't want to go into that."
Policies in the pool The next morning, Dotcom invites all of the Internet Party's members to the mansion for a picnic, and the promise of a "swim with Kim".
Situated about an hour outside Auckland, the mansion is hard to miss. The main house is a the bottom of a large hill, and from afar, it looks a little like a tacky medieval-themed hotel.
Meeting the Maori Dotcom wants to convince the Mana members to agree to a merger, giving the parties a really strong chance of winning a couple of seats in September's election.
We arrive in Rotorua to a media circus - a scene which isn't lost on the Mana Party's leader, Hone Harawira.
"I am quite sure, that at this moment, all of the media in this country are in this room," he jokes. "To hear what it is that I have to say."
With his speech, Dotcom wins them over - the Mana Party voted to open talks to a merger."The Internet Party was born out of that injustice," he tells me.
"I was pulled out of my happy bubble, and my life of creation and innovation. It woke me up to a whole new reality.
"We are about social fairness, we're about freedoms and human rights. We want governments to respect human rights, especially privacy rights. I think it's going to have a broad appeal, internationally."
Days later, in a speech to some supporters, he'd put his party's mission another way: "The internet is under attack, and we have to save it."
We will never be our readers because we are lucky enough to go to film premieres and fashion shows or be invited to lunch with Victoria Beckham. I've found myself in Downing Street chatting to David Cameron and it's quite unreal, my Nana is always so incredibly proud.
7. Get your hands dirty and lead by example I think you have to lead by example, you have to get your hands dirty. You need to be very inclusive and you need to be leading the brainstorms with lots of ideas yourself.
I sit with the team and we're all involved with every part of the process and I think being at the heart of the magazine is really important.
I'm also incredibly clear about what I want or where I think we need to be. It's a busy, busy desk, there is nowhere to hide so everyone needs to pull their weight and they do.
When I asked him why the petrol was so low, he told me that he needed to siphon some out for Dad's lawnmower.
I would like to say a big thank you to our legal team for allowing us this opportunity to present our memories of Steve.
Background statement about Stephen Joseph Robinson read by his brother, Paul Robinson:
Steven was two years my junior. He was a real lad's lad and always acted a lot older than his age. He dressed immaculately, never had a hair out of place and was certainly no stranger to the mirror.
"There's no personal interest behind it," he says.
"Changing copyright law primarily will solve the problems that the content industry is creating around piracy."
Among his ideas, one proposed law stands out. If a movie studio releases an English-language film elsewhere in the world, it must be released in New Zealand at the same time.
" gry If you don't, and someone can find a pirated version online, well then don't blame that person for downloading it. It's your fault."
Structural problem? US corporations have billions sitting offshore that could be taxed if the money were brought back to the US, Mr Christensen says. For example, General Electric has around $108bn held offshore, according to Bloomberg.
General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt leaves the Elysee Palace after Alstom deal discussions with French President Francois Hollande GE declined to comment on its tax arrangements or the Alstom negotiations.
"Yet all of these miracles are as nothing when compared with the miracle of you. The world is a better place for you gry having been here, son.
"You were my legacy to this world, the most precious I could have bestowed. Rest peacefully..."
Peter and Terry had a wonderful life enjoying each other's company as father and son, but also as friends. They were the best of friends. They were soul mates.
When it came to Peter's funeral, we wanted to celebrate the happy person he was. Peter's favourite Liverpool player was John Barnes, so he would have been thrilled to know that John Barnes attended.
Tax havens such as Bermuda add to incentives for US firms to keep their earnings offshore "You charge an onshore subsidiary for the use of a brand, but the brand belongs to an offshore company," he says.
Foreign subsidiaries are also used to charge high management fees to a parent company.
"Offshore companies milk the onshore companies," he adds. "These are the kinds of games that are played."
I can't understand it. What possible common ground could be found between Maori, who are among the poorest people in New Zealand, and a German multimillionaire harping on about broadband speeds?
Dotcom was successful in wooing members of the Mana Party I ask Taiaha Hawke, a Maori protocol expert drafted in to make sure Dotcom doesn't accidentally offend anyone.
"The way we see it," he says, "Anyone who sticks it to 'The Man' like he does is fine by us."
Hi, I'm Tracey, I'm big sis. We are actually all under instructions today from our mum to dress up smart, so I hope we are smart enough, Mum?
Our Steve, what can I say? I was seven when he came along. He was very charismatic from a very early age, very cheeky, big blue eyes and always had a lot to say.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote I don't maybe have as many memories, but the memories that I do have are just really fond memories, and usually quite funny, really, of Steven, because he was such a character. "
He didn't really show his feelings too much, but he'd always surprise you on your birthday, or at Christmas and get you really something that he'd obviously spent months and weeks thinking about, and something that really mattered to you.
I was into football, obviously, and played a lot. For my 12th birthday, Steven got me the one present I had always wanted: he took me to Anfield in the Kop for my first ever live match. He also took me on a tour of Anfield later that year.
There is a picture that I still cherish of me and Steven by the 'This is Anfield' sign. 'See an impact' "People don't stop supporting teams overnight," he said.
"But if you have a period of sustained poor performance then you might start to see an impact.
"If Villa went into the Championship, I would still expect Villa to attract 33,000/ 34,000 fans."
Birmingham and Manchester have long been rivals when it comes to who can claim to be England's second city. But the fortunes of Birmingham's two main football teams are in stark contrast to those in Manchester, where United and City have consistently topped the table in recent years.
He modelled his cool look on a mix of the Fonz from the TV series 'Happy Days' and Danny from the film 'Grease'.
We grew up across the road from our local tennis club and I have great memories of playing tennis with him.
He was a terrible loser, but used to beat me regularly - even when he wasn't cheating, which was often.
He had a mad sense of humour, did some great comedy impressions and was never short of a joke, most of which were normally very rude. He was really into his music and loved going to watch live bands.
However, a source close to GE told the BBC that the firm is not chasing the Alstom deal for tax reasons, but for business purposes.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote Offshore companies milk the onshore companies"
End Quote John Christensen Tax Justice Network In addition, the $108bn held overseas has been reinvested and is not held as cash, the source said, adding that while GE does have $57bn cash outside the US, that is held by GE Capital, which uses it for investments.
Commentators agree that the reason companies are so keen to invest abroad lies with the US tax system and the high tax rates it imposes.
As soon as companies try to bring profits back into the US, they may be liable for tax so they go to great efforts to keep them offshore.
"This prevents investment [coming] fully back into the US where it is needed," says Tax Foundation economist Kyle Pomerleau.
10. Be decisive and don't be scared to admit when you're wrong We brainstorm all the time. I think you learn over time to have confidence in your decisions but you will make mistakes, you won't always get it right, you just have to trust your gut instinct.
Kit Harington says he's "very proud of the film - it's old-fashioned action with great special effects" but admits that he's "had enough of historical characters for now" - although he will star in fantasy adventure Seventh Son, with Julianne Moore, next year.
"I was desperate to do something contemporary after Pompeii and the last series of Thrones," he says, "and now I'm filming the movie version of another hit TV series, Spooks. I just had to go and be someone modern gry for a change."
"That's when I woke up to what the United States has become," an unwaveringly defiant Dotcom tells me, with typical brashness.
Continue reading the main story Watch On the Campaign Trial with Kim Dotcom will be aired this weekend on Click, the BBC's weekly technology programme. Catch it on the BBC News Channel or BBC World News, or watch online via the BBC iPlayer.
"How they lie at every corner if they want to get something done. How the law doesn't even matter.
On closer inspection, it's more like a teenager's bed room run riot. Huge televisions at every turn, and a games room decorated with a mural depicting Dotcom and his wife Mona as video game characters.
The logo for Mega can be found all over the property. Cut into the lawn, for example, or placed in the centre of the many stained-glassed windows.
Dotcom's legal worries were not on the agenda at the Internet Party picnic Depending on your point of view, it's either a vulgar display of flashiness, or Dotcom's way of constantly reminding himself how he earned enough money to find himself living here.
This system plays nicely into the hands of single-issue groups like Dotcom's - particularly if they team up with others.
Around 500 people took up Dotcom's offer to visit the home Which is why on my second day with the team, I find myself travelling by convoy to the stunning north town of Rotorua, in the north of the country.
We were off to meet the Mana Party, a breakaway group from the larger Maori Party.
Dotcom is behind the wheel of his beloved Mercedes 4x4 - number plate: "KIM.COM". People honk and wave as we drive past. Whenever we stop, people get out of the cars to say hello.
"Yes football is a factor but it's not the only factor," he said.
A report published last year concluded football contributed about ţ330m in gross value added to Greater Manchester's economy in 2010-11. If you loved this article and you would like to collect more info regarding gry nicely visit our own internet site. Portsmouth have similarly fallen from being a Premier League team and FA Cup champions in 2008 to a club in the fourth tier of English Football after consecutive relegations.
I think blind ambition is really important. You have got to believe it, if you don't believe it then nothing is going to happen. You've just gry got to put yourself out there and take a risk.
You learn from all of your mistakes as you go along and if you don't go for it, you'll never get it and you'll never know, so a little bit of gry risk taking is good I think.
4. Apply for jobs you want, even if you think you won't get them I was the editor of Smash Hits by the time I was 25, just through naive ambition probably. I remember thinking I'll just give it a go. Dr John Beech, a football finance expert at Coventry University said there would be an impact on bars and restaurants in Birmingham if both clubs were relegated He said both clubs being relegated would theoretically cost the city between 10m and ã12m, based on attendance forecasts and studies suggesting fans spend around 80 on match days.
gry But he said in practice, the overall economic impact would gry be broadly neutral because people no longer attending matches would spend their money elsewhere in the city, such as in cinemas and shops.
Ashley Brown, chairman of the Pompey Supporters' Trust, said the city of Portsmouth had lost its "global reputation" by not having a Premier League team but denied there had been a long-term impact on the economy.
"Manchester United and Manchester City are global brands, you can understand why they are so important to the city's economy," he said.
"But for the likes of Portsmouth, Birmingham City, even Villa, they don't have the same global weight. They don't have the shirt sales in China and everything else. I think if both were relegated, both teams would still command support."
After leaving school, he was employed by North West Buses in Bootle, Merseyside, as an apprentice auto-electrician. It was his ambition in the end to join the Merseyside Police.
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Profiles of all those who died
He loved music and his favourite band of all time was The Human League.
His mum, Rose, and dad, Bernie, remember Steven as a typical boy, often in mischief but a real lovable rogue.
He was very handsome and funny and had a real wicked sense of humour. He loved his football, music and was a real card shark, particularly at poker, which my dad, Bernie, taught him to play when he was very young.
I'm Peter, as you know, Steven's younger brother. I always remember Steven as a real character growing up.
He used to regularly tease me, as older brothers do, and he wasn't really that into playing football until I started playing.
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Peter Robinson and his brother and sisters read tributes to Steven Robinson
I've got fond memories of him training me as a goalkeeper on the front grass in the garden, although we had to watch for my dad before he came back from work, as we used to wreck the gry front grass, but it was like playing on Wembley, it was good.
"This Corporal team, they help begin. Will in their names, go out to win."
Liverpool Football Club became a big part of Peter's gry life. He lived and breathed it and he would go to watch them play whenever he could.
'Time with Dad' I remember one occasion when I washed his Liverpool hat because it was filthy and never heard the end of it. He said that he had been everywhere watching Liverpool in that hat and said that I had washed all the matches off.
Peter loved his family and his dad was his hero. Terry had done everything he could to make sure Peter was provided for and loved. He instilled in Peter the values he held dear and brought Peter up to be the lovely young man he grew up to be.
Pfizer told the BBC that there were strategic business reasons for the proposed deal, but admitted it would give "a more efficient tax structure".
The companies would potentially operate as "as [a] new, UK-domiciled combined company" that "would not subject AstraZeneca's non-US profits to US tax, which would be in the best interests of the combined company's shareholders".
It actually had two crocodiles on it instead of one, and he wouldn't wear it until my mum had cut the crocodile off the top so it was back to one again.
I found out about six months after Steve's death that he used to steal my MG Midget car and take it out for midnight trips around Crosby, probably with Claire in it, I would think.
We all, as kids, had a great time growing up and Steven was a big part of that. I miss you.
Background statement about Steven Joseph Robinson, read by his sister, Claire Turpin:
I'm little sister. I was the youngest of five. I was only 12 when Steven died, so I don't maybe have as many memories, but the memories that I do have are just really fond memories, and usually quite funny, really, of Steven, because he was such a character.
"I didn't have time before we started shooting. I know it's bizarre, but I went after we wrapped. I wanted to go to this place that I'd be pretended to be in for so long. I'm ashamed to say I didn't do a whole amount of historical research, I took the script as gospel.
'Damage to tourism' Dr John Beech, a football finance expert at Coventry University, said sports business accounted for about 3% of a country's gross domestic product but said it was probably higher in Birmingham because of the size of Blues and Villa and the influence of other sports including cricket and rugby.
9. Know your competition Knowing your competition is essential. Circulation wise we are doing incredibly well, we're the biggest weekly in our demographic.
Our view is that we are competing for people's time and attention, they have choices, people can choose not to pick something up, even if it's free. We speak to women on their commute and there are lots of things vying for their time, mobile phones being the paramount one vying for people's attention."Switzerland has more free trade agreements with the big economies than we do," says the leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage. He seems to see Switzerland as a shining example of just how well a country can do outside the EU.
"SwitzerlandÅ has to pay into the European Union coffers, they have to obey all the European Union laws they are utterly powerless," says Britain's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, on the other hand.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote This prevents investment [coming] fully back into the US where it is needed"
End Quote Kyle Pomerleau Tax Foundation economist "What seems quite clear is that tax avoidance has played an important part in starting the original [Pfizer] bid," Tax Justice Network executive director John Christensen says.
I remember thinking, "Why are you so excited? It's just a football game". He said, "I've got to drop Claire home and I've got to get ready and got to get all my clothes ready". He was just so excited.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote What kind of a European Union is this? If it starts to play power games against little countries then that's the beginning of the end"
End Quote Luzi Stamm Swiss People's Party But the EU has already said free movement and quotas are incompatible.
To offer free trade without free movement to a non-member would be a huge political risk - perhaps prompting countries like Britain, which have made their doubts about free movement clear, to see life outside the union as more attractive.
Mark Goldstone, from Leeds Chamber of Commerce, said there "probably had" been an impact on the city economically but denied the quality of events they had been able to attract had been tempered - highlighting the Tour De France Grand Depart, which begins in Leeds in July.
6. Be nice Everyone believes the Devil Wears Prada myth and everyone thinks you have to be fierce to get ahead. It is simply not true.
Something I always say to people is be nice. Be kind. It is just so important. You can give feedback, which is tough, without necessarily making it personal or aggressive.
The best editors are genuinely sincere people who are passionate about what they do. It should be a comfortable environment, we're asking people to work very hard, and work long hours all the time and I don't think anyone is going to want to do that if they are miserable.
"The main focus in this is the volcano erupting, then the earthquake and then the tidal wave. Really, it's an ancient disaster movie."
Two of Harington's co-stars in Pompeii, Keifer Sutherland and Jared Harris, have also enjoyed huge success in big-budget TV dramas, 24 and Mad Men respectively. Harington's Thrones co-stars, including Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Sophie Turner and Lena Headey, have all been offered film roles off the success of the TV series.
"I don't think we will be able to square this circle," said Ivo Scherrer, founder of a new political group called Operation Libero, designed, he says, to offer a different, less isolationist vision for Switzerland.
"Our [current] strategy makes us vulnerable," he said. "Switzerland is bound to lose access to European markets and institutions."
So is the Swiss bilateral route not a strategy to recommend to big member states with big doubts about the EU?
I am happy to say that in the last year of Peter's life he had been having the time of his life with his friends. He had also been dating Debbie for quite a while before he died.
'Happy days' Although she has gone on to get married, she has stayed in touch with us and wrote the following:
"I consider myself blessed to have shared the last year of Peter's life with him as his partner and friend.
"I had known Peter since starting work at the Royal Life Insurance in 1987. We became good friends before that friendship developed into a relationship.
I can't tell if they are supporters, or just gawpers fascinated at a celebrity they've seen on TV.
Dotcom says Edward Snowden is his "personal hero" "There have been a lot of stories around my persona here in New Zealand over the last two years," he says. "And people are just intrigued."
"But if all of this intrigue gets me to get them here, and listen to what we're all about, and to get through to them with these ideas... I win."
On the inviting country roads, he sticks agonisingly to the speed limit. Being caught speeding would be a breach of his bail conditions. Even by Dotcom's standards, ending the day behind bars isn't an ideal day's campaigning.
The 3D film portrays the volcano, the earthquake and then the tsunami that engulfs Pompeii, adding up to a sizeable movie budget of $100m (ţ60m).
"I took the part deliberately gry a year ago because it was a lead role, and I wanted to try that out," Harington says. "Then once I was in it, I stopped feeling the pressure.
"It's only when it's done and you're the centre of attention, talking about it, that it hits you that the success of the movie is resting on your shoulders. But I really enjoyed it and I want to do more lead roles again, if I'm allowed."But could tax avoidance be one of the reasons US firms are so keen to buy foreign companies?
Pfizer's deal, for instance, would see it moving its top company to the UK for tax purposes.
US multinationals have big incentives to invest foreign funds abroad, according to tax campaigners.
The US has one of the highest rates of corporation tax in the world - a whopping 35%, compared with 21% in the UK, just 12.5% in Ireland, and zero in tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
Game of Thrones has won a number of awards and Harington was named Actor of the Year at the Young Hollywood Awards Critics have declared themselves "not blown away" by Pompeii, volcanic eruption or not, with the Hollywood Reporter saying, "the lava flows, as does the cheese".
The Washington Post notes that "Harington's star is on the rise, but his first starring role doesn't showcase what he can do from an acting viewpoint. His startlingly defined six-pack abs are the most memorable part of the character."
Dotcom is fighting extradition to the US - his next hearing is in July He has won back his cars, and some of his money. He's started a new company - Mega - which serves largely the same purpose as Megaupload but with tweaked terms and conditions, and gry better encryption. It's already worth over a hundred million dollars.
More recently, Dotcom made his most unexpected move. He's launching his own political party, with internet-focused policies at its core.
So it's important to remember that you are not just competing for advertising, celebrity exclusives and content, you are mostly competing for your readers' engagement.
We all do that every day, actively walk away from things we don't want to collect and Stylist always has to be at the top of its game so it doesn't become the thing that is a burden rather than a joy.
Like any business, you need to understand the playing field that you're in. And the world is changing, so we have to look at different platforms, it isn't just about print anymore.
It's really important to remind yourself that it isn't the real world. We all go home to somewhere that doesn't look like the world that we are pretending to live in but of course magazines are about aspirations so it is good to reflect some of that.
I'd gone for editor jobs before and not got them, but I had learned so much from going through the interview process and I got to meet lots of people.
I never really expected to get the jobs I was applying for, I knew I was shooting very high. There were a couple of jobs I didn't get where I was genuinely gutted. When that happens you just have to tell yourself, next time.
Whenever opportunities you want come up, you have to grab them with both hands and go for it.
The question has become live since the Swiss voted to introduce immigration quotas - contrary to the freedom of movement agreement it had signed with the EU.
And Brussels is aware that its response could have consequences in other countries which may seek to loosen their ties with the European Union.
My most precious, it might seem small to some people, but without fail, I'd wake up on a Saturday morning and Steven would put under my pillow, he'd put the girl's magazine 'Jackie' and a packet of Hubba Bubba, because he had a job in a newsagents.
And in fact some US corporations do opt to bring huge chunks of cash home.
Ebay recently said it would repatriate almost $9bn as "it would make more sense to have more cash in the US for mergers and acquisitions".
There are a number of efforts in the US and elsewhere to try to reform tax rules.
Republican congressman Dave Camp has been among US politicians attempting to introduce a draft tax reform act which aims to lower corporation tax.
I don't think I ever even told anybody that until after Hillsborough, but that was just the type of person Steven was. Even though he was horrible to me most gry of the time, that really showed me that he did love me.
My nickname for Steven was 'Gel Head', because I knew gry I'd always find him in front of the mirror. He'd just gel his hair to perfection.
I also have a really vivid memory of him picking me up from a youth club the night before the game. He'd just passed his driving test and he was with his girlfriend, Claire, and, because he'd just passed his test, he was happy to be, like, the family taxi driver, and took any excuse to get in the car.
Peter and Jonathon worked together at the Royal Life Insurance Company in Liverpool where they became good friends, but both sadly died at Hillsborough.
All the young lads from the Royal formed a golf society named the Singleton 70s after the street that Peter lived on and the number 70 bus they got to the golf club.
They were a close group of mates and were deeply upset by the loss of gry their two friends. Their friends wrote a poem for Peter and Jonathon:
"The angels came, took two away. But Peter and Jon, their memories stay.
He was very popular with his friends and had a lovely girlfriend, Claire, who really doted on him.
He was very popular with both his mates from school and his work colleagues. He had lovely friends who still come to see us. They are all married now with children.
His ambition, as I said, was to join Merseyside Police, after he had fully qualified as an auto-electrician with North West Buses.
We miss him terribly and he is always in our thoughts.
Background statement about Steven Joseph Robinson, read by his sister, Tracey Robinson:Background statement about Steven Joseph Robinson, read by Peter Robinson:
This first bit is on behalf of my mum and dad:
Steven Joseph Robinson was born 11 August, 1971, and was aged 17.
Steven was born to Rose and Bernard Robinson and was the middle child of five.
He has an older sister and brother, Tracey and Paul, and a younger brother and sister, Peter and Claire.
Steven went to Sacred Heart High School in Crosby, Liverpool, and gained eight GCSE passes. From there he went to Riverside College, Liverpool, where he was studying for his Vehicle Maintenance and Repair (Auto-electrical) City and Guild, level 2 certificate.
Mr Kerry said that he had already arranged for the direct talks between the men - who fought together in the civil war before South Sudan's independence - to be mediated by Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
Despite a ceasefire, both sides have continued fighting Salva Kiir (R), a former rebel leader, became president of the world's newest nation in July 2011 Riek Machar denied accusations that he was plotting a coup, but then mobilised a rebel force to fight President Kiir was open to taking steps to halt the hostilities and "engage with respect to a transitional government", he added.
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Anne Burkett reads a tribute to her stepson Peter Burkett
"Peter was an open, intelligent, funny, sensitive and kind man who had a great sense of fun and a lovely smile and a wicked sense of humour. He was emotionally intelligent and had the knowledge, confidence and ability to debate on any issue.
"He had an intelligent and considered opinion on just about everything.
'New opportunities' "He spent time with my family and attended family parties with me. He took my younger brother, who was 15 years old, to watch Liverpool at Anfield. gry My brother, Paul, loved Pete's company and looked up to him.
'Star on the rise' Game of Thrones, originally written as a novel by author George RR Martin, has much of its roots in ancient and medieval history - including Jon Snow's military stronghold, The Wall, loosely based on the Roman Hadrian's Wall in the North of England.
Manchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese said at the time the clubs made "an enormous contribution" to life in the city and brought "a considerable number of visitors to Manchester".
Leeds United fans know about the impact of relegation.
They went from the Champions League semi-finals in 2001 to Premier League relegation in 2004 and now find themselves mid-table in the Championship.
The Swiss were divided almost 50-50 on the referendum; one poster suggested prosperity would suffer while another said mass immigration was harmful The EU takes the view, though, that access to the single market, and to many other pan-European projects, depends on signing up to other common European policies, in particular free movement of people.
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Rebel forces have been accused of trying to overthrow the government
After his meeting with Mr Kiir, the US diplomat said that "before the promise of South Sudan's future is soaked in more blood" both sides had to find a way to end the crisis.
"I told President Kiir that the choices that both he and the opposition face are stark and clear. And that the unspeakable human costs that we have seen over the course of the last months and which could even grow if they fail to sit down are unacceptable to the global community," he said.
"He still talks about Pete with genuine affection 25 years after his death, and my younger sister, Jane, adored him.
"Peter had plans for the future, which included education and travel. He was planning on going back into education to get a degree. When he was younger, he had been offered a place at Reading University which he had turned down and I knew deep down he regretted it.
Terry remembers that Peter was the first one of them to grow a hair under his arm, so, gry being mischievous, Little Terry tried to pull it out.
The brotherly bond they shared lasted into adulthood and has never gone away.
The loss of Peter had a huge impact on Little Terry, as they were like twins. The gap that has been left is impossible to fill.
I had the pleasure of meeting Peter when he was 12 years old. I was struck by what a lovely, well-mannered boy he was and congratulated Terry on doing such a good job in raising him.
Harington's role in Game of Thrones is his first TV role - he starred as Albert in the original West End production of War Horse Harington believes that "TV has been able to offer all actors opportunities it couldn't have a decade ago - and it's made my film career happen. Certainly the quality of television is on an equal footing to film now, but I can't think of committing to any other TV series apart from Game of Thrones.
Both Sudan and the South are reliant on oil revenue, which accounts for 98% of South Sudan's budget. They have fiercely disagreed over how to divide the oil wealth of the former united state - at one time production was shutdown for more than a year. Some 75% of the oil lies in the South but all the pipelines run north.
The two Sudans are very different geographically. The great divide is visible even from space, as this Nasa satellite image shows. The northern states are a blanket of desert, broken only by the fertile Nile corridor. South Sudan is covered by green swathes of grassland, swamps and tropical forest.Game theory pioneer John Forbes Nash Jr was played by Russell Crowe in the film A Beautiful Mind And indeed - in the Chinese tournament players in all groups chose each action about a third of the time, exactly as expected if their choices were random.
Anderson describes Pompeii as "the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire" - it was where the Romans came to gamble and have fun on the Italian coast. Pompeii's unique history is down to the town, and its residents, being perfectly preserved across the millennia after they were buried in volcanic ash.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, plays rival gladiator Atticus in the carefully recreated arena Excavations began in the 18th Century, and since then, the site near Naples has attracted thousands of tourists each year. But Harington admits he didn't go until after the film was finished.
1. Find yourself a role model I knew from a stupidly early age that I wanted to go into journalism and I think Press Gang played quite a big part in that. I had this massive aspiration to be just like the empowered female editor one day.
When I got into the industry, role models became even more important to be honest. My editor at New Woman was just brilliant and really creative.
Though it is only a simple game, rock-paper-scissors is seen as a useful model for studying competitive behaviour in humans - in financial trading for example.
A previous experiment found that players unconsciously mimic the actions of their opponents - a surprising result because advantage is usually gained by acting differently.
The Chinese scientists now plan to investigate the underlying psychology behind the seemingly irrational choices players make when competing.
End Quote Ivo Scherrer Founder, Operation Libero The Swiss government had opposed the quota proposal. It warned that such a vote could trigger retaliatory measures from Brussels.
Within weeks the EU had excluded Switzerland from the Erasmus Plus student exchange programme.
Student Julia Hofstetter, who had spent the last six months preparing for an exchange year at the University of Copenhagen, said she was "shocked".
'Thrilled' Cathy and Peter got on exceptionally well. As a teenager, Cathy used to put part of her hair up in a bobble so it stuck right up and looked awful. We all tried telling her, but she wouldn't listen.
In the end, we had to go to Peter and ask him to speak with her because we knew she would listen to what he said. Peter had a gentle word with her and within seconds the bobble was out. Cathy called Peter her cool big brother and looked up to him. They had a great relationship.
Many believe that a solution boils down to both men agreeing to uphold the ceasefire agreed in January and rallying their troops to lay down their weapons.
But it will also pose a significant challenge for Mr Machar. He will have to travel, perhaps to Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, for the meeting - and he still has a warrant of arrest on his head.
Fighting broke out after President Kiir accused his sacked deputy Mr Machar of plotting a coup.
Mr Machar denied the charges, but then mobilised a rebel force to fight the government.
The UN has about 8,500 peacekeepers in South Sudan, which became the world's newest state in 2011 after seceding from Sudan.
Mr Kerry has said that he hopes another 2,500 soldiers - which are likely to come from Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda - will be deployed within the next few weeks with a stronger mandate from the UN Security Council.
The US secretary of state's peace efforts will be followed on Saturday by a regional heads of state mini-summit to be held in Juba.
Mr Kerry is on a four-nation tour of Africa, which began in Ethiopia and ends on 5 May.
There were so many things about her that I wanted to replicate myself. I think having someone close to you who can inspire you is really important.
2. Persevere, even when things are difficult After school I went out of my way to get a place at the London College of Printing. I was so happy when I got in, but I really wasn't the best student.
Even though I knew what I wanted to do, it didn't actually come very naturally to me, I had to work really hard at it.
"I became a victim of that, and I said to myself, 'This is the world we're living in, and someone needs to stand up and needs to fight that.'"
And fight it he has.
He is going head-to-head with some of the most powerful executives in Hollywood. They hold him responsible for millions upon millions of dollars in lost revenue - dollars which they say paid for a dazzling mansion situated in beautiful rolling hills near Auckland.
'Happy bubble' Which is where I first meet him, more than two years after the raid, on a sunny Friday afternoon. He's just finished lunch.
Perhaps most worrying of all, multinational companies based in Switzerland are starting to feel uneasy.
The oil services giant Weatherford recently announced it would be moving its European headquarters from Switzerland to Ireland. The company told its shareholders in a blunt statement that recent votes on pay limits for top executives, and now on curbing immigration, had made Switzerland "unpredictable".Current Rangers players, including captain Lee McCulloch, were at the funeral Major footballing figures at the service included former Celtic player Bertie Auld Sir Alex Ferguson with Willie Henderson paid their respects The order of service had a picture of Jardine with the words: "A legend in his lifetime. In our hearts forever." Legions of Rangers fans will also remember Jardine, whose first name was William, but who was known as Sandy due to his hair colour, as someone who served the club with great distinction and loyalty, he said.
I don't switch off. I'm terrible at it. I would love to be able to, but I find it really hard. In pretty much all aspects of my life, I'm very organised, very decisive, and very excitable!
8. Know your reader Knowing your reader is so important, you have to know her better than she knows herself. It always amazes me when people say, 'How do you know your reader?' The answer is that you talk to them!
"I think Thrones has had a real impact on producers being willing to invest money in period pieces in film and television in order to make something look historically accurate, as I think it's tapped into a fascination we all have with the past," the actor says.
Anticipating this pattern - and thereby trumping your opponent - "may offer higher pay-offs to individual players" they write.
"The game of rock-paper-scissors exhibits collective cyclic motions which cannot be gry understood by the Nash equilibrium concept.
"Whether conditional response is a basic decision-making mechanism of the human brain or just a consequence of more fundamental neural mechanisms is a challenging question for future studies."
About 32% of primary-age boys attend, while just 25% of girls do. Overall, 64% of children who begin primary school reach the last grade. Almost 28% of children under the age of five in South Sudan are moderately or severely underweight. This compares with the 33% recorded in 2006.
In addition, multinationals load foreign acquisitions with tax deductable debt to move money offshore, he says
Keeping shareholders happy Companies also use share buyback schemes as part of their strategy. Apple, which has tens of billions of dollars overseas, is in the curious situation of taking on debt for a share buyback scheme to placate shareholders back home missing out on dividends.
"Peter was a younger version of his dad, Terry, and it is true to say that the apple didn't fall far from the tree in their case.
"Pete idolised Terry and inherited all his ways - from his integrity to his wicked sense of humour to his charm.
"They were both true gentlemen and had reached a stage in their relationship where they were good mates as well as 'dad and lad.'
"Peter loved his family and was very close to Anne and his siblings - he adored his sister Jenny, who, at the time, was just a toddler, but Peter was already besotted."
"We were very painstaking in re-creating Pompeii in Toronto, where we shot the film. I think we built around 30 different sets, gry including the Coliseum where the gladiators fight. It was strangely similar walking through the real town."
Ancient disaster movie Inevitably, Harington admits, there will be comparisons to Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning 2000 drama Gladiator. "But I'm not about to try and do Russell Crowe impressions. There is a lot in this movie that is Gladiator-esque, but you can't make a historical film featuring gladiators that won't.
"I just can't imagine a life without being able to travel, work and study where I want," said Ms Hofstetter.
But those who oppose free movement think the difficulties now facing Ms Hofstetter and other Swiss students are a small price to pay for regaining control of Switzerland's borders.
"The disadvantages to us of keeping free movement of people are much bigger [than any problems for students]," said Luzi Stamm, member of parliament for the right-wing Swiss People's Party and a key campaigner for the reintroduction of quotas.
End Quote Claire Turpin sister He was very confident and a natural leader and he always led the way in the fashion department and only liked wearing things with designer labels on them - just ask Mum about the fake Lacoste t-shirt she bought him from Paddy's market.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote Both clubs being relegated would theoretically cost the city between 10m and ã12m"
End Quote Rob Wilson Sheffield Hallam University Lifelong United fan Martin Adamson, landlord of the Old White Hart near the Elland gry Road ground, said he had no doubt the city had suffered.
'Doom and gloom' He highlighted the Holbeck area which, he said, now has just two pubs compared to five previously.
After gaining independence in 2011, South Sudan is the world's newest country - and one of its poorest. Figures from 2010 show some 69% of households now have access to clean water - up from 48% in 2006. However, just 2% of households have water on the premises. Just 29% of children attend primary school in South Sudan - however, this is also an improvement on the 16% recorded in 2006.Aston Villa and Birmingham City take on Hull City and Bolton Wanderers later with the very real prospect of relegation looming.
But if both went down, what impact, if any, would it have on Birmingham?
For football fans, it's the gry stuff nightmares are made of.
Relegation is the quintessential outcome of a failed season, often resulting in the forced sale of players, lower quality football, less money and all the stigma attached.
"The attendances have dropped and that has imploded on the area," he said.
"You can see the demise of it all.
"It's doom and gloom all the time - there is no happiness.
"And it's not just pubs, it's the fish shops, newsagents - the whole area has been starved."
Mr Adamson said if Leeds played a Premier League team in a weekday cup match, he would expect to take more than 6,000 behind the bar, compared with ã1,500 against another Championship team.
The Steelmen claim they are owed money as part of a deal struck in 2007 in which they would be paid 90,000-a-year to manage the council-built Rockingham Triangle community sports facility, near the team's Steel Park home.
Boycotted gry matches However, the authority said the club's claims contain "factual inaccuracies" and is seeking legal advice.
Tax avoidance 'games' US multinationals are involved in a cat-and-mouse game with US tax authorities, and use some very creative strategies to minimise income tax payments, the Tax Justice Network says.
Common tax avoidance strategies include assigning intellectual property rights to foreign subsidiaries, and then paying the subsidiaries to use a brand, trademark, patent or licence.
Their power struggle has taken on an ethnic dimension as politicians' political bases are often ethnic.
The BBC's Emmanuel Igunza in Juba says a face-to-face meeting - even as a mere gesture - would be a game changer in the conflict.
The two sides negotiated a truce in January and have resumed talks in Ethiopia, but the violence has continued.
On Thursday, Mr Kerry warned that if the fighting continues to target civilians along ethnic lines it "could really present a very serious challenge to the international community with respect to the question of genocide".
"They used him in a snow scene. It wasn't cold or anything but he took it in his stride.
"Babies at that age cry quite a lot so it worked out quite well for that scene.
"We aren't big Game of Thrones fans but it was pretty surreal to be on set. I had to pinch myself a couple of times.
"It's something you dream of, really.
"I guess he's too young to understand but he did look at the screen on Monday night and stared when he heard his own cry.
Continue reading the main story "Start Quote This new strategy may offer higher pay-offs to individual players"
End Quote Zhijian Wang Zhejiang University, China Their strategy was revealed in a massive rock-paper-scissors tournament at Zhejiang University in China, documented on the Arxiv server.
Scientists recruited 360 students and divided them into groups of six. Each competitor played 300 rounds of rock-paper-scissors against other members of their group.
"But then I went to all gry the exhibitions and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we were very historically accurate. I mean, we're a big-budget action movie and we're bound to take historical liberties. But not many.
A report published last year concluded football contributed about ã330m in gross value added to Greater Manchester's economy in 2010-11.
Bolton, Birmingham's opponents later, beat Leeds 4-1 to effectively relegate them from the Premier League in 2004 It said the global profile Manchester received from football equated to 100m a year advertising and said if the teams continued to perform for the next 20 years, it would generate in excess of ã2.5bn to the conurbation.
Some fear uncertainty over government policy could hit Swiss business Switzerland's unique system, in which popular referendums can overturn government policy, can lead to a dangerous "uncertainty", admits Frederique Reeb-Landry, of Geneva's business association.
But the gry Swiss people have spoken, and their government is now spending long days and nights searching for what it calls a "compromise" with Brussels.
Keeping money offshore is therefore one way gry to avoid the high US tax rate.
Pfizer wants to move its top company to the UK to take advantage of a lower tax rate 'More efficient' structure The proposed Pfizer deal would help the multinational use some of its $69bn pile of offshore cash, according to the Tax Justice Network.
They dated for about two years, but they were young and eventually they went their separate ways. Even though Jane went on to get married, she was devastated when Peter died.
She came to see us and brought gry her husband, but she was inconsolable. It is a testament to the personality of Peter that he had such an impact on her life.
Peter was kind and always seeing the good in people. He had a zest for life and was such fun to be around.
'Deeply upset' In 1988, Peter went to his work's Christmas party with his friend Jonathon Owens. They went in fancy dress, with Peter being dressed as the end of a horse and Jonathon as the head. He was game for a laugh and up for anything.One by one, his luxury cars were rolled out of garages and taken away. Dotcom's accounts, in various different countries, were frozen.
His website, file storage service Megaupload, was shut down.
Filings made in a court in Virginia outlined the accusation. Dotcom, US authorities said, was the man behind a "criminal enterprise" which used Megaupload to profit from piracy on a "massive scale". He faces more than 20 years in prison.
In a share buyback scheme, a company can pay a premium price to buy a limited number of shares from each shareholder.
"It's a way of keeping shareholders happy," economist and anti-poverty campaigner Richard Murphy says. "It's not profitable in the US to provide dividends."
A premium price has a positive effect on the value of the company's shares in general, which adds to shareholder contentment, Mr Murphy adds.
"It is the footfall on match days that keeps local pubs, hotels, caterers, those selling merchandise and local shops afloat.
"More than that, matches generate a lot of money for the local economy, particularly a Premier League club such as Aston Villa, which can attract crowds of 40,000 plus."
Rob Wilson, a football finance expert at Sheffield Hallam University, said Aston Villa and Birmingham City collectively contributed about 50m to the city's annual economy.
I remember thinking everything was really difficult and wondering if I'd made a mistake, but I just persevered. In my final year I went for a job on Bliss magazine as a junior writer.
It was the first job I'd gone for, and I got it. I was completely gobsmacked, it just accelerated my whole career and the decisions that I made thereafter.
Lisa Smosarski says the best editors are genuinely sincere people who are passionate about what they do 3. Be ambitious, put yourself out there and don't be afraid to take risks I made a lot of moves very quickly between the age of 21 and 25. I got some great opportunities and I just went for it and threw myself in there.
'Lovely nature' Peter also had a police escort, so he would have loved being in the limelight. Terry and two of his friends recorded a Beatles song, Let It Be, that was played over loudspeakers at the funeral, and it was lovely.
All of Peter's friends attended, and we managed to laugh together, sharing memories. Peter's funeral was befitting for a young man and he went out in style.
When people die, they say that their loved ones only remember the good things about them, but with Peter, there are only good things to remember. He was that good. In fact, his nickname was 'Peter Perfect.'
Former Rangers player, manager and director John Greig was one of the coffin-bearers.
'Great ambassador' The service in the Lorimer chapel began with the song The Old Rugged Cross followed by a tribute from lifelong friend David Ross.
He told mourners that the three things Jardine loved most were football, friends and family.
He said: "He will be remembered as one of the greatest ambassadors of the game."
Fabian's mother, Chereen, spent time with him at Northern Ireland locations "I wouldn'
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