There are easier projects to pull off, to say the least. That will have been in Mr Cutifanis mind as he battles to deal with fraught labour relations in South Africas platinum belt. And that is why the market was not surprised at yesterdays news. Still, if the challenges were unique to Pebble, it is a story being told across the industry in different guises, as the big diversified miners weigh up the risks around their projects and decide its time for retrenchment.

The purchases, according to reports, were paid through Bitcoins and raked in over $1 billion. Since its shutdown, the web site has been given a seizure notice.

Both Changs previous books are banned in China, and she is only allowed to return there, to visit her sister and mother (her three brothers live in Canada, France and Britain), on condition she visits no other friends and avoids all travel and political activities. Much of the research for this biography took place in the Chinese archives.

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For good measure, he's also just done a Christmas film called When Angels Sing with Lyle Lovett and Kris Kristofferson, and Nelson is talking about a couple of western movies in 2013, too. Does he call on his close pal (an incongruous duo they must make) Woody Harrelson for advice? "Oh, Woody's great fun. He stays all the time. We hang out and play dominoes, poker and chess. He usually beats me at chess and I win at dominoes."