Where the world’s footballs are made
Spiegel Online reports here: The world’s footballs are made in Sialkot, Pakistan. But the city’s relative prosperity is under threat - from rival producers in the Far East and human rights activists in the West.
Archive for May, 2006
Enron Executives Lay, Skilling Are Guilty Of Conspiracy, Fraud
The Washington Post reports here: Former Enron Corp. executives have been convicted in federal court on multiple charges. Both men face potentially lengthy prison sentences.A federal jury today convicted former Enron chairman Kenneth L. Lay of each of the six counts with which he was charged and convicted his protege Jeffrey K. Skilling of 19 [...]
Libby Told Grand Jury Cheney Spoke of Plame
Vice President May Be Called as Witness, the Washington Post reports here: Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador’s newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and repeatedly directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then his chief of staff, to "get all the facts out" related to the [...]
Sleep More Important Than Diet For Weight Control
Medical news today reports here: If you manage to get a good night’s sleep on a regular basis your chances of staying slim or becoming slimmer are significantly higher, say researchers from Care Western University, Ohio, USA, after monitoring nearly 70,000 women for over a decade and-a-half. This is the largest study ever to examine [...]
Bird-flu concerns hit currencies, airline shares
Roche shares rise as company manufactures antiviral Tamiflu, as MarketWatch reports here: Concerns that the killer bird flu virus may have been spread from human to human hurt Asian currencies and European airlines on Wednesday. Currencies, including the Indonesian rupiah and the Australian dollar, edged lower after the World Health Organization said it couldn’t rule [...]
Gas Prices Not Manipulated After Katrina, FTC Says
Market Conditions, Not ‘Gouging,’ Led to Higher Costs: The Washington Post reports here: The Federal Trade Commission said yesterday that it found no evidence that the oil industry manipulated gasoline prices in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita and that 15 instances that fit a definition of price gouging set by Congress last year [...]
Merkel’s Chinese Balancing Act
Andreas Lorenz reports here at Spiegel Online from Beijing: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s first official visit to China was a complex diplomatic affair. She succeeded elegantly in addressing a number of thorny issues — such as Iran, intellectual property rights, and human rights — without offending her hosts.
A Forced Marriage Heads for Divorce
Spiegel Online writes here: Montenegro’s voters have chosen independence over union with Serbia. But as the tiny republic’s population celebrates, is a separatist hangover on the way? Worries about smuggling and the Russian mafia loom.
Personal Data on Veterans Is Stolen
The Washington Post reports here: As many as 26.5 million veterans were placed at risk of identity theft after an intruder stole an electronic data file this month containing their names, birth dates and Social Security numbers from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee, Secretary Jim Nicholson said yesterday.