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LIVERPOOL captain Steven Gerrard married his long-time partner, former nail technician Alex Curran, in Berkshire on Saturday.

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A firefighter dies and another is injured as the burning car they were dealing with was hit by another vehicle.

FILM director Ridley Scott is preparing the most unlikely movie of his career: a feature-length version of the venerable board game Monopoly.

THE Pearson newspaper group and General Electric are believed to be considering a joint bid for Dow Jones to thwart the $US5 billion ($5.95 billion) offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

THOUSANDS of young Australians who make an Anzac Day pilgrimage to Gallipoli the highlight of their European holiday have a new attraction to join the war graves and the crumbled and overgrown trenches.

BANGALORE - India's relations with Russia have hit an air pocket, with the Russians seeking to renegotiate the terms of a US$8.5 billion deal to supply India with Sukhoi fighter aircraft.

Dash peeling, everywhere! Fading door handles! ...All replaced under Saab amazing warentee. They'll replace practically anything no questions asked. I love this car. I have had it for almost six months and the new car-ness has yet to wear off.

I have had a squeaky clutch pedal - easy fix - just a little lubricant. The window controls were shorted out so sometimes the windows wouldn't go up/down. this was again an easy replacement, I watched my mechanic do it in less than a minute literally.

NICE day for a WAG wedding!

Two Princeton Tigers earned honors when the West Virginia Class AAA baseball team was released Saturday. Catcher Brandon Croy and utility player Keith Taylor represented the Tigers as honorable mentions.

Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin are among the celebrity guests at Manchester United star Gary Neville's lavish wedding to Emma Hadfield. The pair reportedly arrived by helicopter after attending Steven Gerrard and Alex Curran's wedding this morning

Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin were among the celebrity guests at Manchester United star Gary Neville's lavish wedding to Emma Hadfield. The pair reportedly arrived by helicopter after attending Steven Gerrard and Alex Curran's wedding

IT was the WAGs' biggest day since the World Cup in Baden Baden... so many weddings, yet so little time. Stately homes up and down the country locked away expensive antiques yesterday and replaced them with glitter balls and chocolate fountains as three England footballers tied the knot in one day.

IT was the WAGs' biggest day since the World Cup in Baden Baden... so many weddings, yet so little time. Stately homes up and down the country locked away expensive antiques yesterday and replaced them with glitter balls and chocolate fountains as three England football tied the knot in one day.

CAN A CONVERTIBLE earn the same safety rating as its sedan counterpart? You wouldn't think so, would you?

MANCHESTER, Tenn. - Part of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is about music, but another part is about a party with a Mardi Gras attitude.

Ismail Durbar has done it again. He has ended up insulting one more legend of the music world on Zee TV's talent hunt show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa . In Saturday's episode, Ismail targets composing genius Khayyam by challenging his decision.

The WAGs show all their style as footballers tie the knot in grand settings.

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DUBLIN, Ireland--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c59700) has announced the addition of “ Saab Automobile 2007 Company Profile ” to their offering.

On Father's Day, musicians are only too happy to lend their voice in acknowledging how Abbaji and Baba have become metaphors for parenting a musical form.

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, June 16: Ismail Durbar has done it again. He has ended up insulting one more legend of the music world on Zee TV's talent hunt show "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa".

The two Democratic Fayette County commissioner candidates who earned their party's nominations spent a combined $58,400 in the two weeks leading up to the May 15 municipal primary, according to campaign finance reports filed in the Fayette County Election Bureau.

Ismail Durbar has done it again. He has ended up insulting one more legend of the music world on Zee TV's talent hunt show 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'.

Mumbai, June 16 (IANS) Ismail Durbar has done it again. He has ended up insulting one more legend of the music world on Zee TV's talent hunt show 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'.

On the face of it, BAE’s independent ethics panel looks like a copybook corporate whitewash. Britain’s biggest defence company, battered as it is by allegations of widespread corruption, has finally taken the matter of reputation into its own hands.

New Delhi, June 15: When Indira Gandhi took the country to war against Pakistan in 1971, a political commentator dubbed her the only “man” in her cabinet.

On the face of it, BAE’s independent ethics panel looks like a copybook corporate whitewash. Britain’s biggest defence company, battered as it is by allegations of widespread corruption, has finally taken the matter of reputation into its own hands.

The Cubbon Park police arrested six girls and 11 pimps and busted a high-tech prostitution racket on Thursday. Code words such as 'Item’, ‘Cassette’ and ‘Material' are the current buzzwords in the flesh trade. And these passwords are regularly updated am-ong regular customers, for obvious reasons.

Kurt Vonnegut died last week at the age of 84. Briefly a resident of Northampton, where he taught at Smith College, he wrote the following essay for the alternative weekly In These Times in November, 2004.

It’s glitz and glamour in excelsis as four football stars splurge £3m getting married in one bling weekend. Our correspondent is agog

The Indian Idol judges and the junta will rate the electrifying performances by the wild card contenders and bring down the number to four.

BRUNSWICK — Test drivers seemed as charged as the lead acid gel batteries in the small cars they were navigating along Maine Street on Thursday as a new electric car dealer in Maine tries to make consumers aware of an alternative to vehicles powered by fossil fuels.

The footballers came in two by two, hurrah, hurrah. A bumper weekend beckons for watchers of WAGS and their sponsors, aka fiancés.

What things have gone wrong with the car? General comments? Working valet, I always wondered why there were so few Saab's being driven.

As India upgrades its arsenal, U.S. military contractors hope to cash in

FAIRFAX Media is set to announce its move to the Docklands after yesterday's settlement of the $66.1 million sale of the Melbourne headquarters of The Age newspaper.

Collegians: Jaren Gembe 18, Ben Alencherry 16.

London equities continued to make gains in opening trade on Friday, FT.com reports, after news of stake building in J Sainsbury lit up the retail sector. The FTSE 100 started the session 0.3 per cent higher at 6,670.5, a gain of 20 points.

Vancouver, Canada, June 14th 2007 – Finavera Renewables Inc. (‘Finavera Renewables’) (TSX-V: FVR) Chairman Thomas I.A. Allen, Q.C., is pleased to announce the addition of two members to the Board of Directors, which has been expanded to six directors.

BRISBANE fullback Karmichael Hunt has been cleared to play tonight's NRL match against the Bulldogs at Telstra Stadium.

LONDON (SHARECAST) - Lloyds TSB has started the long-awaited sale of Abbey Life, its closed life insurance business that is expected to fetch more than £1bn.

LLEYTON Hewitt extended his run of grass-court matches ahead of Wimbledon today, but only in doubles as he and Tim Henman won through to the third round at Queen's.

AUSTRALIAN cyclist Cadel Evans finished fourth in today's fourth stage of the Dauphine Libere criterium up the famous climb Mont Ventoux.

It's the biggest fixture clash of the season - four of England football stars getting married on the same weekend.

It's the biggest fixture clash of the season - four of England football stars getting married on the same weekend.

All-wheel drive arrives in Trollhattan. (Reviews - SUVs/Wagons)

Ismail Darbar insults Khayyam during a heated altercation over the elimination of a contestant .

KUWAIT CITY — Pushing for more press freedom in the Gulf countries, participants of a conference on mass communications law here recently said they would establish a watchdog to monitor violence against journalists.

An investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into BAE Systems’s dealings with the South African Government is focusing on £75 million that is alleged to have been paid to middlemen acting for the defence company.

FORTESCUE Metals Group shares have entered a trading halt pending the release of an announcement by the company.

DELIVERY of the first of six Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft - delayed more than two years - is on track to meet a new timetable of early 2009.

TREASURER Peter Costello says the competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has been granted powers to investigate petrol prices. Read Peter Costello's statement Read Graeme Samuel's statement

THE police officer charged with unlawfully assaulting and killing Mulrunji Doomadgee in the Palm Island police station on November 19, 2004 is to give evidence this afternoon at his trial being held in the Supreme Court in Townsville.

SIMMERING tensions between Google and eBay, one of the search engine's biggest advertising clients, have spilled over into a public spat as eBay forced its rival to abandon a plan aimed at luring away its customers.

A MAN in the NSW Blue Mountains has been charged with child pornography offences following a tip-off from the FBI, Australian Federal Police (AFP) say.

DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Saab Automobile 2007 Company Profile" to their offering.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.----River Hawk Aviation, Inc. announced today that Jeffrey Shawn Taylor has been appointed to its Board of Directors and that he replaces James Paquette, who has resigned from the Board.

14 June: Hamas seizes control of strategic Philadelphi enclave on Egyptian border and all Gaza’s border crossings with Egypt and Israel. Any international force in Gaza will be resisted in the same way as an Israeli occupation army, said a Hamas spokesman Thursday, June 14.

14 June: Hamas seizes control of strategic Philadelphi enclave on Egyptian border and all Gaza’s border crossings with Egypt and Israel. Any international force in Gaza will be resisted in the same way as an Israeli occupation army, said a Hamas spokesman Thursday, June 14.

Despite pleas for mercy, Judge Kode carried on delivering the verdicts in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

VANCOUVER, Canada----Finavera Renewables Inc. Chairman Thomas I.A. Allen, Q.C., is pleased to announce the addition of two members to the Board of Directors, which has been expanded to six directors.

Finavera Renewables Inc. Chairman Thomas I.A. Allen, Q.C., is pleased to announce the addition of two members to the Board of Directors, which has been expanded to six directors. The new directors, Hans Fredrikson and Dr.

Shelby convertible, Saab 9-3, Gibbs Aquada. (Daily Auto News)

All-wheel drive arrives in Trollhattan. (Reviews - Luxury Cars)

South Africa’s former top defence official has revealed that he resigned because of suspicions of corruption in a UK-backed arms deal involving BAE Systems and other big European companies.

Late in 1996, Terry Crawford-Browne, a South African anti-arms trade campaigner, wrote to the then British opposition leader Tony Blair to ask him to refuse to support a proposed post-apartheid arms deal.

South Africa’s former top defence official has revealed that he resigned because of suspicions of corruption in a UK-backed arms deal involving BAE Systems and other big European companies.

Late in 1996, Terry Crawford-Browne, a South African anti-arms trade campaigner, wrote to the then British opposition leader Tony Blair to ask him to refuse to support a proposed post-apartheid arms deal.

The new Saab 9-3 range features bold, more assertive looks, reflecting a series of powertrain improvements that include the introduction of all-wheel drive and more powerful diesel, petrol and BioPower flex-fuel engines.

Happily driving son back to university and car started making an awful sound from the engine I pulled over and as I did the car stopped. I turned engine over and noise was worse and car would not start up again. Got towed to my local garage and they informed me that my engine had siezed up.

MINNEAPOLIS & ST. PAUL, Minn.----Mesaba Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northwest Airlines Corporation , today reported capacity and traffic for May. Mesaba Airlines flew 72.2 million available seat miles in May, which was down 58.6% year over year.

ALLCO Finance Group has launched a $75 million wholesale property development fund with a focus on commercial office, retail and industrial.

THE Howard Government should be wary of striking a new uranium deal with Russia because of that country's "dangerous disregard" for treaties and human rights.

THE AFL confirmed it has fined Sydney for ruckman Peter Everitt's recent criticism of umpires.

BRITISH house price inflation increased in April, suggesting the Bank of England's four interest rate increases since last August have not crimped the residential property market.

OUSTED Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra shelled out close to $US27 million ($32 million) this month for a townhouse in Hong Kong's most prestigious neighbourhood, according to a local paper.

Treasurer Peter Costello says he does not see inflation taking off in Australia.

NATIONALS Senator Barnaby Joyce has accused Family First Leader Steve Fielding of bungling attempts to strengthen predatory pricing laws, warning that a bill he proposed yesterday was doomed to failure.

eCopy Inc., a leading provider of solutions that integrate paper documents into business software applications, and Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. today announced Abrazo Health Care was recognized with an eCopy document imaging Best Practices Award. The award acknowledges health care excellence in managing medical staff records by converting paper-based information into secure digital ...

POLICE are investigating a fire thought to have been started deliberately in a multi-storey car park.

eCopy Inc., a leading provider of solutions that integrate paper documents into business software applications, and Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc. today announced Abrazo Health Care was recognized with an eCopy document imaging Best Practices Award.

The 2008 model year Saab 9-3 will be launched in the UK in September. displayed at Geneva in 2006. Back then, Saab said that the Aero X was "conceived as a study to explore future design directions", and that has indeed turned out to be the case.

BRUSSELS, June 13 (RIA Novosti) - The European Commission has received an environmentally friendly car for testing, Commission spokesman Maximilian Strotmann said Wednesday.

THE San Antonio Spurs took a huge step toward winning their fourth title in the past nine years by defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 75-72 on Tuesday to take a 3-0 lead in the NBA finals.

Detroit June 12, 2007; The new Saab 9-3 range features bold, more assertive looks, reflecting powertrain improvements that include the introduction of all-wheel-drive and more powerful gasoline engines.

DETROIT — Taking a page from its Aero X concept car, Saab has tweaked the look of its 9-3 lineup and introduced a more powerful 280-horsepower 2.8-liter V6 turbo for the U.S. market.

THE split liver which resulted in the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee in the Palm Island watchhouse on November 19, 2004, was an injury more commonly found in people who suffered a high-speed vehicle accident, plane crash or skiing accident involving a collision with a tree, the Townsville Supreme court was told this morning.

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy have also composed music for Yashraj films' Jhoom Barabar Jhoom --the most awaited release of this summer. He juggles his work in Bollywood and as an independent singer with remarkable ease.

Official Dedication Friday, June 1, 2007 at 6 P.M.

The new Saab 9-3 range features bold, more assertive looks, reflecting powertrain improvements that include the introduction of all-wheel-drive and more powerful gasoline engines.

A security guard is robbed of his cash box outside a bank in Hucclecote, Gloucester on Tuesday morning.

TWO academics suspended from Queensland University of Technology have been warned they may face possible further misconduct charges. Creative industries faculty lecturers Gary MacLennan and John Hookham, who have been suspended for six months without pay, received a letter from vice-chancellor Peter Coaldrake on Saturday.

LABOR has cited a leaked government document as evidence John Howard plans to force 1.5million workers on to individual work contracts.

THE ABC board is in "an ideological and party-political bog" and cannot be relied on to properly advocate the cause of independent public broadcasting, according to former staff-elected director Quentin Dempster.

FORMER 'Cosmopolitan' editor Mia Freedman is leaving Nine Network and ACP Magazines, PBL Media announced today.

AUSTRALIAN oilfields pumped more than 31 million barrels of crude oil in the first three months of the year, lifting annual production by over eight per cent in the 12 months to March.

NIGERIAN author Chinua Achebe has won literature's prestigious Man Booker International Prize, beating the likes of Australia's Peter Carey.

THE SENATE erupted during question time today with an extraordinary outburst from Finance Minister Nick Minchin in response to a question about the government's response to climate change.

NIGERIAN author Chinua Achebe has won literature's prestigious Man Booker International Prize, beating the likes of Australia's Peter Carey.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden----Haldex systems featured on the new SAAB 9-3 vehicle line with All-Wheel Drive , introduced as Cross Wheel Drive and launched to mark the automaker's 60th anniversary.

Eagles: Connor Lachemann, Mark King 3 hits each; Tyrus Fleetwood, Lane Hessong 2 hits each.

Abhishek Bachchan is thrilled, however, about his Friday release, director Shaad Ali's Jhoom Barabar Jhoom , a mad comedy that casts him with Preity Zinta, Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta.

A father and his 15-year-old daughter, who disappeared from Ipswich on Sunday, are being sought by police.

NSW prop Luke Bailey has been cleared to play in tomorrow night's second State of Origin after going down at today's final training run with a strained pectoral muscle.

AMERICAN Alexis Thompson became the youngest player to ever qualify for the US Women's Open when the 12-year-old earned a spot in a sectional qualifier on Monday.

Senator Norm Coleman today praised the U.S. Department of Transportation for their decision today to extend air service between Thief River Falls and Minneapolis-St.

SYDNEY Swans defender Tadhg Kennelly has been ruled of AFL action for four to six weeks after scans on his injured knee.

MANLY fullback Brett Stewart will be rushed into the NSW State of Origin squad this morning with Anthony Minichiello in doubt for Wednesday night's Origin II with a back injury.

We have been purposely staying away from all those 2008 Saab 9-3 photos popping up because we’ve been waiting for the official release from Saab itself; and here it is. Saab today officially unveiled the new Saab 9-3 Sedan, SportCombi and the Convertible.

Designer Narendra Kumar Ahmed says the current retro-meets-grunge look has an ethnic feel to it.

Bought 1998 93se soft turbo sedan, 2nd owner, full Saab service history, 57kms immaculate. Never had a Saab, just fell in love. Just after purchase car started to blow smoke on take off of cold morning start then does not happen again until next morning start.

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Objective Interface Systems, Inc., provider of the most widely used communications middleware for software defined radios (SDRs), today announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center has selected its high-performance real-time communications middleware, ORBexpress® RT, to research the viability and optimization options for a light-weight Software ...

GLOBAL beverages firm Foster's Group has sold its former Kent Brewery site in Sydney to Frasers Property for $208 million.

POLICE are investigating a report that a baby's body has been discovered on a rubbish pile at a brick paving firm in Perth.

GLOBAL beverages firm Foster's Group has sold its former Kent Brewery site in Sydney to Frasers Property for $208 million.

THE largest single development project in Sydney's history is under way after the $208 million sale of the Broadway CUB site to Singapore developer Frasers Propert.

LABOR faced a "very formidable" challenge to win the 17 seats needed to unseat the Government, John Howard has told Coalition MPs.

ICONIC Australian builder Multiplex is set to fall into Canadian hands after backing a $7.3 billion bid from Toronto's Brookfield Asset Management, almost a year to the day after the death of its founder, John Roberts. Read Multiplex's statement

JOHN Howard will defy the warnings of Chinese authorities and meet with the Dalai Lama in Canberra this week. The Australian understands the Prime Minister will hold talks with the exiled Tibetan leader later this week.

Saab is celebrating 60 years of manufacturing cars with a series of events and festivities planned for the Swedish town of Trollhättan this weekend.

China and India account for 40% of the spending, says Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Pakistan is set to increase its defence expenditure by nine per cent in its annual budget this year, marking an allocation of Rs 275 billion for the sector.

THOUSANDS baked in soaring temperatures at the star-studded two-day Bollywood in the Park festival in Leeds. (11/06/2007)

2007-06-11 10:08:51 STOCKWATCH Alcatel-Lucent shares gain as investor conference gets underway LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Shares in Alcatel-Lucent rose in morning trading as the telecom networking equipment maker's investor conference got underway in Paris, with analysts and shareholders alike looking forward to a progress update on the integration of the two companies and a speech from its ...

Objective Interface Systems, Inc., provider of the most widely used communications middleware for software defined radios (SDRs), today announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn Research Center has selected its high-performance real-time communications middleware, ORBexpress® RT, to research the viability and optimization options for a light-weight Software ...

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Stockholm shares were slightly higher in early trade, on bargain hunting after last week's decline.

AN EXCLUSIVE £500,000 party including entertainment from Gary Barlow awaits the wedding guests of Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard and fiancee Alex Curran on Saturday.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Shares in Saab AB were hiked to '1/Buy' from '2/Hold' at SEB Enskilda, due to the recent poor share price performance and an attractive valuation.

GEELONG utility Max Rooke faces a one-match ban after the AFL match review panel took a dim view of a front-on hit on Adelaide's Mark Ricciuto at the weekend.

Saab fans and enthusiastic owners from all over the world are gathering in the Swedish town of Trollhättan this weekend, to celebrate Saab’s 60th anniversary as a car manufacturer.

The poet returns from a 12-day sojourn in Japan where he recited his poems on Iraq and Afghanistan, which were translated into Japanese. There's a gamble event organisers take with pre-written press releases that are written in the past tense reporting for an event yet to take place.

Senator Norm Coleman today praised the U.S. Department of Transportation for their decision today to extend air service between Thief River Falls and Minneapolis-St.

THE San Antonio Spurs moved closer to their third championship in the past five years by defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-92 today to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA finals.

· British firm is frontrunner to invest in Bristol factory · Paris show should reveal EADS in better shape

If Team New Zealand wins the America's Cup, David Ridley will crack open a couple of cases of Moet.

THE salvage team working to remove the 40,000 tonne Pasha Bulker off a Newcastle beach say they have discovered a hole in the external hull of the coal carrier.

SHARPSBURG - Brad Rippey was the men's champion and Susan Graham-Gray the women's at the eighth annual Jack E. Barr 5K at Antietam National Battlefield.

Teresa Hertz drives her ZAP Xebra Sedan on 32nd Street in Bellingham on her way to the Starbucks in Sehome Village recently.

Senator Norm Coleman today praised the U.S. Department of Transportation for their decision today to extend air service between Thief River Falls and Minneapolis-St.

Pakistan hiked its allocation for defence in its annual budget by nine per cent giving to the sector a whopping Rs 275 billion, an increase of Rs 25 million from last year.

Scott Sharp claimed his first IndyCar Series pole position in more than five years, winning the AAMCO Transmissions Pole Award for the Bombardier Learjet 550k at Texas Motor Speedway.

Pakistan is set to increase its defence expenditure by nine per cent in its annual budget this year, marking an allocation of Rs 275 billion for the sector.

Islamabad, June 9: Pakistan is set to increase its defence expenditure by 9 per cent in its annual budget this year, marking an allocation of Rs 275 billion for the sector.

June 9, 2007: The U.S. Navy is buying 172 pilot ejection systems, for $231,000 each, from the premier manufacturer of these system, Martin-Baker, a British firm that pioneered the design and manufacture of this device.

Kurt Vonnegut died last week at the age of 84. Briefly a resident of Northampton, where he taught at Smith College, he wrote the following essay for the alternative weekly In These Times in November, 2004.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Friday, June 8, 2007 -- Scott Sharp claimed his first IndyCar Series pole position in more than five years, winning the AAMCO Transmissions Pole Award for the Bombardier Learjet 550k at Texas Motor Speedway.

Senator Norm Coleman today praised the U.S. Department of Transportation for their decision today to extend air service between Thief River Falls and Minneapolis-St.

STAFF REPORTA three-car accident on U.S. 258 Friday afternoon left one driver seriously injured and jammed up airport traffic for two hours.

WILMINGTON -- A Hanscom Air Force Base resident is facing an assault charge after police say he was involved in a baseball bat-wielding attack. Harold Ruben, 18, of 18 Liberty Lane, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon by Wilmington police on Wednesday.

INTERACTIVE technology specialist Two Way has signed an agreement with Tabcorp and Foxtel to develop a wagering service on the Foxtel pay-TV platform.

GROUND-PENETRATING radar will be used to investigate the suspected grave of more than 160 Australian soldiers near the Anzacs' bloodiest World War I battlefield of Fromelles, in northern France.

THE battle for one of Sydney's biggest office tenants has been won, with the Commonwealth Bank to fill the entire Darling Park One tower at a rent bill of nearly $400 million over the life of lease.

Senator Norm Coleman today praised the U.S. Department of Transportation for their decision today to extend air service between Thief River Falls and Minneapolis-St.

THE San Antonio Spurs used a harassing, double-team defence to fluster LeBron James and defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 85-76 in the opening game of the NBA Finals today.

Akshay Kumar’s mid-year resolution-shoot for one film at a stretch, then move on to the next. Vajir Singh tells more.

AN elderly couple is missing in floodwaters in the NSW Hunter Valley, the ambulance service has reported.

Garden City's annual Belmont Festival celebration will kick-off on tonight (June 8) on Seventh Street between 6 and 10 p.m. The event will include the annual Hats Off To Garden City Hat contest (registration at 5 p.m.), with judging at 6 p.m. The parade will begin at 7 p.m.

AUSTRALIAN Adam Scott and Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson shared the first-round lead Thursday in the St Jude Championship.

AUSTRALIA'S Greg Jones is just one victory away from the French Open boys' final after dismissing Russian Vladimir Karusevich 7-5 6-3 at Roland Garros.

Pinnacle Airlines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corp. (NASDAQ: PNCL), today released its passenger and traffic levels for May 2007.

A LAWYER from Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has arrived in South Africa to investigate allegations of corrupt arms deals involving BAE Systems, despite the government ruling out an inquiry into a similar deal in Saudi Arabia.

The Youth Environment Parliament (YEP) celebrated World Environment Day this week with a ceremony at the offices of Environment & Development magazine in Beirut. Hundreds of students and teachers from across the country participated, along with representatives from the Environment and Education ministries, civil-society organizations and the media.

Pinnacle Airlines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corp., today released its passenger and traffic levels for May 2007.

Dev Anand has something new to talk about….  Did you call Dev Anand a legend? Please don't. He hates the tag. "When people call me a legend I wonder why. I am still going strong, making pictures and am very much in the running as any of the top stars. In fact I'm in a much bigger role because while they are only performing, I am writing and directing as well. So I am scoring over them and they ...

Dev Anand wants to release a colour version of Hum Dono; it's any day better than remakes, say movie buffs.

Celebrations rock the small town of Trollhattan. (Daily Auto News)

EAGAN, Minn.----Mesaba Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northwest Airlines operating under the Northwest Airlink banner, today completed its first revenue flight with the new 76-seat Bombardier CRJ900 regional jet aircraft.

Senator Norm Coleman today praised the U.S. Department of Transportation for their decision today to extend air service between Thief River Falls and Minneapolis-St.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Louisville sophomore Tone Belt, a 2005 Berkeley Springs graduate, long jumped 25 feet, 2 1/2 inches Wednesday at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships to qualify for today's finals in the event.

XSTRATA is looking to develop what could be southeast Asia's biggest untapped copper deposit in the southern Philippines, as the world's fifth-largest mining company seeks new drivers of rapid growth in addition to an aggressive acquisitions strategy.

NIELSEN, a US-based audience measurement company, plans to begin tracking mobile phone users' media consumption as part of an effort to provide wireless carriers, advertisers, and entertainment companies with more accurate data about mobile phone usage.

Family issues, rather than an affinity for late rock idol Kurt Cobain, spurred a 15-year-old Vacaville teen to leave home last week in hopes that his disappearance would make his parents, who have divorced and remarried, think twice about their relationship.

HURRICANES in the Atlantic Ocean are increasing because of natural weather patterns rather than global warming, a study has concluded.

INDIA'S crucial defence ties with Russia are under strain after Moscow's top brass arrived in New Delhi with a massively increased weapons bill.

A NAURU-BASED regional airline has flown into strife, cancelling the only service linking the isolated Marshall Islands in Micronesia with the South Pacific.

A MAJOR oil company agrees that petrol prices have been too high this week.

PRIME Minister John Howard says he's opposed to homosexual couples being allowed to adopt children.

A number of people are missing after a section of road collapsed north of Sydney late today.

A RECENT flurry of secret messages from Israel to Syria signalled Israel's willingness to give up the disputed Golan Heights in return for a peace agreement, an Israeli newspaper reported today.

A RAINHAM man has been jailed for 12 years for intent to supply £12million worth of high-grade cocaine. Stephen Poulton, 31, of New Road, Rainham, was arrested on December 7 last year.

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STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Saab AB said it will it repurchase a maximum of 1 mln shares in order to guarantee its employee incentive programme, Share Matching Plan 2007.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden----The Annual General Meeting 2007 of Saab AB resolved to authorize the Board of Directors to decide to repurchase the company's shares in order to guarantee the Share Matching Plan 2007.

LONG-time Socceroos midfielder Josip Skoko has ruled himself out of next month's Asian Cup and Australia's 2010 World Cup qualifiers.

THE Anaheim Ducks tamed the Ottawa Senators 6-2 today to clinch their first Stanley Cup and extend a painful title drought for hockey-mad Canadians.

NSW cricket captain Simon Katich is set to play out his career with the Blues after signing a new five-year deal.

AUSTRALIA'S senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, says he regrets that a bill overturning a ban on therapeutic cloning has passed the lower house of NSW parliament. Your say: No room for hysteria in cloning debate

JAMAICAN police said they are analysing new information in the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer but declined to address reports that he was not murdered and died of natural causes.

GEOFF Ogilvy will defend his US Open title at Oakmont Country Club next week on a course he rates as the toughest he has ever seen.

It's not fancy, but it does have that new airplane scent.

Prince Charles has been at the wheel of two environmentally friendly cars this week. Prior to this week's Brighton to London eco rally, the Prince drove special versions of the Saab 9-3 Convertible and the Ford Focus.

What a difference 24 hours makes. Step onto Aspen airport's new tarmac today and you'd be arrested for trespassing. But on Thursday it was a free-for-all.

BROWNLOW medallists Michael Voss and Simon Black and St Kilda AFL star Fraser Gehrig are among six men who have been charged over a brawl at a St Kilda hotel last year.

BAE Systems , Europe’s biggest arms manufacturer, is poised to further bolster its global armoured vehicle business through the creation of a jointly owned company with Denel, the state-owned South African defence group.

Whether by chance or persistent effort, Haifa Wehbe has become the most prominent showbiz figure in the Arab world. She was ranked 49th in the 2006 edition of "The Top 99 Desirable Women" and 53rd on the list of "100 Most Influential Personalities" in the Arab world this year.

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Kurt Vonnegut died last week at the age of 84. Briefly a resident of Northampton, where he taught at Smith College, he wrote the following essay for the alternative weekly In These Times in November, 2004.

Hours after an early Tuesday morning press conference at a Sacramento truck stop to plead for the public's help in finding a missing Vacaville teen, JonCarlos Adley turned up safe in Aberdeen, Wash.