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Pradeep Sarkar says his Laaga Chunari Mein Daag is no washout.

(AP) - Among the earnings stories for Friday, Oct. 19, from AP Financial News: Top stories: CHICAGO (AP) -- McDonald's Corp. said Friday its third-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on rising sales of everything from coffee and breakfast items to hamburgers and snack wraps.

McDonald's Corp. said Friday its third-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent on rising sales of everything from coffee and breakfast items to hamburgers and snack wraps.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Stockholm shares closed sharply lower, close to session lows after early weakness on Wall Street led to a sell-off in late trade, with Husqvarna ( Nachrichten ) diving after reporting far worse than expected third-quarter results.

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LONDON: A Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who sparked a furore after claiming that black people were less intelligent than white people moved to quell the row yesterday with an apology.

FINANCIAL innovation in the form of new investment strategies and products, such as equity and credit derivatives, has been a hallmark of global markets since the Black Monday crash of 1987.

EVEN if he is completely exonerated by an investigation next week, ARU chairman Peter McGrath already has paid a heavy price for the allegations directed against him, with Australia withdrawing him as its candidate for a seat on the IRB executive board.

Nothing like %2490-per-barrel crude to put a damper on the final trading day of the week...( Read More )

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Leading European exchanges were recovering midday as US futures bounce of earlier lows and as the high crude price lifts oil stocks in a generally weak day of trading.

European shares are currently trading flat with higher crude prices lifting oil issues though bank and pharmaceutical stocks are weak.

Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB, which makes Gripen fighter jets, reported an 8 percent drop in third-quarter net profit Friday, mainly on the back of higher marketing and research and development costs.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Shares remained slightly in negative territory in midday trade, but off morning lows as the selling eased, with defence group Saab underperforming after its weaker-than-expected nine-months results.

Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB reported an 8 percent drop in third-quarter net profit on Friday, mainly on the back of higher marketing and research and development costs.

The safest cars of 2007 all have one thing in common: electronic stability control, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Higher marketing and research and development costs led Saab AB to 8 percent drop in third-quarter net profit, the company said Friday.

Higher marketing and research and development costs led Saab AB to 8 percent drop in third-quarter net profit, the company said Friday.

October 19, 2007: Thailand has decided to replace its aging F-5 fighters with a dozen Swedish JAS-39 Gripen fighters. These will cost about $55 million each (with spares, support and training.)

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Leading European exchanges were lower in early deals, with investors eyeing US futures and as the oil price keeps close to record highs, placing oil price derivative options, which expire later today, in the spotlight.

2007-10-19 09:57:36 STOCKWATCH UniCredit shares underperform market; ABN placing 250 mln shares MILAN (Thomson Financial) - Shares in UniCredit were slightly underperforming the rest of the blue-chip S&P/Mib index on talk that ABN-Amro is placing some 250 mln shares, the equivalent of about 1.9 pct of share capital.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Stockholm shares were slightly lower in early morning trade, pressured by renewed credit market jitters, with defence group Saab underperforming after its weaker-than-expected nine-months results.

Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Saab AB, builder of the Gripen fighter plane, said third-quarter profit fell 8 percent as the Swedish company spent more on research and marketing.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Stockholm shares were slightly lower in early morning trade, pressured by renewed credit market jitters, with defence group Saab ( Nachrichten ) underperforming after its weaker-than-expected nine-months results.

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares traded mixed on Friday as oil prices and the euro both hit fresh all-time highs. Mining shares rose, banking shares declined and investors took on board corporate updates from WPP and SAAB.

Bollywood's inimitable diva Rekha has spoken candidly about Amitabh Bachchan, saying he taught her the nuances of acting. She praised his performance in 'Last Lear' as 'very Shakespearean'.

Mats Warstedt takes up the newly created position as Director of Marketing and Jonas Hjelm becomes responsible for Government Relations. In his management role as Marketing director, Mats Warstedt takes responsibility for Saab International and Saab Industrial Cooperation.

(Updating with cost-cutting programme) STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Saab AB said its nine-month pretax profit fell 1.9 pct from a year earlier to 1.269 bln skr despite rising sales, due to increased spending on research and development and lower net financial income.

Local car dealer and entrepreneur Ken Garff has made a $3 million donation to the University of Utah to help fund a reconstruction and remodeling project at the business school, set to be completed five years from now, the business dean said Thursday.

I seriously think Bachchan is more Bengali than any one I know, says the style diva.

PETER Costello says Labor clearly never had a tax plan because it had copied the key elements of the Coalition's proposal.

Mumbai, Oct 19 - Bollywood's inimitable diva Rekha has spoken candidly about Amitabh Bachchan, saying he taught her the nuances of acting. She praised his performance in 'Last Lear' as have ry Shakespearean'.

Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) Bollywood's inimitable diva Rekha has spoken candidly about Amitabh Bachchan, saying he taught her the nuances of acting. She praised his performance in 'Last Lear' as 'very Shakespearean'.

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - US SUMMARY: Stocks flat; oil hits new high; dollar hits new low vs euro

THE Greens have unveiled a $22 billion plan to improve the energy efficiency of every Australian home.

Kevin Rudd has announced major tax refunds for parents, offering up to 50 percent rebates for school expenses.

Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- The following stocks may rise or fall in European markets. Prices are from the last close.

Top field, nearly 6,000 expected at race events.

TWO polls showing the coalition is gaining ground on Labor are to be expected, deputy opposition leader Julia Gillard says.

Bucharest - ‘EXPOMIL 2007’, the 5th edition of the defence technology exhibition, and the International Seminar ‘ICOMIL 2007’ have managed to gathered in Romexpo over 100 exhibitors from 18 countries – Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden and Turkey.

PRESSURE is growing on Kevin Rudd to prove his economic credentials after a shift of support to the Coalition in three opinion polls.

DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Digital Battlespace Handbook 2007-08" to their offering.

The CPM has questioned PM's statement that the Doha WTO parleys on agriculture should proceed with removal of trade barriers.

The Newark Police Department has arrested one man and obtained arrest warrants for two others on charges related to an assault that occurred at North College Avenue on Sept. 5.

BOND yields suffered their biggest drop in more than a month as fears grew that weakness in the US housing sector would lead to recession.

WASHINGTON (AP) - XM Satellite Radio Holdings ( Nachrichten ) Inc. said Thursday General Motors Corp. ( Nachrichten / Aktienkurs ) will install its radios as standard equipment on all 2008 Buick, Hummer and Saab models.

TELSTRA has received a $100 million distribution from its 50 per cent investment in pay-television operator Foxtel.

NEWS Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch says he had no idea how explosive social networking would become when he bought online hangout MySpace.com two years ago.

THE International Monetary Fund says Britain is among the countries most at risk of a steep housing market downturn, with property even more overvalued than it was in the US before the recent correction.

THE moment of truth for Lewis Hamilton at the climax of his momentous debut year comes on Sunday at the Brazilian Grand Prix as he seeks to close out a championship he has led outright since the Canadian Grand Prix in June.

A TEACHING program that helps students "trust their heads" to recall basic mathematical facts has turned students failing maths into some of the best performers.

THE embattled Nine Network has enjoyed a ratings victory, of sorts.

LOS ANGELES: Anthony Hopkins is suing Merchant Ivory Productions for allegedly failing to pay him.

QANTAS and listed travel agency Jetset Travelworld have confirmed they are engaged in discussions over "restructuring opportunities", as the airline looks to build a presence in retail shopfronts.

A GOVERNMENT audit has found that the Aboriginal reform agenda has been stifled by rigid funding deals and public service culture.

TIGER Airways has shunned Sydney Airport in its initial expansion and handed back slots it had been allocated for the northern winter season.

JOHN Howard said it was "despicable and distasteful". Kevin Rudd said it was "disgusting and just wrong".

CURRENCY traders were given a green light to continue selling the US dollar, as the International Monetary Fund said the greenback "remains overvalued" and rejected claims the euro had risen too far.

APPLE moved yesterday to placate restless software developers by announcing plans to allow software makers to create programs for its iPhone mobile handset.

SINGAPORE Airlines is investigating whether it can sell MP3 music files through its newest Krisworld in-flight entertainment system.

SHOPPING-centre owner and manager Centro had some comforting news yesterday for investors worried about its exposure to the US market.

LONDON: The British Broadcasting Corporation will slash its workforce by 1800, broadcast fewer programs and require staff to work across all media: radio, television and the internet.

FORMER Queensland government minister Pat Purcell has pleaded not guilty to assault.

SOUTHERN Cross Broadcasting shareholders have approved a proposal by Macquarie Media Group to acquire shares in the company.

Editor: I listened to several speeches in front of the Union on Oct. 4 about the U's efforts toward environmental sustainability, and I was encouraged by what I heard. As someone who frequently commutes to campus by bike, I was also pleased to see a table for the U's Bike Collective, as well as a display of a plug-in electric car.

Air force chief ACM Chalit Phukphasuk insisted yesterday the bid to purchase Saab Gripen jet fighters from Sweden was appropriate, saying the Swedish government offered the best deal.

by Staff Writers Bangkok (AFP) Oct 17, 2007 Thailand will purchase 12 Swedish-made jet fighters over the next decade for 34.4 billion baht (one billion dollars), the head of the air force said Wednesday.

RUMOURS were circulating that Diana, Princess of Wales, was poised to announce a pregnancy or engagement to lover Dodi Fayed on the night of her death, her inquest heard today.

Gear box is notchy, but that's normal on this model, its worth getting use to. Heated seats don't work as well as the sunroof.

Thailand will purchase 12 Swedish-made jet fighters to replace Vietnam-era US warplanes, a military spokesman said Wednesday.

The Air Force commander yesterday defended the purchase of 12 Swedish-made jet fighters on security grounds,....

Proceedings at the inquests of Diana, the Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed were interrupted today when a key witness failed to appear.

IT managers who successfully deployed ERP systems advised others managing similar projects to allow plenty of time in project plans for selling the benefits of the system to users and for training.

An undated handout filephoto of a Swedish fighter jet JAS 39 Gripen. Thailand will purchase 12 Swedish-made jet fighters over the next decade for 34.4 billion baht (one billion dollars), the head of the air force said Wednesday.

Thailand will purchase 12 Swedish-made jet fighters over the next decade for 34.4 billion baht (one billion dollars), the head of the air force said Wednesday.

Thailand will purchase 12 Swedish-made jet fighters over the next decade for 34.4 billion baht (one billion dollars), the head of the air force said Wednesday.

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Key items expected in the two weeks to Wednesday Oct 31 (approx GMT times) THURSDAY OCT 18 ASIA -Qantas Airways AGM -Reserve Bank of Australia monthly bulletin AUSTRIA -OMV Q3 trading statement BENELUX -Dutch July-Sept unemployment -Schuitema Q3 sales -Omega Pharma Q3 results (1545 GMT) -Belgacom board meeting EASTERN EUROPE -Hungary Aug construction data -Hungary ...

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Saab AB said it has won an order worth 3.9 bln skr from the Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV) to upgrade 31 Swedish Gripen aircraft to the latest standard.

Every ghazal connoisseur swears by his Chupke chupke, Hungama hai kyon barpa and Tere shaher mein. And he will be performing ‘live' in Mumbai on Saturday.

THE conduct of some mortgage market participants had been "shameful", US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said, as he called for a nationwide licensing and monitoring system for mortgage brokers to be considered.

THE unlisted DB RREEF Wholesale Property Trust has raised $927 million to pay for a 50 per cent stake in five shopping centres acquired from its sister trust, the listed DB RREEF Trust (DRT).

JELENA DOKIC would have to "earn her stripes" to regain the full backing of Tennis Australia, director of player development Craig Tiley said.

ALCOHOL restrictions in remote Australia are highly effective in turning around troubled towns and reducing shocking rates of death.

INTEL, a technology industry bellwether, boosted the sector on Tuesday, reporting a 43 per cent rise in profits and strong and growing demand for its chips.

IN a second stunning literary upset in a week, Irish writer Anne Enright has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her "exhilaratingly bleak" novel about a dysfunctional family, The Gathering.

DR Horton, the largest US homebuilder by sales, painted a grim picture of the housing market yesterday, saying nearly half its home orders were cancelled in the quarter to the end of September.

RADIO broadcaster Alan Jones may face prosecution for contempt of court after the NSW Coroner said she was outraged at recent criticism of the upcoming inquest into the death of Private Jake Kovco.

THE mortgage broking arm of family-owned real estate agent Ray White Group has merged with X Inc Finance to create a mortgage broking business with a loan book of $8 billion.

AN Australian soldier has been shot in the arm while on a patrol in southern Iraq.

AUSTRALIA faces a skills shortage of 123,000 land managers and agricultural scientists in the next six years as climate change takes its toll and farmers have to get more environmentally friendly.

A PILOT safely landed a cargo plane in the desert town of Alice Springs while it was on fire, police say.

A PROJECTED temperature rise in southern Queensland that would effectively make the region part of the tropics could spell disaster for its grain industry, researchers suggest.

MOST Australians are willing to pay more for green energy, but their enthusiasm for clean power is outstripped by citizens of large developing countries.

RUSSIAN prosecutors have charged nine people, including a senior officer in the country's security service, over the murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

THE latest interest rate rise prompted housing affordability to plunge to its lowest level on record, a key report has found.

RADIO broadcaster Alan Jones may face prosecution for contempt of court after the NSW Coroner said she was outraged at recent criticism of the upcoming inquest into the death of Private Jake Kovco.

DEMAND for graduates in agriculture and natural resource management would rocket by 36 per cent in the next six years due to major changes in farming, a study by the University of Sydney has found.

THE Queensland Police Service (QPS) says an independent review has backed its decision not to prosecute a senior hospital official over the for Jayant Patel scandal.

MOST Australians are willing to pay more for green energy, but their enthusiasm for clean power is outstripped by citizens of large developing countries.

A MAJOR environmental study has backed a Queensland government decision to put a dam on the Mary River north of Brisbane.

Saab ( Nachrichten ) (STO:SAABB) will upgrade 31 Swedish Gripen aircraft to the latest standard. The contract with FMV, the Swedish Defence Material Administration, is worth SEK 3.9 billion, also covering a demonstrator programme for Gripen's future development.

Note: Saab expected Friday to report net profit slightly down mainly due to a somewhat higher tax rate. Revenues are expected to be have been helped by the inclusion of Microwave Systems which was acquired in September 2006. Focus will be on margin forecast and order bookings.

Ras Al Khaimah, 17 th October 2007: RAK Properties RAK Properties , the premier real estate developer in Ras Al Khaimah, announced today the signing of an agreement with Millennium Hotels and Resorts Millennium Hotels and Resorts on managing the Millennium Mina Al Arab Resort in the multi-billion Mina Al Arab development.

BANGKOK - Thailand’s Air Force will buy six JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden’s Saab SAABb.ST for 19.5 billion baht ($574 million) to replace ageing F-5E fighters, Air Force chief Chalit Pukphasuk said on Wednesday.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Thailand will purchase 12 Saab AB JAS Gripen fighters over the next decade for 34 billion baht (997 mln usd), the head of the air force said today.

BANGKOK, Oct 17 - Thailand's Air Force will buy six JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden's Saab for 19.5 billion baht to replace ageing F-5E fighters, Air Force chief Chalit Pukphasuk said on Wednesday.

STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Thailand will purchase 12 Saab AB JAS Gripen fighters over the next decade for 34 billion baht (997 mln usd), the head of the air force said today.

KEDIRI, Indonesia - Fears of an imminent eruption prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents near Indonesia's Mount Kelud, but many flouted the order stayed at their homes around the rumbling Javanese volcano.

RAK Properties, the premier real estate developer in Ras Al Khaimah, announced today the signing of an agreement with Millennium Hotels and Resorts on managing the Millennium Mina Al Arab Resort in the multi-billion Mina Al Arab development.

Thailand's Air Force will buy six JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden's Saab for $574 million to replace ageing F-5E fighters, Air Force

AUSTRALIA has bought a further 500,000 doses of horse flu vaccine, bringing the total number to 750,000.

With its GM Style event at the Madinat Arena on November 11, General Motors has taken a novel approach to marketing its extensive vehicle line-up in the region.

HUNDREDS of mourners gathered in Brisbane this morning to pay their respects to Trooper David Pearce.

HUNDREDS of mourners gathered in Brisbane this morning to pay their respects to Trooper David Pearce.

by Nikita Petrov Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 17, 2007 India has signed a contract with Russia for the licensed assembly of 40 multi-role Su-30MKI (Flanker-H) fighter jets, news agencies reported last week. According to experts, the agreement will cost India more than $1.5 billion.

THE Australian Conservation Foundation rates Labor well ahead of the coalition on climate change and environment policies, but still below 50 per cent.

HEFEI, China — As further proof of China's growing clout on the global automotive stage, Shanghai General Motors said it will spend about $213 million to build China's "largest and most comprehensive vehicle proving ground."

“Ethanol, and America’s energy future, is at a crossroads. "Either we will continue on a path toward greater energy diversity and security by expanding the current Renewable Fuel Standard to motivate investment in new cellulosic ethanol technologies, or we will succumb to the nattering nabobs of negativity who are seizing upon every unfounded fear to thwart the worldwide movement toward ...

DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Electronic Warfare Handbook 2007 to their offering.

NAQOURA, Lebanon -- Israel exchanged a Hezbollah prisoner and the bodies of two Lebanese fighters for the corpse of an Israeli civilian Monday, a move that could pave the way for a deal involving the Israeli soldiers whose capture sparked the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Complete report for the Trackrod Historic Cup Rally the concluding round of the 2007 Dunlop/Gambia MSA British Historic Rally Championship.

If you’re thinking the ‘new’ Saab 9-3 looks incredibly similar to its predecessor, you are not alone. The firm says it has made more than 2,000 changes to its top seller, but unless you’re a real Saab fan, you’ll be hard-pressed to notice all of them.

DUBLINER Anne Enright has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her bleak Irish family saga The Gathering.

But full recovery of credit markets is some way off, warns chairman Ben Bernanke

ALLAN Moss, chief executive of Macquarie Bank, has hit out at critics who claim the dozens of infrastructure funds it manages, and which own community assets including water companies and tolls roads, are at risk because they are excessively leveraged.

THE risk of a disorderly adjustment of global economic imbalances has increased after the turmoil in credit markets, Rodrigo Rato, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said.

NOMURA Securities has revealed a doubling of losses stemming from the US residential mortgage-backed securities market as it cut jobs at its US fixed income operations.

A woman died of injuries sustained in a car accident on Interstate 64 in Cross Lanes, State Police say.

BROADCASTER BSkyB has accused US IT outsourcing company EDS of making a "deliberate, cynical and dishonest" sales pitch for a multi-million-dollar contract to build a customer service system.

THE Sydney-based Valad Property Group has continued to ramp up its presence in Britain and Europe with the purchase of another five properties for almost $200 million yesterday.

THE Howard Government has delivered a one-off grant to Sydney Dance Company, wiping its accumulated deficit, a day before entering the pre-election caretaker period.

NSW remains a black spot for developer AV Jennings, but overall the company is headed in the right direction, according to chairman Simon Cheong.

SIGNS of relief were seen in the credit markets after news yesterday of plans to launch a "super fund" to take on the assets of troubled investment vehicles.

EMERGING real estate investment manager MacarthurCook will list its successful $160 million MacarthurCook Industrial Property Trust.

REGIONAL universities have been compensated for the effects of voluntary student unionism with $31 million in grants to upgrade mainly sporting and recreational facilities.

FORMER NSW premier and federal finance minister John Fahey is poised to assume one of the most powerful positions in world sport as the next president of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

INVESTMENT bank Babcock & Brown finalised the sale of its 50 per cent stake in a US shopping centre portfolio to its joint venture partner GPT yesterday for an undisclosed price.

UNLIKE many at university who feel strongly one way or the other, student Aaron Smith is undecided whether to vote for Labor or the Coalition, although he does lean towards Labor.

GOOGLE sought to take back some of the moral high ground yesterday in its tussle with traditional media companies as it claimed to have made significant progress with a new technology designed to block copyrighted video from its YouTube subsidiary. The claims for the so-called "video fingerprinting" technology follow complaints from some TV show owners that Google has dragged its feet all year ...

THE Howard Government's controversial schools funding model has already lost it the vote of Professor Robyn Zevenbergen, director of the Griffith Institute of Educational Research and mother of three.

THE longstanding puzzle of whether fish can sleep has been solved by a study that has shown they like a lie-in after a disturbed night.

JOSH Kinal has only been at RMIT University for a month but it has been long enough for him to form a view about what the university sector desperately needs.

AN influx of Dutch students to Australia is expected after The Netherlands Government approved funding for students to enrol at overseas universities.

THE Australian's excellence in business journalism has been recognised by the Walkley Foundation, with two of the paper's journalists being named finalists for the prestigious Walkley Award for Business Journalisim.

MEDIA heavyweights gathered last night to celebrate two publishing milestones, the second birthday of The Australian's Wish magazine and the launch of a year of activities ahead of next September's 20th anniversary of The Weekend Australian Magazine.

THE Queensland University of Technology has reached an out-of-court settlement with two academics who were suspended without pay after criticising a controversial thesis about comedy and the disabled.

MICHAEL Spence, named yesterday as the next vice-chancellor at the University of Sydney, comes equipped for the task ahead.

AUSTRALIAN primary schools have insufficient funds to fulfil the goals required of them, regardless of whether they are government, Catholic or independent, according to a report jointly commissioned by the federal Education Department.

WEST Coast Eagles administrators have been in crisis talks today after troubled star Ben Cousins was charged with drug possession.

RICKY Ponting says the Australians aren't taking their dominance of India for granted ahead of today's dead rubber in Mumbai.

THE NSW state coroner has expressed outrage at media reports on the upcoming inquest into the death of Private Jake Kovco.

PRIME Minister John Howard and Labor leader Kevin Rudd have joined mourners in Brisbane at the funeral for Trooper David Pearce.

NAVY pilots are not concerned for their safety in flying the ageing Sea King helicopters, defence insisted today.

AN Australian soldier has been seriously wounded in southern Iraq overnight, the Department of Defence says.

The coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer during this year's Cricket World Cup has opened in Jamaica.

The first delivered Airbus A380 superjumbo, owned by Singapore Airlines, took off this morning from Airbus headquarters in Toulouse.

Dubai, October 16, 2007 - National Properties, the wholly owned real estate subsidiary of National Bonds Corporation, today unveiled 'Flamingo Creek', a mixed use project to be located on the western fringes of 'The Lagoons,' at Cityscape Dubai.

MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) - India has signed a contract with Russia for the licensed assembly of 40 multi-role Su-30MKI (Flanker-H) fighter jets, news agencies reported last week.

Often considered as the 'Mozart of Asia,' musician Allah Rakha Rahman has done everything from classical to reggae and now with Shekar Kapur's 'Elizabeth: the Golden Age' awaiting release, where he pairs up with Hollywood actor Craig Armstrong, he is very excited.

RAK Properties PJSC, Ras Al Khaimah's largest property developer, has announced the launch of RAK Towers in Al Reem Island.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden----Saab's CEO and President, Ake Svensson, formally installed as President of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe , at the association's annual convention.

Alejandro Oceguera was convicted of two felonies: a drug charge and eluding police. CHRISTIANSBURG -- The manager of a Mexican food store in Blacksburg was found not guilty of attempted murder Monday. But Montgomery County Circuit Judge Bobby Turk did find Alejandro Oceguera guilty of possessing more than 5 pounds of marijuana with intent to distribute and eluding police -- both felonies.

One woman was killed and another injured in a Monday morning accident on Interstate 64 in Cross Lanes, according to State Police.

Kevin Rudd will require government departments annually to 'show cause' why their land should not be sold to make housing available.

PETER Garrett has thrown down a challenge to Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull, inviting him to a debate on national television.

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DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Simulation and Training Handbook 2007 to their offering.

POLICE say the target of the botched Brass Handles assassination, who is now in jail for viciously beating two men seven months after the attempt on his life, thought he had become 'untouchable'.

IT may be 18 months late, but Airbus believes its new A380 super jumbo is better prepared to serve the Singapore-Sydney route next week than any new aircraft before it.

LONDON: British rockers Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next month. The band, whose reunion gig in London in November prompted more than a million fans to apply for the 10,000 available tickets, is one of the last major rock music acts to offer its catalogue digitally.

SHANE Warne might be permanently in the doghouse these days, but that's not to say he isn't welcome into the homes of 2.5 million television viewers.

MULTIPLE pregnancies used to be common in fertility treatment but improved techniques mean this is fast becoming history.

A PERTH pilot who refused tosign an Australian Workplace Agreement was told in writing by his bosses that his decision was untenable, the Federal Magistrates Court heard yesterday.

VIRGIN has lined up a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund that could come into its consortium bid for Northern Rock as early as this week.

MULTIPLEX'S founding Roberts family sold the last of its stock in the builder into Canadian suitor Brookfield Asset Management's $4.2 billion takeover bid on Friday.

TENDERS for one of Australia's biggest office complexes close today with Queensland Investment Corp's Brisbane Central Plaza towers expected to reap up to $850 million.

CARL Icahn, the US activist investor, has signalled the possible launch of a new campaign against Motorola if performance at the telecommunications equipment maker does not improve.

SAP has sought to allay investor fears about a new bidding rivalry between the German business software maker and US rival Oracle by pledging to make big acquisitions only to enter new markets, not to consolidate existing ones.

MOST US corporate leaders believe chief executives are overpaid and do not provide value for money for their companies, according to a study that will embolden critics of excessive compensation.

BANKERS and hedge fund managers are increasingly turning to the nascent world of freight derivatives, as figures to be published overnight show the market is on course to hit a record $US150 billion ($166 billion) in value - a 200 per cent increase on last year.

INSPIRED by innovative multimedia polypoetry concerts in Europe, La Mama Theatre presented its Voiceprints season from October 11 as part of the 2007 Melbourne International Arts Festival.

MACQUARIE Bank has played down its role at a meeting of Tasmanian mining company creditors who gathered to vote on a lucrative deal for the bank.

MUSICAL excellence and community spirit have been recognised in this year's ARIA Fine Arts Awards, with Melbourne's Choir of Hard Knocks winning the award for best soundtrack album.

POLICE are investigating the discovery of a baby's body at a TAFE college campus in central Adelaide.

TAXI drivers are threatening to blockade Sydney Airport after a driver was arrested and subdued with capsicum spray.

THE South Australian government has rejected calls for a total ban on gun ownership across the state.

POLITICIAN John Fahey, best known for helping win the Olympics for Sydney, is the new front-runner to head the World Anti-Doping Agency.

THREE children hospitalised after swallowing suspected ecstasy tablets at school thought they were lollies, police say.

Valad Property Group has purchased five properties in the UK and Europe for a total of $198.2 million.

A man dressed only in his underwear survived a fall from his ninth-storey apartment in Perth after a late night prank, police said.

STRONG winds and hot, dry conditions are hampering efforts to control a bushfire near Wollongong, south of Sydney.

CONTROVERSIAL West Coast Eagles star Ben Cousins has been arrested in Perth, according to reports.

THE competition watchdog has recommended record fines of $36 million against Visy and owner Richard Pratt for cartel behaviour.

TROUBLED West Coast Eagles star Ben Cousins has been arrested after police searched his car in Perth today, witnesses said.

MACQUARIE Bank has played down its role at a meeting of Tasmanian mining company creditors who gathered to vote on a lucrative deal for the bank.

When the old lady next door died, her son took away the furniture in a sad, discreet van. Two days later, the house clearers came and slung everything else into a skip. After a respectful three hours, I climbed into the skip to have a look-see.

KEVIN Rudd has demanded John Howard outline any future plans for WorkChoices and the Australian industrial relations system.

The most romantic weddings take place in small village churches – providing a picture-perfect setting for beautiful bridal gowns, says Hilary Alexander .