Europe Intelligence Wire articles from September 2006

Europe Intelligence Wire archives from September 2006

Audit: Firm received improper payments.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) WASHINGTON (AFX) - A Nebraska company was improperly paid more than $278 million by misusing the federal student aid program, according to a federal audit released Friday. The overpayments could swell to...

Tim Hortons on its own.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) DUBLIN, Ohio (AFX) - Tim Hortons became an independent company Friday as parent Wendy's International Inc. completed its spinoff of the Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain. Wendy's, the third-largest...

Report: Russian energy giants may buy.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) NEW YORK (AFX) - Russia's state-controlled energy giants are preparing for more acquisitions that could give the government ownership of almost half the country's oil production, the most since privatization of...

Dow ends down 39 on gloomy economic news.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) NEW YORK (AFX) - businessminute Wall Street ended a stellar third quarter with a moderate decline Friday, as the Dow Jones industrial average pulled back further from record-high levels. The major...

Recipe: Somerset brandy and raisin ice cream.
September 30, 2006... (From Guardian Unlimited) This is absolutely fantastic melting over hot, spiced, baked apples, but also quite delicious served on its own. Serves 6 75ml cider brandy 120g raisins 6 medium egg yolks 100g caster...

Baptist group execs sentenced for fraud.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) PHOENIX (AFX) - Two former executives with the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were sentenced to prison Friday and ordered to repay hundreds of millions of dollars for defrauding investors in a botched financial...

FDA issues warning on carrot juice brand.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) WASHINGTON (AFX) - The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Friday night not to drink Bolthouse Farms Carrot Juice in certain packaging after linking a fourth case of botulism to the product. ...

Family Dollar to sell more groceries.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AFX) - Family Dollar Stores Inc. plans to offer more groceries in its stores and begin accepting food stamps, a move aimed at making the North Carolina-based discount chain a lower-priced...

Nigeria's cuts oil exports by 5 percent.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) LAGOS, Nigeria (AFX) - Nigeria is cutting oil exports by 5 percent amid falling oil prices, in a move a spokesman for the state-owned oil company described on Saturday as a routine seasonal reduction. World...

AFX NEWS BRIEFING: Aerospace and transportation highlights to 15:40 BST.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) 2006-09-30 09:43:04 Lower gas prices may help auto sales DETROIT (AFX) - When Nelson Ropke recently replaced his Jeep Grand Cherokee sport utility vehicle with a Chrysler Pacifica crossover, gasoline...

Shooting victim had no link with city gangs.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) ATEENAGE girl wounded in the latest outburst of gang violence in Manchester does not even live in the area. The 16-year-old was visiting a friend in Whalley Range on Thursday night when she was shot in...

The master stroke that transformed a school.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: neal keeling ART is the answer to turning round a Salford school. Ninety-seven per cent of pupils who took the subject at Buile Hill High School last year gained A to C grade GCSEs. The...

Puppy is snatched on walk with schoolgirl.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: paul britton APEDIGREE puppy was stolen from a schoolgirl after a thief calmly asked her if he could stroke it. The 15-week-old Japanese Akita, called Kai, was being taken for a walk by...

Coleen gives shopping advice to brave Kirsty.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: Dean Kirby CELEBRITY shopper Coleen McLoughlin hit the aisles again as she opened a new-look superstore. The fiancee of Manchester United star Wayne Rooney was launching the redesigned Asda...

Graffiti artist who had brush with law is banned by judge.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: DON FRAME AN artist convicted of spray-painting trains and buses has been banned by a judge from trespassing on railway property. Graduate Christopher Thomas 22, was last week given a two-year...

A flying lesson to never forget.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: mike keegan ONE of the RAF's most famous squadrons made a flying to a Manchester primary school and treated children to sample what life is like in the cockpit. A pilot and navigator from...

Canal cops join the flying (boat) squad on barges.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: brian lashley POLICE are taking a slow boat to tackle yobs making life a misery for canal users. Officers will be on barges to guard a stretch of canal dubbed one of the most crime-ridden in the...

Loner shot policeman before killing himself.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: George Oliver AMAN who barricaded himself in his home shot a policeman before turning the gun on himself, an inquest has heard. Family members and neighbours portrayed gunman Stephen Hensby...

Hand's up for shock GB return.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) TONY Hand is considering a return to the Great Britain team. The Manchester Phoenix player-coach has been invited back into the fold by national supremo Paul Thompson in the run-up to the World...

Prize-guy David's an Elite hope.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) DAVID Horsey has picked up a GBP1,000 windfall - thanks to the Manchester Evening News. We nominated the 21-year-old Styal player as one of the Britain's most exciting young sports prospects and our...

Weigh out of order.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) RICKY Hatton has blasted back at the critics who claim he has gone to pot, and says 2007 will be a big year for the Hitman. Hatton's infamous love of the good life - when he is not in training for a...

Sharks put the boot in.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: colm griffith SPANISH winger Oriol Ripol ran in a brace of tries as Sharks gained revenge over Newcastle Falcons with a convincing win at Edgeley Park in the first group game of the EDF Energy...

Wolves are primed to put the bite on Bulls.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: neil barker WARRINGTON Wolves have licked their wounds this week and are ready to hunt another prize play-off scalp tonight. They were bloodied, battered but brilliant in the opening stage...

Swinton bank on Morley's know-how to crush Crusaders.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: neil barker SWINTON Lions coach Paul Kidd believes that Chris Morley's vast experience could be invaluable in tomorrow's play-off clash against Celtic Crusaders. This will be Swinton's...

Every match a crunch for hard-man Davies.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: trevor baxter AFRACTURED cheekbone and criticism over his style of play won't turn Kevin Davies into a soccer softie. And that's bad news for Liverpool today when the Bolton striker plays...

End Ewood hoodoo.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: NEIL BARKER WIGAN Athletic owner Dave Whelan has told manager Paul Jewell to "make my day" on his Rovers return tomorrow. When Whelan bought Wigan his goal was to lead the Latics into the...

CopperPot on mettle as Elton bear down.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) ROCHDALE hot-shots Copper Pot are on red alert as they prepare for the toughest possible start to their defence of the Interserve Lancashire Sunday Trophy tomorrow. The holders know they face instant...

Rossi left on shelf.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: STUART MATHIESON UNITED and Newcastle could be heading for a showdown over the St James' Park club's on-loan Reds forward Giuseppe Rossi. Sir Alex Ferguson granted the 19-year-old striker...

New boy Ishmael puts Academy in front rank.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: chris bailey CITY Academy's hard-earned reputation as being one of the best hothouses of talent in the country has received a further boost through Ishmael Miller. Blues boss Stuart Pearce...

Vassell's cure for away woe.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: MIKE WHALLEY DARIUS Vassell believes Manchester City's players have the character to lift the "cloud of negativity" hanging over their away form. The Blues have lost all four of their away...

Roo runs for it.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: stuart mathieson WAYNE Rooney has been doing extra training in a bid to rediscover his missing form. Rooney - back in the England squad after his three-match suspension - was completely out...

Ricky out to make Witter eat his words.
September 30, 2006... (From Manchester Evening News) Byline: stuart brennan RICKY Hatton had a typical counter to the latest verbal sparring by mouthy Yorkshire rival Junior Witter... "Stick a pie in it!" Witter, who has been trying to goad the Hitman...

Farms facing worker shortage for harvest.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) BATESVILLE, Texas (AFX) - J. Allen Carnes needed 200 workers for the onion harvest this year on 500 acres of South Texas fields. The onion business is big in the area, and with only two months to harvest,...

Remembering motor industry's golden age.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) LANSING, Mich. (AFX) - It is time once again to journey to the past. And so, as they have for one afternoon each of the past 21 summers now, the old autoworkers flock to Moose Lodge 288 on the fringes...

Super-luxury homes hit market for $100M.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) PALM BEACH, Fla. (AFX) - Donald Trump's property for sale here has all the big-time extras one might expect. Pricey marble and 24-karat gold fixtures decorate bathrooms. There's a gargantuan fountain in the...

Florida faces potential orange shortage.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) ORLANDO, Fla. (AFX) - It's getting hard to grow oranges in the Sunshine State. Monthslong droughts are broken by nasty hurricane seasons. Three diseases that kill and damage citrus trees and fruit continue to...

Vioxx suits surge to beat deadline.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) TRENTON, New Jersey (AFX) - A surge of lawsuits has swamped courthouses just ahead of the two-year anniversary of drugmaker Merck & Co. pulling its blockbuster painkiller Vioxx from the market. Saturday...

Pier 1 CEO to step down next year.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) FORT WORTH, Texas (AFX) - The chairman and chief executive of Pier 1 Imports Inc., Marvin Girouard, will retire from the struggling home-furnishing retailer and its board early next year, the company announced...

Food illnesses decline, CDC reports.
September 30, 2006... (From AFX Europe (Focus)) SAN FRANCISCO (AFX) - 0930dv--spinach--ban--lifted Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, food may be safer now than at any other time in the last decade, with illness occurring at record-low...

Speakers at Parliament warn demonstrators not to violate.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - Shortly before midnight on Friday, speakers warned demonstrators in front of parliament to refrain from any political statement as of midnight, when a campaign silence goes...

Int'l community was slow in reacting to 1956 revolution.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - The international community was slow in reacting to Hungary's 1956 revolution because it developed so rapidly, took place at the same time as the Suez crisis, and went...

Reporters from 18 countries to cover Hungary local elections.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - Journalists from eighteen countries have asked for advanced accreditation to cover Hungary's October local and minority elections, said a National Election Office (OVI)...

Hungarian Heritage prizes awarded in spirit of '56.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - Hungarian Heritage Prizes were awarded at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on Saturday, and this year key figures and organisations connected to the 1956 uprising were...

OECD IT committees to hold session in Hungary.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - Hungary will host a session of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's information technology and IT security committees, and a forum of New...

Malev Budapest-Skopje flight turns round after malfunction.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - A Malev airlines flight from Budapest to Skopje, Macedonia, turned round shortly after takeoff on Saturday afternoon and its 59 passengers disembarked after a safe...

Bikers ride around Budapest during campaign silence.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - A few dozen motor bikers turned up in front of parliament and joined a few hundred people gathered at the scene of the anti-government demonstrations of the past couple of...

Soccer.
September 30, 2006... (From Hungarian News Agency (MTI)) Budapest, September 30 (MTI) - Results of matches played on Saturday in the 8th round of Hungary's first-division soccer championship: OpreU Tatabanya - Honved 1:2 (0:1) Debrecen - Fehervar 3:1...

Events - CTK General News in English, September 30.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Phone: +420 222 098 465 Duty Editor - morning: Pavel Veres afternoon: Pavel Veres ------------------------------------------------------------ ALL TIMES CEST Photo available at PhotoSales@mail.ctk.cz for items...

Czech press survey.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - Not bugging, but this Chamber of Deputies is the real problem as it cannot create anything good, Karel Steigerwald writes in Mlada fronta Dnes about the clash between the ruling Civic...

From the Slovak press.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Bratislava, Sept 30 (CTK) - The forthcoming national congress of Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer (Direction)-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) is to deal with two affairs: to eliminate Monika Flasikova from the party...

Benova not to seek post of deputy chairwoman at congress.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Trencin, West Slovakia, Sept 30 (CTK) - Monika Benova will not seek the post of deputy chairwoman of the governing Smer (Direction)-Social Democracy (Smer-SD), the party of which she was one of the founding...

Wiretapping law can be abused - press.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - The law on wiretapping "is full of holes" and it can be very flexibly "used," Tomas Almer, head of the police team in charge of bugging, told the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) today. On...

Medieval Jewish cemetery discovered in Plzen - press.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - Researchers made a tremendous discovery at the outskirts of Plzen, West Bohemia, where they found a medieval Jewish cemetery from the mid-15th century, the daily Pravo writes today....

Falung Gong protests against human right abuses in China.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - A silent demonstration staged by Falun Gong, banned in China, protested against repressive practices in Chinese labour camps in Prague's centre today. The activists said that body organs...

Schedule of CTK General News in English, October 1.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) ALL TIMES CEST CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE Prague Jewish holiday Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement Some results of the investigation of the leak of the "Kubice report" to the media are to be known by the date. Source:...

More dead from road accidents again - press.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - The fear of the new road law is on the wane, as evidenced by 74 dead on Czech roads in September, while the figure was 60 in July, Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today. Last year, 99...

Fico re-elected Smer-SD leader.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Trencin, West Slovakia, Sept 30 (CTK) - Prime Minister Robert Fico was re-elected the leader of his governing Smer (Direction)-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) at the party's national congress today. The delegates also...

Bahamas less reluctant to extradite Kozeny under U.S. pressure.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Nassau, Sept 30 (CTK) - The Bahamas seem to be changing their negative approach to extradition of the foreigners who are residing there and are facing charges in the USA, experts addressed by CTK said about the...

Events - CTK General News in English, September 30.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Phone: +420 222 098 465 Duty Editor afternoon: Pavel Veres ------------------------------------------------------------ ALL TIMES CEST Photo available at PhotoSales@mail.ctk.cz for items with keyword PHOTO....

Communist stage local march against U.S. anti-missile base.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prerov, Central Moravia, Sept 30 (CTK) - Roughly 70 people today attended a 7-kilometre march, staged by the local Communists (KSCM), protesting against the stationing of a U.S. anti-missile base in the Czech...

Another three police inspection officers sacked.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - Personnel changes in the Interior Ministry Inspection are continuing as Interior Minister Ivan Langer (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS) dismissed not only the head of the Inspection and...

Anarchists protest against planned U.S. anti-missile base.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Kladno/Caslav, Central Bohemia, Sept 30 (CTK) - A demonstration of anarchists against the plan to establish U.S. anti-missile bases in the Czech Republic was staged at Jan Zizka z Trocnova square in Caslav today....

Greens pledge to back ODS government in confidence vote.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Pardubice, East Bohemia, Sept 30 (CTK) - The Greens will support the government of Mirek Topolanek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS) in the confidence vote next week, as this was recommended to the six Greens...

Josef Capek's painting auctioned at record price.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - Josef Capek's painting Bath of Feet was sold for the record 9.3 million crowns at an auction at Prague's hotel Hilton today, Vladimir Neubert from the organising Galerie Art Praha told...

Greens pledge to back ODS government in confidence vote.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Adds paras 4-10. -------------------- Pardubice, East Bohemia, Sept 30 (CTK) - The Greens will support the government of Mirek Topolanek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS) in the confidence vote next week, as this...

Josef Capek's painting auctioned at record price.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Adds paras 5-7. -------------------- Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - Josef Capek's painting Bath of Feet was sold for the record 9.3 million crowns at an auction at Prague's hotel Hilton today, Vladimir Neubert from the...

Five die in car accident.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Adds details, rewrites. -------------------- Prostejov, Central Moravia, Sept 30 (CTK) - Five people died in the clash of a passenger car and a lorry on the road R 46 in Prostejov today, local fire brigade and...

Result of hockey Elite League 10th round.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - This is the result of the Czech ice hockey Elite League 10th round played today: Hame Zlin vs Bili Tygri Liberec 4-1 (2-1, 1-0, 1-0). Standings: 1. Hame Zlin 10 5 2 0 3 29-26 19 2....

Czech pilot injured in small aircraft accident.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Bratislava, Sept 30 (CTK) - Two small planes collided at an acrobatic air show of the Czech Hradec Kralove Air Circus at the Bratislava airport in Vajnory today, but there were no mortal injuries, Bratislava...

Summary of CTK General News in English, September 30, 21:00.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Pardubice, East Bohemia - The Greens will support the government of Mirek Topolanek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS) in the confidence vote next week, as this was recommended to the six Greens deputies by the...

Results of first soccer league 9th round matches.
September 30, 2006... (From Czech News Agency) Prague, Sept 30 (CTK) - Results of Czech first soccer league 9th round matches played today: Zlin vs Jablonec 0-0, Ostrava vs Pribram 1-1 (1-1). Standings: 1. Mlada Boleslav 8 7 1 0 15-2 22 2. Liberec 8 6 2 0...

Air ambulance cash floods in after hoax.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Kate O'Hara YORKSHIRE Air ambulance has been inundated with support after the Yorkshire Post reported that a GBP50,000 donat-ion to the Richard Hammond Appeal turned out to be a hoax. Chief executive Martin Eede...

Breast cancer rate hits new high as women delay families.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) THE number of women with breast cancer has hit a record high due to the growing trend of having children later in life and breastfeeding for only a short time. Latest figures show a rise of 81 per cent in the...

Shaft of light for ex-pit community.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) CRATE EXPECTATIONS: Striking artwork in Henry Moore's home town Joanne Ginley IT IS built from shipping containers and bottle crates and has found a home in a West Yorkshire town famous as the birthplace of sculptor...

Mother is spared prison for slapping teenagers.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Judge's sympathy for terrorised family Lucy Harvey A MOTHER who was driven into slapping three teenagers after her family was repeatedly terrorised by yobs walked free from court yesterday after a judge heard she...

Ex-student shoots principal in US school.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) A school principal was shot in rural Wisconsin yesterday, and a suspect was taken into custody. All the children at Weston School were reported safe, but there was no report last night on the condition of the...

Missing hamster grounds plane.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) It wasn't Snakes on a Plane, but an Austrian Airlines jet made an unscheduled stop as a precaution yesterday after a passenger sneaked a hamster aboard and the rodent escaped. The flight from Mallorca, Spain, to...

Kazakhs invoke wolves to howl down Borat.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Gleaming hotels and the region's best pastrami sandwiches, cash machines and the planet's largest population of wolves: these are among things Kazakhs want the world to know about their country - not the outrageous...

First woman space tourist returns to earth.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Space tourist Anousheh Ansari and her husband Hamid are reunited yesterday after the Soyuz capsule she was travelling in landed safely in northern Kazakhstan. The Russian craft, with cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov...

Saddam judge's brother-in-law gunned down.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Nephew hurt in Baghdad shooting The brother-in-law of the new Iraqi judge presiding over Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was killed and his nephew injured in a shooting yesterday in Baghdad. Kadhim Abdul-Hussein...

Sex trafficking gang jailed for up to nine years each.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) An illegal overstayer and his gang of "sex slavers" have been jailed for up to nine years each after selling a terrified mother to a pimp on Interpol's "most wanted" list. The woman, who risked her life and...

Hospital gets GBP21m intensive care unit.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Lucy Harvey THE largest intensive care unit in Europe will be created at a Yorkshire hospital after health chiefs approved the GBP21.3m project. At present the general intensive care unit at the Northern General...

Scientists raise the bar for greener chocolate.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) James Reed Education Correspondent CHOCOLATE is set to become greener thanks to a new way of making it developed by Yorkshire scientists. The process involves technology originally invented for the chemical...

Man accused of murder over flats-fall victim.
September 30, 2006... (From Yorkshire Post) Simon Bristow A MAN was last night charged with the murder of a mother who died after falling from the 18th storey of a block of flats. Iain Leslie Parker, 37, of Ashthorpe, Hull, is due to appear before Hull...