BRUSSELS AFP — Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans pulled out of the one day criterium held in Flanders on Tuesday with a reported injured knee. But mystery surrounded the origin of the injury. According to organiser Denis Bolle the Australian cyclist sustained the problem at a rock...
GAZA CITY AFP — One person was killed and four others were wounded early on Friday when a bomb exploded outside a Gaza City cafe that had already been targeted two months ago, emergency services and police said. The blast, shortly after midnight, caused extensive damage to the cafe....
At first glance, the Ellen O'Brien retrospective that opens today at Cucuru Gallery and Cafe is almost bewildering: The work ranges from realism, to several flavors of modernism, to pure abstraction. "Ellen went through every art scene, but also kept herself in her work," said artist Ceil...
PARIS AFP — Breathalyser tests for people leaving bars and cafes across France could be mandatory from this summer under a plan to be put Monday before President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet, Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said Sunday. The move -- revealed by Borloo on France 2 television -- follows...
Faith Hope Consolo, chairman, and Joseph A. Aquino, executive vice president, of Prudential Douglas Elliman's Retail Leasing and Sales Division, exclusive agents for the block front of retail stores at the intersection of Broadway and Central Park South, directly across from the Shops at Columbus Circle, announced that AQ Kafe,...
PANAJI, India AFP — Police in the Indian resort state of Goa Sunday arrested one of three men held in connection with the murder of a British teenager whose partially naked body was found on a beach last month. The man has been identified as 29-year-old Samsung D'Souza, an...
Benugo delis have become a hotspot for City staff and culture lovers. But its co-founder warns Simon Evans not to mention carrot sticks Tucked away in a corner of the Clerkenwell branch of the Benugo food chain that he founded with his brother, Hugo, 10 years ago, Ben...
TOKYO AFP — A Japanese cafe operator has sued a publisher after it got the lowest mark in a critic's ranking of popular chains, officials said Friday. Chat Noir, which operates 175 Caffe Veloce outlets in Japan, sued major publisher Kodansha, demanding 11 million yen (100,000 dollars) in damages...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: David Hyatt, Vice President of Public Affairs, +1-202- 281-4550, dhyatt@nada.org, or Charles Cyrill, Director of Public Relations, +1-216-870-8837, ccyrill@nada.org, both of the National Automobile Dealers Association Dealers support EPA decision to deny Calif. waiver on vehicle emissions SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The fight...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: David Hyatt, Vice President of NADA Public Affairs, +1- 703-821-7120, dhyatt@nada.org, or Charles Cyrill, Director of Public Relations, +1-703-821-7121 office, +1-216-870-8837 mobile, ccyrill@nada.org, both of National Automobile Dealers Association MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Automobile Dealers Association NADA has assembled a stellar...
ANKARA AFP — Smoking is so widespread and deeply rooted in Turkey that even the French and the Italians -- no slouches themselves when it comes to lighting up -- have made "smoking like a Turk" their byword for chain smokers. No more, says the Turkish Parliament, which has...
New Cafe Opens at North Carolina State University WILMINGTON, N.C. -- Port City Java: Same Unit Sales: Port City Java announces its same unit Corporate Cafe sales increased 4.4% in December 2007 over the same period in 2006. Overall, Corporate sales increased 16.94% in December 2007 over...
Sacre bleu! The days of the smoky Left Bank Parisian cafe are no more. With the new year, France extended its no-smoking law to bars, restaurants, hotels, casinos and, yes, cafes. Homes, hotel rooms and sealed smoking rooms at places that decide to provide...
ANKARA AFP — Turkey's parliament passed Thursday a bill banning smoking in bars and restaurants as part of a series of stringent restrictions on nicotine addicts in a country where 60 percent of males smoke. The law, which will take effect four months after it is approved by the...
METZ, France AFP — A hookah-pipe bar owner in eastern France is suing the state for damages, claiming the country's new smoking ban has put it out of business, its lawyer said Thursday. The "Sphinx", set up three years ago in the eastern city of Metz, closed down on...
RENNES, France AFP — A cafe owner in the western city of Rennes has found a friendly way of enforcing France's new smoking ban: he is lending customers fleece jackets to wear while they stand outside to smoke. "To say to a customer 'go and smoke your cigarette outside'...
LYON, France AFP — A French cafe owner put up protest art showing overflowing ashtrays and cigarette butts on Wednesday as he refused to apply a new smoking ban targeting restaurants and bars. Christophe Cedat, owner of the Cafe 203 in Lyon, said the photo and poster-art exhibit in...
PARIS AFP — French smokers have just a few more hours to indulge their habit in public before the country joins several of its neighbours on Wednesday in imposing a complete tobacco ban in bars, restaurants and nightclubs. What was long regarded as a citizen's inalienable right comes to...
BAQUBA, Iraq AFP — Insurgents killed at least 22 people in Iraq on Tuesday in a series of bomb attacks, including a suicide attack that killed 16 people in a cafe near the restive city of Baquba, police and medics said. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a...
WASHINGTON -- Last January, President Bush called on Congress to reduce our nation's consumption of gasoline by 20 percent in 10 years by modernizing CAFE standards and greatly expanding the use of alternative fuels. We congratulate the United States Senate for their effort to address the challenge of the President's...
