Poll: Enron CEO's "Honest Services" DefenseJeff Skilling DefenseJeff Skilling has admitted to "big risks"; who was at the highest point of risk? Convictions center on defending the defenseless, or those who are at supreme risk. Skilling has admitted to lying to auditors. The primary job of financial or any auditor...
Australian Reconstruction Task Force RTF soldiers in southern Afghanistan have fought off a number of Taliban attacks on a new construction project over the last few days of February, 2008. The attacks occurred approximately 15km from Tarin Kowt, where RTF engineers are helping to construct a patrol base...
A coroner has voiced concern that a military operation in Afghanistan in which two soldiers died was thwarted by confusion over rules of engagement. David Masters was told that a British attack on the Taliban last September was halted for an hour because air crews were not...
Trinity Mirror was forced to make a formal statement on its financial health yesterday after analyst concerns spooked the market and the media group's stock dropped by 18.6 per cent in a single day. Against a backdrop of newspaper advertising stung by both online competition and economic...
Puce-faced fathers and mothers have long been a staple of Saturday morning primary school football matches, bellowing their invective from the touchline at the amateur referee's every contentious decision. Not for much longer, if the Football Association has its way. Pushy parents are to be held back...
The UK financial regulator and the oil futures exchanges have mounted a robust defence of their controls in front of a government committee, and rejected claims that speculators were behind the soaring price of oil. Yesterday marked the first meeting of the Treasury Select Committee called last...
The MoD orders Air Data Test Sets to be used in military aircraft maintenance GROBY, England -- The UK Ministry of Defence MoD recently placed an order to the value of $3.6 million for an additional 110 Air Test Data Test Sets ADTS from GE Sensing & Inspection...
MOSCOW AFP — Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky applied Wednesday for parole in the hope that President Dmitry Medvedev might prove more liberal than his predecessor, his lawyer said. "Khodorkovsky's defence today in Chita asked that he be released on parole," Yury Schmidt said, referring to the...
SOUTHPORT, England AFP — Padraig Harrington's hopes of defending his British Open title hung in the balance on the eve of the 2008 tournament as he mulled whether to risk playing with an injured wrist. Harrington felt pain in the joint after hitting just two balls on Wednesday...
MANCHESTER, England AFP — Sir Alex Ferguson expects Manchester United's tour of South Africa to provide the perfect preparation for his side's Premier League title defence. United fly to Africa on Thursday with Ferguson keen to concentrate on getting his squad into shape after a turbulent close-season marred...
MOSCOW AFP — Nine soldiers were killed and four injured on Tuesday by an explosion of ammunition in the war-ravaged southern Russian province of Chechnya, Russian news agencies reported, citing defence officials. "Today at 5:15 pm (1315 GMT)... an uncontrolled explosion occurred as ammunition was being transferred from...
TBILISI, Georgia AFP — The United States and Russia held rival war games Tuesday on either side of the Caucasus mountains amid simmering tensions over the fate of two rebel regions in ex-Soviet Georgia. Almost 8,000 Russian servicemen on Tuesday began anti-terror exercises across Russia's North Caucasus region,...
SOUTHPORT, England AFP — Padraig Harrington's defence of his British Open title is under threat as a result of a wrist injury he suffered at the weekend, it emerged on Tuesday. The Irishman was avoiding playing shots out of the rough during a practice round after admitting that...
FARNBOROUGH, U.K. -- DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) announced today that Aerotree Defence and Services Sdn. Bhd. Executive Director Dato' Norida Hamzah signed a letter of intent for DRS to furnish a complete Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation ACMI system to the Royal Malaysian Air Force RMAF in a meeting at...
COMMENT The Caliph of Damascus celebrated the overthrow of the French king yesterday. Bashar al-Assad looked quite at home, standing in his pale blue suit, wearing those inevitable Baathist sunglasses, occasionally clapping the precision drill of the French regiments in front of him, some of whom spent...
BEIJING AFP — China may attempt to artificially influence the weather if rain threatens the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games next month, a meteorological official said Tuesday. "Although it is an emergency measure, the meteorological administration has made serious preparations on artificially influencing the weather," administration official...
SOUTHPORT, England AFP — Padraig Harrington will defend his British Open title at the risk of aggravating a wrist injury which would have resulted in him withdrawing from any other tournament. The Dubliner managed only nine holes of practice at Royal Birkdale on Tuesday and steered clear of...
TOKYO AFP — Japanese swimming star Kosuke Kitajima has warned against any complacency in his defence of the double Olympic breaststroke titles after US rival Brendan Hansen failed to qualify for the 200-metre race. "It was unfortunate, indeed," Kitajima said of Hansen's flop as he returned home from...
Titus Labs Inc., the leading provider of email and document classification software today announced that the Danish Defence IT Agency, has deployed Titus Labs Message Classification to 15,000 users to force the classification of all emails in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web Access. The Kingdom...
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