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Relief Sends NAB's Shares Up 6%

Relieved investors sent National Australian Bank Ltd NAB shares up six per cent, as they focussed on the hedging protection the bank has taken to mitigate its exposure to $1.57 billion in toxic debt, rather the short term impact on earnings.After plunging 5.57 per cent on Tuesday amid a...

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News items 2008-10-01

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NCCN, Abraxis BioScience and AstraZeneca Announce Collaboration to Conduct Anti-Cancer Drug Studies

ABRAXANE([R]) in Several Cancer Types to Be Evaluated Along with Correlation of Response Rates and Expression of SPARC FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. -- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network NCCN, Abraxis BioScience (NASDAQ:ABII), and AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to conduct multiple investigator-initiated studies...

Articles 2008-10-07

Vodafone brings books to mobile phones

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-6 October 2008-Vodafone brings books to mobile phonesC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Mobile operator Vodafone has formed a partnership with GoSpoken.com to launch Books on Mobile, a new service that will make books available on mobile phones. Author Andy McNab co-founded and co-funded GoSpoken.com along with...

Articles 2008-10-06

Vodafone brings books to mobile phones

M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Mobile operator Vodafone has formed a partnership with GoSpoken.com to launch Books on Mobile, a new service that will make books available on mobile phones. Author Andy McNab co-founded and co-funded GoSpoken.com along with Tony Lynch, the managing director. Initially,...

Articles 2008-10-06

Park just so far a-Head of rivals; Tyneside Sunday League

CHAPEL PARK were resounding 7-1 Division One winners at home to newly-promoted Queens Head. Lee Kelly nabbed the consolation for the away side, with Carl Flanagan Lee Hawkins (2) and Craig Fairley (4) netting for Chapel Park, Fairley's goals taking him to 10 from four games. ...

Articles 2008-10-04

Toon fire a triple salvo; Girls football round-up

NEWCASTLE United picked up three points in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division with a 3-1 win at newcomers Leicester City. Melanie Reay put the Magpies in front on 17 minutes from the penalty spot after Rachel Furness was fouled. The visitors increased their lead...

Articles 2008-10-04

Reward for tools' return

A BUILDER is offering a "substantial" reward for the return of work tools and equipment stolen from an isolated cottage on Meltham Moor. The items were stolen from West Nab Cottage, Wessendenhead Road, Meltham, where self-employed builder Stephen Senior is renovating the property, a former Victorian hunting lodge....

Articles 2008-10-04

Police nab suspected car burglar after chase

OREM -- A man who was police say pilfered items from parked cars was arrested early Thursday after he crashed his get-away car into a tree. Residents at the Countrywood Condominium complex at 1300 S. 1200 West saw two men looking through cars with flashlights around 2:30...

Articles 2008-10-03

Disabled parking bay abuse crackdown; SCORES OF DRIVERS ARE FINED

Byline: By PETER YOUNG Political Editor Badge cheats in Newcastle has nabbed hundreds of drivers parking illegally in disabled bays. Many are able-bodied people parking in spaces reserved for the disabled, while some drivers are using counterfeit badges or altering expiry dates. The Chronicle...

Articles 2008-10-03

New Jersey's Vinnie Galanti burst onto magazine pages

PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF In 1993, New Jersey's Vinnie Galanti burst onto magazine pages by winning the middleweight class of the NPC USA Championships Chris Cormier won the overall and only pro card. It was Galanti's first pro qualifier, and he seemed, at 26, on the verge of making the big...

Articles 2008-10-01

Search for illegal immigrants goes far from border

Border Patrol agents are stepping up surprise inspections on domestic trains, buses and ferries, nabbing illegal immigrants far from the border. In Vermont, Washington, Louisiana, New York and elsewhere, the agents, who have the authority to search any mode of transportation within 100 miles of the border, are...

Articles 2008-10-01

Bungling bandit; RAIDER NABBED BY HOUSEHOLDER WHEN HE TURNS ON LIGHT

Byline: By ROB KENNEDY BLUNDERING burglar Jonathan Gregory was nabbed when he wandered into his victim's bedroom. The serial raider stupidly turned on the light, thinking he was entering a living room. But instead he found himself in the bedroom and was promptly held...

Articles 2008-09-30

Johnson nabs Sprint lead

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Well, it worked in the video game. Carl Edwards did everything he could Sunday, including purposely bouncing off the concrete wall at Kansas Speedway, but it wasn't quite enough to beat two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. "Where'd he...

Articles 2008-09-29

Consignment Spots Sold Out for Inaugural Barrett-Jackson Auction in Las Vegas

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Officials with the Barrett-Jackson Auction Company recently announced that vehicle consignment spots for the company's inaugural Las Vegas event have been sold out, proving once again that economic woes are no match for the thriving collector car hobby. Barrett-Jackson will continue to accept bidder applications from collectors...

Articles 2008-09-29

Pegg drums up some friends

COMEDY genius Simon Pegg nabbed some drumsticks to perform with rockers Guillemots at Shoreditch House in East London after the premiere of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. He told me later: "I think I might kill the drummer and take his job full- time...

Articles 2008-09-28

Spring in the step; North East Sunday League

SPRINGBANK Social showed no mercy in their Premier Division defeat of Scotswood Social. Shaun Segar scored four and Carl Piecha and Dean Lee two each in the 9-2 victory. Greenside maintained their early-season form with a convincing 5-1 home win over Daisy Hill, Ross Atkinson and...

Articles 2008-09-27

Blackthorn rise to the Challenge; Morpeth Sunday League

BLACKTHORN Rovers made it through from the MKM Challenge Cup's preliminary round with a 7-3 win over North End Trap. Craig Robinson grabbed a hattrick, Andrew Timson added two and Scott Collins and Brian Brodie nabbed the others for Rovers. Chris Godfrey (2) and David Goward replied for...

Articles 2008-09-27

WILLIAM WOODRUFF

Economic historian whose account of his childhood became a bestseller 'Human motivation is too intimate to yield itself to the technical processes of the historian," conceded the economic historian William Woodruff in Impact of Western Man: a study of Europe's role in the world economy 1750-1960....

Articles 2008-09-26

Golf: Kim leads as Garcia grabs second place at US Tour Championship

ATLANTA, Georgia AFP — Anthony Kim, still feeding off his Ryder Cup success, retained the lead in the US PGA Tour Championship on Friday with Spain's Sergio Garcia in hot pursuit. Garcia, seeking to put his own disappointing Ryder Cup showing behind him, posted the best round of...

Articles 2008-09-26

Moodie leads with Ochoa lurking at LPGA's Navistar

PRATTVILLE, Alabama AFP — Scotland's Janice Moodie, trying to end a six-year victory drought on the US LPGA Tour, on Friday seized a one-shot lead at the Navistar LGPA Classic Friday over world No.1 Lorena Ochoa. Ochoa is trying to end a dry spell of her own. Although...

Articles 2008-09-26