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Savoring italy, one beer at a time
midway through our six-course tasting menu of regional Piemontese culinary art, the wine waiter arrived with a special beverage to accompany the plate of raviolini stuffed with local pumpkin vine and edible asparagus. "I think this will go well, bec Nov 3 2008
Ryanair plans cheap trans-atlantic flights
Budget airline Ryanair plans to offer trans-Atlantic flights as cheap as 10 euros ($12.70) earlier taxes to several U.S. Metropolis from United Kingdom and Eire, a company official said, according to a paper report Lord's Day. The Irish air hose want Nov 3 2008
Palin is 'pranked,' but c'est la vie
Sarah Palin has been punk'd. On Sabbatum, a pair of Canadian comedians, notorious for playing pranks on politicians and heads of state, reached Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, and pretended to be President Nicolas Sarkozy of&n Nov 3 2008
Roger cohen: republican blues
Fazal Fazlin has an American story. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, he came to the United States in 1969 with an technology degree and little else. Now he lives on a five-acre estate in the waterfront mansion that once belonged to Horatio Nelson Poynter, lea Nov 3 2008
China destroys tons of tainted animal feed
Chinese regulators said over the weekend that they had confiscated and destroyed more than 3,600 tons of animate being feed tainted with cyanuramide, an industrial chemical that has been blamed for contaminating food supplies in China and for lead to glob Nov 3 2008
U.s. rejects gm's call for help in a merger
The exchequer Department has turned down a petition by full general Motors for up to $10 one million million to help finance the car manufacturer's possible merger with Chrysler, according to people close to the discussions. Instead of providin Nov 3 2008
An enclave of brazilians is testing insular japan
Facing labor deficit back in 1990 but ever wary of allowing in alien, Japan made an exclusion for Japanese-Brazilians. With their Nipponese roots, names and faces, these kid and grandchildren of Nipponese emigrants to Federative Republic of Brazil would f Nov 3 2008
Social networking benefits from financial crisis
As the financial crisis deepened and his employer teetered on the brink of collapse, Gautam Bose, a senior vice president at the U.S. Bank Wachovia, found a discreet way to ponder his hereafter and that of the financial industry. Bose turned to Meett Nov 3 2008
Sorting good guys from the bad in mexican drug war
Many of the mug shots of drug traffickers that appear in the Mexican press show surly-looking roughnecks glaring menacingly at the photographic camera. An anti-corruption investigation unveiled last week in the Mexican capital, nevertheless, made it clear Nov 3 2008
Reports: panasonic mulling purchase of sanyo
Panasonic Corp. May buy Sanyo electric automobile Co. And will soon enter dialogue with major shareholders, news study said Sabbatum. The Nikkei, Japan's largest business paper, and Kyodo News federal agency both reported a deal may be struck by Nov 2 2008
Bolivian president suspends us anti-drug efforts
Bolivian President Evo Morales suspended U.S. Anti-drug operations on Sabbatum as Washington D.C.'s relations with his collectivist government spiraled down. Morales accused the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of espionage and support "crim Nov 2 2008
In a campaign now measured in hours, the candidates zigzag across the country
In a countdown to Election Day that was being measured in hours alternatively of days, the final Sabbatum of the political campaign passed with a craze of political campaign stops, a bustle of ads and, more complaint and counter-charges. Senator Joh Nov 2 2008
Obama takes battle to republican territory
A confident Barack Obama pledged to heal United States's political divisions while look to wrest control of several Republican states from the grip of rival John McCain, as both campaigner pushed into the final days of a history-making U.S. President Nov 2 2008
Venezuela offers oil projects to foreign partners
Republic of Venezuela announced Th that it will open up command next month for contracts to deed four areas of its heavy-oil-producing Orinoco River belt — soon expected to jointly produce 400,000 gun barrel of crude per day. Foreign oil compan Nov 2 2008
Top 25 schedule
No. 1 Texas at No. 6 Texas Tech, 8 p.m. No. 2 Heart of Dixie vs. Land of Opportunity State, 3 p.m. No. 4 Sooner State vs. Cornhusker State, 8 p.m. No. 5 Sunshine State vs. No. 8 Empire State of the South at Jacksonville, Fla., 3:30 p.m Nov 2 2008
Palin takes prank call from fake french president
Sarah Palin told a Canadian comedian sitting as French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a prank call that "maybe in 8 years" she will be president. The U.S. Vice presidential nominee inadvertently discusses political relation, the hazard of hunt with Nov 2 2008
Boo! supporting obama? no treats for you
A woman refused Halloween candy to kid whose parents support Democratic presidential campaigner Barack Obama. Shirley Nagel passed out candy Fri on the scary U.S. Vacation, but only to those who shared her support for Republican presidential campaign Nov 2 2008
Heavy rains, floods kill 31 people in vietnam
The death toll from a week of heavy rains and floods rose to 31 Sabbatum as the worst violent storm to hit Socialist Republic of Vietnam's working capital in more than two decennary left many of the city's streets inundated with more than three Nov 2 2008
Lebanese banks escape global crisis
Lebanese Republic is visual perception an unexpected bonus at a time when jitters zip through the global financial sector — apparently unscathed by the convulsion, its banks are flush with cash, increasing their net net income and even attracting ne Nov 2 2008
China's contaminated food scandal widens
Chinese regulators are broadening their probe into contaminated food amid growth signs that the toxic industrial chemical cyanuramide has leached into the state's animate being feed supplies, posing wellness risks to consumers. The proclamation Nov 1 2008 |