While Sachin Tendulkar failed to click on his debut in the Indian Premier League (IPL), his opening-wicket partner Sanath Jayasuriya shruged off his indifferent form, hit 114 off 48 deliveries, and guided Mumbai Indians to a nine-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings here Wednesday night.
After opting to bowl, Mumbai Indians restricted Chennai Super Kings to 156 for the loss of six wickets, made possible only by some rearguard action from Subramaniam Badrinath (53) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (43 not out).While the crowd rooting for Tendulkar (12), who made his debut in the IPL after miss..
Despite registering a facile nine-wicket win over formidable Chennai Super Kings here Wednesday night, Mumbai Indians failed to move up the points table in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Mumbai Indians are still in the sixth spot while Super Kings remain in the third place despite their loss. Rajasthan Royals are in the lead followed by Kings XI Punjab in the second position.The standings have been tabulated under matches played, won, draw, loss, tied, points and net run rate:Team M W L T Pts Net RR Rajasthan Royals 9 7 2 0 14 +0.592Kings XI Punjab 9 6 3 0 12 +0.458Chennai Super ..
Unbeaten 114 off 45 balls by Mumbai Indians' Sanath Jayasuriya against Chennai Super Kings Wednesday night was the second fastest century in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
It was also Jayasuriya's maiden century in the IPL and fourth in Twenty20. His tally of 11 sixes in this innings has been bettered only by Brendon McCullum 's 13 during his unbeaten knock of 158 not out for Kolkata Knight Riders against Bangalore Royal Challenges in Bangalore, April 18. Jayasuriya is the fifth batsman to post a hundred in the IPL.The following are the other statistical highlights of the ..
At least 50 people were feared dead across Uttar Pradesh due to strong winds that lashed several parts of the state Wednesday, district administration officials said.
Deaths were reported from variosu districts including Mathura, Kanpur, Chitrakoot, Firozabad, Farrukhabad, Sitapur, Etawah, Unnao, Agra, Jalaun, Kannauj, and Aligarh, they said.Strong gusts of wind accompanied by a short spell of rain lashed capital Lucknow and other parts. The wind speed recorded at Amausi Airport was approximately 70-75 km an hour, a met department official here said. Met department director K.P. Kulshrestha ..
A woman was killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a staff bus of computer peripherals manufacturer Moser Baer overturned as the driver tried to avoid an oncoming vehicle.
The bus driver, in a bid to avoid a Tempo coming from the opposite direction, swerved to the right but could not assess the road divider due to poor visibility owing to the dust storm that gripped the capital city and adjoining areas in the morning.It crashed into the divider and overturned on the Noida-Dadri road, a witness said.Parul Mishra, a 25-year-old senior executive, died on the spot while about a dozen people su..
East Bengal Wednesday failed to qualify for the quarter-finals of the AFC Cup after they went down 0-1 to Yemen's Ahli Sana'a in their final Group B league match in Sana'a.
According to information reaching here, the only goal of the game came in the 44th minute through striker Ali Al Nono while East Bengal finished with 10 men after Nigerian defender Bolaji Majekodunmi was sent off late in the game. Federation Cup winners East Bengal desperately needed a win to get into the knock-out stage but with the loss ended the group stage with seven points.East Bengal coach Aloke Mukhe..
A market in Noida's prime Sector 18 area was Wednesday demolished to pave the way for extending the Delhi Metro rail project to this satellite township, officials said.
Authorities here razed the Rs.2 billion Kali Charan Market, which is said to be illegal. Earlier attempts to demolish the structure, which housed over 500 shops, proved futile as the developer had obtained a stay order from the Allahabad High Court. Noida authorities could not reclaim the encroached land in the last five years, but with the Metro rail project coming to the city, it filed a petition in the Supreme Cour..
Police were Wednesday investigating the death of a former air hostess under mysterious circumstances at Ghaziabad.
Some passers-by noticed Jaya Kaushik, a 26-year-old who earlier worked with Deccan airlines, lying critically injured near railay tracks at 11.30 p.m. Tuesday. They rushed her to a hospital where she succumbed to her injuries. Attending doctors said her left leg and right arm were found broken and there were multiple injuries in her abdomen. Her father Narendra Sharma refused to talk to mediapersons. Family members said she was returning from her office in Delhi, the office cab ..
While Sachin Tendulkar failed to click on his debut in the Indian Premier League (IPL), his opening-wicket partner Sanath Jayasuriya shruged off his indifferent form, hit 114 off 48 deliveries, and guided Mumbai Indians to a nine-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings here Wednesday night.
After opting to bowl, Mumbai Indians restricted Chennai Super Kings to 156 for the loss of six wickets, made possible only by some rearguard action from Subramaniam Badrinath (53) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (43 not out).While the crowd rooting for Tendulkar (12), who made his debut in the IPL after miss..
The Allahabad High Court lawyer who had been jailed in a contempt of court case and died in a hospital while in police custody had injury marks on his body, including his head, the post-mortem report stated Wednesday.
S.K. Awasthi died Tuesday at the S.R.N. Hospital here. His parents have alleged that that he was tortured while in jail and chained to the bed at the hospital.The report stated that the lawyer died due to 'head injury septicemia', which means he had sustained injuries during his stay in jail. There were seven injury marks on his body, the report revealed. Hospital chi..
Following is the scoreboard of the Twenty20 match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in which Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai Super Kings by nine wickets at the Wankhede Stadium here Wednesday:
Match No. 36, Indian Premier League, Twenty20, Mumbai Indians vs. Chennai Super Kings, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, May 14 Chennai Super Kings innings:Sivaramakrishna Vidyut c Raje b Pollock 16Stephen Fleming b Kulkarni 26Suresh Raina c Takawale b Bravo 1Subramaniam Badrinath c & b Bravo 53Chamara Kapugedera c Takawale b Kulkarni 0Mahendra Singh Dhoni not out 43Albie Morkel c Uthappa b Ku..
Six suspected Maoist rebels were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Bihar's Nawada district Wednesday, police said.
Police said a team of security forces comprising of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the district police had surrounded Mathi village in Nawada, about 150 km from here, after a tip-off that some Maoists had gathered there possibly to launch an attack. Maoists opened fire, injuring some CRPF and police personnel, and the CRPF retaliated in which six Maoists were killed, police said. An unspecified number of rebels were injured but managed to escape. F..
A brilliant unbeaten 114 by opener Sanath Jayasuriya helped Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings by nine wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Wankhede Stadium here Wednesday night.
Chasing a target of 157, Mumbai Indians made 158 in 13.5 overs after losing the wicket of captain Sachin Tendulkar (12). Robin Uthappa remained unbeaten on 16.
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Indian and Pakistani commanders staged a flag meeting at the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday evening following violation of a truce that has been in force since 2003, an official said.
'The meeting was held following pressure exerted by the Indian side. We had asked for a meeting in the morning but this was refused. They finally relented in the evening,' the official said in New Delhi.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described as worrisome the truce violation that occurred when Pakistani troops opened fire in the Tangdhar sector Tuesday evening.'It is worriso..
A woman was killed and dozens injured Wednesday when a staff bus of computer peripherals manufacturer Moser Baer overturned as the driver tried to avoid an oncoming vehicle.
The bus driver, in a bid to avoid a Tempo coming from the opposite direction, swerved to the right but could not assess the road divider due to poor visibility owing to the dust storm that gripped the capital city and adjoining areas in the morning.It crashed into the divider and overturned on the Noida-Dadri road, a witness said.Parul Mishra, a 25-year-old senior executive, died on the spot while about a dozen people su..
Several social groups and human rights activists held a rally here Wednesday, demanding the immediate release of fellow activist and physician Binayak Sen, who has been imprisoned by the Chhattisgarh government for the past one year.
The police arrested Sen, a paediatrician by profession and vice president of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), May 14, 2007 from Bilaspur town for his alleged links with Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal.Speakers at the rally included Tamil film editor A. Marx of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-affiliated Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers'..
An official who had Monday conducted panchayati raj institution (PRI) elections in Punjab was found hanging from a tree in a village in the border district of Tarn Taran Wednesday.
The body of Sukhdev Singh, who was the presiding officer for the PRI elections in a village in Tarn Taran, was spotted by villagers who informed the police.Sukhdev Singh was found hanging from a tree barely two km from the office where he had deposited the ballot boxes of the polling booth Monday evening.He mysteriously disappeared after depositing the ballot boxes and did not even submit his report to the concern..
The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notices to the central government, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the ad-hoc committee of the Indian Hockey Federation after K.P.S. Gill approached the court challenging the decision to sack him as IHF president.
Justice Rekha Sharma asked the three parties to file reply by July 9.IOA on April 28 dissolved the IHF, sacked Gill as its president and took over the reins of the game.IOA, at its emergency Executive Committee meeting in which Gill was also present, decided to form a five-member ad-hoc committee to run the sport and named a five-membe..
British MPs belonging to the ruling Labour Party Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of the terrorist outrage in Jaipur, saying 'the palace of India will not fall' to terrorism.
'People of ill-will can attack the palace of India, but the palace will not fall,' said Stephen Pound of the Labour Friends of India.'It is important to realise that India is not just the largest democracy in the world, it is one of the greatest. It will never fall back or flinch from terrorist attacks,' Pound said, speaking on behalf of the large parliamentary grouping.'If there..
The Allahabad High Court lawyer who had been jailed in a contempt of court case and died in a hospital while in police custody had injury marks on his body, including his head, the post-mortem report stated Wednesday.
S.K. Awasthi died Tuesday at the S.R.N. Hospital here. His parents have alleged that that he was tortured while in jail and chained to the bed at the hospital.The report stated that the lawyer died due to 'head injury septicemia', which means he had sustained injuries during his stay in jail. There were seven injury marks on his body, the report revealed. Hospital chi..
The Calcutta High Court Wednesday stayed the quota for other backward classes (OBC) at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) till June, putting brakes on interviews for OBC candidates scheduled at the institute Thursday.
A single-judge bench granted the stay hearing a writ petition filed by an IIM aspirant, Sayan Guha, challenging the human resource development ministry notification of April 20 giving the go-ahead for OBC reservation in centrally funded higher educational institutes including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and IIMs. 'The ministry's office ..
Six suspected Maoist rebels were killed in a gun battle with security forces in Bihar's Nawada district Wednesday, police said.
Police said a team of security forces comprising of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the district police had surrounded Mathi village in Nawada, about 150 km from here, after a tip-off that some Maoists had gathered there possibly to launch an attack. Maoists opened fire, injuring some CRPF and police personnel, and the CRPF retaliated in which six Maoists were killed, police said. An unspecified number of rebels were injured but managed to escape. F..
Following is the scoreboard of the Chennai Super Kings innings against Mumbai Indians in their Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Wankhede Stadium here Wednesday:
Match No. 36, Indian Premier League, Twenty20, Mumbai Indians vs. Chennai Super Kings, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, May 14 Chennai Super Kings innings:Sivaramakrishna Vidyut c Raje b Pollock 16Stephen Fleming b Kulkarni 26Suresh Raina c Takawale b Bravo 1Subramaniam Badrinath c & b Bravo 53Chamara Kapugedera c Takawale b Kulkarni 0Mahendra Singh Dhoni not out 43Albie Morkel c Uthappa b Kulkarni 5Extras (..
A brilliant unbeaten 114 by opener Sanath Jayasuriya helped Mumbai Indians beat Chennai Super Kings by nine wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Wankhede Stadium here Wednesday night.
Chasing a target of 157, Mumbai Indians made 158 in 13.5 overs after losing the wicket of captain Sachin Tendulkar (12). Robin Uthappa remained unbeaten on 16.
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Indian and Pakistani commanders staged a flag meeting at the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday evening following violation of a truce that has been in force since 2003, an official said.
'The meeting was held following pressure exerted by the Indian side. We had asked for a meeting in the morning but this was refused. They finally relented in the evening,' the official said in New Delhi.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described as worrisome the truce violation that occurred when Pakistani troops opened fire in the Tangdhar sector Tuesday evening.'It is worriso..
Narendra Singh Tomar, president of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Wednesday said he would not contest the assembly polls slated to take place later this year.
He said the BJP retaining power was more important for him than gaining power for himself. Talking to reporters after a two-day meeting of the state BJP executive, Tomar said his decision was voluntarily and there was no pressure from party leaders.
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Powered by a brilliant 53 from Subramaniam Badrinath, Chennai Super Kings scored 156 for ths loss of six wickets against Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Wankhede Stadium here Tuesday.
Shaun Pollock ended up with the best figures of one for nine from four overs while Dhaval Kulkarni picked up three for 33.
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said Wednesday his party will restore the sacked judges but it will be done through a 'parliament act' and he cannot give any deadline for it.
'I am not in a position to give deadline, but we will restore the judges through a parliament act and we cannot do it in a haste,' Zardari told a press conference here after chairing a meeting of his party's executive committee.The PPP's coalition partner Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Tuesday pulled out its ministers from the federal cabinet after the two pa..
Several social groups and human rights activists held a rally here Wednesday, demanding the immediate release of fellow activist and physician Binayak Sen, who has been imprisoned by the Chhattisgarh government for the past one year.
The police arrested Sen, a paediatrician by profession and vice president of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), May 14, 2007 from Bilaspur town for his alleged links with Maoist ideologue Narayan Sanyal.Speakers at the rally included Tamil film editor A. Marx of the Communist Party of India-Marxist-affiliated Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers'..
Curfew was lifted in Jaipur Wednesday evening as the city remained calm and no untoward incident was reported a day after seven bomb blasts killed at least 63 people here. Authorities, however, decided to re-impose daytime curfew Thursday asa precautionary measure.
Police authorities had imposed curfew from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in areas under the jurisdiction of the police stations at Lal Kothi, Adarsh Nagar, Transport Nagar, Manak Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Ram Ganj, Galta Gate, Bhatta Basti, Kotwali, Nahargarh, Sanjay Circle, Jalu Pura and Sadar. Inspector General of Rajasthan Police Pankaj Singh..
Five major blasts rocked the pink city of 'Jaipur' on Tuesday (May 13) at 7.35 pm. The serial blasts occured in Tripolia, Manek Chowk and Chandpol Gate, while the fourth blast occured at Lakshmi Mishthan Bhandar in old Jaipur. Though the cause of the blast is still unknown, it's learnt that five blasts occured within a span of half an hour in the walled city of Jaipur. According to ..
Chinese state media say 3,000 to 5,000 people have died in one county in Sichuan province alone from a massive earthquake. The official Xinhua News Agency says another 10,000 people were believed hurt in Beichuan county in Monday's quake. The epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake was in Sichuan, striking 57 miles northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu at 2:28 p.m. local time.
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A powerful earthquake buried 900 students in central China on Monday and killed at least 107 people, as several schools and a water tower collapsed in the tremor, state media reported. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck central China, but sent thousands of people rushing out of buildings and into the streets hundreds of miles away in Beijing and Shanghai. The temblor was felt as far away as Pakis..
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.8 struck western China on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake struck 57 miles (92 kilometers) northwest of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu at 2:28 p.m. (0628 GMT), the survey said on its Web site. It said the quake was centered 18 miles (29 kilometers) below the surface.
In the Chinese capital Beijing, about 930 miles ..
President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna Welch Bush was married Saturday to Henry Chase Hager, a graduate student and son of a former Virginia lieutenant governor, before 200 relatives and close family friends, the White House confirmed.
The evening wedding at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas, capped a weekend of family festivities, including a Friday rehearsal dinner and parade in honor..
The Republican political establishment is looking to the devil to deliver them, the man many have depicted as the incarnation of evil: John McCain.
Republicans in the U.S. Congress are petrified about a November debacle, a fear stoked on May 3, when they lost their second straight special election in a district held by Republicans.
The party's fundamental situation is terrible: Republic..
Obama has set historical records in campaign fund raising. But where is all that money coming from since it can’t be coming from the "poor" American citizens he claims to represent?
For starters, Obama’s campaign site asks donors "which country" they are from, openly indicating that campaign contribution to the Obama campaign are coming from all over the world, not just all..
After losing the ABC Presidential Debate to Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama today made obscene gestures towards his Democratic opponent. The video of the incident is posted below as the pause and the crowd reaction followed by a sly smile on the face of the lead Democrat nominee gives away the truth.
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The people of Tibet wish to be heard. They have long sought autonomy, and chosen negotiation and mediation as their means of attaining it. They now turn to protest. The Chinese government should hear their voices, understand their grievances and find a non-violent solution.
That solution is offered by our friend and brother His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who has never sought separatism, and has a..
There have been further protests in the past few days in Tibet as the crackdown on the plateau deepens, with mass detentions in different areas and some monasteries encircled by troops. In some areas, including Kardze in Sichuan province (Kham) and Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), there are signs that the authorities are provoking further unrest and frustration by requiring local people..
The Washington, DC-based Radio Free Asia has compiled vivid eyewitness testimonies of the protests and riots that have swept across the Tibetan plateau in recent weeks, see: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/politics/2008/03/15/tibet_interviews/
"In the Tseko area of Amdo, the monks are continuing peaceful protests as of March 20. About 2,000 Tibetans, both monk and laypersons, are involved ..
The most vigorous Tibetan protests in decades have been crushed by Chinese soldiers and police. Tibet expert Robert Barnett explains why the most significant action is taking place outside Lhasa and what we can expect the Chinese to do next.
Foreign Policy: What does the average Tibetan want? Is it independence, or a greater share of Tibet's modernization and economic growth, which has bee..
On March 28, a group of 30 monks in Tibet's most sacred temple and place of pilgrimage, the Jokhang, spoke out to foreign press who were on an official tour of Lhasa orchestrated by Beijing. Images of the monks speaking directly to the journalists about the crackdown in Tibet's capital and the "lies" of the Communist Party were captured on film by the press and broadcast all ov..
Speaker Pelosi, with the members of a bipartisan congressional delegation that met on March 21 in Dharamsala with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, introduced House Resolution 1077 on April 3 evening which calls on China to cease the crackdown, release protestors, provide unfettered access to journalists and independent international monitors to Tibet, and engage in a results-based dialogue with the Da..
Below is the complete article written by Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, the Dalai Lama's Special Envoy, followed by the version edited due to space constraints which appeared in the International Herald Tribune on April 3, 2008.
In the last few weeks we have witnessed an uprising against the Chinese authorities' repressive policies on the Tibetan plateau, the likes of which we have not seen in ..
'Particularly in these days of renewed violence against the Tibetan people, the over nine hundred thousand Euros raised in the RTL Telethon 2007 has been more important than ever before to pay for the expansion of a Tibetan Children's village for Tibetan refugees children', explain RTL charity director Wolfram Kons and project mentor, German actor Hannes Jaenicke.
The expansion o..
At least eight Tibetans were killed yesterday in eastern Tibet after armed police fired on a crowd of several hundred monks and laypeople after an incident in which monks were detained after they objected to an intensified 'patriotic education' campaign, including photographs of the Dalai Lama being thrown to the ground, according to reliable sources. State media confirmed the incident t..
In advance of meetings next week between the Executive International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Association of National Olympic Committees in Beijing, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) in Amsterdam has personally delivered a letter to the Netherlands National Olympic Committee (NOC), expressing ICT’s deep concern at the security risks and the risks to civilians of unrest related to t..
Katrina Kaif, who's paired with Ranbir Kapoor in Raj Kumar Santoshi's 'Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani', seems to be getting into the let's-get-young mode.
She has now been signed to star opposite Neil Nitin Mukesh in Yash Raj banner's next venture to be directed by Kabir Khan and the hero says they will make a good couple on screen.
'Kabir made a very unusual fi..
Now that their relationship is out in the open, Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone seem to have become the most talked-about couple in the Hindi film industry overnight. And Imtiaz Ali of 'Jab We Met' fame will direct them in another Pepsi advertisement.
'There's nothing intriguing about it. It's an ad to be directed by Imtiaz Ali for Pepsi. Earlier, Deepika and I acted ..
Maria Kirilenko is ranked 26 on the WTA computer but if her exploits on the tennis court are anything to go by, she is going to be a major attraction at the prestigious Bangalore Open, Tier II – event. At the Bangalore Open, starting just in a week's time, Maria could find herself as a strong contender who will challenge the Williams sisters – Venus and Serena and other major ..
The confusion over Adam Gilchrist's participation in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) continues with Australian cricket board denying that it had cleared the retiring hard-hitting batsman-stumper to play in the April tournament promoted by its Indian counterpart.
According to a report in The Age Sunday, while there was no suggestion that Cricket Australia (CA) would stop Gilchrist ..
Generating unusual bounce, lanky Indian speedster Ishant Sharma turned in his career-best bowling performance to grab four wickets as world one-day champions Australia were skittled out for 159 in 43.1 overs in the Commonwealth Bank Triangular Series here Sunday.
Ishant, who has impressed all on this tour, could have ended with a six-wicket tally but for two dropped catches. He, nevertheless, en..
The pristine glory of the 17th century Jama Masjid, India's largest mosque in Delhi's old quarters, is nowhere close to being restored as a Rs.2.5-billion project for its beautification has failed to take off.
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan is said to have built the grand mosque in such a manner that it would be visible from the majestic Red Fort. But a cluster of shops and residences cal..
The national bird peacock is in real danger in Rajasthan as the number of attacks on them is increasing by the day.
Eight peacocks were found dead in an agricultural field in Suriyapada village in Banswara district Thursday while three were shot dead by poachers in Ajmer district.
'We have sent the carcasses of the peacocks found in the field for post-mortem. Preliminary investigations r..
Actor Saif Ali Khan has set media speculation to rest by saying actress Kareena Kapoor and he 'would certainly be getting married in the next three to four years.' The two have been going steady for some time now.
'Right now, we have our individual careers to look out for. Please, allow us to concentrate on our careers. I'm especially worried about how such rumours would af..
The body of internationally-renowned spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who popularised transcendental meditation across the globe reached here from his base in Netherlands Saturday.
The seer, who initiated the British pop-rock band Beatles into Indian spiritualism and transcendental meditation, died Tuesday.
The chartered flight carrying the body of the Maharishi, along with at leas..
CAMP TAJI, Iraq, Feb. 8, 2008 – A long way from his family, friends and hunting, Army Pvt. Benjamin Raulerson, a native of Jacksonville, Ala., is here helping his unit rid northwestern Baghdad of terrorism and criminal activity. In his first month in Iraq, the 22-year-old infantryman has participated in more than 50 patrols, in which he has helped identify and seize enemy weapons cache s..
ATLANTA, GA - January, 2008 : – GE Energy’s most advanced, F-class gas turbine technology has been selected for a new combined-cycle power plant that will serve the Port of Barcelona as well as help to meet the future requirements of the Spanish electricity grid.
Owned by Gas Natural SDG, S.A., the Port de Barcelona Power Plant will feature two GE STAG 109FB combined-cycle syste..
Republican Fred Thompson dropped out as a presidential candidate on Tuesday, ending a short-lived campaign that got off to a late start and never gathered much steam.
Thompson, a former Tennessee senator whose hangdog face is familiar to millions of Americans from his movie and television roles, pulled out of the race after finishing a distant third in South Carolina on Saturday and not doing w..
