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Monday 8th February, 2010

  • Tata Faces ‘Heat’ From Daimler, Volvo as India Paves Its Roads

    Business Week

    Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- India’s aim to pave 20 kilometers of highway a day for the next five years is stoking demand for heavy trucks to carry freight, and overseas makers Daimler AG and Volvo AB ...

  • Tata Faces ‘Heat’ From Daimler, Volvo as India Paves Its Roads

    Business Week

    Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- India’s aim to pave 20 kilometers of highway a day for the next five years is stoking demand for heavy trucks to carry freight, and overseas makers Daimler AG and Volvo AB ...

  • Oilers’ Gagner to get MRI on injured knee

    Face Off

    So when centre Sam Gagner says he has a bad left knee and is flying home to get an MRI, it turns into shrugs all around for the struggling NHL team, last in the league with 42 points.Gagner, the hotte...

  • Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games: Nordic combined

    Christian Science Monitor

    Flying unaided by machines or makeshift wings in one of the most magical Olympics sports, Nordic combined skier Felix Gottwald and a trio of US athletes could make history at the 2010 Games.

  • Capitals dominate weekly honours

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    Published: Monday, February 08, 2010 To the surprise of absolutely no one, Washington Capitals left-winger Alex Ovechkin was Monday named the NHL's first star of the week.

  • Demitra leaves Canucks to deal with ‘personal matter’

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    Published: Monday, February 08, 2010 TAMPA, Fla. - Vancouver Canucks forward Pavol Demitra has left the team and returned to Vancouver to deal with a personal matter.

  • Sweden Gets EC Okay for Saab Loan Guarantee

    Business Week

    Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sweden’s guarantee of a European Investment Bank loan to Saab Automobile won European Commission approval, clearing a regulatory hurdle for Spyker Cars NV’s purchase ...

  • Volvo Trucks Reports Wider Loss, Sees Upturn

    Business Week

    Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Volvo AB, the world’s second-largest truckmaker, reported a 2 billion-kronor ($268 million) quarterly loss, missing analysts’ estimates, on job-cut costs and slumping...

  • Muslim man wins handshake case in Sweden

    New Jersey Online

    2/8/2010, 12:11 p.m. EST (AP) — NEW YORK - A former Intel executive charged in a massive insider trading case is expected to give up his fight against the charges.

  • Sweden Implicated in Egypt’s Abuse of Suspected Militant

    Human Rights Watch

    The Egyptian authorities failed to honor their diplomatic promises and their own human rights obligations under international law. The Swedish government never should have returned Agiza to a country ...

  • Gainey set to resign as Canadiens GM

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    Published: Monday, February 08, 2010 MONTREAL - Bob Gainey is expected to step down as Montreal Canadiens general manager at a Monday afternoon news conference.

  • Muslim man wins handshake case in Sweden

    Fox 23

    (Getty Images/file) STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands w...

  • Stockholm policeman warned after Thai brothel visit

    General Sources

    (18 Jan 10) When Stockholm police visited the Thai massage parlour in southern Stockholm, known to the authorities to also function as a brothel, they found a police colleague among the customers in a...

  • Two year wait for Stockholm flat: report

    General Sources

    The wait for a rental apartment in Stockholm averages 104 weeks, rising to as much as 20 years for attractive areas. In many comparable EU cities apartments can be found immediately and often at littl...

  • Vlasic and Defar top impressive cast in Stockholm - preview

    General Sources

    Stockholm, Sweden - The organisers of Wednesday’s GE Galan in Stockholm couldn't have wished for a better promotion than that provided on Saturday in Germany by Blanka Vlasic and Meseret Defar.The G...

  • Hickory golfers go back to the future

    General Sources

    London, England (CNN) -- It may run contrary to the conventional image of a sport obsessed with the latest technological improvement but, from Stockholm to Shanghai, players are turning back the clock...

  • Bonuses Canceled, Swedish Bank Raises Salaries

    General Sources

    , the lender based in Stockholm, is backtracking in the face of employee uproar. The bank will increase the salary of some employees, compensating for the cuts in variable remuneration, or bonuses, a...

  • Muslim man wins discrimination case in Sweden over handshake refusal

    General Sources

    Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman. A Stockholm court Monday ord...

  • Stockholm residents hit by snow and ice

    General Sources

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Pedestrians are being injured by overhanging ice and snow falling from buildings in Stockholm, Swedish police say. A 55-year-old woman suffered a compression fractu...

  • Heat on Games goalies

    General Sources

    Salo, of course, was a national goat in Sweden after flubbing a long shot against Belarus that cost the Tre Kroners a shot at the gold at the Salt Lake City games in 2002. Instead of wilting under t...

  • Muslim man wins discrimination case over non-handshake

    General Sources

    Stockholm - A Swedish court Monday ordered the country's labour agency to pay damages to an unemployed Muslim man who lost his benefits because he had refused to shake hands with a female job intervie...

  • Teva gets Nordic and Baltic rights for MS drug from Active Biotech

    Philadelphia Business Journal

    Active Biotech amended their marketing and distribution agreement for oral laquinimod, an investigational treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Under the new agreement, Teva (NASDAQ:T...

  • Muslim man wins handshake case in Sweden

    New Jersey Online

    (AP) — STOCKHOLM - Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman. ...

  • Muslim man wins handshake case in Sweden

    Gadsden Times

    Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.

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