Monday 8th February, 2010
Tata Faces ‘Heat’ From Daimler, Volvo as India Paves Its Roads
Business WeekFeb. 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 WeekFeb. 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 OffSo 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 MonitorFlying 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
Face OffPublished: 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’
Face OffPublished: 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 WeekFeb. 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 WeekFeb. 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 Online2/8/2010, 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 WatchThe 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
Face OffPublished: 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 SourcesThe 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 SourcesStockholm, 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 SourcesLondon, 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 SourcesSweden'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 SourcesSTOCKHOLM, 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 SourcesSalo, 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 SourcesStockholm - 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 JournalActive 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 TimesSweden'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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