Wayne Rooney must temper his hyperactivity for England and Manchester United
By Duncan WhitePublished: 7:00PM GMT 13 Mar 2010
Anger management: Wayne Rooney has come a long way since being sent off by referee Phil Dowd against Fulham in March 2009 Photo: REUTERS
Manchester United had just gone 2-0 down and as if to punctuate his petulance he punched the corner flag as he trundled off. It was [...]
‘Anna Nicole’ opera to premiere next February
LONDON (AP) — The world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Anna Nicole” will be presented by the Royal Opera next Feb. 17, starring Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and Playboy playmate.
The Royal Opera says Covent Garden Music Director Antonio Pappano will conduct and Richard Jones will direct.
Turnage is the composer of “Greek” and [...]
Stocks Dawdle, but Rise on Week
That’s not surprising. Now that his company has bagged its long-pursued quarry — finally convincing Terra Industries(TRA) to sell itself for about $4.6 billion in cash and stock in a deal announced Friday — CF would like nothing more than to focus on integrating the two companies, which will create one of the biggest fertilizer [...]
New York set to pay $657m to 9/11 workers
A DEAL that would mean payments totalling $657.5 million (437m) for more than 10,000 rescue and recovery workers made ill by dust from the World Trade Centre in New York has gone before a judge.
He has said he favours a settlement, but plans to analyse it carefully to make sure it is fair.
The deal was [...]
‘Fast Money’ Recap: No Man’s Land
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 13 points, or 0.1%, to 10,625. The S&P 500 slipped a fraction of a point, or 0.02%, to 1150, while the Nasdaq shed 1 point, or 0.03%, to 2368.
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Despite today’s meandering trading, the major averages managed to drift higher this week. The Dow [...]
Google tests new Blogger layout design tool
IDG News Service – Google will begin today a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers’ ability to modify the look of their blogs.
The Blogger Template Designer includes ready-to-use professional designs, pre-built templates that can be further modified, a color-adjustment control to tweak the blog’s color palette, [...]
The demise of boutique bank Pali Capital
NEW YORK – In September 2008, as Lehman Brothers was breaking into a million pieces, a young investment bank was pushing up through the rubble.
Pali Capital, a boutique firm specializing in derivatives and fixed-income trading, was one of the few financial outfits hiring traders and bankers — often from the likes of imploding Wall Street [...]
BBC iPlayer Content Protection Enhancements
A number of our users have expressed concern about BBC iPlayer’s recent content protection enhancements. It’s a complex area so I asked our techical team for an explanation of what has happened. Here it is:
We make iPlayer content available in a variety of media formats (WMV, H.264, 3GP, MPEG, etc) many of which are open [...]
UConn extend win streak, roll to Big East title
HARTFORD, Conn. – UConn finally celebrated — just a little bit.
The top-ranked Huskies danced and cheered after they cruised to their 72nd straight win and 16th Big East tournament championship with a 60-32 victory over No. 9 West Virginia on Tuesday night.
It was a much more festive atmosphere than the night before when they broke [...]
Lil Wayne gets year in jail in NYC gun case
NEW YORK (AP) — Lil Wayne has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper was taken away in handcuffs Monday to start serving his term immediately after his sentencing. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and [...]