World News Archive20-Jan-2006
Corporate CEOs get 175 requests to speak each year, 3.4 a week. Most are turned down, but just about every CEO longs for a coveted invitation to speak at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Xinhua world economic news summary at 0500 GMT, Jan. 18 NEW YORK -- The times of extraordinarily high U.S. labor productivity growth rates are over, at least for now, according to a report released Tuesday by The Conference Board, the global business research and membership organization. Blizzard Entertainment on Thursday announced that the European version of its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft now has more than one million subscribers It its first full week since the debut of new anchor team Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, ABC's World News Tonight recorded a 2.4 rating/8 share in the key 25-64 news demo for the week of Jan. 9. Don't have an account yet? Sign up as a New User Lost your password ? South African Keith Horne took on some of the world's best and shot an opening six-under 66 course record in the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship on Thursday. While other 80-year-olds might dust off their rockers, blues dynamo B.B. King will be rocking and rolling when he launches what he says will be his final world tour later this year. Blizzard claims more than one million players are now playing World of Warcraft across Europe -- four times the previously estimated size for Europe's entire MMORPG market. At the end of another week, test your knowledge with our world news quiz.
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