World News Archive09-May-2006
THE GREAT CAMPUS DIVIDE U.S. News & World Report, May 15 -- The charges against two Duke lacrosse players have cast fresh light on the schism that often exists between college athletics and the wider academic community. ... LONDON -- World oil prices fell strongly Monday on news that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had written to US President George W. Bush in an attempt to resolve tensions between the countries, analysts said. Operating profit is seen rising to 227 mln eur from 205 mln, according to the average of an AFX News poll of six analysts. Sales are expected to grow to 2.334 bln eur from 1.674 bln, helped by growing demand for World Cup products. National and world business news briefs. ARLINGTON, Va. -- Fifty-nine journalists who died while reporting the news in 2005, including two Associated Press Television News cameramen, were memorialized on World Press Freedom Day. Anystream today announced that Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news agency, uses its Agility production suite as the basis for its global digital video distribution system. Anystream Agility automates key production processes, enabling Reuters to quickly and affordably create over 1200 video clips a day optimized for a variety of formats including mobile phones and their Web It?s cocktail shakers at the ready as bartenders throughout the world bend their elbows at the news entries are now open for the 42 BELOW Cocktail World Cup in Queenstown this September. Nakheel has put the cost of building structures on The World development at around $7.6bn, according to a report in Gulf News. Kuwait-based Efad Holding is spending more than $3.5bn on its Oqyana project, which is being built over 15 islands, the largest single development on The World. The BBC News website looks at what could be dominating the headlines around the world this week.
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