| Dubai investment fund plans to spend in Asia
The fund's chief operating officer, Anand Krishnan, also told a news conference that the fund would be open to raising its stake in existing holdings like Sony, HSBC Holdings and European Aeronautic Defense & Space. Gulf investors spent $80 billion last year in foreign acquisitions, almost three times the amount they spent in 2006, according to Dealogic, a data provider. Krishnan said Dubai International planned to raise its assets under management to $25 billion to $30 billion in the next three to four years, from $13 billion now, estimating that India, China and Japan could make up one-fifth to one-sixth of the total. "I would think the three countries in the next three years would take a share possibly of about $5 billion," he said. .
Let the final credits roll
Grange Hill, which brought a new kind of writing and acting to children's TV, began as the kind of show that newspapers should - and did - campaign to have banned, appalled by the realistic depiction of the sexual and narcotic appetites of schoolchildren. This accuracy, however, stopped short of their language: the strict BBC tongue police kept "flippin' heck" as the most severe expletive. But a programme that otherwise displayed such radicalism certainly should not end up being ranked - alongside pounds, miles, spats and sausages - as something a tabloid is nostalgically campaigning to conserve. So high credit should be paid to the show's creator, Phil Redmond, who has the unique distinction in British television of creating two dramas - the other being Brookside - that lasted for at least two decades.
Tennis champ does some crowd control
I still love you guys — don't worry. I'm very, very happy that I won my first Grand Slam here, so hopefully we'll see you here on this stage a lot more often.'' Djokovic felt as if he had to fight two rivals — the fans and his opponent — in beating Federer and Tsonga. He frequently yelled when things went wrong. ''Sometimes, you just can't control your emotions on the court,'' he said. ''I'm still learning. I'm still young.'' Djokovic, 20, of Serbia, is the first man other than No. 2 Rafael Nadal to win a Grand Slam title from Federer since Marat Safin won the 2005 Australian Open. Djokovic said he was under extreme pressure to defeat Tsonga, an unseeded Frenchman who had beaten four players in the top 14, including Nadal in straight sets in the semifinals.
Video: Slideshow on concussions in hockey
Kaminski lined up an unsuspecting opponent for a big hit in a game on Dec. 28, 1999, while playing for Orlando, but the guy saw him at the last second and jumped up. "His elbow hit me right on the button and that was it for me," said Kaminski. When he came home with a concussion, Megan thought he'd go to bed for 48 hours and return to normal, as he'd done before. She couldn't have been more wrong. The symptoms were long-lasting: insomnia, irritability, vertigo, sensitivity to light. He couldn't exercise because of headaches as soon as he got his heart rate up. His memory shot, he couldn't find his car after shopping for groceries. He'd forget his PIN number at the bank machine – it was his jersey number. The game Kaminski worshipped brought him to his knees.
The Dark Knight
Other additions include Maggie Gyllenhaal, she takes over from Katie Holmes who has apparently had a conflict in shooting schedules so cannot appear, in the role of Rachel Dawes and Aaron Eckhart. It has been heavily hinted that the Dark Knight will tell the origin of Heath Ledger's Joker who was already terrorising the street of Gotham at the end of Batman Begins. The Dark Knight is set two years after Batman Begins and Batman and Gordan have teamed up with District Attorney Harvey Dent to help catch the Joker who's crimes are becoming more deadly. As well as this Batman aka Bruce Wayne and Gordan are trying to clean up the streets of Gotham by trying to re-capture those freed at the end of the first movie, this includes Crane/Scarcrow despite Cillian Murphy not being named on the cast list.
Our hungry ghosts
In the Downtown Eastside the angel of death slays with shocking alacrity. Having worked in palliative medicine, care of the terminally ill, I have encountered death often. In a real sense, addiction medicine with this population is also palliative work. We do not expect to cure anyone, only to ameliorate the effects of drug addiction and its attendant ailments and to soften the impact of the legal and social torments our culture uses to punish the drug addict. Except for the rare fortunate ones who escape the Downtown Eastside drug colony, very few of my patients will live to old age. Most will die of some complication of their HIV or Hepatitis C or of meningitis or a massive septicemia contracted through multiple self-injections during a prolonged cocaine run. Some will succumb to cancer at a relatively young age, their stressed and debilitated immune systems unable to keep malignancy in check.
Super Tuesday '08: Races Still Too Close To Call In Biggest-Ever ...
Every New Yorker has a sore throat after last night," Clinton said, referring to the exhilaration felt by New Yorkers after the Giants' surprise win in the Super Bowl. Once the undisputed front-runner but now running nearly neck and neck with Obama, Clinton said she's begun thinking of her campaign like the Giants' last-minute victory. "I took a lot of heart from that, Dave," she said. "The fourth quarter before Super Tuesday, you've got to keep going."
Meanwhile, over at "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," the broiling debate over who made Huckabee — which pits fellow talk-show hosts Stephen Colbert (of the legendary "Colbert Bump") and comrade-in-arms Jon Stewart against self-proclaimed kingmaker O'Brien — dragged on Monday night. The three talking heads got into an extended brawl over their competing claims to thrusting Huckabee into the spotlight, ending with the candidate himself appearing in a pre-taped segment in which he made a plea to stop the violence.
A Few Minutes Well Spent
Linked to numerous terror plots, he is believed to have financed the first World Trade Center bombing, helped set up the courier system that resulted in the infamous Bali bombing, and cut off Danny Pearl's head. A second was Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the head of al-Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf. He allegedly played a role in the 2000 millennium terror plots and was the mastermind behind the USS Cole attack that killed 17 Americans. The third was Abu Zubaydah, said to be Osama bin Laden's top man after Ayman al Zawahri and al-Qaeda's chief logistics operative. It is believed that Zubaydah essentially ran al-Qaeda's terror camps and recruitment operations. After he was waterboarded, Zubaydah reportedly offered intelligence officers a treasure trove of critical information.
FLAVOR OF THE WEEK: THE DATE FROM HELL, NEW JERSEY
For KATELYN NUDO, every picture tells a story. Unfortunately, most of them aren't true. By Katelyn Nudo I swore I would never join one of those online dating services. When I did, it was on my mother’s suggestion. I guess she could see from my list of drug dealers, egotistical Italians and Spanish lovers that I needed some help. I don’t know why I ever went against my initial thought of dot-com dating, because when I met Kevin, I knew I was in trouble. When eharmony.com produced a total of zero matches for my personality, I tried Plentyoffish.com. It was free, and it was on the computer monitor in my college library when I sat down. A sign perhaps. I signed up with a false email address and browsed promising boyfriends, one-night stands and future husbands. I must admit, I was surprised at how many good-looking men were desperate in the tri-state area.
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