ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Prosecutors have charged former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader for allegedly taking a commission from a credit deal during the time he served as deputy foreign minister in 1990s.
The indictment, announced on Wednesday, alleges that Sanader abused his position when he took some €480,000 ($691,296) for the credit arrangement with Austria's Hypo Alpe Adria bank …
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — TCU was coming off a one-win season when Gary Patterson arrived 12 years ago as part of the new coaching staff.
Any victory, even by only a single point, was enough to make the Horned Frogs happy back then.
Patterson has never really wavered on that feeling, but what others expect out of his program has certainly changed. No. 5 TCU, after all, has been a BCS buster, become a perennial Top 25 team and won at least 11 games four of the last five seasons.
"Everybody has high expectations, and you sometimes forget winning is winning," said Patterson, a defensive coordinator-turned-head coach.
While winning by one or two points is still plenty …
THE TIME FOR BANK LEADERSHIP TO START DEVELOPING A STRONGER TALENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IS NOW.
For years, reports have circulated about the emerging talent crisis in corporate America. Thus, for many, this may seem like old news. Yet recent changes in demographics among C-suite executives and board members have resulted in an immediate need for well-qualified, next-generation talent to ensure ongoing performance and business vitality.
So while the talent deficit has been recognized for some time, industry experts have noted a remarkable change this past year, characterized by both ownership and action. Namely, CEOs as well as boards of directors are taking ownership of this …
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the mailing of packages containing acid to several local officials in northwestern Austria, a security chief said Sunday.
Alois Lissl, director of public safety in the province of Upper Austria, also said authorities had been alerted to a fifth suspicious package.
A man was in custody in the town of Wels, Lissl told The Associated Press in a phone interview. He identified him as a 48-year-old real estate broker from the local district of Schaerding, adding he was arrested late Saturday and that he had maintained his innocence.
There have been a mysterious series of incidents involving packages which, …
Brazilian stocks are trading sharply higher as global leaders make headway in tackling the world financial crisis at the G20 summit in London.
Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa index rose 4.9 percent to 44,011 in the first two hours of trading.
Shares in state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA jumped 3.4 percent, while the world's biggest …
Tough law enforcement can curb the sale of cigarettes to minors,helping to prevent smoking by youths, Chicago researchers arereporting.
Experimentation with cigarettes by junior high school studentsin southwest suburban Woodridge dropped 50 percent over two years -to 23 percent - after the village passed a tough law prohibitingsales to minors, psychologist Leonard Jason and colleagues fromDePaul University said.
Under the law, modeled after liquor licensing laws, stores thatsell cigarettes to minors face suspension of cigarette sales licensesand fines of up to $500. Minors can be fined $25 for possession.
In Wednesday's edition of the Journal of the …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' aides have urged former Surgeon General Richard Carmona to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, Carmona said Friday, in the strongest indication that Giffords herself will not seek the seat.
Democrats have been speculating about Giffords' political future since she was shot in the head in January during a constituent event at a Tucson shopping center. She has been undergoing rehabilitation therapy in Houston. Her recent appearance for a key vote in Congress renewed buzz about whether she was well enough to seek re-election or even run for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
Carmona declined to identify who …
