Air Vice Marshal Ronald Dick, RAF (Ret.) 1931-2008.
Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Dick, RAF (Ret.) died at his home in Virginia on March 25 2008. He was seventy-six. Dick served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot and a V-bomber squadron commander before settling in the United States, where he launched a second career...

MTN is one of the largest telecom players in Africa.
Byline: Mansi Tiwari A south Africa-based company, MTN is communication service provider offering cellular-based services and business solutions. With operations in 21 countries across Africa and the Middle East, it is one of the largest emerging market mobile operators globally. Founded in 1994, the company at the...

U.S. Leadership Approval Lowest in Europe, Mideast; Ratings in single digits among many key allies.
Byline: Julie Ray Synopsis: Gallup Polls in 139 countries reveal that residents of Europe and the Middle East/North Africa are the least likely to approve of U.S. leadership. This article is the first in series that will examine approval of U.S. leadership around the world...

Earlier raid had unearthed IIT grad's drug syndicate.
Byline: Pradeep Thakur NEW DELHI: In a racket similar to the one busted on Monday in which the NCB arrested two persons for smuggling drugs to the US after raiding a Noida BPO, the owner-CEO of the Kolkata BPO was a graduate from IIT, Delhi, and an...

Kosovo's Declaration of Independence Carries Risk; A majority of Serbs think an independent Kosovo will destabilize the region.
Byline: Zsolt Nyiri and Cynthia English Synopsis: Kosovo has declared its independence from Serbia, an action that a majority of Serbs within Kosovo and Serbia polled by Gallup last year believed will destabilize the region. A majority of Kosovar Albanians, however, did not believe that an independent...

Mediterranean, Aegean, Classical and Hellenistic archaeology.
SOPHIA ANTONIADOU & ANTHONY PACE (ed.). Mediterranean Crossroads. 784 pages, 89 illustrations. 2007. Athens: Pierides Foundation; 978-9963-9071-6-8 paperback RUTH WESTGATE, NICK FISHER & JAMES WHITLEY (ed.). Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond (British School at Athens Studies 15). xxviii+430 pages, 189 illustrations,...

New Russian President to Inherit Low Approval Worldwide; Russia's leadership receives low marks in much of Western world.
Byline: Cynthia English and Neli Esipova Synopsis: Russia's new president faces diplomacy challenges worldwide, especially in much of the Western world where approval of Russian leadership is already low. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As Dmitry Medvedev begins his term as Russia's new president on Wednesday with...

Essar Shipping board okays merger of India Shipping.
MUMBAI: The board of Essar Shipping (ESL) has approved the merger of Mauritius-based India Shipping, the holding firm of Essar Oilfield Services (EOSL), with the company. Through this, EOSL will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ESL. The group is hoping to increase the value of ESL through addition of...

Cyprus-based co picks 75% in JSW energy.
Byline: Vivek Sinha NEW DELHI: Sajjan Jindal group is transferring 75% equity stake in the power sector arm JSW Energy to a Cyprus-based holding firm. JSW Energy was originally a joint venture between OP Jindal Group and Belgium's Tractebel, and subsequently Jindals acquired the foreign partner's stake....

Mr. Fenech's colony: Maltese immigrants in Cyprus 1878-1950 *.
Abstract British Colonial Office documents describe negotiations beginning in 1878 between Cyprus administrators, the Colonial Office, and the Maltese government for several, separate schemes to bring colonies of agricultural workers to Cyprus. Then, beginning in 1879 the documents describe in detail and at length the existence of...