ZARAGOZA, Spain (AP) — Financially stricken Zaragoza signed Portugal striker Helder Postiga and Luis Garcia before the close of the transfer deadline.
The Spanish club says on Thursday it signed Postiga from Sporting Lisbon for the next three seasons while former Spain forward Garcia joins from rival Espanyol for the next three years.
Zaragoza also loaned …
President Barack Obama is asking America's G-20 trading partners to work closely him "to safeguard and strengthen the recovery" from the near collapse of the global economic system in the fall of 2008.
Looking ahead to the coming G-20 summit in Toronto, Obama noted that "significant weaknesses" linger among the major and developing economic powers. He says …
Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes Drummond M, Schulper M, Torrance G, O'Brien B and Stoddart G 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2005 ISBN: 019-852945-7. RRP $99.95. 350 pages
AS THE NAME SUGGESTS, Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes, third edition, is a recently updated and revised textbook that explores the various forms of economic evaluation - applied to the health care setting. However, at first glance, the title of this book could be slightly misleading. One might even mistake it for being yet another introductory text in health economics! Indeed, it is quite the contrary, as the authors have gone beyond merely …
Dozens of Iraqi orphans were awarded Iraqi citizenship certificates and official identification cards Friday after the government repeatedly turned down their requests for documents affirming their legal status.
Interior Minister Jawad Bolani presented the papers to 26 boys aged 5 to 12 years. They boys wore white shirts with the words "I am Iraqi" emblazoned in them. They were also given applications for Iraqi passports.
"We wanted to put a smile on the faces of these orphans who lost their families and subsequently were deprived of the right of Iraqi citizenship," Bolani said.
Sameer Jassim, a volunteer working in the …
Vietnam's economy is expected to grow 6.23 percent this year, the lowest level in nearly a decade, as the Southeast Asian country grapples with inflation of nearly 23 percent, the highest in nearly two decades, the government said Thursday.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the global economic slowdown was to blame for the new figures, but pointed out that things could have been worse.
"Growth of 6.23 percent in 2008, which does not meet the National Assembly target, is still relatively high in the face of many difficulties," he was quoted as saying on a government Web site Wednesday.
The assembly recently revised its growth target …
Mayor Sawyer said Thursday he might withdraw his support ofAurelia Pucinski for Circuit Court clerk unless she drops off Sen.Paul Simon's delegate slate for the March primary.
Sawyer, a supporter of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's presidentialcandidacy, told the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board, "I think thatit would be prudent for her (Pucinski) not to be a Simon delegate."
Pucinski was noncommittal when asked whether she was committedto remaining on the Simon slate. "All this can be worked out,"Pucinski said. "I haven't had a chance to congratulate the mayor onhis election yet. I'd like to talk with him. I owe it to him totalk with him if it's a legitimate …
NEW YORK - To put on its massive production of "War and Peace," the Metropolitan Opera will need an army - or two - of extras.
Dozens of men responded to a call to audition Saturday at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church in Manhattan to work as extras portraying soldiers in the Russian and French armies in the Met's upcoming production, composed by Sergei Prokofiev.
The epic opera promises to be one of the Met's largest productions in its history, requiring 1,200 costumes, 52 soloists in 68 singing parts, 118 choristers, 41 ballet dancers, about 250 …
