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2008-02-08 07:07:23 Shell faces call for new inquiry over leaking of ethelyne oxide gas - media AMSTERDAM (Thomson Financial) - Royal Dutch Shell said a larger amount of ethelyne oxide gas escaped from its Moerdijk location in the Netherlands than previously thought, prompting calls from a Dutch province for an independent inquiry into the incident, Dutch media reported. 2008-02-08 06:54:43 BROKERWATCH Veolia Environnement upped to 'buy' vs 'hold' at SG Secs PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Societe Generale has upped Veolia Environnement to 'buy' from 'hold' and added the waste and water group to its 'premium list', saying developemnts in 2007 are likely to fuel one of the best years to date in 2008. 2008-02-08 06:48:02 London shares outlook - higher after recent falls, overnight Wall Street gain LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Leading shares are expected to open higher Friday as investors seek out bargains following a 150-point drop yesterday, with the UK market taking its lead from Wall Street where moderate gains were seen overnight as buyers returned to the market.
His big breakthrough
In January 2006 an entire show paid tribute, with laughs and tears, to his dad, who had died the day before. Of course, he generally dwells on not-so-weighty life issues, such as a recent meditation on movie-going when he voiced plans to see "The Spiderwick Chronicles." "I don't really know what a spiderwick is," Ferguson admitted. "I think it's a combination of Spider-Man and Wikipedia: He fights crime and gives you the wrong answer for everything." Ferguson, who hits the road lots of weekends, spoke one recent Saturday night backstage at an auditorium in Sparta, N.J. Soon he would have a house full of fans convulsed in 80 solid minutes' worth of laughter. At 45, Ferguson is not only a talk-show host and standup comic, but also an actor, writer and musician of sorts: At 16 he quit school "mainly to drink" and joined a punk-rock band on drums.
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SC resurrects Bhagat Singh
The Supreme Court of India may well be on its way to scripting a historic exchange with its counterpart in Pakistan. At the heart of this exchange is Bhagat Singh - our shared heritage. Last month, the apex court wrote to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, asking it to loan to India all the original documents related to the Lahore conspiracy trial involving Bhagat and his comrades. The deal looks good, with the Pakistani authorities responding positively so far. If it works out, the original case exhibits will become part of the special exhibition on the historic Bhagat Singh trial, the second in the series of pre-Independence judicial trials conceived in 2006 by the Supreme Court of India. The first in the series of exhibitions, displayed at the Supreme Court Museum in Delhi, was on the Alipore Bomb Conspiracy Case in which Khudiram Bose and Aurbindo Ghose were charged with the conspiracy to kill D.H.
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