Defending champions Sweden and Italy have trimmed Ireland’s lead to just one shot going into Sunday’s final round of golf’s World Cup teams event in China.

So it is local transport workers, including bus, tram and metro drivers, who are expected to spearhead the strike.Although there were several local transport strikes through the autumn and most had only a limited impact, the government decided this time to take the initiative. Train drivers already enjoy this condition; according to the strike settlement reached in December, lorry drivers will qualify for it after 20 years on the road. Now the unions are seeking to build on this victory, encouraged by public concern in France about the unemployment level and unalloyed enthusiasm for the idea of a longer retirement.At the end of last week, five unions called a national transport strike for 24 January in support of a demand for retirement at 55 for all transport workers. The federal government will end its $660m annual grant to the District of Columbia. Last year, the American scholar Daniel Goldhagen caused a storm with a book that accused the entire German nation of acting as “Hitler’s willing executioners”.Mr Knopp has plans for a further series that will address the ultimate question of collective guilt.

Schindler’s List remains the most memorable treatment of the period on the big screen.German historical research has only recently started catching up with academics working abroad. “This is our own history, its dissemination is our duty.”Apart from the Eighties soap opera, Heimat, the most successful stabs at the Nazi era have been foreign ones. “British and American television producers must not be allowed to dominate the business of depicting German history and its most sensitive period,” says Guido Knopp, the director. This was seen as a political umbrella that could safeguard the country’s young democratic institutions from internal enemies and its territorial integrity from external threats.

At the same time, Konstantinos Karamanlis, the first post-junta premier, waged a campaign pushing for Greek entry into the European Community. The Karamanlis government’s tactical move to take Greece out of the military wing of Nato’s command structure is a strong case in point. Predictably, the process of democratic consolidation was played out against a background of continuing tension with Turkey and the Atlantic Alliance. This partly explains why Greeks have come to see themselves as a brotherless nation more often betrayed than supported by their allies.In the early years of metapolitefsi (the 1974 transition to democracy), the Greeks were obsessed by restoring their national credibility and independence of action.

It means a five-minute daytime call to the US falls from pounds 1.49 to pounds 1.19, or pounds 1.07 including the Friends and Family discount scheme.
Other reductions include cuts of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent on calls to Germany and France, while calls to Australia and New Zealand fall by 10 per cent. Calls to Sweden plunge in price by 37 per cent.The cuts narrow the price gap with Mercury and the cable companies and are likely to go some way to meeting the challenge from a growing band of bargain operators.Analysts said the move was in response to the UK’s decision to open up the market in international traffic, previously a duopoly between BT and Mercury, to 44 operators.. Shares in London set a new record yesterday, boosted by an opening surge on Wall Street and by hopes that Kenneth Clarke will leave base rates unchanged after today’s monetary meeting. The FTSE 100 index ended nearly 61 points higher at 4,168.2. Figures earlier this week showing subdued inflation at the factory gate sent fears of an early rise in the cost of borrowing into retreat.
Shares in New York opened higher after further evidence that strong growth in the US is going hand in hand with low inflation. The Dow Jones index closed 53 points higher at 6,762.29 after figures showing that retail sales volumes rose 0.6 per cent last month while headline inflation was unchanged at 3.3 per cent.The Chancellor is due to meet Eddie George, Governor of the Bank of England, this afternoon.

Manny Pacquiao believes his lightning hand speed will help him triumph over Miguel Cotto’s raw power as he bids to take the World Boxing Organization welterweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic battled to a three-set victory over Croatian Ivan Ljubicic to reach the semifinals of the Dubai Open where he will play Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.

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The Kansas City Chiefs release controversial running back Larry Johnson.

World No. 1 Roger Federer faces a potential quarterfinal clash with Nikolay Davydenko after his recent nemesis was drawn in the same quarter of the field for the Australian Open, which starts on Monday.

Gary Megson is relieved of his duties as Bolton manager with immediate effect — the English Premier League club confirm.

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The Northern Lights Oil Sands Project is located approximately 100 kilometresnortheast of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Any forward-looking statementscontained in this release are as of the date on which such statements were made.The Company assumes no duty to update them, even if experience, unexpectedevents, or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed orimplied therein will not be realized. I tabbed Texas to win the crystal ball this year but they’ve been lackluster against a seriously weak schedule and I just love to see chaos in the polls.I still think there’s something special about Colt McCoy but I’d love to see Oklahoma jump back into the top 10 with two losses and have everyone pulling their hair out. On Tuesday, Barclays Capital analyst Paul Cheng recommendedshorting shares of U.S independent refiners, saying it wasunlikely that U.S.  The speed and intensity of each session on Howard Jones Field is often greater than what the team experiences in the actual games come Saturday.It is this spirit of intense competition that has made Pete Carroll?s teams at USC so successful.

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Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas admits he drew guns in the team locker room, but says he was only kidding around.