Sixth seed Sebastien Grosjean and number seven Jurgen Melzer advanced to the second round of the United States Clay-Court Championships in Houston on Monday, while second-seeded Andre Agassi warmed up for singles action with a rare doubles appearance.
Despite the inherent risks, Nasa said it will resume its space shuttle programme by launching the Discovery before July, more than two years after the Columbia disintegrated on re-entry. Everybody at the United States space agency understands that there are no risk-free shuttle missions, but the only way to improve is to send it back up into orbit.
A South African woman whose arrest heightened fears that terrorists were slipping across the United States-Mexico border has been deported. Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed (49) was turned over to authorities in South Africa on Tuesday, Immigration and customs enforcement officials said. She is barred from returning to the United States for 10 years.
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/ 18 February 2005
Unfriendly Russian courts and a European court that offers no protection drove embattled Russian oil company Yukos to seek help to regain solvency in a United States bankruptcy court, its lead lawyer said on Thursday. ”This is the last place that this company has to have the opportunity to survive as an ongoing concern,” said Yukos lawyer Zack Clement.
A former in-house Enron accountant who signed off on a year-end 1999 alleged sham sale of several barges to Merrill Lynch told prosecutors he thought the deal was wrong from the beginning. Now he awaits questioning from the lawyer representing his former boss, Sheila Kahanek, who is one of six defendants on trial for fraud and conspiracy stemming from the deal.
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/ 28 September 2004
A South African woman whose arrest in July raised concerns about whether terrorists could easily enter the United States by way of Mexico pleaded guilty on Monday to immigration violations. Federal officials declined to say whether the woman had ties to any terrorist groups.
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/ 23 September 2004
Hurricane Ivan is making an encore appearance in the Gulf of Mexico, this time as a tropical storm that could come ashore along the coasts of Texas or Louisiana. After hitting Florida on September 16 as a hurricane, Ivan weakened and broke apart. Its remnants then swung southward, growing as they travelled over warmer waters.
A South African woman has pleaded not guilty to immigration charges in a case that has raised concerns about whether terrorists could enter the United States by way of Mexico. Farida Goolam Mahamed Ahmed (48) was arrested on July 19 after being stopped by the border patrol at McAllen-Miller International airport in Texas.
A South African woman whose arrest last month raised concerns about whether terrorists could easily enter the United States by way of Mexico has been indicted on charges of violating US immigration law and lying to a federal officer, a US prosecutor announced on Thursday.
Seven children who returned to the United States after being left to fend for themselves in Nigeria by their adoptive mother are restarting their lives in foster care. The three boys and four girls, ranging in age from eight to 16, were discovered living in squalor in an orphanage by Warren Beemer, a pastor from a San Antonio church who was in Nigeria on a tour of his church’s missions.
Halliburton will pay ,5-million to settle a United States Securities and Exchange Commission probe that it failed to disclose a change in its accounting procedures in 1998 when the oil services conglomerate was run by vice-president Dick Cheney. Cheney was Halliburton’s CEO from 1995 to 2000. He resigned to be President George Bush’s running mate.
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/ 3 February 2004
Outrage spread in the United States on Tuesday after pop star Justin Timberlake ripped off Janet Jackson’s bodice to reveal a breast during the US’s most-watched television event. The Federal Communications Commission announced an inquiry to see whether the display of flesh by Michael Jackson’s sister constituted indecency.
A year and a half into one of the most expensive bankruptcies in history, Enron Corporation is ready to reveal its plan to emerge from Chapter 11 as two companies with different names.
Two former Enron Corporation executives have been charged with fraud for using accounting tricks to generate -million in fake earnings from the bankrupt energy trader’s failed attempt to start an Internet movie-on-demand service.
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President George Bush was to attend a memorial service in Houston for the seven astronauts who perished aboard the Columbia, as Nasa’s probe of the tragedy focused on a piece of insulation that broke loose on takeoff.
A prosecutor in Arthur Andersen LLP’s obstruction of justice trial said his team’s most critical witness is one who invoked her constitutional right not to testify.
Lance Bass, teen heartthrob from the pop group N’Sync, drew closer to his dream of space flight on Tuesday after the US space agency Nasa and other agencies approved his trip to the International Space Station.
An administrator in Arthur Andersen’s Houston offices described receiving a striking amount of shredded documents in October.
Enron Corporation sold a prized asset on Wednesday for 88 times its asking price, but this time it didn’t need an accountant, banker or chief financial officer to make the deal — just an auctioneer.
The United States sees West African oil exports as a key means of reducing future dependence on oil from the unstable Middle East region, now roiled by the spectre of war with Iraq, U.S. government officials said on Tuesday.