ESPN (DIS) is late getting into the online high school sports market. To name a few competitors: Sports Illustrated (TWX) got into it last year by funding Takkle.com, and integrating the site onto SI.com; Hearst launched its own network last year; PrepChamps.com got a round of funding last month.
But ESPN RISE will be effective when [...]

The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: design an abaya, an enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women, that is stylish yet acceptable in Arab countries.
The results: elaborately beaded designs, a flamenco-influenced abaya, a punk rock abaya — and perhaps a better understanding of cultural norms in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, where the [...]

This is a significant achievement thats taken three years to conclude and is testament to the skills of the Labour-led government and our trade negotiators.
For New Zealand the deal brings great opportunity. There are very few remaining barriers to Chinese goods and services coming into New Zealand but New Zealand businesses stand to make real [...]

Norm Withers said he was deeply hurt and saddened to hear about the attack by five men on a group of English and Danish tourists in Cashel Mall at 1am on Saturday.
The attack was apparently sparked by nothing more than their accents.
Six of the eight tourists were taken to Christchurch Hospital, including two with knife [...]

One of the English and Danish tourists remained in Christchurch Hospital with knife wounds, but was reported in a comfortable condition and likely to be discharged today.
Police today released firm descriptions of the six men they say attacked the tourists — two women and six men — who were walking in central Christchurch about 1am [...]

The former All Blacks skipper took the highly unusual step of walking onto the pitch armed with water bottles in a bid to restore the peace but the match referee objected to his presence and asked him to leave.
Umaga ignored him, and to add to the farce, was shown a red card.
A disciplinary tribunal handed [...]

The idea itself was simple. You could have written it down on the back of a fag packet but being a non-smoker I wrote it down in a nicely bound notebook instead.1Go to America.2Buy a car.3 Drive from one coast to the other.4 While doing so, try not to spend money in any chain businesses.5Go [...]

Lorgat, 47, will succeed incumbent Malcolm Speed when he steps down on July 1 following the ICCs annual conference in London.
%26quot;It would be a very good personal goal to try and make sure that we get the test-playing nations beyond 10,%26quot; he told a news conference in Cape Town.
%26quot;You need to be in the detail [...]

Board chairman Dr Nasim Ashraf told a news conference yesterday the suspension was imposed on the recommendation of the PCB disciplinary committee and the paceman had the right to appeal.
The 32-year-old Akhtars international career will almost certainly be over unless he gets the ban overturned.
He described the punishment as harsh and unjustified and said he [...]

By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 31 (Reuters) - Monsanto Co (MON.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Netherlands-based De
Ruiter Seeds Group B.V., which operates De Ruiter Seeds, for
$860 million (546 million euros), to expand the agricultural
biotech company’s presence in the vegetable seeds business.
St. Louis-based Monsanto said it [...]