Shatabdi s no longer about soggy cutlets - Times of India
These are days of value-added services and taking a train definitely means much more than reaching one s destination. In a welcome move, the fastest train between Chandigarh and Delhi is finally dishing out a complete new fare, and how! Changes in

Poor economy forces local businesses to nix holiday parties - WNDU
Many Michiana companies will not be decking the halls for holidays, due to the economy. Honkers Expert Catering says business is down 15-to-20 percent for December bookings. The Palais Royale is expected to be down about 8-percent for the month. The

Toast Martinborough prepares for its annual influx of party-lovers - Wairarapa Times-Age
Rachael Fletcher has been thoroughly chuffed helming her first festival as Toast Martinborough chief executive since taking up the post last year. “It’s been really exciting overseeing it and the lead-up has been fantastic it’s a great community

McEnroe: Women’s game lacks personalities - Setantasports.com
Never one to shy away from saying what he thinks, John McEnroe has declared that men s tennis is currently completely overshadowing the women s game on the personality front. The seven-times Grand Slam winner feels players like Roger Federer

Amy Winehouse Serves Cheese On Toast In A String Vest - Entertainmentwise
The troubled singer who was clad in her trademark string-vest whipped up some cheese on toast for the hoard of snappers who had camped out to see what Amy did next. The hostess with the mostess served the warming snack on a bed of grubby

A toast to forgotten comrades - Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA - Each year, on Remembrance Day, we remember those who served and, particularly, those who fell in the Great War and the wars that have followed it in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is very appropriate that our focus is on these wars, as

WITH PHOTO NO PHOTO - Blueridgenow.com
Monday - Breakfast: Breakfast bagel. Lunch: Chicken nuggets or ravioli, roll, whole kernel corn, steamed broccoli, chilled peaches, juice, milk. Tuesday - Breakfast: Country gravy on open-faced biscuit. Lunch: Beef and bean burritos or hot ham and

Young bench warmers ready for Test debut - News.com.au
WALLABIES coach Robbie Deans is hoping to cap three more exciting youngsters in tomorrow morning’s Test against Italy here. Deans has already handed Test debuts to 10 players during his five-month reign and now he has James O’Connor, Quade Cooper and

Apple’s iPhone makes headway in corporate market - Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc’s new iPhone, already racking up blockbuster sales with consumers, appears to be making small but steady inroads into the coveted U.S. corporate market dominated by Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry. While most

Winchester’s first goal is icing on the cake - SLAM! Sports
Jesse Winchester’s coming-out party has something in common with the Ottawa Sun’s 20th anniversary celebration. Both have lasted the better part of this week. Even if he had not scored his first NHL goal and picked up an assist, this game would have

Alaska (3 electoral votes) - Washington Post
The Last Frontier has never seen an election even remotely like this one. The state will undoubtedly back the GOP ticket, which includes Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as the vice presidential nominee. Sen. Ted Stevens (R) will stand for reelection nine

Earl Spencer talks his way into becoming a reality TV star - Daily Telegraph
Spencer will advise the young people as they take part in challenges across London Photo: PA Mandrake can disclose that Lord Spencer has been signed up by the BBC to take part in a “reality” television show, The Speaker , in which he will use his

News in brief - Guardian Unlimited
The party that has governed South Africa since apartheid has gone to court to slap down its biggest threat in decades - a splinter faction that could undermine its huge support base. The new faction is led by former Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota

Streator teen helping Santa give gifts - Pantagraph
STREATOR — Most kids have given up believing in Santa Claus by the time they turn 15, but not Andrew Stueckrad. The sophomore at Woodland High School just south of Streator is launching the I Still Believe in Santa project to give gifts to

McCain’s veep choice sailed into a holy gale - International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON : The United States hasn’t seen the last of Sarah Palin, win or lose. The presidential campaign has had an odd effect on Palin’s unsettled place in political life. It punctured down-home myths about the Alaska governor and trimmed her down

NEW YORK - You don’t have to be a Grinch to save on tipping this - MSNBC
The question of whom and how much to tip gets complicated when budgets are tight, but there are gracious ways to say thanks without emptying your wallet. In its December issue, which hits the stands Nov. 4, Consumer Reports suggests focusing on

Ameesha and Sanju are playing games - Times of India
They are past the private dinners, parties et al. Cut to the third stage passing the parcel (yeah, it s a game we played as kids, and it s still going around, wattodo?). Believe us when we say that this is a high point in the

Witness in OC sheriff case acknowledges wrongdoing - Forbes
The first witness in a federal corruption case against a former Orange County sheriff acknowledged Thursday that he knew it was illegal to launder campaign donations for the lawman but did it anyway. The testimony came under cross-examination during

Lazard Capital Fined on Fidelity ‘Gifts‘ - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street firm Lazard Capital Markets LLC settled Securities and Exchange Commission claims that it failed to supervise three employees who plied traders at mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments with improper gifts and entertainment from 2000 to

SEC reaches $3M deal with Lazard, ex-employees - Boston Globe
BOSTON Lazard Capital Markets and four former employees have agreed to pay more than $3 million to resolve a federal complaint over lavish gifts the brokerage firm showered on Fidelity Investments employees to win the mutual fund company’s

Why a big Barack Obama win is likely to damage America - New York Daily News
Democrats finally have found a surge they like. It’s a surge of liberal ideas, and if they descend on Washington with the force the polls suggest, America is about to take a leftward lurch. As the campaign enters the final stretch at the same time

It s Hard to Weather Night Games at Series - The Ledger
We assume we have seen the last of the World Series day games, although recent high school graduates can t really say that. They never saw one in the first place, or at least they wouldn t remember it. The last one was played in 1987. Now there

Ogden takes place in Ring of Honor - Baltimore Sun
Jonathan Ogden, the Ravens’ first-ever draft selection in 1996, was inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor in a halftime ceremony during Sunday’s game against the Oakland Raiders. “When this franchise was born in 1996, we needed a foundation,” said

DIARY-Japan Oct 27: Canon Q3, Japan CEOs at forum - Forbes
– All events in Tokyo unless stated otherwise. — Times, when available, shown in GMT; asterisk* indicates GMT is previous day. — Inclusion of an event in the diary does not always mean that Reuters will report on that item. Day one of Nikkei

TB 9 - USA Today
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -Short-handed but sure-handed, the New England Patriots grabbed another win. Kevin Faulk grasped a 15-yard touchdown pass just inbounds with 3:13 left - holding onto the ball despite being hit by St. Louis linebacker Pisa

At parties, much ado about seating charts - Crain’s Chicago Business
Big parties require work. And no one works harder than the volunteer in charge of invitations or seating not even the chefs who prepare fancy meals for hundreds of picky eaters. It’s the invitation committee that must navigate the treacherous

LaDainian Thomlinson: running into history - Times Online
Marty Schottenheimer, the former San Diego Chargers head coach, used to refer to LaDainian Tomlinson as one of the best running backs he had ever seen in the National Football League (NFL). But in 2003, two-thirds of the way through the season, I

Dan Fesperman on foreign locales - Weblogs.baltimoresun.com
We continue on the topic of writing with Dan Fesperman , a former Baltimore Sun foreign correspondent. His five novels, including The Amateur Spy and The Prisoner of Guantanamo , have settings in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and the

Sturdy papers for uneasy times - Crain’s Chicago Business
With ordinary correspondence lost in the shuffle for the info-inundated, businesses are turning to eye-catching invitations, brochures and announcements that (literally) carry weight. “The world is high-tech, so it’s going high-touch,” says Bruno

Posts: 12094 - Daily Herald
The elect have no need of invitations. Nice! But I do havea need of time/place info Why hell of course. By the lake of fire and brimstone which meanders throughout hell as soon as you leave this life and it’s gonna last throughout eternity

News Review interview: Alastair Campbell - Times Online
Hidden some -where in a safe, protected from fire, theft and the ravages of an imploding economy, is a pension fund tha t we might all envy. Its currency is words, millions of them, tapped out late at night. They give a raw, blow-by-blow account of

Egypt: Palestinian talk to start Nov. 9 - International Herald Tribune
RAMALLAH, West Bank : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says Egypt has issued invitations to rival Palestinian factions to attend power-sharing talks in Cairo. An Abbas aide said Sunday the talks are to start Nov. 9. The invitations were sent to

Swimmer Ryan Lochte to serve as parade’s grand marshal - Independent Florida Alligator
Homecoming weekend marks a special time in football season when Gainesville is filled with UF alumni making their pilgramages back to The Gator Nation. This year, several notable alumni will make appearances at Homecoming events, such as Olympic gold

Keep focus on sister’s pregnancy - Chicago Tribune
Dear Amy: My mom called me up crying today to tell me that my 25-year-old sister is pregnant. She is not married. She has been pregnant for almost two months and has told some family members and friends, but she has not told me or my older sister. We

Exhibition held to mark 63rd anniversary of Taiwan recovery from - Xinhua News Agency
QUANZHOU, Fujian, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) — An exhibition was held in Quanzhou City of eastern China’s Fujian Province on Saturday to mark the 63rd anniversary of Taiwan’s recovery from Japanese occupation. The exhibition includes displaying of 123

Bridesmaid Goes Into Labor Minutes Before Sister’s Wedding - FOX News
An uninvited guest crashed his aunt s Big Day in Britain by sending her pregnant bridesmaid into labor during the wedding, the Daily Mail reports. Twenty-two-year-old Gina Weeks water broke the morning of her sister s wedding, but doctors told

Funday Times-Sisu Udana Awards Ceremony - Sri Lanka Sunday Times
The All Island Essay Competition was held recently, organized by the Funday Times newspaper and sponsored by People’s Bank. The best essays were evaluated and the Awards Ceremony was held on October 4 at the Peoples’ Bank Staff Traning College

Event: Signing ceremony of Style Icon held - New Nation
Ittefaq Group, ATN Records Ltd, a concern group of ATN Bangla and Concord Group are jointly organising a beauty contest titled ‘Style Icon.’ The agreement signing ceremony was held at the Steak House in Gulshan in the city on Thursday. Arshad Hosein

Kirk Douglas Honoured For Humanitarian Efforts - Post Chronicle
Hollywood veteran Kirk Douglas has been honoured for his humanitarian work at a ceremony in Los Angeles. The actor was told he had “saved many lives” by pal Steven Spielberg at the Shoah Foundation’s Ambassadors for Humanity on Thursday (23Oct08

Reports: Clooney is back with Allen - MSN UK News
According to the New York Daily News, the star is back dating former flame, actress Krista Allen, who he cast in his 2002 film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Krista, 37, and the 47-year-old actor originally split in 2004 after two years of dating

Palin Dressed Down Melinda Henneberger and Nina Shen Rastogi take your - Slate
Washington: Good morning, I am an Obama supporter and I initially thought the choice for the Republican National Committee to purchase clothes for Palin was fine. I felt she should “look the part.” However, after further examination, I think what

Melinda Henneberger and Nina Rastogi - Washington Post
Slate XX Factor bloggers Melinda Henneberger — author of ” If They Only Listened to Us ” — and Nina Rastogi will be online Thursday, Oct. 23 at 11:30 a.m. ET to discuss the GOP’s budget for vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s outfits, how

Pop Tarts: David Duchovny Sues The Daily Mail Over Sexual Affair Story - FOX News
LOS ANGELES Reports have been running rampant all week that David Duchovny cheated on wife Tea Leoni with a tennis instructor, but according to the actor it is all “salacious and sensational gossip” that has caused him “substantial harm