GARDENS of the Eden Valley Hospice in Carlisle have been given a makeover to mark World Hospice Day.

Volunteers from Denton Holme’s United Parcel Services (UPS) depot lavished some TLC on the landscape.

Depot manager John Broadhurst and eight employees put in 43 man hours – the equivalent of one week’s work – at the Durdar Road hospice on Saturday.

Leona Cameron, volun...

AP HEADLINES Police make first arrest in Bali bombings

Thomas Doswell, who taught himself to play music in prison while serving 19 years on a rape conviction that was later overturned, will play on the same bill as blues legend B.B. King later this year.

Doswell, 46, was released from prison on Aug. 1 after DNA testing cleared him of the rape of a woman in 1986. He's the first Alle...

AP HEADLINES Subject of taped beating says he was sober

Thomas Doswell, who taught himself to play music in prison while serving 19 years on a rape conviction that was later overturned, will play on the same bill as blues legend B.B. King later this year.

Doswell, 46, was released from prison on Aug. 1 after DNA testing cleared him of the rape of a woman in 1986. He's the first All...

MILWAUKEE and PARIS, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Johnson Controls and Saft (Euronext: SAFT) today announced that the companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture for advanced technology batteries to accelerate their participation in the hybrid vehicle market.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030423/JCILOGO )

The joint venture will dev...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A pair of game theorists who defined chesslike strategies in politics and business that can be applied to arms races, price wars and actual warfare won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday.

Israeli American Robert Aumann and U.S. citizen Thomas Schelling won the award for research on game theory, a branch of applied mathematics that uses models to s...

he skeptics are starting to back down as international retailers, evidence of the government’s serious commitment to economic liberalization, start to make their way into the market. The latest entry is Virgin Megastore, which opened its doors on September 21 at the City Stars shopping mall in Heliopolis, accompanied by a sexy ad campaign announcing its arrival.

As the ads drawing o...

Thomas Doswell, who taught himself to play music in prison while serving 19 years on a rape conviction that was later overturned, will play on the same bill as blues legend B.B. King later this year.

Doswell, 46, was released from prison on Aug. 1 after DNA testing cleared him of the rape of a woman in 1986. He's the first Allegheny County defendant to have his conviction overturned by D...

he Nazif government acknowledged last month that image is, on occasion, everything: General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) chief Ziad Bahaa El-Din announced the kickoff of its first investment promotion campaign.

The news came after business leaders called, in the pages of bt’s June 2005 issue, for a Brand Egypt campaign patterned at least in part on the highly su...

DCL Medical Laboratories Educates Customers on Use of Digene's HPV Test for Cervical Cancer Screening

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digene Corporation (Nasdaq: DIGE - News ) today announced that DCL Medical Laboratories, a women's health focused lab serving the Indianapolis and St. Louis regions, is offering its customers The Digene HPV Test for cervical cancer sc...

Here's a good example of how technology can ruin your day.

So I belong to this listserv - essentially an old-school email app in which a group of people keep up a running thread of conversation. This particular listserv is very exclusive and insular. It's comprised of exactly eight people, one of whom doesn't exist (a long story). We're all good friends on the list, having either gone...