The deputy oil minister says Iran will earn almost $70 billion from crude exports for the Iranian calendar year ending March 20 despite falling oil prices.
Akbar Torkan says Iran expects to earn $2 billion more than it did during the previous 12-month period ending in March 2008, according Monday's state radio report.
Torkan says the average price for Iranian oil was about …
PITTSBURGH Drop two bits into an old-fashioned mahogany jukeboxin a Pittsburgh tavern, and Helen Reutzel will spin a memory in theform of a song.
It's a jukebox with a twist - a human jukebox with a collectionof more than 100,000 records dating back to the 1920s and anassortment of customers who would never plunk a quarter intomechanical imitations.
"If you want to hear `Squaws Along the Yukon' or head-bangingmusic, you can. Helen has everything," said Dan Casagrande, 39,owner of Brandy's Restaurant, which has had Reutzel's "telephonemusic" for 10 years.
Pick up a black phone on top of the jukebox and a raspy voice ata studio across town cheerily asks …
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A prosecutor in Washington state says a woman who falsely claimed a stranger threw acid in her face will appear in court Wednesday.
Bethany Storro, of Vancouver, is charged with second-degree theft, accused of accepting donations after claiming a woman had splashed her with acid on Aug. 30. Police say she later admitted putting drain cleaner on her face.
Court records indicate …
A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in market in Pakistan's northwest crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban, officials said.
A purported commander for the militant group claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying the official was targeted for "interfering in our matters."
The bombing, in the town of Adazai, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of the main northwestern city of Peshawar, underscores the difficulty of combatting militancy in Pakistan, where the Taliban have carried out a series of attacks in recent weeks. The militants have said …
Centralisation of brain treatment has already been rejected oncein Scotland.
Today we can reveal a previous review into the country'sneurosurgery services concluded centralising treatment in theCentral Belt was NOT the best option.
Aberdeen's brain unit is under threat because of Government plansto base top level treatment in the Central Belt.
Medics and patients fear lives will be lost if specialistservices are taken away.
Now it emerges a similar plan was mooted seven years ago - only to be rejected.
Between November 1999 and May 2000 a group headed by the thenChief Medical Officer Sir David Carter reviewed neurosurgery …
How one community bank continues to thrive in a challenged economic climate by focusing on personalized service and technology, making it easy for customers to do business
Burke 8c Herbert Bank is a 24-branch community bank that has been "at your service" in northern Virginia since 1852. Unlike many competitors in its market, the bank has actually benefited from the market's uncertainty and consumer disillusionment from the last few years by attracting new customers with its unrelenting focus on service, while providing all the modern conveniences sought after by today's technologysavvy consumer. Burke & Herbert Bank has experienced record earnings for the last three years. It …
Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro had surgery on his left ankle Wednesday and is expected back in action in two months.
The operation lasted a half hour and Cannavaro was calm and smiling afterward, the Italian football federation said.
Cannavaro tore ligaments in Italy's first training session at the European Championship on Monday.
The operation was performed at Pelikangasse private clinic in Vienna under the supervision of Italy team physician Andrea Ferretti, with assistance by another Italian doctor and Real Madrid's physician.
"Everything went …
