Beijing insists its auto industry needs protection as it forms conglomerates, but there is little sign China's 120 auto-makers want to join hands, linked as many are to local interests.

CNN: Open the Gates

He is yet to sign a new contract with Wales, but will certainly want to see his nation through to Portugal 2004 and beyond.

BBC: Ferguson lauds Hughes

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BBC: Enviropedia website

It's just a theory, of course, but the sign of a worthy thriller may be how eagerly you want to revisit it, just to see where you went wrong or where the movie did, in timing its narrative twists and "aha!"

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How much longer will they want to keep piling up assets whose value shows no sign of doing anything but fall?

ECONOMIST: The dollar

Carl Levin of Michigan and Bill Nelson of Florida because they want this issue addressed by the DNC, but were they pleading with their governors to not sign the law changing the dates?

CNN: Commentary: Florida, Michigan don't deserve revote

Five hundred UN peacekeepers will not win the war against the rebels and it is not even clear that they want to actually mount an offensive but the convoy that headed out of Freetown on Friday was the first sign for several weeks that the UN intends to do business.

BBC: UN's credibility mission