Uneasy Tulane baseball team must wait and see about NCAA Tournament berth - nola.com
28 May 2012, 5:31 am
The expressions on the faces of Tulane baseball players following the Conference USA Tournament indicated the long odds the Green wave is facing to make the cut for the NCAA Tournament, which will be announced in a selection show today at 11 a.m ...

The wave, Muscat to expand retail eightfold - Zawya.com
28 May 2012, 5:09 am
MUSCAT -- The wave, Muscat, the Sultanate's premier lifestyle destination, is set to see an eightfold increase in its retail space with the release of Al Marsa Village Centre. By 2014, The wave, Muscat will claim its place on Muscat's retail map with Al ...

Neighbours shop parents for filling their children's paddling pool during the heat wave (and they could face £1,000 fine) - Daily Mail
28 May 2012, 4:48 am
Widespread confusion over the hosepipe ban has led to parents being reported to water companies by their neighbours for filling up their children's paddling pool. Paddling pools can hold hundreds of litres and water companies are investigating reports of ...

Aussie Dollar Surfs M&A wave - Wall Street Journal
28 May 2012, 12:37 am
If there’s one thing that scares M&A bankers more than dwindling deal activity, it’s the foreign exchange markets. Currencies usually play a behind the scenes role in big cross border transactions and investment bank executives are reticent ...

BYO - next wave in the eRevolution - The Age
27 May 2012, 10:50 pm
TABLETS are the new textbooks at Manor Lakes College in Wyndham Vale, where each year 6 and 7 student owns an iPad that travels between home and school each day. The 1500-strong secondary school, on the outskirts of Werribee, is something of a laboratory ...

Heat wave continues to grip north India - Times of India
26 May 2012, 10:34 am
NEW DELHI: Soaring mercury coupled with hot and dusty winds scorched vast swathes of north India on Saturday with temperatures breaching the 45 degree mark at several places in the region. However, the national capital Delhi got some respite ...

Mungiu, poster boy of Romania's New wave film-makers - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 6:56 pm
Cristian Mungiu, who won best screenplay prize at Cannes Sunday for "Beyond The Hills", is a part of a new wave of Romanian directors that emerged after the country's communist dictator was ousted. The 44-year-old won the Palme d'Or top prize at Cannes in ...

Before China’s Transition, a wave of Nationalism - New York Times
25 May 2012, 5:44 pm
BEIJING — As an English-speaking talk show host on China Central Television, Yang Rui likes to think of himself as a bridge between East and West. He has a soft spot for tweed newsboy caps and Sherlock Holmes-style pipes and takes pride in his ...

On Eve of Egyptian Vote, Crime wave Is the Main Topic - New York Times
24 May 2012, 6:04 am
CAIRO — Parts of the ring road encircling this capital are dangerous no man’s lands, unsafe to drive on, by day or night. Kidnappings and bank robberies are common around the city. And women report sexual assaults by taxi drivers, even in ...

KPCB’s Chi-Hua Chien: The Next wave Of Tech Disruption Will Hit Commerce - TechCrunch
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
Technology has helped to level the playing field across a wide range of industries, letting more individuals come to the table in fields such as publishing, entertainment and, of course, building web startups. And according to Kleiner Perkins ...