Gov. Mitch Daniels has scheduled his fourth trip to Japan to promote business ties with that country.
Honda, Toyota, Mitsubishi and Sony are among the companies the governor will meet with while in Tokyo and Nagoya. He’ll be joined by state economic development officials and representatives of private companies sponsoring the trip.
Daniels says Indiana has several [...]
The cruellest corner of rugby’s lexicon is dedicated to damnation by faint praise, and it can surely hold no more withering euphemism than the ‘journeyman’ tag that is routinely applied to decent but clearly limited players.
Just ask Matt Mustchin, the 31-year-old Edinburgh forward to whom the term has had a limpet-like attachment for most of [...]
James Fanshawe’s Sir Gerry will tackle the minimum trip for the first time in the Prix du Gros-Chene at Chantilly on Sunday after a late setback ruled him out of last week’s Temple Stakes.
The colt will be ridden by Kerrin McEvoy for the first time.
“But James is very pleased with my horse at the moment [...]
A Calgary mountain climber who reached the peak of Mount Everest last week started his journey home from Nepal on Friday.
Andrew Brash, a high school teacher, successfully summited on May 23 in his second attempt to reach the top of the world’s highest mountain.
In 2006, he was 200 metres from the peak when he cut [...]
Croatia face a perfect test away to in-form Hungary in their final Euro 2008 warm-up on Saturday, assistant manager Aljosa Asanovic said on Friday.
“The match is the final assessment of our abilities before the European championship and it will show how much progress we have made in training,” Asanovic told reporters in Croatia’s training base [...]
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki who arrived in Nairobi early Friday from Japan where he attended the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development termed his five-day trip to the Asian nation a success.
A statement from his office said Kibaki urged Kenyans to gain confidence of building a prosperous nation from the Japanese economic success whose [...]
The Israeli Embassy in Cairo says a delegation of elderly Egyptian-born Jews was forced to cancel a visit to Egypt because they were unable to find accommodation following a local media storm over their trip.
Israeli press attache Shani Cooper-Zubida says that the group had just come to visit Jewish sites in Egypt and hear a [...]
Ohio University failed to protect a student who had an epileptic seizure and fell face-first into a fire while on a wilderness trip, according to a lawsuit filed by the student’s parents.
The school is responsible for the severe burns to Christopher Mance’s face, arms and hands because officials knew about the student’s history of epilepsy [...]
A whitewater rafting trip ended badly Sunday on the west branch of the Penobscot river, just north of Millinocket.
Cruz and four others were thrown from the raft while going through a rapid.
When Cruz was pulled back into the boat a short time later, he lost consciousness.
Wardens think Cruz may have experiened a medical problem.
He was [...]
The New York Mets hope to close a disappointing road trip in winning fashion this afternoon when the play the rubber match of their three- game set with the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
After winning the first two games of the trip against the Yankees, the Mets lost the next five games of the trek, [...]
