ARMS FRAUD: BAE Systems Pays $450m To Settle Bribery Charges
BAE Systems is to pay up to $450m
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BAE Systems is to pay up to $450m (£288m) in fines after it pleaded guilty to false statements and accounting practices, notably over deals with Saudi Arabia and Tanzania, in a landmark settlement between the defence giant and the US and UK authorities. The Serious Fraud Office also dropped proceedings last night against Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly,...
2:46 am / No comment / Read More »A Zimbabwean magistrate, Samuel Zuze, has been exposed in what counts as one of Zimbabwe's most blatant cases of judicial malpractice and fraud after he presided over a farm dispute in which he is a direct beneficiary, with an offer letter entitling him to one third of the disputed farm....
8:24 am / No comment / Read More »Apple has reinvented the wheel with the iPad, arguably a middle of the road hybrid of the iPhone and Macbook. The iPad is neither a notebook nor a smartphone, but a sort of mule that combines the functionality of the two, and does more. Aesthetically, it takes advantage of the Kindle market, which has softened...
5:00 pm / No comment / Read More »Apple has reinvented the wheel with the iPad, arguably a middle of the road hybrid of the iPhone and Macbook. The iPad is neither a notebook nor a smartphone, but a sort of mule that combines the functionality of the two, and does more. Aesthetically, it takes advantage of the Kindle market, which has softened...
5:00 pm / No comment / Read More »Apple has reinvented the wheel with the iPad, arguably a middle of the road hybrid of the iPhone and Macbook. The iPad is neither a notebook nor a smartphone, but a sort of mule that combines the functionality of the two, and does more. Aesthetically, it takes advantage of the Kindle market, which has softened...
5:00 pm / No comment / Read More »On the eve of this year’s Africa Cup of Nations soccer final, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) caused a stir by announcing that Togo will be banned from the...
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The controversial stab proof vests designed for tourists and going to South Africa for World Cup 2010, scheduled for June, have hit...
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A British company is marketing stab-proof vests to football fans visiting South Africa for the World Cup, a move denounced as "scare...
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Unlike Baaba Maal and Youssou N’Dour, who both live and work in the relatively stable Senegal, most of Kidjo’s career has been...
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This cartoon is part of a multiple-series compilation of strips drawn by Farai Madzokere, a homeless boy who has lived on the...
7:38 pm / No comment / Read More »Some of the world's greatest music stars will tonight [Monday] converge at the A&M complex in Hollywood for a "We Are the World" concert aimed at raising funds to assist...
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