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...first time that someone has tried to put words to Spain's Marcha Real, a military composition that dates to the 18th century. During the Franco regime, schoolchildren learned a version with lyrics by the anti-republican poet José María Péman, but the words were never officially approved, and they quickly fell out of favor once the dictator was dead. Prime Minister José María Aznar convened a committee of experts during his second term in office (2000-2004) to devise suitably patriotic lyrics, but committee member Jon Jauristi says it couldn...
...While the renewed allegations of insider trading represent yet another blow to Airbus and may put more downward pressure on EADS share prices, it won't constitute a long-term threat to the company's future - especially if the A380 proves popular with airlines. However, according to Anne Maréchal, a former official with Paris's stock market now working with law firm DLA Piper, if convictions for insider trading have been very rare in France until now, there's reason to believe some may result in the EADS case. "The AMF isn't required to file a report...
...Should investigators be able to build a case to prosecute in the EADS scandal, lawyer Maréchal says they face the daunting task of proving executives had inside knowledge that motivated their stock deals at the time of transaction. Maréchal says that has often been difficult to do under French law, explaining why there have thus far only been two major insider trading convictions: cases involving canning group Pechiney, and bank Société Général in the late 1980s. Maréchal says sentencing in those cases suggests anyone eventually condemned...
...course, there are more pools in the U.S.--an estimated 7.4 million--than wealthy celebrities. Florida alone has 1.1 million swimming pools, and they can't all be at Mar-a-Lago. (Or can they...
...European governments are faced with the challenge of outwitting traffickers thousands of kilometers away. "They are looking for safer routes and methods," says María Marcos, director of Spain's Intelligence Center Against Organized Crime in Madrid. The routes and methods vary. Some cocaine is shipped on large vessels directly across the Atlantic, often having been processed at sea. Marcos says this cocaine is sometimes dropped overboard attached to floating buoys, then collected by Africa-based traffickers. The rest is flown from Latin America on twin-prop planes to West Africa, where it is offloaded and shuttled to Europe...