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...late June 2007, on the day Gordon Brown took over as Britain's Prime Minister, Northern Rock was enjoying the summer. In a good first half of the year, it had lent a lucrative fifth of the U.K.'s new mortgages. Its stock traded around a healthy $17 mark. That glorious summer is over now. The harsh winter has put a very different shine on things...
...defense, the Prime Minister had little option but to take on Northern Rock, which was caught short of cash after the money markets it depended on for funds froze over last fall. There were two private bids - one from Richard Branson's Virgin Group, another from the bank's own management. But the Treasury's statements indicated that they fell short of offering enough in return for the $100 billion in loans and guarantees made to Northern Rock by taxpayers. Goldman Sachs, the investment bank advising the government on its handling of the company, didn't disagree...
...soldiers, members of the International Stabilization Force attempting to restore calm to East Timor, believed that hiding inside the three-bedroom home was one of the country's most wanted men, Lieutenant Gustao Salsinha - sought in connection with the Feb. 11 attacks on President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. They slipped up the ladder, through the upper story, down the stairs and into one of the bedrooms, where they tapped the leg of a figure lying on a bed. Their prize gave a piercing girlish scream. It was not the ruthless guerrilla fighter they were hoping...
...have waited for this day for a very long time," Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told the parliament before reading the declaration at 3 p.m. on Sunday. "The independence of Kosovo marks the end of the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia," he said, adding that "Kosovo was a unique case that should not set a precedent." Outside, the crowd cheered in the biggest celebration Pristina has ever seen. Ethnic Albanians started their celebrations on Saturday, with cars circling the streets of the capital draped with the flags of Albania and the United States, dancing to the sound of traditional...
This was in stark contrast with the mood in Belgrade which was, at best, gloomy, as most Serbs see Kosovo as their historic heartland. Minutes after Thaci finished reading the declaration in Pristina, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica addressed the nation in Belgrade, declaring Kosvo's independence "null and void." "Kosovo's unilateral declaration of a false state is the final act of a policy that started with the NATO aggression against Serbia in 1999," the Prime Minister said in a televised speech spiked with harsh anti-Western sentiments. Most of Kostunica's anger was directed towards the United States...