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...Virgin Atlantic said it was in talks with Germany's Lufthansa over the future of BMI, a British airline that Lufthansa is currently taking over. This year the German carrier has taken a 42% stake in Austrian Airlines, with plans to pick up the rest later, and a similar share in Brussels Airlines, which handed the Cologne-based carrier access to west Africa. British Airways has been talking to Spain's Iberia and Australian carrier Qantas about a merger...
More recently, Warren told Beliefnet that he thinks allowing a gay couple to marry is similar to allowing "a brother and sister to be together and call that marriage." He then helpfully added that he's also "opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that a marriage." The reporter, who may have been a little surprised, asked, "Do you think those are equivalent to gays getting married?" "Oh, I do," Warren immediately answered. I wish the reporter had asked the next logical follow-up: If gays are like child-sex offenders, shouldn't we incarcerate them...
...Portugal's offer to accept detainees who are facing no charges and deemed to pose no risk could be matched by similar offers from Britain, France and Germany early next year. These detainees would be rehabilitated and reintroduced to society, although they are likely to remain under surveillance during the initial resettlement period...
...Lawyers predict lawsuits against the other accounting firms will soon follow. "The fact that they didn't catch the fraud leads me to believe that they blew it," says Scott Berman, a lawyer at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman who has reached settlements with auditors in similar cases in the past. "I am going to look hard at whether there is liability there...
...Tong, a former assistant to purged Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang and one of the charter's signers, acknowledged that it backed western values, but said that China had relied on similar ideas for reform in the past. "If studying the West is illegal, then we should arrest the people talking about the market economy, because that comes from the West," he says. "We should arrest the Communist Party, because political parties come from the West...