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...there are assassination attempts against leaders." Bhutto's widower, Presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari, moved from his private Islamabad residence to the prime minister's house last week because of security fears. The attempt comes just weeks after Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud announced that his militants would target "every city" in Pakistan, in retaliation for a military crackdown on extremist groups in Pakistan's tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan. Nearly two weeks ago, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gate to a munitions factory not far from the capital, killing at least 63. Similar attacks...
...With a 72% share of the browser market, Microsoft is the real target here. Far from sinking into irrelevance, desktop computer browsers have continued to evolve and become even more integral to how we use the Web. Whoever controls that experience can leverage it to the detriment of website owners - and in ways that must keep the Google guys up at night. For instance, IE 8 makes it far easier to find something without going through a Google search. When you search within IE 8, you're presented with a number of buttons, such as Search Yahoo! or Search Wikipedia...
Taken as a whole, however, the march, which drew roughly 10,000 people - 40,000 less than initial estimates - was a peaceful assembly, with the exception of breakaway demonstrators, some of whom are allegedly members of the RNC Welcoming Committee, a self-described anarchist group that was the target of weekend police sweeps. After police and FBI authorities entered suspected Welcoming Committee buildings with battering rams and guns drawn, they confiscated items purportedly used to make Molotov cocktails, along with pipes, smoke bombs, shields, spray paint, bricks, ignitable liquid, maps of downtown St. Paul and even feces and urine, according...
...Only a few years ago, it was Commerzbank that looked like a takeover target. But Blessing, who became head of the bank just three months ago, helped engineer a turnaround of the bank's retail business and lending to mid-sized businesses, Germany's famous Mittelstand that forms the backbone of its economy. Blessing, a hobby marathon runner who had hoped he would be able to rebuild Commerzbank at a less hectic pace, realized that in the current financial crisis the opportunity to take over rival Dresdner may not come again...
...Sunday Telegraph raised the possibility that Foster's debts might also have made him an assassination target for shady business associates. It reported that last year Foster was involved in a court case in which he accused two men of blackmail after a land deal in Cyprus fell through. The defendants accused Foster of making up the allegation to cover up an attempt to have the pair assaulted...