U.S.-German automaker Daimler-Chrysler and the Coastal Group of investors decided this past week to invest almost $6 billion in Pakistan to build factories which will produce Mercedes-Benz trucks, buses and cars. Pakistan is a U.S.-ally in the war on terrorism and shares a border with both Afghanistan and rival India.

hirlpool Corp. announced it will send its vacuum cleaner subsidiary company, Hoover, to Techtronic , a Hong Kong-based owner of Dirt Devil, for $107 million

Stan Van Gundy has voluntarily stepped down as head coach for the Miami Heat. Van Gundy resigned for personal reasons, saying that wishes to spend more time with his family. The Heat have announced that Pat Riley who serves as the team?s President of Basketball Operations will assume coaching responsibilities immediately.

The statewide state of emergency in New Jersey was lifted on Saturday evening. The state?s acting governor says the flooding situation is under control.

`3 Needles`, starring such famous names as Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Chloe Sevigny, will be presented at the Toronto Film Festival as a special presentation. Bigfoot Entertainment funded the film (directed by independent filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald) , which covers various stories about the ways people deal with the AIDS epidemic, and the sacrifices people are willing to make for each other.

Jorge Cantu put the Devil Rays ahead 7-4 in the sixth with two-run homer off Jonathan Papelbon. David Ortiz drove in four runs, two on a double in the seventh. The Devil Rays had gone ahead 8-6 in the eighth on an RBI grounder by Jonny Gomes.

Marco Antonio Barrera retained his WBC super featherweight title against Rocky Juarez Saturday, on route to an easy unanimous twelve round decision.

The recording industry`s war against online music piracy is not close to over, and major music labels discovered that they have a completely new war to battle ? the war against online music videos.

Online daters who have been unlucky courting in love are now heading to court ? they are suing two top Internet matchmaking services. Reports indicate that U.S. consumers spent $245.2 million on online personals and dating services in the first half of 2005, up 7.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the Online Publishers Association.

The good old bikini that we all are familiar with is now being upgraded. It is entering the digital era with a new built-in alarm that warns you to get out of the sun.

Video email and other visually related online tools are the wave of the future for businesses across the globe. Having the ability to access and display video footage of your business on the web is an ideal way to get customers interested in your products and better yet, be impressed with your marketing abilities.

Acorn Rack, a new face to the world of automatic website creation solutions providers, has recently launched a public version of its website creation service, and at the moment is providing these services free of charge. Also, users`private information is not sold or distributed to anyone.

As more newspapers in the Russian Federation come under the control of the Kremlin in one way or another, the former Premier of the now-defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mikhail Gorbachev, has announced that he is buying a stake in a newspaper which still manages to often take a critical line towards Russian president Vladimir Putin.

There are few things as entertaining as playing your favorite slot online. However, if you are new gambling on the web, or just new to slot online games, you will probably not be all too familiar with the lingo that is involved with the game.

Mike Paciello, President and Founder of The Paciello Group (TPG) of Nashua, N.H., and a leading advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, has been invited to attend and to work with The Access Board to create the new agenda for accessibility.