Ford Motor has pledged virtually all its assets in order to receive a $18 billion loan it needs to finance its turnaround effort. This is the first time since Ford was established in 1903 that the company has been forced to pledge a major part of its business as collateral for a loan.

Bangladesh`s central bank, the Bangladesh Bank, has asked all the banks and financial institutions of the country to submit reports on any financial transactions connected with Abd Al Hamid Sulaiman Al Mujilor any of his known aliases due to his alleged link with the al-Qaeda Islamist terrorist network.

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Catherine Zeta Jones, is beautiful, successful, married to Michael Douglas and rich beyond almost any of your wildest dreams. If you were all these things would you really feel the need to work? Frankly, most women I know who are married and have children, and are not in the entertainment industry, don`t want to work but are forced to for financial reasons.

The internet is a great source of information for almost anything you can imagine. Getting phone and address information is one of the things its greatest at. And now this service is about to improve drastically. Best of all this improvement will be free!

An agreement signed between the Nepalese government and Maoists rebel leaders has brought the decade long insurgency to an end

Chelsea`s goalkeeper Petr Cech is recovering in the hospital after undergoing an operation for a head injury he suffered during Saturday`s Premiership match. his team-mates meanwhile accuse Reading`s Hunt

New line taps into the $35.9B pet supply market. 60 percent of pet owners say they buy gifts for their pets, and 98 percent include their pets on holiday gift lists.

As Beslan marked the one-year anniversary of the school siege he engineered, many of the victims` mothers are increasingly laying blame for the September massacre not on Mr. Basayev, but on Russian authorities.

Rene Preval has been sworn in as president of Haiti. He took the oath of office before some 300 legislators and foreign dignitaries, including Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Preval ruled Haiti from 1996 to 2001. Haiti has been no stranger to strife in recent years.

In simple terms, a mortgage is a loan that is taken in order to pay off a property. Often, the most unnerving part of buying a house is having to go through all the motions of applying for and receiving a mortgage. Yet it doesn?t have to be this stressful.

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Announcing that the power of Torque-created games are coming to Xbox over the Xbox Live service, and have agreed to bring Marble Blast and other titles online via the soon to be released Xbox Live Arcade.

This is a significant reduction which is based largely on the ability of the Iraqis themselves to participate and defend themselves against terrorism, Defense Secretary John Reid said in a speech at the House of Commons. "But there is a long, long way to go."

Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski chastised German Chancellor Angela Merkel for refusing to reverse plans for a German-Russian pipeline project - which were agreed by her predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder. Mr. Schroeder, for his part, has accepted work with a Russian gas firm connected to pipeline construction.