Monthly Archives: May 2012

Delta Air Lines buys a refinery, estimates it can cut fuel bill by $300 million a year

Delta Air Lines is buying a refinery in a novel — and some say risky — attempt to slice $300 million a year from its escalating jet fuel bill. The Atlanta airline said Monday that is buying the Trainer, Pennsylvania refinery near Philadelphia for $150 million from Phillips 66, a refining company being spun...
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Tigers’ Young banned seven days for hate crime

VIENNA (Reuters) – Libya’s former prime minister and oil minister Shokri Ghanem, a prominent defector from Muammar Gaddafi’s government, drowned in the River Danube, Vienna police said on Monday and a Libyan security source suggested he could have been murdered. Ghanem’s fully-clothed body was found in the Danube in Vienna on Sunday, a few...
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Pickton inquiry uses study forums to search for policies to protect sex workers

VANCOUVER – The public inquiry into the Robert Pickton case, which has spent months listening to allegations and explanations about why police failed to catch the serial killer, is shifting its focus to policies that could protect the impoverished sex workers of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Dozens of witnesses including police officers, Crown prosecutors and...
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Oasis singer Gallagher rocks up as Manchester City win

VIENNA (Reuters) – Libya’s former prime minister and oil minister Shokri Ghanem, a prominent defector from Muammar Gaddafi’s government, drowned in the River Danube, Vienna police said on Monday and a Libyan security source suggested he could have been murdered. Ghanem’s fully-clothed body was found in the Danube in Vienna on Sunday, a few...
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Bo Adebayo anxious to take advantage of new lease on his football life

Bo Adebayo has a new lease on his football life. When the six-foot-three, 265-pound defensive end began his senior season at Western Kentucky last fall, it was with the knowledge he might be playing football for the last time. Although eligible for the 2012 NFL draft, Adebayo figured if he didn’t make it there...
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Texas pitcher Darvish generates buzz at Rogers Centre ahead of start versus Jays

TORONTO – Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish strolled into the visitors’ clubhouse at the Rogers Centre, sat down on one of the leather couches and let out a big yawn. The spotlight has never been brighter on the Japanese star but you wouldn’t know it by his demeanour. He appeared as relaxed as could...
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