Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes Grand Prix (nee Brawn) has reportedly discovered details of a fraud in relationship to a sponsorship that had been planned for its new Formula 1 team. According to the respected financial journal Handelsblatt, Brawn GP met with a Henkel employee as long ago as Monaco in May. They began discussing a deal being worth $43m a year. By the end of July a three-year deal worth $130m had been agreed. It was due to begin in March 2010. According to the newspaper the scam was discovered only after Brawn and Mercedes did their deal.
Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes Grand Prix (nee Brawn) has reportedly discovered details of a fraud in relationship to a sponsorship that had been planned for its new Formula 1 team. According to the respected financial journal Handelsblatt, Brawn GP met with a Henkel employee as long ago as Monaco in May. They began discussing a deal being worth $43m a year. By the end of July a three-year deal worth $130m had been agreed. It was due to begin in March 2010.
According to the newspaper the scam was discovered only after Brawn and Mercedes did their deal.
An Olympic weightlifter has unexpectedly given birth to a baby boy during training. Chilean Elizabeth Poblete, who competed at the Beijing games, was practising lifts in Sao Paulo ahead of an event when the boy was born.Poblete had admitted to feeling unwell during training a week before the birth, according to reports in Brazil, but was "shocked" to find she was pregnant.
An Olympic weightlifter has unexpectedly given birth to a baby boy during training. Chilean Elizabeth Poblete, who competed at the Beijing games, was practising lifts in Sao Paulo ahead of an event when the boy was born.
Poblete had admitted to feeling unwell during training a week before the birth, according to reports in Brazil, but was "shocked" to find she was pregnant.
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has taken off on its first test flight - almost two and a half years late.It had been grounded by a series of hitches, including design problems, strikes and even a shortage of bolts. Boeing has pegged its hopes for the future on the plane, which promises to be one of the most fuel-efficient in the world. It has attracted some 840 orders from all over the globe, although some have been cancelled because of the delays
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has taken off on its first test flight - almost two and a half years late.
It had been grounded by a series of hitches, including design problems, strikes and even a shortage of bolts.
Boeing has pegged its hopes for the future on the plane, which promises to be one of the most fuel-efficient in the world.
It has attracted some 840 orders from all over the globe, although some have been cancelled because of the delays
Careless talk by Rachida Dati, the fallen star of President Sarkozy's Cabinet, has upset her campaign to relaunch her career as a diligent and modest member of the European Parliament. In a telephone call broadcast on French television Ms Dati, 44, tells a friend that she is utterly bored by her new life at the Strasbourg assembly. She was exiled there last June when Mr Sarkozy dismissed her from her post as Justice Minister. Her comments, which prompted mirth from opponents and embarrassment for Mr Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement, contrasted with the humility that the glamorous Ms Dati has been projecting as she strives to clamber back to the top of the Paris scene.
Careless talk by Rachida Dati, the fallen star of President Sarkozy's Cabinet, has upset her campaign to relaunch her career as a diligent and modest member of the European Parliament.
In a telephone call broadcast on French television Ms Dati, 44, tells a friend that she is utterly bored by her new life at the Strasbourg assembly. She was exiled there last June when Mr Sarkozy dismissed her from her post as Justice Minister.
Her comments, which prompted mirth from opponents and embarrassment for Mr Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement, contrasted with the humility that the glamorous Ms Dati has been projecting as she strives to clamber back to the top of the Paris scene.
FAST TRACK: Although a Paris court recently accepted a plan to reduce couture house Christian Lacroix to a licensing operation, the designer continues to dress thousands. Last week, French railway operator SNCF said some 20,000 employees would sport new Lacroix-designed threads starting next month. The new uniforms are gray and purple and include blouses, skirts and jackets for women, and pants, jackets and striped shirts for men. No stranger to transportation, Lacroix has also designed the uniforms and train interiors for Tézo and TGV lines, as well as the flight personnel uniforms for Air France.
TED Blog: Underwater astonishments: David Gallo on TED.com
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a shape-shifting cuttlefish, a pair of fighting squid, and a mesmerizing gallery of bioluminescent fish that light up the blackest depths of the ocean. (Recorded March 2007 in Monterey, California. Duration: 5:21.)
