| Britain's new eco battle
At a recent commerce conference in India, where he was trying to sell the advantages of settling businesses in London, he was publicly berated about the city's air transport. An executive of an Indian company stood up and told him: 'Do something about Heathrow.' It is a sentiment shared by Ric Lewis, chief executive of the London investment company Curzon Global Partners. He spends much of his life flying in and out of cities to generate business for his firm. Lewis knows a thing or two about airports and his opinion about Heathrow is simple: it's a national embarrassment. 'Heathrow is the first experience many people have of the UK. That first impression should be saying, "Welcome to one of the best cities in the world". Instead it says all too often, "Caution: you're about to have a bad day".' That warning applies to any visitor heading into the airport, says Lewis, but particularly to business travellers.
Lewis drops re-election bid
FRANKFORT, Ky. The final minutes before today's election filing deadline brought the surprise end to one political career and the possible resurgence of another.
As attention focused on Louisville businessman Bruce Lunsfords filing to unseat U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, a representative for U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis, R-2nd District, slipped into the Kentucky Secretary of States office and pulled Lewis name from the ballot.
At about the same time, Lewis chief of staff, Daniel London, filed for the seat.
The move caught some Republicans off-guard and angered others but not state Sen. Brett Guthrie, R-Bowling Green, who caught wind of Lewis pending retirement and was there to file for the office as well.
Lewis said in an interview this evening that he was homesick and that serving in Washington wasnt as fun since the Democrats took control of Congress following the 2006 election.
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Canadian ship performs rescue in Arabian Sea
HMCS Charlottetown brought aid to a Pakistani fishing vessel adrift in the Arabian Sea on Friday. HMCS Charlottetown picked up a distress call on the evening of Jan. 24 from a fishing vessel that had run out of fuel near Pakistan. A crew from the Charlottetown filled the vessel's tanks.(Cpl. Robert LeBlanc/Formation Imaging Services, Halifax) Crew members on the frigate, which is in the Persian Gulf-Arabian Sea area as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, were monitoring the radio on Jan. 24 when a distress call came from a fishing boat adrift off the coast of Pakistan. The Charlottetown, which is based in Halifax, headed to the area of the call and placed a crew and interpreter in a smaller boat, which went to the fishing ship. The captain of the drifting boat, which had a crew of 18 on board, told the Canadian sailors he was out of fuel and not able to get the ship to port.
Quran, prayer rug requested
A Saudi Arabian man who allegedly admitted perusing child pornography is demanding a Quran and a prayer rug while behind bars. Nasir Ehmood Alkhallefa, 28, insisted at an arraignment hearing before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Clifford Shirley on Thursday that officials provide him with the Islamic religious text and rug, a small embroidered cloth used to keep the area of Islamic prayer clean, while he is jailed pending trial on federal possession of child pornography charges. Shirley told Alkhallefa, who has been using toilet paper to construct a makeshift prayer rug, to take up his demands with jailers in Blount County, where most federal inmates are housed. The Saudi, who is represented by attorneys Donald A. Bosch and Ann Short-Bowers, is accused in federal court records of possessing more than 100 images of child pornography on his laptop computer.
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