| Poland Widens Soccer Match-Fixing Probe; More Charges Possible
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Poland is widening its two-year probe into soccer match-fixing, a scandal that has led to almost 70 people being charged and angered the sport's ruling body FIFA. The government last month suspended the board of the national soccer federation, including President Michal Listkiewicz, and appointed its own commissioner to run the game. FIFA said the move violated its statutes guaranteeing the autonomy of its associations and threatened to ban Polish clubs, including the national team, from competitions. ``The investigation continues and we may expect even more charges,'' Sports Minister Tomasz Lipiec said in a telephone interview yesterday. ``We will try to avoid the suspension of our team, but not at the price of resigning from our reforms.'' Polish soccer has been in decline since the 1970s and early 1980s when the national team twice finished third in the World Cup and stars such as Zbigniew Boniek were household names in Europe.
Brazil sees ethanol output replacing 10 percent world gasoline demand
Brazil, South America's economic heavyweight, could produce enough ethanol to replace 10 percent of world gasoline demand in the next 20 years, according to a recently unveiled project. News (NYSE: NWS - news) of the renewable energy project comes amid growing concern about greenhouse gases caused by burning fossil fuels that are blamed for global warming. The Brazilian project, developed with the participation of the government and state-owned oil giant Petrobas, would multiply by 15 times the country's current production of ethanol from sugar cane. The ramp-up would push Brazilian ethanol exports to 200 billion liters (44 billion gallons) in the coming 20 years, up from the roughly three billion (660,000 gallons) currently exported, Rogerio Cesar Cerqueira Leite, a professor emeritus at Campinas University, told reporters Wednesday.
Number of cell phones in Brazil passes 100 million mark in January
Brasilia, Brazil, 16 Feb – The number pf cell phones in Brazil passed the 100-million mark in January, according to figures from the country's telecommunications regulator, Anatel.
In January, 800,000 cell phones were sold in Brazil, which increased the number of phones in use to 100.7 million.
Mobile telephony has doubled over the last three years, as in December 2003 there were 46.3 million cell phones in use.
Estimates from Brazil's Institute of Geography and Statistics indicate that the Brazilian population currently totals 188 million people.
According to a report published by Norson, a telecommunications market analysis company, China also sold over 100 million cell phones in 2006.
The figure, of 109 million, is 28 percent higher than in 2005 and represents a tenth of world mobile phone sales.
Early relief to wild animal attack victims recommended
Jammu, Feb 14: Chairman, Legislative Council Abdul Rashid Dar while intervening during the reply to a question by Nassurullah regarding non-disbursement of ex-gratia relief to the flood affected people of Kargil, referred the relief cases of the victims of wild animal attack (Lion) at Shangus.
Dar said the government has approved Rs One lakh each for the victims but its disbursement has not taken place sofar and directed the government to take urgent steps in this behalf. He also asked the government to speed up the process of disbursement of relief to the flood affected people of Kargil whose relief has also been approved by the government.
Restoration of flood damaged works in Kargil villages
A number of villages in District Kargil have suffered heavy losses due to the floods during the month of October 2006, and the villages of Samarah, Satkapah and Umbah, in particular were severely damaged.
Advisories, February 12, 2007
Today's security advisories: gd, wireshark, and samba (Fedora Core); postgresql and ImageMagick (Mandriva Linux); java-1.5.0-ibm (Red Hat Linux); dbus, dbus-glib, dbus-qt, dbus-x11, gd, ImageMagick, and kernel (rPath Linux); and postgresql-8.1, moin, and moin1.3 (Ubuntu). Fedora Core Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-149
2007-02-12 Product : Fedora Core 6
Name : gd
Version : 2.0.33
Release : 10.fc6
Summary : A graphics library for quick creation of PNG or JPEG images Description :
The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and to write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers.
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