Peru expanding role as specialty coffee leader San Diego LA MERCED, Peru - Coffee production in Peru, the world's largest exporter of organic coffee, is booming as growers focus on quality, develop niche markets and find ways around walls that can block growth. | After starting his farm four years ago, Peruvian coffee farmer Oscar Chavez, 32, has transfor...
Former Chelsea star Mutu to appeal huge fine The Daily Mail | Fiorentina star Adrian Mutu has vowed to appeal against the £13.68million fine he has been ordered to pay former club Chelsea, slamming FIFA's ruling as 'unjust' and 'inhumane'. | FIFA's dispute resolution chamber ruled that Mutu must make the compensation | payment after testing positive for coca...
Former Chelsea star Mutu to appeal huge fine The Daily Mail | Fiorentina star Adrian Mutu has vowed to appeal against the £13.68million fine he has been ordered to pay former club Chelsea, slamming FIFA's ruling as 'unjust' and 'inhumane'. | FIFA's dispute resolution chamber ruled that Mutu must make the comp...
Cocaine threatens stability in fragile West Africa San Diego DAKAR - Cocaine smuggling is fanning political turbulence and undermining investment confidence in West Africa, where drugs experts say Latin American gangs threaten to transform small nations into 'narco-states'. | Unexpected seizures from Guinea-Bi...
Cocaine found but owner unclear The Charlotte Observer | Drug agents found traces of cocaine in former York County Coroner Doug McKown's county vehicle this week, authorities said. | But investigators don't plan on charging anyone in the case because they can't say to whom the cocaine belonged, said Maj....
Mutu ordered to pay Chelsea record £13.6m after sacking Belfast Telegraph | Chelsea yesterday registered their first victory of the new season when Fifa ordered their former striker Adrian Mutu to pay the club £13.68m in damages for breaching his contract after he tested positive for cocaine in 2004. It is the biggest fine...
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Cocaine use trebles in a decade Belfast Telegraph | Almost two million people take illegal drugs at least once a month, with cocaine growing in popularity among teenagers and young adults, the widest-ranging official investigation...
Cocaine vaccine won't fix problem: Wodak Sydney Morning Herald | One of Australia's most experienced drug experts says cocaine and methamphetamine "vaccines" being developed in the US are no answer to the problem. | The research is at the human testing phase for the cocaine version of the vaccine while a similar...
Colombia says US lenient on drugs BBC News | Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has urged the US to give longer prison sentences to drug traffickers extradited from his country. | He said that negotiating short jail terms with traffickers in exchange for information often ended up making a mock...
'I stopped to help pedestrian hit by car... then realised it was my dying wife' London Evening Standard | A husband today told how he held a drip attached to the dying victim of a car crash - unaware that the woman was his wife. | James Peters stopped to help paramedics when he saw a pedestrian had been hit by a car at the spot where he usually picked up 60-year-old wife Susan. | It was only when he was passed the victim's handbag that he realised th...
All hail Caesar! Toronto Sun STRATFORD -- Vini, vidi, vici -- I came, I saw, I conquered. | Today, Julius Caesar's timeless military boast could as easily fall from the lips of actor Christopher Plummer who, in returning to play the aforementioned military genius in the Stratford Festival's production of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, has most certainly accomplish...
