Canada's Joannie Rochette won silver at the Four Continents figure-skating championships in Goyang, South Korea, on Saturday.

She then landed a triple Lutz and a triple Salchow before she went for a triple toe-triple Salchow sequence.

Sukhbir comes to Bains’ help

Among the industries taking the lead include cycle and hand tool manufacturers who say they are unable to stay competitive amid continually rising costs due to several factors, including multiplicity of taxes.

While a couple of hand tool manufacturing unit owners are already off to Gujarat to find out details like land costs, taxation structure, etc for setting up their units in that state, cycle unit owners, too, are contemplating a similar action.

"We can no longer afford to sit and continue waiting for the Punjab government to resolve our problems. I have decided to set up my unit in Gujarat and we are planning to visit the state to get detailed information on establishing our units here," said Satish Dhanda of Kelvin Bikes, who is also the president of the Indian Bicycle Manufacturers Association.

British Airways Holidays makes booking a city break to New York even ...

Only 50 minutes from Manhattan, this Mecca of designer outlets has some 220 stores all crammed with cut-price treasures enabling visitors to wander through the Gap outlet, Nike factory, Versace and Barney's factory outlets to bag those bargains. Additional suggestions available on the site for anyone looking for a bit of peace after a hectic day include heading to the Top of the Rock observation deck and quietly soak up the sights of the city. 70 stories high, the panoramic views are unobstructed for 360 degrees through the glass panels and give a serene bird's eye view of Northern Manhattan's landmarks; even the Statue of Liberty can be seen in the distance. New York is known for good food and has over 20,000 eateries to choose from, making dining out in New York a daunting prospect for some.

Time Team finds Bronze Age relics on Barra dunes

THE TRANQUIL Hebridean island of Barra became the scene of a mass excavation last month as Tony Robinson and his fellow Time Team diggers uncovered a Bronze Age cemetery arguably as impressive as Orkney's Skara Brae.

Cal's Anderson, Stanford make hay against Washington schools

He was one of the best and most well-rounded big men in the Nike LeBron James Skills Academy, and he will prove his worth at the next level. If his team can navigate the tournament, you might just see him in the MAAC final during Championship Week on ESPN. Jason Thompson can really play.

3. Shooting Woes? When you are unbeaten, the focus is on your weaknesses, rather than just how good you are. Well, Memphis has some relative weaknesses, but few teams seem able to exploit them enough to steal a win, and it's not like the Tigers haven't played a good schedule. For example, Memphis as a team shoots a poor percentage from the free-throw line (58 percent), which would suggest the Tigers would falter in late game situations and lose in the NCAA Tournament. But Memphis was hardly a great free-throw shooting team the past two years, yet the Tigers made it to the Elite Eight both times.

Immigrant Songs

Her world-town spirit gave it a sense of openness; she is a curator as much as she is an artist.

Arulpragasam was less marketable than Rihanna—Kala, her first for Interscope, may be her last—though she did pose in a recent Marc Jacobs ad. Detractors will grouse about M.I.A.'s allegedly hipster fanbase and largely symbolic political rhetoric; gushers will gush on about her genius. Her complex backstory and revolutionary sloganeering have divided critics from the onset, and she remains highly combustible, with her affection for talking out of turn, her unwillingness to kowtow to those who could make her famous (Timbaland, David Letterman), her passionate ire directed at smart targets. It pissed a lot of people off. Rihanna, conversely, aims to please everyone all the time, and with "Umbrella" she wildly succeeded.

Plans for LSU-VA hospital complex stir resentment

Paul, Minn., paints a view of South Tonti Street stretching toward the old Dixie Brew´ery this month. Hundreds of homes such as these stand to be torn down to make way for the new LSU-VA medical campus, although the brewery building could be saved and reused. .

Kate Jones: Literary agent with flawless taste

Kate Jones was one of the most brilliant literary agents of her generation, and leaves behind an extraordinary list of devoted authors. At the time of her death, at the age of 46, she was at the peak of her powers and changing the character of agenting in London – by sheer force and warmth of her personality.

Traditionally, literary agents are the invisible partners in the unholy publishing triangle of author, agent and publisher. They negotiate "the deal" – the huge, life-transforming advances that have all too often enriched authors in the short-term, impoverished publishers, and left both sides worse off in the long term before walking away to leave the author and the publisher to getting on as best they can. Not Kate Jones. She was a brilliant deal-maker, with more than her fair share of the Holy Grail of authors: "the big six-figure advance".

Langkow's passing fancy

Throw in the fact the Calgary Flames were mired in their recently ended five-game losing skid, and it made the situation doubly painful.

Langkow admitted yesterday he wasn't happy about not coming through with production while Jarome Iginla and Alex Tanguay were carrying the bulk of the offensive load.

Bison season ends at sectional

Kuhl and the gang proved they were no one-hit wonders at the Nokomis Class 1A sectional Wednesday evening.Blake Kuhl scored 17 points -- as did his Dieterich High School teammate Ethan Heuerman -- to lead the Movin Maroons to their first sectional victory in school history, a 61-51 triumph over the Grayville Bison.Dieterich (21-10) will face the host team Friday evening for the sectional championship, the winner moving on to the Class 1A super-sectional in Carbondale on Tuesday.

Is Anyone Serious About Ending the Political Crisis in Chad?

The second combustible situation is the political crisis inside Chad. Despite the Chadian government’s assertions that all of Chad’s problems emanate from Sudan’s capital Khartoum, Chad’s government is among the world’s most venal and its citizens are among the world’s most destitute and disenfranchised. Chad provides an accommodating theater for regional conflict and proxy war because it is grappling with its own very serious internal crisis. In the wake of the most recent coup attempt, the Chadian government has cracked down hard on unarmed political opposition. Opposition leaders have been arrested, fled to neighboring countries, or been driven underground. To Chadians seeking a peaceful way forward, the international community’s silence has been deafening.

Boll takes some luster off world table tennis champs

GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Like living legend Jan-Ove Waldner, Timo Boll is always a crowd puller in table tennis-crazy China.

The 26-year-old Boll has opted out of the world team table tennis championships which opens on Saturday, to rest an injured knee before cracking a shot at this summer's Beijing Olympics.

"China regards Germany as its top rival in the men's team competition, but without Boll, Germany is not the same team," said Chinese Table Tennis Association's media chief Zhao Weizhen.

"My patella tendon is inflamed and my knee needs a rest," Boll said in a statement released by the International Table Tennis Federation.

"It is senseless to play there not fully fit and with permanent aches," the triple European champion said of the tournament in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.