Challenges In The News 04/14/08

Marlon Samuels has said that the South Africans should expect a stiff challenge when they take on West Indies in the opening game of the ICC World Twenty20 on September 11.

Wolfsburg, Germany - Volkswagen aims to challenge its main rival Toyota not only in the area of technology but also on plant efficiency and thus on marginal returns, VW chairman Martin Winterkorn has told the German business weekly

A relatively new school policy that seeks to challenge gifted students in first through fifth grades by grouping them together has some parents concerned that other students are getting the short end of the stick.

A KIBWORTH teenager is taking on a 35-mile cycling challenge for cancer charities after being inspired by her granddad's battles with the disease. (30/08/2007)

Facing the only man to beat him over the last three months did little to faze Roger Federer. Federer responded to his biggest challenge of the tournament with a gritty, workmanlike performance to defeat third-seeded Novak Djokovic 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-4 on Sunday for his fourth straight U.S. Open championship and 12th Grand Slam title overall

Of all the receipts we inherit from the outdoors, none is as great as the pursuit of a challenge. Take away the reasons you hunt or fish. Remove all outside influences.

Pakistan put airports on high alert and detained hundreds of opposition activists Sunday as exiled former premier Nawaz Sharif prepared to fly home to challenge President Pervez Musharraf.

A nurse is ready for the big challenge of scaling Africa's tallest peak after training on north Wales mountains.

Legislation, which now goes to the Senate, would make patents harder to obtain and easier to challenge.

Initiative 960, which would require a vote of two-thirds of the state Legislature to approve tax increases, has survived a legal challenge.

Southeastern Louisiana football coach Mike Lucas seems to be bracing for a bad day in Lawrence, even if he’s not throwing in the towel before today’s 6 p.m. game with Kansas begins. “It is a challenge,” Lucas said. “We’ve got such a young club that we’ve got to make sure we stay positive and really try to extenuate the good things and not dwell on the bad things that happen.