Challenges In The News 04/22/08

'Road rage' killer Kenneth Noye has won permission to challenge a refusal to refer his murder conviction back to the Court of Appeal.

A judge has dismissed a challenge to a ban on Internet gambling brought by an online gambling association, but gave the group standing to challenge the law in appeals court.

Nonprofit organizations face an unprecedented challenge in recruiting and retaining the next generation of leaders, according to a sobering report released this week by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in San Francisco. Nonprofit organizations face an unprecedented challenge in recruiting and retaining the next generation of leaders, according to a sobering report released this week by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in San Francisco. And unless it meets the challenge, virtually every sector of society will feel the effects, noted Linda Wood, senior program officer with the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, a San Francisco organization that three years ago began offering leadership development grants for nonprofits.

Dassault Systemes (DS) (Paris:DSY) (NASDAQ:DASTY), the leading provider of software solutions allowing users to create, share and experience in 3D, affirms its commitment to the athletic arena with its "Virtual Plus Reality Challenge", a new technological experience:

Pope Benedict XVI will use his trip to America next month to present Catholic educators with a powerful challenge, one whose effects could ripple from Notre Dame, Ind., to Tarrytown, N.Y., prominent Vatican watchers are predicting.

Whether or not it was a wise move, Hill-Murray goalie Joe Phillippi offered somewhat of a challenge to Roseau.

ANC president Jacob Zuma will find out on Friday whether he can challenge the NPA's application, in Mauritius, to access documents needed for their case against him.

TORONTO - Ontario is shortchanging female workers to the tune of $78 million, leaving the province open to another charter challenge on pay equity, a study being released Friday suggests.

Steel Trapp, the teen with McGyver survival skills and a photographic memory, is on the run with killers at his heels. Steel Trapp: The Challenge appears to be the first book in a brand-new young readers series by bestselling author Ridley Pearson.

Every new challenge has the power to divide – and the power to unite.