Challenges In The News 06/12/08

In true Buffalo fashion, the 28th Annual J P Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge will kick off the summer with a sporting event and a party.

Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto on Wednesday in Carson City explains her challenge asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission not to docket or schedule hearings for the Energy Department's application to build and operate a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.

THE WilSTUART ADAMSON, of Hardrock Cycling Club, posted a significant improvement in the Etape Caledonia 2008 recently. The Stewartry rider completed the 81-mile closed road challenge event in 4 hours 5 minutes and out of 2,000 entries, finished in 273rd position.

shire Times is launching an appeal for candidates to take part in an exciting new challenge to reduce their carbon footprint and become eco-friendly.

At Barcelona : After seeing Casey Stoner take a valuable podium in the Grand Prix of Italy, where Marco Melandri also made progress in the race before being forced off track by a crash for Randy De Puniet, the Ducati Marlboro Team now heads to Barcelona to continue its challenge for honours in the Grand Prix of Catalunya.

Young people from a county hit by a recent spate of suicides are travelling to London today to challenge media coverage of the deaths.

Chicago - Marquette will be one of eight schools competing in the third annual Chicago Invitational Challenge, scheduled to take place November 28-29 at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Ill. The Thanksgiving weekend tournament will also include Dayton, Auburn, Northern Iowa, Chicago State, Mercer, Texas Southern and Bethune Cookman.

The 2008 Women Challenge Cup competition will kick-off on June 23-30, 2008 in four centres across the country with 18 clubs registered to participate. Group A is made up of Bayelsa Queens, Nito Queens of Ibadan, Sunshine Queen of Akure and Rivers Angels with centre in Ikot-Abasi, Akwa Ibom State.

Brussels - The European Union is to challenge Germany once again over its revised version of the so-called Volkswagen law, saying that it breaks EU competition rules, officials said Thursday. Volkswagen's main shareholder, Porsche, which is seeking t...

WASHINGTON - Presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama will face a challenge in Ohio this year: grim voters pessimistic about the economy, according to a poll released Wednesday.

VANCOUVER. 5th June 2008. A strong international field that is expected to challenge for records was announced today for this year's 10th Anniversary Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon, to be run on its famous, scenic, downhill course from UBC to Stanley Park on Sunday June 22nd.