Challenges In The News 11/07/08

Spa-Francorchamps's Eau Rouge may not be as great a challenge as it once was, but it still remains one of the best corners in Formula One, claims Mark Webber.

SCORPIO challenges your ideas.

Travel: Taking the Whitney Challenge – ‘The poor man’s Everest’ attracts climbers with a mission.

As the self-described realist Fareed Zakaria explains, “The single largest strategic challenge facing the United States in the decades ahead is to draw in the world’s new rising powers and make them stakeholders in the global economic and political order.

Perhaps a bit of realism can challenge the widespread belief that a liberal international order rests on the triumph of ideas alone or the natural unfolding of human progress.

Campaign ’08: GOP wasn’t expecting this challenge. McCain’s campaign is shaken up by the announcement that his running mate’s teen daughter is pregnant.

MCI chief challenged AT&T. Orville Wright, president and chief executive of MCI Communications during its transformation from a start-up into the leading challenger of AT&T in the 1970’s and 1980s.

But two big challenges lie ahead: overhauling the state-owned oil company, Pemex, and defeating drug traffickers in the offensive Calderon launched upon taking office.

Google plans to launch its own internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer. The web search leader said the new browser, called Google Chrome, would 'add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web'.

Cancer sufferer set challenge of catching fish for charity in lake at McLaren's Woking base.

Three cities' agencies up for fund-raising sports challenge There were some impressive moves: bumps, sets, spikes and digs to perfection.