Website Developement Of Mma Site

In the quest to find new developers outside our immediate circle of people we work with, our think-tank has agreed we should look outside the box. Therefore I post the RFQs/bids from developers interested in being apart of an exciting website community in the makes. CSS, HTML5, FLASH a must to put together a self sustainable website.,in other words, once its built, the owner can take over updating the content where needed.

Home page to open with Flash video file followed by Index page
Index Page to consist of basic web navigation.
TABS-
Events
-This page will have calendar info along with a bulleted section of the events above the calendar.
–Within the Events Tab in a drop down sub menu, include Tickets Page which links to the current tickets sales page we are directing people to ie., dcmax5.eventbrite.com
–Sub mneu Location page will have a map with a start point and there selected method of transportation for google to show public transit, walking or driving.

Fighters
-This page will have a sub navigation bar pertaining to Fighter Categories (Weight Divisions followed by alphabetical order of competitors who have competed on a OWMMA Fight card)
–The Fighters page will be a photo, Name, Weight, Age, Height, Experience, Fight Camp, Link to MixedMartialArts.com MMA ID#
–The Champions page will be the details to a Champion of a Weight Division be it Amateur or Pro

Media Section
-Videos, Still Images, Desktop Backgrounds, OWMMA Cage Girls

Contact Section
This will have a way for fighters to contact us and for fight fans and basic info contact.

Easy website, no merchandising. The opening Flash can be a basic entrance with logo and simple EFX with transitioning. We will want to edit that opening flv everytime we have a new event to promo. Details will be required of all sizes and resolutions currently used on the developed site. We intend to take this shell site and fill it with our content as we progress.

Love replaces hate

"gay-free zone" stickerStickers stating “gay free zone” have appeared around London’s East End
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It is no bigger than a postcard but appears to spread a message of hatred and division in an area of east London that many residents pride for its diversity.

Reprinted and glued to dozens of lampposts and railings in the area, a flyer states: “Arise and warn. Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment.”

It has been discovered near to Shoreditch’s gay pubs and outside a school in Whitechapel, both in Tower Hamlets, east London.

But a group of East End residents say they have had enough.

And rather than retaliating with anger, they are responding with messages of love.

Actor Matthew Blake 27, described the “gay free zone” message on the stickers as “a bullying tactic”.

“A few individuals think they have the right to tell everyone how they should and shouldn’t feel, and where they are and aren’t allowed to go,” he said.

“It affects everyone and creates unease in the area and that’s not what east London’s about.

“The area is a multicultural, multi-sexuality place, where you can be who you are and believe in what you want.

“It’s a shame this has sullied that.”

The latest figures from the Metropolitan Police show rising homophobic crime in the area.

There were six reported homophobic crimes in Tower Hamlets in January 2011, compared to two reported incidents in January 2010,

Across the capital, between April 2009 and March 2010, homophobic crime rose by 22.2% from the previous 12 months – from 1,093 to 1,336 incidents.

Last Friday, a group of eight friends who lived near to Shoreditch decided to take matters into their own hands.

Wendy Richardson and her friendsWendy Richardson says they will continue taking action until the “gay free zone” stickers stop

They met at Shoreditch Town Hall and walked around the nearby area.

Wherever they found a “gay free zone” sticker, they either defaced it, replacing “gay free zone” with the word “love”, or they covered it with a poster saying “help yourself to love”.

The posters included tear-off quotes expressing messages of love and tolerance by writers including poet Alice Walker, director Rikki Beadle-Blair, and Anne Frank.

Actor Wendy Richardson explained the rationale behind the group’s response.

“Rather than get angry with the people who did it, we decided to counter it with some love,” she said.

“We’re a cross section of people, of all races and sexualities – gay, straight and bisexual – saying its just not appropriate.

“But we thought- you know what? We’re not going to hate you back.

“It sounds a bit wet, but takes a lot of courage.

“With all this bad news and negativity in the press, we thought it would be nice to see a sticker on the street that makes you smile.”

Despite the quote on the stickers appearing to reference the religious Islamic text of the Koran, the group is keen not to point finger of blame at any particular religious group.

Defaced stickersThe group of friends have defaced many of the stickers

“We don’t want to blame any particular group for this,” said Mr Blake.

“And if we did, we wouldn’t want to tar everyone in a group with the same brush.”

Religious groups have been quick to condemn the stickers.

“There is nothing in the Koran against Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) people,” said Mohammed Abbasi, co-director of the Association of British Muslims.

“Allah has honoured every son and daughter of Adam, so such a hateful message is not only morally and ethically wrong but actually un-Islamic.”

Meanwhile, Reverend Alan Green, Chair of the Tower Hamlets Inter Faith Forum, said: “People of faith in Tower Hamlets are proud to be part of this diverse and vibrant borough, in which mutual respect and tolerance are vital to social harmony.”

A Metropolitan Police investigation is underway to find the culprits of the “gay free zone” stickers.

Tower Hamlets said it was “appalled” by the stickers and the council’s hate crime team was working with the police.

Meanwhile, the residents’ group said new stickers have appeared since last Friday and they intend to repeat their action against them this week.

“We’re going to keep doing it until the stickers go,” said Ms Richardson.

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Defiant Gaddafi refuses to quit

Col Muammar Gaddafi on state TV (22 Feb 2011)Col Gaddafi said Libya would not surrender to foreign pressures

Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has refused to stand down amid widespread anti-government protests which he said had tarnished the image of the country.

In his first major speech since unrest began last week, Col Gaddafi said the whole world looked up to Libya and that protests were “serving the devil”.

Reading from the country’s constitution, he said enemies of Libya would be executed.

Rights groups say nearly 300 have been killed in the violence so far.

A defiant and angry Col Gaddafi said that he had brought glory to Libya. As he had no official position in Libya from which to resign, he would remain the head of the revolution, he said.

He blamed the unrest on “cowards and traitors” who were seeking to portray Libya as a place of chaos and to “humiliate” Libyans.

The protesters had been given drink and drugs, he said, frequently shouting and banging his fist on the table as the address continued.

He called on “those who love Muammar Gaddafi” to come on to the streets in support of him, telling them not to be afraid of the “gangs”.

“Come out of your homes, attack them in their dens. Withdraw your children from the streets. They are drugging your children, they are making your children drunk and sending them to hell,” he said.

“If matters require, we will use force, according to international law and the Libyan constitution,” and warned that the country could descend into civil war or be occupied by the US if protests continued.

The BBC’s Frank Gardner said it was an extraordinary speech even by Col Gaddafi’s usual standards, full of theatrical defiance against almost everyone.

He appears completely divorced from reality, says our correspondent, saying that he had not authorised the army to use force, despite opposition statements that more than 500 people have been killed and more than 1,000 are missing.

Human Rights Watch said at least 62 bodies had been taken to hospital morgues since Sunday, in addition to the 233 people it said had been killed outside the capital previously.

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MI5 ‘had chance to spot 7/7 plan’

Mohammad Sidique KhanMohammad Sidique Khan was the 7 July ringleader

MI5 received intelligence four months before 7/7 which could have identified ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan as an extremist, the inquests have heard.

MI5’s chief of staff, known as Witness G, said the security service had received a report about an extremist called “Saddique” in March 2005.

The information was not followed up for good operational reasons, he argued.

Counsel for the families of the 52 people killed in the 2005 London attacks are questioning Witness G.

Four suicide bombers detonated their devices on three Tube trains and a double-decker bus on 7 July 2005.

Many of the relatives of those who died want to know why those under surveillance were not subjected to detailed scrutiny.

On Monday MI5’s chief of staff told the 7 July inquests the security service could not be held responsible for the attacks.

Giving evidence anonymously, Witness G said on Tuesday that MI5 knew of many individuals involved in Islamist extremism but that was not the same as planning terrorist attacks.

In particular, they knew that many of these people took apart in “Jihadi tourism” during which they would go to Pakistan to have a look around.

West Yorkshire Police received intelligence between January and March 2005 that a committed extremist called “Saddique” from Batley, West Yorkshire, received training in Afghanistan in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

He is also believed to have undergone military instruction at camp while in Pakistan in 2001.

MI5 and West Yorkshire Police failed to identify the man, but it emerged after the 7/7 bombings that he was Khan, even though he was originally said to have a different surname.

Witness G told the inquests if the information had been pursued, he had a high degree of confidence MI5 would have identified the extremist as Mohammad Sidique Khan.

When it was put to Witness G that if the intelligence had been looked into, then Khan’s plans might have come to light before the attacks, the senior spy replied: “Yes, I think that’s fair.”

“Being an interesting target does not necessarily mean that he would have a high proportion of surveillance resources thrown at him”

Witness G MI5 chief of staff

However Witness G said that the decision had been taken not to further investigate the real identity of “Saddique” for good operational reasons – but he insisted that it was impossible for him to explain the decision because of national security reasons.

Witness G has already told the inquest that the security service rarely recorded decisions to stop investigating people but in this particular instance there was a record of why they had not delved further into “Saddique’s” background.

Hugo Keith QC, counsel to the inquests, said: “If he had been identified as [Mohammad Sidique Khan] and came under intrusive surveillance, whatever he was plotting by then might have come to light?”

Witness G said there would have been “a greater chance” but “a high degree of surveillance would have been necessary to come anywhere near discovering the plot”.

Witness G said: “Had we identified him on the basis of this information it would have made him an interesting target. But being an interesting target does not necessarily mean that he would have a high proportion of surveillance resources thrown at him.”

However Mr Keith pressed Witness G further, suggesting that had they identified the man as Mohammad Sidique Khan, they would have been able to also see the links between him and the 2004 fertiliser bomb plot, and to a known al-Qaeda facilitator living in Luton.

But Witness G said the greatest chance to have identified Mohammad Sidique Khan would possibly have been intelligence that a man known as “Ibrahim” had attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. That man was only identified as Sidique Khan after the bombings.

The inquests have already heard that the ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan appeared on the periphery of another investigation, codenamed Crevice, in 2004 – but the security service concluded at the time he was not a threat to the UK.

Cropped MI5 surveillance image of Shezhad Tanweer Witness G was asked why an al-Qaeda supergrass was sent this image, not the original

It also heard how MI5 missed an opportunity to identify Khan when they failed to show Mohammed Junaid Babar, their key informant, a photograph of the 7 July bomber.

Khan and suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer were photographed by a surveillance team in front of a Burger King outlet at the Toddington Services on the M1 in Bedfordshire on 2 February 2004.

But instead of using this sharp colour picture, MI5 provided only a very badly cropped image of Tanweer to US investigators interrogating the supergrass.

A photograph of Khan was also edited but it was never shown to Babar – apparently because the quality was so poor.

MI5 chiefs have previously told the Intelligence and Security Committee that in late 2004, their officers had an enormous workload because of massive growth in al-Qaeda-linked plots.

On Monday Witness G said this workload, revealed in documents to the inquests, meant the service was forced to “prioritise ruthlessly”, and could only pin down the “crocodiles nearest the boat” rather than follow up every individual potential lead.

Last month, the coroner Lady Justice Hallett granted a request from Home Secretary Theresa May for Witness G to give evidence anonymously.

But she refused to rule that the witness should be screened from the families of those who died.

The attacks were carried out by suicide bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Germaine Lindsay, 19.

They targeted Tube trains at Aldgate, Edgware Road and Russell Square and a bus in Tavistock Square.

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Cameron hails Middle East changes

David Cameron in CairoMr Cameron on a walkabout in Cairo’s Tahrir Square before heading to Kuwait
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Only political and economic reform can ensure long-term stability in north Africa and the Middle East, David Cameron will say in a speech later.

He will tell the Kuwaiti parliament that only freedom, justice and the rule of law will allow countries to meet the aspirations of their young populations.

On Monday, while in Egypt, he said that country had a “great opportunity” to push for democracy.

He also condemned the Libyan regime’s violent reaction to protests there.

The regime’s actions were appalling and unacceptable, he said.

At least 233 people have died in the last week, according to Human Rights Watch, but Mr Cameron said aspirations for Libyan democracy should be met with reform, not repression.

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi is clinging on to power and in an overnight appearance on state TV, he criticised “rumours” he had fled to Venezuela and insisted he was still in the capital, Tripoli.

Mr Cameron will be attending ceremonies in Kuwait marking the 20th anniversary of Iraq’s invasion, which sparked the first Gulf war.

BBC political correspondent James Landale said that in his speech later, Mr Cameron would, in effect, be setting out a new foreign policy for Britain.

British governments have in the past promoted trade and security links with regimes in the Middle East, while ignoring what some of its allies have done to their people, our correspondent said.

But Mr Cameron will say this is a false choice and that only political and economic reform can ensure long-term stability.

Mr Cameron will also say there are grounds for “cautious optimism” in the region because the majority of protesters seeking change have done so “peacefully and bravely”.

He arrived in Kuwait City from Egypt, where he had met caretaker Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq and the de facto leader, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi.

Speaking ahead of the visit, Mr Cameron had said: “This is a great opportunity for us to go and talk to those currently running Egypt to make sure this really is a genuine transition from military rule to civilian rule, and see what friendly countries like Britain and others in Europe can do to help.”

Mr Cameron walked through Tahrir Square, the centre of the demonstrations that led to the fall of President Mubarak, and met figures from the protest movement, although not representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood – the banned Islamic group which is thought to have widespread public support.

During his visit, which was originally planned as a trade-centred tour of the Middle East but was altered to include Egypt, Mr Cameron has been defending trade between British arms companies and some regimes in the Arab world.

The Foreign Office has revoked a series of export licences to Bahrain and Libya covering tear gas and gun components.

Mr Cameron said: “Britain has a range of strong defence relationships with countries in the region.

“I seem to remember we spent a lot of effort and indeed life in defending and helping to defend Kuwait, so the idea that Britain should not have defence relationships with some of these countries I don’t understand. It is quite right that we do.

“We have some of the toughest rules on export licences and exports of arms anywhere in the world. Everything has to meet those rules.”

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Stewart’s panic over laughing gas

Hazel Stewart denies the murders of her husband Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell in 1991Hazel Stewart denies the murders of her husband Trevor Buchanan and Lesley Howell in 1991

A woman accused of a double murder said she did not know her lover’s wife’s body was in his car on the night of the killings, a court in Coleraine has heard.

Hazel Stewart, 47, denies murdering her husband Trevor Buchanan, 32, and Mrs Lesley Howell, 31, in May 1991.

In a tape of her sixth police interview, she said: “I did not think anything was going to happen to Trevor.

“I did not know Leslie’s body was going to be in the car.”

But Coleraine Court also heard on Tuesday that a police officer who conducted the interview said Mrs Stewart said she did know her former lover, dentist Colin Howell, 51, was coming to her house on the night of the murders.

She had said that she had “a bad feeling” about it.

Trevor Buchanan and Leslie Howell were originally thought to have died in a suicide pact on the north coast of Northern Ireland.

Detectives reopened the inquiry, 18 years after the deaths, when dentist Howell, 51, stunned his church elders by confessing to murdering the two.

Later, when he was questioned by police, he claimed that Hazel Stewart was part of the plan which they covered up and then kept secret since the time of the deaths in May 1991.

Howell, a father of 10, from Glebe Road, Castlerock, is serving a 21-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to the two murders at Belfast Crown Court last November.

Last week, he spent four days in the witness box testifying against his former lover.

Howell gassed both his victims and then drove the two bodies to the neighbouring seaside town of Castlerock, County Derry, where he stage managed the apparent suicide.

The trial continues.

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NZ quake rescue runs into night

New Zealand, earthquake

Many parts of Christchurch were left in ruins after the quake

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Rescuers are toiling overnight in New Zealand to reach scores of trapped people after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake which has claimed at least 65 lives.

Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says more than 100 people are feared buried in collapsed buildings in the city.

The disaster struck at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) on Tuesday lunchtime when Christchurch was at its busiest.

It is the South Island city’s second tremor in six months, and the country’s worst natural disaster in 80 years.

The mayor has declared a state of emergency and ordered the city centre’s evacuation.

“We paid a very heavy price here”

John Key Prime Minister

On a cold and wet night, emergency teams have been toiling under floodlights to reach survivors, as relatives keep vigil outside.

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs have been fanning out across Christchurch.

A series of aftershocks, some as big as magnitude 5, have rattled the stricken city of nearly 400,000 people.

Many power and telephone lines are knocked out, while burst water mains have deluged whole districts.

Up to 30 people were feared trapped inside the flattened Pyne Gould Guinness building, where screams have been heard from the ruins.

Trapped under her office desk, Anne Voss told a New Zealand TV station: “I rang my kids to say goodbye. It was absolutely horrible.

“My daughter was crying and I was crying because I honestly thought that was it. You know, you want to tell them you love them, don’t you?”

She said she could hear other people alive in the building, and had called out to them.

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Bexley Bexley, Christchurch, New Zealand

Streets in the north-eastern suburb of Bexley were flooded as the quake caused water mains to burst, which coincided with heavy rain.

Pyne Gould Guinness Pyne Gould Guinness

The multi-storey Pyne Gould Guinness Building, which normally houses around 200 workers, collapsed. A number of people were thought to be trapped inside.

Cathedral Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand

The 63m spire of the city’s Anglican cathedral was toppled by the earthquake. Built in the second half of the nineteenth century, the spire has been damaged before and the stone construction replaced with copper sheeting.

Manchester street Manchester street, Christchurch, New Zealand

Much of the city centre was badly damaged, including these buildings on Manchester Street. The quake struck in the middle of the day when many people were out and about.

The city’s cathedral lost its spire, while a six-storey TV building housing an English-language school was reduced to a smoking ruin.

A dozen Japanese students at the school have been reported missing.

Emergency shelters have been set up at the city’s Hagley Park, a race course, schools and community halls.

The Red Cross has been trying to find accommodation for people sheltering outside in tents or under plastic sheeting.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, who held an emergency cabinet meeting before heading to the disaster zone, said: “We paid a very heavy price here.

“We could be looking down the barrel at New Zealand’s darkest day.”

New Zealand, earthquake

Eyewitness Tania Galbraith: “The whole building began to shake and it just wouldn’t stop”

The military has been deployed to help the rescue effort, and the government has accepted an offer of specialist help from Australia.

In the aftermath of the disaster, shocked survivors wandered streets strewn with debris, including shattered glass, broken computers and desks.

Roads split and cracked open as the ground beneath was liquefied by the quake.

Helicopters plucked survivors to safety from rooftops, and dumped water on fires.

Bystanders used bare hands to try to free survivors trapped under debris.

Analysis

By nature, earthquakes tend to cluster in space and time.

And Tuesday’s tremor in Christchurch is almost certainly related to the much more energetic event that hit the region last September.

The critical difference on this occasion is the ground broke almost directly under the country’s second city, and at shallow depth, 5km (3 miles) below the surface.

Contrast this with September’s magnitude 7 quake: its epicentre occurred some 40km west of the city and at a depth of 10km, and it continued to rupture mainly away from the major built-up areas.

New Zealand lies on the notorious Ring of Fire, the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim.

The country straddles the boundary between two tectonic plates: the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates.

On South Island, the location of the latest quake, the plates rub past each other horizontally.

Depth and location key

Many injured people were carried out on blood-soaked stretchers or in the arms of shocked workmates and strangers.

Some escaped on ropes lowered from office towers. Others managed to crawl out of the rubble.

One Christchurch resident, Jaydn Katene, told the New Zealand Herald: “We’ve had friends in town call us and say there are lots of dead bodies outside shops just lying there just covered in bricks.”

Police said that the dead included people on two buses which were crushed by falling buildings.

John Gurr, a camera technician, told Reuters news agency the area was “like a war zone”.

The quake caused some 30m tons of ice to shear away from New Zealand’s biggest glacier.

Witnesses say massive icebergs formed when the Tasman Glacier in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park broke, creating huge waves.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who is also New Zealand’s head of state, said in a statement she had been “utterly shocked” by the news.

“My thoughts are with all those who have been affected by this dreadful event,” the statement said.

The damage is thought to be far worse than after the 7.1-magnitude quake on 4 September, which left two people seriously injured but no fatalities.

The epicentre of that quake, which occurred in the middle of the night, was further away from the city and deeper underground.

New Zealand experiences more than 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which only around 20 have a magnitude in excess of 5.0.

The last fatal earthquake was in 1968, when a 7.1-magnitude tremor killed three people on the South Island’s western coast.

Tuesday’s was the country’s worst natural disaster since a 1931 quake in the Hawke’s Bay on the North Island which killed 256 people.

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Mother not guilty of fire murders

Fiona Adams, who escaped from the fire with her baby sonMs Adams denied starting the fire

A woman has been found not guilty of murdering two of her children in a fire at her Derbyshire house.

Fiona Adams escaped with her baby son Kiernan but her daughter Niamh, five, and son Cayden, two, died in the blaze at Edale Way, in Buxton, last April.

The 24-year-old denied the charges and was found not guilty at Nottingham Crown Court.

Ms Adams was also found not guilty of grievous bodily harm and arson with intent.

The prosecution claimed she started the blaze deliberately to create a “drama” to get attention from her partner James Maynard, who had cheated on her in the past.

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Oil prices rise amid Libya unrest

Residents stand on a tank inside a security forces compound in Libya As violence spreads across Libya, fresh concerns have been raised about a fall in global oil supply
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European stock markets have fallen as unrest in Libya and the Middle East sent oil prices to a two-and-a-half year high.

At 0830 GMT the FTSE, Dax and Cac 40 were all trading about 1% lower.

Asian stock markets closed down over fears about the continuing political uncertainty in the region.

Analysts said they were worried about the high oil prices slowing global economic expansion and corporate profit growth.

Japan’s Nikkei index closed 1.7% down, South Korea’s Kospi also ended the day 1.7% lower and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was 2.1% down.

Market sentiment was also hit by an earthquake in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s NZX 50 stock index fell 0.7% on concerns that the damage caused by the earthquake will further add to the country’s growing debt.

The New Zealand dollar also weakened by nearly 2% against the US dollar.

In Asia, the stock markets were concerned about the unrest in Libya and other Middle Eastern countries affecting oil supplies.

Brent crude rose as much as 2.7% to $108.1 per barrel, before dropping back to trade at $107.16. In New York, US light, sweet crude climbed as high as $94.49, before retreating to trade at $92.96.

“The market is very nervous over news of violence in Libya, and that’s driving prices,” said Yinxi Yu of Barclays Capital.

“It looks like the uncertainty in the region is not going to be resolved anytime soon.”

Companies that depend on fuel, such as airlines, were among the biggest decliners on Asia’s stock markets.

Fuel represents about 40% of operational costs for airlines, and investors were worried that the higher prices would eat into profits.

Singapore Airlines, the world’s second-biggest carrier by market value, declined 1.7%. Korea Airlines slumped 9%, and Cathay Pacific Airways was down 4.5%.

In Taiwan, China Airlines lost 6%, dropping to its lowest value since 30 July. Australia’s national carrier Qantas slipped 1.2%.

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Murder jury visits site of crash

Fatal crash sceneThe fatal crash happened on an Aberdeenshire road in 1994
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The jury in the case of a man accused of murdering his wife to get insurance money is set to visit the scene of the Aberdeenshire crash in which she died.

Malcolm Webster, of Guildford, Surrey, denies murdering first wife Claire Morris by drugging her, crashing their car and setting it on fire in 1994.

He also denies attempting to murder his second wife in New Zealand in 1999.

The judge, jury, accused and legal teams have travelled from the High Court in Glasgow for Tuesday’s visit.

It will include a replica vehicle being viewed at the scene of the crash – a section of the Auchenhuive to Tarves road at Kingoodie.

The 51-year-old is alleged to have carried out both offences to gain hundreds of thousands of pounds of insurance money.

Mr Webster stands accused of fraudulently obtaining more than £200,000 after cashing in insurance policies following the death of his first wife Ms Morris, who was from Oldmeldrum.

Malcolm Webster and Claire MorrisMalcolm Webster is charged with murdering his wife Claire Morris

He is further charged with deliberately crashing his car in Auckland in February 1999 in a bid to kill his second wife, Felicity Drumm, who was a passenger.

It is also alleged he intended to bigamously marry Simone Banarjee, from Oban, Argyll, to gain access to her estate.

It is claimed he told her he was terminally ill with leukaemia when he was actually in good health.

The trial, before Lord Bannatyne, began on 1 February.

It is expected to last several more weeks.

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Wal-Mart sees US sales decline

Wal-Mart shoppersWal-Mart lost out to lower cost rivals
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Retail giant Wal-Mart has reported a seventh straight quarterly decline in sales at its US stores, as it loses customers to lower cost rivals in the US.

In the fourth quarter sales fell by 1.8% in the US, but the firm benefited from strong overseas sales.

Wal-Mart posted a consolidated net income of $6.2bn (£3.8bn) in the fourth quarter, up from $4.9bn a year earlier.

For 2010 as a whole, consolidated net income was $17bn, up from $14.9bn 2009.

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