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Chief executive Sly Bailey could leave sooner than expected after chairman Sir Ian resigned. Once his successor David Grigson is in the chair, the task of finding a new chief can accelerate, as he is leading the search.

Furniture designers love chairs. More than any other piece, it' s a fertile ground for expression and innovation. A well-designed chair is essential to our comfort in a way a table or lamp isn't. So it shouldn't come as a shock that the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York this past week was chock full of chairs. These happen to be th...

KARACHI  – The Academic Council of the NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi which met here with its Vice-Chancellor, Engr. Abul Kalam, in the chair proposed some amendments in the institution’s admission policy.If approved by the NED University’s Syndicate the proposed amendments would be effective from January next year. The Registrar, Javed Aziz Khan, said ...

La police a arrêté dans le sud-ouest de la Chine un homme suspecté d'avoir...

MONACO, May 25 (Reuters) - Formula One motor racing has installed Nestle's Peter Brabeck as its chairman following a board meeting at the Monaco Grand Prix on Friday, Brabeck told Reuters.

French former Unilever chief to take over from 2013, four years after retiring from the consumer goods group with which he spent 35 years

Sculptor Jim Rosenau's "Reading Chair" is a 6" high piece made from volumes from an old Funk & Wagnall's and some blunt pencils. It's the perfect chair for a bookish gnome. I've featured Jim's work here before. Reading Chair (via Bookshelf)

Siri: Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich malkovich Malkovich Malkovich.Apple has released a new set of television commercials featuring a celebrity interacting with Siri, the smash sensation of the iPhone 4S. This time, Siri is hanging out with John Malkovich, the acclaimed actor of screen ("Being John Malkovich," "Burn After Reading," "Con Air") and stage. Malkovich follows a gazpacho-cooking Samue...

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is still not taking phone calls from the Ricketts family, whose patriarch was weighing a plan to launch an independent expenditure against President Obama, the Chicago Sun-Times reports: Mayor Rahm Emanuel laughed and then walked out of a news conference on Wednesday when asked why he has not returned an apologetic phone call from Ricketts after revelations surfaced...

India’s candidate for the top job has been backed by the Asia Pacific countries with two other contenders, one from Latin America and Caribbean countries and another backed by Western Europe and others.

Now they call it Fadebook – shareholders call in lawyers as stock price tumbles and regulators are not far behindFacebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has gone from hero to zero as the stockmarket flotation of the decade flounders amid lawsuits and accusations of greed, hype and deception.The law firm that won a $7bn settlement for Enron's shareholders is pursuing Zuckerberg, his board and the l...

Dos recientes sondeos muestran un mundo árabe complejo y en plena apertura que tiene a Turquía como principal referente

DRDGold has sent water affairs portfolio committee chair Johnny de Lange a response following his claims regarding the comapany's acid mine-water drainage.

AN 84-year-old woman was trapped in a folding chair for two days after it broke as she enjoyed the sunshine on her balcony.

Parliament's water affairs portfolio committee head vows to summon DRDGold's executive management to explain what he calls their "blackmail" of government.

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Ian T. Durham, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physics at Saint Anselm College I've been a full-time...

Imagine for a moment that you are sitting in your front yard in a lawn chair ,sipping lemonade while attempting to read the latest news on your WiFi-only iPad. You're just out of range of your WiFi signal. Your neighbor's signal is super strong, but that selfish hooligan didn't leave it wide open for you to leach onto. Relax. Depending on where you live and who your service provider is, you ma...

Insurer Prudential is to take the unusual step of handing its chairmanship to Paul Manduca, the man initially charged with finding the best person for the job.

BILLABONG founder and largest shareholder Gordon Merchant has quashed suggestions of a rift with chairman Ted Kunkel.

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Jour qui rit, lendemain qui pleure. Fini la fantaisie, place au mélo à la peau dure.Articles en rapportDonna Summer, reine du disco, est morte hier à l´âge de 63 ansÉducation : Peillon veut un « plan d´urgence » dès la rentrée 2012Pascal Canfin, petit-fils de mineur ch´tiL´entrée en Bourse de Facebook promet d´être fracassanteIntime et incorrigible Woody Allen !

Israel should be excluded from Olympic unions and committees, head of the Palestinian Football Association says.

Dame Suzi Leather will stand down as chair of the Charity Commission in July after six years in the post, the government has confirmed.

Cutting across party lines, Congress, BJP and CPI members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on telecom have urged panel chair P C Chacko to ask the government to put on hold any decision on enhanced entry fees for fresh 2G auction.

German designers placed a high-tech, sensor-equipped chair in the middle of a palazzo in Milan last month to record stress points on the backside…

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chair of the U.S. Senate's environment committee pressed federal regulators Tuesday to disclose details about the design of the troubled steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant, where a probe into tube damage has kept the reactors sidelined for months....

La rumeur avait bruissé tout le week-end. On avait entendu qu'un film allait être tourné au Portel avec la présence de quelques grands noms du cinéma français (Nathalie Baye, André Dussollier, Marilou Berry, Audrey Fleurot) en chair et en os. Allons voir.

Seems no one is immune from the tender mercies of the TSA pat-down. First, we learned that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was subjected to a handsy search. And now we learn of the latest high-profile search-ee: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Read full article >>

Los Angeles mother Jamie Grumet, the woman in the controversial Time magazine cover on breastfeeding, said she expected criticism after deciding to pose for the cover photo. “We knew what we were getting into and [that] there would be a...

Los Angeles mother Jamie Grumet, the woman in the controversial Time magazine cover on breastfeeding, said she expected criticism after deciding to pose for the cover photo. “We knew what we were getting into and [that] there would be a lot of backlash,” the 26-year-old told Access Hollywood. “I understand where they’re coming from with that, so I want to say I really didn’t want to disappoint...

Tom Arnoldhas been appointed chair of The Irish Times Trust. He succeeds Dr Ruth Barrington who will retire from the position on June 27th, 2012.

We are just a few days away from finding out the final fate of Chair and I’m still totally hopeful that they’ll be this season’s endgame. It’s been a rough year for Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester). Season 5 of Gossip Girl has frankly been very difficult for Chair fans to [...]

Wear the same sweatshirt or socks for every important game? Listen to a lucky song (10 times)? Sit in the same chair? Mutter a mantra? Share your game ritual with The New York Times.

Witnesses said John McDonough was trying to protect his family when David Hoelzer, who had been drinking, hit someone over the head with a chair at McDonough's upscale Cohasset, Massachusetts home.

Une équipe de chercheurs japonais a mis en évidence le rôle d'une protéine dans l'envie d'uriner en phase de sommeil, variable d'un individu à l'autre. » Qu'est-ce que l'énurésie ?Articles en rapportUne paraplégique boucle le marathon de Londres en 16 joursLa Corée du Sud lutte contre le trafic de gélules à base de chair humaineSurpoids : les effets comparés des régimesPrescriptions : les autor...

After news of Adam MCA Yauch's death hit the music industry harder than a pile of bricks last week, fans went on a Beastie Boys shopping spree! While the 1986 album Licensed to Ill reenters the Top 20 with 19,000 copies sold, overall album sales reach an astonishing 55,000 compared to the previous week's 4,000!!! [...]

The Denver point guard, a Verbum Dei High product, is one of the NBA's quiet masters — though as he tormented the Lakers on Tuesday you saw a bit of Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson.So, Lakers fans, if you are still in shock over what Andre Miller did to your team at Staples Center on Tuesday night and want to know more about him, pull up a chair.

Stefania Capovilla’s hair salon is so tiny, the address is 494½. And yet: Her single styling chair is busy with some of the capital’s most prominent politicians

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The night watchman was dozing in a wooden chair just after midnight on a deserted Bangladeshi street when he was startled by a scream. A group of men were pulling two people from a car and forcing them into a black microbus; "The two guys were shouting, 'Save us,'" before the car pulled away, Lutfar Rahman said....

National Olympic Committee Kenya chair, Kipchoge Keino avers supremacy wrangles in the Amateur Boxing Association contributed to the country qualifying only one pugilist to the London Olympics.

La Corée du Sud a décidé d'intensifier sa lutte contre la contrebande de capsules à base de chair humaine. Ces pilules sont fabriquées en Chine et…

David Goldbloom, the chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, will be online on 2 p.m. Tuesday to answer your questions on Canada's first national mental health strategy.

As American officials began a second attempt at prosecution, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed declined to respond to questions and a co-defendant was put in a restraint chair.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mariano Rivera sat on a chair in the corner of the visitor's clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium, his right knee tightly wrapped Friday night and crutches resting against a nearby locker....

Microsoft (MSFT) announced today that it had appointed Stephen Luczo, chairman CEO of Seagate Technology (STX),  to its board of directors, bringing the board’s size to 11 members. Also today, Dolby (DLB) said that Microsoft had selected the company’s Dolby Digital Plus to deliver audio in its  Windows 8 on tablets and PCs. The company [...]

ISLAMABAD:  Rejecting Husain Haqqani's plea seeking former ISI chief Lt-Gen (r) Ahmad Shuja Pasha to appear before commission as a witness in 'memogate', the judicial commission Thursday also refuse to accept his written explanation regarding the utilisation of secret diplomatic funds.The judicial commission resumed hearing on Thursday with Qazi Faez Esa in the chair at the Islamabad High ...

ISLAMABAD:  Rejecting Husain Haqqani's plea seeking former ISI chief Lt-Gen (r) Ahmad Shuja Pasha to appear before commission as a witness in 'memogate', the judicial commission Thursday also refuse to accept his written explanation regarding the utilisation of secret diplomatic funds.The judicial commission resumed hearing on Thursday with Qazi Faez Esa in the chair at the Islamabad High ...

ISLAMABAD:  Rejecting Husain Haqqani's plea seeking former ISI chief Lt-Gen (r) Ahmad Shuja Pasha to appear before commission as a witness in 'memogate', the judicial commission Thursday also refuse to accept his written explanation regarding the utilisation of secret diplomatic funds.The judicial commission resumed hearing on Thursday with Qazi Faez Esa in the chair at the Islamabad High ...

Who is responsible for content on the internet? Claire Perry MP, chair of the Internet Porn Inquiry and Nicholas Lansman of the Internet Service Providers ISP Association, debate the ISP ban on file sharing website Pirate Bay.

The eurozone's finance chair backs calls by French presidential candidate Francois Hollande for a bigger European Investment Bank.

EUGENE McGEE, the All-Ireland winning manager and GAA columnist, has been appointed chair of the new Football Review Committee. His new role was announced at Saturday’s Central Council meeting in Croke Park as new president Liam O’Neill unveiled his committees for the next three years.

See what your favorite celebrities look like before they hit the makeup chair... and after.

Rangers legend Sandy Jardine has warned SPL rivals they will pay a heavy price after he claimed they had pushed the stricken club to the brink. Jardine will chair a meeting of incensed supporters groups.

Brandon Huntley says he fears discrimination, harassment and possible death if he goes back to his native country

One of Mickey Loomis' best friends, Cortez Kennedy, was sitting in a model's chair in Alpine, Utah, of all places, Monday afternoon, while a sculptor worked on his Pro Football Hall of Fame bust. The session lasted for four hours, and Kennedy kept busy by scanning the web and reading ... and then he saw the report that Loomis was being investigated for wiretapping the visiting coaches' booth at...

FIRST cop into flat of spy 'disillusioned with job' found lady's wig on chair

IT'S enough to make you spin your chair around in excited anticipation - a second season of The Voice is coming. The Voice teams latest

A ridiculous lawsuit, company naming, ICANN, and more. I was going to write an entire snarky post about this lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy. It’s alternately hilarious and, and the end of the day, sad. Basically this former employee sued with a bunch of off-the-wall allegations, such as suffering anxiety and mental anguish because he didn’t [...]

Nene had dressed for previous games with the Washington Wizards, but it was more for show, more to let his teammates know that he was supporting them even if he couldn’t actually set a crushing pick or make a foul line jumper. But Nene offered the first hint on Wednesday night that more was in store when he left an elbow pad and knee pads resting on his chair in the Wizards’ locker room. Read...

Leonard Cohen said it gave him "no pleasure to see my one-time friend shackled to a chair in a court of law, her considerable gifts bent to the service of darkness, deceit and revenge," as the ex-manager, Kelley Lynch, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

NEW INNOVATOR THE ARRIVAL OF baby Jack and all the paraphernalia that goes with a new baby gave interior designer Emma Webb the idea for Stackajack – a new space-saving furniture and storage system for small kids. “When you add up the space it takes to store a high chair, a changing table, an activity centre, a booster seat, etc, it’s over two [square] metres. In small houses or apartments that...

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and Cambodia, the current rotating chair, hosted the association's 20th summit earlier this month.

The Infinity Blade series has always been on the cutting edge of mobile gaming. Now ChAIR Entertainment and Epic Games are adding a new feature to their latest, Infinity Blade II, which harnesses the innate social component of mobile devices.

A new video on Osama bin Laden's widows in a Pakistani prison shows a boy stacking teddy bears on a chair while another grabs a cricket bat. Three women dressed in black veils look on, while another kneels on a prayer mat to read from the Quran.

Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza has pledged not to fire cabinet members who didn't support his ultimately unopposed election as ANC provincial chair.

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a Sunday newspaper he is serious about pushing for more trade protectionism in Europe and tighter external border controls, hinting he could take a stand as tough as Charles de Gaulle's 1965 "empty chair" policy.

Chris Knight: When Meryl Streep won the an Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, it seemed to vindicate what many critics had said: Here was an overwhelming performance in an underwhelming film

The Minerva Project says it's planning to launch the first elite American University in a century.

Fed chair Ben Bernanke is waiting for joblessness to drop further before hiking official interest rates

Hugh Pickens writes "As the Trayvon Martin controversy splinters into a debate about self-defense, a central question remains: Who was heard crying for help on a 911 call in the moments before the teen was shot? Now the Orlando Sentinel reports that Tom Owen, a leading expert in the field of forensic voice identification sought to answer that question by analyzing the recordings. His result: It...

RIO Tinto has established a chair at the University of WA with more than $1m to study indigenous rock art in the Pilbara.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Syrian opposition appeared to be taking steps to unite as a group, a development that he said could help clear the way for international aid, including arms.

Maria Sharapova benefited from a chair umpire's disputed overrule on the final point Thursday and edged Caroline Wozniacki 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.

Joba Chamberlain hobbled to a chair, put down his crutches and soon made a pronouncement: He expects to return this season.

the new chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada talks about his plans - and how to see them through

The hike in rail passenger fares for second class suburban and non-suburban, sleeper, AC Chair Car and AC 3 tier was today rolled back by the new railways minister Mukul Roy. VOTE: Do you agree with Roy's decision to rollback fare hike?

Researchers from Indiana University found women most often reported experiencing a 'coregasm' when working the abdominal muscles using a 'captain's chair.'

"If it looks like a bluff, walks like a bluff, and smells like a bluff, chances are it is a bluff,” says National Union of Students chair.

In his latest entry for Goal.com, the U.S. international and FC Dallas star writes about spending time with his national team teammates and Dallas' revenge over the Red Bulls.

Philip Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association just addressed the ICANN board in the open public session and asked about ICANN selecting a provider for the Trademark Clearing House and the URS (Uniform Rapid Suspension). As you will see below from the transcript ICANN said at the previous ICANN meeting in Dakar in October that a provider for the URS would be selected within a month and of c...

Rahul Dravid throwing a chair? It may seem hard to believe but that is what the Indian batting great, known for his calm and composed demeanour, did once. Dravid's rare act of indiscretion has been disclosed by his wife

Ex-Republican National Committee chairman defends the GOP primary rules that have made the GOP primary season longer and chaotic.

To Vivek it was a re-birth he was ready to re-live a thousand times.  In a country where suffering is an outcome of both poverty and disease, Vivek represented the complete caricature. He does not remember when his legs started to soften under him. He does recall the receding milestones, as his crumbling legs fell further and further behind his compatriots. Life funneled from an open sky to his...

Chair's motion passes 29 to 15 and eclipses Ford’s bid to have all-citizen board; seven councillors chosen

I remember getting to know Whitney at one of Clive Davis' pre-Grammy parties around 2007 She came right over to my table pulled up a chair next to me and said "I want us to work together!" She was very bold and extremely direct – she did not pull any...

Citigroup (C) Chairman Richard Parsons has told fellow board members that he won’t stand for reelection when Citi holds its annual meeting in April, the Wall Street Journal reported. Parsons spent 16 years on the board. He was elected chairman after Win Bischoff, the previous chair, was forced to leave following Citi’s bailout. Parsons was [...]

Federal Reserve chair offers his semi-annual economic outlook to Congress, defending low rates despite labor market pickup.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Senate Budget Committee delivered a sobering message to top U.S. defense officials on Tuesday, saying the Pentagon will have to reduce spending beyond the $487 billion already proposed if the United States is going to deal with its $15 trillion debt.

KEENE, N.H. (AP) -- Back when he was a self-described friendless recluse, Craig Carey spent hours sitting in a chair doing nothing or driving around in his car, alone. Then a fitness program for people with serious mental illness turned his life around....

New York 1 newsman Pat Kiernan will get his turn in the chair next to ABC's Kelly Ripa as co-host of "Live!" on March 7, according to local reports.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympus Corp's main lender Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) denied it was trying to take control of the firm's board by stealth, but said it might well agree to send a former...

The SFA has appointed Lord William Nimmo Smith to chair its inquiry into recent activities at Rangers.

Javier Garcia Martinez is vice-chair of the The Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies of The World Economic Forum, Professor at the University of Alicante (Spain) and founder of Rive Technology, an MIT spin-off commercializing nanomaterials for energy applications. Sang Yup Lee is chair of the Emerging Technologies Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum, Distinguished Pr...

Nigeria's ex-corruption chief Nuhu Ribadu says he views his appointment as chair of a new task force to police the oil sector as a national calling.

The move fulfills the wishes of many shareholders frustrated by the company's performance.

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock and three other board directors will step down as the struggling Internet company keeps up discussions on overhauling its prized Asian assets, including stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Yahoo says four board members including its chairman will not seek re-election amid struggles at the company....

The unique object came to light when its owner took a photograph of it to a routine valuation run by Tayler and Fletcher auction rooms in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

TTC chair finds the mayor unreceptive to reasonable alternatives on the Eglinton stretch

Benjamin Netanyahu won re-election as chairman of his Likud party on Wednesday, easily facing down a right-wing challenger in a primary that has raised speculation of an early general election in Israel.

(Reuters) - A review of Research In Motions' leadership structure by a committee of independent directors has concluded that no future chief executive or other employee can be chairperson of the BlackBerry maker.

In November 2011, a group of "friends of ICANN" from various countries sent a letter to the Chair of ICANN's Board, expressing concern about the process used previously, and suggesting improvements. Towards the end of 2011, the ICANN Board set up a Search Committee, chaired by George Sadowsky, and some significant improvements have been integrated into the selection process: • In the previo...

Mood disorders such as depression are known to increase drug abuse risk. Yet mounting evidence suggests that substance abuse also makes people more vulnerable to depression and the negative effects of stress, according to Eric J. Nestler, chair of neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He and his team reported new details about the link between depression and drug abuse in Neuron ...

It's the big question on Revenge: Who is going to die? We saw a dead body on the beach in the very first episode, and now, the cast knows who it is. Dun dun dun. So how did they...

Flash Fiction:IT CREAKS and rattles, pulls to the right despite your efforts to repair it. The chair, foul concertina of a thing.

LONDON – Andrew Miller’s novelPurewon the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award yesterday, beating four other category winners after what the chair of judges described as “fierce debate”.

Controversy abounds when Nalbandian fumed at chair umpire for over-ruling point, denying him a Hawk-eye challenge.

The schedule for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, today through Jan. 29, is filled with high-profile actors working behind the camera.

HENLEY ON KLIP, South Africa (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey feels a new freedom after leaving her wildly successful daily TV talk show behind and taking a new course seeking interviews with newsmakers on their own turf.

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The Democratic National Committee is happy to set the bar for Mitt Romney in today's New Hampshire primary: somewhere "considerably better" than 32 percent."That’s what he got in 2008," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC's chairwoman, told Salon this afternoon. "He’s now the so-called front-runner, he’s running is what is essentially his home state. I mean, if he doesn’t...

John Carter est, à côté de Tarzan, un autre de ces héros créés par Edgar Rice Burroughs. Il prend vie, en chair et en muscles face aux caméras du réalisateur de...lire la suite

I GUESS it began when I was about three years old, standing on a chair, secretly doing the dishes to please my mother when I slipped and hit my head.

The 36-year-old footballer looked incredibly dapper in his suit and tie as he toted his gorgeous baby girl in her chair while leaving London's Claridge's Hotel with his brood.

Put yourself in the famous back chair with JOHN HUMPHRYS' New Year quiz, where the questions are not necessarily as demanding as those on the show.

Chair of the African Union calls the situation "a source of concern" after two people die in an attempted coup.

LAHORE– PML(N) Manifesto Committee held its meeting with PML(N) president Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in the chair at Raiwind on Friday. The meeting decided to improvise the manifesto of the party for the next election by incorporating therein the matters of law and order, economy, electricity, and other problems facing the… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

What really is science? There are two types of science. Empirical science is the knowledge of an event or a thing witnessed through our senses. You know that the moon exists. You can see it! You know that the chair exists because you can see it or feel its support

LAHORE - It was perhaps a bad day for Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on the 5th day of the Punjab Assembly session Friday when the Opposition forced him to the back foot first on a question of law then on a report of Judicial Commission.The session which started one and a half hours beyond the fixed time of 9am with the Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal in the chair, took questions relating to the Home ...

Did our wishes for the 69th Annual Golden Globes come true? Kind of. There were certainly nominations that made us do our weird happy fist-pump chair dance, but others got our aggravated...

If you've ever slowly blinked back to consciousness in a dentist's chair unable to distinguish dream from fact you already know what King Krule sounds like Archy Marshall the 17-year-old who wrote and sing- mumbles this five-song EP exaggerates his South East London accent and douses his voice in echo...

Bernard Lapasset has retained his position as International Rugby Board chairperson after winning elections against vice-chair Bill Beaumont.

Maj. Gen. Abdul Hameed was officiating at an Afghan National Army ceremony when grenades planted under his chair exploded moments after he had left his seat.

PLAYBOY cover shows the naked star in classic Keeler pose with bunny chair

Edgar Bronfman Jr, the billionaire heir who ran Warner Music Group for seven years, will step down as chairman on January 31, according to a company memo.

Jiang Chaoliang, president of China Development Bank (CDB) and a recently revealed candidate to chair Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (ABC), will have the experience and boldness to make ABC more competitive through further reforms, industry insiders have said.

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin man who allegedly attacked a fellow guest at a Thanksgiving Day dinner after she ignored his claim to a specific chair at the dining table has been charged with attempted homicide.

ANZ chief Mike Smith will succeed Commonwealth Bank boss Ralph Norris as chairman of the Australian Bankers' Association.

Enfin ! Le public de Marcel-Michelin a pu voir en chair et en os l'ailier All Black Sitiveni Sivivatu (29 ans, 45 sélections). Recrue phare de l'intersaison, il a été présenté à l'occasion de la réception des Aironi (54-3). Sivivatu a affirmé toute sa volonté d'évoluer sous ses nouvelles couleurs.

FORTUNE -- Not that we should get ahead of ourselves, but two significant announcements from HP on Thursday show the faint glimmer of a rainbow at the end of a very long corporate storm. One was the designation of Rajiv Gupta as lead independent director. The appointment fulfilled a promise made two months ago when Meg Whitman was appointed CEO and Ray Lane became executive chair of the board. ...

The International Festival of Creativity – Cannes Lions – has announced the addition of Mobile as a new awards section for the 2012 Festival. Tom Eslinger, Digital Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, will preside over the Mobile Lions jury in its inaugural year.

Southeast Asian nations are set to endorse Burma today for the chairmanship of a key regional grouping, gambling that the isolated country can stick to reforms begun this year that could lead it out of half a century of isolation.

Aung San Suu Kyi's party has welcomed the Association of South East Asian Nations' expected endorsement of Burma's bid to chair the regional bloc.

Pete Wells leaves the editor's chair to become a critic for The Times. Replacing him will be Susan Edgerley.

Eagles WR DeSean Jackson is taking a seat on the bench Sunday after failing to find his chair at team meeting Saturday.

niki hare commented on michael conaway's photoMan with the rectangular head and a girl sitting in a chair

From his beach chair, Allan Elliott shields his eyes from the sunlight. The 81-year-old is wearing sunglasses, khaki shorts and grey socks with sandals

New York-based Canadian director named chair of film programs at advanced film institute in Toronto