A look at the Czech Republic squad ahead of their Euro 2004 semi-final against Greece.
The recent bailout of Romania by the International Monetary Fund puts the spotlight back on the East European block of countries and what it means for the Western European banking sector. If evidence is anything to go by, things are turning for the worse. In fact, if a block of countries could be termed 'sub-prime', Eastern Europe seems to qualify as the countries seem to have been battered and bruised big time by the ongoing global financial turmoil.
Parts of Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East are vying to become new offshoring hubs - and nudging aside established players
The Indian men succumbed to their first defeat going down 1.5-2.5 to slip to joint sixth spot after the seventh round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
The Indian ace underlined his superiority in the game once more as he outplayed Veselin Topalov 3-1 in the final.
India have been drawn in along with Japan, Oman and Singapore in the Asian qualifying group for the 2006 World Cup football finals.\n\n
India stands 40th in 'network readiness' in the world, having slipped from the 39th spot it held last year. However, it is above China (50th) and Pakistan (67th) and Sri Lanka (83rd).
Dutch squad penpix ahead of the European Championship semi-final against hosts Portugal.
In the Global Corruption Index, a survey of 133 nations conducted by Transparency International (an anti-graft watchdog), India stood 83rd, recording a score of 2.8 out of 10.
The victory placed the Indian World Cup champions in the joint lead with Alexei Shirov and Judith Polgar in the Corus chess tournament.
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