Action-man Gibson back to his best - The Canberra Times
24 May 2012, 11:19 am
The atmosphere is febrile and sweaty and every corner is a minefield, but the Driver is soon acclimatised with the help of a street-smart 10-year-old (Kevin Hernandez), who appoints himself his guide and consultant. In keeping with the script's no-nonsense ...

Egypt's presidential election campaign in disarray after day of violence - Daily Telegraph
23 May 2012, 3:49 am
Amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere of suspicion and acrimony, much of it directed at Egypt's military rulers, two leading religious candidates in a field already depleted by a series of controversial disqualifications suspended their campaigns ...

Mali's interim president beaten unconscious by mob - Daily Telegraph
21 May 2012, 7:22 pm
Although he later regained consciousness in hospital and his injuries are not thought to be life threatening, the protests badly rattled the interim government and demonstrated its weakness in the febrile post-coup environment. The attack came just a day ...

Where now for Roman's Empire? Champions League glory the dream springboard for Chelsea's next chapter - goal.com
21 May 2012, 3:37 am
Bayern Munich fans milled around, reflecting on what might have been, and prepared to get back on with their lives. The febrile atmosphere of the night before had given way to solemnity, although many Germans sportingly patted their opposing ...

Japanese Ships to Kill 260 Whales in Name of “Science” - care2.com
20 May 2012, 5:33 am
However, both of these issues have been previously introduced and tabled numerous times. Reviewing the history of past IWC meetings, Black notes how “febrile and anarchic,” and “politicized”, the world of whaling can be. For instance, since IWC ...

Joint Effects of febrile Acute Infection and an Interferon-γ Polymorphism on Breast Cancer Risk - Elites TV
19 May 2012, 3:04 am
There is an inverse relationship between febrile infection and the risk of malignancies. Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) plays an important role in fever induction and its expression increases with incubation at fever-range temperatures. Therefore, the genetic ...

Business leaders prepare for 'Grexit' as elected leaders avoid the subject - WPTZ.com
16 May 2012, 1:45 pm
They say a week is a long time in politics. In today's febrile world of finance, it's a lifetime. Europe's leaders may soon learn that lesson the hard way, if they continue to dodge the question on everyone's lips: What to do if Greece is pushed out of the eurozone?

Sir Mervyn, the UK and the euro - BBC News
16 May 2012, 12:19 pm
But that time "had not been used to reach lasting solutions". He has said similar things before, often forcefully. But in today's febrile atmosphere, his words carry more weight. The same applies to his careful, but pointed, confirmation that the UK ...

Middle East: febrile and fragmented - Financial Times
15 May 2012, 1:00 am
When Beshara al-Rai, patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite church, this year described Syria as “the closest thing to democracy” in the Arab world, and Ignatius IV Hazim, patriarch of Antioch and the Greek Orthodox Christians in Syria, commended the brutal ...

Canon Eric James obituary - The Guardian
6 May 2012, 11:40 am
in a move that might have occasioned even more outrage in the Church of England now that the issue is such a febrile one than it did then, he publicly outed himself as gay in a television programme following his retirement in 1990 while dressed ...