The authority argued, somewhat presciently, that the organisation would not be able to withstand a major trauma. Within weeks of the sell-off two hijacked aircraft crashed into New York’s World Trade Centre, hundreds of airliners flew virtually empty for weeks on end, scores of intercontinental routes were axed and elsewhere smaller aircraft were pressed into service.The burgeoning market for... 

Last year Woods was on in two with a three-wood and an eight-iron. In 1986, while Jack Nicklaus charged to a record sixth win, Seve Ballesteros found the water at the par-five 15th with a four-iron.The same year, Norman pushed a four-iron right of the 18th green, while three years later he came up short with a five-iron. There should be more drama at the 18th this Sunday evening, but Fazio cannot... 

“But there are still 18 points to play for and we could easily finish mid-table,” says Friedel, the eternal optimist. “If we do, having also won the Worthington Cup, it will have been a very successful season for a team coming up from the First Division.” Friedel, the United States of America goalkeeper, might then compound a very successful domestic season with a very successful... 

But the party sometimes ran into difficulty trying to defend past successes. Not only did it spectacularly lose control of the London borough of Richmond, and of Sheffield, but also the party’s vote fell back on average across the country in wards it was defending – while advancing a little elsewhere.But if party strengths appear little changed after Thursday, the elections left in tatters... 

Bringing the detail of this human hell to light is a great achievement.However – there is a however – there are those who say Mr Beevor brings a novelist’s art to history writing He was indeed a novelist. But he wasn’t a very good novelist and quite large parts of Stalingrad are brutally unreadable.A short blast of prose reveals, for instance, that General Rokossovsky on the... 

This was enough to dampen enthusiasm even before he had to be blindfolded behind the stalls.Hawk Wing dominated the field in the paddock, the possessor of proportions that could carry you across country in the chase after foxy In comparison, Rock Of Gibraltar was ordinary He looked small and unremarkable. It was the machinery which was to prove noteworthy.Redback, as anticipated, was quick to show... 

It lost Richmond upon Thames, Harrogate, Sheffield, and Oldham, where no party is now in overall control. It won a landslide victory in Watford, where Dorothy Thornhill was elected Mayor with 72 per cent of the vote.. Wendy Alexander, the MSP who was widely regarded as the biggest rival to the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, Jack McConnell, abruptly resigned from the Scottish Executive yesterday.... 

The formidable Israeli lobby may have had something to do with the outcome. But the votes underline how any suggestion that Mr Bush is deserting Israel’s side could inflict political damage ahead of November’s mid-term elections.Conversely, the President must at least defuse the crisis to free his hands to go after Iraq, his main ambition in the region. Brushing aside White House protests,... 

Ebdon progressed to his second final after a stirring comeback late on Saturday night against Welshman Matthew Stevens. Ebdon came from 16-14 down ­ and almost out ­ to win a tense, 40-minute, 33rd frame and go through. Stevens endured five agonising miss-shot calls against him in the clincher. “It feels as though I’ve been 12 rounds with Mike Tyson,” he said afterwards, cementing... 

It carried a set of instrumented mannequins that relayed environmental data to mission controllers so that they will know what their astronauts will have to contend with.Chinese space planners have said that they plan to construct a permanent space station. It is likely that their first space station will consist of a few Shenzhou capsules linked together in space. It will be crude but it will be...