New Orleans inspector general reviewing $37 million in city contracts with Colorado engineering firm (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
The New Orleans inspector general has launched a review of the citys contracts with MWH Americas Inc. , the Colorado-based engineering giant that allegedly made payments to a corrupt Sewerage & Water Board member in return for continued access to

A big race for tiny research at North Texas universities (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
The countrys future prosperity could well be fueled by the science that prompts Robert Magnusson to spend millions of dollars setting up his laboratory at the University of Texas at Arlington.

SigmaQuest Receives Prestigious Awards From Plant Engineering And Supply & Demand Chain Executive (SupplyChainSolutions - SupplyChainMarket)
SigmaQuest, the leader in scalable solutions for product quality management, received two prestigious awards this month from leading publications. Plant Engineering named SigmaQuests Process Flow Visualization (PFV) software as a "2009 Product o

In Brief (Yemen Times Online)
About 108 Somali refugees have arrived in Thubab coast of Taiz governorate, Interior Ministry has said. The security authorities in Taiz governorate have sent all the arrival refugees to Kharaz camp in Lahj governorate.

Labour blamed for loss of North-East jobs (Northern Echo)
NEARLY 95,000 North-East manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past 12 years because of Labour policies, the Tories claimed last night.