TFN NEWS BRIEFING: Banking and insurance highlights to 15:45 GMT
Forbes - analysts stated Friday. Neither the Subscriber nor AFX News warrants the completeness or accuracy of the Service or the suitability of the Service as a trading aid and neither accepts any liability for losses howsoever incurred. The content on this

Kenya opposition calls for more rallies
Miami Herald - A sea of tents made out of plastic sheeting fills a camp for the displaced in the showground in Eldoret, Kenya, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. The displaced are eager to return home, but most will not do so until the security situation improves, for fear

Speed cameras to the rescue
AZCentral.com - Attention lead-footed drivers: Don’t slow down now. The state is counting on you. Gov. Janet Napolitano is banking on an estimated $90 million in ticket revenue that she anticipates the state to receive next year from its deployment of photo-enforcement

AP Top News at 8:44 a.m. EST
Newsday - Arizona Budget Banking on Speeders PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano says the deployment of new photo radar or other speed enforcement technology on state highways is all about public safety. But her proposed say budget counts

Candidates about to sweet-talk us silly
Miami Herald - Democratic and Republican Presidential Candidates are expected to try to be all things to all voters in Florida. Slide show | Lieberman in Florida Slide show | Rudy Giuliani’s visit Interactive | Who is contributing? More on today’s race Nevada, SC

Romney wins Nevada GOP caucuses
Miami Herald - Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada’s caucuses Saturday while John McCain and Mike Huckabee dueled in the South Carolina primary, a campaign doubleheader likely to winnow the crowded field of presidential rivals. Democrats shared the stage in Nevada

UPDATE 3-Britain gets report on options for Northern Rock
Forbes - The banking crisis and a number of government blunders have undermined Brown’s popularity since he succeeded Tony Blair as prime minister last June. His Labour Celebration lags the Conservatives in the polls even though he does not have to call a general

Bitter Democratic fight in Nevada sets new tone in presidential race
Miami Herald - Forget the coded messages, the oblique attacks, the indirect putdowns. When it came to courting Nevada voters, the Democratic presidential candidates had a brawl. The week leading to the Nevada caucuses was one of the most contentious in the

European automakers are battening down the hatches in the U.S.
Detroit News - Fiat is apparently banking on the U.S. market returning to health. But that won’t be just yet. According to Professor Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, managing director of Bochum, Germany-based automotive analysts B&D Forecast, U.S. buyers of premium automobiles

Violence mars Shiite holiday in Iraq
Miami Herald - His head covered with blood, an Iraqi man raises his blade as he observes Ashoura in the city of Najaf on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Ashoura, the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, is marked by Shiite believers as the day that Imam Hussein

Venus advances; Kuznetsova bows out at Aussie Open
Miami Herald - Wimbledon champion Venus Williams advanced to the fourth round, while second-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova’s quest for a major tournament victory to begin 2008 hit a dead end on a rainy Saturday at the Australian Open. An eighth-seeded Williams

Bloomberg meeting stirs buzz
Miami Herald - While still insisting he is not running for president, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg signaled his seriousness about a possible independent campaign by meeting with the ballot access expert and campaign manager for H. Ross Perot’s third-party

China said to find $118B in bank misconduct
CNN Money - A total of 445 cases of irregularities were found, down 58.4 percent from 2006, the Xinhua News Bureau and the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported, citing the China Banking Regulatory Commission. They gave no details or and didn’t say whether anyone

Federer, Blake, Hewitt win epic five-setters at Oz Open
Miami Herald - Roger Federer was given all he could handle from Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic, but after nearly 4 1/2 hours of their third-round match Saturday, the two-time defending and three-time overall champion came through in a grueling five-setter to advance at

ICICI Profit Rises on Higher Corporate Credit Demand (Update1)
Bloomberg - ICICI Bank said it plans to sell shares for the first time in its investment banking and broking unit to public and select investors. The Mumbai-based bank plans to sell as much as 15 percent of ICICI Securities Ltd.’s post-issue capital

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