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• 'The Miracle of Bern': Soccer With a Familiar Kick
  It starts with an intriguing glimpse of life in depressed postwar West Germany, but "The Miracle of Bern" eventually sails straight into the bin marked "inspirational upset victory by plucky sports team." Although competently directed and acted, this 2003 film adds little to the "Rocky" canon.
• E.U. to Ban U.S. Corn
  European Union nations voted Friday to ban U.S. shipments of suspect corn gluten animal feed unless they are assured that the imports are free of unauthorized genetically modified corn.
• 12 Heirs of Nazi Victims Win Swiss Bank Claim
  LOS ANGELES, April 14 -- Maria Altmann was still in disbelief Thursday, the day after a New York judge restored part of her family fortune by approving a $21.9 million award to her and 11 other heirs of her uncle and a business partner victimized by the Nazis.
• Syngenta Says It Sold Wrong Biotech Corn
  Swiss biotech firm Syngenta AG said Tuesday that over a four-year period it inadvertently sold U.S. farmers an unapproved strain of genetically modified corn seed that may have also entered the food supply and international export channels.
  -The Washington Post
• Sigurd Rasmussen; U.N. Librarian And World Bank Languages Expert
  Sigurd Hartz Rasmussen, 99, a retired World Bank official who began his career at the League of Nations and who became the first librarian of the United Nations, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 21. A longtime resident of Arlington, he was with his son on Mercer Island in Washington State when he died.
• AIG Chief Greenberg Retires in Shake-Up
  American International Group Inc. chief executive Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg, who has run the world's largest insurer for almost four decades, retired yesterday during probes of potential earnings manipulation and bid-rigging.
• In the Blogosphere, Lightning Strikes Thrice
  The blogosphere, with its lightning speed and rough-edged sense of justice, seems to be claiming more victims more quickly.
• Blair Urges Action Against Global Warming
  The world's most powerful nations must act now to curb global warming, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told world leaders on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
• Safety, Clean Fuels May Steal Thunder at Auto Shows
  Yuletide is a peculiar season in the automotive industry. There are the usual closing events -- corporate parties, inventory-dumping year-end sales and annual sales reports. But there also is a rush to begin anew, a preoccupation manifested in preparations for upcoming car shows.
• Transforming Lives, One Wheelchair at a Time
  During a trip to Romania in 1999, Kenneth E. Behring , a soft-spoken jet-setter, helped an elderly Romanian into his first wheelchair. In that instant, two lives were transformed.
• Businessman Otto Ruesch Dies; Cultural, Civic Philanthropist
  Otto J. Ruesch, 64, a prominent Washington businessman who was well known for his philanthropic work on behalf of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, So Others Might Eat and a host of other organizations, died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 14 at his home in Chevy Chase.
• Germany Arrests Man In Libyan Atomic Case
  German prosecutors said Monday they had arrested an engineer on suspicion that he helped Libya in its efforts to build a nuclear weapons program, eight months after the man was named by authorities in Malaysia as a key figure in a network that spread nuclear secrets around the world.
• 3rd German Arrested in Probe Into Arms Trade
  The man is suspected of selling high-tech equipment on the nuclear black market and is the third German businessman named as a suspect in the past month in an investigation into the trade in several countries.
• Psychiatrist, Writer Changed the View of Death
  Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, 78, a Swiss-born psychiatrist who taught the world how to speak openly about death and dying and whose best-selling book "On Death and Dying" provided a vocabulary for doing so, died Tuesday at her group home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
• Swiss Embassy's Last Fling
  This was no ordinary embassy party, but this was no ordinary occasion. There were no tables with linens or waiters walking around with trays of hors d'oeuvres. Instead, there was live music, games and even paint splashing yesterday at the Swiss Embassy residence.
• Management Shake-Up At Credit Suisse Group
  NEW YORK, June 24 -- In a surprise shake-up, Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group said Thursday that co-chief executive John J. Mack, who helped return the firm's U.S. investment banking arm to profitability after two dismal years, will step down when his contract expires in July.
• BioVeris Has Close Ties to 4 Companies Run by Its CEO
  While a lawsuit filed last week focuses attention on a company run by the son of BioVeris Corp. chief executive Samuel J. Wohlstadter, BioVeris also has close relationships with four private companies run by the father.
• Father's Firm Puts Son's Spending Under Scrutiny
  BioVeris Corp. is suing companies controlled by the son of its chairman in connection with a joint venture largely funded by its predecessor firm. -The Washington Post
• Alps Guide Ulrich Inderbinen, 103
  Legendary Swiss mountain guide Ulrich Inderbinen, who climbed the 14,690-foot Matterhorn more than 370 times, battling roaring avalanches, killer ice storms and deadly glacial crevasses, died in his sleep at his Zermatt home June 14. He was 103 years old.
• Malaysia Arrests Nuclear Network Suspect
  A Sri Lankan businessman who helped build a secret international network for supplying nuclear material and equipment was arrested by Malaysian police as a national security threat on Friday.