Bell Canada Enterprises might be taken private

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE), one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, announced Tuesday that it is in talks with a consortium of Canadian pension funds to explore the possible sale of the company. If successful in their bid, the consortium would take the publicly-traded company private, which
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Zimbabwe police break up rally, detain leaders

Monday, March 12, 2007 Zimbabwe police broke up a prayer rally protesting government policy on Sunday, arresting over 100 people, including the leader of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai. Zimbabwe police claimed that the prayer rally violated a government ban on political protests. Riot police reinforcements
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