• The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.

    ECONOMIST: Car crash ahead

  • "I hope the exhibition in Swansea will help form the centre piece of the centenary celebrations, " said Gooding.

    BBC: Centenary show celebrates artist's work

  • His penchant for Barcelona's nightlife has been at the centre of the breakdown in both his form and his relationship with his club.

    BBC: What has happened to Ronaldinho?

  • The winning entries will form the centre piece of the Welsh Artist of the Year Exhibition 2011, which runs at St David's Hall, Cardiff, from Monday 6 June until Saturday 6 August.

    BBC: fleece painting

  • And Rasmussen says he is well aware of the form of youngster Alex Grove, who took his place in the centre of the Warriors backline last season.

    BBC: Warriors not negative - Rasmussen

  • Last week, Sandwell Council said it was considering using 80% of the arts centre as a sixth-form college.

    BBC: The Public gallery

  • In rejecting the centre-left candidate, voters implicitly rejected a form of bail-out negotiated by the PD with local industrialists.

    ECONOMIST: Italian politics

  • Sheffield, Loughborough and London will each host hubs which will form the National Sports and Exercise Medicine Centre of Excellence.

    BBC: Graves centre chosen for Sheffield's ?10m sports hub

  • In any event, the man in trouble is Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the leader of the Social Democrats, who form the main centre-right opposition.

    ECONOMIST: Portugal

  • De Jongh is one of three international debutants and will form an all-Stormers centre pairing with Jaque Fourie.

    BBC: Juan de Jongh and Victor Matfield start for Springboks

  • His People of Freedom (PDL) party is hoping to form a centre-right coalition government with another party after it came second in inconclusive February elections.

    BBC: Berlusconi trial: 'Ruby' Karima Mahroug at Milan court

  • Anxious relatives gathered outside the jail, known locally as the "Cereso", a shortened form of its full Spanish name - the Social Rehabilitation Centre for Adults.

    BBC: Mexico prison shooting: 17 dead in Ciudad Juarez clash

  • But parliamentary seats will decide the outcome and one poll now puts the centre-right ten points ahead of the Social Democrats, on course to form a coalition with the liberal Free Democrats.

    ECONOMIST: The right's Edmund Stoiber launches a chunky manifesto

  • His People of Freedom (PDL) party is hoping to form a centre-right coalition government with another party after elections on 24-25 February, but have not named a candidate for prime minister.

    BBC: Berlusconi praises Mussolini on Holocaust Memorial Day

  • "Work on the proposals is underway and could see the campus run as an 11-16 secondary school, a sixth form and vocational college, and leisure centre with the inclusion of a range of other council and third sector services, " he added.

    BBC: School children

  • Instead, there is a heroic statue of Josiah Wedgwood, a buzzing university campus and a new Sixth Form Centre.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • The controversy over Klaus's re-election meant that when Petr Necas, the leader of the centre-right Civic Democrat party (ODS), was attempting to form a government after the 2010 parliamentary elections, several of his prospective coalition partners made their cooperation conditional on the new government making reform of the presidential election system part of its programme.

    BBC: Q&A: Czech presidential election

  • Oil pumped in the Gulf of Guinea comes ashore, via the international spot market, in the form of billion-dollar transfers that have made Lagos a regional financial centre.

    ECONOMIST: Nigeria's prospects

  • They will create a free, one off cross art-form performance, featuring huge scale digital projections and live music in the centre of Bristol from 13 -- 19 August 2012.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The head of Italy's centre-left bloc has hit an impasse in his efforts to form a government and said only a mentally ill person would want to govern Italy now.

    BBC: Italy Bersani: PM job 'only for mentally ill'

  • Getting any form of credit backing was a dicey proposition in late 2008, but Centre had strong enough relationships with its lenders, and the firm leading the deal, Wells Fargo, was in better shape than many of its large banking rivals.

    FORBES: Meet The Men Who Bought And Sold Bumble Bee Tuna...Twice

  • Sophie Maloney's two-year-old son Oliver, who has a rare form of cancer, spent two months at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in 2011.

    BBC: Oliver, 2, and his mother Sophie Maloney

  • But with Tom Shanklin (knee injury), Osprey Andrew Bishop (ankle) and Gavin Henson yet to have a run of fitness and form at either Saracens or new club Toulon, Wales' options at centre to partner Jamie Roberts were limited.

    BBC: Jonathan Davies injury forces James Hook centre switch

  • His centre-right government must now either find alternative savings and submit them to parliament in the form of a supplementary budget - at a time when its authority to implement further austerity is weakened by the court's decision - or seek to renegotiate the terms of the bailout accord with the troika, the three institutions overseeing its implementation, says the BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon.

    BBC: Portugal constitutional court rejects budget articles

  • It was a stark contrast to the form of Marlins starter Mark Redman, who allowed a three-run homer to dead centre in the first inning.

    BBC: Yankees level World Series

  • The three large, round air vents in the centre with their distinctively designed cross-form nozzles are sporty features that contribute to the emotional design idiom of the interior.

    ENGADGET: Mercedes-Benz introduces B-Class Electric Drive, we go eyes-on

  • One part of the solution in the view of Archbishop Damianos, the monastery's shrewd and genial master will be provided by digitally photographing much of the library and making it available in electronic form at a soon-to-be-completed research centre in Greece, the homeland of most of the monks.

    ECONOMIST: Saint Catherine's monastery

  • Sihanouk was at the centre of complex negotiations involving royalists, the Khmer Rouge and Hun Sen, the Vietnamese-backed prime minister, to form a new government.

    BBC: Obituary: Norodom Sihanouk, former king of Cambodia

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