Only 150 staff were earlier told to clock-on at the Wrigley factory in the Estover area of Plymouth.

BBC: Wrigley cuts back gum production

Just behind the CNN's Cairo bureau lies the Bulaq neighborhood, a ramshackle area of dirt alleys and crumbling houses inhabited by factory workers, government employees (many of whom had to hold second and third jobs to scrape by), small storeowners, etc.

CNN: Analysis: Egypt's ailing democracy movement

The only employers he knows of in the area are a kiln and an ice factory, he says.

WSJ: India Classifies More Castes as 'Backward' In Affirmative-Action Bid to Help the Poor

Their headquarters are on the outskirts of Omaha, sandwiched between a nursery and a Kellogg (nyse: K - news - people )'s cereal factory that permeates the area with the aroma of Cocoa Krispies.

FORBES: What Mortgage Mess?

In predawn raids Tuesday, NATO flew triple the usual number of planes in attacks that struck oil refineries, a fuel depot, bridges and a factory in five Yugoslav cities and an area near the Kosovo capital of Pristina.

CNN: EU, U.N. leaders to hold summit on Kosovo crisis