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37 injured on London train 05/07/2007 15:24 - (SA) London - A rush hour train derailed on the London Underground network on Thursday, injuring 37 people, as the city remained on high alert following recent security scares. Six carriages of the train derailed near the Central Line station of Bethnal Green, at 08:04 GMT but police said there was "no indication" of a terrorist attack amid reports of an obstruction on the track. A total of 11 people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, London Ambulance Service said, while 700 passengers were led through tunnels to safety after being stuck for two hours. The incident happened the day after Britain lowered its terror alert level from "critical" to "severe" after three failed car bomb attempts in the last week in London and Glasgow. Eight people are being held by police on suspicion of being involved, six of whom are believed to be doctors. It also comes two days before the second anniversary of the July 7 2005 suicide bombings on three London Underground trains and a bus, in which 56 people died. Officials believe that an object on the line, rather than an explosion, may be to blame for the latest in a string of recent accidents on the city's ageing and overcrowded Underground. "There is no indication of any terrorist attack," said Superintendent Phil Trendall of the British Transport Police. A Transport for London spokesperson added that they were "looking at reports there was an obstruction on the track". Union has raised concerns Bob Crow, the general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers' Union, said this was the fourth incident in 18 months in the same area where private contractors had been working. "This union has raised concerns over the bad storage of equipment by contractors in this area and wrote to London Underground back in April demanding an investigation, yet nothing has been done," he added. The Underground, known as the Tube, is the oldest subterranean railway in the world and is undergoing a five-year, £10bn modernisation programme, announced in 2005. Since 2003, it has been part of a public-private partnership, a complex arrangement under which the network stays in the public sector but uses private companies to fix its infrastructure. Transport for London and Metronet, the firm responsible for maintaining and upgrading two-thirds of the network, are currently locked in a dispute about how much work Metronet is expected to do under their agreement. Metronet would not confirm whether they had been working on the section of the track where the derailment happened. Part of the Central Line - the second-busiest on the network and serving 49 stations - remains closed to the east of the City financial district. The east-west route runs across the heart of the British capital, linking suburbs, the City and the West End shopping and entertainment district.
Bush nominates Nussle as new budget chief
US President George W. Bush said Tuesday he had nominated former Republican congressman Jim Nussle of Iowa as the new White House budget chief.
Bush announced the nomination at the White House after the resignation of Rob Portman who had run the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for just over a year.
Nussle's nomination will need to be approved by the US Senate before he can take up the post as one of the president's top number-crunchers.
New Yahoo chief prepares for fight with Google
SAN FRANCISCO: Jerry Yang, who started Yahoo as a Stanford University student 12 years ago and has returned as chief executive after a six-year absence,
said Tuesday that he was gearing up for a long fight with Google.
"I'm ready to dig in and make sure we can take Yahoo to the next level," said Yang, 38. "I'm absolutely not interim. We want someone for the long haul."
Yang replaced Terry Semel, the former Warner Bros. executive, who presided as Yahoo lost its lead
in Internet advertising to Google and as shares fell 35 percent last year.
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