in January

In January a 21-year-old woman was jailed for 16 months for kidnapping a child and trying to sell him to a witch-doctor for a large sum.

Bernanke's four-year term expires in January and the president had not been expected to make an announcement until later this year.

"I woke up in January of this year, " she said, "and my New Year's resolution was to get known in China. "

In January his wife Iris (herself a former assembly member) hit the headlines with an explosive mix of financial and sexual scandal.

Middlesbrough boss Tony Mowbray admits David Wheater could be on his way in January.

The country's income disparity is close to that of Latin America, the report which came out in January, said.

In January American manufacturers saw their revenues grow faster than those of any other sector.

Daniel Tammet is author of two books, Born on a Blue Day and Embracing the Wide Sky, the latter of which came out in January.

But no rational basis for discrimination was presented at the two-and-a-half-week trial in January, he said.

In January the German government was "not considering" financial aid to help Greece out of its budgetary hole.

Chinese exports in January were 18% lower than they had been a year earlier.

The 22-year-old appeared to have a promising career at City ahead of him until Shay Given arrived from Newcastle in January.

For instance, it was the urgent need for stimulus that finally secured agreement on 3G licensing in January after years of procrastination.

After Pineda-Moreno challenged the DEA's actions, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled in January that it was all perfectly legal.

This is not a surprise as they expressed interest back in January, and China is not doing this out of the goodness of their heart.

But then the company got slammed by the global crisis, and she was laid off in January, just a few weeks after her wedding.

The Walkie-Talkie building, work on which started in January and is due to be completed in 2014, is a joint venture with Canary Wharf Group.

The White House wants to see an agreement by the time U. S. President George Bush leaves office in January.

The "Manifesto of the Communist Party" was written in a few days of round-the-clock creative inspiration in Brussels in January 1848.

In January Renault sacked three executives for allegedly selling company secrets, but it soon emerged that it had been duped by fraudsters.

However, in January Bagle reappeared out of nowhere, and one variant of this worm was the most widespread malicious program in mail traffic.

If it isn't too cold for you, I would like to invite you to come and visit me in the north of China over the next holiday in January.

The giant bears were transferred to the host city of the 2010 World Expo in January, and are set to remain there for a year-long display.

After coming up with a business plan in January 2000, she spent countless hours trying to find investors interested in this novel idea.

"Now it's up to about 30. " The catalyst is China's new Labour Contract Law, which took effect in January after two years of intense debate.

In January and February consumer spending suddenly appeared to stabilise, with retail sales up in both months.

When Google launched the Nexus One in January, the company hit on an odd bit of marketing to distinguish the new phone from its rivals.

He said the Government would offer every Neet 16 and 17-year-old a place on an "Entry to Employment" course in January.

Formerly the company's chairman, Huang resigned from GOME in January after he was suspended from his post in December.

Since the agreement went into effect in January, some textile factories have gone out of business.

"Obviously we're going to be looking at past practices, and I don't believe that anybody is above the law, " Obama said in January.

In January, Raymond told Walter he was no longer fit to work as chairman and chief executive because he had bipolar affective disorder.

In January 2000, he began soliciting wishes at the nursing home where his mother-in-law had lived out her last days.

The Bank began to publicize the quality education issue in January, as the presidential candidates ramped up their political campaigns.

In January, the vote in favour of trying the field method was "as enthusiastic as you could get from a faculty, " says Mr Nohria, wryly.

East Power spokesman said the system will help the East in January next year before the power off Fukushima nuclear power plant safety.

In January 2006, a bottle-nosed whale died in the Thames after it was lifted on to a pontoon ready to be taken back out to sea.

There are a number of clubs interested in him and one of these is Fiorentina, who already asked about him in January.

"Well, " you tell them, "I have another interview coming up in January. So I'll let you know right after that. "

U. K. consumer confidence improved in January compared to the previous two months but deteriorated compared to a year ago.

The hotel was launched in January, low season of a year, but we managed to make the profit.

After President Obama's State of the Union Address in January, Mr. Weiner was among the last to leave the House Chamber.

In January of this year, we resumed the human rights dialog with the US, which had been suspended for 4 years.

In January of 2007, they began to piece together their system and by March, they were running tests to see just what Microwulf could do.

Arsenal were linked with a move for the full back in the summer and he could possibly rekindle his interest in January.

Mr Obama has promised to bring home US combat troops from Iraq in a little over a year from when he takes office in January.

Then in January he got another subpoena, this one for three years of e-mails with a colleague, and also for his computer hard drive.

When he arrived for work at the White House in January last year, he said he thought the office was fine and saw no need to redecorate.

In January, after four years of work by the general and his staff, Silvio Berlusconi's cabinet approved a change in the frontier.

But if I was to take a super-dose of Nyquil and wake up in January 2013 to see President Palin on the television, I would still be sanguine.

Roma and Napoli are set to battle it out for the signature of Italian international Dossena when the transfer window opens in January.

However, we will have to see how things stand in January and if the club are in agreement, then a loan move might be best for everyone.

In January he would be six months from the end of his contract and free to speak to other clubs.

The newspaper was a vision of what Americans would love to see under Barack Obama after he takes power in January.

Recent policy measures. . . might have created an impression that financial conditions have been tightened in January.

Last week DreamWorks Theatricals announced that the show would close in January, after being open for only a year.

Page and Schmidt said in January the CEO switch would not result in a material change in the company's strategy.

In January a Chinese newspaper said the tax-simulation exercise would be extended nationwide this year.

This "January effect" was that US stocks rose much more in January than in any other month.

This will be the first summit between heads of state of the two countries since the new U. S. administration came into office in January.

Randt, who stepped down from his ambassadorial post in January, knows his way around China.

But none of that has prevented a plunge in activity, with new mortgage loans approvals down 61. 9 per cent in January from a year earlier.

An annual meeting is usually held in January to set new targets for that year.

You will have Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, soon to crown you celestial favorite of the zodiac in January for a year's stay.

In January of this year, a series of videos showing what appeared to be a UFO hovering over Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock caused a stir.

In January of 1987, Hu no longer held the office of the General Secretary of the Communist Party, and I often went to his home to visit him.

Many thought it was a gamble bringing him in from Real Madrid in January, but Il Fenomeno has proved his critics wrong.

Upon his arrival at his new Washington office in January, Mr. Weiner tried out his new desk.

Almost the last glimpse the public had of him was in January this year, when he administered the oath of office to George Bush.

In January, he said only that the U. S. president had received a "heavy inheritance" from his predecessor.

In January, only a month after reevaluating his methodology in the face of a frustratingly slow process, he finally found a way.

When he announced in January that Page would assume the CEO role, Schmidt was more specific. "Larry is ready, " he said.

The platform has previously experienced a slow down in app growth back in January, as shown in the chart above and below.

But it appears Brazil is finally ready to shift the fight into high gear in January, after raising reserve requirements early last month.

Hearst Corporation, the owner of the paper, said Monday that it had failed to find a buyer after putting the paper up for sale in January.

No need for storing sweaters and winter jackets here; they'll be just as necessary in July as they were in January.

"In January, when the boss took over, you would not have expected us to be fifth come the end of the season, " said the midfielder.

In an interview in January this year, Mr. Wang outlined a retooled strategy that he said would rejuvenate growth.

A big part of the problem in January was that global economic news wasn't strong enough to keep investors buying stocks.

The train sequence is likely to be filmed near Ahmedabad, in India's state of Gujarat, in January.

In January 2011 he took medical leave, before formally resigning as CEO in August and handing over his duties to Tim Cook.

The reality, Garriott discovers as he checks in at the security booth on his first day of training in January, is a bit different.

The company raised $950 million in January, but 85 cents of every dollar went toward stock repurchases for Mason and other insiders.

Mohamed Sissoko looks increasingly likely to leave the club in January and Poli will reportedly come in as his replacement.

Early in January, with a few other officers in War Plans, he had begun "conversation" with British military men.

But, having said that, we are going to very interested in trying to improve our squad in January.

The long-awaited codes, expected to come into force in January, clarify a subject that has dominated South African business for a decade.

In January this year, the Vatican also launched its YouTube channel, though so far, none of the videos posted there have gone viral yet.

In January, a team at the U. S. National Ignition Facility in California proved it is possible.

He said he couldn't talk because of pending plans disclosed in January for the People's Daily Online, a government entity, to go public.

He said he couldn't talk because of pending plans disclosed in January for the People's Daily Online, a government entity, to go public.

Sampdoria are ready to send midfielder Ruben Olivera back to Juventus in January.

They have done so despite terrible news on earnings, dividends and defaults, which were all worse than expected in January.

It was good enough to contend amid the incredibly close top nine teams in the West until Bynum went down with a knee injury in January.

Tracey ate this team up back in January and he's going to allow Fisher and Giricek make him look like a pedestrian player? Wheres the pride?

The tourists began to make preparations for the long journey in January.

Several more models evolved out of the original platform, and yet another variation was launched in January 2006 (Figure 5).

The book, which Dr. Landau self-published in January, has not caused much of a stir so far.

I'd also love to hear some of your favorite ways to start off a new healthier lifestyle in January!

He set off from London in January 1908 and was arrested a few miles down the road for selling postcards without a licence.

He set off from London in January 1908 and was arrested a few miles down the road for selling postcards without a licence.

PRTs have been a key element of the surge strategy for Iraq announced by the President in January 2007.

He also reassured the Toon Army that he would not be leaving in January, and remained fully committed to United's cause this season.

Fatu, at least, isn't waiting for such breakthroughs: in January this year, she began mating with a male named Suni.

I started holding these meetings in January as a way for everyone to get up to speed on what everyone else is doing.

The disappointing cut helped drive income expectations down in January for the fifth month running, he claims.

They wanted me a lot and that's why I decided to go with the decision in January. I didn't want to wait until the summer.

Back in January, in my State of the Union Address, I warned of the danger posed by a Supreme Court ruling called Citizens United.

In January, Sidney Crosby, one of the sport's best players, was concussed in consecutive games after suffering a number of hits to the head.

Oil industry executives and diplomats said the EU was likely to back an embargo by its next meeting in January.

After his premature death in January 1934, it was left to George Allison to continue the great work done by his legendary predecessor.

In January the Bank of China began offering yuan-deposit accounts in New York insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

South Korean actor Hyun Bin and actress Song Hye-kyo officially announced that they had broken up in January, their agencies said Tuesday.

'In January, I think we sold five, ' he said, in an appearance at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

The data supported forecasts that Friday's U. S. nonfarm payrolls report will show a strong improvement after only a small gain in January.

Cambodia, the country most dependent on garments, endured a 31% fall in exports in January compared with a year ago.

In a little over a year, the Venezuelan church went from almost fully submerged (pictured in January 2009) to bone dry (February 21, 2010).

The network has aired eight so far and will air three more in fourth quarter before bringing the series back in all first-run in January.

When President Obama took office in January of two thousand nine, he had a message for nations hostile to the United States.

Situated along the Great Rift Valley, Nyiragongo had a lava lake in its summit crater, which burst during the night in January 1977.

Exports, on which the figures are more reliable, were 17. 5% lower in January than a year before.

But she plans to keep her promise to fly to Washington in January, to see her boy inaugurated.

But locals loth to let foreigners make profits have forced a delay until after the general election due in January.

Take advantage of many years of experience, the company has developed that is established by the KBA machine, beginning in January 2007.

This week's news that Patricia Dunn will step down in January as chairman of HP's board in favour of Mr Hurd may not prove so inspired.

Arsenal are prepared to break their transfer record in January to ensure that Arsene Wenger can keep pace with Manchester United.

McCain's victory in this year's New Hampshire primary in January put him on course to win the Republican Party's presidential nomination.

Analysts said China's buying accelerated in January and that if it continued importing at its current pace, spot prices could climb further.

Mr. Hoenig objected in March when Fed officials agreed to keep their key rate low for an 'extended period, ' as he did in January.

In January, Google said it had been hit by a major cyberattack that resulted in the loss of intellectual property.

For months, President Bush has been saying a peace deal is possible before he leaves office in January.

In January the U. S. ran a wider trade deficit, and much of that was due to a 5. 1% jump in nonoil imports.

In January, China fired a medium-range ballistic missile into space , destroying one of its own weather satellites.

SJM is selling 25 per cent of its shares for $494m, less than half the $1bn it had originally planned to raise in January.

But planning for that broadcast was interrupted by the strike, so the video was instead shown on his fifth-anniversary show in January.

She was hired in January, when the company's co-founder, Jerry Yang, stepped down after rejecting a buyout offer from Microsoft.

January is a difficult month. We've talked a lot about having a winter break to get rid of the strains you pick up in January.

Then there is the voluble Jim Webb, who in January said Mr. Obama had offered a reasonable timeline in ordering Guantanamo closed in a year.

Mr Thain, a former president of Goldman Sachs, is credited with transforming the NYSE since he took over in January 2004.

SoundCloud, which distributes user-generated audio content, said in January that it had raised $10 million.

Wang Yu-theng, the Rebar founder, and his wife fled to the US in January after two Rebar flagship companies filed for insolvency.

Next month Larkin and Brady close the deal . The merger takes place in December . Larkin takes ove as President in January.

As it expires in January 2005, it would be in the club's interest to rush through a sale with Milan .

AC Milan are ready to beat rivals for Parma midfielder Luca Cigarini by moving for the player in January.

Bulgari's poor performance follows news in January that Swiss watch exports suffered their biggest monthly decline in at least two decades.

In January, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti. It killed at least two hundred thirty thousand people and left millions of others homeless.

In January it looked as if the opposite lessons could be drawn from events.

So Davos remains the place to be in January for a surprising number of busy people.

Among Mr Bush's first orders to his National Security Council in January 2001 was the drawing up of a new policy on Sudan.

The company in January said the company's sales will likely reach 12 . 4 trillion won this year .

Geithner's comments come during his visit to Japan, the first since he took office in January.

He said President Sampaio's upcoming visit to China in January next year will definitely promote further development of bilateral relations.

In January, Iran broke IAEA seals that barred access at a uranium enrichment plant and said it would resume nuclear fuel research.

The Bank of Korea held off from boosting borrowing costs for two months after two quarter-point increases in January and March.

He equated this with Beijing's demonstration of antisatellite technology that pulverized one of its own weather satellites in January 2007.

He says negotiators from the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides have worked steadily to move ahead since the last meeting in January.

It is also possible that you may buy an electronic item, only to see the price drop significantly in January when a newer model comes out.

According to Chao, more than 3 million visitors have come to see the pair since they were introduced to the public in January.

This comes into its own after natural disasters like the Haiti earthquake in January, when journalists cannot get to the scene.

There was also bad news on the trade front, with China's exports falling 17. 5 percent in January from a year earlier.

Jiang said the aquatics venue is ready for a test event in January.

Case in point: Mass Effect 2, which came out in January and sold more than 2 million units in its first week of release.

Soldier Alfred Arthur, 19, sent the card to his sister Ellen, known as Nell, in January 1916 at the height of the Great War.

Bush, who left office in January 2009 and moved with his wife to Dallas, appeared relaxed and in good humor throughout the speech.

Chinese policy makers are trying to cool lending that helped property prices in 70 cities climb at the fastest pace in 21 months in January.

China caused an international uproar in January 2007 when it launched a ballistic missile and destroyed one of its own satellites.

Wall Street types receive paychecks every two weeks, but they really get paid once a year, typically in January.

General McChrystal noted as much in January, when he issued a new directive to avoid needless casualties and heavy-handed intrusions.

Overall, support for Obama has crept up since he took office in January.

And for me, that was the kit computer on the cover of Popular Electronics in January 1975.

The Times suggests that the Tottenham midfielder is on Roy Hodgson's radar as he looks to add to his Liverpool squad in January.

Despite its best intentions, it has come in for regular criticism since the very start of its task in January 2008.

Typically small growth companies do really well in January, but don't expect that this year, says Hirsch.

Oh! it is of no consequence. I shall see her in January. But do you always write such charming long letters to her, Mr. Darcy?

A holiday for janitors ought to take place in January, for both words are linked.

The company shut all four of its Brent platforms, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta, in January for repairs.

The Claims Conference notified the German government of the scam in January and payments on the fraudulent cases were immediately suspended.

In January, it undercut the bank to lend the Philippines $70m to improve the water supply in Manila, home to the ADB's headquarters.

In January Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, proclaimed it part of her country's mission to foster global internet freedom.

He had said, in January, that he would not sign a bill that granted telecom immunity for possibly warrantless spying on American persons.

Ireland is now trading at the implied rating of "BBB, " down six notches from its current rating of "AA" where it traded in January.

In January Southern Metropolis Weekly published a lengthy account of the incident in Heilongjiang.

Any new job you are looking at in January through early June would be very prestigious.

During the following month, in January 1975, thousands of reports of unusual animal behavior were received from the general area.

In its annual report in January, Freedom House, an American think-tank, rated Indonesia the only "free" country in South-East Asia.

Investors at a summit in January implausibly promised to spend $450 billion in his state in the next couple of years.

Note: Since I first wrote about price-to-rent ratios in January, there's been a flood of articles about them.

Originally expected to roll out in January, the plans for the so-called paywall weren't announced until last Thursday.

At the Bett show in January, one put out a message offering a free digital whiteboard in the next 10 minutes.

His powers were much reduced in January after the failure of his transfer policy the previous summer and he was not pleased.

In the U. S. , payrolls continued to decline in January (when it declined by $20, 000 net).

Few employees would have recognised Mr Blake, even without a hat, when he arrived in the top office at Home Depot in January 2007.

However, Hill told reporters he believes the set-back would be resolved before the next American president took office in January.

In Spain the building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds in a year, to 14. 8% in January.

On December 30th one was stabbed three times in front of his house in Almaty; another was beaten up in January.

The event at Ms Starr's home was organised by Gold Party Princess, set up in January by two sisters, Louise and Sue Alexander.

There was some good news this week, including better-than-expected reports on spending by Americans in January and February.

BYD, partially owned by investor Warren Buffett, said its car sales in January fell 15% to 52, 054 vehicles compared with a year earlier.

It was a keen disappointment that I had to postpone the visit I had intended to pay to China in January.

When Barack Obama entered the White House in January 2009, he set out to erase the stain such practices have left on America's image.

After a brief swoon in January and early February, the riskier end of the stock market is back in favor.

I recognized in January that a long and bitter war like this usually cannot be settled in a public forum.

However, it is understood that Wenger would not allow Bendtner to move in January unless he is presented with an offer he could not refuse.

In January, Pandora first introduced 15-second audio commercials between songs that come up about two or three times per hour.

Warren Buffett, who bought $5bn of the company's shares in January, has already made a $1bn gain on his investment.

The meeting broke up after two days having apparently achieved nothing more than a bad-tempered agreement to meet again in January.

He returned to Peru in January to seek re-election after nearly nine years in exile waiting for corruption charges against him to expire.

Zoellick also said that it is "a matter of serious concern" to see maize prices in January that were 73 percent higher than six months ago.

City have been repeatedly linked with Buffon over the last year and apparently made an approach for him in January last year.

In January he announced that he would be quitting American Idol in the US and plans to introduce The X Factor on the Fox network.

He suffered a stroke in early 2010, but returned to the company in January and has gradually been increasing his responsibilities.

One of the more recent projects conducted by SK Group was a school founded in January 2010 in collaboration with the Seoul city government.

I am working a lot in this period. It isn't easy to achieve top condition when you arrive in January without having played for some time.

Only last month, a second clickjacking attack was revealed after the company had just finished patching one that was unveiled in January.

Mr Edmondson was sacked by the News of the World in January after evidence emerged linking him to hacking claims.

Cook has long been the favorite to take over the throne since Jobs took leave from the company in January.

McKechnie says the Bank will probably decide in January on the exact amount of additional support it will provide in the Maldives.

He took another medical leave in January this year.

Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated in January, and is now having weekly ultrasounds to monitor her condition.

The only increase in credit that has occurred since January 2009 was a small 1 percent rise in January of this year.

In January, Better Place raised $350m in one of the biggest venture capital financings ever for a "clean tech" company.

Most recently the launch in January by the BBC of a Persian-language television channel has roused the ire of the Iranian regime.

And, in January 2001, Mr Pavlo pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering and wire fraud and served two years in a federal prison.

The Portugal international arrived at Chelsea in January on loan from Dinamo Moscow, with a view to a permanent move in the summer.

Israel's assault in January on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has failed to blot Hamas out of the equation.

But when I missed the selling threshold in January, I said I was confident another opportunity would present itself eventually.

In January, Taiwan and the Philippines saw the value of exports plummet by over 40% compared with a year earlier.

"I had no idea they had it in them to behave like this when money and power came along, " Gabrielsson told the Daily Mail in January.

In January Mongolia, with a history of murky executions, was the latest to declare a moratorium.

The latest test involved a 33-megajoule shot, the most powerful ever attempted and three times that of the previous test in January 2008.

Prices of new homes rose in January from a year earlier in all but two of 70 cities monitored by central planners.

Terrorist attacks, like the bombing at Domodedovo airport in January, have become almost commonplace.

Things got better for a while, but in January 1999 the Serbs were killing innocents in Kosovo again, and NATO air strikes seemed inevitable.

They formed a new slate, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), that will oppose his Dawa party in national elections due to be held in January.

About two years ago, in January 2009 the stock traded at a price of $78 with at least one analyst placing a target of $70 on the stock.

But the premier said the political priority was to tame consumer price inflation, which hit an 11-year high of 7. 1 per cent in January.

From the moment the car is formed in January to the last race in October, we make an engineering change on average every 20 minutes.

France abolished advertising in prime time on state-run channels in January, and will phase it out altogether by 2011.

Officials say one of the men wanted to target the helicopter of President Bush during a visit in January.

It was launched in January and features a slew of interviews, features, and recommended books for your reading pleasure.

Late in January the cost of a barrel of crude fell to $50 or so, as an unusually warm winter allowed inventories to build.

The U. N. 's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report this week that food prices reached an all-time high in January.

Apple had unveiled its iPhone in January of that year, and itwas clear that the two companies would spar in the smartphone business.

The blossoming begins in Okinawa in January and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April.

The European Southern Observatory's Headquarters chills out in the snow beneath the full Moon one late afternoon in January.

In January, psychologist and science writer Christian Jarrett looked at a small study of smokers' reactions to cigarette warnings.

The good news is that you will have quite a bit of travel to look forward to in the New Year, not only in January but also in months ahead.

China cut off most links between the two militaries in January after the U. S. announced an arms sale package to Taiwan.

Diving for the cross is done in several Orthodox countries to mark Theophany, also known as Epiphany, a Christian feast day in January.

It was only in January, after months of complaints, that SAP finally decided to scrap the fee increases.