Besides comics, Marvel characters also feature = jouent in movies, animated features = dessin animes, videogames and toys such as action figures.

The agreement drew a thumbs-up from most analysts.

Parents have turned to classic brands like lego during the recession, which has boosted the Danish firm's position in the UK toy market to third.

"The continued strong growth in our classic product lines is particularly encouraging and suggests a demand among consumers for trusted quality, particularly in the current economic climate," said Marko Ilincic, managing director of Lego UK.

The company said that Lego City and Lego Star Wars remain best sellers.

Lego City includes towns, roads, train lines police and fire services all built using the brightly coloured building bricks.

Their latest line, Power Miners, exceeded sales expectations.

Lego has managed to buck= lancer une ruade the trend of weaker performance that has plagued the industry.

They are the only UK toy manufacturer in the top five to show sales growth so far this year.

Lego Group CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp said he was optimistic for the future but the company would not be complacent since holiday sales are pivotal for performance.

"As the bulk= volume of toy sales occur during the last few months of the year, considerable uncertainty remains about the full year result,"

Big Brother To Be Axed = canceled, Channel 4 Confirms Investigating magistrates Renaud van Ruymbeke and Francoise Desset ordered Kerviel to answer charges of breach of trust among others before the Paris criminal court

No date has been set for the trial, which is not expected to begin before the end of the year at the earliest.

One of France's three biggest banks, Societe Generale shocked the financial world when it unveiled= devoile losses of 4.9 billion euros . The losses were incurred = engagees when Societe Generale was forced to unwind = relaxer; vider more than 50 billion euros of unauthorised deals Kerviel is said to have made. The bank has said Kerviel was a rogue = fripouille trader who went to great lengths = aller très loin to conceal = cacher his dealings. The 32-year-old trader has countered that his managers knew of his actions and kept silent as long as he was making good returns. Societe Generale's then-chairman Daniel Boutin described Kerviel as a "terrorist and fraudster" who had betrayed the confidence of his managers. He faces a possible sentence of five years in prison and 375,000 euro fine if convicted.

Kerviel's assistant Thomas Mougard who faced charges of complicity has however been cleared and will not stand trial, they added.

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"Now rumours are spreading like wildfire that Macaulay, who Jackson nicknamed Mack, is actually Blanket's biological dad." Michael and Macaulay were close friends for years. The child star frequently visited the singer's Neverland ranch - where he raised eyebrows by sleeping in Michael's bed - and took the witness stand to defend him during his 2005 trial for child molestation.

So many names have been mentioned as prospective dads, and this is probably the wackiest= fou fou yet

Patti Levine is under siege. There are the plans to build a sprawling factory on one side of her pristine= vierge desert paradise and proposals for a huge solar power plant on the other. Mexicans are flooding across the border, forcing her to wait for a doctor, and a large chunk of = gros morceau retirement fund has been wiped out on the New York stock exchange.

And now, the country has gone and elected a president who, if you're sitting in the middle of an Arizona country club, looks very much as if he wants to turn the US into the Soviet Union, and worst of all, strip Levine of her guns.

"I have a licence to carry a concealed weapon and when I fly my airplane I take my gun. When you're single and you're 64 years old you gotta be careful. Even here," she says.

Emmerdale

After those dramatic events in Weatherfield and Walford, you may be relieved to know that we get through a week in Emmerdale without anyone dying. Phew. Instead, affairs of the heart take centrestage as Chas cheats on Paddy with old flame Carl.

Despite her vows to stay faithful to the vet, who is away on a course, Chas finds herself back in Carl's arms following Katie's birthday party.

When Carl first makes a move on her, she tells him she isn't interested, however, he won't take 'no' for an answer and jumps to Chas's defence when Nathan later makes a play for her.

Chas is angry at the scene created by Carl, however, her mood changes when he tells her that he never loved Lexi and still has feelings for her.

His words do the trick and she ends up spending the night with him. Full of remorse the next morning, Chas tries to sneak home but finds herself caught out. Is it over for her and Paddy?

Also this week, Michael has a confession for Debbie and Ryan is angry after some surprise news.

EastEnders

There's horror in EastEnders when a clash between Lucas and Trina results in his estranged wife's death.

The events unfold = se revelent after a dramatic week which starts with Trina turning up late/ for Jordan's birthday /and then /getting off her head on drugs/ and smashing his birthday present. She also swears never to give Lucas a divorce.

Trina returns the next day claiming she will disappear for good if Lucas gives her the money she desperately needs to buy more drugs. Lucas turns her down = refuse, however, Trina's claim that he still wants her does appear to strike some kind of chord within him.

Several days later the pair end up sleeping together and Lucas is wracked with guilt afterwards and faces the realisation that his relationship with Denise will be over if the truth comes out = parait.

When he meets Trina again there is an almighty = tout-puissant row and Trina dies. Does Lucas murder her?

Also this week, Zainab moves out= déménage and Charlie returns unexpectedly with a Russian girlfriend.

I CALLED ROUND on my way home but no one was in.

This week, there's heartbreaking news in Coronation Street, Trina dies after a violent confrontation with Lucas in EastEnders and Chas cheats on Paddy in Emmerdale. Find out more...

Coronation Street

There's tragedy for one Weatherfield resident this week when the police come knocking with news of a shock death.

Norris is the unlucky recipient =destinataire of the news and it concerns his brother Ramsay, who dies suddenly/ on his flight/ back to Australia.

The busybody= commere (gets the bombshell = bombe) while he is sulking = bouder at Emily's house as everyone else enjoys themselves at the street fete.

Norris initially (keeps the information to himself) as it slowly sinks in but is forced to tell Rita when she calls round to see if he is alright.

Rita and Emily are both devastated and the pair = pluriel soon turn on Norris because of the way he treated his brother when he was alive. Will Norris be forced to grieve = se désoler alone?

Also this week, Joshua is rushed to hospital after swallowing a bee and things hot up again between Kevin and Molly.

The row over = l’engueulqde sur the release of the Lockerbie bomber has been reignited = rallumé as it emerged that Jack Straw decided two years ago that it was in the UK's "overwhelming interests" not to exclude the terrorist from a prisoner transfer agreement.

The Justice Secretary wrote to his Scottish counterpart explaining that he had changed his mind about the need to exempt Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi from the deal in the light of "wider negotiations" with the Libyans.

Mr Straw strenuously =énergiquement denied that Britain's commercial interests had any bearing = position on the recent release of Megrahi.

Mr Straw's involvement in the case was laid bare in letters he wrote to Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill in 2007 and leaked to The Sunday Times.

Tributes have been paid = hommages to former disc jockey and TV presenter Simon Dee

The Sixties star passed away on Sunday morning at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. His friend Roger Backhouse, a retired QC, said: "It happened quickly. He was diagnosed with bone cancer.

"He passed away this morning. It's a shock that he has died but he was plainly very ill, in a lot of pain, but he would never let you know."

Dee, 74, whose real name was Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd, became a bus driver and lived in Winchester after his television career ended. In his heyday -apogée he interviewed stars like Sammy Davis Jr, Lee Marvin, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston, and John Lennon on his twice-weekly chat show Dee Time.

The show, which opened with the catchphrase "It's Siiiiimon Dee", attracted 18 million viewers.

He compered Miss World, appeared on Juke Box Jury and Top of the Pops and helped launch pirate pop station Radio Caroline.

His daughter Domino Henty-Dodd said her father was diagnosed weeks ago and could not be treated.

Brit teen arrested in huge cocaine bust - démantelé at Peru airport

At a street value of 100 dollars per gram, the haul was worth almost three million dollars.

The 18-year-old woman, Salea Kathun, was detained/ alongside a young Canadian, Katia Carrilho, who was also allegedly holding around 3.5 kilograms (7.7 pounds) of cocaine, after the two were detected by drug-sniffing dogs at Lima's international airport, police said.

Under Peruvian law offenders can expect at least six years in jail under drug trafficking charges.

Peru is the world's second-largest producer of cocaine, after Colombia.

To worship = adorer dévouer

Auction = enchere

You work at successful saving. We should have dinner

Scuse the disgrace

Ok ok

One more person that you really need to meet:

It is pretty crucial in fact but your language should help

Men like you are the reason I left Finland

I try to succeed on my own terms

O great it is going to be so much fun/ I am going to go/ Great

I would I would love to, I just need to make some course

She is not my girlfriend: She is not you

Am I interrupting something

I am coming for the scarf girl

I think it is a great dress, but I was thinking something

What channel

Is this for real

I wish you all the best for it

That is for you; If Mik Brown and his attitude aren t fitting in the magazine, there might be a remaining solution

You have drive, ambition, Hard to impress

How will you finance yourself? I am asking will you back me I am asking if I am a good investment

You are asking me to put my family at risk

Suspect

What do you need me to do

This is what you must tell the policec

He told me

Neighbors

Alright

Because

What have you done

Can you work it out

A disciple

But clever people are often as fiercely independent as they are clever.

So how do you corral = réunir these players in your organisation and inspire them to achieve their full potential?

Your organisation's competitiveness hinges upon clever people - those who generate disproportionate quantities of value

It will be rescheduled for later in the year

sign up to newsletters,

book a place on events

apply to programmes.

Try to head him off before he gets home. = arreter

Age old vieillesse

But Joyce, everyone can always be doing more

Most likely

It is going to set Jaedong back = retarder

Jaedong is ahead

You regret scribling=gribouiller everything so carelessly

You have to put resources and people in place to get the work done, to make things happen

A leader motivates people to do well

Planning, organizing, directing, controlling

Coming up with an idea is a good start, planning for them is a step forward

Strategic planning is the process of establishing an overall course of action

Mission statement. it tells the reader what the organization is committed to doing

a 10 percent return on profit

left overs = les restes (exp repas)

A widespread tendency/ on the part of the Americans / to spend /rather than to save does not account entirely = n'est pas entierement responsable

Your house would have appreciated/at double the rate/ of your personal income

A lot of people have come to rely on the appreciation of such assets as a substitute for the practice of saving out of wage income

Both of these institutions are authorized to make loans

Freddie Mac bought mortgages already written by lenders, pooled them and sold them as MBS on the open market.

The only thing you can plan for is higher rates and higher payments

Planning for them to go down does not make sense

Risk is the possibility that cash flows can be variable

Not all income is equally disposable

They had fallen 8 percent by 2008

They were down from the 2006 peak

an adjustable rate mortgage

it is a legal entity that is completely separate from the parties who own it.

It can be held responsible for its actions

many are businesses with which you do business

shareholders invest money in the business by buying shares of stock

The board of directors oversees the major policies made by the corporation and holds management accountable for achieving them

Incorporation also makes it possible for businesses to raise funds by selling stock. The incorporation also has an advantage over other forms of businesses in getting loans. The corporation has a life separate from the life of its owners. In public corporation, stock is available for sale to the general public

Shareholders might take care of profit without regard for the well-being of employees.

Another drawback to corporation is that it is quite expensive to set up

Eventually as the business continued to grow, the stock was sold on a national level

his college education steered =dirigé him into a more lucrative field: the world of ice cream

Are you likely to get along with co-owners over an extended period of time?

You’ll have to make some trade-offs. Because each option has both advantages and disadvantages,

The flip side of enjoying complete control, for example, is needing to supply all the different talents that may be necessary to make the business a success.

the sole proprietor bears unlimited liability for any losses incurred by the business

The cost varies according to size and complexity

you estimate the loss to the building and everything inside at $1.2 million.

you can be personally sued for the amount; Individuals with substantial assets, for example, have a lot to lose if they get sued for a partnership obligation (and when people sue, they tend to start with the richest partner): To overcome this defect of partnerships, the law permits a limited partnership

First, it’s relatively inexpensive to set up, and it subjects you to few government regulations. Third, it makes financing easier: The business can draw on the financial resources of a number of individuals

In other words, any party who suffered a loss because of the fire can go after your personal assets. Second, being a partner means that you have to share decision making, and many people aren’t comfortable with that situation. Not surprisingly, partners often have differences of opinion on how to run a business. As friends they trusted each other and welcomed shared decision making and profit sharing. They were also not reluctant to be held personally liable for each other’s actions

it makes sense

we ll come to it

come help me

to glow = rougir

a glow= rougeoiement

to address your issue and not mine

like most academics i was not brought up to be very cooperative, I mean academics tend to be very competitive

At the back of the book, I had given a couple of diagnostics.

Singapour is absolutely thrilled.

the pound slipped back against the dollar

= baisse

The swiss franc is staging a recovery = down and up

The euro lost ground slightly = baisse

There has been a dramatic upsurge of interest in gold = increase

The share price bottomed out at 115p = baisse et stabilisation

Sugar peaked at 899 pounds

Profits will level off at 700 = stabiliser

- decline/dip/ drop/ slide / fall

- crash/ plunge/ rally/ bounce back

- pick up/= rebondir vers le haut hausse

- climb/ rocket/ escalate/ takes off