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World Food buys 12 gold mines in Ghana Business World Food has begun to expand their farming operations to Ghana. Through their new funding structure, they have begun purchasing gold mines as part of their funding structure for the Mega Farms they are building in Ghana. World Food has secured the Mineral rights to 300 acres of Alluvial Gold mines. Each mine is 25 acres. The mines are located in the area of Kibi. World Food has begun moving the excavators, bulldozers, gold washers and water pumps into that area for immediate deployment. World Food has purchased fifteen (15) 320...

Greg Norman's £50m divorce deal leaves him free to marry Chris Evert Last updated at 11:00am on 8th September 2007 Greg Norman may be about to marry Chris Evert after reportedly agreeing a divorce settlement worth more than £50 million. The 52-year old Australian golf legend, who is said to be worth £250 million, ended his 26-year marriage after months of legal wrangling over money. Asked if he would now be marrying former tennis champion Miss Evert, Norman replied: "Sure, why not?" The golfer known as the Great White Shark went public with his new relationship after being seen dining...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A prosecutor on Friday sought formal charges against two U.S. pilots and four Brazilian air traffic controllers involved in the South American country‘s worst-ever air disaster, which left 154 people dead. Lepore, 42, and Paladino, 34, were flying an Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet on Sept. 29, 2006 when it collided with a Boeing 737 operated by Gol Linhas Aereas Intelligentes SA, sending the larger plane crashing into the rain forest and killing everyone onboard. Lepore and Paladino were detained in Brazil for two months and allowed to leave only after promising to return for...

Two U.S. pilots should be allowed to go home after being forced to stay in Brazil for more than two months over their role in the country's worst air disaster, a Brazilian court ruled on Tuesday. A court statement said Joseph Lepore, 42, and Jan Paladino, 34, would get their passports back after 72 hours, during which the police would take further testimony. The two must promise to show up when needed for the investigation and legal process. "The measure of restricting the freedom of movement for foreigners is not backed by the domestic legal system," the statement said after...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A court said Tuesday it had released the passports of two U.S. pilots of a private jet involved in a collision with a Boeing 737 over the Amazon that killed 154 people. The Federal Regional Court of the First Region of Brasilia said that it unanimously agreed to return the passports of Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, N.Y. They can pick up their passports in 72 hours and leave Brazil, but must agree to return to Brazil for further inquiry and judicial action, the court said...

Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The flight recorder transcript from the Long Island executive jet involved in Brazil's worst air disaster shows that its pilots were told by Brazilian air traffic control to fly at the same altitude as a Boeing 737 before the planes collided, according to a newspaper report Thursday. The smaller executive plane, which managed to land safely, was piloted by two Long Island men: Joseph Lepore of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, of Westhampton Beach, N.Y. All 154 people aboard Gol Airlines flight 1907 were killed on Sept. 29 when the Boeing 737...

A Brazilian court has ordered police to seize the passports of two American pilots whose private jet is believed to have clipped a commercial plane that crashed last week, killing all 155 people on board.Joseph Lepore, the pilot, and Jan Paladino, his co-pilot, were at the controls of a newly-built Embraer Legacy 600 jet when it collided with a Boeing 737 at 11,200m (37,000ft) on Friday, allegedly sending the larger plane spiralling to the floor of the Amazon rainforest, resulting in the deaths of all 155 passengers and crew on board. Miraculously, the seven passengers on board the Legacy jet...

SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle on Friday after colliding with a small plane, the company and news reports said. Gol flight 1907, flying from the principle Amazon city of Manaus bound for the national capital Brasilia, disappeared after losing radar contact, the company said. The head of Brazil's airports authority, Infraero, said the Gol aircraft collided with another smaller plane, Globo news agency reported. The smaller plane, an executive jet, was able to land in a town called Serra do Cachimbo even though it suffered wing...

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Excerpt - SÃO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, Oct. 1 — It had been an uneventful, comfortable flight. With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast Amazon rainforest. The 7 of us on board the 13-passenger jet were keeping to ourselves. Without warning, I felt a terrific jolt and heard a loud bang, followed by an eerie silence, save for the hum of the engines. ~ snip ~

SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. (NYSE: GOL - News; Bovespa: GOLL4), Brazil's low-cost, low-fare airline, announced that it has increased the size of its total order for Boeing 737-800 Next-Generation aircraft to 101 from 63 in support of its continued expansion. The revised order doubles firm orders for Boeing 737-800s to 60 and increases purchase options to 41, totaling 101 aircraft, scheduled for delivery between 2006 and 2012. The options, which lend greater flexibility to the Company's already adaptable expansion plans, are exercisable between 2007 and 2012. GOL currently operates 35 Boeing 737...