Destination Turkey ; Indian tractor manufacturers are driving aggressively into Turkey.

In line with the Indian auto industry's outbound strategy,Tractors and Farm Equipment (TAFE), India's second-largest tractormanufacturer, is setting up a greenfield facility in Turkey's Manisaindustrial zone. Indeed, the country has become a key market forIndian tractor makers in recent times. India's leading tractor makerMahindra&Mahindra (M & M) is already in the process of setting upshop here.

Explains Mallika Srinivasan, Director, TAFE, the flagship companyof the Rs 6,000-crore, Chennai-based Amalgamations group:

This is a 40,000-tractor market annually.The company is lookingto produce 15,000 units a year at its Manisa plant, which isexpected to become …

2 Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide in Md.

BALTIMORE - A shooting at a suburban business park left two people dead in what police are calling an apparent murder-suicide.

An employee and his supervisor were meeting alone Thursday afternoon in an office at BD Diagnostic Systems when other workers heard gunfire, said police spokesman Cpl. Michael Hill.

"Right now, we don't know what the motive was or what the meeting was about," Hill said. "This is a horrible event for all the people in this office."

Police identified the supervisor as Harold Creech, …

Bruins win fourth straight, down Senators

The Boston Bruins notched a fourth straight win, thanks to a spectacular performance in the shootout by goaltender Tim Thomas, who stopped all five Ottawa Senators shots to secure a 4-3 victory in NHL action Thursday.

Thomas made a sensational glove stop on Dany Heatley after turning aside four previous shots.

P.J. Axelsson then secured the win by putting a backhander between the pads of the Ottawa goalie, after the four previous Bruins shots were also blocked.

Kings 5, Capitals 4

In Washington, Los Angeles dealt Washington a rare home defeat, winning despite allowing Alex Ovechkin's 200th NHL goal.

Ovechkin scored with just …

Residents wary parks' upgrading temporary

In 1979, Garfield Park's fieldhouse was in such disrepair it wasvirtually unusable.

A Chicago Sun-Times series found that leaking pipes had eatenthrough the ceiling and walls of the meeting room, buckling theparquet floor. The 184-acre park had only one full-time recreationworker, and the crafts shops and other recreation rooms had beenclosed for years. The ceiling of the gym was too low to playbasketball.

In short, Garfield and numerous other parks on the West andSouth Sides were a mess, the victim of years of mismanagement andneglect.

"I remember driving by the lagoon," said Debbie Nelson, WestSide resident and a project coordinator for Friends of …

THIS MONTH AROUND THE WORLD

ESTONIA

Election: President

Date: September

The president is elected by the 101-seat parliament to a five-year term. The president must win by two-thirds of the vote in the assembly. If after two rounds of voting, no candidate has two-thirds of the vote, an electoral assembly of members of the parliament and members of local government chooses the president from the top two vote-getters.

Demographics

Population: 1,324,333

Language: Estonian (official), Russian

Internet Users: 670,000

THE GAMBIA

Election: President

Date: Sept. 24

In The Gambia, the president is elected to a five-year term by popular …

Jury selection to begin Wednesday in US federal court in `Sopranos' plot dispute

David Chase is headed to federal court to defend his role in creating the hit HBO mob drama, "The Sopranos."

Jury selection was to begin Wednesday in Trenton in the case of a former New Jersey municipal court judge who claims his ideas helped Chase come up with the show's plot.

Robert Baer, also a former assistant prosecutor in Union and Hudson counties, sued Chase in 2002, claiming he suggested a TV show about organized crime in New Jersey and gave Chase a crash course on the north Jersey mob.

In court documents, Chase countered that Baer is "self-delusional." He is expected to testify at the trial.

A spokeswoman …

Buehrle might cash in on Peavy deal

Manager Ozzie Guillen said he already had an ace in Mark Buehrle before the Jake Peavy trade. The White Sox might find they have to pay a little extra for holding high cards.

Asked if he might seek to renegotiate his own deal, Buehrle said, ''We'll do some talking, and we'll see what happens.''

Buehrle signed a four-year, $56 million contract in July 2007. He makes $14million each year.

Peavy will make $11million this year. The three-year, $52 million deal he signed in December 2007 kicks in next season, when he will make $15million. He'll make $16million in 2011 and $17million in 2012. The Sox can pick up a club option in 2013 for $22million or buy out the deal …