LONDON, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - Nationalised British bank Northern Rock said Tuesday that the state would boost its capital by 3.0 billion pounds (3.7 billion euros, 5.9 billion dollars) after it suffered a first-half loss of 592 million pounds.

LONDON, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - Nationalised British bank Northern Rock reported on Tuesday a net loss of 592 million pounds (746 million euros, 1.16 billion dollars) in the first half as it repaid a chunk of a large government loan.

LONDON, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - Nationalised British bank Northern Rock reported on Tuesday a net loss of 592 million pounds (746 million euros, 1.16 billion dollars) in the first six months of the year.

The figure from the bank, rescued after falling to the subprime crisis, compared with profit after tax of 188 million pounds in the first half of 2007.

LONDON, August 5, 2008 (AFP) - Nationalised British bank Northern Rock said on Tuesday that it had suffered a net loss of 592 million pounds (746 million euros, 1.16 billion dollars) in the first six months of the year.

The figure compared with profit after tax of 188 million pounds in the first half of 2007.

OSLO, July 12, 2008 (AFP) - Two people were found dead on Saturday at the Kvinesdal rock festival in southern Norway and six others were hospitalized after a suspected case of asphyxiation, police said.

'We are not exactly sure how they died but we suspect they suffocated from fumes inside a bus,' a spokesman for Agder police, Asbjoern Enoksen, told AFP.

LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - Comedian Chris Rock hired the private eye in Hollywood's wiretapping trial to dig up information about a Hungarian model who filed a paternity suit against him, a court heard Friday.

BRUSSELS, April 2, 2008 (AFP) - The European Commission said Wednesday it had launched an in-depth state-aid investigation into British authorities' bailout of the recently nationalised British bank Northern Rock.

LONDON, March 31, 2008 (AFP) - Northern Rock, the British bank nationalised in connection with a global credit crisis, said Monday it suffered a 2007 pre-tax loss after turning a profit in 2006 and forecast another shortfall this year.

LONDON, March 31, 2008 (AFP) - Northern Rock, the British bank recently nationalised over the credit crunch crisis, said on Monday that it made a pre-tax loss of 167.6 million pounds (210.5 million euros, 332.7 million euros) in 2007.

PALO ALTO, California, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) - Tour of California organizers have rejected the entries of Rock Racing riders Tyler Hamilton, Santiago Botero and Oscar Sevilla, who have been linked with the Operation Puerto doping probe in Spain.