Coca-Cola restarts operations Afghanistan
Kabul: Coca-Cola Corp has again started operations in Afghanistan by opening a new $25 million production plant.

According to Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, more such business openings and investments will lead to a downturn in Afghanistan's violence, which has reached its deadliest proportions since US-led forces toppled the Taliban for harbouring September 11, 2001, attack mastermind Osama bin Laden. Around 350 people have got new jobs at the new plant.

Afghanis however feel that Afghanistan needs investment for new hospitals and ways to end the violence and not soft drinks.
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US auto sales fall
Detroit: U.S. auto sales are falling even as US auto companies struggle to boost sales amid high gas prices this year. Industry executives said the trend will continue into the next year. Industry-wide sales are down more than 4 percent this year even as U.S. automakers GM and Ford are trying to stem billions of dollars in losses while losing market share to Asian rivals such as Toyota Motor Corp.

Analysts and experts say a softening economy will likely lead to a further decline in vehicle sales in 2007.

Slowing housing activity can lead to lower pickup truck sales, since the sales of such vehicles are driven by construction activity.

The auto industry benefited in recent years from the boom in housing refinancing at lower interest rates, but U.S. sales of pickup trucks have fallen nearly 14 per cent so far this year. Overall sales at U.S. automakers are down about 11 per cent.
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