The Swedish town of Vaexjoe will be "green" or will not be at all. That's the slogan in this town that has become a world leader in environmental protection and has even loftier goals.

While the European Union (EU) aims to raise its share of renewable energy consumption to 20 percent by 2020, Vaexjoe, a town of 80,000 people nestled between lakes and forests in Sweden's south, can boast of already exceeding 50 percent -- and 90 percent when it comes to heating.

Carbon dioxide emissions per inhabitant dropped by 30 percent between 1993 and 2006.

"It's a lot but we're not satisfied, we want to reduce them further," says Henrik Johansson, an environmental expert at city hall.

Wall Street analysts have cut their first-quarter earnings forecasts for U.S. companies and are now projecting a sharper decline, figures from Reuters Estimates showed on Monday.

Earnings for Standard & Poor's 500 companies are now expected to fall 8.1 percent in the first quarter, compared with the 5.5 percent decline projected last week.

At the beginning of the quarter, analysts projected 4.7 percent earnings growth during the period.

The worsening global credit crisis has significantly damaged the outlook for many major U.S. companies, particularly in the finance sector.

Aloha Airlines said Sunday it will halt all passenger service after Monday, signaling the end of an airline that has served Hawaii for more than 60 years.

Aloha, which filed for bankruptcy for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 20, was a casualty of fierce competition and rising fuel prices. The airline said it will stop taking reservations for flights after Monday.

"We simply ran out of time to find a qualified buyer or secure continued financing for our passenger business," said Aloha President David Banmiller in a statement. "We had no choice but to take this action."

Aloha has suffered since Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group Inc. launched a new interisland carrier called go! airlines in 2006, triggering a local airfare war.

Nakheel has launched the Emirates, its final and tenth precinct in the residential district of International City. Construction has begun early this year, and is expected to be completed by third quarter of 2009. Emirates will feature 856 studios and 756 one-bedroom units.

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co has received $301m worth of orders from Qatar to build power-generation facilities, reported Bloomberg. Qatar General Electricity & Water Corp. placed a $201m order for a transformer substation. Hyundai Engineering also won a $100m power cabling contract from the company, also known as Kahramaa. Hyundai Engineering is South Korea's largest builder by market value.

Those UCLA Bruins keep finding more drama and ways to win in the closing seconds. Darren Collison scored the go-ahead basket on a one-handed layin with 9 1/2 seconds remaining, Josh Shipp blocked Donald Sloan's final drive and the West Region's No. 1 seed held on for a 53-49 victory over Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAA tournament Saturday night.

The Bruins (33-3) won their 12th in a row and will face Western Kentucky or San Diego next week in Phoenix.

"That was reminiscent of a lot of games we seem to be in lately, where we're having to make dramatic comebacks in the last few minutes," UCLA coach Ben Howland said. "But the one thing that I love about our team is that they know in their heart they're always going to win the game. They're going to find a way."

Urged on by a pro-UCLA crowd that made it seem like a home game, the Bruins rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half.

Freshman Kevin Love had 19 points and 11 rebounds — his 21st double-double — and UCLA overcame the combined 3-of-14 shooting of Shipp and Russell Westbrook. Love had seven of UCLA's 11 blocked shots.

Scroll the list of the 10 most popular Web sites in the U.S., and you'll encounter the Internet's richest corporate players — names like Yahoo, Amazon.com, News Corp., Microsoft and Google.
Except for No. 7: Wikipedia. And there lies a delicate situation.

With 2 million articles in English alone, the Internet encyclopedia "anyone can edit" stormed the Web's top ranks through the work of unpaid volunteers and the assistance of donors. But that gives Wikipedia far less financial clout than its Web peers, and doing almost anything to improve that situation invites scrutiny from the same community that proudly generates the content.

And so, much as how its base of editors and bureaucrats endlessly debate touchy articles and other changes to the site, Wikipedia's community churns with questions over how the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the project, should get and spend its money.

Should it proceed on its present course, soliciting donations largely to keep its servers running? Or should it expand other sources of revenue — with ads, perhaps, or something like a Wikipedia game show — to fulfill grand visions of sending DVDs or printed books to people who lack computers? Is it helpful — or counter to the project's charitable, free-information mission — to have the Wikimedia Foundation tight with a prominent venture capital firm?

Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression.

Then Kelsoe, a prominent psychiatric geneticist at the University of California, San Diego, did something provocative for the buttoned-down world of academic medical research: He began selling bipolar genetic tests straight to the public over the Internet last month for $399.

His company, La Jolla-based Psynomics, joins a legion of startups racing to exploit the boom in research connecting genetic variations to a host of health conditions. More than 1,000 at-home gene tests have burst onto the market in the past few years.

The proliferation of these tests troubles many public health officials, medical ethicists and doctors. The tests receive almost no government oversight, even though many of them are being sold as tools for making serious medical decisions.