Zurich - European champions Spain remain top of the virtually unchanged football rankings

Riga - Workers were busy replacing paving stones into the cobbled streets of Riga's Old Town Wednesday morning hours after they were used to smash the windows of the Latvian parliament building.

A political demonstration Tuesday night degenerated into the worst civil unrest the Baltic state has seen for years.

Speaking on Latvian television Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Ivars Godmanis warned that the 106 people arrested "will not go unpunished," and defended police tactics in bringing the riot under control.

Next time, Godmanis warned, the police response would be even tougher.

He also said political protests might be banned from the Old Town in future.

London, Jan 10 : Real women respond more favorably to a brand if its adverts mirror their own identities, an ongoing survey which canvassed the opinions of 2,000 women in the UK, US, China, India, Canada, Brazil, Kenya and Jordan revealed.

The study challenges the advertising world''s perennial reliance on young, white and extremely thin models.

Rovaniemi, Finland - German carmaker BMW plans to introduce a four-wheel drive version of its flagship 7 series limousine, the company revealed during winter testing in Finland.

The rugged variant of the 7 series will use BMW's Xdrive four-wheel drive system which features in the X3, X5 offroaders and in the xi 3 Series and 5 Series saloons. The new 7 will ride higher than the standard car and be fitted with underbody protection in the form of sump and transmission guards. The new car is likely to be unveiled in late 2009.

Berlin  - European inflation fell below the European Central Bank's (ECB) 2 per cent target in December, data to be released Tuesday is forecast to show, raising the prospects of the ECB delivering another cut in rates at its meeting set for next week.

Preliminary data to be released by the European Union's statistics office will show December inflation in what was then the 15-member eurozone sliding from 2.1 per cent in November to 1.8 per cent last month, analysts say.

Prague - Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Thursday his government will meet on November 1 to set a date for adopting the euro, a change from his government's go-slow approach to Europe's common currency.

"November 1 is the date when the government will determine a date for adopting the euro," he said on Czech Television.

While the Czechs have been reluctant, other central European leaders have voiced their support for speedy euro adoption in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, seeing it as a shield during the ensuing slowdown of their economies.