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International News Brief: Hamilton Park's new Chief Executive is heading off the beaten track to deliver results on it.

International News Brief: Grief or no grief, many Italian lottery addicts are looking to the late Pope John Paul for their lucky number.

International News Brief: Tory leader Michael Howard is ready to kill the controversial Gambling Bill, in a move that will spread panic among gambling firms and hit their already shaky share prices.

Horseracing and betting channel At The Races, watched by over 1 million people every month, has launched At The Races Casino and At The Races Poker.

GTECH Corporation has earned the Software Engineering Institute Software Capability Maturity Model Level 3 rating for its Warsaw Technology Center.

Zone4Play, Inc. is evaluating listing of its Common Stock on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market.

Great Canadian Gaming Corporation has completed the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Orangeville Raceway Limited.

World Poker Exchange has engaged poker legend Matt Savage as tournament director of the Aug. 3-6 London Open.

International News Brief: The trade association for casinos has hit out at plans to build Las Vegas style resorts like Caesars Wembley.

International News Brief: A bungling robber who tried to hold up a London bookies with a banana was jailed for nearly seven years today.

International News Brief: Two Birmingham casino robbery suspects were arrested in a dramatic armed police swoop involving a packed inter-city train.

International News Brief: An official application for a casino licence at the Coventry Arena development was lodged this week.

The British Casino Association refutes the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport’s claims that the Association is demanding the right for its members to introduce the new, unlimited jackpot gaming machines envisaged by the Bill within their existing licences.

International News Brief: Online gambling is becoming a booming industry in Britain as the online sites are hugely cash generative in the explosive growth market, according to a new report.

International News Brief: A sixth jockey has been released on bail after he was arrested on Tuesday as part of the City of London police investigation into alleged race-fixing.

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. has suspended the operations of an online gambling site based in the United Kingdom after posting losses of $9.3 million last year.

The Winner Channel, UK cable's first iTV fixed odds gaming service, successfully launched on the Telewest cable network last week and is slated to launch on NTL next week.

GTECH Ireland Operations Ltd., has been named one of the 50 Best Companies to Work for in Ireland by The Great Place to Work Institute of Ireland.

International News Brief: David Beckham and his Real Madrid team-mates are squaring up for a court battle with Europe's leading bookmakers.

International News Brief: Leaked documents show that senior executives from Ladbrokes planned a campaign of meetings, briefings and corporate jollies with Government Ministers, officials and influential MPs during the run-up to the Bill's publication.