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Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. It is situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 580,000 in the urban area and about 1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area.

Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the then-ongoing Thirty Years' War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the Gota alv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries.

Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927. The original, parent Volvo Group and the now separate Volvo Car Corporation are still headquartered on the island of Hisingen in the city. Other key companies are SKF and Astra Zeneca.

Gothenburg is served by Goteborg Landvetter Airport southeast of the city center. The smaller Goteborg City Airport, from the city center, was closed to regular airline traffic in 2015.

1. How many colleges are in Gothenburg?
2. Can you name one?
3. What large manufacturer started in Gothenburg in 1927?
4. Where is their home office?
5. Has the company split into two divisions?
6. What is the airport for that region?
7. Did one close recently?
8. Where was it located?
9. When did it close?
10. How does Gothenburg compare to other cities in Sweden based on size?
11. How about among all the Nordic countries?
12. How many people live there?
13. How about in the metro area?
14. What sort of colony did it start out as?
15. What nationality of people mostly lived there, then?
16. Who chartered the town?
17. When?
18. How big is the port there, today?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Two
2. University of Gothenburg
3. Volvo
4. Gothenburg
5. yes
6. Goteborg Landvetter Airport
7. yes
8. from the city center,
9. 2015
10. it is the second-largest
11. fifth-largest
12. 580,000
13. about 1 million
14. trading
15. Dutch,
16. King Gustavus Adolphus
17. 1621
18. the largest port in the Nordic countries.

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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Angry workers beat to death a human resources vice president after he laid off 42 employees at an auto-parts manufacturing company in southern India, police said Wednesday.

Roy George was vice-president for human resources at Pricol, the auto-parts company.

Some four to five workers, belonging to a union not recognized by the company, barged into his office and beat him up with iron rods, said N. Kannan, a police superintendent of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state.

George, 47, died from his head injuries Tuesday, Kannan told CNN.

Police have arrested nine people and are expected to round up more.

Last year the Indian head of an Italian company died after allegedly being beaten by a mob of sacked employees.

More than 60 people were charged with the murder of the chief executive of Graziano Transmissioni near New Delhi.

Earlier this month, India's Jet Airways had to cancel hundreds of flights after pilots struck work over the sacking of two of their colleagues in August.

Companies in the South Asian nation, despite its rapid economic growth in recent years, have often been faced with tough labor issues because of archaic laws and company policies on hiring and retrenchment.

Business consultants in India blame such labor standoffs on what they call lack of transparency in retrenchment or layoff policies.

Hiring and firing conditions are often not explained to workers by their companies, said Rajeev Karwal, founding-director of Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions.

Issues could spiral out of control if the businesses and bureaucrats are seen in a "corrupt nexus" by the employees seeking reprieve from labor authorities, he said.

1. How many flights were cancelled at Jet Airways?
2. Why?
3. When were their fellow workers fired?
4. Who was Roy George?
5. Who did he work for?
6. What happened to him?
7. by who?
8. What kind of injuries did he sustain?
9. How old was he?
10. Did he survive?
11. When did he die?
12. How many people have the police taken into custody for his death?
13. What happened to the Chief Executive of Graziano Transmissioni?
14. How many people participated in that?
15. Where was this?
16. What do companies fail to explain?
17. to who
18. What do workers want from authorities?
19. Who is the founding director of Milagrow Business
20. What are companies in South Asia experiencing?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. hundreds
2. pilots strike
3. August
4. vice-president for human resources
5. Pricol
6. he was beat up
7. workers
8. head injuries
9. 47
10. no
11. Tuesday
12. nine
13. he was murdered
14. More than 60
15. near New Delhi
16. explain hiring and firing conditions
17. workers
18. reprieve
19. Rajeev Karwal
20. labor issues

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Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the White House on Tuesday for a "failure of leadership" as President Barack Obama prepares to nominate his administration's fourth defense secretary.

The Texas Republican, who is considering a 2016 run in hopes of heading his own White House administration, called the unusually high turnover at the helm of the Defense Department emblematic of a White House that puts politics above U.S. national security.

"It seems what the administration is looking for is a defense secretary who will follow the orders of a political White House rather than focus on defending the national security interests of this country," Cruz said. "At a time when the threats are this grave, we shouldn't see turnover at the Defense Department than one has at a typical Burger King."

Cruz said he did not know Ashton Carter, the former No. 2 man at the Pentagon who is expected to be Obama's nominee to succeed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, but Cruz said he looks forward to learning more about Carter and his "good reputation."

But Cruz emphasized he was unsettled to see several potential picks pull their names out of the running to head the department, including former Pentagon official Michele Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed.

"It says something that so many people are saying, 'No, thank you, I don't want to serve in an administration that overrides the Defense Department, that treats the defense secretary as subservient to political lackeys in the White House," Cruz said.

Cruz made the remarks Tuesday at an event cosponsored by Concerned Veterans of America and the conservative publication The Weekly Standard during which he bore out his hawkish foreign policy and staked out positions starkly in contrast to Obama.

1. How many Secretaries of Defense has the President already nominated during this term?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. three