11.   The stock rallied yesterday amid optimism that U.S. demand for beverage cans is rebounding from a slump last year.

12.   Under a letter of intent, Pittsburgh-based Alcoa will buy a rolling mill in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, that primarily produces aluminum sheet for beverage cans.

13.   Police charged the group twice and snatched several people as the demonstrators hurled stones and beverage cans and swung wooden poles torn from circular fences around sidewalk saplings.

14.   The move means the Philadelphia-based company will split its metal packaging into three separate divisions, including beverage cans, food cans and aerosol cans.

15.   Denmark is the only EU country to have banned the use of aluminium beverage cans, for environmental reasons.