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US News Archive for November 2005:
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Bush takes on war critics
U.S. President George W. Bush responds to charges his administration manipulated intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to justify the war. Speaking at a Veterans Day event, Bush said: "It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began." Democrats responded immediately -- and angrily...
CNN - November 11, 2005
U.N. sends 'signal' to Liberia's Taylor
U.N. peacekeepers in Liberia now have the authority to arrest former President Charles Taylor and transfer him to Sierra Leone for trial should he return to the country. The Security Council Friday voted unanimously to expand the mandate of its peacekeepers on the heels of democratic presidential elections Tuesday...
CNN - November 11, 2005
On Fish Market's Last Day, No Tears but Many Memories
After decades of false starts and months of legal brawling, the Fulton Fish Market is finally moving to Hunts Point...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Details of New Vatican Rules on Gay Priests Disclosed
(ROME, Nov. 11 - A Vatican document would ban new priests who...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Jordan Rounds Up 120 in Search for Suspects in Hotel Bombings
Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia said the bombings had been carried out by four Iraqis, including a man and his wife...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
DaimlerChrysler Sells Remaining Stake in Mitsubishi
The move effectively ending the grand scheme of DaimlerChrysler's chairman, Jürgen E. Schrempp, to create a global car company...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
GM workers agree healthcare deal
Workers at General Motors agree to a deal that will cut the carmaker's huge healthcare bill...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Time overtaking WW I vets
Lloyd Brown, 104, remembers Armistice Day in 1918 as few -- ever so few -- veterans can. "For the servicemen there were lots of hugs and kisses," recalls Brown. But no one knows exactly how many of America's World War I veterans will celebrate Veterans Day, which marks the armistice of November 11, 1918, that ended what then was considered the Great War...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Claim: 4 Iraqis behind Amman bombs
Four Iraqis -- including a husband and wife -- carried out the hotel bombings in Amman that killed 57 people, al Qaeda in Iraq has claimed on a Web site. Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher could not confirm the claim but said 12 people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the attacks that have sparked demonstrations across Jordan...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Bush takes on critics
President Bush said Friday that the U.S. must continue to fight in Iraq to prevent it from becoming a failed state from which terrorists would launch attacks on other nations to implement their radical ideology...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Liberian protesters face tear gas
U.N. forces fire tear gas at angry supporters of Liberian soccer star George Weah after they stoned police and marched to the U.S. embassy to back a demand to halt counting in an election Weah says was rigged...
CNN - November 11, 2005
No-Bid Contract to Replace Schools After Katrina Is Faulted
To critics, the 450 portable classrooms being installed across Mississippi are prime examples of waste and favoritism...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Bush Forcefully Attacks Critics of His Strategy in Iraq
The president accused them of trying to rewrite history and said they are undercutting U.S. forces on the front lines...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Flight of Boeing’s 777 Breaks Distance Record
A new long-range Boeing 777 flew more than halfway around the world nonstop on Thursday, breaking an aviation distance record set by a B-52 bomber 43 years ago...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Super Bowl winner Courson killed
Former American football star Steve Courson dies after a tree he was cutting down falls on him...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Football: Australia v Uruguay
All the team news ahead of the Oceania and South America play-off for World Cup 2006...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Colombia reviews peace deadline
Colombia's government says it could extend the deadline for right-wing paramilitaries to demobilise...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Rice in surprise Iraq visit
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on a surprise visit during a tour of the Middle East. There she appeals for Iraqis to bridge their differences ahead of upcoming elections...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Florence Journal: Blush if You Must, for Art's Sake, but Don't Panic
Florence's Museo degli Argenti is hosting a major exhibit on mythology and erotica...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Daimler sells stake in Mitsubishi
DaimlerChrysler sells its remaining 12.4% stake in struggling Mitsubishi Motors to bank Goldman Sachs...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Football: Trinidad v Bahrain
All the team news ahead of the CONCACAF and Asia play-off for World Cup 2006...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Evangelist says voters reject God
A TV evangelist tells a town not to be surprised if disaster strikes after it votes against teaching intelligent design...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Schwarzenegger accepts blame
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he has learned lessons from a special referendum failure...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Wade banned after steroids test
US sprint hurdler Larry Wade is hit with a two-year ban after testing positive for a banned steroid...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Colombia to evict farm occupiers
Colombia says it will continue to evict indigenous protest groups from farms, after a boy is killed during an operation...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
NYC beefs up hotel security
Police have stepped up patrols of hotels in Manhattan as a precaution following the suicide bombings of three hotels in the Jordanian capital of Amman. New York's hotels had not been threatened, the mayor says. "If you want to be safe, I would argue New York is the place that you want to go," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Terror attacks spark grief, anger
Bombings that killed at least 56 people in Jordan's capital spark furious protests against al Qaeda after a Web site carries a claim that the group was behind the attacks. Jordanians flooded Amman to protest the suicide attacks at three hotels with Western connections...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Setback for GOP leadership
House Republican leaders abruptly called off a vote Thursday on a budget bill that would trim $50 billion in spending after moderate Republicans resisted cuts to a range of social programs, including Medicaid, student loans and food stamps...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Johnson-Sirleaf claims Liberia win
Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf appeared poised Friday to become Africa's first democratically elected female president, claiming victory after results from most of the West African country gave her an apparently unbeatable lead...
CNN - November 11, 2005
Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees
The Senate voted to strip captured "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay of the ability to challenge their detentions in U.S. courts...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Intelligence: Iraq-Based Jihad Appears to Seek Broader Horizons
Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, took responsibiltiy for deadly attacks in Jordan and Iraq over the past two days...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
House Leaders Postpone Vote on Budget Bill
The postponement on a contentious budget-cutting bill was a striking display of the discord and political anxiety running through the Republican Party...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Driving Around Manhattan? You Pay, Under One Idea
The idea is to charge drivers for entering the most heavily trafficked parts of Manhattan at the busiest times of the day...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
For City Kept Sleepless by Colic, No End to Cures in Melting Pot
Nearly 200 languages are spoken in New York City, and in all of them, the wail of a colicky baby needs no translation...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Deal to Replace Schools After Katrina Is Faulted
To critics, the 450 portable classrooms being installed across Mississippi are prime examples of wasteful spending and favoritism...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
[TS] Could Cutting Deficit Improve Bush Ratings?
Yesteryear's clichés can be correct. At least for an unpopular president, it really is the economy, stupid...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Books of The Times | 'Attack the Messenger': Bushes' Wars Against Media
Politicians have worked to undermine the mainstream press, says Craig Crawford of the Congressional Quarterly...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
See! The Street Was Paved With Gold
When Thomas Peterffy moved to the United States in the 1960's, he had little money in his pocket, no knowledge of English and no college degree. But Mr. Peterffy, an immigrant from Hungary, soon found a haven in computers...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Wooing Workers for New Orleans
Ten weeks after Katrina, government officials and business leaders worry that a scarcity of able-bodied workers is hampering the area's recovery...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Thorny Issue for Board: How to Value Pension Plans
The board that writes the accounting rules for American businesses voted to start a major revision of the rules for reporting retirement plans...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
News Corp. Reports Loss After Accounting Charge
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Shares Rally as Oil Prices and Bond Yields Decline
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Profit Declines 28% at Dell as Sales Growth Slows
Dell Inc. said that third-quarter profit fell 28 percent, a slowdown its chief executive said was likely to worsen this quarter...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Chief Who Succeeded Waksal Is Ousted by ImClone's Board
Daniel S. Lynch, the chief executive of ImClone Systems who helped steady the company after years of scandal, has resigned, apparently under pressure from the board...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Sale at H&M Stirs Frenzy, but Analysts Are Unmoved
H&M showed for a second time that customers will bang down the doors at the whiff of a designer bargain...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
New Finance Chief Is Named at Times
The New York Times has promoted Roland A. Caputo, vice president for circulation fulfillment services, to chief financial officer effective Jan. 1...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
U.S. Awards Contracts to Help Automate Health Records
The federal government awarded $18.6 million in contracts meant to accelerate the use of modern computer technology in health care...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Intel Sets Big Stock Buyback
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Flight of Boeing’s 777 Breaks Distance Record
A new long-range Boeing 777 flew more than halfway around the world nonstop on Thursday, breaking an aviation distance record set by a B-52 bomber 43 years ago...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Insider: A Drumbeat of Impatience Over the Ailing OfficeMax
Hedge funds have been used to getting their way of late. But for the moment, at least, they have met their match in OfficeMax...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Grand Theft Auto? No, Make Mine Volvo
A new racing video game for the Microsoft Xbox system, called Volvo Drive for Life, showcases the Volvo brand identity as the car designed with safety foremost...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
British Phone Executive Is Content to Observe Mergers
Deal fever may be overtaking the European telecommunications industry, but Ben Verwaayen, the chief executive of BT, wants nothing to do with it...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Yahoo Won't Seek an AOL Deal
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
United Airlines Plans to Hire 2,000 Flight Attendants
United Airlines said that it planned to hire 2,000 flight attendants, the first such hires for the company since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Enlisting Cellphone Signals to Fight Road Gridlock
Maryland and Virginia are testing technology that allows them to monitor traffic by tracking cellphone signals and mapping them against road grids...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
U.S. Inquiry Found Halliburton Mishandled Some Pension Funds
An investigation of Halliburton's pension plans has uncovered three violations of the law, including that executive pensions were charged to workers' pension fund...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Nissan to Move American Base to Tennessee
Nissan Motor Company said that it would sell its North American headquarters outside Los Angeles and relocate to Franklin, Tenn., a town of 46,000 people...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Nominee for Fed Chief Wins Backing of Schumer
A leading Senate Democrat on Thursday endorsed President Bush's nomination of Ben S. Bernanke to become chairman of the Federal Reserve...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Fannie Mae Finds More Errors in Books
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
British Offer Wins Bidding for Part of Refco Assets
After 21 hours of negotiation, the Man Group of Britain won a large portion of Refco, the fallen futures brokerage giant, with a $282 million bid...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
September Trade Gap Set Record
The U.S. trade deficit widened by a surprising 11 percent in September, reflecting a surge in energy imports after Hurricane Katrina and a drop in airplane exports...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
And the Emmy for Best Actor on iPods Goes to ...
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences plans to recognize original video content for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices...
New York Times - November 11, 2005
Rice makes surprise trip to Iraq
The US secretary of state makes a unscheduled stop in northern Iraq at the start of her Middle East tour...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Hezbollah denies Argentina bomb
Hezbollah denies its member launched a suicide bomb attack on a Jewish centre in Argentina in 1994...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
US tells Syria to drop conditions
Syria must cooperate with the UN over Rafiq Hariri's death, says the US, as Damascus insists it is "innocent"...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
NFL begins talks for team in LA
The National Football League and Los Angeles city officials have reached a preliminary deal on terms to bring an NFL team back to the city...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
Senate call for 'CIA jail' report
The US Senate requests a report from the CIA chief on allegations his agency ran secret overseas jails...
BBC News - November 11, 2005
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