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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Take-Two Posts $38 Million Loss, but Raises Outlook
The video-game publisher posted a bigger quarterly loss due to a lack of new releases, but gave a bullish forecast in anticipation of the launch of ?Grand Theft Auto 4? next month...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Southwest Suspends 3 in Inspection Lapse
Three employees were placed on administrative leave in response to an internal investigation into a government complaint about a possible lapse in aircraft maintenance at Southwest...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
The Best Seat in the Plane
Remember when first-class seats meant the best on the plane? That?s not always the case anymore...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Oil and Gas Prices Hit Records
Gas prices at the pump rose overnight to a record national average of $3.2272 a gallon, and light sweet crude for April delivery surged to a new record of $109.72 before retreating...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Rocket Endangers Palestinian-Israeli Respite
Gaza militants fired a rocket at the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon on Tuesday, fracturing a tenuous lull in Palestinian-Israeli tensions...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
City Room: Hannah Montana vs. the Scalping Bots
Parental outrage over price gouging for Hannah Montana concert tickets last year has spawned legal action and legislation, including a new City Council bill to protect consumers...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
The Lede: Adapting After 120 Days in Space
"Boy, these people are really talented to deal" with gravity...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Top U.S. Commander in Mideast to Retire Early
Adm. William J. Fallon?s views on Iran and other issues seemed to put him at odds with the Bush administration...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Obama Courts Mississippi as It Goes to Polls
Senator Barack Obama was hoping to repeat his showing in other Southern states, which he has carried by double-digit margins...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Getty Museum Buys a Seldom-Exhibited Gauguin
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced Tuesday that it had acquired ?Arii Matamoe,? an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin that has been in a private collection in Switzerland for decades...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Iraq Attacks Lower, but Steady, New Figures Show
Newly declassified statistics suggest that after major security gains last fall in the wake of an American troop increase the conflict has drifted into at least a temporary stalemate...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Resignation by Spitzer Not Likely Today; State in Limbo
Gov. Eliot Spitzer remained in office Tuesday evening, offering no public statements on whether he would resign following allegations that he was linked to a high-priced prostitution ring...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Dow Climbs 416.66 for Its Biggest Gain in Over 5 Years
Wall Street enjoyed its best trading day since 2002 on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve injected a burst of financial adrenaline into the ailing banking system...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Google-Doubleclick deal completed
Google is allowed to buy Doubleclick after the European Commission approves the deal...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
NY's Spitzer given deadline to quit
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is given an ultimatum to quit over sex allegations or face impeachment...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
Kroger Profit Falls 16%
The grocery chain said fourth-quarter profit was weighed down by a large inventory charge as overall sales rose a slim 2 percent. It offered a forecast for this year that was below current estimates...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Europe Approves Google?s Merger With DoubleClick
European regulators approved Google?s $3.1 billion takeover of the online advertising company, the final hurdle to a deal that would strengthen Google?s already powerful position on the Web...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Trade Deficit Up as Imports Hit Record
The U.S. trade deficit increased to $58.2 billion in January, up from $57.9 billion in December, the government reported, as imports of goods and services climbed to $206.4 billion...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
EADS Posts Big Annual Loss
The parent of Airbus posted a loss of 446 million euros, or $684 million, for 2007 but insisted that it has put the worst behind it...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
The Caucus: Primary Day in Mississippi
As Mississippi voters prepared to cast their ballots, Barack Obama dismissed reports that he'd make a good vice president to Hillary Rodham Clinton...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
At Least 16 Killed in Iraq Bombing
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A roadside bomb hit a bus traveling in southern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 16 civilians, while gunmen opened fire on another bus in the capital, leaving one person dead, police said...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
The Lede: Help Find Lost Anti-Missile Device
The military is asking for help in finding it, while warning civilians to keep their distance if they do...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
City Room: Testimony on Stray Bullet in Bell Case
At the trial of detectives charged with killing Sean Bell, a Port Authority police officer described the stray bullet that fed the public perception of a wild and chaotic shooting...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Dot Earth: We Are What We Drink and Vice Versa
What we drink is what we are - and vice versa...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Sidebar: Around the U.S., High Courts Follow California?s Lead
The California Supreme Court is the most influential state court in the nation...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Europe Clears Google DoubleClick Bid
European Union regulators cleared Google?s $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick, saying the deal will not hurt competition for online ads...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Aides Say They Expect Spitzer to Resign
The timing of the expected resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer remains uncertain, top aides said a day after the governor was linked to a prostitution ring...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Politics, and Scandal, as Usual
Why do politicians at all levels keep starring in this familiar and non-partisan soap opera rerun?...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Fed to Lend $200 Billion More to Ease Market Strain
The Federal Reserve said it would inject liquidity into the markets by lending Treasury securities and increasing currency swap lines with central banks...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Vigilantes take over Rio slums
Vigilante groups are taking control of security in Rio de Janeiro's shanty towns, reports the BBC's Gary Duffy...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
US trade gap widens in January
The US trade deficit widened in January as the high cost of oil offset a rise in exports, official figures show...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
STDs rife among US teenage girls
At least one in four teenage girls in the US has a sexually transmitted disease, a study finds...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
Fed moves to ease credit crunch
The US Federal Reserve and other central banks announce further steps to tackle financial market woes...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
Lazard Chief?s Pay
The financial advisory and management firm?s chairman and chief executive, Bruce Wasserstein, received a salary of $4.8 million in 2007...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
An Airline Terminal for a Security-Wary Era
From the moment that passengers arrive at JetBlue Airways? $750 million terminal at Kennedy International Airport, they will face an unmistakably post-9/11 world...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Nationwide Offers a Buyout of Its Publicly Traded Unit
The insurer?s $2.2 billion bid was a move aimed at simplifying the company?s ownership structure...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
WellPoint Cuts Its Outlook, Sending Shivers Through Shares of Health Insurers
Share of one of the nation?s largest health insurers, plummeted more than 16 percent in after-hours trading Monday after the company lowered its profit forecast...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
3 Are Leaving The Boston Globe
The executive editor, Helen Donovan; a deputy managing editor, Michael Larkin; and a business columnist, Steve Bailey, will leave the newspaper by April 1...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Shuttle Launches on 16-Day Mission
The shuttle Endeavour blazed a roaring trail to orbit as a spectacular night launch kicked off a sixteen-day mission to the International Space Station...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
City Room: The Late-Night Take on Spitzer
What the late-night comics had to say about Eliot Spitzer...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
8 U.S. Soldiers Killed in 2 Iraq Bomb Attacks
The attacks underscored how fragile security in Iraq remains despite a recent drop in violence...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
At Least 24 Killed as Two Bombs Strike Pakistan
Two powerful explosions rocked the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, killing at least 24 people and wounding 170...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Clooney presses Olympic sponsor
George Clooney tells BBC Sport he is putting pressure on Beijing 2008 partner Omega Watches to speak out over China's foreign policy...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
Brazil landless blockade railway
Landless farm workers stage a daylong blockade of a railway line used by Brazil's biggest mining company...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
Boeing to protest at tanker deal
Boeing says it will formally protest against the awarding of a major tanker aircraft contract to its rival EADS...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
Ecuador border raid probe begins
An international team visits the site of a Colombian raid inside Ecuador that sparked a diplomatic crisis...
BBC News - March 11, 2008
Drug Cuts Recurrence Risk in Breast Cancer Patients
Taking the breast cancer pill Femara can significantly reduce the chances that the disease will return, even long after she has stopped taking tamoxifen, researchers said...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
For JetBlue, a New Terminal for a Security-Wary Era
From the moment that passengers first arrive at JetBlue Airways? $750 million terminal at Kennedy International Airport, they will face an unmistakably post-9/11 world...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Workers Sue Gulf Coast Company That Imported Them
A group of 500 foreign welders and pipefitters claimed they were lured with false promises of permanent-resident status and forced to live in inhumane conditions...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Dealbook: Hostility Has Its Rewards
Takeover fears are stubborn in the land of innovation...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
McDonald?s February Sales Rose 11.7%
McDonald?s said the strong February was aided by growth in Europe, the weak dollar and the benefit of an extra selling day...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Losses Deepen at Hovnanian Enterprises
The home builder Hovnanian Enterprises reported on Monday that it lost more than twice as much money in its fiscal first quarter as it did in the period a year ago...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
An 11% Raise for I.B.M. Chief
The company?s chairman and chief executive, Samuel J. Palmisano, was paid $1.8 million in salary, $5.8 million in and stock equivalents worth $12.3 million...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Iomega Rejects EMC Offer
The computer storage provider said EMC Corporation?s $178.1 million offer was not superior to a share purchase deal...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Merck Chief?s Pay Increases by 80%
The chief executive of Merck, Richard T. Clark, received compensation valued at $14.5 million in 2007, despite Merck?s $4.85 billion loss to settle Vioxx litigation...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Top European Banker Finesses the Euro
The president of the European Central Bank criticized the increasing volatility of the currency markets, which have sent the dollar to record lows against the euro...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
China?s Rate of Inflation Is Highest in 11 Years
Food prices were the biggest contributor, up 1.6 percent from the previous month and 23.3 percent higher than the rate in February 2007...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: Financial Sector Fuels Downward Trend
Stocks fell for a third consecutive session on Monday, as investors dumped financial issues on fears of more credit losses and recession concerns...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Companies Hold Down Increases in Inventories
Inventories at wholesalers rose less than a third as much as sales, reflecting efforts by companies to keep stockpiles lean amid concerns about an economic slowdown...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Texas Instruments Lowers Profit Forecast
Texas Instruments also said sales would total $3.21 billion to $3.35 billion. Analysts had forecast $3.40 billion...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
BMW to Expand in South Carolina, Adding 500 Jobs
BMW will spend $750 million to expand its South Carolina production plant and create 500 jobs...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Testing Over, Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week
The streaming-video site displays free, ad-supported shows and feature films from NBC, Fox and more than 50 media companies...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Advertising: Using a Founding Father to Promote the Art of Letter-Writing
HBO and the Postal Service are co-sponsoring a multimillion-dollar campaign promoting letter-writing in tandem with HBO?s upcoming ?John Adams? mini-series...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Frequent Flier: Stupidity in High Places (Like 30,000 Feet)
A veteran business traveler ponders the question: Why do bright, successful business professionals suffer brain drain?...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Export Pace From China Slackened in February
The 63 percent drop in the trade gap from a year earlier was partly a result of a long-term slowdown in export demand, but February was an unusually weak month...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
G.M. Won?t Intervene in Strike at American Axle
The strike has slowed or stopped production at 29 G.M. plants, but the automaker has no plans to intervene in the dispute...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
G.E. Chairman Rejects Talk of NBC Sale
Looking to squelch persistent rumors, G.E.?s chairman, Jeffrey R. Immelt, plans to make his most definitive statement yet about his company?s chief media asset...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Citigroup Acts to Bolster Hedge Funds
The bank will inject $1 billion across six highly leveraged municipal bond funds with $15 billion in assets, which were sold to under the names ASTA and MAT...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Malone Speaks of Diller as Court Battle Starts
The central question in the trial is who controls John C. Malone?s voting stake in IAC/InterActiveCorp ? himself or Barry Diller, who controls IAC...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Carlyle Fund Seeks Halt to Liquidation
The troubled mortgage-debt investment fund asked lenders to halt further liquidation of collateral worth as much as $16 billion...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Pace of Change Too Slow to Keep Entrepreneurs in France
Economists say France will have to make much deeper changes to its culture?s attitude toward capitalism if it intends to keep young entrepreneurs at home...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Boeing Says It Will Protest Tanker Deal
The G.A.O. would have 100 days to review the action, which can be expected to stoke a debate about American jobs and military competitiveness in an election year...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
China Sticking With One-Child Policy
China?s top population official has ruled out changing the country?s one-child family planning policy for at least another decade...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
News Analysis: Formula for ?Idol?: Popular yet Predictable
?American Idol? seems to have settled into the ruts dug by previous years...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Shifting Careers: The Web 2.0 Résumé
Is the old-fashioned paper résumé on its last legs?...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Floyd Norris: Defending SocGen
My Friday column criticized the French bank Société Générale for its decision to report its 2008 losses from fraudulent trading in the 2007 year, and quoted one former and one current member of the International Accounting Standards Board as saying the rules were not written to allow such things. SocGen would not make anyone available to [...]...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
The Lede: Seven More Sins, Thanks to Vatican
An official articulated seven new categories of sin "due to the phenomenon of globalization."...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
A $100 Million Donation to the N.Y. Public Library
The New York Public Library?s building on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street is to be renamed for the Wall Street financier Stephen A. Schwarzman...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Morgan Stanley Chief Grappling With New Risk
After being welcomed back to the bank a few years ago, John J. Mack has presided over nearly $11 billion in write-offs and faces questions about his ability to lead...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
At MSNBC, ?Tucker? Is Out, and David Gregory Is In
?Tucker,? the struggling early-evening talk show led by the often bow-tied Tucker Carlson, was canceled on Monday by MSNBC and replaced by a new politically oriented program featuring David Gregory...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
From Prison to Zenith of Politics in Pakistan
The widower of Benazir Bhutto now sits at the pinnacle of Pakistani politics, a startling comeback for a man was once one of Pakistan?s most ostracized figures...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Paying at the Pump, in a Big Way
When half a tank costs $505, rising fuel prices sting. While the price of gasoline may be on the verge of setting another record, diesel is already there...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Revelations Began in Routine Tax Inquiry
Investigators found several unusual movements of cash involving the governor of New York, officials said...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
White Knight to Client 9: A Stark Fall
The tawdry nature of Eliot Spitzer?s current troubles shocked even his harshest critics...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Buyout Industry Staggers Under Weight of Debt
Celebrated buyout firms like the Blackstone Group, hailed only a year ago for its deal-making prowess, are seeing their profits collapse as the credit crisis spreads...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Obama Rejects Suggestion That He Lower His Sights
Barack Obama suggested that Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were being duplicitous in their offer that he take the vice-presidential spot on the Democratic ticket...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Bomber Kills 5 U.S. Soldiers in Iraq?s Capital
The attack was the deadliest on American soldiers in Baghdad since the height of the troop buildup...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
Spitzer Is Linked to a Sex Ring as Client
Gov. Eliot Spitzer was a client of a high-end prostitution ring broken up last week by federal authorities, according to law enforcement officials...
New York Times - March 11, 2008
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