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US News Archive for April 2006:
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Iran: We've joined 'nuclear club'
Iranian President Ahmed Ahmadinejad confirms that his country has successfully produced low-grade enriched uranium at a level sufficient to power nuclear plants...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Hitting the road is about to hit your wallet
Pump prices for gasoline are rising with the temperature, and motorists should expect little relief during this summer's heavy driving period, the government said today...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Bomb rips prophet prayer service
Chaos errupted after an explosion ripped through a prayer service A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a prayer service in Karachi, Pakistan. Among the dozens killed were the top leadership of an influential Sunni Muslim religious group...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Two New Breast Cancer Studies Yield Surprises
Important new studies on chemotherapy and estrogen therapy challenge conventional wisdom...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
MySpace.com Names Chief Security Officer
The move was a response to concerns that the site sometimes makes young people vulnerable to pedophiles...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
U.S. Death Toll Rises in Iraq After Drop in March
At least 32 American soldiers have died this month, many in Anbar Province, the heart of the Sunni Arab insurgency...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Yankees 9, Royals 7: Jeter's Blast Lifts Yankees in Bronx Opener
Derek Jeter's three-run homer capped a five-run rally in the eighth inning as the Yankees beat Kansas City to win their club-record ninth straight home opener...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Skilling Defends Adjustments in Enron's Earnings
Jeffrey K. Skilling offered a detailed rebuttal to some of the charges against him in his second day on the witness stand today...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
G.M. Sells Last Isuzu Stake for $300 Million
It is the third time since October that G.M. has sold off a stake in a Japanese auto company...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Nasdaq Buys 15% Stake in London Stock Exchange
The purchase makes Nasdaq the largest shareholder in the London exchange and comes a month after Nasdaq's $4.1 billion bid to buy the exchange was rebuffed for being insufficient...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Skilling denies cover-up at Enron
Former Enron chief Jeffrey Skilling denies encouraging workers to lie about the state of the firm's finances as part of a cover-up...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Venezuela and Cuba agree oil link
Venezuela and Cuba form a joint venture to revamp an unfinished Cuban oil refinery, tightening ties between the two...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Trio charged over insider trading
US authorities arrest three people, one a Goldman Sachs worker, and charge them over a $7m insider trading plot...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Muhammad Ali sells rights to his name
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali agrees to sell the marketing rights to his name in a deal worth $50m...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Nasdaq buys 15% stake in LSE
The US Nasdaq Stock Market buys a 15% stake in its former takeover target the London Stock Exchange in a £447m deal...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Mexico TV reform signed into law
Mexican President Vicente Fox signs a media bill which opponents say strengthens the grip of Mexico's TV giants...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Jurors shown graphic 9/11 images
Pictures of Pentagon workers burned to death are shown in the sentencing trial of al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Iran: We'll join nuclear club
Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a major development in its quest to develop nuclear fuel, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani says...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Karachi blast kills 42
An explosion at a celebration of Prophet Mohammed's birthday in Pakistan has killed at least 42 people and sparked a confrontation between Muslim worshippers and Karachi police, according to local media reports...
CNN - April 11, 2006
California levees vulnerable
Rain was falling Tuesday in northern and central California, where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in seven counties that have been battered by storms and flooding. In his emergency declaration Monday, he warned that levees in the region had been seriously weakened and were in danger of breaking...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Marches could mark rise of Hispanic power
Massive street marches to protest a proposed crackdown on illegal immigration have energized Hispanics and may signal a new day of Hispanic political involvement...
CNN - April 11, 2006
China's Trade Surplus Surges Past $11 Billion in March
The second-highest monthly surplus ever could feed trade frictions in advance of President Hu Jintao's visit to the U.S. next week...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Jury Sets $9 Million Award in Vioxx Case
The punitive award comes six days after the same jury awarded the plaintiff $4.5 million in compensatory damages...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Eminem's bandmate shot dead
Proof, a rapper in Eminem's hip-hop collective D12 and best man at his wedding, is shot dead in a nightclub...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Merck to pay $9m Vioxx damages
Merck is to appeal against a court verdict that it must pay $9m to a man who had a heart attack after taking Vioxx...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Briton denies US family killings
A British man pleads not guilty in a US court to killing his American wife and their baby daughter...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Four charged over insider trading
Four people, two of them Goldman Sachs workers, are charged over an insider trading scheme that netted $7m...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Prodi claims uncertain victory
The outcome of Italy's election is still unclear as a victory declared by opposition leader Romano Prodi in a knife-edge parliamentary election is undermined by Silvio Berlusconi's demands for a recount. Prodi said he would form a government strong "politically and technically," rebutting concerns about a wafer-thin majority...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Italian vote stalemate
Italy is plunged into uncertainty after neck-and-neck election results looked set to stall the formation of a new parliament even as Romano Prodi claimed victory over PM Silvio Berlusconi...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Lawyer at Merrill to Head S.E.C. Fund Unit
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Sounding Off: Defensive Driving Becomes a Business Skill
NOTHING makes a business traveler's blood pressure rise faster than the sight of a minivan filled with vacationers in the next lane...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Business Is Brisk in Latin America and at the Airlines That Fly There
Much of the new interest has been driven by companies trying to take advantage of a better exchange rate with the dollar...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Shares Mixed Awaiting First Taste of Earnings Reports
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Nominees Picked for New Emmy for PC and Hand-Held Shows
The category was created in November to draw attention to rapidly growing interest in mobile content that consumers have been quick to embrace...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Market Place: DuPont and Syngenta Join in Modified-Seed Venture
The venture could present a more formidable challenge to Monsanto's dominance of the business for genetically modified seeds...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Smith & Wesson Is Fighting Its Way Back
With consumer sales of rifles, shotguns and handguns remaining flat for the last decade, Smith & Wesson is casting its lot with the Pentagon...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
No Verdict on Penalty in Vioxx Case
Jurors in the trial of a New Jersey man who blamed Merck's Vioxx painkiller for his heart attack, adjourned without reaching a verdict on Monday...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Katrina survivors vote for mayor
Evacuees from hurricane-hit New Orleans are bussed back to the city to vote in mayoral elections...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Chile colony leaders face charges
A Chilea judge indicts members of a German enclave over alleged abuses during the Pinochet era...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Jury hears 9/11 victim's scream
The scream of a man talking on his mobile phone as the World Trade Center collapsed is played in a US court...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
Downer: I never saw graft cables
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Tuesday denied seeing a string of diplomatic cables warning the government that the country's monopoly wheat exporter was paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein...
CNN - April 11, 2006
Berlusconi rejects Prodi win claim
Italian opposition leader Romano Prodi claimed victory Tuesday for his center-left coalition, saying his party had taken control of the lower house of Parliament. But Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi challenged Prodi's claim, saying his center-right coalition had won control of the upper house, the Senate...
CNN - April 11, 2006
U.N. Finds That 25% of Married Syrian Women Have Been Beaten
The findings have been published in local news media, helping to draw attention to topics like domestic abuse and honor killings...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions
The bodies of storm victims are still being discovered in New Orleans. In March alone there were nine...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Lawyers for Duke Players Say DNA Clears Team
The lawyers called for the investigation to be dropped, but the district attorney said he would not do so...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
White House Memo: With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush in Spotlight
The C.I.A. leak prosecutor said that there was "a strong desire" in the White House to discredit a critic...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Immigrants Rally in Scores of Cities for Legal Status
Throngs of immigrants and their supporters called for legal status and citizenship for illegal immigrants...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
As Ruling on Contract Nears, Delta Pilots Build a Strike Fund
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Micron Profit Rises by 64%, Aided by Deal With Intel
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Details of Fees in G.M.A.C. Deal
By Reuters...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Fidelity Nearly Doubles Stake in Parent of American Airlines
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Surge in Metal Prices Lifts Alcoa's Profit
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Zale Says It Is Target of Inquiry by S.E.C.
By Reuters...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Where Brashness Doesn't Play
Introducing a C.E.O. style to governing has not prevented Thailand's billionaire prime minister from running into serious trouble...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Proposed Enron Settlement Would Seal Some Documents
Documents that show how Enron earned billions of dollars by manipulating electric power markets would be permanently unavailable to the public...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Guidant Trial on Recalled Heart Devices Will Be Postponed
The Guidant Corporation's first trial over a recalled defibrillator, scheduled to start in Texas this month, will likely start in July...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Memo Pad
IMPROVING HOTEL LOYALTY As faith declines in the airlines' frequent-flier mileage programs, business travelers are giving high marks to frequent-stay programs at hotels, according to a new survey by the management consulting company Accenture. In a survey of business travelers belonging to frequent-stay programs, 31 percent said that hotels now recognized them as loyal customers and tailored reservations to fit their stated preferences. When Accenture last surveyed business travelers on the subject last October, only 18 percent said that hotel loyalty programs were providing personalized services like choices of floors and pillows. Paul Chiu, managing partner in Accenture's travel services sector, said that the change partly reflected improvements that hotels made in technology to process loyalty program reservations. On the other hand, accumulation of points in a hotel loyalty program is the least important factor business travelers cite in choosing a hotel. Proximity to business meetings is the top factor...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Lawyer Leaves A.I.G.
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
On the Road: It's Crowded. It's Chaotic. And It's Not Even Summer.
The number of domestic airline seats available continues to shrink, as major airlines shift capacity onto international routes...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Chinese Partner of G.M. and VW to Offer Its Own Cars
The plans highlight how Chinese companies are determined to turn into international competitors in their own right...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
After Complaints, Airbus Says It Will Consider Altering Jet
Airbus said it will look at making improvements to its long-range A350 jet, which competes with Boeing's new 787...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
News Analysis: In France, an Economic Bullet Goes Unbitten
Accustomed to security, the French and other Europeans consistently oppose government efforts to reform their economies...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Advertising: Soon, Catch 'Lost' Online, a Day Later
The Walt Disney Company plans to make some television shows available free online as a way to bolster revenue by selling two sets of advertising for a single show...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Skilling, on the Stand, Implies Fraud Was Unnecessary
Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive, began his risky attempt to rebut charges that he orchestrated a scheme to deceive Enron's investors...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Wal-Mart Promises to Limit Its Banking
In testimony before federal banking regulators, Wal-Mart repeated its message over and over again: the company will not open bank branches...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
The Long-Distance Journey of a Fast-Food Order
The voice at the other end of the drive-through speaker may be coming from thousands of miles away...
New York Times - April 11, 2006
Peru headed for run-off election
Nationalist Ollanta Humala takes a lead in Peru's poll and is set for a run-off, but it is still unclear who he will face...
BBC News - April 11, 2006
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