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US News Archive for June 2005:
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Arlene comes ashore on Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Arlene weakened as it blew ashore Saturday on the Gulf Coast, but still packed enough punch that it brought sheets of rain, 20-foot waves and heavy wind to the same area that was devastated by Hurricane Ivan nine months ago...
CNN - June 11, 2005
3 suspects in Aruba missing case to stay jailed
Three youths arrested in Aruba connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager will remain jailed another eight days to allow police and prosecutors time to continue their investigation, a judge ruled Saturday, according to a government official. Meanwhile, conflicting reports emerged regarding what the youths are telling police about the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway...
CNN - June 11, 2005
Afleet Alex Wins Belmont Stakes
No acrobatics, no long shots, just an overpowering victory by Afleet Alex the final leg of the Triple Crown...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Spirit Willing, One More Trip Down Mountain for Graham
The Rev. Billy Graham is preparing to travel to New York City for a three-day outdoor revival meeting beginning June 24...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Antiterror Head Will Help Choose an F.B.I. Official
The appointment would for the first give an outsider a significant role in the selection of a high-level official at the F.B.I...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Rugby: Boks beat Uruguay
Tonderai Chavhanga scores six tries as South Africa trounce Uruguay 134-3 in East London...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
Arlene's rains drenching Panhandle
Heavy rain is drenching the Florida Panhandle as Tropical Storm Arlene churns toward the Gulf Coast. The lumbering storm is packing sustained winds of 70 mph, and the National Hurricane Center has posted a hurricane warning along 125 miles of coast from Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Destin in Florida...
CNN - June 11, 2005
G8 ministers back Africa debt deal
Finance ministers from the world's wealthiest nations have agreed to a historic accord to cancel up to $55 billion worth of debt belonging to the world's poorest nations. The Group of Eight back the relief package ahead of the group's summit July 6-8 in Scotland...
CNN - June 11, 2005
Finance Chiefs Cancel Debt of 18 Nations
Finance ministers from the Group of 8 industrialized nations agreed today to cancel at least $40 billion worth of debt owed by the world's poorest nations...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Over 30 Reported Dead In Attacks Around Iraq
At least 34 Iraqis and 2 American marines were killed in violence in central and western Iraq on Friday night and Saturday...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Tropical Storm Lumbers Toward Shore
Heavy rain drenched the Florida Panhandle today as Tropical Storm Arlene plodded toward the northern Gulf Coast and weather-weary residents faced a hurricane warning...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
New Look at Queens Stadium Options With Mets
NYC2012 officials are exploring two options that involve a partnership with the Mets, one to refit Shea Stadium and the other to build a new stadium in the Willets Point area nearby...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Antiterror Head Will Help Name an F.B.I. Leader
The appointment would for the first time in the bureau's history give an outsider a significant role in the selection of a high-level official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
In Overhaul of Social Security, Age Is the Elephant in the Room
Demographic trends have major financial implications for Social Security and major political implications for the lawmakers now trying to overhaul the system...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
UN 'on track' for council reform
Countries advocating expansion of the UN Security Council reform say they have the support they need in a vote...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
Athletics: Jones slams ban effort
Three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones criticises efforts to prevent her competing in Europe...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
NHL to continue talks on dispute
The NHL and its Players Association will resume on Monday talks aimed at ending their dispute...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
Suspected BSE case found in US
A test indicates a US cow may have BSE, but further tests are needed to confirm the case...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
Parents allow cancer treatment
A couple who lost custody of their daughter after refusing cancer treatment for her drop their objections...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
Official: Aruba suspect confesses to killing
One of three young suspects arrested Thursday in the investigation into the disappearance of an Alabama teenager has confessed to her murder, a senior police official said late Friday...
CNN - June 11, 2005
Aruba official: Suspect confesses to killing teen
One of three young suspects arrested Thursday in the investigation into the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba has confessed to her murder, a senior police official said late Friday. The suspect has agreed to lead police to the body of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, the police official said. Police did not say which of the three suspects confessed...
CNN - June 11, 2005
Hopes raised of Africa debt deal
Hopes of an accord on debt relief for poor African nations are raised with reports of an agreement between the U.S. and Britain on writing off $16.7 billion owed by 18 countries...
CNN - June 11, 2005
Zimbabwe's 'Cleanup' Takes a Vast Human Toll
The demolishing of shanties by the government is evolving into a forced uprooting of the very poorest city dwellers...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Grisly Effect of One Drug: 'Meth Mouth'
Unlike other drugs, methamphetamine seems to be taking a unique and horrific toll inside its users' mouths...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
A Wall Fell on Their Cars. Then Bad Luck Set In.
The car owners were left in an insurance limbo until the crushed cars are unearthed, a process expected to take up to a year...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Hurricane-Battered Floridians Huddle in Home Sweet Fortress
With Tropical Storm Arlene churning toward the Panhandle, homeowners across Florida are taking defensive measures...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Little Bang From Bullish Comments by Fed Chairman
Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said this week that the economy was on a...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
G.M. Shares End Week on a High Note
By The New York Times...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Acting Like a Chief While Still Officially in the Wings
Robert A. Iger, who is succeeding Michael D. Eisner as chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, has wasted no time putting his stamp on the company...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
What's Really Behind the Apple-Intel Alliance
In striking a computer chip deal with Intel, Steven Jobs, Apple Computer's chief executive, has opened a range of tantalizing new options for his quirky company...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Searching for a Reason to Buy Google
Five years after the tech bubble came and went, Google's stock has bounded to nearly $300. So is it different this time, or are investors partying like it's 1999?...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
An Expiration Date on a Child Seat? Huh?
Many manufacturers say their products, from sunscreen to tires, have expiration dates. But dig a little deeper and the truth is more complex...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Acting Like a Chief While Still Officially in the Wings
Robert A. Iger, who is succeeding Michael D. Eisner as chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, has wasted no time putting his stamp on the company...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Trade Deficit Widened in April; Exports and Imports Set Records
WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - The trade deficit widened in April to $57 billion as exports and imports both set records, the Commerce Department said Friday...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
China to Limit Textile Exports to Europe
Hoping to defuse a gathering trade conflict with the European Union, China agreed to place limits on its textile and apparel exports...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Ebbers Pleads for Leniency in Sentencing
Bernard J. Ebbers, the former chief executive of WorldCom, pleaded for leniency yesterday from the judge who will sentence him for his conviction on charges of orchestrating the largest securities fraud in the nation's history...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Chairman of Northwest Selling Shares
The chairman of Northwest Airlines has sold more than half his common stock in the last two weeks, amid heightened labor tensions and concerns that the airline might have to seek bankruptcy protection, according to regulatory filings released yesterday...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Former Wal-Mart Executive Stripped of Benefits
Thomas M. Coughlin, a former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores who became mired in scandal after retiring, will be stripped of the stock options and pension benefits he was awarded, the company said yesterday...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Chief of Eurotunnel Quits Amid Turmoil on Board
Little more than a year after a revolt of French shareholders threw out the board of Eurotunnel, a boardroom brawl has erupted the week before shareholders meet again...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Unexpected Quiet on German Bank Deal
As the boards of two European banks prepare to vote on an Italian-German merger, one sound has been absent from the buzz on the deal: political resistance...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Starting Off by Doing Right on Options
The first issue that the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission will face is the expensing of stock options...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Pension-Shortfall Study Finds Winners and Losers
If the Bush administration's proposal to shore up the pension system were already in place, some large companies would have to double or triple the amounts they are putting into their pension funds this year but other companies would not have to contribute anything, a new analysis of corporate pension data found...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Worries for Workers Who Build Cars or Plan on Collecting Pensions
SEVERAL stalwarts of American industry - General Motors, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines - took it on the chin this week as they reckoned with years of poor decision making and some worrying global trends...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
9 Resign at Morgan Stanley to Take Jobs at Wachovia
Nine Morgan Stanley sales and trading executives resigned to join Wachovia in the latest sign of discontent inside the firm's troubled equities division...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Mark Cuban's Half-Court Heave
The blog of Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is loaded with his hyperconfident pronouncements about business, sports and politics...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Big Spenders of the World, Unite
The Robb Report's "best of the best" issue is now on newsstands. You work hard for your money, the magazine believes, so you might as well spend it on the best...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Nortel's No. 2 Resigns After Three Months
The Nortel Networks Corporation said that its No. 2 officer had resigned after three months because of professional differences with the chief executive...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
A Second Guilty Plea in A.I.G.-Related Case
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 (AP) - A second former executive at the General Re insurance unit of Berkshire Hathaway pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to file false financial reports in a sham transaction intended to burnish the books of the American International Group, his company's top customer...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Citigroup Agrees to Pay $2 Billion in Enron Scandal
The agreement is expected to increase the pressure on other Wall Street firms named in the lawsuit to settle...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Odd Alliance Brings About Debt Relief
It took five years and the star power of Brad Pitt and Pat Robertson to persuade the world's wealthiest nations to forgive the debt of some of the world's poorest...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Court Case Gives Rare Look at Tax Shelter Clients
An unusual court challenge against the Internal Revenue Service on a certain tax shelter has provided a rare glimpse of the investors who bought into it...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Deal Makers Don't Wear Plaid (Well, Maybe Warren Buffett Can)
Professionals are enlisting image consultants, who help them project a fashionable presence that does not tip into slick...
New York Times - June 11, 2005
Militia chief to stay in Colombia
A commander of Colombia's AUC paramilitary group will not be extradited to the US, government officials indicate...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
US finds new suspected BSE case
A test indicates a US cow may have BSE, but further tests are needed to confirm mad cow disease...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
Venezuela ups extradition demand
Venezuela gives the US more information to back its request for a former CIA agent's extradition...
BBC News - June 11, 2005
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