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US News Archive for August 2005:
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BA cancels all Heathrow flights
British Airways has cancelled all its flights to and from London's Heathrow Airport at the peak of its holiday season, stranding some 20,000 passengers, following a series of wildcat strikes. The flight cancellations are to continue until 1 p.m. ET (1700 GMT) Friday...
CNN - August 11, 2005
Bush: 'Mistake' to leave Iraq
President Bush said Thursday he understands and respects the views of anti-war advocates like a California mother camped outside his Texas ranch to mourn her soldier son fallen in Iraq, but said it would be a mistake to bring U.S. troops home now...
CNN - August 11, 2005
British Airways cancels all Heathrow flights
British Airways cancelled all its flights from London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday at the peak of its summer holiday season, stranding some 20,000 passengers, following a series of wildcat strikes...
CNN - August 11, 2005
HBO Pushes End of 'The Sopranos' to 2007
HBO announced that "The Sopranos" will not end with its next season, but will continue for an additional eight-episode run starting in January 2007...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Dell's Earnings Rise 28%, but Revenue Growth Slows
Investors were disappointed that revenue grew more slowly than anticipated...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Former WorldCom Executive Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
The sentence was a fifth of the standard and a striking example of the benefits of cooperating with the government...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Oil Prices Continue to Surge, Hitting $66 a Barrel
The latest surge came in reaction to news of more refineries unexpectedly shutting down in the United States...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Peru PM quits as rival appointed
Peru's Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero resigns after the president appoints a close ally as foreign minister...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Bush rejects mother's Iraq plea
The US president says he sympathises with the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq but refuses to pull out...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Bail granted to Pinochet's wife
Augusto Pinochet's wife is granted a day after being charged over tax fraud but their son is denied bail...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Strong demand boosts Dell profits
The world's largest PC maker Dell posts a 28% rise in profits thanks to strong demand, particularly for its laptops...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
US 'hoping for China trade deal'
The US says it is hoping to agree a long-term deal with China on the textile trade when the two sides meet next week...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
IAEA: Iran must stop nuclear work
The International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors pass a resolution asking Iran to suspend its nuclear activities, according to a Western diplomat at the meeting in Austria...
CNN - August 11, 2005
Fugitive couple captured
A married couple accused in a daring and deadly courthouse shootout in Tennessee are scheduled to appear in an Ohio courtroom Thursday after surrendering to police at a motel...
CNN - August 11, 2005
Yahoo Is Paying $1 Billion for 40% Stake in Alibaba
Yahoo Inc. is expected to announce on Thursday that it will pay about $1 billion to acquire a large stake in Alibaba.com, China's largest e-commerce company...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
July Retail Sales Climbed on Auto Sales
Retail sales rose 1.8 percent in July, with most of the gain attributable to cars and auto parts, which increased by 6.7 percent during the month...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Ex-C.F.O. of WorldCom Gets 5 Years in Prison
Scott Sullivan's sentence was a fifth of what guidelines suggested and a striking example of the benefits of cooperating with the government...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
China's Trade Surplus Surged to $10.4 Billion in July
The development is likely to increase American and European pressure on Beijing to let its currency appreciate faster...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
US car sector drives retail sales
A sharp surge in car sales helped drive US retail sales to post their sharpest increase in almost four years, official figures show...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Oregon terror camp suspect held
A Briton wanted in the US after being accused of trying to set up a terror training camp is remanded in custody...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Brazil bank robbery suspects held
Brazilian police detain two people suspected of involvement in the country's biggest bank robbery...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Soldier's mother in Bush protest
The mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq garners support for her roadside protest outside President Bush's ranch...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Explosives truck blows up
A truck carrying 35,500 pounds of explosives crashed and exploded Wednesday, leaving a huge crater in a Utah highway and injuring at least four people. The truck was "pretty much vaporized," an officer said...
CNN - August 11, 2005
UK holds 10 on security grounds
Britain detains 10 foreign nationals who it says are a threat to national security and says it plans to deport them...
CNN - August 11, 2005
Iran warned over nuclear activity
A draft resolution submitted to the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran must resume the full suspension of all nuclear fuel related activities and asks the U.N. nuclear watchdog to verify Tehran's compliance...
CNN - August 11, 2005
Length Helps; Good Putting Will Help Even More
For all of Baltusrol's length, golf's first commandment usually prevails: you drive for show, but you putt for dough...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Europeans to Urge Iran to Resume Suspension of Atom Program
International Herald Tribune...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Yahoo Is Paying $1 Billion for 40% Stake in Alibaba
Yahoo Inc. is expected to announce on Thursday that it will pay about $1 billion to acquire a large stake in Alibaba.com, China's largest e-commerce company...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Mexico town hit by police killing
A gunman kills a female police officer and seriously injures another in the violent Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Uribe seeks Farc hostage talks
President Uribe of Colombia offers to open talks with Farc rebels in an effort to secure the release of hostages...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Football: Man Utd chase Cicinho
Man Utd are talking to £8m-rated Brazilian right-back Cicinho, BBC Sport understands...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Impeachment case against Lula aide
Brazil's Congress starts impeachment proceedings against a former presidential aide accused of corruption...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Astronauts cheered in Houston
Discovery's astronauts arrived to a rousing celebration Wednesday as nearly 700 people crowded an airplane hangar, waving flags and holding signs that read: "Welcome Home, Astronauts!"...
CNN - August 11, 2005
U.S. 'Bonnie and Clyde' captured
Roughly 36 hours after police say a prisoner's wife opened fire on his guards -- killing one of them -- and sprang him from custody, law enforcement authorities have captured the couple at a hotel in Columbus, Ohio...
CNN - August 11, 2005
Iran warns over nuclear impasse
An Iranian official has warned European countries against "coercive" measures in the diplomatic standoff over its nuclear program as Tehran removed the U.N. watchdog agency's seals from its Isfahan nuclear processing facility...
CNN - August 11, 2005
Entrenched Epidemic: Wife-Beatings in Africa
In few places is the abuse of women by a male partner more entrenched, and accepted, than in sub-Saharan Africa...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Goldman Sachs Decides to Stay at Ground Zero
Goldman Sachs has agreed to build a $2 billion new headquarters across the street from the former World Trade Center site...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
States Opposing Plan to Shutter Air Guard Bases
The plan to close Air National Guard units would leave more than two dozen states without emergency aircraft, lawmakers say...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
TV Ad Attacking Court Nominee Provokes Furor
The ad focuses on an argument in an abortion-related case that John G. Roberts made to the Supreme Court in the 1990's...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Vioxx Research Defended in Trial
Merck & Company's head of clinical trials denied that the company skewed studies to make the multibillion-dollar drug Vioxx appear safer than it was...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Trying to Stay a Step Ahead of Murphy's Law
Specialists say that too many small businesses are courting ruin by failing to take precautions against fires, floods and the loss of data stored in computers...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
China Money-Trading Move Seen as a Sign of Flexibility
China's central bank decided to open up its foreign exchange market and provide some details of the basket of currencies used to manage the yuan...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Altering Alpha-Bits: Not as Simple as A B C
Constructing healthy food is no easy task. Most modern foods are tightly engineered products that can fall apart when ingredients are taken out or added. Tinkering with the formula can alter the taste, the texture, the look and the way the food feels in your mouth, what food scientists call mouthfeel...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Science's Quest to Banish Fat in Tasty Ways
With two-thirds of Americans overweight, food companies have commissioned their scientists to develop healthier products...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Report Details Some Failures That Hurt Krispy Kreme
A report from an internal investigation details accounting errors and failures in leadership at Krispy Kreme as the company was expanding and dazzling investors...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Court Delays S.E.C. on Mutual Fund Rules
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Texas Network Services Bill Approved
Over the objections of the cable TV industry, Texas lawmakers approved a measure that would make it easier for phone companies to offer cablelike services...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
A Buoyed Murdoch Blocks a Major Investor
Rupert Murdoch blocked John C. Malone's Liberty Media Corporation from buying more shares of Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Ex-WorldCom Controller Sentenced to One Year
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Unions Boycott Wal-Mart
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Whirlpool Increases Offer in the Battle for Maytag
Whirlpool sweetened its bid for Maytag yesterday to $1.68 billion as the takeover battle for the appliance maker continued to escalate...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Ex-Bayer Officers Indicted for Price Fixing
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (Reuters) - Two former executives of Bayer, the German drug and chemicals company, were indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of participating in a conspiracy to fix the prices of chemicals used in the rubber industry, the Justice Department said...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Bid for Collins & Aikman
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Federated Posts 90% Increase in Its Earnings
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Lazard's Profit Is a Penny Short of Estimates
Profit at the investment bank Lazard Ltd., which went public this spring, rose 29 percent in the second quarter as merger activity increased...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Treating a 'Problem' Stylishly
Kimberly-Clark is introducing the Poise Panty for incontinence with a $10 million ad campaign to appeal to women who would not consider buying Depends...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Global Steel Glut Trims Profit at Mittal
Mittal Steel reported a drop in profit, but the company predicted that the market would firm up by the end of the year...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Oil Price Touches $65; Gasoline Stockpiles Shrink
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Whirlpool Settles Claims
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (AP) - The Labor Department announced Wednesday that the Whirlpool Corporation had agreed to pay $850,000 to settle claims of hiring discrimination involving 800 black job applicants...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Hilfiger Investigation Stops With Agreement to Pay More Tax
The Tommy Hilfiger Corporation, whose commissions to its overseas subsidiaries have been under federal investigation for nearly a year, said yesterday that it had signed a nonprosecution agreement with the United States attorney's office and would not face criminal tax charges...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Where Neatness Truly Counts
Cintas Corporation, a uniform laundering and delivery company, takes its clean and orderly services beyond its uniforms...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Former F.C.C. Chief to Join Providence Equity
Michael K. Powell is joining a private equity firm that has built a $9 billion empire of holdings in media and telecommunications companies...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Foiled Bid Stirs Worry for U.S. Oil
Oil companies are worrying that they might suffer political retribution for the scuttling of Cnooc's bid to buy Unocal earlier this month...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Yahoo Expected to Announce Stake in Alibaba.com
Yahoo Inc. is expected to announce on Thursday that it will pay about $1 billion to acquire a large stake in Alibaba.com, China’s largest e-commerce company...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Deal Likely to Let KPMG Avoid Charge in Tax Case
Negotiations appear to have ruled out an indictment of KPMG, the accounting firm facing possible criminal charges for its role in questionable tax shelters...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
In a State Devoted to Autos, a Prayer to Take a New Road
A 71-year-old retired orthopedic surgeon recently came up with a prescription for Michigan and its auto industry. Prayer. On billboards...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Adding Social Norms to the Usual Methodology Mix
A RESTAURANT on Honolulu's main drag is soliciting new workers. "Looking for Aloha Spirited People," says the help-wanted sign in the window...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Delta to Use Bigger Planes for Shuttles
Passengers on the Delta Shuttle will notice a change beginning Nov. 1: a different kind of airplane...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
The Markets Start Quickly, Then Fall as Oil Prices Rise
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 11, 2005
Tennis: Agassi beats Bjorkman
Andre Agassi needs three sets to see off Jonas Bjorkman in the second round of the Montreal Masters...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
Bush signs $286bn transport bill
George W Bush approves a $286bn transport bill he says will boost the economy - though critics deride "waste"...
BBC News - August 11, 2005
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