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NASA presses ahead for Mars rover launch in 2009
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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American space tourist blasts off in Soyuz rocket
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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US game designer blasts into space with DNA cargo
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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Bombers strike in Mosul and Baghdad, killing 13
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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Car bombings in Mosul and Baghdad kill 13
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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Italian woman in right-to-die case worsens
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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Official 3,000 Christians flee Iraqs Mosul
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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Kashmir shuts down in protest as Indian PM visits
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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Pope creates 4 new saints, including Indian woman
Southern Ledger - October 13, 2008
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US News Archive for December 2007:
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The Lede Blog: Human-Monkey Competition
Are you smarter than a monkey? Maybe not -- but you know more than you think...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
City Room: Wal-Mart to Investigate Supplier
Christmas ornaments being sold in Wal-Mart this season were made by Chinese teenagers working at below the legal minimum wage, according to a report by the National Labor Committee...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
TierneyLab: More on the Heterosexuality Switch
The post about using a drug to changing the sexual orientation of fruit flies ? and some day, perhaps, of humans ? generated lots of indignant reactions and questions about the research. I asked David Featherstone, one of the authors of the paper in Nature Neuroscience, to respond to Lab readers. Here's what Dr. [...]...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Wheels Blog: Significance of Romney?s Rambler
In the 1950s and '60s, the Nash Rambler was a small econocar, in comparison to the cruisers and bruisers produced by the Big Three. They've even been called the first compact cars...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
City Room: MTV Responds to Freelance Outcry
MTV announced some changes to health benefit options for freelance workers and said it would consider making some of the workers permanent, in response to a public outcry...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
3 Primary Sources for Steroid Report
The report is expected to be sharply critical of both Major League Baseball and the players? union...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Bush Vetoes Children?s Health Bill
The step would effectively kill Democrats? hopes of expanding a popular government program aimed at providing insurance to youngsters in lower-income and middle-income families...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Ike Turner, Musician, Dies at 76
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Ike Turner, whose role as one of rock's critical architects was overshadowed by his ogrelike image as the man who brutally abused former wife Tina Turner, died Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego. He was 76...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Republican Debate
The Republican candidates faced off in Iowa for the final debate before the caucuses...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
in the hunt: An Enthusiast Entrepreneur Kicks Off a T-Shirt Business
Many people start businesses, but a majority of them fail in the first two years. Tina Ericson hopes to be an exception...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Small Businesses Oppose Mandated Health Benefits
The small business lobbying group that had a big part in derailing Hillary Clinton?s effort to overhaul health care in the early 1990?s has staked out its position for the 2008 political season...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Canadian Government Seeks to Reopen Medical Reactor
Overriding the safety concerns of its regulator, the Canadian government is rushing through legislation to reopen a reactor that produces most of the world?s supply of a diagnostic isotope...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
DealBook Blog: Sallie Mae Says Buyers Have Walked Away
The parent company of Sallie Mae, the student lender, cut its profit forecast for 2008 and said that its offer to create a new deal with a group of investors was rejected...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Judge Backs California Rules on Greenhouse Gases
A judge upheld a law regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles in another legal defeat for the car industry...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Fed Leads Drive to Strengthen Bank System
A new move is the most aggressive infusion of capital into the banking system since the terrorist attacks of September 2001...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Stocks Erase Sharp Gains Sparked by Fed
Stocks gave up sharp gains after initially upbeat investors turned cool to the Federal Reserve plan to work with other central banks to alleviate the credit crisis...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
CIA head testifies on wiped tapes
CIA head Michael Hayden is questioned by Congress over the destruction of tapes showing interrogations...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
US soul musician Ike Turner dies
US soul legend Ike Turner, former husband and musical partner of Tina Turner, dies at the age of 76...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
The Lede Blog: A Pirate-Free Moment Off Somalia
With the release of a bulk-chemical tanker after a six-week standoff, the Navy says there are now no hijacked ships being held along the Somalian coast, for the first time in a year...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Carpetbagger Blog: Carpetbagger: First Crack as Oscar Predictions
A first shot at predicting this year's winners of the Golden Guy...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
DealBook Blog: DealBook: Grim View From Bank of America Chief
Kenneth Lewis says Bank of America's fourth quarter is going to be grim. How grim? Well, he isn't talking specifics, but he did say at a Goldman Sachs conference early Wednesday that "you can certainly assume results will again be disappointing." He also expects the bank to take bigger write-downs on collateralized loan obligations than the [...]...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
City Room: City Room: Answers About Ethnic Neighborhoods
A first set of answers from Joseph Berger, an education and regional columnist for The Times, who is taking questions from readers about New York City's immigrant neighborhoods on City Room this week...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Focus at Climate Talks Shifts
With little progress on the primary goal of United Nations climate talks a secondary quest to help poor countries cope with global warming has now become a central theme of the gathering...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Tally in Algiers Attacks Uncertain
Rubble from twin car bombs was still being cleared on Wednesday, as the official death toll rose to 31...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
4 Killed in New Jersey Fire
A ferocious fire swept through a two-story house in New Jersey early Wednesday morning, killing four people from three generations of a family...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Marion Jones Stripped of 5 Medals
The International Olympic Committee formally wiped clean the record books and barred Marion Jones from participating in the Beijing Olympics in any capacity...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Many Still Without Power After Storm
Close to a million homes and businesses in the nation?s midsection remained without power as another winter storm developed...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Steroid Report Expected to Cite About 50 Players
George J. Mitchell?s report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball will be made public on Thursday...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
U.S. Officials Press China on Economic Issues
Visiting U.S. economic officials led by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had a day of meetings with their Chinese counterparts aimed at easing economic tensions...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
U.S. Trade Deficit Hits Highest Level in 3 Months
The government reported today that the deficit for October increased to $57.8 billion as record oil prices and a flood of imports from China swamped another solid gain in U.S. exports...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Banks See Bigger Loan Losses
Wachovia doubled its estimate of loan loss provisions to about $1 billion for the fourth quarter, while the chief of Bank of America said he expects credit market turbulence to extend into 2008...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Sallie Slashes 2008 Profit Forecast
The company also said it failed to renegotiate a buyout with an investor group that balked several months ago at its original $25 billion cash offer for the nation?s largest student lender...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Stock Prices Surge on New Fed Plan
Investors upset by the Fed?s quarter-point rate cut Tuesday were relieved by the central banks? commitment to help the economy weather the credit and mortgage crisis...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Fed Joins Other Banks to Add Cash
Stocks jumped after central banks in Europe and North America moved to increase the amount of money they could lend to banks in an attempt to ease credit fears...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Oil price raises US trade deficit
Trade data shows that rising prices for imported oil widened the US trade deficit in October...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
Jones stripped of Olympic medals
The IOC strips sprinter Marion Jones of her five Sydney 2000 Olympics medals after she admitted taking banned substances...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
Emerging giants in telecom boom
Brazil, India, China and Russia are driving global telecoms growth, a report by UK watchdog Ofcom suggests...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
US anthem to play in N Korea
New York's Philharmonic Orchestra will play the US anthem at next year's historic concert in North Korea...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
US church gunman killed himself
A man who killed four at US religious sites killed himself, but a guard is still credited with stopping his spree...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
At Bronx Court, Elevator Woes Slow Justice
Sometimes people wait for hours to get onto a working elevator and up to court, only to find their hearings have been rescheduled because they did not show up on time...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Cover Story: The Huckabee Factor
How a former governor with no money, no organization and no real policy platform or international know-how ? but with lots of religious faith, populist sentiment and folksy friendliness ? has changed the dynamics of the Republican presidential race...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Sony Chief Executive Says Company is Back on Track
Sony?s chief executive, Howard Stringer, said the electronics and entertainment company has recovered from its past financial problems...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Some Used Football Helmets Under Scrutiny
More than 200,000 amateur football players in the United States wore used helmets this fall that were returned to the field without proper testing...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
US and China clash on currencies
The US and China both criticise the value of each other's currencies at their economic summit...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
Xstrata admits tie-up talks held
Swiss mining group Xstrata confirms that it has held merger talks but has not reached any agreements...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
Canada MPs to end isotope crisis
Canadian MPs pass an emergency bill to reopen a nuclear reactor that supplies medical isotopes worldwide...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
Guatemala tightens adoption rules
Guatemala's Congress passes a new law that it hopes will tighten adoption rules in the country...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
Congressional Memo: Muscle Flexing in Senate: G.O.P. Defends Strategy
Republicans are playing such tight defense in the Senate, blocking nearly every bill proposed by the Democratic majority, that they are increasingly able to dictate what they want...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
About New York: After Arrests, Drug Evidence Goes Missing
Whether lost, stolen or thrown away, there is no record of what happened to drugs seized in 43 Brooklyn arrests...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Feeling Heat, Clinton Tries Iowa Up Close
Nowhere are Hillary Rodham Clinton?s problems on display more than in Iowa...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Humane Society Traces Expensive Pups to Pet Mills
An investigation into the chain of supply for the expensive dogs that can be found along the streets of Beverly Hills found that many come from breeding operations with a reputation for abuse...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Retroactively, Panel Reduces Drug Sentences
The U.S. Sentencing Commission?s decision to lighten punishments for some crimes related to crack cocaine could eventually affect about 19,500 inmates...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
H&R Block Posts Bigger Loss Than Expected
The nation?s No. 1 U.S. tax preparer was hurt in the last year by exposure to problems in the subprime mortgage industry...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Martha Stewart Living to Curtail Its Blueprint Magazine
The company said that job cuts would be associated with the decision but that some people would be reassigned to existing businesses and new projects...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Class-Action Bias Suit Against Wal-Mart Reaffirmed
Wal-Mart Stores failed in its attempt to head off the biggest sexual discrimination case in United States history Tuesday when an appeals court allowed the case to remain a class-action lawsuit...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
AT&T Raises Its Dividend by 12.7%
The telecommunications company announced on Tuesday a share buyback program worth nearly $16 billion and its biggest-ever dividend increase...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Kroger?s Profit Rises 18%
The company increased its earnings forecast slightly for the full year, but the new guidance was still below Wall Street?s expectations...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Yahoo Deal Adds Content From CNBC
Yahoo Finance, the most popular business news Web site, will begin distributing content from the business news channel CNBC on Wednesday...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Sony Says U.S. Electronics Sales Holding Up
Citing good Black Friday sales, Sony?s chief executive said the company?s consumer electronics business is on track to hit a 5 percent operating margin for the year ending March 31, 2008...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Square Feet: Putting Stadium Site to Full-Time Use
The home of the New England Patriots will soon include a vast real estate development on about 350 acres in Foxborough, Mass...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Square Feet: Betting That a Suburb Wants a Taste of the City
One of the Chicago area?s richest men is making an ambitious attempt to gain a foothold in the world of commercial real estate by building a large development outside of Chicago...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Penthouse Buys Group of Social-Networking Sites
The Penthouse Media Group remains so bullish on the sex-related entertainment industry, the company is investing $500 million in a group of social networking sites...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
S.E.C. Fraud Suit Names San Diego Auditor
The step reflected the agency?s concern about the quality of the information that governments provide to municipal bond markets...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Inflation Picks Up in China; Trade Gap Grows
Rising costs for food and fuel together with government currency policies are sending prices up briskly across Asia...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Agreement With China to Regulate Some Drugs
American and Chinese regulators signed an accord on Tuesday to strengthen regulation of drugs and medical devices exported to the United States...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Student Lender to Stop Using College and Team Names in Marketing
A student lender that paid students for referring classmates for loans and paid to use universities? names on ads has agreed to stop these practices, said the New York attorney general...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
For Casino Owner, Winning a License Was Not a Matter of Luck
Don H. Barden, a soft-spoken, sometimes prickly Horatio Alger figure, beat out two of the major companies in the gambling industry to win Pittsburgh?s only casino license...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Market Place: Bankers Face Grim Truth: Worst Is Yet to Come
Beginning on Thursday, major investment banks and securities firms will begin reporting what are likely to be their weakest quarterly earnings in years...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Shares Fall on a Rate Cut Considered a Disappointment to Fed Watchers
Stocks fell sharply and investors rushed to the safety of Treasuries after the Fed announced that it had made only a quarter-point cut in the rate that financial firms pay to borrow from the central bank...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Trial Witness Said to Cast Doubt on Part of Testimony
A principal witness in the stock-options backdating trial that ended in a conviction of Brocade?s chief executive, Gregory L. Reyes, has told associates that her testimony may have been untrue...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Advertising: Strike Touches a Ritual for Wooing
Unless something happens quickly to restart talks between producers and the Writers Guild of America, the May network upfront presentation is likely to fold its tent...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Economic Scene: The Capital of Slumping Home Sales
The standoff between buyers and sellers in Paramount, Calif., helps explain why we?re still a long way from the bottom of the real estate cycle...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
S.E.C. Planning to Delay Accounting Rules for Small Companies
The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to delay for another year the requirement that small companies report on the state of their internal financial controls...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Dreamliner Is Expected to Meet Its Revised 2008 Deadline
The company said it expected to deliver the first 787 in November or December 2008 after improving supply-chain problems that had led to a six-month delay...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Chief Says G.E. Profit Will Grow 10% or More
To hear Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric?s chief executive, tell it, his company is having a great 2007 and faces a very nice 2008. Yet investors are skeptical...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Trial of Cholesterol Drug Gets House Scrutiny
A Congressional committee is investigating Merck and Schering-Plough for their handling of a critical clinical trial of Zetia, their blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Another Study Finds Heart Risks in a Diabetes Drug
An independent analysis of thousands of older people with diabetes found that those treated with the widely used drug Avandia had significantly elevated risks of heart attack and death...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Suspicions in U.S. That China Has Put Ban on Hollywood Films
China has stopped granting permission for American films to be shown in its theaters in an apparent trade dispute, according to several Hollywood executives and United States government officials...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Hong Kong Exchange Looks to Trade Smog Rights
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is considering using its financial muscle as part of a solution to the daily cloud of noxious fumes from local traffic and nearby factories...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Wary of Protests, Exxon Plans Natural Gas Terminal in the Atlantic
The company aid Tuesday that it would like to build a $1 billion floating terminal for liquefied natural gas about 20 miles off the coast of New Jersey...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
China Agrees to Post U.S. Safety Officials in Its Food Factories
The agreement came on a day when Chinese and American representatives exchanged heated words over recent trade disputes, according to American officials...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Remaking the Journal
Rupert Murdoch won?t officially buy Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, until Thursday. But his influence is already apparent...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Recent Arrival at Citi Now Runs It
Vikram S. Pandit confronts the daunting task of shoring up the company, which has been brought to its knees by the mortgage crisis...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Credit Crisis Prompts Fed to Roll Back Rates Again
In announcing the cut, the Federal Reserve signaled its concern that the credit crisis may be damaging the broader economy. The Dow fell nearly 300 points...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Seeking Leaders, U.S. Companies Think Globally
The corner offices of corporate America?s largest companies are increasingly being filled from every corner of the world...
New York Times - December 12, 2007
Mexican 'cannibal' kills himself
A Mexican accused of murdering his girlfriend and eating her body parts is found dead in his prison cell...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
Citigroup names new boss
Citigroup names the head of its investment banking business, Vikrum Pandit, to be its new chief executive...
BBC News - December 12, 2007
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