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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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US News Archive for May 2008:
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Sprint Nextel Posts Loss and Offers Gloomy Outlook
The wireless carrier said that its lackluster performance would continue in the coming quarters as it fights to keep customers and struggles with a merger that has not lived up to its promise...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Coping With the Tall Traveler?s Curse
For the extra-tall business traveler, there are now some ways to find some relief, both in the air and on the ground...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Wachovia Subpoenaed Over Securities Auctions
The bank said that it was cooperating with inquiries into underwriting and sales of the securities that had been started by the Securities Exchange Commission and several state regulators...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
As Economy Slumps, Many Hispanics Lose Tenuous Grip on Prosperity
The economic downturn unfolding across the United States is imposing a particularly punishing toll on the nation?s Hispanics...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
DealBook: Clear Channel Settlement Is Said to Be Near
The private equity firms seeking to buy Clear Channel are close to settling with the banks financing the deal...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
The Lede: Frank Talk in the Saudi Desert
Why it might be dangerous to drive into the desert with a group of Saudi men...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Obama All but Says Clinton Will Win West Virginia
Senator Barack Obama acknowledged that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would probably win Tuesday?s Democratic primary in West Virginia...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Serbia Braces for Electoral Showdown
A pro-Western coalition said it won the election, but nationalist rival parties vowed to team up to block it from governing, and to form a government themselves...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Gates Foundation Names New Chief
A Microsoft executive has been named the new chief executive of the largest foundation in the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
City Room: Ask About Cycling in New York
Joshua Benson, the bicycle program coordinator for the New York Department of Transportation, is taking questions from City Room readers about cycling policy, bike lanes and traffic safety...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Hewlett-Packard Said to Be Close to Buying E.D.S.
The deal, for $12 billion to $13 billion, would be Hewlett-Packard?s largest since its merger with Compaq...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Sharif?s Party Leaves Cabinet in Pakistan
The move, in response to an impasse over Supreme Court judges, was a sign of the fragility of the new government...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Supreme Court Won?t Hear Apartheid Lawsuit
Four justices cited conflicts of interest in declining a case involving the bygone apartheid era in South Africa...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Cablevision in Deal to Buy Newsday
The $650 million deal with the Tribune Company will give Cablevision a 97 percent stake in Newsday and return the paper to Long Island ownership...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change
Senator John McCain called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Generation Faithful: Love on the Female Side of the Saudi Divide
Unmarried young women in Saudi Arabia are so isolated from boys and men that when they talk about them, it sometimes sounds as if they are discussing a different species...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
U.N. Leader Tells Myanmar to Hurry on Aid
The warning came as authorities raised the death toll to nearly 32,000 and let in the first large-scale aid delivery...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Cricket: Marlon Samuels guilty
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels is found guilty of breaching regulations after a probe into allegations of links with a bookmaker...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
Ex-Republican aims for president
Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr announces he wants to run for the White House for a third party...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
Venezuela takes over steel firm
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez nationalises the country's biggest steelmaker, Ternium-Sidor...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
Morales sets Bolivia recall date
Bolivian President Evo Morales sets 10 August for a vote on whether he should stay in office...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
That Pundit on Fox News? An Upstart Named Rove
The bête noire of Democrats has turned pundit, and his old nemeses do not always know what to make of it...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
DealBook: MBIA Posts $2.4 Billion Loss for 1st Quarter
The loss, amid a credit crisis that has roiled the subprime-based instruments that MBIA had insured, is a stark reversal from the $198.6 million it earned at the same time last year...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Sprint Nextel Widens Loss
The wireless carrier reported a first-quarter loss of $505 million as the company lost more than a million subscribers and absorbed charges for severance and other costs...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Stocks Gain as Oil Falls and Dollar Advances
The market?s concerns about rising inflation and its impact on consumer spending receded as oil prices fell after surging nearly $10 last week...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
G.M. Plans to Close Canadian Transmission Plant
News of the closing of the Windsor, Ontario, facility, which produces four-speed transmissions, comes as General Motors is shifting to more fuel efficient six-speed gearboxes...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
DealBook: Pearlstine Leaves Private Equity for Bloomberg
Norman Pearlstine, the former editor in chief of Time, announced that he is leaving Carlyle Group to become chief content officer at the privately held financial media group...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
The Lede: Text Messaging vs. Space Transmissions
Need another reason to get angry at your next cell phone bill?...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Sudan Arrests Islamist Leader
Sudanese officials accused Hassan Turabi of working with a Darfurian rebel force that staged a bold attack on Khartoum on Saturday...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Crews Search for Storm Survivors
Emergency crews began rescue operations on Monday in areas that were hit by violent storms that killed at least 23 people in Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
The Caucus: Obama?s Travel Plans
Looking for any more evidence that Barack Obama is shifting from the primary to the general election? Check out where Mr. Obama is planning to campaign over the next two weeks...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
City Room: Three Baby Hawks Believed Dead
Three babies born in recent weeks to two unnamed red-tailed hawks nesting in the south end of Riverside Park are believed to have died...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Cablevision Strikes Deal to Buy Newsday
The $650 million deal will give Cablevision a 97 percent stake and return the paper to Long Island ownership...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Dalai Lama Expects Talks With China to Resume
In an interview, the Dalai Lama said that it was too soon to say whether China was negotiating in good faith...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Sharif?s Party Quits Pakistan Cabinet
Ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that his party is withdrawing from Pakistan's federal Cabinet but will not join the parliamentary opposition...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
For HSBC, Asia Offsets Bad U.S. Loans
Europe?s biggest bank put aside $3.2 billion for bad loans in the United States in the first quarter, in line with its expectations...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
DealBook: Clear Channel Settlement Is Near
The private equity firms seeking to buy Clear Channel Communications are close to settling with the banks financing the deal, a person briefed on the negotiations said Monday...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Quake Kills Thousands in Western China
A powerful earthquake struck a mountainous region of western China, killing more than 8,500 people in a single county and trapping more than 900 students beneath a collapsed high school...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Cyclone Toll Raised to Nearly 32,000
Myanmar?s state media reported the higher death toll as a U.S. military aircraft was allowed to land with supplies...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Oil price resumes its record run
The oil price rises to a record high, picking up from last week when it set new records every day...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
More credit woe for bond insurer
US bond insurer MBIA posts a net loss of $2.4bn for the past three month period reflecting the credit market slump...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
Cable TV firm wins US newspaper
Cablevision buys US paper Newsday for $650m, after Rupert Murdoch's News Corp withdraws its bid...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
US court allows apartheid claims
The US Supreme Court says it cannot consider a lawsuit brought by apartheid victims against a number of firms...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
HSBC Says Quarterly Profit Up, but Bad Debts Jump
Europe?s biggest bank HSBC Holdings said its profit in the first quarter was ahead of a year earlier as growth in Asia and elsewhere helped counter another big hit for bad debts on U.S. home loans...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
First U.S. Aid Flight Arrives in Myanmar
The first American airlift of relief supplies landed in Myanmar as further reports emerged of a growing and gruesome catastrophe...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Powerful Earthquake Hits Western China
The quake disrupted telephone services, shook buildings for hundreds of miles and caused at least five deaths...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Apple lines up iPhone Asia deals
Apple signs deals with four Asia-Pacific mobile phone networks to offer the iPhone in their respective markets...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
Golf: Garcia wins in 'fifth major'
Sergio Garcia beats Paul Goydos at the first play-off hole to win the Players Championship at Sawgrass...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
McCain aides quit over Burma ties
Two aides to Republican John McCain resign over ties to lobbyists who represented Burma's military junta...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
The Media Equation: A Knock in the Night in Phoenix
The two principal owners of Village Voice Media have decided to match the legal aggression from local authorities in Arizona with some aggression of their own...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Drilling Down: Subtly but Visibly Swayed by Context
A study published recently in The Journal of Marketing Research looks at how subtle cues in our environments affect our product choices...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Looking Ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
The highlight for economic news this week will be the Consumer Price Index for April, on Wednesday...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Accounts, People, Miscellany
News about advertising...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Playboy Has a Losing Quarter, and Its Chief Talks of Media Transformation
Playboy Enterprises reported that it had lost money in the first quarter of 2008, making it another casualty of the economic downturn and the squeeze between old media and new media...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Drug Promises to Restore Sensation After Dental Visit
A small drug company said it won approval Friday from the Food and Drug Administration to market the first drug meant to undo the effects of local dental anesthesia...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
GodTube, Where Networking Is More Spiritual Than Social
GodTube.com, a YouTube knockoff for the evangelical set, is a success with users and with investors as well...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Production of a Movie Stops Over Funds to Pay Its Stars
Production was halted after producers of the film failed to keep sufficient funds to pay actors in a union-mandated account...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Fox Business Refines Lineup in Daytime
Changes to the lineup of the network, which was introduced in October, will affect almost every daytime hour...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Planning a Web Site, Publisher Buys a Harvard Alumni Magazine
Plans for 02138, a magazine for Harvard alumni, include expanding it into social networking and event sponsorship, and then duplicating the operation for each Ivy League school...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
The United States Open Changes Its Cable Home
ESPN and the Tennis Channel will start televising the United States Open starting next year through 2014...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Citi?s New Slogan Is Said to Be Second Choice
Replacing a tagline that fizzled last year, Citigroup?s new slogan, ?Citi Never sleeps?, had previously been scratched...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
PBS Revives a Show That Shines a Light on Reading
The 2009 version of ?The Electric Company? is a weekly, more danceable version of its former daily self...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Deutsche Telekom May Gain Control of Greek Company
The purchase of a large stake of Greece?s former phone monopoly would give Deutsche Telekom access to Europe?s fastest-growing telecommunications market: the Balkans...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Advertising: Marketers Welcome Television?s Shift to a 52-Week Season
The writers? strike this TV season was only the catalyst of the change to upfront week, when networks offer springtime previews of prime-time programs for the coming fall...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
E-Commerce Report: Real Estate Lists Grow Comfortable With the Web
The triple threat of a weak market, legal pressure and increasing competition has compelled real estate professionals to offer their information more freely online...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
McCain?s TV Preferences Emerge: Office Farce, Not Soap
Presidential candidates long ago learned the power of pop culture, but this year they seem to be leaning particularly hard on it...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
It?s Official: Jimmy Fallon Is Next for ?Late Night?
Jimmy Fallon, the former cast member of ?Saturday Night Live,? is to be named the host of NBC?s ?Late Night? talk show...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time?
The missing six million viewers who were watching prime television last May and have disappeared this year are still watching, but on their own terms...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Craig (of the List) Looks Beyond the Web
In the face of the expansion of the classified ads Web site Craigslist, its founder, Craig Newman, is capitalizing on his success to promote causes he holds dear...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Police in Gun Searches Face Disbelief in Court
Federal weapons charges were dismissed in a number of cases in New York City after judges found police officers? testimony to be unreliable, inconsistent or just plain false...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
More Than 20 Are Killed in Storms
Tornadoes and severe storms cut a swath of damage across Missouri, Oklahoma and central Georgia...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Tilt to West Is Seen in Elections in Serbia
The parliamentary elections were viewed as a referendum on if Serbia would turn toward the West or revert to the nationalism and isolation of the Slobodan Milosevic years...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Cablevision Offer Baffles Wall Street (Again)
Wall Street is skeptical about why Cablevision wants to buy Newsday. But a deal is said to be imminent...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Long and Bumpy Journey in Search of a Triple Crown
Big Brown, winner of this year?s Kentucky Derby, is perfect. The colt?s trainer, Rick Dutrow, once a drug-addled horseman, admittedly is not...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Drive in Basra by Iraqi Army Makes Gains
Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
State Programs Add Safety Net for the Poorest
Arkansas and at least a dozen other states are giving monthly payments to thousands of low-income workers in hopes of keeping them off the welfare rolls...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
When Burmese Offer a Hand, Rulers Slap It
The politics of food aid is not just confined to the dispute between Myanmar?s military junta and relief agencies, but extends to citizens who want to make donations...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship
Supporters of a measure in Missouri cite concerns about illegal immigrants voting, but critics say tens of thousands of legal residents could be disenfranchised...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
The Pundit Analyzing Obama? Some TV Upstart Named Rove
The bête noire of the Democrats has turned pundit, and his old nemeses do not always know what to make of it...
New York Times - May 12, 2008
Hacker leaks 6m Chileans' records
A computer hacker in Chile posts confidential data belonging to six million people on the internet...
BBC News - May 12, 2008
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