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Frozen yogurt war de-thaws, tart new brands hit US
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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25 bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Displaced Georgians look to US for hope, aid
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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26 dead as Philippine troops flush out rebels
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines peace in tatters after rebel attack
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for April 2008:
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First Quarter Profit Fell 79% at Bear Stearns
Earnings for the quarter showed that the bank was able to stay profitable even as the tight credit market worsened. Yet the results were just shy of Wall Street?s projections...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Familiar Worries Push Oil Prices Higher
Crude oil futures in New York settled up $1.62 at $111.76 a barrel, bolstered by the weaker dollar and supply disruptions ahead of the summer gasoline season...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
U.S. to Release A.P. Photographer Jailed in Iraq
Bilal Hussein has been jailed in Iraq by the U.S. military for two years on accusations of terrorism and kidnapping...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
The Last Frontier of Flying
Alaska covers 656,425 square miles, but has only about 14,368 miles of road. That leaves only one option for business travelers: bush pilots...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Hollywood and Silicon Valley Try Again to Bridge Their Divide
Only 350 miles separate the two California business cultures, but executives are once more trying to bridge the gap between technology and entertainment...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Nissan and Chrysler to Make Vehicles for Each Other
The Nissan Motor Company said that it would make a new small car designed by a rival Chrysler and that Chrysler would make a full-size pickup truck designed by Nissan...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Top Hard-Drive Maker Files Suit Against Rival
Seagate Technology made a pre-emptive strike against STEC, an emerging competitor, claiming that the latter?s solid-state drive products violate four Seagate patents...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Advertising: Ad Disputes Are a Part of the Campaign at Ryanair
The European airline, which has a history of provocative marketing stunts, has drawn some unwanted attention lately ? from a French court and the British advertising watchdog...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
New Ways to Store Solar Energy for Nighttime and Cloudy Days
Solar thermal systems are built to gather heat from the sun and then store the heat for hours or even days, like water behind a dam...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Blockbuster Takes Bid for Circuit City to Shareholders
Blockbuster said it will take its unsolicited bid for Circuit City directly to its shareholders, saying the electronics retailer has not responded to repeated offers...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
City Room: Ask About Brooklyn Architecture
Diana Lind, the author of the book ?Brooklyn Modern,? will be answering readers? questions this week on residential architecture and design in Brooklyn...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
The Lede: Costs of the Knicks? Losing Season
The basketball squad's downfall, in financial terms and moral, courtesy of Tom Brokaw...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Baghdad Bureau: Keep Reporting? Or Stop?
Khalid al-Ansary has worked for The New York Times. For me, even now I can?t figure out whether the change in my life after the fall of Saddam Hussein?s regime was for better or worse. I come from a middle-class family which spent a lot of money on my education. I never thought that one day [...]...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
The Caucus: Grazie Mille, Obama
Silvio Berlusconi appears to take a page from Barack Obama, but his opponent is the one who knows the senator...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Dot Earth: Bush Appears to Seek Warming Legacy
Both at home and overseas, there are signs that the White House is aiming to repair its legacy on the issue of climate change...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Two Journalists Are Released in Iraq
Two journalists, one the victim of a kidnapping, the other held by American forces, won their liberty on Monday...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
J.K. Rowling, in Court, Assails Potter Lexicon
The author testified in a Manhattan courtroom against a fan accused of stealing her work in a reference guide...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Construction Halted Ahead of Games
Chinese officials laid out a sweeping series of measures intended to clear the air for the Olympics this summer...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Berlusconi Snatches Back Power in Italy
The billionaire Silvio Berlusconi?s center-right coalition won a convincing majority in both houses of Parliament...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic?s Doom
A team of scientists has uncovered new evidence that the ship?s builder used substandard rivets and rushed the project...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Abroad: A Lowbrow in High Office Ruffles France
President Nicolas Sarkozy?s fondness for showbiz pals, his marriage to the Italian model-turned-singer Carla Bruni and the appointment of a culture minister, Christine Albanel, who is intelligent but widely regarded as weak, have combined to produce something of a culture shock...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Bear Stearns profits down 79%
Beleaguered US bank Bear Stearns reveals that its net profit fell 79% in the three months until 29 February...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Philips Profit Down Sharply as TV Sales Lag
The Dutch company said falling television sales in North America offset growth in its health care and lighting industries during the first quarter...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Bayou Founder Gets 20 Years for Bilking Investors
Samuel Israel III, the founder of the hedge fund Bayou Group, was sentenced for his role in a scheme that cheated investors out of more than $400 million...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Blockbuster Bids $1 Billion for Circuit City
Blockbuster said it will take its unsolicited bid for Circuit City directly to its shareholders, saying the electronics retailer has not responded to repeated offers...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
General Re Chief Executive Resigns
Joseph P. Brandon, the chairman and chief executive of the insurance company, resigned under pressure on Monday. The company said its president, Franklin Montross, will succeed Mr. Brandon...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
March Retail Sales Up 0.2% on Gasoline Sales
Excluding gasoline sales, retail sales were flat last month, evidence that consumers are wary about spending in an economy that appears to be contracting...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Stocks Fluctuate Amid Earnings Worries
Wall Street wavered as investors grappled with concerns about companies? earnings power after Wachovia and Philips posted disappointing quarterly results...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
The Caucus: Obama Remark ?Elitist,? McCain Says
John McCain took his own swipe at Barack Obama at a newspaper conference in Washington...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
The Lede: Russia?s New Leader Is an Internet Fan
Dmitri A. Medvedev, one of the world?s more tech-savvy leaders?...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Wachovia to Raise Capital After Loss
The bank, hit by mounting housing losses and an ill-timed acquisition of a big California mortgage lender, said it would raise the capital through a stock sale...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
CBS Journalist Freed in Iraqi Raid
The journalist, Richard Butler, was kidnapped in February in the southern Iraqi city of Basra...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
City Room: Worker Dies in Upper East Side Fall
A worker who was installing windows in a condominium building under construction at 400 East 67th Street, near First Avenue, fell to his death around 10:30 a.m. Monday...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Justices Decline ?Zoloft Defense? Case
The Supreme Court declined to review the sentence of a South Carolina teen-ager whose lawyers blamed the antidepressant in his killing of his grandparents...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Beijing Stops Construction for Olympics
Chinese officials laid out a sweeping series of measures intended to clear the air for the Olympics this summer...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
City Room: Closing Arguments Begin in Bell Trial
Lawyers for two detectives on trial in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell gave closing arguments in a Queens courtroom...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Co-Payments Soar for Drugs With High Prices
Health insurance companies are now asking patients to pay more for prescriptions that may save their lives...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Zimbabwe Court Refuses to Release Vote Results
The ruling was a rebuff to the opposition party, which had demanded that the results of the presidential election held two weeks ago be released immediately...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
US sees retail sales climb 0.2%
US retail sales have climbed by 0.2% in March, beating analysts' expectations, official figures show...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Lonely Planet rebuts 'fake' claim
Guidebook publisher Lonely Planet defends its methods after reports say a former writer made up sections...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Bush angered over Colombian deal
A free trade deal between the US and Colombia will be "dead" unless Congress takes action, President Bush warns...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Wachovia to Raise $7 Billion of Capital
Wachovia on Monday set plans to raise $7 billion of capital, after posting a surprise first-quarter loss...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
DealBook: Wachovia to Raise $7 Billion After Loss
The Wachovia Corporation, the country?s fourth largest bank, will raise $7 billion by selling stock and will cut its dividend by 41 percent as it announced a $350 million loss for its first quarter. Wachovia's move was prompted by mounting housing losses and an ill-timed acquisition of big California mortgage lender Golden West Financial. "I'm deeply [...]...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
West Side Redevelopment Plans in Disarray
The economic downturn, logistical problems and, critics say, design flaws have dimmed prospects for the plan...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Beijing to Close Factories for Olympics
BEIJING (AP) -- The Beijing city government has announced a sweeping plan to stop construction and close heavy industry to improve air quality ahead of the Olympics...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Uncertain Church Awaits Pope in U.S.
Pope Benedict XVI t will find that many Catholics are looking for acknowledgment that their church is going through a time of pain...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Wachovia stung by credit losses
US bank Wachovia slumps to a quarterly loss and writes down the value of its mortgage assets by $2bn...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Colombia's lethal legacy
The assassination of a prominent Colombian politician on 9 April 1948 still resonates in the country, writes Henry Mance...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Delta and Northwest deal 'soon'
Delta Air Lines and Northwest could seal a deal imminently, to create the world's largest airline, say reports...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Football: Inter chase Ronaldinho
Inter Milan are considering trying to hijack AC Milan's pursuit of Barcelona forward Ronaldinho...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Rowling to testify in Potter case
JK Rowling is to testify in a New York court over plans to publish an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
Looking Ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
ECONOMIC REPORTS It is a big week for economic news, led Wednesday by the Consumer Price Index for March and the Federal Reserve?s beige book report. They should give a snapshot of economic growth versus inflation...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
The Media Equation: Dirty Job, but Someone Has to Do It
The Smoking Gun, the Web site that specializes in ferreting out embarrassing legal documents, is a happy byproduct of the digital revolution...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
NBC Tests Family Hour Boundaries
It was almost as if the NBC comedy writers had decided to test the limits of prime time taste just as the network unveiled a family-friendly philosophy of scheduling...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Drilling Down: Even Credit Card Offers Are Ebbing
A market research firm has found that banks in February sent out fewer direct mail credit card offer than in any month since April 2004...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Expecting Jabs, Tribune Decides to Mock Itself
Last week, the Tribune Company took an unorthodox approach to announcing a new top hire at the company, in a release that said, ?this whole thing is a sham.?...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Study Says I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Has Plummeted
The I.R.S.?s scrutiny of the nation?s biggest companies is at a 20-year low, ?a historic collapse in audits,? according to a new study...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Bond Trader to Sell Rare Stamps for Charity
It is the second time that Bill Gross, the billionaire bond trader who has also acquired a reputation as a shrewd trader of rare stamps, will auction some of his collection for charity...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
A Bumper Crop of Bureaucracy
When Salim B. Lewis and his wife began building three suburban-style homes for the workers on their farm, they didn?t realize they were wading into a regulatory brawl...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
West Side Redevelopment Plans Appear in Disarray
Problems in developing the Far West Side have been a disappointment for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, whose aides predict that many of the projects will still go forward...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
In Europe, a Push to Take Away Piracy Suspects? Internet Access
Resistance is building against a plan to use internet service providers as copyright cops against users illegally downloading copyrighted material, possible disconnection from services being at stake...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
A Funnier-Than-Usual Journal Gets Snapped Up Early
A satire of The Wall Street Journal is selling mysteriously well, a few days before its sales release date...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure
Even as the outlook for a former Silicon Valley executive stricken with a brain-wasting disorder is not encouraging, a campaign on his behalf is hoping to make a difference in other areas...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Singing McCain?s Praises, or Joking?
For a while, it was not clear whether the videos of the ?McCain Girls,? a trio of singing and dancing campaign supporters, were meant to be sincere or ironic...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Advertising: Tibet Backers Show China Value of P.R.
With the Olympics in mind, China has been exploring American-style public relations approaches...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Link By Link: He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
A professor has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a given subject, turn them into into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Google and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft
The two companies are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in an effort to accelerate their sales of customer management and office software to businesses...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
E-Commerce: Beaming Online Services Toward Blacks
A new search engine, Rushmore Drive, is going after the dominance of Google by offering search results targeted to ethnic groups...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Off New York Streets, Film Piracy Is Online
While bootlegged DVDs are harder to find on the streets of New York, worldwide and on the Internet, video piracy remains rampant...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Rowling to Testify in Trial Over Potter Lexicon
J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is expected to testify against a small publisher looking to bring out an encyclopedia based on her work...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
At CBS, Bad News Doesn?t End at 7
No new hit has emerged this year in the network?s prime-time schedule, which makes CBS likely to lose the crown of most-watched network to the Fox network...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Wachovia Is Said to Raise Billions Amid Credit Losses
The bank is said to be raising several billion dollars from outside investors because of mounting housing losses and an ill-timed acquisition of a big California mortgage lender...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Apollo Struggles to Keep Debt From Sinking Linens ?n Things
A bankruptcy filing would be one of the largest since the economy began to weaken and could presage a long-awaited shake-up among companies bought by private equity firms in the last three years...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Finance Ministers Emphasize Food Crisis Over Credit Crisis
The world?s economic ministers declared on Sunday that shortages and skyrocketing prices for food posed a potentially greater threat to economic and political stability than the turmoil in capital markets...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Airline Says Fleet Is Back in Service
American Airlines said that its fleet of 300 MD-80 jets was back to full strength, after the cancellation of about 3,300 flights last week...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Cairo Journal: A City Where You Can?t Hear Yourself Scream
Noise is the unnerving backdrop to a tense time in Egypt, as inflation and low wages have people worried about basic survival, prompting strikes and protests...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
The Masters: Immelman Survives Pressure to Win Masters
Trevor Immelman of South Africa won the 72nd Masters tournament on Sunday, a triumph of will by the tough 28-year-old golfer over a demanding golf course...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending
Who said anything about a recession? Many businesses that cater to the superrich report that clients are still splurging...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Iraq Dismisses 1,300 After Basra Offensive
The dismissals of soldiers and policemen for refusing to fight or performing badly during the offensive in Basra were an implicit admission of failures...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Delta-Northwest Merger Talks Pick Up Pace Again
The two companies have seemed on the verge of announcing a deal several times in recent months only to back away from a merger...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe
From Ireland to India, housing markets that soared over the last decade are falling back to earth...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Music Review | 'Satyagraha': Fanciful Visions on the Mahatma?s Road to Truth and Simplicity
This is a fitting time to revisit Philip Glass?s opera ?Satyagraha,? a landmark work of Minimalism...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Democrats Wrangle Over Words and Beliefs
A forum devoted to issues of faith and justice became another occasion for sparring by Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Union Killings Peril Trade Pact With Colombia
A surge in killings of labor union members in Colombia is emerging as an issue in the battle over a trade deal...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
N.H.L. Playoffs | Devils 4, Rangers 3, O.T.: Madden?s Bank Shot in Overtime Beats Rangers
John Madden scored 5:01 into the first overtime, banking in a shot of the skate of Rangers defenseman Marc Staal and past Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist to put the Devils back in the series...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Co-Payments Go Way Up for Drugs With High Prices
Health insurance companies are now asking patients to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for prescriptions that may save their lives...
New York Times - April 14, 2008
Ecuador bus crash Britons moved
The 12 Britons injured in a bus crash in Ecuador in which five UK tourists died are taken to Quito for treatment...
BBC News - April 14, 2008
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