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US News Archive for January 2007:
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Hussein half-brother buried
The bodies of Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the former regime's chief judge have been buried near the dictator's grave. The burials followed their executions Monday...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Kidnapped boy tries to reconnect with past
As questions mounted about his abduction lasted more than four years, Sean Hornbeck, 15, spent the day with relatives -- including some born since he disappeared. "He's been very busy trying to reunite with his family and friends," Washington County Sheriff Kevin Schroeder said...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Warning Issued on Sensors Tracking Climate
The nation?s ability to monitor the earth by satellites is being put at risk by faltering efforts to replace aging sensors, a science advisory group warned today...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Somalia Makes Moves to Crush Insurgency
Somalia?s government shut down three radio stations as government soldiers stormed into the streets...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Tributes Paid to Memory of King and His Wife
ATLANTA, Jan. 15 ? Politicians, religious leaders and relatives of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gathered today in the tiny chapel that was his spiritual home to celebrate his birthday, but for the first time, they did so without the presence of his widow, Coretta Scott King, who died last year at age 78...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Giants Promote Reese to Be General Manager
The move signifies a remarkable climb for Jerry Reese, who joined the Giants in December 1994 as a scout...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
U.S. and South Korea Resume Trade Talks
Trade experts say that while there is increasing skepticism that the agreement can be completed before President Bush?s ?fast track? authority expires...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
At Summit, Asian Nations Sign Energy Accord
The accord is meant to reduce the region?s dependence on fossil fuels and promote the use of alternative energy sources...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
G.E. Buying a British Aerospace Company
General Electric said that it would pay $4.8 billion in cash for Smiths Aerospace, the cockpit electronics arm of the London conglomerate Smiths Group...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Blazing a Paper Trail in China
Zhang Yin, who may be the richest self-made woman in the world, built her fortune on recycled cardboard...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
US presidential no-hopers
What motivates long-shot presidential candidates to go through the rigours of a campaign?...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
Hopes fade for Sao Paulo victims
Two people are confirmed dead and hope fades for five others feared buried in a metro station collapse in Brazil...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
Report set to criticise BP safety
BP's safety record at its US oil refineries is expected to come under fire in an independent report...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
Deaths rise as US storm spreads
US winter storms have now killed about 35 people and left hundreds of thousands without power...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
Hanging video shows severed head
Iraq hangs two of Saddam Hussein's aides and one of the condemned was decapitated in the process...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Camper rescued weeks after search ends
A camper who became stranded nearly five weeks ago in a national forest because she could not cross a swollen river was rescued Sunday, more than two weeks after the search for her was called off...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Hussein's half-brother decapitated
Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein's aides and one of was decapitated in the process. The official video of the hangings shows Hussein's half-brother, Barzan Hassan, above right, lying headless below the gallows, his severed head several yards away, AP reported...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Biden calls for removal of Confederate flag
Sen. Joseph Biden, a Democratic presidential hopeful joining fellow Sen. Christopher Dodd at Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events, said Monday he thinks the Confederate flag should be kept off South Carolina's Statehouse grounds...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Lost writers in talks over ending
Producers of the cult TV series Lost say they are in talks with US network ABC over ending the show...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
Body found in Sao Paulo rubble
The body of a 75-year-old woman is found in the rubble of a construction site which collapsed in Sao Paulo...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
No 'quick fix' for Bush Iraq plan
There are no guarantees of success of the new US-Iraqi security drive in Baghdad, a top US general says...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
Iraq: Executions were dignified
Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the chief judge under his Baath Party regime have been hanged for their roles in the killings of 148 men and boys after a 1982 assassination attempt, Iraqi government officials say...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Bush: Congress can't stop troop increase
Congress cannot reverse last week's decision to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, President Bush said in an interview intended to rally popular support for his plan. "Frankly, that's not their responsibility," Bush said in an interview on the CBS News program "60 Minutes," which aired Sunday...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Tennis: Fish beats Ljubicic
Fourth seed Ivan Ljubicic crashes out of the Australian Open to Mardy Fish on the opening day of the tournament in Melbourne...
BBC News - January 15, 2007
Hussein co-defendants executed
Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the chief judge under his Baath Party regime followed him to the gallows early Monday, hanged for their roles in the killings of 148 men and boys after a 1982 assassination attempt, a defense lawyer said...
CNN - January 15, 2007
Once at Cotillions, Now Reshaping the Cityscape
The stepdaughter of CBS founder, William S. Paley, uses an inherited meticulous focus as New York City?s planning commissioner...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Perjury Trial Is Set to Begin for Former Cheney Adviser
I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, goes on trial Tuesday on charges that he lied to a grand jury and F.B.I. agents...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Study Detects a Gene Linked to Alzheimer?s
A variant gene involved in Alzheimer?s disease has been detected, scientists have reported. Dominican families with the gene were found to have about three times the usual incidence of Alzheimer?s...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Cheney Defends Efforts to Obtain Financial Records
The vice president said that ?national security letters? were an essential tool for investigating terrorism cases in the United States...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Democrats Split on How to Oppose Troop Increase
The White House defended the president?s proposal to increase the U.S. presence in Iraq as Democrats showed splits over how strongly to oppose the plan...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Looking Ahead
EXECUTIVE SENTENCING The former chairman of the Cendant Corporation, Walter A. Forbes (below), is to be sentenced Wednesday after his conviction at the end of October on charges related to large-scale accounting fraud at the conglomerate, which has since been broken up. It took eight years and three trials for federal prosecutors to prevail against Mr. Forbes...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Stock Offerings This Week
The following equity and convertible debt offerings are expected this week:...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Treasury Bills Scheduled for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week includes today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Vacuum Maker Hailed as Savior Quits Gulf Town
Oreck reopened its Long Beach, Miss., plant in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but 16 months later, it is moving its manufacturing to Tennessee...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Pizza Chain Takes Pesos, and Complaints
Pizza Patrón, an American pizza chain with many Latino customers, has been accepting pesos as payment. But critics say the promotion is unpatriotic...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Drilling Down: Boys and Girls Use Social Sites Differently
Older teenage girls are far more likely to use social-networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, according to a recent study...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
What?s White, Fluffy and Isn?t Falling Yet?
New England?s fickle-weather has been the subject of many jokes, and it seemed to be playing one last week on Yankee Magazine...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Honduras to Control Oil Terminals, for Now
The move is part of a government import program meant to drive down fuel prices, President Manuel Zelaya said...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Liverpool Team Close to Deal With a Sheik
The Liverpool soccer club is close to accepting an $882 million takeover offer from a consortium led by the ruler of Dubai...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Taking on a Big U.S. Partner, a First Family of Canadian Media Courts Trouble
By relying on money from U.S.-based Goldman Sachs for a new deal, CanWest Global is challenging Canadian laws banning the foreign control of broadcasters...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Bloggers Take on Talk Radio Hosts
Bloggers recorded extreme comments by several hosts of a San Francisco radio station and passed on digital copies to advertisers...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
China and Asean in Services Pact
The deal was a major step toward establishing a comprehensive free trade pact between Asean and China...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
BP?s Chief to Join Apax, a Private Firm
John Browne will become chairman of the advisory board of the private equity firm Apax Partners when he leaves BP in July...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Bertelsmann Is Days Away From Naming a New Chief
Hartmut Ostrowski, the head of Bertelsmann?s printing subsidiary, has emerged as the probable new chief executive of the company...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Layoffs at Paper Prompt Uproar Over Diversity
Staff cuts at The Philadelphia Inquirer have taken a heavy toll among black journalists, who tend to have less seniority...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
The Media Equation: 24-Hour Newspaper People
Having a blog makes me approachable, reader-friendly and engaged. Perhaps too engaged...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Link by Link: Documents Borne by Winds of Free Speech
Eli Lilly is trying to stop Web sites from publishing internal documents on its antipsychotic drug Zyprexa...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
E-Commerce Report: For Sale: One-Way Trip on a Private Jet. No Waiting.
Well-heeled travelers can now book flights on private jets through Expedia-like online services...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
A Newsroom Fight Spills Into the Streets of a Once-Peaceful Town
A nasty fight between the news staff and the owner of The Santa Barbara News-Press has created some new casualties: readers...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Anywhere the Eye Can See, It?s Now Likely to See an Ad
Advertisers say the best way to reach time-pressed consumers is to try to catch their eye at every turn...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
Just ?Citi? as the Brand, and a Folded Umbrella
Citigroup may shorten its name simply to Citi and get rid of the familiar red umbrella logo it inherited from Travelers Group...
New York Times - January 15, 2007
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