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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
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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US News Archive for December 2005:
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$1 million-a-day fine for NYC transit strikers
As millions of New Yorkers navigate the evening rush hour with the city's transit workers on strike, a judge has ruled that the strikers are in contempt of court and said the union should be fined a million dollars for every day of the strike...
CNN - December 20, 2005
Islanders grieve for plane dead
Weeping islanders went house to house Tuesday in the tiny islands of Bimini to grieve for 11 of their own who died in the crash of a seaplane near Miami, Florida. "Everybody lost somebody ," said Terez Rolle, whose sister-in-law, died with her 1-year-old baby girl...
CNN - December 20, 2005
M.T.A. and Union Remain Locked in Acrimonious Standoff
A state judge today imposed a $1 million-a-day fine on the transit union as commuters began an uncertain trek home...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Information for the Homeward Bound
By The New York Times...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Checkpoints Create Demand, and Then Supply
Taxi drivers were almost going begging for riders, even though the streets were full of legions of stranded workers...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Toyota May Top G.M. as Biggest Car Maker in 2006
Toyota plans to make 9.06 million cars in 2006, a goal that could help it to snatch from General Motors the crown of world's largest carmaker...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Ex-Chief of Qwest Is Indicted
Federal prosecutors announced that Joseph P. Nacchio, the former chief of Qwest, had been indicted on charges of insider trading...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Morgan Stanley Posts 49% Gain in 4th-Quarter Profits
The results capped a traumatic year for the investment firm, which also announced a $1.8 billion acquisition of Goldfish, a British credit card company...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Nike posts record second quarter
US sportswear group Nike reports a 15% rise in second quarter profits, beating Wall Street estimates...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Morales 'certain of Bolivia win'
Bolivian socialist leader Evo Morales has won enough votes to be named president, electoral officials say...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
US 'winning war' on e-mail spam
The number of unsolicited e-mails received in the US has dropped thanks to new measures, a report finds...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Fraud charges for ex-Qwest boss
The former boss of US telecoms giant Qwest is indicted on 42 counts of insider trading...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
US 'seeks justice' for hijacker
The US says it will try to bring to trial a Lebanese hijacker freed by Germany last week...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Strike shuts New York transport
More than 7 million people who use New York's transit system are finding other ways to get to work or do their holiday shopping after 30,000 transit workers go on strike...
CNN - December 20, 2005
Sharon leaves hospital
A grinning Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon walked out of a Jerusalem hospital Tuesday, less than 48 hours after suffering a mild stroke caused by a blood clot in the brain...
CNN - December 20, 2005
Transit strike hits New York City
Millions of New York City commuters had to find another way to get to work as an all-out strike closes the subway systems and leaves buses in their garages...
CNN - December 20, 2005
Cabs With Strangers, and Other Ways to Work
New York City's subways and buses were replaced by rusty bicycles, old walking shoes, ferries and $20 cab rides today...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Tight Senate vote expected on deficit bill
A Senate vote on a deficit-reduction bill looks to be so tight that Vice President Dick Cheney was rushing home from an overseas diplomatic mission to be the tiebreaker for saving one of the Bush administration's top priorities...
CNN - December 20, 2005
Millions Are Left to Make It to Work Any Way They Can
New York City's subways and buses were replaced by rusty bicycles, old walking shoes, ferries and $20 cab rides today...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Some Economic Indicators Leave Room for Optimism
The economy appears to have recovered from much of the damage inflicted by high energy prices and the hurricanes and is poised to end 2005 at a high note...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
US wakes up to obesity crisis
The United States may be the land of the free, but it is also the land of the fat, writes the BBC's Matthew Davis...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Toyota on target to overtake GM
Japan's Toyota expects to raise output by 10% next year and could overtake GM as the world's biggest carmaker...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Football: Ronaldinho top again
Ronaldinho is Fifa's World Player of the Year for the second season in a row and Frank Lampard is runner-up...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Peruvian ex-airline chief jailed
A court in Peru sentences to 20 years in jail a former airline owner whom the US accuses of being a "drugs kingpin"...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Colombian hostage still alive
A former Colombian minister kidnapped five years ago is shown alive in a video released by rebels...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
US closer to Alaska oil drilling
The US House of Representatives passes a provision allowing oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Cheney cuts short overseas tour
US Vice President Dick Cheney is cutting short his tour of South Asia and the Middle East to return to Washington for a crucial vote...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
'Intelligent design' teaching ban
A US court rules against the teaching of intelligent design in schools as an alternative theory to evolution...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Strike shuts down New York
More than 30,000 New York City transit workers went on strike early Tuesday, shutting down the U.S.'s largest public transportation system just days ahead of Christmas. The walkout over wages and health benefits will affect more than 7 million people who use the system on a typical day...
CNN - December 20, 2005
All dead in seaplane crash
Investigators today will try to raise the wreckage of a seaplane from the ocean floor off Miami as they seek to determine what caused the craft to break apart and slam into the water, killing all 20 people aboard...
CNN - December 20, 2005
Transit Union Walkout Follows Collapse of Contract Talks
Mayor Bloomberg promised legal action against the union and urged the city's 7 million riders to bike, walk or car pool...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
World Business Briefing
EUROPE...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Toyota, With 2006 Forecast, Challenges for Top Car Maker
The Toyota Motor Company plans to make 9.06 million cars in 2006, a goal that could help it to snatch from General Motors the crown of world's largest carmaker...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
NFL: Ravens rout Packers
Kyle Boller throws three touchdown passes as Baltimore hammer Green Bay 48-3 in Maryland...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Seaplane crash kills 20 in Miami
A seaplane crashes into a shipping canal near Florida's Miami Beach, killing all 20 people on board...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Strike halts New York transport
New York's subway and bus services grind to a halt as city transport workers vote to go on strike...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
'Sharp rise' in Bush popularity
An opinion poll suggests high voter turnout in Iraq has boosted US President George W Bush's approval ratings...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Bolivia awaits final poll result
Bolivia's socialist leader Evo Morales has 48% of the presidential vote according to early official results...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
Seaplane crash; all dead
A vintage seaplane crashed into the ocean off Miami Monday killing all on board, authorities said. Nineteen bodies were recovered, the Coast Guard said, and it is possible one more body remains in the water. Amateur video appeared to show the plane breaking in two and bursting into flames...
CNN - December 20, 2005
Administration Cites War Vote in Spying Case
President Bush and two senior aides argued that authority for domestic spying grew out of a 2001 Congressional resolution...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
In Mississippi, Canvas Cities Rise Amid Hurricane's Rubble
Now that emergency shelters have closed, Mississippi families displaced by Hurricane Katrina are hunkering down in tent cities...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show
Agents conducted surveillance of groups active in such causes as the environment and poverty relief, records show...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Union Rejects Contract Offer, M.T.A. Reports
Leaders of the transit workers' union rejected the M.T.A.'s latest offer as the city braced for the possibility of a transit strike...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Commerce Official Leaving Bush Team
Michael D. Gallagher, the top Bush administration official for telecommunications issues, has decided to step down...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Shares Decline, Along With Hopes for a Year-End Rally
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Two Electricity Giants to Combine, With Focus on Coal and Nuclear
HOUSTON, Dec. 19 - The FPL Group announced its $11 billion acquisition of Constellation Energy on Monday, one of the largest such transactions in the history of the American electricity industry, with a focus on using two decidedly retro energy sources, coal and nuclear power, to make the deal work...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
On the Road: Frequent-Flier Miles for Families of Soldiers
Frustrated by all those frequent-flier miles you've piled up? Give them to the loved ones of veterans recuperating in hospitals that are often far away from home...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Memo Pad: Flying in Style for Less
FLYING IN STYLE FOR LESS MAXJet Airways, which began offering all-business-class flights between New York and London at heavily discounted fares last month, says that in February it will add a new route, five days a week, between Washington Dulles and London. The airline's Boeing 767's are configured with 102 business-class seats, each with 60 inches of legroom. The current round-trip fare between New York and London is $1,358. Another new discount all-business-class airline, Eos, started flying daily between New York and London in October, using Boeing 757's configured with only 48 flat-bed seats. Its current round-trip fare is $5,000, substantially below the major carriers' walk-up business-class fares of $8,000 and up for the round trip...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Welcome to the Potemkin Mall
Because of its proximity to the nation's biggest financial institutions, Garden State Plaza mall in New Jersey has become an unusual laboratory for retail analysts...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Circuit City Exceeds Estimates
RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 19 (AP) - Circuit City Stores, the chain of consumer electronics stores, surprised Wall Street by reporting another larger-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday - perhaps signaling that a long-awaited turnaround at the company has taken hold...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Judge May Reject Gemstar Plea Agreement
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Cablevision Cancels a $3 Billion Dividend
The Cablevision Systems Corporation canceled a $3 billion dividend after saying that the company had violated the terms of a bank loan...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Delphi to Negotiate With Unions on Wage and Benefits Cuts
DETROIT, Dec. 19 - Delphi, the troubled auto parts maker, told its unions on Monday that it would withdraw its most recent proposal to cut wages and benefits and that it would delay any court action to cancel the contracts in an effort to negotiate a settlement...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Insurance Concern in China to Sell 25% Stake to Carlyle
In one of the largest private equity deals ever done in China, the Carlyle Group agreed to invest $410 million for a minority stake in the China Pacific Life Insurance Company...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
U.S. Patent Office Likely to Back BlackBerry Maker
The technology patents at the heart of an infringement lawsuit by NTP against Research In Motion are likely to be struck down by the U.S. patent office...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Accountant Pleads Guilty to Trading in Sirius Shares
The former president of the accounting firm that manages Howard Stern's financial affairs pleaded guilty to illegal insider trading in shares of Sirius Satellite Radio...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Refco Appoints Chief
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Indian Drug Maker Says It Will Keep Attacking Patents Despite Pfizer Loss
Ranbaxy Laboratories says it will not back down from its patents-busting strategy, despite its loss to Pfizer in a U.S. court...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
China Says It Grew Faster Than First Thought
China said on Tuesday that its economy, the fastest growing in the world, is larger than it had previously reported...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Honeywell Buys Maker of Gas Detectors
Honeywell International agreed to buy First Technology of Britain for about $366 million to expand in gas detection gear...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Japanese Web Site to Offer Video for Sale
The Softbank Corporation and its affiliate, Yahoo Japan Corporation, are offering 100,000 movies and video clips on a Web site...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Market Place: HSBC Makes a Showing in Mideast
In the Middle East, a flood of petrodollars and HSBC's long history in the region have helped the bank win several deals...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
ABN to Pay $80 Million for Violations
ABN Amro Bank has agreed to pay a total of $80 million in fines for violating regulations to prevent money-laundering...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Advertising: 'Entourage' Shot Glass, Anyone? A Wave of Media Merchandising
Media companies have jumped into the holiday sales fray in a big way this year, pitching an array of merchandise to consumers as gifts...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Sounding Off: Remembering the Unexpected Gift of Good Service
The caring flight attendant or the thoughtful hotel concierge made business travel a bit more bearable in 2005...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Fox Film Unit to Focus on Youth
Fox Filmed Entertainment, a unit of the News Corporation, is starting a division to create films for teenagers and young adults...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Toyota, With 2006 Forecast, Challenges for Top Car Maker
The Toyota Motor Company plans to make 9.06 million cars in 2006, a goal that could help it to snatch from General Motors the crown of world's largest carmaker...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
S.E.C. Drops Case Against Developer of Software
After more than five years of investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped a lawsuit against the former president of the TenFold Corporation...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Google Offers a Bird's-Eye View, and Some Governments Tremble
Google Earth, software that marries satellite images and mapping capabilities, has caused alarm over its display of sensitive sites...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Transition to Digital Gets Closer
The switch being made by broadcasters from analog to digital signals could translate into significant costs for viewers...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Orthodoxies on Trade Worn Down in Marathon
What made the World Trade Organization's agreement possible was the weaving of a series of deals - all night, in marathon talks...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads
Users of Google's search engine will soon see something they are not used to on the notoriously spare site: advertising with logos and graphics...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Amid Inquiry, Chief of Italy's Central Bank Resigns
Antonio Fazio was at the center of a storm over efforts by foreign banks to buy an Italian bank...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
Itineraries: What's Worse Than Getting Sick? Getting Sick While Traveling
A sudden illness has always been a hazard for business travelers, but with air traffic surging and the flu season just getting under way, the perils of the road are reaching a peak...
New York Times - December 20, 2005
US Mafia godfather Gigante dies
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, one of the leading mafia godfathers has died in prison, authorities say...
BBC News - December 20, 2005
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