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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Astronauts step out for longest, hardest spacewalk
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Zimbabwe rejects Carter, Annan, Machel
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Romes chaos and crime meets its would-be Giuliani
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Jetliner plot suspect believed killed in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Economy, not rights, rules the new China-US world
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2007:
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U.N. head shaken by Baghdad attack
An explosion rattled Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday, shaking a room where U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki were holding a televised press conference...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Edwards: Wife's cancer returns, campaign goes on
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Thursday his wife's cancer has returned but his bid for the White House will continue. "The campaign goes on," the former senator from North Carolina said at a news conference, contradicting earlier media reports...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Democrats Seek Votes for Bill on Iraq
The war spending bill would set a timetable to bring American troops home from Iraq...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Lights! Camera! But Where?s the Action at U.C.L.A.?
Don't expect to see the high-scoring Bruins of the John Wooden era take the court tonight against Pittsburgh. This team has a different approach...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Mandelson Won?t Seek Second Term as Europe?s Trade Chief
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New York Times - March 22, 2007
Federal Judge Blocks Online Pornography Law
The 1998 law made it a crime for commercial Web sites to allow children to gain access to ?harmful? material...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Europe Approves Trans-Atlantic Air Pact
European Union governments backed a deal with the United States that would open restricted airline routes to new rivals...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Times Company Plans to Increase Its Dividend
The New York Times Company announced that it would raise its quarterly dividend by 31 percent...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
L.A. Times Opinion Editor Resigns
Andres Martinez said his publisher undermined him by canceling a special section because the guest editor of the section, a Hollywood producer, was represented by Mr. Martinez?s girlfriend...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Oracle Accuses SAP of ?Corporate Theft on a Grand Scale?
A software giant said its German rival gained access to its password-protected customer support Web site in order to copy products...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Surging Real Estate Values Put Giant French Retailer in Play
Carrefour, the world?s second-largest retailer, faces a dynastic squabble and pressure from powerful investors hunting for profit...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
NBC and News Corp. to Create YouTube Rival
The networks hope to offer high-quality versions of entire TV episodes on the Web on an advertising-supported basis...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Wal-Mart staff to get $530m bonus
Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is to pay out $529m in annual bonuses to 800,000 of its US workers...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Cricket: Canada trounced
Lou Vincent hits a ton and Brendon McCullum smashes the fastest World Cup fifty as New Zealand beat Canada by 114 runs...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
US networks plan YouTube rival
Two US groups are to create a portal for TV shows in an attempt to hit back against video sharing sites...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Judge overturns US web porn law
A US federal judge strikes down a law to protect children from internet pornography, saying it violated free speech...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Notes pinned to Mexican corpses
Mexico police probe the deaths of several men found with notes pinned to their bodies carrying threats to officials...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Three held over 7/7 London attacks
Three men have been arrested in connection with the July 7, 2005, bomb attacks on the London transport network, British police said in a statement...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Report: Mistakes, neglect led to levee failure
Decades of mistakes -- some as basic as not knowing the elevation of New Orleans -- led the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to believe its levees and floodwalls would protect the city from a storm as strong as Hurricane Katrina, a new report concludes...
CNN - March 22, 2007
N. Korea nuclear talks break down
Talks on disarming North Korea's nuclear program break down abruptly with the country's chief nuclear envoy, Kim Kye Gwan walking out after a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Senate panel authorizes subpoenas for Rove, others
A Senate committee on Thursday authorized subpoenas for White House political adviser Karl Rove and others to testify under oath about the firings of U.S. attorneys...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Bank Freeze Stalls North Korean Nuclear Talks
Pyongyang has demanded the return of up to $25 million frozen in a Macau bank before it continues negotiations...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Explosion Hits Near U.N. Chief in Baghdad
The explosion rattled a news conference by the secretary general of the United Nations and Iraq?s prime minister...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
N.C.A.A. Tournament: Lately, Guards Are Just Unable to Get the Point
There has been an absence of pass-first leaders in college basketball the past few years...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Senate Panel Backs Subpoenas of Top White House Aides
The Senate Judiciary Committee today authorized the issuing of subpoenas that would call Karl Rove and other aides to testify under oath about the dismissals of prosecutors...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Edwards to Continue ?08 Bid Despite Wife?s Cancer
John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said today that his wife?s cancer had returned and was no longer curable, though it could be managed with treatment. But Mr. Edwards said that his bid for the presidency ?goes on strongly.?...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Japanese Land Prices Rise for First Time in 16 Years
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New York Times - March 22, 2007
Europe Approves Trans-Atlantic Air Agreement
The deal, which opens up restricted routes across the Atlantic to rivals, probably won?t take effect until 2008...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Trade Talks Stall Between U.S. and South Korea
Gaps on issues like beef and automobiles are delaying a deal the Bush administration calls the most sweeping since Nafta...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
US angry at Afghan hostage deal
The US and UK criticise Italy and Afghanistan over a deal made with the Taleban to release a kidnapped journalist...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Cancer setback for Edwards' wife
US presidential candidate John Edwards says his wife's cancer has returned but his campaign will go on...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Anti-Clinton video creator named
A man who worked for a firm linked to Senator Barack Obama has said he created a video attacking Hillary Clinton, but says his firm and Mr Obama were unaware of his actions...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Bloody Somalia battle in 2nd day
Fierce fighting rages in the Somali capital for a second day as government forces battle insurgents determined to oust Ethiopian-backed interim President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Mugabe fighting for political life
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is fighting for his political life in a behind-the-scenes power struggle within his own party that could oust him faster than street battles with a reinvigorated and determined political opposition...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Molester, parents charged with killing boy
A child molester and his parents were indicted Wednesday on charges they molested and then murdered a 6-year-old neighbor boy. The body of Christopher Barrios was found in a trash bag along the road after several days of searches. The prosecutor says he'll seek the death penatly...
CNN - March 22, 2007
NFL: Stokley joins Colts exodus
Brandon Stokley becomes the fourth Indianapolis player to leave the Super Bowl champions during the NFL's free agency period...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Guantanamo trials boycott urged
Amnesty International is urging foreign governments not to co-operate with Guantanamo Bay military trials...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Bodies dragged through Mogadishu
Somali insurgents dragged soldiers' bodies through the streets of Mogadishu before burning them on Wednesday in heavy fighting that killed at least 16 people and injured scores more, witnesses said...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Forensic police investigate coach Woolmer's death
Forensic police were conspicuous in visiting the hotel where Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer was found unconscious Sunday morning. Blood, vomit and diarrhea were splattered over the walls and floor of his hotel bathroom, said Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman Pervez Mir Wednesday afternoon. Police refused to comment on that report...
CNN - March 22, 2007
Gore Warns Congress of ?Planetary Emergency?
Former Vice President Al Gore insisted that global warming requires an aggressive federal response...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
E-mail gap raises questions
An absence in records released this week of e-mails of over 16 days between the Justice Department and the White House concerning the firing of U.S. attorneys last year has drawn the attention of congressional investigators...
CNN - March 22, 2007
In Utah, an Opponent of the ?Culture of Obedience?
The mayor of Salt Lake City has become a national spokesman for the impeachment of President Bush...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Panel Approves Five Subpoenas on Prosecutors
The House panel did not issue the subpoenas, saying it wanted to avoid a showdown over separation of powers...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Edwards Plans Announcement With His Wife
John Edwards called a news conference for Thursday to discuss the future of his campaign...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Illegal Worker, Troubled Citizen and Stolen Name
Illegal immigrants have turned to bona fide documents, stolen or bought by traffickers from actual Americans...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisers Tied to Industry
The new rules would bar government advisers who receive money from a drug or device maker from voting on that company?s products...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
B. Franklin Kahn, 82, Developer Credited With the REIT Strategy, Dies
B. Franklin Kahn was one of the first developers to recognize that real estate investments could trade much like mutual funds...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Oil Executive Investigated
The new chief executive of Total, the French oil company, was questioned for a second time in six months over suspected kickbacks in Middle East energy deals. The executive, Christophe de Margerie, left, and two other executives were summoned for questioning in an investigation of an offshore gas deal with Iran, Total said, which denied any wrongdoing. Mr. de Margerie, who ran Total?s Middle East operations at the time of the 1997 Iranian deal, is already under investigation in a separate inquiry of irregularities in United Nations sanctions in Iraq. Mr. de Margerie became chief executive last month...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: BASF and Monsanto in Crop Research
BASF and the Monsanto Company said they would collaborate to develop higher-yielding crops that are more tolerant to adverse conditions like drought. The companies will dedicate a joint budget of up to $1.5 billion over the life of the partnership to study crop yields and tolerance to stress for corn, soybeans, cotton and canola. The joint pipeline of products will include the companies? existing and planned yield stress and tolerance programs, with the first products expected to reach the market in the first half of the next decade. The link will allow the companies to bring more new products to the market than either could have done on its own, they said. Monsanto is based in St. Louis, and BASF is based in Ludwigshafen, Germany...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Sentences in Livedoor Case
A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced the former chief financial officer of the dot-com company Livedoor, Ryoji Miyauchi, to 20 months in prison for inflating earnings reports. Two other Livedoor officials, Fumito Okamoto and Osanari Nakamura, were each given one-and-half-year terms with a three-year suspended sentence. A third, Fumito Kumagai, received a one-year prison term with a three-year suspended sentence. The sentences came a week after the same court sentenced the company?s founder and former chief executive, Takafumi Horie, to two and a half years in prison. The executives were accused of using complex schemes to fabricate 5 billion yen, or $42.5 million, in earnings...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
World Business Briefing | Australia: Virgin Blue Buys Boeing Planes
The Australian airline Virgin Blue Holdings said it would buy six Boeing planes for 2.2 billion Australian dollars ($1.8 billion) as it accelerates plans for long-haul flights to the United States. Virgin Blue said it would buy six Boeing 777-300ER widebody aircraft, with an option for six more, and had signed an agreement with the International Lease Finance Corporation for a seventh, taking the total price to 2.6 billion Australian dollars. The purchase is part of Virgin Blue?s plans to start flights to the United States beginning in 2008 as it seeks new ways to beat competition on its routes within Australia and to islands in the South Pacific...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Trade Surplus Widens
Japan?s trade surplus unexpectedly widened in February after a decline in oil prices caused import growth to slow. Export growth slowed. The surplus rose 7.7 percent, to 979.6 billion yen ($8.3 billion), compared with February a year earlier, the government reported. The entire Lunar New Year holiday fell in February, cutting short the time companies could ship goods to markets that observe the holiday, and the economist Noriaki Haseyama said it was too early to determine if exports are stalling...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Growth Revised Upward
South Korea?s economy expanded 0.9 percent in the fourth quarter, more than first estimated, as exports declined less than initially anticipated, the Bank of Korea said. The figure was revised from an initial estimate of 0.8 percent and was down from a revised 1.2 percent rate in the third quarter. Goods exports fell 0.5 percent, less than the initial estimate of a 1 percent decline, the report showed. It was the first quarterly drop in exports since the three months ended Sept. 30, 2004. Business investment rose 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous three months and construction climbed 0.6 percent in the quarter. Private spending advanced 1 percent in the quarter, compared with an earlier estimate of a 0.8 percent increase, the report showed...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Wasserstein May Sell Stake in Publishing Company
Bruce Wasserstein, the chairman of Lazard, is considering selling his stake in ALM, publisher of American Lawyer Magazine and other legal publications...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Fremont Selling $4 Billion of Its Subprime Loans
The move, which would reduce the company?s exposure to such risky loans, helped push up shares of Fremont General up by 16 percent, to $10.19...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Big Stake Is Bought in Struggling Studio
Nu Image acquired a controlling interest in the troubled First Look Studios, an independent film distributor...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Markets Soar After Remarks From Fed
The Federal Reserve raised investors? hopes that it had warmed to the idea of lowering short-term interest rates...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Ex-Qwest Official Says Chief Was Misleading on Growth
The former chief of Qwest Communications knowingly repeated unreliable growth forecasts in 2000 and 2001, a former company official testified...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Charges Dismissed Against Ex-Banker
A former Bear Stearns banker won dismissal of charges that he was involved in a kickback scheme tied to the construction of a hospital in the Chicago area...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
U.S. Approves New Rules on Foreign Stocks
Securities regulators approved new rules making it easier and faster for foreign companies to withdraw their stocks from the U.S. market...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
FedEx, Citing Economy, Posts 2% Profit Drop
Profit fell 2 percent in the fiscal third quarter from a slowing economy, severe winter storms and lower fuel surcharges...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Defibrillator Maker Props Up Stress Test Company
Cambridge Heart said St. Jude Medical would take over efforts to sell its stress test equipment that doctors use to assess patients as candidates for defibrillators...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Economic Scene: Abolishing the Middlemen Won?t Make Health Care a Free Lunch
Middlemen and marketing costs have long been viewed with suspicion by critics of commerce. But these practices are usually signs of market sophistication, not waste...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Conrad Black?s Co-Defendants Start Stating Their Cases
Two co-defendants of Conrad M. Black did nothing illegal or were in the dark about any wrongdoing at the company, their lawyers said...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Advertising: Marketers Have Eyes on the ?Third Screen?
With the mobile Web, publishers and content providers are trying to avoid coming in late on another advertising bonanza...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Editor of Russian Edition of Forbes Guilty of Defamation
A Moscow court ruled against the editor not for the contents of the article, but for commenting publicly on the controversy surrounding its publication...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
When the Boss Is Last in Line for a Paycheck
One of the most difficult questions for entrepreneurs is what to pay themselves when they start out, if they pay themselves at all...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Despite Recall, Pet Food Maker Is Still a Large Supplier
Menu Foods is little known because it lacks its own brands. But it has come to dominate the business of making wet pet food for retailers...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Anemia Drugs Under Review by Congress
A House panel began an inquiry into the marketing and regulation of widely used anemia drugs that have raised safety concerns...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Ex-Chief of Collins & Aikman Is Said to Be Facing Indictment
David A. Stockman, a former Reagan budget director, is expected to be indicted on charges of accounting fraud related to his role as chairman of the auto parts supplier...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Morgan Stanley Net Jumps; Appeal on Lawsuit Is Won
Morgan Stanley?s earnings soared and the firm won a $1.57 billion court appeal. For its chief executive, it doesn?t get better than this...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
McCartney Signs With Starbucks for His Next Album
Paul McCartney will become the first artist to sign with Hear Music, a label being created by Starbucks...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
After ?Sopranos,? a Need for a Hit
HBO?s chief executive is preparing for life after the ?The Sopranos? with a cachet of new offerings...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
Motorola Cuts Its Estimate of Earnings
Facing sluggish profits, Motorola dropped its quarterly revenue forecast by a billion dollars and announced a management shake-up...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
For Some Subprime Borrowers, Few Good Choices
Lenders and the government are being urged to cushion the blow to troubled borrowers and find ways to enable them to remain in their homes...
New York Times - March 22, 2007
US Anglicans refuse UK demand
US Anglican bishops refuse to create a parallel church for their traditionalist wing, amid a row over homosexuality...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
Amnesty slams Guantanamo trials
Tony Blair is being urged by Amnesty International to protest against military trials at Guantanamo Bay...
BBC News - March 22, 2007
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