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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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US News Archive for December 2007:
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Christmas Flourishes, in a Trim Green Stillness
Around the country, this is the season when cemeteries become homes for many families? second Christmas tree...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Interrogation Tricks Under Scrutiny After Ruling
Doubts about Martin H. Tankleff?s confession tap into a legal debate about how much deception is too much...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Strong Victory by Hindu Supremacist in India
The re-election of Narendra Modi, arguably India?s most incendiary politician, was a blow to the ruling party...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
In a Force for Iraqi Calm, Seeds of Conflict
Sunni ?Awakening? groups, paid by the U.S. to fight extremists, have become a success story, but there are concerns about what will happen to them after a handoff...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Clemens Posts Video Denying Steroid Use
Roger Clemens continued his campaign to refute the allegations in a video posted to the Web on Sunday...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Giants Survive Weather to Clinch Playoff Spot
A come-from-behind victory over the Bills means the Giants will go to the playoffs for the third consecutive season and relieves the persistent pressure that follows Coach Tom Coughlin...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Israel Rebuffs Hamas on Cease-Fire
With talks set for Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s government sought budget approval for new settlements...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Concord Monitor: ?Not Romney?
A New Hampshire paper?s anti-endorsement called the candidate a ?phony.?...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Party Backing Ousted Thai Leader Wins
In Sunday?s parliamentary election, a party supporting former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won a plurality against a party backed by the junta...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Interrogation Tricks Under Scrutiny After Ruling
Doubts about Martin H. Tankleff?s confession tap into a legal debate about how much deception is too much...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Concord Monitor: ?Not Romney?
A New Hampshire paper?s anti-endorsement called the candidate a ?phony.?...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Party Backing Ousted Thai Leader Wins
In Sunday?s parliamentary election, a party supporting former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won a plurality against a party backed by the junta...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
A Toy Maker?s Conscience
How a business-school professor and consultant for Mattel would turn ??Made in China?? into something other than a curse...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Emerald City of Giving Does Exist
When it comes to corporate philanthropy, Minneapolis-St. Paul is a bastion of giving in an age when most companies are cutting back...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
China Less Willing to Be America?s Piggy Bank
China has been the financier keeping the U.S. government well funded, but the rate of increase of its holdings of dollar-based securities seems to have slowed...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Clicking the Way to Mortgage Savings
A Web venture gives borrowers a way to compare what they will probably pay for a mortgage in commissions, points, interest rates and fees...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
BMW Plans Thousands of Layoffs
Facing rising costs and resurgent competition from rivals like Mercedes, BMW announced its first significant layoffs in at least a decade...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
United Rentals Loses Bid to Make Suitor Complete Buyout
In a victory for Cerberus Capital Management, a judge ruled against United Rentals? petition to force the private equity firm to complete its $4 billion buyout...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Alan Wagner, 76, First President of the Disney Channel, Is Dead
Mr. Wagner was a former CBS programming executive who became the first president of the Disney Channel...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Now on Sale: The Discards of Investors
One less festive sign of the holiday season is the magnification of losses in some of the worst-performing stocks...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Back Talk on Pretending to Be Busy, or Infallible
Readers respond with wit, wisdom, and sometimes some venom, to Shortcuts columns...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Buy Little, Waste Less
A group of environmentally concerned friends spent a year off the ?consumer grid? and spawned a new sort of abstinence movement...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
For Small Animals, a Fleck Is a Lot
Lead poisoning in pets is decreasing as lead paint grows more rare. But if your pet shows symptoms of lead poisoning, you should be tested as well...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
A Buyout for Manager of Drug Trials
One Equity Partners agreed to sell its stake in Quintiles Transnational, a big manager of clinical drug trials, to its C.E.O. and two buyout firms...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Do-It-Yourself Music Stardom
Both Radiohead and a former Talking Head have advice for young artists on navigating the chaotic music industry...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Truce Reached in Fight Over Chinese Beverage Company
Group Danone and the Wahaha Group, one of China?s biggest beverage makers, pledged to ?suspend all lawsuits and arbitrations? to revive a troubled joint venture...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
A Brisk Business in Selling Hope by the Wick
Devotional candles, kindled by anyone with a wish or a prayer, are a lucrative niche in the $2 billion candle market in the United States...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
No Joke, Bulb Change Is Challenge for U.S.
When 2012 hits, stores will no longer be able to sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
In Trade Ruling, Antigua Wins a Right to Piracy
In an unusual World Trade Organization ruling, Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections on goods like films and music from the United States as part of a dispute over online gambling...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
Holiday shoppers may worry about whether the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
For Pet Owners, Too, Toys a Reason for Concern
Following the pet food scare this year, and a spate of children?s toy recalls, pet owners have been stepping forward to ask: How safe are pet toys?...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Big Fund to Prop Up Securities Is Scrapped
Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
The Recalls? Aftershocks
What happened to all the lead-tainted products that have been recalled recently? Most, it turns out, may still be in consumers? hands...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
News Mixed, but Stocks Still Manage Strong Rally
Stock markets ended the week with a surge on reports of a possible foreign investment in Merrill Lynch and an uptick in consumer spending...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Technology Leads a Comeback for Shares
The stock market surged last week on robust earnings from technology companies...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Fliers Fed Up? Airline Employees Feel the Same
A rich record of employee discontent emerges from question-and-answer sessions at US Airways...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Goldman Chief?s Bonus
The Goldman Sachs Group awarded its chief executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein, a record $67.9 million bonus in 2007...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Few Feel a Need to Walk and Surf at the Same Time
A vast majority of cellphone owners are not taking advantage of this Internet capability, even though it is available to most of them...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
A Conference Call That Backfired
With one conference call and one unprintable word, Sallie Mae?s chief executive learned a $3 billion lesson...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
It All Started With Horses
?I always wanted to learn new things, and I was never afraid of change.?...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
News Corporation Sells 8 TV Stations
The News Corporation agreed to sell eight Fox network-affiliated television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for about $1.1 billion...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Training for a New Life Through a New Trade
A group called Brooklyn Woods seeks to provide a more promising path to people who are chronically unemployed...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
The Tax Loss as Consolation Prize
When the tax bill is coming due, it can pay to sell low...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
The Television Screen, Sliced Ever Thinner
A television set so thin that you could roll it up and carry it in your briefcase? It?s not as far off as you might think...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Navigating a Tricky Year, Hands On
In 2007, half of all actively managed diversified United States stock funds have beaten the S.& P. 500...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Outlet for Exclusivity
How a ??premium?? brand manages the dance with the mass market...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Taxes Are Reassessed in Housing Slump as Prices Drop
Downward assessments appear most pronounced in areas where the market was exploding just a few years ago, or where economic conditions are poorest...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Hotels Discover the Brooklyn Vibe
Several projects planned in the next few years will end a relatively dry spell in hotel development in Brooklyn...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies
A new study shows that storing the digital master record of a film costs much more than storing archival prints...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
You Think Santa Is Busy? Talk to a Wood Toy Maker
With customers leery of buying toys made in China, makers of wooden toys say in the U.S. they can barely keep up with demand and are hiring extra employees...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Champagne Beyond the Big Names
A relatively new genre of Champagne, made by independent grower-producers, has been quietly gaining a foothold...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
A New Corporate Path to Disaster Relief
Corporate donations often rise to the occasion, but a lack of coordination hinders relief...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
How to Avoid Recession? Let the Fed Work
Just as patients should avoid doctors who recommend radical surgery for every ailment, voters should be wary of politicians eager to treat every economic ill...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Capital Ideas and Social Goals
Attracting investors without putting the charitable focus at risk...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Tattered Standard of Duty on Wall Street
Some of the biggest names on Wall Street sold securities that they ? apparently ? barely understood themselves...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
2 Candidates, 2 Fortunes, 2 Views of Wealth
John Edwards?s and Mitt Romney?s runs are based in large part on the lessons each has taken from his own success...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Labor Board Restricts Union Use of E-Mail
It is legal for employers to prohibit workers from using company e-mail to send out union-related messages, a federal board has ruled...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting
As real estate values fall, local governments from northern Virginia to Southern California are cutting services, eliminating staff and shelving projects...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Porsche and VW: One Happy Family?
The Beetle and 911 Turbo in one garage: A dynasty is going full circle...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Argentine ballet dancer bows out
Thousands of fans gather in the heart of Buenos Aires as ballet star Julio Bocca performs for the last time...
BBC News - December 23, 2007
Hindu Nationalists Set to Win Poll
India?s Hindu nationalists were headed for a strong majority in a key state election, a verdict that was expected to influence national politics...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Man Convicted for Shooting Teenager
Ending a racially charged trial, John H. White, a black man, was found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed white teenager...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
Leave It With the (Virtual) Doorman
Buildings that can?t afford a doorman are hiring their cybercounterparts, who can open the front door and monitor the lobby from a remote location...
New York Times - December 23, 2007
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