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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 January 2007:
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U.S. Senate body rejects Iraq plan
The Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee today dismissed President Bush's plans to increase troop levels in Iraq as "not in the national interest," an unusual wartime repudiation of the commander in chief...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Scandal-hit Israeli president fights on
Facing numerous sex crimes charges, including rape, Israeli President Moshe Katzav Wednesday has asked to be temporarily removed from power, according to a Knesset spokeswoman...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Code word aided rescue of mom, 4 children
A tip from a pizza man and a secret message in a phone call helped lead to the arrest of a man accused of abducting his ex-girlfriend and their four children after shooting a man...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Sen. Kerry decides against 2008 presidential run
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts , the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, won't make a second bid for the White House, sources familiar with Kerry's thinking told CNN Wednesday...
CNN - January 24, 2007
9/11 Families Offer New Plan for Memorial Names
A group of prominent advocates for victims? relatives plans to denounce the plan put forth by Mayor Bloomberg...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Libby?s Lawyers Question Witnesses? Recollections
Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. have put the issue of memory front and center in his defense...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Minimum Wage Bill Suffers Setback in Senate
A move to raise the minimum wage by $2.10 an hour without tax breaks for small businesses fell short today...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Senate Panel Opposes Troop Increase in Iraq, 12-9
A non-binding resolution dismissed President Bush?s plans to increase troops strength in Iraq on Wednesday as ?not in the national interest.?...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Kerry Bows Out of 2008 Race
Senator John Kerry?s announcement was not a surprise, notwithstanding his statements that he would run again...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Wendy?s Shifts Ad Agencies, Dropping McCann
Saatchi & Saatchi in New York, part of the Publicis Groupe, will become the lead creative agency for Wendy's...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
EBay Profit Rises 24% on Strong Holiday Business
The Internet auction giant has scored at least a temporary victory over the mounting pressures facing its business...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Aid pledged for Lebanon summit
The US and France pledge $1.4bn in aid and loans ahead of a major summit in Paris to help rebuild Lebanon...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
Kerry will not seek White House
Senator John Kerry, who lost to George W Bush in 2004, will not run for US president in 2008, he says...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
U.S. Iraq plan: Be damn sure
Democrats moved toward a wartime repudiation of President Bush today, convening a Senate committee to endorse legislation declaring deployment of additional troops to Iraq is "not in the national interest."...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Woman, 4 kids found safe at Indiana motel
The search for a mother and her four children ended with a detective knocking on the door of an Indiana motel. "She was sobbing hysterically and physically shaking like I've never seen anybody shake," the detective recalled...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Democrats say Bush still not listening on Iraq
Democrats gave little support Wednesday to President Bush's State of the Union plea for congressional patience with his Iraq policy...
CNN - January 24, 2007
In Address, Bush Insists U.S. Must Not Fail in Iraq
The president outlined a modest agenda of energy and health care proposals while warning an increasingly assertive Congress against undercutting his new Iraq strategy...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Senate Panel Debates Iraq Resolutions
The resolutions would oppose President Bush's plans to send additional forces to quell the violence...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Bush Seeks Vast, Mandatory Increase in Alternative Fuels and Greater Vehicle Efficiency
President Bush called for a huge government-mandated increase in renewable fuels, mainly ethanol...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
McDonald's strong on burrito sale
Fast food chain McDonald's sees profits for the last quarter of 2006 double, after selling a burrito firm and boosting European results...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
Cingular lifted by customer rise
A jump in customer numbers helps US mobile phone firm Cingular Wireless report a four-fold rise in profits...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
Call for ban on 'child rape' film
Religious groups call for a boycott of Hounddog, which depicts a 12-year-old girl being raped by a teenager...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
World's oldest person dies at 115
The world's oldest person, Emiliano Mercado Del Toro, dies at home in Puerto Rico aged 115...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
Bush: Iraq plan is 'best chance'
U.S. President George W. Bush says in his State of the Union address that his plan to increase troop levels in Iraq provides "the best chance of success" despite widespread opposition from many Democrats and some in his own party...
CNN - January 24, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Sony and Warner Join Music Venture
Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the Warner Music Group have teamed with a joint venture in China to develop technology for distributing music downloads and other content to mobile phones, the record companies said. The music companies declined to disclose how much each had invested in the venture with Access China Media Solutions, a joint venture that includes the Access Company of Tokyo and Melodeo, a digital media company based in Seattle...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
World Business Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Cemex Extends Bid for Australian Company
Cemex, the concrete maker, extended its $11.7 billion hostile takeover bid for the Rinker Group of Australia by two months while it waits for regulatory approval in the United States. Cemex?s $13-a-share offer for Rinker will end March 30, Cemex said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange yesterday. Cemex wants to buy Rinker because of its business in the United States, which is focused on Florida, Arizona and Nevada. The deal would make Cemex, which is based in Mexico, the world?s biggest concrete maker...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Profit Falls at LG Electronics
Fourth-quarter profit at LG Electronics, South Korea?s largest consumer appliance maker, fell 85 percent amid falling sales and price declines for flat-screen televisions, the company said. LG, also a leading manufacturer of mobile phone handsets, earned 48 billion won ($51.3 million) in the period, which ended Dec. 31, the company said, down from 312 won a year earlier. Sales fell 11 percent, to 5.52 trillion won ($5.9 billion). LG, which is based in Seoul, said sales in its digital display business, which includes flat-screen TVs, declined 14 percent, to 1.2 trillion won ($1.3 billion). The company said operating profit in its handset business fell 70 percent but did not provide figures...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Disappointing Forecast From Tate & Lyle
Tate & Lyle, the British sugar producer, said full-year profit would be below market expectations, setting off a decline of 16 percent in its share price. Tate & Lyle said sales of Splenda, its sugar substitute, had been disappointing and it had been hurt by the weakness of the dollar. The company said results for the full year that end March 31 would be ?well ahead? of the previous year but ?modestly below? market expectations...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
World Business Briefing | Americas: Canada: Bid for Shell Canada Shares Is Raised
After an earlier offer received a cool reception from minority shareholders, Royal Dutch Shell increased its bid for the portion of Shell Canada it does not own to 45 Canadian dollars ($38.10) a share from 40 Canadian dollars. The new offer values the 22 percent of Shell Canada not held by the parent company at 8.7 billion Canadian dollars ($7.4 billion). About 150,000 barrels of Shell Canada?s daily production of 230,000 barrels comes from oil sands projects in Alberta rather than conventional sources. When it made its opening bid in October, Royal Dutch Shell said that full control of Shell Canada would allow it to increase its reported reserves. An accounting problem forced the parent company to lower its reserve levels in 2004. The higher bid still may face difficulty since some Canadian fund managers have said recently that they are looking for a price near 50 Canadian dollars a share...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Suitor Abandons Bid for Scania
Man dropped its 10.3 billion euro ($13.4 billion) hostile bid for the Swedish truck maker Scania after opposition emerged from Volkswagen, Scania?s largest shareholder, and will seek a friendly merger instead. Man, Volkswagen and Scania ?see the industrial logic behind a combination? of the three businesses, but such a combination is not possible under the existing offer, Man said. A combined Man and Scania, the Swedish truck maker, would surpass DaimlerChrysler and Volvo as Europe?s No. 1 maker of heavy vehicles. Volkswagen, based in Wolfsburg, Germany, said it wanted to wrap its Brazilian truck unit into a Scania-MAN combination to compete with DaimlerChrysler and Volvo. Man is based in Germany...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Murdoch Said to Join Tribune Bid
Yet another media mogul has reportedly entered the fray for the Tribune Company ? Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation, whose holdings include Fox News and The New York Post...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Sun Microsystems back in profit
US computer firm Sun Microsystems returns to profit after five consecutive quarters of losses...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
Watergate plotter Hunt dies at 88
Howard Hunt, the CIA man who helped plan the Watergate break-in that led to Nixon's downfall, dies aged 88...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
Bush stresses unity, security
U.S. President George W. Bush calls for bipartisan cooperation in his State of the Union speech, from domestic issues to the war on terrorism...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Bush urges unity in speech
When he gives his seventh State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Bush will be facing an angry citizenry dissatisfied with his leadership by a 2-to-1 ratio...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Bush message to Congress: Work with me
Faced with a widely unpopular war in Iraq and a Democratic Congress, President Bush in his State of the Union address urged lawmakers to work with him to "achieve big things for the American people."...
CNN - January 24, 2007
Libby Defense Portrays Client as a Scapegoat
I. Lewis Libby Jr.?s lawyer asserted that Mr. Libby was made a scapegoat by White House officials to protect Karl Rove...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
On Snowbound Plains, Grim Fight to Save Calves
Calving season on the High Plains will be harder and more costly than any year in at least a decade, ranchers and agricultural officials say...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Bush Insists U.S. Must Not Fail in Iraq
President Bush presented a modest agenda of energy and health care proposals while warning an assertive Congress against undercutting his new Iraq strategy...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
A Shift in Power, Starting With ?Madam Speaker?
From the president?s very first words of the evening, it was clear how much had changed in the capital...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Square Feet: A Relative Bargain in a Corner of the Village
The ?creative class? is finding a home in the sturdy industrial buildings of Hudson Square, part of the West Village...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Profit at Xerox Declines
The Xerox Corporation said yesterday that its fourth-quarter profit dropped 24 percent, pulled down by a higher revamping charge, but it still beat analysts? expectations. Net income fell to $214 million, or 22 cents a share, from $282 million, or 27 cents a share, in the same period in 2005...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Spike in Price of Oil Ignites Market Rally
Shares rose moderately yesterday as crude oil surged more than $2 a barrel, setting off a rally among energy producers and as a series of positive earnings reports helped restore investor optimism...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Advertising: More Marketers Are Grabbing the Attention of Players During Online Games
Advertisers are increasingly interested in reaching the diverse group of Web users who solve puzzles, play word games and decipher mind benders online...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Tax Gain Sharply Increases Quarterly Profit at DuPont
DOVER, Del., Jan. 23 (AP) ? E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, the specialty chemicals producer, said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit more than quadrupled, mainly the result of a hefty tax benefit...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Horton Profit Drops
FORT WORTH, Jan. 23 (AP) ? D. R. Horton, the large home builder, said on Tuesday that earnings fell 64 percent in the last three months of 2006 as it wrote down the value of assets, forfeited land deposits and took fewer sales orders...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Fruit of the Loom Buys Some VF Lines
VF, a large clothing maker, said yesterday that it had agreed to sell its global intimate-apparel business to Fruit of the Loom for $350 million, completing its transformation into a maker of more profitable garments like outerwear and sportswear...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Profit Up at Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson said yesterday that fourth-quarter profit rose, helped by favorable taxes and growing sales of drugs and consumer products, although stent sales fell sharply...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
A $2.2 Billion Charge at Broadcom
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (AP) ? The Broadcom Corporation, a supplier of semiconductor chips used in communication devices, said Tuesday it would record $2.22 billion in noncash expenses for the years 1998 through 2005 for stock option accounting flaws, nearly triple what it originally estimated last July...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Profit Doubles as EMC?s Bet on Software Shows Results
The EMC Corporation, the maker of data storage equipment, said yesterday that its quarterly profit more than doubled, helped by a tax gain and strong sales of mid-range storage gear and software...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
United Airlines Shares Fall on $61 Million in Losses
CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (AP) ? The parent of United Airlines said Tuesday it lost $61 million in the fourth quarter, missing Wall Street expectations after it was hit by a series of winter storms that grounded thousands of flights...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Delta Chief Denies Merger Talks
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines told employees yesterday that the airline was not engaged in merger talks with Northwest Airlines...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Aerospace Giant Posts 38% Gain
HARTFORD, Jan. 23 (AP) ? United Technologies said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit rose 38 percent as strong earnings growth from aerospace divisions offset declines at its helicopter and heating-cooling companies...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
One Measure Is Suggesting Slight Growth in Economy
A gauge of future economic activity rose slightly in December as two of the economy?s soft spots, the housing and job markets, showed signs of improvement, according to an industry-backed research group...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Revenue Plunges 16% at Alcatel-Lucent
The telecom equipment maker said that growing pains and tougher competition wiped out fourth-quarter profit...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Kerr-McGee Is Found Liable in Lawsuit Over Oil Royalties
A federal jury agreed that Kerr-McGee cheated the government out of millions of dollars in royalties on oil it produced in publicly owned coastal waters...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Square Feet: A Commercial Landlord?s Biggest Sale May Be Itself
Equity Office Properties is the object of a fierce bidding war involving some of the industry?s most prominent figures and biggest risk takers...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Rivals CNN and Fox News Spar Over Obama Report
A disputed report on the Web site of a conservative magazine about Senator Barack Obama?s childhood schooling kicked off an exchange between the news networks CNN and Fox News...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Big Bank Stops Effort to Change Law Limiting Growth
Bank of America had argued that the law restricting a bank to no more than 10 percent of the nation?s deposits is ?antiquated? and anticompetitive...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Asian Rival Moves Past Las Vegas
Fueled by a casino investment boom and millions of Chinese visitors, Macao became the world?s biggest gambling center in 2006...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Nymex Abandoning Plans for British Futures Market
Nymex Holdings, a lonely champion of open-outcry trading, is cutting its last ties to an ill-fated plan to set up a trading floor in Britain...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Profit at Sun Microsystems Stirs Hope of Turnaround
Sun Microsystems returned to profitability, while Advanced Micro Devices swung to a loss, providing evidence that the road to recovery in the technology industry is a bumpy one...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Move Over Silicon Valley, Here Come European Start-Ups
European entrepreneurs who have taken the start-up culture pioneered in Silicon Valley as a template and are successfully transplanting it...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Profit Down, Outlook Up at Yahoo
Yahoo predicted only modest improvements for this year, suggesting that it would continue to struggle to keep up with Google...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Biotech Psoriasis Drugs Hit a Cost Ceiling
Are biotechnology companies reaching the limits of how much they can charge for their drugs? One sign of that is the sluggish sales of drugs for psoriasis...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Economix: What?s a Pound of Prevention Really Worth?
Preventive medicine just doesn?t pay in the current American medical system...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Big Insurer Will Pay 640 Katrina Claims
The agreement between State Farm Insurance and state officials is expected to jump-start rebuilding along the Mississippi Gulf Coast...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Reworking the A-List
Those invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, reflect this year?s theme of a shift in power...
New York Times - January 24, 2007
Morales reshapes Bolivia cabinet
Bolivian President Evo Morales replaces nearly half of his cabinet - a day after marking a year in office...
BBC News - January 24, 2007
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