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Frozen yogurt war de-thaws, tart new brands hit US
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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25 bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Displaced Georgians look to US for hope, aid
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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26 dead as Philippine troops flush out rebels
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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Philippines peace in tatters after rebel attack
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Prescriptions Drive Walgreen Second Quarter Sales
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Walgreen posted a 5 percent increase in second-quarter profits that just beat Wall Street's expectations, but investors greeted the news Monday with enthusiasm, driving the share price sharply higher...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Ford and Tata Said Near a Deal on Luxury Brands
The two car companies are expected to announce that Tata is buying Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford for about $2 billion, a person briefed on the negotiations said...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
S.E.C. Accuses Biovail and Executives of Accounting Fraud
Biovail?s former chief and three other officers were accused by the S.E.C. of various accounting frauds, with the company agreeing to settle with the agency for $10 million...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Google Offers New Plan for the Airwaves
In comments filed with the F.C.C., Google outlined plans for low-power devices that use local wireless airwaves to access the ?white space? between television channels...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
At Grim Milestone, White House Says Focus Is on Success in Iraq
The White House said that President Bush, though ?grieved? by the death toll, would continue to push forward and ?focus on succeeding.?...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Bodies of 2 Contractors Found in Iraq
Two American contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago have been found dead, the F.B.I. said...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
M.T.A. Delays Rail and Bus Upgrades
The $30 million in improvements had been promised to riders as a way to sweeten the pill of a fare increase, but now the M.T.A. says tax revenues are falling short...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Detained Judges Freed in Pakistan
The move to free judges detained by President Pervez Musharraf was one of the first acts by the new prime minister...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
City Room: Finding a Toilet as Performance Art
The artist Tommy Mintz, who suffers from ulcerative colitis, is selling $2 copies of a map of public restrooms in Manhattan...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
The Lede: Jockeying Before Dutch Film Release
An American company blocks, a Czech party tackles...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Wall St. Cheers Bear Deal and Housing Data
Shares soared after weekend negotiations salvaged the bailout of Bear Stearns and housing sales snapped a long streak of declines...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Sirius Buyout of Rival XM Approved
The Justice Department said that the buyout of XM Satellite Radio by Sirius would not hurt competition or consumers...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
TB Patients Chafe Under Lockdown in South Africa
South Africa is grappling with how to balance the liberty of patients with a drug resistant type of tuberculosis against the need to protect society from the disease...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Detroit Mayor Is Charged in Scandal
Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other felonies that could end his political career...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Sri Lanka put pressure on Windies
Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas take three wickets each as Sri Lanka restrict West Indies to 269-9...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Earthquake strikes northern Chile
A 6.1-magnitude quake hits northern Chile close to the border with Bolivia, the US Geological Survey says...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
US court jails 'agent of China'
A Chinese-born engineer is jailed for more than 24 years in the US for acting as an agent for Beijing...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Icahn Steps Up Pressure on Motorola
The billionaire investor said that he was suing Motorola to force it to hand over documents related to its mobile devices business...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Tiffany Fourth-Quarter Earnings Beat Expectations
Tiffany posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit as increased sales overseas and at new stores helped offset effects of a weak economy and sluggish consumer spending...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Bear Deal, Home Sales Push Stocks Higher
Stock markets soared as investors cheered JPMorgan?s higher offer for Bear Stearns and the latest housing numbers, which snapped a six-month streak of declining sales...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Presidential Vote Fuels Taiwan?s Market
Stock prices soared in Taiwan as investors welcomed the presidential election victory of Ma Ying-jeou, a Nationalist who has called for closer relations with mainland China...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
The Lede: Lenin?s Birthplace to Embrace English
A push to increase foreign investment in Ulyanovsk, Russia...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
City Room: Poll on Congestion Pricing Is Mixed
A Quinnipiac University poll found support for congestion pricing if the fees are used to support mass transit in and around New York City and support for plan to raise state income taxes by 1 percent on people making more than $1 million a year...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Protests Disrupt Olympic Ceremony
Activists angered by China?s crackdown in Tibet upstaged an Olympic flame-lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Neil Aspinall, Beatles Aide, Dies at 66
Mr. Aspinall became the Beatles? road manager when the group was still a local dance band and went on to manage the band?s production and management company...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Detroit Mayor Charged in Scandal
Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other felonies that could send him to prison for as long as 80 years...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
In Speech, Clinton Calls for Action on Housing Crisis
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Congress to provide $30 billion to help minimize the number of foreclosures...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
U.S. Death Toll in Iraq War Hits 4,000
The milestone was reached late Sunday, five years since the war began in March 2003...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Jailed Pakistan Judges Said to Be Freed
The judges detained under the government of President Pervez Musharraf are free, Pakistan?s news agency says...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
JPMorgan Raises Bid for Bear Stearns to $10 a Share
The sweetened offer is intended to win over stockholders who vowed to fight the original fire-sale deal, struck only a week ago at the behest of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Tiffany sales sparkle outside US
US jeweller Tiffany says foreign sales are strong, but it remains "cautious" about the home economy...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Golf: Woods winning streak ends
Geoff Ogilvy ends Tiger Woods's seven-tournament winning streak with a one-shot win at the WGC Championship...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
US home sales see surprise rise
US home sales unexpectedly rose in February but prices posted a record fall, industry figures show...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Mayor charged in SMS scandal
Detroit's mayor is charged with perjury over explicit text messages he allegedly sent to a top aide...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Argentina marks 1976 coup
Events take place in Argentina to mark 32 years since the military coup that brought an era of widespread abuses...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Music Review: Aretha Franklin?s Evening
An announcer hailed Aretha Franklin as the Empress of Music at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night before reverting to her usual title, the Queen of Soul...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Shifting Careers: Smart Eating at Work
A shopping list of foods to snack on at work...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
2 McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned
John McCain has twice flirted with the Democratic Party: His discussions in 2001 about leaving the G.O.P, and his talks in 2004 about running with John Kerry...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
As Tibet Erupted, China Security Forces Wavered
Witnesses say that for almost 24 hours after Lhasa erupted on March 14, police officers were often nowhere to be found, despite days of rising tensions with monks...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Fuel supplies for US troops hit
Some 40 road tankers supplying fuel to foreign troops in Afghanistan are blown up...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Looking Ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
COMPANY REPORTS It is a light week for earnings, with reports coming from Tiffany and Walgreen (Monday); SAIC (Tuesday); Oracle (Wednesday); the Apollo Group, ConAgra Foods, Lennar and Red Hat (Thursday); and KB Home (Friday)...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Businesses Say New York?s Clout Is Emigrating, With Visa Policies to Blame
Some of the country?s biggest corporations have been complaining that American immigration policies are thwarting New York?s ability to compete with other world capitals...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
The Media Equation: Newspapers? New Owners Turn Grim
Smart businesspeople who appointed themselves as life savers for newspapers are finding it more difficult than they thought to keep their businesses afloat...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Drilling Down: Eggs Wanted, Dyed and Otherwise
In dollar terms, Christmas trumped Easter as the holiday responsible for the most egg sales in 2007...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Media Talk: Regal, Like AMC, to Add Imax Screens
The Regal Entertainment Group, which owns the nation?s largest movie theater chain, will work with the Imax Corporation to open 31 new, large-format outlets...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Alitalia Suitor Asks for 3 Weeks
The chairman of the Italian airline Air One, Carlo Toto, said that his company was ready to make a new offer for Alitalia, but needed three weeks to study its books...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
HBOS Managers Purchase Shares
Directors and senior managers at HBOS, Britain?s biggest mortgage lender, bought some 1.4 million shares at 446 pence, $8.87, a share using their bonus entitlements...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Wall St. Journal to Make Over Popular Section
The Wall Street Journal?s transition to more breaking news and shorter articles will include a makeover of its Marketplace section, editors and reporters there said...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Media Talk: Dissension Arises at Fox News Over Treatment of Obama
Chris Wallace took some of his Fox colleagues to task, claiming that they took Senator Barack Obama?s comments about race out of context...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Media Talk: Outburst in McCartney?s Divorce, as Evoked by the Press
A courtroom sketch artist recreated a messy scene at the close of Paul McCartney?s divorce case, in which his ex-wife dumped a pitcher of water on his lawyer?s head...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Media Talk: The ?80s Video That Pops Up, Online and Off
A 20-year-old Rick Astley video has a new life as an Internet prank called ?Rickrolling.?...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Iraq Seeks Bids to Develop Gas Field
The ministry has set a deadline of April 24 for companies to submit bids to help develop the Akkas gas field in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar province...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Where Wall Street?s Caviar Set Still Thrives
There may be panic on Wall Street, but Doubledown Media, publisher of magazines for the wealthy, says its business and readers are largely immune to the problems...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Advertising: Do-It-Yourself Logos for Proud Scion Owners
Toyota?s Scion enthusiasts will have even more ?me time?: a marketing campaign aimed at showing just how much their chosen vehicle reflects their personality...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Journalist in Pellicano Case Will Get Her Day in Court
A Hollywood journalist whose report of a threat led to the trial of Anthony Pellicano, a private detective facing wiretapping charges, will soon be a witness in the case...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Replacing Wire With Laser, Sun Tries to Speed Up Data
Sun Microsystems has received a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to explore the high-risk idea of replacing wires between computer chips with laser beams...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
China Bars Olympics Coverage From Tiananmen Square
The rethinking of Beijing?s earlier promise to broadcasters comes as the government has poured troops into Tibetan areas wracked by antigovernment protests this month...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
With Economy Tied to Wall St., New York Braces for Job Cuts
The finance industry was responsible for nearly a third of all wages earned in New York City in 2007, the highest in modern times...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
E-Commerce Report: A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites
Google?s new search-within-search feature has sparked fears from publishers and retailers that users will be siphoned away through ad sales to competitors...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
The War Endures, but Where?s the Media?
Iraq coverage by major American news sources has dropped to about one-fifth of what it was last summer, according to a survey...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
A Murdoch Sets Her Own Course in TV
About two-thirds of the income from Elisabeth Murdoch?s burgeoning television empire is expected to come from the United States...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
As Tibet Erupted, China Wavered
Witnesses say Chinese security forces melted away as unrest boiled over in the Tibetan capital on March 14...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
This Land: A Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly
Billy Wolfe, of Fayetteville, Ark., became a target of bullying at age 12 and now the many incidents seem to blur together into one protracted assault...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Study Finds Record Education Earmarks
Congress set aside $2.3 billion in pet projects for colleges and universities last year for research on subjects like reducing odors from swine and poultry, according to an analysis...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Peacekeeping in Darfur Hits More Obstacles
Bureaucracy, stonewalling by Sudan and reluctance from contributing countries to send their forces into an active conflict have undermined the mission before it has even begun...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
2 Divergent McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned
John McCain has twice flirted with the Democratic Party: His discussions in 2001 about leaving the Republican Party, and his conversations in 2004 about running with John Kerry...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
JPMorgan in Negotiations to Raise Bear Stearns Bid
JPMorgan Chase was in talks for a deal that would quintuple its offer for Bear Stearns in an effort to pacify angry Bear shareholders, according to people involved in the negotiations...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
13 Iraqis Killed by Shells Fired at the Green Zone
The shelling ushered in a day of violence around the country that claimed the lives of at least 58 lraqis and four American soldiers...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
A.P.?s Death Toll for Iraq War Reaches 4,000
The U.S. military says a roadside bomb has killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, bringing The Associated Press death toll to at least 4,000...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
GuadalÍx De La Sierra Journal: For a Prize Bull, Next Big Test Is in the Genetics Lab
The owner of Alcade, an aging bull who has sired many top opponents for Spain?s bullfighters, has decided to clone him...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Spitzer Is Accused of Effort to Smear Bruno
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is said to have been involved in his administration?s efforts last year to discredit the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno...
New York Times - March 24, 2008
Mambo creator 'Cachao' dies
Cuban-born jazz musician Israel "Cachao" Lopez, credited with inventing the mambo, dies in Miami...
BBC News - March 24, 2008
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