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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 June 2007:
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Renewed threat to BBC reporter
The militant group in Gaza claiming to hold BBC reporter Alan Johnston has renewed its threat to kill the British journalist who has been held in Gaza since March 12...
CNN - June 26, 2007
CIA releases 'family jewels' of misconduct reports
The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday on agency misconduct that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s over domestic spying...
CNN - June 26, 2007
Iraqi Cabinet minister accused of killings in 2005
Authorities in Iraq on Tuesday raided the home of the country's Sunni culture minister, whom they accused of killing two people during an assassination attempt two years ago...
CNN - June 26, 2007
Plenty of hurdles ahead for immigration bill
The Senate voted on Tuesday to bring back President Bush's immigration reform bill from the dead, but any of the two dozen amendments now to be debated could kill the deal for this year...
CNN - June 26, 2007
New Zealand Wins Again in America?s Cup Race
The New Zealanders crossed the finish line with a 25-second advantage over their nearest rivals...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Senate Republicans Block Labor Bill
Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have made it easier for unions to organize workers...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Advertising: General Motors to Change Ad Agencies
G.M. shifed the national creative assignments for the Buick and GMC brands to the agency that creates national campaigns for Pontiac...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Ad Forecaster Lowers Estimates
A leading forecaster of advertising spending has again reduced his estimate for growth in the United States this year, joining other experts who have also trimmed their predictions...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Chinese Company Denies Tire Defect
The manufacturer called problem claims fabricated, but the tires have already been linked to at least two deaths...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Oracle Reports 23% Increase in Earnings
The software company beat Wall Street?s projections as it claimed substantial gains over its rivals, SAP and I.B.M...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Tentative Accord Reached on Dow Jones Control
Negotiators reached a deal for editorial independence of The Wall Street Journal under News Corporation control...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Skimping on Drug Benefits Doesn?t Pay
Charging workers? out-of-pocket costs for medicines may be more than offset by reduced productivity, study finds...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
State of the Art: The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype
Apple?s new phone does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Court eases TV ad election curbs
The US Supreme Court eases campaign finance curbs, allowing interest groups to run TV ads right before elections...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Wimbledon: Venus survives
Venus Williams survives a titanic battle against teenager Alla Kudryavtseva while Amelie Mauresmo also wins...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Weather stems California wildfire
Favourable weather conditions help firefighters in California control fires that have destroyed hundreds of homes...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Demand for Nike pushes up profit
Global sportswear giant Nike posts market-beating quarterly profit figures, helped by strong sales...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Iraq Raids Home of Culture Minister, Seeking His Arrest
Officials said the Sunni minister is wanted in connection with an assassination attempt more than two years ago...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Immigration Bill Clears Test Vote in Senate
A bill to overhaul the nation?s immigration system cleared a crucial test vote today, bolstering its chances for passage by the Senate within days...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Murdoch?s China Dealings: Business and Personal
Many companies have tried to break into the Chinese market, but few have been as ardent and unrelenting as Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
A Stock Filing Gone Awry for Bear Stearns
A filing that would have allowed Bear Stearns to reduce its exposure to high-risk mortgages has been withdrawn...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
US housing slump hits new builds
May sales of new houses in the US disappoint after reaching record highs in April, as the housing slump continues...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Job worries weigh on US consumer
A perceived weakening of economic growth and employment prospects hurt US consumer confidence in June...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Galapagos put on UN danger list
The UN puts Ecuador's Galapagos Islands on its list of World Heritage sites in danger, citing increased tourism...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Plate aids diabetes weight loss
Using a simple portion control plate can help people ease their type 2 diabetes, Canadian research shows...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
US Senate revives migration plan
The US Senate votes to revive discussion of immigration legislation backed by President Bush...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Jubilant Paris Hilton out of jail
With paparazzi swarming around her, hotel heiress Paris Hilton walks out of a Los Angeles-area jail with a big smile on her face after serving 23 days for violating her probation on a reckless driving conviction...
CNN - June 26, 2007
Justices Loosen Ad Restrictions in Campaign Law
The Supreme Court?s 5-4 ruling opened a significant loophole in the 2002 McCain-Feingold law and may affect the strategy of the 2008 campaigns...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Spanish power firm makes US move
Spanish power firm Iberdrola is expanding into the US by buying Energy East Corp for $4.5bn...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Pregnant woman murder charge
A policeman in the US state of Ohio is charged with the murders of his girlfriend and her unborn child...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Work to resume on Brazil reactor
A long-stalled project to build Brazil's third nuclear power should resume, Brazilian energy officials recommend...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
Hill: Peace talks possible in '07
If North Korea makes good on its promise to disable a nuclear reactor, Korean peninsula peace talks could be under way by the end of the year, said U.S. envoy to North Korea Christopher Hill...
CNN - June 26, 2007
Smoke hinders air attack on Tahoe wildfire
Lower winds Monday helped firefighters attack the Angora fire, which has burned 2,400 acres and destroyed at least 240 homes south of Lake Tahoe, state fire officials said. But lesser winds meant more smoke in the Tahoe Basin, hindering an air assault on the blaze...
CNN - June 26, 2007
Poll: Bloomberg could have Perot-like effect
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg -- who left the Republican Party last week -- could have a serious impact on the 2008 presidential race, rivaling Ross Perot's influence in 1992, a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll suggests...
CNN - June 26, 2007
Romney to Tap Own Money for Campaign
Mitt Romney said he had once more turned to his personal fortune to help finance his presidential campaign, suggesting that his fund-raising has fallen off...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Study Says Chatty Doctors Forget Patients
A new study shows that many doctors waste patients? time in office visits by interjecting irrelevant information about themselves...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Ex-E.P.A. Chief Defends Role in 9/11 Response
In a hearing with political overtones, Christie Whitman said that charges that she or other E.P.A. officials misled the public were ?utterly false.?...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
New Scrutiny as Immigrants Die in Custody
Getting details about immigrants who have died in administrative custody is a difficult undertaking...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
At Your Peril: On Fringe of Forests, Homes and Wildfires Meet
Americans who live on the edge of government lands in the West are living out a dangerous experiment...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Supreme Court Loosens Ad Restrictions in Campaign Law
The Supreme Court?s 5-4 ruling today opened a significant loophole in the 2002 McCain-Feingold law and may affect the strategy of the 2008 campaigns...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Memo Pad
REGISTERED TRAVELER PROGRAM While skeptics point to the sluggish pace of the nationwide rollout of the Registered Travel Program, a second competitor, Unisys, said it opened its first program, called rtGO, at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Membership in rtGO is $100 a year. Under the program, participants cleared in a background security check receive an identification card encoded with biometric data like iris scans and fingerprints. The card provides access to a special security lane. Several other competitors are planning to enter the business but the main operator is Verified Identity Pass, whose Clear program has about 48,000 members and locations at Terminals 1, 4 and 7 at Kennedy International Airport, as well as at airports in Orlando, Fla.; Cincinnati; San Jose, Calif.; and Indianapolis. Verified Identity plans to open a lane soon at Terminal B in Newark. While members get a special lane, so far other planned benefits of the program, like the ability to pass throughout without removing shoes, laptops or outer garments, have lagged behind, pending Transportation Security Administration approval of new technologies...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
World Business Briefing: Britain: Vacation Service in Merger With Auto Group
The Saga Group, a British provider of insurance and vacations to the consumers 50 and older, agreed to merge with the Automobile Association in a transaction that values the two closely held companies at £6.2 billion ($12.4 billion). The deal would enable Saga to offer policies and cruises to the Automobile Association?s older customers and the association to sell roadside assistance to Saga?s 2.5 million clients, the companies said. About 15 million British motorists rely on the association when their cars break down. Saga?s chief executive, Andrew Goodsell, will head the company, and the automobile association?s chief executive, Tim Parker, will quit...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
World Business Briefing: Hungary: Interest Rate Is Lowered Unexpectedly
Hungary?s central bank unexpectedly cut its benchmark interest rate, the European Union?s highest, for the first time since 2005 after inflation slowed. Policy makers, led by the central bank?s governor, Andras Simor, left, cut the two-week deposit rate a quarter-point, to 7.75 percent, after holding it since October. A leveling of wage growth also persuaded rate setters to lower borrowing costs, Mr. Simor said. Hungary?s annual inflation rate has quadrupled in the last year as Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany?s government raised taxes and utility bills. Inflation excluding food and energy prices slowed for a second month in May, and an easing of pressures in the labor market reduced concern that prices would rise faster than the inflation target in the medium term...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
World Business Briefing: China: HSBC to Buy Part of Tower in Shanghai
HSBC Holdings, the European bank, said it would buy part of an office tower in Shanghai to house its China headquarters as it speeds up expansion in China. HSBC agreed to buy naming rights and occupy 20 floors of one of the twin towers of the Shanghai International Finance Center, to be completed by 2010, from Sun Hung Kai Properties, HSBC said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The tower, a few blocks from the bank?s current headquarters, would be renamed HSBC Building-Shanghai IFC. Stephen K. Green, the chairman of HSBC, disclosed the deal at a news conference in Shanghai, but he declined to say how much the bank had agreed to pay...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Food Manufacturer to Be Sold to U.S. Company
The E. D. Smith Income Fund, a trust that owns a variety of private-label food manufacturing operations, said it planned to sell all of its assets to TreeHouse Foods of the United States in a deal valued at about 217 million Canadian dollars ($203 million). TreeHouse, based in Westchester, Ill., would also assume E. D. Smith?s existing debt and the transaction costs. If the deal goes through, stakeholders should receive up to 9.15 Canadian dollars a unit, subject to a ?holdback? of 60 Canadian cents a unit to cover certain expenses, the fund said, which could lower the amount received by unit holders. Units of E. D. Smith, which is based in Winona, Ontario, rose 1.23 Canadian dollars, or 17 percent, to 8.57 Canadian dollars on the Toronto Stock Exchange...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Roche Is Pursuing Ventana
The Swiss drug maker said it would start a tender offer to acquire Ventana Medical Systems for about $3 billion...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Spanish Utility Plans to Acquire Energy East
Iberdrola plans to buy the regional utility owner Energy East Corporation for $4.5 billion in cash...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
I.B.M. to Pay Settlement
I.B.M. agreed to pay $7 million as part of a settlement of a federal regulatory investigation involving Dollar General?s 2000 financial statements...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Ex-Chief of Cendant Denied Bid for Release
Walter A. Forbes was denied release pending an appeal of his conviction in a case over one of corporate America?s biggest accounting scandals...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Hancock Case Is Settled for $21.3 Million
The Manulife Financial Corporation will pay $21.3 million to settle claims that its John Hancock investment units secretly diverted client funds to pay for marketing...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Walgreen Profit Rises 19.6%
The company said that it also would consider ?select? acquisitions and was looking for other pharmacy-related health care opportunities...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Sales of Existing Homes Fall to Lowest Level in 4 Years
Sales of existing homes fell in May to the lowest level in four years while the median home price dropped for a record 10th consecutive month...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Hollinger?s Former Lawyer Described as Trustworthy
Mark S. Kipnis, on trial for fraud with its ex-chairman, Conrad M. Black, should be acquitted of all charges, his lawyer said...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Google Seeks Ruling on Microsoft Oversight
Google is pressing for an extension to the Justice Department?s oversight of Microsoft?s business practices...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Investors React to New Worries Over State of Hedge Funds
Concern over subprime mortgages extended the stock market?s worst weekly decline since March...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Frequent Flier: Finding Adventure and Trying to Save It
When a special space has become threatened, a collective force has been there ready to lend energy, money and time to preservation...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
U.S. Is Creating 3 Centers for Research on Biofuels
The new approach supports President Bush?s goal of reducing gasoline consumption by 20 percent in 10 years...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Billion-Dollar Deal to Be a Partner in Some Warner Films
The production company, Legendary, will invest $1 billion in a portfolio of films co-produced by Warner Brothers Pictures...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Delphi Workers May Give Up Their Layoff-Pay Benefit
Unionized workers at the auto parts supplier could vote to throw out a program that lets them continue receiving most of their pay after being laid off...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Advertising: The Forces of Neatness Hope to Fill a Niche
A new magazine called Organize, which makes its debut Tuesday, wants to prove that independent magazines are alive and well...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Prosecutors Invite a Dismissal in KPMG Tax-Shelter Case, Burdened by Technicalities
Prosecutors have essentially dared a judge to dismiss charges against former KPMG employees so that they can appeal the ruling and get the case moving again...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Enjoy Your Green Stay
Hotels are finding that environmentally conscious features ? like the bamboo flooring ? are in demand from guests and can save money as well...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Supreme Court to Weigh Limits on Cases Involving Medical Devices
At issue is whether makers of medical equipment approved by the federal government may be sued under state law by patients injured by those devices...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Billionaire Thinks in Trillions for His Computer Designs
A co-founder of Sun Microsystems plans to introduce a supercomputer that will compete for the title as world?s fastest...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
On the Road: No Takeoff, but 2 Visits by the Police
First the air-conditioning didn?t work. Then the flight was delayed. Finally, a passenger with a video camera began asking some tough questions...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Murdoch?s Dealings in China: It?s Business, and It?s Personal
Many big companies have sought to break into the Chinese market, but few of them have been as ardent and unrelenting as Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Mending Fences at World Bank
Robert B. Zoellick, the new chief of the World Bank, will need to smooth ruffled feathers left by his predecessor Paul D. Wolfowitz...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Market Place: Private Equity Investors Hint at Cool Down
After years of supersize private equity deals, investors have begun to push back at several prominent transactions...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Funds? Woes Didn?t Deter a Stock Offer
Everquest Financial has withdrawn an initial public offering that disclosed that its assets had been bought from Bear Stearns? two troubled hedge funds...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Chinese Tires Are Ordered Recalled
A U.S. tire importer disclosed that its Chinese manufacturer had stopped including a safety feature meant to prevent tread separation...
New York Times - June 26, 2007
Official defends WTC air advice
The US official who said the air at Ground Zero in New York was safe after 9/11 says she acted on scientific advice...
BBC News - June 26, 2007
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