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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 September 2007:
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City Room: Columbia Defends Iran Event
The president of Columbia University defended the harsh criticism he leveled at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on Monday...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Debate Offers Fall Preview
In Hanover, the candidates begin the fall march toward the primary elections in the winter...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill Up to 9 Palestinians
JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 ? Up to nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes in Gaza today, according to Palestinian witnesses and medical officials. Six of them were said to be militants...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Judge Questions Craig?s Guilty Plea Withdrawal
A judge took Senator Larry Craig?s request to withdraw his guilty plea under advisement, and the Idaho Republican said he will stay in office for the time being...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Umpire Suspended After Incident
Umpire Mike Winters was suspended by Major League Baseball for the remainder of the regular season on Wednesday because of his confrontation with the Padres? Milton Bradley last weekend...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Bonds Baseball to Be Branded With Asterisk
The fashion designer who bought the record-breaking ball had asked fans to vote on what should be done with it...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
House Buys Time for Spending Talks
The House voted to provide money to keep the U.S. government functioning after the federal fiscal year ends this Sunday...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books
The federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
In Somalia, Promise of Order Remains a Vapor
It has now been nine months since the country went through its biggest political change in 16 years, but actually, surprisingly little has changed...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Hung Jury in the Phil Spector Murder Case
A mistrial was declared Wednesday in the murder case against legendary music producer Phil Spector...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Bombings Surge as Iraqi Militants Go on Offensive
A spate of bombings is evidence that militants have begun an offensive they had threatened, an American general said...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
S.E.C. Inquiry Looks for Conflicts in Credit Rating
The S.E.C. is looking into whether credit ratings agencies improperly inflated their ratings of mortgage-backed securities...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Buffett Said to Consider Bear Stake
Bear Stearns is in serious talks to sell as much as 20 percent of the firm, with several individual investors, including Warren E. Buffett, expressing an interest...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Stocks Rise After G.M. Strike Ends
Stocks rose handily after G.M. struck a tentative contract agreement with the U.A.W. and as another lackluster economic report stirred hopes the Fed will cut interest rates again...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
G.M. Workers Return After Deal Reached With Union
The key provision of the landmark agreement with the United Automobile Workers is a health care trust that would get G.M.?s vast liability off its books...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Pentagon seeks $190bn war funds
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates asks Congress for $190bn to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Goal Blog: The Americans Switch Goalkeepers
Ahead of Thursday’s semifinal against Brazil, U.S. coach Greg Ryan has switched goalies, inserting the 36-year-old veteran Briana Scurry and pulling Hope Solo, who had been in the nets throughout this World Cup and not allowed a goal in the last 300 minutes. U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo, left, will be replaced by 1999 World Cup hero [...]...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
City Room: Soul Food With a Side of Politics
Bill O'Reilly might have chosen a more authentic Harlem dining experience than Sylvia's...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
The Caucus Blog: The Caucus: Giuliani to Meet With Iraqi President
Rudolph W. Giuliani has been a firm supporter of both the initial decision to invade Iraq and the need to keep a stepped up troop presence in the country for the foreseeable future...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
The Lede Blog: Asterisk to Mark Bonds?s Record Ball
The People have chose to brand the ball rather to send it to space...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Indian Tycoon Invests in Plane Maker
Vijay Mallya, the chief executive of India?s fast-growing Kingfisher Airlines, has purchased a 50-percent stake in Epic Aircraft, a maker of small planes based in Oregon...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Nasdaq and Borse Dubai Raise Bid for OMX
Nasdaq and Borse Dubai raised their bid for the Swedish exchange by 15 percent to $4.9 billion and entered agreements with key shareholders to secure nearly half of OMX shares...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Senators Accuse Credit Rating Agences of Conflicts
The lawmakers said they were particularly concerned with a key aspect of the agencies? business models: they get paid by the companies whose bonds they rate...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Demand for Durable Goods Plummets
Demand for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged in August by the largest amount in seven months, with widespread weakness signaling a slowdown in the nation?s industrial sector...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Stocks Open Higher as G.M. Strike Ends
Stocks opened higher after G.M. reached a tentative agreement with the U.A.W. and as another lackluster economic report stirred hopes the Fed will cut interest rates again...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
G.M. and Union Reach Tentative Agreement
The key provision of the landmark agreement, which ended a two-day strike, is a health care trust that would get G.M.?s vast liability off its books...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Boeing's US aid 'hurting Airbus'
The EU claims US subsidies for American aircraft maker Boeing have cost Europe's Airbus $27bn...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Orders for US durable goods fall
New orders for long-lasting US manufactured products have their biggest fall for seven months...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Rugby: Canada held by Japan
Japan score a last-gasp try to draw a dramatic match with Canada in Bordeaux...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Police Clash With Monks in Myanmar
Police with riot shields fired warning shots and dispersed a group of monks who had defied a ban on demonstrations...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
G.M. and Union Reach Tentative Agreement
The deal would set up a trust fund for employee and retiree health case benefits, but it was not immediately clear whether the union had achieved its job security demands...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Workers end GM walkout
The UAW union ends its strike at General Motors after reaching a tentative deal with the carmaker...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Episcopal Bishops Reject Anglican Church?s Orders
Bishops of the Episcopal Church rejected demands by leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion to roll back the church?s liberal stance on homosexuality...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Justices Agree to Hear Case About Voter ID Laws
The court will decide whether laws requiring voters to bring identification to the polls are unconstitutional...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Math Scores Rise, but Reading Is Mixed
The results also showed that the nation had made only incremental progress in narrowing historic gaps in achievement between white and minority students...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Air Traffic Near Memphis Grounded
Communications equipment failed Tuesday at a regional air-traffic control center, shutting down all airline traffic within 250 miles of Memphis and causing a ripple effect across the country that grounded dozens of passenger and cargo flights...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Sect Leader Is Convicted as an Accomplice to Rape
The polygamist Warren S. Jeffs was convicted on Tuesday of being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old church member...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Congressional Memo: In Conference: Process Undone by Partisanship
One stage in the life of bills making their way through Congress has been shoved aside recently...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking
Chefs flock to a city where food is the star, produce is stellar and real estate is cheap...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants
In many towns that have enacted laws to target illegal immigrants, substantial consequences have followed...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Advertising: Microsoft Takes Aim at Google?s Ad Supremacy
Microsoft is taking solid aim at a business that is arguably outside its core competence: advertising...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Vonage Infringed 6 Patents of Sprint, U.S. Jury Rules
The provider of Internet phone service infringed on Sprint Nextel?s patents and should pay $69.5 million in damages, a federal jury ruled...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Qualcomm Forecast
The company raised its profit forecast for the fourth quarter Tuesday, citing higher-than-expected shipments of its chip sets for more cellular phones...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Consumer Shares Weaken, but Technology Posts Gains
Stocks ended mixed yesterday as investors grappled with concerns about consumer spending in some parts of the economy while technology stocks showed broad gains...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Clear Channel Shareholders Approve Buyout
Shareholders of the company approved a $19.5 billion buyout on Tuesday, more than 10 months after the deal was proposed...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Court Won?t Reopen Pooh Lawsuit
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 (Reuters) ? A California appeals court declined on Tuesday to reinstate a long-running case against the Walt Disney Company over royalties it paid for its popular Winnie the Pooh character...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Square Feet: Planned City Rises Within a City in the Southwest
A 25-square-mile stretch of flat acreage in Albuquerque is being transformed into a master-planned community that may take 30 years to build...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Two Panels to Advise on Hedge Funds
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (AP) ? The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced the formation of two advisory groups to develop recommendations for best practices in the operation of hedge funds, the giant pools of capital that were heavily involved in the recent turmoil in the financial markets...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Court Agrees to Consider Patent Case on Royalties
The Supreme Court said it would consider a technology patent case that could have far-reaching ramifications for computer makers and others with global supply chains...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Red Hat Earnings Rose Sharply in 2nd Quarter
The maker of open-source software said higher revenue from subscriptions for its Linux operating software propelled its results...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Amazon Digital Music Store Goes Online
Web retailer Amazon.com launched its much-anticipated digital music store with nearly 2.3 million songs, none of them protected against copying...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
EchoStar to Acquire Sling Media
Satellite television provider EchoStar Communications has agreed to acquire Sling Media in a deal that values the maker of the Slingbox device at $380 million...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Banks Urging U.S. to Adopt the Trading of Emissions
A group representing some of the world?s leading banks will urge the U.S. to introduce a lightly regulated system for trading carbon emissions permits...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Square Feet: Trailblazers Heading to a New Shopping Destination
The wealthy have been synonymous with Wall Street. But it took a prosperous group of potential shoppers to get luxury retailers to move to the financial district...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
U.S. Courts the Visiting President of Turkmenistan
In doing so, American officials are striving to weaken the grip of Gazprom, Russia?s state-owned energy monopoly, in Central Asia...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
DreamWorks Animation Enlists Ex-Chief of Viacom
The appointment comes as tensions run high between Viacom and its DreamWorks film unit, which the former purchased in 2005...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Moonves Picks Chief for Film Unit Under CBS
The CBS Corporation on Tuesday named Amy Baer, a senior production executive at Columbia Pictures, as president and chief executive of CBS Films...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
House Panel Approves a Trade Pact With Peru
A trade pact between the United States and Peru won bipartisan support, signaling that some Democrats will be receptive to trade deals that adhere to certain labor and environmental standards...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Sales of Existing Homes Declined 4.3% in August
The annual sales rate fell to 5.50 million from 5.75 million in July, the steepest percentage decline since March...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Insurers Want U.S. to Curb Competitors? Fund Transfers to Bermuda
Some of the nation?s biggest insurance companies want to change rules that enable some of their competitors to avoid billions of dollars in federal taxes by sending money to themselves in tax havens...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
For G.M. and Union, It?s More Than a Contract
There are bigger issues at stake for both General Motors and the United Automobile Workers that go beyond the finer points of a contract...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
At 9 Wednesday, in One Ring, 3 Contenders
The three new television series that ranked highest in a closely watched industry survey are facing off: ?Kitchen Nightmares? on Fox, ?Private Practice? on ABC and ?Bionic Woman? on NBC...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Inspector Finds Broad Failures in Oil Program
A new report says that the department responsible for collecting billions of dollars from oil and gas companies that drill on federal lands is plagued with ethical lapses...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
No Limit for Waits on Runways
Airlines still have not agreed on how many hours confined passengers would have to wait before they can demand to be released from a plane...
New York Times - September 26, 2007
Dollar falls to another euro low
The dollar falls to yet another all-time low against the euro, after further weak US economic data...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Getty to hand back 'looted art'
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles signs a deal in Rome to return 40 priceless artefacts allegedly stolen from Italy...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Anger at Giuliani 9/11 fundraiser
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is criticised for a fundraising party urging people to donate $9.11...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
Argentine boy sex change approved
An Argentine court says a 17-year-old male transsexual can have a sex change in a landmark ruling...
BBC News - September 26, 2007
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