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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 March 2007:
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Senate Keeps Pullout Date in Iraq War Bill
The Senate defeated by a 50 to 48 vote an attempt to erase an American troop withdrawal date from an Iraq spending bill...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
2 European Bank Chiefs Got Big Raises in 2006
The top executives of Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse received substantially bigger pay packages last year, but they still lagged behind their American counterparts...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Uranium Ignites ?Gold Rush? in the West
Convoluted economics and intense speculation has pushed up the price of uranium to levels not seen since the heyday of the industry in the mid-1970s...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Siemens Executive Arrested
German prosecutors arrested Johannes Feldmayer as part of an investigation into suspected bribery...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
US confidence hit by house prices
Falling home values, rocky stock markets and rising petrol prices hit US consumer confidence, data suggests...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
Senator's aide arrested over gun
An aide to US Senator Jim Webb is arrested for carrying a loaded gun and ammunition into a US Senate building...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
Flood of Sewage in Gaza Kills at Least 4
More than 30 were injured when a sewage system collapsed, and a rescuers waded through much in the search for survivors...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Gunmen in Iraq Kill Tribal Opponent of Al Qaeda
Attackers killed a prominent member of an Iraqi tribe that had taken a stand against Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Auxiliary Officers to Get Bullet-Resistant Vests
The N.Y. mayor?s decision comes less than two weeks after two auxiliary officers were shot to death...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Records Tumble at World Championships
Michael Phelps broke the 200-meter freestyle world record, and three others were broken as well...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Bush Spokesman?s Cancer Returns and Spreads
Tony Snow has suffered a recurrence of the cancer and the disease has spread to his liver...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Japan signs trade deal with Chile
Japan and Chile sign a free trade deal which will lower tariffs on a wide range of goods...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
Delta sees end to bankruptcy woe
Delta Air Lines says it should emerge from bankruptcy sooner than expected and will swing into profit this year...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
US Navy starts war games in Gulf
The US denies major war games by two carrier groups in the Gulf region are sabre-rattling aimed at Iran...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
Bush spokesman's cancer returns
Surgery shows US presidential spokesman Tony Snow's cancer has returned, the White House says...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
Iran: 15 Britons treated humanely
Iran says the 15 detained British sailors and marines it is holding are healthy and being treated in a humane fashion...
CNN - March 27, 2007
Aid to Darfur Is Imperiled, Officials Say
Violence and bureaucracy are threatening to derail what has been perhaps the only success of the Darfur conflict: the humanitarian effort...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Brazil and Italy in biofuels plan
Brazil and Italy are planning a biofuel deal that will see them build plants in Brazil and Africa...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
Golf: Woods's Isleworth behind
Tiger Woods's Isleworth team trails 10-0 after the opening day of the Tavistock Cup at Lake Nona...
BBC News - March 27, 2007
Hicks pleads guilty at Guantanamo
Australian prisoner David Hicks pleads guilty before a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a charge of providing material support to terrorists. Hicks, a 31-year-old former kangaroo skinner who has been held for more than five years, earlier said he would defer entering a plea...
CNN - March 27, 2007
A Mystery at Hong Kong Horse Racing Track
A mechanism rigged to fire tiny darts into the bellies of horses was found buried in the turf at the Happy Valley Racecourse...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Rutgers 64, Arizona State 45: Rutgers Bulls Its Way to Berth in Final Four
The Scarlet Knights have steamrolled past some of the best teams in the country in the postseason, from Connecticut to Duke and now Arizona State...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Inventory Spells Out $131 Million Astor Estate
A 12-page inventory of Brooke Astor?s assets and finances provides the most up-to-date, clear and concise picture of the socialite?s fortune...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
9 Officers Faulted for Aftermath of Tillman Death
A Pentagon investigation found no criminal wrongdoing in the shooting of Cpl. Pat Tillman but found that army officers violated regulations by failing to disclose details of his death promptly...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Embattled Smithsonian Official Resigns
The report showed that the museum had provided lavish perks such as chauffeurs and private jets to its top official...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Mindful of Past, Clinton Cultivates the Military
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is striving to show voters that she is comfortable with military policy and culture...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Aide to Gonzalez Won?t Testify About Dismissals
Monica Goodling invoked her right to refuse to testify in the investigation of the removal of eight U.S. attorneys...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Heat Invades Cool Heights Over Arizona Desert
The so-called sky islands of southern Arizona, formerly green havens above the desert, have experienced near collapse...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Plea of Guilty From Detainee in Guantánamo
David Hicks, an Australian trained by Al Qaeda, is the first Guantánamo detainee to be convicted before a military commission...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Robert Petersen, Publisher of Auto Buff Magazines, Dies at 80
Robert E. Petersen channeled his fervor for fast cars with tailfins and chrome-plated engines into a string of successful magazines...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Big Contract for Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent, the telecommunications equipment maker, signed a $6 billion contract with Verizon Wireless, the telecommunications service provider, to help the company expand its network and offer new services. The three-year deal calls for Alcatel-Lucent to supply equipment, software and additional services for improvements at Verizon Wireless, which is a joint venture between Verizon Communications and the Vodafone Group, based in Basking Ridge, N.J. Work by Alcatel-Lucent, which is based in Paris, will allow Verizon Wireless to increase the coverage and capacity of its high-speed network and introduce services like voice-over-Internet protocol and mobile video telephony, the companies said...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Deadline for Microsoft Extended
The deadline for Microsoft to reply to a new charge sheet brought by the European Commission has been extended to April 23 from April 3, a spokesman for the European Union said. The extension, granted at Microsoft?s request, was made by the hearing officer dealing with the case, the spokesman said. The commission has charged that Microsoft was unjustified in seeking payment from rivals for interoperability information so that their servers would work properly with its products...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Home Builder Acquires a Rival
A British home builder, Taylor Woodrow, agreed to buy a rival, George Wimpey, for more than £2.5 billion ($4.9 billion) in stock to create a market leader in Britain and combine businesses in the United States. The deal will create Taylor Wimpey, with 51 percent of the company held by Woodrow shareholders and 49 percent by those of Wimpey. Taylor Wimpey intends to cut costs by £70 million a year by buying in bulk and by cutting jobs. George Wimpey?s chief executive, Peter Redfern, above, said that fewer than 700 jobs, less than 5 percent of the two company?s combined work force of about 14,000, would be cut. Most of the job losses would be in Britain, he added. In the United States, Taylor Wimpey will combine the two companies? operations in Florida, Arizona, Texas and California. Stock in both companies rose in response to the agreement...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
World Business Briefing | Australia/new Zealand: New Zealand: Investors Buy Yellow Pages
CCMP Capital Asia and a unit of the Ontario Teachers? Pension Plan agreed to buy the Yellow Pages unit of the Telecom Corporation of New Zealand for 2.24 billion New Zealand dollars ($1.6 billion). CCMP Asia, a buyout firm spun off from JPMorgan Chase, and Teachers? Private Capital will pay 2.17 billion New Zealand dollars in cash for the print and online directories, Telecom New Zealand said. Telecom New Zealand also expects to get 75 million New Zealand dollars from the unit?s debtors, and plans to use income from the sale to return capital to shareholders, it said...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Memo Pad
TRAVEL COST MORE IN 2006 Average one-way domestic air fares paid by corporations, which dropped to a six-year low in 2005, rose last year to $231, the American Express Business Travel Monitor reported. Average one-way international fares continued a four-year climb, to $1,707, and average international daily hotel rates rose for the fifth consecutive year, to $230. Average daily car rental rates crept up again, to $69. Corporate pressure on business travelers to comply with booking policies held down the rate of increases, said Mike Streit, vice president of American Express Business Travel Advisory Services. The average air fare rates were calculated from hundreds of domestic and international routes negotiated for corporate clients by American Express, from discount coach to first class. The average rate for car rentals includes fuel, taxes and other charges. Among domestic hotels, average nightly rates rose most sharply in the cheapest niche, the budget category, to $179 in the fourth quarter of 2006 from $150 in the comparable 2005 quarter...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Carrefour Speculation Ends
Speculation that Carrefour, the French retailer, was headed for a takeover were dashed late Friday, setting off a sharp decline in the company?s share price yesterday. Takeover speculation ended when Bernard Arnault, a French investor, and Colony Capital, an American investment firm, said they would not acquire more than 20 percent of Carrefour until June 30, 2008, unless Carrefour?s largest shareholder, the Halley family, decided to sell its 13 percent stake or a new shareholder bought more than 5 percent of the company. Speculation that a takeover was imminent had swirled around the company since last month when Colony Capital and Mr. Arnault, together with a hedge fund, bought a 9.8 percent stake. Stock in Carrefour, which is based in Paris, fell 1.19 euros, or 2 percent, to 54.22 euros a share...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
HealthSouth to Sell Surgery Division
The $920 million deal is second major divestiture for the rehabilitation chain as it restructures after a major financial scandal...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
20 Million Copies of Vista Reported Sold
Analysts questioned the figure and said it shed little light on the program?s popularity during its first month on the market...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Progress for Northwest
Northwest Airlines can begin seeking creditor approval of a plan to exit bankruptcy that values the company at an estimated $7 billion...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Ex-Financial Officer Accused of Fraud
The former C.F.O. of Engineered Support Systems is accused of backdating stock options without disclosing his actions...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Sales Growth at Tiffany
Quarterly earnings beat estimates and the luxury jeweler said it was on track to meet its first-quarter earnings forecast...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Ex-Qwest Official Says Nacchio Ignored Advice
The former chief of Qwest Communications insisted on telling analysts the company could meet revenue targets that were later revised, an ex-finance chief testified...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Ex-Software Chief Is Guilty
The former chief executive of Aspen Technology pleaded guilty to federal charges that he lied to investors...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
S.E.C. Censures Ernst & Young
The accounting firm was ordered to pay $1.6 million to settle charges that it compromised its independence and contributed to faulty accounting by a client in 2001...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Merck and Schering-Plough Plan Another Cholesterol Drug
The two companies will develop a medicine combining their Zetia with Pfizer?s blockbuster Lipitor...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
After Early Losses, Wall St. Bounces Back
A surprise drop in new-home sales for February set off concern that economic growth was slowing more than expected...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Morgan Stanley to Sell Subprime Lender?s Loans
Morgan Stanley will auction $2.48 billion of residential mortgages from the troubled subprime lender New Century Financial...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Executive Tells of Odd Payouts to Hollinger
A half-billion dollars in asset sales by Hollinger were structured to funnel money to a Canadian holding company controlled by Conrad M. Black, the executive said...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Frequent Flier: When the U.F.O.?s Land, It?s Time for a Long Nap
Business travel is a lot like space travel. The fatigue you experience is pretty much the same...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Mine Company Makes Bid for Nickel Producer
Xstrata, the Swiss mining company, moved to extend its presence in the nickel market with a friendly takeover of LionOre Mining International...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Walgreen Quarterly Profit Jumps 25%
Profit was bolstered by strong holiday sales and continued growth in prescription drugs...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
E.On Bid for Endesa Wins Support From the Board and a Large Shareholder
The developments came as E.On began legal action to fight a rival 11th-hour bid for the Spanish utility...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Barclays Chief Places Third in Pay
Robert Diamond, the president and head of investment banking, made $30 million in 2006, five times as much as John Varley, the C.E.O...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Ex-President of CBS Radio Is Returning to Lead Unit
CBS will bring back the former president of its radio division, Dan Mason, to succeed Joel Hollander as head of the 144-station group...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Advertising: In London, a Trial Over an Anonymous Blog
Testimony has offered new insights into the hands-on style of the chief executive of the WPP Group, and the strong feelings it has sometimes produced...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
New-Home Sales Dropped 3.9% in February
The sales drop hit their lowest level in nearly seven years, according to a report released on Monday...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Carmakers Push More Use of Alternative Fuels
Automakers urged President Bush to bring ethanol and biodiesel to more pumps as they bolster output of so-called flex-fuel vehicles...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Intel to Build Advanced Chip-Making Plant in China
The $2.5 billion chip-manufacturing plant is set to become the company?s first major production site in Asia...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
On the Road: It Can Hold 853 Passengers, but Why Should You Share?
For some, an Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane, is just the right size for a private jet...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Life Magazine, Its Pages Dwindling, Will Cease Publication
Life magazine will cease publication next month, the third time since Life?s founding in 1936 that its owner has pulled the plug...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Yahoo to Offer a Network for Web Ads on Cellphones
The mobile ad network will allow marketers to place ads not only on Yahoo?s mobile services, but also on those of other online publishers...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Bertelsmann Reaches Deal With EMI Over Napster
The German media giant will pay an undisclosed sum to the EMI Group for copyright infringement but admit no liability...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
In Trial, Drugs Equal Benefits of Artery Stents
Many heart patients routinely implanted with stents to open arteries gain no lasting benefit compared to those treated with drugs...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Runs, Hits and Calories
Think you have a hard time eating right while traveling? Imagine if all your business was done in the ballpark...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Justices Hear Arguments About Pacts on Pricing
The Supreme Court will determine whether retailers are permitted to discount a manufacturer?s product, even if the maker does not want the price to go below a certain level...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Stock Bonuses at American Anger Pilots
The combined $21 million in stock payouts to five top executives at American Airlines is looming large in labor talks with pilots...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Stockman Is Charged With Fraud
The former budget director for President Ronald Reagan was indicted on charges that he covered up the dire financial state at Collins & Aikman, the auto parts supplier he ran...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Tough Days to Be a French Oilman
Total?s aggressive practices may have led to an investigation of the company?s chief executive...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
Citigroup to Cut at Least 10,000 in an Overhaul
The move is part of a broad effort to cut costs and streamline the bank?s unwieldy global operations...
New York Times - March 27, 2007
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