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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Colbert on Colbert Its fun playing a jerk
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Dancing with the Stars contestant injured
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hopper stars in Starz series Crash
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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US News Archive for December 2005:
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Specter: Alito said he will respect abortion precedents
In a private meeting with the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito sought to reassure lawmakers that he would respect legal precedent on abortion rights and put his personal views aside...
CNN - December 2, 2005
Supreme Court Pick Assures Key Senator on Abortion Views
Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. told Senator Arlen Specter that his personal views on abortion "would not be a factor" in his rulings...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Pataki Asks Pirro to Consider Withdrawing From Senate Race
After talks with Gov. George E. Pataki, Jeanine F. Pirro said she still intends to challenge Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Cold snap forces oil price higher
Oil prices head upwards as a cold snap takes hold in the US despite promises by oil cartel Opec to keep pumping...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Brazil market soars on rate hopes
Brazil's key stock index hits record levels as investors hope for an imminent interest rate cut...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Abductors threaten Iraq hostages
Four Western hostages in Iraq will be killed unless Iraqi detainees are freed, captors say in a new videotape...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Bush voices death penalty support
US President George Bush backs the death penalty, hours after the country's 1,000th execution...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Rap heads cleared of racketeering
Rap moguls Irving and Christopher Lorenzo are acquitted of laundering money for a New York drug lord...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
10 Marines killed near Falluja
A roadside bomb kills 10 Marines on "foot patrol near Falluja," the Marine Corps says. Eleven Marines were also wounded. The improvised explosive device was "fashioned from several large artillery shells," the Marine Corps says...
CNN - December 2, 2005
New air travel rules unveiled
The Transportation Security Administration on Friday announced changes in screening procedures at the nation's commercial airports, allowing passengers to take small scissors on planes but increasing random passenger checks...
CNN - December 2, 2005
Specter: Alito's personal views won't drive rulings
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, who expressed strong opposition to abortion rights two decades ago, pledged Friday that his personal views on the subject "would not be a factor" in his rulings, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said...
CNN - December 2, 2005
North Carolina Man Is 1,000th Executed
Kenneth Lee Boyd died by lethal injection for the 1988 shootings of his estranged wife and her father...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Gulf Rebuilding Helps Boost Job Growth
Energy prices fell and rebuilding in the Gulf Coast drove up construction and other employment...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
US labour market 'more buoyant'
More than 215,000 new jobs are created in the US in October, the best monthly performance since July...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
US reservist on Iraq charges
A US army officer is accused of accepting bribes and stealing reconstruction funds while serving in Iraq...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
US to relax airline scissor ban
The US is to relax its ban on airline passengers carrying sharp objects in a move which alarms flight attendants...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Amnesty condemns Brazilian police
Human rights group Amnesty says millions of poor people in Brazil have been abandoned by state policing...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
U.S. carries out 1,000th execution
A convicted murderer has become the 1,000th person put to death in the United States since the country resumed executions in 1977...
CNN - December 2, 2005
TSA to unveil new rules
The Transportation Security Administration today will announce changes in screening procedures at the nation's commercial airports, allowing passengers to take small scissors and tools on planes but increasing random passenger checks and the thoroughness of pat-down searches...
CNN - December 2, 2005
North Carolina Man Is 1,000th Executed Since 1976 Decision
Kenneth Lee Boyd, of Rockingham, N.C., died by lethal injection for the 1988 shootings of his estranged wife and her father...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Coniston Journal: Achievement or Disaster: Which Is Remembered Best?
Uncovering the wreckage of the Bluebird, once the fastest speedboat in the world, also dredged up uncomfortable questions for the British...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Conrad Black appears in US court
Press tycoon Conrad Black appears in a US court to deny charges that he defrauded his former media group...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Remembering Rosa's foot soldiers
The 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest also focuses on lesser-known participants of the US civil rights protest...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Budget woes stop Annan Asia tour
The UN secretary-general calls off a planned Asian tour because of disagreements over the UN budget...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
Singapore executes Australian
Singapore's government hanged an Australian man for drug trafficking early Friday, hours after making an exception to prison policy by letting the condemned man's mother hold her son's hand one last time...
CNN - December 2, 2005
2 Talk Show Titans Are Speaking Again
Oprah Winfrey ended a 16-year absence from David Letterman's couch in grand style Thursday night, appearing as a guest on his "Late Show" on CBS...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Profusion of Rebel Groups Helps Them Survive in Iraq
The Iraqi insurgency is not a coherent organization, but consists of dozens of cells, possibly 100, that act on their own...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Lobbyist's Role in Hiring Aides Is Investigated
Prosecutors are examining whether Jack Abramoff brokered lucrative jobs for Congressional aides at lobbying firms...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Bird by Bird, China Tackles Vast Flu Task
Worried about its credibility, China has stepped up efforts to inoculate 14.2 billion domesticated fowl against avian flu...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
After 24 Years on Death Row, Clemency Is Killer's Final Appeal
Stanley Williams awaits the possibility that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will commute his sentence to life in prison...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Months After Katrina, Bittersweet Homecoming in the 9th Ward
While the center of New Orleans is slowly reviving, the African-American community known as the Lower Ninth Ward is still ghostly...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
2 Companies Plan to Expand and Add Jobs in Hunts Point
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said the businesses together would create more than 900 jobs over the next three years...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
A Nazi Past, a Queens Home Life, an Overlooked Death
The death of the first United States citizen to be extradited to Germany for war crimes appears to have gone unrecorded by American newspapers and magazines...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Senate Summons Pentagon to Explain Effort to Plant News Stories in Iraqi Media
Top Pentagon officials were asked to explain a reported secret military campaign to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
E. Cardon Walker, 89, Ex-Disney Executive
E. Cardon Walker helped create Walt Disney World and expand Disney theme parks around the world...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Sports Media and Business: Collinsworth and Madden Would Unite Analytic Minds
John Madden is savvy enough about television to know that working with Cris Collinsworth would be a fitting third act for his career...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
[TS] Pension Truths: A Scare for Investors?
This decade may be remembered as a time when better accounting changed reality in ways that were not always pleasant...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Advertising: 'The Apprentice' to Try Out Palm Trees
NBC announced this week that the show will be based in Los Angeles, starting late in the 2006 season...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
After Autos' Big Summer, Sales Continue to Weaken
Auto sales declined in November for a fourth consecutive month as American makers once again felt the effects of this summer's price wars...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Lord Black Pleads Not Guilty
CHICAGO, Dec. 1 - The media baron Conrad M. Black pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he and three former colleagues stole $83.8 million from Hollinger International, the international publishing company he helped create...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Spending and Incomes Show Increase
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (AP) - Personal spending rose 0.2 percent in October and personal incomes were up 0.4 percent after two months in which they were skewed by the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Commerce Department said Thursday...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Upbeat Economic Picture
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (AP) - The Bush administration on Thursday issued a slightly more optimistic estimate of economic growth this year...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Plan for an 'iPod Tax' in Japan Unravels
A plan to charge an "iPod tax," or royalties on portable digital music players, unraveled after a government committee failed to reach agreement on the measure...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Shares Move Higher as Reports Indicate Low Inflation
Economic reports showing few signs of inflation pushed shares higher yesterday, ending a three-day string of declines amid a five-week rally...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Ameriprise Will Settle Charges
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (Reuters) - Ameriprise Financial and its broker-dealer unit will pay a total of $57.3 million to settle charges of illegal trading in mutual fund shares and brokerage misconduct, regulators said Thursday...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
V.C. Nation: Money Begins Flowing to New York Start-Ups Again
Venture capital funds are starting to grow again in New York after a long dry spell...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
NBC Shifts Shows to Try to Regain Thursdays
NBC announced several schedule changes in an effort to rebuild its Thursday night comedy lineup and reclaim a night that has defined the network for two decades...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Pfizer Fires a Vice President Who Criticized the Company's Sales Practices
Pfizer said it had fired Peter Rost, a vice president for corporate marketing who engaged in a public campaign against Pfizer over drug prices for the last year...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Ruling for Maker of BlackBerry
Research in Motion won a second ruling from the United States Patent and Trademark Office over one of the patents at the center of a dispute over its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Chairman of Cable Giant Urges Industry Shift to Flexible Pricing
Breaking ranks with his compatriots in the cable industry, Charles F. Dolan, the chairman of the Cablevision Systems Corporation, said yesterday that he supported giving consumers the option of paying only for the channels they want, not just the large bundles of channels that are typically offered...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Hedge Fund Settles Trade Case
Millennium Partners agreed to a $180 million settlement over a scheme to trade in and out of mutual funds...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
In Guarded Tones, European Bank Raises Rates for First Time in 5 Years
Venturing gingerly onto a path of tighter credit, the European Central Bank nudged up its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point, to 2.25 percent...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Mothers' Flight From Job Force Questioned
Working mothers may be stressed by the double job of caring for their careers and their families, but they are not leaving the work force because of it, a report has found...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
New York Story Closes With a Deal
Lebenthal, which popularized municipal bonds, is set to become part of Merrill Lynch...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
A Clash of Exchange Titans
The New York Stock Exchange is primed to become a for-profit publicly traded company. Oddly enough, Nasdaq could not be more pleased...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Drained at the Pump, Shoppers Cut Back
Consumers are flocking to discount chains and purchasing more online, but skipping many full-priced shops at the mall...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Merrill Unit Subpoenaed on Pensions
The company's pension consulting unit in Florida received a subpoena from regulators as part of an investigation into conflicts of interest among pension fund advisers...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Sony BMG to Revamp Management at Labels
Sony BMG is planning a reorganization that relies partly on a swap of executives from the two main labels, Columbia and Epic...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Lofty Promise of Saturn Plant Runs Into G.M.'s Fiscal Reality
A Saturn plant once lauded as the savior of the U.S. auto industry is among 12 factories that G.M. plans to shut or partly close...
New York Times - December 2, 2005
Prominent Cuba dissident released
Cuba frees a prominent dissident who was among a group of 75 government opponents arrested in 2003...
BBC News - December 2, 2005
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