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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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US News Archive for January 2008:
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The Lede: Life in Cairo Without the Internet
Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Panel Passes Congestion Pricing Plan
The plan to thin Manhattan?s traffic was generally the same as Mayor Bloomberg?s, with a few differences...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Al Qaeda Operative Reportedly Killed
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Abu Laith al-Libi, a top al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan who was blamed for bombing a base while Vice President Cheney was visiting last year, has been killed, according to a militant Web site...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Giants Make Statements of Fashion and Confidence
At the Giants? final media day before the Super Bowl, defensive end Osi Umenyiora apologized for his criticism of the Patriots? Matt Light ? sort of...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Kurds? Power Wanes as Arab Anger Rises
Once in a position of enormous strength, Iraqi Kurds are now pursuing policies that are antagonizing other factions and uniting most Sunnis and many Shiites...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Wyeth Posts 19% Higher Profit; 2 Rivals Fare Less Well
AstraZeneca reported a 12.5 percent drop in profit and Bristol-Myers Squibb posted a loss, albeit a narrower one...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Newell Rubbermaid Cuts Sales Forecast
ATLANTA (Reuters) ? The consumer products maker Newell Rubbermaid cut its 2008 sales forecast on Thursday, saying it did not expect economic conditions in North America to improve, and its shares fell...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Burger King Profit Jumps 29 Percent
Net income for the world?s No. 2 hamburger chain rose to $49 million as the stalwart Whopper, the new Homestyle Melt and promotions lifted global sales at stores open at least a year...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Like Home-Builder Shares? Look Again
The worse the news got, the better the stocks performed...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Anheuser Earnings Fall Short of Estimate
A resurgence in sales helped push the brewer?s profit to $214 million in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Motorola Considering Realignment of Businesses
Motorola said it is exploring a realignment of its businesses to boost its struggling cellphone unit, which has fallen on hard times after a two-year run of success with the Razr...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Sweden Accuses 4 of Copyright Offenses
Prosecutors say that Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Web site, helps others violate copyright laws by linking providers of pirated songs and films with people searching for the same material...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Amazon to Buy Audiobook Seller for $300 Million
Amazon.com, which has been rapidly adding digital downloads to its vast Web store, will bolster those offerings with Audible, the largest online seller of audiobooks...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Small Law Firm?s Big Role in Bundling Mortgages
Questions are growing about whether law firms that helped investment banks bundle home loans into securities adequately disclosed the risks to investors...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Eurozone Inflation Rising at Record Pace
The increase highlighted the difficult task facing the European Central Bank as it seeks to enforce price stability in the face of slowing economic growth...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Home Depot Plans Layoffs at Headquarters
Battered by a downturn in the housing market, the company is laying off 500 workers at its headquarters in Atlanta, or about 10 percent of its work force there...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Russia Creates a $32 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund
Russia has split its oil proceeds into two funds and has cleared the way for one to invest in foreign stocks and bonds, officials said. Actual investments are not expected to begin until next fall...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Google Earnings Fall Short of Expectations
Google said that its profit jumped 17 percent in the fourth quarter, but the earnings fell short of analysts? expectations, and the company?s shares fell after hours...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Sony Profit Increases 25 Percent
Sony said its profit rose in the final three months of 2007, helped by robust sales of televisions and computer games...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Stocks Rally as Concern Over Bond Insurer Eases
Wall Street was sharply higher as investors shrugged off concerns about problems in the bond insurance industry...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
China?s Inflation Hits American Price Tags
Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods, as well as the beginning of China?s rise from the lowest rungs of global manufacturing...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Regulators Warn France Against Protecting Bank
As numerous European banks assess whether to make a bid for Société Générale, regulators in Brussels warned France against any effort to thwart open competition...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Diehard Sports Fans Face Heart Risk
The more important the sporting event, the higher the heart attack risk for fans, a new study shows...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
The Lede: Money Sent Back to Mexico Slows
After years of growth in "remittances," a crackdown on illegal immigration and a slowing United States economy appear to take a toll...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Why Dinkins Supports Clinton
David N. Dinkins, who was New York City's first black mayor and who supported Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, says his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton "starts with friendship and loyalty."...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blast at a mosque that killed a deputy governor and five other people...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Chinese Blizzards Reveal Rail Limits
Disrupted coal deliveries after winter blizzards have exposed the fragility of China?s transport networks...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Patriots Baffled by Burress?s Crystal Ball
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady seemed most surprised by the low score Plaxico Burress envisioned for his team...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Second Kenyan Opposition Legislator Killed
The killing set off riots in opposition strongholds and caused the postponement of talks led by Kofi Annan...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Obama?s Big Haul
Senator Barack Obama has raised $32 million and attracted 170,000 new contributors in January, the campaign said...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Republicans Battle for Votes and Money in California
Mitt Romney is buying advertising in California?s expensive media markets as Senator John McCain was endorsed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Overseas Strength Lifts Profit at Lear
The auto parts maker reversed a year-earlier loss, supported by strength in its business outside North America and a broad restructuring...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Burger King Profit Up 29 Percent
Net income for the world?s No. 2 hamburger chain rose to $49 million as the stalwart Whopper, the new Homestyle Melt and promotions lifted global sales at stores open at least a year...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Media General Profit Slides
The newspaper publisher and television station operator said fourth-quarter profit dropped 70 percent, hurt by a write-down and less political advertising revenue...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
E.W. Scripps Earnings Decline on Ad Weakness
Fourth-quarter profit fell 8 percent on declining advertising sales at the company?s newspapers and television stations...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Bristol Reports Loss on Charges
Charges to retire debt and finance the proposed settlement of a probe into its marketing practices more than offset strong sales growth at Bristol-Myers, which posted a loss of $133 million...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Western Union Earnings Up 12 Percent
The money transfer company said fourth-quarter earnings rose to $243.3 million on transaction fee growth and improved foreign exchange revenue...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Tax Gains Offset Recalls at Mattel
The toy maker said fourth-quarter profit rose 15 percent and it approved an added $500 million stock buyback...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
CVS Profit Nearly Doubles With Caremark
The pharmacy chain said fourth-quarter earnings after preferred dividends jumped to $811.2 million with its acquisition of the pharmacy-benefits manager...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
AstraZeneca Profit Down 12.5 Percent
Citing its acquisition of MedImmune and falling demand for its ulcer treatment, the drugmaker said earnings fell to $1.27 billion in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Wyeth Forecasts Lower Earnings for 2008
The company said fourth-quarter earnings rose 17 percent on higher sales of its Enbrel arthritis drug and Prevnar vaccine, but said generic competition would hit 2008 profit...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Raytheon Profit and Sales Beat Expectations
Fourth-quarter earnings jumped 64 percent, due in part to a $214 million gain from a tax benefit, as well as more streamlined operations at the military contractor...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
MasterCard Profit Soars on Global Business
Strong spending abroad and its sale of stock in a Brazilian company lifted MasterCard?s profit in the fourth quarter by about seven-fold, sending shares sharply higher...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Colgate Profit Rises on Global Sales
The company posted fourth-quarter profit of $414.9 million, helped by growth in emerging markets and the weaker dollar...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Procter & Gamble Beats Expectations
P&G said second-quarter earnings rose 14 percent as strong sales growth and cost-cutting measures more than offset higher commodity costs...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Fed Cuts Key Rate as Stimulus Plan Advances
The Fed?s move on Wednesday was part of a one-two punch by Washington aimed at jolting the economy...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Tainted Drugs Tied to Maker of Abortion Pill
A Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Times Co. Swings to Profit
The New York Times Company reported a fourth-quarter profit of $53 million as revenue dropped, but it continued to fare better than most of its peers across the troubled newspaper industry...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Amazon to Buy Audible for $300 Million
The deal for the provider of digital audiobooks bolsters Amazon?s offerings of audio downloads...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
H.P. Case to Go Forward in India
After an H.P. employee was raped and killed by a driver the company employed, India?s highest court may force international firms to do more to guard local workers? safety...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Senate Democrats Short of Votes for Stimulus Bill
Democrats acknowledged that a vote on the $161 billion economic stimulus package might have to be delayed...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Stocks Rebound on Comments From Bond Insurer
Wall Street climbed back from an early morning slide as investors hoped that reassuring news about the bond insurance industry would stick...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Consumer Spending Falls Off
Spending slowed in December and inflation continued to rise, leaving the Fed little leeway in the months ahead...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Gloomy time for US consumers
Financial pressures hit US consumers and spending slumps to a 15-month low in December, data shows...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
El Salvador judges hold protest
More than 400 judges in El Salvador take to the streets over accusations of corruption against four of their colleagues...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
US election at-a-glance: 30 Jan
A day-by-day guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Rio judge bans float on Holocaust
A Brazilian judge orders a samba group taking part in the Rio carnival to remove a float depicting the Holocaust ...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
US-Russia economy talks planned
The US and Russia are to begin formal economic talks at ministerial level, the US embassy in Moscow says...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
DealBook: Banks Among 2007 Hedge Fund Losers
While many big-name hedge funds prospered in 2007, Dow Jones notes that one notable group struggled: funds run by large Wall Street firms and traditional money managers. As a group, hedge funds returned 12.5 percent last year, beating annual returns in the Standard & Poor's 500 index of 5.5 percent, according to the Credit Suisse Tremont [...]...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
The Oscars? ?Contingency Plan?
The Associated Press reports: A contingency plan that would include history, film clips and out-of-the-ordinary concepts for the 80th annual Academy Awards show is in the works, academy president Sid Ganis told The Associated Press on Wednesday. With the writers strike dragging dangerously close to the Feb. 24 telecast, the film academy is planning two Oscar shows: [...]...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Spears Taken to Hospital, Police Say
Britney Spears was taken from her house by ambulance early Thursday, police told The Associated Press...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official
A suicide bomber exploded a car next to an Afghan army bus, and authorities in the east said that they found the decapitated bodies of four construction workers...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Istanbul Firework Explosion Kills 19
An explosion caused by fireworks killed 19 people and injured 68 on Thursday, Turkish officials said...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Second Kenyan Lawmaker Is Killed
An opposition lawmaker was gunned down by a police officer in the second fatal shooting of an opposition legislator this week amid ethnic fighting...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Sony?s Income Rose 25% in Quarter
The electronic products maker said Thursday that its net income in the third quarter rose 25 percent to 200.2 billion yen ($1.9 billion)...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Record European Profits for Shell, but Quarter Disappoints
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc posted record European company earnings of $27.6 billion in 2007, but fourth-quarter profit missed forecasts...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Amazon warns of profit slowdown
Web retailer Amazon.com warns profit growth over the next three months will slow despite a strong Christmas...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
US mayor pleads for forgiveness
Detroit's mayor issues a televised plea for forgiveness over explicit text messages he allegedly sent to a top aide...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Senate delays US rescue plan
The Senate Finance Committee passes a different stimulus package to the Bush Administration, setting up a possible conflict...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Brazil carjack killers sentenced
Four young men in Brazil get maximum jail sentences after they dragged a six-year-old boy to his death behind a car they had stolen...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Canada PM issues Afghan ultimatum
Canada tells the US that it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan unless Nato deploys more troops there...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
Wesley Snipes?s Anti-Tax Manifesto
In a filing with the I.R.S., the actor explains his views with defiance and legalese...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
President?s Budget Would Seek Health Savings
In his new budget, President Bush will call for large cuts in the growth of Medicare and he will again seek major savings in Medicaid...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Scientists Weigh In on Mercury
A group of scientists who have been meeting regularly to discuss the health effects of methylmercury in seafood note that at their last convention they came to a consensus on a number of issues...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Israeli Inquiry Finds ?Grave Failings? in ?06 War
The report was less scathing about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert than expected, and he is likely to keep his post...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Power Failures Outrage South Africa
Electricity shortages, now expected to be a fact of life for the next five years, are threatening economic growth...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Blue-Collar Giants Revel in Unity and Obscurity
There are a lot of N.F.L. stars playing in Sunday?s Super Bowl, but none of them are on the Giants? offensive line...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically
Piet Oudolf, whose work has inspired a gardening movement in Europe called New Wave Planting, believes a well-composed garden should decompose beautifully...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Needing a Hail Mary, Fans Find a Monastery
For $250 a night in a city where Super Bowl rentals are topping out at $250,000 a week, Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery can offer a crash pad for football fans this weekend...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Narrowed Fields Hurtle Toward Big Voting Tests
John Edwards and Rudolph W. Giuliani both quit the race, and Mr. Giuliani endorsed John McCain. Mr. McCain?s aides said he would also be endorsed by Arnold Schwarzenegger...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
In This War, How to Ally With Both
HD DVD continues to show some fight in its seemingly unending war with Blu-ray. Meanwhile, LG and Samsung introduce new dual-format players...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Tainted Drugs Linked to Maker of Abortion Pill
A state-owned Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Office Tower to Rise in Harlem for Baseball TV Network
Major League Baseball plans to build a home on 125th Street, Harlem?s premier boulevard, for its cable network...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
An Ex-President, a Mining Deal and a Big Donor
A Canadian financier who traveled to Kazakhstan with Bill Clinton and won a big mining deal later donated millions to Mr. Clinton?s charitable foundation...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Economists Dissect the ?Yuck? Factor
People don?t pay enough attention to how repugnance affects decisions about what can be bought and sold, asserts an economist at Harvard University...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Honda Quarterly Profit Jumps 38 Percent
Honda, which sells nearly half of its vehicles in North America, posted profit of $1.87 billion and revised upward its annual profit forecast...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
NCR?s Profit Drops 55 Percent After Spinoff
The ATM maker said earnings fell to $79 million in the fourth quarter, reflecting the spinoff of its Teradata software unit...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Kodak?s Profit Leaps, Helped by Digital Sales
The Eastman Kodak Company reported a fourth-quarter profit of $215 million, a big increase from a year earlier...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Profit Falls at Kellogg, Though Revenue Rises
Kellogg reported Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit dropped 3.3 percent, in part because of higher energy and costs, including for advertising. Its shares fell 51 cents, to $49.11...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Boeing Beats Wall Street?s Forecast
CHICAGO (AP) ? Boeing reported a 4 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday, topping Wall Street?s expectations despite concerns over delays in the 787 Dreamliner...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Kraft Blames High Dairy Prices for Lower Profit
CHICAGO (AP) ? Kraft Foods, the food and beverage maker, said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent, weighed down by record-high dairy prices...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
United Parcel Service Swings to a Loss
United Parcel Service Inc., the package delivery company, reported a quarterly loss on Wednesday because of a $6.1 billion pension-related charge. The company also forecast weak first-quarter earnings...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Vioxx Charges Push Merck Into Quarterly Loss
Merck posted a $1.63 billion fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday as charges for its Vioxx litigation settlement dragged down results and share prices...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Altria Plans to Spin Off Overseas Division in March
The Altria Group said Wednesday that it would spin off its international tobacco business on March 28, freeing it to pursue cigarette sales more aggressively outside the United States...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Credit Card Processor Sues Blackstone to Finish Buyout
Alliance Data Systems sued the Blackstone Group, seeking to force the private equity firm to complete its $6.4 billion buyout of the company...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Profit Up, Lazard Defies Investment Banking Trend
While other financial services companies are bleeding, the investment bank run by Bruce Wasserstein reported a 43 percent jump in its fourth-quarter profits...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Weak Dollar Has Small Businesses Thinking Globally
A variety of small businesses in the U.S. are starting to take advantage of the mismatch between a weak dollar and the purchasing power of customers using strong currencies...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Rally Sputters in a Late-Day Sell-Off
A Fed rally on Wall Street abruptly fizzled Wednesday as excitement over an interest rate cut gave way to new concerns about subprime mortgage woes...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
In Europe, Questions Over Continuing Write-Downs
Swiss bank UBS?s string of stinging financial disclosures is symptomatic of how the subprime drama has unfolded in Europe and is stoking fears of more shocks to come...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Higher Costs Cited as U.S. Shuts Down Coal Project
The Energy Department canceled its main program for demonstrating how to use coal without adding to global warming, citing the program?s soaring costs...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Doctor Accused of Leak to Drug Maker
A member of the Senate said that a diabetes expert tipped GlaxoSmithKline to the publication of safety questions about Avandia...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Starbucks to Close Stores and End Sandwich Sales
The decision came as Starbucks reported anemic sales growth of 1 percent at stores open at least a year, the worst three-month performance in the company?s history...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Marsh Chooses a Semi-Outsider to Be Its Chief
The insurance broker Marsh & McLennan named the former head of the ACE insurance company, Brian Duperreault, as its chief executive...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Strong Holiday Season Lifts Amazon?s Revenue
The online retailer?s revenue was up 42 percent in its fourth quarter and its profits more than doubled, but its profit margins were lower...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
2 Communication Cables in the Mediterranean Are Cut
The damage to the cables knocked out Internet access to much of Egypt, disrupted the world?s back office in India and slowed down service for some Verizon customers...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
This Year?s Super Bowl Ads to Be Gentle and Sweet
No matter how rough the action gets when the New England Patriots meet the New York Giants, the advertisers will be playing nice...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Recent Moves by Guild Leaders Rattle Writers? Talks
A Writers Guild leader expressed wariness over modeling a deal on a new contract recently reached between production companies and the Directors Guild of America...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Ailing Fortunoff Attracts a Suitor
The owner of the 182-year-old Lord & Taylor department store chain is close to buying the jewelry and housewares retailer in a $100 million deal...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Quarter?s Weak Growth Adds to Signs of Slowdown
Over all, the economy expanded by 2.2 percent in inflation-adjusted terms for all of 2007, the slowest rate of growth in five years...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
A Warning on Insurers Frays Nerves
The Federal Reserve tried to soothe Wall Street?s nerves Wednesday, but a fund manager frayed them by warning that two pillars of the financial markets might crumble...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Keeping an Eye on China?s Security
Concern over China?s use of surveillance technology prompts new rules for U.S. exports...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Bank Defies French Elite and Keeps Chief, for Now
The decision to keep Daniel Bouton at the helm of Société Générale baffled some people in the United States and Britain...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Fed Moves Again, Cutting Key Rate by Half a Point
The Fed?s move was part of a one-two punch by Washington aimed at jolting the economy with easier credit and extra money...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Lilly Considers $1 Billion Fine to Settle Case
The fine would settle a civil and criminal investigation into the company?s marketing of an antipsychotic drug...
New York Times - January 31, 2008
Atlantis launch set for next week
Nasa mission managers give the go-ahead for the space shuttle Atlantis to launch on Thursday of next week...
BBC News - January 31, 2008
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