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US News Archive for May 2007:
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Putin accuses U.S. of starting new arms race
Less than a week before the G8 summit, tensions between the United States and Russia reached a new peak Thursday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Washington of starting a new arms race over its plans to develop a missile defense shield in Europe...
CNN - May 31, 2007
Valerie Wilson Sues C.I.A. Over Memoir
The former C.I.A. operative at the heart of the leak scandal sued the agency today over its refusal to allow her to publish a memoir...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Columbia Settles Student Loan Case
Columbia University will also submit its student loan operation to monitoring by the attorney general...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Olmert and Abbas to Meet in Palestinian Territories
The meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to take place in the Palestinian territories for the first time, aides said...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Taliban May Have Caused Copter Crash
Seven NATO service members were killed when the Chinook helicopter went down in southern Afghanistan...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Genome of DNA Pioneer Is Deciphered
The sequencing of James D. Watson?s genome could be the gateway to an era of personalized genomic medicine...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
U.S. Troops Raid Sadr City in Search for 5 Britons
The search for five British civilians kidnapped from an Iraqi government building intensified today and the Iraqi government pledged its support for an investigation...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
TB Patient Is Son-in-Law of C.D.C. Expert on Tuberculosis
The infected man?s father-in-law insisted that neither he nor his laboratory was the source of the tuberculosis infection...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Dell Reports Better-Than-Expected Profit
Dell also announced that it would lay off 10 percent of its work force over the next year in order to reduce costs...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Starbucks embraces low-fat milk
Starbucks is to switch to using low-fat milk in all its North American stores and could soon do the same elsewhere...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
US 'disturbed' by Iran detentions
The US has strongly criticised Iran over the detention of three US citizens and the suspected arrest of a fourth...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
TB patient faces months in care
A US man with a rare form of TB is moved to a special clinic as calls widen for anyone in contact with him to be checked...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
'Operation Humpback' considered a success
Scientists observing the wayward wanderings of two humpback whales in a California river have more to celebrate than their return to the Pacific Ocean. The pair also provided an unexpected opportunity to study the endangered species...
CNN - May 31, 2007
Bush urges polluters to set goals
President Bush urged 15 major nations -- identified as major polluters -- to agree by the end of next year on a global emissions goal for reducing greenhouse gases, rejecting current proposals from Germany, which holds the European Union and Group of Eight presidencies...
CNN - May 31, 2007
Suspect Accuses British in Spy?s Death
The suspect in the fatal poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko said today that a British intelligence agency and a Russian tycoon had organized the killing...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
U.S. Economic Growth Weakest in Over 4 Years
Growth advanced at a rate of just 0.6 percent, compared with an initial estimate of 1.3 percent...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Wachovia to Buy A.G. Edwards
Wachovia said on Thursday that it would buy A.G. Edwards for $6.8 billion in cash and stock, forming the second-largest retail stock brokerage firm in the United States after Merrill Lynch...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
States jostle for primary power
US states push to choose their White House candidates earlier to have more say in the process - but it may backfire...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Tennis: Hewitt overcomes Gaudio
Lleyton Hewitt recovers from two sets down to beat former champion Gaston Gaudio, as Rafael Nadal also wins at the French Open...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
US 'slavery' couple granted bail
An Indian-born couple accused of keeping two Indonesians as slaves in their US home get bail on strict conditions...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
US actor to run for president
Fred Thompson, a Hollywood actor and former US senator, says he is planning to run for president in 2008...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Cold forces Argentine energy cuts
Argentina rations energy supplies as cold weather blamed for 17 deaths strains the country's power system...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
US urges new greenhouse gas goals
US President George W Bush outlines a new plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a G8 summit...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Ex-spy: UK involvement in murder
Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent murdered in London last year, was working for British intelligence at the time, the man charged by Britain with his murder, Andrei Lugovoi, alleges...
CNN - May 31, 2007
Commuters? Cocktail Hour Likely to Keep Rolling
A proposed ban of alcohol on New York-area commuter trains received an overwhelmingly negative response...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
On tour with Bolivia's president
Adoring crowds greet Bolivia's Evo Morales as he tours to get his message across as concern grows among some sectors at his policies...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Using the web to mourn
The net acts more and more as an outlet for grieving in developed societies but not all its limitations are obvious...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
FBI reopens race murder files
The US authorities are re-examining a raft of unsolved racially motivated killings from the 1960s...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Lord Black prosecutors rest case
Prosecutors at the Lord Black fraud trial rest their case after 11 weeks, handing over to the defence team...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Football: Anderson set for Man U
Man Utd agree "in principle" deals to sign FC Porto's Anderson and Sporting Lisbon's Nani...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Hepburn dress sells for $192,000
A cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's sells at auction for $192,000 (£97,233)...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Harry Potter theme park planned
A theme park inspired by the adventures of schoolboy wizard Harry Potter is to open in Florida in 2009...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
US arrests internet 'spam king'
A man nicknamed the 'spam king' for allegedly sending out millions of junk e-mails is arrested in the US...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
Coalition: Taliban have Iran arms
Weapons crossing the border from Iran to Afghanistan may be winding up in the hands of the Taliban, the hard-line Islamic militia that is battling U.S.- and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, U.S. and British officials said...
CNN - May 31, 2007
Schneider: Can Thompson play the role of Reagan?
With 10 Republicans already running for president, former Sen. Fred Thompson can still be a factor by bringing some things other candidates don't: As an actor, he's well known; as a former senator, he's well connected...
CNN - May 31, 2007
Louisiana Sets Deadline for Storm Damage Claims
Grants for those who lost their houses are expected to cost far more than the $7.5 billion the government provided...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Near Misses Allowed Man With Tuberculosis to Fly
Officials are seeking to advise more than 100 passengers who sat closest to him on the longest flights and crew members to be tested for the infection...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Supreme Court Memo: Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg a New Voice on Court
This Supreme Court term will be remembered as the time when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg found her voice, and used it...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Concussion Tied to Depression in Ex-N.F.L. Players
Clinical depression among former players is correlated with the number of concussions they had, a study found...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Naples Journal: In Mire of Politics and the Mafia, Garbage Reigns
All but one of the garbage dumps in Naples, Italy, are closed, and anger is rising along with the smelly mounds...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Big Disparities in Judging of Asylum Cases
The outcome of U.S. asylum cases can be influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a study has found...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Stir in G.O.P. as Ex-Senator Moves to Run
Former Senator Fred D. Thompson could shake up a field of candidates that has failed to strike a chord with the Republican base...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
World Business Briefing: Britain: Executive Is Leaving BP
BP, the British oil company, said the chief executive of its refining and marketing operations is leaving to run Talisman Energy of Canada. The executive, John Manzoni, had been passed over for the chief executive?s position at BP when Tony Hayward was named to the job this month. Mr. Manzoni will become president and chief executive of Talisman. He will be succeeded at BP by a fellow executive, Iain Conn, BP said. Mr. Manzoni was criticized for his handling of safety management after an explosion killed 15 workers at a BP refinery in Texas in March 2005...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
World Business Briefing: South Korea: Industrial Output Rises
South Korea?s industrial output rose in April, helped by increased exports of chips and cars. Manufacturing production jumped 3.1 percent from March, the largest gain in seven months, the National Statistical Office said. Output rose 6.7 percent from a year earlier. Corporate investment in factories surged 15.6 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest gain since September 2006, the report showed. The figures also showed an index of economic indicators climbed 5.1 percent in April from a year earlier after rising 4.9 percent in March...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
World Business Briefing: Morgan Stanley to Buy Real Estate Investor
Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy a real estate investor, the Investa Property Group of Australia, for 4.7 billion Australian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash. Including debt, the offer values Australia?s biggest publicly traded owner of office buildings at 6.6 billion Australian dollars. The bid is subject to an independent expert?s report confirming that the offer is in the best interests of shareholders...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Japan Tobacco Unit to Face Trial
Japan Tobacco?s Canadian unit was ordered by an Ontario judge to stand trial on charges it defrauded the Canadian government out of about a billion Canadian dollars ($931 million) in the 1990s by shipping cigarettes to the United States to avoid paying taxes. The judge, David Fairgrieve of Ontario Provincial Court, said in a 29-page ruling that prosecutors had presented enough evidence to warrant a trial of the unit, JTI-MacDonald. The company has denied any wrongdoing...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
World Business Briefing: France: Qatar Airways Raises Airbus Order
Qatar Airways ordered 20 more Airbus A350s to become the largest customer for the wide-body jet, with a total order of 80 planes worth a listed price of $16 billion. Louis Gallois, chief executive of Airbus, said it was one of Airbus?s biggest orders ever. The Qatar Airways agreement for 20 A350-800s, 40 A350-900s and 20 A350-1000s, as with most large orders, would probably come with deep discounts from the listing price. The agreement replaces one for 60 A350s signed in 2005. The commitment for 20 extra planes brings Airbus?s total orders for the A350 to 268...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Addenda: ?I Love New York? Awarded to Saatchi
?I Love New York?...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
World Business Briefing: Canada: Clothing Maker Moves Operations
Gildan Activewear, a maker of clothing like T-shirts, tank tops and golf shirts, said it would close two sock plants in North Carolina and lay off 520 employees as part of its plan to shift production to lower-cost factories in other countries. The North Carolina factories will close by the end of August, leaving one American plant, in Hillsville, Va., for making socks. Gildan is based in Montreal...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Cantor Fitzgerald Sells Unit to eSpeed
The bond-trading firm is selling its privately held BGC Partners brokerage unit to eSpeed, in a deal valued at $1.3 billion...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
3rd Trial Is Ordered in Vioxx Death Case
A federal judge has ordered a third trial in a lawsuit by a woman who blamed Merck?s painkiller Vioxx for the heart attack that killed her husband...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Settlement for Martha Stewart Investors
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and its founder will pay shareholders $30 million for losses suffered during the ImClone trading scandal...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
EBay Buys Search Service
The Web auction leader has acquired StumbleUpon, a Web browsing recommendation site, for $75 million in cash...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Bristol-Myers to Pay Fine
The company will pay a $1 million criminal fine for lying to the government about a patent deal on its blood-thinning drug Plavix...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Novell Posts Loss After Trimming Jobs
The company reported a second-quarter loss after the company cut jobs to compensate for declining sales...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
3 Claims Dismissed Against McDonald?s
McDonald?s won dismissal of three out of five claims in a lawsuit over allergens said to be in French fries and hash browns...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
CBS Buys Last.FM, an Online Radio Site
CBS said the $280 million deal will allow the service to continue to operate as an independent unit...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Subscriber Revenue Drives TiVo Profit Up
TiVo posted a small quarterly profit reversing a year-ago loss on higher revenue from subscribers to its digital video recording service...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
A Unit of News Corp. Agrees to Buy Photobucket and Flektor
Fox Interactive Media agreed to acquire the photo-storage site weeks after MySpace partly blocked content from Photobucket...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Motorola Says It Will Eliminate 4,000 More Jobs
The company will cut more than 6 percent of its shrinking work force, as part of a plan to improve sagging financial and operational results...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Ceridian to Be Taken Private in $5.3 Billion Deal
The human resources company has sold itself to Thomas H. Lee Partners and Fidelity National Financial for $5.3 billion...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Prosecutors Rest Case in Conrad Black Trial
Prosecutors rested after announcing they were dropping one money-laundering count against him...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
I.B.M. to Cut Jobs, Mostly in Technology
International Business Machines cut about 1,570 jobs to help improve profit margins in its technology services unit...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
F.D.A. Still Unsettled in Wake of New Questions
Concerns over the approval of drugs that turned out to be dangerous have led Republicans and Democrats in the House and the Senate to call for investigations...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Yahoo Technology Chief to Leave in Wake of Company Revamping
The departure of Farzad Nazem will follow other senior executives who have left in the wake of the overhaul...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Palm to Sell Device That Won?t Fit in the Palm
The company reversed itself and said that it would begin selling a two-handed laptop-size machine called the Foleo...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Economic Scene: Copyrights That No One Knows About Don?t Help Anyone
Making it easy for creators and users of information to find each other should be a high priority for policy makers...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Advertising: About Online Surveys, Traditional Pollsters Are: (C) Somewhat Disappointed
Internet-based alternatives to traditional polls are trying to make inroads, offering greater accuracy for far less money...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Bush?s Nominee Has New Agenda for Bank
People close to Robert B. Zoellick, President Bush?s pick to head the World Bank, say he is likely to bring a demanding approach that could disturb the status quo...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
A Trip Down Memory Lane and Over the Horizon
Bill Gates and Steven P. Jobs appeared in public to relive old battles and speculate about the future of digital culture and technology...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo Agree to Curb Animal Tests
The two soft drink giants have agreed to stop directly financing research that uses animals to test or develop their products...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Small Business Not as Usual
Policy changes and severe budget cuts at the Small Business Association have left the agency unable to fulfill its mission...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Four Men, but Not Ernst & Young, Are Charged in Tax Shelter Case
Four current and former partners have been charged with tax fraud conspiracy over their work on questionable tax shelters...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Melamine From U.S. Put in Feed
A manufacturing plant in Ohio was using the banned substance that ended up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Manufacturer of Risky Drug to Sell Shares
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has filed to sell as much as $180 million in stock in its first public offering...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
S.& P. Index Climbs Past the Record It Set in 2000
The most widely followed benchmark of American stocks surpassed a previous high set amid the Internet boom...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Tax Increase Batters Chinese Stocks, but There?s Little Wider Damage
Chinese stock markets plummeted after the authorities in Beijing moved to impose higher taxes on trading activity...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Comedy Business Turns to the Web
Many experienced comedians, talent agents and financiers see the Web as a way to showcase talent while trying to turn a profit...
New York Times - May 31, 2007
Hi-tech tool tracks city graffiti
Cities in the US are using a global positioning software system in their efforts to control graffiti...
BBC News - May 31, 2007
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