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US News Archive for November 2005:
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Bird flu: Act now, urges Annan
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the international community to make immediate preparations for a possible pandemic of bird flu...
CNN - November 3, 2005
Senators: Filibuster unlikely
A group of centrists interested in averting Senate gridlock over President Bush's judgeship nominees caucused Thursday on prospects for Supreme Court hopeful Samuel Alito. But two Republican members of the "Gang of 14" have already said a filibuster is unlikely...
CNN - November 3, 2005
Forrester Ad Quotes Ex-Wife's Criticism of Corzine
With five days left in New Jersey governor's race, the G.O.P. nominee released an ad featuring a quote from the ex-wife of his opponent...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Greenspan Warns Congress on Threat From Deficit
Fed Chairman Greenspan, however, registered longer-term concerns about inflation and the federal budget deficit...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Editor of Financial Times Quits; Differences With Pearson Cited
The editor of The Financial Times, Andrew Gowers, resigned today over "strategic differences" with Pearson, the newspaper's owner...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Amazon to sell chapters of books
Internet retailer Amazon.com reveals two new online schemes to help readers buy books in different ways...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Coca-Cola ends Vanilla Coke in UK
Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola will stop sales of its Vanilla Coke and Vanilla Diet Coke in the UK from early 2006...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Americas trade plan in trouble
Nearly 11 years after Bill Clinton pledged to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas, his successor concedes that the plan is still as far from fruition as ever...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
CIA leak: Cheney aide denies lying
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's former top adviser makes his first court appearance, pleading not guilty to charges of lying to investigators and a grand jury about the leaking of the name of a CIA agent whose husband criticized the White House on the Iraq war...
CNN - November 3, 2005
U.S. Productivity Rises Despite Predictions of a Slowdown
Productivity rose sharply in the third quarter, the government reported today, as workers churned out more without working very many more hours and businesses' labor costs fell...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Libby pleads not guilty
Vice President Dick Cheney's former top adviser made his first court appearance Thursday, pleading not guilty to felony charges of lying to investigators and a grand jury in the probe into a leak of a CIA agent's name...
CNN - November 3, 2005
Former Cheney Aide Pleads Not Guilty in C.I.A. Leak Inquiry
I. Lewis Libby Jr. intends to "clear his good name" of charges he lied about disclosing classified information, his lawyer said...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Musicians Show Up at Radio City, but It's Still No Deal
Musicians who tried to enter this morning were prevented from doing so by security, a union official said...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Jury Rules Merck Is Not Liable for Heart Attack of Vioxx User
The ruling is a reversal of a verdict in which a jury awarded $253 million to the widow of a man who died after taking the drug...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Output gains ease US price fears
US business productivity - the amount of output per hour of work - soared during the third quarter, figures show...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Bush's gambles yet to pay off
A year after his re-election, President Bush is being assailed by a combination of bad luck and high stakes gambles that have yet to pay off, writes Matt Frei...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
US retailers weather hard climate
Leading US stores enjoyed better-than-expected sales last month, figures show, as high gasoline prices fail to deter consumers...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Italy MPs probe Niger-Iraq claim
A top Italian intelligence officer is due to give evidence over claims that Iraq sought to buy uranium from Niger...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Charles asks US to lead on planet
Much of the world looks to the US for a lead on "the most crucial issues that face our planet", Prince Charles tells George Bush...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
EU to look into 'secret US jails'
The European Commission says it will examine reports that the CIA set up secret prisons in Eastern Europe...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Merck cleared in Vioxx drug case
US pharmaceutical giant Merck wins a high-profile court case in New Jersey over its arthritis painkiller Vioxx...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
US vows to stop illegal migrants
The US pledges to stop all illegal immigrants entering the country by tightening its border with Mexico...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Seventh night of violence in Paris
Parisian suburbs suffer a seventh straight night of violence as youths set fire to dozens of cars in nine areas to the north and east of the French capital. A shopping center, car dealership and primary school are damaged as more than 1,000 police are deployed to quell the unrest...
CNN - November 3, 2005
Second wave of quake deaths feared
Dozens of villages containing hundreds of thousands of people have received little or no aid nearly four weeks after a devastating earthquake hit Pakistan and India...
CNN - November 3, 2005
Libby to appear in court
Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff is making his first court appearance since his indictment in the CIA leak investigation, a case in which Bush administration officials including Cheney could be summoned to testify...
CNN - November 3, 2005
Cambil Journal: A Spanish Town Withers With the Olive, Its Tree of Life
The olive groves that have sustained Spain for centuries have been decimated by circumstances that few here thought possible - a record-breaking freeze followed by drought...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Ex-Interior Deputy Testifies Lobbyist Offered Him Job
The former No. 2 official at the Interior Department acknowledged that he had received a job offer while at the department from the lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Cases: Alito's Dissents Show Deference to Lower Courts
Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s dissents often took issue with decisions that sided with criminal defendants and immigrants...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
For '73 Rape Victim, DNA Revives Horror, Too
DNA cannot do one thing for Kathleen Ham: She must still take the stand, and with that can come a measure of pain...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Economic Scene: Yes, Immigration May Lift Wages
From 1990 to 2000, the number of people working in the U.S. grew by more than nine million from immigration alone. What effect did this have on the wages of native-born Americans?...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Advertising: Liquor Ads Move to Satellite Radio
Liquor advertising on Sirius is emblematic of how the relationships between marketers and media companies are being transformed as consumers embrace new options like satellite radio...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Small Business: Trauma Close at Hand Motivates Medical Entrepreneurs
Some small businesses are concerned with ending preventable tragedy, not just turning a profit. The sales and income generated by the products are secondary to the lives they may save...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
David Pogue: Corporate Tool, Yes, but Bright and Handy
The new BlackBerry 8700c is a thoroughly modernized version of a gizmo whose technologies were rock-solid but a tad behind the times...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Sports Media and Business: PGA Tour Points Plan Seeks to Add Final Pop
The PGA Tour's adoption of a new season-long points system and late-summer playoff starting in 2007 is a naked pitch for more television money...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Time Warner Reports Improved Earnings
Time Warner announced improved earnings and said it would buy back $12.5 billion of its shares in the wake of criticism from the activist investor Carl C. Icahn...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Market Place: Buyer's Remorse Is Causing Some Palpitations at Johnson
Johnson & Johnson's stumble in the purchase of the Guidant Corporation, the medical device maker, illustrates the perils of designing a corporate strategy around acquisitions...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
The Lives of Teenagers Now: Open Blogs, Not Locked Diaries
Using the cheap digital tools - cellphone cameras, laptops and Web editing software - teenagers are pushing content onto the Internet as naturally as they view it...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Novartis Would Consider U.S. Vaccine Plant, Chief Says
The C.E.O. of Novartis said on Wednesday that the Swiss drug company would consider building a vaccine production plant in the United States...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
F.D.A. Backs Cancer Drug
Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals said yesterday that regulators had approved their lung cancer drug Tarceva to treat pancreatic cancer...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Cablevision Dividend Plan Moves Forward
The Cablevision Systems Corporation said that its board had authorized management to prepare to pay a $3 billion dividend that was proposed last week...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Optimism Over Earnings Sends Shares Broadly Higher
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
G.E. Expects More Savings
General Electric said yesterday that it expected as much as $1.2 billion in savings next year, four times earlier estimates...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Cost of World Cup Rights Skyrockets
ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC Sports announced their acquisition of the television rights to the next two World Cups and Women's World Cups through 2014 for an estimated $100 million...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Deutsche Telekom to Trim German Payroll by 19,000
Deutsche Telekom, the largest phone company in Europe, said Wednesday that it would cut 19,000 jobs from its German payroll over the next three years...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
30-Year Bond to Return Feb. 9
The Treasury's new 30-year bond will be auctioned on Feb. 9, helping to raise an estimated $171 billion during the January-March quarter...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Cable TV Deal for Cellphones
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Big Board Fines Lehman Over Stock Trade
By Reuters...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Proposal Would Expand Foreign Role in Airlines
The Bush administration is proposing to allow foreign investors to control airlines based in the U.S., a move intended to attract capital to hard-pressed carriers...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Music Promoter to Abandon a Radio Policy He Developed
Jeff McClusky, an influential player in the music industry who devised a technique that sidestepping laws against bribery, said this week that he was dumping the business model he pioneered...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
First Boston Helps Credit Suisse Post 42% Rise in Profit
The Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland's second-largest bank, posted a 42 percent increase in third-quarter profit on Wednesday...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Sales for Web Help Nortel Reduce Loss
By The New York Times...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
3 Software Executives Quit Amid Inquiry
Three top executives of Mercury Interactive, maker of software for testing Internet programs, resigned amid an investigation into the pricing of employee stock options...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Qualcomm Earnings Up 37% in Quarter
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 2 (Dow Jones/AP) - Qualcomm reported Wednesday that its earnings rose 37 percent in its latest quarter, led by demand for next-generation cellphones...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Google Adds Library Texts to Search Database
Google has completed the first major expansion of its Google Print database, adding the full text of more than 10,000 books that are no longer under copyright...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Wal-Mart to Tighten Control Over Its Japanese Affiliate
Wal-Mart Stores said on Wednesday that it would extend its control of Seiyu, its ailing Japanese affiliate, by installing one of its top United States executives...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Simon & Schuster Editor Resigns
Michael V. Korda will step down at the end of the year as editor in chief of the publisher's trade books imprint, a post he has held since 1968...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Union Offers Temporary Fix to Northwest
Northwest Airlines' flight attendant union said that it would agree to temporary concessions worth about $117 million in exchange for more time to negotiate a contract...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Agent Expected to Lead Unit of Paramount
Paramount Pictures is expected to name the talent agent John Lesher, whose clients include Martin Scorsese, to be the president of struggling Paramount Classics...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Big Media a Tough Sell to Jittery Investors
Media stocks bumped up yesterday on the prospects of financial moves at companies like Time Warner and Knight Ridder. In general, though, Wall Street is still not buying the new story...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
CNN Ousts Evening Anchor and Embraces Rising Star
CNN ousted its longtime prime-time anchor, Aaron Brown, in favor of Anderson Cooper, who received extensive media attention over his coverage of Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Troubled Maker of Heart Devices May Lose Suitor
Johnson & Johnson threatened to abandon its $25.4 billion plan to acquire the Guidant Corporation, a troubled heart device maker...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
Goodbye, My Sweet Deduction
For millions, what matters most about President Bush's tax proposal is how it affects homeowners' bottom line. If the proposal becomes law, the value of their homes will almost certainly fall...
New York Times - November 3, 2005
US airlines seek foreign capital
Washington is considering proposals to give foreign investors more say in how US airlines operate...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Baseball: Lawton fails drugs test
Matt Lawton becomes the 12th Major League baseball player to test positive for a banned substance...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Cricket: Windies thwarted
Skipper Ricky Ponting hits 149 to steer Australia to 340-7 on day one of the first Test in Brisbane...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
US backs Colombia peace process
The US Congress agrees to help fund the controversial demobilisation of Colombian paramilitaries...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Argentine summit police poisoned
Argentine police officers suffer food poisoning at a regional summit to be attended by George W Bush...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
US withdraws relief offer to Cuba
The US state department withdraws an offer to send relief experts to Cuba after Hurricane Wilma...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
Haiti files case against Aristide
Haiti's interim government files a lawsuit in the US, accusing exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide of corruption...
BBC News - November 3, 2005
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