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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Oil Falls on OPEC Worries
Futures dropped below $100 on the possibility that OPEC will raise production and on expectations that crude inventories are continuing to rise...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Germany?s Hesitance Slows Technology Cooperation With France
Germany?s wariness of forming a new partnership is just one of the challenges facing Europe as it seeks to compete in technology with market leaders from the United States and Asia...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Gazprom?s Dispute With Ukraine Intensifies
For the second time this week, Gazprom reduced the flow of natural gas to Ukraine as negotiations unraveled over the price and terms of transit for natural gas...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Facebook Hires a Google Executive as No. 2
A Google executive, Sheryl Sandberg, will join Facebook later this month as chief operating officer and will work closely with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook?s co-founder...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
City Room: City?s Homeless Population Down
An annual count of the homeless found 12 percent fewer people living on New York streets (and subways) compared to last year, the mayor said...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
TierneyLab: Lessons from the Climate Skeptics
Yesterday I asked you to analyze a report presented at the Heartland Institute's conference of global-warming skeptics. A lot of readers had the same reaction I did after I read the report and attended the conference yesterday: There are some interesting points here, but who knows? The skeptics point to some genuine discrepancies between the [...]...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
The Lede: F.C.C. Asks Station to Explain Blackout
A Democrat on the F.C.C. says the commission "needs to get to the bottom of this."...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
After Volatile Day, Stocks End Mixed
Wall Street closed mixed, recuperating from a sharp plunge as investors snapped up bargain stocks on upbeat comments from Cisco and Amazon.com...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Tracking the Fallout of (Another) Literary Fraud
After an author confessed to making up her memoir, the focus turned to her publisher and the news media...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Colombia Says Rebels Sought to Make Dirty Bomb
The accusations against the FARC group represent a sharp escalation in rhetoric around a three-country dispute...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
The Caucus: Live Blogging Tonight?s Results
When, you might ask, will we know whether Senator Hillary Clinton lives to fight another day?...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Obama and McCain Are Projected to Win Vermont
Senator Barack Obama appeared poised to pick up his 12th straight victory over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic nominating race on Tuesday...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
US election at-a-glance: 4 Mar
A day-by-day guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Porsche Pretax Half-Year Profit Up 23%
Porsche said that sales in the six-month period rose by 14 percent to nearly 3.5 billion euros ($5.3 billion), and repeated that it has no plans to acquire Volkswagen...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Staples Profit Dips
The office products supplier posted fourth-quarter profit of $333.2 million, from $336.5 million a year earlier, as North American retail sales declined...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Oil Falls on OPEC Worries, Supply View
Oil prices slipped on Tuesday after climbing to a new record of almost $104 a barrel a day earlier and then falling back as traders booked profits...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Stocks Fall on Bleak Corporate Forecasts
Wall Street fell sharply as troubling outlooks for Citigroup and Intel underscored once again that U.S. companies are being pummeled by the weakening economy...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Citigroup Shares Plummet on Write-Down Worries
Citigroup shares sank to their lowest level in more than nine years after a Dubai investor said the bank needs to raise more capital and an analyst projected a $15 billion mortgage write-down...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Facebook Hires a Google Executive as No. 2
A Google executive, Sheryl Sandberg, will join Facebook later this month as chief operating officer and will work closely with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook?s co-founder...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
New Twists in Climate-Change Battle
The latest moves in the never-ending tussle over human-caused climate change...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Magna Carta Back at National Archives
A billionaire's way of giving back to the nation...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Getting Ready for Europe, Without England
Christian Schmölzer, the Euro 2008 tournament director for Austria, said he'll miss the English fans this summer, but anticipates a successful tournament...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Fox-CNBC Dust-Up Over Panelist
Eric Bolling is now a contributor on Fox Business Network. (Fox) In every skirmish, certain individuals become symbols of a much larger fight. In the competition between CNBC and the upstart Fox Business Network, Eric Bolling was that symbol. Until last August Mr. Bolling, an independent trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange, was a panelist (nickname: [...]...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Chinese Military Spending Up Sharply
The announcement came a day after the United States renewed its warning that a lack of transparency surrounding the rapid buildup of the Chinese armed forces poses a threat to stability in Asia...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Unlike Consumers, Companies Are Piling Up Cash
The typical American corporation probably has increased its savings enough to completely pay off its debts...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Packers? Quarterback Favre to Retire From N.F.L.
In his 17 seasons, Brett Favre earned three M.V.P. awards, a bevy of records and a reputation as a crowd-pleaser...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Blasts at Pakistan Naval College Kill 3
At least three members of the Pakistani Navy were killed when two suicide bombers attacked a naval war college in the eastern city of Lahore...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
A Last Glimpse of the 9/11 Stairway
The granite panels of the treads and risers of the Survivors' Staircase can clearly be seen by passers-by, at least for a little while. It will soon be put into storage as a future museum piece...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Fed Chief Urges Breaks for Some Borrowers
Ben S. Bernanke urged mortgage lenders and investors to reduce the principal on loans for many homeowners...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Abbas Rebuffs Call by Rice to Return to Peace Talks
American officials say that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is allowing Hamas to hijack the peace process through violence...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Colombia Says FARC Sought to Make Dirty Bomb
Colombia?s accusations against the rebel group represent a sharp escalation in rhetoric surrounding a three-country dispute...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
For Democrats, a Pivotal Night, but in Which Direction?
The voting in Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont could be decisive in the race between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Fed boss seeks homeowner help
US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke tells bankers more should be done to prevent unnecessary foreclosures...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Canada cuts rate as growth slows
Canada cuts interest rates and suggests more cuts may be needed to tackle the impact of the US slowdown...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Overview of the delegate count
How close the Democratic would-be US presidential candidates are to securing their party's nomination...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Royal couple in tour of Caribbean
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall arrive in Trinidad at the start of an 11-day Caribbean tour...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
The Refrain That Follows Bronfman
A trail of deals done, and a deal with EMI that was not done...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
BBC Set to Open Its New Arab World TV Channel
BBC Arabic TV plans to start broadcasting 12 hours a day of news and current affairs shows to the Middle East, the Persian Gulf region and North Africa on March 11...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Nine Inch Nails Fashions Innovative Web Pricing Plan
Since being released from its major-label recording contract last year, Nine Inch Nails has joined the growing ranks of prominent artists who are navigating the digital wilderness on their own...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Memo Gives Canada?s Account of Obama Campaign?s Meeting on Nafta
Barack Obama?s campaign rebutted a report that a senior campaign official had soft-pedaled to Canadian officials Mr. Obama?s tough talk against Nafta. But a memorandum now disputes that rebuttal...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
An English travel agent?s Web site that sells trips to Cuba was shut down due to American domain registrars? willingness to honor a little-known Treasury Department blacklist...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Candidates Responding Almost as Fast as They Can Attack
Parrying a television ad with another has typically taken days if not weeks, but Barack Obama?s team did it within hours on Friday...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Immelt of G.E. Made $14 Million in Last Year?s Pay
General Electric?s chief executive, Jeffrey R. Immelt, was awarded $14.2 million in compensation last year, the company said Monday...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Coke?s Chief Got $21.6 Million in 2007
The chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, E. Neville Isdell, received compensation valued at $21.6 million in 2007, a more than 3 percent increase from 2006...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Drug Pitchmen: Actor, Doctor or Pfizer?s Option
Surely the best message we can derive from the Dr. Robert Jarvik episode is that it may be time to rethink the advertising of prescription drugs...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
The Air Shuttles to Boston and Washington Endure Industry?s Changes
Security lines, delays and the removal of the guaranteed-seat policy have undermined the shuttles? basic quick-turnaround formula...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
U.S. President of Starbucks Resigns
In the latest of numerous management changes in recent months, Starbucks said Monday that Launi Skinner resigned as president of its United States business...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
HSBC Profit Up 10 Percent in 2007
Buoyant growth in Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia helped Europe?s biggest bank absorb $17.2 billion in bad debts as the U.S. housing crisis deepened...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Buffett Says U.S. Is in Recession
But the billionaire investor said the economy had not deteriorated to the levels of 1973 and 1974, a deep recession also marked by rising oil prices and falling stocks...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Stocks Flat as Oil Hits Record
Stocks meandered to a flat close Monday, as investors sought shelter in the traditional havens of gold, silver and commodities...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Footwear Retailers End Plans to Merge
The footwear retailers Genesco and Finish Line said that they were terminating their merger plans and the financing commitment of the Swiss bank UBS...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
High Court Lets Suits Against Pfizer Proceed
A divided Supreme Court is leaving intact a ruling favoring people who sued a pharmaceutical company, saying they had been harmed by a drug to combat diabetes...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Vioxx Settlement on Track as 44,000 Sign Up
More than 44,000 people have signed up for a piece of a $4.85 billion settlement over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, a sign that the deal is on track to go forward...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Conrad Black Starts Prison Term
The disgraced newspaper baron Conrad M. Black reported to prison Monday to begin a six-and-a-half-year sentence for swindling shareholders...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Intel Lowers Gross Profit Forecast for First Quarter
The Intel Corporation, the semiconductor maker, lowered its profit forecast for its first quarter, blaming a steep drop in prices for memory chips for the shortfall...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Porsche Closer to a Takeover of Volkswagen
Porsche moved closer to taking over Volkswagen, after the sports-car maker won approval from its supervisory board to raise its Volkswagen stake to more than 50 percent...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
A Virtual Travel Agent With All the Answers
Alaska Airlines introduces a surprisingly pleasant virtual assistant on its Web site...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Menu Fight Over Calories Leads Doctor to Reject Post
Dr. David B. Allison drew criticism from some members after he wrote an affidavit as a paid consultant on behalf of the restaurant industry...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Diebold Rejects Takeover Advance
The board of the automated teller, office and voting machines maker rejected an unsolicited $2.64 billion takeover bid from United Technologies, a diversified manufacturer...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
U.S. and Europe Protest a Chinese News Regulation
The United States and the E.U. are protesting China?s requirement that foreign financial news services operate through a government-designated distributor...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
U.S. Told to Reconsider Cuts to Housing Aid
A federal court in Sacramento ruled that the Bush administration must reassess its plan to eliminate a down payment assistance program...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
A Bug Rises, and With It a Company
Patients might not like the new admission procedure at a growing number of hospitals: having an elongated Q-Tip stuck up their noses. But it smells great to Cepheid...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
A Package That Lights Up the Shelf
A new line of shaving gels could have consumers asking: Is it a shaving gel or is it a night light?...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Relief for Homeowners Is Given to a Relative Few
The Bush administration said mortgage companies were showing more willingness to relax loan terms for subprime borrowers in danger of losing their houses...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
In Deal With Cuomo, Mortgage Giants Accept Appraisal Standards
The move is expected to force lenders like Countrywide Financial to sell or spin off their appraisal businesses and will also create a watchdog to monitor the industry...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Russia Threatens Further Gas Cuts to Ukraine
Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom on Tuesday threatened to further cut gas to Ukraine within hours unless agreement was reached on a debt dispute and contracts for future deliveries...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Vehicle Sales Fell by 10% Last Month
Sales of cars and trucks in the United States fell 10 percent in February as oil prices climbed past $100 a barrel and worries about a recession rattled consumer confidence...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Bundled Mortgages and Dubious Fees Complicate Foreclosure Cases
When Ohioans head to the polls Tuesday, Mark and Gina Wellman of Circleville, Ohio, will be watching another vote ? what buyers are bidding for their home...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
China Says Defense Budget to Rise
China will raise its heavily scrutinized defense spending by nearly a fifth this year, a top official said on Tuesday, warning self-ruled Taiwan that Beijing would ?tolerate no division.?...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Dinosaur Graveyard as Tourist Draw
The Patagonian region of Argentina has become one of the most active areas of exploration for dinosaur fossils in the world...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
A Promise of an Easier Night for Interpretation
Though not as complicated as Super Tuesday?s returns, there will be no shortage of facts and analysis as results from Tuesday?s high stakes primaries in Texas and Ohio become available...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Six bodies found at US house
Six people, including two children, are found dead in a house in Memphis, Tennessee...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Nine Inch Nails Fashions Innovative Web Pricing Plan
Since being released from its major-label recording contract last year, Nine Inch Nails has joined the growing ranks of prominent artists who are navigating the digital wilderness on their own...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Sidebar: A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
An English travel agent?s Web site that sells trips to Cuba was shut down due to American domain registrars? willingness to honor a little-known Treasury Department blacklist...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Essay: Drug Pitchmen: Actor, Doctor or Pfizer?s Option
Surely the best message we can derive from the Dr. Robert Jarvik episode is that it may be time to rethink the advertising of prescription drugs...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Candidates Responding Almost as Fast as They Can Attack
Parrying a television ad with another has typically taken days if not weeks, but Barack Obama?s team did it within hours on Friday...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Memo Gives Canada?s Account of Obama Campaign?s Meeting on Nafta
Barack Obama?s campaign rebutted a report that a senior campaign official had soft-pedaled to Canadian officials Mr. Obama?s tough talk against Nafta. But a memorandum now disputes that rebuttal...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Immelt of G.E. Made $14 Million in Last Year?s Pay
General Electric?s chief executive, Jeffrey R. Immelt, was awarded $14.2 million in compensation last year, the company said Monday...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Coke?s Chief Got $21.6 Million in 2007
The chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, E. Neville Isdell, received compensation valued at $21.6 million in 2007, a more than 3 percent increase from 2006...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Itineraries: The Air Shuttles to Boston and Washington Endure Industry?s Changes
Security lines, delays and the removal of the guaranteed-seat policy have undermined the shuttles? basic quick-turnaround formula...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
U.S. President of Starbucks Resigns
In the latest of numerous management changes in recent months, Starbucks said Monday that Launi Skinner resigned as president of its United States business...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
HSBC Profit Up 10 Percent in 2007
Buoyant growth in Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia helped Europe?s biggest bank absorb $17.2 billion in bad debts as the U.S. housing crisis deepened...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Buffett Says U.S. Is in Recession
But the billionaire investor said the economy had not deteriorated to the levels of 1973 and 1974, a deep recession also marked by rising oil prices and falling stocks...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Stocks Flat as Oil Hits Record
Stocks meandered to a flat close Monday, as investors sought shelter in the traditional havens of gold, silver and commodities...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Footwear Retailers End Plans to Merge
The footwear retailers Genesco and Finish Line said that they were terminating their merger plans and the financing commitment of the Swiss bank UBS...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
High Court Lets Suits Against Pfizer Proceed
A divided Supreme Court is leaving intact a ruling favoring people who sued a pharmaceutical company, saying they had been harmed by a drug to combat diabetes...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Vioxx Settlement on Track as 44,000 Sign Up
More than 44,000 people have signed up for a piece of a $4.85 billion settlement over the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, a sign that the deal is on track to go forward...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Conrad Black Starts Prison Term
The disgraced newspaper baron Conrad M. Black reported to prison Monday to begin a six-and-a-half-year sentence for swindling shareholders...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Intel Lowers Gross Profit Forecast for First Quarter
The Intel Corporation, the semiconductor maker, lowered its profit forecast for its first quarter, blaming a steep drop in prices for memory chips for the shortfall...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
On the Road: A Virtual Travel Agent With All the Answers
Alaska Airlines introduces a surprisingly pleasant virtual assistant on its Web site...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Dealbook: The Refrain That Follows Bronfman
A trail of deals done, and a deal with EMI that was not done...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Menu Fight Over Calories Leads Doctor to Reject Post
Dr. David B. Allison drew criticism from some members after he wrote an affidavit as a paid consultant on behalf of the restaurant industry...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Porsche Closer to a Takeover of Volkswagen
Porsche moved closer to taking over Volkswagen, after the sports-car maker won approval from its supervisory board to raise its Volkswagen stake to more than 50 percent...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Advertising: A Package That Lights Up the Shelf
A new line of shaving gels could have consumers asking: Is it a shaving gel or is it a night light?...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Diebold Rejects Takeover Advance
The board of the automated teller, office and voting machines maker rejected an unsolicited $2.64 billion takeover bid from United Technologies, a diversified manufacturer...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
U.S. and Europe Protest a Chinese News Regulation
The United States and the E.U. are protesting China?s requirement that foreign financial news services operate through a government-designated distributor...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
U.S. Told to Reconsider Cuts to Housing Aid
A federal court in Sacramento ruled that the Bush administration must reassess its plan to eliminate a down payment assistance program...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
A Bug Rises, and With It a Company
Patients might not like the new admission procedure at a growing number of hospitals: having an elongated Q-Tip stuck up their noses. But it smells great to Cepheid...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
In Deal With Cuomo, Mortgage Giants Accept Appraisal Standards
The move is expected to force lenders like Countrywide Financial to sell or spin off their appraisal businesses and will also create a watchdog to monitor the industry...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Relief for Homeowners Is Given to a Relative Few
The Bush administration said mortgage companies were showing more willingness to relax loan terms for subprime borrowers in danger of losing their houses...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Oil Tops Inflation-Adjusted Record Set in 1980
Capping a relentless rise in recent years, oil prices hit a record high of $103.95 a barrel on Monday, then pulled back to close below the record...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Bundled Mortgages and Dubious Fees Complicate Foreclosure Cases
When Ohioans head to the polls Tuesday, Mark and Gina Wellman of Circleville, Ohio, will be watching another vote ? what buyers are bidding for their home...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Vehicle Sales Fell by 10% Last Month
Sales of cars and trucks in the United States fell 10 percent in February as oil prices climbed past $100 a barrel and worries about a recession rattled consumer confidence...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Companies Are Piling Up Cash
The total cash held by companies in S.&P.?s industrial index exceeded $600 billion in February, up from about $203 billion in 1998...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Taking Back a Qaeda Stronghold
Violence fell drastically in Arab Jabour after Americans brought Shiites and Sunnis together...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
False Resume Gets TV Chef Cut
"After rising to culinary stardom preparing impossible meals on his Food Network series, Robert Irvine has met an obstacle his kitchen prowess couldn't overcome ? an embellished resume," the Associated Press reports. "The star of 'Dinner: Impossible' has acknowledged fabricating some of the more fantastic parts of his resume, including having cooked for Britain's Royal Family [...]...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Jarndyce v. Jarndyce
There's been a resolution, sort of, to the Genesco-UBS-Finish Line imbroglio that I wrote about in December. The loser's stock soared today, while the winner's shares collapsed. To recap, Finish Line, a shoe retailer with dreams of expansion, agreed to buy Genesco, a larger shoe retailer. for $54.50 a share in cash, with UBS putting [...]...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item
On a cold day in January, Dan Stoicescu became the second person in the world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
New Jersey Senate Votes for Leave to Care for Kin
The approved legislation offers those that take the leave two-thirds of their salary, making New Jersey the third state to give employees the right to take paid leave to care for a newborn or a sick relative...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Nine Shot in a Memphis Home, and Six Are Dead
Two men and two women and two girls under the age of 5 were found dead in a single-family home in Binghampton in what news reports said was the worst mass killing there in at least 15 years...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
U.S. Forces Fire Missiles Into Somalia at a Kenyan
American naval forces fired missiles into southern Somalia on Monday, aiming at what the Defense Department called terrorist targets...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Oil Tops Inflation-Adjusted Record Set in 1980
Capping a relentless rise in recent years, oil prices hit a record high of $103.95 a barrel on Monday, then pulled back to close below the record...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Companies Are Piling Up Cash
The total cash held by companies in S.&P.?s industrial index exceeded $600 billion in February, up from about $203 billion in 1998...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
5 Killed in Pakistan Suicide Bombings
A truck delivering food exploded in the parking lot of the Naval War College in the eastern city of Lahore, killing two people and wounding nine, police said...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Spitzer Helps Donors Skirt $10,000 Limit He Set
Despite pledging he would only accept donations under $10,000, Gov. Eliot Spitzer is encouraging donors to give much more to the state Democratic Party...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Author Admits Acclaimed Memoir Is Fantasy
In a tearful telephone interview from her home, Margaret Seltzer admitted that the personal story she tells in ?Love and Consequences? was entirely fabricated...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
As Israelis Pull Out of Gaza, Hamas Celebrates Its Rocketry
As Israel withdrew its forces from the northern Gaza Strip, Hamas leaders seemed to be following the playbook of Hezbollah in its 2006 war with Israel...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Violence Leaves Young Iraqis Doubting Clerics
Many young people in Iraq say they have grown disillusioned with religious leaders and skeptical of the faith that they preach...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Democratic Rivals Clash Before Pivotal Primaries
Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Barack Obama of deception and faulted his Senate record as new evidence of discord surfaced within her own camp...
New York Times - March 4, 2008
Oil sets fresh record at $103.95
Oil prices surge to a record high on fresh supply fears, and as the US dollar slumps to new lows...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
US manufacturing activity shrinks
A gloomy picture of the US construction and manufacturing sectors add to fears for the US economy...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
US christens '9/11 steel' warship
A US warship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center is christened in Louisiana...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Holiday time in Argentina
Daniel Schweimler takes a somewhat reluctant holiday as the Argentine capital closes down for the summer...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Fidel Castro says Raul in charge
Fidel Castro says that his brother and new president of Cuba, Raul, is fully in charge of the country...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Air tanker deal provokes US row
Boeing's loss of a $40bn US military contract to a group including Europe's Airbus draws angry protests...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Iran blames US for Iraq 'terror'
On his landmark visit to Iraq, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses the US of provoking terrorism...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Charges over 'abandoned' NY girl
A New York cabbie who claimed a baby girl was left in his car is charged with lying to help friends abandon her...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Golf: Els wins Honda Classic
Ernie Els beats England's Luke Donald by a single stroke to claim the Honda Classic title...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Democrats seek Hispanic vote
Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama trade blows before key primaries in Texas and Ohio., writes Lourdes Heredia...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Two killed in Florida restaurant
A gunman opens fire in a Florida Wendy's restaurant, killing one person before turning the gun on himself...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
US election at-a-glance: 3 Mar
A day-by-day guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Congress to examine EADS deal
US lawmakers will examine the decision to award a huge US Air Force contract to European firm EADS...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
Royal couple head for Caribbean
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are begginning an 11-day tour of the Caribbean...
BBC News - March 4, 2008
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