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US News Archive for May 2005:
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Prison abuse private changes plea
The female soldier at the center of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Pfc. Lynndie England, today changed her plea to not guilty after a judge ruled she could not plead guilty and have witnesses tell the sentencing jury she was only following orders. The judge declared a mistrial and prosecutors will now decide whether to refile charges...
CNN - May 4, 2005
Suicide bomber kills 60 in Iraq
A suicide bomber attacks a crowd of recruits seeking jobs with the Kurdish police force in Erbil, killing about 60 people and wounding 150 others, officials say...
CNN - May 4, 2005
Jackson Prosecution Rests After 9 Weeks of Twists and Turns
The prosecution rested its child-molesting case against Michael Jackson after presenting an array of witnesses with muddled memories...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
In Shift on Intellectual Property, Microsoft Will Team With Outsiders
Microsoft announced that it would begin to license its home-grown ideas to venture capital firms and entrepreneurs...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
I.B.M. to Lay Off 10,000 to 13,000
The cutbacks come after I.B.M. reported disappointing quarterly earnings last month and its stock price dropped...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
U.S. Treasury Says It May Reintroduce 30-Year Bond
The surprise announcement comes as the Treasury confronts the enormous borrowing needs to cover the federal budget deficit...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
US 'blocking Iran plastics deal'
Iran's National Petrochemical Co says US pressure is stopping it buying a huge plastics-maker from European owners Shell and BASF...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Gen Pinochet judge steps down
Chilean judge Juan Guzman, who led legal proceedings against General Augusto Pinochet, retires...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Colombia arrests two US soldiers
Two US soldiers are held on suspicion of trafficking arms to right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Baseball: Bonds has third knee op
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has a third operation on his right knee...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Mexico mayor charges dropped
Mexico's government abandons a controversial attempt to prosecute the popular mayor of Mexico City...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Pakistan seizes alleged al Qaeda 'No. 3'
The alleged number three man in al Qaeda -- believed responsible for the terror group's global operations -- has been captured in Pakistan's frontier province with Afghanistan, officials have confirmed. President Bush called the arrest of Abu Faraj al-Libbi a "critical victory in the war on terror." Ten other suspected al Qaeda members also were reported captured...
CNN - May 4, 2005
Operation Salami Drop
Two brothers who own a deli in Newark, New Jersey, figure the best way they can help support U.S. troops stationed in Iraq is to send salami to the entire 42nd Infantry Division, currently in Tikrit...
CNN - May 4, 2005
Kerkorian Moves to Increase His Stake in G.M. to Nearly 9%
The offer by Kirk Kerkorian, the billionaire investor, to buy $868 million of G.M. stock sent its shares 17 percent higher...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
GM shares rise on Kerkorian offer
Shares in US carmaker General Motors (GM) surge on news that investor Kirk Kerkorian has made an offer to buy a large minority stake...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Tennis: US duo win in Italy
Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick advance to the third round of the Rome Masters...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Cricket: Windies coach's demands
Bennett King says the West Indies batsmen need to be more consistent after losing 2-0 to South Africa...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Air India bomb appeal ruled out
Canadian prosecutors will not appeal against the acquittal of two Sikh separatists in the 1985 Air India bombings...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
US 'not aiding bomb-plot Cuban'
The US denies harbouring a Cuban exile accused of trying to kill President Fidel Castro...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Brazil turns down US Aids funds
Campaigners welcome Brazil's decision to turn down US Aids funding because of conditions that came with it...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Bush calls Berlusconi over agent
The US president calls his Italian counterpart to repeat his apologies over the death of a secret agent in Iraq...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Suicide bomber kills at least 47 in Erbil
A suicide bomber detonated himself today among a crowd of recruits waiting in line to join the Kurdish regional police force in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, killing at least 47 people, officials said. More than 100 others were wounded in the bombing...
CNN - May 4, 2005
Suicide bomber kills 47 in Iraq
A suicide bomber detonates himself among recruits waiting in line to join the Kurdish regional police force in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, killing 45 people and wounding at least 100, officials say...
CNN - May 4, 2005
A Trainer With Five Shots to Win the Derby
If all five of Nick Zito's colts make it to the starting gate, it will be only the second time in the history of the Kentucky Derby that a trainer has put so many runners in the field...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Homeless, Lacking Bus Fare, Get a Ride to Jail
Undercover police officers have begun to arrest fare-beaters on a bus that runs from Spanish Harlem to a homeless shelter in the city...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
EA profits slide as gamers wait
Games firm Electronic Arts sees profits fall 91% as gamers wait for new consoles to be released by Microsoft and Sony...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Stockpiles ease pressure on oil
Growing stocks pull US oil prices back below $50 a barrel, amid warmer weather and growth fears...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Lynndie England awaits sentence
US soldier Lynndie England who pleaded guilty to charges of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail waits to be sentenced...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Peru suspends Chile trade talks
Peru halts talks on a free trade accord as a row with neighbour Chile over a 1995 war worsens...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Religious intolerance probe
The U.S. Air Force said Tuesday it will appoint a task force to investigate allegations of religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy. Complaints ranging from anti-Semitic slurs to teachers preaching in class were mounting with the school's chaplain last summer, according to school officials...
CNN - May 4, 2005
One Trainer With Five Chances to Capture the Kentucky Derby
If all five of Nick Zito's colts make it to the starting gate on Saturday, it will be only the second time in the history of the Derby that has happened...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Papers Show Lobbyist Paid for Congressional Travel
Documents show that a Washington lobbyist at the center of a federal corruption scandal paid for several members of Congress to visit the Mariana Islands...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
UBS Reports 15% Profit Gain
UBS reported record first-quarter profit as higher fees from managing money for the rich helped outweigh a drop in investment banking earnings...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Weak Dollar Hurts BMW's Quarterly Net
BMW's profit fell for the first time in seven quarters as the dollar's drop against the euro more than offset growth in vehicle sales...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Shares Finish Flat After Fed Makes Expected Rate Move
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Citigroup Units Kept Making Loans That Violated Policy
Citigroup lenders made hundreds of high-cost home loans to customers with poor credit histories in 2004, even though the company had adopted a policy a year earlier to no longer issue such loans, the bank acknowledged yesterday...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
After Looking Elsewhere, Microsoft Will Expand at Home
After years of indecision on whether to build a satellite campus, Microsoft has pledged to keep its growing empire in Redmond, Wash...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Another Morgan Stanley Executive Resigns
Another Morgan Stanley managing director resigned yesterday, one of the first executive departures since the firm's board reaffirmed its support for the chief executive, Philip J. Purcell, over the weekend...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
White House Is Pressured by Press Corps Over Sourcing
The Washington bureau chiefs at seven major news organizations are pressing the White House to curtail the use of background briefings...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Marsh & McLennan Earnings Fall 70% in Wake of Inquiry
The Marsh & McLennan Companies said that profit fell after it cut jobs and gave up fees that the New York attorney general said were tantamount to kickbacks...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
DaimlerChrysler Must Pay Kerkorian
By The New York Times...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Rebuffed, Qwest Ponders the Next Move
Having dropped out of the contest to acquire MCI, the chief executive of Qwest said the company's reputation had not been hurt by the three-month bidding war...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Blackstone Switches Sides and Private Equity Deal Makers Take Note
The world of private equity investing is buzzing after the Blackstone Group switched sides in the bidding for a telecommunications company worth more than $15 billion...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
New Lobby, and Address, for a 1900's Hotel
The dome over a bar in the Hotel Carlton had been ignored for so long - decades, in fact - that the building's owners were not quite sure what its stained glass looked like. The layers of tobacco tar and dirt were so thick that the dome appeared to have been painted black. In fact, the glass held a cornucopia, its contents depicted in brilliant colors...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
New Technology Is the Big Challenge for Madison Avenue's Executives
Advertising poo-bahs are gathering for an annual conference in Bermuda, where they will discuss how technology is challenging their ability to deliver commercials to consumers...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
March Factory Orders Rose Unexpectedly
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Hollinger Directors Agree to Pay Settlement
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Heart Clinic May End or Curtail Use of a Drug
Heart doctors at the Cleveland Clinic have voted to severely curtail or even ban the clinic's use of the Johnson & Johnson drug Natrecor...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Lowe's Sets Review, Incumbents Included
Lowe's Sets Review,...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Prada Begins Talks to Sell Unprofitable Helmut Lang Brand
The proceeds of the sale would help shore up Prada's balance sheet at a time when the luxury goods industry is confronting a slowing world economy...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Petition Seeks Warning on Anticancer Medication
Filed by the attorney general of Connecticut, the petition says that drug regulators have failed to warn patients that Thalomid can cause fatal blood clots...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
ABC Dishes Dirt on Fox's 'American Idol'
ABC News released an interview with a former contestant on "American Idol" who contends he received coaching during the competition from Paula Abdul...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Tyco's 2nd-Quarter Earnings Tumble 75%
Tyco International's profit tumbled in the second quarter as hefty charges offset higher revenues. It reduced its full-year earnings forecast...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Ex-Diplomat Chosen to Fill Treasury Post
WASHINGTON, May 3 - President Bush said on Tuesday that he would nominate Robert M. Kimmitt, a veteran diplomat under President Ronald Reagan and the first President George Bush, to become deputy secretary of the Treasury...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Can't Wal-Mart, a Retail Behemoth, Pay More?
With most of Wal-Mart's workers earning less than $19,000 a year, several groups have teamed up to prod Wal-Mart into paying its employees higher wages...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Fed Raises Rates but Bobbles Delivery
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark short-term interest rate and signaled that it was more worried about rising prices than about slower growth...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
In Airline Shift, More Nonstop Flights Make Schedule
Passengers, rejoice. The big airlines are starting to cave in to their low-fare competitors by adding direct flights...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Ford and G.M. Suffer as Buyers Shun S.U.V.'s
The latest sales figures show that Americans are increasingly wary of gas-thirsty sport utility vehicles, bad news for General Motors and Ford...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Fidelity Gives Sign of Where It Sees Growth
The clearest sign yet that 401(k) plans will be an increasingly important business for Fidelity Investments has come with the appointment of a president, Abigail Johnson...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Insurer Loses to Adjusters on Overtime
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Talks on Cable Standoff Resume
Negotiations have resumed to end the blackout that has kept Cablevision's MSG Network and Fox Sports New York off Time Warner's cable systems...
New York Times - May 4, 2005
Argentina's beaver plague
How a prolific rodent is changing the landscape in a remote part of Argentina...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Hockey: Canada crush Slovenia
Canada beat Slovenia 8-0 to reach the second round of the Ice Hockey World Championship in Austria...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Venezuelan oil output 'still low'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the country is producing less oil than the government had planned...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
Ban on toxic chemicals reviewed
Talks open to review a convention banning some of the most dangerous man-made chemicals in existence...
BBC News - May 4, 2005
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