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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Rwanda protocol chief says shell prove innocence
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for July 2007:
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Lawyer Who Directed Sept. 11 Compensation to Oversee Virginia Tech Program
Kenneth R. Feinberg will oversee the distribution of the $7 million that has been donated to Virginia Tech after the April campus massacre, university officials said...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
E.P.A. Scaled Back Rules on Wetlands
The Bush administration changed guidelines for enforcing a Supreme Court ruling on the Clean Water Act...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Wimbledon Is in Full Bloom After Rain
Venus Williams advanced to the semifinals after beating Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Rafael Nadal won in five sets...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Health Care Looms as Top Campaign Issue
Candidates in both parties are promising to overhaul the system and cover more of the 44.8 million people without insurance...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
CVC to Acquire Samsonite for $1.7 Billion
The luggage maker said it agreed to be bought by the private equity firm in an all-cash deal, including assumption of debt...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
IPhone Futures Prove to Be a Bad Investment
People who bought IPhones hoping to resell them for a profit find few takers...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Microsoft Plans $1 Billion Charge for Xbox Repairs
Microsoft on Thursday cited ?an unacceptable number of repairs? to its Xbox 360 for the charge, and announced an extended warranty for the video game console...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
[TS] High & Low Finance: Trump Deal Fails, and Shares Fall Again
Donald J. Trump, the man who wrote ?The Art of the Deal,? failed to make a deal this week, and his casino company?s shareholders are suffering. Again...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Bank of England Raises Key Rate
The Bank of England raised its key rate by a quarter point to 5.75 percent, while the European Central Bank left its benchmark interest rate at 4 percent...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Microsoft facing $1bn Xbox bill
Microsoft says that it is facing a $1bn bill to cover the cost of warranties after failings with its Xbox 360...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Mexico bus bodies recovered
Rescue workers pull 24 bodies from a bus buried by a landslide in Puebla, in central Mexico...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
'Gumtree for US' launched by eBay
EBay launches a US classified ad website similar to its Gumtree site, which has proved popular in the UK...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Venus Williams Reaches Wimbledon Semifinals
Venus Williams dispatched her second Russian opponent in as many days to book a spot in the semifinals of Wimbledon...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Heat Warning Issued for Western U.S.
The west faced near-record high temperatures today, while parts of Texas and Oklahoma braced for flooding...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
European Central Bank Holds Rates Steady
The European Central Bank held its benchmark interest rate as expected at 4.0 percent on Thursday, leaving markets awaiting guidance on the timing of the bank?s next move...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Jobless Claims Rose to 318,000 Last Week
Initial jobless claims increased by 2,000, while a more reliable barometer of labor trends climbed to its highest level in two months...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Bank of England Raises Key Interest Rate
The Bank of England raised its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.75 percent, the fifth increase this year, in an attempt to curb inflation...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
U.S. Service Sector Expands in June
The nation?s service economy expanded at a faster-than-expected clip in June, a research group said Thursday...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Japanese Retailer Makes Unsolicited Bid for Barneys
Another shopper has rung up Barneys New York, the high-end fashion emporium that is being sold to the investment arm of the Dubai government for $825 million...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Samsonite packed off for $1.7bn
Luxury luggage brand Samsonite agrees to be bought by private equity firm CVC Capital for $1.7bn...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Colombians hold hostage protest
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe is leading a nationwide protest against kidnapping...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Bodies recovered from Mexico bus
Rescue workers pull 14 bodies from a bus buried by a landslide in Puebla, in central Mexico...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Blackberry to go on sale in China
Research in Motion wins approval to sell its Blackberry handheld e-mail device in China...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
West Indies cricket gets $100m
Billionaire Allen Stanford is to invest $100m in West Indies cricket over the next three years...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Robinho goal sees Brazil progress
Brazil beat Ecuador to join Mexico and Chile in qualifying from Group B at the Copa America...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Bus in Mexico buried by landslide
At least 40 people are feared dead after a bus was completely buried by a landslide in Puebla, Mexico...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Argentine priest in murder trial
An Argentine priest is due in court accused of involvement in murders and kidnappings during the military regime...
BBC News - July 5, 2007
Traffic Alerts Get Personal
In the latest incarnation of traffic reporting, information is being sent using personalized text or voice messages to users? cellphones or BlackBerrys, often at no charge...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Border War Flares Anew Over Clams
Officials in New York complain that New Jersey baymen are going across the state line to dig in New York?s bottom...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Political Memo: Clintons Adjust to Her Turn in His Old Role
Bill Clinton is one Oscar-worthy supporting actor who can sometimes upstage his leading lady simply by breathing...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Sharp Rise Seen in Applications for Citizenship
New feelings of insecurity in immigrant communities are helping fuel a rise in the number of legal immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Back From Iraq, Contractors Face Combat-Related Stress
Many private workers are returning home with combat-related mental health problems, but their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
BlackBerrys Approved for Sale in China
Research in Motion has received clearance to sell its BlackBerry device in China after eight years of trying...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Digital Purchases Rise as Album Sales Fall
Album sales have continued their downward slide this year, but sales of digital tracks are up almost 50 percent over this time last year...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Raymond Douglas, 58, an Executive Who Helped Add Color to the Times, Dies
Mr. Douglas had a major technological role when The New York Times introduced color in its news pages and added new sections in the 1990s...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Boom in Commodity Prices Makes Perth Attractive to Many, Unaffordable to Others
Perth, Australia, is in the midst of what local newspapers call a housing affordability crisis, as home prices jumped 46 percent last year...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Economic Scene: A Career in Hedge Funds and the Price of Overcrowding
What are the career aspirations of the nation?s most accomplished and ambitious students these days? I haven?t seen a formal survey, but a rapidly growing percentage of the best students I teach say they want to manage hedge funds or private equity firms...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
In Sweden, It?s Global Warming vs. Big Heavy Cars
As concern about global warming ripples across Sweden, the average citizen?s relationship with comfortable ? and highly polluting ? cars is becoming strained...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
One Key to a Problem-Free Firing Is Dignity
Many employers believe the best way to avoid the danger of litigation is to treat soon-to-be former employees with respect even as they are being shown the door...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Market Place: Good Times, Bad Times: Make a Deal
Buyout firms have drawn upon a seemingly bottomless wellspring of investors? money and extraordinarily lenient lending terms to close ever-larger deals...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Gazprom to Form an Armed Security Force
Gazprom was exempted from a law forbidding companies other than private security firms to arm their employees...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Chrysler Signs Export Venture With a Chinese Automaker
Chrysler?s deal with the Chinese automaker, Chery, is the first attempt by a U.S. automaker to use China as a manufacturing base for world markets...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Advertising: An Emotional Connection Between Sleeper and Mattress
Tempur-Pedic, a leader in specialty foam mattresses, has opted for a new message promoting the product not as a bed, but as a wellness brand...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
In India, Protecting a Whistle-Blower
The Internet is being put to novel use in India?s southern state of Karnataka: as a shield to protect a bureaucrat against powerful and potentially dangerous enemies...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine
Tapping a South Korean inclination to help one another on the Web has made Naver.com the undisputed leader of Internet search in the country...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Hilton Deal Bolsters Rivals as World Markets Climb
World stock markets rose Wednesday and European indexes were buoyed after Hilton Hotels agreed to be bought by the equity firm the Blackstone Group...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
At I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource
The debate continues over how much skilled work in the vast service sector of the American economy can migrate offshore to lower-cost nations like India...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Loan Changes in Brazil Motivate New Buyers and Home Building
Brazil?s newfound economic stability and changes in lending laws are for the first time making it possible for the country?s working poor to buy their own homes...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
China Finds Poor Quality in Its Stores
Nearly a fifth of the food and consumer products checked in a nationwide survey in China this year were found to be substandard or tainted...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
Ugly Airline Math: Planes Late, Fliers Even Later
The on-time performance of airlines has reached an all-time low, but even the official numbers do not begin to capture the severity of the problem...
New York Times - July 5, 2007
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