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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
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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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer expecting baby No. 2
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
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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US News Archive for August 2005:
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Israel Lobbyists Facing Charges in Secrets Case
Two former lobbyists were charged with illegally conspiring to gather and disclose classified U.S. national security information...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Digging Deep for Proof of an Ancient Jewish Capital
An Israeli archaeologist says she has uncovered in East Jerusalem what may be the fabled palace of the biblical King David...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Novak Walks Off Live CNN Program
A spokeswoman for CNN released a statement saying that the network had asked Robert D. Novak "to take some time off."...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Niger's Anguish Is Reflected in Its Dying Children
One child in five is dying - the result of a belated response by the outside world to a food crisis predicted nine months ago...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Court Nominee Advised Group on Gay Rights
Judge John G. Roberts Jr. helped advocates for gay rights win a landmark 1996 ruling protecting homosexuals from discrimination...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Ex-Chief of Savings Plan Sued
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
U.S. Vioxx Trial Set for November
The first federal trial over Vioxx is scheduled to begin in New Orleans on Nov. 28 and concerns whether the drug caused the fatal heart attack of a 53-year-old Florida man...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
China Plays Down Bid's Failure
China's foreign ministry issued an unusually low-key reaction to the collapse of Cnooc Ltd.'s bid for the oil company Unocal...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
The Churn
Deal Makers...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Hear the One About the Trade?
Regulators have become increasingly concerned that customer trade information is being used improperly...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Gulf Hurricanes Are Latest Kink in the Oil Chain
With oil prices hitting records, producers worry that hurricanes are as much a risk to a shortfall in supplies as pipelines blowing up in Iraq...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Stock Options: Do They Make Bosses Cheat?
It appears that really big options grants for chief executives make it more likely that companies will fudge their numbers...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
As New Products Arrive, Wound Care Sales Grow
When Kinetic Concepts went public in February 2004, the company told investors that its best-selling products - a family of devices that promote wound healing - were reaching about 25 percent of the patients who could use them...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Pixar Profit Off as Video Sales Come Up Short
Pixar Animation Studios reported a lower second-quarter net profit as home video sales of the film "The Incredibles" fell short of expectations...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Net Rises at Gillette but Falls at 2 Competitors
Makers of consumer products reported varied quarterly results with the Gillette Company posting a 17 percent increase in profit...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Viacom Reports Flat Profit for 2nd Quarter
Faced with higher programming costs and slower growth in advertising spending, Viacom said that net income in the second quarter was flat...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Warner Music's Loss Rises
The Warner Music Group said that its net loss widened in the third quarter because of charges related to its initial public offering...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Widow of Vioxx Patient Is Pressed by Merck Lawyers
The plaintiffs rested their case in the first Vioxx lawsuit to reach trial after the widow of Robert Ernst told jurors that she believed her husband would be alive if he had not taken the painkiller...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
HSBC to Acquire Metris for $1.59 Billion in Cash
Independent credit card issuers have become an endangered species in the financial service sector this summer as the big banks, in search of higher profits, try to acquire them...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
German Media Merger Said to Be in Offing
Axel Springer, the German newspaper giant, is expected to announce that it will acquire ProSiebenSat.1, the German broadcaster, in a deal worth more than $2 billion...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
When Capital Goes to the Founders, Not the Company
To many venture capitalists, the increasingly common practice of giving money to the company's founders, rather than to building the company, is a necessary evil...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Retailers Falter as Shoppers Focus on Auto Deals
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Markets Fall on Higher Oil and Sluggish Retail Sales
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Lee Raymond, Exxon Mobil's Chief Since 1999 Merger, to Step Down at Year's End
Helped by record oil prices, Lee R. Raymond will leave the company in its best-ever financial and operating form...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Aggressive Search by Cnooc for New Oil and Gas Seen
The Chinese energy company is preparing to mount an aggressive search for oil and gas supplies in the aftermath of its failed bid for Unocal...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Jobless Claims Declined Slightly Last Week
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing initial claims for jobless benefits fell by 1,000 last week, in part because of fewer claims from autoworkers and other manufacturers, the government said on Thursday...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Loss Narrows at Revlon
Revlon reported that its second-quarter loss narrowed slightly because of favorable exchange rates...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Investor Takes Aegis Stake
Vincent Bolloré, who recently took over as chairman of the advertising company Havas, has acquired a 6 percent stake in Aegis, another marketing services company...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Bank of England Cuts Interest Rate to 4.5%
The Bank of England cut interest rates Thursday for the first time in more than two years in response to a sharply slowing economy at home...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Doesn't Anyone Want to Manage Harvard's Money?
Eight months after the investment manager of Harvard University's $23 billion in assets resigned, the school has yet to name a successor...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Greenberg Fires Back at Directors
Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman of the American International Group, challenged the rationale for the insurer's $4 billion income restatement...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Microsoft Shops at Wal-Mart for an Operating Chief
Microsoft plucked its new chief operating officer from Wal-Mart, a kindred corporate giant that shares the challenge of finding new growth...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Calories? Hah! Munch Some Mega M&M's
The marketing blitz for a supersize version of M&M's has a budget estimated at $10 million to present the candies as "perfectly big."...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Hip-Hop Argot Meets Corporate Cant, All to Sell Chryslers
Chrysler is pairing its former chairman, Lee A. Iacocca, with Snoop Dogg in a commercial aimed in part at overcoming Mr. Iacocca's demographic limitations...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
A Crucible in Turkey
Turkey's struggle to privatize its biggest steel maker is a symbol of the country's negotiations to join the European Union...
New York Times - August 5, 2005
Exxon boss Raymond is to retire
Oil giant Exxon Mobil says chief executive Lee Raymond is to retire at the end of 2005...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
HSBC buys US credit card business
UK banking giant HSBC agrees to buy US credit card firm Metris for $1.59bn...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
Spain seizes Mexico 'drug barons'
Spanish police arrest two men accused by the US of being leading members of Mexico's Juarez drug cartel...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
Stewart gets longer house arrest
Jailed US lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is set to spend an extra three weeks under house arrest...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
Baseball: Orioles sack Mazzilli
Baltimore sack their manager Lee Mazzilli following the club's free-fall from the top of the standings...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
Haiti 'not ready for elections'
A new report warns Haiti might have to delay elections because of insecurity and slow voter registration...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
China and US 'unite' over UN bid
Beijing and the US agree to work together to block a plan to expand the UN Security Council, says China's envoy...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
Colombia president at Bush ranch
Staunch US ally Colombian President Alvaro Uribe meets President George W Bush at his ranch in Texas...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
Journalist gets Canada top job
A Haitian-born female journalist from Quebec is Queen Elizabeth's new representative in Canada...
BBC News - August 5, 2005
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