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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 April 2006:
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Giuliani: 'This was war'
Jurors deciding the fate of 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui on Thursday saw gripping videotapes of planes crashing into the World Trade center. And former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, giving testimony for the prosecution, described his shock as he watched a couple holding hands and leaping from one of the flaming towers. He added: "This was war."...
CNN - April 6, 2006
Giuliani testifies at 9/11 trial
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani took the witness stand for the government as the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui resumed today. He described the horrible images he witnessed on September 11 at the World Trade Center. "It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my whole life," Giuliani recalled...
CNN - April 6, 2006
Mets Show Plans for New Ballpark in Queens
The new ballpark, designed by HOK Sport, is meant to evoke memories of Ebbets Field, where the Brooklyn Dodgers played...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
At Moussaoui Trial, Giuliani Recalls Horror of 9/11
The former mayor testified at the trial that will determine whether Zacarias Moussaoui gets a death sentence or life in prison...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
In Court Filings, Cheney Aide Says Bush Approved Leak
The testimony was the first indication that President Bush played a direct role in the disclosure of an intelligence report on Iraq...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Deal Would Put Millions on Path to Citizenship
The compromise bill hammered out in the Senate today would be the most sweeping immigration accord in two decades...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Jury Finds 2 Ex-Detectives Guilty of Murder
Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa face life in prison for their role in mob assassinations...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Surprise as European Bank Signals No Rate Raise
The announcement was a rare jolt from an institution that has strived for dogged predictability...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Armenia Sells Russia Crucial Gas Link in Deal for Cheap Fuel
The latest natural gas squabble in the former Soviet Union was settled today...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Gold Prices Reach 25-Year High
The price of gold touched $600 an ounce today as investors poured money into precious metals...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Bush 'ordered leak', ex-aide says
A former top White House aide claims George Bush approved the leak of classified information on the Iraq war...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Bomb kills 10 at Iraq holy site
A car bomb near a shrine in Najaf, Iraq, kills 10 and wounds 39, police say. Meanwhile, an Iraqi considered the prime suspect in the 2005 kidnapping of an Italian journalist is captured, officials say. He is said to have ties to terror leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, considered head of al Qaeda in Iraq...
CNN - April 6, 2006
'Breakthrough' immigration compromise announced
Senate Republicans and Democrats announced a "breakthrough" compromise Thursday on legislation opening the way to legal status and eventual citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally...
CNN - April 6, 2006
Giuliani describes 9/11 horrors
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani described the opening horrors of September 11, 2001, as the government's first witness at the second phase of al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui's death penalty trial...
CNN - April 6, 2006
'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years
The text gives new insights into the relationship of Jesus and the disciple who betrayed him, scholars reported...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Giuliani Testifies at Moussaoui Trial
The ex-mayor of New York recalled the sight of people jumping from the burning World Trade Center...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Immigration Plans Face Test Votes in Senate
The majority leader backed one bill, and said another one did not have enough votes to move forward...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
A 2nd Loss For Merck Over Vioxx
A N.J. jury found that the company had not properly warned patients of the dangers of its drug Vioxx...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Vodafone remodels to shift focus
Vodafone restructures its business into three new divisions as it looks to boost its sales growth...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Boxing: Guzman pulls out of bout
Joan Guzman withdraws from his challenge for Scott Harrison's WBO featherweight title...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Ryder Cup captain's car shot at
US Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman is set to play in the Masters despite being involved in a drive-by shooting incident...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Firm offers $16m to end seal cull
A US businesswoman offers to raise $16m so that Canada ends a controversial seal hunt...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
NI parties get November deadline
British PM Tony Blair and Irish premier Bertie Ahern have issued a November absolute deadline for Northern Ireland's deeply divided politicians to revive a stalled power-sharing assembly seen as key to lasting peace in the province...
CNN - April 6, 2006
Hussein aide quizzed on killings
Prosecutors in the trial of Saddam Hussein re-questioned the former head of the Revolutionary Court on Thursday over the sentencing to death of 148 Shiites in the 1980s, a central point in the case against the ousted Iraqi leader and members of his regime...
CNN - April 6, 2006
Karateren Journal: As a Sea Rises, So Do Hopes for Fish, Jobs and Riches
The Aral Sea, once drained of 75 percent of its water, has this year taken on millions of cubic feet of new water years ahead of schedule...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Complex Maneuvering Over Evidence in Hollywood Wiretapping Scandal
A battle is brewing between defense lawyers and prosecutors over evidence that may be used against some ensnared in the federal investigation...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Chinese role in Brazil worries US
Alarm bells ring in the US as China sells itself to the developing world as an alternative model for ending poverty, writes Humphrey Hawksley...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
US bill doubts lift gaming stocks
Shares in online gaming firms soar as fears of a US crackdown on internet gambling diminish...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Split ruling in latest Vioxx case
Merck is found liable for the death of one man after he took painkiller Vioxx but is cleared in another US case...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
US official in child abuse sting
A US homeland security aide is charged over internet exchanges with a police officer he thought was a teenager girl...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Eminem and Kim to divorce again
Rap star Eminem files for divorce from his wife Kim less than three months after the couple remarried...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Peru Fujimori marries from cell
Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is under arrest in Chile, marries his long-term Japanese girlfriend...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Cardinal urges 'fair' migrant law
The head of Los Angeles' Catholic archdiocese calls for "just and humane" immigration laws in the US, reports the BBC's Duncan Kennedy...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Court can hear 9/11 cockpit tape
Audio from the 9/11 flight which crashed in Pennsylvania can be played in court for the first time, a judge says...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Rice downplays India's Iran links
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has downplayed concerns about India's links with Iran as she lobbies Congress to support the controversial nuclear cooperation agreement struck between India and the U.S. last month...
CNN - April 6, 2006
Sources: McKinney case heading to grand jury
No more he-grabbed-she-slapped -- whether U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney should be charged over a confrontation with Capitol Police last week will be decided by a grand jury, perhaps as soon as next week, said federal law enforcement sources familiar with the case...
CNN - April 6, 2006
Senate Republicans Strike Immigration Deal
The compromise proposal could determine the future of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
House Passes Limit on Cash for Groups in Campaigns
The bill would sharply limit contributions to so-called 527 groups like MoveOn.org and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that in 2004 were able to raise unlimited cash from private donors...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Welfare Rolls in New York Falling Again
The city's caseload dropped to the lowest level since December 1964, but income inequality remains a concern...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Anchor's Chair Was an Irresistible Lure for Couric
The decision was never complicated for Katie Couric's, as her desire to anchor a network newscast outweighed all other factors...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
No Flattery Is Found in an Imitation of a Rockwell
Nearly a year after Don Trachte's death, his sons discovered Norman Rockwell's "Breaking Home Ties" behind a wall, which their father, in the throes of a bitter divorce, had hid from his wife...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Program on Vouchers Draws Minority Support
Strong participation in the program shows how school-choice programs are winning over minority parents...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Fossil Called Missing Link From Sea to Land Animals
Scientists found evidence of limbs in the making in the 375-million-year-old fish's forward fins...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Foreign Briefing: Asia, Europe
ASIA...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Regis Terminates Purchase
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Delay Likely in Trial Over Grasso's Pay
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
F.T.C. Staff Clears Purchase of Guidant
BOSTON, April 5 (AP) — The Boston Scientific Corporation said Wednesday that it had won antitrust clearance from the Federal Trade Commission's staff for its $27 billion acquisition of the Guidant Corporation...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Law Firms Agree to Merge
Reed Smith of the United States and Richards Butler of Britain agreed to merge...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Bed Bath & Beyond Earnings Rise 9%
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Growth in Services Sector Beat Predictions in March
Business activity in the services sector picked up in March, beating expectations and pointing to solid momentum across most of the economy...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Economic Scene: Beauty and the Fattened Wallet
ECONOMISTS have long recognized that physical beauty affects wages, even in occupations where appearance does not seem relevant to job performance...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Lawyer Hired by Enron Says He Found No Fraud
The defense in the Enron trial tried to cast doubt on allegations of accounting irregularities made by Sherron S. Watkins...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
80% of Budget Effectively Off Limits to Cuts
The military and so-called entitlement programs like Medicare now account for about four-fifths of the federal government's budget...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Monsanto's Profit Rises on Sales of Corn Seed
The Monsanto Company posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit as sales rose 15 percent...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Report Faults Video Reports Shown as News
A report says that many television stations are continuing to broadcast reports as news without disclosing that the segments were produced by corporations pitching products...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Going Unconventional To Market Movies
New Line Cinema, wants to take the lead in finding alternative ways to market movies beyond traditional methods...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
A Russian 'Wine Blockade' Against Georgia and Moldova
The two former Soviet satellites are moving closer to the west, and a Russian embargo on their wines, started last week, looks like a form of punishment...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Deal for Candy Company
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Apple Helps Push Nasdaq And S.&P. to 5-Year Highs
Investors bought technology stocks after Apple Computer released software that could expand the number of users of its Mac computers...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
The TV Watch: Amid Banter, Reminders of the Shoes to Be Filled
Becoming the first female sole anchor and managing editor of a network evening news program is a logical step for Katie Couric...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Bankruptcy Not an Option for Ford, Chief Says
William Clay Ford Jr. said Ford Motor remained profitable and had plenty of cash on hand...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Chinese on Buying Trip in U.S. Seek to Pave Way for Leader
The buying mission is the largest China has assembled since reestablishing diplomatic relations with the United States in late 1979...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Alcatel to Sell Satellite Units to Contractor
Thales said Wednesday that it had agreed to buy satellite and security businesses from Alcatel for cash and stock worth about 1.7 billion euros...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Poland Averts Clash With Europe Over Italian Bank Deal
The Polish government reached an agreement with the giant Italian bank UniCredito that allows two Polish banks to be combined under their Italian owner...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Small Business: Financial Advice for the 'Mass Affluent'
American households with $100,000 to $1 million in assets to invest are either fending for themselves or struggling to find good financial advice...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Windows or Mac? Apple Says Both
The Boot Camp system makes it possible for an Intel-based Macintosh to run either Windows XP or the Mac OS X...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Market Place: Coke's Board to Get Bonus or Nothing
Coca-Cola appears to be the first company to have adopted a plan that would provide nothing to directors if the company did not perform well...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
A Second Loss for Merck Over Vioxx
A New Jersey jury found Wednesday that the company had not properly warned patients of the dangers of its drug Vioxx ...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
5 Drug Makers Are Accused of Fixing Prices in Britain
Nine executives are also facing criminal charges of conspiracy to defraud the British National Health Service...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Kinks in Canada Drug Pipeline
The Canadian online pharmaceuticla industry has been swamped by problems and many of the smaller companies have been forced out of business...
New York Times - April 6, 2006
Protests over Venezuela killings
Venezuelans call for justice after the bodies of three Canadian boys, kidnapped in February, are found...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Ancient pyramid found in Mexico
Archaeologists discover an ancient pyramid buried under a hill at a ceremonial site in Mexico City...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
Enron's Skilling set to testify
Jeffrey Skilling, former Enron chief executive, is set to take the stand to deny fraud and insider trading charges...
BBC News - April 6, 2006
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