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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Review Just say I dont to Bride Wars
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Intel will miss its already-lowered 4Q targets
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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LG shows off Dick Tracy wristwatch phone
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Audiovox to expand availability of TV on the road
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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How big Jurassic flying reptiles got off ground
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Israeli strikes, Hamas rockets resume after pause
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US supports Egyptian-French initiative on Gaza
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Gaza fighting rages despite cease-fire proposal
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US News Archive for July 2007:
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Surprises to the End at Wimbledon
Thanks to a pair of little-known French players, Wimbledon had one of the greatest upsets in its history, and Andy Roddick had one of his career?s biggest disappointments to mull...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Expanded Search for Extraterrestrial Life Urged
The hunt for alien life should be expanded to include organisms that lack DNA, a panel of scientists said today...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
From Arizona to Idaho, the West Sizzles
Record-breaking temperatures, well over 110 in places, scorched the Southwest, and wildfires have also increased...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Appeals Court Rejects Lawsuit on Surveillance
A divided federal appeals court reversed a trial judge?s order that a National Security Agency wiretapping program be shut down...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Alcan Seeks Alternatives to Alcoa Bid
The Canadian aluminum maker said the $28.6-billion bid was inadequate. Alcoa said U.S. antitrust investigators had asked for more information on the offer...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Chinese Regulators Find Mobile Phone Batteries That Can Explode
After concerns over pet food, toothpaste, seafood and defective tires, China may now have to cope with another consumer product disaster: exploding mobile phone batteries...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Black jurors take weekend break
Jury deliberation in the US fraud trial of former media baron Conrad Black ends for the weekend...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Venus too strong for Ivanovic
Venus Williams hands out a Wimbledon lesson to Ana Ivanovic in the semi-finals...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Tennis: Gasquet shocks Roddick
Richard Gasquet fights back from two sets down to stun Andy Roddick and reach the Wimbledon semi-finals...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
US court dismisses 'spying' case
A US appeals court dismisses a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's domestic spying programme...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Navy investigates Falluja claims
The US Navy is examining "credible allegations" of wrongdoing by US marines in Falluja, Iraq, in 2004...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
West Faces More Heat; Rains Continue in Texas
High temperatures continue to blister the West today while East Texas braced for more flooding as heavy rain drenched already filled lakes and rivers...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Federer and Nadal Are on Track for Rematch
Roger Federer, looking to tie Bjorn Borg?s modern record of five consecutive Wimbledon championships, booked a spot in the semifinals, as did last year?s runner-up, Rafael Nadal...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Federal Court Rejects Lawsuit on Surveillance
A federal appeals court today dismissed a lawsuit challenging President Bush?s domestic spying program, saying the plaintiffs in the case had no standing to sue...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Bank of America to Stand Trial Over Parmalat
A Milan judge has ordered Bank of America to stand trial for alleged market-rigging by some of its employees in connection with Italian dairy firm Parmalat?s collapse...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
CME Beefs Up CBOT Bid
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings said on Friday it increased its merger offer for CBOT Holdings ahead of a shareholder vote on Monday...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption
A former high-ranking official at China?s top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Dana Gets Health Care Deal With Unions
Dana has reached settlement agreements with its two largest unions that will save the bankrupt auto parts maker more than $100 million per year...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Jobs Growth Higher Than Forecast
Employers added 132,000 jobs in June, fewer than in May but consistent with an economy still shaking itself out of a slump...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
US adds more jobs than expected
US employers added 132,000 new jobs in June, higher than market expectations, official figures show...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Arrest under new NY piracy laws
A man is arrested under tightened anti-piracy laws for allegedly recording a film from a cinema screen...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Clintons accused of 'hypocrisy'
Bill and Hillary Clinton are accused of hypocrisy for criticising the clemency granted to an ex-White House aide...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Pakistan Militants Reject Surrender
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The head of a radical mosque besieged by government forces in the heart of Pakistan's capital rejected calls for an unconditional surrender Friday, saying he and his die-hard followers were ready for martyrdom...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
My City: When the Grass Was Greener
Some of the greatest matches in tennis history have taken place on the grass courts of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, once home to the United States Open...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
2008 Candidates Vow to Overhaul U.S. Health Care
The different approaches reflect longstanding divisions on the role of government versus the private market...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Japan firm makes bid for Barneys
Japan's Fast Retailing makes a $900m (£448m) takeover bid for US department store chain Barneys New York...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
AMO in offer for Bausch & Lomb
Advanced Medical Optics makes an offer to buy its US eye care rival Bausch & Lomb for $4.23bn...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Rio's Live Earth given go-ahead
Rio's Live Earth concert will proceed as a judge overturns a decision to cancel it over safety concerns...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Football: Argentina beat Paraguay
Liverpool's Javier Mascherano gives Argentina victory over Paraguay while Colombia win the battle of the wooden spoon against United States...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
eBay opens 'Gumtree for US'
EBay launches a US classified adverts website similar to its Gumtree site, which has proved popular in the UK...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Venezuela brands US envoy failure
Venezuela bids a hostile farewell to the US ambassador, as he regrets not achieving greater dialogue...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Al Gore's son in 'drug treatment'
Former US Vice-President Al Gore says his son is getting treatment after being arrested for drug possession...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Suit Planned Over Visas for the Highly Skilled
The federal immigration agency is facing a lawsuit for refusing to accept visa applications from highly skilled immigrants who the government encouraged to apply...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Bloomberg Says He Will Support State G.O.P.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has become an independent, but he is also telling New York?s Republican Party that he will support his former team...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
After Lobbying, Wetlands Rules Are Narrowed
New federal guidelines will leave sensitive wetlands unprotected, according to environmental advocates...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Health Care Looms as Top Campaign Issue
Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more Americans without health insurance...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
World Business Briefing: Kirin Considering Investment
The San Miguel Corporation, the food and beverage conglomerate based in the Philippines, is discussing selling its stake in National Foods of Australia to the Kirin Holdings Company, the Japanese brewing company. San Miguel told the Philippine Stock Exchange that the talks with Kirin were preliminary. Kirin, one of the largest shareholders in San Miguel, confirmed that it was in early talks regarding investing in San Miguel, but said that nothing had been decided...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
World Business Briefing: Germany: VW Names U.S. Chief
The German automaker Volkswagen named Stefan Jacoby, left, as president and chief executive of Volkswagen of America, the company said. Mr. Jacoby, currently executive vice president for marketing and sales with the company?s Volkswagen Group, succeeds Frank Witter, who is moving to Volkswagen Credit to become co-president with Kevin Kelly, Volkswagen said. It added that Mr. Jacoby, 49, would reorganize the automotive business in the United States ?in close coordination with the board of management.? It said in a statement that ?the objective is to achieve further significant expansion in the position of Volkswagen and Audi on the U.S. market through attractive and competitive products.?...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Inquiry Into Lender
The New Century Financial Corporation, a collapsed subprime lender that is liquidating in bankruptcy, said yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had elevated its investigation of the company to formal status...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
World Business Briefing: Italy: Bigger Stake in Valentino
Permira Advisers, manager of Europe?s largest buyout fund, increased its stake in the Valentino Fashion Group to 60.2 percent by purchasing Canova Finanziaria?s shares for 491.4 million euros ($668 million). The shares were bought for 35 euros each through Permira?s Red & Black Lux SARL unit, Permira said. Valentino Fashion?s chairman, Antonio Favrin, and his associate, Dario Segre, controlled the 18.95 percent Valentino Fashion stake through Canova. Permira, based in London, offered to buy Valentino Fashion last month in a transaction valuing the company at 2.6 billion euros, lured by its Hugo Boss clothing brand, and plans to bid for the rest of the outstanding stock. Valentino is based in Milan...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
World Business Briefing: Switzerland: Drug Suit Settled
Pfizer settled a lawsuit against a rival drug maker, Novartis, for alleged infringement of a United States patent for the antibiotic medicine Zithromax. Pfizer sued Novartis and Sandoz, a unit operating in the United States, in February 2006 in federal court in Wilmington, Del., saying it would be irreparably harmed by the rival companies? use of the invention for forms of crystal azithromycin; Pfizer sought unspecified damages. The parties have agreed to settle all claims over the 2005 drug patent, and the suit was dismissed June 25, according to court papers. Pfizer is based in New York, and Novartis is based in Basel, Switzerland...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Manager to Liquidate Fund After Heavy Redemptions
Heavy redemptions from investors concerned about their holdings of subprime mortgage securities claimed the Galena Street Fund of the Braddock Financial Corporation as the latest hedge fund victim...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Australian Company to Buy Medical Lab Group
Sonic Healthcare Ltd., Australia?s top pathology group, said Friday it had agreed to buy Sunrise Medical Laboratories...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Fed Names Rates Adviser
The Federal Reserve Board named Brian F. Madigan as a top adviser on interest rates to its chairman, Ben S. Bernanke...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Drop in Bonds Offsets Optimism on Shares
Stocks closed mixed in postholiday trading Thursday as a drop in bond prices stifled Wall Street?s excitement about new buyout activity and strength in service industries...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
British Buyer to Get U.S. Law Publisher
Incisive Media, a British provider of business news, said that it would pay about $630 million to buy the publisher of The American Lawyer and other publications in North America...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Services Index Gained in June; More Sought Jobless Benefits
Both service and manufacturing industries showed strength in June, according to a closely watched index of business activity...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Takeover Speculation Lifts Medical Stock
Shares of Quest Diagnostics Inc. jumped more than 10 percent and its options volume turned busy Thursday afternoon amid renewed speculation that it is a takeover target...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Samsonite to Be Sold
The luggage maker Samsonite said that it had agreed to be bought by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in an all-cash deal of about $1.7 billion, including assumption of debt...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Second Suitor Makes a Bid for Barneys
The Fast Retailing Company, the Japanese retailer that owns the Uniqlo line of stores, made an unsolicited $900 million bid for Barneys New York...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Chief of Siemens Pledges to Streamline Operations
The new chief executive of the engineering conglomerate Siemens said that a top priority for his first 100 days on the job would be to simplify the organizational structure that may have contributed to a bribery scandal...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Microsoft to Spend $1.15 Billion 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 6, 2007
After Losses, UBS Ousts Its Chief
n a surprise move, the Swiss bank UBS said that its chief executive, Peter A. Wuffli, would be succeeded by his deputy, Marcel Rohner, effective immediately...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
A Flight Plan for the Long Haul
The chairman of Emirates airline ?Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum of the ruling family of Dubai ? has grand ambitions and a bankroll to match...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Insider: How This Boom Differs From the Dot-Com Days: Hedge Funds Make Money
With hedge funds lining up to go public, money managers and the media are questioning whether there might be a hedge fund bubble...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
In London?s Financial World, Carbon Trading Is the New Big Thing
Managing emissions has become one of the fastest-growing specialties in financial services, and companies are scrambling to find workers...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Documents Show KPMG Secretly Met Prosecutors
Previously unseen notes of meetings in connection with the related criminal trial of 16 former KPMG tax employees provide a rare and detailed look inside the closed-door process of those dealings...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
In India, Credit Card Terms Prompt Indignation
Local and foreign banks are aggressively peddling credit card accounts in India, but converting Indian consumers to plastic has proved more difficult than expected...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Advertising: Five, Six, Seven, Eight: Madison Avenue Shows It Still Loves the Right Moves
Madison Avenue is going all Fred-and-Ginger on consumers, filling commercials, Web sites and other forms of advertising with energetic dance steps and music...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Bausch & Lomb Gets Higher Offer, Though Partly in Stock
Advanced Medical Optics on Thursday offered to buy rival eye care maker Bausch and Lomb, in an attempt to break up a previous buyout offer by a private equity firm...
New York Times - July 6, 2007
Strong earthquake strikes Mexico
A 6.1 magnitude
earthquake rocks the poor southern Mexican state of Chiapas...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
Fewer political prisoners in Cuba
A rights group in Cuba says there are fewer political prisoners but widespread repression continues...
BBC News - July 6, 2007
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