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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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US News Archive for December 2007:
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City Room: In Search of Bloomberg?s Next Deputy
John H. Banks III, a Con Edison lobbyist, and Marvin Markus, a Goldman Sachs executive, are among the names being mentioned as possible candidates for the deputy mayor's job opening...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Dot Earth: Warming Takes Out Defense Radars
The Pentagon is closing down 3 of the 20 Norad early-warning radar sites in northern Alaska because they are in danger of falling into the ocean...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
The Lede Blog: State Dept. Inspector General Resigning
Howard Krongard held one end of a much-decried brother-to-brother connection between the State Department and Blackwater, the security contractor...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer, Is Dead at 79
Karlheinz Stockhausen?s innovative electronic works made him one of the most important composers of the postwar era...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Supreme Court to Consider Courts? Wartime Reach
The court today accepted two cases testing whether federal judges can bar the military in Iraq from turning U.S. citizens over to the Iraqis for criminal prosecution...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Senate Blocks Energy Bill
A bill that would have drastically increased fuel economy standards stalled as expected in the Senate...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
With a Nod, Bonds Pleads Not Guilty
Barry Bonds pleaded not guilty to five felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice today...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
The Lede: Blogger Roundup: The C.I.A. Tape Affair
New and old questions erupt over a Times report, creating a complex stew of opinion and analysis...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Stocks Waver After Jobs Report
Wall Street paused from its recent rally after the government?s November jobs report came in weaker than expected and also showed a pickup in inflation...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Floyd Norris Blog: The F.B.I. as Hedge Fund Manager
The government is filing charges after the F.B.I. found that some stock promoters had paid kickbacks to a supposed hedge fund manager...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
US criticises Israeli homes plan
The US secretary of state criticises Israeli plans to build 300 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Third Mexican musician is killed
Another Mexican musician is found killed amid worries that drug gangs are targeting mainstream performers...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Paper Cuts Blog: Questions for Ted Conover
Ted Conover (Ralph Gabriner) Ted Conover's most recent book is "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing." 1) What are you working on? There's a moment in "Newjack" where I'm driving a prisoner from Sing Sing up to a different prison upstate. We eat dinner at a service area on the Throughway and he comments that once he's out, he wants [...]...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
TV Decoder Blog: TV Decoder: The Swells Love ?Friday Night Lights?
Kyle Chandler plays Eric Taylor, coach of the Dillon Panthers, in "Friday Night Lights." (Bill Records/NBC) The second season of "Friday Night Lights," the critically acclaimed drama set on and off a Texas football field, has managed to attract no more than 7.5 million viewers a week. Fans could say NBC is partly to blame; the [...]...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Lede: Shaking Up the Bali Climate Conference
Reading too much into the moderate earthquake that rattled the Indonesian island today...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
DealBook Blog: DealBook: Cash-Rich Apple Opens New Store
Apple?s newest store — its second-largest in the United States — is opening Friday night in Manhattan?s trendy Meatpacking District, and Apple enthusiasts are already gawking at what Gothamist.com has dubbed ?the shiny, new tech haven.? From the looks of the photos Gothamist posted after Thursday's media sneak peak, showing a three-story, all-glass, spiral staircase, [...]...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
NATO Seeks to Retake Taliban Haven
NATO forces mounted an offensive to retake the town of Musa Qala, which has been a haven for Taliban fighters since British forces abandoned it in October last year...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Bonds Making Court Appearance
Barry Bonds?s court hearing at 9 a.m. Pacific time Friday will mark the home run king?s first public appearance since he was indicted for obstruction and lying to a grand jury about his steroid use...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
City Room: Worker Is Killed in Scaffold Collapse
Two brothers who worked together as window-washers fell 45 stories from the roof of a Manhattan apartment tower this morning...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Democrats Call for Inquiry in Destruction of Tapes by C.I.A.
Democratic lawmakers reacted with anger today to the disclosure that the C.I.A. in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes showing the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Automakers Change Course on Fuel Standards
A behind-the-scenes battle in Congress over fuel economy standards has ended with automakers cheering the rules...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Macrovision to Buy Gemstar-TV Guide
Macrovision and Gemstar said the combined company will allow consumers to pull up a guide on their TV and receive personalized content and information...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
News Analysis: In Mortgage Plan, Lenders Set Terms
Bush?s plan to help people trapped by the mortgage meltdown is industry-led, not a government bailout...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Stocks Up Slightly After Payroll Report
Wall Street was narrowly mixed in early trading after investors interpreted fairly tame employment data as giving the Fed more room to cut interest rates next week...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Employers Added 94,000 Jobs in November
The Labor Department report may ease fears of a recession but open the door for more rate cuts from the Fed...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
US job growth slows in November
US employers added 94,000 jobs in November as the rate of hiring slowed from the month before, data shows...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Fresh oil and gas find in Brazil
More oil and gas supplies are found off the south-eastern coast of Brazil, boosting the shares of Petrobras...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Canada reactor slows tests
Cancer patients worldwide face delayed tests after a Canadian reactor supplying vital isotopes shuts down...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Baseball star Bonds 'not guilty'
American baseball star Barry Bonds pleads not guilty to charges relating to performance enhancing drugs...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Colombia head offers talks zone
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe offers to create a zone for talks on exchanging hostages for rebel prisoners...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Coca Cola boss to step down
Coca Cola chief executive Neville Isdell is to leave his position next year, but will remain as chairman until 2009...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Baseball star Bonds due in court
American baseball star Barry Bonds is due in court over charges relating to performance enhancing drugs...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Google co-founder 'to marry'
Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry this weekend on a tiny private island in the Caribbean, US reports say...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
Cuba activists say arrests rising
Cuban dissidents complain of increased police harassment ahead of world human rights day on 10 December...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
'Millions missing' from Iraq fund
US military auditors say they cannot fully account for spending a $5.2bn (£2.6bn) Iraqi training and supply fund...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
US lawmakers back energy bill
The US House of Representatives passes a bill requiring a 40% boost in vehicle fuel efficiency...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
'Skin cell cure' for sickle cells
Scientists have used reprogrammed skin cells to treat the blood disorder sickle cell anaemia...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
City Room: How Would You Run These Subways?
Readers are invited to offer suggestions to the new general managers of the No. 7 and L subway lines. Management of the subway system is being decentralized in an attempt to improve performance...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Searching for Clues to a Young Killer?s Motivation
The authorities in Omaha scoured surveillance tapes and studied text messages, voice mail and letters that a gunman sent before he killed eight people at a shopping mall...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Tecate Journal: Smugglers Build an Underground World
Increased border enforcement has helped deter illegal immigrant traffic and boosted drug seizures, but it has also driven traffickers to find new ways to breach the American border...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Romney, Eye on Evangelicals, Defends His Faith
Mitt Romney said ?Mormon? only once in his speech, underscoring how touchy the issue of his faith has been...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Doll?s Village: Some See Restoration as Too Cutesy
An act of philanthropy by the founder of the American Girl doll collection has helped raise an upstate New York village?s prospects, but it has also bought her enemies...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Seasonal Debate Rages Over Loveliest Branches
A battle is being waged for the heart of the American Christmas tree customer, pitting the real evergreen against the once-lowly artificial tree...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
A Smaller Write-Down at Royal Bank
Shares of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group jumped on Thursday after the bank reported it would beat analyst profit expectations for the year...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Deputy Mayor Leaving to Run Bloomberg L.P.
The departure of Daniel L. Doctoroff could signal the twilight of an administration still bursting with grand visions but running out of time...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Upbeat Outlook at Lilly
Eli Lilly & Company forecast that 2008 earnings would be greater than Wall Street?s expectations and said yesterday that it intended to seek federal approval this month for a drug to prevent blood clots...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Toll Brothers Has a Losing Quarter
The nation?s largest builder of luxury homes, Toll Brothers Inc., said Thursday that it had a loss for its fourth quarter during what the company calls the worst housing downturn in decades...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Japan Revises Lower Third-Quarter Growth
Japan?s revised third-quarter growth downward on Friday, surprising markets that had expected an upward revision, prompting many to suggest it might now be late next year before the Bank of Japan can raise rates...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Palm Lowers Expectations
Palm, the maker of smartphones, lowered its second-quarter outlook Thursday and said it would swing to a wider-than-expected loss...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Dell to Sell Computers in Best Buy Stores
Dell built its business around selling personal computers directly to customers, but it has been cutting deals with retailers as growth of PC sales slowed...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Mortgage Firm to File Bankruptcy
Delta Financial Corporation said Thursday that it planned to file soon for bankruptcy protection, after losses mounted and an agreement to obtain financing fell apart...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Hope for Homeowners Lifts Wall Street
Wall Street rallied once again Thursday as investors bet that companies hurt by the housing slump will benefit from a government plan to help financially stretched homeowners...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
China Reports Progress in Food Safety
China said on Thursday that it had demolished the facilities of more than 2,800 rural food makers as part of its effort to crack down on shoddy, fake or substandard food...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Europe Holds Key Rate Steady, but Britain Opts for a Cut
The European Central Bank walked a middle ground on Thursday, leaving interest rates unchanged, but across the channel, the Bank of England opted to take action...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Elevation of a Murdoch Son Suggests Plan of Succession
Rupert Murdoch?s younger son, James, will step down as chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting to take on a broader role within his father?s media empire...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
A Leading Asian Utility to Cut Carbon Emissions
The announcement by CLP, one of Asia?s largest power utilities, is the latest step by the power industry in addressing emissions of global-warming gases...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Labor Market Appears to Weaken
First-time claims for unemployment benefits fell by 15,000 last week, but a four-week moving average of new filings was the highest in more than two years...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Florida Fund Reopens, and $1.1 Billion Is Withdrawn
State officials characterized the day?s activity as a positive, insisting that the withdrawals were less than they?d anticipated and noting that the fund was ?well able to handle? them...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Chief of Coke to Step Down After Steering Its Recovery
E. Neville Isdell, who will be remembered as the man who stopped Coca-Cola?s bleeding and sutured the wounds, announced Thursday that he would resign as chief executive next July...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Advertising: Coke Promotes Itself in a New Virtual World
Coca-Cola has set up shop in a virtual world called there.com, creating an island shaped like a Coke bottle where fans can hang out and soar around...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Insider: Another New York Attorney General Starts a Wall Street Crusade
Andrew M. Cuomo, New York?s attorney general, has been handing out subpoenas to Wall Street in an effort to find out how banks bought subprime home loans and packaged them into complex securities...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Ex-I.R.S. Agent Says Tax Evasion by Real Estate Partners Is Huge
Investors in real estate partnerships evade billions of dollars in federal taxes each year, a former specialist in partnerships for the I.R.S. said Thursday...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
U.S. to Pressure China on Food and Product Safety at Coming Trade Talks
The safety of imported goods has trumped broader economic concerns as Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. prepares for the third round of his ?strategic economic dialogue? with China...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Some Needing Mortgage Aid Won?t Get It
Mortgage experts say that although the exact guidelines of the mortgage rescue plan are still fuzzy, it is clear that many of those who need aid the most will not get it...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Some Gains, but Stores Are Worried
Sales at big chain stores rose 3.5 percent last month, but signs of trouble remain? and stores are taking no chances...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
An Imax and AMC Venture Will Expand 3-D Theaters
Imax and AMC Entertainment are teaming up to open 100 Imax theaters, doubling the number of large-format 3-D outlets in the United States and adding momentum to Hollywood?s growing interest in the genre...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Medicare Cuts Payout on 2 Cancer Drugs
New Medicare rules for a small but promising class of cancer drugs may cause thousands of lymphoma patients to lose access to the treatment...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Strike Costs Become Test for Hosts of Talk Shows
The strike by the Writers Guild has become a serious financial drain for most late-night hosts because they have stepped in to pay the salaries of their nonwriting staff members...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Former Chief Will Forfeit $418 Million
The founder of UnitedHealth Group, William W. McGuire, reached a settlement with regulators over the backdating of stock options and will forfeit $418 million in options and retirement benefits...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Turnabout on Fuel Standards
A bill in Congress to raise fuel economy standards by 40 percent has the official backing of automakers, but the industry remains divided...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Murdoch Said to Have Plan for Shake-Up at Dow Jones
The departure of Richard F. Zannino, Dow Jones?s chief executive, was announced Thursday, a week before News Corporation is expected to take control of the company...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
News Analysis: On Mortgage Relief, Who Gains the Most?
Many homeowners who are having trouble paying their mortgage will find that they do not qualify for the assistance announced by President Bush...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Web Access and E-Mail on Flights
Starting next week and over the next few months, several United States airlines will test Internet service on their planes...
New York Times - December 7, 2007
Chavez 'will step down in 2013'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly states that he will step down when his term expires in 2013...
BBC News - December 7, 2007
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