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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Cyprus reunification talks on Sept 3
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Attacks kill 9 in Kashmir, including mom, 4 kids
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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South Korea struggles to probe tourist death
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Military Sri Lankan fighting kills 45
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success
Southern Ledger - July 25, 2008
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US News Archive for May 2008:
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Revenue Rises 16 Percent at News Corporation
The global media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch said third-quarter profit nearly tripled, to $2.7 billion, mainly from growth in the company?s television and cable networks businesses...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Airbus Suffers Setback to Recovery Plans
The airplane manufacturer said that tighter credit and the weakening dollar had forced it to break off talks with a second supplier over the sale of several European factories...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
California Awards $271 Million for Stem Cell Research
The awards represent the largest chunk of money awarded at one time by California?s taxpayer-backed stem cell program, which is slated to spend about $3 billion over about a decade...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Delta and Northwest Speak of Need for Merger
The chairmen of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines said a merger was essential to preserve jobs and service to small cities, and to compete with foreign-flag carriers...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
The Lede: Last Call for Drinks on London?s Tube
The new mayor's ban on drinking in buses and subway trains after June 1 will bring London's rules in line with those of many other major cities...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Dot Earth: More Shrinking North Pole Ice
Scientists foresee open water around the North Pole this summer...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Wheels: Toyota Offers to Buy Back Rusty Tacomas
In a program that covers 813,000 vehicles and could cost almost $100 million, Toyota is offering to buy back 1995-2000 model Tacoma pickups with frames so badly rusted that they cannot be repaired...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Stocks Take a Fall Late in the Day
Stock markets had their worst session in nearly a month, as a swirl of unsettling economic news jolted investors...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
City Room: Sean Bell Protesters Block Traffic
Several dozen protesters briefly shut down traffic on the Queensboro Bridge at about 3:30 p.m. as part of a coordinated series of protests over the acquittal of three detectives in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Myanmar Faces Pressure to Allow Major Aid Effort
An American diplomat warned of the possibility that the death toll could rise sharply, and a French diplomat urged the U.N. to force Myanmar to accept aid...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Bush Vows to Veto Housing-Relief Bill in House
The White House prefers a more limited expansion of federally insured mortgages than the Democrats...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Clinton Pledges to Fight On Despite Split Primary Result
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to continue her campaign despite signs of mounting financial problems and pressure to end her candidacy...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Paulson sees end of credit crunch
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the worst of the credit crunch may have passed...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
'Guantanamo man' in Iraq bombing
A former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in Iraq, the US says...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
DirecTV Profit Up 10% as Subscriptions Grow
The satellite television company said first-quarter net income climbed to $371 million, as it acquired more subscribers and customers spent more on high-definition and video recording services...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Speedway Motorsports Profit Beats Expectations
The company reported first-quarter earnings of $30.9 million on higher sponsorships, luxury suite rentals, ancillary broadcasting rights and other event-related revenue...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Marsh & McLennan Posts Loss on Write-Down
Marsh & McLennan, which runs one of the world?s largest insurance brokerages, reported a first-quarter loss of $210 million as it wrote down the value of its Kroll risk consulting unit...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
White House Vows to Veto Housing Measure
The Bush administration said it opposed a bill to help homeowners in danger of foreclosure and that White House advisers would urge the president to veto it...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Productivity Rises in First Quarter
Productivity increased by a better-than-expected annual rate of 2.2 percent, the government said. And in a sign that inflation could be easing, labor cost pressures slowed a bit...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Stocks Down After Home Sales and Labor Data
Wall Street fell as investors reacted to mixed economic data and waited to see if oil prices will climb further into uncharted territory...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
TV Decoder: Sundance Is Sold to Cablevision
Rainbow Media, the cable programming subsidiary of Cablevision, said Wednesday that it was purchasing the Sundance Channel in a stock and cash deal...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
City Room: Giuliani Consults for Kiev Candidate
The former mayor and presidential candidate is doing consulting work for Vitali Klitschko, a former boxing champion running for mayor of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
The Rail: Racing?s Rudderless Ship
The real problem with the horse industry is that nobody is in charge...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
UBS Banker Detained in Tax Inquiry
A top-ranking UBS executive was briefly detained in the United States in connection with an investigation into the bank?s work with questionable tax transactions, the bank said...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Pending Home Sales Hit Low in March
The sales figures released by an industry group signaled the housing slump has yet to bottom out even as the spring selling season gets under way...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Clashes in General Strike in Lebanon
The clashes, between Hezbollah supporters trying to enforce a labor union strike and government supporters, raised fears of a sectarian conflict...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
French Official Urges U.N. to Force Aid on Myanmar
The French foreign minister said that the U.N. should invoke its ?responsibility to protect? civilians as the basis for a resolution to force delivery of aid on the military government...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Protégé in Russia Is Sworn In
It remains to be seen what the inauguration of Dmitri A. Medvedev will mean for the direction of Russia...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Technology Group Plans Wireless Network
A consortium plans to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks in a $14.5 billion deal...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
NBC to Start 24-Hour News Channel in New York
The plan, which will de-emphasize the identity of the network flagship, WNBC, could spread to other stations...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Iran Resistance Is Not Terrorist Group, Court Finds
A British court said the government was wrong to include the People?s Mujahedeen on a list of banned terrorists...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Clinton to Fight On Despite Split Result
Loans from the candidate have sustained her campaign over the last month as Senator Barack Obama widened his lead in votes and delegates...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
The Caucus: Back to Michigan and Florida
The Clinton campaign acknowledged that even if the states? delegates were seated, it would not be enough for the nomination...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Pundits Declare the Race Over
The conventional wisdom of the pundit class has shifted hard, possibly irretrievably, against Mrs. Clinton...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
The value of space-based intelligence
The commander of US Strategic Command tells the BBC about the growing role of satellite data in warfare today...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
Cuban blogger given press award
A young Cuban dissident wins a Spanish journalism award for her popular blog on life in the Communist island...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
US productivity beats forecasts
US worker productivity topped analysts' forecasts during the first three months of 2008, official figures show...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
Colombia extradites militia head
Colombia extradites a former paramilitary leader to the US to face drug-trafficking charges...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
Students arrested in US drug raid
Nearly 30 people, most of them students, are arrested in a drugs raid at a California university...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
Protégé in Russia Is Sworn In
Dmitri A. Medvedev, a soft-spoken lawyer and Kremlin insider who had never held elected office before, was sworn in as Russia?s president...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Obama Wins North Carolina Decisively; Clinton Takes Indiana by Slim Margin
Senator Barack Obama received new ammunition as he sought to persuade Democratic leaders to coalesce around him...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Uncertainties Mark Clinton?s Itinerary
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is bracing for one of the most difficult days of her presidential race...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Rancher freed over US nun killing
A Brazilian rancher jailed over the killing of US nun Dorothy Stang has his conviction overturned in a retrial...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
Last Police gig to be in New York
The Police are rounding off their reunion tour with a concert in New York but have not said when it will be...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
Irvine Robbins, Ice Cream Entrepreneur and a Maestro of 31 Flavors, Dies at 90
With his brother-in-law, Burton Baskin, Mr. Robbins started the Baskin-Robbins ice cream store chain, concocting quirky flavors like Daiquiri Ice and Here Comes the Fudge...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Economic Scene: Seeing Inflation Only in the Prices That Go Up
Inflation really has gotten worse recently ? it was only 2 percent a year and a half ago ? but it?s not as bad as it feels...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Estée Lauder Profit Declines 4%
The weak United States retail environment took a toll on sales of the company?s cosmetics, fragrances and hair care products...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
World Wrestling Entertainment?s Earnings Rise 29%
The producer of the television show ?Friday Night SmackDown? said first-quarter net income grew to $19.5 million, from $15.1 million a year earlier...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Qwest Profit Drops 35% as Phone Market Tightens
The telecommunications company said it earned $157 million in the first quarter, down from $240 million a year ago, on sharply higher tax expenses...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Commodity Prices Crimp Sara Lee?s Earnings
The food and household products manufacturer said that its third-quarter profit doubled, but the results fell short of Wall Street expectations...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Charges Bring Loss at Home Builder
D.R. Horton posted a loss of $1.31 billion, or $4.14 a share, in contrast to a profit of $51.7 million, or 16 cents a share, a year ago...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
A $500 Million Week for Grand Theft Auto
The sales exceed projections of industry analysts who were estimating that some five million consumers would purchase the game in the first two weeks...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Actors Guild and Producers End Talks
After three fruitless weeks of talks, actors and producers remained far apart on compensation for programming delivered via new media like the Internet...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Write-Down at Wachovia Nearly Doubles Its Loss
The reported $708 million loss now equals 36 cents a share, 80 percent more than the $393 million loss, or 20 cents a share, that Wachovia reported on April 14...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Lazard Profit Off 71% on Problems in Corporate Holdings
The investment bank run by Bruce Wasserstein said it was hurt largely by a $28.5 million write-down in its holdings of corporate debt and corporate equity portfolio losses...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Sales Up 10% at Molson Coors
Molson Coors Brewing reported a jump in first-quarter profit on Tuesday, with its sales rising more than 10 percent on growth in Canada and the United States...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Cisco Sales Top Lowered Forecast, and Profit Declines
Cisco, a bellwether stock for the technology industry, reported that net income in its third quarter declined 5.4 percent, to $1.8 billion, but that revenue rose 10 percent...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
No Signs of a Slowdown in Traffic at Disney?s Parks
Watched as an indicator of whether weakness is seeping deeper into the economy, Disney said that operating income in its parks and resorts unit rose 33 percent...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Square Feet: Suburban Office Market Uneasy but Holding Up
When landlords start calling, one broker said, ?I know the winds are shifting,? but whether the market is just slowing or skidding toward recession remains unclear...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Advertising: The Risks of Brand-Building in the Winner?s Circle
The tragic euthanization of Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby cast a shadow on the sport and created uncomfortable public relations issues for its sponsors...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
A Technology Consortium Plans a Wireless Network
The group, which includes Sprint Nextel and Google, will announce a $12 billion venture to build a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Bush Advisers Oppose Housing Measure, and Vow a Veto
The bill, which is expected to win House approval, would expand access to federally insured mortgages for troubled homeowners seeking to refinance their loans...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Countrywide Admits Errors at Senate Hearing
The chief executive of the beleaguered mortgage lender admitted that the firm?s loan officers had made errors and said it would hire an outside auditor to review its future actions...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Companies Improve Scores in Climate-Change Ranking
Climate Counts, the nonprofit group that scores consumer products companies? green track records, said this year?s average score was 40 out of a possible 100...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Bear?s Family Feud: Quarrel Erupts Between the Bank?s Elder Statesmen
The collapse of the troubled Wall Street bank has sparked finger-pointing and recrimination by its elder statesmen, Alan C. Greenberg and James E. Cayne...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
UBS Announces $10.9 Billion Loss, Job Cuts, and Tax Probe
Along with a $10.9 billion quarterly loss and 5,500 job cuts, the Swiss bank disclosed that U.S. officials were investigating whether it had helped clients evade U.S. taxes...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Young Artists Find Private Space, Without Privacy
At the McKibbin lofts in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the rooms are cramped and residents put up with a lot...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Fannie Mae Wins Cheers Despite Loss
Despite its $2.2 billion quarterly loss, investors were optimistic that the nation?s largest buyer of home loans was in a strong position to select the safest loans available...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
F.B.I. Raids Office of Special Counsel
A federal agency that is charged with protecting the rights of government whistle-blowers has been accused of retaliating against whistle-blowers in its own ranks...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Concerto in the Key of G, for Grateful
After the return of a lost Stradivarius violin, valued at $4 million, a musician gives a concert for cabbies outside Newark Liberty International Airport...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
News Analysis: Options Dwindling for Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton lost an opportunity to sow new doubts among Democratic leaders about Barack Obama?s general-election appeal...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
After 60 Years, Arabs in Israel Are Outsiders
Israel?s 1.3 million Arab citizens are still far less well off than Israeli Jews and feel increasingly unwanted...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
As Executions Resume, So Do Questions of Fairness
The release last week of the third death row inmate in six months in North Carolina is raising fresh questions, even as an execution in Georgia ended a national halt...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Clinton Takes Indiana by Slim Margin; Obama Wins North Carolina Decisively
Barack Obama won a commanding victory in the North Carolina primary but fell short in Indiana as Hillary Rodham Clinton prevailed by a narrow margin...
New York Times - May 7, 2008
Georgia death row inmate executed
A man in the US state of Georgia is the first convict executed since lethal injection was ruled constitutional...
BBC News - May 7, 2008
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