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Madonna, Ritchie to begin divorce in London Friday
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ben Affleck tours refugee camps in eastern Congo
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Palestinian leader appeals to Israelis in peace ad
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Children dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ethnic Turk wins political prominence in Germany
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Salvador archbishop nixes probe of killed Jesuits
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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US News Archive for April 2008:
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Document Details Insider Trading Claims at Airbus
A report by the French stock market watchdog that was leaked to a French news service provided details of the insider trading claims against executives at Airbus and EADS...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
7 Charged With Illegal Trading on Nymex
A former board member of the New York Mercantile Exchange was among seven charged in an investigation of illegal trading at the exchange, authorities said...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Stocks Fall After Earnings Reports and Fed Minutes
Wall Street retreated after Alcoa and A.M.D. issued disappointing reports and the Federal Reserve voiced concerns about the slumping economy...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Rising Rents Force Older Businesses to New Sites
Brokers say that many locally owned stores, squeezed between big national chains and foreign retailers, are finding that the only way to stay afloat in Manhattan is at a new site...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Russia Close to Privatizing Huge Electricity Producer
A plan to privatize the world?s largest electricity company is entering the home stretch, successfully it seems, in spite of its complexity and the hostility toward privatization in today?s Russia...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
2 Companies Plan Gas Pipeline in Alaska
BP and ConocoPhillips announced plans to jointly develop a multibillion-dollar pipeline to move natural gas to market from the North Slope of Alaska...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
At Age 17, Ski Resort Has a Troubled Past (and Present)
Behind the sunset-colored facade of the Peaks Resort, the largest hotel in the tony ski enclave of Telluride, Colo., is a tangled tale of a hotel that couldn?t shoot straight...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Morgan Stanley Chairman Wins Re-Election
John J. Mack, facing down an investor campaign to unseat him as the chairman of Morgan Stanley, was re-elected by an overwhelming margin on Tuesday...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Phillies 5, Mets 2: New Season, Same Old Routine in Mets? Loss
The Phillies spoiled the final home opener at Shea Stadium by scoring five runs after the sixth inning to defeat the Mets for the ninth consecutive time...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
City Room: Brooklyn?s Changing Storefronts
W. W. Norton has published "Brooklyn Storefronts," a collection of 75 color photographs of small, independently owned stores throughout the borough...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Slap Shot: Scotty Bowman Answers Your N.H.L. Questions
Scotty Bowman, the most successful coach in N.H.L. history, answered reader questions on the Slap Shot blog...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Recession Worries Drove Rate Cut, Minutes Show
Fed policy makers believe the economy will probably contract in the first half of the year, according to the minutes of their meeting...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Senate Moves Forward on Housing Aid Bill
The Senate voted to proceed with legislation aimed at easing problems in the housing market...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
American Canceling More Flights for Inspection
Following Federal Aviation Administration audits, American Airlines said it was canceling as many as 500 flights to inspect wire bundles on its MD-80 planes...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Former Corporate Executive to Run Red Cross
Gail J. McGovern, formerly of AT&T and Fidelity Investments, will take over the battered organization...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Recap of the Testimony From The Lede
Senator Barack Obama called for ?applying increased pressure in a measured way? in Iraq...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Hearings Rife With Political Overtones
Three would-be presidents swooped in from the campaign trail to question Gen. David H. Petraeus...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Unrest in Kenya as Peace Plan Falters
Riots erupted as opposition leaders announced that they were suspending talks with the government over a power sharing deal...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
General Urges 45-Day Halt in Withdrawal of Troops in Iraq
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, warned Congress that progress there was ?fragile and reversible.?...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Recession fear caused US rate cut
The fear of a "prolonged and severe" slowdown caused the US central bank to cut rates, minutes of its meeting show...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Hungry mob attacks Haiti palace
Protesters in Haiti try to storm the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince in protest at rising food prices...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Wide Net Cast by Lobby for Colombia Trade Pact
A campaign for a trade deal with Colombia has former Clinton administration aides aligned with Republicans...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Insider Named New Chief of BT Group
Ian Livingston, the 43-year-old head of BT?s retail business, will succeed Ben Verwaayen as the telecommunications company?s chief executive...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Philips Ending Production of TVs for U.S. Market
In another sign of a shake-out in the flat-panel television market, the Dutch consumer electronics giant will no longer manufacture televisions for sale in the United States or Canada...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
New Home Sales Numbers Show Signs of Slowdown
An industry group said that pending home sales fell in February to the lowest reading since the index began in 2001, signaling that the housing market problems are not over...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Stocks Fall After Disappointing Earnings
Wall Street retreated in early trading, with investors disappointed by results at Alcoa and Advanced Micro Devices...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Japan Reaches a Consensus on Bank Chief
The main opposition party backed the government?s third pick for Bank of Japan governor, ending a stalemate that has left Japan without a permanent central bank chief for three weeks...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
The Caucus: Clinton?s New Pennsylvania Ads
The Clinton campaign is flooding the airwaves in Pennsylvania with five new ads today...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Washington Mutual Raises $7 Billion
The savings and loan said that it had raised the funds through an investment group led by the private equity firm TPG. It also said that it would slash its quarterly dividend...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Accounts of Violence Spread in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe?s High Court began hearing arguments in the case brought by the country?s main opposition party to force the immediate release of last month?s presidential election results...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Progress Cited in Korea Nuclear Talks Impasse
The talks are aimed at revealing the full scale of the North?s nuclear weapons programs and dismantling them...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
City Room: Mayor Says He Wants to Move On
"They didn't even have the courage to vote on it," Mayor Bloomberg declared in a speech at Georgetown University, referring to the members of the State Assembly who effectively killed his congestion pricing plan...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Riots Erupt in Kenya as Peace Plan Falters
Opposition leaders said that they were pulling out of talks with the government on a stalled power-sharing agreement, setting off riots in the capital, Nairobi...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Officials Expect Olympic Torch to Continue on Route
The Olympic torch arrived in San Francisco amid contradictory reports about how officials plan to respond to protests in Europe...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Iran Says It?s Installing New Centrifuges
Iran said that it had started increasing its capacity to enrich uranium in defiance of the Security Council...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Sidebar: Power to Build Border Fence Is Above U.S. Law
Congress has granted the homeland security chief extraordinary powers to ignore any laws standing in the way of a border fence...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
General Resists Timetable for Withdrawal of Troops in Iraq
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, warned a Senate panel against removing ?too many troops too quickly.?...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Live Blogging From The Lede
Senators have asked about billions of dollars in unspent oil revenue in Iraqi government coffers...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Further fall in US housing sales
Sales of previously owned homes in the US fall by 1.9% in February, compounding fears of a housing slowdown...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
$7bn cash injection for US lender
Washington Mutual, one of the largest US mortgage lenders, gets a cash injection of $7bn from a consortium...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Curling: Canada unbeaten
Scotland's David Murdoch faces an uphill struggle to qualify as Canada remain unbeaten at the world men's curling championship...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
Crackdown on Militias Raises Stability Concerns
An offensive against the Mahdi Army in Iraq is creating potentially destabilizing political and military tensions...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Olympic Group Debating Torch Route
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Security concerns for the Olympic torch's only North American stop were high Tuesday after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China's human rights record...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars
Delaware?s novel use of submerged New York subway cars to revive a stretch of ocean floor has been so successful it is now competing with other states for a limited supply of cars...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Borrowing Slows Down
The Federal Reserve reported on Monday that consumer borrowing rose at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in February, just half of the 4.9 percent increase in January...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Frequent Flier: Traveling With a Moody Old Friend That?s Tightly Strung
While the band members take separate flights to our gigs, each of us always travels with our musical instrument...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Memo Pad
In February, slightly over a quarter (25.96 percent) of domestic flights arrived late, the Transportation Department?s Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
U.A.W. and American Axle to Restart Negotiations
Ron Gettelfinger and the chief executive of American Axle, Richard E. Dauch, planned to meet in an effort to end a nearly 6-week-old strike at the auto parts maker...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Dealbook: New Path for Kings of Buyouts
Private equity bigwigs used to sneer at the idea of investing in public companies. But that was two years ago, when credit was easy...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Nielsen?s Latest Purchase Is Audience Research Firm
Nielsen said that it had agreed to acquire IAG Research, which measures the effectiveness of advertising on television and online, for $225 million in cash...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
S.E.C. Sues 5 Ex-Officials in San Diego
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud complaints against five former officials who played roles in the San Diego?s financial meltdown in 2002 and 2003...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: Investors Await the Quarterly Reports
Wall Street started the week with a narrowly mixed performance Monday as many investors moved to the sidelines, awaiting quarterly profit reports...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
German Bank?s Chief Leaving
The KfW Group of Germany said Monday that its chief executive was stepping down, and it set aside 1.8 billion euros more ($2.8 billion) in reserves for the bailout of a German lender...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Alcoa?s Profit Drops 54% on Energy Costs and a Soft Dollar
Net income for the aluminum producer dropped to $303 million, or 37 cents a share, in the first three months of the year, compared with $662 million, or 75 cents a share, in the same period last year...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Small Meetings, Big Pluses
At many companies, some 70 percent of meetings consist of 50 or fewer participants. And their popularity is growing nationwide...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Grace Will Settle Asbestos Claims
The specialty chemicals producer W. R. Grace & Company said Monday that it would settle all present and future asbestos-related personal injury claims...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Citigroup Director Expected to Quit Key Committee
The chairman of Citigroup?s audit and risk committee is poised to resign from that post under pressure from shareholders, people briefed on the situation said Monday...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Australian Deal Off
Lachlan Murdoch and James D. Packer dropped plans to buy out Consolidated Media Holdings for 3.3 billion Australian dollars ($3.1 billion)...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
In U.S., Metal Theft Plagues Troubled Neighborhoods
Metal scrappers have attacked churches and ransacked homes in Cleveland, leaving entire neighborhoods uninhabitable...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Bank Is in Line for a $5 Billion Infusion
Washington Mutual was poised late Monday to grab a $5 billion lifeline from the buyout firm TPG and other investors in an effort to stabilize its finances...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Charity Hospital, on Brink, Gets a $200 Million Gift
Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the country?s largest charity hospitals, will receive $200 million from a private foundation with ties to Coca-Cola, hospital officials said...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Advertising: Bar Code Sales Tool Is Failing Campus Test
In parts of Asia and Europe, marketers have been using bar code technology to help sell things to people on their cellphones. In the United States the technique doesn?t appear ready for widespread use...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Ouster Opens Opportunity for Obama
Mark Penn?s resigning under fire as Hillary Rodham Clinton?s chief strategist threatens to put Mrs. Clinton on the defensive over trade...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Novartis and Nestlé in a Deal for Alcon
The Swiss drug maker Novartis said on Monday that it would pay Nestlé $11 billion for a 25 percent stake in Alcon, the world?s biggest eye care company...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Los Angeles Times Retracts Article on Rapper?s Attack
The Los Angeles Times formally retracted its report about a 1994 attack on Tupac Shakur after concluding that much of the evidence cited in the article was fabricated...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Facebook Reportedly Near Accord Over Origin
According to a person briefed on the talks, the company is completing a settlement of a suit brought by three former Harvard students who contend that the original idea for Facebook belonged to them...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Bravo?s Parent Sues for ?Runway? Rights
NBC Universal, the parent company of Bravo network, filed a lawsuit to try to keep one of the biggest hits in cable television from moving to Lifetime this fall...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Bush Says Economy Is Poised to Rebound
President Bush urged Congress to resist Democrats? efforts to pass a second economic stimulus package, asking lawmakers to give his own package ?a chance to kick in.?...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Motorola and Icahn Reach Compromise on Directors
The move gives the company, which failed to follow up on the initial success of the Razr, a chance to focus on turning around its declining cellphone business...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
State Oil Industry?s Future Sets Off Tussle in Mexico
At stake in the debate is not only the future of the Mexican economy but also the supply of oil to the United States...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Yahoo Answers Microsoft With Yet Another No
Yet Yahoo made it clear that the company remained open to a deal, as long as Microsoft sweetened its bid...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
On the Road: The Saturday Night Stay Is Making a Comeback
Remember the much-hated, ostensibly long-gone rule that required a Saturday night stay for cheap fares on the major airlines? Well, it?s back ? at least on some routes...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
As Price of Lead Soars, British Churches Find Holes in Roof
The near record price that lead ? the stuff many old church roofs are made of ? is fetching on commodity markets has led to an accelerating crime wave...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
A.M.D., Citing a Slowdown, to Cut 1,650 Jobs
The layoffs may be one of the first signs in Silicon Valley of an economic slowdown that has already affected other industries in the United States...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
A Fear That the Market?s Watchdog Is Losing Its Bite
With the recent financial crisis some wonder whether the Securities and Exchange Commission has given in to the push to lighten up on regulation...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
There?s Gas in Those Hills
A natural gas drilling frenzy unlike any seen in decades is unfolding in rural Pennsylvania, and it eventually could encompass a huge chunk of the East...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
CBS Said to Consider Use of CNN in Reporting
The network has been in discussions with Time Warner about a deal to outsource some of its newsgathering to CNN, two executives briefed on the matter said Monday...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Olympic Torch Goes Out, Briefly, in Paris
Thousands of demonstrators massed to protest the relay, and the torch went out several times, forcing the police to place it on a bus...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Negligent Driving Killed Diana, Jury Finds
A jury in Britain called the killing of Princess Diana and her lover unlawful, a verdict described as being tantamount to manslaughter...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Washington Post Wins 6 Pulitzers
The Post?s reporting on wounded soldiers at Walter Reed, the Virginia Tech shooting and Dick Cheney was honored. The New York Times won two awards...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Kansas 75, Memphis 68, OT: Two Minutes to a Title: Kansas Prevails
Mario Chalmers hit a 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds left to force overtime, capping a frantic rally and giving Kansas the five extra minutes it needed to win the N.C.A.A. title...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Lobby for Colombia Trade Pact Casts a Wide Net
A campaign to promote a trade deal with Colombia has former Clinton aides aligned with Republicans...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Obama?s Young Backers Twist Parents? Arms
A theme has emerged among superdelegates endorsing Senator Barack Obama: their children made them do it...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Sidebar: Challenges Arise to Border Fence Project
Congress cleared obstacles to a border fence, but some groups say it overstepped its constitutional boundary...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers
For two generations, Americans have imported goods produced ever more cheaply from a succession of low-wage countries. But that free ride may be coming to an end...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
$8 Traffic Fee for Manhattan Gets Nowhere
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg?s far-reaching plan to ease Manhattan traffic died in the New York State Assembly...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Crackdown on Militias May Add to Instability in Iraq
A crackdown on the Mahdi Army militia is creating potentially destabilizing political and military tensions in Iraq, pitting a government against the power wielded by the cleric Moktada al-Sadr...
New York Times - April 8, 2008
Clinton urges Bush Olympic action
Hillary Clinton calls on US President Bush to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics over human rights issues...
BBC News - April 8, 2008
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