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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 August 2005:
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NASA Postpones Shuttle Landing Because of Bad Weather
NASA delayed the landing of Discovery until Tuesday, when Cape Canaveral or other sites may be ready...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, Redefining 'Vacation'
The president's busy schedule might be an effort to counter what critics have called complacency in the slow summer days before Sept. 11, 2001...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
In Hollywood, All Players but No Power
The boomer generation of movie moguls wanted to use Hollywood as their springboard to run the media companies. For the most part, it didn’t work out...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Relying on Video Game Sequels
Electronic Arts needs its new game, Madden N.F.L. ’06, to be a hit. But are people eager for the title's 18th version?...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Former Oil-for-Food Director Resigns Post
Benon Sevan, has sent a letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan resigning from his $1-a-year position...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, Labor Leader, Is Dead at 86
Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine had been the leader of the Mexican Workers' Confederation, Mexico's largest and most politically influential labor organization...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Leonard L. Farber Shopping Mall Executive, Dies at 89
Leonard L. Farber, the first president of the International Council of Shopping Centers, died of Parkinson's disease...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Faith Hill Resurrects Her Inner Good Ol' Girl
Faith Hill's "Fireflies" is a winsome new CD that marks her rededication to country music. Plus, a review of Young Jeezy's "Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101."...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
OK! Pays for 'Relationships' (and, as a Rule, Plays Nice)
The American version of Britain's OK! magazine takes an unusual tack to its cover stories. The editor in chief, Sarah Ivens, said that OK! pays for a few cover stories that are likely to generate worldwide interest, and the deals are actually for a "relationship" with the celebrity...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Paper's Top Editor Claims Columnist Is Changing Story
More than 500 journalists signed a petition protesting the firing of a columnist for The Miami Herald over the disclosure that he taped a local politician...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Time Fills Slot to Cover White House
Mike Allen, a reporter for The Washington Post, said he had accepted an offer from Time magazine to cover the White House...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Google's Chief Is Googled, to the Company's Displeasure
Google executives won’t talk to CNET reporters after cnet published personal information about the chief executive — gleaned from Google searches...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Hear the Big Pop? A Chinese Search Engine Went Public
The driving force behind the spectacular market debut of shares in the Chinese search engine company Baidu.com was its resemblance and ties to Google...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Business Events This Week
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST So as not to keep you in suspense, we will reveal the headline now: Fed Board Raises Rate a Quarter Point for 10th Time. That means the federal funds rate on overnight loans between banks will go up to 3.5 percent. If there had been any doubt about that, Friday's upbeat job report should have doused it. (Tomorrow.)...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
On 'Six Feet Under,' Grief and Authenticity
Sunday's ambitious episode of the upper-middlebrow melodrama offered several alternative ways to grieve Nate Fisher's death...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
New Stock Offerings Scheduled for the Week
The following equity and convertible debt offerings are expected this week:...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Treasury Bills Set for This Week
The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes today's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Kerr-McGee Said to Be Near Deal on North Sea Business
Kerr-McGee, the oil and gas company, is close to a deal to sell its operations in the North Sea to the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group for about $3 billion...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Berkshire Says Regulators Are Studying Insurer Books
Regulators are looking into the accounting of some Berkshire Hathaway insurance subsidiaries, an indication that investigations into insurance abuses may be widening...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
To Internet Stores, It's All About the Personal Touch
Robert Beaver, the chief executive of Zazzle.com, said that contrary to rhetoric about how customization can kill profit margins, margins at Zazzle "are very good."...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Spinoff of Expedia Comes at Tough Time for Its Sector
Expedia, the largest online travel agency, is expected to be spun off from its parent, IAC/InterActiveCorp, with Dara Khosrowshahi becoming its chief executive...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Acting Like There's No Tomorrow When There May Be Many Tomorrows Left
How long people think they will live affects their behavior...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
A Fresh Approach to Marketing for Procter's 'Fresh Approach to Laundry'
Procter & Gamble has long ago split up its advertising. But which agency gets to trumpet the Febreze brand? Procter's answer: all of them...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Software Maker Plans to Share as Way to Fight Microsoft
VMware, the leader in the fast-growing market for virtual machine software, plans to announce that it will share its code with partners like I.B.M., Intel and Hewlett-Packard in an effort to make the VMware technology an industry standard...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Sudden Departure of Two V.J.'s Disappoints BET Viewers
The abrupt resignations this week of A. J. Calloway and Free, left, from BET's hit video show "106 and Park," came as a shock to fans, perhaps more so because the two V.J.'s had established one of the few reliable franchises on the network...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Esquire's Pledge to Follow Trade Center Rebuilding
With its September issue, Esquire magazine will embark on what promises to be at least a five-year journey - a chronicle of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Peter Jennings, Urbane News Anchor, Dies at 67
After dropping out of high school, Peter Jennings went on to become one of the most recognizable journalists on American TV...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Kerr-McGee Sells North Sea Oil Interests
The U.S. oil and gas producer agreed to sell its British North Sea oil and gas interests to Denmark's Moeller-Maersk and a British utility for $3.5 billion...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Oil Prices Surge to New Record, Touching $64 a Barrel
Crude oil prices were pushed higher by concerns over Middle Eastern supplies and refinery shutdowns in the United States...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Will the Flight Be on Time? It's Anybody's Guess
Data from the Transportation Department shows that this is shaping up to be the worst year for departure delays since 2000...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Nielsen, Long a Gauge of Popularity, Fights to Preserve Its Own
Nielsen Media Research, the television ratings arbiter, is trying to remake its image after an industry dispute turned into a public contretemps with racial overtones...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Productivity Is the Issue of the Hour for the Fed
The Federal Reserve, expected to raise rates this week, is facing a slowdown from the torrid pace of productivity. Officials are debating what the long-term trend will be...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
NBC Universal Aims to Be Prettiest Feather in G.E.'s Cap
NBC Universal is readying for a second act nearly two years after being hatched in a merger with NBC...
New York Times - August 8, 2005
Colombia seeks Irish extraditions
Colombia demands the Irish Republic extradites three men to serve 17-year jail terms for training Marxist rebels...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
US jury rules killer fit to die
A Virginia jury decides a man with learning disabilities on death row is intelligent enough to be executed...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Iran shuns US-backed atom plan
An Iranian spokesman rejects the latest EU proposals for resolving concerns over Iran's nuclear programme...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Nortel rises on corporate sales
Telecoms equipment maker Nortel Networks sees quarterly profits rise as demand for fixed and mobile telecoms equipment grows...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Chinese plane sale boosts Boeing
Boeing agrees a $6bn deal to sell 42 of its new 787 Dreamliner planes to four of China's leading carriers...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Cricket: India pip Windies
India beat West Indies by seven runs to qualify for Tuesday's tri-series final...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
NFL: Gannon retires
Veteran quarterback Rich Gannon, who missed the majority of last season with a neck injury, has opted to retire...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Chile mulls Easter Island limits
Chilean authorities are considering limiting migration to Easter Island to preserve its unique culture...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Mexico rebel emerges from jungle
Mexico's Zapatista rebel leader speaks publicly for the first time in four years to criticise Mexican politicans...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Colombia trio 'create problems'
Bertie Ahern says the return of three republicans sentenced in Colombia has created peace process "difficulties"...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Marilyn Monroe 'was not suicidal'
Alleged transcripts between the actress and her therapist shed light on her state of mind prior to her death...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Official killed in Mexican city
A safety official is the latest victim of a spate of killings in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Author Brown 'did not plagiarise'
Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown wins a court ruling against writer Lewis Perdue over charges of plagiarism...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Caribbean court hears first case
The newly created Caribbean Court of Justice, based in Trinidad, is to begin hearing its first case...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
America's U-2 spy plane turns 50
The BBC's Nick Childs reviews the career of the U-2, the notorious spy plane which has been flying for 50 years...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
US drug agents 'spying' - Chavez
Venezuela's president accuses the US Drug Enforcement Administration of using its agents to spy on the country...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
US military plans for terrorism
The US military is for the first time making its own plans for dealing with domestic terrorist attacks...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Canada jet 'overran landing spot'
Investigators looking into the Air France crash in Toronto say the plane landed too far down the runway...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer dies
The veteran Buena Vista Social Club singer Ibrahim Ferrer dies in a Havana hospital, aged 78...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Athletics: Gatlin wins 100m title
Olympic champion Justin Gatlin powers to the 100m title at the World Championships...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Cloud delays Shuttle return for a day
Space shuttle Discovery's return to Earth is delayed for 24 hours due to bad weather at its landing site...
BBC News - August 8, 2005
Apparent oil-for-food arrest
Former U.N. procurement officer Alexander Yakovlev was apparently arrested in connection with allegations he solicited bribes from companies seeking oil-for-food contracts, an aide to Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday, hours after a U.N. report into oil-for-food abuses was published...
CNN - August 8, 2005
Iran resumes uranium conversion
Iran has restarted a nuclear facility for uranium conversion, saying the process is for producing nuclear fuel. Tehran said Monday's resumption would not include the enrichment of uranium, which some countries fear could be part of a covert nuclear weapons program...
CNN - August 8, 2005
Bush touts energy bill
President Bush signed into law the Energy Policy Act of 2005 on Monday, hours after oil prices reached record highs, but warned Americans that the cost of energy is not likely to fall anytime soon. "It's a first step toward a more affordable, more reliable energy future for America's citizens," he said. "It's not going to solve our energy challenges overnight."...
CNN - August 8, 2005
Bush praises energy bill
President Bush today signed a bill that marks the first major energy overhaul during his administration. Supporters say the bill will help shift the nation's focus on oil to other energy sources, while critics complain energy companies get large tax breaks. "This bill launches an energy strategy for the 21st century," Bush said during a signing ceremony in New Mexico...
CNN - August 8, 2005
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