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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 June 2005:
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Senate Approves Judicial Nominee as Filibuster Deal Holds
Judge William H. Pryor Jr. is the last of three controversial court nominees to win confirmation after a Senate deal...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Different Roads to Finals for Duncan and Billups
Taken two picks apart in the 1997 draft, Tim Duncan has played his entire career in San Antonio while Chauncey Billups jumped to six cities before landing upright in Detroit...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Census Reports Rising Growth Rate for Hispanics
The largest minority group in the United States is growing faster now than in the past decade, according to a Census Bureau report released...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Fed Chief Sees 'Reasonably Firm' Economy With 'Imbalances'
Home prices in some local markets have climbed to "unsustainable levels" and may be poised for declines, the Fed chief said...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Eliot Spitzer Tastes Defeat in Court With Broker's Acquittal
The New York attorney general today received his first major legal defeat in his crackdown on Wall Street...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
US agrees to back nuclear head
The previously hostile US says it is ready to back Mohamed ElBaradei for a third term at the UN nuclear agency...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Bush pushes for Patriot Act renewal
President Bush today credited the Patriot Act with helping to convict more than 200 terrorists and dismissed accusations that the law has violated civil liberties. "For the state of our national security, Congress must not rebuild a wall between law enforcement and intelligence," he said to an audience that included roughly 100 uniformed state troopers at the Ohio Patrol Training Academy...
CNN - June 9, 2005
3 more arrested in Aruba
Three more suspects have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of an 18-year-old Alabama student in Aruba, bringing to five the number of men in custody, a prosecutor said Thursday...
CNN - June 9, 2005
Mugabe defends razings, few strike
President Robert Mugabe has defended the razing of shantytowns and a crackdown on small traders in Zimbabwe as an opposition-backed strike failed to gain wide support...
CNN - June 9, 2005
Taking One for the Team, 262 Times
Houston's Craig Biggio is more skillful than any major league player at taking one for the team and is nearing the record for being hit by pitches...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Greenspan Says Economy Is Healthy, With Some Caveats
While the economy stands on "reasonably firm footing," home prices in some markets have climbed to "unsustainable levels," the Fed chief said...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Day four for Jackson trial jury
Jurors in Michael Jackson's abuse trial begin a fourth day of deliberations as the star returns to hospital...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
US judge questions tobacco move
A federal judge questions the government's decision to slash proposed penalties against the tobacco industry...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Two held over al-Qaeda camp
US officials arrest two Pakistani-Americans in a probe into an al-Qaeda camp in Pakistan...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Greenspan hints at higher rates
Fed chairman Alan Greenspan says the US economy is continuing to grow and initerest rates are still likely to rise...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Cuban brothers' switch goes awry
A man who lent his brother his US papers so he could live there is stuck in Cuba after officials get wise to the trick...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Bush aide 'edited climate papers'
A US official edited reports to play down links between global warming and emissions, the New York Times says...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Hispanics fuel US population rise
Hispanics now account for about half the US population growth, says the US Census Bureau...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
FBI: Plot possibly uncovered
Authorities say they believe a father and son arrested in the quaint northern California community of Lodi were involved in a larger al Qaeda plan to carry out jihad, or holy war, against the United States...
CNN - June 9, 2005
FBI: Al Qaeda plot possibly uncovered
Authorities say they believe a father and son arrested in northern California were involved in a larger al Qaeda plan to carry out jihad, or holy war, against the United States. A federal court affidavit states one suspect "admitted that he had in fact attended a jihadist training camp in Pakistan" for six months. He said he learned "how to kill Americans" and selected the United States as the turf for his jihadi mission...
CNN - June 9, 2005
Court approves Gaza pullout plan
Israel's Supreme Court rules a Gaza withdrawal plan is constitutional, removing the last legal obstacle to this summer's pullout. But polls show support for the plan is wavering around 50 percent, and opposition has risen slightly...
CNN - June 9, 2005
As Paparazzi Push Harder, Stars Try to Push Back
Spurred by the stars, the Los Angeles police and prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into paparazzi...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Award Limit in Tobacco Case Sets Off a Strenuous Protest
The Justice Department defended its decision to seek $10 billion for a stop-smoking plan, instead of $130 billion...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Reformers in Saudi Arabia: Seeking Rights, Paying a Price
For many Arab reformists, the lack of free speech grates most; obtaining it is a far higher priority than elections...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Latest Confirmed Nominee Sees Slavery in Liberalism
Janice Rogers Brown, who was confirmed to the federal appeals court in Washington, often invokes slavery in describing what she sees as the perils of liberal views...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Red Sox Arrive to Remind Cubs Who's Left Holding Curse Now
The Red Sox, who will visit Wrigley Field for the first time since 1918, can finally laugh about curses. The Cubs remain jinxed...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Greenberg Officially Quits A.I.G. Board
Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive of the insurance giant American International Group, resigned from the company's board yesterday...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Embattled Investment Firm Moves to Defeat Uprising
BKF Capital Group, a publicly traded investment firm locked in a battle with hedge funds looking to replace members of its board, announced yesterday that it would remove its poison pill and make it easier to replace its board, among other changes...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
The Mysterious Disappearance of James Duesenberry
UNLESS you are a professional economist nearing retirement, the name James S. Duesenberry is probably unfamiliar. By itself, that is unsurprising, because he wrote primarily for academic audiences while on the Harvard economics faculty from 1946 to 1989. The real surprise is that most academic economists under 50 have also never heard of Mr. Duesenberry...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Chinese Computer Maker Says Earnings Fell 12%
The Lenovo Group, the Chinese computer maker that purchased the personal computer unit of International Business Machines, reported a 12 percent fall in quarterly profit...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Actors Reach Deal With Video Makers
Hollywood actors' unions reached an agreement on a contract with video game publishers, accepting higher pay instead of the profit sharing they had demanded...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Malone of Liberty Media Quits Cablevision Board
The chairman of Liberty Media, John C. Malone, resigned from the boards of Cablevision Systems and CSC Holdings, effective June 6...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Global Chip Sales Exceeding Forecast
Semiconductor manufacturers worldwide are selling more chips than previously forecast because high energy prices have not damped electronics sales...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
White House Lowers a Bit Its Forecast for '05 Growth
The Bush administration predicted that economic growth would be slightly slower and inflation slightly higher this year than it expected six months ago...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
The Frill Is Gone
What began as a gradual decline in amenities at the big airlines has turned into the biggest attack ever on costs, particularly in coach class...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Betting It All (Literally) to Make a Dream Film
Almost by definition, entrepreneurs flirt with disaster in whatever field they choose, but filmmaking is in a class by itself...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Instinet Gets Sweeter Offer for Brokerage Unit
The investment firm Third Avenue Management has thrown its hat into the ring for the Instinet Group's institutional brokerage division...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Share Prices Stagnate Ahead of Greenspan Talk
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Showdown Time in the Fight at Havas
The French are facing another contested election, but this time the future of the advertising firm Havas is at stake, not the direction of the European Union...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
ImClone Treatment Is Cleared by Panel
A clinical trial showed how the drug Erbitux, used in combination with radiation, was more effective in checking the spread of cancerous tumors beyond the head and neck than radiation alone...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
HSBC to Acquire Neiman Credit Card Unit
Neiman Marcus, the luxury retailer, announced yesterday that it would sell its credit card business to HSBC Holdings, one of the world's largest banks, for $640 million - but that HSBC would not be selling the names of Neiman's three million affluent charge customers, executives at the companies said yesterday in interviews...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
2 Republicans to Propose Fix for Private Pension Woes
The first major legislative blueprint for solving the problems of private pensions is expected to be introduced today in the House Committee on Education and the Work Force by Representatives John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, and Sam Johnson, Republican of Texas...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Inventories Show Surprising Gain
WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Inventories at wholesalers rose 0.8 percent in April, twice as much as Wall Street expectations, as automotive stocks grew sharply, the Commerce Department said Wednesday...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Computer Associates Plans Fourth Acquisition in a Year
Computer Associates said that it had agreed to buy the Niku Corporation for $350 million...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Despite G.M.'s Talk of Bold Plans, Analysts Ask if More Needs to Be Done
DETROIT, June 8 - On Tuesday, almost immediately after Rick Wagoner, the chairman and chief executive of General Motors, said he planned to cut 25,000 jobs at the company, analysts were saying it was not enough. But on Wednesday, investors pushed G.M.'s stock up. Were they both right?...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Five Arrested in Collapse of China Aviation Oil in 2004
Authorities in Singapore moved to prosecute the Beijing-appointed executives of the fuel trader China Aviation Oil of Singapore over its collapse last year...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Europe's Latest Economic Scapegoat: The Euro
Is the euro in danger of dying before it reaches its seventh birthday?...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Chief Shareholder in Airbus Stifles Plans on New Plane
The controlling shareholder of Airbus, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, disclosed it would not sign off on the A350 until the end of September...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
A Luxury Airline Planned
A former executive at British Airways said that he planned to start an airline later this year that would fly between New York and London...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
14 Brokerage Firms Agree to Pay Fines
WASHINGTON, June 8 (AP) - Fourteen brokerage firms are paying fines totaling more than $34 million in deals with industry regulators over payments they received to push certain mutual funds, it was announced Wednesday...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
The Scramble to Protect Personal Data
The problem of data security goes well beyond couriers and data tapes. And improving things takes time and money...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Diller Stake in NBC Unit Is Being Sold
IAC/InteractiveCorp, controlled by Barry Diller, has agreed to sell its 5.4 percent stake in Vivendi Universal Entertainment for about $3.4 billion...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
HealthSouth to Settle S.E.C. Charges; Scrushy Jury Pauses
HealthSouth agreed to pay $100 million to settle securities charges, while the trial of the company's former chief executive moved forward slowly...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Pathmark Vote Tests Wider Issues of Shareholder Control
Are shareholders winning or losing the struggle to be treated with respect? A vote by investors in Pathmark Stores may provide an answer...
New York Times - June 9, 2005
Google takes top media spot
Ubiquitous search engine Google overtakes Time Warner to become the world's biggest media company by stock market value...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
US slashes tobacco trial penalty
The US government cuts penalties it was expected to seek in a major case against the tobacco industry...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Graduate star Anne Bancroft dies
Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft who starred in 1967 film The Graduate opposite Dustin Hoffman dies aged 73...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Exclusive airline secures cash
A transatlantic airline targeting business customers secures the funding it needs and plans to start flights in September...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Top staff blamed for Boeing deal
Senior US military officials bypassed necessary checks to rush through a corrupt $24bn deal to buy Boeing planes, a report finds...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Jackson jury prepare for day four
Jurors in Michael Jackson's child abuse trial in California are set to begin a fourth day of deliberations...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Body parts from plane hit NY
Parts of a stowaway's body fall on a New York home from a South African Airways plane, as it prepared to land...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
'Bloody chainsaw' man enters US
A man with a chainsaw apparently covered in blood is let into the US, only to become a murder suspect, reports say...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
OAS rejects US democracy plan
The Organization of American States turns down a US plan to monitor democracy in Latin America...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
NHL: Breakthrough 'close'
The two sides in the long-running NHL dispute may be close to a deal, reports claim...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
NBA: Pistons to face Spurs
Detroit are out to silence their doubters by defending their NBA title against San Antonio...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
White House sees 'strong' growth
US economic growth is "strong" and "robust", but will be less than forecast, the White House says...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Military 'hacker' freed on bail
A British man wanted in the US for suspected computer hacking is bailed pending an extradition hearing...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
US court convicts drunken pilots
A court in Florida finds two America West pilots guilty of operating a jet full of passengers while drunk...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
War swells US army divorce rate
The US army divorce rate soars, due to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon says...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
US could support UN nuclear head
The previously hostile US says it could back Mohamed ElBaradei for a third term at the UN nuclear agency...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Football: Argentina thrash Brazil
Argentina book their 2006 World Cup finals berth with a 3-1 win over arch-rivals Brazil...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Bush aide 'edited climate papers'
A US official edited reports to play down links between global warming and emissions, the New York Times says...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Mexican police chief gunned down
A police chief in a northern Mexican border city is killed by gunmen - just hours after taking the post...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Brazil launches corruption probe
Brazil sets up an inquiry to study claims that the ruling Workers' Party offered bribes in return for political support...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
US aims to lift Haiti gun embargo
The US wants to lift a ban on selling weapons to Haiti to help police cut rising unrest before this year's polls...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
Greenberg leaves AIG board
Hank Greenberg, head of insurance giant AIG for 38 years, cuts his last official tie with the firm as he faces a lawsuit alleging fraud...
BBC News - June 9, 2005
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