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- BA to See Whether Rules Kept Over Alitalia Loan
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - British Airways BAY said it was watching to ensure European Union guidelines on state aid are met following the emergency loan to struggling airline Alitalia AZPIa, a spokesman said on Thursday. The Italian government decided on Tuesday to give Alitalia a...
- News items 2008-04-24
- News Corp Pulls Bid For Newsday
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp NWSa has withdrawn its bid to buy Tribune Co's Newsday newspaper, a spokesman said on Saturday. The spokesman said the deal had become "uneconomical." Cablevision Systems Corp CVC earlier bid $650 million to buy the...
- News items 2008-05-10
- News Corp Pulls Bid For Newsday
- NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp NWSa has withdrawn its bid to buy Tribune Co's Newsday newspaper, a spokesman said on Saturday. The spokesman said the deal had become "uneconomical." Cablevision Systems Corp CVC earlier bid $650 million (332 million pounds) to buy...
- News items 2008-05-10
- ENRC Will Not Make Formal Bid For Rival Kazakhmys
- By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters UK) - Mining group ENRC ENRC ended two months of considering a takeover of Kazakh rival Kazakhmys KAZ, saying it would not make a formal bid ahead of a Friday deadline imposed by regulators. Kazakhmys said on Tuesday it was relieved...
- News items 2008-05-13
- Prosecutors in NY Form Subprime Task Force
- By Martha Graybow NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors in New York have formed a task force together with other government agencies to examine the collapse of the market for risky home loans, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Brooklyn said...
- News items 2008-05-05
- Seven Boss Leckie Makes Tiny Improvement
- Seven Network boss David Leckie has made "a tiny improvement" over the weekend, but remains in intensive care in a Sydney hospital, a hospital spokesman says.Doctors have been battling for more than a week to control a life-threatening infection that started in a finger Mr Leckie almost severed in...
- News items 2008-04-20
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- Woolwich is latest lender to demand bigger deposits
- Woolwich, the mortgage lending arm of Barclays Bank, will today stop accepting business from new customers who cannot find a deposit worth at least 10 per cent of their property. Woolwich is withdrawing all products on loans-to-value of more than 90 per cent, following a string of...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- CDC study links too much, not enough sleep to ill health
- ATLANTA -- People who sleep fewer than six hours a night -- or more than nine -- are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies. The study...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- TNK-BP wins record tax rebate in Russia worth almost Pounds 215m
- BP has won its largest ever tax rebate in Russia, worth almost 10bn roubles (215m), after overpaying on its taxes two years ago. This comes as welcome news for the oil giant's joint venture in the country, which has come under intense pressure from the Russian government...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Utah man arrested in nude hiking incident
- SEDONA, Ariz. AP -- Authorities in Arizona say they're looking for people who encountered a nude hiker from Utah. The 61-year-old man is accused of telling women that he sheds clothes because he's "getting close to nature." Yavapai County sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn says...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Singer Winehouse arrested on drug possession charge
- Amy Winehouse was arrested Wednesday in connection with a January video that allegedly shows her doing drugs at a party at her north London home. London's Metropolitan Police said a 24-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of drug possession. Winehouse's spokesman, Chris Goodman, confirmed his client was...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Retired sergeant given handful of WWII medals
- CAMP WILLIAMS -- Retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Berry, 83, of Kearns received a Bronze Star, Purple Heart and other medals earned for service in World War II at a ceremony at the Camp Williams headquarters building Saturday. According to Utah National Guard spokesman Maj. Hank McIntire, Berry...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Inmate injured in jump from 3rd-story window
- DENVER AP -- Denver police say an inmate in handcuffs and shackles was seriously injured when he jumped through a closed window in a third-floor courtroom, shattering the glass and plunging to the ground. Police spokesman Sonny Jackson says it's not clear whether the man was trying...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Austrian set to give more testimony in dungeon case
- VIENNA, Austria -- The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her children talked to a prosecutor for two hours Wednesday and agreed to further questioning, prosecutors said. Meanwhile, Austria's justice minister acknowledged that authorities may have been gullible in their handling of...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Ex-detainee tied to suicide attack
- BAGHDAD -- A former Kuwaiti detainee at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was one of the bombers in a string of deadly suicide attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last month, the American military said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Iraqi foreign minister, Hoshyar...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Surgery possible for Lakers' Bynum
- LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum might undergo exploratory arthroscopic surgery on his injured left knee if there is no significant improvement in the next three to four weeks. Lakers spokesman John Black said Bynum was examined Wednesday by Dr. Steven Gecha in Princeton,...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- NBC will charge $3 million for 30-second Super Bowl ad
- General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal plans to charge advertisers $3 million for a 30-second spot during next year's Super Bowl. The price exceeds the average $2.7 million News Corp.'s Fox got for a 30-second ad in this year's football championship game. Brian Walker, a spokesman for NBC,...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Donald Heider to leave post at Philip Merrill College of Journalism
- Loyola University Chicago announced that Donald Heider, associate dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, has been appointed as the first dean of Loyola's new School of Communication. He will officially begin his new duties on Aug. 1, according to the announcement...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Berlusconi unveils Italy's new right-wing government
- ROME AFP — Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi unveiled his new right-wing government on Wednesday the day before his team, including EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini, was to be sworn in. Berlusconi, 71, also said his old ally Giulio Tremonti would be economy minister, after a spokesman announced...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Suicide attacker was former Guantanamo detainee: US military
- WASHINGTON AFP — A man who carried out a suicide attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last month has been identified as a former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, US military officials said Wednesday. Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, who was released from Guantanamo in November 2005,...
- Articles 2008-05-07
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