Reuters - News Corp Chief Executive
Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday predicted a Democratic landslide in
the U.S. presidential election against a gloomy economic
backdrop over the next 18 months.
Reuters - Former White House spokesman Scott
McClellan, defending his book critical of President George W.
Bush and the Iraq war, said on Thursday he may have made a
mistake by not speaking out sooner.
Reuters - Mankind is causing 50 billion
euros ($78 billion) of damage to the planet's land areas every
year, making it imperative governments act to save plants and
animals, a Deutsche Bank official told a U.N. conference.
Reuters - Bear Stearns Cos Inc Chairman
James Cayne told employees and shareholders he was "personally
sorry" for the demise of the 85-year-old investment bank, as
shareholders on Thursday voted to sell the company to JPMorgan
Chase & Co for about $10 a share.
Reuters - When Ohio's Kent State University
offered custodial staff the option of working four days a week
instead of five to cut commuting costs, most jumped at the
chance, part of a U.S. trend aimed at combating soaring
gasoline prices.
Reuters - A U.S. jury found former elite
athletics coach Trevor Graham guilty on Thursday of one count
of lying to federal agents investigating the BALCO doping
scandal.
Reuters - U.S. prosecutors preparing to try
accused September 11 plotters expect criticism if they seek to
use defendants' statements as evidence, because of the abuse of
suspects during interrogation. But they say it will not deter
them.
Reuters - General Motors Corp said on
Thursday about 19,000 U.S. factory workers -- just over a
quarter of its American blue-collar work force -- had taken
buyouts to leave the automaker.
AP - Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting two police officers during an alleged luggage rage incident at Heathrow Airport, her lawyer and prosecutors said Thursday.
AP - Railway executive Matthew Rose stood before fellow industry leaders, pointing to a map meant to tell the future of the U.S. rail freight network. It was drenched in red — east to west, north to south.
AP - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.
AP - A helicopter practicing approaches crashed on the roof of a hospital Thursday, catching fire moments after the two people on board escaped with minor injuries, a fire official said.
