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Most popular news on 23 October 2007 |
Bush Asks Congress for $1.4 Billion to Fight Drugs in Mexico - New York Times
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 22 - President Bush asked Congress on Monday to approve a $1.4 billion aid package over the next three years to help the Mexican government fight narcotics traffickers, who have unleashed a bloody underworld ...
Residents Flee Wildfires in Southern California - New York Times
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 - More than a quarter of a million people were urged to flee their homes on Monday as wildfires ravaged Southern California for a second day, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and charring swaths of ...
US proposes three-way meeting on PKK issue - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Britain have proposed a meeting next month of officials from the United States, Turkey and Iraq to discuss how to stop Kurdish rebel attacks into Turkey.
Poland Votes In Business Friendly Government - Forbes
The victory of the pro-business Civic Platform party in the Polish elections over the weekend helped halt the sell-off that hit the rest of Europe hard on Monday.
China Parades Next Generation of Leaders - Washington Post
By Edward Cody and Maureen Fan BEIJING, Oct. 22 -- Xi Jinping looked a little uncomfortable in the spotlight as President Hu Jintao introduced him Monday as the ranking newcomer in the Communist Party's elite Politburo Standing Committee.
Bush?s Request for Wars Increases to $196 Billion - New York Times
By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - President Bush asked Congress on Monday to approve $196 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other national security programs, setting the stage for a new confrontation with Democrats over ...
Mistrial in Holy Land terrorism financing case - Los Angeles Times
The government's prosecution of a now-defunct Islamic charity collapses in confusion after initial verdicts are read. By Greg Krikorian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer DALLAS -- The US Justice Department suffered a major setback in another high-profile ...
McCain vs. Clinton? - New York Times
By Katharine Q. Seelye So here?sa puzzle. If Rudolph W. Giuliani is leading the Republican field in the national polls, and Mitt Romney is leading the field in the early states, why is John McCain running closer to Hillary Clinton than the rest of the ...
Apple Blasts Past the Forecasts - BusinessWeek
The iPod, iPhone, and especially the Mac fueled a record-breaking quarter. And Apple expects to beat the consensus again next quarter by Arik Hesseldahl Superlatives were in short supply for anyone looking for perspective on Apple's financial results ...
Microsoft Is Yielding on Antitrust - New York Times
By STEVE LOHR and KEVIN J. O?BRIEN Microsoft has given up its nine-year fight against antitrust regulators in Europe, saying yesterday that it would not challenge a court judgment from last month and would share technical information with rivals on ...
RPT-Global ambition behind CITIC's Bear Stearns deal - Reuters
By Charlie Zhu SHANGHAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - China's fast-growing CITIC Securities Co (600030.SS: Quote, Profile, Research) is taking a first step towards becoming a global player by purchasing a $1 billion stake in Wall Street investment bank Bear ...
California to Sue Over Auto Emissions - The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The state's attorney general said Monday that he would sue the Environmental Protection Agency in an attempt to force it to decide whether to let California and 11 other states impose stricter standards on certain vehicle ...
Astronaut Trio Set for Space-Station Construction - FOX News
By Tariq Malik STS-120 mission specialists Paolo Nespoli (front), Daniel Tani (middle) and spacewalker Scott Parazynski in the shuttle's middeck.
SanDisk Launches PC-To-TV Player And Online Video Service - InformationWeek
Sansa TakeTV lets users play video from their computers through a TV's standard A/V socket. By Antone Gonsalves SanDisk on Monday launched a video player that takes files from a PC through a USB port, which can then be carried over to a TV to play the ...
Sadly, Series likely a letdown - Chicago Tribune
BOSTON -- No one has won World Series jewelry yet. The event doesn't start until Wednesday night. For a variety of reasons, including the calendar and the strength of the two teams, it feels like it is already over, like it wrapped up with the Boston ...
Broncos kick in with character in last-second win - USA Today
By Seth Livingstone, USA TODAY DENVER - For the depleted Denver Broncos, pride and perhaps their season were on the line Sunday night.
Colts Lead Jaguars 29-7 in 4th Quarter - Forbes
By DOUG FERGUSON 10.22.07, 11:26 PM ET In a game for early control of the AFC South, the Indianapolis Colts showed they're still in charge by dominating every facet of the game to build a 29-7 lead over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the fourth quarter on ...
Kid Rock Shuns IHOP, Gets Arrested in Waffle House Brawl - Rolling Stone
After a show Saturday night in Atlanta, Kid Rock did what any good southern boy would do: He got involved in a brawl at the local Waffle House.
Most fans applaud Rowling's "outing" of Dumbledore - Reuters
By Solarina Ho TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - The Muggle, or non-wizard, world is agog at author JK Rowling's bombshell announcement that one of the main characters in the Harry Potter books was gay.
Copperfield's Magic Tour Goes Poof - E! Online
by Josh Grossberg The master illusionist scrapped a series of engagements in Southeast Asia as the FBI investigates allegations he sexually assaulted an unidentified Seattle woman.
Tier districts keeping eye on staph infections - Press & Sun-Bulletin
By George Basler No confirmed cases of the drug-resistant staph infection known as MRSA have been reported among students in Broome, Tioga and Chenango county schools, public health and school officials said Monday.
Emotional well-being doesn't affect cancer outcome - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a new study provide no evidence to support the notion that patients with cancer can influence the course or outcome of their cancer by making changes to improve their emotional well-being or, in particular, ...
Study Finds Rise in Choice of Double Mastectomies - New York Times
By RONI CARYN RABIN More women with breast cancer are choosing to have their healthy breast surgically removed along with their affected breast, a new study has found.
Audit Assails State Dept. Role on Iraq Security - New York Times
By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID ROHDE WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - A pair of new reports have delivered scorching judgments about the State Department?s performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq ...
College Endowments Meet Shaky Markets - BusinessWeek
Once again, tuition costs outpace inflation. The question is, can big endowments continue to pay part of the freight? by Alison Damast To no one's surprise, the College Board reported on Oct. 22 that tuition at public and private colleges for the ...
Thompson Finds Reason to Discuss Schiavo Case - New York Times
By MARC SANTORA TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 22 - In his public life, former Senator Fred D. Thompson has long refrained from speaking about the death of his daughter from an accidental drug overdose in 2002, an episode that friends and colleagues say played into ...
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