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Most popular news on 25 October 2007 |
Firefighters Get Control as Questions Rise - New York Times
By KIRK JOHNSON and JENNIFER STEINHAUER SAN DIEGO, Oct. 24 - Firefighters on Wednesday began to assert control over wildfires that have burned through nearly 500000 acres and displaced half a million residents over four days in Southern California.
Under Siege, Blackwater Takes on Air of Bunker - New York Times
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER and JAMES GLANZ BAGHDAD, Oct. 24 - The Blackwater USA compound here is a fortress within a fortress. Surrounded by a 25-foot-high wall of concrete topped by a chain-link fence and razor wire, the compound sits deep inside the ...
US Urges Iraq to Crack Down of Kurdish Rebels - Voice of America
By Cindy Saine US officials are calling on Turkey and Iraq to exercise restraint, amid Turkish shelling of rebel bases inside Iraq.
Darfur Talks in Danger of Lacking Attendance - New York Times
By WARREN HOGE UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 24 - Faced with the prospect of significant no-shows at a peace conference scheduled to begin in three days, the United Nations envoy for Darfur on Wednesday urged fractious rebel groups and the Sudanese government ...
How the Applause Meter Rates Bush?s Pressure on Cuba - New York Times
By GINGER THOMPSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - There?s no science to gauge how President Bush?s speech on Cuba will play around the world.
Climate Change Testimony Was Edited by White House - New York Times
By ANDREW C. REVKIN The White House made deep cuts in written testimony given to a Senate committee this week by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on health risks posed by global warming, but the director agreed yesterday ...
Bill for Immigrant Students Fails Test Vote in Senate - New York Times
By JULIA PRESTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - A bill to grant legal status to illegal immigrants who are high school graduates was defeated Wednesday in a test vote in the Senate, significantly dimming the prospects for any major immigration legislation this ...
The Ad Campaign McCain Reflects on POW Past, and Goes After Clinton - New York Times
By JIM RUTENBERG This advertisement for Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, is to begin running as early as tonight in New Hampshire.
Microsoft Bets On Facebook Stake And Web Ad Boom - Wall Street Journal
By KEVIN J. DELANEY, ROBERT A. GUTH and VAUHINI VARA Microsoft Corp.'s $240 million investment in Facebook Inc. -- a three-year-old company with more promise than profit -- represents a huge bet that the online advertising boom will continue and the ...
Merrill?s Chief Is Being Held to Account - New York Times
By JENNY ANDERSON and LANDON THOMAS Jr. In November 2005, Merrill Lynch?s chief executive, E. Stanley O?Neal, told investors that the brokerage firm would shift its strategy and would become more aggressive investing its own money.
Bank of America Shakes Up Its Investment Bank - Wall Street Journal
By VALERIE BAUERLEIN CHARLOTTE, NC -- Bank of America Corp. launched a major shakeup of its investment bank, including layoffs and the retirement of the head of its Global Corporate and Investment Banking unit.
China Launches its First Lunar Orbiter - DailyTech
China today successfully launched its first lunar probe, a big first step in the country's three-step space program that hopes to put an astronaut on the moon by 2020.
Next at space station: Mission Most Complex - Christian Science Monitor
In the next eight days, crews will perform tasks to prepare for the installation of a European laboratory. By Peter Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor This feature requires a newer version of Macromedia Flash Player and ...
Gmail Now Has iMAP Support - InformationWeek
Announced at Interop New York, the e-mail feature syncs with Outlook Express, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003, Apple Mail, Windows Mail, and Thunderbird 2.0.
Red Sox rookie Pedroia proving size doesn't matter - USA Today
By Mel Antonen, USA TODAY BOSTON - - Four hours before the start of Wednesday's game, second baseman Dustin Pedroia was sitting in the Boston Red Sox's dugout, talking to whomever stopped by.
Chargers May Shift Game Because of Wildfires - New York Times
By PAUL GIBLIN TEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 24 - The San Diego Chargers began their week of practice Wednesday here at the Arizona Cardinals? training facility, hundreds of miles from fire-ravaged Southern California, unsure of where or when they will play this ...
Past Torre Contracts Had Incentives - New York Times
By MURRAY CHASS Excuse this intrusion on the World Series, Mr. Commissioner, but Mr. Torre has a credibility problem that we have to deal with before we can move on to new business, like last night?s opening game between the Rockies and the Red Sox.
Gay Rights Group Criticizes Obama - New York Times
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE The nation?s largest gay rights organization criticized Senator Barack Obama of Illinois yesterday for scheduling a gospel concert on Sunday with a singer who has made controversial statements about homosexuality.
Nielsen, Google in advertising agreement - Bizjournals.com
The Nielsen Co. and Google Inc. said Wednesday they have established a multi-year, strategic relationship. New York-based Nielsen and Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said that as a first step, the relationship leverages Nielsen's experience ...
Osmond Blames Allergies and Bad Air Quality for Faint - ABC News
Mark Cuban and Kym Johnson were the fifth couple to be eliminated from "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday night. (Carol Kaelson/ABC) Marie Osmond's post-samba faint on "Dancing With the Stars" Monday night didn't mean the end to her run on the show.
Experts Tout Hygiene to Battle Staph in Schools - NPR
by Anna Sale All Things Considered, October 24, 2007 · Across the US recently, reports of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections have blanketed newspaper, TV and radio.
Lifting the Veil From A Deadly Disease - Washington Post
By Faiza Saleh Ambah JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 24 -- When gynecologist Samia al-Amoudi was diagnosed last year with breast cancer, a disease that still carries an intense stigma in this conservative country where women are forced to cover in public, ...
US Advisers OK Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine for Young Children - U.S. News & World Report
By Steven Reinberg WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Children as young as 2 years old can be given the nasal spray influenza vaccine FluMist, US vaccine advisers recommended Wednesday.
Budget office reports war costs could reach $2.4 trillion by 2017 - GovExec.com
By Otto Kreisher CongressDaily October 24, 2007 Even if US troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan are reduced by more than two-thirds from the average numbers, the cost to the taxpayers of those conflicts could reach $2.4 trillion in 10 years, ...
Following Moratorium Trend, Court Halts Alabama Execution - New York Times
By BRENDA GOODMAN ATLANTA, Oct. 24 - A federal appeals court panel unanimously ordered a stay of execution on Wednesday for a terminally ill prisoner who was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Alabama on Thursday.
Texas Judge Draws Outcry for Allowing an Execution - New York Times
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL HOUSTON, Oct. 24 - The presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is the target of a rising national outcry a month after turning away the last appeal of a death row inmate because the rushed filing was delayed past the ...
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