Jan 18 2008
Thousands of canisters of highly radioactive waste from the world’s most nuclear-energized nation lie, silent and deadly, beneath this jutting tip of Normandy. Above ground, cows graze and Atlantic waves crash into heather-covered hills.
Jan 17 2008
Merrill Lynch & Co Inc on Thursday said it took a $14.1 billion writedown and adjustments in the fourth quarter as bad subprime mortgage bets forced the brokerage to sell pieces of the company to foreign investors to raise capital.
Jan 17 2008
Boeing Co. said Wednesday that it was going to push back the inaugural flight for its much-anticipated 787 Dreamliner jet by several months, delaying the plane’s test flight until the end of the second quarter to allow additional time to assemble...
Jan 17 2008
Asian markets plunged on Wednesday on speculation that the US economy is sliding into a recession that could lead to a global slowdown.
Jan 17 2008
Kristin Peterson, co-founder and Chief Development Officer of Inveneo, rides along a dirt road en route to a small clinic to do a site evaluation assessing technology needs for possible future Inveneo computers in clinics in Rwanda.
Jan 17 2008
The Union Cabinet today deferred a decision on raising the cap on foreign direct investment in the civil aviation sector.”The issue has been deferred,” Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi said when asked whether the Cabinet...
Jan 17 2008
It has been a tough task for fund managers overseeing diversified equity schemes to match returns of the Sensex and Nifty over the last one year. Both indices have risen around 60% in this period and even the best-performing schemes benchmarked to these...
Jan 17 2008
“I have no regrets for doing what I did on October 5, pleading guilty and admitting to the world that I lied,”
Jan 17 2008
I logged into my email this morning to find five Facebook Wall posts from old friends...I clicked on over to my Facebook account, only to find – I’D BEEN SPAMMED!!!
Jan 15 2008
Taliban militants stormed Kabul’s leading luxury hotel last night, killing seven people in a significant escalation of insurgent tactics against foreign civilians in Afghanistan