Israel buries victims of India attack - Yahoo! News
Mourners pray over the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife AP - Mourners pray over the bodies of Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife Rivkah, 28, killed in ... JERUSALEM - Throngs of mourners on Tuesday packed the funerals of the six Jews killed in the 60-hour terror rampage in the Indian city of Mumbai, a grim occasion deepened by the conviction that the victims ...
The Associated Press: EU members ready to embrace public spending plan
By ROBERT WIELAARD - 4 hours ago, The ministers were drafting a declaration calling an economic recovery proposal by the European Commission a good basis to stimulate the economy of the 27-country EU, which fell into recession by shrinking 0.2 percent in the third quarter. They welcomed public spending "in the magnitude of 1.5 percent" of the EU gross domestic product but ruled out a ...
By Caroline Hyde, Banks including London-based Barclays are negotiating a waiver of conditions for Ineos Group Holdings Plc, the U.K.'s largest chemical maker, on 5.8 billion euros (.3 billion) in debt. The talks follow a similar deal by RBS in July on loans to Madrid-based Cableuropa SA. European banks hold about 70 percent of loans, with the rest sold to investors such as hedge funds and ...
U.S. chef serves oodles of noodles to hungry Tokyo | Lifestyle | Reuters
By Chika Osaka, TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Tokyo is full of hungry Japanese queuing outside noodle shops, but the line is usually longer at Ivan Ramen, where diners are greeted by the rare sight of a U.S. chef doling out bowls of a Japanese national obsession. Ramen, originally a Chinese recipe of broth, noodles and various toppings, is a culinary delight closer to the hearts of most Japanese than ...
Oct. Euro-zone Producer Prices Post Big Monthly Drop - FOXBusiness.com
LONDON -- Industrial producer prices across the 15-nation euro zone saw a monthly decline of 0.8% in October, for an annual rise of 6.3%. Economists were forecasting a 0.3% monthly drop and a 6.9% rise compared to a year ago. Excluding construction and energy, producer prices fell 0.4% in October for a 3.2% annual jump. ...
J.P. Morgan Says European Equities Offer Better Value Vs U.S - FOXBusiness.com
J.P. Morgan Says European Equities Offer Better Value Vs U.S LONDON -- J.P. Morgan European equity strategists said that they are overweight European stocks versus U.S. stocks for 2009. They believe that European equities offer better value than U.S. counterparts and that some of the the headwinds that pressured European equities compared to U.S. stocks in 2008, such as rates and currency, are ...
The Associated Press: Analysis: Settlers may be Israel's toughest battle
By KARIN LAUB - 4 hours ago, In recent years, the government has failed to dismantle dozens of unauthorized squatter camps, despite promises to the U.S. to do so. And its resolve is now being tested by a few dozen militant settlers holed up in a house in the West Bank city of Hebron, in defiance of a Supreme Court eviction order. ...
The Associated Press: 11 girls die of poisoning at school in north China
Fan, reached by phone, said she had no further details. Telephone calls to Yulin's Public Security Bureau rang unanswered Tuesday evening. Carbon monoxide detectors are not required in schools in China, though the Education Ministry last year asked schools that can afford them to install detectors if they burn coal for heating. The Xinhua report also did not give the ages of the girls or ...
The Press Association: Somali pirates chase US liner
Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a US cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said. The ship's owner, Oceania Cruises, identified the ship as the M/S Nautica. In a statement on its website, the company said pirates fired eight rifle shots at the liner as it sailed along a maritime corridor patrolled by an international ...
AFP: Islamist leader calls on pirates to release ships
MOGADISHU (AFP) -- Somalia's insurgent Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys called on Tuesday for pirates to immediately release a giant Saudi oil tanker and other foreign vessels being held in Somali waters. "We are calling for the immediate release of all international vessels under the command of Somali pirates, who are undermining international peace and trade," Aweys ...
The Press Association: Government lessen Olympic shortfall
The Government moved to limit the damage of a funding gap for Olympic sports by coming up with an extra 29million on Tuesday. The extra cash, announced by culture secretary Andy Burnham to UK Sport's board, means the shortfall for the run-up to the London 2012 Games is 50million rather than 79million. The figure is expected to be confirmed by the Government later on Tuesday, but the move ...
By Aaron Pan and Abigail Moses, Bond Risk Surges to Record on Concern Slump `Too Hard to Fix' "The economic slump is too hard for anyone to fix right away," said Tetsushi Nagato of Schroder Investment Management Japan Ltd., whose parent manages the equivalent of 05 billion. The iTraxx Australia index of credit-default swaps jumped 35 basis points to 375 in Sydney, Citigroup ...
Battling a Recession in Real Time - WSJ.com
So the U.S. economy is formally in recession, and has been for nearly a year. Now what? Americans, like the individuals in every other economy in the world, feel the rising or falling financial state of their nation through their own job security, buying power and the economic sense of well-being in their communities, and confirmation from the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research only ...
Iraq's Chemical Ali gets second death sentence | International | Reuters
By Waleed Ibrahim, Iraq's "Chemical Ali" gets second death sentence BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin "Chemical Ali" to death Tuesday for the killing of thousands of Shi'ites in a ruthless crackdown on their uprising after the 1991 Gulf War. It was the second death sentence to be handed down against Ali Hassan al-Majeed, who ...
Court brings down Thai government dissolves ruling parties - USATODAY.com
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A court dissolved Thailand's top three ruling parties for electoral fraud Tuesday and temporarily banned the prime minister from politics, bringing down a government that has faced months of strident protests seeking its ouster. The Constitutional Court ruling set the stage for thousands of protesters to end their week-long siege of the country's two main ...
The Press Association: Top officer probes Home Office leak
A senior police officer has been appointed by Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson to review the handling of the police inquiry into Home Office leaks. Sir Paul has asked British Transport Police Chief Constable Ian Johnston to report to him within seven days. In the meantime, the investigation team - who last week arrested Conservative immigration spokesman Damian Green - ...