Wal-Mart plan hailed for Wisconsin vets
The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. initiative to hire any recently discharged veteran effective Memorial Day may provide opportunities for Wisconsin veterans seeking employment. Veterans possess transferable ...
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New York - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been coming under a lot of fire lately. Two of its suppliers were found to have been making goods in a factory where 112 people died in Bangladesh, and employees ...
View ArticlePresident signs bill establishing Liberty Memorial as home of World War I...
President Barack Obama has signed a bill creating a national commission to mark the centennial of World War I and anchoring it at Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial.The legislation was approved by ...
View ArticleDowntown business school shooter victim identified
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - A former student at a downtown business school allegedly shot a financial advisor Tuesday before turning the gun on himself. There were originally conflicting reports about how ...
View ArticleBoeing Dreamliner battery fire hot enough to melt fuselage tests show
While Boeing maintains that a fire in an electronics compartment of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner last week and another fire on a test flight in 2010 are not related, the plane’s ...
View ArticlePersonal finance rose 1.0 in Nov
Personal finance loans rose by 1.0 per cent in November, official figures show.The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Wednesday said personal finance commitments, seasonally-adjusted, rose to ...
View ArticleBoral cuts shocker for manufacturing
Job cuts at building products company Boral represent a "shocking start" to 2013 for Australian manufacturing, the head of the Australian Workers Union says.Boral announced on Wednesday ...
View ArticleWill Citigroup’s new CEO tinker or tailor All eyes on Michael Corbat
By most accounts, Michael Corbat is smart, reasonable and tough, a banking veteran who worked his way up from the trading floor to the executive suite ...
View ArticleDementia trial a world first
The West Australian © Alzheimer's disease researcher, Professor Ralph Martins, left, with 68-year-old Peter Godfrey of Scarborough, who does not have Alzheimers and has been receiving ...
View ArticleANA grounds all Boeing 787s for inspections after emergency landing
Reuters © A Boeing 787 operated by All Nippon Airways Co is seen after it made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in western Japan in this still image taken from video by Shikoku Shimbun ...
View ArticleColes Woolworths in worlds top 20
The owners of Australia's dominant supermarket chains are fighting for supremacy among the world's largest retailers after Wesfarmers joined rival Woolworths in the world's top 20. ...
View ArticleHainan Airlines order for 5 Boeing 787 airliners delayed
China said it has yet to approve U.S. planemaker Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, which has put on hold the delivery of the jet to the world's fastest growing aviation ...
View ArticleScholarships Mentors Expand Education for Ugandan Girls
KAMPALA, UGANDA Dr. Violet Okaba, 31, a pediatrician at Mulago Hospital, says she almost had to drop out of school when she was a teenager. Her father lost his job when she was 16, and her ...
View ArticlePakistan ready for South Africa challenge despite lack of Test cricket Hafeez
Pakistan Twenty20 captain Mohammed Hafeez has said he is confident that Pakistan's lack of Test cricket will not be a problem when the team meets world number one South Africa next month. Pakistan ...
View ArticleGlobal warming increasing monthly heat records by factor of 5
Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent as measurements from around the world indicate, and on an average there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide ...
View ArticleWoods eager to battle McIlroy for top honours
Ace golfer Tiger Woods is looking forward to take on world number one player Rory McIlroy in the new season after their rivalry dominated the most of last year. The new golf season gets into full ...
View ArticleGursharan Kaur to inaugurate exhibition on Textiles from Rajasthan and Gujarat
Gursharan Kaur, the wife of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, will inaugurate an exhibition-cum-sale "Textiles from Rajasthan and Gujarat" as part of the 'Handloom Month' tomorrow at Central Cottage ...
View ArticleHeavy snowfall attracts tourists at Narkanda in Himachal for skiing
Heavy snowfall provided impetus to the business of locals as a large number of tourists visiting the Narkanda skiing resort in Himachal Pradesh to try their hand in skiing. The large turnover of ...
View ArticleChinese web giant Tencent blames technical glitch for global censoring of...
Chinese web giant Tencent has denied claims that there is global censoring of its popular chat app WeChat, adding that a technical glitch had led to certain sensitive terms being blocked outside ...
View ArticlePM takes hardline stance says cannot be business as usual with Pak
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Tuesday termed as 'barbaric' the brutal killing of Indian jawans along the Line of Control (LoC), and said there cannot be business as usual with ...
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