EU media groups offer training for better STL reporting
The defence council of the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) (front row, L to R) R. Maison, Pauline Baranes, S. Codde and Antoine Korkmaz attend the opening of the public hearing at the court ...
View ArticleTreasury Dept. Selling More GM Stock
The U.S. Treasury Department said Friday it will begin selling its 300.1 million remaining shares of General Motors Co. common stock. Under a prearranged trading plan, the department said in a ...
View ArticleAfter Hours Caterpillar falls after hours on charge warning
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Caterpillar Inc. shares fell Friday evening after the heavy-equipment maker said it would take a charge in its fourth-quarter results, citing improper accounting at a ...
View ArticleSP 500 index closes with third straight week of gains GE climbs after better...
NEW YORK - Better earnings from General Electric and Morgan Stanley helped the stock market inch higher Friday, as major indexes closed out their third straight week of gains. GE led the 30 stocks ...
View ArticleMining world sees seismic shifts at top as tumult forces old guard out
The ouster this week of one of the world's captains of mining underscores a breaking dawn in the industry as it sheds its old guard and discards a mantra of growth at any cost.After six years at ...
View ArticleCaterpillar writes off $580-million on China deal after fraud
Caterpillar Inc. uncovered "deliberate, multiyear, co-ordinated accounting misconduct" at a subsidiary of a Chinese company it acquired last summer, leading it to write off most of the ...
View ArticleBoeing halts Dreamliner deliveries
Boeing is halting deliveries of new 787s to customers until its electrical system is fixed. The US aircraft manufacturer said, however, production of its most advanced jet known as the Dreamliner ...
View ArticleWorld Briefing | Europe Turkey Dozens Arrested in Police Raids
The police have arrested 85 people, including leftist lawyers, musicians and human rights activists, in raids against people suspected of having links to an outlawed militant group, Turkish news ...
View ArticleBoeing stanser leveransene av 787 Dreamliner
New York (NTB-AFP): Den amerikanske flyprodusenten Boeing stanser midlertidig leveransene av flytypen 787 Dreamliner pƄ grunn av sikkerhetsproblemene med flyet. Men Boeing fortsetter ...
View ArticleWorld Briefing | Africa Zimbabwe Groups Protest Crackdown
Representatives of 58 civic organizations, including religious, legal and human rights groups, on Friday condemned what they called an escalating campaign against critics of President Robert Mugabe's ...
View ArticleWorld Briefing | The Americas Colombia Rebels Kidnap Gold Miners
Leftist rebels kidnapped five gold prospectors doing exploratory drilling for a Canadian company on Friday in a northern province, officials said. The men - a Canadian, two Peruvians and two ...
View ArticleOxfam plea on global inequality
The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said. Ahead of next week's World Economic ...
View ArticleCaterpillar $580 million charge tied to accounting tricks at company in China
CAT ) said Friday that it found deliberate "accounting misconduct" at a recently acquired company in China.The U.S. based construction and mining equipment company has removed several ...
View ArticleBoeing halts deliveries of 787s until battery concerns resolved
Boeing Co on Friday said it would halt deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner jet until the Federal Aviation Administration approved a plan for addressing safety concerns about lithium-ion batteries that ...
View ArticleBoeing probe focuses on battery 787 deliveries halted
1 of 7. A 787 Dreamliner jet painted in All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan livery, sits idle on the tarmac parking at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, January 17, 2013. Airlines scrambled to ...
View ArticleGE beats on earnings revenue Immelt credits emerging markets shift in strategy
Performance at all of the conglomerateās industrial segments is improving thanks to cost cutting, a shift in strategy and growth in emerging ...
View ArticleBikes Not Bombs Gets Developing World Moving Forward
While many people give up their bicycles probably about the time acne and dating enter their lives, the trend to get back on and ride is becoming more acceptable with the younger crowd. Bikes Not ...
View ArticleCaterpillar Probe Reveals Deliberate Accounting Misconduct At Chinese Unit
Caterpillar Inc. said Friday that it found deliberate "accounting misconduct" at a recently acquired company in China. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, ...
View ArticleWorld Briefing | United Nations United Nations Commissioner Urges Action on...
United Nations commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, expressed dismay on Friday over the lack of Security Council action on the killings and human rights abuses ...
View ArticleWorld Briefing | Asia Pakistan Graft Investigator Found Dead
A Pakistani officer investigating a corruption case against the prime minister was found dead on Friday in what was most likely a suicide, the police said. The body of Kamran Faisal was found hanging ...
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