NEW YORK - US Airways shareholders have approved the carrier's plan to merge with AMR Corp's American Airlines, moving a step towards bringing the two companies closer to forming the largest carrier in the world. US Airways CEO Doug Parker announced the approval at the airline's annual meeting of stockholders of Friday. "The landscape has changed as other mergers have taken place,'' said ...
Heathrow temporarily closed as Boeing 787 catches fire
LONDON - An Ethiopian Airlines operated Boeing 787 Dreamliner caught fire Friday evening at Britain's Heathrow airport, forcing the closure of both runways for a short time, in a blow for the U.S. plane maker. There were no passengers aboard the plane, which was parked at a remote stand at the time of the incident. Nobody suffered any injuries, a Metropolitan Police spokesman ...
Ghana builds gold refinery
Ghana is building a 4-million-euro gold refinery at the premises of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company (PMMC) Limited, its Chief Executive Officer Reuben Darko Damptey said. The Osagyefo Gold Refinery Ltd, named after Ghana's first president, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, is being undertaken by the state-run PMMC in collaboration with Geo Professionals Services Ltd, a Russian mining and ...
Suspected gunman arrested after 2 killed 1 injured at San Francisco shopping center
SAN FRANCISCO -- A bloodied gunman suspected of killing two women and seriously wounding a man at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood was arrested after opening fire on police officers, authorities said. Officers encountered the suspect Friday outside the San Francisco Giftcenter & Jewelrymart in the trendy South of Market area. At first they were not sure if the man, ...
Amar Bose Devotee of Sound Dies
Amar G. Bose, the visionary engineer, inventor and billionaire entrepreneur whose namesake company, the Bose Corporation, became synonymous with high-quality audio systems and speakers for home users, auditoriums and automobiles, died on Friday at his home in Wayland, Mass. He was 83. His death was confirmed by his son, Dr. Vanu G. Bose. As founder and chairman of the privately held company, Dr. ...
Uranium processing plan scrapped after protest by hundreds in southern China
BEIJING -- Local authorities in a southern Chinese city on Saturday scrapped a plan to build a uranium-processing plant, one day after hundreds of local residents protested against it because of safety worries. The city government of Heshan in Guangdong province said in an online statement that it would halt the 37 billion yuan ($6 billion) project, which would have built facilities for uranium ...
British Gas and Ecotricity simplify tariff charges
Two power companies have announced plans to make their tariffs simpler following the regulator's campaign to make the energy market easier to navigate.British Gas has started to simplify tariffs by replacing its current range of eight standing charges with just one."By the end of August, British Gas will have completed the rationalisation for all but one of its current products and ...
Welcome to the 0 mortgage
These days you can't move for 0% introductory offers on credit cards - but now you can get an initial interest rate of 0% on your mortgage. An eye-catching new deal launched this week offers much lower payments during the first few months, resulting in a "saving" of as much as 4,000 or more - money the customer might want to use for home improvements, to buy furniture and so ...
Blindness is just one more barrier to jump for palomino and her teen rider
LAFAYETTE, Wis. -- Victoria Czech eased onto the back of her 27-year-old palomino quarter horse, Skip, and took him for a ride around a 2-acre pen at her home, preparing the animal for its upcoming performance in the junior horse show at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair. Victoria, 13, gave Skip a variety of voice commands, and used her legs and a rope to guide him. Skip needs the help, ...
In Litchfield one of Minn.s growing numbers of small farms builds from ground up
LITCHFIELD, Minn. -- The peas are ripening at Prairie Drifter Farm and ready for Joan and Nick Olson to pluck off the vine and offer to visitors. The taste is fresh, crisp and sweet. Under the July sun, vegetables are bursting forth on the 33-acre organic farm south of Litchfield. The Olsons point to each row: Over here is kale, with broccoli and cabbage beyond. Over there is garlic, whose ...
Eliot Spitzer to Jay Leno Wall Street Rooting Against Me
Eliot Spitzer Re-Entering Politics Following TV Career Spitzer appeared on Leno's show in California less than 24 hours after a four-day flurry of canvassing for 3,750 valid petitions to run for city comptroller - submitting over 27,000 petitions to the city Board of Elections late Thursday night ahead of a midnight deadline. And Leno, who has poked at Spitzer's reentrance to New York ...
Microsoft conspires with the NSA in spying on its users
Newly released documents reveal the depth of collaboration between Microsoft and the National Security Agency in collecting data from the company's users, including communications and documents sent or accessed over Outlook.com, SkyDrive and Skype. They also show that Microsoft worked with the NSA to break the company's own encryption, ensuring the fullest possible access for the ...
Small hedgie bests the rest
June was a tough month for most hedge funds - but not for one small manager who foresaw the commodities rout.Anuraag Shah?s Tusker Investment Fund, a $105 million commodities fund based in Chicago, gained a whopping 15.6 percent last month, compared with a loss of 2.75 percent for the Absolute Return Commodities Index. The entire hedge-fund universe fell 0.78 percent. Industry insiders ...
Icahn delivers adds perk to his Dell offer
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is offering shareholders a chance to own a bigger stake in Dell, seeking to force Michael Dell to sweeten his $24.4 billion buyout offer for the personal-computer maker.Icahn, who holds 8.7 percent of Dell, is adding a warrant to his $14 per-share offer that holders could exchange for additional stock, he said in a letter Friday. The value to shareholders would be ...
Israeli fighter jets and Saudi missiles
Earlier this month, a report by Reuters on the state of Israeli air defenses flew under the radar. The story noted that an F-16 on a training mission crashed into the Mediterranean due to ...
Microsoft reboots with wide-ranging business remodel
CEO Steve Ballmer is restructuring the company to cope with a quickening pace of technological change that has left the world's largest software maker a step behind its two biggest rivals, Apple and Google. In an effort to catch up, Microsoft is dismantling a management structure that separated the company into sometimes disjointed divisions and hatching a more cohesive product line-up. The ...
Asian shares mixed after profit-taking record Wall St close
HONG KONG--Asian markets were mixed on Friday, with a record-breaking close on Wall Street offset by profit-taking after the previous day's broad ...
Contracts court rulings hamstring workers
Emboldened by a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions and an employers' job market, many companies are starting to require workers to sign away their rights in return for a job. It is a trend that experts worry could further wear away employees' power in the workplace. The contracts make it harder for employees to join class-action lawsuits, take their employers to court, or leave to ...
Awash in Lake effect
JPMorgan CFO Marianne Lake is sounding more like a CEO-in-waiting. The 44-year-old exec is garnering kudos from her boss, Jamie Dimon, who praised her performance following the bank?s second-quarter earnings call with analysts. Typically, Dimon leads JPMorgan?s question-and-answer sessions with analysts, overshadowing his beancounters. But yesterday, he let Lake, who was promoted ...
Judge No Steinberg bias seen
The judge overseeing Michael Steinberg?s insider trading trial said he?s not inclined to give the SAC Capital trader special treatment tied to the "media storm" surrounding the high-profile case. Steinberg?s lawyer had asked Manhattan federal Judge Richard Sullivan to give potential jurors a questionnaire to screen for bias as a result of the media coverage stemming ...
B?Berry losin? ZZs over Z10
Best Buy has cut the price of BlackBerry?s Z10 smartphone to $49.99 with a service contract, two weeks after the Canadian smartphone maker reported lackluster sales of the flagship touch-screen model. The Z10 is available at that price with a two-year contract from Verizon or AT&T. The device originally went on sale in the US in March at $199.99, on a par with Apple?s iPhone. ...
Falcone Ergen set for claw-off
Billionaire investor Phil Falcone and satellite guru Charlie Ergen will finally come face to face in their battle over LightSquared. The two will square off in court this week for the first time since it became clear that Ergen is trying to wrest control of the bankrupt wireless provider from founder Falcone. A Manhattan federal bankruptcy judge will hold a hearing on Wednesday tied to ...
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