May 12, 2006
The judge in the Enron trial dealt a serious blow to the two former chief executives accused of defrauding investors by agreeing to allow jurors...
May 12, 2006
May 12, 2006
Buoyant growth of the European job market, in the last 5 years, is a result of an explosion of part-time and temporary work
May 12, 2006
May 10, 2006
Warner Brothers have plans to make hundreds of movies and television shows available for purchase over the Internet using BitTorrent software, which is widely used to download movies and other copyrighted material illegally.
May 10, 2006
May 9, 2006
The Wachovia Corporation reached a deal on Sunday to acquire the Golden West Financial Corporation, one of the last major independent banks on the West Coast, for about $26 billion in cash and stock.
May 9, 2006
May 9, 2006
When Yahoo finally switches on the new search-advertising software code-named Project Panama this summer, users of its search engine will hardly notice a difference.
May 9, 2006
May 8, 2006
To many Americans, oil companies like Exxon Mobil or Chevron appear all powerful, pocketing record profits as energy costs soar.
May 8, 2006
May 6, 2006
The brain seems to feel distressed not at the moment of an unpleasant event but in anticipating that moment
May 6, 2006
May 5, 2006
The top three soft-drink companies in the US have announced that they would start removing sweetened drinks like Coke, Pepsi and iced teas from school cafeterias and vending machines in response to the growing threat of lawsuits and state legislation.
May 5, 2006
May 5, 2006
A Picasso portrait, Dora Maar With Cat, sold for $95.2 million at Sotheby’s last night, the second-highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.
May 5, 2006
May 5, 2006
As the Hamas-led government struggles to raise cash after the suspension of Western aid to the Palestinian Authority, it faces a new and unexpected obstacle: banks here are refusing to accept its money transfers from abroad.
May 5, 2006
May 2, 2006
The broadcasts last week by three of the world’s best-known terrorist leaders shared one common goal of embarrass the West, American intelligence officials say.
May 2, 2006
May 2, 2006
Right or wrong, it has somehow become conventional wisdom: Wal-Mart is bad for small businesses, outspending, outmaneuvering and outgrowing lesser rivals until they change their strategy or close their doors.
May 2, 2006
May 2, 2006
At first it seemed to be nothing more than a routine case of counterfeiting in a country where faking it has become an industry.
May 2, 2006
May 1, 2006
John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment that he needled in prolific writings for more than half a century
May 1, 2006
April 29, 2006
How the cell’s development programme is locked or loosened to give it its own role
April 29, 2006
April 29, 2006
When it comes to standard telephone service, nothing exceeds the quality of corded handsets.
April 29, 2006
April 29, 2006
To shed its shell for a new one, a crab needs a swollen head. And a swollon torso, legs and claws, for that matter.
April 29, 2006
April 29, 2006
It is time for Sahar to marry but she dreams of a career, not a husband. Her fundamentalist brother wants to pick her mate and is already planning her life as a homemaker.
April 29, 2006
April 29, 2006
Microsoft has reported strong third-quarter revenue growth, but analysts said the company also telegraphed a significant increase in spending, an indication that it was preparing to take on its big online rivals, Google and Yahoo.
April 29, 2006
April 25, 2006
E-paper devices are competing to become iPod of the newspaper business
April 25, 2006
April 22, 2006
The practice of staring at clouds will take on new dimensions with the launching of two satellites designed to make the first global survey of cloud properties that affect weather and climate.
April 22, 2006
April 22, 2006
Kim Kachmann-Geltz did everything right. She ran five miles a day, dutifully ate oatmeal, stayed slim...
April 22, 2006
April 20, 2006
Beijing has treated close ties to American business leaders vital because the two countries are integrated more economically than politically
April 20, 2006
April 19, 2006
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who turns 80 tomorrow, is a link between the turbulent first half of the century and the tumultuous second, binding the land and its people in a time warp
April 19, 2006
April 19, 2006
Zhao Yan has been in jail for 19 months on charges of revealing Communist party secrets
April 19, 2006