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China's Reputation On Product Safety Reaches a New Low
Washington Post
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1 hour ago
By Blaine Harden Even Burma -- where one of the world's most repressive and isolated military governments relies on trade with China -- has now warned its people to steer clear of all Chinese dairy products. The generals who run Burma, ...
New tests: Chinese milk melamine-free Christian Science Monitor
UN chief wants new look at UN Georgia mission
The Associated Press
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1 hour ago
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The UN mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and the separatist Abkhazia region should be extended for four months to explore whether to continue UN involvement following the Georgian-Russian war, the UN chief said ...
Russia Accuses Georgia of ‘New Hostilities’ New York Times
EU Finance Ministers Meet Amid Global Crisis
Voice of America
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5 hours ago
By Lisa Bryant European finance ministers began a two-day meeting in Luxembourg to deal with the worst financial crisis in years. Lisa Bryant reports for VOA from Paris that the 27-member block has pledged to protect savings and to maintain financial ...
Many of dead, injured in bus crash were Laotian
San Jose Mercury News
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2 hours ago
By SAMANTHA YOUNG AP Writer SACRAMENTO—Almost every two weeks for the last two years, sisters Mai Cha and Ge Vue boarded a chartered bus to play the slots at an American Indian casino north of Sacramento. The sisters were headed there again Sunday when ...
Bus driver in fatal California crash is arrested The Associated Press
LA man kills family, himself over financial woes
Reuters
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2 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 45-year-old Los Angeles man who was apparently distraught over money troubles shot and killed his wife, three sons and mother-in-law before taking his own life, police said on Monday. The father of three, ...
Allies Share Uneasiness in Changing Term Limits
New York Times
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40 minutes ago
By MICHAEL BARBARO, JONATHAN P. HICKS and FERNANDA SANTOS. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s top lieutenants, worried that a seemingly iron-clad plan to revise the term limits law could unravel, tried unsuccessfully on Monday to persuade the billionaire ...
Fuld Targeted by Lawmakers as Surrogate for Wall Street Excess
Bloomberg
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2 hours ago
By Lorraine Woellert and Yalman Onaran Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Lawmakers lashed out at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld, peppering him for two hours with queries about excessive Wall Street pay and his failure to ...
Fuld breaks cover to defend his actions Financial Times
Wachovia: A Split May Boost the Banking Industry
BusinessWeek
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2 hours ago
The legal battle between Citi and Wells Fargo over Wachovia is suspended, for now. But at least it shows there are assets worth fighting over by Dean Foust For Washington policymakers, the prospect of a grinding, slow-motion legal fight between ...
Citigroup, Wachovia, Wells Fargo temporarily halt litigation Bizjournals.com
Wobbly world markets plunge Dow below 10000
Newsday
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59 minutes ago
As a crisis of confidence overtook stock markets around the world and credit markets remained frozen, the Dow Jones industrials dove below 10000 for the first time in four years Monday, plunging by as much as a record 800 points during the afternoon. ...
Dow Jones slump could begin to threaten global markets guardian.co.uk
McCain, Obama gear up for second debate
Reuters
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1 hour ago
By Paul J. Gough NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - With the record-setting vp debate now history, it's back to the top of the ticket on Tuesday night. John McCain and Barack Obama square off in a town-hall-style debate moderated by NBC's Tom Brokaw at ...
McCain's debate goal to undercut Obama a 2-edged sword
Newsday
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1 hour ago
BY TOM BRUNE | tom.brune@newsday.com WASHINGTON - On a slippery slope of sliding polls, Republican John McCain signaled yesterday he must accomplish a key task at tonight's debate: instill doubt about his Democratic rival Barack Obama. ...
Business Cool Toward McCain’s Health Coverage Plan
New York Times
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41 minutes ago
By KEVIN SACK American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain’s proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade ...
Whose Health Plan? Washington Post
A Princeton economist reviews the candidates' health plans Chicago Tribune
A quarter of world's mammals face extinction, survey finds
San Jose Mercury News
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1 hour ago
By Kenneth R. Weiss BARCELONA, Spain — At least one-quarter of the world's mammals in the wild are threatened with extinction, according to a survey released Monday that blames the loss of wildlife habitat, hunting and poaching for the steep declines. ...
1 in 4 Mammals Threatened, Study Says New York Times
Report: 1 in 4 mammals face extinction United Press International
Computer Chip to Monitor Teen Drivers
ABC News
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1 hour ago
By LISA STARK, MATT HOSFORD and KATE BARRETT Car keys -- long perceived as the keys to teenagers' freedom -- may soon be the best way for parents to monitor their every move. A high-tech car key offered by Ford Motor Co. starting next summer will allow ...
Going Along on the Ride With Junior New York Times
Ford: Key limits speed, stereo volume United Press International
T-Mobile Says Android Presales Stronger Than Expected
PC World
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3 hours ago
T-Mobile on Monday said preorders for the first Android phone have been three times greater than it expected and that it won't promise to ship any more phones in time for the Oct. 22 launch. The operator didn't disclose how many devices it has sold, ...
IPhone 3G Boosts Apple's Smartphone Share PC Magazine