McCain will have a lot of 'splainin to do to Cindy after Nov 4

"(CNN) -- John McCain is facing a fresh round of anger from members of his own party deeply opposed to the Arizona senator's proposal for the federal government to purchase troubled mortgage loans. ...

PM Gordon Brown has Left Britain "Bust", say Tories

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has today blasted Prime Minister Gordon Brown as "having left Britain bust".  He was speaking at the Tory Conference in Birmingham.   " BIRMINGHAM (AFP) — The...

Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft

" Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft Topics:Technology | Information Technology Sectors:Software and Computer Services | Software | Technology Microsoft [MSFT  26.14    1.13  (+4.52%)   ] Chief Executive Steve...

VA-India trade conference to be held in Norfolk

" Business leaders from Virginia and India will gather in Norfolk next month for a trade conference. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine says the event will be the strongest international program to be held in Virginia in a number of years. The conference is scheduled for Oct. 15-16...

Osborne says he won't bail out bust UK bankers

The Conservative Party in the UK is havig their party conference today, and as could be expected they are focusing largely on the economy. The shadow chancellor George Osborne has said that the conservatives would not bail out any banks if they were in power. This is...

Medevac Helicopter Crash Kills 4 In Maryland

The Associated Press is reporting that a medical helicopter carrying victims from a traffic accident crashed in a suburban Washington park early sunday after reporting bad weather. Officials say that the crash is the...

Congress Under Pressure for Weekend Deal

"     The U.S. Congress and the Bush administration were under intense pressure on Saturday to negotiate a $700 billion rescue for the financial industry to free up frozen credit before world markets reopen next week. "I'm convinced...

India beats China as top investment destination for first time: UN

"New Delhi: Eighteen years after it started opening up its economy, India, for the first time, has replaced China as the most promising destination for foreign direct investment in the medium-to-long term, says a UN...

British PM wants CO2 targets to be 80% by 2050

British prime minister Gordon Brown has said that he wants to cut greenhouse gases and CO2 targets in the UK to 80% by 2050.Previously it was 60%.Brown has asked the Climate Change Committee to report by the end of...

UK Transport Secretary Resigns

It looks like UK transport secretary Ruth Kelly has decided to jump from what she sees as a sinking ship. Despite UK prime minister Gordon Brown's defiant speech at the Labour Party Conference yesterday, Kelly had...

Palin Media Blackout Continues

Fox News says Sarah Palin is not being open to her traveling press corps and her staff is working overtime to control access and images."Palin Media Blackout Continues by Shushannah...

Canadian National Election Campaign Day 16 - Harper's Email is Hacked, Dion U...

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper's office has promised a full investigation into how someone gained access to his list of media e-mail recipients and sent emails pretending to be him. It seems that it's no...

Miliband: I toned down conference speech to avoid 'Heseltine moment'

More drama from the Labour Party conference in the UK, as Gordon Brown tries to save his job and David Milliband tries to convince the media that he is not gunning for it. Embarassingly, Milliband was overheard...

Obesity 'raises miscarriage risk'

This research is new in that it looks at recurrent miscarriage for the first time and seems to show that obese women are in greater danger not only of miscarriage but also of having malformed babies. With obesity...

Socially and Environmentally Responsible Investment Industry's Major Annual C...

As socially and environmentally responsible investing continues to attract more investors and gain momentum in the marketplace, First Affirmative Financial Network and the nonprofit Social Investment Forum (SIF) will...

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