Stampede at music festival kills 19
Berlin, July 25: A stampede inside a tunnel at a popular techno music festival killed 19 people and injured dozens more on Saturday, police officials said.
It was unclear exactly what set off the pa
Industries find surging profits in job cuts
New York, July 26: By most measures, Harley-Davidson has been having a rough ride.
Motorcycle sales are falling in 2010, as they have for each of the last three years. The company does not expect a
Cocoa bitter for choco makers
London, July 25: To some, he is a real-life Willy Wonka. To others, he is a Bond-style villain bent on taking over the world’s supply of chocolate.
In a stroke, a hedge fund manager here named Antho
Artificial sweetner ups blood sugar
New York, July 20: It seems like common sense that foods labeled “sugar free” would have no effect on sugar levels in the blood. But sometimes they do.
Most artificial sweeteners — saccharin, asparta
Private jet offers tie-ins with foreign carriers
New York, July 19: How does a private jet service woo customers in the middle of a recession? Go after the first-class airline passenger, of course. Two fractional jet ownership companies have announc
BP continued drilling despite leak, claims staff
New York, July 20: In the final days before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP continued drilling for oil despite internal reports of a leak on a critical safety device on the rig, a company official
Iranian man says US tortured him
Tehran, July 19: The Iranian scientist who American officials say defected to the United States only to be pressured by Iran to return home has made his first appearance since his arrival last week in
After tumult, debt worries ease in Europe
NEW YORK, July 19: Just two months ago, Europe’s sovereign debt problems seemed grave enough to imperil the global economic recovery. Now, at least some investors are treating it as the crisis that wa
BP plugs leaking oil well in Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans, July 16: BP said on Friday that the early test results were heartening and there were no signs of fresh oil leaks, as the cap sealing its stricken undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico held
SEC settling its complaints with Goldman
Washington, July 16: Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to settle federal claims that it misled investors in a subprime mortgage product as the housing market began to collapse, officials sa