Sunday, March 29, 2009 With the United States in a recession, more and more people are looking for ways to spend less money and get a better bargain at the same time. In a time where prices are higher, ‘recession…
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 The United States’s largest car manufacturer General Motors today named Mary Barra as its new chief executive. Barra, 51, will be the first woman to lead a firm in the American auto industry. She has been…
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Early on Sunday morning, Amtrak’s passenger train number 91, the Silver Star, bound for Miami from New York, slammed into a stationary CSX freight train in Cayce, about ten miles (16 km) south of Columbia, capital…
Saturday, December 26, 2009 The new Antonov An-148 jet made its first commercial flight from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Moscow on Thursday. Starting with one of the busiest regional routes in Russia new Antonovs are to connect the other major…
Thursday, August 17, 2006 The discovery of a suspect bottle of fluid in a passengers carry-on luggage has prompted the evacuation of Tri-State Airport, located near Huntington, West Virginia. The bottle was identified by a security screener as a woman…
Sunday, April 24, 2005 Contents 1 NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet 2 Bush nomination to UN post faces bi-partisan problems 3 Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq 4 5-year-old girl arrested and handcuffed…
Friday, October 16, 2009 Pakistani officials have said that five attacks on government sites across the country have killed at least forty people. The latest attack occurred late on Thursday at a government residential area in Peshawar. Officials said they…
Friday, June 23, 2006 20th Century Fox will produce at least 13 new episodes of the animated series Futurama, scheduled to air on Comedy Central in 2008. Futurama, an animation from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, was canceled by FOX…
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Today is the 39th observance of Earth Day in the northern hemisphere. Earth day is celebrated in Autumn on November 30 in the southern hemisphere. Senator Gaylord Nelson initiated the first Earth Day in April 1970…
Friday, February 5, 2010 Global stock markets fell steeply on Thursday on investor concerns about the growing sovereign debts of European Union member states Greece, Portugal, and Spain. A report of a rise in weekly jobless claims in the United…