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Since the moment Barack Obama took office, he has made a concerted effort to speak directly to the Muslim world. Even his inauguration address sent a new and different message from the United States: “To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,” he said on January 20, standing in front of a changed nation
Barcelona were crowned Spanish champions for the first time since 2006 after Real Madrid were beaten 3-2 at Villarreal on Saturday night. Madrid twice came from behind to draw level, but goalkeeper Iker Casillas’ error in stoppage time gifted Villarreal the victory which leaves Juande Ramos’ side eight points behind Barca with just two games left
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Co-pilot Rebecca Shaw traveled all night as a passenger aboard FedEx planes before she got on the commuter plane that nosedived into a house near Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 passengers on an icy February evening. The 24-year-old, with a year of experience, was living in Seattle, Washington, and commuting to Newark, New Jersey — where the fatal Continental Flight 3407 operated by Colgan Air Inc
Buried on page 795 of President Obama’s budget, released last Thursday, is a paragraph banning the federal funding of needle-exchange programs for drug addicts — an apparent about-face on his campaign promise to overturn that longstanding ban.
General Motors appears to be on a fast road to bankruptcy . Chief executive officer Fritz Henderson has already described a bankruptcy filing as ‘probable’ as the U.S
Forget sticks, and stick with carrots instead. So says Brent Schulkin, founder of a fledgling movement of activist consumers who are employing a kind of reverse boycott that he calls a Carrotmob.
Critics and Catholics were quick to denounce Ron Howard’s faithfully irreligious film of Dan Brown’s "The Da Vinci Code" when it was released almost exactly three years ago. The public went anyway: It made three-quarters of a billion dollars worldwide. Now we get the movie of Brown’s previous page-turner, “Angels & Demons,” again from the slightly fusty Howard-Tom Hanks combination
After years of controversy and opposition from local retailers, Wal-Mart this month is poised to open its first store in India, launching an expansion that will include 10 more big-box outlets in the potentially vast Indian market over the next two years. But Indian consumers won’t be able to partake of Wal-Mart’s everyday low prices
Defense attorneys hoping to save former U.S. soldier Steven Green from the death penalty presented witnesses Thursday who described Green’s childhood as troubled and stressful. Green was convicted last week in U.S.