The Auckland City Council is looking at introducing a bylaw to force homeless people off Queen St and other central-city streets. The bylaw will address loitering, sleeping in doorways and begging by 90 or so homeless people who live rough within a ...
4 Dec 2008
CHICAGO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. wheat prices fell more than 6 percent on Thursday to their lowest levels in over 1-1/2 years and corn and soybeans dropped to 15-month lows as demand languished amid global economic woes and the recent firming of the U ...
4 Dec 2008
Recession-hit booksellers are hoping for a magical boost from a new book by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling. "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," a collection of five fables mentioned in Rowling's saga about the boy wizard, is being published around ...
4 Dec 2008
BOSTON (WBZ) ― Former FBI agent John Connolly will have to wait until at least next month to find out if he's going to prison for life. Connolly, who was convicted of murder last month in Florida for the mob-related 1982 slaying of a Miami ...
4 Dec 2008
HEBRON, West Bank - Israeli soldiers and police stormed a disputed building in the biblical city of Hebron on Thursday, dragging out 250 young settlers in a raid meant to send a warning to Jewish extremists fighting to keep what they see as God ...
4 Dec 2008
Sun Hung Kai Properties (SEHK: 0016 ) expects to sell 20 per cent less property this financial year, with the impact of the global financial turmoil expected to last for up to two years. At the property giant's annual meeting yesterday, the board ...
4 Dec 2008
Michael Countryman will tackle the title role in Primary Stages' upcoming Off-Broadway production of Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself).
4 Dec 2008
RealNetworks is laying off roughly 7.5 percent of its staff, about 130 people across the company, and cutting 30 contract positions and consultants, the Seattle-based company announced in an SEC filing this afternoon.
4 Dec 2008
William Blair & Co., a Chicago-based financial services firm, has laid off a "single-digit" percentage of its 1,000-person workforce, a spokesman confirmed.
4 Dec 2008
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- South African central bank Governor Tito Mboweni said policy makers can’t take their “eye off the inflation ball” as rising prices erode the incomes of the poor.
4 Dec 2008
The Iowa City Press-Citizen is laying off 11 employees as part of the Gannett Co.'s plans to weather a struggling economy.
4 Dec 2008
A men's World Cup alpine skiing super-combined event scheduled to take place at Beaver Creek on Thursday has been called off because of bad weather, organizers said.
4 Dec 2008
Following the announcement of 4600 job reductions back in April, AT&T has announced 12000 more layoffs this morning. The first notes should start ...
4 Dec 2008
Off Message. 12.04.08 -- 11:52AM. By Josh Marshall. I'm very gung-ho on using as much of this stimulus money as possible to jumpstart a green economy. That's actually the major shortcoming I see in most of the proposals I've seen on how ...
4 Dec 2008
After an intense, 45-day build and grueling 30 days of campaigning for votes from friends, family, and total strangers, Mercedes-Benz announced that RENNTECH has won the MBUSA GLK tuner build-off! The competition wasn't easy, ...
4 Dec 2008
"Both Amir and Enzo will be coming there off the back of fights this weekend, whereas I'll be fresh as a daisy. Bring it on." The boxers will make up half of the celebrity race, with a quartet of other celebs - including TV chef James ...
4 Dec 2008
Chrysler plan to Congress requires $7 billion in loans to ward off death · GM asks Congress to kickstart its heart with ambitious plan GM asks Congress to kickstart its heart with ambitious plan · Ford claims to be back in black by 2011 ...
4 Dec 2008
VIDEO: Digital drifters show off sideways skills in Forza Motorsport 2. Posted Dec 3rd 2008 7:58PM by Drew Phillips Filed under: Etc., Videos. Click above to watch the Project Blackjack team tandem drift in Forza 2 ...
3 Dec 2008