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Obama's Treasury-pick sparks Dow surge - Philadelphia Daily News
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama intends to name Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve, as his treasury secretary to confront the nation's intense economic turmoil, senior Democratic officials said yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 494 points on the ...

Carter, Annan, others refused entry to Zimbabwe - Washington Post
Former US President Jimmy Carter, former UN head Kofi Annan, and Graca Machel, wife of former South African President Nelson Mandela, seen from left, during a news conference in Johannesburg, Staurday, Nov. 22, 2008. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he and others have been refused entry to ...

Knicks trade for Harrington - Windsor Star
The New York Knicks acquired Golden State Warriors forward Al Harrington in exchange for guard Jamal Crawford Friday. "I drafted Al back in 1998 and I think his talents are a great fit for our style of play," Knicks president Donnie Walsh said in a statement. "This trade also gives us more long-term ...

Prosecutors: Army wife set fire to own home seeking to kill husband, 2 children died instead - Minneapolis Star Tribune
GAINESVILLE, Ga. - An Army wife accused of setting her apartment on fire botched an attempt to collect on her husband's $400,000 insurance policy when he survived and her two children died instead, a federal prosecutor said. Billi Jo Smallwood, 35, was denied bond at a Friday hearing in northeast ...

Obama And The Fairness Doctrine - Forbes
Our president-elect speaks with a moderate and reassuring tone on many of his policy views. But on some issues, the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress may have different ideas and likely will hand Barack Obama bills that are further left than his pronouncements. Obama says he wants to raise taxes ...

Tibetan exiles agree to continue following the Dalai Lama's 'middle path' approach to autonomy - Minneapolis Star Tribune
DHARMSALA, India - Delegates say that exiled Tibetan leaders meeting on how to advance their struggle for freedom have agreed to keep following the Dalai Lama's path of compromise with China. Tenzin Tsundue, 33, a poet and participant in the meeting says, "we are going to go ahead with middle path ...

Astronauts face hardest spacewalk to finish repair - The State
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint. As the crews of the orbiting shuttle-station complex focused on the greasy outdoor ...

Ford second-guesses corporate jets after criticism - Sioux City Journal
DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. may sell its fleet of five corporate jets after top executives of the three Detroit automakers were harshly criticized by members of Congress this week for their travel expenses. In a statement issued Friday, Ford said it is exploring all options for the fleet, which ...

Iraq's al-Maliki, president in public quarrel over tribal councils, Kurdish region - In-Forum
Iraq's presidential council has taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing the Shiite prime minister after he berated them for their opposition to councils of loyal tribesmen in several Iraqi provinces. The quarrel is the latest in a series of political setbacks that underline enduring rivalries ...

TheStar.com | World | Power of goodbye: Madonna, Ritchie end 8-year marriage - Toronto Star
LONDON–After the wedding in a Scottish castle, the mansion on a green English estate and the drinks in their own pub, Madonna and Guy Ritchie's eight-year marriage ended yesterday in a dreary London courtroom. The case of "Ciccone M.L. v Ritchie G.S." was one of 17 divorce decrees granted by Judge ...