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GM to return two leased jets amid criticism
DETROIT - General Motors Corp(GM.N) will return two of its leased corporate jets amid intense criticism in Washington this week on the luxury travel arrangements of its chief executive even as the company pleads for federal aid.
Nations:U.S. People:Alan Mulally Activities:2008 Automakers Downturn Source:(Reuters)
2008-11-21
Oil drops 7 percent to 3-1/2-year low below $50
NEW YORK - Oil prices dropped more than 7 percent to below $50 a barrel on Thursday as a bearish U.S. jobs report intensified concerns of a long and deep global recession and further crushed fuel demand expectations.
Nations:Kuwait Venezuela Saudi Arabia Activities:2007-8 Oil Crisis Source:(Reuters)
2008-11-20
Pakistan protests over U.S. missile strikes
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan summoned U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson on Thursday to protest over missile strikes launched by pilotless drone aircraft against militant targets in Pakistan.
Nations:Afghanistan Pakistan People:Barack Obama Activities:Asif Ali Zardari Admin. Pakistan-U.S. Source:(Reuters)
2008-11-20
Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced the gene map of a long-extinct, mummified woolly mammoth, using DNA taken from its hair.
Nations:Germany U.S. Source:(Reuters)
2008-11-19
Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates.
Nations:Indonesia Source:(Reuters)
2008-11-19
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- GM to return two leased jets amid criticism 2008-11-21
- Oil drops 7 percent to 3-1/2-year low below $50 2008-11-20
- Pakistan protests over U.S. missile strikes 2008-11-20
- Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction 2008-11-19
- Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia 2008-11-19
- Lawmakers, Treasury lock horns on foreclosures 2008-11-18
- Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey 2008-11-18
- Congo rebel backs U.N. peace plan, fighting persists 2008-11-16
- Los Angeles fears blackouts as wildfire burns 2008-11-15
- Designer Anand Jon guilty of rapes, sex assaults 2008-11-14
- Purified urine to be astronauts' drinking water 2008-11-14
- Mystery solved: How bleach kills germs 2008-11-14
- The ladies love Usher at his Detroit concert 2008-11-14
- Lebanon finds 2,900 year old Phoenician remains 2008-11-12
- Obama seeks new approach in Afghanistan 2008-11-11
- Safety-wary China officials cancel Taiwan trips 2008-11-10
- Strong quake hits China's Qinghai region 2008-11-10
- Obama daughters asked to appear on "Hannah Montana" 2008-11-10
- Now China points finger at foreign milk products 2008-11-07
- Taliban release kidnapped Pakistani schoolboys 2008-11-06
- Air strike kills seven Afghan civilians: officials 2008-11-06
- Migraines cut breast cancer risk 30 percent: study 2008-11-06
- Afghanistan welcomes Obama win, wants new strategy 2008-11-05
- China to issue human rights plan: official 2008-11-04
- Congo rebel says to restart war unless government talks 2008-11-04
- Pakistan tells Petraeus to stop missile strikes 2008-11-03
- Study links teen pregnancy to sexy TV shows 2008-11-03
- U.N. plans aid convoy into east Congo rebel zone 2008-11-02
- Suicide bomber kills nine in NW Pakistan 2008-10-31
- Seven injured in car bomb at Spanish university 2008-10-30
- Republican VP nominee Palin eyeing 2012 2008-10-29
- Jennifer Hudson's nephew died of gunshots 2008-10-28
- North Korea threatens to reduce South to debris 2008-10-28
- Sexual trauma afflicts 15 percent of U.S. veterans: study 2008-10-28
- BP reports record $10 billion profit 2008-10-28
- Obama leads in 5 key states, McCain in 2 2008-10-27
- Scientists develop cancer fighting tomato 2008-10-26
- White adults more often see weight discrimination 2008-10-24
- Obama, McCain neck-and-neck for rural vote: poll 2008-10-23
- Hepatitis bars China toddlers from kindergarten 2008-10-23
- China reviews tougher laws amid milk scandal 2008-10-23
- Suicide car bomber hits Iraq convoy, 11 killed 2008-10-23
- Italian who dated Anne Hathaway gets 4 yrs prison 2008-10-23
- NY council extends term limit so Bloomberg can run 2008-10-23
- Beyonce would like to be known as "Sasha Fierce" 2008-10-23
- Ugly election incidents show lingering U.S. racism 2008-10-22
- NY AG says targeting exec pay at AIG, elsewhere 2008-10-22
- Wachovia reports $23.9 billion loss 2008-10-22
- Obama opens double-digit lead over McCain: poll 2008-10-21
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