AP Worldstream back issues from Wednesday, December 3:
Qantas shares surge on merger talks with BA
Dec 03, 2008; ... Shares in Qantas Airways Ltd. surged nearly 9 percent as soon as the Australian stock market opened Wednesday, buoyed by the overnight announcement that the Australian flagship airline was in merger talks with British Airways. Qantas shares, which closed down 10 cents the day before, ...
Giants suspend Super Bowl hero Burress
Dec 03, 2008; ... Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was fined and suspended for four games _ the rest of the NFL regular season _ by the New York Giants on Tuesday for accidentally shooting himself at the weekend. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide ...
Qantas shares surge on merger talks with BA
Dec 03, 2008; ... Shares in Qantas Airways Ltd. surged nearly 9 percent as soon as the Australian stock market opened Wednesday, buoyed by the overnight announcement that the Australian flagship airline was in merger talks with British Airways. Qantas shares, which closed down 10 cents the day before, ...
Giants suspend Super Bowl hero Burress
Dec 03, 2008; ... Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was fined and suspended for four games _ the rest of the NFL regular season _ by the New York Giants on Tuesday for accidentally shooting himself at the weekend. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide ...
Roman Polanski requests dismissal of sex charge
Dec 03, 2008; ... Roman Polanski, a fugitive in Europe for the last 30 years, has filed a request in Los Angeles to have a child-sex charge against him dismissed. Lawyers for the Academy Award-winning director filed the request Tuesday, saying the release of a documentary film about Polanski this year ...
Roman Polanski requests dismissal of sex charge
Dec 03, 2008; ... Roman Polanski, a fugitive in Europe for the last 30 years, has filed a request in Los Angeles to have a child-sex charge against him dismissed. Lawyers for the Academy Award-winning director filed the request Tuesday, saying the release of a documentary film about Polanski this year ...
Mexican suspected in police killings beheaded
Dec 03, 2008; ... A man suspected of shooting his mother and killing three police officers called to the scene was found beheaded in southern Mexico on Tuesday, authorities said. Fabian Ramirez's head was found at a highway intersection in Iguala, a town southwest of Mexico City, according to a ...
Mexican suspected in police killings beheaded
Dec 03, 2008; ... A man suspected of shooting his mother and killing three police officers called to the scene was found beheaded in southern Mexico on Tuesday, authorities said. Fabian Ramirez's head was found at a highway intersection in Iguala, a town southwest of Mexico City, according to a ...
British Airways in merger talks with Qantas
Dec 03, 2008; ... British Airways PLC and Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. said they are holding talks about a potential merger, sparking hopes of consolidation in the hard-hit aviation industry. The two companies both issued statements Tuesday saying they are exploring a "potential merger" ...
British Airways in merger talks with Qantas
Dec 03, 2008; ... British Airways PLC and Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. said they are holding talks about a potential merger, sparking hopes of consolidation in the hard-hit aviation industry. The two companies both issued statements Tuesday saying they are exploring a "potential merger" ...
'Guys and Dolls' finds its Sky and Sarah
Dec 03, 2008 ... Broadway has found two new "Guys and Dolls." Craig Bierko will play the suave gambler Sky Masterson and Kate Jennings Grant will be the prim Salvation Army miss, Sarah Brown, in the revival of the Frank Loesser musical opening March 1 at the Nederlander ...
'Guys and Dolls' finds its Sky and Sarah
Dec 03, 2008 ... Broadway has found two new "Guys and Dolls." Craig Bierko will play the suave gambler Sky Masterson and Kate Jennings Grant will be the prim Salvation Army miss, Sarah Brown, in the revival of the Frank Loesser musical opening March 1 at the Nederlander ...
Avery suspended indefinitely by NHL
Dec 03, 2008; ... Sean Avery was suspended indefinitely by the NHL on Tuesday for thinly veiled comments about a foe dating his former girlfriend. League commissioner Gary Bettman announced the move hours after the Dallas Stars pest made "inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the ...
Auditors fault Treasury oversight of bailout funds
Dec 03, 2008; ... The U.S. government must toughen its monitoring of the $700 billion financial bailout to ensure that banking institutions limit their top executives' pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors said Tuesday in the first comprehensive review of the rescue package. The ...
Auditors fault Treasury oversight of bailout funds
Dec 03, 2008; ... The U.S. government must toughen its monitoring of the $700 billion financial bailout to ensure that banking institutions limit their top executives' pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors said Tuesday in the first comprehensive review of the rescue package. The ...
'Boeing-Boeing' sets a Jan. 4 B'way closing date
Dec 03, 2008 ... Broadway's high-flying "Boeing-Boeing" is landing. The 1960s farce, which won a 2008 Tony for best play-revival, will close Jan. 4 after a profitable, eight-month run. The play, which currently stars Mark Rylance, Christine Baranski and Greg Germann, will ...
Ex-bad boy China praised at climate talks
Dec 03, 2008; ... Once global warming's bad boy, China is now winning praise for its upbeat role in climate talks, a turnaround perhaps brought on by the effects of carbon emissions on its choking cities, shrinking water resources and increasingly flooded lowlands. U.S. Sen. John Kerry recalls meeting ...
'Boeing-Boeing' sets a Jan. 4 B'way closing date
Dec 03, 2008 ... Broadway's high-flying "Boeing-Boeing" is landing. The 1960s farce, which won a 2008 Tony for best play-revival, will close Jan. 4 after a profitable, eight-month run. The play, which currently stars Mark Rylance, Christine Baranski and Greg Germann, will ...
Ex-bad boy China praised at climate talks
Dec 03, 2008; ... Once global warming's bad boy, China is now winning praise for its upbeat role in climate talks, a turnaround perhaps brought on by the effects of carbon emissions on its choking cities, shrinking water resources and increasingly flooded lowlands. U.S. Sen. John Kerry recalls meeting ...
US Senate runoff could decide balance of power
Dec 03, 2008; ... Georgia's long U.S. Senate campaign drew to a finish on Tuesday as polls closed on the hotly contested race that could sway the balance of power in Washington. Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss faced Democrat Jim Martin in a runoff election that drew national political heavyweights ...
US Senate runoff could decide balance of power
Dec 03, 2008; ... Georgia's long U.S. Senate campaign drew to a finish on Tuesday as polls closed on the hotly contested race that could sway the balance of power in Washington. Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss faced Democrat Jim Martin in a runoff election that drew national political heavyweights ...
Olympic champion Carrigan retires
Dec 03, 2008 ... Olympic gold medalist Sara Carrigan retired from professional cycling on Wednesday, saying she lacked the focus and commitment to compete at her best. Carrigan, 28, won gold in the women's road race at the 2004 Athens Olympics and bronze in the time trial at the 2006 Melbourne ...
Olympic champion Carrigan retires
Dec 03, 2008 ... Olympic gold medalist Sara Carrigan retired from professional cycling on Wednesday, saying she lacked the focus and commitment to compete at her best. Carrigan, 28, won gold in the women's road race at the 2004 Athens Olympics and bronze in the time trial at the 2006 Melbourne ...
Shell breaks water-depth record for subsea well
Dec 03, 2008; ... Shell Oil Co. said Tuesday it has set a world water-depth record by drilling and completing an oil well in 9,356 feet (2,852 meters) of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The well is part of Shell's Perdido Development project about 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of Houston. It easily ...
Shell breaks water-depth record for subsea well
Dec 03, 2008; ... Shell Oil Co. said Tuesday it has set a world water-depth record by drilling and completing an oil well in 9,356 feet (2,852 meters) of water in the Gulf of Mexico. The well is part of Shell's Perdido Development project about 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of Houston. It easily ...
NFL suspends six players for doping violations
Dec 03, 2008 ... Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy. All six were punished for using a diuretic, which can serve as a masking agent for ...
NFL suspends six players for doping violations
Dec 03, 2008 ... Six players, including the heart of the Minnesota Vikings' stout defensive line, were suspended for four games without pay by the NFL on Tuesday for violating the league's anti-doping policy. All six were punished for using a diuretic, which can serve as a masking agent for ...
Cuba hosts Caribbean summit on financial crisis
Dec 03, 2008; ... Cuba has no plans to join the Caribbean Community regional trade bloc, but will next week host its leaders at a summit for the third time nonetheless. Leaders from all 15 of the group's member states will discuss how to combat high food and energy costs, the global financial crisis ...
Cuba hosts Caribbean summit on financial crisis
Dec 03, 2008; ... Cuba has no plans to join the Caribbean Community regional trade bloc, but will next week host its leaders at a summit for the third time nonetheless. Leaders from all 15 of the group's member states will discuss how to combat high food and energy costs, the global financial crisis ...
Nov. auto sales sink to worst level since 1982
Dec 03, 2008; ... U.S. auto sales plunged 37 percent in November to their worst level in more than 26 years, dashing expectations that this dismal year for vehicle demand had found a bottom, and adding more ammunition to the Detroit automakers' case for a congressional lifeline. "Our industry is ...
Nov. auto sales sink to worst level since 1982
Dec 03, 2008; ... U.S. auto sales plunged 37 percent in November to their worst level in more than 26 years, dashing expectations that this dismal year for vehicle demand had found a bottom, and adding more ammunition to the Detroit automakers' case for a congressional lifeline. "Our industry is ...
US cruise ship outruns Somali pirates' guns
Dec 03, 2008; ... The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. But the six bandits, riding in two skiffs and firing rifle shots at the gleaming ship, were outrun in minutes when the ...
US cruise ship outruns Somali pirates' guns
Dec 03, 2008; ... The luxury American cruise ship steaming across the Gulf of Aden with hundreds of well-heeled tourists just might have been too much for Somali pirates to resist. But the six bandits, riding in two skiffs and firing rifle shots at the gleaming ship, were outrun in minutes when the ...
Polanski requests dismissal of sex charge
Dec 03, 2008; ... Lawyers for Roman Polanski, a fugitive in France for 30 years because of the notorious sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, filed a request Tuesday to dismiss the charge against him because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. The motion alleges that a documentary about ...
Nixon records show aides gossiping about critics
Dec 03, 2008; ... In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out in the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost. Documents released Tuesday show Nixon's operatives ...
Polanski requests dismissal of sex charge
Dec 03, 2008; ... Lawyers for Roman Polanski, a fugitive in France for 30 years because of the notorious sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, filed a request Tuesday to dismiss the charge against him because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. The motion alleges that a documentary about ...
Nixon records show aides gossiping about critics
Dec 03, 2008; ... In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out in the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost. Documents released Tuesday show Nixon's operatives ...
Former Mexican interior secretary dead at 59
Dec 03, 2008; ... Former Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal, an impassioned proponent of putting Christianity back into Mexican politics, died Tuesday of stomach cancer, his conservative National Action Party said. He was 59. Abascal was a controversial figure in a country with strong anti-clerical ...
Former Mexican interior secretary dead at 59
Dec 03, 2008; ... Former Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal, an impassioned proponent of putting Christianity back into Mexican politics, died Tuesday of stomach cancer, his conservative National Action Party said. He was 59. Abascal was a controversial figure in a country with strong anti-clerical ...
World Golf Glance
Dec 03, 2008; ... Site: Sun City, South Africa. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Gary Player Country Club (7,590 yards, 6,940 meters, par 72). Purse: $4,385,000 (3.5 million euros). Winner's share: $1.2 million (950,000 euros). Field: K.J. Choi, Luke Donald, Sergio ...
World Golf Glance
Dec 03, 2008; ... Site: Sun City, South Africa. Schedule: Thursday-Sunday. Course: Gary Player Country Club (7,590 yards, 6,940 meters, par 72). Purse: $4,385,000 (3.5 million euros). Winner's share: $1.2 million (950,000 euros). Field: K.J. Choi, Luke Donald, Sergio ...
Zimbabwe faces water cuts amid cholera crisis
Dec 03, 2008; ... As children played near cesspools, their parents shook their heads at a public service announcement drifting over the radio: It urged people to boil water before drinking it. It sounded Tuesday like a taunt in a country where water and electricity are cut off far more than they are ...
Thai airports to reopen after PM ousted by court
Dec 03, 2008; ... Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand declared victory and said they would end their occupation of the country's two main airports Wednesday after a court decision forced the country's prime minister from office. While an estimated 300,000 travelers stranded by last week's airport ...
Zimbabwe faces water cuts amid cholera crisis
Dec 03, 2008; ... As children played near cesspools, their parents shook their heads at a public service announcement drifting over the radio: It urged people to boil water before drinking it. It sounded Tuesday like a taunt in a country where water and electricity are cut off far more than they are ...
Thai airports to reopen after PM ousted by court
Dec 03, 2008; ... Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand declared victory and said they would end their occupation of the country's two main airports Wednesday after a court decision forced the country's prime minister from office. While an estimated 300,000 travelers stranded by last week's airport ...
Budget pinch puts historic sites on hiatus
Dec 03, 2008; ... Houston, we have a problem. Neil Armstrong's spacesuits, a capsule he piloted, the long johns James Lovell wore on the aborted Apollo 13 moon mission and other artifacts in the museum named for Armstrong will be off-limits to the public for one week next spring because of budget ...
Budget pinch puts historic sites on hiatus
Dec 03, 2008; ... Houston, we have a problem. Neil Armstrong's spacesuits, a capsule he piloted, the long johns James Lovell wore on the aborted Apollo 13 moon mission and other artifacts in the museum named for Armstrong will be off-limits to the public for one week next spring because of budget ...
Rice: Still not business as usual with Russia
Dec 03, 2008; ... The United States blinked in two symbolic stare-downs with Russia, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Moscow is not back in global good graces four months after it invaded a small, U.S.-backed neighbor. Rice and other NATO foreign ministers agreed Tuesday to gradually resume ...
Body-swap illusion tricks mind in new study
Dec 03, 2008; ... Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much. Both sensations, however, felt real to most participants in a Swedish science project exploring how people can be tricked into the false ...
Body-swap illusion tricks mind in new study
Dec 03, 2008; ... Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much. Both sensations, however, felt real to most participants in a Swedish science project exploring how people can be tricked into the false ...
Bison roundup shows species' recovery on prairie
Dec 03, 2008; ... It's 6 a.m. and the cowboys are already downing second and third cups of coffee, ...
Bison roundup shows species' recovery on prairie
Dec 03, 2008; ... It's 6 a.m. and the cowboys are already downing second and third cups of coffee, adjusting to a 35 F (1.7 C) morning. Slowly, a full moon and stars give way to hues of orange sky. And with daybreak, what had been obscured comes into clearer focus: hundreds of shaggy bison standing on an unfenced ...
Dutch tourist killed in Peru bus crash
Dec 03, 2008 ... Police say a bus crash near the ruins of the ancient city of Caral has killed a Dutch woman, a Peruvian man and injured nine tourists. Police officer Oscar Albujar says a van carrying tourists to the site crashed head-on with a bus on the Pan-American Highway, about 115 miles (185 ...
Dutch tourist killed in Peru bus crash
Dec 03, 2008 ... Police say a bus crash near the ruins of the ancient city of Caral has killed a Dutch woman, a Peruvian man and injured nine tourists. Police officer Oscar Albujar says a van carrying tourists to the site crashed head-on with a bus on the Pan-American Highway, about 115 miles (185 ...
US faults Texas' treatment of mentally disabled
Dec 03, 2008; ... More than 50 mentally disabled patients in the large state-run institutions of Texas died in the past year from preventable conditions often related to poor care, a federal investigation revealed Tuesday. Among other findings were that a resident had swallowed latex gloves three times ...
US faults Texas' treatment of mentally disabled
Dec 03, 2008; ... More than 50 mentally disabled patients in the large state-run institutions of Texas died in the past year from preventable conditions often related to poor care, a federal investigation revealed Tuesday. Among other findings were that a resident had swallowed latex gloves three times ...
End of the line for a cartoonist
Dec 03, 2008; ... Journalists are known for their gallows humor, but the editorial cartoon in The Seattle Times a few days before Thanksgiving was downright ...
End of the line for a cartoonist
Dec 03, 2008; ... Journalists are known for their gallows humor, but the editorial cartoon in The Seattle Times a few days before Thanksgiving was downright disturbing. Titled "Everything gravy? Not so much," the panel showed a fallen ax and two turkeys, one with its head missing. The intact ...
Giants suspend Super Bowl hero Burress
Dec 03, 2008; ... Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was fined and suspended for four games _ the rest of the NFL regular season _ by the New York Giants on Tuesday for accidentally shooting himself at the weekend. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide ...
Giants suspend Super Bowl hero Burress
Dec 03, 2008; ... Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress was fined and suspended for four games _ the rest of the NFL regular season _ by the New York Giants on Tuesday for accidentally shooting himself at the weekend. The team also placed him on the reserve non-football injury list, which means the wide ...
Tonga to honor Olympic shotput champ Vili
Dec 03, 2008 ... The tiny Pacific kingdom of Tonga was due to roll out the red carpet for Olympic shotput champion Valerie Vili on Wednesday. Prime Minister Feleti Vaka'uta Sevele and New Zealand High Commissioner Christine Bogle were to host Vili, her husband, sister and members of her extended ...
Tonga to honor Olympic shotput champ Vili
Dec 03, 2008 ... The tiny Pacific kingdom of Tonga was due to roll out the red carpet for Olympic shotput champion Valerie Vili on Wednesday. Prime Minister Feleti Vaka'uta Sevele and New Zealand High Commissioner Christine Bogle were to host Vili, her husband, sister and members of her extended ...
Cuba hosts Caribbean summit on financial crisis
Dec 03, 2008; ... Cuba has no plans to join the Caribbean Community regional trade bloc, but will host its leaders at a summit next week nonetheless. Leaders from all 15 of the group's member states will discuss how to combat high food and energy costs, the global financial crisis and global warming at ...
Cuba hosts Caribbean summit on financial crisis
Dec 03, 2008; ... Cuba has no plans to join the Caribbean Community regional trade bloc, but will host its leaders at a summit next week nonetheless. Leaders from all 15 of the group's member states will discuss how to combat high food and energy costs, the global financial crisis and global warming at ...
Police: Man confesses to stabbing NYC bus driver
Dec 03, 2008 ... New York City police say a 20-year-old man has confessed to fatally stabbing a bus driver in front of horrified passengers. Police said the man was facing homicide charges Tuesday after witnesses identified him in a lineup. The man was questioned Monday night after investigators ...