Suntech, Trina Expand Output as Profits Top Estimates

Categories: Business| Nov 19, 2009

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Suntech Power Holdings Co. and TrinaSolar Ltd. plan to increase production of solar power modulesnext year after third-quarter sales and profits beat analystestimates. The companies rose in U.S. trading. Suntech Chief Executive Officer Zhengrong Shi intends toboost ...Read More

Grand exit for CNN's Lou Dobbs

Categories: U.S.| Nov 14, 2009

Grand exit for CNN's Lou Dobbs He’d regularly used his bully pulpit to blast President Barack Obama for not publicly showing his birth certificate and recently asserted that threats against him had escalated to the point where someone shot at his house. He’d even made an ...Read More

CNN's choice of John King to replace Dobbs telegraphs center-line strategy

Categories: Entertainment, Top Stories, U.S.| Nov 13, 2009

CNN's choice of John King to replace Dobbs telegraphs center-line strategy The insertion of John King to replace veteran anchor Lou Dobbs cements a long-term CNN strategy to toe the center line. King, a CNN newscaster and reporter for 12 years, will take over for Dobbs early next year with a 7 ...Read More

Second Bombing in Two Days Hits Pakistan's Peshawar

Categories: Top Stories, World| Nov 9, 2009

Second Bombing in Two Days Hits Pakistan's Peshawar Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A suspected suicide bomber struck apolice post in Pakistan’s northwestern Peshawar city, killing atleast four people in the second attack there in two days. Three people were wounded in the bombing, police officerSaheb Zada said in a ...Read More

Ousted Honduran president Zelaya cancels dialogue with de facto gov't

Categories: World| Nov 6, 2009

SANTIAGO, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said on Friday that the dialogue with the de facto government of his country has finished, after the de facto leader Roberto Micheletti announced that he will lead the Government ...Read More

Cisco earnings fall but beat estimates; outlook brighter

Categories: Business| Nov 4, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO — Cisco Systems, the world's largest maker of computer-networking gear, on Wednesday said its first-quarter earnings sank, but profit beat Wall Street expectations, and the tech giant said it is starting to rebound. The results offer fresh evidence that ...Read More

Just go for it! A case against punting

Categories: Sports| Nov 4, 2009

Just go for it! A case against punting Virtually every time the Pulaski Academy Bruins face fourth down, the prep school team from Little Rock, Ark., goes for it. No matter the distance. And here's the thing — the strategy works. Coach Kevin Kelley and his Bruins won the state ...Read More

Chinese movie studio eyes NYSE listing

Categories: Business| Nov 3, 2009

HONG KONG—A third leading Chinese movie studio is aiming for a listing -- this time on the New York Stock Exchange -- as the country's entertainment companies turn to the capital markets to raise funds. Beijing Polybona Film Distribution Co. is ...Read More

Kilimanjaro's famous icy peaks are thawing fast

Categories: SciTech| Nov 2, 2009

Kilimanjaro's famous icy peaks are thawing fast Climate change could cause the legendary snow and ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro to disappear within the next 25 years, scientists report today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For the first time in almost 12,000 years, based ...Read More

Philippines Recovering After Typhoon Mirinae Leaves 14 Dead

Categories: World| Oct 31, 2009

Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines was recovering todayafter Typhoon Mirinae passed across Manila and southern Luzonyesterday, leaving 14 people dead and four missing, the NationalDisaster Coordinating Council said in its 8 a.m. bulletin. “We’re back to normal,” Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo,commandant ...Read More