NEW YORK — British Prime Minister David Cameron met with Wall Street CEOs on Wednesday to press the case for doing business in the United Kingdom and later had “a meeting of minds” with the U.N. secretary-all-function on global challenges ranging from Afghanistan to Mideast peace.
On his first official visit to New York City, Cameron [...]
As the chef de cuisine at New York’s Spice Market, which specializes in Southeast Asian street food, I recently traveled to Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand to experience the cuisine firsthand.
What I saw and tasted there gave me a better understanding of how to use basic Asian ingredients I’d already been using daily — like [...]
LONDON — Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie accepted undisclosed hurts Thursday in London’s High Court to descend a privacy aver against a British tabloid that had reported they were plotting to split.
The celebrity couple started legal action against the News of the World after it reported in January that they had agreed to break. The [...]
WASHINGTON — Computer maker Dell Inc. is paying $100 million to descend federal regulators’ charges of using fraudulent accounting to meet Wall Street earnings targets.
Under the settlement announced Thursday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, company Chairman and CEO Michael Dell agreed to pay a $4 million civil penalty.
Read more: Wall Street, Dell, Computers, Sec, [...]
NEW YORK — British Prime Minister David Cameron met with Wall Street CEOs on Wednesday to press the case for doing business in the United Kingdom and later had “a meeting of minds” with the U.N. secretary-all-function on global challenges ranging from Afghanistan to Mideast peace.
On his first official visit to New York City, Cameron [...]
KHAR, Pakistan — A government official says a local Taliban commander and his aide died when a bomb they were constructing in the militant chief’s home in northwestern Pakistan exploded.
Syed Ghafoor, a local official, says Thursday’s blast in the Bajur tribal region also wounded several members of commander Irshad Khan’s family.
Read more: Irshad Khan, Afghanistan, [...]
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s grandchildren underwent a harrowing ordeal with gunmen following the South African icon’s 92nd birthday party, but no one was hurt and the attackers fled after an exchange of gunfire, police said Thursday.
Police spokesman Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said the grandchildren were returning to their Johannesburg home following the family birthday party Sunday when [...]
HANOI, Vietnam — North Korea warned the United States and South Korea on Thursday to call off military exercises scheduled for this weekend and to back off any new sanctions against the communist country or risk placing the entire region in danger.
The warning issued on the sidelines of a meeting of Southeast Asian nations in [...]
NEW YORK — The New York Times Co. posted its first weekly revenue growth since 2007 on Thursday, with a jump in online advertising sales offsetting further declines in print.
Although net income fell 18 percent from a year ago, when the company booked a huge one-time tax gain, overall revenue climbed 1.2 percent and ad [...]
NEW YORK — Tiger Woods’ estimated endorsements for 2010 are worth $22 million less than last year, according to Sports Illustrated’s annual analysis of the highest-earning American athletes.
Woods is still No. 1 on the list, as he has been for the rankings’ seven years. But his estimated total earnings of more than $90 million are [...]