Obituaries in the news E. Laurence Chalmers LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — E. Laurence Chalmers, who led the University of Kansas during a turbulent ...
Stimpson, who pushed to limit lawsuits against small aircraft makers, dies in Idaho at 75 Edward Stimpson, an aviation advocate who pushed to ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega confirmed on Tuesday that the government will extend tax breaks to certain vehicles deemed environmentally friendly. The government will keep a tax break on flex-fuel cars with up to 1-liter engines until the end ...
In this photo released by Greenpeace, activists are escorted by security guards as they climb down from the crane where they chained themselves on to for 27 hours, at a pulp mill facility working for Asia Pulp and Paper, one of the ...
Indonesian police break up Greenpeace protest against deforestation in Sumatra Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an official and an activist ...
In this Nov. 19, 2009 photo, Sony Corp. Executive Deputy President Hiroshi Yoshioka, left, speaks as Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer listens to him during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan. A third to a half of Sony Corp. TV sets sold ...
File - In this March 26,2009 file photo, Tesla Motors Chairman, CEO and product architect Elon Musk, right, and chief designer Franz Von Holzhausen, left, drive the prototype Tesla Model S all-electric 5-door sedan after its unveiling Hawthorne, Calif. The City Council ...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 26: Bindi Irwin arrives on the red carpet at the 2009 ARIA Awards at Acer Arena on November 26, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images) Copyright 2009 Getty Images
A jump in electronics output pushed Singapore's factory production up by an annual 3.6 percent in October, government data showed Thursday. Last month's rise in factory output marked a turnaround from a revised 6.3 percent decline recorded for September, the Economics Development ...
ONE-STOP TECH GIANTS On Nov. 11, Hewlett-Packard announced the $2.7 billion acquisition of networking company 3Com, the latest in a line of tech megamergers. It may also be one of the last, according to Canaccord Adams analyst Paul Mansky. He says the ...
CISCO'S EXTREME AMBITIONS During Cisco Systems' annual meeting on Nov. 12, John T. Chambers, chairman and chief executive, strode confidently around the auditorium at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara Convention Center. But he faced a barrage of tough questions about the company and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Move aside Barbie, drop that Wii. The hottest toy this Christmas is an interactive hamster that drives a car and squeaks happily when petted on the nose -- and doesn't break the bank for parents. These fuzzy, ...
