Grounded!
DALLAS (AP): American Airlines cancelled more than 900 flights yesterday to fix faulty wiring in hundreds of jets, marking the third straight day of mass groundings as company executives offered profuse apologies and travel vouchers to calm angry customers. ...
Karachi under guard
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP):Thousands of police and paramilitary troops patrolled Pakistan's largest city yesterday after a clash between rival lawyers left at least eight people dead. City police chief Niaz Siddiqi said tens of thousands of police ...
Business, gov't at a standstill in zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP):Things were bad even before Zimbabwe's presidential election, with inflation so high workers sometimes could not afford the bus fare to get to their jobs.Now, government departments and factories...
'Biofuel crops are not pushing up food prices'
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): Brazil's president insisted yesterday that crops used for ethanol are not responsible for driving up food prices, and said Haiti, where food riots have erupted recently, could benefit from a biofuel industry.Luiz Inacio Lula...
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