Blasts hit an electoral office in central Nigeria on Friday night, a polling place as parliamentary voting was under way in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Saturday and a vote collating centre in the same city Saturday evening.
- Apr 12 Tue 2011 21:27
Bomb blasts hit Nigerian bid for credible elections
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 12:16
Stocks dip after another earthquake hits Japan
The Dow Jones industrial average fell as many as 96 points in morning trading, but recovered most of its losses after a tsunami warning was lifted.
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 12:15
McDonald's takes aim at "McJob" with U.S. hiring spree
The global restaurant chain said it plans to hire as many as 50,000 new U.S. employees -- ranging from restaurant crew to managers -- on April 19. The move would increase the hamburger company's U.S. workforce by 7.7 percent to 700,000, but such hiring is typical in the lead up to the busy summer months.
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 11:45
American Support earns Better Business Bureau Accreditation
The BBB requires accredited companies to meet its “Standards of Trust,” a comprehensive set of policies, best practices and procedures that ensure trustworthiness in the marketplace. The BBB accreditation process is intended to give consumers peace of mind that they are dealing with an honest organization that is accountable to its clients.
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 11:43
Huge tsunami kills hundreds in Japan, sweeps across Pacific
Thousands of residents near a nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, were told to evacuate as a precaution after the 8.9 magnitude quake, but the government said no radiation was leaking.
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 10:53
War of words as Zimbabwe slams S.Africa's Zuma
The diplomatic scuffle between the two key southern African players began Friday, when President Robert Mugabe rejected regional pressure to rein in a wave of political violence sweeping Zimbabwe ahead of elections expected later this year.
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 10:53
Stock futures flat before labor market, sales data
The S&P 500 closed Wednesday above a key technical level and its ability to hold above 1,333.58 will be tested. The level is double the cycle low hit in March 2009 and is near a recent 2-1/2 year high of about 1,344, which could also provide technical resistance.
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 10:04
Charlie Sheen Is Winning
“Drugs” is the first word Charlie Sheen utters in his only scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a cinematic relic from 1986. It takes place in a police station where Jeannie Bueller (Jennifer Grey), waiting to get bailed out by her mom and fuming about brother Ferris’s charmingly anarchic ways (he breaks all the rules and is happy; she follows all the rules and is unhappy), realizes she’s sitting next to a gorgeous (he was!) sullen-eyed dude in a leather jacket who looks like he’s been up for days on a drug binge. But he’s not manic, just tired and sexily calm, his face so pale it’s almost violet-hued. Annoyed, Jeannie asks, “Why are y
- Apr 08 Fri 2011 07:03
Lebron James acquires minority stake in Liverpool
FSG, owners of Liverpool FC, the Boston Red Sox, New England Sports Network (NESN) and 50 percent of NASCAR's Roush Fenway Racing, will partner with James's sports-marketing firm LRMR Branding & Marketing to become the exclusive world-wide representative for the Miami Heat All-Star.
- Apr 06 Wed 2011 12:09
SC lawmakers take a dim view of new light bulbs
With incandescent bulbs being phased out under federal law in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents, legislators want to exempt South Carolina from the measure, saying Washington has no business telling the state how to light its closets and countertops.