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General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing on the automotive industry bailout

GM dumping some jets, Ford may too after outcry

The Guardian

(Adds Ford comment on its corporate jets, details from Ford proxy on executive) By Poornima Gupta DETROIT, Nov 21 (Reuters) - General Motors Corp will return two of its leased corporate jets, and Ford could sell some of its jets after intense criticism in Washington this week over the travel arrangements of their CEOs, who went there to plead for a...

photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

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Patients' secrets will still be safe under the new NHS constitution

The Guardian

You report that the new NHS constitution would allow researchers for the first time to write to...

Car industry bail-out: how Detroit took wrong road

The Guardian

The once mighty US car industry had been in decline long before the financial crisis led to the...

Hamas and Fatah have no real interest in reconciliation

Daily Star Lebanon

By Smadar Perry Commentary by Friday, November 21, 2008...

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Chávez faces test in regional elections

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters as he enters the National Assembly for his annual state-of-the-nation address in Caracas

The Guardian

President Hugo Chávez faces an important test of his self-styled socialist revolution tomorrow when Venezuelans vote in regional and local polls after a tumultuous election campaign. Opinion polls suggest a resurgent opposition could win...

photo: AP / Howard Yanes

GM Tries Taxpayers, After Exhausting Private Sector

Wall Street Journal

General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner's case for a taxpayer handout to his firm is a lemon ("Why GM Deserves Support," op-ed, Nov. 19). The bulk of it is annual report-style bragging about GM's wondrous innovations at lowering costs and improving product...

photo: WN / James

India to grow at 8%, says confident PM

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during a press conference in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Police shot and killed two people and at least four protesters were wounded, as thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Indian Kashmir on Friday to protest the visit of India's prime minister, police and hospital officials said. Singh is in Kashmir to meet with pro-Indian political parties ahead of state electio

The Times of India

Text: NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said the India growth story would continue despite the pulls and pressures of the global economic crisis. In a speech, delivered at an...

photo: AP / Mukhtar Khan

Pride in auto sector turns to scorn

Canada Dot Com

There was a time when the U.S. car business was the envy of the world. Factories in the United States and Canada pumped out stylish and solidly built cars like the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Corvette that captured the public imagination and became...

photo: WN / Denise Yong

Nebraska restricts safe-haven law

Judi Wheeldon of Council Bluffs, Iowa, right, protests the Safe Haven law with others in front of the Creighton Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008. Wheeldon said she hoped the protest will help convince state lawmakers to convene and put an age limit in the law before the regular legislative session starts in January. Nebraska's law allows anyone to leave a child as old as 18 at a state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution. On Monday, a Michigan mother drove about 12 hours to Omaha and dropped off her 13-year-old son at medical c

BBC News

The governor of the US state of Nebraska has signed a bill curbing its controversial "safe-haven" law allowing the abandonment of unwanted children. The new...

photo: AP / Nati Harnik