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Dow Climbs to Highest Level Since May 2000USA - On the sixth day of the Christmas stock rally, the market couldn't come up with six of anything to give its true love -- unless you want to add the three points gained by the Dow Jones industrial average to the three point advance by the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. |
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Iraq Revives Russia Oil Hope, Gets Debt Cut PledgeMoscow - Russia offered to write off 65 percent of Iraq's $8 billion debt after Baghdad signaled that Moscow was in a good position to revive prewar oil contracts. |
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U.S. begins crackdown on spamNew York - A Canadian company has been caught up in a crackdown on some of the world's largest junk e-mail distributors launched in the United States yesterday by the New York State Attorney-General and Microsoft Corp. |
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More women aspiring to be doctorsBoston, MA - For the first time ever, women outnumbered men among people applying to U.S. medical schools for this fall -- a milestone in the slow but steady increase in the number of aspiring female doctors. |
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Oil-gas giant faces landmark trial over slavery in MyanmarMyanmar - The Unocal oil company is about to become the first corporation in history to stand trial in the United States over human rights violations abroad. |
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Job growth on a hot streakOttawa - The economy created 54,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell, Statistics Canada said in a report that came in much better than expected and shows a nation shaking off a dismal showing in the third quarter. |
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Job growth on a hot streakOttawa - The economy created 54,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell, Statistics Canada said in a report that came in much better than expected and shows a nation shaking off a dismal showing in the third quarter. |
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Bush backs down on steel tariffsWashington DC - PRESIDENT George Bush last night avoided a major trade war as he bowed to international pressure and lifted the controversial tariffs on steel imports to the United States. |
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The economic recovery goes globalUnited States - This holiday week has seen a fresh wave of reports suggesting the U.S. economy is continuing to gain momentum and will keep expanding at a healthy pace well into next year. It gets better: The accelerating U.S. economy is lifting activity in Japan and western Europe, too, even in countries where growth had come to a near-standstill. |
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UN-backed treaty on hazardous chemicals to come into force in FebruaryUnited Nations - A new United Nations-backed treaty regulating trade in hazardous chemicals and pesticides and seen as a first line of defence against future tragedies, particularly in developing countries, will come into force in three months' time following its ratification by its 50th member state, Armenia. |
