4:00AM Monday Jul 06, 2009 By New technology is a medium for Maori carving, discovers Sio Siasau. Photo / Glenn Jeffrey Sio Siasau was one of about 30 carvers at the innovation summit Atamira...
The Associated Press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Two monorail trains crashed early Sunday morning in the Magic Kingdom section of Walt Disney World, killing one train's operator, emergency officials said....
- AP Business Writer NEW YORK -- Investors, whose optimism was recently shaken by surprisingly weak economic data, are now hoping companies can provide some clues about a recovery....
- Associated Press Writer BISMARCK, N.D. -- Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting ceremony for its 102,700-square-foot building center in Bismarck. Less...
- AP Movie Writer LOS ANGELES -- Prehistoric creatures and robots were in a photo finish for the Fourth of July box-office crown Sunday, with "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Ice Age:...
criticised the "kamikaze" bankers behind the financial crisis, as he prepared the way for a government crackdown on the financial services sector later this week. The Financial Services Authority will be given new powers in the banking reform white paper, which will be...
The secretive hedgefund manager and philanthropist Chris Hohn last year donated almost half a billion pounds to the children's charity run by his wife, it emerged yesterday. The £486m gift follows hefty profits at Hohn's hedge fund TCI in 2007, and beat the previous...
Elena Moya Unions and business groups are calling on the government to use as the foundation for a state-backed bank, that would also operate through the Post Office branch network. The coalition published detailed proposals it said would give a boost to the post office...
(AP) - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he doesn't like his golf swing and the ball never goes where he wants. Obama told Russian state-run Rossiya TV and ITAR-TASS news agency that he's been working on his golf game lately. However, he disclosed in the...
(AP) - NEW YORK - Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV. The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs. The request was prompted by an April...
(AP) - MATSU, Taiwan - On this front line of the standoff between China and Taiwan, Cold War tensions are being trumped by the Chinese crested tern. Taiwan has cut back its annual military exercises on the islands of Matsu, just off the mainland Chinese coast, to give...