English Language News Online
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Google News in English Google News aggregation targeted towards the United States
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Barclays Amends Capital Increase Plan to Appease Shareholders - Wall Street Journal
Barclays Amends Capital Increase Plan to Appease Shareholders
BBC News
Wall Street Journal -
By DIGBY LARNER Barclays PLC said Tuesday that the Middle Eastern investors backing its £7 billion ($10.51 billion) capital increase have agreed to offer £500 million in reserve capital instruments to the bank's institutional shareholders to ease …
Barclays Changes Share-Sale Plans, Puts Board to Vote (Update1)
Barclays investors get slice of capital plan
Residents pull keepsakes from fire wreckage in LA - San Jose Mercury News
Residents pull keepsakes from fire wreckage in LA
WELT ONLINE
San Jose Mercury News -
By AMY TAXIN AP Writer LOS ANGELES—Michael Hernandez pulled a charred photo album from the wreckage, the plastic pages melted and flaking at the edges after a wildfire tore through the mobile home park where he lived with his grandparents and 7-year …
Firefighters gain upper hand on three blazes
Residents return to devastated LA mobile home park
Browns receive big boost from Braylon - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Browns receive big boost from Braylon
New York Daily News
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com -
Orchard Park, NY- The night did not start well for Braylon Edwards. He dropped a Brady Quinn pass near the Buffalo 5-yard line with 9:38 left in the first quarter.
Dawson's 56-yard field goal sends Browns to 29-27 win over Bills
Dawson's 56-yard field goal sends Browns to win
'Twilight' Premiere: Robert Pattinson Loses His Hearing, Taylor … - MTV.com
'Twilight' Premiere: Robert Pattinson Loses His Hearing, Taylor …
New York Daily News
MTV.com -
'I left my brain at the door,' Pattinson says of shrieking fans surrounding the red carpet. By Larry Carroll WESTWOOD, California - The nightclub-and-movie-theater-packed neighborhood nestled between Brentwood, Hollywood and UCLA has always served as a …
How Paramount let 'Twilight' get away
Fans flock to `Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles
Pirates seize Saudi supertanker - International Herald Tribune
Pirates seize Saudi supertanker
Canada.com
International Herald Tribune -
By Robert F. Worth and Mark Mcdonald JIDDA, Saudi Arabia: Pirates captured a Saudi-owned supertanker loaded with more than $100 million worth of crude oil off the coast of Kenya, seizing the largest ship ever hijacked, United States Navy officials said …
Pirates take supertanker towards Somalia
Hijacked Saudi Oil Tanker Nears `Pirate Stronghold' Off Somalia
'American Buffalo' not worth a wooden nickel - New York Daily News
'American Buffalo' not worth a wooden nickel
Playbill.com
New York Daily News -
Another week, Âanother David Mamet revival. Or so it goes this season on Broadway, where "American Buffalo" opened last night, just three weeks after Mamet's Hollywood hate letter "Speed-the-Plow.
Mamet revival on Broadway leaves Chicago setting far behind
Review: 'American Buffalo'
Thousands displaced after Indonesia's Sulawesi quake - Reuters India
Thousands displaced after Indonesia's Sulawesi quake
WELT ONLINE
Reuters India -
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Almost 10000 people have been displaced from their homes following a powerful earthquake that rattled Indonesia's Sulawesi island, a health ministry official said on Tuesday.
Indonesia quake toll rises to six, more than 150 injured
Phivolcs raises tsunami alert after quake hits Indonesia
When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt? - TIME
When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt?
Voice of America
TIME -
By Robert Baer Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 Al Jazeera / AP In a talk to the Atlantic Council this week CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said Osama bin Laden is alive.
Stanford University Press Publishes The CIA and the Culture of Failure
CIA Chief Says Qaeda Is Extending Its Reach
Yahoo Shares Climb as Yang Exit Rekindles Microsoft Speculation - Bloomberg
Yahoo Shares Climb as Yang Exit Rekindles Microsoft Speculation
Sydney Morning Herald
Bloomberg -
By Brian Womack and Ian King Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc., owner of the second- largest US Internet-search engine, rose as much as 18 percent in German trading after Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang agreed to step down, opening the door for a …
With Jerry Yang Gone, What Yahoo Should Do Next
Microsoft-Yahoo could be back on cards
NFL says call was blown - Boston Globe
NFL says call was blown
TSN.ca
Boston Globe -
AP / November 18, 2008 The latest incorrect call by National Football League officials didn't affect who won the game, but it cost some bettors.
NFL referee's mistake spreads joy and anger
NFL gives gift to its worst enemies — the bookies
Google News U.K.
Doctor 'ignored warnings that patient was allergic to penicillin' - Mirror.co.uk
Doctor 'ignored warnings that patient was allergic to penicillin'
Daily Mail
Mirror.co.uk -
A pensioner with a sore throat died after a locum doctor ignored warnings that he was allergic to penicillin, a jury heard yesterday.
Man died ‘after GP ignored penicillin allergy warning’
GP denies killing allergy patient
Inflation falls to 4.6% in October - This is Money
Inflation falls to 4.6% in October
stv.tv
This is Money -
Consumer inflation fell to 4.6% on October from its September peak of 5.2%, official figures revealed today. This is the first easing in the consumer prices index measur of inflation in more than a year, and was largely attributable to tumbling fuel …
Inflation rate sees sharp fall
British Oct. consumer inflation slows more than expected
British 'sex on beach' verdict next week in Dubai - Africasia
British 'sex on beach' verdict next week in Dubai
Telegraph.co.uk
Africasia -
The trial of two Britons sentenced to three months in jail and deportation from the Emirates for having sex on the beach was on Tuesday adjourned until November 25 when a verdict is to be announced, the judge said.
British couple denies having sex on Dubai beach
Dubai 'Sex On Beach' Case On Hold
Pirates make contact with owner of oil supertanker - Times Online
Pirates make contact with owner of oil supertanker
Canada.com
Times Online -
Pirates who hijacked an oil super tanker yesterday have begun to negotiate with the vessel’s owners and have taken the ship towards the Somali pirate haven of Eyl, the US Navy has said.
Pirates seize Saudi supertanker
Hijacked Saudi tanker off Somali coast
Saunders - Teens owe Tosh - SkySports
Saunders - Teens owe Tosh
BBC News
SkySports -
By Chris Burton Last updated: 18th November 2008 National coach John Toshack has named the youngest squad in the country's history ahead of their friendly date with Denmark on Wednesday.
Collison looks to make Wales mark
Collison and Ramsey set for Welsh graduate honours
Stelios refuses to approve EasyJet accounts - Financial Times
Stelios refuses to approve EasyJet accounts
Times Online
Financial Times -
By Kevin Done, Aerospace Correspondent Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder and non-executive director of EasyJet, has deepened his row with the rest of the board by refusing to approve the airline’s annual accounts released on Tuesday.
Stelios says refuses to sign off easyJet accounts
Sir Stelios refuses to sign off easyJet's accounts
HMS Dragon ready to roar into action as HMS Cardiff’s replacement - WalesOnline
HMS Dragon ready to roar into action as HMS Cardiff’s replacement
BBC News
WalesOnline -
THE commander of the Welsh warship that will replace HMS Cardiff has pledged to rebuild ties between the Navy and the Welsh capital.
Thousands gather to see launch of Royal Navy's latest warship …
Dragon warship launched on Clyde
I wrote Michael Jackson's songs, claims Arab sheikh - Glasgow Daily Record
I wrote Michael Jackson's songs, claims Arab sheikh
Times Online
Glasgow Daily Record -
AN Arab sheikh suing Michael Jackson for £4.6million claims he wrote songs for the pop legend, a court heard yesterday. Sheikh Abdulla, the second son of the king of Bahrain, funded Jackson's successful defence on child abuse charges and paid utility …
Sheik rattled & rolled over
Jackson sued for 'reneging' on deal to perform Sheikh's songs
Fabio Capello not afraid to flex muscles over Steven Gerrard and … - Telegraph.co.uk
Fabio Capello not afraid to flex muscles over Steven Gerrard and …
BBC News
Telegraph.co.uk -
By Henry Winter By insisting his medical staff checked whether Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard did indeed have “legitimate’’ injuries, Capello reminded club managers that he decides who can be excused international duty, not them.
Rafa eyes swift Gerrard return
FA play down Capello rift reports
'Fist of Butcher' threatens Maradona - Yahoo! Eurosport
'Fist of Butcher' threatens Maradona
Xinhua
Yahoo! Eurosport -
Scotland's assistant manager Terry Butcher has said he will never forgive Diego Maradona for his Hand of God goal at the 1986 World Cup.
How can I ever forgive Maradona for doing this to England?
I'll never forgive Maradona, says Terry Butcher
