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(Reuters) - Wireless service provider Sprint Nextel Corp received a waiver from SoftBank Corp on various provisions of their merger agreement permitting it to engage in discussions with Dish Network Corp. Satellite TV service Dish made a $25.5 billion counter bid last month for Sprint against SoftBank`s October agreement to pay $20.1 billion for 70 percent of the U.S. company. The waiver will permit Sprint and its representatives to furnish Dish with non-public information and to engage in negotiations with it regarding Dish`s April 15 proposal. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 02:24 |
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15 year-old Abby Harrison is already training to become an astronaut and hopes to reach Mars by 2030.
Monday, May 20, 2013 23:47 |
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In the last 15 years, Chad Pregracke has helped pull more than 67,000 tires from the Mississippi River and other waterways across the United States. But that`s just scratching the surface.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 03:17 |
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By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) - The launch of General Motors Co`s redesigned Chevrolet Silverado, the most important since the automaker`s bankruptcy and $50 billion taxpayer-funded bailout in 2009, is on track and advertising for its full-size trucks should begin in a few weeks, a top GM executive said on Monday. Mark Reuss, head of GM`s North American operations, said the launch of the 2014 Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups is going `really good` and there had been no hiccups to slow the rollout. ...
Monday, May 20, 2013 19:33 |
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By Joe Brock MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the country`s northeast. In their biggest offensive since the insurgency began in 2009, Nigerian forces are trying to chase well-armed militants out of territory they control in remote semi-deserts around Lake Chad, along the borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger. ...
Sunday, May 19, 2013 19:30 |
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By Miriam Arghandiwal and Ibrahimi Aziz KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan`s parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women`s rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago. President Hamid Karzai approved the law by decree in 2009 and parliament`s endorsement was required. But a rift between conservative and more secular members of the assembly resulted in debate being deferred to a later date. ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:54 |
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By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government`s record on good governance and transparency, following an independent audit that cast doubt on her anti-corruption efforts. She said a recent audit of resource contracts by accounting firm Moore Stephens contracts had been commissioned to fix, and not hide, problems in the West African country. The independent audit showed that almost all the $8 billion worth of resource contracts signed by Liberia since 2009 violated the country`s laws and showed widespread irregularities. ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013 00:20 |
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By Alain Iloniaina ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) has said it will not recognize Andry Rajoelina as Madagascar`s president if he wins July`s presidential election, piling more pressure on the incumbent leader not to stand. Rajoelina plunged the country into a still-unresolved political crisis in 2009 when he seized power with military support in what the AU called a coup. The ensuing turmoil has stunted foreign investment and badly hurt economic growth. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:55 |
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John Russell guilty of premeditated murder for the 2009 killings of 5 service members.
Friday, May 17, 2013 06:22 |
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John Russell guilty of premeditated murder for the 2009 killings of 5 service members.
Friday, May 17, 2013 06:07 |
