The foreclosure freeze tide

"WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)--As Capitol Hill remains under siege from all sides of America's faltering economy, pressure to stem the tide of foreclosures continued to make inroads as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became the latest to join the foreclosure freeze movement.The...

IMF playing negative role in global economic crisis

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is playing a ‘negative role’ in the current global economic crisis, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday. Aziz also stressed the need for a strategy to deal with future challenges. In an interview with ARY OneWorld,...

Curfew-like situation in Indian Kashmir ahead of separatists' protest

Kashmir officially became part of  Indian state on this date 61 years ago. Pakistan gave support to local separatists fighting for independent Kashmir. There were several rounds of meeting and other attempts to resolve this contentious issue.The non-resolution of the...

jaw dropping

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration on Friday laid out a radical bailout plan with a jawdropping price tag -- a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering...

The Best Way to Build your Business

"It’s interesting to see how many small businesses try as soon as possible to follow the example of some large corporations to build an impersonal “corporate image.” People actually prefer to do business with people, not institutions. The last time you called an...

Woman shoots self in head with Police Officer's Gun in South Carolina Hospital

Columbia, SC -  A very sad incident occurred last night in the Palmetto State.  A woman removed a gun from a Department of Corrections officer and shot herself in the head.  The police were at Palmetto Health Hospital in Columbia with an inmate who needed...

The strongman and the war on terror

"The resignation of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is a sign of how the "war on terror" is changing. Mr Musharraf was once the lynchpin of Pakistan's alliance with the United States in President George Bush's war, but the days of a single strongman laying down and...

Buyers of bogus degrees named [incl. people in govt., military, education]

"Hundreds of people working in the military, government and education are on a list of almost 10,000 people who spent $7.3 million buying phony and counterfeit high school and college degrees from a Spokane diploma mill. The complete list of buyers, which the U.S. Department...