BEIJING – China’s biggest Internet search site, Baidu.com, has launched a Chinese-language encyclopedia inspired by the cooperative reference site Wikipedia, which the communist government bars China’s Web surfers from seeing. The Chinese service, which debuted in April, carries entries written by users, but warns that it will delete content about …
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NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rallied Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a record close, as strong profits from such companies as Bear Stearns Cos. (BSC) boosted optimism about the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 99.26 points, or 0.81 percent, to finish at 12,416.76 — a …
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Campbell Soup Co. is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs after a cooker malfunctioned at one of the company’s plants in Texas and left the meat undercooked. The Agriculture Department announced the recall late Thursday. Campbell spokesman Anthony Sanzio said the company is recalling certain lots of the …
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WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission should investigate whether phone companies are violating federal communications law by providing calling records to the National Security Agency as part of an anti-terrorism program, an FCC commissioner said Monday. “There is no doubt that protecting the security of the American people is our …
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WASHINGTON – Conspiracy theorists may or may not be disappointed Tuesday when they see footage released from the Pentagon showing two angles of American Flight 77 hitting the western wall of the building on Sept. 11, 2001. The Department of Justice released the videotape after a Freedom of Information Act …
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BALI, Indonesia – Iran’s president, emboldened by the support of Muslim nations, said Saturday he was willing to hold talks over his nuclear program but not with countries that hold “bombs over our head.” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comments after closed-door talks with the heads of state from Indonesia, …
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TORONTO – A terror suspect who allegedly plotted to storm Canada’s Parliament and behead the prime minister was a former reservist who received weapons training, an official said Wednesday. Steven Vikash Chand — who went by the alias of Abdul Shakur, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police — belonged …
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BOSTON – Boston Scientific Corp. on Monday said it is recalling some defibrillator and pacemaker models that could fail because of an electrical flaw. The recall is the latest in a string of product problems Boston Scientific inherited when it bought Guidant Corp. in April for $27 billion. Boston Scientific …
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SAN MARTIN, Calif. – A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck the south San Francisco Bay area early Thursday morning, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, authorities said. The quake struck at 5:24 a.m. PDT about 6 miles east of San Martin, a town of 4,200 people in a …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – The new leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq killed two U.S. soldiers whom the group abducted last week, an insurgent umbrella group said in a Web statement posted Tuesday. The statement, which could not be authenticated, said the two soldiers were “slaughtered,” suggesting they had been beheaded …
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