Mirror and Cache index - World and business
139 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 17:08:05 by NBCLocal | 34 comments
Republican strategist Karl Rove acknowledged last night that he isn't the most popular guy in
politics these days -- but he's not the only one.
147 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 20:13:10 by kevinkeith22 | 18 comments
Scott Brown--the new star Republican Senator--was accused of harassing a female campaign worker in
1998. Did the Democrats blow an opportunity to keep their 60th Senate seat?
215 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 19:21:18 by daxxer | 21 comments
Some say showing grisly photos and videos of servicemen in distress -- or dying -- violates an
unwritten code. But the fact is, those people are serving in our name.
170 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 16:44:52 by cqlivingston | 67 comments
Could the familiar blue U.S. mailboxes soon go the way of pay phones?
228 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 21:18:58 by BalancingAct | 29 comments
Two glowing brides in white gowns made history today as they wed under Latin America's first law
that explicitly approves gay marriage.
342 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 01:46:38 by Chahrlie5 | 405 comments
Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban 'Absurd', MyFoxNY Fox 5 News WNYW:More Liberal big brother
control proposed. What's next, National ID cards? Oh wait.
251 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 17:52:44 by digitalmoto | 64 comments
A 28 yr old man was caught using the social networking website to sell alcohol to a number of
under-age drinkers since 2008. The Facebook page had the tagline: ''Beer delivered to your door ...
Friday and Saturday 11pm til 4am.''
226 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 08:12:58 by lfc4eva99 | 39 comments
Japan's 98th airport has begun operations - offering just one flight a day.Ibaraki airport cost 22bn
Yen ($220m, £147m) to build and is being seen in Japan as a prime example of wasteful public
expenditure.
122 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 08:26:07 by eworkswebdesign | 10 comments
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has won his libel case against a Russian broadcaster in a London
court, his spokeswoman told CNN Wednesday.
336 votes | submitted 2010-03-10 19:34:38 by rwbrinso | 47 comments
Do you care about America? And the good old days? Well, you SHOULD. So, if you don't, here's a quick
rundown.
577 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 17:02:10 by Mizzy | 277 comments
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners this week that hewould "go to Costa Rica" if
the Democratic health-care reform plan ispassed and enacted. Liberal bloggers greeted the threat
with frenzieddelight — urging Limbaugh to make good on his promise — while theirexasperated
conservative counterparts came to Limbaugh's defense.
230 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 17:01:34 by 1KrazyKorean | 35 comments
There have been a lot of people blabbing on for the past few months about the new found thriftiness
of the American consumer. The savings rate is up, and credit card balances are down. Well it
appears, that that later piece of news does not fit as neatly into the thriftier American thesis as
it appears.
358 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 02:00:43 by DigSomeMore | 140 comments
Paper or plastic?" is no longer the question most often on store clerks' lips in the nation's
capital these days when shoppers are buying food. Instead, cashiers here routinely ask customers if
they want a bag at all, since they have to pay a nickel for each disposable sack they use to hold
their groceries, snacks or takeout meals.
200 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 10:26:44 by nikki4digg | 20 comments
Sarah Palin's new memoir is hardly the first to stir controversy ...
670 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 16:11:07 by dienaked | 226 comments
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has struck south of Santiago, Chile, the United
States Geological Survey reports.The quake struck near Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile,
the USGS reported.
189 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 11:48:00 by israeligirl | 107 comments
In the Iranian desert, a shift in the enrichment of uranium is producing global jitters because it
could shorten Iran’s path to nuclear weapons. The tricky process accelerates as it moves ahead -
The higher the concentration, the easier it gets. Diplomacy is moving slowly but Iran is moving
quickly towards nuclear weapons.
219 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 12:07:25 by kevinlouis | 46 comments
Those crazy Ai-talians. After the country's judiciary kicked Google in the gonads for something the
Mountain View outfit could hardly have prevented,