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Si Newhouse, the chairman of Condé Nast Publications, defies the image of the media baron driven by love of limelight, political influence or money.

Only days into a new job at CNBC two and a half years ago, Erin Burnett was settling into orientation when the network decided to put her on camera.

Is this a recession? How bad is housing? When will banks revive? Is my job safe? Who?s to blame?

Brazilian companies are engaging in a new and controversial wave of investment by buying up contracts of young soccer players and lending the players to teams.

Citigroup?s chief executive positioned the loss, largely caused by $7.2 billion of loan write-downs, as progress.

A look at the local community bank, where bankers try to make prudent loans within the community and try to keep customers from making a mess of their finances.

A number of retailers are experiencing double-digit sales growth on their shopping Web sites at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree.

Critics say that Russian shareholders have enlisted an improbable ally in their attempt to force BP to fire the chief executive of TNK-BP.

The American market, traditionally the world?s biggest for business jets, has slipped amid worries about the U.S. economy, while other markets, like Russia, South Asia and the Mideast, are growing.

If negotiations fail at the Doha round of trade talks, one casualty will be the credibility of the World Trade Organization itself.

The approval of the planned web of transmission lines that will run from remote parts of Texas to major cities is a major lift to the development of wind energy in the state.

Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, shared his views on oil prices, a world increasingly dominated by state-owned energy giants and the future for alternative fuels.

For many, preparing for a disaster consists largely of closing our eyes and crossing our fingers.

The major stock indexes finished mixed on Friday, and the broader market was nearly unchanged, pleasing investors who were expecting another volatile session.

Shares of Freddie Mac rose 10 percent after the company registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and reiterated its commitment to raise more capital.

China violates global trade rules by requiring automakers operating there to buy components from local suppliers or face penalties, the World Trade Organization ruled on Friday.

What if oil prices stage a significant and persistent retreat? The question took on some urgency this week when crude oil lost about $16 a barrel, or more than 11 percent.

Yahoo got a show of support on Friday from one of its biggest shareholders for its efforts to defend itself against a proxy fight by the activist investor Carl C. Icahn.

There was hope this week that financial stocks have finally fallen so far that they are great investments.

The combined company would be a generic drug powerhouse operating in more than 60 countries. Together, Barr and Teva had revenue of about $11.9 billion in 2007.

South African mobile phone group MTN and India?s Reliance Communications called off talks aimed at creating a top-10 global telecoms group, saying they could not reach a deal.

Republic said its board unanimously rejected the $6.19 billion takeover offer from Waste Management, preferring to stick with an earlier agreement to combine with Allied Waste Industries.

The oilfield services provider said second-quarter profit increased nearly 13 percent as high oil and natural gas prices prompted heavier spending among customers to find more fossil fuels.

The toy maker said second-quarter profit fell by nearly half, hurt by lower global demand for Barbie toys and higher costs, but results still beat Wall Street expectations.

The company?s second-quarter earnings rose 18 percent, driven by higher profits in its aerospace and building control systems businesses.

Google, whose business has been lagging on the Russian Internet, stepped up its business there with the $140 million purchase of a Cyrillic online advertising business on Friday.

The South African mobile phone group MTN and Reliance Communications of India called off merger talks on Friday, saying they cannot reach a deal.

The chief backer of the Tesla Roadster, the first-ever all-electric sports car with a base price of $109,000, believes that the age of the electric car has dawned.

Aid workers whom millions of Somalis depend on for survival are fleeing their posts ? driven out by what appears to be an organized terror campaign.

Senator Barack Obama began a high-stakes foreign trip in a country that is increasingly the focus of his clash with John McCain in the presidential campaign.

The drama of the moment was undercut when Iran handed over a document that failed to address the key issue of a freeze on the enrichment of uranium.

The political move came as Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain made an unannounced visit to Iraq.

President Bush?s concession reflected both progress in stabilizing Iraq and the depth of opposition in both countries to an open-ended U.S. military presence.

Through a host of small efforts, residents of Hove, Britain, have turned their neighborhood into a prototype of a green village.

With a confidence vote in the Indian Parliament scheduled to begin this week, the government?s scramble to stay in power has started an often brazen round of political bargaining.

At least nine Indian soldiers were killed and more than 16 were wounded Saturday when their vehicle ran over a land mine near Srinagar, Kashmir?s main city, the police and witnesses said.

The exhibition?s popularity underscores a nationwide renewal of interest, and even affection, for the imperial family.

A helicopter carrying the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, crashed into a mountainside on Saturday, injuring Mr. Moon, his wife and 14 others.

Turning to look in a different direction after a month in Afghanistan.

The C.I.A. and its partner in Islamabad are trapped in a very complicated marriage.

A relatively small number of places ? all in wealthy countries or in China and India ? create nearly every important technological advance. But some in Nairobi are hoping to change that.

The Pakistani Taliban have taken dozens of officials hostage and threatened to begin executing them unless the government released their comrades who were captured.

The case of a woman with a veil has sharpened France?s focus on balancing secularism and freedom of religion.

United Nations members met this week on agreements to cut the global illicit trade in small arms, but their work has yet to gain the full support of the United States.

President Raúl Castro continued his rollout of reforms with a plan to boost the island?s sluggish food production.

Iran?s foreign minister said on Friday that his country was open to discussing an American diplomatic presence in Tehran.

The nomination of Navanethem Pillay for high commissioner for human rights is expected to be announced early next week.

Police say a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan has killed four police and a suicide bomber has wounded two people at a checkpoint.

Sri Lankan government forces killed 19 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh fighting along the front lines of the island nation?s civil war, the military said.

The Pentagon had failed to act after its own safety survey found widespread electrical problems at American bases that had led to a series of deaths, injuries and fires, an expert said in an internal message.

The move was a humbling retreat by the president and was necessary to stop the hemorrhaging of her seven-month-old presidency.

China violates global trade rules by requiring automakers operating there to buy components from local suppliers or face penalties, the World Trade Organization ruled on Friday.

If negotiations fail at the Doha round of trade talks, one casualty will be the credibility of the World Trade Organization itself.

Critics say that Russian shareholders have enlisted an improbable ally in their attempt to force BP to fire the chief executive of TNK-BP.

The French antiterrorism police are investigating after 62 pounds of explosives were stolen from a security services bomb disposal depot at Corbas, near Lyon.

King Albert II asked three seasoned politicians to help him resolve a constitutional crisis that threatens to split 6.5 million Dutch speakers and 4 million Francophones.

Foreign ministers of the United States, North Korea and four other countries will meet next week to discuss North Korea?s nuclear weapons programs, an official said.

Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro State in the past two months.

Pope Benedict XVI, in Australia to celebrate the Catholic Church?s World Youth Day, apologized for the sexual abuse of children by members of the church here.

Brazilian companies are engaging in a new and controversial wave of investment by buying up contracts of young soccer players and lending the players to teams.

A human rights activist who was an advocate for parents whose children were killed in collapsed schools, Huang Qi, was arrested on charges of illegally possessing state secrets, his lawyer said.

Two Arab citizens of Israel and four Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem were charged with planning to set up a network of Al Qaeda in Israel, said Shin Bet.

President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia has scrapped his plan to rerun the 2006 election in which he won a second term, the government said.

The Mexican government said it would honor Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, for his defense of immigrant rights.

The Mexican military said that it found nearly six tons of cocaine in a makeshift submarine seized this week off the Pacific coast.

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela will meet King Juan Carlos of Spain on the island of Mallorca next week during a European tour, a Spanish government spokesman said.

French nuclear safety authorities and the nuclear giant Areva said that a leak had occurred at one of Areva?s nuclear fuel plants, the second leak at an Areva nuclear power plant in two weeks.

Officials in Rome and Italian Red Cross workers began a census of the Gypsy population in the city.

An American cartoon has Chinese moviegoers asking some tough questions.

For Akira Nagatsuma, the goal at hand was clear: breaking Japan?s one-party state by rooting out hidden information.

Nelson Mandela?s birthday was supposed to be a quiet affair in his ancestral village ? with a mere 500 of his closest friends in attendance, and a wry self-deprecation.

No other country goes as far as the U.S. in excluding evidence from trials because of official misconduct.

Inmates are asking for pardons in a period when other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests.

Four workers were killed and six others injured when a giant crane collapsed, the latest of several recent fatal accidents across the nation involving cranes.

Senator Barack Obama began a high-stakes foreign trip in a country that is increasingly the focus of his clash with John McCain in the presidential campaign.

The presidents of several labor unions that quit the A.F.L.-C.I.O. three years ago have been meeting with the federation to coordinate their political operations and message for the fall election.

Daisy seeds distributed as part of a plan to beautify the city for the Democratic National Convention in August have mostly failed to bloom.

The approval of the planned web of transmission lines that will run from remote parts of Texas to major cities is a major lift to the development of wind energy in the state.

Fire crews have extinguished all but 38 of the more than 2,000 blazes ignited in California in the past month, allowing most mandatory evacuations to be lifted so residents could return home.

President Bush?s concession reflected both progress in stabilizing Iraq and the depth of opposition in both countries to an open-ended U.S. military presence.

United Nations members met this week on agreements to cut the global illicit trade in small arms, but their work has yet to gain the full support of the United States.

In the dwindling days of the Bush White House, vacancies can be difficult to fill and aides barely out of college are reveling in big promotions and flying around the world on Air Force One.

Gray wolves in the greater Yellowstone area of the northern Rocky Mountains were again put under the protections of the Endangered Species Act by a judge in Montana.

The Obama campaign found itself in an awkward position last week when it was forced to exclude a former United States senator, Max Cleland, from a fund-raiser because he is a registered lobbyist.

Former Senator Phil Gramm resigned late Friday as a co-chairman of Senator John McCain?s presidential campaign, capping a day filled with controversy.

Mitt Romney, Senator John McCain?s rival in the Republican primary, is now dutifully raising money and campaigning for the presumptive Republican candidate.

Ohio must include the Libertarian Party?s nominees on its ballot in November, a court has ruled, complicating Senator John McCain?s effort to win conservative votes.

A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.

The Wisconsin Humane Society says it will buy and close one of the nation?s largest dog-breeding facilities.

A federal jury in Nashville has convicted a former state senator for taking money from government contractors and lobbying for them while he served in the Senate.

The effort to rename a sewage treatment plant in honor ? sort of ? of President Bush will be put to San Francisco voters in November.

The Texas Board of Education gave final approval to establishing Bible classes in public high schools, rejecting warnings that such approval could lead to constitutional problems in the classroom.

Mr. Gregg was an epidemiologist and former editor of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a federal medical bulletin that published early warnings of the impending AIDS crisis in 1981.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,117 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war. It confirmed the death of the following American on Friday:.

Today, religious faith stands as but one possibility alongside a range of accepted nonreligious outlooks.

Demolition has begun on Tiger Stadium, once home to the Detroit Tigers, even as a conservancy group works feverishly to preserve the field and part of the stands.

Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent, answered questions.

Óscar Freire won a brisk finishing sprint to capture his first stage of this year?s Tour and solidify his hold on the green jersey.

A fearsome wind sweeping off the Irish Sea turned the third round of the British Open into a test of survival, the only goal to limit the damage.

John Maine faced 10 batters and walked in two runs to sink the Mets, and their 10-game winning streak, in a 5-2 loss to the Reds.

After a year of legal battles and frantic effort, Oscar Pistorius did not make the South African Olympic team.

If David Beckham is ?a global sports icon who will transcend the sport of soccer in America and carry it on his shoulders,? as the M.L.S. commissioner proclaimed last year, then he has plenty of lifting to do.

Recently the increased popularity of mixed martial arts in the United States has brought attention to a Russian discipline of hand-to-hand combat called sambo.

Mr. Maxwell was a chronicler of Negro league baseball and, some believe, the first black sports broadcaster.

In the two weeks since the Mets called up Argenis Reyes, he has become a good-luck charm to match any pendant, shoe-lacing habit or favorite pair of socks.

Shayla Worley, a member of last year?s gold-medal- winning team at the world championships, has broken her right leg, just weeks before the Olympic Games.

James Shields allowed one run over seven innings to help the Tampa Bay Rays end a seven-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.

Richie Sexson, a towering 33-year-old first baseman, was signed Friday by the Yankees because he has a .344 batting average against left-handers.

David Duval arrived in a tie for 1,087th, but saw his name back on the leader board after a round of 69 that nobody was expecting but him.

Playing in his first British Open, Camilo Villegas has the lowest round of the tournament and third place to himself at one-over par.

Demolition has begun on Tiger Stadium, once home to the Detroit Tigers, even as a conservancy group works feverishly to preserve the field and part of the stands.

Brazilian companies are engaging in a new and controversial wave of investment by buying up contracts of young soccer players and lending the players to teams.

David Beckham knows the place of his sport here in the United States: respectful and patient and somewhat subversive.