SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican officials say the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve first raised red flags in the Central American country in 2009 when authorities detected money laundering activities....
Read more...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's biggest consumer foods group, Tiger Brands, barely increased first-half profit as debt-laden consumers cut back on spending, while higher input costs and tougher competition hit margins. South Africa-based Tiger Brands, which makes bread, breakfast cereal and energy drinks, said headline earnings per share totalled 818.3 cents in the six months to end-March, up 4 percent from 786.5 cents a year earlier. Headline...
Read more...
A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live LLC, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:
...
Read more...
CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago teenager has pleaded not guilty to charges he sought to join an al-Qaida-linked militant group fighting Bashar Assad's regime in Syria.
...
Read more...
By Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Glu Mobile Inc will allow U.S. players to win cash in one of its mobile games starting next month, betting that cash-based contests will be a winning formula to expand revenue in the fledgling but potentially high-growth mobile gaming sector. The fast-growing mobile game developer, which has struggled to report a profit since it went public in 2007, said it entered into a partnership with San Francisco...
Read more...
SEATTLE (AP) — For farmers, business owners and government officials up and down the West Coast, Washington's bridge collapse on Interstate 5 represents much more than a close brush with tragedy. As much as $20 billion in freight travels to and from Canada and along the busy north-south corridor each year....
Read more...
POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — A former Wyoming hospital CEO who disappeared before being tried on charges of defrauding his employers has been arrested in Thailand....
Read more...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The decision to close California's San Onofre nuclear plant is the latest setback for an industry that seemed poised for growth not long ago.
...
Read more...
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian security official says 10 male relatives have killed a mother and her two daughters on suspicion of moral offenses — so-called "honor killings."...
Read more...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A government-led investigation into the tunnel collapse that killed 28 people at Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc's copper mine in Indonesia should not take months to complete, the head of the probe said on Friday. Freeport suspended operations at the Grasberg complex on May 15, a day after a training tunnel, outside the mining area and around 500 meters (yards) from the entrance of the Big Gossan mine, caved in on
...
Read more...
CLEVELAND (AP) — A brawl that started over spilled punch at a kindergarten graduation ceremony Friday resulted in the arrest of eight people, authorities said. Police were called when one participant pulled out a pipe and another a hammer....
Read more...