NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Onion is apologizing for calling the 9-year-old star of “Beasts of the Southern Wild” a vulgar and offensive name on Twitter.
Japan's ANA scrubs 787 flights planned through May as grounding continues
Japan’s All Nippon Airways is scrubbing its planned 787 flights through May as the Boeing Co. plane remains grounded.
Exclusive: Goldman to begin fresh round of job cuts - sources
(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to begin a fresh round of job cuts as early as this week, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, with its equities busine ss bracing for bigger cuts than fixed-income trading. The cuts come at the time of year in which the Wall Street bank typically gets rid of its weakest 5 percent of employees across the entire firm. But as the trading business continues to suffer from weak volumes and earnings, the losses are expected to be deeper in some businesses. … Homan beats Jones for Scotties gold; Scott tops Nedohin for bronze
KINGSTON, Ont. – Ontario’s Rachel Homan showed her mettle as a skip and her skills as a team leader Sunday at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Rebuilding trust in banking will take more than regulations, Carney says
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says it will take more than tough new regulations to restore trust in the banking system in the wake of the financial crisis.
Brit explorer pulls out of Antarctic trek; team that includes Canadian to go on
LONDON – A British explorer has pulled out of a group expedition to cross Antarctica during the region’s winter, but the team that includes a Canadian says it will continue on without him.
Carney: Lack of trust in banking system is slowing the recovery
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Banks and regulators need to do much more to rebuild the trust in the banking system that was shattered in the recent crisis, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, head of the G20's Financial Stability Board, said on Monday. The Group of 20 leading economies has made progress in financial reforms which will go a long way, but these alone will not be sufficient, he said in a speech to business students at Western University in London, Ontario. "Virtue cannot be regulated. Even the strongest supervision cannot guarantee good conduct. … Goldman managing director in insider trading probe leaves bank
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Goldman Sachs Group Inc salesman who has been under investigation for possibly passing confidential information about technology companies to hedge funds has left the bank, a spokesman confirmed on Monday. David Loeb, 42, who was a managing director based in New York, has never been charged with wrongdoing. But his name surfaced among a small group of Goldman bankers under scrutiny in connection with an insider trading probe conducted by the FBI. … Warden underestimated difficulties dealing with Ashley Smith
TORONTO – The warden of a women’s prison in Nova Scotia is telling an inquest in Toronto that he underestimated how difficult Ashley Smith would be as an inmate.
Billions of dollars at stake for BP, other companies as trial opens for Gulf oil spill
NEW ORLEANS – A high-stakes trial started Monday to assign blame and help figure out exactly how much more BP and other companies should pay for the nation’s worst offshore oil spill.
NJ court tosses suit filed against Continental for no-cash in-flight policy
NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey court has thrown out a lawsuit that claimed an airline was at fault for not accepting cash on its flights.
Online video claims radical Islamic group Boko Haram from Nigeria holding 7 French hostages
LAGOS, Nigeria – A video apparently showing seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon has been posted online, with a man claiming that a radical Islamic group from Nigeria holds them.
Video appears to show French family kidnapped in Cameroon
DAKAR (Reuters) – A video appearing to show seven French citizens, including four children, kidnapped in Cameroon last week was posted on the YouTube website on Monday. “We have been taken by Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad,” one of the male hostages said in the video, referring to the name in Arabic of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants. “They want the liberation of their brothers in Cameroon and their women imprisoned in Nigeria. …
Video claims Nigeria sect holds 7 French hostages
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A video apparently showing seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon has been posted online, with a man claiming that a radical Islamic group from Nigeria holds them.
Newly Russian, Gérard Depardieu tours his adopted homeland
Freshly-minted Russian citizen, French actor, and tax-hopper Gérard Depardieu returned to Russia over the weekend to get his “propiska,” the registration of residency that every Russian must have stamped into his passport.
New rules to cut greenhouse emissions from trucks, phased in over four years
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – The federal government says new regulations for heavy-duty trucks will eventually cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 23 per cent and give truckers a break on fuel costs to boot.
German intel paid neo-Nazi informer $240,000
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has come under fire for paying almost a quarter of a million dollars to a neo-Nazi informer linked to a far-right terror group.
Dubai officials block Bahrain-based AP journalist
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A Bahrain-based journalist for The Associated Press has been blocked from entry into the United Arab Emirates under apparent new restrictions by Gulf Arab states.
Pistorius faces random bail checks for drugs and alcohol
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, charged with murdering his girlfriend, faces at least four rando m tests for drugs and alcohol in coming months to ensure he is complying with bail terms, an official said on Monday. Pistorius, who is accused of shooting dead his girlfriend in cold blood in the early hours of February 14, checked in with a probation officer at Pretoria magistrate's court on Monday in compliance with bail conditions laid down last week, the prison service said. … Karen Olson taps religious groups to help the homeless
In the early 1980s Karen Olson was in a job she enjoyed, working on marketing projects for a pharmaceutical company.
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