| Bibliography for World Events: 9-May-08 - 9-Jun-08 | |||||||||
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| Date Published | Date Published | Date Posted | Venue | Country | Author | Article/URL* | Media | Listed Sources | Contributors |
| 9-May-08 | 9-May-08 | Hezbollah 'seizes west Beirut' | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | |||||
| 9-May-08 | Anger over Myanmar aid block | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | ||||||
| 9-May-08 | U.N. | Andy Newman | U.N. Pressures Myanmar to Allow Aid | NYT | Denise Grady; Stephanie Strom; Seth Mydans | ||||
| 9-May-08 | Steve Goldstein | Oil futures break through $125, approach $126 | MarketWatch | ||||||
| 9-May-08 | Pablo Gorondi | Oil surpasses $125 per barrel ahead of US driving season | AP | Thomas Hogue | |||||
| 9-May-08 | London | U.K. | Oil price vaults to record 125.98 dollars | AFP | |||||
| 9-May-08 | New York, NY | U.S. | New York Mercantile Exchange | NYMEX | |||||
| 9-May-08 | Beirut | Lebanon | Borzou Daragahi | Four killed as Hezbollah, Sunni gunmen fight in Beirut | Los Angeles Times | Raed Rafei | |||
| 9-May-08 | Financial Supplement: First Quarter 2008 | American International Group | |||||||
| 10-May-08 | 10-May-08 | Vikas Bajaj | Mortgage Holders Find It Hard to Walk Away From Their Homes | NYT | |||||
| 10-May-08 | Michael A. Hiltzik | In mortgage market, ‘walkaway’ homeowners may be urban myth | Los Angeles Times | ||||||
| 11-May-08 | 11-May-08 | Beirut | Lebanon | Death toll rises as Lebanon simmers | CNN International | AP | |||
| 11-May-08 | 18 Killed by Missouri, Oklahoma Tornadoes | VOA News | AP-Reuters | ||||||
| 11-May-08 | Shanghai | China | Irene Shen | China Sets Up Planemaker to Challenge Airbus, Boeing (Update1) | Bloomberg | ||||
| 11-May-08 | Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China | Wikipedia | |||||||
| 11-May-08 | Shanghai | China | China's jumbo passenger aircraft company established in Shanghai | China View | Xinhua | An Lu (ed.) | |||
| 11-May-08 | 20 Dead in Haitian Ferry Accident | VOA News | AFP | ||||||
| 12-May-08 | 12-May-08 | Tokyo; Beijing | Japan; China | Aaron Sheldrick; Eugene Tang | China Is Hit by 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Near Chengdu (Update7) | Bloomberg | |||
| 12-May-08 | Magnitude 7.9 - EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA | U.S. Geologic Survey | |||||||
| 12-May-08 | Beijing | China | Stephanie Ho | Huge Earthquake Hits Central China | VOA News | ||||
| 12-May-08 | Beijing | China | Earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter scale hits SW China, 5 dead | China View | Xinhua | Sun Yunlong (ed.) | |||
| 12-May-08 | Dujiangyan, Sichuan | China | Sichuan quake death toll rises to 7,651 | China View | Xinhua | Mu Xuequan (ed.) | |||
| 12-May-08 | Beijing | China | Backgrounder: Chronology of major earthquakes in China since 2003 | China View | Xinhua | Mu Xuequan (ed.) | |||
| 12-May-08 | San Francisco, CA | U.S. | Alistair Barr | MBIA loses $2.4 billion on write-downs; shares gain | MarketWatch | ||||
| 12-May-08 | Armonk, NY | U.S. | MBIA Inc. Issues Correction to First Quarter Revenue | MBIA | Business Wire | ||||
| 12-May-08 | Armonk, NY | U.S. | MBIA Inc. Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results | MBIA | Business Wire | ||||
| 12-May-08 | New York, NY | U.S. | Christine Richard | MBIA Rises After Loss Is Narrower Than Some Estimates (Update1) | Bloomberg | ||||
| 12-May-08 | More credit woe for bond insurer | BBC News | |||||||
| 12-May-08 | Chi-Chu Tschang | Can China Take on Boeing and Airbus? | BusinessWeek | ||||||
| 12-May-08 | Vienna | Austria | Joby Warrick | Spread of Nuclear Capability Is Feared: Global Interest in Energy May Presage A New Arms Race | Washington Post | ||||
| 12-May-08 | William Kristol | The Jewish State at 60 | NYT | Op-Ed | |||||
| 13-May-08 | 13-May-08 | Washington, DC | U.S. | Adam Nagourney | After Big Loss, Obama Woos Blue-Collar Voters | NYT | Dalia Sussman | ||
| 13-May-08 | Washington, DC | U.S. | Cindy Saine | Clinton Wins Big in West Virginia, Obama Still Frontrunner | VOA News | ||||
| 13-May-08 | Palo Alto, CA; Plano, TX | U.S. | HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion | Hewlett-Packard | News Release | ||||
| 13-May-08 | Palo Alto, CA; Plano, TX | U.S. | HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion | Electronic Data Systems Corporation | News Release | ||||
| 13-May-08 | N.C. Aizenman | A Higher Law for Lending: Business is up at Islamic finance firms, which don't charge interest and weren't part of the mortgage debacle | Washington Post | ||||||
| 13-May-08 | Australia | St.George and Westpac agree key merger terms | Westpac | News Release | |||||
| 13-May-08 | Stuart Kelly | Westpac, St. George Agree to A$18.5 Billion Takeover (Update4) | Bloomberg | ||||||
| 13-May-08 | Australian bank accepts takeover | BBC News | |||||||
| 13-May-08 | Einstein: Religion 'childish,' Jews not 'chosen' | Jewish Telegraphic Agency | |||||||
| 13-May-08 | Bradley Burston | Einstein: Nothing 'chosen' about the Jews, Bible 'childish' legends | Haaretz | ||||||
| 14-May-08 | 14-May-08 | New Delhi | India | Steve Herman | Jaipur Blasts Demonstrate Continuing Indian Vulnerability to Terrorist Attacks | VOA News | |||
| 14-May-08 | Curfew imposed after India blasts | BBC News | |||||||
| 14-May-08 | China quake toll close to 15,000 | BBC News | |||||||
| 14-May-08 | New Delhi | India | Curfew crackdown after deadly Indian bomb blasts | CNN International | |||||
| 14-May-08 | Missile Kills 12 in Northwestern Pakistan | VOA News | AFP-Reuters | ||||||
| 14-May-08 | Islamabad | Pakistan | Dozen militants killed in suspected US strike in Pakistan: security official | AFP | |||||
| 14-May-08 | San Francisco, CA | U.S. | Dan Levy | Foreclosures Climb 65% as Loan Workouts Fall Short (Update3) | Bloomberg | ||||
| 14-May-08 | Irvine, CA | U.S. | Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April | RealtyTrac | News Release | ||||
| 14-May-08 | Mianzhu | China | Nico Hines; Jane Macartney | More than 40,000 dead or missing in Chinese earthquake | Times Online | ||||
| 14-May-08 | Chengdu | China | 30,000 missing or out of reach in one single Chinese city after earthquake | China View | Xinhua | Mu Xuequan (ed.) | |||
| 14-May-08 | Beijing | China | Chinese Politburo stresses saving lives first in quake relief | China View | Xinhua | Wang Hongjiang (ed.) | |||
| 14-May-08 | Bomber strikes Iraq funeral | Al Jazeera | Agencies | ||||||
| 14-May-08 | McLean, VA | U.S. | Freddie Mac Releases First Quarter 2008 Financial Results | Freddie Mac | News Release | ||||
| 14-May-08 | San Francisco, CA | U.S. | Michelle Quinn | Hewlett-Packard says it will buy Electronic Data Systems | Los Angeles Times | ||||
| 14-May-08 | Einstein: ‘god is human weakness’ - May 14, 2008 | Nature | The Great Beyond | ||||||
| 15-May-08 | 15-May-08 | Jaipur; New Delhi | India | Blasts meant to derail tourism' | The Times of India | ||||
| 15-May-08 | Chengdu | China | Edward Wong | Dams Reported Damaged as Soldiers Reach Quake’s Center | NYT | Andrew Jacobs | |||
| 15-May-08 | Beijing; Paris | China; France | China quake risk to dams, nuclear sites | The Australian | Reuter-AFP | ||||
| 15-May-08 | China quake deaths estimated over 50,000 in Sichuan alone, 19,509 deaths confirmed | China View | Xinhua | Wang Hongjiang (ed.) | |||||
| 15-May-08 | Obama attacks Bush over Iran barb | BBC News | |||||||
| 15-May-08 | Jerusalem | Ed Henry | Dems fire back at Bush on 'appeasement' | CNN Politics | Ted Barrett | ||||
| 15-May-08 | Obama accuses Bush on Israel speech | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | ||||||
| 15-May-08 | Scores die in Lagos pipeline fire | Al Jazeera | Al Jazeera-Agencies | ||||||
| 15-May-08 | Larry Jagan | Why Myanmar's generals shun aid | Al Jazeera | ||||||
| 15-May-08 | Jerusalem | President Bush Addresses Members of the Knesset | The White House | ||||||
| 15-May-08 | Stephanie Armour | Foreclosures take an emotional toll on homeowners | USA Today | ||||||
| 16-May-08 | 16-May-08 | 15-May-08 | Jerusalem | Ilene R. Prusher | In Israel, Bush outlines a blunt vision for the Middle East | Christian Science Monitor | |||
| 16-May-08 | Colombo | Sri Lanka | Iqbal Athas | 10 dead in Sri Lankan suicide blast | CNN International | ||||
| 16-May-08 | Suicide bomb in Sri Lanka capital | BBC News | |||||||
| 16-May-08 | Bin Laden Lectures on Sixtieth Anniversary of Israel | SITE Intelligence Group | |||||||
| 16-May-08 | Burma Says 78,000 Dead, 56,000 Missing After Cyclone Nargis | VOA News | AFP-AP-Reuters | ||||||
| 16-May-08 | Jerusalem | Jim Teeple | Bin Laden: Al-Qaida Will Continue War Against Israel | VOA News | |||||
| 16-May-08 | Washington, DC | U.S. | Ruth Mantell | Consumer sentiment falls in May, lowest since 1980 | MarketWatch | Reuters-University of Michigan | |||
| 16-May-08 | Washington, DC | U.S. | Shobhana Chandra | U.S. Consumer Sentiment Decreases to 28-Year Low, (Update1) | Bloomberg | Reuters-University of Michigan | |||