Peer beats Wozniacki to make Dubai quarterfinals – Arizona Daily Star
Shahar Peer beat top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-2, 7-5 on Wednesday, reaching the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championship a year after she was refused a visa to play in the tournament. The Israeli had at least one break opportunity on each of Wozniacki’s 10 service games. She had never
French President Sarkozy arrives in Haiti – 9&10 News
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy has landed in Haiti for the first visit ever by a French president to the former colony. Sarkozy was greeted Wednesday by Haitian President Rene Preval as a brass band played. He is to tour the earthquake ravaged country and a French
Walgreen buying drugstore operator Duane Reade, would add 257 stores in NYC metro area – Chicago Tribune
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Walgreen Co. said Wednesday it has agreed to buy the drugstore operator Duane Reade in a move to expand operations in the New York City metropolitan area. Walgreen, one of the nation’s biggest drugstore operators, said it would pay about $1.08 billion including an
Ivory Coast sees protests against dissolved govt – 9&10 News
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Protesters torched a city bus in Ivory Coast’s economic capital in the latest daily demonstration of violence since the president dissolved the government last week. Witnesses said 10 young men who identified themselves as opposition supporters forced bus riders off
Body Of Climber Recovered From Mount St. Helens – All Headline News
Seattle, WA, United States (AHN) – The body of a seasoned climber who fell into the crater of Mount St. Helens was recovered on Tuesday. A chopper from the Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island found the remains of Joseph Bohlig at about 2:45 pm off the south crater wall, according to the Skamania
Oil above $77 amid rising equities, weak dollar – San Francisco Chronicle
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for March delivery was up 45 cents at $77.46 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $2.88 to settle at $77.01 on Tuesday. Oil and stocks were boosted by signs that U.S. consumer spending may be improving. On
Palin calls ‘Family Guy’ episode ‘another kick in the gut’ – Columbus Dispatch
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin is lashing out at the portrayal of a character with Down syndrome on the Fox animated comedy “Family Guy.” In a Facebook posting headlined “Fox Hollywood – What a Disappointment,” the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and current Fox News contributor said
Merck: Studies boost Gardasil for new uses – Chicago Sun-Times
TRENTON, N.J. — The Gardasil vaccine protected most young women from cervical cancer and homosexual men from anal cancer, according to new studies released Wednesday by its maker, Merck & Co. The vaccine is designed to block four of the most common strains of the sexually transmitted human
Biden: US got ’money’s worth’ from stimulus act – WNYT
(AP) WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden asserted in an interview Wednesday that taxpayers have “gotten their money’s worth” out of the $787 billion stimulus program that Congress passed during the depths of the recession. In an interview broadcast on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Biden defended the
