New York - A United Nations humanitarian mission will visit areas affected by last month's conflict between Russian and Georgian forces, including South Ossetia, which has seceded from Georgia, the UN said Tuesday.
The mission will be in the region from Wednesday to Saturday "to gain first-hand knowledge of the humanitarian and human rights situations and needs on the ground, including the position of those displaced by the conflict and other vulnerable groups," the UN said.
New York - Major US stock indices were recovering Tuesday after turmoil in the financial sector on Monday led to the worst day on Wall Street since the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 40 points early Tuesday afternoon, despite opening the trading day down about 150 points. The Dow plunged more than 500 points, or 4.4 per cent, on Monday.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 was down as much as 1.8 per cent in early trading, but was posting a 0.5-per-cent gain by the late morning, after plunging 4.7 per cent Monday.
New York - Three major US rating agencies have downgraded another victim of the US credit crunch, insurance conglomerate American International Group (AIG), reports said Tuesday.
Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch lowered AIG's previous good-to-very-good credit rating to good-to-satisfactory after Wall Street financial institutes came under pressure to bail out the company.
The downgrading makes it more difficult for the struggling insurance giant to raise capital on financial markets to meet its obligations.
The rating agencies also placed AIG under observation and did not rule out a further lowering of its credit-worthiness ratings.
New York, Sept. 16: The Obama Campaign has denied a New York Post report that said he privately tried to persuade Iraqi political leaders to stall an agreement on scaling back American troops in Iraq while publicly campaigning for a speedy withdrawal.
New York, September 16 : Vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin seems to have failed to impress the women who filmed in ‘The Women’, for they are not necessarily going to vote in favour of the Republican party.
"I guess we have to root for her in that her son just went off to Iraq, and that''s gotta be really, really tough," the New York Daily News quoted Meg Ryan, who plays the spurned wife in the all-chick flick, as saying.
New York, Sept 16 : It seems former US President Bill Clinton enjoys sex jokes.
According to a source, Clinton couldn’t stop giggling when ‘Legally Blonde’ star and dyed-in- the-wool Democrat Laura Bell Bundy showed him a T-shirt made in support of presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
"The shirt read, ''Every Time Obama Speaks, an Angel Has an Orgasm," '' the New York Post quoted the insider, as saying.
New York - A United Nations humanitarian mission will visit areas affected by last month's conflict between Russian and Georgian forces, including South Ossetia, which has seceded from Georgia, the UN said Tuesday.
New York - Major US stock indices were recovering Tuesday after turmoil in the financial sector on Monday led to the worst day on Wall Street since the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
New York, Sept. 16: The Obama Campaign has denied a New York Post report that said he privately tried to persuade Iraqi political leaders to stall an agreement on scaling back American troops in Iraq while publicly campaigning for a speedy withdrawal.
New York, September 16 : Vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin seems to have failed to impress the women who filmed in ‘The Women’, for they are not necessarily going to vote in favour of the Republican party.
New York, Sept 16 : It seems former US President Bill Clinton enjoys sex jokes.
