New York- Credit card company American Express is to apply for 3.5 billion dollars' in US federal emergency assistance in trying to cope with the effects of the financial market crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The paper cited unidentified sources for its report, coming at a time when more and more consumers are falling behind on their credit card accounts.
American Express Co. qualifies for support under the 700-billion- dollar Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) after having converted itself into a bank-holding company two days earlier, a move which other financial institutes in the US are considering.
New York, Nov 12: The First Lady of the US, Laura Bush, is in talks for a multimillion-dollar deal to write her memoirs, while her husband George W. Bush may have to wait years before he can write his.
As things have not been going very well during his two terms as President, Bush has been advised to wait for some years before he can publish his memoirs.
“Laura is interviewing publishers who are bidding on her memoirs,” the New York Post quoted one biographer as saying.
“The publishers are coming to the White House to meet with her and discuss the book,” the biographer said.
New York, Nov. 12: Losing Republican vice-presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin could turn to television networks across the United States to restore her image, reports the New York Times.
Palin could also turn to television to jumpstart a 2012 presidential bid.
So far, viewers have mostly witnessed some of the very traits — disarming candor and staggering presumption — that drove some McCain campaign aides to leak damaging accusations about her.
New York, Nov. 12, 2008 -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has urged the United Nations and its relevant partners to double their efforts to meet the increasing needs of the poor and deprived nations in the wake of the current combination of food and financial crisis, as well as issues of poverty, armed conflicts and serious diseases.
New York, Nov 12 : Controversial comedienne Sandra Bernhard has dismissed earlier reports that she said Sarah Palin would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan.
"I never said ''''gang-raped'''' and I never used ''''rape,'''' " the New York Daily News quoted Bernhard, as saying.
Bernhard was widely condemned after reportedly making the remark in her opening monologue during a show last month at Washington, D. C.’s Theater J.
New York- Credit card company American Express is to apply for 3.5 billion dollars' in US federal emergency assistance in trying to cope with the effects of the financial market crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
New York, Nov. 12: Losing Republican vice-presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin could turn to television networks across the United States to restore her image, reports the New York Times.
New York, Nov. 12, 2008 -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has urged the United Nations and its relevant partners to double their efforts to meet the increasing needs of the poor and deprived nations in the wake of the current combination of food and financial crisis, as well as issues of poverty, armed conflicts and serious diseases.
New York, Nov 12 : Controversial comedienne Sandra Bernhard has dismissed earlier reports that she said Sarah Palin would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers" if she enters Manhattan.
