Los Angeles - The mother of the woman who gave birth to octuplets has slammed her daughter's actions as "unconscionable" and said that the single mother has no way to support the babies and her six other children.
Angela Suleman made the comments to the website radaronline. com as her daughter Nadya Suleman showed the babies for the first time in an interview with NBC Monday morning.
New York - Plunging demand and restructuring costs eroded earnings for the world's largest appliance maker Whirlpool Corp, which Monday reported a 75 per cent drop in profits to 44 million dollars in the final quarter of 2008.
Revenues fell by 19 per cent to 4.3 billion dollars due to the increasing strength of the dollar, which made exports less attractive, the company said.
New York - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented Monday the keys to the city to the five-member crew of US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed in the Hudson River last month without endangering the lives of the 150 passengers.
Bloomberg presented the keys at a City Hall ceremony, calling the crew "five real American heroes."
"That day could have been one of our most tragic, but became one of our most triumphant," Bloomberg said.
New York - Hasbro Inc, the worlds second-largest toymaker, reported a 30 per cent decline in fourth quarter profits compared to the year before, despite the burst of new products from the Star Wars and Transformers films.
Net earnings dropped to 93.6 million dollars. Revenues were down 5 per cent to 1.23 billion dollars from 1.3 billion dollars.
Washington - US President Barack Obama headed to a small manufacturing town in Indiana to build support for an unprecedented 800-billion-dollar economic recovery package that faced a key vote in the US Senate Monday.
Obama was to hold a townhall meeting with about 1,700 residents of Elkhart, Indiana, where unemployment has surged to more than 15 per cent in the last year as the wider economy suffers a serious recession.
Islamabad - US Special Representative Richard Holbrooke arrived in Pakistan on Monday for talks on ways to tackle Taliban militancy in Afghanistan.
Holbrooke, who was recently named by US President Barack Obama as his envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, flew into Islamabad from Munich where he told a security conference that "new ideas and better coordination" were needed to fight the Taliban.
The diplomat was scheduled to met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Army Chief of Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani during his four-day visit.
Los Angeles - The mother of the woman who gave birth to octuplets has slammed her daughter's actions as "unconscionable" and said that the single mother has no way to support the babies and her six other children.
New York - Plunging demand and restructuring costs eroded earnings for the world's largest appliance maker Whirlpool Corp, which Monday reported a 75 per cent drop in profits to 44 million dollars in the final quarter of 2008.
New York - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented Monday the keys to the city to the five-member crew of US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed in the Hudson River last month without endangering the lives of the 150 passengers.
New York - Hasbro Inc, the worlds second-largest toymaker, reported a 30 per cent decline in fourth quarter profits compared to the year before, despite the burst of new products from the Star Wars and Transformers films.
Washington - US President Barack Obama headed to a small manufacturing town in Indiana to build support for an unprecedented 800-billion-dollar economic recovery package that faced a key vote in the US Senate Monday.
Islamabad - US Special Representative Richard Holbrooke arrived in Pakistan on Monday for talks on ways to tackle Taliban militancy in Afghanistan.
