Clothing and accessories retailer Stage Stores Inc. said its same-store sales fell 4.9 percent in December, which was less than Wall Street expected and better than its results in recent months. Stage said shopping was down in all parts of the ...

8 Jan 2009

LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The Bank of England released the following statement on Thursday after policymakers cut interest rates by 50 basis points to 1.5 percent. The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee today voted to reduce the official ...

8 Jan 2009

The U.S. Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., was sending a personal letter to all the ...

8 Jan 2009

Washington (ECN) - Nearly 400 people have fallen ill due to the salmonella outbreak in the U.S. The outbreak has been seen in 42 different states in the U.S. according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The official number ...

8 Jan 2009

MIRELA Gradinaru, 37, arrived at the clinic in Arad, western Romania, with a can of hairspray stuffed up her rectum. Mirandolina Prisca, a doctor at the clinic, tells us: “We had X-rays done to localise the object and then we carried out the ...

8 Jan 2009

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian technology, energy and financial shares led regional markets lower Thursday following a sharp fall on Wall Street, as concerns about the U.S. economy and corporate earnings were reignited. Technology shares such as ...

8 Jan 2009