Sunday, July 24, 2011

Yahoo! News: Health News

Yahoo! News: Health News

Credit Suisse unlikely to get help over U.S. tax probe (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 05:35 AM PDT

Reuters - Switzerland's parliament would not vote for a second tax treaty to help settle U.S. charges that Credit Suisse bankers helped wealthy Americans evade taxes, Swiss politicians were quoted as saying on Sunday.

Bank of China a likely buyer for RBS jet unit: report (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT

Reuters - Bank of China (3988.HK) (601988.SS) is a leading contender in the race to acquire the aircraft leasing business being sold off by Royal Bank of Scotland , the Sunday Times reported without citing sources.

European stocks firm at open, London up 0.49% (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:41 AM PDT

Women look at discounted shoes through a window shop in Athens. Global stock markets were firmer but the euro fell against the dollar on profit-taking as investors voiced relief over a major eurozone debt deal aimed at saving Greece and preventing contagion.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)AFP - Europe's main stock markets firmed at the start of trading on Friday in the wake of a eurozone debt deal, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index up 0.49 percent to 5,928.64 points.

State unemployment rates, at a glance (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:06 PM PDT

AP - State unemployment rates, at a glance

Greeks struggle to shed old ways of thinking (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 03:21 AM PDT

FILE-In this Wednesday, June 29, 2011 file photo, a protester hits out with a stick against riot policemen during clashes at Athens' main Syntagma square. In the midst of Greece's acute financial crisis, the company rents communal space to tech-savvy startups on the theory that the more they mingle, the more they thrive. The concept runs against a trend that has left many of Greece's brightest minds feeling their only choice is to emigrate, anticipating a domestic opportunity drought for a decade. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, FILE)AP - A few Greek entrepreneurs perch in front of laptops in bare offices above a ground-floor supermarket, five minutes' walk from the Athens square convulsed by riots last month over the country's economic crisis.

Protest marches converge on Spain's capital (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 10:42 AM PDT

AP - Several hundred Spaniards angry about their country's economic crisis protested on the outskirts of Madrid Saturday after spending about a month marching to the capital from their hometowns.

Airlines are taking savings from expired taxes (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2011 07:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, passengers arrive for flights out of Cleveland Hopkins Airport in Cleveland. Some airline customers won't see savings this weekend even though several federal taxes on tickets have expired. The taxes expired after midnight Friday, July 22, 2011, when Congress failed to pass legislation to keep the Federal Aviation Administration running. A number of airlines say they've raised fares to offset any tax savings. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)AP - Airlines are tossing consumers aside and grabbing the benefit of lower federal taxes on travel tickets.

Shooting erupts at Seattle area car show, 12 hurt (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:07 AM PDT

AP - Gunfire rang out during a car show at a suburban Seattle parking lot, wounding 12 people as fearful crowd members and merchants took cover or fled the chaotic scene.
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