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Market dominoes: Lehman Brothers bankrupt, Merrill Lynch sold, AIG restructures (episode)
Lehman Brothers will file for bankruptcy in the largest failure of an investment bank in 18 years. An emergency meeting of government officials and Wall Street executives failed to co...
<p>Hurricane Ike pounded Galveston, Texas, over the weekend, flattening homes and leaving millions without power.</p>
Based on interviews with President George W. Bush and top-level government insiders, Bob Woodward's latest book, "The War Within," is an intimate account of the debates and decisions ...
Israel’s ruling Kadima party is holding a historic election Wednesday to select a new leader. The current frontrunner in the polls is Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. She could replace...
Shares in Europe tumbled after American investment bank Lehman Brothers announced it was seeking bankruptcy protection. Asian markets also fell sharply.
What if people living in conflict zones could predict where violence was going to break out? A small group of Kenyans created an early-warning tool that aims to do just this. The pr...
The Takeaway first spoke with Paul Pendergraft on Friday, just before Hurricane Ike tore through Texas. His home has no electricity and a maze of fallen power lines and downed trees m...
158-year-old Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the nation, is history. The ailing bank failed to find a savior over the weekend and will file for bankruptcy. Back...
Zimbabwe's two bitter political rivals — President Robert Mugabe and the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangarai — have signed a power-sharing deal aimed at resolving the country's polit...
Hurricane Ike pounded Galveston, Texas over the weekend, flattening homes and leaving millions without power. But in the history of hurricanes this is far from the worst that Galvesto...
Parents face a challenge to supply healthy food for children in world dominated by processed food, snacks and soft drinks. Tara Parker-Pope, “Well” columnist for The New York Times, s...
Shares in Europe fell sharply today after leading American investment bank Lehman Brothers announced it was seeking bankruptcy protection. Asian markets also fell sharply.
This past weekend Venezuela conducted military exercises with fighter jets dropping bombs and commandos resisting a mock invasion. The maneuvers featured Russian-made Sukhoi fighter j...
They're calling it historic, and the day has barely begun. It's certainly going to be an extraordinary one on Wall Street as the markets react to the huge news. First, investment bank...
We've been talking about the shock-waves across the financial world from the news that investment giant Lehman Brothers is filing for bankruptcy protection. Watching as the markets op...