DailyMe Front PageDailyMe Digest RSS Front PageOlmert congratulates Livni on Kadima party win- September 17, 2008 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert telephoned Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday to congratulate her on winning a vote to succeed him as leader of the Kadima party, his office said.http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700018888/ Hurricane Ike shakes Galveston's economic boom- September 17, 2008 GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) - Long-time Galveston resident Sylvia Hernandez has survived several hurricanes in her 72 years. But after riding out Hurricane Ike's wall of water and wind in her tiny two-story island home, Hernandez has decided...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700016468/ Bank fears, AIG fallout fuel Wall St sell-off- September 17, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks tumbled to a three-year low on Wednesday as the U.S. rescue of insurer AIG failed to calm a crisis of confidence in global markets and banks were scared to lend to each other.http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700018892/ Biden says Wall Street woes awoke McCain to crisis- September 17, 2008 MAUMEE, Ohio - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday it took a financial crisis on Wall Street for Republican candidate John McCain to realize the U.S. economy is in trouble. The Democratic campaign of Barack Obama has...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700018350/ White House upbeat on economy, defends AIG move- September 17, 2008 WASHINGTON - The White House gave a newly nuanced description Wednesday of the U.S. economy, calling it a mixed picture and saying it ultimately will weather the current turmoil. Press secretary Dana Perino, President Bush's chief spokeswoman,...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700017883/ Ike causes widest US Internet outage since 2003- September 17, 2008 NEW YORK - The power blackouts that followed Hurricane Ike have caused the widest outage for U.S. Internet service since 2003, according to a firm that tracks Internet connectivity.It was the largest area to lose its connections to the Internet...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700017757/ Chinese parents in agony over tainted baby formula- September 17, 2008 NANJING, China _ As China suffers through yet another crisis over food safety, Wang Jun and Wang Yuan endure a private agony at the bedside of their hospitalized infant son, watching him wince in pain.It's bad enough that the 6 -month-old has...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700017401/ 'Missed Connections' helps romantics find the ones who got away- September 17, 2008 WASHINGTON _ Megan Erskine managed to draw three hits on Craigslist's popular Missed Connections page while wearing sweaty, baggy T-shirts and lugging furniture into her apartment."It was, like, the most exciting week of my life," said Erskine,...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700016608/ 16 dead in car bomb, ambush at US Embassy in Yemen- September 17, 2008 SAN'A, Yemen - Attackers armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb assaulted the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday. No Americans were hurt in the deadly attempt to breach the compound...http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700014953/ Fidel Castro says dignity stops Cuba taking U.S. aid- September 17, 2008 HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba, devastated in recent weeks by two powerful hurricanes, has too much dignity to accept aid from the United States, former leader Fidel Castro said in a column published on Wednesday.http://www.dailyme.com/story/2008091700014470/ |