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Credit risk firm Moody‘s has slashed its rating on Ford further into “junk” status, just a week after rival Standard and Poor‘s did the same.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin will seek an international pact to ban weapons in space if his Liberals are returned to power in a January 23 election, according to the party platform.

The document, leaked to the conservative magazine Western …

China’s trade surplus with the rest of world more than tripled to $102bn (£58bn) in 2005, official figures show.

A rural high school teaching a religion-based alternative to evolution was sued Tuesday by a group of parents who said the class should be stopped because it violates the U.S. Constitution.

Stocks were struggling Wednesday, spooked by a profit warning from DuPont Co. and BP PLC’s announcement that its fourth-quarter oil production slipped.

After falling short a dozen times, Bruce Sutter was relieved. He became only the fourth reliever given baseball’s highest honor, gaining election to the Hall of Fame on Tuesday.

The search is on for fliers who were on board a Navy jet that disappeared yesterday shortly after it took off from, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

D.C. Council member and former mayor Marion Barry tested positive for cocaine use in a drug test ordered by a federal court, The Washington Post said.

The test was ordered in the fall after Barry pleaded guilty to misdemeanor tax …

Customers of the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas have reason to worry this week, as over 50,000 identitiesBahamas Securities and Exchange Commission.

Iran’s influential former President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has lashed out at the international community’s anger at Iran’s nuclear research.

He said he was “astonished” by the “bullying, particularly in the era of democracy, freedom and human rights”.

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