It's not over yet. Health officials say coming weeks may see more illness and death from the outbreak of Listeria traced to contaminated cantaloupes.So far, the outbreak has sickened 72 people and claimed 16 lives in 18 states - making it the country's deadliest outbreak of food-borne illness in more than 10 years. Thomas Frieden, director ...
Oswald Grübel resigned as chief executive of UBS AG in the wake of a breakdown in risk management at the Swiss bank that led to a massive trading loss and now has cut short the career of a giant of Switzerland's businesss community. In a statement early Saturday, UBS said its board accepted Mr. Grübel's resignation ...
Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires. The first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather to the United States. From the blizzard that dumped almost two feet of snow on Chicago, to killer tornadoes and heat waves in the south, to record flooding, to wildfires that have burned more than ...
A tropical wave over central Gulf of Mexico has a 70 percent chance of becoming a hurricane during the next 48 hours as it moves slowly to the northwest, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. Upper-level winds are currently unfavorable for development but are forecast to become more conducive on Thursday, and the system could become a tropical depression ...
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