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Ledger's body was discovered Tuesday by the housekeeper, who entered the bedroom of the fourth-floor loft he was renting in order to alert him that his masseuse had arrived for a scheduled appointment. (According to the New York Post, she said that at around noon she could still hear the actor snoring in bed.) Sleeping pills were found near the 28-year old actor. The actor had told the New York Times in late 2007 that he was having trouble sleeping; he also said slipping deep into character for his roles often exacted a personal toll. TMZ.com reported...
...China Eastern - the government is majority owner of both - is a first step toward this ambition. The two airlines ranked as the 13th and 14th largest in the world by number of scheduled passengers flown in 2006, according to the International Air Transport Association. Combined, they would be the fourth largest and the biggest outside...
...allowing foreign airlines to take small stakes in domestic carriers, hoping that outside partners could improve airline management. Air China, for example, has a cross-shareholding agreement with Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, and in 2005 American financier George Soros invested $25 million in Hainan Airlines, the country's fourth largest airline by revenue. But by freezing out Singapore Airlines, CAAC officials signaled that they have decided to close ranks around their domestic carriers - potentially shutting off the fast-growing China market to foreign carriers eager to expand their connections to the mainland. Says Richard Pinkham, an analyst...
...having won two important early contests (New Hampshire came first), McCain finds himself burdened with the front-runner label for the second time in a month, the third time in the past year and the fourth time since the 2000 primaries, when he challenged, briefly triumphed over and then was crushed in South Carolina by George W. Bush. Up to this point in McCain's career as a presidential candidate, becoming the man to beat has meant, inexorably, that he was about to be beaten...
...news may not be over on Wall Street. On Tuesday, Bank of America announced that its fourth-quarter profit tumbled 95%, largely due to a $5.44 billion trading loss driven by write-downs of collateralized debt obligations, the often mortgage-related securities creating havoc on banks' balance sheets worldwide. Rumors circulated that the Bank of China would be the next to report big losses...