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...first half, far worse than the $984 million shortfall recorded in the same period of 2008. A stellar six months at the investment-banking unit of London-based HSBC, meanwhile, helped prop up its falling profits. Income across Europe's largest bank fell to $5 billion, half the level hit a year earlier. At Barclays, the U.K.'s second-biggest lender, profits rose 8%, to $5 billion. (See pictures of London's financial crisis...
ELYRIA, Ohio — It was two years ago this summer—the week ending June 22, 2007—that the first intimations of economic crisis hit Wall Street. That week, rumors, and subsequently figures, began to fly regarding a pair of Bear Stearns hedge funds that were heavily invested in complicated debt products...
...scientists manning an infrared telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed his hunch: a fast-moving object--possibly a comet--had apparently smashed into the solar system's largest planet, leaving a nearly Earth-size "scar" in its atmosphere. The collision came almost exactly 15 years after a comet last hit Jupiter...
...lost his father during the war, and was hanging out with a bad crowd who settled their problems with violence. "You can't work with me with that kind of attitude," Fisher told him. Shine cleaned up his act and has since produced three albums with several hit songs - including one called "No More Beatin', No More Dissin'" - and is working on his fourth...
...this year's anniversary, a most unlikely voice spoke out. Salvatore (Toto) Riina, the Mafia's notorious former boss of bosses, has broken his silence from his prison cell near Milan, where he is serving a life sentence for dozens of homicides, including the masterminding of the Borsellino hit and one three months earlier of another crusading Sicilian prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone. (See pictures of life in Italy...