The government deployed military helicopters, naval ships and thousands of troops to join international agencies and local officials in the rescue mission following Tropical Cyclone Sidr. The commodities markets moved broadly lower as the greenback gained strength, making prices appear more expensive to foreign buyers. Gold prices have become extremely volatile as the market wrestles with a correction following the metal's climb to levels not seen since 1980. Inventories of distillates...

Email. Print. Text size + By Charles Abbott November 6, 2007 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate will not pass the $288 billion farm bill this year unless senators forego amendment on hot-button issues like immigration reform or the war in Iraq, Majority Leader Harry Reid warned on Tuesday. Email. Print. Text size + By Charles Abbott November 6, 2007 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate will not pass the $288 billion farm bill this year unless senators forego amendment on hot-button issues like...

Lululemon Athletica is backing away from claims touting the health benefits of its seaweed-fibre clothing after concerns raised by the federal Competition Bureau. Lululemon, a fast-growing retailer that has been a stock market darling since going public in the summer, agreed to remove the tags with the claims or cover them with a sticker until it can produce scientific evidence that they are true. Andrea Rosen, the bureau's acting deputy commissioner, said the agency has also asked...

In this process, the government expropriates and then redistributes the targeted land, if need be, in parcels conforming to various priority categories, beginning with dividing up public land into individual or jointly-held communal properties located, for the most part, in the eastern part of the country. Current lowland indigenous land rights are also an issue in the struggle but the parcels are much less quantifiable even though they tend to be huge in size. In this process, the...

The bill, in part, curbs subprime lending and requires states to license all types of mortgage providers. email this print this Posted on Sun, Nov. The bill requires probable-cause warrants for surveillance, except in dire emergencies. A yes vote was to advance the bill. WASHINGTON - Here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress voted on major roll calls last week. The House passed, 227-189, and sent to the Senate a bill that would give the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...

Hoffner, others win farming awards Staff report. Carrie Hoffner, a senior at South Rowan High School, received a top award on the Rowan County farm scene Friday the Rowe McNeely Animal Science Award. Hoffner received the award at the annual Farm-City Day luncheon held at the Rowan County Agriculture Center. She is the daughter of Lonnie and Julie Hoffner. The award is named for a man who headed the Agriculture Extension Service in Rowan for many years. The Salisbury Kiwanis Club sponsored...