The new H1N1 flu killed its first patient in Canada, making it the third country after Mexico and the United States to report a death from the virus.
Mexico will resume normal business operations this week after easing its swine flu restrictions, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute.
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/ 22 January 2009
Microsoft reported disappointing earnings on Thursday and plans to cut up to 5 000 jobs as US jobless claims rose more than expected.
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/ 20 January 2009
Barack Obama took office on Tuesday with bank shares tumbling, the car sector teetering and a world economy in tatters.
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/ 17 January 2009
New York has fêted its latest hero, the pilot who landed a distressed US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River, saving all 155 on board.
The US Senate has approved a -billion bailout of the financial industry, putting pressure on the House of Representatives to approve the plan.
A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for ,5-million, the broker of the deal said on Monday. Monroe is clothed and the man’s head remains out of the frame for the entire 15 minutes of the film.
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/ 6 February 2008
Australian actor Heath Ledger’s death was an accident caused by the abuse of prescription drugs, six of which were found in his body, the New York City medical examiner’s office said on Wednesday. Ledger (28), renowned for his role as a gay cowboy in the 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain, was found dead in bed at his Manhattan apartment on January 22.
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/ 11 September 2007
New Yorkers are doing all they can to preserve the way September 11 is commemorated, and with it falling on a Tuesday for the first time since 2001, the day is another trigger of tragic memories. New York City will mark the event as it has for the past five anniversaries with a ceremony punctuated by the reading of names of the 2 750 innocent people who died at the World Trade Centre.
A Manhattan art gallery cancelled on Friday its Easter-season exhibit of a life-size chocolate sculpture depicting a naked Jesus, after an outcry by Roman Catholics. The sculpture My Sweet Lord by Cosimo Cavallaro was to have been exhibited for two hours each day next week in a street-level window of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery in Midtown Manhattan.