For his first public event since announcing his candidacy last Thursday, Biden chose Pennsylvania, the state where he was born 76 years ago
The assault on the 150-year-old congregation was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history
Federal officials said 46-year-old Robert Bowers faces 29 separate federal charges, several of them carrying the death penalty
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/ 26 September 2009
Police and anti-capitalist protesters clashed at the University of Pittsburgh campus on Friday evening, hours after the G20 summit ended.
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/ 25 September 2009
Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism.
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/ 24 September 2009
Leaders of the world’s biggest rich and developing countries meet on Thursday to seek ways to nurture the economic recovery.
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/ 21 September 2009
US President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the financial crisis.
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/ 20 September 2009
United States President Barack Obama will show Pittsburgh to world leaders this week as a ”bold example” of a new green economy.
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/ 3 September 2009
<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i> starts members’ club offering readers extra content, access to journalists and special events.
United States Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama spent a fourth day on Monday defending himself for calling people in small towns with economic blight ”bitter” in a controversy that rival Hillary Clinton is trying to use for a comeback. Republican John McCain also sought political gain from the flap.
United States Senator Robert Casey of Pennsylvania on Friday endorsed Barack Obama’s campaign for the Democratic nomination for president in a boost for the Illinois senator. Casey could help Obama win over some of the state’s white, socially conservative, blue-collar voters, many of whom are unionised and fear economic uncertainty.
An unusual international alliance of private companies and governments is slated to choose a site in the United States for the world’s cleanest coal-fuelled power plant, called FutureGen, by summer 2007. The alliance includes the governments of India and China, as well as large coal producers and consumers from the US, Britain, China and Australia.
A pizzeria is vying for a spot in Guinness World Records for the world’s largest commercially available pizza. The , 150-slice pizza isn’t a one-time deal. In fact, the Big One is already available, though Mama Lena’s Pizza House has had few takers so far.
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/ 29 December 2005
Distinguishing fine wine from plonk is usually left to connoisseurs and winemakers, who rely on their senses, rough chemical measurements and the whims of nature to produce an exceptional tipple. But a professor, working with industry scientists in Chile, is hoping that computer models will identify the traits of good wine — eventually helping vintners produce more of it.
He may have survived two world wars and prohibition. But a trip to the zoo proved too much for a 10kg lobster named Bubba. The leviathan of a lobster died on Wednesday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, about a day after he was moved from Wholey’s Market, said zoo spokesperson Rachel Capp.
Growing up in an untidy home can mess up a child’s mind, according to a new American study. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University studied data from about 8 000 three- and four-year-old twins to separate the influence of genes and environment on intelligence.
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/ 17 October 2003
Alcoa, the world’s largest aluminium maker, is asking federal authorities to stop alleged dumping of aluminium by a South African company. Pittsburgh-based Alcoa petitioned the Commerce Department and the US International Trade Commission seeking intervention to stop alleged dumping of 6 000 series aluminium alloy rolled plate by Hulett Aluminum Ltd.