Ramsey: Police beating ‘certainly does not look good’ - Philadelphia Daily News
POLICE COMMISSIONER Charles H. Ramsey yesterday asked Philadelphians not “to rush to judgment” when watching a video showing baton-wielding cops repeatedly striking, kicking and stomping three young men whom they had stopped after a triple shooting

Asia: Rate Fears Hit Chinese Markets - Street.Com
Fears over interest rate hikes in mainland China due to mounting inflationary and energy costs sent shares tumbling in Shanghai and Hong Kong Wednesday. The Shanghai Composite Index plunged 154 points, or 4.1%, to 3579.15, while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng

Precious Metals Summary - London AM Fixings - Forbes
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Clemens apologizes for unspecified mistakes - Philadelphia Daily News
NEW YORK - Roger Clemens apologized yesterday for unspecified mistakes in his personal life, a statement Brian McNamee’s lawyers intend to use to attack the pitcher’s credibility at trial. The New York Daily News reported last week Clemens had a

Austria names former BAWAG chief executive Nowotny as new central bank - Forbes
VIENNA (Thomson Financial) - The general council of the Austrian central bank (OeNB) has appointed Ewald Nowotny, the former chief executive of troubled bank BAWAG, to serve as the OeNB’s next governor, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer stated on Wednesday

GM seals a UAW deal, but not at Mich. plant - Detroit Free Press
General Motors Corp. saw one UAW local contract ratified Tuesday, while negotiations continued at several locations. Separately, a unit of the finance company in which GM has a minority stake is working to line up financing to keep it from defaulting

Myanmar junta keeps large international aid effort on hold, denies - International Herald Tribune
YANGON, Myanmar : Hungry crowds of cyclone survivors stormed a few shops that opened Wednesday in Myanmar’s devastated Irrawaddy delta, as the country’s military rulers kept a huge international aid effort on hold. Little relief reached the people

Visage Imaging is Selected by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center to - MSN MoneyCentral
Visage Imaging(TM) to supply Visage(TM) CS Thin Client/Server System to enhance workflow with one-of-a-kind technology CARLSBAD, Calif., Might 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Visage Imaging, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. MRCY

UK Politics - Daily Telegraph
From breaking news to analysis, video to behind-the-scenes blogs, find all the Telegraph’s political news and comment in one place - your source for the latest from Downing Street, Westminster and the whole of the UK. David Cameron has renewed the

Dollar Rises After Hoenig States Inflation May Spur Rate Increase - Bloomberg
Might 7 (Bloomberg) — The dollar rose against the euro and the yen as Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig stated inflation may prompt policy makers to raise interest rates and European retail sales dropped by a record in March

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