Aussie Court Ends Qantas Strike, Fleet Grounding

Qantas planes could be flying again within hours after Australia’s labor relations tribunal ruled n favor of the carrier over the labor dispute that’s seen the company ground its entire fleet. Fair Work Australia ordered the three unions in contract negotiations with Qantas to terminate all of their rolling work stoppages and other industrial action [...]

Afghan Success Comes At High Price For Commander

A year ago, nearly 1,000 U.S. Marine officers and enlisted men of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment deployed to restive Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. By the time their tour ended in April 2011, the Marines of the 3/5 — known as “Darkhorse” — suffered the highest casualty rate of any Marine unit during the [...]

Afghan Success Comes At High Price For Commander

A year ago, nearly 1,000 U.S. Marine officers and enlisted men of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment deployed to restive Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. By the time their tour ended in April 2011, the Marines of the 3/5 — known as “Darkhorse” — suffered the highest casualty rate of any Marine unit during the [...]

Arrests At Some Occupy Sites, Snow At Others

Occupy Wall Street protests continue this weekend in several states. Police in Portland, Ore., arrested 30 people early Sunday morning when they defied a midnight curfew. In Denver, 15 demonstrators were taken into custody after they tried to stop the police from taking down their tents. In Tennessee, protesters defied a curfew for a third [...]

The Wait Wait Snack Pack

1.) Aides to Presidential candidate Herman Cain were instructed via email that they must: A) Never speak to him unless spoken toB) Always address him as “Mr. President”C) Know the lyrics to Islands in the Stream, in the event Mr. Cain wants to duet at any timeD) Never feed him after midnight 2.) There were [...]

Competition Gets Fiercer In Salem’s Scare Industry

For most of the year, Salem, Mass., looks like many other historic New England towns. Come October, though, the streets are packed with portable toilets, fried dough vendors and carnival rides. It’s a major tourist attraction thanks to its infamous 17th-century witch trials. Tourists line up for psychics’ parlors, face-painters and wax museums, but haunted [...]

The News Tip: Don’t Listen To Naysayers

Getting people to pay for news online isn’t easy, but back in March, The New York Times gave it a shot. The pay wall was seen as a risky move at the time, but the Gray Lady’s third-quarter profit reports are in, and the results are better than expected. The paper’s profits are up, and [...]

When Humans Hit 7 Billion, Will It Happen In India?

The world is anticipating the birth of its seven-billionth person, as the United Nations predicts that the milestone baby will be born on Monday, Oct. 31. Demographers say the baby might be born in India, where an average of 51 babies are born every minute. To get a feeling for the kind of world in [...]

Where Europe’s Debt Plan Falls Short

Over the next few weeks, European leaders have a big task ahead of them. They have to begin fleshing out that big bailout plan unveiled to so much fanfare in Brussels this week. The plan represents the most comprehensive effort so far to resolve Europe’s grinding debt problems, which have done so much damage to [...]

Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan A Hard Sell In Anti-Tax N.H.

The attractiveness, and simplicity, of Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan — a nine percent federal income, corporate and sales tax — has catapulted the Georgia businessman to the head of the Republican presidential field. But for some states, such as New Hampshire, which doesn’t have a sales tax, 9-9-9 wouldn’t be simple at all. People in [...]