Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week, a Senate enquiry found financial advisers from the Commonwealth Bank had made high-risk investments of clients’ money without the clients’ […]
Sunday, April 24, 2011 The California Controller’s office reports that eleven state agencies have given US$13.3 million in pay and travel advances that have not been collected. Governor Jerry Brown issued an executive order to recover uncollected loans by the agencies. A press release from the governor’s office states, “The Governor’s Executive Order seeks to […]
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San Jose replaces Detroit as 10th-largest U.S. city
Monday, July 4, 2005 TOP 11 U.S. CITIES Rank/City 2000 Pop. 2004 pop. 1. New York 8,017,840 8,104,079 2. Los Angeles 3,704,402 3,845,541 3. Chicago 2,896,049 2,862,244 4. Houston 1,961,307 2,012,626 5. Philadelphia 1,513,672 1,470,151 6. Phoenix 1,326,120 1,418,041 7. San Diego 1,227,658 1,263,756 8. San Antonio 1,155,180 1,236,249 9. Dallas 1,190,436 1,210,393 10. San […]
Monday, July 17, 2006 For 30 minutes, a mob of heavily-armed gunmen tore through a Shiite populated market town in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, exploding car bombs and shooting at people. Police Capt. Rashid al-Samaraie said the assault which killed at least 60 began at 9 a.m. when mortars were fired into the town and a group […]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 At least nine people have been reported killed in a serious collision incident between two metro trains in Washington, D.C., United States. The collision which occurred on the Red Line between Fort Totten and Takoma Park stations of the city’s Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority during the early evening (1700 local […]
Suspect in Oklahoma girl’s murder blogged about depression, “dangerously weird” fantasies
Monday, April 17, 2006 Kevin Ray Underwood, the suspect in the murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin of Purcell, Oklahoma, reportedly kept a weblog in which he joked about cannibalism, discussed the effects of not taking his prescribed medicine, and talked about “dangerously weird” fantasies. Underwood was arrested Friday after investigators searched his apartment and […]