Frances Perkins

Secretary Of Labor News

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Instant View: London police chief quits in hacking sagaSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:56PMLONDON (Reuters) - Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson resigned on Sunday following criticism of the handling by police of a phone hacking scandal that has rocked British politics and shaken Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire.

Hacking scandal fells Britain's top policemanSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:34PMLONDON - A phone-hacking scandal centred on Rupert Murdoch's News Corp cost Britain's top policeman his job and renewed questions on Monday about Prime Minister David Cameron's judgment.

Uncharted Territory in Guyanese Legislative ElectionsSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:13PMAs Guyana prepares for its upcoming parliamentary elections, tensions between its two major political parties ride high. The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress (PNC), bitter adversaries since their inception ...

UK top cop quits over hacking scandalSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:52PMLONDON, July 18 — Britain’s top police chief resigned and the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper business was arrested yesterday over a phone-hacking scandal that is lapping at Prime Minister David Cameron’s door. Analysts said the gathering pace of heads rolling had turned up the heat on Cameron and Murdoch over their handling of the ...

Column: Could Catholic leader usher in a new Cuba?Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 7:06PMIsland nation's revered, yet controversial, cardinal might be just the man to midwife a political transition out of the Castro era.

Bulgaria Set for Boom in Electric Cars, Converted Vehicles IndustrySunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:58PMThe large-scale industrial conversion of conventional cars into electric vehicles is expected to become Bulgaria's new major industry, a special report of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) has found. The development of Bulgaria's electric vehicle industry is expected to experience a boom in 2012, Iliya Levkov, Chair of Bulgaria's Electric Vehicles Industrial Cluster (EVIC), has told Novinite....

A Phoenix Rising: Bulgaria's Electric Vehicles IndustrySunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:58PMAn international conference on electric cars organized in Bulgaria's capital Sofia in February 2011 turned into a much more high-profile event than anybody expected. It was then that Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Economy Minister Traikov made it clear that Bulgaria hopes to become a "major player" in the development and production of electric cars. The conference was surprisingly ...

8. Summers: Default unthinkableSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:45PMWASHINGTON: A US debt default would cause panic throughout the financial system and long-term uncertainty, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told CNN.