The Swine flu scare hit the global airline market with a huge thump. The airline industry has increased efforts to ensure that passengers avoid health risks especially on international flights.  Most carriers in Asia are scared of another SARS episode and have increased their cabin cleaning, installed state-of-the-art air filters and are allowing in-flight staff [...]

General Motors and Chrysler higher-ups defended their strategy for down sizing dealerships during a Senate hearing calling it, “a painful but necessary part of creating leaner, more competitive companies.”  Fritz Henderson, chief executive of General Motors, and James E. Press, vice chairman of Chrysler, stated that dealerships selling small numbers of vehicles were weighing down [...]

Four men accused of attempting to blow up two New York synagogues and shoot down military planes plead “not guilty” to the charges in a White Plains, New York City court.  A federal grand jury indictment accused the men of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-air craft [...]