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Toyota Profit Increases Sharply

Toyota Profit Increases Sharply


Toyota Profit Increases Sharply

Posted: 08 May 2013 12:09 AM PDT

The Japanese carmaker benefited from a weak yen and improving sales in the United States, with net income in the year to March more than tripling from the previous year.
    


China Trade Figures Rise Slightly, but Weaknesses Persist

Posted: 07 May 2013 08:48 PM PDT

The Chinese government said trade figures for April showed some improvement, but weren't strong enough to pull the nation out of its economic quagmire.
    


DealBook: Small Firm Could Turn the Vote on Dimon

Posted: 07 May 2013 07:57 PM PDT

An obscure London firm may determine whether Jamie Dimon keeps his dual role as chief executive and chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
    


South Carolina Returns Mark Sanford to Office

Posted: 07 May 2013 07:20 PM PDT

The former governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, whose political career seemed over after an extramarital affair, was elected to the same Congressional seat he previously held.
    


Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users

Posted: 07 May 2013 06:49 PM PDT

The Obama administration is on the verge of backing an F.B.I. plan for an overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate by Internet rather than phone.
    

Obama Backs Policy of South Korea’s Park on North

Posted: 07 May 2013 06:20 PM PDT

President Obama endorsed President Park Geun-hye's plans for defusing tensions with North Korea, but warned that the first move was up to Kim Jong-un.
    


Hezbollah Takes Risks by Fighting Rebels in Syria

Posted: 07 May 2013 06:12 PM PDT

Trained to battle Israel, Hezbollah's Lebanese Shiite guerrillas are pushing into a very different fight, against fellow Arab Muslims trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
    

Suspect in Cleveland Kidnapping Had Some Contact With Police

Posted: 07 May 2013 06:02 PM PDT

The authorities had been called two times to a house in Cleveland, Ohio, where three young women who disappeared about a decade ago were found.
    


Pentagon Study Sees Sharp Rise in Sexual Assaults

Posted: 07 May 2013 05:48 PM PDT

A study released on Tuesday estimated that the number of people in the military who were sexually assaulted in the 2012 fiscal year rose to 26,000, up from 19,000 in the same period a year before.
    


Sunnis in Iraq Protest Antiterror Tactics That Hurt Innocents

Posted: 07 May 2013 05:35 PM PDT

United States-imposed laws are central to the protest movement, as those who once helped the American military now sometimes put innocent people in prison in their work as informants for the Iraqi government.
    

Body Count Soars as Nigerian Military Hunts Islamists

Posted: 07 May 2013 04:42 PM PDT

The military's harsh tactics have curtailed militant attacks in the north, a stronghold of Boko Haram, but at a huge cost and with likely repercussions.
    

Russia and U.S. to Convene Peace Conference on Syria

Posted: 07 May 2013 03:46 PM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia jointly intensified pressure on Syria's combatants to settle a conflict that has killed more than 70,000.
    


Colgate to Give Aboriginal Art to Australian University

Posted: 07 May 2013 02:58 PM PDT

Colgate University is giving its collection of more than 100 drawings and paintings by Aboriginal children who were forced into government camps to Curtin University in Perth.
    

Spanish Court Drops Subpoena Against Princess Cristina

Posted: 07 May 2013 02:32 PM PDT

Princess Cristina will not have to appear in court in an embezzlement case in which her husband is under investigation.
    

Memo From Berlin: Germany Extends Its Success to the Soccer Field

Posted: 07 May 2013 02:25 PM PDT

The Continent's championship soccer game will be between two German teams, and many observers see a link to the country's economic approach.
    

Pakistani Sports-Star-Turned-Candidate, Imran Khan, Hurt in Fall

Posted: 07 May 2013 02:05 PM PDT

Imran Khan, a former cricket captain who is a rising force in Pakistani politics, suffered head and back injuries while at an election rally.
    


Lens Blog: Alexia Webster's Photos of a South African Village Still Grappling With Apartheid

Posted: 07 May 2013 01:57 PM PDT

In Hogsback, South Africa, a mountaintop village surrounded by mist and a primeval forest, the legacy of apartheid still permeates relations between white and black residents.
    


Books of The Times: ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,’ by Anthony Marra

Posted: 07 May 2013 01:50 PM PDT

Though set during the wars, occupations and insurgencies that have racked Chechnya since the early 1990s, Anthony Marra's first novel smuggles in much human warmth and dark humor.
    

Japan Says It Will Abide by Apologies Over War

Posted: 07 May 2013 01:39 PM PDT

Japan's conservative government backed away from earlier suggestions that it might try to revise or even repudiate apologies to sex slaves and other nations.
    

C.I.A. Officer Tied to Detention Program Is Replaced

Posted: 07 May 2013 11:46 AM PDT

With the decision, John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, could be sending a signal that he intends to shift focus after more than a decade of manhunting and paramilitary operations.
    

Critic’s Notebook: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety

Posted: 07 May 2013 11:41 AM PDT

Recent embarrassments involving rappers and their product endorsements highlight the conflicting values and public images of hip-hop artists and mainstream corporations.
    

Ray Harryhausen, Cinematic Special-Effects Innovator, Dies at 92

Posted: 07 May 2013 11:31 AM PDT

From sword fights to swooping pterodactyls, Mr. Harryhausen created and photographed many of the most memorable fantasy-adventure sequences in movie history.
    

Baxter, a Drug Maker, Says Its New Alzheimer’s Treatment Has Failed

Posted: 07 May 2013 08:41 AM PDT

Baxter International said that the immunoglobulin therapy did not significantly arrest the decline in either cognition or daily functioning when compared with a placebo.
    

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