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business

Standard & Poor ekes out another small gain

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index eked out its second small gain of the week yesterday as investors pored over the latest earnings reports.

business

Weak earnings drag down stocks

business

US stocks at five-year high

business

Fed official's comment sees US stocks plummet

business

Fed official's warning hits Dow

world

US investigators remove data recorders from derailed train

Freight cars ablaze as ethanol train derails over US bridge

Several rail carriages were on fire and dangling into a river after a freight train carrying ethanol derailed while crossing a bridge in south-west Pennsylvania early today.

Sat, 21 Oct, 2006

Train crash poison gas cloud : Eight dead, 240 injured

A US freight train carrying chlorine gas struck a parked train, killing eight people and injuring more than 240 others, nearly all of them sickened by a toxic cloud that persisted over this small textile town of Graniteville, South Carolina.

Fri, 07 Jan, 2005