NEW YORK (AP) — American International Group Inc. said Monday that its president and chief executive officer, Robert Benmosche, has been diagnosed with cancer.
The insurer said Benmosche is undergoing aggressive chemotherapy. He said in a statement his long-term prognosis is good.
The company announced Benmosche's diagnosis after the market closed …
The two child stars of 'Slumdog Millionaire' are at risk of losing their monthly stipend and their trust fund if they don't start attending school, a trustee for the fund said Thursday.
Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 11, and Rubina Ali, 10, shot to fame after starring in the Oscar-winning movie.
But these days, Azhar is only showing up at school 37 percent of the time, and Rubina has only a 27 percent attendance rate at her school, the trustee said.
"It's pathetic," said Noshir Dadrawala, who helps administer the Jai Ho trust established by the filmmakers to provide an education, living allowance and housing for the young stars, who both grew …
ATLANTA Gilligan's Island has nothing on the Cubs. There is anentire team stranded in the South, drowning under an 0-4 start. BobDenver might as well be playing shortstop because this comedy oferrors is starting to have surreal plot twists.
You never really bought it, did you, that the Gilligan castawayswere far from civilization? But you still tuned in. Same with theCubs.It might be hard to believe a team can lose with such varietyand entertainment value as this group of April fools, and yet theydraw more fans by accident than the White Sox can with financialpurpose.It must be like passing a car wreck. It's hard not to take apeek now and then …
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal on Thursday formally indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s, paving the way for the panel's long-awaited second trial next year.
The frail, elderly defendants, who have been in detention since 2007, deny any guilt for their roles in the radical communist rule during which about a quarter of Cambodia's population was either executed or died due to starvation or overwork.
The trial, due to start by mid-2011, will bring to the stand Nuon Chea, 84, the group's ideologist; former head of state Khieu Samphan, 79; former Foreign Minister Ieng …
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted Saturday that U.S. beef is safe to eat and urged South Koreans to accept their government's decision to lift a ban on the products.
Rice also said she hoped the beef controversy won't distract from important issues facing the U.S. and South Korea, most notably the six-nation talks over North Korea's nuclear program.
"In terms of differences that sometimes arise from trade disputes, they are normal in relations between states," Rice told a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan.
Rice arrived in Seoul a day after neighboring North Korea destroyed the cooling tower at …
Ex-NATO base chief accused of 4 affairs
WASHINGTON - A retired two-star Army general "engaged in a patternof inappropriate behavior" with the wives of four subordinates whilehe was the top American military officer at a NATO base in Turkey, aninternal Pentagon investigation concludes.
Maj. Gen. David Hale also sanctioned the misuse of governmentfunds for travel and made "false and misleading statements" toinvestigators and Pentagon officials, said the report by DefenseDepartment Inspector General Eleanor Hill.
A copy of the 49-page report was obtained Monday by The AssociatedPress.
The allegations involve a period from 1996 to 1997 while Hale …
As thunderous cheers erupted throughout the JFK Coliseum in Manchester N.H., Aug.4, the 94th Military Police Company, one of the longest serving units in Iraqi, marched in formation onto center stage before 1,000 family members, friends, and politicians.
Their arrival was presaged by several activities which heightened the crowd's desires to see their loved ones. First, dignitaries including New Hampshire Governor Craig Benson; Senator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.); Congressman Jeb Bradley (R-N.H. District One); Congressman Charles Bass, II (R-N.H. District Two); Robert Baines, mayor of Manchester, N.H.; Bishop John McCormack; New Hampshire U.S. Army Reserve Ambassador James A. Normand; MG …
