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Mint, the new business newspaper published by HT Media Ltd in association with the Wall Street Journal debuts in New Delhi and Mumbai on February 1. Published in English and with an initial circulation of around 80,000 copies, Mint would be delivering global and regional business and economic news to Indian readers Monday-Saturday each week. Every weekday, Mint will also carry four pages of...

On January 2, The Wall Street Journal Online posted a story with the headline: "Green Beans Comes Marching Home." It happened to be an article about the Green Beans Coffee Co., which serves overseas U.S. military bases, opening its first cafe in the United States. Let's say you were interested in the subject but didn't know the Journal had written an article on it. You might type into a search...

BOSTON - The latest bomb scare to upset a major US city wasn't the handiwork of the Al Qaeda terror network. This time, it was the Cartoon Network. It all began Wednesday morning when a transit worker spotted a wired device on a girder underneath Interstate 93. After police found similar devices across the city, they shut down key roads and subway stations and called in federal officials with...

International press freedom groups have called for action in the case of a Pakistan journalist who has been missing for one month. Twentyeight-year-old Sohail Qalander, who works with Pakistan’s second largest Urdu language newspaper Daily Express, disappeared on January 2, near the Khyber Agency tribal area, according to the Pakistan Federation of Union of Journalist (PFUJ). International...

A Muslim man was today found guilty of stirring up racial hatred during a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. An Old Bailey jury convicted Abdul Saleem, from Poplar, east London, after a four-day trial. The 31-year-old BT engineer was remanded in custody for pre-sentence reports. He had denied using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with...

In a windowless office in central Bangalore, dozens of employees are arriving to work on the night shift. They are journalists employed by the world's biggest news agency, Reuters. Their job is to cover US financial news. And they are working overnight so that they can report company news live as it happens on the New York Stock Exchange - from India. Cost savings But why in the world is Reuters...

LAN Chengzhang sat in a car outside the office of a mining company while a colleague ventured inside to make inquiries. It was his first month of work with his newspaper and Lan had decided to take on what anyone in the area knew could be a most dangerous subject: The illegal coal mines that proliferate in the sooty hill country of Shanxi province. Within minutes, a band of men armed with lengths...

NEW YORK (AP) — News reporters frequently complain that their work isn't getting the attention it deserves, but CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan took the extra step. She wrote to friends and family members asking for their help in getting her report on street fighting in Baghdad on the air. She never, the network said Wednesday, intended to make the plea public. But eventually it...

Increasing "the ranks of our military" is "one of the first steps we can take together" to "position America to meet every challenge that confronts us," said President Bush in last week's State of the Union address. "Tonight I ask the Congress to authorize an increase in the size of our active Army and Marine Corps by 92,000 in the next five years." The 92,000 figure was put forward by Defense...

AUSTIN, Texas — Witty best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, a Texas liberal who died after a long battle with breast cancer, left legions of admirers, even among the politicians she regularly skewered. President Bush, referred to as "Shrub" in Ivins' writings, said in a statement issued after her death Wednesday evening that Ivins was a Texas original who was loved by her readers and many...