Senior executives at General Motors are expected to meet later to discuss proceedings for a widely expected filing for bankruptcy protection.
They are likely to firm up the details of how to completely restructure what was once the world’s largest car company, under judicial supervision.
GM’s sales have been hit hard by the financial crisis and [...]
Senior executives at General Motors are expected to meet later to discuss proceedings for a widely expected filing for bankruptcy protection.
They are likely to firm up the details of how to completely restructure what was once the world’s largest car company, under judicial supervision.
GM’s sales have been hit hard by the financial crisis and [...]
A cruise liner at the centre of concern about the spread of swine flu has been cleared to dock in Sydney and allow its 2,000 passengers to disembark.
Three crew members on the Pacific Dawn had tested positive for swine flu.
The swine flu infections forced the Pacific Dawn to abandon a voyage to the Great [...]
By Roger HarrabinEnvironment analyst, BBC News
Texan cattle rancher Mike Baca seems an unlikely evangelist for the American green revolution.
When he voices a visceral dislike of the "Washington liberals" there seems to be little hint of the environmentalist beneath the cowboy hat and saucer-sized belt-buckle.
But Mike is proof that renewable energy now unites the partisan [...]
Subtle changes to major surgery for cervical cancer could improve survival by as much as 20%, researchers in Germany suggest.
For some women the only option is to undergo a radical hysterectomy but the disease may still come back.
Writing in The Lancet Oncology, the doctors said the new more highly targeted method was more effective [...]