Friday - January 9, 2009 - Volkswagen, the Car Company With Increasing Sales And Market Share

Amazing Filtered Things blog looks at photographs from Gilbert Garcin

Strong 6.1 earthquake rocks Costa Rica, tourists stranded, 15 dead

Layoffs: Boeing will cut 4,500 jobs

Hard Times for another newspaper: Hearst Corp. is seeking a buyer for its Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper within 60 days as circulation and advertising revenue decline.

Robert Rubin era at Citicorp will be remembered as one of disgrace

Ukraine limits gas consumption as cut-off bites

Softball interview gives Sarah Palin a platform to whine (video included)

Car makers might be losing sales and revenue, but Volkswagen is still increasing sales and market share

2008: 2.6 Million Jobs Vaporized in the USA

The Forbes.com Investor Team thinks that if you're on the sidelines, you missed the bottom.

Corporate profits are falling, bankruptcies are soaring, unemployment is rising

The first child in Britain known to have been screened as an embryo to ensure she did not carry a cancer gene was born Friday, a spokesman for University College London told CNN.

U.S. employers probably cut the most jobs in at least 34 years last month as the global economic crisis gathered pace and moves by policy makers took time to filter through to struggling companies.

December's Job Loss Was Bad. But How Bad? Some economists expect an employment decline of 600,000 or more, but even a number as alarming as that needs the right context

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog looks at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, in Harbin, China

Al-Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan and another top aide are believed to have been killed in recent days, US sources say.

Layoffs: Walgreens to cut 1,000 corporate and field management jobs

UN: One-third of Gaza dead, injured are children

Tamiflu found to be ineffective against 99% of flu strains

Democrats get Citigroup to support mortgage modifications

All-digital TV? Please stand by

The man who organized Wednesday's BART police protest said he broke down in tears when he saw his peaceful march turn violen

Gators finish the season No. 1 after beating Sooners last night in the BCS Championship

Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a practice the federal government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has left unregulated