ABC News Bargain-hunters fail to save retail sales Reuters - By Brad Dorfman CHICAGO ( Reuters ) - Bargain-hunting holiday shoppers did not save US retail sales in November, which will likely represent a second straight ... US holiday sales may be worse than thought-researcher Black Friday doesn't a season make 2008 holiday sales definitely either good or bad -

WELT ONLINE Reuters World News Highlights at 0955 GMT, Dec 2 Forex Pros, British Virgin Islands - BANGKOK - Thai judges ordered Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's ruling People Power Party (PPP) disbanded on Tuesday after it was found guilty of vote ... Thai court orders PM's party disbanded Top Thai court bans ruling party Thai court to issue vote fraud rulings Tuesday -

Media Digest 12 2 2008 Reuters , WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg 24 7 Wall St., NY - According to Reuters , JP Morgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), and Merrill Lynch (MER) will cut a total of almost 20000 jobs. Reuters reports that Boeing ... Media Digest 12 1 2008 Reuters , WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Infonic Signs Thomson Reuters Contract CNNMoney.com - The amendment agreement will enable Infonic developers to make key enhancements to the Reuters NewsScope Sentiment Engine (RNSE), a real-time news sentiment ...

TUI Shareholder El Chiaty May Increase Stake, Reuters Reports Bloomberg - 1 (Bloomberg) -- TUI AG investor Hamed El Chiaty may consider increasing his stake in the German owner of Europes largest travel company, Reuters said. ... Egyptian hotelier El Chiaty ready to up TUI stake

Reuters Redstone's debt restructuring talks proceed slowly - WSJ Reuters - Dec 2 ( Reuters ) - Negotiations to restructure the debt of media mogul Sumner Redstone's National Amusements Inc are moving slowly and a deal looks ... Its Midway or the highway for Redstone Redstone sells Midway Games to ease debt: report

INSTANT VIEW 2-Japan business mood slides - Reuters Tankan Forbes, NY - TOKYO, Dec 2 ( Reuters ) - Confidence among Japanese manufacturers fell at its sharpest pace on record to its deepest pessimism in nearly seven years in ... UPDATE 1-Japan business mood slides, BOJ meets on funding

Reuters Summit-NFL's Grubman doubts wild free agent spending guardian.co.uk, UK - By Larry Fine NEW YORK, Dec 1 ( Reuters ) - Players dreaming of a free agency bonanza in 2010 may be in for a rude awakening, NFL executive vice president ...

Jeff J. Mitchell Reuters TIME - On Nov. 19, scientists from Penn State University announced that they had succeeded in piecing together the majority of the woolly mammoth's genome, ...

(Photos by Reuters and Jim Davis Globe Staff) Boston Globe, United States - FOXBOROUGH -- What if this is as good as it gets? What if this euphoric chapter in Patriots history is complete? What if the karma was buried right there in ...