Tim Arango New York Times

At a crowded market in the city center here, the flotsam of the war is for sale. Ripped Fuel workout supplement. Ready-to-eat meals, macaroni and cheese "Mexican style." Pistol holsters. Nothing seems off limits to the merchants out for a quick dinar, not even a bottle of prescription pills from a pharmacy in Waco, Tex., probably tossed out by a de...

On Thursday afternoon, James Murdoch assembled senior executives in the top-floor boardroom in the News Corporation's London headquarters and told them of a momentous decision: To shutter the 168-year-old tabloid at the centre of a deepening phone-hacking scandal and the original heart of the Murdoch media empire in Britain.Hours earlier, he had pr...

As Facebook was negotiating a half-billion-dollar investment from Goldman Sachs recently, MySpace, once the dominant Web site for social networking, was preparing to fire nearly half its staff. The layoffs, which cut nearly 500 employees from a payroll of close to 1,100, were announced on Tuesday. The downsizing is the most draconian yet for the be...

At a crowded market in the city center here, the flotsam of the war is for sale. Ripped Fuel workout supplement. Ready-to-eat meals, macaroni and cheese "Mexican style." Pistol holsters. Nothing seems off limits to the merchants out for a quick dinar, not even a bottle of prescription pills from a pharmacy in Waco, Tex., probably tossed out by a de...

On Thursday afternoon, James Murdoch assembled senior executives in the top-floor boardroom in the News Corporation's London headquarters and told them of a momentous decision: To shutter the 168-year-old tabloid at the centre of a deepening phone-hacking scandal and the original heart of the Murdoch media empire in Britain.Hours earlier, he had pr...

As Facebook was negotiating a half-billion-dollar investment from Goldman Sachs recently, MySpace, once the dominant Web site for social networking, was preparing to fire nearly half its staff. The layoffs, which cut nearly 500 employees from a payroll of close to 1,100, were announced on Tuesday. The downsizing is the most draconian yet for the be...