WALL STREET JOURNAL - Latest News - Around the world

WALL STREET JOURNAL - Latest News - Around the world

Detroit Free Press - The lawyer for Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was convicted of killing Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, said Sunday he'll file an appeal using an Al Qaeda leader's confession that he was the one who beheaded Pearl. In 2002, a Pakistani court

Union Board Members Oppose Chrysler Breakup: Reports
CNBC - We wouldn't support a sale to a private-equity investor," Gerd Rheude, a German labor union representative who holds a seat on DaimlerChrysler's board, told The Wall Street Journal Monday. "It's important for us that Chrysler won't be cut in pieces

China to expand trials of home-grown 3G platform to 10 cities - report
Forbes - BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - China will expand trials of its home-grown TD-SCDMA platform for third-generation mobile to 10 cities from the current five, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing an official with the Ministry of Information Industry. China

Parallels, Boot Camp help Apple make inroads
MacNN - Last year, Apple accounted for 4.4 percent of all new PC shipments in the U.S. professional market, up from 3.6 percent in 2005 and 3.2 percent in 2004, according to Gartner numbers published by The Wall Street Journal . In addition, Apple's share of

Reports: Barclays Near Deal For ABN Amro
Playfuls - The deal would be Europe's largest banking merger and make the British bank one of the world's largest financial institutions, The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported. Barclays said the talks were "early and exploratory" and were a result