Establishment News

Feb

Cellar victim Kampusch raped, starved in film of ordeal

VIENNA (Reuters) – A new film based on the story of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch shows her being repeatedly raped by the captor who beat and starved her during the eight-and-a-half years that he kept her in a cellar beneath his house.Kampusch was snatched on her way to school at the age of 10 by Wolfgang Priklopil and held in a windowless cell under his garage near Vienna until she escaped...

JPMorgan to eliminate 4,000 jobs in 2013

Label: Business

JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to cut 3,000 to 4,000 jobs in its consumer bank in 2013, representing about 1.5 percent of the...

Feb

Oscars analysis: 'Argo,' Ang Lee are night's big winners

Label: World

Blowing past the distant Civil War history of “Lincoln” and the more controversial recent history of “Zero Dark Thirty,” director and star Ben Affleck’s rousing, reassuringly apolitical thriller “Argo” won Sunday’s Academy Award for best picture.This was a rebuke to the very academy bestowing the prize: Affleck failed to receive a directing nomination...

Horsemeat found in IKEA meatballs

Label: Business

PRAGUE/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's IKEA stopped nearly all sales of meatballs at its furniture store cafeterias across Europe...

Feb

Daytona 500 still a go despite accident that injured fans

Label: World

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — ...

Promise, peril seen for crowd-funding investors

Label: Business

Crowd funding is widely seen as a revolutionary idea.A 2012 federal law known as the JOBS Act opens the door to allowing small,...

Feb

Charges filed in slaying of Clemente High School student

Label: World

Authorities filed charges against a 34-year-old man in connection with the shooting death of an 18-year-old Clemente High School...

16 airport investors show interest in Midway

Label: Business

An international array of airport investors and operators have shown interest in developing bids to privatize Midway Airport, the city announced Friday evening.Sixteen...

Feb