Archives for: March 2010, 06

Business this week - Mar 4th 2010

Prudential, a British financial company, announced plans to buy the Asian life-insurance business of American International Group for $35.5 billion. AIG will use the money to help it repay some of the remainder of the $182 billion bail-out it received fr… more »

Politics this week - Mar 4th 2010

More than 800 people were confirmed dead and hundreds more were missing after an enormous earthquake, followed by a tsunami, struck south-central Chile. The government declared a state of catastrophe in two regions and sent troops to keep order after loo… more »