New York - Pfizer Inc, the world's largest drug maker, said Tuesday that its quarterly earnings tripled on one-time items despite flat revenues.
Earnings rose to 2.28 billion dollars, or 34 cents a share, on job cuts and a favourable exchange rate, up from 761 million dollars, or 11 cents, in the year-earlier period when it was hit by a one-time charge for dropping an insulin drug, the company said in New York. Excluding one-time costs, profits rose 5 per cent.
New Delhi - At least 14 people were killed and 16 injured in a bomb blast suspected to be carried out by separatist militants in India's north-eastern state of Manipur on Tuesday, a news report said.
The bomb was planted on a motorcycle and exploded near the police commando barracks in Imphal, the state's main city, the IANS news agency reported.
Imphal police superintendent Radhe Shyam told the news agency that 11 people were killed on the scene, and three succumbed to injuries at the hospital.
Most of the victims were civilians, but some could be policemen.
Washington - With only 14 days to go before the US general election, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama crisscrossed swing states Tuesday that will be crucial to success on November 4.
Obama held a roundtable discussion in Tampa, Florida with economic advisors and state governors from across the country, part of a major tour this week by the Democratic nominee and his surrogates across the state that gave President George W Bush a wafer-thin victory in 2000.
Paris - Led by a surge of bank stocks after the French government's announcement of a capital injection, shares on the Paris Bourse ended trading on Tuesday with a modest gain, its third winning session in a row.
The benchmark CAC 40 closed up 0.78 per cent, to 3,475.40, with gainers and decliners running about even.
Vienna/Paris - The privatisation of Austrian Airlines AG is facing uncertainty as Air France-KLM said Tuesday it had dropped its bid, and a newspaper reported that Deutsche Lufthansa AG had also not submitted a formal offer.
According to the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, only the Russian S7 Airlines submitted a valid bid by the deadline on Tuesday at midday.
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New York - Pfizer Inc, the world's largest drug maker, said Tuesday that its quarterly earnings tripled on one-time items despite flat revenues.
New Delhi - At least 14 people were killed and 16 injured in a bomb blast suspected to be carried out by separatist militants in India's north-eastern state of Manipur on Tuesday, a news report said.
Washington - With only 14 days to go before the US general election, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama crisscrossed swing states Tuesday that will be crucial to success on November 4.
Paris - Led by a surge of bank stocks after the French government's announcement of a capital injection, shares on the Paris Bourse ended trading on Tuesday with a modest gain, its third winning session in a row.
Vienna/Paris - The privatisation of Austrian Airlines AG is facing uncertainty as Air France-KLM said Tuesday it had dropped its bid, and a newspaper reported that Deutsche Lufthansa AG had also not submitted a formal offer.
