The crisis over doping has turned even Lance Armstrong into a pessimist about cycling’s short-term future.

Armstrong Team Falls With Cycling’s Image

Ben S. Bernanke is under pressure to help bail out investors who bought the risky mortgages that led to the current market panic.

Market Swings Are First Crisis for Fed Chairman

Central banks around the world acted in unison to calm investors by injecting tens of billions of dollars into the financial system.

Central Banks Intervene to Calm Volatile Markets

In Southampton, N.Y., high-profile guests are part of the quintessential summer barbecue.

A Hamptons Barbecue, Aglow With Star Power

The pilgrimage of Kurt Thometz has carried him from the grand salons of New York to his own bookshop, Jumel Terrace Books, on the ground floor of his family’s home.

Making a Home, and a Haven for Books

Maneuvers by those upset with the system are adding unpredictability to an already knotty campaign.

States Try to Alter How Presidents Are Elected

The nation’s largest buyer of home loans was blocked Friday by federal regulators from expanding its mortgage holdings.

Fannie Mae’s Offer to Help Ease Credit Squeeze Is Rejected, as Critics Complain of Opportunism

The Israeli side of a divided road being built through the West Bank has various exits; the Palestinian side bypasses Jerusalem.

A Segregated Road in an Already Divided Land

On a wet, cold night that marked Thomas Jones’s debut with the Jets, Leon Washington stole his thunder with two scintillating runs on special teams. 

Backup to Fore in Opener for Jets

Debbie Almontaser stepped down as the principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy after she was quoted defending the use of the word “intifada” as a T-shirt slogan.

Head of City’s Arabic School Steps Down Under Pressure

Fiat has introduced an updated version of the 500, or Cinquecento, the chubby little car that symbolized Italy’s postwar economic miracle.

Italian Pride Is Revived in a Tiny Fiat

A federal judge ruled that Novell, not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system, removing a cloud over open-source software.

Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell

“Combined sewer overflows” have been recognized as a major environmental problem for decades.

When It Rains, Sewage Often Pours Into Harbor

Pitchers Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain helped the Yankees move within five games of first place in the A.L. East with their ninth win in 11 games. 

Yanks of Future Offer Help in Present

Tiger Woods shot a round of seven-under-par 63 — tied for the lowest score in a major tournament — giving him a two-shot lead over Scott Verplank.

Hotter Than Hot, Woods Takes Lead

Lawmakers were told in July that eavesdropping on certain communications had fallen by 75 percent, helping to set off a furious legislative rush.

Reported Drop in Surveillance Spurred a Law

Scott Verplank, the diabetic marvel of the PGA Tour, is playing in front of a friendly crowd in his home state of Oklahoma. 

One More Reason to Smile for Verplank

A 15-year-old youth on Friday became the third person arrested in the fatal shootings of three young people on a Newark playground last week.

3rd Suspect, 15, Held in Newark Killings as Hunt Continues

The Tin Man is one of the rare racehorses who is still on top of his game at age 9. 

A Horse Saves His Best for the Stretch Run of His Career

Because of an editing error, a report from The Associated Press and a subheading in the baseball roundup in some copies on Thursday about Wednesday’s game between Baltimore and Seattle reversed the outcome. The Mariners won, 8-4  not the Orioles.

Correction: For the Record

After buying the video-sharing site YouTube nine months ago for $1.65 billion, Google plans to stop selling television shows on its homegrown video site.

Google Is Closing Its Video Retailing Operation

More than 100 soldiers may have been killed in fighting between Sudanese government troops and rebels in Darfur, an African Union spokesman said.

Concern Rises About Reports of New Fighting in Darfur

Several of the top marathoners in the United States recently visited Central Park, where they will return in November for the Olympic trials. 

Scouting Central Park With Hope of Reaching Beijing

Broadcom was tentatively awarded $39.3 million in damages and legal fees on Friday in a patent dispute with a rival chip maker, Qualcomm.

Judge Sides With Broadcom in Qualcomm Patent Fight

An article on Wednesday about the Israeli government’s eviction of Jewish settlers from houses they had been illegally occupying in the West Bank city of Hebron referred incorrectly to the ownership of the property. While Israel recognizes pre-1967 Palestinian leases to the property and does not allow Jews to violate those leases by living or squatting there, the property is considered by Israel to be owned by Jews who bought it before the nation was founded in 1948, and not owned by Palestinians.

August 11, 2007

Headlines from August 11, 2007

Armstrong Team Falls With Cycling’s Image

Market Swings Are First Crisis for Fed Chairman

Central Banks Intervene to Calm Volatile Markets

A Hamptons Barbecue, Aglow With Star Power

Making a Home, and a Haven for Books

Billboard 200

NOW 25

Hairspray

Planet Earth

Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus

T.I. Vs T.I.P.

Historical Context for August 11, 2007