Etan Patz ... his disappearance woke up New York parents to the dangers of the street. Photograph: Stanley K Patz/AP Last Thursday, the pickaxes arrived. On Prince Street in the SoHo area of downtown Manhattan, 40 investigators turned up, armed with equipment to dig up a basement beneath what is now a jeans store. To New York's shock, sadness and relief, it was possible that, less than a block from where his parents lived, Etan Patz had been found.Almost 30 years before Madeleine McCann disappeared from a hotel bed in Praia da Luz, a six-year-old boy named Etan Patz (pronounced Ay-tahn Pay-ts) walked out of his parents' home in SoHo, wearing his beloved pilot's cap and a corduroy jacket. It was the first time he ... Continue reading →
For Oriane and Norman Rousseau, their hopes of keeping the modest California house that had been their dream home ended with a loud noise while Oriane was in the kitchen.She rushed to the bedroom, unsure of what had happened. But when the part-time nurse smelled sulphur, she understood. Opening the door Oriane saw her husband on the bed with his head wrapped in a blanket. "I saw blood on the wall. I lifted up the comforter a little and then I lost it," Oriane told the Guardian in an interview.Norman's suicide on May 13 was the worst possible end for the Rousseau's nightmarish experience of America's foreclosure crisis. But it was a long, surreal and twisted journey to get there. It began in May 2009, ... Continue reading →
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Facebook: the $18.4bn share sale will be America's second biggest, behind Visa's $19.65bn sale in 2008. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP 8.52am: Trading action on Facebook shares is not likely to commence until 10:30am ET at the earliest, as bankers work through the mechanics of the offer, market sources said.8.30am ET: Mark Zuckerberg will ring the bell for the opening of the Nasdaq stock market at 9.30am as he kicks off a share sale that will value the company at $104bn.We'll be live blogging the day's events here in New York, and you can see how the fortunes of Zuckerberg and the social network crew rise (or fall).Not since Google's initial public offering (IPO) has a share sale been as closely watched. It's Super Bowl for social ... Continue reading →
Facebook became a public company on Friday after one of the most frenzied share sales in history led to the social network giant being valued at over $100bn.The share sale makes Facebook worth more than the combined worth of Goldman Sachs and Nike. Mark Zuckerberg, the company's 28-year-old founder and Facebook's largest shareholder, is now sitting on a fortune of over $21.6bn.Facebook shares were priced at $38 overnight but early trading on the tech-heavy Nasdaq stock market was delayed for two hours until 11.30am as the exchange systems seemed unable to cope with the scale of the initial public offering (IPO) and failed to send electronic reports back to traders and firms to confirm that shares had been bought or sold. More than 82m shares ... Continue reading →
