US stocks slide amid concerns of bleak corporate outlookNEW YORK - US stocks fell Monday amid concerns of a gloomy outlook for fourth-quarter corporate earnings, the future of the car industry and whether government efforts to revive the economy would succeed. Hollywood director Robert Mulligan dies at 83LOS ANGELES - Robert Mulligan, the director of the movie classic ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ which brought the issue of entrenched racism in the US South to the screen, has died. He was 83. Schwarzenegger wants to become US presidentLOS ANGELES - Former action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger has not satiated his political ambitions by serving as California governor. UN to keep peacekeeping force in Congo for another yearNEW YORK - The UN Security Council decided Monday to keep its large peacekeeping operation another year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the main task of protecting civilians and improving security in the eastern part of the country. Obama to take oath on Lincoln’s BibleWASHINGTON - US president-elect Barack Obama will be sworn into office with the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used for his oath taking ceremony in 1861. |