At least 42 people have died when a passenger jet overshot a runway in north-east China and burst into flames. The Henan Airlines plane carrying 91 passengers and crew crashed in Heilongjiang province’s Yichun city, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It said 47 other passengers were rescued and taken to hospital. China Central Television [...]
The AP reports that for the first in U.S. history, a woman will lead one of its 16 major intelligence agencies. Letitia A. Long is set to become the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in a ceremony that is scheduled to take place today at the agency’s campus in Springfield, Virginia. Ms. Long’s 32 [...]
April 12 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve said Brian Madigan, the top staff adviser on interest-rate policy and an architect of the emergency-lending programs during the financial crisis, will retire later this year. Madigan, 56, will be succeeded July 23 as director of the Fed’s Division of Monetary Affairs by Deputy Director William English, 49, [...]