Special Reports
Special Report: Mexico's Zetas rewrite drug war in blood
VALLECILLO, Mexico - Mexican government forces had bottled up a band of enemy fighters in this tiny village late last year, but feared they would escape into the dusty, rock-strewn hills. So more than 600 soldiers and federal police closed in from all directions with armored Humvees and helicopters. | Video
Special Report: The algorithmic arms race
LONDON - It's the day after Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday party and David Harding, the head of one of the most successful hedge funds in the world, is bubbling with talk of black holes.
Special Report: Don't call him Mr. Merkel
BERLIN - Political spouses sometimes provide a spot of glamour. Then there is Joachim Sauer, a professor of theoretical chemistry.
Special Report: Vegas casinos gamble on online partners with a past
SAN FRANCISCO - To prime itself for the U.S. debut of legal online poker, MGM Resorts International, owner of such Las Vegas Strip monuments as the MGM Grand, the Bellagio and the Mirage, wanted a partner that knew the ropes. | Video
Special Report: The long, lethal shadow of asbestos
BOSTON - As anyone in the United States with a TV or Internet connection probably knows, lawyers want you if you've been exposed to asbestos, and they're paying to get you. | Video
Special Report: Chesapeake's deepest well: Wall Street
NEW YORK - Far from the drilling rigs of Oklahoma, America's second-largest natural gas producer is having to dig ever deeper into the well that really fueled its growth: Wall Street.
Special Report: Cuba's little capitalists are ready to rumba
HAVANA - When Ojacy Curbello and her husband opened a restaurant at their home in Havana in late December, not a single customer showed up.
Special Report: Documents allege money-laundering lapses at HSBC
NEW YORK - In April 2003, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York state bank regulators cracked the whip on HSBC Bank USA, ordering it to do a better job of policing itself for suspicious money flows. Staff in the bank's anti-money laundering division, according to a person who worked there at the time, flew into a "panic."
Special Report: Documents allege HSBC money-laundering lapses
NEW YORK - In April 2003, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York state bank regulators cracked the whip on HSBC Bank USA, ordering it to do a better job of policing itself for suspicious money flows. Staff in the bank's anti-money laundering division, according to a person who worked there at the time, flew into a "panic."
Special Report: Inside Chesapeake, CEO ran $200 million hedge fund
NEW YORK - As chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, Aubrey McClendon has been a powerhouse in the vast U.S. natural gas market, directing the company's multibillion dollar energy-trading operation and setting output targets for America's second-largest producer. | Video
Spain's Bankia eyes stake sales after record bailout
MADRID - Spain's fourth biggest lender, Bankia, on Saturday prepared to sell stakes it holds in companies to meet European competition rules after a state rescue that has so far cost 23.5 billion euros (18.77 billion pounds). | Video
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