Banker due back in court in cabbie hate crime case

STAMFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - William Bryan Jennings, the Morgan Stanley investment banker accused of a hate crime in the stabbing of an Egyptian-born taxi driver over a fare, was due back in a Connecticut court on Thursday. The charges against Jennings, who was placed on leave from his job as co-head of U.S. bond underwriting the day of his February 29 arrest, stem from a December 2011 incident when Jennings got into a cab in New York City after drinking at a Morgan Stanley holiday party. According to authorities, taxi driver Mohamed Ammar, an Egyptian-born U.S. ...

Fed's Dudley: Too soon to say economy out of danger

SYRACUSE, New York (Reuters) - The disappointing performance of the U.S. labor market in March shows it is too early to conclude the economy is out of the woods, despite months of encouraging economic data, New York Federal Reserve Bank president William Dudley said on Thursday. The Fed is gathering more data to determine whether last month's non-farm payrolls report, which showed the economy added way fewer jobs than expected, was just a weather-related setback or a sign the recovery is losing momentum again, Dudley said. An influential voting member of the U.S. ...

William and Harry top list of boys' names in 2011

William and Harry topped the list of babies' names in The Times birth announcements this year.

Prince William and Kate Middleton play street hockey - video

Prince William joined teenagers playing street hockey, in Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories.