The Boeing 737-300 in question was only 15 years old when its skin peeled open along a riveted lap-joint while flying above 34, 000 feet (just over 10, 000 metres) with 118 passengers on board.

ECONOMIST: Aircraft fatigue

The French are not happy that German trains, not French ones, will run on the soon-to-open high-speed link between Moscow and St Petersburg, nor that Siemens is pulling out of its nuclear joint venture with Areva.

ECONOMIST: France, Germany and the European Union

The fate of Meego, a joint venture with Intel to create an open-source operating system, is less clear.

FORBES: Nokia CEO Clarifies Battle Against Android, Clears Up Misconceptions

We want to be able to trust that if we give him or her the stewardship of our joint resources, that this person will be open-handed in sharing the wealth.

FORBES: Generosity in Tight Times

While many details are left open, the joint statement was significant in that it put the AFL-CIO on record as favoring a program to admit future low-skilled workers, something labor had opposed in the past.

WSJ: Business, Labor Groups Find Little Accord on Immigration

Buck wrote the novel, titled "The Eternal Wonder, " shortly before she died in 1973, according to a joint statement released this week by New York-based Open Road Integrated Media, along with Buck's son, Edgar S. Walsh, and Inkwell, a literary management agency.

WSJ: Newly found Pearl S. Buck book is to be published

Phil Mickelson showed improved form with a 67 for eight-under 136, but joint first round leader Webb Simpson, the U.S. Open champion, slumped to a 75 to fall back to five-under.

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