Prince William and his wife Kate went Saturday to the Taj Mahal in Agra. This final stage of their one week journey in India and Bhutan rekindles remembrances for the royal couple ... – WN.com, Ayite C. d'ALMEIDA. ....
PEDERNALES, Ecuador (AP) — Rescuers pulled survivors from rubble Sunday after the strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast. Officials said the quake had killed at least 238 people and injured more than 1,500...Vice President Jorge Glas reported the death toll at a somber news conference, while PresidentRafael Correa flew back from Rome to deal with the crisis ... ___ ... ....
photo: NASA / ESA, CXC, NRAO/AUI/NSF, STScI, and R. van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI), and the HFF team
Stephen Hawking and his billionaire friends at Breakthrough gave us a glimpse into the development of a proposed exploration method this week involving nanotech spaceships, but when asked about actually finding alien life, the famed theoretical physicist admitted that he didn’t think it would be anytime soon ... (Note. The window to mission completion from announcement date is roughly 40 years.) ... [Image via Wikimedia Commons]....
It appears Netflix has dropped a tech-bomb on millions of Canadians who use VPNs to stream its U.S. service — rescuing Mary Ann Turcke’s daughter, and many of the rest of us, from a life of crime. Turcke is the Bell Media president who last year publicly snitched on her 15-year-old daughter for using a virtual private network (VPN) to access U.S. Netflix for movies and TV shows not available on Canadian Netflix....
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has affirmed Huntington IngallsInc.'s (HII) Issuer DefaultRating (IDR) at 'BB+', senior secured facilities at 'BBB-/RR1', and senior unsecured notes at 'BB+/RR4'. Fitch's ratings currently cover approximately $1.3 billion of long-term debt. The Rating Outlook is Stable. A full list of rating actions appears at the end of this release ... ....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 15 Apr 2016 5.09 PM EST. Fitch Ratings-Chicago-15 April 2016. Fitch Ratings has downgraded the ratings for Arendal, S. de R.L. de C.V. (Arendal) to 'C' from 'CCC'. A full list of rating actions follows at the end of this press release. KEY RATING DRIVERS. Restricted DefaultAppears Imminent ... Over the next three months more than 70% of Arendal's total debt is due ... --Unsecured notes due 2016 to 'C/RR4' from 'CCC/RR4'. Contact.....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 15 Apr 2016 2.39 PM EST. Fitch Ratings-Chicago-15 April 2016. Fitch Ratings has downgraded EnergyXXILTD's (NYSE... bankruptcy code. A full list of rating actions follows this release ... ('RR1'; 100%) at the first-lien secured level, average ('RR4'; 31 to 50%) at the second-lien secured level, and poor ('RR6'; 0%) at the unsecured level ... N/A ... --Senior secured second lien notes downgraded to 'C/RR4' from 'CCC-/RR2'; ... Contact.....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 15 Apr 2016 11.50 AM EST. Fitch Ratings-New York-15 April 2016. Fitch Ratings has affirmed Huntington IngallsInc.'s (HII) Issuer DefaultRating (IDR) at 'BB+', senior secured facilities at 'BBB-/RR1', and senior unsecured notes at 'BB+/RR4'. Fitch's ratings currently cover approximately $1.3 billion of long-term debt. The Rating Outlook is Stable...KEY RATING DRIVERS ... LIQUIDITY ... --Senior unsecured notes at 'BB+/RR4'....
Fitch has also affirmed ModernLand's senior unsecured rating and the ratings on all outstanding bonds at 'B', with RecoveryRating at 'RR4' ...Senior unsecured rating affirmed at 'B', Recovery Rating at 'RR4'. CNY1.1bn 11% senior notes due 2017 affirmed at 'B', Recovery Rating at 'RR4'. USD150m 13.875% senior notes due 2018 affirmed at 'B', Recovery Rating at 'RR4'....
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has affirmed OrbitalATKInc.'s (OA) Issuer DefaultRating (IDR) at 'BB+', senior secured facilities at 'BBB-/RR1' and senior unsecured notes at 'BB+/RR4'. Fitch's ratings currently cover approximately $1.5 billion long-term debt. The Rating Outlook is Stable. A full list of rating actions appears at the end of this release ... ....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 14 Apr 2016 2.33 PM EST. Fitch Ratings-New York-14 April 2016. Fitch Ratings has affirmed OrbitalATKInc.'s (OA) Issuer DefaultRating (IDR) at 'BB+', senior secured facilities at 'BBB-/RR1' and senior unsecured notes at 'BB+/RR4'. Fitch's ratings currently cover approximately $1.5 billion long-term debt. The Rating Outlook is Stable...KEY RATING DRIVERS ... KEY ASSUMPTIONS ... LIQUIDITY ... --Senior unsecured notes at 'BB+/RR4'....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 12 Apr 2016 12.01 PM EST. Fitch Ratings-Moscow-12 April 2016. Fitch Ratings has downgraded Carcade LLC's Long-term Issuer DefaultRatings (IDRs) to 'B+' from 'BB-' and removed them from RatingWatchNegative (RWN) ... The Recovery Rating of 'RR4' reflects Fitch's view of average recovery prospects for creditors in case of default ... downgraded to 'B+'/'A-(rus)' from 'BB-'/'A+(rus)', Recovery Rating 'RR4', off RWN. Contact.....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 11 Apr 2016 5.22 PM EST. Fitch Ratings-New York-11 April 2016... In addition, Fitch has affirmed Camposol S.A.'s USD200 million senior unsecured existing notes at 'B-/RR4'and assigned a 'B-/RR4exp' rating to its five-year USD200 million proposed senior secured notes. The RatingOutlook was revised to Negative from Stable ... 2, 2017 for a 10.5% senior secured notes due 2021 ... KEY ASSUMPTIONS ... --Senior unsecured notes 'B-/RR4'....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 12 Apr 2016 6.20 AM EST. Fitch Ratings-Hong Kong-12 April 2016...The Outlook is revised to Negative from Positive ... The one-notch downgrade of the senior unsecured rating reflects Fitch's expectations of lower recovery in the event of a default, which may be seen in the shift in the RecoveryRating to 'RR5', which represents below average recovery prospects, from 'RR4', which represents average recovery prospects ... 62%)....