FRANKFURT – DaimlerChrysler (DCX) on Wednesday offered staff at its premium division Mercedes Car Group voluntary redundancy packages that aim to cut 8,500 jobs in high-cost Germany over 12 months. The world’s fifth-biggest carmaker said the move to sharpen its competitive edge would cost 950 million euros, which it will …

Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! There are pictures posted on Wednesday’s blog, but I took none of them. They were taken by a colleague — FOX News producer/booker, Shayla Bezdrob. Shayla was in Baton Rouge (search) and New Orleans during and …

Don’t let the title “The Squid and the Whale” ( search) make you squirm. The poignant comedy has little to do with calamari and lots to do with a middle-class family slithering through the difficulties of divorce. But why talk divorce when writer/director Noah Baumbach ( search) just married actress …

WASHINGTON – The following is a transcribed excerpt of “FOX News Sunday,” Sept. 18, 2005. CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: For more on how the federal government will pay for the Katrina cleanup, we’re joined now from South Carolina by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator, good to have you with us once …

LONDON – British foreign policy played a role in motivating the July 7 London bombings, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens said Tuesday. Yusuf Islam, who had a string of pop hits in the 1960s and ’70s, said an al-Qaida video claiming responsibility for the attacks and linking them …

BATON ROUGE, La. – Senior Bush administration officials touring the Gulf Coast area devastated by Hurricane Katrina (search) expressed concern Tuesday about possible shortages of natural gas, saying that the region’s production may not recover for months. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman (search) said there is less known about the damage …

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) defended President Bush on Sunday against charges that the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina (search) showed racial insensitivity. “Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race,” the administration’s highest-ranking black said as …

Fall has unofficially begun — bringing with it the usual crop of Oscar hopefuls and would-be holiday blockbusters. The bigger releases — the latest “Harry Potter” movie, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “King Kong” — won’t be at your local cineplex until the …

WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service (search), recognizing increased gas prices around the country, on Friday increased the mileage reimbursement rate (search) that workers claim when they use personal cars for work. The decision raised the rate to 48.5 cents a mile for the last four months of the year, …

NEW YORK – Blue-chip stocks rose Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered remarks considered benign for stocks, while technology shares were hit by a Wall Street downgrade of semiconductor companies. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) gained 12.58 points, or 0.12 percent, to end at 10,456.21 and the …