Azam Ahmed The New York Times

Afghan rescuers and hundreds of volunteers armed with shovels rushed on Saturday to help villagers hit by a massive landslide in the remote northeast a day earlier, officials said, as fears of a new torrent of mud and earth complicated rescue efforts.

Gordon Gekko is cooperating with the F.B.I. No, there's not another big-budget Oliver Stone follow-up to "Wall Street" in the works. Instead, Michael Douglas, who played the financier in the 1987 movie and the sequel, is now starring in a straight-to-television video for the Federal Bureau of Investigation meant to root out insider trading - the s...

Rajat K. Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to insider trading charges, setting the stage for a courtroom battle that will extend the government's broad crackdown on Wall Street to the corporate boardroom.

Federal prosecutors are expected to file criminal charges on Wednesday against Rajat K. Gupta, the most prominent business executive ensnared in an aggressive insider trading investigation, according to people briefed on the case.

As Raj Rajaratnam and Anil Kumar, a McKinsey consultant, walked out of a fund-raiser in Manhattan, Mr. Rajaratnam pulled his old friend aside and made him an offer: would Mr. Kumar provide him with insights for $500,000 a year?"You have such good knowledge that is worth a lot of money to me," he said, according to Mr. Kumar.Mr. Kumar faced an agoni...

Afghan rescuers and hundreds of volunteers armed with shovels rushed on Saturday to help villagers hit by a massive landslide in the remote northeast a day earlier, officials said, as fears of a new torrent of mud and earth complicated rescue efforts.

Gordon Gekko is cooperating with the F.B.I. No, there's not another big-budget Oliver Stone follow-up to "Wall Street" in the works. Instead, Michael Douglas, who played the financier in the 1987 movie and the sequel, is now starring in a straight-to-television video for the Federal Bureau of Investigation meant to root out insider trading - the s...

Rajat K. Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to insider trading charges, setting the stage for a courtroom battle that will extend the government's broad crackdown on Wall Street to the corporate boardroom.

Federal prosecutors are expected to file criminal charges on Wednesday against Rajat K. Gupta, the most prominent business executive ensnared in an aggressive insider trading investigation, according to people briefed on the case.

As Raj Rajaratnam and Anil Kumar, a McKinsey consultant, walked out of a fund-raiser in Manhattan, Mr. Rajaratnam pulled his old friend aside and made him an offer: would Mr. Kumar provide him with insights for $500,000 a year?"You have such good knowledge that is worth a lot of money to me," he said, according to Mr. Kumar.Mr. Kumar faced an agoni...