UPI POY 2008 - News and Features
Virgin Group's Founder billionaire Richard Branson (L) and Burt Rutan, president of Scaled Composites, wave from the window of Virgin Galactic's mothership WhiteKnightTwo during its public roll-out in Mojave, California on July 28, 2008. The twin fuselage aircraft WhiteKnightTwo will carry SpaceShipTwo to launch commercial passengers into space. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)
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LONDON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Virgin Money, the consumer credit arm of British tycoon Richard Branson's business empire, has applied for a full banking license, documents indicate.
JERUSALEM, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Several world leaders, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, plan to visit Israel and the West Bank in an effort to advance the peace process.
LONDON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. has offered a customer who complained about food the chance to help select meals for future flights, the airline said.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- New York's largest record shop, the 12-year-old Virgin Megastore in Times Square, is set to close in April due to rising rents, the BBC reported.
LONDON, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- The daughter of British aviation tycoon Richard Branson helped save the life of an airline passenger who suffered a heart attack, company officials say.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Virgin Group Ltd. head Richard Branson was forced to give up on a trans-Atlantic record attempt out of New York due to poor weather, a company spokesman says.
LONDON, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- British billionaire Richard Branson's latest endeavor is the Virgin Money, a 99-foot yacht he wants to take on a record-breaking sail across the Atlantic.
LONDON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- British entrepreneur Richard Branson said the near-collapse of Halifax Bank of Scotland threatened Virgin Atlantic.
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Millionaire Richard Branson used a morning talk show to thank Preston Morrow, who found items of missing adventurer Steve Fossett in the California mountains.
LOS ANGELES, July 28 (UPI) -- British tycoon Richard Branson was in California's Mohave Desert Monday to unveil his new space plane, which would offer the first commercial spaceflight.
