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Top Gear's James May says fellow presenter Richard Hammond is "perfectly intact" despite his high-speed crash.


Coronation Street character Vera Duckworth makes her final appearance in the long-running soap.


Parigi, 13:09 - CALCIO, PORTOGALLO: UEFA PUNISCE SCOLARI, 4 GARE DI STOP

Luiz Felipe Scolari, ct del Portogallo, è stato squalificato per quattro gare dall'Uefa per i...


Ford to Offer Sirius Radio in More Vehicles

Ford Motor Co. said on Monday it would offer Sirius satellite radio in more vehicles, as Sirius fights to catch up with industry leader XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.


Tougher rules over travel insurance are needed to protect holidaymakers, an MPs' report says.


Yet Another Newspaper Aimed at Capitol Hill

Local media entrepreneur Robert Allbritton and Washington journalist Martin Tolchin are teaming up to create a new Capitol Hill-centric newspaper that will debut Nov. 21.


The prime minister will address MPs on the Asian quake disaster, as he tries to quell fresh rumours of a rift with Chancellor Gordon Brown.


Proposals to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been overthrown.


After a nearly two-month break in the hearings, Milorad Lukovic -- the accused ringleader of the March 2003 assassination of Zoran Djindjic -- answered questions by defense lawyers and the attorney representing ...


French judges target Villepin office in smear probe

French judges searched the offices of  former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Friday, a day  after targeting his home, as they investigated allegations he  unlawfully tried to wreck Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential hopes.


CBC SPORTS ONLINE - With the focus on wide receivers Terrell Owens and Randy Moss, quarterback Donovan McNabb decided to reclaim the Monday night spotlight for himself.


Bob Howsam, who assembled the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati, helped put the St. Louis Cardinals to a World Series and co-founded the Denver Broncos, died Tuesday in Sun City, Ariz. He was 89.


An al-Qaida-linked suicide bomber struck a safehouse occupied by an insurgent group that has turned against the terror network. Friday's attack northeast of Baghdad killed two other militants, police said, the latest sign that an internal Sunni power struggle is spreading.


The former head of MI6 denied Wednesday that the British intelligence agency was responsible for the car accident that killed Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi al Fayed, in 1997.


Many real people are holding parties celebrating Festivus, a holiday most believe was invented on an episode of "Seinfeld" first broadcast the week before Christmas in 1997.


Britain to review video game, Web laws for young

Britain's government said on Thursday it  had launched an inquiry to see what new legal measures may be  required to protect children from the impact of violent video  games and Web pornography.


President Bush yesterday nominated Samuel W. Bodman, the deputy secretary of the Treasury Department, to be the new energy secretary, turning to


Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee would seem to be the answer to their prayers, yet for many Christian conservatives in Iowa, he has not closed the deal for the Republican caucuses.


Cagliari, 13:21 - CALCIO, CAGLIARI: MERCOLEDI' OPERAZIONE CHIMENTI

Il portiere del Cagliari, Antonio Chimenti, sarà operato mercoledÃ¬ mattina a Torino per la le...


Chinese city bans sales of civet cats to prevent SARS

Beijing, Dec. 23 (PTI): With health authorities on alert against an outbreak of the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic, Shenzhen, a city in south China's Guangdong Province, has banned sales


Fifty-eight states sign up to an initiative to protect children from getting caught up in conflict as underage soldiers.


With the end to a grueling regular season in Saturday nightâs 21-13 loss to Auburn, there is finally some time for Alabamaâs players to rest and recover, but that time has not yet begun for the Tide coaching staff.


"No Country" adds honors in pre-Oscar awards blitz

LOS ANGELES  - Oscar front-runner "No Country For Old Men" picked up two awards during the weekend as the countdown to the Academy Awards entered its final week.


Yellow tape cordons off the back of historic Hebrew Cemetery, where workers moved 15 graves dating from the 1920s to the 1940s after heavy rains washed away part of the cemetery.


When, where: Tonight, 7:30, at Air Canada Centre, Toronto. TV, radio: NESN, WBZ (1030).


Passenger Vanishes As Cruise Ship Returns

A 54-year-old passenger vanished as a ship returned home from a five-day cruise to the Bahamas, and the Coast Guard launched a search.


Shell CEO in Moscow in search of Gazprom deal

Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) CEO Jeroen  van der Veer met Gazprom  chief Alexei Miller on  Friday in Moscow to discuss admitting the Russian gas monopoly  to the Sakhalin-2 project, a Gazprom official said.


Fabio Capello expected to be named as England boss tomorrow despite FA concerns over all-Italian staff


Inquiry Focuses on Withholding of Data on Loans

New York State prosecutors are investigating whether Wall Street banks withheld information about the risks posed by investments linked to subprime mortgages.


Fire trade Whitfield and Selolwane to Real

Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Real Salt Lake continued to fill out its roster Thursday when they acquired defender Evan Whitfield and forward Dipsy Selolwane from the Chicago Fire.


Baghdad experiences heaviest barrages for months

Loud explosions and heavy fighting rattled Baghdad on Sunday, as a new round of violence between US-Iraqi forces and insurgents broke out in the Iraqi capital, the heaviest for months.


Online video viewing rises at expense of TV

The boom in online video has started to  reduce the hours people spend watching television, a survey  said on Monday.


There are many ways in which celebrities and other noted figures ruined their images and livelihoods in devastatingly public fashion in 2007.


Arlington voters are backing a new stadium for Cowboys

ARLINGTON - Hang up your cleats and make yourselves comfortable, Dallas Cowboys. This will soon be your new home. One of the NFL's most storied franchises scored a victory at the polls Tuesday - to the tune


Epifani: La figura sindacali piu' importante del '900


According to a June 2004 report by industry research firm In-Stat/MDR, more than 10 percent of all broadband subscribers will use broadband IP telephony by the end of 2008.


Londra, 19:15 - CALCIO, PREMIER LEAGUE: MANCHESTER UTD-CHELSEA 2-0

Va al Manchester United il big match della settima giornata di Premier League. I red devils hanno ba...


Balky computers on the International Space Station were fully revived on Saturday, but crew members admitted the problem had worried them and served as a reminder that spaceflight is dangerous.


West Nile virus threat ebbs in Southern California

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Health and mosquito control officials are relieved this year's invasion of the West Nile virus - which infected nearly 800 Californians and killed 23 - wasn't as bad as expected.


Angry Jewish settlers yesterday said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's rejection of a proposed national referendum on his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip


NEW YORK - News Corp., the media company built by Rupert Murdoch, will join the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index after the close of trading on Dec. 17, S&P said on Tuesday.


EDITORIAL: Port Should Have Found Dioxin Earlier

By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.


Milano, 19:11 - CALCIO, BRONZETTI: ACCORDO ROMA-REAL, ORA DECIDE CHIVU

Real Madrid e Roma hanno raggiunto l'accordo economico per il trasferimento in Spagna di Cristian Ch...


Nameplate Switch Disrupts Council Meeting

NITRO, W.Va. - A city councilwoman refused to take her seat because someone switched her nameplate with another council member and glued them down, leading the mayor to order the police chief to find the culprit...


Indonesia Police Say More Terrorist Attacks Possible

Indonesian police are warning of more suicide attacks in the capital, Jakarta, after a truck bomb Thursday killed nine people and wounded more than 180 in front of the Australian embassy.


The world's top finance officials on  Friday asked oil-producing nations to step up production and  agreed it was crucial to work out exactly why prices have  soared to levels that threaten global growth.


Northwestern poised for emotional opener

The decals on the helmets. The patches on the uniforms. The pregame speeches on the nearby plaza. The halftime tribute on the scoreboard.


Biglietti fino a 10 mila euro, fra gli ospiti Bianca Jagger


A vanguard group of universities is giving corporations greater access to ivory-tower laboratories â for a price.


The international record industry announced Thursday that it is planning to file lawsuits against individuals who are sharing files, especially music, over the Internet.


Filippine: stop a operazioni di ricerca superstiti del tifone, 941 ...

Si sono concluse nelle Filippine le operazioni di ricerca dei superstiti della tempesta tropicale e dei tifoni che hanno colpito il nord del Paese. Lo hanno annunciato le autoritÃ  locali, precisando che il


Islamist to lead Somali opposition alliance

Somali opposition figures on Friday named a senior Islamist as chairman of a "liberation" alliance vowing war on Ethiopian troops and demanding the exit of Ugandan peacekeepers from the Horn of Africa nation.


Putin Signs Bill Nixing Governor Elections

President Vladimir Putin signed a bill Sunday to end the election of governors by popular vote, while more than 1,000 opposition activists converged on Constitution Day to denounce what they called his increasingly authoritarian rule.


Saudi govt disassociates itself from French report on bin Laden

The Saudi government has pulled the rug from under a French newspaper report about the alleged death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, saying in a statement that it "has no evidence to support" the contention.


Court OKs Vote on La. Marriage Amendment

A state appeals court ruled Monday that a proposed amendment to the state Constitution banning gay marriage should remain on the ballot, overturning a lower court ruling and sending the issue to the state Supreme Court.


NEW YORK -- About 1,150 options granted to chief executives at the lowest stock price of the month were the result of manipulation, according to estimates in a Harvard Law and Economics paper released yesterday.


Inflation fears weigh on stocks; c.banks eyed

Asian and European stocks tumbled on Monday while the dollar hit two-month peaks as last week's strong U.S. inflation data reduced expectations the Federal Reserve would deliver further interest rate cuts soon.


Crowds turn out in Paris for all-night culture fest

Hundreds of thousands of Parisians and tourists, encouraged by the mild autumn weather, flooded the streets of the French capital for the annual 'Nuit Blanche' (Sleepless Night), a night-long cutural festival which saw squares and street corners turned into open-air cinemas and music venues.


Stock market indicators turn positive as world oil prices retreat

TORONTO (CP) - With oil prices receding, North American stock markets seem poised to advance Thursday, the last day of the financial third quarter for many corporations.


MoD says Muthanna handover is 'matter for Iraqis'

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said that any decision to transfer power from the US-led coalition to Iraqi forces is a matter for the Baghdad government, after reports the first handover could happen next week.


Madonna di Campiglio, 16:00 - MOTOGP, DUCATI; GUARESCHI: STONER-MELANDRI COPPIA ASSORTITA

Vittoriano Guareschi dal 2001 è collaudatore e sviluppatore della Ducati e si devono anche a ...


Bosses of trouble-hit British Airways have vowed to put their recent difficulties behind them as they joined airport staff to help cope with the Bank Holiday exodus.


South Dakota Sen. Race Deemed Most Costly

The South Dakota race that will determine whether Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle stays on Capitol Hill is the costliest congressional election so far this year.


Lindsay Lohan and her personal problems have enlivened the punch lines of late-night TV hosts. Now, Britney Spears is taking a turn. In a posting on her Web site titled, "You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Like Me," the 25-year-old pop princess asks her "most die-hard fans" to help name her upcoming album.


Obesity may be a global epidemic, but it's Obeez City that is spreading out of control in a new DVD game.


YUKOS awaits US ruling on break-up order

Embattled Russian oil group YUKOS (YUKO.RTS: Quote, Profile, Research) should hear later on Thursday whether a US bankruptcy court will attempt to hold up the


By Anonymous  VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL    Children may romp in the outdoors to their hearts' delight when THE TABLE COMMUNITY CHURCH presents Camp Willow from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday.


NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Citigroup shares slid 95 cents, or 2 percent, to $46.00 in pre-market trade Monday after Merrill Lynch sliced its recommendation on the stock to "neutral" from "buy.


Nicole Kidman's new film, in which she shares a bath with a 10-year-old boy, caused outrage at its first screening. The director Jonathan Glazer tells Sheila Johnston why he thinks this was a good sign.


Cagliari, 18:41 - CALCIO, CAGLIARI: BALLARDINI ATTENDE RINFORZI

Spera nei rinforzi il nuovo tecnico del Cagliari, Davide Ballardini, dopo la sconfitta dei sardi con...


Bankrupt US Airways hopes for profitability by 2007

ALEXANDRIA, VA. The former chief financial officer for US Airways is offering a bleak outlook for the carrier. Dave Davis told a bankruptcy court in Virginia the airline doesn't expect to turn a profit until 2007.


Grownup, shutdown The old School Virus writers (VXers) scene is dying a death, according to Symantec.â¦


Florida professor admits he was Cuban spy

A Florida professor admitted Tuesday he had been a Cuban spy for nearly 30 years, and his wife -- also a professor -- admitted she knew of his conduct, authorities said.


Antimicrobial May Harm Developing Nervous System

Prolonged exposure to a germ killer widely used in industry and in household and personal care products, stunts the growth of developing nerves in the brains of rats, according to new research.


It will be at least Monday before French doctors know what's ailing Yasser Arafat, a hospital spokesman said yesterday, hours after the Palestinian leader arrived in Paris for


Pedro Martinez is no longer the focal point of the Boston Red Sox, nor even the staff ace, for that matter. Game 1 used to be his, automatically.


Paul cracks code to go on mission for England

THE perception now is that rugby leagueâs best qualities have been absorbed by rugby union, considering the influence of its former adherents in the England team that


'Foreigners' Killed in Attack in Iraq's Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq  - Gunmen attacked a car in the  northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, killing three men who  appeared to be three foreigners and their Iraqi driver before  cutting off the head of one in a daylight attack.


One Saudi policeman was killed and three others were wounded in clashes with militants in a town northeast of Riyadh. A number of suspects were arrested in the battles, officials said.


Prince Harry will join the army in early 2005 after passing his Sandhurst entrance exams, Clarence House says.


Thaksin urges supporters to accept party ban

Exiled former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has urged his supporters to accept the disbanding of his party and a five-year political ban on its top leadership.


U.S. Officials Raid Stores, Arrest 2 in Game Piracy

Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said on Wednesday.


Microsoft to authorize Yahoo proxy battle: report

Microsoft Corp will authorize a proxy battle for Yahoo Inc this week to convince the Web company's shareholders to agree on a takeover deal that the Yahoo board so far has rejected, the New York Times' DealBook blog said on Tuesday.


First-degree and second-degree murder charges should be introduced in England and Wales, government advisers say.


Trump casino business files for bankruptcy

NEW YORK -- Donald J. Trump's casino empire has filed for bankruptcy protection after months of negotiations with bondholders over restructructuring a crushing debt.


Air Force Indefinitely Grounds Many F-15 Jets

The Air Force will keep more than 40 percent of its older model F-15 fighter jets grounded indefinitely after discovering that critical support beams have manufacturing flaws dating back nearly 30 years that could lead to catastrophic damage to the aircraft.


African Union Probes Cease-Fire Violation

This small village of mud and straw huts lay ruined and abandoned Sunday, the ground charred, after residents said Sudanese soldiers attacked with a warplane and helicopters


By The Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Four days after evacuating the Kennedy Space Center with Tropical Storm Ernesto approaching, the space shuttle Atlantis' six crew members flew back to Florida on Saturday to prepare for a launch on Wednesday.


David Blaine has escaped — again. Shackled to a spinning gyroscope and hovering forty feet above Times Square, the magician managed to free himself Thursday about 2:15 p.m., bringing an end to his latest stunt.


The Asian and European markets are down Monday following declines on Wall Street last week.


KOROLYOV. Feb 4 (Interfax-AVN) - NASA considers that the spacewalk of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Michael Lopez- Alegria is of normal mode, NASA representative at the Russian Mission Control Center Sergei Puzanov told Interfax-AVN.


Iraqi Shi'ite Leader Escapes Bomb, 13 Die

A suicide car bomber hit one of Iraq's  biggest Shi'ite Muslim parties running in elections next month,  killing 13 people but missing its leader -- hours before the  most prominent Sunni party withdrew from the historic poll.


MINIEH, Lebanon, Aug. 24 -- Sixty-three women and children were evacuated from the battle-wrecked Nahr al-Bared refugee camp on Friday, following more than three months of fighting there between the Lebanese army and members of the al-Qaeda-inspired group Fatah al-Islam, the Lebanese army said.


CBI chief Lambert wants Britain to help lead energy innovation

Richard Lambert, recently appointed head of the Britain's main employers' body, the CBI, urged the country to be a world leader in new industries set to spring from development of 'green' energy.


A vaccine that could help wipe out Type 1 diabetes will be tested on patients next year. Two teams of British scientists working on the vaccine said it halts the destruction


California's anti-car fortnight causes concern

As does HP's new snowballing habit. Ew Letters Take a deep breath in. Breathe out and congratulate yourself. You have made it to Friday, and are soon to be rewarded with a weekend (unless you work on Saturdays or something).â¦


Militant Islamists See Web As Mouthpiece

Anyone with an Internet connection can watch videos of bombings and sniper attacks against U.S. forces -- shot and edited by Islamic militants and broadcast on YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing Web ...Comment


No. 15 Michigan St. Stuns No. 3 Notre Dame

Lindsay Bowen made a game-tying 3-pointer and scored five of her 23 points in overtime to lead No. 15 Michigan State to an 82-73 victory over third-ranked Notre Dame on Thursday night.


Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Saturday he's in "fighting mood" with two months to go to the presidential as his allies defended him from questions about his valor in Vietnam.


AUBURN, Calif. -- Leta Lindley's Florida home remains in the eye of the hurricane. She has an infant son to coddle and the death of her longtime coach to mourn.


Secretive North Korea signed a handful of deals with resource-rich Mongolia on Friday, Chinese state media said, in the first visit by a high-ranking North Korean official to Ulan Bator since 1988.


Tributes flow in for Australian Shane Warne after he becomes Test cricket's most prolific wicket-taker.


Judge skeptical of Rumsfeld torture suit

A U.S. judge expressed skepticism on Friday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could be held personally liable for the abuse of Iraqi and Afghan prisoners, including at Abu Ghraib.


Movie Review | 'Dam Street': Rejected by Society, a Woman Struggles to Carry On

Like any number of Chinese films that make the festival rounds, âDam Streetâ offers a portrait of alienation in a post-Mao world as believable as it is grim, grim, grim.


Airbus may sell 4 factories to U.S. Spirit: paper

European plane maker Airbus   plans to agree in the coming week to sell four of its European  factories to U.S. group Spirit AeroSystems Holdings , a  German newspaper reported on Saturday.


Republicans swept the five Democratic Southern Senate seats up for election, expanding their majority by at least three seats in the US Senate, and appeared to have scored a major upset by


Dell slips up with Linux PC warranty options

Blog: The company "inadvertently" removes extended warranty choices for Linux PCs, but they'll be back Tuesday.


Libby plans to testify in CIA leak trial

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff plans to take the stand at his upcoming trial to tell jurors that he never lied to investigators in the CIA leak case, defense attorneys said Friday.


Kellogg  Co , the world's biggest maker of breakfast cereal, on Monday reported a rise in quarterly earnings as increased sales and a weak dollar helped offset higher prices for ingredients such as corn and milk.


Colo. killer claims creativity in slayings

Robert Charles Browne says he shot some of his victims and strangled others, in one case with a pair of leather shoelaces. He knocked out one woman with ether, then used an ice pick on her. He put a rag soaked in ant killer over another victim's face and stabbed her nearly 30 times with a screwdriver.


London: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India does not see outsourcing as an issue in its relations with Washington and hoped an objective view will emerge on the backlash against it in the United States.


Brentan, offerta dopo registrazione acquisto quota 7,15%


The EU bars most of Pakistan International Airlines' fleet within its airspace due to safety concerns.


NEW YORK - Bill Clinton was hospitalized with chest pains and shortness of breath Friday and will undergo heart bypass surgery in an operation that could sideline the former president at the height of the campaign for the White House.    An angiogram showed that Clinton, who turned 58 two weeks ago, had significant blockage in his heart arteries but did not suffer a heart attack, a doctor who performed the test told The Associated Press...


I fiorettisti 'sfiduciano' Magro E il ct sbatte la porta

ROMA, 10 OTTOBRE 2004 - Un oro a squadre ed un argento individuale con Salvatore Sanzo, conquistati ad Atene alle ultime Olimpiadi, non sono servite ad evitare la sfiducia che la squadra di fioretto maschile azzurra ha operato nei confronti del ct azzurro


Development May Endanger Protected Species

The Bush administration said Friday it will allow developers to complete construction and other projects even after belated discoveries that the work could endanger protected species.


Dortmund, 18:30 - CALCIO, BORUSSIA DORTMUND: PRESO KOVAC DALLA JUVE

Il centrale croato della Juventus Robert Kovac è stato acquistato dal Borussia Dortmund. Lo h...


Salvage crews are to try to refloat a truck ferry which has run aground off the Blackpool coast.


Israel's prime minister says he hopes to meet the Palestinian leader for a summit in the coming days.


HP, IBM fight to 2nd place tie in storage

(InfoWorld) - If the competition between IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the computer storage business were a horse race, you'd need a photo to determine how they finished the first quarter. But it would only be for the second place ribbon. IBM and HP tied for second place behind EMCÂ in a report released Thursday by IDC tracking external disk storage sales in the first three months of 2007. HP rang up $575 million in revenue for a 13.4 percent market share to IBM's $545 million in revenue and 12.7 percent share. Because the market share numbers were less than one point apart, IDC considers that a "statistical tie." Still, both trailed EMC's $912 million in revenue for a 21.2 percent share. Unlike HP and IBM, EMC is primarily a storage vendor and doesn't sell servers, computers, or printers. "IBM and HP have been pretty close for some time and they continue to just battle it out," said Brad Nisbet, program manager for IDC Storage Systems research. HoweverÂ HP's sales fellÂ 1 percent in the first quarter, compared to the first quarter of 2006, whileÂ IBM's roseÂ 4.8 percent, which Nisbet attributes to HP's dated product lines. HP stands to benefit from what Nisbet said is an upcoming refresh of its high-end XP storage models, developed through HP's collaboration with Hitachi Data Systems. But the Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) and Modular Smart Array (MSA) lines could also use some improvements. "EVA was up 15 percent in this quarter and didn't do too bad, but I think over time they are going to need to refresh that product line," Nisbet said. In an effort to improve its storage business,Â HP recently namedÂ former Hitachi Data Systems CEO David Roberson as senior vice president and general manager of its StorageWorks division, effective May 30. The external disk storage market refers to storage technology that is not built into a server and is the lion's share of the disk storage market. However, in the total disk storage market, HP lead with $1.24 billion in revenue for a 20.1 percent share, followed by IBM's $1.12 billion, 18.3 percent share. EMC fell to third with a 14.8 percent share because it doesn't sell internal storage so its $912 million external storage revenue is its total storage hardware revenue. The IDC numbers show a similar trend to that in a report released Tuesday by Gartner, although each counts storage revenue differently. Gartner gave IBM second place with a 13.2 percent share and HP third with 12.8 percent; it doesn't consider that a statistical tie. EMC lead in that report too, with a 24.5 percent share. Overall, global first quarter external disk storage revenue grew by 4.8 percent over the year ago quarter to $3.8 billion, according to Gartner, and by 5.9 percent to $4.3 billion, according to IDC.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!


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Saskatoon's super microscope set to open

SASKATOON - Scientists in Saskatoon are set to unveil a synchrotron on Friday, a state-of-the-art research facility and Canada's largest science project in 30 years.


Studio Coldiretti, calano rispettivamente del 7% e del 3,9%


The Bank of England leaves interest rates unchanged at 4.75%, after weak UK retail and manufacturing data.


Eyes on Glazer as bid approach made for Manchester United

Manchester United have received a bid approach that boosted their shares on Monday and fanned talk that US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer is planning a bid likely to top 650 million pounds ($1.


UK Can't Hold Terror Suspects Indefinitely

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, takes the arm of Home Secretary David Blunkett, with his seeing eye dog, Sadie, in Sheffield, England, in this Thursday, Dec. 9 2004, file photo.


Ex-Chess Champion Fischer to Marry Japanese Woman

In a bold gambit worthy of the chess  champion he once was, Bobby Fischer plans to wed a four-time  Japanese great in the hope of avoiding deportation home to the  United States, where he is wanted for breaking sanctions.


Private firms and voluntary groups should run schemes to get people off benefits and into work, a report will say.


Armed men kidnap the mother of Robinho, one of Brazilian football's brightest young stars.


Indonesia Criticises Australia's Missile Plan

The Indonesian government has expressed concern about Australia's plan to equip its fighter jets with long-range cruise missiles.


Monsanto Posts Loss, Herbicide Sales Drop

Agricultural chemicals maker Monsanto Co. (MON.N: Quote, Profile, Research) posted a quarterly net loss on Wednesday as a drop in Roundup herbicide sales in the


The Beirut government insists it will hold a presidential vote, despite the killing of an anti-Syrian politician.


Britain's Lewis Hamilton claims pole position in his McLaren for Sunday's British Grand Prix at Silverstone.


Fergie and Wenger agree to bury the hatchet (not in each other)

Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have agreed to end the war of words that has erupted between them over the last week after a peace summit between directors of their two clubs, Manchester United and Arsenal.


Cronenberg Drifts From Tech Horror, but Shocks Remain

In an age of readily available "snuff porn," director David Cronenberg trades his sci-fi-tinged terrors for more everyday, earthly nightmares.


Conrad Black tells history producers FDR was century's most important person

TORONTO (CP) - Former U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, if he were alive today, would have supported the American invasion of Iraq, but only after a much more effective job of coalition-building, says Conrad Black, Canada's beleaguered media tycoon and historian.


Aamir Khan to co-produce with PVR pictures

Ajay Bijli of PVR line of cinema halls has decided to move into the movie production business. PVR


Zimbabwe's leader swears in a tribunal to investigate misconduct charges against the ex-attorney general.


Zakir Hussein considers himself to be a sensitive villain.


Automotive aftermarket chain Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack Inc. on Wednesday said its third-quarter profit dropped, despite higher sales.


Government vets work through the night at a poultry farm in Suffolk to contain an outbreak of bird flu.


With interest waning, NHL needs Wayne to rescue game

Eventually, they'll play hockey again. Maybe the owners will get their way and institute a salary cap. Maybe the players will get their way and a luxury tax will be imposed.


Romney, McCain, Huckabee Contest in Georgia Close

Bloomberg - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney, John McCain and Mike Huckabee were battling for first place in Georgia's Republican presidential primary, and the race was too close to call after polls closed at 7 p.m. local time.


Walters denies "The View" tiff a ratings stunt

Barbara Walters, creator and co-executive producer of ABC's talk show "The View," denied that this week's heated on-air clash over Iraq between Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck was a ratings stunt.


Dec. 23 is anniversary of 1st transplant

Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn't thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.


Microsoft Fixes ISA Server Spoofing Flaw

A bug in Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2 can let hackers spoof Web content, such as a trusted site, with their own fake content, the Redmond


Washington announces a major new initiative to try to tackle the production of illegal drugs in Afghanistan.


Udine, 17:34 - CALCIO, UDINESE: DI NATALE RECUPERATO

Recupero importante per l'Udinese in vista della sfida con il Napoli. Pasquale Marino, tecnico dei f...


Boeing is to supply Japan Airlines with up to 50 of its forthcoming 7E7 aircraft in a deal that could be worth up to $6bn.


Bush Signs Law to Boost North Korean Human Rights

President Bush has signed a law aimed at bolstering human rights and market reforms in North Korea, officials said on Tuesday.


WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.    At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, Lt...


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Brian Sean Griffith, a former bodyguard to figure skater Tonya Harding who admitted a role in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during Olympics tryouts, has died. He was 40.


W.N.B.A. Selects Golf Executive to Step to Fore

Donna Orender, a high-ranking PGA Tour executive, has been named president of the Women's National Basketball Association.


Dutch court lifts obstacle to ABN-Barclays takeover

The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday lifted a major obstacle to a bid by Barclays of Britain to buy ABN Amro, ruling that ABN could sell its US subsidiary without shareholder approval.


Media & professional: From child poverty to reading skills, can Gordon's Brown's ambitious plans to promote the 'wellbeing, safety and care' of young people work?


Britain's financial authorities stepped in to rescue mortgage lender Northern Rock  on Friday as the group, which has lent aggressively to home buyers, fell victim to the sharp rise in borrowing costs between banks.


That wasn't easy. Team USA beat Greece Tuesday, but barely, edging out a 77-71 victory. We definitely played better than we did in game one against Puerto Rico, but still not well enough to dominate like we should.


In mutual funds, how much turnover is too much?


Merkel expected to press China on climate

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is  expected to push for tougher global action against climate  change and ending human rights abuses in Darfur in meetings  with top Chinese officials on Monday.


Celebrity Fund-Raiser Imprisoned for Charity Fraud

One of Hollywood's top fund-raisers was sentenced on Monday to 63 months in prison for skimming donations intended for charity galas to pay personal expenses, prosecutors in Los Angeles said.


New York, 22:56 - BASKET, MERCATO NBA: PAU GASOL AI LAKERS

Lo spagnolo Pau Gasol lascia Memphis e passa ai Lakers in cambio di Kwame Brown, Jarvis Crittenton e...


A growing number of Google millionaires are hoping to parlay their newfound wealth into even greater riches by bankrolling technology start-ups.


Kerry Rips Bush Over Assault Weapons Law

Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Monday accused President Bush of ducking his responsibility to protect the country from crime and terrorism by allowing a national assault weapons ban to expire.


Alienware evolves from gamers to corporates

Revamped website signals desire for broader customer base


Obesity specialists say society must stop seeing the condition as an individual's "failing" and act to help people live more healthily.


A new device offers a pixel layout that saves battery life and presents a sharper picture.


Report: Global Warming at Critical Point

Global warming is approaching the point of no return, after which widespread drought, crop failure and rising sea levels will be irreversible, an international climate change task force warned Monday.


High-profile Polish-German talks in Berlin are set to be overshadowed by a World War II reparations row.


Q Yesterday, I was looking for a parking space at a mall when I spotted a car pulling out that was going the same direction I was. Across from me was another car driving in the opposite direction, also looking for a space. Since I was on the same side as the car that was leaving, I pulled into the ...


Celtic manager Martin O'Neill said last night he would be speaking to the agents of several players this week to get them to sign new contracts.


The Public Affairs Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints revamped its "Newsroom" Web site and officially opened it to the public Thursday.  The site, www.newsroom.lds.org, will serve as the official resource for news media, opinion leaders and the general public.


Iran to settle atom inquiry issues within month: IAEA

Iran agreed to answer remaining questions about its past covert nuclear activities within a month during talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency chief, the U.N. watchdog said on Sunday.


At least six Afghan security personnel die in a roadside blast in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.


WASHINGTON -- Oil prices fell yesterday as OPEC's president said supplies were growing faster than demand and traders breathed easier knowing that petroleum production in the Gulf of Mexico did not suffer as a result of Hurricane Frances.


Pakistani officials trying to muddy the water over Benazir Bhutto's murder, husband tells the Guardian


RealNetwork's 49 cent downloads rile Apple

Seattle, WA, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- RealNetworks Inc., is taking on Apple Computer's wildly successful iTunes Music Store with a half-price sale offering music downloads for 49 cents a song.


Bush Is Upbeat About Economy's Prospects

The White House is betting that the steps it has taken to address the housing and financial crises will be enough to avert a recession without resorting to a major tax cut or new spending, as leading economists in both parties have urged, senior administration officials said.


Rodney Dangerfield, Beating Troubles To the Punch Line

Many labels were hung on Rodney Dangerfield during his long, frenetic heyday as the funniest joke teller in America. His was "the comedy of angst," or "the comedy of anxiety," or "the comedy


Oracle announced the creation of Oracle Collaboration Suite, a real-time toolkit enabling enterprises to collaborate and manage content in whole new ways.


Venezuela is to take an audit of the vote which has kept President Chavez in office, after charges of fraud.


Will Ferrell, best-known for boisterous, off-the-wall characters, said it was liberating to take on a dramatic role in his new movie but he has no illusions of artistic grandeur.


'Eagle vs. Shark': Revenge of the New Zealand nerds

The scruffy microbudgeted film pairs two lovelorn geeks in an unlikely romantic comedy about 'little people' finding love.


Human Genome Sciences' Anthrax Treatment Clears Hurdle

Human Genome Sciences said yesterday that ABthrax, its experimental treatment for anthrax infection, dramatically increased survival in animals exposed to lethal doses of anthrax spores.


G.M.âs Car Sales Rise in an Otherwise Tough Month

Automakers got off to a rough start in 2008, but General Motors served up a surprise on Friday with higher sales in January on strong demand for its new car models.


Sport: Malcolm Speed insists ICC will not be held to ransom by India over Harbhajan Singh affair


Bank of America to buy Countrywide for $4 billion

Bank of America Corp said on Friday it agreed to acquire battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp in a $4 billion transaction that could help avert one of the biggest collapses from the U.S. housing crisis.


How research in the wake of the French Revolution opened the door for modern medicine.


'Incremento commercio internazionale per evitare inversione'


Ray Lewis has mentored Ed Reed to forge a "wonder twin" defensive combination that has helped each to greater on-field achievements.


Storm-tossed Spanish fishing boat found off Scotland

A Spanish fishing boat that went missing in a brutal storm off northwest Scotland has been located, and its crew of 19 appears to be safe, the Royal Air Force and coastguard officials said.


Iraq to Widen Arms Amnesty, Bring Falluja to Heel

Iraq's interim government will declare  a nationwide arms amnesty next week, but insists the city of  Falluja must turn in foreign militants or face assault,  National Security Adviser Kassim Daoud said on Monday.


'Ray' Raises the Curtain on Oscar's Stage

When the movie "Ray," about  legendary singer Ray Charles, hits U.S. theaters on Friday,  "Georgia on My Mind" won't be the only thing Hollywood is  thinking about. The battle for Oscars nominations will take  center stage as well.


Indonesia puts quake-tsunami death toll up to 40,000

The Indonesian government said Wednesday the death toll from Sunday's earthquake and tidal waves could reach 40,000 in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces as more countries are pledging assistance.


Tech industry most trusted in Ireland: survey

Government doesn't fare so well Would you buy a used car from this man (right)? You would if he worked in the technology sector, according to a new survey. â¦


Toll Brothers Inc. , the  largest U.S. luxury home builder, said on Wednesday signed  contracts were down 45 percent in the quarter just ended when  compared with a year ago, as the U.S. housing market continued  to slide.


A dicembre registrata una diminuzione del 2,2%


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Quattro dei rapitori della madre del fuoriclasse del Santos Robinho sono stati catturati nella notte...


LARRY FITZGERALD 29 YD PASS FROM JOSH MCCOWN

The Seattle Seahawks are back in the playoffs, led by a couple of record-setting performances by Shaun Alexander and Darrell Jackson.


THE BOYS OF WINTER: We Won't Be Flash in Pan, Leyland Vows

By Jon Paul Morosi, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 17--LAKELAND, Fla. -- They gathered beside Joker Marchant Stadium in the Friday morning chill, a great circle of pitchers and catchers, coaches and management. A gray-haired man stood in the middle.


Microsoft to fix Xbox 360s, take $1B-plus charge

InfoWorld - Microsoft expects to take an earnings charge of more than $1 billion for the quarter that ended in June related to expenses it will incur fixing faulty Xbox 360 machines.


ASEAN recognizes China as market economy

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has recognised China as a full market economy, Chinese state press reported following a meeting of ASEAN finance ministers in Indonesia.


The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency began a series of meetings yesterday in Vienna. The meetings, set to continue until the end of the week, will focus on Iran's nuclear program.


Global food retailer Royal Ahold NV said Thursday it will sell two of its U.S. grocery chains, BI-LO and Bruno's, to Dallas-based Lone Star Funds for $560 million in cash.


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The political movement loyal to radical cleric Moqtada Sadr withdraws from Iraq's governing Shia alliance.


Pope puts 5 faithful on path to sainthood

VATICAN CITYâPope John Paul II yesterday honoured two figures linked to controversy, beatifying German mystic Sister Anna Katharina Emmerick, whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's film The Passion Of The Christ, and the


Sprint's Forsee Strikes After Court-Ordered Takeover Ban Lifted

Sprint Corp. Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee said he began merger talks with Nextel Communications Inc. in March, as soon as he was freed from a court order that barred him from pursuing acquisitions.


Evgeni Malkin was injured during his first NHL exhibition game Wednesday night when he collided with Pittsburgh Penguins teammate John LeClair early in the second period.


NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Al Qaeda-inspired militants killed four Lebanese soldiers on Thursday in fierce battles at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, security sources said.


At least 34 people killed in blasts in Indian city

HYDERABAD, India  - Three explosions within minutes, one at a street-side food stall and two in an amusement park, killed at least 34 people in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday, police and officials said.


LONDON: All-rounder Andrew Flintoff will seek to cap his perfect year today with a match-winning performance in the Champions Trophy final against West Indies.


French pair pitch in to help tsunami-stricken Sri Lankan fishermen

In the month since the tsunami struck Sri Lanka, Frenchmen Pierre Layac and Jacques Quentin have bought six fishing boats for use by devastated locals, have been operating a pre-school, are building another and ...


Fratellis e gli altri emozioni made in UK

Forward, Russia!, Horrors, Get cape wear cape fly, le 'new' band che animano e infiammano la scena musicale britannica


US forces pound Fallujah and nearby villages, Iraqis say 44 dead

The United States launched new airstrikes on the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and nearby villages Friday, and Iraqi officials


The online dating service Chemistry.com plans to unleash a new advertising campaign that seeks to depict its competitor, eHarmony.com, as out of touch with mainstream American values.


NZ power company decimated by rebranding madness

Whalesong and joss-stick induced meltdown LogoWatch LogoWatch regulars among you know that the symptoms of rebranding madness (the process by which companies pay suitcases full of cash to Strategy Boutiques who then, high on the scent of joss-sticks and to the distant sound of whalesong, fearlessly redefine the corporate brand frontage paradigm) range from light motivational slogan generation (Accelerate Convergence!), to full-blown infection wherein thousands of hours are expended at the flipchart flowcharting the company logo to better express the "value proposition it represents to constituents".â¦


EGYPT CAIRO - Osama bin Laden plans a new video addressing the American people regarding the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, terror monitoring groups said yesterday. SITE Intelligence Group said an Internet announcement of the plan included a photo of the Al Qaeda leader from the upcoming video - his beard, which in previous messages had been streaked with ...


Golf and Intel Inside China threaten the American Dream

Losing all faith in your putter and PC And Ninthly The decadence of the new age crushed Johnny Stumpy's spirit. He'd always thought of himself as a noble vagabond, a street-licker with virtue. Then, the old man pounded him in the head with a mallet made of gold, and Johnny's dreams died. Stumpy got stumped. - The Devil Wears Sleeveless Ts by Julio Stantoreâ¦


Palestinian unity government won't bring peace: Peres

Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres said on Wednesday a Palestinian unity government would be a facade aimed at easing Western economic sanctions rather than a new framework for seeking peace with Israel.


The Detroit Lions capitalize on both of Jeff Garcia's fumbles by scoring touchdowns on both to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 23-16.


The pound stabilised against major currencies after falling in the wake of what was perceived as a dovish set of minutes at the Bank of England's (BoE) last rate setting meeting earlier in the month.


Tell someone that you are going 'doon the watter,' and you will be met with puzzled looks.


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âDylanâs Chronicles: Volume Oneâ will be published on October 12, the first in a planned three-part autobiography from the 62-year-old folk legend.


Confusion over Life Or Death Deadline for Afghan Hostages

Afghan militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages, including a Briton, today offered to negotiate with a UN envoy, but warned that any rescue attempt would end in bloodshed.


Crude oil prices end over $53 per barrel in NY

Crude oil futures finished above 53 dollars a barrel Friday as traders were unsettled about winter fuel supplies in the United States and labor-government confrontation in Nigeria.


TORONTO (CP) - Larry Hughes scored 21 of his 33 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Washington Wizards to a 114-109 overtime win over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday.


Intel Profit Up; Outlook Reassures Market

Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world's largest chip maker, on Tuesday reported a 15 percent rise in quarterly profit on an improved personal


The Oracle Corporation has taken control of PeopleSoft, making Oracle the world's second-largest maker of business-management software.


News Corporation will receive a $US496 million ($A677 million) windfall from a complex restructure of the Latin American satellite pay television industry that will result in greater


KABUL - Interim leader Hamid Karzai holds about 70 per cent of the votes counted so far after Afghanistan's landmark presidential election.


Iraq PM Says Violence Won't Derail January Election

LONDON/BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said Sunday national elections will go ahead as planned in  January, despite a countrywide surge in violence targeting U.S.  forces and Iraqi troops and police.


NASA's plans for returning people to the moon -- an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 -- includes establishing a permanent outpost would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars.


A court in Zimbabwe is due to sentence some 70 alleged mercenaries accused of a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.


Australian terror suspect David Hicks is due to appear before a US military  tribunal at Guantanamo Bay.


Teresa Heinz Kerry said Monday that President Bush is unwilling to change, a character flaw that shows "inattention and indifference" rather than strength.


Nigeria militia warns foreigners despite ceasefire

afrol News, 30 September - A truce was yesterday reached between the Niger Delta militia and the federal government of Nigeria after talks between the militia leader and President Olusegun Obasanjo.


Nokia Offers Hosted Mobile Content Solution

Nokiaâs Preminet solution, launched this week at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment event in San Francisco, sources Java and Symbian OS software from leading developers and content aggregators around the globe to give network operators a master


Big Gulp? Neck ribs may have given aquatic beast unique feeding ...

The fossilized neck bones of a 230-million-year-old sea creature have features suggesting that the animal's snakelike throat could flare open and create suction that would pull in prey.


Overview: US retail sales inspire equities

A surprisingly resilient report on US retail sales drove Wall Street stocks higher on Wednesday, dragged credit spreads down from record wide levels and sent the dollar to its highest level against the yen for a month.


A car carrying explosives ripped into a US convoy yesterday in northern Iraq, killing at least 10 civilians, and US troops fought persistent pockets of rebels in Fallujah, a city wrecked by more than a week of fighting.


UPDATE 3-United Dominion buys $897 mln homes, shares fall

United Dominion Realty Trust Inc. (UDR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , one of the largest US apartment owners, said on Tuesday


Arab-Americans in Four Swing States Favor Kerry

Arab-Americans in four battleground  states favor Democratic Sen. John Kerry over Republican  President Bush in the White House race, according to a poll by  Zogby International released on Tuesday.


Israel says it has arrested a Palestinian man suspected of involvement in the capture of missing soldier Gilad Shalit.


China urges the US to act on dollar slide

China turned the tables on the United States, urging Washington to take "necessary actions" to stop the slide of the dollar and restore equilibrium to global currency markets, a senior Chinese official said.


U.N. moves on Lebanon court process despite Russia

Western powers put their plan  for a court to prosecute the murder of a former Lebanese prime  minister before the U.N. Security Council on Friday, but Russia  raised objections to its compulsory nature.


FusionWare Launches Global Partner Program

"We are proud to introduce our Partner Program with partners delivering such key business solutions that offer a wealth of value-added services and applications to complement FusionWare's technology, particularly in the healthcare and financial sectors," says Al Davis, CEO of FusionWare.


Army Reservist Pleads Guilty in Iraq Prison Abuse

The highest ranking soldier charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib has pleaded guilty to five charges. US Army reservist Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick made the plea as a two-day court-martial opened at a US base in Baghdad.


Cobra language slithering to open source

InfoWorld - Cobra, a .Net-based programming language, is being readied for open source release as an all-in-one solution to address multiple needs in software development.


MONTREAL -- An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec yesterday as an "epidemic" that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.


Corning to take nearly $3 billion in charges, cites gloomy telecom ...

CORNING, NY -- Corning Inc. will take non-cash charges of as much as $2.9 billion against third-quarter results as the company's telecommunications unit continues to struggle with industry sluggishness.


Respiratory ailments, mental trauma and other problems that arose after the Sept. 11 attacks are costing the U.S. health care system $393 million per year, according to an analysis that city officials released Tuesday.


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The latest antitheft device for automobiles makes it impossible for criminals to see -- and doubles as a disco light show. By Aaron Rowe.


African Troops Begin with Small Steps to Calm Darfur

The rebels emerge from the desert haze like ghosts. First one, silhouetted atop a sand dune and holding a grenade launcher, then a dozen more, their shadowy figures appearing in unison.


After Benin, Namibia raise match-fixing fears

The match-fixing shadow over the African Nations Cup lengthened here Saturday with Namibia revealing they were approached to 'throw' their next game against Guinea.


Al Gore, a leading voice in the fight against global warming, is being called a hypocrite by a conservative group that claims his Nashville mansion uses too much electricity. But a spokeswoman for Gore said the former vice president invests in enough renewable energy to make up for the home's power consumption.


The US says it will press for a new set of sanctions on Iran for defying UN demands to stop enriching uranium.


Palestinian militants will cease firing rockets at Israel from Gaza on Sunday, President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who pledged in return to halt attacks in the territory if the salvoes stopped.


The next US president, whoever he is, will find that one of his pre-occupations will be China and Taiwan - and how to stop their war of words from becoming a full-blown conflict.


A U.S. Air Force officer who went missing for three days says someone stuffed an object in her jeans pocket with a note saying it was bomb and telling her to go to a site in Bishkek, where kidnappers grabbed her, Kyrgyz authorities said Saturday.


Bent over books once held by Goethe and Schiller, workers in white lab coats brush away ash and creeping mold, doing their best to salvage the centuries-old victims of a recent fire that devastated one of ...


A look at the top movies stories this week.


Republican Mitt Romney, flush with cash from early fundraising, this week will air his first presidential campaign ad to introduce himself to voters in several early voting states.


Microsoft withdrew from a United Nations software standards group for commerce, citing "business reasons."


The Tokyo stock market's main index edged higher Tuesday for the fourth straight trading day, supported by investor optimism about Japan's economic recovery. The U.S. dollar was higher against the Japanese yen.


Concerned that many people at high risk of serious health problems from contracting the flu still have not been vaccinated, the director of the federal Centers for Disease


Security trio merge to create one-stop giant

THE merger of high-profile information security companies Betrusted, TruSecure and Ubizen signals a strategic shift in the market place.


Views you can use to get clues on tomorrow's news.


The new head of US forces in Iraq, Lt Gen David Petraeus, is set to take charge ahead of a big security push.


Far-reaching legislation to tighten the use of human tissue will come into force on Friday.


Middle East ; Suspected Hamas funders in US ordered to pay 156 ...

His parents turned to US courts, invoking a law that allows victims of terrorism abroad to collect damages in American courts from groups that give money to terrorists.


In a victory for Intel, the U.N. telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval on Thursday.


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GlaxoSmithKline won permission yesterday from the Food and Drug Administration to sell a tumor-growth inhibitor called Tykerb to treat breast cancer.


Belarus and a number of other countries have suggested drafting a convention to ban anti-vehicle mines.


NORTH Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the US, a senior minister says.


Eight more U.S. soldiers have been killed in five previously unreported attacks in different areas of Iraq over the past four days, the U.S. military said on Saturday.


Firefighters Get Control as Questions Rise

Questions were being raised about how the fire-fight has been coordinated and how resources have been deployed.


The postgame scene in the mixed zone, where the players walk and the media talk, was pure chaos. An angry member of USA Basketball was screaming obscenities at an Athens volunteer worker


About 700 textile workers will begin voting on a revised contract offer as the new owners of Malden Mills Inc. seek to avoid a threatened strike. Voting will run through tomorrow, with results expected tomorrow night, union spokesman Warren Pepicelli said. Pepicelli and Malden Mills spokesman James Harter declined to comment on what changes the company made to its offer. ...


Comment is free: Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Tony Blair's new role as a JP Morgan adviser is just the latest evidence of his brazen avarice


A Long Wait to Win a Title Ends for Senior

As a redshirt freshman four years ago, Louisiana State quarterback Matt Flynn stood on the sideline in the Superdome and watched his team win a national championship.


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Doppio allenamento per l'Empoli. In mattinata lavoro atletico, nel pomeriggio possesso palla ed eser...


Democratic candidates seized on a disgraced congressman's explicit messages with underage boys — and House Republican leaders' handling of the situation — to argue that voters should toss the GOP from power.


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White House Official Praises Drug Agency

The federal drug safety agency is doing a "spectacular job" of protecting the public, the White House chief of staff said Sunday. The assessment drew an immediate outcry from a Senate critic who charged that government oversight under the Bush administration has proved "a catastrophic failure."


The euro hits another all-time high against the dollar, as dealers anticipate more weak US economic data.


Smoking increases rheumatoid arthritis risk:

[Health India]: Washington, Oct. 8 : Smoking significantly increases the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in both men and women with a genetic predisposition to the disease, claims a new study.


Rumsfeld in Montenegro to discuss NATO, war on terrorism

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald   Rumsfeld arrived in Montenegro on Tuesday to discuss how the   newly independent country could help in the war on terrorism.


A closer look at Windows Live Photo Gallery

Blog: Taking a deeper look at the features in Microsoft's new photo management application.


A Londra Dow Jones +3 punti base, Nasdaq stabile, SP -0,3


McGraw-Hill cambia vertici, Sharma sostituisce Corbet


Allen Pilots SuperSonics to Win Over Cavaliers

Ray Allen scored 27 points and Vladimir Radmanovic chipped in with 23 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Seattle SuperSonics to a 105-97 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers Sunday.


While Massachusetts General Hospital has been the unfortunate destination for David Ortiz and Jon Lester , Pawtucket will be the go-to spot for several Red Sox players with baseball-related injuries.


When Syracuse's offense struggled, the seventh-ranked Orange stepped up their perimeter defense. Hakim Warrick had 22 points and 14 rebounds and Syracuse held Albany to 6-of-25 shooting on 3-pointers in a 72-55 victory on Tuesday night.


Costs of climate change spur greening of business

Climate concerns are pushing corporates to do good by doing well. Meanwhile, new research puts a number on the ecological impact of rich country lifestyles on poor ones.


St. Francis Spices Up Water Polo Team With Europeans

St. Francis in Brooklyn has built a reputation as a premier destination for players from Eastern Europe who are also looking to pursue their education.


Now available: free-software-only Ubuntu version

Blog: Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth invited programmers this week to help weed out proprietary software from the new Gobuntu version.


Albert Pujols homered for the fifth time in four games and tied his career high with five RBIs, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.


AT&T offers RFID gear, service to health care providers

AT&T is offering RFID active tags that send a Wi-Fi signal at regular intervals, as well as software to find the tags via a Web browser.


Airbus Sees Mobile Phone Use on Planes in 2006

European planemaker Airbus reported progress on Wednesday in plans to allow passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006.


Three new variants of the Bagle virus that emerged last week are still in circulation, but the attacks seem to be leveling off. While the latest viruses have some sophisticated features, security


World Championships Taken Away from Montreal

The 2005 swimming world championships  have been taken away from Montreal by the sport's ruling body  because of financing problems.


Shares in restructured Channel tunnel rail operator Eurotunnel fall by  40% on their first day of trading.


Group: U.S. military urged abuse in Iraq

The group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday that U.S. military commanders encouraged abusive interrogations of detainees in Iraq, even after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal called attention to the issue in 2004.


Fear of violence keeps 300,000 children in southern Afghanistan from school,  President Karzai says.


Andre Agassi tried to get this over in a hurry. He wanted a fast day at the U.S. Open, just like Roger Federer.


California voters, wooed by an aggressive, multimillion dollar campaign that promised cures to myriad diseases, overwhelmingly approved the nation's most ambitious stem cell research center two years ago.


Lo afferma esponente leghista dopo incontro con premier


While Willie Randolph remains the leading candidate to become the next Mets manager, GM Omar Minaya hasn't made a final decision.


EMC Corp., computer storage maker, will buy Smarts Inc., known for its InCharge real-time network systems management software, for $260 million.


Chrysler Reviving Dodge Charger, a Studied Attempt to Be Retro-Cool

The Dodge Charger, popularized in "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV show, is coming back, two decades after it was put out to pasture.


A leading cigarette company says its sales fell sharply in the Irish Republic since the smoking ban.


A spokeswoman for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs told journalists that the biggest obstacles to aid distribution were security and logistical problems caused by the destruction wrought by flooding in Haiti in the wake of


Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has rejected newspaper reports that he will be ruled out until Christmas. Gerrard broke a bone in his foot during Monday night's defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford


The top US general in Iraq says he is confident the new Baghdad security drive can cut sectarian strife.


Franchitti gets second win; Rice has disaster

It appears Dario Franchitti of Scotland is getting the hang of it in the Indy Racing League. Franchitti dominated Sunday's Honda Indy 225 at Pikes Peak International Raceway for his second IRL win of the season.


Army medic guilty of desertion in Iraq case

WUERZBURG, Germany  - A U.S. Army medic who fled his base and refused to return to Iraq with his unit was found guilty of desertion at a court-martial on Tuesday and faces up to seven years in prison.


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RealPlayer dinged by software watchdog group

RealNetworks promises changes A software watchdog group has branded the two most recent versions of the RealPlayer media program "badware" because they don't give users adequate control over software components that are activated during installation.â¦


Sir Alan Budd, the former chief economic adviser to the Treasury, will head the inquiry into allegations that David Blunkett abused his position as home secretary


(InfoWorld) - By now, everyone has heard how Microsoft plans to release the next Windows client OS, Windows 7, in 2010. But what the company is not making clear is what new features the OS will have, a topic thatÂ has become fodder for educated Windows 7 speculation. Analysts said Microsoft probably is keeping tight-lipped about what Windows 7 will look like because at this point, company engineers and executives don't even know. "They don't want to commit because they don't have a good idea what's in it," said Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner. "We're three years out, so you can't really expect that much detail." Michael Cherry, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, said that with so many people still in the midst of upgrading to the latest client OS, Windows Vista, he's hesitant to speculate on what might be in the next OS. "We barely know the features of the one we just got," he said with a laugh. That said, Cherry is expecting less "earth-shattering" new features than improvements on some of the new ones found in Windows Vista, such as the Bitlocker encryption feature, which is currently hard for the average PC user to navigate. "You have to partition your hard drive and do a bunch of things, and you can only really today protect one drive, whereas many machines have more than one," he said. Cherry also pointed to a common hardware performance problem many users face because of Vista's "very large footprint." "It's one of the things they might want to address -- hardware utilization and performance," he said. "It's hard to put a big wrapper around that; it just needs to be better." One Microsoft executive gave a slight hint about what might turn up in Windows 7 earlier this year at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division, said in an interview that a "fundamental piece of enabling technology," such as a hypervisor or a drastic change in the user interface, would likely turn up in Windows 7. Fathi also said at RSA in February that Microsoft was in the middle of the planning process for Windows 7's features and would know more over the next few months, which suggests the company now has a good idea what the OS will look like but is declining to disclose that information. While both a hypervisor and a new user interface are possibilities for Windows 7, the former is almost a given, Gartner's Silver said. "It almost has to go" in the OS, he said, describing the technology as "a really thin OS" that manages virtual machines running on the system. It would behoove Microsoft to put a hypervisor in Windows 7 because it would give them more control over the hardware the OS runs on, something the company would prefer to have, Silver said. "The hypervisor really owns the hardware, and Microsoft likes owning the hardware, and they want to be one of the people to standardize [hypervisor technology]," he said. Vista includes such newÂ features as desktop search and a new user interface, which also are two areas that leave room for expansion in Windows 7, analysts said. Microsoft has shown the direction it's going with the latter with itsÂ Surface computer, introduced in late May. That form factor looks like a coffee table with a touchscreen interface that lets users move photos around by hand and synchronize devices by placing them on the table. With products like the Apple iPhone making the touchscreen popular with consumers, a touchscreen UI in Windows 7 is a possibility, Silver said. "They don't want to look bad next to Apple," he said. Desktop search, a new feature built into Vista, also has room for improvement. Microsoft has said it will link desktop search to Windows Server 2008 so desktop users can search not only for local files but also for files on the server. This is a feature that potentially could be built into the desktop OS. Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this article.


New methods are being employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in areas considered to be at risk.


World Business Briefing | Europe: Sweden: Bid for Web Tv Concern

The telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson offered 9.8 billion crowns ($1.4 billion) for Tandberg Television of Norway, topping an earlier bid from the Arris Group. Ericsson, which is based in Stockholm, said it was bidding 106 Norwegian kroner ($17.23) for each Tandberg share. The offer is 10.4 percent above the 96 kroner offered by Arris, a communications technology company based in the United States, Ericsson said. Tandberg, which is based in Lysaker, offers a range of video and TV services over the Internet.


Belinda wins MTV Latin America top video

Teenage pop star Belinda, who starred in the Disney Channel's "Cheetah Girls 2," won the video of the year award Thursday at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America in Mexico City.


Diet-Pill Seller Agrees $155 Mln Settlement - FTC

A Texas diet-pill marketer has  agreed to pay back up to $155 million he earned from selling  weight-loss pills that did not work as advertised, the U.S.  Federal Trade Commission said on Friday.


Former model Olga Kurylenko will play James Bond's sidekick in the 22nd 007 movie, producers announce.


Blast outside US security firm in Kabul kills 7

An explosion outside a US-based security firm that has been providing security for President Hamid Karzai tore through the building in downtown Kabul, killing at least seven people, the president's office said.


Coldiretti, nella pianta si cerca surrogato alla sigaretta


Cracked Ribs and All, Kidd Could Still Be Traded at the Deadline

The Netsâ Jason Kidd has been playing with cracked ribs for the past couple of weeks, but the injury might not stop him from being traded to the Los Angeles Lakers by the 3 p.m. trading deadline Thursday.


Hearing reopens at the high court in the Strand, but still has months to go


Stocks end 3-day decline; energy, tech lead

Stocks rose on Wednesday as investors snapped up beaten-down shares after a three-day slide and a nearly 2 percent jump in oil prices boosted demand for energy companies.


Ariz. Governor Back to Work After Surgery

Gov. Janet Napolitano returned to work Friday, three days after undergoing surgery for removal of an ovarian cyst and her right ovary.


Mack Brown and the BCS have been exonerated by the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Stunned at getting knocked out of the Rose Bowl by the Texas Longhorns, the No.


The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to approve a bipartisan bill to reorganize the way the nation gathers and shares intelligence, including the creation of the job of


Iraq carnage kills 21 as UN official warns time not ripe for polls

BAGHDAD  - At least 21 people were killed in the latest in a renewed spree of attacks to hit Iraq, as a top UN official issued a stark warning that elections could not be held in the current climate of violence.


Landisville Minister Preparing for Next Phase of Service

By News, Notes, Joan Kern  Teens give generously Lutheran bishop to stand for re-election LMH grad blogs about Romanian mission  NEWS & NOTES by Joan Kern           The Rev.


Turkish opposition accepts compromise on president

Turkey's main opposition party on  Tuesday agreed to an offer by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to  seek a compromise candidate to elect as the next head of state  after months of wrangling.


SEATTLE (Sports Network) - The Seattle Seahawks announced  Friday that Bob Whitsitt, the president of football operations,  has been relieved of his duties.


Clinton pilots subsidized malaria drugs in Africa

Former President Bill Clinton launched a program on Sunday to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole.


Polish PM downplays fears of EU veto at summit

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski  downplayed in a newspaper interview fears Poland could block  agreement on a new treaty to replace the defunct European Union  constitution at a summit in Brussels this week.


Zimbabwe's government unveils a bill which would ban many human rights groups and charities.


AT least nine miners were confirmed dead and rescue teams were battling to reach a further 57 trapped underground after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China, officials and media said today.


By Justin Davenport, Oliver Finegold And Bo Wilson, Evening Standard. A former mental patient was being questioned today after the knife rampage which left one man dead and five other people seriously injured.


Quasi conclusa la verifica sugli elenchi presentati a mezzanotte del 22 settembreA parte Veltroni, bene anche Bindi e Letta. Ce l'ha fatta il blogger Adinolfi                                          La corsa al Pd, 2.271 liste in lizza 40 mila candidati, 5 possibili leader                                                                                Ancora qualche problema per l'economista etico Schettini che potrebbe andare in ticket con Gawronski


Brady: Lack of Ego Part of Pats' Success

Tom Brady has every reason in the world to get fat-headed over his NFL success except one: his teammates wouldn't allow it.


Officials have held an American citizen in custody for more than a year in Ethiopia's restive Somali region, the region's top security official said Sunday.


Microsoft's music player isn't the lame duck some critics have called it, says Jon Johansen, the guy who cracked DVD encryption. In Listening Post.


Tropical Storm Ingrid swirls in open Atlantic

Tropical Storm Ingrid, the ninth named  storm of the 2007 hurricane season, churned far out in the  Atlantic on Friday and was not expected to become a hurricane,  U.S. forecasters said.


The grocery chain is struggling to turn itself around. Will investors keep the faith?


Former Hollinger International Chief  Executive Conrad Black and other former executives looted the  company of more than $400 million, using the company as a  "piggy bank" to pay for private jets and club memberships,  according to a report filed on Tuesday.


The sight of all those size-0 models on the Fashion Week runways recalls an oft-quoted line from the film "The Devil Wears Prada." Happy to be a size 6, the impressionable young fashion assistant Andy Sachs is soon brought down to size:


Navy investigates photos of SEALs, prisoners

The US Navy is looking into whether photographs on the Internet that seem to show Navy SEALs posing with Iraqi prisoners show any evidence of prisoner abuse, Navy officials said.


Taser links up with iRobot for stunning new products

Blog: It's a stun gun on a robot. The military wants them, and probably so do a lot of 13-year old boys.


Combat title Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter picks up the Bafta award for game of the year.


Genova, 16:03 - CALCIO, SAMP: CASSANO AMMONITO, NIENTE ROMA E LACRIME IN CAMPO

Antonio Cassano è stato ammonito nel corso della sfida con la Fiorentina. Un'ammonizione che ...


The former chief executive of Chuck Norris' martial arts program for inner-city children has pleaded guilty to stealing from the charity, the U.S. Attorney's office said.


Farc avevano annunciato liberazione il 18 dicembre


Maltempo, preallarme in quattro province lombarde

Preallarme maltempo per rischio idrogeologico in Lombardia a partire dalle 6 di domani mattina nelle province di Bergamo, Brescia, Lecco e Sondrio. Lo ha dichiarato il Servizio Protezione Civile della Regione Lombardia.


Last big toy chainsput everything into play

LANESBOROUGH -- The scent of Play-Doh wafts in the air as children dance with plush penguins and sprawl across hardwood floors reading books. It feels more like a scene out of Romper Room than what it really is: a KB Toys store at the Berkshire Mall.


Charge Against S.C. Quarterback Is Dropped

An assault charge against South Carolina quarterback Blake Mitchell is dropped when a bouncer withdraws a complaint after first telling police the player punched him.


Hastings Entertainment Donates $83,922 to Local Literacies

AMARILLO, Texas, Sept. 21  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hastings Entertainment, Inc. , a leading multimedia entertainment retailer, today reported collecting $83,922 in donations between September 1, 2005 and August 31, 2006 from all retail stores.


IBM and Intel to open up blade specifications

In an effort to encourage hardware vendors to build components for the blade platform they co-develop, Intel Corp. and IBM Corp. on Thursday will open up parts of the BladeCenter design specifications, according to documents obtained by IDG News Service.


Car Bombs in Iraq Kill 21, Wound More Than 100

A series of car bomb blasts tore through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding scores.


It was no accident that Purdue played South Dakota State just before the start of the Big Ten season. The 20th-ranked Boilermakers struggled mightily to shake the rust off after


BRIGHTON: British Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed talk of resignation and vowed a strong agenda for the future as his ruling Labour Party's annual convention opened yesterday.


North Korea says has funds, awaits UN nuclear team

North Korea said on Monday it would start implementing a nuclear disarmament deal struck in February and awaits a visit by U.N. inspectors now that a dispute over its funds frozen at a Macau bank had been resolved.


Mount St. Helens Quake Activity Increases

Earthquake activity has increased at Mount St. Helens, but scientists said Saturday there was no reason to raise the volcano's alert level. Scientists said earthquake activity had been low until Friday, indicating molten rock was moving upward with little resistance. By Saturday, however, quakes of magnitude 2.4 were occurring every one to two minutes, they said.


S. Fla. To See Drier Conditions While T.S. Florence Could Become Hurricane

By Ken Kaye, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Sep. 6--After four days of gray skies and gloom, soggy South Florida should start to dry out today. But keep the umbrella handy.   The forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of rain, with showers and thunderstorms likely after noon.


Siena, 13:21 - CALCIO, SIENA: FRICK IN VANTAGGIO SU CORVIA

Rifinitura a Colle di Val D'Elsa per il Siena in vista della trasferta di Messina. Beretta dovr&agra...


Oracle makes $9.2 billion take-it-or-leave-it PeopleSoft offer

The Oracle-PeopleSoft takeover battle may have finally entered its endgame, with Oracle Corp upping its bid and for the first time imposing a deadline for PeopleSoft Inc shareholders to accept it.


Il primo ministro: si decidera' entro i primi di luglio


British luxury liner slips into Hong Kong on maiden voyage

The British luxury cruise liner Queen Mary 2 sailed into Hong Kong harbour for the first time Wednesday as it continued it's maiden round-the-world voyage.


Lawmakers working to ban hacked RFID door cards

A dispute about the security of RFID access techniques - and how to hack them - is heating up at a government-themed trade show.


Souness, 51, replaces Sir Bobby Robson, who was sacked last week after the club suffered four league games without a win. Souness resigned from his current club, Blackburn Rovers, and will take up his post at Newcastle on Monday 13th September.


Approaching A Virtualized IT World With Confidence

Virtualization is about reducing IT costs through better resource utilization while at the same time providing greater flexibility of resources. Potential cost savings include initial hardware and software costs, reduced ongoing costs, manpower requirements, and reduced time to deploy new solutions. A virtualized world is available to you now. See for yourself in this new white paper.


120 Million Years Old, Fossil Shows Divergence of Platypus and Anteater

New research suggest that the platypus diverged from its closest relatives much earlier than previously thought.


Howard Gensler Mag rates hip-hoppers in the bedroom

ARE Jay-Z , Method Man, Jadakiss or Allen Iverson duds or studs in the bedroom? Well, in case you ever wanted to know, in the new issue of Ozone magazine, groupies are dishing the dirt about hip-hop stars they ...


Donald Trump allows Miss USA to keep her title despite a series of accusations about her private life.


Whenever a Washington Redskins offensive lineman commits a penalty, he has to put money into a kitty that is kept by guard Randy Thomas. The "fines" run about $25 per foul, so the enterprise hurts the ego more than the wallet.


Opera updates browser with phishing filter

(InfoWorld) - Opera Software ASA has added a filter that blocks phishing sites to its Web browser software, following the example set by rivalsÂ MicrosoftÂ andÂ Mozilla. In version 9.1 of the Opera Web browser released Monday, the company introduced a phishing filter that uses information from PhishTank and GeoTrust to help protect users from being duped by phishers. PhishTank, overseen by open-source group OpenDNS, is a collaborative clearinghouse that allows anyone to submit and track data about phishing sites. GeoTrust provides digital certificates. Phishing is a form of online fraud in which miscreants use forged Web sites that often look like sites of banks or other trusted financial institutions to trick users into giving up personal information. Filters such as the one in Opera 9.1 alert users when they may be visiting a known phishing site so they can proceed with caution and choose not to provide requested information to that site. Opera's 9.1 browser is available for free atÂ www.opera.com. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7)Â andÂ Mozilla's Firefox 2.0Â browsers also include filters that block phishing sites. Microsoft released IE 7 for Windows XP in October, the same month Mozilla released Firefox 2.0. IE 7 also will be included in the consumer version of Windows Vista due for release on Jan. 30. Microsoft recently patched a flaw in the antiphishing filter in IE 7 for XP and plans to patch the same flaw for Vista upon its consumer release. Opera's Web browser has not been adopted widely by computer users, who still predominantly use IE as their primary browser. However, the Oslo company has had substantial success in distributing its Opera Mini browser on mobile devices through partnerships with device providers around the world.


Italian Smokers Forced Outdoors as Ban Takes Effect

Italians, banned from smoking in indoor  public places, were forced to take their habit outdoors Monday  and one persistent puffer became the first to pay for breaking  the law after it took effect at midnight.


Timberlake not impressed by 'Idol' Hicks

Justin Timberlake backtracked from criticism of "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks after telling Fashion Rocks magazine the 29-year-old soul singer "can't carry a tune in a bucket."


One in four U.S. women ages 14 to 59 is infected with the sexually transmitted virus that in some forms can cause cervical cancer, according to the first broad national estimate.


IAEA informs UN of missing Iraq explosives

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has officially informed the Security Council of some 380 tons of high explosives missing from a weapons dump in Iraq.


Heart problem killed pitcher Joe Kennedy

Major league pitcher Joe Kennedy was afflicted with a condition that caused his heart to suddenly stop beating at his in-laws' home in November, when he collapsed and later died.


Empoli, 18:35 - CALCIO, EMPOLI; CAGNI: MERITIAMO QUESTA GRAN CLASSSIFICA

Empoli al quinto posto e Gigi Cagni che si nasconde continuando a parlare solo di salvezza: Sono mol...


Catania, 23:30 - CALCIO, MORTO POLIZIOTTO: AGENTE GRAVE IN OSPEDALE

Tra le decine di persone ferite portate nell'ospedale Garibaldi di Catania c' è anche un agen...


Mandela saddened by rifts in S.Africa's ANC

POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling ANC, torn by the worst rift in its history, on Sunday began a conference expected to put controversial politician Jacob Zuma on track to become the country's next president.


The crash of a regional commuter jet in Kentucky last month that killed 49 of 50 people onboard has reignited a simmering conflict between the federal government and its 14,000 air traffic controllers, who say they are being spread too thin to handle growing demands on the job.


NASA has been working on a test flight project for the last few years involving hypersonic flight. Hypersonic flight is fight at speeds greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.


Fifa puts Ronaldinho on the top of their world

FIFA last night crowned Ronaldinho the world player of the year, barely a week after he lost out to Andrei Shevchenko and Deco, his Barcelona team-mate, for the title of European footballer of the year.


Bulls Snap 11-Game Losing Skid Vs. Kings

Rookie Ben Gordon scored 11 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 107-102 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night.


Australia's cricketers are hungry for some action and ravenous to get stuck into New Zealand's one day team at The Oval, captain Ricky Ponting said on Wednesday.


The Duma, the lower house of parliament, voted 334-73 to ratify the treaty. The Kyoto Protocol calls for developed nations to lower the emissions of six key greenhouse gases to 5.2 percent below the levels


Half a million Americans have heart bypass surgery annually

Former President Bill Clinton's impending coronary artery bypass graft surgery is the most common heart operation performed in the United States, with more than half a million Americans undergoing the procedure each year.


Slow Start Is Too Much for Islanders to Overcome

Tomas Plekanec scored twice and Cristobal Huet stopped 17 shots for the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night in a 3-1 victory over the Islanders at Nassau Coliseum.


SUNDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- Before becoming pregnant with her second child in 1984, pediatric nurse Barbara Harper had heard of a gentler way to deliver a child, something called "waterbirth." But her doctor dismissed the notion as absurd.


After shutting down the city, shouldn't Boston officials just swallow hard and hope the embarrassment fades away? James Poniewozik on the Aqua Team brouhaha


Bellinger: 'Non ci e' arrivata nessuna richiesta'


Police Say Alcohol Factor in Accident That Killed Driver

By Staff and Wire Reports  A Randleman man died Sunday in a single-car accident.  Rodney Lee Richards II , 29, of 7236 Colonial Lane, was driving southbound on Randleman Road at 5:13 a.m., the Highway Patrol said.


A major fire sparked by an explosion at a chemical plant  in Ayrshire is under control,  firefighters say.


Device is the first of its kind and can work on most surfaces, company claims.


IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have announced that they have produced a silicon chip with a marked improvement in speed by using strained silicon technology.


Pedersen free kick earns Norway 2-2 draw

Morten Gamst Pedersen scored from a swerving free kick Tuesday to earn Norway a 2-2 draw with Australia an international friendly.


Applegate stars in ABC amnesia comedy pilot

LOS ANGELES  - Christina Applegate is returning to series television as the star of ABC's comedy pilot "Sam I Am," which centers on a woman who wakes up from a coma with amnesia and has to rediscover her life.


An ailing Pope John Paul II says Mass at Lourdes, the French shrine revered by Roman Catholics.


Milwaukee Bucks guard T.J. Ford was ruled out for the rest of the season Thursday because he's recovering from spinal surgery.


Maryland Wide Receiver Weatherly Returns From Foot Injury

Maryland senior wide receiver Drew Weatherly practices this week for the first time since he suffered a stress fracture in his right foot just before the Terrapins opened the season.


The co-founder of ClaimID says people know they have to let go of privacy to play in online communities. Monkeybites' Mike Calore blogs from Palo Alto, California.


Shell Settles Corporate Fraud Charges for $120 Million

Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world's largest oil companies, agreed yesterday to pay $120 million in penalties to settle charges of corporate fraud with the Securities and Exchange Commission for overstating its oil reserves.


Philips begins making PCs again after ten year hiatus

Dutch electronics firm Philips has joined forces with UK electrical retailer Dixons Group to launch Philips-Freeline, a range of home entertainment personal computers in Europe.


Microsoft and Amazon join forces against scammers

Amazon and Microsoft have joined forces to launch a legal crackdown on alleged phishers and spammers. The companies have filed a joint federal lawsuit against a Canadian company, Gold Disk Canada, accusing it of spoofing.


European equities fell in line with losses on Wall Street as technology shares lost ground after Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) in the US warned of weak demand.


Britain commemorates decade since 'people's princess' died

Britain was set to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of princess Diana -- dubbed the "people's princess" -- with a series of tributes and a royal memorial service in London on Friday.


Sharon's Government, the Initiative and Lingering

When Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister, many believed the reckless general would notâ last long. They expected him to fall in the trap due to his exaggerated bet on force alone.


Employers may soon be able to check job applicants to find out how easily distracted they are.


Australian accused of fighting for Taliban tells panel he is not guilty of war crimes. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A military review panel at the US Navy base in Cuba heard the cases Wednesday of two


Sharon Wins Likud's Support to Hold Coalition Talks With Labor

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party voted to support talks to bring Labor and other opposition parties into the coalition to keep the government afloat after it lost its last remaining partner a week ago.


Challenges await ex-general Yudhoyono as Indonesia's sixth president

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was sworn in as Indonesia's sixth president, promising to revive a precarious economy by personally leading a war on endemic graft while also tackling terrorism.


Jeni's family confirms comic killed himself

Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Jeni, a regular on late-night U.S. television, killed himself but was not despondent about his career despite suffering from mental illness, his family said on Tuesday.


Roma, 23:04 - CALCIO, LAZIO; ROSSI: MERITAVAMO LA VITTORIA

Delio Rossi non sa a che santo votarsi dopo gli infortuni di Kolarov e Diakitè. ''Alla sfortu...


Scientists Estimate 100,000 Iraqi Deaths

A survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months after the US invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war.


Tra i protagonisti anche Nicole Grimaudo e Andrea Di Stefano


Milano, 15:13 - CALCIO, AMAURI: MI VOGLIONO TUTTI? MANCA MANCHESTER... ORA CHIAMO

"Milan, Barcellona, Juventus, adesso è entrato pure il Chelsea. Vediamo... C'è pure il...


Michael Owen and David Beckham help Real Madrid to a 6-1 win over Albacete.


UN Official Says Iranians Seem to Curb Atom Activity

Iran appears to have frozen major nuclear activities in an effort to persuade the world that it does not intend to build nuclear bombs, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency said Monday.


The Shia Muslim bloc that won Iraq's election nominates Ibrahim Jaafari as prime minister, sources say.


FCC asks: What to do with unused spectrum?

After tossing WiFi start-up bids for exclusive control of fallow spectrum, federal regulators want public input on how to proceed. Will a new fight over "open access" rules emerge?


Revamped AOL News site hits performance bump

(InfoWorld) - AOL launched a significant upgrade of AOL News on Tuesday, but it had to turn off some new features so that the site could handle a heavy flow of users. AOL News, a news aggregation site, became slow and unavailable in the afternoon for what an AOL spokeswoman said was a "brief period of time." At mid-afternoon, the site either didn't load or loaded very slowly for several IDG News Service staffers located in different parts of the U.S. AOL expects to reinstate the removed features progressively this evening and during the day Wednesday, the spokeswoman said. At press time, AOL News didn't seem to be experiencing any performance problems. The redesign gave AOL News a blog format that combines traditional news sources, AOL programming, and social news features, such as giving readers the ability to rate and share articles and post comments. Some of the social news features had to be pulled off the site at different points in the morning and afternoon to accommodate heavy traffic, said Lewis D'Vorkin, senior vice president of AOL News & Sports. He stressed that the revamped AOL News is in a beta phase, during which AOL is closely monitoring usage of all sections and features of the site and making the necessary adjustments. "We had large traffic today, some big stories, so we removed some of those [social news] features to better the performance of the site," D'Vorkin said. The site currently does have a feed from the company's Netscape social news site, which offers users a wide variety of interactive features. Having a hot new Web site crushed by a flood of Web traffic is almost a point of pride with the Web 2.0 set, but a company the size of AOL should be able to do better, said Rich Miller, an analyst with Web analysis firm Netcraft. "They've got so much infrastructure and have launched large services before, so if they're having trouble, I wouldn't be bowled over by their reliability," he said. Asked if AOL was caught by surprise by the intensity of Tuesday's traffic, D'Vorkin replied that it was not. "Nothing surprises me and nothing catches me off guard," he said. The AOL News redesign is groundbreaking as a "mass market" news site that adopts a blog format with a broad set of interactive, Web 2.0, social news features, he said. It brings together features that AOL has been testing and providing for several years, he said. "We have developed a very unique site," he said. "It's exciting to learn and present news in a vastly different way." Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this story.


Ninth-seeded Elena Bovina beat Jelena Kostanic 6-4, 6-2 Monday to reach the Generali Ladies Open's second round.


Thai woman's bird flu raises fears virus is passed between humans

A THAI woman was yesterday diagnosed with bird flu after her sister and niece died with symptoms of the virus, raising the possibility that the illness had passed from human-to-human for the first time.


P&G Female Sex-Drive Patch Stirs Safety Concerns

Procter & Gamble's skin patch to boost sex drive in women may pose serious long-term risks and should not be approved without further study, critics told a US advisory panel on Thursday.


Oil prices fell sharply Wednesday after a government report that US inventories of crude rose 3.4 million barrels last week, surprising many traders and analysts who had expected to see supplies shrink because of lingering production problems in the wake


AUSTRALIAN companies could successfully trademark their "feta" cheese, "kalamata" olives and "parma" ham in the lucrative European food market after a significant win by Australia and the US at the World Trade Organisation.


Rumblings at Mount St. Helens Triggers Alert

Government scientists have warned hikers and researchers not to go near the crater of the Mount St. Helens volcano because there is an "increased likelihood" an explosion


Riuscita l'operazione alla caviglia del bomber. Ripresa dell'attivitÃ  fra 90 giorni. La gara contro la Roma ha confermato la dipendenza dell'attacco da Sheva. MILANO, 8 novembre 2004 - Questa mattina ad Anversa


District isolated after anthrax outbreak

Indonesian authorities have ordered the isolation of a district south of Jakarta after six people died from eating goat meat infected with anthrax, say officials.