Growth in the U.S. services sector accelerated unexpectedly in November and third-quarter labor costs grew more slowly than forecast, suggesting the economy may be weathering a manufacturing slowdown with wage-driven inflation coming under control.


Finance minister promises drivers 10 per cent average cut in insurance rates

TORONTO (CP) - Motorists in Ontario should see cuts in their insurance rates averaging more than 10 per cent because of government moves to reduce costs for insurers, Finance Minister Greg Sorbara said Tuesday.


One of the RAF's biggest air bases in the UK is closed because of an "internal security matter".


TWO rockets slammed into the Sheraton Hotel in Baghdad last night, in a brazen attack which overshadowed a pledge by a Shiite militia to disarm.


Congo's Kabila faces daunting reconstruction task

Joseph Kabila will be sworn in on Wednesday as Congo's first freely elected president in more than four decades, but he faces a mammoth task to satisfy popular expectations after years of war, dictatorship and chaos.


Kobe Bryant will take part in the 3-point shooting contest at All-Star weekend against a field that includes defending champion Jason Kapono and the last repeat winner, Peja Stojakovic.


Israel declares Gaza "enemy entity" as Rice visits

Israel declared the Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would reduce its fuel and power supplies to the Hamas-run territory in response to rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.


The Democrats appear to be gaining the upper hand in the battle to sign up new voters in the all-important swing states, an Associated Press analysis suggests.    The AP analysis of the most up-to-date figures from across the country found that, in every state where complete data is available, the Democrats have registered more new voters than Republicans...


END OF AN ERA: General Motors Corp. plans to close the 69-year-old Broening Highway auto assembly plant in Baltimore. It most recently manufactured two lines of vans.


Barcelona ends bar ban on badly dressed tourists

Travel: City office of civil rights overturns bar's ban on badly dressed tourists calling it discriminatory.


Il presidente della Repubblica, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, ha lasciato la Pio XI dove e' arrivato venerdi' per essere sottoposto a impianto di pacemaker. Il team del professor Massimo Santini, che ha effettuato


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Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan held negotiations on all items of the Composite Dialogue Process Sunday, both sides remaining sensitive about Kashmir.


Powder packages spark embassy scare in Australia

Australian police launched a criminal  investigation on Wednesday after the Israeli, U.S. and British  embassies were sent packages containing white powder, forcing  evacuation of the Israeli and American missions.


U.S. Forces on Offensive in Iraq Rebel Strongholds

U.S.-led forces launched operations in  three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two  dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing  targets in Falluja for the third straight day.


Cricket-Stand-in skipper Youhana seizes the moment for Pakistan

MELBOURNE, Australia  - Stand-in skipper Yousuf Youhana was leading from the front as Pakistan showed some steel to defy the Australian cricket juggernaut on the opening day of the second Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


A's finally wear out Red Sox in 11 innings

Sleep deprivation can make a person do a lot of things he wouldn't do ordinarily. After an all-night flight here from Boston, Red Sox manager Terry Francona, for example, kept trying to walk through the mirrors lining the corridors of the team's hotel, thinking it was the way to his room.


NEW YORK  — Ryan Seacrest is known as a lot of things — slick "American Idol" ringmaster, hotshot radio deejay, ubiquitous E! channel host — but funny guy's not one of them. Which makes his scene-stealing cameo in "Knocked Up" such an amusing surprise. Even more so because he's the butt of the joke.


A state of emergency is declared in a city in southern Peru, after protests against the local government.


First Sentence for Violating Privacy Law

Lying in a hospital bed, gravely ill from leukemia and weakened by chemotherapy, Eric Drew began to get mail thanking him for opening credit accounts he knew nothing about.


Analysis: Clinton May Regret Ceding Caucus States

Former Mass. governor releases his 280 delegates and asks them to back his one-time GOP rival.


British Prime Minister Tony Blair reportedly underwent a procedure to correct an irregular heartbeat Friday and was recovering.


The head of the property company that sold conservative presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy a luxury apartment a decade ago denied on Wednesday allegations that Sarkozy got a substantial price break on the property.


EU leaders are in Rome to sign a new treaty which sets up the first European constitution and expands the EU's powers and authority.


CNN said Monday that it has hired anchor Campbell Brown of NBC News, one day after she announced on "Weekend Today" that she would be leaving as host.


Cisco bringing TelePresence conferencing to homes

(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems expects to take its TelePresence high-definition conferencing system from the boardroom to the living room within two or three years for about $1,000. The flagshipÂ TelePresence 3000 systemÂ hit the market late last year for about $300,000. It uses three big-screen displays and a high-quality audio system to recreate the feeling of an in-person meeting among colleagues anywhere in the world. Cisco also sells the one-screen TelePresence 1000. But the company thinks consumers also want that effect. Just two weeks ago, Cisco finished its business plan for consumer TelePresence, said Charles Giancarlo, executive vice president and chief development officer. The system will use one screen -- the consumer's own large high-definition TV -- and will be designed for ease of installation and use, he said. In the beginning, it will run on a stand-alone device connected to the home broadband Internet connection. But eventually, it would probably be integrated into a set-top box and run a service delivered by the cable or telecommunications provider, Giancarlo said. Starting a year or two after introduction, prices would probably start to fall, he added. Video is key toÂ Cisco's growth expectations, executives told financial analysts during a conference at the company's San Jose, California, headquarters. TelePresence and other video offerings promise to drive demand for Cisco's network core routers while also generating revenue directly. Giancarlo gave his hints about the consumer conferencing system in a roundtable discussion for media at the event.


Sarkozy reform on track after French poll

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was forced into a cabinet rethink on Monday after losing a senior minister in parliamentary polls that gave him an unexpectedly small majority, but his reforms remained on track.


Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson pleaded guilty Monday to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence stemming from a traffic stop last year as he was leaving a nightclub


Polamalu, Steelers Sign 4-Year Extension

LATROBE, Pa. -- Pittsburgh Steelers star safety Troy Polamalu signed a four-year contract extension on Monday that made him the team's highest-paid player and one of the NFL's top-paid defensive backs.


US factory orders boosted by military aircraft

Orders to US factories were far stronger in October than analysts expected, but almost all of the gain came from greater demand for military aircraft.


U.S. warplanes accidentally kill soldier

Two U.S. warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others in southern Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S. military said.


Microsoft pushes Office 2007 with 'try-before-you-buy'

Limited use, certain risk WPC Microsoft is shipping limited-use copies of Office 2007 with PCs in a try-before-you-buy scheme to seed the market with its latest suite and drive Windows server and client software sales.â¦


French competition body rejeccts' open iPod' claim

The French Competition Council has rejected Virgin France's claim that Apple's FairPlay technology should be licensed to other companies' online music stores.


A Swiss court finds a Turkish politician guilty of genocide denial over the killings of Armenians in Turkey in 1915.


Azerbaijan lifters disqualified, life-banned for doping

Two Azerbaijan powerlifters, one male and one female, have been disqualified from the 2004 Paralympic Games and banned for life, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced in Athens on September 22.


The US has confidence in UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and is not trying to oust him, outgoing US Ambassador John Danforth has said.


Afghan court convicts US trio of torture

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three Americans -- led by a former Green Beret who boasted he had Pentagon support -- were found guilty yesterday of torturing Afghans in a private jail and were sentenced to prison.


Northeast Faces 37 Pct. Rise in Heating Bill--EIA

Consumers in the U.S. Northeast will  see their heating oil bills soar an estimated 37 percent this  winter, sharply higher than previously expected, the U.S.  Energy Information Administration said on Tuesday.


Bad Kleinchirchheim, 19:25 - CALCIO, PALERMO; ZAMPARINI: ADEGUAMENTI PER BARZAGLI E ZACCARDO

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Apple Inc  is recruiting  staff for new retail stores in Germany and Switzerland,  according to a job opportunities link on its Web site.


An Iranian diplomat was freed in Iraq on Monday after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militants holding two French newsmen.


Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say


BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein met with a defense lawyer yesterday for the first time since his capture a year ago, days before several of his top aides are due to appear in court for hearings on alleged war crimes.


November personal spending jumped 1.1 percent

U.S. personal spending jumped a much bigger-than-expected 1.1 percent in November, the sharpest rise in more than two years, while prices rose, a Commerce Department report showed on Friday.


Ofcom, the official telecom regulator for the UK, published its approach to new voice services, including Voice over Broadband (VoB) phone services.


Ahead of elections on Sunday, the leader of Turkey's hard-line nationalists flung a hangman's noose from a podium to make a point: He thinks the prime minister is soft on terrorism and should hang the imprisoned leader of Kurdish rebels.


Fans in a Video Playoff for Super Bowl Tickets

The Coors Brewing Company is offering consumers a chance to win tickets for the 2008 or 2009 Super Bowl by submitting video clips to its Web sites.


Apple 'MacBook Mini' to lose HDD, gain Flash?

Premium product Rumours that Apple is working on a sub-notebook computer were given weight this week when a Wall Street analyst claimed the ultra-compact MacBook will use Flash storage.â¦


Hamilton crashes kart after charity auction

Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton, who has yet to make a mistake in a grand prix race, crashed a go-kart that had been sold at a charity auction for 42,100 pounds on Thursday.


An earthquake on Indonesia's Sulawesi island forces people to flee their homes, fearing a tsunami.


Strong Rail Prices Help CSX Beat Expectations

CHICAGO  â The CSX Corporation reported a better-than-expected quarterly net profit Tuesday as strong pricing for rail freight offset higher fuel costs and weaker volumes, sending its shares up more than 5 percent.


Tony Blair is due to hold talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki on the final day of his Africa tour.


Roma, 13:59 - MOTO, TEAM HONDA GRESINI: NAKANO PER IL 2008

Sarà Shinya Nakano ad affiancare Alex De Angelis nel Team Honda Gresini per il campionato del...


Australia Guantanamo Detainee Reported on Way Home

Australian terror suspect Mamdouh  Habib has been released from U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay  and is on his way home after being held for almost three years  on suspicion of helping al Qaeda, media said.


Joshua Eichorn's Weblog: phpDocumentor Plan

In a new posting from Joshua Eichorn's weblog today, he talks about the latest PHP London meeting and the final topic of the night - his work with phpDocumentor.


5,000-Cow Megadairy Plan Angers Residents: Lenawee County Water, Sewer Strains Feared

By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 18--OGDEN CENTER, Mich. -- Residents have put on their fighting gloves, and county officials are warning of problems in the brewing battle over a proposed 5,000-cow megadairy.


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Florida sextuplets improving in hospital

Karoline and Ben Byler knew they might get twins, maybe even triplets, when they started using fertility drugs. They ended up with Florida's first sextuplets.


New Limits on Pollution Herald Change in Europe

As the Kyoto climate protocol comes into effect, European industries fear losing a competitive edge to U.S. rivals.


Reader Udaysinh ran into Abhiwarya at the Paris airport.


Firenze, 17:16 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA: I CONVOCATI PER L'UDINESE

Cesare Prandelli ha convocato 20 giocatori per la gara contro l'Udinese di domani.


Belgacom buys Vodafone stake in mobile unit for 2 billion euros

Belgian telecommunications operator Belgacom said that it was buying Vodafone's 25-percent stake in its mobile phone unit Proximus for two billion euros (2.55 billion dollars).


Baldini triumph eclipsed by De Lima attack

Britain's Jon Brown nearly found himself benefiting from the attack on Brazil's Vanderlei de Lima but had to instead settle for finishing fourth for the second consecutive Olympic games last night.


Fighting Rages in Iraq's Rebel-Held Ramadi

Fighting raged between rebels controlling the western Iraq town of Ramadi and U.S. Marines Wednesday after two Iraqis were killed in clashes following a suicide car bomb attack, witnesses said.


Loretta Harrop of Australia had been running alone for more than a half-hour, and only a few hundred yards of pavement separated her from a triathlon gold medal.


Microsoft Guards Its Protocols in European Court

Microsoft argued in a Luxembourg court on Thursday that the European Competition Commission's antitrust decision against it would infringe on its intellectual property and cause serious and irreparable harm to the company.


World Business Briefing: Japan: Inflation Up, Confidence Down

Japanâs wholesale inflation accelerated in June as oil and other commodity prices rose, prompting food and packaging companies to pass on costs to clients.


Brazil and India sign multi-million dollar trade deals, as leaders of the two emerging giants meet in Brasilia.


Sale a 243,7 mld di dollari e supera Citigroup


KATHMANDU: Angry protesters burnt tyres in Kathmandu and forcibly shut down schools and shops on Wednesday, following the killing of 12 Nepalis by their abductors in Iraq.


Governor Declares Emergency in Stevenson

By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 8--Gov.


Oil price climbs in New York despite rising US inventories

NEW YORK : World oil prices rose on Wednesday as traders reacted coolly to news of a rise in US commercial energy reserves, sweating instead about an OPEC gathering in Cairo this week.


Microsoft Bids for Norwegian Search Engine Firm

Microsoft bid $1.2 billion for Fast Search and Transfer, based in Oslo, in an effort to add more tools to its lucrative Office products.


Adding blood thinners doesn't prevent heart attack

Two drugs are not always better than one when it comes to using blood thinners to treat clogged arteries in the legs, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.


Ritrovata l'auto dell'uomo, forse si voleva sequestro lampo


U.S. consumer sentiment ended weaker in November than October, a private survey showed on Wednesday, as consumers pared their view of current and future financial conditions.


US to continue its policy towards Pakistan: Armitage

ISLAMABAD, November 10 (Online): US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met President Gen. Musharraf and PM Shaukat Aziz and exchanged views on wide spectrum of matters concerning Pak-US bilateral relations


HK PRESS: Goldman Lowers Hutchison Telecom Valuation 20%

HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Goldman Sachs has lowered its valuation of Hutchison Telecom International Ltd. by 20% to US$5 billion ahead of its Oct. 14 listing, the local Chinese-language newspaper Apple Daily reports.


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John Harbaugh was hired Friday as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, who hope their second choice proves to be a first-rate success.


Fifteen Iraqi National Guards Kidnapped in Ambush

Gunmen kidnapped 15 Iraqi National Guards on Friday after ambushing their convoy on a desert road in the restive west of the country, an officer said.


Sprint Nextel has decided to consolidate its two headquarters, eliminating a relic of the merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications in 2005.After that deal closed, the new company set up its corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia, which had been the home of Nextel, and established an operational base in Sprint's home of Overland Park, Kansas. Now it will have just one main office, in Overland Park.The move was widely anticipated as a new CEO, Dan Hesse, took over the troubled operator. Consolidating the networks and corporate cultures of Sprint and Nextel has proved harder than merging them financially, and it has weighed down a company that has enough problems already, according to industry analysts. Sprint is losing subscribers and struggling to distinguish itself as the number-three player in the U.S. behind AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless. It is close to a limited launch of its WiMax mobile broadband network but is unlikely to reach its WiMax coverage goal by the end of this year, an executive said Wednesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.Since Hesse took the helm in December, the company's top financial, marketing and sales executives have left, and it has announced plans to lay off 4,000 employees.Consolidating management in Overland Park will cut travel costs, bring executives closer to the company's operations and make better use of Sprint's real estate assets, according to a company statement. The move will require relocation of only a small number of executives, and Sprint will continue to have "a very significant employee presence in Reston," the company said. Sprint has about 4,400 employees in the Washington, D.C., region and about 13,300 in the Kansas City, Missouri, area, where Overland Park is located.Sprint traces its roots to the Brown Telephone Co., founded in Abilene, Kansas, in 1899, according to the company's Web site.


Corte di Versailles accoglie richiesta Italia


Darwin, Australia - A teenager in Australia's Northern Territory made a narrow escape from the jaws of a crocodile that dragged him underwater, police said on Monday.


Senior doctors are warning that emergency Caesareans are often not needed.


Davenport Victory in Vain, Myskina Advances

Top-ranked Lindsay Davenport pulled  off a stunning 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 win over Serena Williams at the  WTA Tour Championships on Saturday, but her battling effort was  not enough to get her into the semifinals.


Former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said on Monday there is an increased risk of a recession but cautioned that the Fed must still be on guard for a rise in inflation.


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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is set to ask Congress for $190bn to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday he will turn over secret documents detailing the government's domestic spying program, ending a two-week standoff with the Senate Judiciary Committee over surveillance targeting terror suspects.


China 'will crush Taiwan independence moves'

By Richard McGregor in Shanghai and Caroline Gluck in Taipei. China said yesterday its armed forces had a "sacred responsibility" to crush moves towards independence by Taiwan, whatever the cost, and described relations with the island as "grim".


Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she's ready to "return to the lion's den" to fight for reforms she failed to implement as first lady.


Implications of Intel; Plans for Plant Raise Worries About Economy

The following comments were posted on the gazette.com Web site in response to recent stories headlined in bold below. The Gazette edited the comments for spelling and shortened some of them, but the paper makes no claim as to their accuracy.


Crude oil prices jumped beyond $50 a barrel yesterday, renewing concerns that sustained high energy costs will further weaken the US economy.


Goal drought gives Ferguson cause for concern

Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted that his side's current lack of goals is a source of concern in the run-up to Sunday's Premiership showdown with Arsenal.


Crude oil futures prices hit historical highs

CONTINUING concerns over possible supply disruptions and strong demand pushed prices of crude oil futures to historical highs yesterday.


DevShed: Handling Cookies and File Data with the Factory Pattern in PHP 5

Continuing on with their look at the Factory Pattern (part one), DevShed has part two posted - a look at applying what was learned previously into a simple cookie-handling and file manipulation script.   At this stage you should have a more accurate idea of how to include the factory pattern into your own PHP applications, at least at a very basic level. But don't you worry because this scenario is going to change quickly, since in this second tutorial I'm going to teach you how to take advantage of the capacity offered by the pattern to create objects that are capable of saving data to different locations, including files and cookies.   The tutorial starts off by creating the classes needed to save strings and objects based off of the abstract DataSaverFactory class. On top of this, they build the classes to save the cookies and work with the files using the Factory objects.


FDA knows of one report of consumer with 'popcorn lung'

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday it knows of one report suggesting a consumer developed a rare lung disease from eating butter-flavored microwave popcorn.


Kite-powered ship to cross Atlantic: designers

The world's first cargo ship partially powered by a giant kite has set sail from Germany to Venezuela, the company behind the project said Tuesday.


Chris Fine hit a two-run homer and Eli Lawson also homered to lead Morganton, N.C., to a 5-4 win over Lincoln, R.I., at the Little League World Series last night in South Williamsport, Pa.


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The Titans are back in control of their chase for their first playoff berth since 2003 after beating the Jets 10-6 and watching the Bengals hold off the Browns.


A Bahrain court sentences a human rights activist to one year in jail for inciting hatred against the state.


The London conference on reproductive health concluded Thursday with a resolution backing the right to abortion. The agreement on the right to abortion marked a significant step forward from the International


"Music and Lyrics" is a weird little hybrid of a romantic comedy that's simultaneously too fluffy and not whimsical enough.


A Night Out With: The Master of Festivities

The Magnum Photosâ 60th anniversary celebration will be held at gallery owner Carlo von Zeitscheâs home.


If you want people to think you're way cooler than you actually are, why not claim to be a guest blogger at one of the revered weblogs in the blogosphere? Here's a handy guide to crafting your horrible lies. Commentary by Lore SjÃ¶berg.


Homeland Security Drops Data-Mining Tool

The Department of Homeland Security has given up on one of its broadest anti-terrorism data-mining tools after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards.


Fallujah negotiator refuses to resume talks

The negotiator for the militant Shiite stronghold of Fallujah was freed from US custody today but refused to resume peace talks. Sheik Khaled al-Jumeili said they will remain suspended as a protest against


Leadership, Honesty Needed to Confront Abuse Problem

By John Railey, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Mar. 4--The outrageous words must have hurt a lot of Southern Baptists.  "I believe kids are not safe in Southern Baptist churches," Christa Brown  told The Associated Press the other day.


The party that lost on Nov. 2 wrestles with how to add nuance on a key cultural divide in America.


Halle, 13:32 - BOXE, PESI MEDI WBA: STURM VINCE AI PUNTI E CONSERVA CORONA

Il tedesco Felix Sturm ha conservato il mondiale Wba dei pesi medi battendo ai punti lo statunitense...


German fraudster protests jail term from pole

A German father of five sentenced to jail for online fraud is protesting against his conviction by occupying the top of a 22 metre (72 foot) pole.


Northeast to see above or below norm temps

The U.S. Northeast from upstate New  York to Maine will have equal chances of above- or below-normal  temperatures during February and in the 3-month February-April  period, the National Weather Service predicted on Thursday.


Tigerton, Barcelona to 'reinvigorate' high-end server market

(InfoWorld) - Newly released processors from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel will reinvigorate the market for high-end servers, according to one server analyst. The biggest impact ofÂ Intel's recently released Xeon 7300 chips, known as Tigerton, andÂ AMD's just-launched Quad-Core Opteron processor, called Barcelona, will be felt in the market for high-end servers with four processors, called 4P systems, said Rajnish Arora, research director for servers and workstations at IDC Asia-Pacific. The 4P market has lagged in recent months because two-way, or 2P, servers based on quad-core processors from Intel offered the same number of cores as 4P systems using dual-core chips from Intel and AMD. But that is set to change with the release of the Xeon 7300 and Quad-Core Opteron. "Both Tigerton and Barcelona will reinvigorate the 4P market," Arora said. The Xeon 7300 and Quad-Core Opteron are the first quad-core x86 processors designed for 4P systems. Previously, both Intel and AMD offered only dual-core processors for this segment of the market. The introduction of these chips allows server makers to build systems with a total of 16 cores in four processors, double the amount of cores that was previously possible. "It's a very powerful, scalable platform now," he said. The increased processing power of these systems will allow users to consolidate their x86 servers, since fewer servers can offer more performance. "They are far more powerful than 4P servers sold two years ago," Arora said. While fewer servers are required, the prices of servers will start to rise as users demand systems with more memory to handle virtualization workloads. "Companies are looking for more richly configured systems," he said. IDC is owned by International Data Group, the parent company of IDG News Service.


RUSSIA-AFRICA:  Debt Write-Off Boosts Closer Trade Ties

MOSCOW, Jun 5 (IPS) - Long seen as funding the continent's wars and  doing little other than seeking out petroleum and mineral  resources, Russia is now looking to kick-start better trade  relations with Africa, and has made its first move by writing off  the majority of the continent's debt.


Lawmakers Seek Probe of Long Voting Lines

Two senior Democratic lawmakers asked Wednesday for a congressional investigation into long Election Day lines, including some that took hours to get through and continued even past midnight.


Citing public safety concerns, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has unanimously voted to urge the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to act quickly to ensure that the county does not lose one of its three trauma


LeBron James and Kobe Bryant went back and forth throughout an intense fourth quarter. James and his Cleveland Cavaliers won out in the end, even surviving a few raindrops at Staples Center.


Heseltine: cities need powerful elected mayors

Britain's cities need directly-elected leaders with 'very substantial powers' to revive them, Lord Heseltine, the former cabinet minister, told the Tories today.


Pope celebrates open air beatification Mass at Loreto

Pope John Paul II was greeted yesterday by about 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Loreto, Italy, where he beatified three members of the lay political movement Catholic Action.


US veterans with no health cover nearly 1,700,000

According to a new study, nearly 1,700,000 US veterans had no health care cover at all in 2003. The study was carried out by Physicians for National Health Program and the Public Citizen group.


Ambitious WHO HIV/AIDS program unlikely to meet 2005 target

TORONTO (CP) - An ambitious initiative to provide life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs to three million people with HIV/AIDS by the end of next year likely won't meet its target, the director general of the World Health Organization has admitted.


Brett Favre's mother was hospitalized Thursday with stomach pains, interrupting her book tour.


As the violence rages in Iraq, a small stream of Iraqis is trickling into the United States despite improbable odds.


Accused bomber and star witness against him were deeply in love: Crown

VANCOUVER (CP) - An accused bomber was deeply in love with the key witness against him and their feelings were so strong, he was able to confess to her his role in the Air India bombing, a Crown prosecutor told the court Wednesday.


Nokia, Vodafone push for mobile Java standards

The world's largest mobile phone manufacturer and Europe's largest wireless operator have launched an initiative to simplify Java standards for mobile devices in a move aimed


Fashions come and go, but some of the equations in the chip business never change, says Gordon Moore.


RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 22 -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, increasing pressure on the military government by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.


Yahoo Jazzes Up Mobile Search  Google SMS started serving search results to mobile users in the US just a few days back. Now Yahoo! follows it with even more comprehensive feature set. Google SMS is currently text based for the results; Yahoo! jazzes them up with maps, website icons, as well ...


Harrison matter hits home and, like safety, hits hard

It is a beautiful Labor Day weekend in New England and the games are going on all around us and the prospects for autumn (and beyond) seem infinite . . . and then we find out that one of the local favorites is a cheater.


Blue Coat adds WAN acceleration to business video Blue Coat Systems has added video to the list of network services it can optimise over WANs. Like most others in the internet gateway business, it used to treat video as potentially unwanted network traffic, but has picked up on its increasing use in business.â¦


Pakistan sends surrender ultimatum to mosque militants

A deadline for militant students to surrender at a Pakistan mosque passed on Wednesday, as hundreds of troops surround the building in the capital.


U.S. Says Cat Stevens May Have Terror Ties

The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens is forbidden from flying into the United States because of his alleged association with possible terrorists, U.S. officials said Wednesday in explaining why a London-to-Washington flight carrying the peace activist was diverted.


Palestinian forces enter Jordan under U.S. program

ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank  - The first battalion of Palestinian security forces crossed into Jordan on Thursday to begin training under a U.S. program after nearly a year-long delay.


Leading Iraqi parties call for elections delay: TV

More than 15 leading Iraqi parties called on Friday to delay the scheduled January elections by atleast six months, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV reported.


Dale Earnhardt: In the presence of a legend

By Wayne Pearson, host of ESPN's "Ultimate Outdoors". It's been my experience that the term "legend," when describing an individual, has been tossed around all too freely.


Community leaders in Australia protest over government plans to curb child abuse in Aboriginal areas.


Quanto a Islam, reazioni esasperate a discorso Papa


European stock markets retreat; EADS shares nosedive

European stock markets retreated on Friday, with shares in aerospace group EADS plunging by more than 2.5 percent after revealing the first-ever operating loss for its troubled Airbus unit.


It took years for Andrzej Solyga to muster the courage to invest in mutual funds.


U.S. retailers want online sellers to fight theft

U.S. retailers and police called on Congress on Thursday to require online auction sites such as eBay to post the serial numbers of items for sale to help crack down on gangs of professional shoplifters.


Medico legale conferma esito autopsia fatta dopo omicidio


Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is visiting her ancestral village to pray at her father's tomb.


Venezuela Increasingly A Conduit For Cocaine

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with...


Free-market think tank urges EU to unbundle Windows

'No natural monopoly' The Globalisation Institute, a European think-tank run by free market advocates, today went on the offensive against Microsoft, calling on the EU to require all PCs to be sold without operating systems.â¦


Insurer and fund manager AMP Ltd. , on Wednesday posted a better-than-expected first-half profit on higher investment returns and improved margins, and targeted a stronger performance for the remainder of the year.


Officials Blame Contractors in Tunnel Leak

The tunnel containing this city's sunken highway - the crown jewel of the Big Dig, Boston's mammoth $14.6 billion highway project - is leaking because of improper construction


Rove Says Bush Victory May Mark Republican Dominance

President George W. Bush's election victory may begin decades of Republican dominance in US politics, Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, said.


ROMA: Fifa sospende Mexes per 6 settimane

La Fifa ha squalificato per un mese e mezzo, a decorrere dal 12 settembre, Philippe Mexes. Il giocatore salterÃ  le sfide con Inter e Real Madrid. Philippe Mexes non potrÃ  scendere in campo per un mese e mezzo.


Saying Baseball Is in Turmoil? Donât Be So Sure

American fans may not care for cheating players, but those players havenât stained the game sufficiently to keep fans away.


Roddick and Blake to lead U.S. Davis Cup team

Andy Roddick and James Blake will lead the United States team in this month's Davis Cup semi-final against Sweden in Gothenburg.


Al momento non risultano danni a persone o cose


Terrorismo, inchiesta di Perugia: sequestrati fusti e provetteche, combinati e mescolati, "possono diventare ordigni"                                           In moschea 60 tipi di sostanze chimiche "Potevano diventare pericolosi esplosivi"                                                                                Nella scuola islamica i ragazzi e le ragazze educati all'odio verso i cristiani


Deutsche Telekom AG's mobile phone arm, T-Mobile, said Thursday it would likely shed 2,200 jobs - about 10 percent of its work force - in order to save $195 million over the next two years.


Heavy sentence handed to cyber-blackmailers

Stiff prison sentences handed down to three Russian men convicted of extorting money from overseas gambling sites may indicate that authorities there are changing their previously lenient outlook on such crimes.


By AP Wire Services  SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Congress and federal investigators on Monday entered the fray surrounding Hewlett-Packard Co.'s possibly illegal probe of media leaks, as the company's board met to discuss the fate of its embattled chairwoman.    With the FBI, the U.S.


Test of Brain Device Is Setback for Maker

Results from a crucial clinical trial showed that Northstar Neuroscienceâs brain-stimulating device failed to help stroke victims recover the use of their arms and hands.


Election commission set to announce delay to election because of unrest following Bhutto assassination.


Roundup: Arsenal wins, extends unbeaten streak to 47

Defending champion Arsenal stretched its unbeaten record in the English Premier League to 47 games, winning 1-0 at Manchester City yesterday on a rare goal by fullback Ashley Cole.


IBM on Wednesday announced the pre-release of several tools for SMBs (small and midsize businesses) designed to speed development of solutions built on IBM middleware.


NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Curse the Yankees and Mets all you want; you've got to love any city that can serve as host for two baseball playoff games in the same day/night. In this spirit, I love New York.


Presenze pari a 242 milioni per i 33.527 alberghi italiani


Trying to Make the Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard

Researchers are devising new (and hopefully better) ways to interact with Tablet PC's and other pen-based computers.


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered a strong, new warning for Pfizer Inc.'s  injectable contraceptive called Depo-Provera, saying it could permanently weaken bones.


Viking queen exhumed to discover mystery companion

Archaeologists exhumed the body of a Viking queen on Monday, hoping to solve a riddle about whether a woman buried with her 1,200 years ago was a servant killed to be a companion into the afterlife.


MedImmune will produce more of its FluMist vaccine to help in efforts to make up for the national shortage of flu vaccine this year.


Giants' Barber rushes to NBC news, sports gig

NEW YORK  - Retired New York Giants running back Tiki Barber will join NBC Universal's broadcast team, working for both NBC Sports as an analyst and NBC News as a contributor to "Today."


Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson has sent a petition to Queen Elizabeth II urging Britain's monarch to stop the use of bear pelts in making the tall black helmets worn by palace guards.


or months, President Bush has been playing down the findings of David Kay, the first American arms inspector, who debunked the claim that Saddam Hussein had possessed a hoard of weapons of mass destruction ready to use at any moment.


Morocco jails Britons, including suspected Kent heist boss

A Moroccan court has jailed four Britons, among them the suspected mastermind of Britain's biggest cash robbery, for offences committed in the north African country, a judicial source said Thursday.


Suicide bomber kills 20 in Iraq's Falluja

FALLUJA, Iraq  - A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded another 20 in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, police and hospital officials said.


Weak Sales Prompt Pfizer to Cancel Diabetes Drug

Pfizer will take a charge of $2.8 billion for costs associated with Exubera, making it one of the most expensive flops in the history of the pharmaceutical industry.


Northeastern stormed to the attack in the first period, but Boston University held its ground, gained control of the game, and emerged with a 3-1 victory last night at Matthews Arena.


Sydney, 11:04 - CALCIO, AUSTRALIA: SPONSORIZZAZIONE RECORD

La nazionale di calcio dell'Australia si è assicurata la piÃ¹ grande sponsorizzazione della su...


Chicago Fed Sees '05 GDP Down at 3.3 Pct

US economic growth is expected to slow in 2005 due to rising interest rates and high crude oil prices, according to a forecast of participants at a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago conference released on Monday.


Pakistan Tests Short-Range Nuclear-Capable Missile, Army Says

Pakistan successfully test fired a short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, as part of series of planned tests, the army said.


Profits at US investment bank Goldman Sachs are better than expected, despite slow summer business.


`American Idol' aims to improve season 7

"American Idol," for all its success, is not above tinkering Â especially after last year's revolving door of celebrity mentors and Sanjaya Malakar's improbable run.


UK interest rates have been kept on hold at 5% following the latest meeting of the Bank of England.


50 Cent may have to dig in for a lot more change than that after being pulled over by police Friday in midtown Manhattan while taking his silver Lamborghini for a spin.


The US jobless rate dropped in November, but analysts are surprise and disappointed by the weak job creation numbers reported by the US Labour Department.


Osama bin Laden casts himself as Muslim elder statesman

Latest video is less threatening, but raises new questions about the Al Qaeda leader's current location. WASHINGTON AND ISLAMABAD - The Bush administration has rarely voiced his name.


bkupcj_configurator: 0.1 is now available

bkupcj is a software for automatically backup your files to usb disk, samba partition or local directory. bkupcj creates mirrors of original directories, isn't incremental in order to optimize disk space. bkupcj can also be used like a cron-job.   bkupcj_configurator is a GUI, written in Java (requires JRE>=1.6),that configures all bkupcj properties and substitutes configure-cron.sh script for configuring bkupcj like a cron-job (support only Anacron and Dcron).  Bkupcj_configurator screenshots at screenshots section


Steady as she goes The Government is acting more slowly than expected in implementing the Companies Act, the piece of legislation that is completely overhauling the way companies are governed.â¦


Conservatives call for wider inquiry into Blunkett's alleged abuses

The Conservatives called for a widening of the inquiry into allegations that home secretary David Blunkett fast-tracked a visa application for his former lover's nanny.


Air France tests cell services in Europe

Air France has become the first airline to offer international passengers e-mail and text-messaging service that's based on standard cell phone technology.


Next President to Face Pressure on Taxes

At their national convention, Republicans were short on specifics on how to pay for an economic agenda in a second Bush administration. One reason is that President Bush could end up having to back a tax increase, just as his father did. But nobody wanted to spoil the Madison Square Garden party by mentioning such unpleasantries. After all, Republicans are insisting that Democrat John Kerry is the candidate who will increase taxes.


Microsoft Moves On Spyware To Stymie Firefox

TechWeb - Microsoft bought anti-spyware technology to protect its Internet Explorer browser from surging rivals like Mozilla's Firefox


Kanye West is not eating any $3,900 curry, his management said Tuesday.


The Irish singer and entertainer Joe Dolan, 64, dies from a suspected brain haemorrhage.


Analysts said the discovery of a human case of mad cow disease in Japan may hamper efforts to resume beef imports from the United States.


Music Review | Cleveland Orchestra: An Orchestra Delivers a Piece of Abstract Art, and a Big Idea for a Big City

New York is a Mahler town, which is probably why the Cleveland Orchestra made Mahlerâs âResurrectionâ Symphony the punch line for its three-concert series at Carnegie Hall that ended on Thursday.


Film on trauma of troops back from Iraq hits Venice

The scars from the Iraq war do not heal when U.S. soldiers return home, says a powerful new film starring Tommy Lee Jones that keeps the conflict at the heart of the Venice film festival this year.


Fed's Pianalto: Inflation trend too high in long term

Inflation of around 3 percent in the United States since 2005 is too high for comfort in the longer term, Cleveland Federal Reserve President Sandra Pianalto said on Monday.


Three former agents of the New York office of the Drug Enforcement Administration filed a defamation lawsuit against NBC Universal studios, claiming the movie âAmerican Gangsterâ libeled D.E.A. agents.


Almost fully functional Cluster Watch: Day 6 It may have been CEO Darl McBride or attorney David Boies, but someone has stepped up to fix the SCO Group's web site.â¦


The Sudanese government strongly rejects a UN resolution to send a UN peacekeeping force to Darfur.


Could a touch-screen BlackBerry be in the offing?

The iPhone has sparked wide interest in touch-screen devices, and rumors of a touch-screen BlackBerry surfaced again this week.


Tennis Roundup: U.S. Falls to Russia in Fed Cup Semifinals

Even without two injured players, Russia still had enough talent to overcome Venus Williams and the United States yesterday in the semifinals of the Fed Cup, 3-2.


The decision by Marwan Barghouti, an imprisoned Palestinian leader, to run for president of the Palestinian Authority should be welcomed by all who want to see real democracy emerge in Palestine ("Barghouti faces Fatah opposition," Dec. 3).


UN captors demand troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

A breakaway Taliban group claiming to hold three UN workers demanded Saturday the hostages' governments pull their troops out of Afghanistan or condemn the "international invasion" of the country, AFP reports.


Afghanistan Voters Likely to Back Karzai Amid Terrorist Threats

Afghanistan's election tomorrow, after 22 years of war, is likely to return Interim President Hamid Karzai as leader amid threats of violence and questions about the legitimacy of the process.


You probably haven't heard about one of the toughest endurance sports around: the deca-ironman. That's 38 km swimming, immediately followed by an 1800 km bicycle ride and a 420 km run. Currently, the world record stands at about 187 hours, held by a German housewife. Nobody else has ever finished the course below 192 hours.


Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards Expecting

Christmas has come early for Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards.


British number one Tim Henman is ready to seek revenge over Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors event in Basel, having lost their last encounter in the first round of the Olympics in Athens.


Turkish govt and opposition agree to ease scarf ban

Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party  and a key opposition party agreed on Thursday to cooperate to  lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in  universities, a move sure to anger the secular elite.


A Ballerina Born, and Molded, to Balanchine's Art

Sofiane Sylve, a 28-year-old ballerina of astonishing power and projection, is considered the perfect Balanchine dancer by an array of ballet masters.


European nations led by France were evacuating their nationals from Ivory Coast on Thursday, where an explosion of anti-French violence has made even long-time residents rush to pack their bags.


Prudential to shutter stock-trade subsidiary

Prudential Financial Inc. , the second-largest US life insurer, will shut its 420-person stock research and trading unit, one of the last traces of its failed attempt to become a financial supermarket.


Cheney, Edwards Pull No Punches in Tough Debate

Vice President Dick Cheney and  Democratic Sen. John Edwards battled fiercely over the war in  Iraq in a debate that featured repeated personal attacks on the  other side's records and judgment.


NBA Wrap: Wins for Celtics, 76ers, Lakers Lose

Paul Pierce nailed a jumper at the buzzer to give the Boston Celtics a 90-88 victory over Portland at the FleetCenter.


Sinkewitz fails doping test : German federation

MARSEILLE, France  - German T-Mobile rider Patrik Sinkewitz has tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone, the German cycling federation (BDR) said on Wednesday.


McCain May Seek Boeing Repayments in Plane Scandal

Boeing Co. may have to repay sums  purportedly received improperly in the Pentagon's biggest  contracting scandal in more than a decade, Senate Armed  Services Committee member John McCain said on Friday.


(InfoWorld) - The social networking site MySpace.com is under what one computer security analyst calls an "amazingly virulent" attack caused by a worm that steals log-in credentials and spreads spam that promotes adware sites. The worm is infecting MySpace profiles with such efficiency that an informal scan of 150 found that close to a third were infected, said Christopher Boyd, security research manager at FaceTime Communications. MySpace, owned by News Corp., is estimated to have at least 73 million registered users. The worm works by using a cross-scripting weaknessÂ found around two weeks agoÂ in MySpace and a feature within Apple Computer's QuickTime multimedia player. The exploit starts with a user who visits a MySpace profile infected with an embedded QuickTime movie. The movie loads JavaScript code that overlays a row of menu options on a MySpace profile with a bogus menu. A QuickTime function, called the HREF track, can direct the player to use JavaScript commands to load Web pages into a browser frame or window. The JavaScript feature in QuickTime has legitimate uses, "but there are a lot of legitimate uses for technology that can be misused," said Ross Paul, senior product manager with Websense Inc. If an option in the bogus menu is clicked, the user is directed to a fake log-in page hosted on another server where the person's log-in details are captured. Websense has posted a screenshot of the fake log-in page. MySpace's "seemingly random tendency" to expire user sessions or log out users makes it less noticeable to victims that an attack is under way, according to a Nov. 16 advisory by the Computer Academic Underground . Additionally, the worm places an embedded QuickTime movie on the user's profile, which will then repeat the infection process for anyone who visits the profile. The worm has another malicious function. Once a profile is infected, the worm sends spam to other people in the user's contact list. Those spam messages contain a file that appears to be a movie but instead is a link to a pornographic site that also hosts adware from Zango, Boyd said. Zango, formerly 180 Solutions,Â settled last monthÂ with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for $3 million over complaints it didn't properly ask the consent of users before its adware was installed. Boyd said he's heard anecdotal stories of users removing the worm's JavaScript manually from their profile, but the worm reappears after some time if one of their friend's profiles is infected. Several variants of the worm have also appeared, he said. While some of the Web sites hosting the malicious QuickTime movie have been taken down, others have appeared, Boyd said. The Firefox 2.0 browser was flagging some of the bogus log-in sites as phishing sites, Boyd said. However, phishing sites can be active for several hours before they are flagged, he said. MySpace officials in London couldn't immediately comment Monday morning.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.


L'incidenza maggiore nelle Marche, 13 casi per mille


PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Hasbro Inc. reported a hefty 24 percent rise in its fourth-quarter profit on Monday and named a successor to its chief executive who is becoming chairman of the world's second biggest toymaker.


Parker spurs San Antonio to superb NBA start

Tony Parker sparked a game-opening 17-2 run and the San Antonio Spurs routed Chicago 91-75 here, extending their best start in club history to a National Basketball Association-leading 16-3 record.


Former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto survives a suicide bomb attack on her convoy, but at least 130 people are killed.


Hackers take advantage of Microsoft's JPEG flaw

NEW YORK - In a harbinger of security threats to come, hackers have exploited a newly announced flaw in Microsoft Corp. programs and begun circulating malicious code hidden in images that use the popular JPEG format.


Iraqis to Debate Bill on Creating Autonomous States

The legislation could allow Shiites in the south to form semi-independent regions, like Kurdistan in the north.


Marines make the best of Christmas in Iraq

FALLUJAH, Iraq - On a day that started with a surprise holiday visit from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Marines in Fallujah received an even more unexpected gift on Christmas Eve - a day of relative peace in this violent city.


Thank goodness for Bernard Hopkins' left hand. _Not that I was_particularly rooting for either fighter when Hopkins clashed with Oscar De La Hoya on Saturday night,_but that vicious left


'Prodi ne ha dato conferma durante l'incontro con Bush'


Mercent making cents of Amazon for Guess

The e-commerce Web services specialist is helping a growing list of retail manufacturers sell their wares via Amazon.


Shares in telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA fell Thursday to their lowest level after the company slashed its forecast for full-year revenue growth in its third profit warning since the start of the year


Merck ending lobbying for mandatory Gardasil vaccine

Drugmaker Merck & Co. said on Tuesday it would stop lobbying state legislatures to make it mandatory for schoolgirls to be inoculated with its new cervical cancer vaccine.


Russian gas giant Gazprom gets go-ahead for Yukos bid

Russian gas giant Gazprom pushed ahead with plans to bid for the main production unit of embattled oil group Yukos, a takeover that would create a state-controlled oil and gas behemoth to rival Saudi Arabia's Aramco.


The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee yesterday called on the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate alleged attempts to discredit a Food and Drug Administration whistle-blower.


No Stated Timetable, but Plenty of Goals

The Bush administration has shunned setting any timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. But talk to leading U.S. soldiers in Baghdad and it quickly becomes evident they have a timeline in mind.


Indonesia's Sumatra pounded by quake, aftershocks

BENGKULU, Indonesia  - Indonesia's Sumatra island was pounded by aftershocks on Thursday after a massive earthquake killed at least eight people and buried many others under collapsed buildings.


Lehman Profit Rises 22 Pct., Shares Climb

US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said fourth-quarter profit rose 22 percent on continued strength from fixed-income businesses and record investment banking revenue.


Brolin playing Milano's dad in ABC pilot

James Brolin will play  Alyssa Milano's father in an untitled ABC drama pilot.


THE British Government has been accused of "clearly misleading" the public over plans for post-war Iraq after a newspaper reported Tony Blair was warned a year before the invasion that stability would be difficult.


Bookies, casinos and betting websites will be able to advertise on TV and radio for the first time this weekend.


An attack on a patrol killed an American soldier, the third U.S. fatality this week in Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday, amid a flurry of attacks that wounded over a dozen Americans in the run-up to the Oct. 9 presidential election.


NBA ROUNDUP Heat Sweeps Wizards Behind Wade's Scoring

By The Associated Press. Dwyane Wade had 29 points and 9 assists as the visiting Miami Heat swept its four-game series over the Washington Wizards with a 98-93 victory last night.


Nuovo asset manageriale dopo nomina Gasparini a dg


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An Olympic athlete-turned-astronaut and a rookie spaceflyer are leading a spacewalking team set to launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) aboard NASA's shuttle Discovery this week.


Police holding three men over the murder of Damilola Taylor must decide on Thursday if they are to be charged.


Zoellick poised to clinch job as World Bank chief

Robert Zoellick, President George W. Bush's candidate to be World Bank president, looked set to clinch the job as expected without a challenger when a deadline for nominations expires on Friday.


In-depth look at U.S. struggle to defeat improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2002.


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Dallaglio back as Grewcock pays price of indiscipline

England have turned to former captain Lawrence Dallaglio in a bid to bolster their increasingly beleaguered bid to become the first country to retain the World Cup.


A German woman hid her father's corpse in a rubbish bin for three years so she could collect his pension and old age benefits, police say.


Oil prices fell further below $50 on Wednesday as a fresh rise in US crude oil inventories outweighed the impact of President Bush's victory in the US election.


North Korea set to start 2008 with missed nuclear date

North Korea appears almost certain to miss a deadline in a nuclear deal, a development that is unlikely to scuttle the disarmament-for-aid pact it reached with regional powers but could hamper its implementation.


Eurotunnel, operator of the Channel tunnel, was rescued from looming bankruptcy when key creditors approved a plan to slash debt exceeding 9.0 billion euros (11.9 billion dollars).


Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy poses parental dilemma

Jamie Lynn Spears wasn't the only one who was "shocked and scared" when the popular U.S. television star realized she was pregnant at age 16.


Yushchenko hails new political era in Ukraine after rerun vote

Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko hailed a new political era in the former Soviet republic after exit polls and early official results gave him a formidable lead over his rival in a historic rerun presidential vote.


-- Lots of final exams, little change in The Associated Press' Top 25 on Monday.


Prosecutors Thursday attacked a witness critical to Scott Peterson's defense who nervously conceded he made an assumption as he calculated when Laci Peterson's fetus died.


Sweden's papers are angry at the tsunami aftermath, while French papers are shocked by a wartime controversy.


Out of the lab and into the living room; Samsung's plasma in the real world Living Room Review You know how it is - you're sitting one day in front of your trusty CRT watching Apocalypse Now when you're suddenly struck by the feeling that you really aren't getting the full-fat cinematic experience.â¦


Chauncey Billups's two free throws with 2.6 seconds left in the game gave Detroit its first lead since the first quarter, and Stephon Marbury's last-second miss gave the Pistons a 94-93 victory over the Knicks last night in New York.


La Mantovani a "Che tempo che fa" per la prima volta parla pubblicamente"Lasciate stare mio marito e Alice, loro non possono difendersi"                                          Pavarotti, Nicoletta si difende in tv "Hanno insultato Luciano e mia figlia"                                                                                "Sul testamento nessuna guerra, c'Ã¨ accordo con le figlie di Luciano"E sulla malattia: "E' vero, ho la sclerosi da 13 anni, non Ã¨ una cosa di cui vergognarsi"di ALESSANDRA VITALI


RPT-UPDATE 3-US Congress analysts see worse long-term deficit

The US budget deficit will balloon to a cumulative $2.29 trillion over the next decade, congressional analysts said on Tuesday, a worse outlook than previously


The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 162.20 points, or 1.56 percent, to 10,590.22. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.


Australian scientists once marveled at an unusual frog that could turn off its gastric juices and brood its young in its stomach. But by 1981, the southern gastric-brooding frog had completely disappeared.


Zend Developer Zone: Designing Klingon Warships Using Behaviour Driven Development

The Zend Developer Zone has another new tutorial from Padraic Brady talking about testing your applications (i.e. unit tests). In this new article, he expands on his previous one and dives a bit deeper into the behaviour-driven development process.   In this article, I introduce a TDD related practice called Behaviour-Driven Development which has been gathering attention for over a year and gaining converts (like me!).   He briefly covers what BDD is and how it can be used to solidify code against issues that might come up down the road (and how it compares to test-driven development). Some sample code/tests are included to give you a better idea of how it all fits together - a set of scenarios for any given "story". True to the title, Padraic writes his tests around the construction of a Klingon Bird of Prey ship.


'Potentially viable explosive device' found in London

Police cordoned off part of central London Friday after the discovery of what they said was a "potentially viable explosive device" in a car.


Closer: Movie keeps its distance from true emotional territory

If the measure of a movie's realism lies in its ability to make you physically uncomfortable, Closer is about as real as it gets.


The digital generation gap shows up in the attempt for schools to ban cell phones outright.  Teens and parents are pushing back against the attempts to take away the phones they have come to depend on so much.


Ntini, Pollock may miss tri-series opener against Sri Lanka

Injury-ridden South Africa may be without pace spearheads Makhaya Ntini and Shaun Pollock for the tri-series opener against hosts Sri Lanka, captain Mark Boucher said.


US stocks advanced on Friday as a jump in September retail sales boosted investor confidence in the economy, but oil prices at a fresh record of $55 a barrel kept gains in check.


Oil prices continued to sink on Thursday as supply worries eased further on hopes that a tentative peace deal with Iraqi Shi'ite fighters will decrease the threat of disruption to the country's revived oil exports.


Ethiopian officials on Saturday accused forces from archrival Eritrea of kidnapping five British citizens and 13 Ethiopians who were touring a remote region near the African countries' long-disputed border, then taking the group to a military camp in Eritrea.


Roma, 20:33 - CALCIO A 5, SERIE A: RISULTATI E CLASSIFICA

Risultati e classifica della 13/a giornata, ultima di andata, del campionato di serie A di calcio a ...


Hillenbrand Industries Inc. HB.N,  which makes medical equipment and caskets, on Tuesday said  quarterly earnings rose, capping a year that saw sales helped  by acquisitions.


Islamists set to boost clout as Morocco votes

Polls opened in Morocco on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message that has drawn wide support in the north African kingdom.


The Missing Evidence from Bhutto's Murder

The scene of the assassination was hosed down before forensics investigators could gather material. Was it government complicity or incompetence?


Authorities rescued a newborn from a trash bin behind a restaurant Thursday and police said the baby's 22-year-old mother was under investigation.


Fresh fighting in Fallujah scares away returning residents

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Some Fallujah residents decided against returning to their war-battered city Friday when fighting erupted for a second straight day in the former rebel stronghold.


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BAGHDAD, Feb. 11 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that it "probably does make sense" to "pause" troop withdrawals from Iraq late this summer, after the last of the forces sent in as part of an offensive surge have gone home.


Real Madrid, Roma Have Stand-In Coaches for Champions League

Real Madrid hosts AS Roma today in the Champions League with both teams reeling after coaches Jose Antonio Camacho and Rudi Voeller quit, just one game into European soccer's elite tournament.


Two days after besting beatboxer Blake Lewis in the TV talent contest, Sparks took part in a teleconference in which she was grilled about everything from her favorite star to what she thought her earning power would be


In an attempt to reunify Chinese Catholics, Benedict XVI sends a conciliatory letter to believers in the People's Republic


John Edwards wears jeans on the stump. Mike Huckabee plays bass guitar with local bands before his speeches and all the main candidates have been accompanied by family or people close to them on the campaign trail.


Nel 2004 oltre 11 milioni contro i 6,9 dell'anno precedente


Despite Housing Slide, Real Estate Sites Sell

Although most of the real estate industry wishes it could fast-forward through 2008, a few online start-ups are surviving nicely.


Riassetto segue nomina del nuovo ad delle Ferrovie Moretti


ASP NetSuite this week unveiled the latest version of its hosted applications suite with a focus on "upsell" and e-commerce functionality.


Venezuela's electoral officials say an audit of the vote on President Hugo Chavez's rule shows it was fair.


Visiting UN Security Council diplomats push for 2005 elections in DR Congo despite huge obstacles.


AP Blog: Product placement, Mr. Roddick?

The electricity is palpable at this year's U.S. Open. AP sports writers will be filing periodic dispatches from one tennis' greatest annual spectacles:


Mediators to meet in Jerusalem after Gaza split

Envoys for international powers trying to mediate a peace in the Middle East agreed on Friday to talk in Jerusalem next week, a day after the first meeting in two months between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.


With victory in sight, Seahawks blow lead, game

Last night's 43-39 loss to the Dallas Cowboys before a Qwest Field-record crowd of 68,093 and a national "Monday Night Football" audience ebbed and flowed, but it was the Seahawks who drowned in their own mistakes and ineptitude.


Yahoo on Thursday rolled out the beta version of its Mail product to all users, inviting them to switch to the new AJAX interface that acts more like a desktop e-mail client than Web site. The Yahoo! Mail revision adds drag and drop organization and instant preview pane.


Most American kids get enough television, but just in case yours don't here's a good way to keep them pacified while away from the real thing: a new portable video player from Mattel.


At least 25 bodies at Sadr's religious court

NAJAF, Iraq : At least 25 charred and bloated bodies were discovered in the basement of a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf's Old City, police said.


Despite their ties to Apple, Mickey and Co. make another play in the digital media market.


Nel 2007 1.413 ordini netti, gran successo 787 Dreamliner


Vaccine programmes could be revolutionised by a new storage technique eliminating the need for refrigeration.


Orange pulls out of bidding for AOL UK: source

PARIS/LONDON  - France Telecom's FTE.PA Orange   unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK Internet   connection business of Time Warner Inc.'s TWX.N AOL, an   industry source close to the matter said on Thursday.


A Democratic senator warned CIA director Porter Goss yesterday that his efforts to make major changes could have ''a significant and negative effect on the agency.


Nearly 40 million people don't have traditional checking accounts, and the retailing giant is ready to serve that untapped financial market


IBM says its supercomputer is world's fastest

[New York | Reuters News Service, 30 September 2004] - IBM said yesterday that it has developed the world's fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title two years ago.


Beyonce injures her hamstring. Plus other news in brief on Michael Douglas, Chaka Khan and Paul Daniels.


Rio de Janeiro, 15:07 - CALCIO, MONDIALI 2014: PELE' LI VUOLE IN BRASILE

I Mondiali di calcio del 2014 in Brasile. Sarà il mitico Pelè a parlarne la prossima s...


IPLocks will help Western Corporate Federal Credit Union meet government security requirements.


Ruling Fatah movement sets party elections for next August

RAMALLAH, West Bank The ruling party of the Palestinian Authority has set a date for its first elections in 16 years. A senior Fatah (FAH'-tah) official says it'll be held on August fourth, Yasser Arafat's birthday.


Obesity on the menu for US presidential hopefuls

US presidential hopefuls from both sides of the political divide are dishing out their plans for fighting obesity, which has reached epidemic proportions and is putting enormous strain on the health care system.


Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the start of his war crimes trial on Monday, saying he would not get a fair hearing at the U.N.- backed court where he is accused of atrocities in Sierra Leone.


Pakistan's Musharraf to meet Brazil's Lula in historic trip

points the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil Nov. 28. AP. RIO DE JANEIRO  - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf holds talks Monday with Brazilian President Luiz


Annan Presses Syria To Pull Out of Lebanon

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan pressed Syria on Friday to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and criticized Lebanon's Syrian-backed president, Emile Lahoud, for seeking


Presidente acquista quantitativo azioni pari a 10 mln euro


Kennedy Winston scored 26 points and Jermareo Davidson had a game-high 13 rebounds to lift No. 22 Alabama to a 66-58 win over Mississippi on Saturday.


Procuratore Lauro: istituito se esami Ris saranno inutili


Oil above $60 on US weather, dollar weakness, OPEC

Oil stood above $60 on Tuesday after forecasts of a cold spell in the U.S. Northeast buoyed heating oil, and as a weaker dollar and a Saudi warning of possible new output curbs bolstered the market.


5 Die in Kabul Suicide Blast; U.S. Gunfire Kills Afghan

American soldiers fired into a crowd near the scene of the blast, accidentally killing one man and wounding another.


After an extended summer vacation, Wall Street is expected to get back to its normal energetic pace this week with the release of August consumer price and retail sales reports.


French Radio Chief Loses His Job Over 'Anti-Israeli' Remarks...

An uproar over anti-Israel remarks cost Alain Menargues, head of news at the state-owned Radio France International, his job Monday, October 18.


Mahendra Dhoni says India's World Twenty20 triumph will repair the damage done by their early exit from the 50-over World Cup.


China Defends Raid of S. Korean Lawmakers' Meeting

The Chinese government on Thursday defended its decision to raid a news conference called by South Korean legislators to discuss the status of North Korean refugees in China, accusing the visitors of inciting North Koreans to illegally enter the country and break into foreign embassies to seek asylum.


Nortel stock falls to 15-month low as financial reports delayed ...

TORONTO (CP) - Nortel Networks stock fell to its lowest price in more than a year Wednesday after the troubled telecommunications equipment maker again delayed its much-anticipated financial restatements, this time until mid-November.


HILLA, Iraq  - A cargo train crashed into a large family car and killed 12 people, including 11 children, near the central Iraqi city of Hilla on Sunday, police said on Monday.


Tens of thousands flee as Typhoon Nanmadol becomes the latest storm to hit the Philippines.


Britain's Tim Brabants misses out on a medal in the men's K1 kayak final.


Singer Damon Albarn says celebrity culture "sends out all the wrong messages", and attacks shows like X Factor.


X Factor winner Steve Brookstein knocks the Band Aid single off the top of the single chart after four weeks.


Court hears Sarkozy suit against airline

Lawsuits by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and girlfriend Carla Bruni over budget airline Ryanair's use of their photo in an advertisement went to court Thursday.


Update 1: Thousands of Hyundai, Kia Worker Strike

Assembly line production at South Korea's two largest automakers ground to a halt Friday as tens of thousands of workers launched six-hour strikes across the nation to protest proposed labor legislation.


Israeli Fighters Force Lufthansa Jet To Cyprus

Israeli jet fighters forced a Lufthansa passenger plane bound for Tel Aviv to land in Cyprus on Tuesday due to a bomb threat. Lufthansa said it had not judged the threat to be serious but that Israel had insisted


Armed gang grabs Â£20m in Great Belfast Bank Robbery

ARMED robbers escaped with Â£20 million in cash in the worldâs biggest peacetime bank robbery after looting the vaults of the Northern Bank in Belfast in a 24-hour hostage drama.


The Sword of Damocles no longer hangs over Real Madrid. Trailing Barcelona by nine points in the Spanish league, defeat here last night would have put them out of the competition they consider their own.


The UK is responsible for almost 30% more carbon dioxide than it reports, the conservation organisation WWF says. WWF's Living Planet Report 2004 says Britain counts only CO2 emitted by UK industry, power plants and vehicles.


California Psychologist Yang Wins World Series of Poker

California psychologist Jerry Yang and a huge mountain of cash were all that was left after plowing through a field of 6,358 players that began to play in stages July 6.


Transcendental meditation may aid heart failure

NEW YORK  - People with heart failure may be able to improve their mental and physical health with the help of transcendental meditation, preliminary research suggests.


Former Tigers Player Sentence to Probation

Former Detroit Tigers player Dmitri Young was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation


Scientists say a strain of the HIV virus which predominates in the US and Europe came from Haiti in about 1969.


Browns back up their talk with 20-3 win over Ravens

The Vindicator/Scott R. Galvin REACHING OUT: Cleveland Browns quarterback Jeff Garcia dives for a touchdown as he is hit by Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game.


The head of the British army during the Iraq invasion says US post-war policy was "intellectually bankrupt".


Prince Harry has apologised to his father over the nightclub fracas that left a photographer with a cut lip, sources said today. While Clarence House


Record deal in clergy abuse suits brings relief, challenges

It appears too early to say whether the record-breaking $100 million clergy sex abuse settlement reached by the Roman Catholic Dicoese of Orange and 87 plaintiffs will be


Joe Nemechek is 24th in the Nextel Cup standings, his championship chances long sunk. He realizes there's only one way to get any recognition for his team and his sponsor, US Army: the old-fashioned way.


The unusual British dinosaur Baryonyx fed on fish, despite it having the body of a meat-eater, a new study finds.


A gunman who attacked a US Amish school said he molested two young members of his family 20 years ago.


Ray Romano gave the Emmy censors a run for their bleep buttons Sunday before making his own run for the exit.


A âmassive fugitive manhuntâ was underway for the Marine corporal who is the principal suspect in the death of a fellow marine who was eight months pregnant.


A study of New York City eateries contends that kitchens consistently violate labor code. And experts say the problems apply everywhere in the U.S.


Critic of H&R Blockâs Performance Is Elected to Board

The move puts more pressure on the company to close its subprime mortgage unit and shed other divisions not tied to the core tax business.


Brig Gen Shmuel Zakai is believed to have told reporters that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered an operation in Gaza that the army thought unnecessary.


BBC chairman Michael Grade has resigned to take the top job at ITV, the public service broadcaster's main commercial competitor.


The Mozilla Foundation has unveiled the most complete preview version yet of its stand-alone e-mail application. The release comes only weeks after the launch of its Firefox browser version 1.0, and is part


Police raid three professional football clubs as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.


Oggi tavolo ristretto con Regioni, con bilancio 'positivo'


You ain't got jack, Supremes tell 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian

WASHINGTON - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian lost a Supreme Court appeal on Monday in his bid to win freedom after five years in prison.


Romney Forges On, Heedless of GOP Losses

The 59-year-old former venture capitalist, who gained fame resurrecting the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, is proceeding on a methodical course of fundraising, staff-building and outreach


In the midst of a crisis, Max Mayfield sets his schedule in four-minute increments. That's the amount of time the director of the National Hurricane Center allots each media crew camped out in the bunker-like building where forecasts are drawn up. He sets aside an hour to help assemble regularly scheduled advisories, and pauses to take calls from higher-ups, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans.


SAN FRANCISCO - Hunting for ways to boost revenue, a growing number of small businesses are adding another weapon to their marketing arsenal: blogging. A blog lures more traffic to a company's website because it improves chances the site will reach the top of search-engine results.


Al-Zarqawi group says it killed Iraqi soldiers

A group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility Sunday for a grisly murder ambush against Iraqi soldiers on a remote road near the Iranian border.


TripAdvisor Names World's Hottest Beach Scenes

NEEDHAM, Mass., June 7  /PRNewswire/ -- TripAdvisor(R), the world's largest travel community, today announced the top 10 beach scenes in the world - those with the hottest beaches and coolest night life - according to TripAdvisor travelers and editors.    1.


Device Containing State Workers' Data Stolen

By Jim Provance, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 16--COLUMBUS -- A thief made away with a state government computer backup "storage device" containing the names and COLUMBUS numbers of more than 64,000 state employees, prompting Gov. Ted Strickland to issue an alert yesterday.


Japan has cut short its annual whaling expedition, which was dogged by environmental protests, after a ship was badly damaged by fire, officials said Wednesday.


U.S. stocks dropped on Friday in light, choppy trading as a steep fall in the dollar renewed inflation worries in a short session after the Thanksgiving holiday, but the losses were partly offset by mining shares, which rose after gold prices climbed.


Joe Thornton and Jonathan Cheechoo each had a goal and three assists to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 6-5 win over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night.


Rumsfeld Welcomes NATO Allies' Involvement

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told NATO allies Thursday that new commitments to assist U.S.-led efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq make success there more likely.


Israel's Olmert says ready for more risks for peace

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday Israel would be prepared to take more risks for peace with the Palestinians now that President Mahmoud Abbas had formed a government without Hamas.


Russia successfully tested a new sea-based ballistic missile Thursday after several previous failures, a naval spokesman said.


U.S. Army Reservist Wins Fight Against Iraq Call-Up

A U.S. Army Reserve captain who sued  the government for trying to force him into service in Iraq  after he resigned has won an honorable discharge, his lawyer  said on Friday.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Graham Barrett has been called up for the Republic of Ireland's first two World Cup ties against Cyprus and Switzerland.


A substance found in oven cleaner could improve standard glaucoma treatments, US research suggest.


suspect may have been the latest in a spate of arson attacks against religious targets. "We are assuming it was arson," police spokeswoman Judith Verbaan said of Saturday's blaze at Helden.


Chirac offers, then retracts, musings on a nuclear Iran

PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac said in an interview that if Iran possessed one or two nuclear weapons it would not pose much of a danger, but if Iran were ever to launch a nuclear weapon against a country such as Israel, it would lead to the immediate destruction of Tehran.


Fatturato a 20 mln, attive tre nuove societa'


Safin seethes as Russia, Argentina split

Marat Safin was angry with himself, puzzled by the choice of court surface and frustrated at his inability to put Russia in command on opening day of the Day Cup final.


Think before you hit 'send' on that  wacky e-mail

Dude, you have got to see this. Look in your in-box. Right there between the chain letter promising never-ending good fortune and the Top 10 list of reasons why cats are better than dogs. There it is: An e-mail filled with goofy images of sometimes dubious origins.


Destinazione lavoro dalla Lombardia alla Puglia

Le nuove selezioni delle imprese per diplomati e laureati, dal marketing alle risorse umane. Figure amministrative, della vendita e tecnici


Andre Agassi Advances at Australian Open

His hip didn't bother him much, and neither did his opponent. Andre Agassi, recovering from a torn tendon in his right hip that almost kept him out of the Australian Open, coasted past qualifier Dieter Kindlmann 6-4, 6-3, 6-0 Monday. That moved Agassi into a second-round match with another German, Rainer Schuettler — the man he beat here in the 2003 final.


Report says Batman's arrival ruffles politicians

The arrival of Batman in Hong Kong this November for filming of the latest Hollywood sequel has ruffled local politicians who say the masked hero could disrupt traffic and cause noise pollution, reports said on Friday.


Murdoch Says New Channel Will Be âFriendlyâ to Business

The Fox channel will be launched this fall and will reach at least 30 million subscribers, the company said.


That's more like it! Cubs pound away on Reds

Todd Walker loves playing pressure baseball this time of year. Walker was 3-for-4 with a walk, a two-run homer and four RBIs Monday night to help the Chicago Cubs extend their slim lead in the


The answer will come when Thomas Harris' new novel about  serial killer Hannibal Lecter, "Behind the Mask," is published  next year.


Hormuz incident shows Iran a threat: top U.S. officer

A tense encounter between U.S. Navy ships and Iranian boats in the Gulf shows Iran poses a threat and the United States is ready to counter it, the top U.S. military officer said on Friday.


MOSCOW -- Venus Williams defeated Russian qualifier Alina Jidkova 6-4, 6-4 in the opening round of the Kremlin Cup on Tuesday in her first match since losing in the fourth round at last month's US Open.


An ex-policeman is jailed for 18 years for murdering his partner at their County Londonderry home.


Spitzer's iron wrist shits to music industry

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office now shits their attention to the music industry, particularly its practices for influencing what songs are heard on the public airwaves.


Parliament's sci-tech committee faces permanent recess

Science orphaned in Whitehall overhaul The Science and Technology Committee is fighting a rearguard action to save itself after Gordon Brownâs overhaul of government departments terminated the Whitehall tentacle it was covering.â¦


Roma, 17:35 - CALCIO, ZIDANE: NON CAMBIEREI NIENTE DELL'ITALIA

Zinedine Zidane non ha cambiato giudizio sull'Italia dopo l'episodio della testata a Materazzi e le ...


Car Bombing Kills Army General in Increasingly Tense Lebanon

BEIRUT, Dec. 12 -- A remote-controlled car bomb ripped through a busy street overlooking Beirut on Wednesday, killing a top general and his bodyguard and heightening the sense of instability in a country that has gone without a president for nearly three weeks.


A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fish such as salmon and sardines and in fish-oil capsules, can help keep Alzheimer's disease at bay, a new Canadian study suggests.


A UN aid agency operating in North Korea left itself open to exploitation, a US Senate probe concludes.


I will implement Gaza pullout plan despite Likud reverse: Sharon

JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Israeli Ariel Sharon vowed in an interview published on Friday to see his Gaza pullout plan through to the finish despite an embarrassing defeat by his right-wing Likud party.


No smell of boerewors outside Lansdowne Road on Saturday and not a sniff of a grand slam inside the ground, after this upset. The more confident among the South African supporters - or


FPGA pioneer mourned Former Altera chief Rodney Smith died last week after being struck by a car.â¦


Some candidates take âfull disclosureâ too seriously.


You don't have to choose between the poorhouse and the jailhouse. There's a better way.


Two Finnish universities on British World University Ranking list

Helsinki University and the Helsinki University of Technology were both included in the ranking list of "the 200 top universities in the world" that was compiled by the British Times Higher Education ...


Ordine del giorno discusso in un plenum con Napolitano


Texas Coaches Group Keeps Convention Date With Clemens

The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association said Monday that Roger Clemens was still welcome at its convention, which begins Jan. 10.


Irish eccentric condemned to 3,000-euro fine for Olympic marathon stunt

An Athens court slapped a 3,000-euro (3,700-dollar) fine on the Irish-born former priest who disrupted the Olympic men's marathon by pushing the race leader into the crowd.


PITTSBURGH - The Chicago Cubs won for the third time in three cities in three days. They might not recall where they are when they wake up, but they remember how to win.


The euro soared to new highs against the  dollar Wednesday, wiping out modest opening gains on European  stocks, while euro zone government bonds fell after a weak Bund  auction.


Munich Re says no terror cover without state pools

Munich Re (MUVGn.DE), the world's  second-largest reinsurer, warned on Sunday that it would not  offer cover against terror attacks in the United States, France  and Germany if state-backed pools are not renewed.


"Battlestar" finale in works for a while

The executive producers  of Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica," which will kick off  its fourth and final season next year, said plans for the  show's demise have been in the works for more than a year.


South Africa government responds to accusations

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The government lashed out yesterday at Haiti's interim prime minister, denying allegations that South African President Thabo Mbeki has allowed Haiti's ousted president to coordinate violence in Haiti from his refuge here.


ESA greenlights Sentinel-1 deal, inks agreements with NASA

Official pens seeing plenty of action It's all go this week for the European Space Agency, ESA. The agency has ordered the first satellites for its Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme, and finalised details of how it will work with NASA on two massive projects: the James Webb Space Telescope and the LISA Pathfinder mission.â¦


Australia's Howard Promises Bigger Budget Surpluses

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, seeking a fourth term at an Oct. 9 election, said budget surpluses will be bigger for the next four years than forecast when he called the poll.


Google Unveils Desktop Search, Takes on Microsoft

Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday rolled out a preliminary version of its new desktop search tool, making the first move against


Leaders from Sudan and four regional states concluded a meeting here early today with a statement rejecting any "foreign intervention" in the Darfur region of Sudan.


Tsunami Summit's Agenda Set in Indonesia

An ambitious plan to set up an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is expected to dominate an upcoming gathering of leaders from stricken nations and world donors seeking to prevent a repeat of last week's carnage.


From Texas to Iraq, and Center of Blackwater Case

The New York Times has identified the gunner in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in September as a 28-year-old former infantry soldier from Texas.


Advertising: On 10th Anniversary, âDianabiliaâ Takes Over

Ten years after the death of Princess Diana, the coming milestone anniversary is bringing a reprise as dozens of companies seek to capitalize on a renewed interest her legacy.


Police said Monday they were questioning two men in connection with a suicide attack at a Shiite mosque in eastern Pakistan that killed three people plus the bomber — the latest violence in what appears to be rising strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.


State treasurer threatens to withdraw some funds from Bank of ...

The state treasurer of Massachusetts has threatened to withdraw some state funds from Bank of America because of job cuts and other moves following its acquisition of Fleet Boston Financial Corp.


Diageo Agrees to Acquire a Small Group of Wineries

Diageo, the world's largest maker of alcoholic beverages, has agreed to acquire the Chalone Wine Group, a group of small, high-end wineries that is based in California and has properties there, in Washington State and France.


Israeli officials approve a list of 250 Palestinian prisoners in its jails expected to be released on Friday.


Patients in the UK's four nations are getting different services following devolution, say health chiefs.


Il ministro dell'Economia frena sulla possibilitÃ  di alleggerie le tasse prima delle elezioni"Nessun buco nelle finanze 2008", ma per la Bindi e la sinistra radicale l'extragettito esiste                                          Padoa-Schioppa chiude la cassa "Conti ok, ma il tesoretto non c'Ã¨"                                                                                di ROBERTO MANIA


An accidental overdose is blamed for the death of a rapper whose lyrics mention an illegal drink with codeine as an ingredient.


New Japan PM Fukuda apologizes over fund reports

Japan's new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, apologized on Friday but denied wrongdoing after a newspaper reported that his office had altered the names of political support groups on receipts for donations, Kyodo news agency said.


Calif. retiree runs for office in Sicily

He has never been to Sicily, but that isn't stopping a retired math professor from running for a city council seat there.


Stocks edged higher on Tuesday as investors were cautious about taking new positions in a holiday-shortened week, but shares of jet aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co.  and Web search leader Google Inc.  hit record highs.


Finn Jarkko Nieminen reignited his rise through the rankings on Friday, this time at the expense of third seed David Nalbandian 6-2 2-6 6-2 at the China Open.


HP acquires Middle East systems integrator

Hewlett-Packard on Monday agreed to acquire a Middle East systems integrator with the aim to expand its services presence in the region.


Newcastle fly-half Jonny Wilkinson pledges his future to the club after signing a new two-year deal.


Typhoon Xangsane landed in central Vietnam Sunday morning, knocking down trees and electricity poles and causing widespread blackouts in the region, officials said.


Political fervor stemming from the Republican National Convention is being translated into art in mediums that range from painting and sculpture to Web art to political ephemera.


Northern Ireland should be an inspiration to those around the world seeking peace, the Pope has said.


Terrorismo. Br: Enrico Letta nel mirino dei terroristi

Enrico Letta, ex ministro del governo Amato ed esponente di primo piano dell' Ulivo, sarebbe stato nel mirino dei terroristi dopo l'omicidio del professor Marco Biagi. Lo ha rivelato l'avvocato Walter Biscotti


Singer Laura Branigan "Gloria", Dies In Her Sleep At 47

1980's pop star Laura Branigan, best known for her 1982 hit "Gloria" has died at the age of 47. Branigan suffered a brain aneurysm on Thursday while sleeping at her home in East Quogue, New York, according to reports.


GERMANTOWN, Md. - An analyst at Cellmark's DNA testing laboratory was fired for allegedly falsifying data. Cellmark, the world's largest private DNA testing firm, says the falsification occurred in only


Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will lead a new investigation into the 1988 murders of a Long Island couple whose son served 17 years in prison for the crime before an appeals court said he might be innocent.


In allevamenti Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Toscana e Lombardia


Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano blasted ash and steam into the air on Thursday, and authorities warned the Caribbean island could see heightened activity in coming days.


Bush Welcomes Black Leaders at White House

President Bush, whose relationship with black lawmakers has been strained over the last four years, told black leaders Tuesday that the United States can not carry freedom abroad while holding "the baggage of bigotry" at home.


T-shirt mystery makes CSI:NY television debut

The founders of a new T-shirt company are hiding clues to an online murder mystery in the graphics of their apparel -- and inspiring an episode of one of television's hot crime shows along the way.


The 15-year-old son of two doctors successfully performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents' watch in southern India in an apparent attempt to set a record as the youngest surgeon, officials said Thursday.


British minister hints at U.S. policy shift

A British minister has suggested a shift in foreign policy towards the United States, telling an audience in Washington that a country's strength depended on making alliances rather than military might.


The triple terror bombing of Israeli tourists in Egypt overnight Friday may signal the opening of a new front in al-Qaeda's battle to supplant pro-Western regimes in the Arab world.


Uganda's northern rebels boycott peace talks in Sudan after it accuses the army of killing three fighters.


Yahoo! shares! rise! above! offer! price!

Microsoft may pay more !!!!! Yahoo! shares are worth more than Microsoft offered to pay for them last week. Even though when Microsoft made its offer to buy Yahoo! it included a 62 per cent premium Yahoo! shareholders are now better off selling their shares on the open market.â¦


UnitedHealth to buy Sierra Health for $2.4 bln

Health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.  said on Monday it will acquire Sierra Health Services Inc.  for more than $2.4 billion to expand in the fast-growing Las Vegas area and boost its Medicare business.


Harbhajan Singh's four wickets on day four put India on top against South Africa in the second Test.


The deadliest hurricane to hit the Caribbean in a decade is on course to slam into Jamaica where around 800 Britons are being evacuated.


Environmental activists blocked the entrance to the main European Union building Monday with a 10-foot-high wall to protest the bloc's refusal to protect threatened stocks.


Fool Video:  David Gardner on Mackey's Hidden Messages

What do John Mackey's hidden messages mean for investors in Whole Foods?


Crews battle California fires; body found

Nearly 4,000 firefighters worked in blistering temperatures Saturday to corral a huge complex of fires in rugged wilderness as authorities found a body in a blackened part of the desert.


Hallo is enjoyable fare if you like the Rafi-Mecartin brand of filmmaking, and Mohanlal.