Renee Zellweger Plans a Break from Acting

One would not know it from the way  she is all over the media promoting her latest "Bridget Jones"  film, but Oscar-winning Renee Zellweger is taking an extended  break from acting.


'Many more tons to come from Sachin's bat'

Mumbai: Former Test cricketers, including Polly Umrigar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Bapu Nadkarni, praised batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar equalling former skipper Sunil Gavaskar's 34 Test hundreds against Bangladesh today as "a fantastic feat" and said he


Spinetta, speriamo un in accordo rapido per la crescita


U.S. stocks were little changed on  Monday, as rises in semiconductor stocks and a slip in crude  prices from another record offset caution ahead of the U.S.  presidential election and the impact of a lower dollar.


Seattle - Software giant Microsoft is hoping to repel a challenge from Internet rivals Google and Yahoo by launching its own search engine on Thursday, according to reports on Wednesday in the American technology press.


A US civil liberties group sues a Beoing subsidiary for allegedly helping the CIA fly terror suspects overseas.


Barsaat has Nadeem Shravan's best music ever

Shri Krishna Audio International has released the audio of Mere Jeevan Saathi and has come up with a bonus track as an 'Introduction to Barsaat'.


Presidential contender John Edwards criticized Democratic and Republican rivals alike Thursday for threats and a vote against Iran, accusing Hillary Rodham Clinton of helping a GOP march to war.


Cisco plans to open a R&D center in Japan

Cisco is continuing their plans to establish a dominating position in the Japanese market. They recently signed a hardware deal with local player Fujitsu to manufacture high-end routers and switches for the local market.


Drug Makers Seek Clues to Side Effects in Genes

A group of seven on of the worldâs largest pharmaceutical companies hopes to develop genetic tests to determine which patients would be at risk of drug side effects.


Australia PM Gets Down to Work on Fourth Term

Conservative Australian Prime Minister  John Howard, handed the most powerful mandate in almost a  generation, got down to work on Monday with reform of  telecommunications, labor and media laws high on his agenda.


Unknown attackers kidnap five foreign workers from an oil rig in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta.


The decision by employees of the SocietÃ© des alcools du QuÃ©bec employees to walk off the job was taken during a pause in the contract negotiations.


Microsoft Corp. has offered to buy struggling internet search provider Yahoo for $44.6 billion, a merger that would combine two of the technology world's most well-known names into a potentially potent competitor for Google in the lucrative Web search and advertising market.


Blog: New tools on the travel opinions site makes it easier to separate boho travelers from vacationers without passports.


Caso Denise, misteriosa telefonata alla madre: ''Non piangere''

Un contatto, forse, e' stato avviato dai rapitori della piccola Denise Pipitone, la bambina di tre anni e mezzo rapita davanti all'abitazione della nonna lo scorso primo settembre a Mazara del Vallo (Trapani).


Seoul's uranium bombshell stokes regional nuke fears

S. Korea's secret tests reveal its ability to develop nuclear arms in a region where other nations may have similar ambitions.


Update 2: Gold Fields Rejects $8.1B Harmony Gold Bid

Gold Fields Ltd. rejected an $8.1 billion takeover bid by smaller rival Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd. as inadequate on Monday, despite the support of its largest stakeholder.


Personal computer maker Gateway  Inc. GTW.N on Thursday posted its first operating profit in  nearly three years as its retail strategy gained traction and  costs fell, sending shares up 11 percent.


Rain was forecast for much of the country Friday, with parts of the Southeast and the central states likely to escape the wet weather.


Adobe temporarily pulls Acrobat update for Mac

Adobe Systems Inc. has temporarily removed the 6.0.3 update for Professional and Standard versions of its Acrobat software for the Macintosh platform.


W3C's openness hypocrisy: Public barred from 'public' conference

Blog: The World Wide Web Consortium held a conference in DC on Monday that it described as: "Conversations and results are public." Which is why it's a bit hypocritical to bar reporters from covering the event.


Long-shot US presidential candidate Ralph Nader suffered another setback in his quest to get on the November ballot in as many states as possible.


The songs on her new album deal with the death of her mother and the breakup of a love affair--and thatâs the good news.


The Problem with Gravity: New Mission Would Probe Strange Puzzle

Imagine the weight of a nagging suspicion that what held your world together, a constant and consistent presence you had come to understand and rely on, wasn't what it seemed. That's how scientists feel when they ponder gravity these days.


"Fool's Gold" found real treasure as the romantic adventure starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson led the weekend box office with a $22 million debut. Martin Lawrence's family reunion comedy "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" opened at No. 2 with $17...


Fugitive's Fundraising Talent Put Him on Democrats' A-List

Last week, before his world came crashing down, Norman Hsu helped organize a breakfast meeting in San Francisco with prospective donors. The featured attraction was Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.


Car bomb kills 16 in Baghdad book district

A car bomb exploded on Monday in the area of Mutanabi Street, a Baghdad district lined with book shops, killing at least 16 people and wounding many more, a Reuters witness and police said.


Newspaper polls in 10 countries show world opinion of United ...

The United States' reputation around the world is hurting, a series of co-ordinated polls published Friday from 10 countries, including Canada, indicated.


UN Envoy Calls Darfur Crisis Probable War Crime

UN envoys told the Security Council Thursday that war crimes had probably taken place on "a large and systematic scale" in Sudan's Darfur region and called for foreign police to help stop abuses.


European Union efforts to abolish barriers against hostile takeovers within the 27-nation community have failed, the European Commission will warn in a report out on Tuesday, the Financial Times said.


Williams Survives to Set Up Sharapova Clash

Venus Williams came through a stiff test against Serbian schoolgirl Ana Ivanovic on Thursday to book her place in the Zurich Challenge quarter-finals.


Hyperion Solutions, a vendor of business intelligence applications, will announce at its Solutions 2004 Hyperion International Conference in Paris this week, Essbase 7X, a greatly enhanced version of its analytic suite.


Udine, 19:37 - CALCIO, UDINESE; POZZO: PER IL FUTURO MARINO O GIAMPAOLO

Giampaolo Pozzo non credeva che Spalletti poteva far bene alla Roma: ''E invece, avendo fatto la gav...


Anyone who works at an airport or aboard a cruise ship will have his identity checked against government watch lists, just like commercial airline passengers.


Toyota said Thursday global sales of its hybrid vehicles, first introduced 10 years ago, have topped 1 million, a landmark for the Japanese automaker that leads the world in gas-and-electric cars.


Most sections of the British press display some sympathy for David Blunkett, following his resignation on Tuesday


AP Names Tennessee No. 1 in Women's Hoops

Tennessee is no longer chasing Connecticut. The Lady Vols are back on top. Pat Summitt's team took the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press' preseason women's basketball poll Monday, the 11th time it has started the season atop the rankings — and first since 1998.


Bob Mondello Review: 'Team America: World Police'

Description: The creators of South Park have something new to insult the sensibilities of just about everyone -- an R-rated satire of big-budget action movies, the politics of Hollywood, Michael Moore, jingoistic patriotism and racial profiling gone awry.


Music on the move as mobile applications multiply

SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - This past year marked the  beginning of a revolutionary experiment to sell and distribute  digital music to and from mobile phones. The stage is only just  being set, with the business models, pricing and marketing  issues still evolving.


Arsenal's Patrick Vieira was sent off as France struggled to beat the Faroe Islands 2-0 in their World Cup qualifier on Wednesday.


Delta Air Lines unveiled changes yesterday that will remake its business, but officials warned that soaring costs still could land the nation's third-largest carrier carrier in bankruptcy court.


Bush, Cheney press attack on Kerry remark

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday continued to hammer away at a statement that Sen. John Kerry made in a lengthy article, both men insisting it's evidence the


LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned the killers of British hostage Kenneth Bigley as âbarbaric,â and most of the victimâs relatives praised his handling of the crisis.


Steve Bernier's fluke goal helped the San Jose Sharks beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 on Wednesday night for their fourth straight victory.


iPhone buyers who tried to activate their new phones and port telephone numbers from other mobile carriers ran into trouble Friday night and Saturday, with many reporting hours-long delays in getting their phones working.


James O. Rigney Jr., Wrote as Robert Jordan, Dies at 58

James Oliver Rigney Jr. was a prolific author who under the pseudonym Robert Jordan wrote the âWheel of Timeâ series, a best-selling multivolume fantasy saga.


Italy's Muslims Join Demonstrations Against Kidnappings

Italy's small Muslim community took part in demonstrations around the country on Saturday to add its voice to a chorus of calls for the release of two Italian female aid workers abducted in Iraq last week.


A senior Iranian official suggests France could help solve the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.


England's defense can't question generals on abuse

Attorneys for Pfc. Lynndie England, a US Army reservist accused of abuse, have lost their bid to require high-ranking generals to testify under oath about what went wrong in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.


Morrison stops the rot in converted Safeway stores

WM Morrison shares shot up 15 per cent yesterday in spite of a deteriorating performance in the group's core business and continued poor trading in the shops that came with this year's Safeway acquisition.


Four hundred years after King James I denounced tobacco as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," the British government is taking heed. It announced plans Tuesday to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub that serves food.


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Rumsfeld Says He Supports Intel Overhaul

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld addresses reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon where he denied reports that he privately campaigned against a proposed intelligence overhaul supported by the Bush administration, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004.


Dion Phaneuf and Jarome Iginla each scored two goals to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-1 win over the Phoenix Coyotes on Tuesday night.


Roger Federer defeated Nicolas Kiefer 6-4, 6-4, and David Nalbandian defeated third-ranked Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-6 (4) on Saturday.


Film Shows Ramones as Rock's Dysfunctional Family

When four misfits from Forest  Hills, New York, formed a rock 'n' roll band in the early 1970s  and adopted the single surname Ramone, it was a defiant symbol  of solidarity.


L'edizione 2004 si congeda dal pubblico con numeri superiori alle previsioni: 360 mila visitatori, fatturato di 3 milioni di euro nell'area shopping e 140 tra convegni, seminari e workshop. Per il 2005 attese molte novitÃ .


Oil prices steadied on Tuesday, after  sliding 3 percent on Monday as forecasts of continued mild  winter weather in the United States soothed concerns over low  heating oil stocks.


SUN CITY, South Africa -- Australia's Stuart Appleby bogeyed the final two holes to slip back to a four-way tie for the lead after the first round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge on Thursday.


With focus on domestic issues, Bush and Kerry discussed the economy, healthcare - and their wives.


In Western Iraq, Fundamentalists Hold U.S. Forces at Bay

Falluja and Ramadi, and much of Anbar Province, are now controlled by militias, with U.S. troops confined to outside bases.


Afghanistan's Karzai appoints reformist cabinet

KABUL, Dec 23  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has appointed a new cabinet which pushes out warlords and installs technocrats capable of fighting drugs and driving reform, the presidential palace said Thursday.


Chief Justice's Cancer Raises New Election Issue

U.S. Chief Justice William  Rehnquist, the leader of the Supreme Court's conservative  majority, has undergone surgery for thyroid cancer, suddenly  throwing a political spotlight on the highest court in the land  just eight days before the presidential election.


Five job and benefits centres are to close in Scotland as part of a UK-wide drive to shed 104,000 civil service jobs.


Israeli boffins bring life to human neuron culture

Plan to install bottled brains in 'cyborg machines' Israeli boffins may be on the road to building artificial, living human brains which can function without a body to support them. Honest.â¦


Valencia, 14:49 - CALCIO, VALENCIA: TAVANO TORNA AD ALLENARSI DOPO L'INFORTUNIO

Francesco Tavano, attaccante italiano del Valencia, vittima di un problema muscolare lo scorso 12 se...


Sweden gives $3 million to Bergman works

The Swedish government will give $3 million to promote and preserve the works of Ingmar Bergman.


Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) - The Seattle Mariners have reportedly found their slugging first baseman for the 2005 season and beyond by coming to terms with free agent Richie Sexson.


Iraqi and U.S. forces detained six suspects in a raid and an airstrike Saturday on the Shiite slum of Sadr City that left one fighter dead and another wounded, the U.S. military said.


Treatments: Talking Out the Choices for Breast Cancer Surgery

Most surgeons fail to mention the possibility of breast reconstruction before their patients choose between mastectomy and breast-conserving surgery, researchers have found.


IAEA: 380 tons of high explosives missing in Iraq

WASHINGTON -- The head of the United Nationsâ nuclear inspection arm told the UN Security Council on Monday that nearly 380 tons of high-grade explosives that could be used in nuclear bombs or terrorist weapons are missing from a storage facility in Iraq


Arjen Robben's deflected strike eventually beat a stubborn Portsmouth defence at Fratton Park as Premiership leaders Chelsea moved eight points clear of title rivals Arsenal.


Holders Liverpool will meet 2005 winners Arsenal in the third round of the FA Cup.


La localitÃ  turistica distrutta dalle fiamme, messe in salvo oltre 4000 personeAll'origine forse un focolaio in un uliveto, che ha raggiunto un deposito di bombole di gas                                          Incendi, il Gargano si trasforma in un inferno almeno due morti e terrore a Peschici                                                                                Proteste per i ritardi nei soccorsi: "Per ore non si Ã¨ visto nessuno"


Democrats battle for black votes in debate

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the other Democratic presidential contenders battled for black support on Thursday with attacks on the ravages of racism, promises to lift up the poor and pledges to do more for Africa.


Climate Change: Motorola Good, Apple Not Great

Bad news for environmentally conscious people who want an iPhone: Apple Inc. is near the bottom of a new list that rates companies based on their efforts to stop climate change.


Saitama, 14:59 - BASKET, MONDIALI: GASOL MIGLIOR GIOCATORE

Pau Gasol è stato nominato miglior giocatore dei mondiali di basket. Il centro spagnolo dei M...


Bank of America to buy Countrywide for $4 billion

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


Author, Facing Court Date, Must Limit His Book Tour

Conrad M. Black is scheduled to be in court this spring while also promoting his new biography on Richard M. Nixon.


Media trumpets Chang'e One mission China this morning sucessfully sent on its way the Chang'e One lunar orbiter from the southwestern province of Sichuan, amid much patriotic trumpeting of the country's technological prowess.â¦


LOS CABOS, Mexico  - Hurricane John roared up   Mexico's Baja California peninsula early on Saturday, after   forcing thousands of tourists and residents in this posh beach   resort into shelters to escape high winds and lashing rain.


British police probe anti-pope demonstration

London police are investigating whether a Muslim protest against Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Islam breached laws on incitement to violence, officers said.


OPEC was poised to keep production steady Thursday as Iran blamed the United States for high oil prices, saying threats against its nuclear program are behind much of the fear and speculation in the market.


Nigeria navy seizes 236 vessels used for smuggling crude oil

The Nigerian navy said Tuesday it had seized 236 ships, tugboats and barges used for smuggling crude oil and petroleum products in the high seas and Niger delta.


Have you ever been annoyed by a TV in a bar, restaurant, airport, or any public place? Well, you now have an option available and it's called TV-B-Gone, a keychain universal remote control, that has the power to turn off virtually any television set.


Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Democratic icon and a leading liberal voice, endorsed Barack Obama on Monday for the party's presidential nomination and called the young lawmaker an inspirational uniter.


As scientists meet for crucial climate talks in Paris, data shows glaciers are shrinking ever faster, scientists say.


SAN FRANCISCO -    For ransom: your sensitive computer files. In the latest online scam, cybercrooks are breaking into the PCs of small businesses and individuals, locking up data and demanding money in return for freeing it.


Chinese capital spending in November  barely slowed from record heights despite curbs on lending,  showing that the central bank's task in keeping the economy  from overheating remains formidable.


Leader of Microsoftâs Office Business Is Retiring

Jeff Raikes, a 26-year veteran of Microsoft, plans to retire later this year and the company announced that it was reaching outside its ranks for his successor.


12 Killed, 20 Hurt In Twin Bus Attacks In Israeli City

Dubai, August 31 (NNN): At least 12 people were killed and 20 others injured in a suspected twin suicide bombing attack on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva on Tuesday, according to reports reaching here.


Half-ton man recovers from obesity surgery

A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering Wednesday from obesity surgery. By Stuart Villanueva, AP.


The defence in the US murder trial of Phil Spector urges jurors to acquit the producer in closing arguments.


Broadcast growth helps News Corp profit rise to $536m

LONDON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has reported a solid rise of 27% in first-quarter net income to $536m (Â£290.4m), boosted by growth in its broadcast and newspaper divisions.


China braces for 155 million rail travelers over holiday

China's railway system is expected to carry some 155 million people over the upcoming Chinese New Year period, the most ever, as people flood home for the traditional festival, a senior official said on Thursday.


The US supreme court throws out a ruling that Philip Morris must pay $79.5m to the widow of a dead smoker.


EUROPA/ITALIA - Ad Assisi lÂEuropean Franciscan Meeting, punto di incontro per i giovani francescani del continente Assisi (Agenzia Fides) - Tutto Ã¨ pronto ad Assisi per accogliere gli oltre mille giovani che hanno aderito allo European Franciscan Meeting, iniziativa lanciata dallÂUnione dei Frati Minori dÂEuropa. LÂincontro, titolato ÂVa Francesco, ripara la miaÂ...


Rise and Fall of Oil Prices Result in a Mixed Forecast

Is the recent fall in oil prices a turning point or merely a lull before demand picks up in the winter months?


Stocks rose soundly on Friday, capping a week of gains for Wall Street, as investors drew confidence from strong results at Oracle and a continued sense that lower interest rates should help the economy.


Arts & entertainment: Larry Craig is old hat - three decades earlier, Kohei Yoshiyuki's eerie and beautiful photographs captured people having sex in public places.


TROY, Mich., Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- Is a new computer on your holiday gift list?  While prices for new laptops and PCs are at record lows, the cost of data and identity theft from stolen, lost or replaced computers is as high as ever.


High school students bored, risk dropping out: survey

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - High school students in the United States say they are bored in class and many have considered dropping out, according to a new survey.


Hokies Keep ACC Title Hopes Alive With Win

The win moves the Hokies to 8-2 overall and to 5-1 in the ACC while the Terps fall to 4-6 overall and to 2-5 in the league. Virginia Tech controls its own destiny in the ACC race.


China has muscled in on the miner BHP Billitonâs attempts to buy rival Rio Tinto, with its biggest aluminum producer teaming up with American group Alcoa to buy a 12 percent stake.


FA investigate Stanford Bridge crowd chaos

The Football Association has started an investigation into crowd trouble at Chelsea's League Cup match with West Ham at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday.


Internet looms in new Hollywood contract talks

With Hollywood bracing for a season  of possible labor strife, screenwriters and studio executives  on Monday opened contract talks expected to hinge in part on  how the Internet has altered show business.


Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Hits 63,000

GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Stricken countries on the  Indian Ocean worked swiftly on Wednesday to bury thousands of  bodies as experts warned disease could kill as many people as  the 63,000 already dead from the violent crush of Sunday's  tsunami.


The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ownership is full of loopholes and will lead to a wave of mergers and fewer choices for consumers.


The Egyptian government announced the first arrests in Sinai Peninsula hotel bombings case. This was the most tragic terror act in the entire country for the last seven years.


Nella classifica stilata da Expedia siamo al diciannovesimo posto su 29I migliori sono i giapponesi (a cui va l'Oscar del silenzio) e gli americani                                          Elegante, spilorcio e chiassoso Ã¨ l'identikit del turista italiano                                                                                di PAOLA SANTORO


Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:The bla.st Blog: Process your URLs in PHP with Apache mod_rewrite and wildcard DNSZend Developer Zone: Book Review : PHP and MySQL by ExampleBen Ramsey's Blog: Zend Executable Debugger Eclipse PluginIlia Alshanetsky's Blog: PHP 5.2.1 RC1 Available for testingphp|architect: 7-Day Promo Fest BeginsNew Earth Online: Detecting Users OnlinePHPBuilder.com: Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to ProfessionalVexxhost.com: Top 5 new (and cool!) features in PHP5 that you probably haven't heard ofFelix Geisendorfer's Blog: A PHP developers guide to JavaScript - Part 1DevShed: Introducing Bridge Classes with PHP 5Book Review: The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web SitesPaul Jones' Blog: New Year's BenchmarksHowToForge.com: Building Apache with PHP,MySQL, OCI8 instant client supportManfred Weber's Blog: Consuming PHP SOAP Webservices with Flash - Part IZend Developer Zone: Who Uses the Zend Framework?


Londra, 21 ottobre 2004 - La Gran Bretagna sta valutando la possibilitÃ  di inviare altri due battaglioni, per un totale di 1.300 militari, in Iraq in vista delle elezioni previste per la fine di gennaio.


Chinese could take part in Yukos asset: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a Chinese state oil company could participate in developing oilfields of the Yukos oil group's main asset sold at auction at the weekend.


Jakarta flood victims face stinking garbage

Thousands of residents of the Indonesian capital began returning to their homes on Wednesday as flood waters receded, but they faced a huge task clearing up streets and homes caked in stinking garbage and mud.


Federal agents and city police are keeping tabs on people they say might try to cause trouble at the Republican National Convention, questioning activists, making unannounced visits and monitoring Web sites and meetings.


Japan aims to raise minimum wage to boost economy

Japan's cabinet on Tuesday approved an  updated minimum wage bill, the first major revision in nearly  40 years, as part of the government's efforts to close the gap  between between rich and poor and boost economic growth.


Broncos running back Nash dies at age 24

Denver Broncos running back Damien  Nash died suddenly on Saturday, the National Football League  team said in a statement.


A gang who pulled off a spectacular STG30 million ($81.33 million) plus bank raid may have been working on inside intelligence. Detectives hunting the team behind one of the UK's biggest-ever heists believe


Security alert shuts Boston's Charles River

The U.S. Coast Guard said it had shut Boston's Charles River on Wednesday after police found suspicious packages in four separate locations in the city, including one on a bridge crossing the river.


Houston's Andre' Davis returns two kickoffs for touchdowns on Sunday, leading the Texans to a 42-28 win over the Jaguars, who rest starters for the playoffs.


OMAHA, June 24 -- Oregon State became the first team in a decade to repeat as College World Series champion, completing a dominant run through the tournament with a 9-3 victory over North Carolina on Sunday night.


Scuttling Deal Approved: City, County OK Agreement

By Christine Braden, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Dec. 16--Though the actual sinking is still more than one year away, the Vandenberg Project is a step closer to reality with the approval of an inter-local agreement between the city of Key West and the Monroe County government.


World number one Vijay Singh shot a four-under-par 67 on Saturday and took the lead of the Chrysler Championship after three rounds.


Pakistan's new prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, took his oath of office Saturday, becoming Pakistan's 21st prime minister in 57 years.


More than a week after Republican Rep. Heather Wilson claimed a razor-thin election victory, her Democratic challenger conceded Tuesday, saying a recount would cost too much and there was no guarantee it would reverse the result.


A sailor from a sunken ship belonging to Oliver Cromwell's navy had the upper body of a trapeze artist but bowed legs, his recovered skeleton shows.


Program helps Alzheimer caregivers stay healthy

People caring for a loved one  with Alzheimer's disease benefit not only emotionally but also  physically from a counseling and support program developed at  New York University Medical Center.


Fiji army warns against uprising, appoints interim PM

Fijian troops will quickly suppress any uprising, the military chief warned on Wednesday as the country's deposed prime minister called for non-violent protests after the South Pacific nation's fourth coup in 20 years.


Some coaches get so good at shading the truth they occasionally lose sight of it themselves. At some point, with some guys, it becomes an occupational hazard. Billy Donovan, to cite the latest example, talked so long and so longingly about coaching in the NBA someday that he stubbornly pursued the opportunity even after he knew deep down it wasn't what he wanted.


Chelsea winger Arjen Robben faces at least six weeks out with a broken foot.


New job title but similar battles for Leavitt

After a year as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Mike Leavitt can't be blamed if he feels a sense of deja vu when he steps into his new role as health secretary.


Consumers to See Notices on Check Changes

In the next few weeks, consumers will start receiving notices from banks and other financial institutions about changes to their checking accounts.


UN chief hopes good opening in 2005 to bring peace to troubled ...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday that he saw "important openings" for peace in such troubled areas as Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Sudan.


Veteran Hollywood actor George Clooney sought advice from Irish rocker Bono before he decided to speak out


Ukrainian Security Agency Faces Overhaul

One of the toughest tasks facing Viktor Yushchenko as Ukraine's new president likely will be overhauling the State Security Service, the KGB successor agency alleged to have been involved in an array of devious and deadly activities.


In a deal reached at 4:30 this morning, European Union leaders agreed to negotiate a treaty by the end of this year to replace the defunct constitution.


One dead, several injured in New Orleans tornado

One person was killed and several  injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through New Orleans  neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.


Record-breaker Favre hints at another season

Green Bay Packers' record breaking quarterback Brett Favre has hinted that he is likely to extend his career by another season.


Roma, 18:52 - CALCIO, TRIESTINA; CAF: NO A RICORSO, PENALITA' CONFERMATA

Niente da fare, la Caf ha respinto, giudicandolo inammissibile, il reclamo della Triestina contro la...


Iraq Militant Group Posts Video of Mosul Attack

Iraqi militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna Sunday issued a video tape about the bombing of a US army camp which killed 22 people, identifying the suicide bomber as Abu Omar al-Museli.


China congratulates Prince Norodom Sihamoni on his election and will make joint efforts with Cambodiato continuously promote "the bilateral good-neighborly, friendly relationship of cooperation," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said in


Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , beset by controversy over its work in Iraq, plans to shed its KBR engineering and construction unit if the oilfield services company's


Bush Wants Telecom Spying Provisions Extended

President Bush asked Congress to extend Protect America Act, broaden protection for telecoms that cooperate with the government.


Thais are set to head to the polls in the first general election since the overthrow of PM Thaksin Shinawatra.


Beijing Olympics 'face terrorism threat'

China's top cop said terrorism is the biggest threat at its Olympic Games, and a leading terror expert warned Tuesday that Beijing faces a long-term threat from an Islamic separatist group in its far west.


Purging rare in preteens, but diets fairly common

NEW YORK  - A new study of preteen girls has found that seriously disordered eating behavior, such as binge-eating and purging, is exceedingly rare in this age group. However, the researchers did find that among the 9- to 13-year-olds they surveyed, 13 percent reported dieting at some point in the previous month.


Colombia, il presidente venezuelano di nuovo protagonista della vicendaHa ricevuto le coordinate delle due donne, compagnie di prigionia della Betancourt                                          "Domani liberi gli ostaggi delle Farc" L'annuncio di Chavez da Caracas


The Venice film festival has a  reputation for screening obscure auteur movies.


The jeans were falling off the little boy who lay slumped in the arms of his father. Blood seeped from his lolling head. His eyes were closed.


Shi'ite Bloc Favors Jaafari as Iraq PM -- Source

Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance favors  Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari to become the country's  next prime minister, a senior Shi'ite political source said on  Tuesday.


He's attacked other monsters and terrorized Japan for decades. Now Godzilla is confronting academics who want to wrestle with his legacy.


FlexWiki: Microsoft's Third Open Software Project

Earlier than scheduled, Microsoft Corp. has gone public with its announcement of its third open-source code contribution to SourceForge.


Blog: Someone has uploaded the beta copy of Apple's Leopard Mac OS X handed out at WWDC to a file-sharing site. You're not supposed to do that.


Western Digital Corp presenta i drive USB portatili WD Passport

Per semplificare il trasporto di grandi quantitÃ  di informazioni e contenuti digitali, Western Digital Corp. ha presentato i suoi nuovi drive USB portatili WD Passport. Utilizzabili con la maggior parte dei


The full genome of James D. Watson has been deciphered, marking what some scientists believe is the gateway to an era of personalized genomic medicine.


Peace talks aimed at ending ethnic violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region are resuming in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Representatives from the Sudanese Government and the two rebel groups are meeting in Abuja but the talks are progressing slowly.


Fossil shows parents doted 260 million years ago

Parents have been doting over their  offspring for a very, very long time, it seems.


Britain said on Wednesday it would begin withdrawing troops from Iraq, triggering a new political standoff in Washington over U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to deploy thousands of extra U.S. soldiers.


SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- With their three stars in the starting lineup together for the first time, the Sacramento Kings rolled to their most lopsided win this season.


Child victims of Gaza war lie close, but apart

TEL HASHOMER, Israel  - Child victims of the same war, the two young boys lie just meters apart in hospital, bruised, bandaged and fighting for their lives.


Microsoft's failed case against Google + DoubleClick revealed

A set of policy position documents reportedly authored by Microsoft made the case that Google could use DoubleClick's advertising network to peer into competitors' traffic -- a position the FTC apparently rejected last week.


Nissan is to produce a new car at its plant in the North East, which it says will help to safeguard 1,000 jobs.


China launches moon orbiter with patriotic blast

XICHANG, China  - China launched its first moon orbiter on Wednesday amid a blaze of live-to-air patriotic propaganda celebrating the country's space ambitions and technological prowess.


Preventing terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear material was the focus Monday of a meeting in Australia among government ministers and diplomats from across the Asia-Pacific region.


Il greggio e' scambiato a 72,65 dollari al barile


A MANNED rocket ship, financed entirely with private funds, reached the edge of space on Monday. The spaceship's builders and backers say the project's success marks a new age for commercial space tourism and travel.


European car makers describe EU plans to force them to cut back on exhaust emissions as "unbalanced".


Stem cell debate causes furor in Australia

The conservative head of the Catholic Church in Australia faced a backlash from politicians on Wednesday after warning them of "consequences" if they supported laws extending stem cell research.


The disaster at Oakland Hills Country Club apparently wasnât enough to sway the PGA of America toward a different course in selecting the United States captain.


Study Finds New Road Hazard: Heart Attacks

If you think being stressed while stuck in traffic can give you a heart attack, think again. A new study says you're more likely to suffer a coronary from the pollution caused by traffic.


Kim rallies at Longs Drugs Challenge beating Webb by one shot

Kim made a charge on the back nine Sunday, shooting a 6-under 65 at the Longs Drugs Challenge for a one-shot victory over Karrie Webb.


Sfida con la Juventus, convocato Cassano

18.36: La prima da avversario di Fabio Capello contro la Roma anima la sfida di giovedÃ¬ tra la Juventus ei giallorossi. Oggi ha detto la sua il dg bianconero Luciano Moggi: "Lui Ã¨ un professionista - ha


As the NASCAR community continued to mourn the loss of 10 people who were killed when a Hendrick Motorsports airplane crashed en route to the Subway 500 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday, Martinsville president Clay Campbell issued a statement Monday on


A novice teacher in Milan is under criminal investigation for allegedly using scissors to cut the tongue of a second-grader for talking in class, Italian news agencies said Thursday. The 7-year-old boy, who has not been publicly identified, needed six stitches in his tongue from the Feb. 20 incident, said Piero Porciani, a lawyer for the child's parents, a Tunisian couple.


The U.S. Embassy's top military official in Cyprus has been found dead in a wooded area north of Nicosia, the island's capital, an embassy official said Monday.


NEW YORK, Aug. 19.  Imagine a list of history's greatest astronauts without any mention of Americans. History's greatest philosophers without any mention of the Greeks. Absurd. But here's one more: a commemoration of 50 years of rock'n'roll ...


Oil traded lower on Wednesday ahead  of key U.S. stocks data, which was expected to show a rise in  heating fuel supplies as mild winter temperatures suppressed  demand in the United States.


TOKYO & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)â22 Novembre 2004--MontaVista Software, Inc., a annoncÃ© ce jour que le systÃ¨me d'exploitation MontaVista(R) Linux(R) avait Ã©tÃ© retenu pour Ã©quiper trois des nouveaux tÃ©lÃ©phones mobiles de troisiÃ¨me


Teenagers who gamble are more likely than other people their age to say they also drink alcohol and take drugs, new research reports.


The site allows users to do simple searches for specific phrases, offering a replay of the crescendo of statements that led to the war in Iraq.


The NFL agreed Monday to contract extensions with Fox and CBS to televise Sunday afternoon games for six more years, deals worth a combined $8 billion.


Lefty Goes Distance for Sizzling Hoppers

GRASSHOPPERS REPORT  Grasshoppers  5  Intimidators  2  Site: First Horizon Park, Greensboro  Why the Grasshoppers won: For the second straight night, Greensboro got an outstanding pitching performance from its starter.


Solar Web hosting company powers Live Earth sites

(InfoWorld) - The Web hosting company chosen to power the Web sites for this weekend's Live Earth concerts adopts an environmentally friendly business plan: Let the sunshine in. Affordable Internet Services Online (AISO) has been hired to power the Web sites from its 100 percent solar-powered Web hosting facility in Romoland, California, north of San Diego. The company's green philosophy fits with the theme of the concerts to raise awareness of the issue of global climate change. The concerts are to be held around the clock July 7 in Shanghai, Tokyo, London, New York, and other cities. Organizers of the Live Earth event say the concert venues will be carbon neutral with electricity to power musicians' amplifiers and microphones coming from renewable energy sources. AISO has been using the renewable energy of the sun to power its data center since 2001, said Phil Nail,Â CTO for the 10-year-old company. AISO will operate two Live Earth sites, one for the concert and the other to track pledges. Live Earth is not seeking financial donations but asks people to pledge to adopt a carbon-neutral lifestyle. The company installed 14 IBM BladeCenter servers powered by AMD Opteron dual-core processors to host the sites. Each of the servers uses about 142 watts of electricity, which Nail considers more energy efficient than average. Low-end servers, including blades, run at an average of 218 watts, and midrange servers run at an average of 638 watts, according to figures from a 2007 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study. Because these are the first Live Earth concerts, organizers have no idea how much traffic to expect at the Web sites, he said. The concert will be televised, and viewers will be invited to make pledges on the AISO-hosted pledge sites. Later, the names of those who pledged will appear on TV. Other Web hosting companies advertise themselves as "green," Nail said, but they often simply buy carbon offsets rather than actually improve their own energy efficiency. Affordable Internet also has installed solar tubes, shafts that run from the roof of a building to the ceiling in a room, to light the data center's interior. It also irrigates a rooftop garden with recycled water from the data center's cooling system. Affordable Internet, with 15,000 customers, has attracted prospective customers from as far away as the U.K. to host their Web sites because they are seeking out carbon-neutral hosting services.


After years of battling Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. has set its sights on Linux vendors, seeking to jump into a low-end but high-volume market it's been accused of ignoring.


Brad Willman was installing networking equipment out of an emergency van in British Columbia when a policeman showed up and asked for him. Willman knew the officer from a case he was involved with a couple of years earlier, so he didn't worry -- until he arrived at the police station and was introduced to a couple of U.S. cops.The visit marked the end of Willman's version of vigilante justice.A Trojan Horse Used For GoodIt was 2000, and Willman was 19. He had spent the last few years surreptitiously distributing a Trojan horse program to more than 1,000 people to try to uncover child-porn activities. All told, Willman said his work sent around 70 people to prison.But then Willman stumbled on a prominent California judge. He discovered that Ronald Kline, at the time a superior court judge in Orange County, had a big collection of child porn and a diary on his PC indicating he was planning to try to seduce young boys. The high-profile case put an end to Willman's career as a crime-fighter."Oh, I knew it was illegal," Willman said in a recent phone interview. "But I really didn't care. I felt if I'm helping a few people in the process, cool." Until Kline, Willman had managed to stay anonymous.The Origins of the ProgramWillman didn't initially set out to chase child pornographers. He started out developing a program designed to compete with pcAnywhere, Symantec's software that lets users access computers remotely.But then, while discussing programming on various newsgroups, he had a conversation with a Canadian man who offered his six-year-old daughter to Willman."That was an awkward scenario," Willman says, putting it mildly.Willman quickly contacted the police, who were able to prosecute the Edmonton man, he said."He's more or less what altered my mind from competing with pcAnywhere to making a Trojan to see who else is doing this," he said.Willman used the work he'd already developed on the program to trick suspected pedophiles into unknowingly downloading the software so that he could get proof from their computers.How Willman Used the Trojan HorseWillman would visit child-porn newsgroups and post his program as a file that looked like it contained a photo. In order to avoid suspicion, Willman built in an additional feature. When the program launched without opening a photo, he designed it so that the first time it loaded it would display any photo from the directory to the user.After someone downloaded the software, Willman could look through their files remotely for illicit documents or photos.Once he found damning information, he'd copy and share it with various child-porn watchdog groups, who could then pursue the perpetrators.Everything changed when Kline downloaded the Trojan and Willman found damning evidence on the judge's computer.Willman passed the information on to one of the watchdog groups as usual and figured that was that -- until the day the police showed up while he was at work.The police from the U.S. told him that they found him through correspondence sent from his computer to one of the watchdog groups.While the police were initially friendly because Willman was able to give them additional information on Kline, they later told him that if he does any more hacking, ever, they'll arrest him. Willman signed an agreement that he wouldn't hack and that he wouldn't have anything to do with child porn.Legal Barriers to Willman's VigilantismVarious state and federal laws in the U.S. criminalize unauthorized access to computers, said Jeff Neuburger, an attorney specializing in technology at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, an international law firm based in New York City. If Willman hadn't agreed to the deal with the police, he could have been charged with violating state or federal laws. But even in that case, so long as he didn't set foot in the U.S., it would have been difficult for American authorities to prosecute him, Neuburger said.He's seeing more and more cases like Willman's, where people are using the Internet to accomplish good, but sometimes with questionable means. "In the U.S., prosecutors are careful not to let something like this go without sending a message that what the person did was wrong," he said. "But they may not aggressively seek a severe sentence or punishment."One problem with vigilante work like Willman's is that someone might make a mistake and affect innocent people, Neuburger warned. HadWillman wrongly accused someone, he could have faced much bigger legal problems. "It's a dangerous thing," he said.Retiring the TrojanHis days in the spotlight behind him, Willman, now 27, lives with his parents in Langley, B.C., where he does phone tech support for a small cable company. He does computer repair on the side and dreams of becoming a computer security researcher.As for Kline, he was sentenced earlier this year to 27 months in prison, a sentence that Willman called "reasonable."Once in a while, Willman still gets a request from someone asking for his help in busting someone involved with child porn. He can only refer them to the watchdog groups he was familiar with."I would like to help these people get their kids in a better position, but I can't because the type of research I'd have to do is stuff I'm not allowed to do anymore," he said.Even though Willman knew his actions were illegal, he didn't consider the consequences. "I thought I covered my tracks pretty well," he said."And I did until the Judge Kline thing. I didn't really think I'd get busted."


Oracle JInitiator security flaw discovered

Security researchers find a "highly critical" security flaw in Oracle's JInitiator ActiveX control.


Merrill Profit Falls, Beats Expectations

Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday said third-quarter profit fell 8 percent, hurt by reduced investment banking and trading.


A woman convicted for sending pictures of aborted foetuses to chemists loses her human rights appeal.


Russian forces detained several relatives of a Chechen rebel leader during the height of last week's school hostage standoff, family members said.


Thyroid cancer, a relatively uncommon illness that has stricken Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, will be diagnosed in about 23,600 Americans this year, according to the American Cancer Society (news - web sites).


(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:


Modena, 19:21 - CALCIO, MODENA: IN 5 SALTANO TEST IN FAMIGLIA

Test infrasettimanale per il Modena, che ha svolto una partitella in famiglia con l'integrazione dei...


New diet drug helps people lose weight and keep it off, study ...

An experimental pill that offers the fairy-tale promise of helping people lose weight and quit smoking has gathered even more stardust.


Palestinian Militants Fire Rocket in Gaza

Palestinian militants fired three mortar shells and a homemade rocket toward Jewish settlements in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the army spokesman said.


Two U.S. sailors found dead in Ghana hotel room

Two U.S. Navy sailors were found dead on Tuesday in their hotel room while on shore leave in the West African country of Ghana, the U.S. Navy said.


Brazilian Attacked During Men's Marathon

ATHENS, Greece Aug. 29, 2004 - The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events.


Mushy South Korean Soaps Lapped Up Across Asia

Yoko Otani is not very interested in  visiting South Korea's imposing Joseon Dynasty palaces.


Pesacara, 17:35 - CALCIO, SERIE D: TEMPIO CAMPIONE D'ITALIA

I sardi del Tempio si sono laureati campioni d'Italia del campionato di serie D. Già promossi...


Roma, 15:10 - CALCIO, ABETE: SU DIRITTI TV OCCORRE SERENITA' E INTELLIGENZA

"Non vuole essere un invito, perchÃ© ciÃ² sottintenderebbe un destinatario. PerÃ² occorre approcciarsi ...


KUWAIT CITY Dec 12, 2004 - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas apologized to Kuwaitis on Sunday for the Palestinians' support of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, making a gesture many here have long demanded as he


Six people have died and dozens wounded, 12 seriously, in a train crash in southern Australia.


Istat, saldo mensile -1,6 mld e semestrale -14,3 mld


French actor Philippe Noiret, best-known for his role in Cinema Paradiso, dies in France at the age of 76.


A federal panel chooses a go-slow approach to investigating whether workers got cancer at the nuclear weapons facility


'Fuori luogo la bacchettata dell'Ue sulla Finanziaria'


U.S. Accidentally Kills Kurdish Fighters in Iraq

As many as nine people were killed when a helicopter apparently fired on friendly Kurdish pesh merga fighters.


Americans a bit taller, much heavier - report

WASHINGTON: Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released on Wednesday showing that the US population is, literally, growing.


L'organismo di censura ha proibito i cartoon dalle cinque alle nove di sera"Favorire l'industria locale". La campagna di moralizzazione in vista delle Olimpiadi                                          Cina, banditi Paperino e Topolino "Niente cartoni stranieri a cena"


Il loro comandante e' fedele al presidente Iushenko


'Apprentice,' 'Survivor' Gear Goes to EBay

The latest "Apprentice" has been hired and the newest "Survivor" has, well, survived. But fans shouldn't fret. In the downtime before the next installments, they can own a piece of reality TV history.


'The Apprentice' Returns for More Firings

NEW YORK - With a new round of "The Apprentice" ready to go, Donald Trump is fired. Fired up, that is...


Sport: Cricket: Needing just one wicket for victory, bad light forced a draw in the first Test.


Estimates for the number of people in India with the HIV/Aids figures could be greatly exaggerated, a leading Aids worker says.


Russia Buries Its Dead; Toll Rises To 394, 260 Others Missing

Moscow, Sept. 5 (NNN): Russia on Sunday buried some of the victims of hostage crisis in Beslan in North Ossetia with three more children succumbing to injuries taking the toll in school tragedy to 333 as parents


Abysmal alliteration author admired again

For literature fans, it is the ultimate challenge -- read the world's worst novelist out loud for as long as possible without laughing.


Money for Vaccinating Children Is Diverted, Officials Say

The federal government is using money that was intended for vaccinating children to pay for experimental flu vaccines for adults, federal health officials said yesterday.


Sarkozy's poll win tempered by left's revival

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's allies won a large majority in parliamentary elections on Sunday but fell short of the predicted landslide after talk of a sales tax hike appeared to cost them votes.


Princess Diana's death not murder: police

Princess Diana was not the victim of a murder plot when she and her lover died in a tragic car accident in 1997, a British police inquiry found on Thursday.


Iraq will close its borders with Iran and Syria for up to three days as part of its new security plan for Baghdad.


Report: Net users picking safer passwords

Average MySpace password has eight characters, expert says. But no password is secure if you fall for a phishing scam.


Putting a Still-Vexed Play in a Historical Context

Shakespeare's most problematic play Â at least with respect to modern sensitivities Â receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.


Firenze, 13:42 - CALCIO, AZZURRI; ABETE: TOTTI? PENSIAMO A FRANCIA E UCRAINA

Giancarlo Abete non vuol pensare ad un possibile ripensamento di Totti sul no alla maglia azzurra: '...


Music: An Actor Whose Approach to Singing Lets the Words Take Center Stage

Johnny Deppâs performance as captured on screen in âSweeney Toddâ is stunning in every dimension: dramatically, psychologically, physically and, yes, vocally.


Saturday Interview: Bracing Small Business in a Turbulent Economy

Under the leadership of Steven C. Preston, the Small Business Administration - the chief advocate for small business owners - is trying to revitalize itself.


Report: Apple to offer Fox movie rentals

Apple and News Corp. have signed an agreement to offer Twentieth Century Fox movies for rent through the iTunes Music Store, the Financial Times reported Thursday.


By Tom Dochat, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.  Sep. 8--Comcast Corp. plans to add 170 jobs in central Pennsylvania by  year's end as it rolls out its digital voice residential phone service.


Pentagon Official Is Suspected of Giving Israel Secrets

The FBI is investigating a Pentagon official on suspicion of passing secrets to Israel, according to government officials. The espionage investigation has focused on an official


Chinese President Attends Signing Ceremony for USD 1 Billion Deal Between Ericsson and China Mobile

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today signed a GSM expansion framework agreement with China Mobile, valued at about USD 1 billion, at a ceremony in Sweden attended by Chinese President Hu Jintao.


LOS ANGELES  Â Britney Spears' stay in a psychiatric ward was extended for two weeks under a section in state law that allows patients to be kept for medical treatment if they are found to be gravely disabled or a danger to themselves or others, a person close to the pop star told The Associated Press.


Scatta piano alternativo con deviazioni e bus sostitutivi


Regulators will tell Europe's mobile phone operators to  cut the cost of overseas texting and internet access.


Alcan Inc., one of the world's largest aluminum producers, said Friday it agreed to sell assets of its ores and concentrates trading division to Ocean Partners Holdings Ltd.


Bill Aims to Reconcile Border Security, Wildlife Issues

By Aaron Nelsen ? The Brownsville Herald, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Jun. 18--Derek and Shirley Ellis have traveled the world for the chance to glimpse exotic birds. On occasion their pursuit has taken them to the fertile bird watching territory of the Rio Grande Valley.


BRITISH health authorities suspended the licence of the worldâs second biggest flu-vaccine maker, Chiron, yesterday, raising fears of a shortage this winter.


The British Medical Journal said it had sent documents to health regulators in the U.S. that it said appear to suggest a link between the antidepressant drug Prozac and suicidal behavior.


GM, union make progress, deal seen likely

Negotiators from General Motors Corp and the United Auto Workers union were making significant progress on Saturday on a new labor contract, but major issues remained unresolved, a person close to the talks said.


Contestant unaware father has died The Oz version of human zoo Big Brother has copped flack for not telling a contestant her dad has died, the BBC reports.â¦


63rd Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Bombing

Paul Goodyear, 86, of Casa Grande, Ariz., shows where he was stationed as a signalman aboard the USS Oklahoma after the dedication ceremony for teh ships new exhibit at the USS Arizona Memoal Museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 6. 2004.


Bush and Kerry Clash Over Iraq and a Timetable

Senator John Kerry said he wanted troops home within four years, and President Bush defended the war as "right for America."


A man was subjected to a so-called tarring and feathering attack in south Belfast on Sunday.


Re-Make of Band Aid Single Sticks to Top of British Charts

It's clear that shoppers know it's Christmas. The re-make of 'Do They Know It's Christmas, the charity single recorded by many of Britain's top bands, sold 95,000 copies on its first day of release and was


Social networking website MySpace says it will release tools to identify and block US sex offenders from its site.


Russia Mobile Giant Reports 2001 Tax Bill

Russian mobile telecom giant VimpelCom said Thursday it had received a final 2001 back tax bill for 285 million rubles ($10.2 million), a substantial decrease from tax authorities' initial levy against the company.


ATHENS, Greece - American Michael Phelps won his fourth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night, leading the entire race. Phelps finished in an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 57.14 seconds, lowering his own mark of 1:58.52 set in the semifinals one night earlier...


Blair to Undergo Heart Surgery, Commits to Third Term

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said he will be admitted to hospital tomorrow for an operation to correct a heart flutter and that he will serve a full third term in office, if he wins the next general election.


Marines Find Weapons Throughout Fallujah

Masked insurgent stands on a street in Mosul, Iraq Thursday Nov. 18, 2004. Insurgents fired mortars Thursday at the provincial administration offices in the northern city of Mosul, wounding four of the governor's guards, the US military said.


Liangqiao, a small collection of huts and farms in southern China, is known as the cancer village.


Numeri da capogiro per i Giochi Baldini sarÃ  il primo tedoforo

ROMA, 7 DICEMBRE 2004 - SarÃ  Stefano Baldini, medaglia d'oro nella maratona di Atene 2004, il primo tedoforo a portare la fiamma olimpica di Torino 2006, che arriverÃ  a Roma il prossimo 7 dicembre 2005, per poi fare 11.000 chilometri in 64 giorni per


The nation's health care system should be overhauled through plans tailored to individual states, not through a federal government takeover, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday.


Dow Jones +0,01%, Nasdaq composite +0,36%


Celtic manager Martin O'Neill said he would not block Tommy Burns from becoming Scotland's next full-time coach.


TelecomView Study Finds a Combination of Technologies Required to Make Mobile TV Services Profitable

Mobile TV is emerging as the next important mobile application. Nearly  all of the 3G mobile networks globally offer Mobile TV services which  provide the ability to view video entertainment on mobile devices.


Householders and drivers in parts of Wales are warned of severe weather as wind and rain sweeps in.


Microsoft's long, strange trip with Windows Vista came closer to an end Friday as the company released the first release candidate of its next-generation operating system. Jim Allchin made the announcement in an e-mail to TechNet subscribers.


Study: As Temperatures Rise, Mass Extinctions Occur

A rise in the temperature of the world's oceans is often accompanied by mass extinctions, according to a new statistical study of fossil records.


Trade policy seen key as White House race heats up

Thursday night's victories for  Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama in the Iowa  presidential caucuses will bring increased attention to the  candidates' trade proposals as they head off to New Hampshire  for round two of the primary season.


Now that Thanksgiving is just an indigestible memory, my bet is you probably dined on many fine foods. What you likely did not dine on was grilled cheese.


Egypt's energy minister unveils plans to build a nuclear power plant on the country's Mediterranean coast.


Liverpool bid Â£10m for Ajax winger Ryan Babel, BBC Five Live Sport understands.


The current record police force strength in England and Wales, is 'unsustainable' chief inspector warns


Author JK Rowling finishes the sixth Harry Potter book and is to announce its release date on Tuesday.


Boys who are short at birth have double the risk of suicide as adults, according to a study.


They wanted him captured alive so he could have been brought to account for more than 100 murders he has been associated with. That controversy reflects the widespread criticism over 20 years of the way security


Carnival Corp. CCL.N, the  world's biggest cruise group, on Thursday posted a 43 percent  rise in quarterly earnings as it benefited from a merger with  P&O Princess Cruises last year.


Sinn Fein politician receives death threats over policy shift

A prominent member of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) said that he has been warned his life is in danger from opponents of his party's stance on policing in Northern Ireland.


Hospital costs driven by heart, pregnancy

Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy  are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790  billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,  according to a government study released on Friday.


David Cameron reveals more than 70 Conservatie MPs employ family members


Virtual vote lets non-Americans pick president

Even non-Americans can cast a vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election thanks to a website tracking world opinion on the race for the White House.


The EU considers introducing a donor card to address a shortage of organs for transplant in member states.


France urges Paris Club moratorium on debt owed by tsunami-hit countries

French President Jacques Chirac told his government to push for the Paris Club of creditor nations to put a moratorium on debt payments owed by countries hit by tsunamis in southeast Asia.


The Dodgers' starter limits San Francisco to three hits as Los Angeles opens a 2 1/2-game lead. By Nick Peters -- Bee Staff Writer.


Kerry, Bush Head for Swing States After Debate

President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry headed for key swing states on Friday after a combative Florida debate brought the Iraq war into the campaign spotlight.


A family, including a grandfather, is attacked by two men armed with a broken bottle outside Carryduff.


Space Capsule Expected to Yield Some Useful Data Despite Crash

Scientists are optimistic that they will retrieve useful information from the smashed capsule that fell to earth in the Utah desert after three years in space.


Palestinians to set date for elections for Arafat successor

Palestinian officials pushed forward on Sunday with plans for life without Yasser Arafat, meeting to set a date for elections to replace their longtime leader after his death.


The three Black Watch soldiers killed in a suicide bomb attack in central Iraq are named.


An insurance company has sued Lenny Kravitz, saying it had to pay for more than $300,000 worth of water damage in a neighbor's apartment after one of Kravitz's toilets overflowed two months ago.


Hall had Penn State executing well against Akron, but BC will be ...

In recent years, Penn State critics have pointed to its offensive game plan as the source of the team's problems. It was too rigid at times, they said, too reckless at others.


Study: Media narrows field of candidates

When it comes to presidential politics, the news media loves front-runners. And seems to hate them, too.


More snow falls over parts of China hit by harsh weather, as the president urges miners to help end power cuts.


IAEA team likely to arrive in North Korea July 14

U.N. nuclear inspectors are likely to arrive in North Korea on Saturday to verify a promised shutdown of the country's nuclear reactor, the source of its bomb-grade plutonium, the head of the IAEA said on Wednesday.


Microsoft Bolsters Phishing Filters in IE

Microsoft's anti-phishing technology is about to get better thanks to technology from Georgia-based Digital Resolve. The company's Trusted Server technology will make it into phishing filters in IE6 and IE7, as well as the Windows Live Toolbar.


Editorial: Stop wasting time on idle gossip

Over the past few days, extensive media reports and public discussions were made in Taiwan regarding whether US President George W. Bush had ever called President Chen Shui-bian ( é³æ°´æ ) names in the White House.


Paris hospital spokesman says Arafat is alive

After several reports claiming PA chief had passed away, hospital says, âSituation is complex but Arafat is not deadâ. Earlier, a French doctor said Palestinian leader had no chance of waking up from coma he was in.


For the second year in a row, US imports from Mexico lost ground to China, El Universal reports. The world's largest economy, the United States, took 10.7 percent


Those the gods wish to destroy, they first make really dumb


Brazil cuts injured Edmilson from qualifiers

FC Barcelona defender Edmilson was cut from the Brazil squad on Monday because of a knee injury. Edmilson, a starter for Brazil's 2002 World Cup champions, will miss qualifiers against Venezuela and Colombia this month.


US trade deficit surges to record high in October

US trade deficit soared to an all-time high of 55.5 billion US dollars in October compared with 50.9 billion dollars the previous month, the US Commerce Department reported Tuesday.


Three people getting on with life in Thailand after the tsunami talk to BBC News.


"Sopranos" grabs big piece of Emmy action

A month after he abruptly disappeared from TV screens, Tony Soprano was back to grab a piece of the Emmy action on Thursday as HBO's mob drama led the field of network series nominated for U.S. television's highest honors.


Chilly temperatures did not deter the revelers who turned out Sunday to watch the parades roll through the city on the last weekend before Mardi Gras.


Bump your notebook to 2GB of RAM for $26.99 after rebate

Vista running like a snail? You can improve performance considerably by bumping the memory to 2GB. Newegg has a 2GB module for just $26.99 after a $10 mail-in rebate.


NY rejects transgender birth certificate law

New York City's health department on Tuesday rejected a proposal that would have allowed transgender people to switch the gender on their birth certificates without a sex-change operation.


Millions of people with HIV will die unless it is made easier for them to get the drugs they need, experts warn.


Reds 7, Mets 0: Reds Snap Mets Five-Game Streak

The Reds saw to it that Mets would return home with a losing record from this 10-game road trip, but New York maintains its lead in the N.L. East.


VAIL, Colo. - A 72-year-old woman making pot roast in her kitchen discovered uninvited guests in her home Thursday: a bear and her cub.  The unidentified woman walked into the kitchen and found the bear standing six feet away, apparently surprising it, Vail police Sgt. Dan Torgerson said.


For the Boston College women's basketball team, last night's game could not come soon enough. Providence might have preferred that it not come at all.


Traber was chosen in the first round and 16th overall of the 2001 draft by the New York Mets, and made his major league debut with Cleveland in 2003.


AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (CP) - Vince Carter made his New Jersey Nets debut Monday night - and didn't finish it because of another injury.


Nintendo Says 12 DS Games to Debut in Japan

Japan's Nintendo Co. Ltd. said on Thursday it will make available 12 software titles for its new "DS" handheld game console when the dual-screen machine debuts in Japan on Dec. 2.


Firenze, 13:39 - CALCIO, CANNAVARO ZITTISCE TIFOSO CHE INSULTA PESSOTTO

Fabio Cannavaro ha zittito un ragazzo che, da dietro le cancellate di Coverciano, aveva intonato una...


'Tutti gli interlocutori concordi sulla riforma elettorale'


Space shuttle ends mission with California landing

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California  - U.S. space shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Friday after a fiery descent through the Earth's atmosphere that capped a two-week mission to the International Space Station.


Harry says sorry to family for embarrassment

Prince Harry has spoken at length to the Prince of Wales and Prince William after being involved in an early morning scuffle with a photographer outside a nightclub.


From Faithful Dogs and Difficult Fish, Insight Into Narcolepsy

Dr. Emmanuel Mignot has devoted his career to studying narcolepsy, a disease caused by a deficiency of the brain cells that make the neurochemical hypocretin.


TIGER WOODS today made it clear he still views individual glory as more important than team success ahead of the Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills.


Booksellers are enjoying brisk business since the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, with sales starting the week of Thanksgiving up sharply over 2003.


Two-Year Suspension of American Sprinter Is Affirmed

The sprinter Torri Edwards of the United States was knocked out of the Olympics for good yesterday when an arbitration panel upheld her two-year drug suspension, saying she should have known tablets provided by her doctor contained ...


Police arrested two men on Friday in eastern Spain for alleged links to the Madrid train bombings last March, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman told CNN.


Israel to stop hunting scores of Fatah militants

Israel has agreed to stop hunting about 180 wanted Fatah militants who pledged to stop attacks against the Jewish state in an effort to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, officials said on Sunday.


Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Busta Rhymes Faces Four Trials

The rapper is accused of attacking two men, driving drunk and driving with a suspended license.


Couple gets 2 years in 'caged kids' case

A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in cages were sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison each for child endangering.


Russian President Putin  says a missile test was in answer to US plans to create a defence shield in Central Europe.


The Media Equation: Mr. Murdoch Comes Round for Tea

Rupert Murdoch, a coarse, self-seeking tabloid king, has become a potential savior who will rescue Dow Jones.


In Microsoft vs. Google, search is true prize

A good place to see the true frontline  in Microsoft's battle with Google is deep in the bowels of the  British Library in London.


Prodi's Defeat Raises Stability Concerns

A defeat in parliament for Romano Prodi raised new worries Friday about the stability of Italy's center-left governing coalition and prompted opposition calls for the premier's resignation.Comment


UN reiterates plea for hostages release in Afghanistan

The United Nations renewed an appeal for the safe release of three UN workers taken hostage in Afghanistan by a shadowy group of Islamic militants.


Harry Potterâs Final Act Is Set for July 21

Millions of fans around the world are fiercely anticipating âHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.â


NBA Wrap: O'Neal Pours in 40 Points as Miami Wins

Shaquille O'Neal scored a season-high  40 points and added 12 rebounds and five blocked shots to drive  the host Miami Heat past the Washington Wizards 106-83 Monday.


Ofcom's Nathan Barley quango slammed by public

Letter of the week, via the telco regulator... Ofcom has published the public consultation responses to its PSP concept. And they don't make comfortable reading for the regulator.â¦


Chelsea star Mateja Kezman was almost blinded when a coin was thrown at him as another London football match was plunged into violence.


Brazilian plane carrying 174 crashes in Sao Paulo

A Brazilian passenger plane carrying 174 people crashed into a fuel station at Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport on Tuesday and caught fire after braking too late upon landing, airport and airline officials said.


A smoking ban in enclosed public places is to come into force in England on 1 July next year.


Tens of thousands protest GOP convention

Tens of thousands of demonstrators carrying signs and chanting "No More Bush" marched Sunday past Madison Square Garden, the site of this week's Republican National Convention.


POLICE are reviewing video camera footage to find out who discharged pepper spray in a lift at a New York toy store, putting a number of shoppers in hospital.


Revellers at this year's Glastonbury Festival are in for another wet and muddy year, forecasters warn.


US Stocks Rise as Sears, Kmart Gain; Technology Shares Climb

US stocks rose as Kmart Holding Corp.'s $11 billion offer for Sears, Roebuck & Co. lifted retailers and Hewlett-Packard Co.


Mexican authorities are investigating the sale of fake or substandard medicine in a border town so popular among Americans seeking cheap medications that it has more pharmacies than streets.    U.S...


Firms Vying to Build Presidential Helicopter

Marine One helicopter is at center of one of the most contentious bidding competitions in years.


Arctic boom town lit up by gas development

HAMMERFEST, Norway  - A 100-metre-high flame from a new gas plant symbolizes the rebirth of Hammerfest, which claims to be the world's northernmost town and is seeing its fortunes transformed by fossil fuels found off its coast.


The US economy grew faster in the second quarter than previously thought as business inventories rose at the strongest rate in four years, the government said on


NEWSMAKER-Spectre of past lingers as Woodgate joins Real

LONDON, Aug 20  - Die-hard Newcastle United fans might regret Jonathan Woodgate's move to Real Madrid but millions more will be glad to see the back of a footballer who was once vilified by his fellow Englishmen.


The Toronto Blue Jays and manager John Gibbons agreed Tuesday to a one-year, $650,000 contract extension.


Helper Robots Don't Impress Seniors in Japan

Seniors lose interest quickly in mechanical helpmates, though some gadgets are a hit.


MOSCOW - Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...


RIM Incorporates QWERTY Keyboard In Small Mobile Devices

It's now possible to enjoy all the benefits of a full featured QWERTY keyboard in a small wireless device, thanks to Research In Motion's (RIM) new patent-pending SureType keyboard.


Dell ties up with GOME to sell PCs in China

Dell Inc  said on Monday it  would sell its latest range of personal computers through  China's largest electronics retailer, GOME Group, aiming to  improve on its single-digit mainland market share.


Napoli: proiettile vagante, quindicenne colpita a una gamba

NAPOLI - Una quindicenne e' stata colpita accidentalmente a una gamba mentre ieri sera assisteva ad uno spettacolo pirotecnico a Torre Annunziata, nel napoletano. La giovane di Boscoreale ha avvertito un bruciore


Parigi. ''I dottori francesi escludono al momento la diagnosi di leucemia per Yasser Arafat''. Lo ha dichiarato Leila Shahid, rappresentante dell'Anp a Parigi, durante una conferenza stampa all'ospedale parigino dove e' ricoverato il leader palestinese.


At BCBGMaxAzria, Demure Days and Party Girl Nights

Fashion Wire Daily - Designer Max Azria has a busy week in New York this fashion season, where he's staging three shows - BCBGMaxAzria, Max Azria and the newly revived Herve Leger collection.


Grape Expectations: Vines May Love Vivaldi

A Tuscan vineyard is testing to see whether music helps grow bigger vines in less time.


KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- A strong earthquake shook Japan's northwest coast Monday, setting off a fire at the world's most powerful nuclear power plant and causing a reactor to spill radioactive water into the sea _ an accident not reported to the public for hours.


Israeli police chief quits after scandal

Israeli Police Chief Moshe Karadi resigned on Sunday after a government inquiry recommended he steps down in a scandal that linked his department to the underworld.


Lycos offers customers program to attack spam servers

MADRID, Spain Some computer users are about to find out if fighting fire with fire works when they fight spam with spam. German-based Lycos Europe offers a free screensaver program that hits back at spam senders by flooding them with junk traffic.


U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole underwent hip replacement surgery but expected to resume work after the congressional holiday recess, her spokeswoman said.


Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, known mainly for his harsh stance against illegal immigrants, is set to quit the Republican race today.


Informed and Awaiting a St. Helens Eruption

The people who remember the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 are not as fearful as they were then, with scientists predicting a less powerful eruption.


More women are setting up their own businesses than ever before, according to data published yesterday. Research by Barclays found that entrepreneurial activity among women in the UK has grown by 28% since 2000.


Bayern Munich's Sebastian Deisler was readmitted to the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich on Tuesday after a minor relapse of depression.


US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls for a common approach towards Iran's nuclear programme.


Data losses exacerbated by job losses The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union will on Monday begin balloting members on possible strike action to protest at continuing redundancies at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).â¦


Studies questioning the safety of the drugs Celebrex and Aleve have created a quandary for patients: If every drug that relieves their pain has worrisome side effects, what do they do?


Democrats critical as envoys to oppose Iraq shift

Top U.S. officials will likely warn Congress on Monday against major changes in policy in Iraq, but leading Democrats said that strategy has failed and it's time to think about getting troops out.


On Mozilla web site you can find the newest version of the e-mail client Thunderbird 1.0. Mozilla expects this software to be more competitive than Microsoftâs Outlook Express.


Hispanics Resist Racial Grouping by Census

Over the last three decades, the number of Hispanics choosing "some other race" has surged rapidly, making it the Census Bureau's fastest growing racial category.


Nitrofuran in non-Soil Association chicken, UK

The UK Food Standards Agency is advising people not to eat certain batches of organic chicken found to contain traces of nitrofuran (a banned antibiotic used to make chickens grow faster).


Senate Passes Historic Intelligence Reform

The US Congress on Wednesday gave final approval to the biggest overhaul of US spy agencies in more than 50 years, sending the bill to President Bush for his signature.


L'ex ufficiale delle SS e' arrivato in motorino


Perhaps the biggest ho-hummer of yesterday's first round of the Bank of America Championship was the swiftness with which Tom Purtzer dived into red numbers. Two holes, six swings, and a birdie at the par-3 second had him off and running toward a 6-under-par 66.


Ministers in John Major's Tory government secretly blocked an inquiry into the death of tycoon Robert Maxwell.


Tribunale del Lazio su contributo ritenuto illegittimo


Stars are gathering at the NEC in Birmingham for the 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.


While new backup first baseman Sean Casey was being introduced at Fenway Park yesterday, the Red Sox were busy making a signing that could be a harbinger of another move. For their outfield, which already contains Manny Ramírez, J.D. Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Coco Crisp, the Sox will throw into the mix Bobby Kielty, the switch-hitting reserve who joined them ...


Milosevic opens his defense case, starting second half of his...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands Slobodan Milosevic (sloh-BOH'-dahn mee-LOH'-shuh-vich) has opened his defense at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands.


Although his on-field contributions were limited in his three seasons with the Patriots, defensive lineman Marquise Hill, who died following a Jet Ski accident in Louisiana, was remembered by players and coaches for the work he did behind the scenes and the laughs he often provided teammates.


Climate change pulls warm-water fish north: experts

A warm-water Atlantic triple fin fish has for the first time been caught off the coast of Britain, in another sign of species migrating north as global temperatures rise, experts have said.


High schools address sportsmanship in wake of Pacers brawl

INDIANAPOLIS Some high school athletic administrators are saying that sportsmanship took a beating in the Indiana Pacers' brawl with rowdy fans in Detroit.


U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as crude  oil futures fell more than $1 a barrel on bigger-than-expected  increases in heating oil and gasoline inventories.


The Philadelphia Inquirer Sideshow Column

By Tirdad Derakhshani, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 24--Puccini for Woody?  A confluence of unlikely phenomena will ensure the L.A. Opera's '08-09 season a couple of very odd shows.


Mibtel -0,81% e SP/Mib -0,96%, pesanti le altre europee


African Union mediators order Sudan to halt Darfur offensive

ABUJA  - An African Union commission overseeing the shaky truce in the western Sudanese region of Darfur ordered Sudan's government to halt a two-week-old offensive against rebel forces and to withdraw.


Aaron Gray scored 19 points and added 11 rebounds helping No. 2 Pittsburgh overcome an 11-point deficit and pull out a 70-67 victory over Buffalo on Saturday.


Passenger Revenue Boost for Air France-KLM

Air France-KLM on Monday posted a 61 percent rise in revenue in the group's fiscal second quarter, boosted by the merger between the French and Dutch carriers and a strong rise in passenger and cargo revenue.


Senate Committee Authorizes Subpoenas for Warrantless Spying Documents

A Senate committee voted to approve subpoenas to the White House and Justice Department for warrantless wiretapping records. The administration has refused to provide many records to Congress about the spy program, and the vote portends a high-stakes showdown.


Russia cuts links to Georgia in spy arrest furor

Russia threw up a blockade against  Georgia on Monday after Tbilisi's release of four Russian  soldiers accused of spying failed to defuse the worst crisis in  years between the ex-Soviet neighbors.


Experts say healthy habits important for diabetes

Experts pushed for more simple strategies to prevent diabetes, a potentially devastating disease. The world greeted its 13th World Diabetes Day with the campaign slogan "Fight Obesity, Prevent Diabetes" yesterday.


Report says consumer confidence about the same

NEW YORK - Consumers' assessment of the economy held largely steady this month, according to a university research report released Friday.


LG Hands Pan-European Digital Business to AKQA

By Jones, Gareth  LG Electronics has appointed AKQA as its pan-European digital agency as part of a plan to give the web a central role in its marketing strategy.


First Suit Filed Against Internet 'Spyware'

The US government has sued a New Hampshire man in its first attempt to crack down on Internet "spyware" that seizes control of a user's computer without permission.


Denmark's centre-right led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen wins a new term as the opposition admit defeat.


U.S. accuses Iran leadership over Iraq violence

Senior Iranian leaders know about the operations of Iran's Qods Force in fomenting violence in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Monday, in some of the most direct accusations yet against Tehran over the chaos in Iraq.


Kyrgyzstan Seizes Nuclear Bomb-Grade Plutonium

Security forces in the ex-Soviet state  of Kyrgyzstan have detained a man who tried to sell nuclear  bomb-grade plutonium on the black market, a senior security  official said on Wednesday.


roundup Plus: Bladed desktop pioneer gets $25 million...AOL kicks off free fantasy sports...HP partners with 3G gear maker.


Russia threatens pre-emptive strikes; offers bounty for Chechen ...

Russia's top general threatened Wednesday to strike terrorists "in any region of the world," and the Kremlin offered aa reward equivalent to $13.


British Airways places orders for 12 Airbus A380 and 24 Boeing 787 aircraft, its largest order since 1998.


Mitsubishi Motors to get 960 mln dlrs in extra aid from group firms: report

Scandal-hit Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will likely to get 100 billion yen (960 million dollars) in additional aid from three group firms, a report said.


'World's costliest road crash' An unknown driver trashed an Â£830,000 Bugatti Veyron on Sunday in what UK tabloid The Sun is calling "the world's costliest road crash".â¦


Car bomb destroys building in Baghdad, kills one

A big car bomb killed at least one person and reduced an apartment building to rubble in a Shi'ite district of southern Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi police said.


Michigan took care of Mike Hart's guarantee with ease. Hart ran for 187 yards on 35 carries and scored two touchdowns, and Ryan Mallett threw for three scores, leading the Wolverines to a 38-0 win over Notre Dame yesterday.


American opera singer Jerry Hadley dies at the age of 55, eight days after an apparent suicide attempt.


Sceso a 21,4 miliardi, a dicembre indebitamento di 3,1 mld


Technical glitch delays launch of NASA's gamma-ray probing ...

WASHINGTON  - A technical glitch has forced a minimum 24-hour delay in the launch of the Swift satellite that will study gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful and elusive explosions detected in the cosmos.


Mid-Atlantic Factory Output Grows in Dec.

U.S. Mid-Atlantic factories kicked production up a notch in December as orders for manufacturing goods increased, a regional Federal Reserve bank said on Thursday.


An honourable exit for European banking barons

Will the bad news never end? On Wednesday, UBS (NYSE:UBS) revealed its third hit from the US subprime crisis, bringing the Swiss bank's total write-downs for 2007 to a staggering $18bn. This while the world is still trying to comprehend how Société Générale could have failed to stop an alleged rogue trading scam in the heart of its best-performing business - equity derivatives - costing it EU4.9bn ($7.2bn) and its international credibility. ...


Aid worker with Clinton Foundation slain

A Dutch aid worker with the Clinton Foundation was shot to death at the house of Lesotho's trade and industry minister, police said Saturday.


Oil prices held just below $48 a  barrel on Tuesday, as the market remained nervous that OPEC  producers may cut supplies before the end of the first quarter.


Israel, Palestinians Declare End to Violence

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli and Palestinian  leaders proclaimed a formal end to more than four years of  bloodshed at a summit in Egypt Tuesday.


European stocks have notched gains as crude oil futures back away from record highs.


: Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi today said âmajor neglectâ by US-led forces led to the murder of 49 Iraqi army recruits by insurgents this weekend.


The dollar gained tentatively on Monday, recovering from last week's record low against the euro and a 4-1/2-year trough against the yen as traders turned their sights to US economic reports due later in the week.


After the ball drops and the parties end, millions of Americans will resolve to eat right and exercise. Many are doing what ever it takes to get the look they want, even if that means taking a little jab in the mouth.


Eagles earn a feather in their cap by trouncing Falcons

MINNEAPOLIS - Last night marked the first time in Jerry York's 36-year coaching career that one of his teams faced Air Force. He might want to consider scheduling the Falcons more often.


Woo logs on to "Ninja Gold" movie, video game

Action filmmaker John  Woo is attached to direct and produce "Ninja Gold," a new  property from the creator of such video games as "Deus Ex,"  "Thief: Deadly Shadows" and "System Shock."


German Finance Minister Hans Eichel welcomed the decision by the EU Commission to suspend excessive deficit procedures against France and Germany, saying that Brussels recognised that Berlin was making progress ...


Vikes 'D' gift wraps North title for Pack

MINNEAPOLIS - Brett Favre guided a 76-yard drive to set up Ryan Longwell's game-ending 29-yard field goal, lifting the Green Bay Packers to a 34-31 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Friday - and clinching a third straight NFC North crown.


US Stops Short of Backing Brazil on UN Council Seat

By Saul Hudson SAO PAULO, Brazil  - The United States stoppedshort of endorsing Brazil's ambition for a permanent seat on anexpanded U.N. Security Council but did say the country would bea "solid candidate."


Movie Review | 'Eastern Promises': On Londonâs Underside, Where Slavery Survives

Even as the turns of its narrative and the contours of its characters are recognizable, very little about âEastern Promisesâ feels predictable or secondhand.


Clemens Faces Dangers of Spin in Steroid Case

Accused by his former personal trainer of taking steroids, Roger Clemens has begun a furious public relations effort.


Desktop Search Tool Ups the Ante, Says Microsoft

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) launched its beta version of a new tool that allows users to search from many places on the desktop -- such as Windows, Outlook and Explorer. The MSN Toolbar Suite takes advantage of Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system to provide an ever present search tool to mine for data on a computer's hard drive or information from the Web.


Pakistan police question three men over the suicide bomb attack on the convoy of ex-PM Benazir Bhutto.


A suicide bomber hits the center of U.S. force in South Asiaâand the Taliban's spring offensive is yet to come.


NYC Police Arrest 250 in Bicycle Protest

Nearly 250 bicyclists were arrested during a mass protest that passed Madison Square Garden Friday night, the first major police crackdown on demonstrators just days before a wave of activists were expected to descend for the Republican National Convention.


Florida voters urged to cast ballots early starting today

The deciding votes in this critical battleground state could be cast long before President George W Bush and challenger John Kerry make their final pleas to voters.


Britain laying claim to south Atlantic seabed: report

Britain is seeking to legally annex stretches of the south Atlantic seabed in a bid to tap gas, mineral and oil wealth, in a move that could raise tension with Argentina, a newspaper reported Saturday.


In a tradition that has become as venerable as the 103-year-old Nobel Prizes themselves, the guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards this week has entered full swing.


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NEW YORK  - There is global dissemination of a type of gonorrhea that lacks an enzyme used by many commercial kits to confirm a diagnosis of infection, investigators report.


Mike Huckabee says John McCain is a hero. McCain says Huckabee is a good man. And they both seem to agree on this: Mitt Romney is neither.


Aussie kayakers reach NZ after 62-day marathon row

Two Australian adventurers who spent  two months paddling across the Tasman Sea in a kayak arrived in  New Zealand on Sunday to a rousing welcome.


Nadal overpowers Moya to reach semi-finals

Defending champion Rafael Nadal pummeled fellow-Spaniard Carlos Moya into submission at the French Open on Wednesday to reach the semi-finals with a crushing 6-4 6-3 6-0 victory.


By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 16--RALEIGH -- A woman pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling money from a Raleigh church and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation.


UPDATE 3-GE sells India back office unit stake for $500 mln

General Electric Co., the world's top conglomerate, said on Monday it had sold a majority of its pioneering Indian back-office unit to exit a non-core business


Japan says it didn't offer ransom for release of hostage

The Foreign Ministry has dismissed an Islamic militant organization's claim that Tokyo offered a ransom for the release of a Japanese man the group abducted and later murdered.


Pfizer to Fund Study of Celebrex as Heart Aid -WSJ

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. will  announce plans for a large-scale clinical trial of the ability  of blockbuster drug Celebrex to prevent heart attacks and  strokes in patients with cardiovascular disease, the Wall  Street Journal reported on Monday.


The first cannabis-based medication for MS is filed for approval by British regulators.


Wrongfully Convicted Calif. Man Released

A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.


As Merrill Lynch & Co Inc's  board deliberates the fate of Chairman and Chief Executive Stan O'Neal, a leading contender for the job on Sunday said he is not aware of being a candidate.


Demand for data storage and retrieval products will increase thanks to new rules governing how digital documents are gathered for civil cases in U.S. federal courts.


Tropical storm forms as hurricane season opens

Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and set sail for Florida on Friday -- the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season.


Google to digitize some Harvard library holdings

Harvard University is embarking on a collaboration with Google that could harness Google's search technology to provide to both the Harvard community and the larger public a revolutionary new information location tool to find materials available in


Ang Lee unveils his latest film in Venice, where he won the top prize with Brokeback Mountain two years ago.


Teenagers wary of new children's database

Confidentiality and security concerns Lack of trust may hinder the children's index, according to a new survey.â¦


32 killed in fight after Qaeda attack in Iraq village

BAGHDAD -- An insurgent attack yesterday on a Sunni sheik who has cooperated with US forces escalated into an extended street battle involving the sheik's militiamen, local villagers, and Iraqi forces, according to police and the US military. Thirty-two people were killed and 15 kidnapped, police said.


Ukraine's parliament begins emergency session

Ukraine's parliament began an emergency session to consider a motion of no confidence in pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, the declared winner of a bitterly disputed presidential vote.


A total lunar eclipse expected to create views of a blood-red moon will be visible tonight throughout most of North America - weather permitting.


Palermo, 11:03 - CALCIO, PALERMO: ACCORDO CON PARMA PER DE MELO

Tulio De Melo, attaccante brasiliano del Le Mans, l'anno prossimo giocherà molto probabilment...


The company tightens its forecast on cost concerns.


Meet Simpana Commvault Systems is rolling out a major product overhaul and re-branding of its storage software. The product revamp includes improved performance, new security tools, de-duplication technology, and new search capabilities and indexing for better access to data.â¦


Justice Dept. memo redefines acts of torture

The Justice Department late yesterday published a revised and expansive definition of acts that constitute torture under domestic and international law, overtly


Parti sociali si augurano che possa ripartire trattativa


RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 -- All but sealed off by Egypt and Israel, Gaza presented an intensifying security concern to its neighbors and a fast-approaching humanitarian crisis Sunday, three days after its takeover by Hamas.


NEW YORK/LONDON  - The global flight from risk knocked gold and silver hard for a third straight day on Friday, with bullion falling below $640 an ounce for the first time in 1-1/2 months as funds and currency investors cashed out on precious metals to pay for losses in other markets.


Tommy Hilfiger Down 24 Pct on U.S. Probe

Shares of Tommy Hilfiger Corp. TOM.N  fell 24 percent on Monday morning after the clothing maker said  a federal grand jury subpoenaed documents from its U.S. unit  regarding commissions paid to a subsidiary outside the United  States.


"Sostituzione Speciale legittima", domani s'insedia D'Arrigo


Kezman off the mark as Chelsea blunt the Hammers

Mateja Kezman finally broke his scoring duck as Chelsea beat West Ham United 1-0 in the League Cup London derby at Stamford Bridge.


Wales have not beaten New Zealand for 51 years and in their efforts to end that barren run, they are banning all references to the All Blacks before Saturday's Test at the Millennium Stadium.


Minor Earthquake Shakes Athens; No Damage or Injuries

A minor earthquake rattled Olympic venues in Athens Tuesday, but there were no reports of injuries or damage. The tremor was measured at 4.5 on the Richter scale, with an epicenter about 70 kilometers northeast of the Greek capital, under the Aegean Sea.


Livorno, 18:40 - CALCIO, LIVORNO: GIOVEDI' LA RIPRESA, LUCARELLI STA MEGLIO

Cristiano Lucarelli sta meglio: Dopo l'infortunio nel match con il Milan. Sul sito Internet del gioc...


Scientists refute a longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body's capacity to fight infection.


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More than 700 businesses are calling on the chancellor to scrap a planned rise in fuel duty of 2p per litre.


Two Egyptians Seized in Baghdad Kidnapping

Gunmen kidnapped two Egyptians during  the night in Baghdad, police said on Friday, as relatives of a  seized Briton, whose two colleagues have been beheaded, waited  for news on his fate.


The political spin machines went into high gear Wednesday with the publication of the report from the Iraq Survey Group on Saddam Husseinâs weapons of mass destruction (WMD).