GOP Convention Closes With Milder Protests

A week of rallies, marches and nearly 1,800 arrests left anti-Bush protesters drained and the city refuting allegations that demonstrators were held too long in police custody.


American Bode Miller faces a challenge to his domination of the men's World Cup when the speed events return with three days of racing in the Dolomites.


Will a Clinical Trial Database Help Investors?

Between the controversy over drug reimportation and activism from a certain state's attorney general, it has been a nasty year for the pharmaceutical industry.


Everyone from Shah Rukh, Aamir, Salman to Sanjay Dutt have done that.


Officials from Central and North America meet in LA to discuss a crackdown on cross-border gangs.


Wally Backman was a scrappy, intense second baseman for the world champion Mets in 1986. He promises to bring that style to the Diamondbacks as their manager.


Taliban Kidnaps S. Korean Christians, Issues Ultimatum

KABUL, July 20 -- Taliban fighters kidnapped at least 18 South Korean Christians from a bus Thursday, and a man purporting to speak for the Taliban said later that they would be killed within 24 hours unless South Korea withdrew its 200 troops from Afghanistan.


More Questions for Producer of Flu Vaccine

The F.D.A. is demanding that Chiron provide more information about its plans to fix widespread sanitary problems at its flu vaccine factory in England.


Prosecutors in the rape case of US basketball star Kobe Bryant try to discredit defence DNA evidence.


Sony is delaying the launch of the Home virtual world system for the Playstation 3 until next year.


Former Iranian president says Iran has missiles with 2,000 km ...

Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani announced in Tehran on Tuesday that Iran has now missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers, saying there are 'next stages' to the capability, IRNA reported.


Indonesia Warns Workers; Thailand Exhumes Dead

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia warned the  thousands of aid workers providing relief to earthquake and  tsunami victims in devastated Aceh province on Tuesday not to  venture beyond two large cities because of militant threats.


Afghan President Hamid Karzai holds his only campaign rally outside Kabul, four days ahead of presidential polls.


Britain sends military ships and planes to help tsunami victims

Britain is to send two Royal Navy ships and a military cargo plane to help relief efforts following the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, officials in London said.


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


Online retailers are offering incentives to early shoppers, but people may wait a while, if last year is a guide.


Merck Knew Vioxx Was Unsafe by 2000 - Report

Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co Inc.  had evidence by 2000 that its painkiller Vioxx, which was  pulled off the market on Sept. 30, was not safe, a heart  specialist told CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday.


A driver appears to have had a miracle escape after his car left a motorway and smashed into the road below.


Gruppo italiano firma l'evento 'Fashion week' in Brasile


Woman sues Best Buy for $54 million for losing laptop

A woman upset about how she was treated after the electronics retailer lost her laptop says she hopes her lawsuit will result in better procedures to insure privacy.


The deputy first minister condemns the use of dawn raids to remove the children of failed asylum seekers.


Apple's 4th-Quarter Profit More Than Doubled

Apple announced on Wednesday that its quarterly profit more than doubled because of continued strong sales of iPod music players, beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin


U.S. loses prison camp records of bin Laden's driver

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - The U.S. military has lost a year's worth of records describing the Guantanamo interrogation and confinement of Osama bin Laden's driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive's war court hearing on Thursday.


Shuttle heat shield inspected for damage

The orbiting Discovery crew started the meticulous inspection of the shuttle's heat shield on Sunday, looking for any possible damage from liftoff.


Ruud van Nistelrooy is set to go for a scan today amid deepening concern about his calf problem. The prolific Dutchman reported the injury to SAlex Ferguson a month ago and he has missed the last three major


Coughlin Tries a Little Tenderness as the Giants Totter

Perhaps the strangest part of the Giants' spectacular fall to 5-9 has been that Coach Tom Coughlin has turned into something of a camp counselor.


An earthquake struck western Germany near the French border early Sunday, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported, officials said.


Many young women with a healthy body size worry about how they look, a BBC survey suggests.


Papelbon sets the ground rules for his return

Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon did not rule out pitching again this season, but made it clear he wouldn't do so unless the club was in contention for a postseason spot and he was completely healthy.


E anche in Iride, multiutility di Genova e Torino


First Minister Jack McConnell believes Scotland has a duty to help other countries hit by disasters.


Toshiba to Pay Micron $288 Million to End Litigation Over Flash Memory

By Susan Decker and Ian King Bloomberg News  Toshiba Corp., the world's second-biggest flash memory maker, said it will pay $288 million to Micron Technology Inc. to end patent litigation started by a company Micron bought in June.  Lexar Media Inc.


Johnston stepping down as state Democratic Party chief

Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman Philip W. Johnston said last night that he plans to step down this winter as the party's leader after serving four


Despite government and industry efforts to stop spam, the US remains the world's largest source of unwanted e-mail, which now represents some 90 percent of all Web traffic.


Study finds more autism, other childhood disorders

A look at all children born in Denmark over a recent 10-year period found not only marked increases in autism as expected but also in hyperactivity and Tourette's syndrome, a study said on Monday.


MADISON, Wis. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, arriving Sunday at a remote resort to practice for this week's debate, took a swing at President Bush for pronouncing the Iraqi mission accomplished while the monthly death toll mounts...


Stoykov, Petrova Voted Bulgaria's Best Basketball Players of 2004

Bulgarian men's and women's national basketball team players Todor Stoykov and Theodora Petrova were voted Bulgaria's best basketball players of this year Thursday, state radio said.


Memphis, 10:22 - TENNIS, ATP MEMPHIS: RISULTATI

Risultati del torneo Atp di Memphis (cemento, 757.000 dollari).


Tsunami Refugee Camps May Yield Baby Boom

With the birth of her first child just one month away, Wadiana Wahab worries about the world her baby will enter.


(HealthDayNews) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:


Several producers of âCrashâ have signed on to produce a 13-episode television series based on that Academy Award-winning film. This one-hour series will be the first original drama on Starz, which will produce it with Lionsgate. Production is expected to begin in the spring, with a premiere by the end of the year. âCrashâ received the Oscar for best picture in 2006. Among the filmâs producers, Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco, Bob Yari, Don Cheadle, Mark R. Harris and Tom Nunan will take part in the television series. âThis series will present an opportunity to delve into many subjects, not just race relations in L.A.,â Mr. Cheadle, right, who co-starred in the film, said in a news release. âI donât think you can do 13 episodes on that subject and keep people interested. The challenge will be to craft the series characters in such a way as to get beneath the skin that supposedly differentiates them and create entertaining story lines that show the hurdles and obstacles we all struggle to overcome day to day.â Starz is available in 16 million homes. Lionsgate, which also produces âWeedsâ for the premium channel Showtime, reached an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of America last week.


British FM against Zimbabwe tour of England

Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Monday gave the strongest hint yet that the British government does not want Zimbabwe's planned cricket tour of England next year to go ahead.


Now comes the hard part in North Korea talks

After securing the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear reactor, negotiators gathered in Beijing on Tuesday with the much harder task of coaxing Pyongyang to give up a trove of atomic secrets long guarded as vital for its survival.


Israeli warplanes pounded south Lebanon   on Tuesday, killing at least six people, as diplomatic efforts   brought no signs of an early end to the week-old assault   launched in retaliation against Hizbollah attacks.


US Secretary of State Colin Powell has submitted his resignation to President Bush, a senior administration official told CNN. Powell told his senior staff that he planned to stay on until


The governing pro-Western coalition led by Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic won last weekend's parliamentary elections, Montenegro's election authorities said Tuesday.


Pacers players, fans charged after NBA brawl

Criminal charges have been laid against five Indiana Pacers basketball players and five fans over a brawl at an NBA game last month.


Fed could keep rates steady for some time -PIMCO

The Federal Reserve could keep   benchmark interest rates steady for some time given its focus   on pulling down inflation, said Paul McCulley, managing   director of the bond fund PIMCO.


Seattle Mariners Team Report - October 2

(Sports Network) - Ichiro Suzuki will try to add to his new single-season hits record, as he takes the field for the Seattle Mariners in the middle test of a season-ending three-game series against the visiting Texas Rangers.


Intel-brand Indonesian trousers off the shelves Intel Corp has won a legal victory over a jeans maker in Indonesia selling trousers under the Intel brand.â¦


Australia Leads by 300 in Test After Dismissing India for 185

Australia reached 87-1 after dismissing India for 185 to lead by 300 runs at tea on day three of the third cricket Test at Nagpur, edging the top-ranked team closer to a first series win in India in 35 years.


NI's banks must clearly outline their "complex" charges to customers, the Competition Commission says.


Jeff Horner scored 11 points in a 4 1/2-minute span of the second half, part of a nine-minute stretch when Iowa held No. 12 Louisville without a field goal in the Hawkeyes' 76-71 victory Monday in the opening round of the Maui Invitational.


Update 10: Oil Prices Decline for 2nd Straight Day

Crude futures sold off sharply for a second day in row Thursday, briefly dipping below $43 a barrel, as traders focused on rising fuel supplies and the lack of cold weather.


Obama, Clintons converge on civil rights shrine

Democratic rivals Barack Obama  and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill  Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights  movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help pick  the party's 2008 presidential nominee.


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.


Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return even without a deal.


Hamas challenges Egypt's bid to close Gaza border

RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt started to close its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday but Palestinian militants bulldozed a new opening in a challenge to Cairo and Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run territory.


Dogged devotion: Britons dig deep for pets' health

Forget worming pills and a flea collar -- a trip to the vet in Britain these days could be about heart surgery, joint replacement, chemotherapy or a host of other cutting-edge procedures.


Large explosions shook the center of Iraq's capital late Saturday, only hours after a bomb detonated near a U.S. consular office in southern Iraq, killing one person and wounding another.


Former Top Of The Pops presenter Reggie Yates will star in the new series of Doctor Who.


ADV: The Sprint PCS Fair and Flexible Plan

Miscalculating your wireless minutes can cost you money. The Sprint PCS Fair and Flexible Plan adjusts to your usage every month so you can save up to $300 a year. Activate and save!


Actress Kate Winslet plans to sue weekly magazine Grazia over claims she visited a diet doctor in California.


UPDATE 2-Real crush Levante with second half goal salvo

Real Madrid gave a stunning exhibition of finishing power to crush Levante 5-0 at the Bernabeu in the Primera Liga on Sunday. The home side had struggled to impose


CASO DENISE: IN PREPARAZIONE UNO SPOT PER LE RICERCHE

Palermo, 14 set. - (Adnkronos) - Uno spot per tenere alta l'attenzione sulla piccola Denise, 4 anni, probabilmente rapita, scomparsa il 1 settembre scorso, a Mazara del Vallo. Lo ha annunciato il legale portavoce della famiglia, Giacomo Frazzitta.


Serb war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj ends his hunger strike, paving the way for his trial to resume.


Hollywood writers meet on tentative deal

Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work.


The woman musicians wore headscarves, but that didn't hinder them in playing Beethoven and Brahms in a rare performance by a Western classical orchestra in the capital of the Islamic Republic.


Hear That Wedding March Often Enough, You Fall in Step

It's the big moments, maybe, but it's the little moments as much or even more.


Company will begin selling the Vision Smart Device PPC-6601, a combination cell phone and Pocket PC device with a slide-out keyboard.


Mend Your Foolish Ways, Would-Be Church Bandits

In âFirst Sunday,â Ice Cube departs a bit from the upright-citizen persona, playing a man driven to crime by desperate circumstances.


Wall St set for firm start after Tuesday's drop

U.S. index futures pointed to a firm start on Wall Street on Wednesday after sharp losses in the previous session on mounting concerns that the U.S. mortgage crisis could lead to a slowdown in the world's biggest economy.


Iraqi, US Forces Find Largest Fallujah Arms Cache

US and Iraqi forces searching a mosque in Fallujah discovered what the Marines described as the city's ``largest weapons cache to date,'' the military said.


Gad. Prodi : Quelli prodotti dal governo Berlusconi sono "tre anni ...

Ma ora Ã¨ venuto il tempo di rilanciare lâItalia e "noi ce la possiamo fare, perchÃ© siamo quelli che le promesse le mantengono": lo ha detto al Palalido di Milano Romano Prodi. Il Professore Ã¨ stato accolto


Sox say Schilling to pitch in Game 6, if there is one

Curt Schilling's gimpy right ankle, which still could alter the course of this World Series, caused Schilling to limp across the clubhouse yesterday, one day after the Red Sox ace led Boston to the 6-2 win in Game 2.


Eagles DE McDougle Doubtful for Sunday's Game

PHILADELPHIA (Sports Network) - Philadelphia Eagles  defensive end Jerome McDougle is listed as doubtful for  Sunday's game against Cleveland with an irregular heartbeat.


No indictment in Katrina hospital deaths

A grand jury refused on Tuesday to indict a doctor accused of murdering four seriously ill hospital patients with drug injections during the desperate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, closing the books on the only mercy-killing case to emerge from the storm.


While IT administrators might be inclined to look at preparing for a pandemic much as they would for any other disaster, pandemics are different in several ways.


Carmelo Anthony scored a U.S. record 35 points, and the American team overcame a 12-point second-half deficit to beat Italy 94-85 Wednesday in the opening round of the basketball world championships.


The police detective who supervised the Robert Blake murder investigation conceded Wednesday he didn't order a gunshot residue test of the restaurant booth where the actor claimed to have left his gun — a key element of his alibi.


AP: Priest may have misspent $1.4 million

A priest who resigned from a church in an affluent Connecticut community misspent up to $1.4 million in parishioner donations to lead a life of luxury with another man, according to a church-directed investigation.


A 17-year-old boy dies in hospital two days after he was seriously injured in a crash in County Londonderry.


LONGMEADOW -- Medfield senior goaltender Jake McCampbell trotted off the field to a standing ovation with 39 seconds remaining after being penalized for slashing in yesterday's MIAA Division 2 boys' lacrosse state championship game. It was a rare sight, a star player embraced and cheered after committing a penalty.


Bank of Canada raises key overnight interest rate to 2.50 per cent

OTTAWA (CP) - The Bank of Canada raised its key policy interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.50 per cent Tuesday as it tries to encourage growth while controlling inflation.


HAY DRIG, Sudan, Sept. 29 -- Haggard survivors of fighting in southern Darfur, thorns stuck to their bloody feet, straggled into this refugee community before dawn Wednesday and told harrowing tales of attacks by men in government uniforms who marauded through their villages.


Imperial Oil 3rd-Qtr Profit Rises as Oil Prices Soar

Imperial Oil, Canada's largest energy company, said third-quarter profit rose 44 percent as oil prices surged to a record and natural-gas production increased.


Maladies: Hormone Levels and Chronic Fatigue

A new study finds that women who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome wake up with lower levels of a hormone that helps people deal with stress.


Bush Sees Stimulus Of Up To $150 Bil To Bolster Economy      (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - President Bush on Friday called for a $140 billion to $150 billion stimulus package, saying the U.S. needs a "shot in the arm" to keep housing woes from spreading.


LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Tied for the lead in what is shaping up as another shootout at Disney, Tom Lehman believes he has experience on his side.


San Paolo, 22:54 - CALCIO, INTER: ADRIANO GIOCHERA' FINO A GIUGNO COL SAN PAOLO

Adriano giocherà fino al termine della stagione con la squadra campione del Brasile del San P...


Airbus to sell A350 as rival to Boeing Dreamliner

Airbus has been given the go-ahead by its shareholders EADS and BAE Systems to market the A350, a new wide-body aircraft that will be a direct rival to Boeingâs 7E7 Dreamliner.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, unveiling her agenda to promote civil rights, told an NAACP banquet Saturday that the "scales of justice are seriously out of balance" for black Americans.


Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards

Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.


Ipotesi 'assurda', 'mi opporrei con tutte le mie forze'


Australian Open Courts Are a Fair Test, Says Safin

PERTH, Australia  - World number four Marat Safin  said the courts for this month's Australian Open were fine and  players should just adapt their games to the surface.


Aggiornata al 4% la cedola nominale del BTP triennale


Canadian wild salmon are being driven to extinction by outbreaks of parasites from fish farms, a study claims.


GROZNY, Russia Aug. 29, 2004 - Chechens battered by five years of war, terrorism and misery voted Sunday for a president in an election that the Russian government portrayed as step toward stability, though


African Union chief John Kufuor met Kenya's president and opposition leader on Wednesday to try to break a political impasse behind post-election turmoil that has killed about 500 people.


Aberdeen councillor Raymond Hutcheon quits his post the day after his house is searched by police.


US manufacturers cranked out more goods in recent weeks, while auto dealers moved more vehicles off their lots and trucking companies tried to find enough drivers to keep up with growing demand.


Thirty-Three Chinese Miners Dead in Blaze

A fire at a complex of iron mines in northern China killed at least 33 miners and trapped another 28, state media reported Monday.


Signs of TB in Ancient Skull Support Theory on Vitamin D

Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.


After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

Having already struck it rich, many young Internet tycoons throw themselves back into a start-up, in a competition with one another and themselves.


Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — In the campaign debate over Iraq, one constant has been the divide between the presidential candidates on the issue of inconsistency.


Golf Roundup: Mickelson Shares Lead at the Scottish Open

Phil Mickelson took advantage of the somewhat benign conditions and carded a six-under-par 65, a week after missing the cut in Washington.


A remembrance ceremony is to mark the second anniversary of the 7 July London bombings that killed 52 people.


Murkowski Braces for Alaska Sen. Primary

Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she has not asked Alaskans to like the way she got her job — she was appointed by her father, Gov. Frank Murkowski.


Renault's Jarno Trulli sets pole position in the rain at the Belgian Grand Prix.


Prop Sylvain Marconnet will miss the rest of the season as France make five changes to the squad to take on England.


CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez of Venezuela has long pledged to buck Washington-backed economic policies in Latin America. Now, two months after winning reelection and consolidating his hold on the country with new powers to rule by decree, he is strengthening economic ties in the region in a bid to limit U.S. influence....


Hollywood and Moses go back a long way, so it's only fitting that fashion mogul Max Azria's spectacular new musical production of "The Ten Commandments" should make its debut at the Kodak Theater in the heart of Hollywood, the same theater that presents the Academy Awards. With Val Kilmer, a bona fide Hollywood star, playing Moses, expectations of a kitschy Hollywood extravaganza ran high.


Crowds Dwarf Protests at Hawaii Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart opened a store in Hawaii on Wednesday with hundreds of eager shoppers rushing past a handful of protesters who accuse the giant retailer of desecrating ancient gravesites.


Hamas vows revenge on Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Islamic resistance movement Hamas vowed Tuesday an immediate revenge after Israeli airstrike on a Hamas youth training camp in eastern Gaza City killed 14 Palestinians and wounded 30 others.


Brain Cells, Doing Their Job With Some Neighborly Help

How does the brain process all of the information being taken in by our senses every second of every day?


IRAQ: UCCISIONE WALI, LA SOLIDARIETA' DI CIAMPI

Castelfranco veneto(Tv), 5 ott. (Adnkronos) - ''Porto il cordoglio, la solidarieta' el'affettuosa partecipazione del Presidente della Repubblica, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Ovviamente, a questi sentimenti, unisco i miei personali''.


U.S. auto sales are expected to have dropped in May as a weak housing market and higher gas prices sapped demand, analysts said this week.


Bush Signs Intelligence Overhaul Legislation

President Bush on Friday signed  legislation authorizing the biggest overhaul of U.S.  intelligence agencies in more than 50 years and creating a new  director of national intelligence demanded after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks.


Thanks to Back-Door, but Legal, Maneuver, Pakistan Has New Prime ...

PAKISTAN'S NATIONAL Assembly has elected Shaukat Aziz as the countryâs new prime minister, replacing interim Prime Minister Chaudhri Shujaat, who stepped in when Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigned June 28.


Radical Islamic groups in Pakistan plan protests over the knighthood UK gave to Salman Rushdie.


Ukraine will reverse the controversial sale of state-owned steel mill Kryvorizhstal so that the firm can go back on the market at a higher price.


Prosecutors Drop Sex Case Against Bryant

EAGLE, Colo. - The criminal case against Kobe Bryant case collapsed Wednesday as prosecutors said they had no choice but to drop the sexual assault charge because the NBA star's accuser no longer wanted to participate...


Digital Music Industry Challenged to Follow Fans' Lead

Music industry executives at the Billboard Digital Music Live conference at CES discussed what the industry needs to do to meet the needs of music fans who appear to be running the show.


Iran rejects a new European bid to make it abandon nuclear work but insists it is not pursuing atomic weapons.


Microsoft math: dual core licensed as one chip

com October 18, 2004, 9:50 PM PT. This fourth priority's main focus has been enterprise directories as organizations spawn projects around identity infrastructure.


Israel Kills Top Hamas Rocket Maker in Gaza Strike

Israel killed the top bombmaker and rocket engineer of the Hamas militant group on Thursday in an airstrike in Gaza City, days before a key parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.


Milano, 17:28 - CALCIO, MILAN: RIPRESA LA PREPARAZIONE, GILARDINO SALTA ASCOLI

Il Milan ha già archiviato la vittoria di ieri sera a Parma e ha ripreso gli allenamenti a Mi...


A Watershed Opening for the Palmetto Trail

By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Dec. 8--The trailhead for the latest section of the Palmetto Trail is in North Carolina, a hint at the significance of this 6.6-mile portion of the path.   Parking isn't allowed anyplace on the South Carolina side of the Poinsett Passage.


Primary schools in England will receive about Â£340 each next year to make language lessons compulsory.


Iran May Seek to Mate Missile, Nuclear Warhead-US

MANAUS, Brazil  - The United States has seen  information suggesting Iran is working on the technology to  deliver a nuclear warhead on a missile, Secretary of State  Colin Powell said on Wednesday.


OLYMPIC 400m hurdles finalist Jana Pittman today said she was considering switching to the flat race Cathy Freeman won in Sydney four years ago.


Forget Oscar weather  vane. The thing the Golden Globes might be best known for --  the parties -- are in jeopardy. With less than a week before  the January 13 awards show, no invitations had been sent for  any of the bashes.


Iraqi exiles from Australia to the United States began registering on Monday for elections at the end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.


Washington Wizards Team Report - November 27

(Sports Network) - The Washington Wizards were dealt a heartbreaking loss by the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday afternoon at the Wachovia Center.


Vladimir Putin signs Kyoto Protocol bill

Russia's president has signed the Kyoto Protocol ensuring the global climate pact will take effect, Novosti reported Friday. Putin had delayed signing the treaty until he gained


Emma Acebo, a 6-month-old girl who was born in Colombia, has been an American citizen since her adoptive parents brought her to New York last month.


NASA postponed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis by another day after discovering a problem with a fuel cell early Wednesday.


Fire at another ThyssenKrupp plant in Italy, no injuries

Fire broke out at a ThyssenKrupp plant in  Italy on Friday, just over a week after a blaze killed four  workers at another company site, but the fire was put out with  no injuries or damage, firefighters said.


Stella McCartney: Gals You'd Like to Date

Fashion Wire Daily - Leave it to Stella McCartney to send out on her catwalk models wearing clothes that make you want to date them, rather than admire from afar, or shun or simply think, don't they look weird.


US car giant Ford is expected to tell Jaguar workers that it will close the firm's historic Coventry factory.


Mourning career likely over after knee injury

Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning has probably played his last game in the NBA after suffering a serious knee injury in what is his final season with the team.


[TS] High & Low Finance: Temptations of a Minister of Finance

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa seems to be taking on his job as finance minister of Italy with a combination of zeal and academic detachment.


UPDATE 2-Adriano crushes Messina, Milan in Parma comeback

Late goals from Brazilian Kaka and midfielder Andrea Pirlo gave AC Milan a 2-1 win at lowly Parma in Serie A on Saturday. Brazilian Adriano hit a devastating first half


Microsoft today announced that it will buy Giant Company Software, a developer of anti-spyware and Internet security offerings. The Redmond, Washington, firm will use technology from the acquisition


Russia's foreign intelligence service issued a sharply worded denial on Wednesday of involvement in the poisoning of a fierce Kremlin critic and former spy who fell seriously ill in Britain, the Interfax news agency reported.


Home Depot shares up amid reports of deal for unit

Shares of Home Depot Inc.  rose 2 percent on Monday after published reports, citing unnamed sources, said the home improvement retailer agreed to cut the price in the sale of its supply unit by $1.8 billion to $8.5 billion.


President Bush called Ukrainian President-elect Viktor Yushchenko on Saturday to congratulate him on his election and on "democracy's victory" in Ukraine, a White House spokesman said.


Panel urges UN to act on Sri Lanka killings

The Asian Human Rights Commission asked the United Nations Tuesday to intervene to end extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka, where it said at least 50 people were killed in the last month alone.


Drilling Down: Girl Power Is in Full Force Online

Teenage girls are more likely than boys to have engaged in creating most kinds of online content, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.


NBA Wrap: Hawks Stun Injury-Plagued Pistons

Tony Delk and Predrag Drobjnak both scored 16 points as the Atlanta Hawks stunned the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons 88-72 in National Basketball Association play Friday in Auburn Hills.


Liverpool bests Tottenham on penalty kicks

Liverpool will play Watford, the only non-Premier League side in the competition, in its semifinal after the Championship side eliminated Portsmouth 3-0 on Tuesday.


Dodgy program advertised on MSN Messenger

(InfoWorld) - Banner advertisements for a security application said to report false or inflated threats appeared for at least a few days on Microsoft's instant messaging (IM) program, prompting warnings from security analysts. Microsoft appears to have removed the ads, which were displayed in the contacts panel for its IM program, Windows Live Messenger, said Sandi Hardmeier, a Microsoft Most Valued Professional, a designation the company gives to people who have expertise with its products. The progam, known as Winfixer, falsely warns a computer has been infected with malicious software, according to Symantec. It asks users to buy a program to remove the unwanted software. "Quite often, it reports files that are perfectly safe," Hardmeier said. "It uses a lot of false positives. Basically, it's a rip off." Other security companies, such as Sophos and McAfee, classify Winfixer as a "potentially unwanted application." Hardmeier, who notified Microsoft of the problem, said the ads that appeared on Windows Live Messenger tried two ways to get users to install Winfixer on their machine. The first was via a pop-up window offering to scan the computer for problems, she wrote. Depending on the version of Internet Explorer used, Winfixer would try to download itself through an Active X control, she said. The second way was through a banner advertisement that a user would have to click before being taken to a Web site offering Free PC-Secure, a program that is detected as Winfixer by most security software, she said. Winfixer goes by several different names, including ErrorSafe and DriveCleaner. Microsoft had done well preventing spyware programs from being advertised in banner ads on Windows Live Messenger, formerly known as MSN Messenger, Hardmeier wrote on her blog on her blog, Spyware Sucks. But Winfixer has proved a tricky foe. Advertising networks have had trouble with Winfixer ads suddenly being served up by their networks despite no affiliation with its creators, Hardmeier said. The suspicion is that organizations have falsely registered with the networks and substituted Winfixer ads -- hosted on their own servers -- instead of the advertisements they agreed to supply, she said. Microsoft officials contacted in London on Monday morning could not immediately comment.


Chile's Bachelet fires 5 ministers in shuffle

SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet fired five ministers on Tuesday in a major cabinet reshuffle to steady her embattled government, hit by low approval ratings despite strong economic growth.


Clooney, Wiesel tell UN time running out in Darfur

U.S. actor George Clooney and  Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel told the U.N. Security Council on  Thursday the world would be blamed for another Rwanda if  atrocities were not halted in Sudan's Darfur region.


The wall of a warehouse under construction collapsed in western India on Saturday, killing at least 19 laborers and injuring six others, police said.


IT'S MYSTIC MEG, the Gartner Group is predicting that system downtime will increase from five per cent this year to 15 per cent in 2008 due to security holes.


Cool products can make for bad investments.


LONDON, England -- William Shatner wants to boldly go where he's only pretended to go so far. The "Star Trek" star is among more than 7,000 people who have told Richard Branson they would gladly pay him $210,000


A new report says gynecomastia, or male breasts, occurs in nearly half of all men. But most of the time, it's nothing to worry about


Chechnya leader proposes renaming region

Just the word "Chechnya" can conjure images of guerrilla warfare, mine explosions, rampant kidnappings and, for many Russians, wily merchants out to fleece law-abiding citizens.


Juan says thanks in the best possible way

Juan Pablo Montoya gave Frank Williams the best parting gift he could when he won Sunday's Brazilian GP. The victory couldn't have come at a more fitting time as Sunday's race was the Colombian's last event with Williams.


Steelcase looks to set workers straight with chairs

Analysts concerned about Steelcase Inc.'s  operating income want the office furniture marker to sit back in one of its comfy, ergodynamic chairs and talk margins.


An Unprecedented Fight Against Childhood Obesity

To fight the epidemic of childhood obesity, the nation must launch a massive campaign enlisting virtually every aspect of society to reduce the amount of junk food children eat and get them exercising


North Carolina pulls shocker on No. 4 Connecticut

Connecticut missed shots, made turnovers and struggled at the free throw line. None of the mistakes caught coach Geno Auriemma off guard.


Comment is free: John Kelly: The prospect of living in Britain is financially daunting. My plan is to put the family in diapers.


Jittery shoppers kept retail sales flat in Dec

Retail spending by Americans was  little changed in December as consumers anxious over the  housing slump and high oil prices held back on purchases during  the crucial holiday season, a report released on Friday showed.


Roma, 10:50 - CALCIO, CATANIA; PULVIRENTI: RIGORE JUVE LASCIA AMARO IN BOCCA

La vittoria sfumata in piena recupero ha lasciato l'amaro in bocca al presidente del Catania, Antoni...


The U.S. current account deficit widened slightly to a record $164.71 billion in the third quarter as the goods trade shortfall grew and the services surplus shrank, the government said on Thursday.


HOUSTON Baker Hughes in Houston today reports the number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the US jumped by 23 this week -- to reach one-thousand, 257.


PLO Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia arrived in Paris last night on their way to finding out PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's condition first-hand, despite


Tropical Storm Barbara formed Wednesday off the southwestern coast of Mexico and could strengthen to a hurricane within days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.


Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer each received total compensation of $901,667 in Microsoft Corp.'s 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from $863,447 one year ago.


U.S. retail gasoline prices  increased for the first time in 10 weeks, while truckers saw  their diesel fuel costs drop for a second week, the Energy  Department said on Monday.


A bomb kills five people on a Baghdad minibus as conflicting reports come in of a deadly overnight air strike.


A Seismic Shift Under the House of Fannie Mae

Unlike the problems in recent financial scandals, issues raised by Fannie Mae's regulators pertain to unwieldy accounting rules that are open to widely divergent interpretations.


Paul Pierce's 14-point second quarter helps carry Boston to its first win in Sacramento in more than 11 years, 89-69, Wednesday night.


Gold broke the $450 a troy ounce level on Thursday for the first time since June 1988 as the dollar fell to a record low against the euro.


Biden joins crowded Democratic White House field

Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware on  Wednesday joined the crowded field of Democratic contenders  angling to win the 2008 White House race, arguing his foreign  policy experience put him a step ahead.


Giovane pregiudicato avrebbe ucciso un ristoratore a Bacoli


Scientists are working on a tethering system that could help explorers with the prospect of walking on a surface without much sticking power.


Meteor suspected to be cause of unexplained blast in Indonesia

Astronomers in Indonesia say a large meteor was the most likely explanation for a loud explosion which was heard in Jakarta on Sunday.


BRONX, New York (Ticker) -- Kelvim Escobar was the latest Anaheim Angels' pitcher to subdue the New York Yankees. Escobar pitched seven strong innings and Bengie Molina tied a career-high with four hits, including


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Sri Lanka's military says it has killed 59 rebels in the latest fighting - a claim dismissed by the Tamil Tigers.


The only streak at the Accenture Match Play Championship belongs to Geoff Ogilvy. One day after Tiger Woods' winning streak ended on the PGA Tour, Ogilvy won two more matches Saturday to make it 11 in a row at this fickle tournament and advance to the 36-hole championship match against Henrik Stenson of Sweden.


Procter & Gamble CEO Gets $3.5 Mln Bonus

Procter & Gamble Co. (PG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the maker of Tide laundry detergent and Pampers diapers, on Friday said its top executive earned a base salary of $1.


Efficacy of Blood Pressure Drug Questioned

A leading drug used by millions of  people to lower blood pressure does not prevent deaths from  heart attacks or other cardiovascular problems as well as other  treatments, researchers said on Friday.


Philippines searches for 28 Chinese after ship sinks

The Philippine coastguard was searching on Monday for 28 Chinese fishermen missing after their ship sank off the northwestern coast, an official said.


Stocks turned higher Tuesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average back above the 10,000 mark, as investors shrugged off rising energy prices and focused instead on good corporate news.


There is no evidence children in smaller primary classes do better in maths or English, researchers say.


British actor Clive Owen says he will never move to Hollywood even if it impacts on his career.


Koizumi to Bush: Strong Dollar Important

SANTIAGO, Chile  - Japanese Prime Minister  Junichiro Koizumi told President Bush at a bilateral meeting in  Chile on Saturday that a strong U.S. dollar is important for  the global economy.


Katie Leads CBS to Weekly Win, Then Dips

By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - Katie Couric led the "CBS Evening News" to its first weekly ratings win in more than five years but her honeymoon may be short - she slipped to third place on Monday.


Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Indonesia's Papua province said Monday they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.


KIRKUK, Iraq  - Thousands of Iraqi police and soldiers swept through the restive Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday, searching homes for weapons and insurgents after all residents were ordered off the streets.


Rookie quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger of Pittsburgh and Eli Manning of the New York Giants clash for the first time on Saturday. Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi had a chance to select Roethlisberger


A key gauge of future economic activity weakened for a third straight month in August as costlier oil spread worry among consumers and businesses, a report from a business research group showed on Thursday .


Martian Weather Blamed for Loss of Beagle 2

Description: An investigation into the loss of Britain's Beagle 2 spacecraft last December suggests the cause may have been unusual Martian weather.


Sean Penn is one of the great actors of his generation, yet he'd like to give it all up to remain behind the camera.


Czech govt seen losing vote, early election looms

The Czech Republic's rightist minority government is likely to lose a confidence vote in parliament this week, nudging the EU member closer to an interim administration followed by early elections.Comment


The 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist Party is marked by Czechs.


Arco Invites More Galleries and Selects Mexico

MADRID, SPAIN.- ARCO , the international contemporary art fair, will take place from February 9-14. It will invite 291 galleries from 35 countries, 84 from Spain and 205 foreign galleries.


The scheme involves the modification of an internal PC file, called the hosts file, used to match domain names of Web sites with IP addresses.


This well mannered film wants to be an outdoor, barbecue-grilled "Barbershop" but lacks the pungency and honesty of its prototype.


The Queen calls on people to take care of the vulnerable, in her 50th televised Christmas Day speech.


As strange as it may sound, in some cases, it may be possible to avoid database recovery entirely. You might even question the wisdom of building enormous monolithic databases. There are a growing number of examples of application environments that employ an architecture consisting of multiple smaller databases with a common parallel query layer, making protection as well as scalability easier.


HSBC to Open D.C. Branch, Pursue Embassy Clients

HSBC Bank USA will open a D.C. branch by the end of November in a bid to replace Riggs Bank as the city's premier diplomatic bank.


Udine, 15:48 - CALCIO, PORTE CHIUSE; MALESANI: IN GRECIA HA FUNZIONATO

Porte chiuse fino al termine del campionato? per il tecnico dell'Udinese Alberto Malesani, che porta...


Moscow-based students from the West African state of Guinea Bissau occupy their country's embassy.


UAL says it's likely to end pension plans

UAL Corp.'s United Airlines told a bankruptcy court Thursday it will likely scrap its employee pension plans, which drew more rebukes from its labor unions.


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A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a man convicted of murder after DNA evidence pointed to another suspect.


MINER and takeover target WMC Resources today forecast a record profit for 2004 and unveiled plans to hand back $1 billion in cash to shareholders.


Why are the deep-discount retailers winning sales but losing earnings?


An anti-war song is on course to enter the UK charts this weekend after being promoted at a protest rally.


Kohl's September sales strong; profit forecast raised

Mid-priced department store operator Kohl's Corp.  on Tuesday reported better-than-expected September sales at stores open at least a year and raised its third-quarter earnings forecast.


Rival hopes anti-Bush tide will sink Schwarzenegger

SACRAMENTO, California  - In a state where   Democrats far outnumber Republicans and President George W.   Bush has never been popular, an experienced Democrat should be   in a strong position to unseat Republican Gov. Arnold   Schwarzenegger.


Hard-Learned Lesson: Don't Try to Censor A Blogger

Memories fade, but the Internet is forever. Murry N. Gunty found that out the hard way this summer. Well known among Washington financiers, the head of Milestone Capital Management LLC ran afoul of bloggers for an attempt to censor a Web article about a 1992 incident in which he manipulated the...


Hilton leaves jail, sheriff cites suicide fears

Hours after a beaming Paris Hilton  was freed from three weeks in jail, the sheriff criticized for  briefly putting her under house arrest said on Tuesday he  allowed her out because he feared for her life.


125,000 Without Power As Storm Slams S.C.

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed ashore in South Carolina Sunday with near hurricane-force winds, spinning sheets of rain that flooded roads as the storm knocked out power to thousands of people...


AOL to End Support of Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator, the worldâs first commercial Web browser and the starting point of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year run.


'Bride and Prejudice' makes dazzling London premiere

Exotic fairy light garlands and Indian drummers in traditional tunics have brought Bollywood to Britain with the world premiere of "Bride and Prejudice", an adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale.


Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized in Santiago's Army Hospital Saturday after feeling ill, and will likely undergo a series of tests, his spokesman said.


President George Bush and Sen. John Kerry are tied, at 49 percent support among likely voters in 12 battleground states, USA Today reports.


NY fashion show to take inspiration from economy

The financial meltdown sweeping the  United States hits the fashion runway on Friday, when New York  Fashion Week takes off, but its impact may be surprising.


Guests at a high-dollar fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday were treated to cocktails, dinner and an hourlong business tutorial from billionaire Warren Buffett.


The Home Office refuses to comment on speculation a jail might be built on a former police training college in Cwmbran.


VENLO, Netherlands -- Do you find your fingers drifting into your mouth when you're nervous, anxious or just bored? Are your nails chewed to splinters or your cuticles gnawed to bleeding pulp? Nail biting is more than a bad habit. Doctors say it is one of the most common symptoms of stress or of an...


Six Moroccan peacekeepers are arrested over claims that they sexually abused minors in DR Congo.


Daunte Culpepper passed for 425 yards and five touchdowns Sunday night to lead the Minnesota Vikings to a 38-31 victory over the New Orleans Saints.


A judge cleared of exposing himself on a commuter train may face further questions by police.


Milano, 15:04 - CICLISMO, TIRRENO-ADRIATICO CON 18 SQUADRE PRO-TOUR

Solo 18 delle 20 formazioni titolari di licenza UCI-Pro-Tour parteciperanno alla 42/a Tirreno-Adriat...


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US mobile phone giant Cingular announces plans to cut about 7,000 jobs in the next 12 to 18 months.


Colbert fan group on Facebook soars like an eagle

The "1,000,000 Strong for Stephen Colbert" group on Facebook, founded to support the gag presidential campaign, actually hits a million members--within a week.


Kerrie Keeling realised she needed to upgrade her technology when her computer crashed, wiping out all her files. "I started back in April 2003, just me decorating. I ran the business from home with a land line and a PC and a mobile," the former banker recalls.


Extra hit on private schools in pipeline

PRIVATE schools face the prospect of further funding cuts from the Labor states under a Mark Latham plan to streamline funding into a single national benchmark for every child.


British advertising agency company WPP Group PLC has clinched a deal to buy Grey Global Group of New York in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $1.


Riconosciuti risarcimenti per 19 milioni di euro


Messina, 19:02 - CALCIO, MESSINA: FLOCCARI E RIGANO' IN ATTACCO

Bruno Giordano schiererà Sergio Floccari in attacco con RiganÃ². L'indisponibilità di R...


Media & professional: The BBC, Channel 4 and ITV are developing a video downloads service that will 'do for broadband what Freeview did for digital TV'.


Questions Linger Over Russia School Siege

BESLAN, Russia - Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the spasm of violence that ended the school siege here, and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals who had rushed to the scene.    As Beslan buried more victims Friday, a week after the bloodbath at School No...


Woody Allen Says Films Cure Insomnia as Wins Award

U.S. film director Woody Allen said his films were a cure for insomnia on Friday, as he accepted an award at the San Sebastian film festival for his life's work.


The double-layer DVD drive is designed to record up to four hours of MPEG-2 video or up to 8.5GB of music and images.


Corporate tax cuts delayed a day in Senate

A sweeping corporate tax bill that would dole out nearly $140 billion in business breaks over the next decade was unexpectedly delayed in the Senate on Sunday over its failure


Microsoft sics worldwide braintrust on XP vuln

PDF attack prompts round-the-clock patch fest Escalating attacks exploiting a serious weakness in PDF files have prompted Microsoft to issue an all-hands-on-deck call to fix a vulnerability that lurks in the bowels of Windows XP.â¦


AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Settimana Nazionale della Famiglia sul tema ÂLa famiglia: prima scuola di discepolato e di missioneÂ BogotÃ  (Agenzia Fides) - Dal 28 maggio al 3 giugno si celebrerÃ  in tutte le Giurisdizioni Ecclesiastiche della Colombia, la ÂSettimana Nazionale della Famiglia 2007Â. Il tema per questo anno Ã¨ "La famiglia: prima scuola di discepolato e di missione",...


Garcia Out front, Tiger Takes a Dip, Lefty Might be Heading Home

Sergio Garcia keeps his lead with a round of even-par, Phil Mickelson looks like he will miss the cut and Tiger Woods is trying to recover after a horrible start.


Putin springs surprise choice for PM's job

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed his prime minister on Wednesday, clearing the way for him to appoint a new premier who is likely to become the leading candidate in an election for president next March.


China's Ex-Party Chief Turns 85 Under House Arrest

Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's  Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the  1989 Tiananmen Square protests, turned 85 on Sunday in poor  health and living his 15th year under house arrest.


Restrictions may cause flu shots to go to waste

ATLANTA - Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to waste, and they are considering easing the restrictions.


By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan Friday that would do away with most of the smog and soot caused by diesel-burning trains and boats.  It's an ambitious move supported by many environmentalists and air pollution officials.


Gay Republican Group Won't Endorse Bush -NY Times

Leaders of the largest group for gay  men and lesbians in the Republican Party voted overwhelmingly  against endorsing President Bush for re-election because he  favors a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage,  The New York Times said on Wednesday.


Canada's first ambulance for obese patients on call

Obese patients in Calgary, Alberta, are  the first in Canada to have a new ambulance on call specially  modified to move them in a dignified and safe way while  protecting paramedics from injury.


BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- The pair of majestic Buddha cliff-carvings are still disfigured, vandalized three years ago by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. But little by little, what remains of the ancient treasures is being restored, with iron rods shoring up their niches and concrete being pumped into cracks across the crumbling stone.


Russia on Tuesday suspended all transport and postal links with Georgia until further notice, in a sharp escalation of the dispute between Moscow and its small southern neighbor.


Tropical Storm Jeanne Weakens Over North Florida

A weakening Tropical Storm Jeanne sloshed into north Florida on Monday after pounding areas of the state's east coast ravaged by Hurricane Frances three weeks ago.


Almost 900 African migrants reached the Canary Islands on Tuesday, a record number for a single day.


UPDATE 2-US Air seeks court-imposed cuts in wages, benefits

Bankrupt US Airways Group Inc. (UAIRQ.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday asked a court to impose wage and benefit cuts on its union employees to save


Jet-Li's action flick "Hero" beat out "Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid" as the weekend's most-watched movie, according to media reports.


Hot chips, cold cash Computer chip maker Freescale Semiconductor, a spin-off of Motorola, has announced that it is in talks with several possible investors.â¦


By Pinkerfield, Hayley  BMW is partnering Emap and Google Maps to create a lifestyle site to promote its new 1 Series model. The site, targeting a young, urban audience, offers celebrity and user-generated reviews of UK city venues.  The site, www. 1 off.com.


Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.


Officials with Canada's top TV broadcasters said they expect regulators soon will allow them access to the free-spending prescription drug industry.


South Korea appealed to sport's supreme legal body on Sunday in an attempt to secure the Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal for Yang Tae-young, who was robbed of the title 11 days ago by a scoring error.


UPDATE 2-Teenager Nadal sends Spain into Davis Cup final

Teenager Rafael Nadal sent Spain through to the Davis Cup final against the United States with a scintillating 6-4 6-1 6-2 victory over France's Arnaud Clement on Sunday.


A senior Islamic cleric is on his way to see Yasser Arafat, who is in a coma and has suffered a brain haemorrhage.


Iraqis walk among buildings damaged by an air strike in Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004. The Iraqi government Sunday declared a state of emergency for 60 days throughout the country except for Kurdish


China names new heads of finance and security

BEIJING - China replaced its finance minister yesterday amid rumors that he might be involved in a sex scandal, and a new chief of secret police was also named. The reshuffle appeared aimed at putting President Hu Jintao's allies in key positions before a Communist Party meeting that will set policies for the next five years.


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Hurricane Ivan takes aim at Mobile, Ala., begins drenching the ...

Hurricane Ivan and its 220-kilometre-per-hour winds churned toward this historic port city with frightening intensity Wednesday as the storm began its assault on the Gulf Coast, lashing


Sudan allowing 16 militia camps in Darfur: Human Rights Watch

Sudan is allowing its proxy militia to keep at least 16 camps in its strife-torn western region of Darfur, Human Rights Watch said, days before a UN deadline for Khartoum to stop the violence.


The conniving Erica Kane, who has had a dozen careers and nearly as many marriages, made the trip from Pine Valley to Hollywood Boulevard Friday to see her alter ego, actress Susan Lucci, receive a star on the Walk of Fame.


Japan's Ai Sugiyama suffered a shock first-round loss as the top seeds had a bad day at the Wismilak International. Third-seed Sugiyama was fuming after her 6-4 7-6 (7-1) loss in Bali to Aiko Nakamura, who is 151 places below her in the world rankings.


Finnish security firm F-Secure has discovered what is believed to be the first adware application built specifically for Mac OS X. The program does not require administrative privileges in order to install itself on the user's computer.


Foreign troops helping aid efforts in Aceh province must leave within three months, Indonesia says.


Gawker, the  gossip Web site,  seems to be in the midst of a particularly intense period of turmoil, which has led to a slide in its once-hypnotic influence on the news media world.


Militants Threaten to Kill Iraq Hostages

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida linked group threatened in a videotape Saturday to behead two Americans and a Briton within two days, and insurgents carried out a new string of car bombings, killing at least 20 Iraqis and two American soldiers. The unrelenting violence has taken 300 lives in the past week...


Gay Candidate Denies Blogs Forced Him From Race

Jeff Dion said it wasn't the bloggers' vicious personal attacks about his "gay lifestyle" that made him end his campaign for a Prince William County seat in the Virginia House of Delegates but practical politics.


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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, too. And with the obesity epidemic showing no signs of waning, specialists say they need to better understand how fat cells fuels cancer growth so they might fight back.


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Technobuddy Column

By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb. 18--NEW OPERATING SYSTEMS NEED MORE HORSEPOWER: There may be few  certainties in life, but there's at least one in the computer world.


TierneyLab: Harvard, Bloomberg and Trans-Fat

I’m not sure if this is a mixed metaphor, but Harvard and the mayor of New York have gone logrolling in the trans-fat cascade. The Harvard School of Public Health announced that it’s giving its highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond Award, to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for demonstrating “extraordinary leadership in protecting and promoting the [...].


Israel pushes Gaza offensive amid rocket attacks

Israel pressed ahead with an air offensive in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Hamas militants, and arrested another Palestinian cabinet minister in the West Bank as Gaza militants fired more rockets into Israel.


Royal Mail is asking for a 6p rise in the price of UK stamps to stem losses and help ensure its future.


In more than one sense, Westminster bears a resemblance to the New York fashion shows that folded up tents just days before the dog show rolled into town.


Peru's Toledo Wants New Judges for Guzman Retrial

Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo said on Saturday he wanted new judges to try Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman after the "shameful spectacle" he staged at the start


Survey: Large U.S. firms collecting more personal data

The Fortune 100 companies in the U.S. are apparently collecting more data about their online customers, but a smaller number of them share that information with third parties, according to a new study by The Customer Respect Group.


Five in court over alleged plot to kill UK soldier

A man appeared in a London court on Friday charged with planning to kidnap and kill a member of the armed forces in a plot apparently aimed at Muslims who had served with British troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.


SOCIAL Welsh and Sexy, the globally successful social society with 5,000 members in New York, Russia and London is to get a new business arm.


Londra, 23:02 - CALCIO, PREMIER LEAGUE: ARSENAL VINCE E ALLUNGA

L'Arsenal ha battuto il Blackburn 2-0 nel posticipo della 26/a giornata di premier league. In gol Se...


Ford Says Probing More Trucks, SUVs for Fire Risk

Ford Motor Co. said on Friday it was  investigating some of its top-selling pickup trucks, sport  utility vehicles and minivans from 1997 to 2002 model years for  possible fire risk from overheating of cruise control switches.


VALENTINO ROSSI likes to put on a show and, with Severiano Ballesteros and Michael Jordan looking on in a crowd of 122,000, he did just that in celebrating his fourth consecutive world


Parties Spar in Congress on Medicare Increase

Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday battled over blame for a record increase in Medicare health premiums, which Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has criticized in his campaign to unseat President Bush.


Bush seeks allied help in dealing with Iran, North Korea

SANTIAGO, Chile - President Bush used his first trip abroad since re-election to press allies Saturday for help in hemming in the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran, nations he considers part of an "axis of evil" threatening global security.


Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as  Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a  ceremony attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense  Minister Donald Rumsfeld.


The RSPCA is accused by Britain's largest Hindu temple of killing a sacred cow while worshippers prayed.


The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits jumped 20,000 last week, the government said on Thursday in a report that continues to be somewhat elevated by hurricane-related claims.


Mastermind of Iraq Yazidi attack killed: U.S. military

A U.S. air strike killed a senior al Qaeda militant who masterminded truck bombings on Iraq's minority Yazidi community last month that killed more than 400 people, the military said on Sunday.


Changes are bringing Americans closer to a checkless society -- changes that could be costly if you aren't careful. The first checks in the United States were


Democrats loath to predict win this fall

Call it the campaign with no margin for Republican error, in a nation that is war-weary and eager for change, yet seems wary of the Democratic option.


EUROPEAN FOOTBALL: The English club was the first to make the cut after defeating CSKA Moscow. AC Milan advanced after overcoming Barcelona 2-1.


Una folla esultante ha invaso le strade di Ramallah


In radio debate, RIAA shreds Washington Post story

In on-air debate with RIAA executive, Post reporter who accused the group of trying to outlaw copying music to a computer doesn't answer why he omitted important facts from his story. RIAA president argues that the Post has helped 'mislead consumers.'


Some 2.5m people are left without electricity in eastern Georgia after  two power lines are damaged, officials say.


Building a One-Man Magazine, One Impossible Feat at a Time

Tod Lippy is the entire design team behind Esopus, an advertising-free magazine that is also a thing of lavish, eccentric beauty.


The point man for attacks on the payday lending business still rings up profits.


Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have previously been.


Anna Nicole Smith said in a 2001 will that her estate should be given to her longtime companion to hold in trust for her son, who has died, according to a copy released Friday.


Los Angeles Journal: City Says Its Urban Jungle Has Little Room for Palms

The Los Angeles City Council has declared the palm tree the enemy of the urban forest and wishes that most would disappear.


The nation's economy grew at its slowest pace in more than a year in the second quarter, weighed down by rising energy prices and slipping exports.


US consumer borrowing grew at its slowest pace in four months in July, official figures show.


Marine Le Pen, emerging leader of French far-right National Front,...

Marine Le Pen, the heir apparent of France's far-right National Front, on Monday distanced herself from remarks by a senior party official that cast doubt on the scope of the Holocaust.


Leadership deflects pressure aimed at ending Darfur 'genocide.' Talks will resume this month.


Ernesto took aim at the Carolina coast on   Thursday threatening heavy rains and huge waves, as the storm's   winds gathered momentum after leaving Florida and swirling out   over the Atlantic Ocean.


Hotels offer New Year's Eve bargains on Web

For beach lovers, hotels.com earlier this week had rooms at the Catamaran Resort in San Diego for $149 a night over New Year's weekend.


African Union to boost peace mission in Darfur

The African Union announced on Wednesday that it will expand the number of the ceasefire monitors and civilian protection troops in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur from 465 to 3,320 personnel.


Roma - ''La Roma non vuole dare via Cassano, ma nel calcio ci puo' stare tutto''. Franco Baldini, direttore sportivo della societa' giallorossa, si esprime cosi' su Antonio Cassano ai microfoni di 'Radio Anch'io Sport'.


IMMIGRAZIONE: RIPESCATI I CORPI DI ALTRI 5 CLANDESTINI

TUNISI - Proseguono le operazioni di ricerca dei dispersi in mare dopo l'affondamento di una barca di clandestini a largo delle coste della Tunisia meridionale avvenuto nella notte tra sabato e domenica. Mentre


Protests, Publicity Mar Venice Gondola Regatta

Gondoliers raced rowboats down Venice's  canals on Sunday in their annual regatta, but a row over  speeding motorboats threatened to overshadow one of the lagoon  city's most treasured traditions.


U2, Buddy Guy, Percy Sledge, The O'Jays and The Pretenders will become the 20th class to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the Rock Hall foundation announced Monday (12/13), reports LiveDaily.


China Rounds Up Three Intellectuals in Crackdown

A Chinese author who was briefly  detained by police overnight along with two other intellectuals  said Tuesday the authorities appeared to be trying to build a  case against him as part of a crackdown on government critics.


Phil Spector Compares LA Prosecutor to Hitler

Famed rock producer Phil Spector  pleaded innocent on Monday to an indictment charging him with  murdering actress Lana Clarkson and claimed he was the victim  of a prosecutor who was acting like Adolf Hitler.


Rivendica la Jihad Islamica, Olmert convoca Consiglio difesa


NEW DELHI, 5 December 2004 - Russian President Vladimir Putin clarified his stand yesterday on Moscow favoring Indiaâs membership of the UN Security Council.


Omicidio Maver: interrogato al Bassone Davide Ciancaleoni dal â ...

Il Giudice delle Indagini Preliminari di Lecco, Davide De Giorgio, si Ã¨ riservato di decidere in merito alla convalida del fermo di Davide Ciancaleoni, il 18enne di Lecco in stato di fermo di Polizia Giudiziaria con l`accusa di essere l`autore materiale


Why 'Keira' and 'Mohammed' are hot British baby names

Parents are bringing in a whole new slate of names to challenge perennial favorites.


Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering heart and lung failure.


KABUL, Afghanistan -- Preliminary results from Afghanistan's landmark elections show President Hamid Karzai well ahead of his rivals and on course to become the country's first popularly elected leader.


Anderson, Kid Rock to wed numerous times

Pamela Anderson confirmed Wednesday she's ready to tie the knot with Kid Rock in France. And California. And Michigan. And Tennessee.


Lawmakers Target Bush Administration Over Iraq

US Lawmakers blasted the Bush administration Wednesday for its handling of the war in Iraq and said they were confounded only a fraction of $18.


Nyman quickest in training, chased by Austrians

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta  - Steve Nyman clocked the fastest time in training on Thursday for the season's opening Alpine World Cup downhill while the all-conquering Austrians occupied six of the top 11 spots.


Londra, 11:35 - F1, RENAULT: BRIATORE RESTA E ARRIVA KOVALAINEN

La Renault conferma che Flavio Briatore resta alla scuderia francese per le prossime due stagioni. I...


Barbaro returns to Churchill Downs for final time

Barbaro will return to the site of his greatest victory after Churchill Downs was selected on Tuesday as the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner's final resting place.


All reasonable offers considered Consolidation in the broadband sector looks set to continue apace, as Carphone Warehouse and BSkyB fight it out for control of AOL's UK broadband business, according to reports.â¦


More rain fell Thursday in flood-weary parts of Texas, where evacuations were under way and residents were bracing for even more of the constant downpours that have killed 11 people in recent days.


Pamela Anderson's ex-husbands in scuffle

Police in Las Vegas have cited  recording star Kid Rock, former husband of actress Pamela  Anderson, for suspicion of battery after a weekend scuffle at  the MTV Video Music Awards between him and rocker Tommy Lee,  another ex-spouse of Anderson.


DeJuan Tribble has all the skills a top-flight cover corner needs: speed, agility, a nose for the ball, and a short memory. The Boston College junior defensive back had to employ all of those traits yesterday in a 30-23 double-overtime win over Brigham Young at Alumni Stadium.


Prezzi: Intesaconsumatori, 46% le adesioni della mattina a ...

In base alle stime di Intesaconsumatori, relative alla mattinata, le adesioni allo sciopero della spesa da parte dei cittadini si attestano al 46%. Bene il sud e le isole, dove il 54% dei consumatori si a' astenuto


Ceremonies have been taking place to mark the third anniversary of the devastating Asian Tsunami.


A wayward plot, pathetic music and irritating humour marks this Telugu film.


Treviso, un ragazzino ha dato un calcio a un bussolottoche nasconde la sorpresa degli ovetti di cioccolato                                          Passano scolari, scoppia ordigno E' tornato l'incubo Unabomber                                                                                Gli investigatori: "Episodio riconducibile all'attentatore"Si studia un secondo contenitore: contiene esplosivo?


Bush administration endorses eternal Net tax ban

The day before a preliminary Senate vote to extend a soon-to-expire prohibition on Internet access taxes, Commerce and Treasury chiefs urge something more lasting.


Federer ready for assault on Australian Open

Roger Federer has given himself the all clear from a virus bug that had his rivals hoping for a change in the tennis order at the Australian Open starting here on Monday.


Sri Lanka military says 44 killed in north

Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 29 Tamil Tiger rebels, taking the two-day death toll to 44 amid fresh fighting in the island's north, the military said on Saturday.


Fraud police buckling under mountains of data

(InfoWorld) - Fraud investigators are struggling to cope with vast quantities of data sent to them by financial institutions, meaning some crimes may go uninvestigated or even unnoticed, experts said on Wednesday. The issue is prompting banks and other financial institutions to ask law enforcement and regulators to share with them more of the data they have aboutÂ suspicious transactions, in order to better combat fraud. Banks and transfer agencies are required by regulators in the U.S. and the U.K. to file reports when they detect a potentially illegal transaction, said Olga Maitland, head of the International Association of Money Transfer Networks, at the Fraud World 2007 conference in London. Up to 300,000 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are filed per month in the U.S., and up to 200,000 a year in the U.K., but most of those reports "disappear into a black hole" because law enforcement agencies don't have the resources to investigate each one, she said. If another financial institution is mentioned in a report, it may not even know about the suspicious activity if the report is filed by a different institution. "If there is indeed a crime taking place, then that is carrying on undetected," Maitland said. Colin Woodcock, head of the fraud section for the U.K.'s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA), said the SARs program has resulted in "huge amounts of information ... which it was difficult to do anything with." "Let's not forget they are suspicious activity reports," Woodcock said during a panel discussion. "Now, if the police or anybody really were expected to act on everything that is suspicious, we would be bogged down in the first five seconds of operation." The quantity of reports has also created a need for greater computing power, he said. The U.K. has made some progress, according to Woodcock, and opened up access to the SARs database to other police forces such as HM Revenue and Customs, the U.K.'s tax authority, which can use it for their own investigations, he said. But sharing the SARs data with financial institutions raises huge concerns around confidentiality and privacy, Woodcock said. It could mean the disclosure of "very embarrassing" information about banks, he said. SARs were "given to us by industry to make the best use law enforcement can make of it, not to go and share it with everybody and say 'Look at what NatWest just told us," he said. "There are huge problems there." (NatWest is a major U.K. bank.) SOCA has started issuing alerts about problem trends, Woodcock said, but Maitland countered that the information is not in-depth. Money transfer networks have blossomed into a trillian-dollar industry. If SOCA can share its information more, by being "less restrictive, less confidential," it would lead to a greater reduction in fraud, Maitland said.


Maarten Balliauw's Blog: Generic arrays in PHP

On his blog, Maarten Balliauw has an interesting new post dealing with the use of generics in PHP:   Assuming everyone knows what generics are, let's get down to business right away. PHP does not support generics or something similar, though it could be very useful in PHP development.  Luckily, using some standard OO-practises, a semi-generic array can easily be created, even in multiple ways! Here's the road to PHP generics.    He shows the two ways to make generics possible - the hard way (simple inheritance and type hinting) and the more flexible way (a GenericArrayObject that extends the normal ArrayObject to make appending and validating the contents of the array simple).


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.


RAI: GASPARRI, MERCOLEDI' FIRMA FUSIONE HOLDING E SPA

(AGI) - Roma, 15 nov. - E' confermata per mercoledi' 17 la cerimonia per la firma alla fusione ufficiale tra Rai Holding e Rai Spa. Lo ha detto il ministro per le Comunicazioni Maurizio Gasparri a margine


Alexey Zakhlestin's Blog: PHP+SCGI part 2: problem with eZComponents

In a follow-up to a previous blog post, Alexey Zakhlestin shares a few more thoughts on the project and the proper object hierarchy's going for.   actually, I changed it completely 3 times already in my thoughts. I finally "see the light"(tm) and will implement it on a weekend. I think about converting SCGI-part to a simple "driver" and move all http-related stuff to a separate driver-agnostic set of classes. This way, I would be able to implement FastCGI as anther driver without altering applications. If you have any better ideas - let me know.   He also includes a link to another sample application that uses the functionality to create a pie chart (including some benchmarks) with the help of the eZ components framework.


Icahn Sues Software Maker Seeking Vote on Offer

The billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has sued BEA Systems, demanding that the company hold an annual meeting and permit shareholders to vote on a sale.


Prospects Dim on Spy Agencies Overhaul Bill

US lawmakers said on Friday it was increasingly unlikely they could deliver a measure to overhaul US spy agencies to President Bush by the Nov. 2 elections, a delay some supporters said could imperil the post Sept.


Sony's Ando says DVD format dispute to continue for some time ...

TOKYO, Sep 22, 2004 (AFX-Europe via COMTEX) -- The dispute over next-generation DVD formats will continue for some time, Kunitake Ando, chairman of the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association and president of Sony Corp, said in


“Four Eyed Monsters”: From Podcasts to Theaters

Arin Crumley and Susan Buice wanted to make a movie about their budding relationship. (What are “Four Eyed Monsters”? Couples.) And so they did, using Final Cut Pro. But the really interesting part of their endeavor is how they’ve been promoting their film through video podcasts.


Germany turns down a US appeal to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission.


Torino, 19:59 - CALCIO, SERIE A: TORINO-CAGLIARI 2-0 NELL'ANTICIPO

Nel primo anticipo della nona giornata di serie A il Torino ha battuto il Cagliari 2-0 (0-0). In gol...


CBS sticking with Couric's ailing newscast

NEW YORK  - Katie Couric's one-year anniversary as anchor of "CBS Evening News" finds her in Iraq and Syria reporting from the front lines and not answering questions about how poorly the newscast has been doing in the ratings since she started.


Â· Two-thirds of 150 in top roles were in movementÂ· Support for girl-only activities after co-ed push


Foster Leads Panthers Past Chiefs, 28-17

DeShaun Foster did not just sub for the injured Stephen Davis, he came within 4 yards of erasing Davis' team record for yards rushing in a game. Running around and through Kansas City's soft defense, Foster carried 32 times for 174 yards, including a team-record 71-yard burst, in leading the defending NFC Panthers to a 28-17 victory.


The comprehensive 15-month search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has concluded that the only chemical or biological agents that Saddam Hussein's regime was working on before last year's invasion were small quantities of poisons, most likely for


Stock markets lower as new supply threat drives crude oil higher

TORONTO (CP) - Stock markets gave up more ground Monday morning as the threat of a labour dispute in the Norwegian oil industry added to investor jitters and sent the price of oil to fresh record highs.


The new 2012 Olympic logo is to be removed from the official website after fears it could trigger an epileptic fit.


IBM has recalled 553,000 ThinkPad AC power adapters after receiving reports that some have overheated, melting the adapter housing and charring the circuit board inside.


US oil prices reached a record $50 a barrel on Monday as Nigeria emerged as the latest focus for worries about supply in an already tight worldwide energy market.


Baghdad blast kills 6, slightly wounds v-president

A blast at an Iraqi ministry building killed six people and slightly wounded Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi during a ceremony on Monday, police and a senior political source said.


The Democratic senators intensified their populist economic appeals to voters in Ohio and Texas.


Roma, 12:31 - CALCIO, UDINESE; QUAGLIARELLA: SE SEGNO AL NAPOLI NON ESULTO

In un'intervista al Guerin Sportivo, Fabio Quagliarella, attaccante dell'Udinese e della Nazionale, ...


With no students yet on campus and a sporadic rain falling on Boston University's Nickerson Field, there wasn't much of a turnout backing the home team at last Sunday's soccer game against UMass-Amherst.


Lovers of whodunits will love Mantra. A totally paisa-vasool flick.


"No Country For Old Men" positioned for Oscar

The gritty crime drama "No Country For Old Men" became the front-runner for Oscar glory on Sunday after winning top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on a night of traditional Hollywood glamour and emotion over the sudden death of Heath Ledger.


Regulators  cleared the way for Verizon Communications to sell its phone lines in three New England states for $2.7 billion to FairPoint Communications Inc.


Pixar's Mr. Incredible May Yet Rewrite the Apple Story

Even his biggest fans might see Steven P. Jobs, Apple Computer's chief executive, as a brilliant dunce.


The US economy will expand by 4 percent this year, sustaining the recovery begun in 2002, a senior US Treasury official said Sunday.


Ventidue giorni di ultimatum, appelli e polemiche

Kenneth Bigley, ingegnere 62enne impiegato presso la base americana di Taji, Ã¨ uno dei tre ostaggi presi in consegna il 16 settembre scorso dal gruppo Tawhid wal Jihad (Unificazione e Guerra Santa) guidato dal terrorista giordano Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.


North Korea revives one child abroad policy: Yonhap

North Korea has revived a rule where its diplomats can only take one child with them on overseas assignments in order to lessen the risk of its citizens fleeing the impoverished state, Yonhap news agency reported on Tuesday.


Road comedy, drugs drama lead indie film nominees

The hit road comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" and the acclaimed drugs drama "Half Nelson" led the  list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent Spirit  Awards, the American art-house world's version of the Oscars.


New homes sales rise 16.2 percent in April

Sales of new homes rose 16.2 percent  in April, the sharpest climb in fourteen years, while prices  fell a record 11 percent, according to a government report on  Thursday that showed home builders taking extraordinary steps  to move houses.


Signs N.Korea Preparing a Missile Test a Worry-US

Signs that North Korea is preparing to test a ballistic missile are of great concern, a US commander said on Sunday, adding that the North could be on the verge of big missile technology breakthroughs.


Chess made a chequered debut at the Asian Games on Saturday after a brief power failure halted play during the opening day's competition.


Besides bringing a new method of operation to the men's basketball team at Columbia, Coach Joe Jones has also sought to energize the students, faculty and alumni.


Community News: Latest PHPClasses.org Releases for 08.30.2006

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Iran’s Freeze on Enrichment Could Wait, France Suggests

FranceÂs president suggested that Iran would not have to freeze major nuclear activities until formal negotiations began.


Politics: 19 October 2004, Tuesday. The car of Bulgarian athletics sensation Ivet Lalova has been swiped in capital Sofia, according to local newspapers.


On with the "Countdown" for Olbermann, MSNBC

Keith Olbermann will count  down the day's top stories on MSNBC for another four years and  will add two primetime specials a year and occasional essays to  "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams," the news cable channel  said Thursday.


Police given more time to question  Michael Barrymore

Detectives questioning the entertainer about the alleged sexual assault and murder of Stuart Lubbock were today given a further 12 hours to detain him.


Luke Welling's Blog: I  register_globals

Luke Welling takes a humorous look at something he misses in PHP - register globals being set to on.    I am aware that there are some things so shocking that you are not supposed to say them in polite company [...] so confronting that they are best kept to yourself regardless of how strongly you believe them. I have a similarly shocking sentiment that I feel I have to share.   I really like register_globals in PHP.    He reminicies about the days gone by of being able to assume that register_globals is turned on, the days of simpler, lighter code that's even easier for the newbies to get into. Anyone for a tshirt?


Cingular Closes $41 Bln ATT Wireless Deal

Cingular Wireless on Tuesday closed its $41 billion cash purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. , creating the biggest U.S. mobile service with more than 46 million customers.


By Leigh Woosley, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 5--JENKS -- Few visitors watching stingrays glide through the water  Monday at the Oklahoma Aquarium were aware that the same type of animal had  killed Steve Irwin, the popular and effusive host of the "Crocodile Hunter"  television show.


In Mexico visit, enmity greets Harvard scholar

MEXICO CITY -- Ever since the release earlier this year of his book "Who are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity," which argues that Mexican immigrants pose a threat to American culture, Samuel P. Huntington has been the US academic Mexicans love to hate.


ASIA/CINA - Ragazzi e giovani approfittano delle vacanze estive per ÂricaricarsiÂ attraverso la formazione nella fede e per fare esperienze concrete di servizio Pechino (Agenzia Fides) - Un gruppo di 60 giovani studenti universitari, cattolici e non cattolici, della diocesi di Chang Sha, della provincia meridionale cinese di Hu Nan, hanno vissuto una settimana di preghiera, pellegrinaggio, adorazione, celebr...


Publishing surgeons' performance remains controversial, British...

Later this year, the performance of individual surgeons in the UK will be made publicly available, but the move remains controversial.


OCEANIA/TAHITI - I giovani tahitiani pregano e sognano la GMG di Sydney Papeete (Agenzia Fides) - Sognando la GMG. I giovani di Tahiti, ancora edificati ed entusiasti del pellegrinaggio che la Croce e lÂIcona mariana hanno compiuto sullÂisola nel maggio scorso, pregano, lavorano e mettono in campo tutta la loro creativit...


Viceministro indagato per pressioni su ex capo Gdf Speciale


Lidge, Wheeler shine brightest in relief

Entering the National League Championship Series, the St. Louis Cardinals appeared to have a decisive edge over the Astros in several areas, including the bullpen.


Citigroup headquarters sold for 1.0 billion pounds

Citigroup's European headquarters in London has been sold to a consortium led by an Irish private-equity company for 1.0 billion pounds (1.48 billion euros, 2.01 billion dollars), the buyers said Monday.


Johnny Cash's son brings together big-name artists for an album celebrating his family's musical heritage.


Itanium unsuitable for workstations, Intel says

THE ITANIUM was never really important for the workstation market, Intel has said, causing us to choke over our salty porridge this morning.


The pre-Oscar drumbeat seems particularly intense this year as Web sites of the old media have begun aggressively courting those who watch television and surf the Web at the same time.


No Double Microsoft Pricing For Dual-Core Chips

Dual-core microprocessors won't mean doubled software license fees, according to an announcement by Microsoft and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.


Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, as expected, lost a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday, automatically triggering the fall of his minority rightist government, unofficial results showed.


When the original Macintosh computer was little more than a sketch, its creators envisioned the machine retailing for about $500. But when the first Mac finally rolled out in 1984, it carried a hefty price tag of $2,495.


Feeling he had been a good teammate and friend to Pedro Martinez and had gladly accepted being the No. 2 pitcher behind him, Curt Schilling expressed surprise and disappointment yesterday over Martinez's parting shots at him, general manager Theo Epstein, and manager Terry Francona.


We asked the British author what he's reading, watching, and listening to.


On a Lark Dell 2.0 has acquired former Sun Microsystems corporate communications chief Andy Lark as its new VP of marketing and communications.â¦


Five U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: military

Five U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks in Iraq on Friday, the U.S. military said on Saturday.


Memo from Ayukawa: Whaling: A Japanese Obsession With American Roots

For Japan, whaling is intricately tied to the countryâs relations with the West, especially the United States.


Nervous Cubans swap Yankee dollars for pesos

Cubans jammed banks and exchange kiosks to swap their dollars for local pesos on Thursday, as the communist government, retaliating for tightened sanctions, moved


Qureia Urges U.S. on Palestinian Deadline

The Palestinian prime minister urged the United States on Friday to stick to its original 2005 deadline for Palestinian statehood, arguing that President Bush's recent proposal to extend it by as much as four years will give Israel time to grab more land in the disputed West Bank.


Palestinians saved from collapsed arms tunnel and arrested

Three Palestinians were rescued Thursday evening, after an apparent weapons smuggling tunnel they were digging on the Egyptian border near the Gaza Strip collapsed in the afternoon, burying them under mounds of sand.


AP: Guard to miss border mission deadline

The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half of the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June.


Troops in Iraq at Risk for Rare Pneumonia

Ten of the 19 patients were diagnosed with acute eosinophilic pneumonia, a rare type of pneumonia. Symptoms include fever, respiratory failure, and infiltration of the lungs.


Bombs explode at Nepal luxury hotel, no casualties

A man on a bicycle threw at least four bombs into the compound of a luxury hotel in Nepal's capital on Monday but the blasts caused no casualties, authorities said.


Israeli television says Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's health had deteriorated. It said it was quoting Palestinian sources but gave no details.


Reyes hopes to make his last game special

"I need a big game, just for me," said Reyes, the second all-time leading rusher in Syracuse history. "I'm healthy.


The dollar sank to a 26-year trough against the British pound on Tuesday and held near a two-month low against the euro amid prospects of higher European interest rates, dealers said.


UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband calls the killing of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto "senseless".


Consumers head to stores the day after Christmas to grab bargains

Merchants who spent the past few weeks hoping shoppers would splurge on gifts opened their doors Sunday with high hopes the same people would now spend on themselves.


U.S. Public Now Evenly Split on Iraq War

Nine months of chaos and casualties in Iraq since Saddam Hussein's capture have taken a heavy toll on American opinion of President Bush's decision to go to war. Last December, when Saddam was caught, public support for Bush was 2-to-1 in favor. Now the public is evenly divided on whether the war was the right thing to do or whether it was a mistake.


EBay to Tender for South Korea's Internet Auction

EBay Inc. (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it will soon launch a tender offer to buy the remaining outstanding shares of South Korea's Internet Auction Co.


Ticket-sales suit against Patriots gets green light

A Suffolk Superior Court judge is allowing StubHub Inc. to proceed with its lawsuit accusing the New England Patriots of trying to monopolize the resale of its own tickets.


Corrected: Altria to close plant, move production

(In 6th paragraph, company corrects source of cigarette production to âPhilip Morris USAâ from âCabarrusâ)


Gordon Brown unveils changes to the way Bank of England monetary policy committee is appointed.


Two British Airway stewardesses fail breath test

Two British Airways (BA) air stewardesses were prevented from boarding a BA flight from Helsinki to London after allegedly failing a breath test Saturday.


For Voters, Choice Is As Easy As 1, 2, 3

When voters in San Fransisco go to the polls in November to select their top choice for a seat on the city's Board of Supervisors, they also get to pick their second choice -- and even their third.


A bill that would have given District of Columbia residents their first-ever member of Congress died in the Senate on Tuesday, dashing hopes of finally gaining full voting rights after a 206-year wait.


Pinochet family police mugshots leaked to media

Police mugshots of the sons and daughters of late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were leaked to the media and circulated on the Internet on Friday, prompting police to launch an investigation.


Hungarians test eastern Europe's gay taboo

"I am Gabor Szetey. A faithful  Hungarian-European. Citizen, public official, member of the  government. And gay."


A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down.Comment


Irish PM Ahern testifies before corruption inquiry

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern faces  questions at an anti-corruption tribunal on Thursday over  payments received from friends and businessmen in the early  1990s while he was finance minister and deputy premier.


Dan Rather sues CBS for $70 million: media

Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather sued CBS on Wednesday for $70 million, saying the network violated his contract by not giving him enough air time, The New York Times reported.


Torino, 19:43 - SCHERMA, MONDIALI; FIORETTO: BALDINI PERDE IN FINALE DA JOPPICH

Ai Mondiali di scherma in corso di svolgimento a Torino, l'azzurro Andrea Baldini ha conquistato le ...


FTC chairman won't recuse self in Google-DoubleClick

Agency head said she doesn't have financial interest in the case, despite the fact that her husband's law firm is representing DoubleClick in conjunction with the proposed merger.


Study Shows Different Heart Effects of COX Drugs

People who take Merck & Co. Inc.'s analgesic Vioxx are nearly three times as likely to have heart attacks as those taking Pfizer Inc.


The PGA of America has radically altered the points system to determine future US Ryder Cup teams. Changes announced Thursday heavily weigh the points in favor of performances during a Ryder Cup year.


Shares fall nearly a fifth as microchip designer struggles to ...

ARM Holdings, the microchip designer, unveiled its biggest acquisition so far when it agreed yesterday to buy the American company Artisan for $913m (Â£504m).


EU to hit some digital cameras with import duty

Some top-end digital cameras entering  the European Union could become more expensive after trade  experts decided their advanced video functions meant they  should be classed as video recorders, which attract import  duties.


Stolz strikes it rich with first victory in Las Vegas

AUSTRALIAâS Andre Stolz last night edged past Tom Lehman, Tag Ridings and Harrison Frazar to win his first career title on the PGA Tour.


The Patriots have been lauded and compared to many things in recent years, but injured Chargers fullback Lorenzo Neal came up with an original thought in mid-September.


By LARRY BONKO  Say hello and goodbye to Buffy, Angel, Felicity and Dawson.


Sci-Fi Dream Turns Worldâs Worst Nightmare

In the atomic age, total annihilation of the human race haunted the imagination of scientists and writers alike.


^Rumsfeld defends DOD's intelligence authority

(KRT) - WASHINGTON - Moving intelligence authority out of the Pentagon could weaken the US military and jeopardize battlefield operations, top defense officials warned Tuesday in the strongest challenge yet to the Sept. 11 commission's call ...


Gartner: Chip sales lower than expected in 2004

Global semiconductor revenue is on track to post a lower-than-expected gain in 2004, following a sudden downturn during the closing months of the year, according to Gartner.


Three Canadian troops killed by Afghanistan bomb

Three Canadian soldiers died in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday when a roadside bomb blew up beside their small unarmored vehicle in what was meant to be a secure zone, a senior military official said.


Venezuela, Colombia Get Failing Grade in Nazi Hunt

By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - With time running out, Nazihunters are making a new push to track down aging war criminalsstill living in South America, a region notorious for openingits doors to those responsible for the Holocaust.


Apple Computer announced Wednesday that it was updating its most popular desktop computer, the iMac,


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


Bush says delaying vote would send 'wrong signal'

President Bush joined the interim president of Iraq yesterday in insisting that Iraqi elections be held Jan. 30, saying that keeping to the election


Tainted toothpaste had wider reach than thought: report

Chinese-made toothpaste tainted with a potentially poisonous chemical was distributed to more places in the United States than initially thought, the New York Times reported on Thursday.


Man United takes first in Premier League

Manchester United moved back into first place in the English Premier League, beating Newcastle 2-0 Sunday with both goals coming from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.Comment


Wall Street made a huge comeback Thursday, with a nearly 400-point swing on the Dow.


SHOPPING centres in 15 towns across Slovakia will promote works of art instead of consumer goods until October 17, the daily SME reported.


NCAA Game Summary - Notre Dame At Michigan State

East Lansing, MI -- Brady Quinn completed 11-of-24 pass attempts for 215 yards and one touchdown, as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Michigan State Spartans 31-24 in a non-conference match up from Spartan Stadium.


Baffled about which wine to pick up en route to an important holiday party where you happen to know they'll be serving elk? Business intelligence (BI) software vendor QlikTech International AB may be able to help you resolve that thorny little problem with its wine selector application.


Polish PM refuses talks on Iraq kidnapping

Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said Thursday his country would not enter into negotiations with the kidnappers of a Polish woman in Iraq.


Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili dies of a heart attack, aides say.


The death toll in a mortar attack on tribesmen in Pakistan's South Waziristan region rises to 11, officials say.


Peterson's Demeanor Made Jurors Skeptical

There was no murder weapon and no witness. But in the end, the jurors who decided Scott Peterson's fate said his seeming lack of sorrow and the circumstantial evidence were enough to convict and send him to death row.


Fourfold increase in number of soldiers testing positive for cocaine, report says


Twenty-four years ago, a youth named Chai Soua Vang was part of the first wave of immigrants from Laos who came to the United States after the Indochina war.