As Neil Armstrong prepared to take his "one small step" onto the moon in July 1969, a specially hardened video camera tucked into the lander's door clicked on to capture that first human contact with the lunar surface. The ghostly images of the astronaut's boot touching the soil record what may be...


GOP Senate Primary Seen as Prelude to a Clinton Landslide in N.Y.

New York Republicans once had a vision for this yearÃ¢ÂÂs Senate campaign, in which Democratic nemesis Hillary Rodham Clinton Ã¢ÂÂthe former first lady and possible contender for the presidency in 2008 Ã¢ÂÂ is seeking a second term.


Hollywood Stars Find an Audience For Social Causes

Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore traipsed purposefully up the Capitol steps last month in a simple black dress, red-soled black pumps and russet mane, not for a film shoot but to lobby for child feeding programs in Africa as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. World Food Program.


Cisco, Microsoft merge IP telephony with CRM

Cisco Systems Inc. is set to offer starting Monday a tool to help small and medium-sized businesses use Microsoft Corp. CRM (customer relationship management) software in combination with a Cisco IP (Internet Protocol) communication system.


Australian competition watchdog approves Qantas-Air NZ deal on ...

SYDNEY: Australian regulators have lifted objections to a proposed alliance between Qantas Airways and Air New Zealand, although New Zealand authorities remain a stumbling block to the trans-Tasman deal.


Vogliamo realizzare un centro che non sia 'vagante'


Music lessons trigger increases in the IQs of 6-year-old children, according to one of the most thorough studies on the subject. Although previous research had hinted that musical training was associated with


McCain Seeks to Build Republican Victory Momentum

Bloomberg - Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain, thrust into the top rank of Republican presidential candidates by his victory in the New Hampshire primary, challenged Democrats to acknowledge recent U.S. success in Iraq.


Soriano homers twice as Cubs top Pirates

Alfonso Soriano hit two of Chicago's four homers and had five RBIs as the Cubs continued their late-season power display, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-5 Saturday to solidify their lead in the NL Central.


Clinton, McCain win big U.S. newspaper endorsements

DES MOINES, Iowa  - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton got a boost to their campaigns for U.S. presidential nominations from an influential newspaper on Sunday despite setbacks in opinion polls.


Allan Houston started the game on the bench, and finished it on the bench. In between he was so-so, with more than a couple of shots that rattled around inside the rim before


Wales open a busy night of Euro 2008 qualifying in Slovakia.


FDA Certifies Safety of Flu Vaccine Doses From GSK German Plant

HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson announced on Tuesday that FDA has authorized the use of GlaxoSmithKline's flu vaccine Fluarix under an investigational new drug application, and HHS will purchase 1.2 million doses of the vaccine.


Van Nistelrooy double saves United from defeat at Lyon

Ruud van Nistelrooy struck twice in six minutes to salvage a 2-2 draw for Manchester United against Olympique Lyon in the Champions League on Wednesday and set a 30-goal European scoring record for his club.


Peru TV Shows Images of Man Burned Alive

Peru's state-run television station broadcast images Thursday of villagers in the country's remote Lake Titicaca region dousing an accused thief with gasoline and setting him ablaze.


Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Saturday are as follows: @The China Times: China to enact anti-secession law.


Will Eno's play, starring James Urbaniak, is one of those treasured nights in the theater that can leave you both breathless with exhilaration and in a puddle of tears.


Chilean Court Upholds Indictment of Pinochet

Chile's Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the indictment and house arrest of Gen. Augusto Pinochet for nine kidnappings and one homicide allegedly committed during his dictatorial rule that was marked by pervasive human rights abuses.


American eighth-graders improved their math and science scores on an international test last year, but fourth-graders' scores were flat and all students


Putin encourages Indian computer companies to do business in ...

BANGALORE, India - Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged Indian computer software firms to set up offices and joint ventures in his country, promising tax breaks and government support.


New Orleans mayor radiates optimism among the ruins

Standing in the ruins of the Lower   Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd   a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing   high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.


Small Syrian Force Withdraws From Lebanon

About 300 Syrian soldiers in a convoy of trucks and armored vehicles crossed the Lebanese border into Syria early Thursday, Lebanese security officials said.


Why wonât a magnet stick to stainless steel?


Wal-Mart to be ESPN Monday Night Football sponsor

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's  biggest retailer, is ready for some football.


The FA charges agent Charles Collymore with a breach of regulations over former Luton player Enoch Showumni.


Juande Ramos, who is being tipped to take over as Tottenham boss after Martin Jol's sacking, resigns as Sevilla coach.


'Phish' Are Biting -- Don't Take the Bait

By The Roanoke Times  'Phish' are biting   !-- 2013(unknown) --> don't take the bait  Several Roanokers were among those who received "phishing" messages in  the name of the Wachovia bank chain on Wednesday.


Lo scontro sulla statale 'Pontebbana' in Friuli, 3 i feriti


The Israelis and Palestinians return once more to the negotiating table -- and stumble over the same old problems


BRUSSELS, Jan 29 (IPS) - European Union trade commissioner Peter Mandelson  has distanced himself from a pledge to enable African countries  revise a series of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)  recently clinched with Brussels.


Monday morning's Washington Post is citing two anonymous sources saying senator Joe Lieberman is the front runner for the Secretary of Homeland Security job as President Bush looks to fill out his cabinet for a second term.


Abbas wins Western pledges, vows to control Gaza

RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet, bolstered by Western promises to resume aid, vowed on Monday to exert its authority over the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.


WASHINGTON - Inattention to prisoner issues by senior U.S. military leaders in Iraq and at the Pentagon was a key factor in the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, but there is no evidence they ordered any mistreatment, an independent panel concluded...


Bush gives Spain's king and queen the royal treatment

Spain's king brought President Bush a message of goodwill Wednesday from Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose vocal opposition to the Iraq war has chilled U.S.-Spanish relations.


Left-wing Colombian rebels indicate they are ready to meet Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for preliminary talks.


The city of Washington could still land the Montreal Expos if it plays its cards right. EmpirePoker.com says it wants to ante up the $150 million in private funds the DC City Council is seeking for a Major League Baseball stadium.


Reimagining the Automobile Industry by Selling the Electricity

A top Silicon Valley technologist has devised a plan to reinvent the auto industry around electric-powered cars by building battery-charging stations around the world.


For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein, representatives of the new Iraq will sit together with each of the neighboring states, plus the United States (as well


Oil rebounds above $61 after six-month low

Oil rebounded above $62 on Monday,   after briefly sliding to a six-month low on abundant supplies   in top consumer the United States and fears that slower U.S.   economic growth would stunt fuel demand.


A state of alert is ordered as swarms of locusts from Africa arrive in Spain's Canary Islands.


INTERNET PIACE PIU' DEI GIORNALI E DELLE RIVISTE

ROMA - Internet rappresenta il 20% del consumo totale di media in Europa, piu' di giornali e riviste: e' quanto emerge da una ricerca commissionata dalla European Interactive Advertising Association. Il 42


Forecaster predicts busy 2007 U.S. hurricane season

The United States, which has emerged  from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should  brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in  2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.


Unknown group claims US diplomat killing

A message attributing a U.S. diplomat's slaying in Sudan to a previously unknown militant group has been posted in the chat room of a Web site used by militants, a group that monitors such sites said Friday.


Philippines Mourns Poe, Film Star Who Ran for President

Filipinos mourned the death of movie legend Fernando Poe Jr on Tuesday after the actor who nearly unseated Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May's presidential election suffered a stroke at the weekend.


Global rally falters as European stocks weaken

World equities lost steam Wednesday, with European stock markets turning lower despite bumper gains in Asia and after the European Central Bank hinted it was not about to cut eurozone interest rates.


Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive who was found guilty of leading a fraud that destroyed the company, asked a federal appeals court on Friday to overturn his conviction.


Microsoft Vows Fight on Latest Patent Rejection

In a preliminary ruling, the government rejected Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s 1996 patent on technology for saving files on computers using easy-to-remember names...


Non ammissibile invece quello presentato dal gip di Milano


TP pledges to be uniting force in Latvian politics

The People's Party (TP) has proven that it is a unique uniting force not only at the local governments level but also in the work of Saeima and government, the party's chairman Atis Slakteris told TP's seventh ...


A Pop Idol type competition is being held to find UK gamers to take part in a $1m tournament.


Ukraine's Supreme Court throws out appeal

Ukraine's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected losing presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych's appeal of last month's repeat election, bringing the former Soviet republic a step closer to resolving its ...


Study Puts Iraqi Deaths of Civilians at 100,000

An estimated 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq as a direct or indirect consequence of the March 2003 United States-led invasion, according to a new study by a research


Rock band Motley Crue are to reunite after five years for a world tour in 2005 covering more than 60 cities.


We're watching for the ultimate growth companies -- are you?


Pietro Guindani, nuovo amministratore delegato di Vodafone Italia, durante lÂ´investor day della capogruppo Vodafone, ha dichiarato che la compagnia telefonica non intende vendere in Italia telefonini di terza generazione sotto costo.


ASEAN ministers begin talks on economic integration

Southeast Asian economic ministers began talks to discuss ways to speed up economic integration and free trade in an effort to move closer to establishing a regional economic community.


Fix sought for critical space station computers

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The International Space Station's main computers remained shut down on Friday after a critical systems crash, while visiting astronauts began a spacewalk to fix insulation damage on the space shuttle Atlantis.


German economic growth slowed sharply in the third quarter as exports weakened and oil prices surged, raising fears that eurozone GDP figures due Friday will be lower than expected.


Cliff Floyd and Carlos Beltran hit grand slams, and David Wright added a two-run homer in the sixth inning as the New York Mets scored a club-record 11 runs in the frame against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday night.


Three more airlines have joined the SkyTeam Alliance, making it the leading collaboration in the aviation industry as Continental Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines today become full members of the world's fastest growing airline


Defending Olympic champion Hungary hands the United States its first loss in water polo preliminaries Thursday, beating the Americans 7-5.


Eletto con 51,99% voti, annuncia commissione elettorale


President Putin visits site of hostage crisis

Russian President Vladi mir Putin visits a victim of the besieged school at a hospital in Beslan, September 4, 2004. Putin ordered a crackdown in seething southern Russia after a school siege killed at least


Vivendi to buy BMG, settles Napster claims

Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's   largest seller of recorded music, is vaulting to the top spot   in music publishing too after agreeing to buy BMG Music   Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion).


Refusing to be brushed off by Democratic opposition in the Senate, President Bush plans to nominate for a second time 20 people who did not receive up or down votes on their nominations for federal judgeships.


Russian: Spy accused contact of poisoning

A former Russian security agent who was fatally poisoned by a rare radioactive isotope accused a contact he met hours before falling ill of being involved in the poisoning, according to Russian billionaire and fierce Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky.


Microsoft launches new Vista version of Windows

Microsoft Corp.  launched  Windows Vista for businesses on Thursday and said that by the  end of next year more than 200 million people would use the new  version of its dominant operating system or new office software  and server computer products.


Family of Briton held in Iraq issue final appeal for mercy

The brief statement, read out by Kenneth Bigley's son, came just hours after video footage of a man presumed to be the 62-year-old captive, shown begging for his life, was placed on the Internet.


Madrid, 10:47 - BASKET, GASOL OPERATO: STOP DI QUATTRO MESI

Pau Gasol è stato operato per la frattura al quinto metatarso del piede sinistro rimediata ne...


Michael Jackson's Lawyers Want Prosecutor Removed

Michael Jackson's lawyers have gone  to court to have a California district attorney removed from  prosecuting the pop star on child molestation charges, court  papers showed on Tuesday.


Two British cross-country skiers freeze to death on a Norwegian mountain, local police say.


Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) plans to develop flash memory chips that blend the best characteristics of the two dominant flash memory architectures, the company announced.


[TS] Sports of The Times: Safin Has Changed but the Grandstand Is the Same

Marat Safin won U.S. Open in 2000 when he was 20. Now an old man of 27, the Russian was ushered out in the second round by Stanislas Wawrinka of Poland.


Nella messa per l'Epifania parole dure di Benedetto XVI sul sistema economico"Conflitti ed egoismi, non si puÃ² dire che sia sinonimo di ordine mondiale, tutt'altro"                                          Il Papa contro la globalizzazione "Una nebbia che avvolge le nazioni"


Israeli link to killing of Hamas chief triggers call for revenge

ISRAELI agents are believed to be behind the assassination of a leading Hamas operative in Syria yesterday as the country escalated its pursuit of the groupâs members beyond the occupied territories.


Lawsuits fly over Northwest's new GDS fees

As expected, the battle of the lawsuits and press releases started soon after an announcement Tuesday by Northwest Airlines that it was taking steps to align its distribution costs with those of the low-cost carriers it increasingly is competing with for


Often, that emotion is compounded by exhaustion, an incredible sense of loss, even rage that somebody took the life of someone you love.


Stocks mixed on job growth, mortgage fears

Blue-chip stocks squeaked out a gain on Friday after a report on the U.S. job market reassured investors about the economy, but growing worries about a segment of the home lending business kept the broader market nearly unchanged.


Société Générale led European stocks markets 2 per cent lower on Monday after a downgrade by Citigroup (NYSE:C), as last week's relief rally gave way to growing recession fears and deepening subprime jitters.


For NASA, Repair Work on Ground and in Space

Astronauts and engineers spent Tuesday troubleshooting problems in space and on the ground.


Some restroom valets earn next to nothing. Others have no complaints.


For the first time in 40 years, researchers have discovered a new drug that may help fight tuberculosis. Currently known as R207910, the drug belongs to a class of compounds


Bayer says mistakenly failed to disclose drug data

German drug maker Bayer AG "mistakenly" failed to inform U.S. regulators about a study on the risks of heart-surgery drug Trasylol before an advisory panel met and ruled the side effects were acceptable, the company said on Friday.


Sentenced to 8 years, Abu Ghraib Abuser Blames Superiors

A staff sergeant responsible for some of the heinous acts committed inside Abu Ghraib prison and other witnesses point to higher level involvement in the torture scandal.


The Nikkei average dipped 0.37 percent by  the close on Wednesday as some major banks, including UFJ  Holdings Inc., reversed gains made after Japan's state  turnaround body approved a restructuring plan for troubled  retailer Daiei Inc.


Gulf Arabs Want Polls to Lead to Broad-Based Iraq

Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq's elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.


BETHESDA, Md.  - A U.S. advisory panel on Friday  urged regulators to reject over-the-counter sales of Merck &  Co. Inc.'s cholesterol-lowering drug Mevacor because of doubts  the medicine could be used safely without a doctor's guidance.


Rock star Gary Glitter has his three-year child molestation sentence in Vietnam reduced by three months.


Piu' liberalizzazione nei servizi meno sussidi agricoltura


Arsenal, who are taking on debts of Â£360 million to build a stadium that will help them match Manchester United, will be still be earning less than United from shirt sponsorship


Nextel (NXTL:Nasdaq - news - research) and Sprint (FON:NYSE - news - research) shares surged to multiyear highs, fueled by reports that the telcos are in merger talks.


AT&T considers filtering for pirated content

During a panel discussion at CES, the head of the carrier's legal team says AT&T is considering using technology that can filter and block copyrighted content.


Doctor, 81, keeps Arkansas hospital open

An elderly doctor has come out of retirement to keep the sole hospital in Pike County open after it lost a three-member medical staff. Dr. Hiram Ward, 81, who began his practice in the rural Arkansas county five years before Pike County Memorial Hospital was built in 1958, became the hospital's only medical staff member in January.


Tony Blair yesterday offered a crowded House of Commons his most direct apology yet for deficiencies in the intelligence dossiers he presented to MPs to help justify the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.


Death toll from Iraq truck bomb rises to 25 dead

The death toll from a truck bombing in central Baghdad on Saturday rose to at least 25 people dead and 80 wounded, police sources said.


Gunmen storm a house in Saddam Hussein's native village in Iraq and shoot dead nine members of his clan.


Chiusi in bagno padre, madre e tre bambini di 2, 4 e 6 anni


Manu Ginobili scored 25 points and Tim Duncan added 20 for the San Antonio Spurs, who fended off a late rally for a 90-80 win over the Sacramento Kings on Thursday night.


Belgian king reappoints Verhofstadt prime minister

Belgian King Albert reappointed Guy  Verhofstadt as prime minister on Friday to head an interim  government charged with trying to bridge Belgium's  ever-widening linguistic divide.


America's reputation around the world is hurting, according to a series of coordinated polls published Friday from 10 countries, including many of the United States' closest allies.


An enclosed hybrid cycle could get up to 150 mpg, according to electric vehicle maker Zap, and the company will consider an all-electric version if interest is high. Lots more good stuff from the


The U.S. is satisfied with its current terrorism alert level and acknowledges potential al-Qaida links to the plots in Britain, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Sunday.


â27 Dressesâ makes the point that modern American weddings are all pretty much alike. The same could be said about modern American romantic comedies.


Prince William becomes entitled to part of his mother's Â£6.5m legacy to him as he turns 25.


Stadium Goes Up, but Bronx Still Seeks Benefits

When they negotiated to build a new stadium, the Yankees and elected officials agreed the team would give roughly $1.2 million a year to local groups. Theyâre building it, but no money has been distributed yet.


Milestone for UConn; Millstone for Rutgers

In the postgame scrum underneath Rutgers Stadium, Connecticut Coach Randy Edsall paused for a moment and reflected on that day in December 1998 when he began the daunting


Floyd Landis knows the Alps well &#151; he sweated up enough steep mountain climbs to help Lance Armstrong clinch three of his seven Tour de France wins. With Armstrong retired, Landis is now a main contender for Tour victory as leader of the Phonak team. With the three-week race entering the Alps, the final stretch will soon be in sight.


Beirut rally piles pressure on U.S.-backed govt

Hundreds of thousands of chanting protesters swamped Beirut on Sunday in a Hezbollah-led rally that marked a leap forward in the opposition's drive to unseat Lebanon's Western-backed government.


The dollar trimmed losses against the  euro and extended gains against the yen on Monday, as U.S.  personal spending advanced sharply in July, suggesting the  economy may have rebounded from its recent slump.


Transformer catches fire in Philadelphia

An underground transformer caught fire Thursday, forcing evacuations at two downtown office buildings, authorities said.


CQPolitics.com on Thursday reported that former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, according to Republican sources, plans to resign his seat in IllinoisÃ¢ÂÂ 14th District soon, well before his term expires. Hastert previously announced that he would not seek re-election in 2008. Which Illinoisan from the nationÃ¢ÂÂs presidential campaign history resided within the boundaries of the current 14th?


Thursday was the night every Greek had marked down in their diary weeks and months ago. It was the night Kostas Kenteris was supposed to successfully defend his 200m crown in front of his adoring public.


Frattini: "Alla Ue con entusiasmo Ipotesi Fini? Chiedete al ...

BRUXELLES - "Questo dovete proprio chiederlo al presidente del Consiglio". CosÃ¬, con un sorriso, il ministro degli Esteri Franco Frattini ha risposto ai giornalisti che gli chiedevano il nome di chi lo sostituirÃ  alla guida della Farnesina.


Stasera il vincitore fra gli otto debuttanti finalistiil riconoscimento alla canzone contro la mafia                                            Finale Giovani, Moro premio della critica e la Cruz vince l'Oscar di Pippo                                                                                L'attrice spagnola: "Devo molto anche a Castellitto"Baudo le consegna la statuetta di cioccolatodal nostro inviato ALESSANDRA VITALI


Firenze, 16:25 - CALCIO, LEGA C: SQUALIFICATI 23 GIOCATORI IN C1 E 40 IN C2

Sono 63 i calciatori squalificati dal giudice sportivo Pasquale Marino: 23 giocano in C1 e 40 in C2....


INDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton Manning and Brett Favre threw nine touchdown passes between them and weren't even the heroes.


Costo del lavoro quarto trimestre aumenta dell'1,7%


Though Alzheimerâs disease seems to suddenly strike in old age, scientists think it begins long before symptoms occur.


Berlino, 19:12 - CALCIO, BUNDESLIGA: BAYERN VINCE, ANCORA IN GOL TONI

Il Bayern Monaco si riprende il comando della Bundesliga. In uno dei posticipi della sesta giornata ...


Super Bowl in 2014 . . .: FANTASY GAME IN SANTA CLARA WOULD BE BIG FOR VALLEY CITIES -- AND EVEN FOR SAN FRANCISCO

By David Pollak, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 4--It's Super Bowl Sunday, 2014.   Hotels charging triple their usual rate are booked solid from San Francisco to Monterey. Great America has cranked up Psycho Mouse in winter for the first time.


Squabbling anti-terror allies meeting Bush

President Bush will play middleman during meetings Wednesday night with two world leaders who are key players in the war on terror, but have been outspoken about their differences with each other.


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Cedric Benson rushed for 188 yards and scored two touchdowns and No. 7 Texas took advantage of a late Arkansas fumble deep in Longhorns' territory to hold off the Razorbacks, 22-20, last night.


Ivano Fossati live scrivi e domani vai gratis

Da All Music 150 inviti validi per due persone per assistere alla registrazione del concerto all'Alcatraz di Milano. Basta mandare un'email


Arafat May Have Hours to Live - Palestinian Source

Yasser Arafat may have only hours to  live, a Palestinian source said after Palestinian leaders  discussed the president's health Tuesday with doctors who are  treating him at a French military hospital.


Iraqi militants have killed 12 Nepalis they captured just over a week ago, the militants and a Nepalese official said Tuesday. It was the largest mass killing of captives in the grueling war against


Era genero boss Carmine Alfieri, ora collaboratore giustizia


Per leader industria nucleare carnet ordini a 33,5 miliardi


Cradle Of Filth, Kreator, Dark Tranquillity To Team Up For Finland's Tuska Winter War

CRADLE OF FILTH were last seen on Finnish soil at this year's Ilosaarirock festival, where the extremely light Finnish summer night wasn't quite the most suitable environment for the band.


Bush Urges Congress to Back Social Security Change

President Bush on Wednesday urged  jittery Republicans in the U.S. Congress to back his overhaul  of Social Security, saying partially privatizing the retirement  system was worth the political price.


Bird Flu Kills Nine-Year-Old Thai Girl, 31st Victim

Asia's bird flu epidemic, which experts fear could spawn a human pandemic, has claimed its 31st victim, a nine-year-old Thai girl who had contact with infected chickens at home.


Metallic rods 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair have been turned into tiny "propellers".


From the airwaves to movie theaters, the emphasis is on talking rather than listening, on volume rather than content, on being heard rather than being understood, and on having your say rather than engaging in dialogue.


"Departed" wins best film at "green" Oscars

Director Martin Scorsese's crime thriller "The Departed" won the Oscar for best film on Sunday in a show that turned Hollywood's biggest night into a showcase for environmental activism.


The teen returns to school as head of his mother's party and an obvious target for assassins. Can a collegial atmosphere be preserved?


Ukraine's eastern region to hold referendum on autonomy

RBC, 29.11.2004, Donetsk 12:44:11.A referendum on seeking autonomy for Ukraine's Donetsk region will take place on December 5, 2004, the regional council of the Donetsk region has decided today.


Una cena natalizia per aiutare il Chiapas ed intervenire sui problemi dell'educazione, della salute, dell'occupazione e dell'imprenditoria, contribuendo allo sviluppo della comunitÃ  del luogo Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Il 92% dei comuni del Chiapas, Messico, ha un grado di emarginazione molto alto. La popolazione presenta, tra l'altro, forti carenze relative all'educazione, alla salute, al reddito, alle caratteristiche degli alloggi e all'acc...


Per investigatori si tratta di slavi, cercavano cassaforte


Palermo, 20:56 - CALCIO, AMAURI: ADESSO PENSO SOLO AL PALERMO

L'attaccante del Palermo, Carvalho De Oliveira Amauri, non vuole sentir parlare di mercato. "In ques...


Moroccans chose their political future Friday in elections that could give an Islamic party greater power than ever before in a country seen as a pillar of moderation in the Arab world.


Turkey Policy on Minorities Spark Debate

A furor in Turkey ignited by the title of a Christian spiritual leader on a U.S. embassy invitation has underscored concerns about the largely Muslim country's treatment of minorities two weeks before the European Union decides whether to open membership talks with Ankara.


Police: Hooker Turns in Customer for Porn

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - A hooker turned in a customer after seeing child pornography, including a video of an apparent toddler rape, on the man's home computer, police said.


A Turkish airliner is hijacked and flown to Italy in an apparent protest against the Pope's plans to visit Turkey.


For many of the broadcast networks' new fall shows, interested fans don't have to wait until they actually appear on television. How old-fashioned.


Ministro, cosi' com'e' non la votiamo neppure con la fiducia


Millions of men buy their underpants from Marks and Spencer -- and one of them is not happy.


Acropolis, Chichen Itza lead New 7 Wonders contest

The Acropolis in Athens and Mexico's  Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza are among the leaders in a  competition, ending in one month, to choose the New Seven  Wonders of the World, the organizers said on Thursday.


Tariq Aziz won't testify against Saddam, denies graft in UN ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz (TAH'-rihk ah-ZEEZ'), is rejecting reports he'll testify against Saddam Hussein.


Blair's Labor to debate UK's role in Iraq at annual conference

The annual conference of Britain's ruling Labor Party, which started in Brighton, southern England, on Sunday, will debate the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq this week, after local party delegates voted ...


Empoli, 19:04 - CALCIO, EMPOLI; FICINI: CON LA FIORENTINA SAREMO AL TOP

Mancano parecchi giorni al derby con la Fiorentina, ma il centrocampista dell'Empoli Ficini gi&agrav...


Mosquitoes Have the Edge in Singaporeâs Dengue War

Singapore and its Southeast Asian neighbors are in the midst of a new epidemic of dengue that is on course to claim more victims regionally than the last epidemic, in 2005.


Starting veteran pitchers more well-rested than usual

BOSTON -- Where much of the world saw a starting rotation tattered and torn by injuries as the postseason began, Joe Torre saw instead a group of proven veteran pitchers who were simply more well-rested than usual.


Suspected North Koreans arrive in Japan on boat

Japanese authorities are questioning four people who arrived at a northern port on Saturday on a boat of unknown origin, suspecting that they may be North Koreans seeking asylum.


Energy Workers Union to Merge with Steelworkers

The United Steelworkers of America and the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (PACE) said they will ask their members to approve a merger of the two organizations, which would form the largest industrial labor union in North America.


Contro la Fiorentina, Mancini schiera in porta il portierone, ex di turno: ''E' la gara ideale per lui. I fischi non m'importano''. In occasione della trasferta di Firenze Roberto Mancini riconsegna la porta


La madre gli parlava dei successi del suo Milan


Everton's Thomas Gravesen completes his move to Real Madrid.


Vudu drops its price to compete with Apple TV

High-definition on-demand service Vudu has announced it is slashing its price for its console by 25 percent, perhaps in response to Apple TV's having replenished its own value proposition.


Greenspan not worried Chinese will dump Treasuries

There is little reason to fear a  wholesale pullout by China out of U.S. government bonds, former  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday.


Sean Penn's film about a middle-class dropout who confronts the Alaskan wilderness could have used more irony, says Richard Schickel


Tucson Catholic Diocese Files for Bankruptcy

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson,  faced with possible multimillion-dollar legal verdicts from sex  abuse cases pending against its clergy, filed for bankruptcy  protection on Monday, a church official said.


Woodward saved me from Hell, says Wilkinson

London - England's World Cup winning hero Jonny Wilkinson admitted on Saturday that if it hadn't been for former coach Sir Clive Woodward he might never have recovered from his first major tour in 1998 dubbed the "Tour of Hell".


Smokeout's message: Now is the time to quit

The good news is, the number of adult Americans who smoke cigarettes continues to decrease. The bad news is, more than 1 in 5 Americans still are smokers, according to a new report from the


Milano, 20:46 - CALCIO, BERLUSCONI: CALCIOPOLI? UNA BOLLA DI SAPONE

''Una bolla di sapone di cui ora si capisce la pochezza. E' stata montata una grande storia su una c...


Rare slip from master Michael lets in Barrichello

Monza should have been a familiar cauldron of motor sport passion when Rubens Barrichello put a Ferrari on pole position for today's Italian Grand Prix.


Halliburton will restructure and may even sell  its controversial KBR subsidiary, which is mired in overcharging scandals in Iraq.


Soccer: West Brom part company with Megson

LONDON : West Brom manager Gary Megson was relieved of his duties with immediate effect after saying earlier in the day he would leave the struggling Premiership club at the end of the season when his contract expired.


Rell has been longtime advocate for breast cancer awareness

For the past decade, M. Jodi Rell has worked to raise awareness about breast cancer prevention. Now with her own diagnosis and in the spotlight that comes with being governor


Beyonce Knowles attended a Sports Illustrated party where guests may have been exposed to hepatitis A but she was not at risk of catching the illness because she didn't sample the food, her publicist said Wednesday.


Warnings pile up: Estimates 'got too high'

Corporate America is starting to sound like the robot in the old TV show Lost in Space that was known for its repeated "Danger!


The WB Network has ordered a pilot for "True," a comedy about a young women whose boyfriend breaks up with her while she is in labor with their baby.


Blog: In an Internet interview, a programmer says increased media attention may force the project to shut down.


Italian PM puts stricken government to decisive test

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi submitted his centre-left government to what may be its final test by asking parliament on Tuesday for a confidence vote after the defection of an ally pushed it to the brink of collapse.


(InfoWorld) - On Aug. 14, IT security training and research authority SANS Institute will convene its inaugural set of exams for software developers seeking to attain its new secure coding certifications. The rise of such initiatives -- and increasing adoption of source code vulnerability scanning tools among internal software development teams -- are finally making a difference in overall applications security, some end users and industry experts contend. According to Allan Paller, director of research for SANS, based in Bethesda, Md., large businesses have moved aggressively in the last 18 months to push their applications developers to incorporate security testing into almost every facet of their work. As a result, he said, companies are finally beginning to realize significant applications security gains as developers become more careful and enlist new tools to drive vulnerabilities out of their code. "There's no older question in security than when will developers finally figure out a way to eliminate buffer overflows, everyone as asked that at some time or another, the difference is that developers themselves have discovered that they have become targets," said Paller. "People traditionally haven't thought about designing applications with the idea that someone else would be attacking them, and that's been a major discovery." It wasn't until roughly two years ago -- when more comprehensive systems software patching programs and the arrival of stronger intrusion prevention systems (IPS) pushed hackers to move their work to the applications level -- that developers were finally forced to face unwavering demands from management to clean up their code, said the expert. The internal secure development initiatives that arose from those mandates are finally bearing fruit, he said. "As soon as developers started thinking that someone would be trying to misuse everything they designed, things started to change, but it's taken time since it wasn't on their radar 18 months ago," said Paller. "Some people obviously started doing this work years ago, but it never became a trend until attackers came directly after the applications." In addition to offering security training and certification tests for programming languages including .Net and Perl, SANS is working with 60 universities to inject secure coding programming into their software development curriculums. Along with a more aggressive approach to security on the part of developers, Paller cited the arrival of more powerful applications code scanning tools as key to the recent improvements. According to a research report published by Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner in May 2007, approximately 60 percent of all IT organizations will have made security vulnerability detection an "integral" part of their software development process in 2010. By that time, an estimated 40 percent of organizations will have enlisted the help of a vendor marketing both source code scanning and Web application vulnerability testing tools, the research company said. For organizations such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) -- an independent federal government agency that carries out economic and humanitarian efforts under guidance from the U.S. Secretary of State -- the work to improve development security goes slowly, said Bill Geimer, a program manger in the organization. Trying to improve the security of applications development spread across the globe is no easy task, he said, but with the help of some new tools the effort is making headway. "We don't have the software development budget of Amazon.com or eBay, it's an incremental process, but we've found that developers are responding more positively to security assessment reports than we had originally imagined," Geimer said. "When it comes down to it, these people don't want to develop insecure code or get their Web sites defaced," he said. "The first phase is to fix issues before they reach production, and to do that we're trying to drive secure tools and methods into their hands." One of the technologies USAID is arming its developers with is Atlanta-based SPI Dynamics' Assessment Management Platform (AMP), used to track and measure Web applications security risks. Brian Cohen, chief executive of SPI, said that his company has been trying to sell its applications testing tools to developers for over two years, but he has only seen adoption begin to grow significantly since mid-2006. Prior to that time, the only consistent demand for the technology came in the form of partnerships with software development platform providers including IBM, Mercury and Microsoft, he said. "The message just didn't resonate with end users unless it was something built directly into one of the popular development platforms," Cohen said. "Now we're finally seeing more development groups ask for this technology for themselves; at a high level, organizations would prefer just to block vulnerabilities after the fact, but they've finally learned that they can't afford to maintain that type of approach." Despite the growing predisposition toward the use of secure development automation tools among businesses, the ages-old question of what types of problems should be handled by software designers -- and which should be tackled by IT security specialists, remains a stumbling block, according to the executive. "There's still a lack of understanding among security workers and development teams as to who is responsible for what," said Cohen. "But hopefully we'll see experience and education lead to new progress in that areas as well." Mike Weider -- founder and chief technology officer at rival Web application security testing tools vendor Watchfire, Waltham, Mass. -- said that targeted attacks against online transactional and customer service systems at retailers and financial services companies have served as a wakeup call. With the fear of having their Web sites hacked and facing sharp criticism from regulators and customers hanging over their heads, companies are finally embracing vulnerability testing applications designed specifically for use by developers, he said. In mid-April, Watchfire added features in its new AppScan 7.5 release aimed specifically at users in the development realm of Web applications quality assurance. Tired of paying high-priced consultants to ferret-out vulnerabilities on a cyclical basis, more large organizations than ever are creating security testing teams within their software development departments, he said. "Many of these companies have thousands of applications and developers, and only small teams of security professionals available to do all the work necessary to track and remove all the errors, so security teams are reaching out to development to take on some of this daunting workload," said Wieder. "Everyone from the government to financial services firms and retailers are looking at the regulatory environment and seeing the writing on the wall in terms of being forced to take responsibility for breaches; this is pushing the work down to developers who are creating demand for new tools." At least one Watchfire customer said that the availability of such security testing technologies is allowing it to make headway in instilling new secure coding practices among its developers. "We used to hire a third party to do vulnerability assessment of production level code, then we would report their findings to business unit, and unless something was high-level it would just get put on a release schedule," said Ethan Stieger, chief security officer at automotive market intelligence firm Polk Global Automotive, based in Southfield, Mich. "This technology allows us to fix things when they're being developed, which is the right way to do things, if you wait until production, that's a lot more invasive in environment, and the security issues are exposed to the outside world," he said. "We're still tying to sell this effort internally, but now we can do so on the commercial value of keeping potential attacks at bay."


Baazee CEO gets bail, MMS boy sent to children's home

NEW DELHI: Baazee.com CEO Avnish Bajaj, who was arrested by Delhi Police in connection with the MMS case, was granted bail by the high court on Tuesday.


Greenland's ice sheet: the annual check-up

Blog: NASA makes its annual summer survey of the Greenland ice sheet.


UPDATE 1-Mutu meets FA according to Romanian papers

Disgraced Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu had a meeting at the English FA on Thursday about his failed drugs test, Romanian newspapers said on Thursday.


U.N. rights body debates country reviews

Member nations of the U.N. Human Rights Council must soon allow their own records to be scrutinized to show the body can be taken seriously, a top rights official said Thursday.


The French president says the European arms embargo on China is outdated and should be lifted.


The former finance chief of WorldCom Inc. testified yesterday he worked with chief executive Bernard Ebbers to falsify the company's books, describing his former boss as a micromanager fanatical about controlling expenses.


'Troy' Makes Homer Britain's Best-Selling Poet

Nearly 3,000 years after his death, Homer is the best-selling poet in Britain thanks largely to Brad Pitt and "the Troy effect," the country's biggest online seller of books said on Wednesday.


A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing about 30 villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election approached 250.


The Lede Blog: Blogger Describes How to Flee Iraq

Riverbend crosses the border after months of delays in Baghdad.


Honda to Discontinue Hybrid Accord Sedan

NEW YORK -- With gas prices reaching record high levels and increasing public interest in environmentally friendly technologies, you would think that any car labeled as a hybrid would sell easily.


Matthew Hoggard takes 7-109 and England build on their slender lead on day four of the second Test in Adelaide.


NASA said Wednesday it will examine its psychological screening process for astronauts in light of the bizarre behavior by shuttle astronaut Lisa Nowak, who is charged with attempted murder.


Cheney breakfasts with U.S. troops in Afghanistan

BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan  - Vice President Dick Cheney, in Afghanistan for talks with President Karzai who faces a Taliban spring offensive, breakfasted with troops at the main U.S. base north of Kabul on Tuesday.


Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stepped up the German government's pledge of financial aid to tsunami victims to $674 million (U.S.) today as European nations moved to step up help to the devastated region.


The Hawks arrived in Memphis about an hour before Saturday night's game against the Grizzlies, having been stranded for nearly 24 hours by a winter storm that paralyzed Atlanta's airport.


Swiss report possible threat against U.N. in Geneva

Swiss authorities have informed the United Nations of a threatened attack against its European headquarters in Geneva, its biggest premises outside of New York, a U.N. statement said on Thursday.


Grosseto, 22:00 - CALCIO, GROSSETO: ACQUISTATO ABRUZZESE E LAZZARI

Il Grosseto ha acquisto il difensore Giuseppe Abruzzese, 26 anni, dalla Triestina e il centrocampist...


Slovak journalist rues following Larry Flynt path

Unlike Larry Flynt, Slovak journalist Martin Klein has found defending freedom of speech a ruinous experience.


A train company doubles the compensation it will pay season ticket holders after it failed to meet its targets.


Destruction all around in wake of flames

The camera clicks again and again, until Steve Clamage pauses to take his eye from the viewfinder and gaze at a vista that was never meant to resemble purgatory. Then, he clicks some more.


Javier Mascherano's move from West Ham to Liverpool is ratified by the Premier League.


Sacramento Kings coach Eric Musselman was suspended two games without pay by the NBA on Thursday for driving under the influence.


'70s band sues Lavigne over "Girlfriend"

TORONTO (Billboard) - Avril Lavigne is being sued by two songwriters who claim that her hit "Girlfriend" sounds like a track their American power pop band recorded in the '70s.


To fans who make the trek each June and to those watching at home, Rosenblatt Stadium is synonymous with the College World Series.


Barber leads New York to 26-10 win over Dallas

New York won four games last year. They fired their coach and hired Tom Coughlin, under whom they've made ... Giant Strides. By Jaime Aron.


Sam Kellerman / FOXSports.com Posted: 2 minutes ago

I confess that I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to women's beach volleyball. In fact, I know only one thing about the sport - that it is the supreme aesthetic experience available on planet Earth.


Bodybuilding Pioneer Zinkin Dies at 82 in Calif.

Harold Zinkin, the inventor of the  widely used Universal Gym machines and a pioneer of modern  bodybuilding, has died at age 82, his friends said on Thursday.


WASHINGTON -- Congress plans to scrutinize Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. to gauge the potential impacts on consumer privacy and competition in the online advertising business.


England's Lewis Moody will miss the rest of the Six Nations after undergoing surgery on his left shoulder.


Scientist's Remarks on Blacks Cause Furor

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 -- James Watson, who in 1962 shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA, on Friday canceled a tour to promote his latest book after suggesting in a published interview that black people are less intelligent than whites.


Attack in Kabul Injures 3 NATO Soldiers, 4 Others

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 23 -- A purported Taliban fighter with grenades strapped to his body detonated them Saturday on a bustling Kabul street popular with foreigners, killing himself and wounding seven people, including three NATO soldiers, Afghan and U.S. officials said.


Iraq says no Blackwater move until after inquiry

Iraq said on Monday no action would be taken against U.S. private security firm Blackwater over a shooting in which 11 people were killed until after a joint investigation with U.S. officials.


Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a former drug addict seeking custody of her daughter in this hit from Sundance.


Security agency failed president, ex-inspector says

WASHINGTON -- A former Bush administration official who led the fruitless postwar effort to find unconventional weapons in Iraq told Congress on Wednesday that the National Security Council had botched intelligence information before the ...


KERBALA, Iraq  - Over a million Shi'ite pilgrims defied bombers and gunmen to flock to the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, the day after scores were killed in a string of attacks likely to fuel sectarian bitterness.


To hear Mitt Romney tell it, Republican Mike Huckabee shares more with Democrat Bill Clinton than a hometown in Hope, Ark., and a stint as Arkansas governor.


Police hunting the killer of the French student Amelie Delagrange were last night studying CCTV film for signs of her brutal attacker, thought to have been lurking in the area in south-west London.


AOSTA  Accertare a chi appartengano le impronte trovate sulla porta della stanza dove fu ucciso Samuele Lorenzi, determinare come e quando si sono formate: su questo si stanno concentrando i tre periti nominati dalla procura di Aosta in seguito alla ...


Ice cores drilled from deep beneath the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming.


Studies detect slew of new genes for prostate risk

Three studies published on Sunday  identify at least ten new genes that raise a man's risk of  prostate cancer, information which could lead to better  screening and targeted drugs to treat the disease.


Two projects; new one is "Alan" a programming language. The other is "jjLibrary" a C++ library which provides 1) jjPattern : Pattern-based container class (Hash, Tree, List, Graph), 2) jjErrno : error handling, and 3) jjCGI : CGI library.   Alan v0.25 is released.  This version supports pipe, which looks like Unix pipe, but it is more similar to iterator method chain for any container data.  Unlike Unix pipe, Alan pipe passes data as just 'reference' so it is very efficient.  Please visit Alan website:  http://jjlib.sourceforge.net/alan/doc/  Best Regards, Wells


Every time a new IE security flaw is announced, or whenever someone gets fed up with hackers manipulating their Web browser, Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers get a bump in the marketplace.


Mass. Charges Franklin Templeton of Fraud

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin on Monday charged Franklin Templeton Investments with fraud, accusing the company of violating a consent order by not admitting to wrongdoing in a settlement of mutual fund trading allegations.


Euronext rebuffs Deutsche Boerse merger approach

Deutsche Boerse aired a  proposal to merge with Euronext on Friday, increasing pressure  on the five-nation exchange to wrap up drawn-out talks on its  future, as Italy also entered the global bourse merger frenzy.


Catania, 18:14 - CALCIO, CATANIA: FAREMO RICORSO CONTRO SQUALIFICA DEL CAMPO

Il giudice sportivo in relazione agli incidenti verificatisi sabato nel derby interno con il Messina...


OECD sees Japanese growth slower at just above 2.0 pct in 2005

The Japanese economy is expected to grow just above 2.0 percent in 2005 and 2006, losing some steam on slower exports after an estimated robust 4.0-percent expansion this year, according to the OECD.


Your plastic pal who's fun to be with CES on Video Your plastic pal who's fun to be with. WowWee's Tribot is a 'cartoon character come to life...'â¦


Oil prices have steadied after sliding sharply from record highs late last week but the tightening siege on rebels holed up in a shrine in Iraq has heightened uncertainty in the market.


ASIA/INDIA - Excursus sul radicalismo e pseudo-nazionalismo in India: il RSS (1a parte) CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il radicalismo politico e il falso nazionalismo dellÂhindutva (ÂinduitÃ Â) sono un tradimento del nazionalismo sano, quello promosso dal Mahatma Gandhi, che ha portato alla nascita dellÂIndia contemporanea; nel con...


It's warcraft out there Online games have become a major target for fraud in recent years. A study from Kaspersky Labs, published today, dissects the techniques and targets used by hackers to make "easy money" by selling stolen login credentials of users or in-game items on the black market.â¦


France sends defense minister to Chad to meet Deby

N'DJAMEMA  - France's defense minister flew to Chad on Wednesday in a show of support for President Idriss Deby who survived a weekend assault on the capital N'Djamena by rebels.


5200 B.C. Is New Date for Farms in Egypt

A discovery may provide insights about the farmers and some answers to the questions of how, why and when Egyptians adopted farming.


(WebMD) People with super-sensitive taste buds may be less likely to overindulge in alcohol, according to a new study. Researchers found the extent to which people can detect bitter tastes in food and drinks


World number one Tiger Woods launches his bid for a rare hat-trick of British Open titles later on Thursday.


Roma, 21:29 - Calcio, Olimpico; Lotito: al Coni pago la gestione corrente

"Al Coni pago regolarmente la gestione corrente e c'Ã¨ un piano di rientro per il vecchio...". Il pre...


Il sindacato accusa l'Ania per la rottura delle trattative


Western intelligence and security officials say the threat of a terror attack by Islamic militants over the Christmas and New Year's holiday travel season is extremely high, with the greatest concern focusing on a possible plot targeting Europe.


One dead, 23 trapped after Polish coal mine blast

A gas explosion killed at least one miner and trapped 23 others underground in a coal mine in southern Poland on Tuesday, police said.


The Delaware State University campus reopened Saturday for limited student activities after being locked down following a shooting Friday, university officials said.


Court won't reconsider Guantanamo ruling

A federal appeals court refused Friday to reconsider a ruling broadening its own authority to scrutinize evidence against detainees at Guantanamo Bay.


''It's not in my nature to be mysterious, but I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why,'' Brad Pitt says in one of the sly lines from the glitzy, entertaining Ocean's Twelve.


After writing about hundreds of individual and class-action lawsuits that have been filed on behalf of consumers who developed cancer, suffered heart attacks or other medical problems from hormone replacement therapy drugs and Vioxx, an FDA employee now


Britain commemorates decade since 'people's princess' died

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


By Anonymous  NASA astronaut Joan E. Higginbotham talks to a group of Chicago high school students during a visit to Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, her alma mater, where she presented the school with a banner she carried into space.


Nation's health centers increasingly offering speedy HIV tests

In an effort to reduce the incidence of AIDS in Japan, some public health centers have recently adopted a quick HIV testing regime that officials hope will be an effective tool for early stage detection and containment of the disease.


Roma, 21:03 - PALLAMANO, SUPERCOPPA ITALIANA: CONVERSANO-ALPI PRATO 25-23

Nella Finale di Supercoppa italiana di pallamano, giocata questa sera a Conversano, l'Indeco Convers...


Ten more partners join exodus at Hub law firm

Ten more partners of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault gave their notice last weekend, the Boston law firm confirmed yesterday, prompting speculation across the city's legal community about the future of a firm that once dominated high-tech and venture capital legal advice in this region.


By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A patched-up Atlantis blasted off with seven astronauts Friday on the first space shuttle flight of 2007, putting NASA back on track after a run of bad luck and scandal that included a damaging hailstorm and a lurid love triangle.


KABUL: A suicide bomber killed an Afghan man and wounded seven people, including two foreign peacekeepers, in central Kabulâs famous âChicken Streetâ on Saturday afternoon, the interior ministry said on Saturday.


Disappointed Huizenga undecided about changes for Dolphins

Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga said he's surprised and disappointed the team is off to the worst start in its 39-year history, but he hasn't made any decision regarding the future of coach Dave Wannstedt or general manager Rick Spielman.


PartyGaming plans to expand aggressively  outside the United States, but sees no risk of being dragged  into the U.S. indictment of a rival for racketeering, the  world's biggest online gaming firm said.


MTV's fiction show effectively evokes the hot, tribal mentality of high school kids who might just redeem their adolescence with sex.


Madrid, 23:11 - CALCIO, LIGA: PARI BARCELLONA, ROSSI SUBITO IN GOL

Solo un pari per il Barcellona nella prima giornata della Liga, il massimo campionato spagnolo. La s...


On The Road: Bad Enough Being Shoeless but Just Look at This DÃ©cor

Even though we spend about $5 billion a year in tax dollars on airport security, why do airport checkpoints still look like garage sales?


Four straight wins? Tied for the division lead, once again? A victory over a team with a winning record? A where-did-that-come-from, wire-to-wire submission from, ahem, Tony Allen?


Apple and AT&T defended a decision not to use a faster but more limited network for the phoneâs wireless Internet connection.


Many former Liverpool players and other friends of Emlyn Hughes have paid tribute to the ex-Reds and England captain who died on Tuesday from a brain tumour, aged 57.


Japan hints it may be open to significant compromise as an annual international whaling conference opens in Alaska.


McCartney in historic return to Paris concert-hall

Four decades after playing Paris's legendary L'Olympia concert hall with the Beatles, Paul McCartney returns to the venue Monday saying "it's still exciting."


Novell To Support Microsoft's Office Open XML Format

Following through on the company's groundbreaking deal with Microsoft made one month ago, Novell has announced that its version of the OpenOffice.org software suite will support Microsoft's Office Open XML format.


Under-Tongue Immunotherapy Cuts Asthma in Kids

NEW YORK  - Children with grass pollen  allergy are prone to develop asthma. Now researchers have shown  that seasonal allergy symptoms and the subsequent risk of  asthma can be reduced with a type of immune therapy.


Netflix Anticipates Amazon DVD-Rental Service

Shares of mail-order DVD rental company Netflix Inc. plunged Thursday after it warned that it was slashing its subscription price in anticipation of Amazon.com Inc. entering an already crowded market.


Step away from the pie If youâre serious about getting fit then the Wiiâs sports games will get you partly there, but theyâre no substitute for traditional exercise, according to a group of Canadian students. Duh.â¦


Eli Lilly & Company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $854.4 million, or 78 cents a share, compared with $132.3 million, or 12 cents a share, a year ago.


Lockout latest in a string of debacles heaped upon fans

Today, it begins. The end? It's nowhere in sight. Don't be surprised if it lasts more than 18 months. Unless the National Hockey League owners start to show a willingness to compromise -- as the players already have -- it will last 18 months.


Doug Flutie had watched from afar and was impressed. He appreciated how the Patriots had an uncanny ability to redefine themselves during games.


Seeking Answers With Field Trips in Faith

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia -- Nora McNulty, a Scottish grandmother, began climbing the hill at 5:50 a.m., having traveled 1,300 miles in search of something hard to find at home.


Sapporo, 12:09 - SCI DI FONDO, MONDIALI: MALYSZ ORO NEL SALTO

Il polacco Adam Malysz ha vinto l'oro nel trampolino corto ai Mondiali di Sapporo, in Giappone. Maly...


People in the News: Ex-chauffeur: Liza forced me to have sex

Reuters reports that Liza Minnelli's former bodyguard/chauffeur is suing the singer for sexual harassment. From the court papers, which were unsealed on Wednesday (the lawsuit was filed on Sept.


'Major Dad' Star McRaney Has Lung Surgery

"Major Dad" actor Gerald McRaney underwent surgery Monday to remove a cancerous growth from his lung, his Los Angeles publicist told The Associated Press.


From Foreclosure Signs to Auto Repo Lots

Reina Bolanos got a loan for her used Honda Odyssey in 2006 on what appeared to be favorable terms: $16,000 without a down payment. Though the 8 percent rate was high, Bank of America offered to spread the loan over six years to keep the monthly payments down.


Potrebbe trattarsi di 19enne bulgara scomparsa il 19 gennaio


La stima e' del Codacons: "il governo intervenga"


Israeli military court sentences Palestinian bomb maker to 67 life ...

An Israeli military court sentenced a Kuwaiti-born bomb maker Tuesday to 67 consecutive life terms for killing dozens of Israelis and at least five Americans.


Blog: Importer requests NHTSA to recall Chinese-manufactured tires after lawsuit investigation reveals defects.


The Pacific-10 Conference, finding merit in Oklahoma's complaints about the officiating in its loss to Oregon, issued a one-game suspension Monday to the officiating crew and the instant replay officials who worked the game and an apology to the Sooners.


Record-Tying Beltran Blasts Astros Into Tie

Carlos Beltran's record-tying eighth  post-season home run capped the Houston Astros' 6-5 comeback  win over the St Louis Cardinals to even the National League  Championship Series at two games apiece Sunday.


"My cheeks were so drawn I would say to myself, 'Man, you're going to kill yourself,' " he said. "I'd say, 'What are you doing?


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


Andy Murray may leave the decision over his Wimbledon participation until the weekend before the tournament begins.


An ABC-TV cross-promotion on "Monday Night Football" for the new series "Desperate Housewives" worked a little too well, so the network apologized all over itself yesterday.


Per lui 20 gol, Shevchenko Ã¨ il migliore in attivitÃ  con 12 reti

Eâ ancora lâeterno Giuseppe Meazza il capocannoniere del derb: per lui 20 reti, di cui una perÃ² segnata proprio con la maglia del Milan. Dietro di lui Luigi Cevenini III e Ciro Mario Cevenini II, entrambi


Roma, 16:38 - CALCIO, MATARRESE: LIONE? NON LASCIAMOCI IMPRESSIONARE

Sorteggio ok per le italiane in Champions League. E' il parere del presidente della Lega, Antonio Ma...


Hamilton Won't Lose Gold in Doping Case, IOC Says

US cyclist Tyler Hamilton will keep his gold medal from the Athens Games even though a test found illegal blood doping, the International Olympic Committee said.


ScriptLogic Offers Desktop-Security Tools

By Fontana, John  Desktop management vendor ScriptLogic is expected next week to add controls for securing USB and other ports on desktop computers so administrators can better protect the collection and dissemination of corporate data.


LONDONâUS crude prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit fresh record highs on Tuesday, hitting $50.47 a barrel, up nearly 55 percent from the start of the year.


Indian PM in Kashmir, Hours After Soldiers Kill 2 Militants Near ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in Kashmir, hours after soldiers killed two suspected separatists near the stadium where the Indian leader plans to deliver a speech Wednesday.


A suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease is discovered 10 miles from the site of the outbreak in Surrey.


Martin Sheen, the 'President,' at school

The President carried his own books, no bodyguards in sight.


US Stock-Index Futures Are Little Changed; Merck Shares Rise

US stock-index futures were little changed before a government report that economists expect will show manufacturing held last month above the average for the past decade.


Cassazione accoglie ricorso consigliere comunale di Crotone


Briefly: CA adds utility-like mainframe pricing

roundup Plus: The company also expects to meet or exceed analyst estimates...Salesforce.com reports subscriber surge...RealNetworks signs up Red Flag Linux.


The Customer Relationship Expert Takes a Dose of Its Own Medicine

Since 1993, Siebel dominated the market for customer service software. In recent years, however, it has stumbled. Can it regain its former glory?


Martha Stewart Asks to Get Jail Over With

Homemaking icon Martha Stewart on  Wednesday said she wants to start serving her jail sentence for  lying about a suspicious stock sale as soon as possible, so she  can put her "nightmare" behind her and be home in time to plant  her garden for spring.


Improved U.S. ties lures North Korea to nuclear deal: Roh

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said on Friday he sees the North Korean government as stable and wanting to resolve the nuclear issue to improve relations with the United States.


Talks between the London Stock Exchange  and the heads of two European bourses are set to resume next week.


Bush: International Coalition to Coordinate Relief for Ravaged ...

President Bush says the United States will stand by the victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake and resulting tsunami, calling the tragedy one of the major natural disasters in world history.


I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here contestant Natalie Appleton is given oxygen after feeling fainting.


A 17-year-old is jailed for 30 years for the murders of a woman at a christening and a pastor's daughter.


Abilities, experience carry Kinton to top position at Massport

``Eventful" just begins to describe Thomas J. Kinton Jr.'s first month on the job as chief executive of the Massachusetts Port Authority .


Blind pensioner sentenced to library course

A blind Turkish pensioner has been sentenced to a 26-day reading and writing course at his local public library after he failed to vote on time in an election for his village cooperative, his son said on Friday.


With a possible billion-dollar windfall at stake, U.S. music companies are eagerly awaiting the full-blown development of the stateside ringtone market.


A surprisingly soft 112,000 new U.S.  jobs were created in November, the Labor Department said on  Friday, casting a shadow across an already downbeat holiday  sales season with consumers apparently worried by scarce work  and high oil prices.


South African Miner in Hostile Bid for Gold Fields

Harmony Gold Mining, the largest miner of South African gold, made a hostile bid yesterday to acquire Gold Fields Ltd., another South African miner, for 52.


An anonymous reader writes "SCO has filed for another delay in the case against IBM. The article reports that 'According to filings in the case, SCO is looking to buy time until the court can hear its arguments compelling IBM to release more information.


A meeting of the Contract Recognition Board, which settles contractual disputes in F1, concluded on Tuesday with the issue unresolved.


BEA to Oracle: We're not opposed to a reasonable offer

BEA Systems has told Oracle the two companies can still make a deal -- just not the one on the table.Oracle released a statement Tuesday, saying BEA's board of directors had officially turned down its offer to buy the company. It set a deadline of Sunday at 5 p.m. Pacific time for BEA to accept the $17-per-share bid.But several hours later, BEA fired back its own missive in the form of a letter from William Klein, who is vice president of planning and development, to Oracle president Charles Phillips. In the letter, Klein characterized Oracle's offer as too low but made it clear BEA is not against being acquired for the right price."BEA is worth significantly more than $17 to Oracle, to others, and most importantly to BEA shareholders," the letter said. "BEA's Board has not indicated that it would be opposed to a transaction that appropriately reflects BEA's value, reached through a reasonable process."An Oracle spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.The total value of Oracle's existing bid is about $6.7 billion, and the enterprise software giant said Tuesday it "has no interest in a long, drawn-out process to acquire BEA."So far, the BEA-Oracle talks have sparked dueling public statements, missed meetings, and shareholder angst, but haven't been nearly as heated as other merger battles, such as Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft.Still, it remains unclear whether Oracle will increase its offer for BEA, which it termed "generous" in Tuesday's statement."Oracle typically has some [pricing] ratios it uses in its acquisition strategy," Forrester Research analyst Ray Wang said. "If they really want to dominate the middleware space, this is an acquisition they'd want to make."If it succeeds in buying BEA, Oracle would swallow up a major competitor in the application server space, a scenario that has had some observers wondering about the fate of BEA's technologies.Oracle's move to purchase BEA is only the latest in a string of high-profile buys in 2007. The company has forked over billions for a wide array of enterprise software companies, including business process management vendor Hyperion Solutions and application data grid player Tangosol.BEA has some products that would fill holes in Oracle's portfolio. But the two companies compete closely on other fronts, such as Web server and ESB (enterprise service bus) offerings."Those are areas with lots of overlap," Wang said. "But there's a lot of good technologies on both sides."NOTE: This story includes comments from analyst Ray Wang that were also used in a previous update.


Five years after Sept 11, U.S. still not safe: Bush

Five years after the September 11   attacks, the United States is safer but "we are not yet safe"   from a significantly degraded yet still dangerous al Qaeda   threat, the White House said in a report on Tuesday.


After a year of intensely covering the presidential campaign, TV news networks finally had actual votes to count Thursday Â and at times their Iowa caucus coverage felt like boarding a jet airplane to travel down the street.


In Another CIA Abduction, Germany Has an Uneasy Role

HAMBURG -- The decision by Munich prosecutors to press charges against CIA counterterrorism operatives for kidnapping a German citizen, Khaled el-Masri, won widespread applause last week from German politicians and the public. "The great ally is not allowed to simply send its thugs out into Europe's...


On the edge of the 19th-century cemetery, some 1,500 people stood in silent tribute as a Jewish cantor and a choir chanted Hebrew prayers in honor of those taken in railway cattle cars to Auschwitz and other ...


U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.


Tomb Raider creator Eidos delays the launch of a new game in the run up to the all-important Christmas trading season.


A recent research finds that people who don't sleep very long are more likely to be overweight. This is because people who slept for shorter times had higher levels of ghrelin


China's economy has slowed modestly for the third successive quarter, raising hopes of success in a delicate battle to reduce the risk of overheating without provoking a crash.


Changes to Medicare have many seniors in a tailspin. Prescription drug cards, managed care, Medigap, Part B -- they can't sort it out on their own, and the constant barrage of targeted advertisements and slick-sounding come-ons don't help.


GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan  - Thousands of party faithful feted former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday as she visited her stronghold in southern Pakistan, days after an assassination bid that killed 139 people.


Revealed: UK schools dividing on race lines

Britain is 'sleepwalking' towards US-style segregation of schools, figures show.


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Mitch Kupchak and Jerry Buss issued a four-point statement through the Lakers' staff. Rudy Tomjanovich offered words of praise outside the locker room.


Oil breaks above $63 on OPEC cut and ship delays

Oil prices climbed above $63 a barrel on Friday as dense fog delayed crude shipments to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast a day after OPEC agreed to cut output for a second time in two months.


Cuban President Fidel Castro tripped and  fractured his left knee and right arm in a tumble captured on  live television, the government said on Thursday.


U.S. 30-year mortgage rates highest since July

Mortgage rates extended their climb  for the fifth straight week, skyrocketing to highs not seen in  nearly a year, according to a weekly survey released by finance  company Freddie Mac  on Thursday.


Effects of Composted Yard Waste On Water Movement in Sandy Soil

By Pandey, C; Shukla, S  A two-year study was conducted in 2002-2003 (season one) and 2003- 2004 (season two) at a seepage irrigated vegetable farm in south Florida to investigate the effects of soil organic amendment (composted yard waste) on movement of water in a sandy soil.


Madrid bomb accused maintain innocence as trial ends

The mammoth Madrid train bombing trial came to a close Monday with the main suspects still denying any involvement in the 2004 atrocities that killed almost 200 people.


Bertie Ahern was on track Saturday to become Ireland's prime minister for a third term after partial results and opposition leaders suggested he had clinched victory in a closely fought general election.


A forest of golden lions line the red carpet leading to the Cinema Palace at the Venice Film Festival. Picture:Reuters. The Venice Film Festival amps up the star power, reports Stephanie Bunbury.


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Rising sea levels are threatening parts of the Giant's Causeway and other NI coastal areas.


The trials of officials from Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq will begin next week, interim PM Iyad Allawi says.


Hewlett-Packard is making a high-stakes bet that it won't get burned by a bad battery. Dell, Apple, Lenovo, Toshiba and Fujitsu are recalling 7.7 million laptop batteries made by Sony. The batteries can, in rare instances, overheat and catch fire. HP uses Sony battery parts, too, but it is not recalling them. The company believes it is safe because it reviewed and rejected Sony battery parts for nearly a year before buying any, spokesman Mike Hockey says.


Solo Mazzacurati e Marra osano sfidare l'Uomo Ragno

Chi non ama il cinema spettacolare, i kolossal a stelle e strisce, si rassegni: questo, per il grande schermo, Ã¨ il week end di Spider-Man 2. E cosÃ¬, mentre l'Uomo Ragno monopolizza i cinema italiani, chi cerca altre emozioni deve andare nelle sale


A public-private answer to affordable housing

As federal funds to subsidize housing dwindle, a New York nonprofit pledges $1 billion to ease the squeeze.


More mid-market firms choose open-source ERP

Among the factors sited: the ability to customize the software and avoid vendor lock-in.


Farewell, WiMAX? US giant Verizon Wireless should one day use the same mobile phone technology standard as the rest of the world, Vodafone's chief hinted yesterday. It just might take a very long time.â¦


Business & money: UK life insurer attempts to streamline its business after seeing its profits virtually wiped out last year


Almost 50 army cadets were found dead in Iraq

Forty-nine unarmed new Iraqi soldiers were found dead beside a remote road yesterday after being executed by attackers while returning home from their final training course.


Sudan and Darfur peacekeepers agree rules of operation

Sudan and the African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission for Darfur signed an agreement on Saturday determining how the joint force will operate, capping weeks of drawn-out negotiations.


Despite a year that is among the worst in their firmsâ long histories, the chiefs of both Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley are holding tight to their perches of power.


A majority of almost three-quarters of MLAs vote in favour of the executive's first programme for government.


Organotin Stabilizers Price Increase at Chemtura

Effective June 1, 2007, or as contract terms permit, Chemtura  Corporation (NYSE:CEM) will increase selling prices of all organotin  stabilizers by 10% for all package sizes in North and Latin America.


Seven suspected Islamic militants have been arrested in raids across Spain. Judicial sources said Monday's operations had foiled a planned bomb attack on the High Court.


A stream runs through it Comment Sun has broken into the AT&T IPTV account with its Sun Fire X4600 servers, which are either to be used as part of the U-Verse video-on-demand server system or to offer extra IP services over the top.â¦


Police are granted more time to question a 39-year-old woman over the deaths of two teenage girls found in a house.


A federal appeals court has rebuffed efforts of a former publicist for soul singer James Brown to bring a sexual harassment suit against him.


LONDON -- Britain has agreed to a US request to redeploy British troops from southern Iraq to an area closer to Baghdad. The british defence secretary made the announcement in the House of Commons.


US, G-8 nations meet on ways to end Iran's nuclear program

WASHINGTON The Bush administration is brainstorming with its allies today to find ways to get Iran to halt a suspected nuclear weapons program.


It seems like only two months ago that Pamela Anderson was aglow with happiness over her quickie Las Vegas wedding to Rick Salomon.


Chavez says his term depends on the people

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he would "stay in office until people do not wantit.". "I will give my life for the hope of people," Chavez told a mass gathering


Airbus won an order to sell 40 planes to AirAsia, Southeast Asia's largest discount airline, beating out Boeing. The Kuala Lumpur-based airline said in a statement to the Malaysian stock


SF Beta Mixes Schmoozing, Boozing and Demos

This San Francisco mixer is fast becoming an institution. We've got the party write-up plus photos by Lane Hartwell from Thursday's event.


House Democrats have defied the White House in a battle between civil liberties and national security. And GOP candidates are looking forward to making it an election issue


President Bush set his re-election sights Sunday on the part of West Virginia that strongly supported him four years ago and where he hopes to build a big lead against rival John Kerry in November.


Dell's dirty words: Outsourcing, proprietary

Speaking at a conference in Boston, CEO Kevin Rollins expounds on his philosophies about all things IT.


Portugal to keep military force in Iraq an extra three months

The Portuguese government has decided to prolong by 90 days the presence of the contingent of the Republican National Guard, it said in a statement.


Russian Vera Zvonareva became the second seed to crash out of the $650 000 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Filderstadt, Germany on Tuesday, falling to a straight sets 6-3, 7-5 first round defeat against compatriot Elena Likhovtseva.


Russia is poised to undertake an ambitious rearmament program to beef up its intercontinental ballistic missile stocks and nuclear submarine fleet. By the Associated Press.


Scientists Think Data From Space Capsule Can Be Salvaged

Samples and data inside the wrecked Genesis space capsule appear intact enough to salvage most of the mission's science, optimistic researchers said Friday.


GENEVA - The United Nations warned Wednesday that respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out in areas affected by southern Asiaâs tsunami disaster âin the next few days.


1st LD-Writethru: China Has 221 Pandas Bred in Captivity

1st LD-Writethru: China has 221 pandas bred in captivity    BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China currently has 221 pandas that have been bred in captivity with 32 panda cubs born through artificial insemination this year, 28 of whom have survived.


A Weak Dollar Is Music to Foreign Tourists

The lure of Times Square, Rodeo Drive and points in between is stronger than ever to foreign tourists.


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Video: Cranberry Harvest's Secrets Revealed

Learn the secrets behind growing the Thanksgiving staple with a third-generation cranberry farmer, and visit the tiny Wisconsin town thats home to the largest inland cranberry fields in the world.


Arab TV Airs Video of 3 UN Hostages in Afghanistan

Three UN employees held hostage in Afghanistan were shown on Sunday in a video aired by Al Jazeera television, which said they called for the release of prisoners from Afghan jails and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.


Chris Carpenter coasted into the playoffs last season. This year, he's been dominant down the stretch.


Google, Yahoo in dueling partnerships with GPS makers

It's one of those announcements you just knew was coming: Magellan is reportedly partnering with Google to put Google Maps local business links on its Global Positioning System (GPS) units.


Virenque climbs into spotlight one last time

Flashy as ever, Richard Virenque has climbed off his bike on the stage of the most famous music hall in Paris to bring the curtain down on his 14-year career.


NEW YORK (CBS) CBS News is mounting a steadfast defense of the authenticity of documents that questioned President Bush's service in the Air National Guard, as newspapers and the White House continued to raise doubts.


White Stripes rocker loses love for Motor City

Former spouses Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes rarely give interviews, but they were quoted at length in a British newspaper this week, and it appears he has finally noticed that Detroit is not Disney ...


Subprime housing woes rekindle fears for US economy

Fresh troubles in the subprime segment of the US housing market have ignited fears of contagion that could affect the financial sector and possibly the broader economy, analysts say.


Alcatel and Microsoft say 'business as usual' despite patent spat

Let's stay together for the children's sake Analysis The legal action uncovered this week between Microsoft and Alcatel is seen by many as sounding the death knell to their cosy carve up of the IPTV market among global tier one telcos.â¦


New Zealand's James Franklin claimed a hat-trick as Bangladesh were bowled out for 177 before lunch on the second day of the first Test in Dhaka.


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What's in the Box? Radio Tags Know That, and More

I.B.M. plans to invest $250 million over the next five years and employ 1,000 people in a new business unit to support products and services related to sensor networks.


What a ballplayer. It has been a dozen years and Joe Torre still shakes his head in appreciation and awe.


Cisco to enhance range of security products

(InfoWorld) - Over the next few months, Cisco plans to enhance a range of its security products, offering customers an integrated and improved line of products. The company plans a major new release to the software that runs its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) product. Also in the works are updates to the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Cisco Security Agent (CSA), Cisco Security Manager (CSM), and Mitigation Analysis and Response System (MARS). The upcoming Version 8.0 of the ASA software will include about 120 enhancements, but perhaps most significantly, its AnyConnect VPN client will now work on a much broader range of platforms, including Windows Vista, Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition. "We're extending this out of the traditional realm of just laptops," said Bob Berlin, a Cisco senior product marketing manager. Cisco is also improving the information-sharing capabilities between its IPS 6.0 and CSA 5.2 software to make the products better able to identify and block emerging threats. Another new feature will allow CSA to assign quality-of-service tagging to network traffic so performance can be boosted on applications such as VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). Using engineering talent it acquired in its 2004Â purchase of Riverhead Networks, Cisco has also developed new algorithms that allow the IPS software to better analyze potentially malicious activity on the network. The ISA software will also be better integrated and easier to manage with the upcoming version 3.1 of CSM. After years of acquisitions, Cisco is just now starting to hook its security products together, said Robert Whiteley, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. This is critical if Cisco wants to maintain its new position as a player in the security space, he said. "Whether people acknowledge it or not, Cisco is one of the largest security vendors," Whiteley said. "But they haven't had quite as much of an integrated story as you'd see from a [security ] specialist." Cisco has had a lot of integrating to do. The company has made about 10 security-related acquisitions in the past three years. The company now posts more than $2 billion in annual security product sales and employs more than 1,400 security engineers, according to Richard Palmer, senior vice president of Cisco's Security Technology Group. Cisco may be starting to integrate its existing security products now, but it would also like to extend its offerings to address new areas such as data leakage, a hot new area in the security field. "That's certainly an area where we're going to be investing, " Palmer said.


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Wachovia names Carroll capital management chief

Wachovia Corp. (WB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the fifth-largest US bank, on Thursday named David Carroll head of capital management, one of its biggest businesses, replacing Donald McMullen, who is retiring.


Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates chats with Berkeley students about everything from open source to malaria to the next Xbox.


Sepang, 12:44 - MOTOGP, TEST SEPANG: MIGLIOR TEMPO PER DE PUNIET, ROSSI 3/O

Il francese Randy De Puniet comanda la classifica a metà della seconda giornata di test di Mo...


The authenticity of the video, posted on a Web site that has carried messages from insurgents, could not be determined.


The stock market plunged as investors were hit by fresh worries over declining consumer confidence, falling house prices, shrinking profits and uncertainty.


African Union announces seven-fold increase to peace mission in Darfur

The African Union said it was going to boost the size of its ceasefire monitoring and civilian protection force in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur from 465 to 3,320 personnel.


No Green Light Yet for Vista Service Pack

Earlier this week, Microsoft Windows watcher Winbeta.org posted an e-mail from the software giant's Windows Driver Kit team that ended up launching a media feeding frenzy on news sites around the world. According to Microsoft's e-mail to the site, the release of a beta version of the first service pack for Vista was available for download.


Backstory: New Mexico's cult of the chile

In the state that produces the most chiles in the nation, a yearly festival pays tribute to the hot icon.


Virgin's Branson to shun thirsty 4-engined planes

Virgin Group boss Richard Branson said  on Friday he would aim to avoid buying fuel-thirsty  four-engined airplanes in future to curb fuel costs and the  environmental impact of his fast-growing airlines.


The best of Computerworld's coverage of IT outsourcing.


Treatment of lockout shows NHL's problems

The announcement of the National Hockey League player lockout was treated as headline news in Canada, running as the top story throughout the Canadian media.


Up to seven killed in Chechnya shootout: report

Up to seven people were killed in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, a report quoting officials said.


Swede Johansson powers though in Stockholm

Hard-serving Swede Joachim Johansson thumped Chilean Adrian Garcia 6-4 6-2 to reach the second round of the 650,000 euros Stockholm Open tennis tournament on Tuesday.


An investor's guide to service-oriented architecture


Today on the presidential campaign trail

Tancredo to quit presidential race ... Huckabee defends record on clemencies ... Romney praises Bush, Iraq troop increase in bid for support of Iowa Republicans ... Giuliani talks baseball to explain his unconventional campaign travels ... Richardson focuses on Iraq in new ad, campaign stops in NH ... McCain appears at Boston campaign stop with Kissinger ... Paul tells NH audience he'd lift sanctions with Iran, pull Navy from its shores ... Biden unveils education plan ... Clinton tells Iowans she measures her success in public life by helping people ...


HBO's 'The Sopranos' Wins Emmy for Best Drama

HBO's acclaimed gangster hit "The Sopranos" won the Emmy Award for best drama series Sunday, becoming the first cable network show to win U.S. television's top prize in that category.


UN says foreign investment to bounce after 3-year slump

GENEVA: Cross-border investment is set to bounce in 2004 after three years of deep decline, reflecting a stronger world economy and more international merger activity, the United Nations (UN) said overnight.


Serbia warns EU of "cutting corners" over Kosovo

Serbian President Boris Tadic warned the European Union on Friday against "cutting corners" on Kosovo, urging further dialogue on the future of the province which is set to declare its independence from Belgrade.


Siena, 18:57 - CALCIO, SIENA: CHIESA FORSE IN CAMPO DALL'INIZIO

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Musharaf likely to retain post of army chief

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is likely to retain the post of army chief after Dec. 31 although he promised to take off the uniform by the end of this year, Dawn reported Thursday.


A new law allowing former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life in Iraq is enacted.


Swiss drugmaker Novartis said on   Saturday that clinical tests had shown its once-yearly Aclasta   medicine had proved effective in reducing incidence of bone   fracture in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO).


Democrat senators sharply criticise the Secretary of State nominee in a debate in Congress.


Benefits from a not-for-profit $2.6-billion rail link between Nisku, south of Edmonton, and Alberta's oilsands include lower transport costs, greater safety and less


Norwich rallies to draw 1-1 with Man City

Damien Francis scored just 15 seconds into the second half on Monday, lifting Norwich to a 1-1 draw with Manchester City and moving the Canaries out of last place in the Premier League.


Opinion: Letter - Media Training: Just Be Transparent

Anthony Hilton said in his article, 'Public don't care about share price', that the great paradox of media training is that it has robbed companies of their ability to communicate (PRWeek, 26 Jan).


Nonostante l'export italiano sia in fase di stallo


After a long series of delays characterized by turmoil in Asian markets and a continuing "bottoming out" in the LCD TV industry, Canon has finally given the green light to a project that, it says, will enable it to mass-produce a new breed of flat-screen, electron-driven television displays by early 2008.


EUROPE pulled off yet another fabulous Ryder Cup victory in Michigan this morning - after one almighty scare. What many thought might be a walk in the park when they went into the final day needing to win


Treasury's Paulson wants faster China yuan rise

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urged China on Tuesday to let its currency rise faster in value and warned that rising protectionism threatened U.S.-China relations.


French court to stop Hizbullah television

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Military strikes target kidnappers' Falluja stronghold

AMERICAN warplanes, tanks and artillery yesterday pounded the stronghold of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the man behind the kidnapping of Kenneth Bigley, killing at least eight people and wounding 15 in a day that saw new violence across Iraq.


Kenya's opposition warns it will relaunch mass protests if the political crisis is not resolved within a week.


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Asian shares may shudder at consumer chill

Asian stocks, which have been jittery  this year at any ill omen from the U.S. market, are likely to  take note on Monday of Wall Street's latest fall, while  investors continue to keep an eye out for bargains.


The quake, which struck shortly after 7pm (11am Irish Time), had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 and was centred six miles beneath the ocean floor and 70 miles off the coast of the Kii peninsula.


Canadian Environment Awards Honour Green Activists Coast to Coast

By DENE MOORE  MONTREAL (CP) - Montreal filmmaker Jean Lemire sailed into the Antarctic two years ago planning to spend the winter filming the effects of climate change on one of the harshest environments on earth.  Mother Nature had other plans.


Migraines And The Pill Associated With Stroke Risk

Migraine sufferers take note, new research suggests you are at twice the risk of suffering a stroke, and if you're a woman using the pill for birth control, the risk is even greater.


President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged on Tuesday to bolster Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as Israel sought to tighten the screws on Hamas Islamists who control Gaza.


There's been a lot of talk around California Speedway about lost tradition. This is the first time since 1950 that Labor Day weekend didn't play host to NASCAR's Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.


Dozens of Chinese journalists surrounded the Chinese divers after they finished first and second in the women's three-metre springboard event last night.


The Motley Fool - CNET Networks (Nasdaq: CNET - News) has built a brand in the geeky world of tech products. Of course, with the drop in tech spending, CNET needed to make a transition. So the company is focusing more on the "digital lifestyle." Just look at cultural movements such as Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPod. Yes, tech can be cool and hip.


Suspects held over 'suicide-attack' plans

Pakistan has arrested up to 10 al-Qaeda suspects for planning suicide attacks against the Government and the US embassy, ministers said on Saturday.


Democrats accuse Bush camp of doctoring television picture

Democrats accused President George W. Bush's campaign of doctoring a picture featured in a television spot and demanded that the advertisement be withdrawn.


Sonics poised to name Carlesimo as coach

The Seattle SuperSonics appear set to pluck another piece from the San Antonio Spurs.


EDITORIAL: Jerome Co. Should Nix Dairy Near Hunt Camp

By The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Dec. 15--Jerome County commissioners know all too well how difficult dairy issues are to explain to some local residents. So you'd think they'd be just as cautious about explaining dairy zoning to national tourists.


Alcan to Sell Ferroalloy Division to Ferroatlantica

Alcan Inc., the world's biggest aluminum maker by sales, agreed to sell its Pechiney Electrometallurgie ferroalloy division to Spain's Ferroatlantica SL for more than 100 million euros ($136 million).


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Jon Sim scores twice Thursday as Atlanta earns its fifth straight win with a 6-2 victory over Montreal, moving the Thrashers into first place in the Southeast Division.


Blog: After 18 months of debate, the General Public License has finally turned 3.


Europe launches a project to build a super-brilliant X-ray laser to probe the atomic structure of materials.


Womenâs Basketball Roundup: Stanford Hands Baylor First Loss of Season

Candice Wiggins scored 21 of her 35 points in the first half Sunday for fifth-ranked Stanford, which handed No. 10 Baylor its first loss of the season with a physical 87-63 victory at home.


Trichet brushes off French criticism of ECB

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on Sunday brushed off French criticism of the ECB, saying that sticking to its job of ensuring price stability was the best way to promote growth and jobs.


Sept. 30, 2004 -- Long-term use of the painkiller Vioxx doubles a person's risk of heart attack and stroke, a huge clinical trial shows.


N.Y. Will Offer Secure Driver's Licenses to Citizens

The Bush administration and New York announced an agreement yesterday to create a generation of super-secure driver's licenses for U.S. citizens, but also to allow illegal immigrants to get a version.


NEW YORK -- Although Maria Sharapova's Siberian childhood was not spent in one of the region's infamous salt mines, she remained the salt of the tennis earth to the folks who made their way to Flushing Meadow in a record drove yesterday.


It might have started with a bang, but O'Reillygate is ending with a whimper. The lawyer for Fox News' top talker, Bill O'Reilly, has announced that a settlement has been reached with Andrea


A vanishing ball, thought to have been stolen by a spectator, may yesterday have cost Swede Johan Edfors the chance of winning the Madrid Open and of keeping his tour card.