Chinese computer giant, Lenovo is attempting to take over global information technology giant IBM Corporation's personal computer business operations, media reports said in Beijing on Tuesday.


Cagliari, 20:22 - CALCIO, CAGLIARI: DIFFERENZIATO PER LANGELLA, RIENTRA PENALBA

Per l'anticipo pomeridiano di sabato con la reggina l'allenatore del Cagliari Marco Giampaolo potr&a...


US Secretary of State Colin Powell has dropped plans to visit Athens and attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics following anti-American protests in the Greek capital.


Pekerman looks like favorite to coach Argentina

Jose Pekerman emerged as favourite to take over as Argentina coach on Wednesday after original first choice Carlos Bianchi turned down the job, Argentina Football Association president Julio Grondona said.


Pakistan PM plans talks with Indian counterpart on gas pipeline project

Pakistan and India will discuss a regional gas pipeline from Iran during a South Asian summit in Dhaka early next month, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said in an interview.


Report: N. Korea Dismisses Missile Reports

A high North Korean official dismissed reports his government was preparing to test fire a long-range missile as "conjecture, rumor and speculation," Japanese news media said Saturday.


Hewlett-Packard Labs Director Lampman To Retire

TechWeb - Under Dick Lampman's direction, HP researchers helped the company enter the digital photography market, invent the architecture behind the Itanium processor, and build software and IT services business.


Greeks still carry a torch for the Olympics

The regulars at the Thessalia Grill on Skiathou Street had waited all month for Panagiotis Tsimbidas to open his doors, which had been closed because of his annual August vacation and the unexpected heart problems of his elderly father-in-law.


Cyclical pressures likely to weigh heavily on tech in 2005 and ...

Technology stocks have underperformed the rest of the market this year, and professional investors have reduced their commitment to the industry as a growing number of analysts question the outlook for the sector.


EMMELOORD, Netherlands  - Motorists nostalgic for  the time they could sit tight while attendants braved windswept  garage forecourts to fill their tanks may yet see those heady  days return -- compliments of a Dutch robot.


BEA Systems Inc. chose the opening day of competitor Oracle's annual user conference in San Francisco to talk about its next version of the BEA WebLogic Application Server platform.


England held by Austria, Greece stunned in Albania

England's World Cup qualifying campaign got off to a miserable start yesterday when it squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Austria in Group Six.


The President: Bush Says G.O.P. Rebels Are Putting Nation at Risk

President Bush made an impassioned defense of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.


Four men were arrested in connection with the case, the police said.


Microsoft to End Digital Downloads for Vista Upgrades

Microsoft revise a program that allows Windows Vista customers to upgrade from a basic version of its OS to one of the premium editions.


Prodi to address parliament as Italy's govt faces threat from former ally

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was to address the lower house of parliament Tuesday after former justice minister Clemente Mastella said his party, a former member of the ruling coalition, would vote against the government in a confidence motion.


Roma, 12:33 - NUOTO, ROMA 2009: LA MASCOTTE E' UNA RANA

E' una rana di nome Diva la mascotte dei Mondiali di nuoto di Roma 2009, presentata stamattina dal C...


Mets' Wright gets another game-ending RBI

David Wright has made a habit this season of coming up with the big hit.


Fed to redeem $12.48 billion of Treasury bill holdings

The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Thursday it will redeem the full amount of maturing Treasury bill holdings of $12.48 billion on January 3, 2008.


Bill Clinton will make a dramatic appearance for John Kerry today in Philadelphia and later in Florida - and he says he would not have it any other way.


Georgia's former schools superintendent pleaded not guilty Monday to charges she stole more than $600,000 in education funds and spent it on a face-lift and her failed campaign for governor.


Three British soldiers are due to appear before a court martial in Germany over alleged abuse of Iraqi civilians.


Soctek to enhance IOI group's biz integration

IOI Corporation Bhd says its proposed purchase of a specialty fats facilities in Pasir Gudang and its new refinery in Netherlands will enhance the group's business integration, leading to greater ...


Diana inquiry to say death was accident, not murder plot: reports

A long-awaited report into the death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash due out Thursday is expected to refute theories of a plot by British intelligence targeting her, and confirm a French probe that said it was an accident.


An embedded XML Database: Oracle Berkeley DB XML

There is more to life than RDBMS Tutorial Storing an XML document in a relational database has its limitations. XMLâs hierarchical structures do not map well to relational database structures. Thatâs where an embeddable (non-relational) XML database has advantages over a relational database. Oracle database (since Oracle 9i database R2) provides the Oracle XML DB feature to store and query XML documents in an XMLType data type column, but you still need a DBA to manage the Oracle database.â¦


Freddie Prinze Jr. shed tears Tuesday as he unveiled a Hollywood Walk of Fame star for his late father, who committed suicide in 1977.


The wife of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hezbollah confronted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a news conference at the United Nations, urging him to use his influence over the guerrilla group to allow aid workers to see her husband.


Japanese Women Rule Four Continents Event

Japan's Mao Asada took the women's gold medal at the Four Continents championships yesterday in Goyang, South Korea, by recording a season-best total score of 193.25, defeating world champion compatriot Miko Ando.


UPDATE 1-Barnes leads Australian Open after first round

Former national amateur champion Kurt Barnes shot a brilliant 65 on Thursday to emerge as the unlikely first round leader of the centenary Australian Open.


Philips says completes sale of TSMC shares

Philips Electronics  said on Monday it had completed the sale of 800 million shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company  valued at about $1.5 billion.


America Online subscribers will receive a raft of new and enhanced security services as part of their standard package with the launch of AOL 9.0 Security Edition, the latest upgrade of the company's fee-based, consumer-focused online service.


Shuttle docks with space station for week-long stay

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station on Sunday to start a week-long stay to deliver electricity-generating solar panels and a new crewmember to the orbital outpost.


Giovanna, sexy e comica per la prima volta in Francia

Dopo le affermazioni in storie dolciamare come 'L'Ultimo bacio' e 'La finestra di fronte'. Giovanna Mezzoggiorno festeggia i suoi trenta anni (Ã¨ nata il 9 settembre 1974) con una bella parte di trentenne


A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong. The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who


Shuttle to check heat shield, deploy satellites

Astronauts aboard Discovery plan a  final, routine check of the space shuttle's heat shield and the  launch of two small satellites on Wednesday before landing two  days later.


La rassegna a Siena dal 28 giugno al 9 settembre


ATHENS, Greece -- The winner of Wednesday's women's shot put has been stripped of her gold medal after failing a drugs test after the competition.


No-one is immune to HIV. But this is not to say the peril is equal, for some people are at greater risk of getting infected by the Aids virus than others.


New Zealand welcomes home unknown World War I soldier 90 years on

The remains of an unknown soldier from New Zealand killed in France 90 years ago during World War I arrived to an emotion-laden Maori and military welcome.


Once Just a Sweet Birthday Treat, the Cupcake Becomes a Cause

Once a cupcake wasn't something to think about. It was just what your mom brought to school for your birthday. But this year, as schools across the country begin enforcing new federally mandated "wellness policies," many are banning the little treats. And parents are fighting back.


The PlayStation Portable is the talk of the town, after basking in the limelight at a recent game show. But despite all the hoopla, Sony Computer Entertainment Co.


Roma, 16:06 - CALCIO, SCOMMESSE: PER MAZZONE REGGINA-BOLOGNA 2005 REGOLARE

Carlo Mazzone garantisce sulla regolarità di un Reggina-Bologna dell'8 maggio 2005, chiuso 1-...


Edge Dynamics launches new breed of enterprise app

Enterprise software takes an evolutionary step forward as Edge Dynamics and Tibco Software develop software that combines elements of both ERP and BI applications.


Malaysia favours strong ringgit as currency hits near 10-year high

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Saturday said Malaysia favours a steady rise in the value of the ringgit after it rose to its strongest position in nearly a decade against the US dollar.


SÃ¬ del Movimento per la vita, perplesse le AcliDon Mazzi: "Operazione spregiudicata"                                           La lista contro l'aborto  divide i cattolici                                                                                Ma a Genova l'Opus Dei applaude l'iniziativa di Ferraradi ORAZIO LA ROCCA


US television is broadcasting previously unseen tapes of Princess Diana in which she claims one of her lovers was "bumped off".


Clinton campaigns with family, GOP voter

Democratic Hillary Rodham Clinton got by with a little help from her friends Â Republican ones Â and family on Friday.


Sirius, XM shares fall after Sirius cuts forecast

Shares of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.  fell more than 7 percent on Tuesday after the pay-radio provider cut its fourth- quarter subscriber target, citing disappointing sales over the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend.


Floyd Norris Blog: Chuck Prince as Whipping Boy

Tim Walker of Hooverâs has some nice things to say about me, before adding that I am was wrong when I said it was not clear that Citigroup would be any better off if it fired Chuck Prince. He makes a good case that Mr. Prince has made plenty of mistakes, but is, I think, not [...].


Federer to face towering Karlovic in Basel semis

BASEL, Switzerland  - Roger Federer enjoyed a routine 6-3 6-2 win over Germany's Nicolas Kiefer on Friday to reach the semi-finals of his hometown tournament in Basel.


(InfoWorld) - Just ahead of this Thursday's Google Developer Day 2007 events, Google began offering on Tuesday a release candidate for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4, an upgrade to the company's framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications in Java. Focused on improvements in speed and stability, version 1.4 features optimized output in which applications load faster. Developers can speed up existing Google Web Toolkit applications by recompiling with the 1.4 release candidate, which is downloadable here. The toolkit is intended to make it easier to write AJAX applications such as Google Maps and Gmail. No date has been set for the general release of version 1.4 "This is undoubtedly the biggest GWT release yet," said Bruce Johnson, a developer of the toolkit, in a blog. "In addition to 150-plus bug fixes, GWT 1.4 RC includes a ton of new features, improvements, and optimizations." An ImageBundle capability in version 1.4 creates a single composite image from many small ones, allowing for consolidation of HTTP requests. This improves application responsiveness, the company said. The composite image is permanently cacheable, which means users' time is not spent on bytes they already have, Google said. Version 1.4 also features an enhanced UI library with widgets that make it easier to build user interfaces. A RichText widget provides a simpler way to add sophisticated text-editing capabilities to applications while a SuggestBox widget offers auto-complete functionality that can be tailored to any need, Google said. HorizontalSplitPanel and VerticalSplitPanel capabilities enable resizing of portions of the user interface. Benchmarking functions in the toolkit integrate with the JUnit testing framework, so developers can record and compare the speed of code snippets across different parameters. Internationalization and localization support has been improved with NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat capabilities, which allow developers to parse and format numbers, dates, and times for users worldwide, Google said. The toolkit was launched a year ago and has been used to build products, such as Google Checkout, for online shipping. Google made the toolkit available in an open source format, via an Apache 2.0 license, later in 2006. The company noted that the creators of the toolkit, Johnson and Joel Webber, will speak at Google Developer Day 2007, in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday. Google Developer Day events also are being held in 10 locations around the world for users of Google APIs and developer tools. Places such as Sao Paolo, Brazil; London, and Paris also will host Google developer events on Thursday. Featured on the agenda are discussions on technologies such as Google AJAX APIs, the Google Maps, YouTube APIs, and mashups.


Scambiato a 1,3024 dollari e a 133,50 yen


Missouri joins Illinois, Wisconsin in drug-import program tapping ...

Missouri joined Illinois and Wisconsin in a new drug-import program to make cheaper prescription drugs available from Canada and Europe despite a federal ban on the imports.


U.N. watchdog to consider world atom fuel supply bank

Proposals for a global nuclear fuel bank   meant to boost economic development while stemming the spread   of atom bomb know-how are to be put to a U.N. watchdog's   decision-making board in 2007, officials say.


Seven people have been killed, and more than a 100 injured in a high speed train crash in Berkshire. Send us your reaction.


Jet Crashes En Route to Get Former President Bush

A private jet on its way to pick up former President Bush at a Houston airport crashed in bad weather on Monday, killing the three crew members on board, officials said.


Tech Industry Builds Lobbying Machine for Patent Fight

Just about every industry you can think of has worried about, and lobbied on, legislation that would alter the way patents are enforced.


Giant pandas may well prefer bamboo to laptops, but wireless technology is helping researchers in China in their efforts to protect the engandered animals living in the remote Wolong Nature Reserve.


Indonesian man dies of bird flu: health ministry

A 45-year-old Indonesian man from central Java has died of bird flu, a health ministry official said on Wednesday.


TI Working on Television Chip for Phones for 2007

Texas Instruments Inc. has begun  developing a chip that could bring television shows to mobile  phone screens in three years.


Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday will announce a new timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.Comment


Ukraine Media Not Seen As Independent Yet

When protesters thronged the streets of Kiev to protest presidential election fraud, most Ukrainians barely saw the drama on TV.


It May Not Be Red Sox-Yankees, but Ryder Cup Rivalry Is Real

The Ryder Cup is always emotional, which ensures that it will be compelling. No other event in golf stirs up similar passions, and nobody involved seems immune to it.


`Energy vortexes' draw Madonna to Tel Aviv for Kabbalah visit

Israel was abuzz with excitement yesterday over the arrival of Madonna, its biggest celebrity visitor in years. The singer and her friends went to Israel yesterday


JAPANESE CHECKING BODY PARTS FOUND IN IRAQ

Japan has sent two diplomats to a forensic medical facility in Iraq to see if a head and body found in Baghdad was that of a Japanese man taken hostage.


Survivors are united in their desperate search for loved ones in Thailand, says the BBC's Kate McGeown.


Football: Barcelona and Real Madrid prepare for their La Liga ...

Barcelona host Real Madrid at the Nou Camp on Saturday in what promises to be the biggest match to date in the current Spanish Primera Liga season.


In via Fani il presidente Usa paragonato allo statista della DcNapolitano: "Profanazione che suscita allarme e vigilanza"                                          Scritta contro Bush sulla lapide di Moro Condanna da tutto il mondo politico                                                                                Marini e Bertinotti sdegnati: "Un atto di ignoranza e inciviltÃ "Cossiga: "Il governo Ã¨ il mandante morale e politico del gesto"


New Breast Cancer Drug Reduces Relapse-Study

A new type of breast cancer drug is superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in older women and should now be the first drug used to treat


BAGHDAD - Iraq's interim prime minister said yesterday that efforts to resolve the conflict in Fallujah peacefully had entered their final phase and warned that "our patience is running thin," vowing to clear the city of militants who have carried out


Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has informed the White House and department staff that he has resigned, U.S. officials said Tuesday.


The New 42nd Street, Near a Nude 8th Avenue

NEW YORK -- The stretch of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues is jammed shoulder to shoulder these days with office workers and tourists. Families catch a production of "Mary Poppins" at the refurbished New Amsterdam Theatre. European and Japanese visitors line up for Madame Tussauds wax...


Taiwan companies team up on Microsoft smartphones

(InfoWorld) - A pair of Taiwanese companies signed a technology agreement to develop 3G (third generation telecommunications) and 3.5G smartphones around the Windows Mobile OS, adding to the growing pool of companies developing mobile phones around the Microsoft software. E-ten Information Systems and Arima Communications will combine their technical expertise to deliver at least four new Windows Mobile-based smartphones to global markets by the end of this year, they said in statements to the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Arima has experience with handset technology for Ericsson mobile phones and related chipsets, in addition to the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS and networking chips from Marvell Technology Group, while E-ten has developed several handsets around Microsoft Windows Mobile using communications processors from Samsung Electronics, the companies said. The two companies plan to use their combined expertise to develop high end 3G smartphones that allow uploads and downloads using HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) or Wi-Fi technology, as well as GPS (Global Positioning System) for maps, and Bluetooth technology for device to device links. The new cooperation is a further sign the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS continues to catch fire, even amid stiff competition from popular handsets such asÂ Apple's iPhoneÂ and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry devices, in addition to OSs such as Symbian and Embedded Linux. Taiwan companies have been helpful partners for Microsoft in the handset arena. High Tech ComputerÂ (HTC), the world's largest maker of mobile phones using the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS, is also a Taiwanese company. E-Ten already has a smartphone out, the Glofiish X500, which uses the latest version of the Microsoft OS, Windows Mobile 6. The company is a long-time developer of GPS devices.


Researchers See Gigabit Data Over Power Lines

Engineers at Penn State University  said on Wednesday they had found a way for power lines to  transmit data to homes at rates far faster than high-speed  Internet connections from cable and telephone companies.


US senators fail to proceed to an early vote on a landmark immigration bill, in effect scuppering the measure.


Allarmato, situazione richiede assunzione responsabilita'


Advertisers take advantage of tighter Sri Lanka security

The fear of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka following an upsurge in violence has spawned extra security checks, making daily life more difficult, but the hassle has also created unexpected marketing opportunities, according to advertising specialists.


As former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet recovered on Sunday from a stroke, lawyers who brought human rights charges against him claimed his hospitalization was a ploy to avoid trial.


Nikkei +0,16%.Euro a 1,3022 dollari e 157,24 yen


Heart Procedure Results Have Improved for Elderly

NEW YORK  - Over the last decade, the use  of angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting to treat  elderly heart patients has increased, and outcomes of these  procedures have improved.


News conferences, a slew of felony charges, a perp walk in handcuffs and detention in a holding cell without bail — it's clear authorities aren't giving O.J. Simpson any celebrity breaks.


A man left paralysed in a road accident wins damages after the Ministry of Defence admits liability.


'Surge' may be reversed by next March, says America's leading military commander in Iraq.


Capo dello stato, "trovare equilibrio tra cura e sicurezza"


Iraq officials reject US election proposal

A proposal floated by the US government and several prominient US senators Sunday to 'adjust' the outcome of next month's election in Iraq to ensure more Sunni representation has been rejected by the Iraq Electoral Commission (IEC).


TPG, Silver Lake near deal for Avaya: report

Private equity firms TPG Capital LLP and Silver Lake Partners are in a leading position to buy telecommunications equipment company Avaya Inc.  for about $7.77 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday.


Three months ago, US beach volleyball player Jeff Nygaard expressed the prevailing view of the upcoming Olympic Games. ``It's like when you go see a movie,'' Nygaard said.


Police arrest five people over the killing of a man allegedly stabbed by a burglar in his home.


Valencia, 13:45 - CALCIO, VALENCIA: STOP PER REGUEIRO

Continua a perdere pezzi il Valencia. La squadra spagnola, avversaria martedÃ¬ della Roma in Champion...


Trend Micro stresses 'tested' patent in trade case

Barracuda Networks plans to focus on finding prior art to defend itself and the open-source ClamAV project against patent claims by rival antivirus vendor Trend Micro, which stressed Tuesday that it owns a tested and valid patent.Barracuda, facing a Trend Micro complaint before the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), will work on showing the agency that other companies used gateway antivirus scanning before Trend Micro received its patent in 1997, Barracuda said Tuesday. Barracuda, based in California, uses ClamAV code in some of its products."In their claim, Trend Micro is seeking an interpretation of its ... patent such that would give it exclusive control of gateway antivirus scanning," said Kylie Heintz, spokeswoman for Barracuda."We believe that neither our products, nor the free and open-source ClamAV software, infringe the patent, and further we believe that the patent itself is invalid due to prior art," Heintz said.The USITC launched a formal investigation of the patent claims in December.Barracuda's announcement that it intended to find prior art spurred action in the open-source community. Early Tuesday, Groklaw, a blog focused on open-source legal issues, posted an announcement asking for help finding prior art.But Trend Micro, which filed the USITC complaint in November, has a "known and time-tested patent," said Michael Sweeny, a spokesman for Trend Micro. The company won a similar dispute with rival Fortinet before the USITC in May 2005, Trend Micro noted. Fortinet later settled the patent claims, getting a license from Trend Micro.In addition, Trend Micro filed a similar complaint against Panda Software International and Panda Distribution, which use a proprietary software package, said Mark Davis, Trend Micro's outside counsel. Trend Micro has not targeted the ClamAV project, he said. "This is purely against commercial competitors," Davis added.Commercial software vendor Sourcefire purchased the ClamAV project in August. Sourcefire declined to comment on the patent dispute.Open-source software is not the issue in the USITC complaint, Sweeny added. "We can't see how this would negatively impact open-source development," he said.Barracuda CEO Dean Drako called scanning for viruses at the gateway "an obvious and common technique" used by most businesses. Almost anyone, including the owners of more than 1 million ClamAV installations, could be sued by Trend Micro if the company's patent claims hold up, he said in a statement.Barracuda, maker of hardware containing cybersecurity products, has won support in the dispute from the Software Freedom Law Center, a group working to protect open-source software. The law center is grateful to Barracuda for fighting the patent, said Eben Moglen, the center's founding director. "Collective defense from software patents is a shared responsibility for everyone in the free software ecosystem," he said in a statement.Barracuda has a pending lawsuit seeking to invalidate the patent in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose division.Trend Micro is misusing the USITC because it's filing a trade complaint asking the agency to bar importation of a product against a company based in the U.S., Barracuda added. "Barracuda Networks designs and manufactures all of the products in question in the United States," Drako said in his statement. "We believe Trend Micro's actions are a blatant abuse of the U.S. legal system."But Trend Micro said the USITC is an appropriate venue for the patent complaint. The 2005 Fortinet ruling was also against a company based in the U.S., Davis said. "There appear to be several components that are imported," he said.Trend Micro's USITC complaint says Barracuda uses code from ClamAV, which is written in part in Europe and Australia. Barracuda also imports hardware components, the complaint says.


Boscastle is saved from a repeat of serious flooding after a defence system was tested by torrential rain.


LAS VEGAS -- Next Saturday, gamblers at the Bellagio, the opulent Las Vegas casino immortalized in the George Clooney blockbuster "Ocean's Eleven," will be treated to an unusual sight.


CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Ticker) -- The Detroit Shock face a critical road test Saturday when they take on the Charlotte Sting at Charlotte Coliseum.


Nadal shows no mercy to set up Djokovic showdown

Experience proved no match for youthful vitality as Rafael Nadal trampled over his boyhood mentor at the French Open on Wednesday.


The government is expected to announce new legislation this week to protect people who work in animal research.


Forty-four years ago, on Sept. 26, 1960, the first presidential debate in American history was held in Chicago. Between 60 million and 70 million Americans watched Richard


Smith apologises for foreign workers error

Home secretary sorry for understatement of increase in foreign workers by 300,000.


Flintoff and Harmison must hunt for Australia

Following a summer of unprecedented success the headlines were inevitable. "Bring on the Aussies" shouted one Sunday paper, following England's 4-0 Test series whitewash of the West Indies.


La nuova rete nasce sulle ceneri di Play Radio


Take Two E-Mails and iPhone Me in the Morning

In the olden days, doctors were on call at all hours, ready to dispense advice over the phone or to make house calls, carrying stethoscopes in their black bags.


Ex collaboratrice del padre, la donna presenzia alle cene ufficialidella Casa Bianca con la compagna, ex guardia forestale                                            La figlia gay di Cheney Ã¨ incinta la gioia del vicepresidente Usa


With Aston Martin on the block, Ford powers up restructuring

Ford announced Thursday it wants to hive off Aston Martin, the dashing sports car immortalized by fictional superspy James Bond.


Australian Guantanamo inmate strains U.S. ties

The United States may speed up the trial of Australia's only Guantanamo Bay inmate, David Hicks, following a rare split between the two allies over accusations he faced "Nazi concentration camp" conditions.


Secretary of State Powell in China for Talks on North Korea

Secretary of State Colin Powell is in China as part of a three-nation Asian tour to try to restart multi-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program.


Qaeda-led group says it killed missing U.S. soldiers

An al Qaeda-led group in Iraq said on Monday it had killed three U.S. soldiers after capturing them last month but provided no evidence apart from pictures of ID cards of two of the men.


News about the Cayman Islands in the Foreign Press

According to a report by the US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Infobank of Belarus has been involved in money laundering using Cayman companies.


One-Millionth Visitor to the MoMA in Berlin Exhibition

BERLIN, GERMANY.- Marie-Luise Dietrich, the one-millionth visitor of the MoMA in Berlin-exposition, stands in front of Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night, 01 September 2004 in Berlin.


NHL The Toronto Maple Leafs fired general manager John Ferguson Jr. yesterday, replacing him with former GM Cliff Fletcher on an interim basis. The Maple Leafs are 14th in the Eastern Conference standings with a 19-22-8 record . . . The Penguins' Evgeni Malkin was one of five players chosen as All-Star replacements for this weekend's festivities in Atlanta. The ...


Pentagon Prepares for Layoffs in Budget Standoff

The Pentagon expects to notify Army and Navy commanders this week to begin preparing to lay off civilian employees, a Defense Department official said yesterday.


Parigi, 17:27 - CALCIO, DOMENECH: GIOCHEREMO PER VINCERE, NON SIAMO ITALIANI

IL ct francese Raymond Domenech non perde occasione per punzecchiare l'Italia che lo ha battuto ai M...


Windies crush Pakistan to reach Trophy final

Inzamam-ul-Haq gambled and lost today as West Indies thrashed Pakistan by seven wickets to book their place in the Champions Trophy final today.


Two weeks after suggesting he wouldn't play all four tournaments in the FedEx Cup playoffs, Scott Verplank was a man of his word.


Russian village's tightrope walking prowess

TSOVKRA-1, Russia  - By a quirk of history that goes so far back in time no one really remembers it, nearly every man, woman and child in the remote mountain village of Tsovkra-1 can walk the tightrope.


Panther head coach Eric Taylor is visiting his star quarterback, Jason Street, who is hospitalized with a crippling injury received during the season's first game.


Struggling UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's issues its third profit warning of the year, saying half-year profits are set to fall to as little as Â£125m.


Senate Democrats plan probes into Iraq war

Accusing Republicans of failing to   adequately monitor the conduct of the war in Iraq, Senate   Democrats on Wednesday announced their own series of hearings   into what they called a failed policy.


Italian women among hostages released in Iraq

Two Italian women held hostage in Iraq for three weeks have been handed over to the Red Cross and returned to Rome. Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, were among a handful of hostages released by two


Investors are wowed by the firmâs first quarterly earnings report since it became a publicly-owned company, which showed sales and profit more than doubled in the third quarter.


Posh areas to cough up as London expands congestion charge

A controversial charge on cars that enter the centre of the the British capital is to be extended Monday to some of London's plushest districts -- threatening a new wave of anger.


Fonti Palazzo Chigi, utile qualche giorno in piu'


Group not satisfied with Rosie's apology

Rosie O'Donnell says she's sorry for mocking spoken Chinese on "The View," but an association that represents journalists from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, including Chinese American, says it wasn't enough.


Shareholder structure not 'fundamental' for EADS: French PM

French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Thursday that it was not the shareholder structure that was fundamental to the success of European aerospace giant EADS, but the organisation and management of the company.


Baghdad bomb kills 14, wounds 75: police

At least 14 people were killed and 75 wounded in a car bomb attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday which targeted the convoy of Industry Minister Fawzi al-Hariri, Interior Ministry sources said.


Don't expect big changes  from HBO post-Chris Albrecht, his replacements pledged Thursday  at the network's summer Television Critics Assn. presentation.


Korean airline says no to Apple, Dell laptops

Even machines not affected by battery recalls Korean Air has become the latest airline to effectively ground notebooks from Apple and Dell. The carrier has banned travellers from bringing those companies' portable computers into aircraft cabins unless the laptops' batteries have been removed first.â¦


With two races to go, Formula One's season couldn't be closer.


Family loses 2nd son; 3rd brother serves

Early in the Iraq war, Jeff and Peggy Hubbard faced the news that every parent with a child at war dreads, the death of their son Jared, a Marine killed alongside his best friend.


Coca-Cola North America president resigns

Coca-Cola Co KO.N on Wednesday said   Donald Knauss, president of Coca-Cola North America, was   resigning to accept a job as chairman and chief executive of   another company.


The search for a boy who is missing after the rowing boat he stole with a friend capsized is scaled down overnight.


The pensions department apologises for sending thousands of personal letters to the wrong addresses.


Abuja - Nigerian unions have threatened to extend their nationwide general strike, which entered its third day on Wednesday, continuing concerns about production in Africa's biggest oil-exporting nation.


A racist slur made by Spanish national coach Luis Aragones against Thierry Henry has angered the Arsenal star's teammates, who have called for FIFA take action.


Ferrara, 14:36 - CALCIO, SERIE C2: SPAL-PAGANESE ANTICIPATA A SABATO

Spal-Paganese, match valido per i playoff di serie C/2, verrà anticipato a sabato, alle ore 1...


U.S. Launches Rocket Carrying Two Satellites into Space

U.S. launches rocket carrying two satellites into space    WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A rocket carrying two experimental satellites for U.S. Air Force and NASA was launched into space at 7:00 a.m.


WHO ties rising population, new diseases

A ballooning world population, intensive farming practices and changes in sexual behavior have provided a breeding ground for an unprecedented number of emerging diseases, the U.N. health agency said Thursday.


Ucraina, sondaggio ballottaggio: Yushenko avanti di 14 punti

Il candidato dell'opposizione in Ucraina, Viktor Yushenko, a tre giorni dal ballottaggio presidenziale Ã¨ in vantaggio sul rivale Viktor Yanukovic di ben 14 punti percentuali. Lo riferisce un sondaggio pubblicato


Relations between China and Brazil have remarkably improved since the two countries established diplomatic relations 30 years ago, and both sides hope their ties will be strengthened in a time of challenges and opportunities.


Pilgrims Flock to Honor Mexican Idiot Savant Saint

EL ESPINAZO, Mexico  - Thousands of barefoot  penitents walked, rolled and even shuffled on all fours to a  desert shrine in northern Mexico on Friday to pay homage to a  long-dead healer hailed as an idiot savant saint.


NBC News said Tuesday it is creating its own in-house firm, Peacock Productions, to make nonfiction programming available to various cable networks.


A 62-year-old British woman is killed after a tour bus rolls down a bank in South Island, New Zealand.


Egyptian feminist faces lawsuit over 'blasphemous' play

Sunni Islam's highest institute of learning Al-Azhar said Thursday it was preparing to sue Egyptian feminist Nawal al-Saadawi for a play she wrote it describes as blasphemous.


Chechnya Holds Elections in Shadow of Terrorist Strike

Description: There's a presidential election Sunday in Chechnya to replace the man who was assassinated earlier this year. The election has been overshadowed by the twin airplane crashes in Russia, which are now attributed to Chechen terrorists.


Smokers' rights groups call for some exceptions to England's smoking ban which becomes law next week.


Boeing successfully launched the most powerful unmanned rocket ever on Tuesday when the 71-metre long Delta IV Heavy lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a fake satellite into orbit.


Police bust 300-strong 'paedophile ring'

Members based in UK, Australia, Canada and US A worldwide undercover police operation infiltrated and shut down an online network of 300 paedophiles, police said on Wednesday.â¦


Damiano su incidenti lavoro, 'Leggi ci sono, applicarle'


Sudan Sanctions 'Could Be Counter Productive'

Imposing sanctions on the government of Sudan in a bid to resolve the crisis in the Darfur region of the country could prove counter productive, a Foreign Office minister warned today.


Science & environment: Supermarket chain to give away energy-saving lightbulbs to customers who make green pledge.


Blog: The past year was rough, but Intel's back to giving Wall Street what it wants: solid gains in both revenue and profits.


Gar-Field's offense appears to be in mid-season form Friday as the Indians cruise to a 37-14 win over Colonial Forge.


Two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists surveyed two years ago lacked confidence that the FDA adequately monitors the safety of prescription drugs, a report released Thursday shows.


Oslo, 14:49 - BIATHLON, CDM DONNE: A OSLO DOMINIO VITTORIA DELLA NEUNER

Magdalena Neuner ha vinto la gara ad inseguimento di Oslo, valida per la coppa del mondo femminile d...


Organisers of a tsunami collection call for medicines and money, as they have been overwhelmed by clothes donations.


Plaid Cymru's leader tells his party it has to 'rise to the challenge of nation building within government'.


Word 2007 loses the ability to export outlines to Powerpoint

Microsoft removed the File*Send to*Microsoft Office Powerpoint feature in Word 2007.


Iwamura eager to get started with D-Rays

Akinori Iwamura stepped up to the podium, took a deep breath and smiled. The last time the five-time Japanese League All-Star remembered feeling so nervous, his country was facing the United States on the way to winning the inaugural World Baseball Classic last winter.


JVC has developed prototype read-only discs that can contain data stored in both the DVD and high-capacity Blu-ray Disc formats. They are the first discs that are able to contain data in both formats, a company spokesperson says.


President Bush, under pressure to find a new blueprint for Iraq, on Wednesday sought to strengthen Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's ability to quell rising violence amid U.S. doubts about his capacity to ...Comment


Oracle Sets New PeopleSoft Buyout Deadline

Ziff Davis - The long wait for a decision in the government's antitrust trial against Oracle has prompted the company to extend the deadline yet again for its $7.7 billion attempted buyout of PeopleSoft.


Russia Blames Terrorism for Downed Plane

MOSCOW Aug. 28, 2004 - The discovery of traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of two airliners that crashed almost simultaneously this week have confirmed a widely suspected terrorist connection and


Bertinotti: 'scenario sempre piu' preoccupante'


UCRAINA: DOMANI SI RIPETE BALLOTTAGGIO PER LE PRESIDENZIALI

KIEV - Vigilia di tensione e di incertezza, oggi in Ucraina, della ripetizione del ballottaggio per le elezioni presidenziali. L'annullamento deciso dalla corte costituzionale di alcuni emendamenti alla legge


Nigeria misses UN deadline to pull troops out of oilfields claimed by Cameroon

ABUJA, Nigeria  - Nigeria failed to agree with Cameroon on a promised troop-pullout from disputed territory in the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea on Friday, a month after a UN-backed deadline for its hand-over to Cameroon passed.


U.S. may take action on EU electronics tariffs

The United States is considering  action against the European Union with the World Trade  Organization over tariffs that the EU imposes on certain  electronics products, Trade Representative Susan Schwab said on  Tuesday.


Sony has launched its first handheld games console, the PlayStation Portable (PSP), which it hopes will challenge Nintendo in the portable games market.


Harmony-influence remote control comes to the fore CES Say hello to the Squeezebox 4. It's actually called the Squeezebox Duet, and it's the first version of the networked music player released since Slim Devices was snapped up by Logitech.â¦


Nonostante fisco, indagine Mediobanca e Unioncamere


The governor of Baghdad escapes unhurt when a roadside bomb explodes near his convoy.


Lo dice Nucleo di valutazione nel rapporto 2007


Turkish lawmakers to lift headscarf ban amid mass protest

Turkish lawmakers were set to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the move as a threat to secularism.


Mobile phone market leader Nokia   NOK1V.HE unveiled a new short-range wireless connection on   Tuesday that is smaller and more energy-efficient than current   Bluetooth technology and can be used in devices such as   watches.


PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio -- Health officials said Saturday that they have confirmed more than 100 additional cases of an illness that's causing cramps, diarrhea, nausea, fever and chills among visitors to this resort area.


Israel would not bar Arafat return after overseas treatment

JERUSALEM, Oct 28  - Israel will not bar ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from returning to the West Bank if he were to leave for medical treatment, senior government spokesman Raanan Gissin told AFP Thursday.


Some on Journal Staff Voice Wish That Different Bidder Would Emerge

A small group of reporters and editors at The Wall Street Journal raised an outcry against Rupert Murdochâs plan to buy Dow Jones.


Powell plays up diverse broadband options

WASHINGTONâFCC Chairman Michael Powell said the diverse options for broadbandâincluding both unlicensed and licensed choicesâmake America strong even if others, including his fellow commissioners, believe the United States is lagging the rest of the


Senate Dems plan new round of Iraq votes

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home.


Sally Struthers felt like she'd won an award when she was offered a role in a new cable television movie about small-town values. "I went crazy," she said, citing family values, love and the struggle between good and evil as her favorite themes.


Hal Sutton anticipated the question. He had formulated an answer, too, long before he arrived in that Milwaukee hotel ballroom to announce his captain's picks and finalize the US Ryder Cup team.


Cops crash invite-only BitTorrent network

A win for Media Defender? Police raids in the UK's North East and the Netherlands today have shut down invitation-only BitTorrent music sharing operation OiNK.cd.â¦


Robocode is a Java programming game, where the goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks. The robot battles are running in real-time and on-screen. The motto of Robocode is: Build the best, destroy the rest!   Bugfixes: - The coordinates of a Bullet from a bullet event like HitByBulletEvent() was not correct as the coordinates of the bullets would follow the bullet explosion on the robot it has hit.   - Now the coordinates of the Bullet will not change when it hits a robot or another bullet, even though the coordinates of the bullet explosion will change internally, but only for painting the explosion.   - This means that the coordinates of a bullet received from a bullet event will actually by on the real bullet line.   - The initial explosion painting on a robot has also changed so it shows exactly where the bullet has hit the robot, or more precisely the bounding box of the robot, which does not rotate with the robot rotation. - When Robocode cleaned up the robot database a NullPointerException could occur if a file was missing which the database file referred to. - The Restart button was enabled when do battles had been started previously. - The areas of the battle field was repainted with the black background with the Robocode logo when the game was paused, and the battle window needed to be repainted. - When the Robocode window was minimized the actual TPS and FPS were not shown. - When installing new versions of Robocode on top of an existing Robocode installation, the About window did not have the right height.  Changes: - The color of each bullet is now independent on the current color set with the setBulletColor() method. Previously, all bullets were instantly changing their colors when setBulletColor() was called. Now, the color of the bullet will stick to the bullet color set when the bullet was fired. - Improved the "Check for new version", so that is able to differ between release type as alpha, beta, and final release types.


MySpace third-party apps hold onto users

MySpace users will be able to add games, e-mail services and other features from outside developers without ever leaving the site under a new program the popular online community will fully launch next month.


Windows XP SP2 Distribution Surpasses 100 Million

Microsoft's big Windows patch gets snapped up by consumers, but many businesses are still testing it. By John Foley. Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now in the hands of more than 100 million users, the company disclosed on Wednesday.


Google Bows to Pressure, Agrees to Delete Info

The European Union's top security official yesterday lauded Google's decision to scale back how long it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated from its users as a step towards addressing privacy concerns.


Four out of five youngsters think people should be able to live anywhere they choose, a BBC global survey suggests.


Boeing's quarterly profits increase 78 per cent, raises 2004 ...

US aerospace giant Boeing Co. reported a 78 per cent jump in third-quarter profits, buoyed by a strong defence business, as the company raised its estimate for full-year profits because of a favourable tax outlook.


Actor John Hurt and former newsreader Angela Rippon pick up honours from the Queen at Buckingham Palace.


Londra, 18:42 - F1, HAMILTON ANDRA' A VIVERE IN SVIZZERA: VOGLIO PRIVACY

Lewis Hamilton ha deciso di trasferirsi in Svizzera per sottrarsi alla curiosità dei media e ...


Pope opposed Bob Dylan singing to John Paul in 1997

Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob  Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul  in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of  "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday.


New Mouse Teeth, Whiskers Grown From Handful of Cells

Japanese scientists have generated new teeth and whiskers in mice using just a handful of embryonic cells—a key development in the quest to grow replacement organs for humans.


Five reasons to make the jump to Google's web-based office software, and five reasons to stay on the Microsoft desktop. By Michael Calore.


Pope assures Muslims of respect, dialogue

CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy  - Pope Benedict assured   Muslims on Monday that he respected them and was committed to   dialogue, in an unprecedented encounter to defuse anger at his   use of quotes saying their faith was spread by the sword.


'Boots' Takes Gold at the Ferret Olympics

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. - While world-class athletes were grunting and groaning on the other side of the Atlantic Sunday, "Boots" went for the gold here in his own way...


Five French banks setting up liquidity conduit : report

A group of French banks are setting up  an investment fund to bail out small and midsize asset managers  if there is a liquidity shortage, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.


World powers consider steps to Iran sanctions

Foreign ministers from six world powers convene in London on Friday to discuss Iran's nuclear program, with the United States, backed by Britain, suggesting it is time to consider a sanctions resolution against Tehran.


Daunte Culpepper finally has what he asked the Miami Dolphins for weeks ago -- a chance to start over with a new team.


Bush, Kerry Tied in Three Polls; Bush Leads in Two

President George W. Bush opened a lead of as much as 8 percentage points over four-term Massachusetts Senator John Kerry in two national polls, and the candidates are tied in three others.


Indie films get video-on-demand exposure

IFC Entertainment is  creating a straight-to-VOD business for indie films called  Festival Direct.


PeopleSoft board rejects takeover bid by Oracle

PLEASANTON, California - PeopleSoft Inc.'s board yesterday rejected Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion takeover bid, continuing its resistance after the company's own shareholders tendered more than 60 percent of their stock to Oracle.


As the U.S. debates whether to reach out to Syria for help in calming Iraq, some close to the Syrian regime say the country would be willing to help, but only if it got something valuable in return.


British insurer Resolution snubs takeover offer

Life insurance group Resolution, which is merging with peer Friends Provident, on Friday snubbed a formal bid from Pearl Assurance worth some 4.8 billion pounds.


Roddick Extends U.S. Domination Over Belarus

CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - U.S. world number  two Andy Roddick coasted to victory over Belarus teenager  Alexander Skrypko in a dead reverse singles rubber in the Davis  Cup semi-finals on Sunday.


Win over Nebraska would be huge for Troy

In five years of playing BCS conference opponents, Troy's highlights are wins over Mississippi State and Missouri and close calls against LSU and Florida State. Coach Larry Blakeney says none of those games would compare with a victory over No. 23 Nebraska on Saturday night.


The British press, as well as the public, are having a tough time figuring out whether the McCanns are heroes or villains


New year is not the best of time for movies

It's a known fact that producers shy away if asked to release their films in the first week of January.


Former AOL Official Admits $100,000 Fraud

The former head of human resources at America Online pleaded guilty Thursday to a wire-fraud charge in connection with the theft of $100,000 from the Internet firm.


Garbage turned into backyard fencing by FiberTech

Rollo, they are taking old plastic and turning it into backyard equipment.


Judge Rules in Electoral College Lawsuit

A federal judge Tuesday left it up to the voters to decide on Election Day whether to change the way Colorado distributes its electoral votes for president.


Stephen Jackson continued a strong preseason, scoring 29 points to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 93-92 victory Tuesday night over the Minnesota Timberwolves.


I’m on teleconferences several times a day. They’re either great, or a mess. Some people don’t know how to start one; other times there’s no one in charge of moving the call forward or there’s no agenda. Sometimes you don’t know who is on the call. Save yourselves!


Forty-five days and some 13 million downloads after its official release, Mozilla's Firefox browser is showing undeniable momentum--but does it signal the beginning of the end to Microsoft's monopoly over the basic software used to access the Web?


Afghanistan's presumed president-elect is under pressure to develop a two-party system.


Novell Inc. of Waltham is getting a half-billion-dollar check from Microsoft Corp. to settle an antitrust case that's never been filed.


In four innings of work, Jay Gibbons fails to see a single ground ball in his first game of the spring at first base.


In another sign that Myanmar's military junta is eliminating internal differences, Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt was replaced by a top member of the country's ruling junta, Lieutenant


Some residents of cities and towns flooded by the Delaware River struggled to clean up debris and waterlogged possessions Saturday but many others were still waiting to return to their homes.


SAN FRANCISCO (Ticker) - The San Francisco Giants failed to get a closer before the trade deadline last season and it probably cost them a playoff berth.


A driver lost control of a bus in a heavy rainstrom in Peru's mountains and the vehicle plunged 165 feet into a river, killing 49 people on board and injuring 15, police said.


Irish UN worker Annetta Flanigan, who spent nearly a month in the hands of Afghan kidnappers, left Kabul today. She is believed to be taking a holiday before returning home to be with her friends and family in Northern Ireland.


Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq routinely torture detainees with methods including electric shock and hold them in overcrowded facilities without formal charges or access to legal aid, a human rights group said Tuesday.


New York, 10:55 - BASKET, NBA: TORONTO VINCE A ORLANDO

Questi i risultati delle partite della NBA giocate la scorsa notte:


Dominic  Monaghan, who plays Charlie Pace on the series "Lost," has  landed the lead role in the psychological thriller "Pet" for  MGM.


E' il terzo operatore di telefonia degli Stati Uniti


Microsoft Targets Vertical Markets in the Enterprise

Dynamics family of business applications are refined for specific industries.


Khatami: American "Conceit and Pride" Led to Iraq Mess

In a TIME interview, the former Iranian President says the Iraq war could have been avoided, and endorses a "two-state"  solution to the Middle East conflict


Why do women get plastered at fancy dress parties?

No idea, admit US researchers US researchers have admitted they cannot explain why women are more likely than men to get legless at sexually-themed fancy dress parties - a shock finding which is the only known exception to the rule that chaps will invariably sink more alcohol at social gatherings than the ladies.â¦


Jonathan Byrd carded his second straight 66 at Palm Harbor, Florida to join fellow American Jeff Sluman atop the leaderboard midway through the Chrysler Championship.


Baseball in Accord on Testing for Steroids

Major League Baseball officials and the Players Association on Thursday will announce agreement on a new steroids testing program.


Washington's New Year War Cry: Party On!

As the soldiers in Iraq soldier on, we party on. Washington's next celebration, a $40 million inauguration, will be most entertaining.


New CW drama unlikely to be "Runaway" hit

In "The Fugitive," only  one person was on the lam, running to avoid capture for a crime  he didn't commit while tracking the real criminal. In  "Runaway," you have a whole family trying to evade the long arm  of the law.


ProDevTips.com: Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 9

ProDevTips.com has posted part nine of their long-running series about using the Zend Framework (and Smarty) to create a CMS/Community website.   This piece covers creating a proper folder structure so that we can have a skin system. I've also created a folder for the admin section which is fully contained with it's own controllers folder and so on. Another unrelated change that has happened since the last part is sub menu logic which we will also take a look at.   They make updates to the bootstrap file to introduce another controller directory and, inside of that, create the Administrator controller and integrate it with a Smarty template to show different menu items if an admin user is logged in.


Keane Waffles on Whether New Chief Will Exit After Caritor Deal

By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe  Feb. 9--Will she stay or will she go?   A day after it said its new top executive would be leaving after the  company was bought, Boston technology services firm Keane Inc. yesterday said  Kirk E.


Want a free peek at your credit file? Don't hold your breath.


With the threat of a tightening economic squeeze and military probes by Washington hanging over its head, the Iranian government agreed November 14 to suspend all uranium enrichment activity


Scotland's health minister rules out a public inquiry into the supply of contaminated blood  to haemophiliacs.


Tense calm returns to Lebanon camp after 33-day war

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - An uneasy calm settled over a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the Lebanese army declared victory in 33 days of fighting against al Qaeda-inspired militants.


A breve soluzione procedimento a carico di Rai e Mediaset


Thousands of Gazans cross into Egypt via a ruined border fence for a second day, as Egyptian police gather.


Time Warner, Comcast in Talks on Adelphia

Comcast Corp. (CMCSA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said they are in talks on a possible joint offer to


Udine, 15:26 - CALCIO, UDINESE: DONATO MACCHINARIO AD AZIENDA OSPEDALIERA

L'Udinese, attraverso l'associazione benefica 'Udinese per la Vita', donerà un nuovo ecotomog...


FAST acts against corporate file sharers

Controls not enough The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) has taken action against "a high profile training company" for allowing its network to be used for file sharing.â¦


New Iraq law lets Baathists reclaim jobs

Iraq's presidency council issued a law Sunday that will allow thousands of Saddam Hussein-era officials to return to government jobs, legislation viewed by the Bush administration as central to mending deep fissures between minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds and the majority Shiites who now wield power.


Iraq's Sistani Arrives in Najaf; 45 Killed in Attacks

NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric arrived  in Najaf Thursday to try to end a bloody three-week uprising as  tensions rose sharply following attacks in a nearby town that  killed 45 people and wounded 170.


'Il limite si puo' superare solo con trattativa sindacati'


Retired general who helped CBS now says Bush memos look fake

A former Texas Air National Guard officer whom CBS News relied on to support the authenticity of memos about President George W. Bush's military service said that he never saw the memos


TORINO, 13 NOVEMBRE 2004 - La dodicesima giornata del campionato di Serie A 2004/2005 vedrÃ  la Juventus di Fabio Capello opposta al Lecce di Zdenek Zeman. La gara metterÃ  a confronto due allenatori che sono


ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz couldn't care less that his team finished .500. Somehow, it is in the playoffs.


The head of Adecco SA dismissed suggestions Friday that the world's largest temporary staffing company may have violated French and European Union competition rules.


Phillips led Tulsa to NCAA Tournament in 2003

In the midst of his fourth season, Phillips had the Golden Hurricane off to a 2-5 start. He compiled an overall record of 61-42, leading the school to the NCAA Tournament in 2003.


The coroner for Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed's inquests says he will not involve the Queen at this stage.


Attendees Mixed if iMac G5 is The Complete Solution

Attendees at Apple Expo in Paris are impressed at the look of the new iMac G5, but mixed on whether it's the right solution for their needs.


Iraq, nuovo video della Hassan su al Jazeera

Se la Gran Bretagna non ritirerÃ  le truppe dall'Iraq entro 48 ore, Margaret Hassan sarÃ  consegnata al terrorista giordano Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, considerato il leader di al Qaeda in Iraq. E' la nuova condizione


A Florida medical examiner  was performing an autopsy on the body of former Playboy  Playmate Anna Nicole Smith on Friday as her mother said drugs  may have contributed to her daughter's sudden death.


Ivory Coast waits for Security Council as exodus continues

ABIDJAN  - Ivory Coast woke to a national holiday after a weekend of diplomacy by African leaders fearful of a return to war in the divided state, and awaiting a vote by the UN Security Council likely to impose sanctions including an arms embargo.


A tiny picture of Cambridge University's crest demonstrates the emerging power of nanotechnology.


Spice maker McCormick & Co. Inc  reported higher quarterly profit on Thursday, bolstered by increased sales volume in Europe and Asia.


Nuclear watchdog insists Iraq explosives taken after US invasion

VIENNA, Oct 28  - The International Atomic Energy Agency stepped back into the controversy over missing explosives in Iraq Thursday, insisting that almost 330 tonnes had indeed vanished from a depot in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.


Low-fat dairy enhances weight loss in diabetics

NEW YORK  - Research results suggest that a diet rich in low-fat dairy calcium boosts weight loss in overweight type 2 diabetics. "Such a diet should be tried in diabetic patients," researchers conclude, particularly in those individuals who have a tough time sticking to other weight loss diets.


Bill to Alter Lake Park's Name Stirs Debate: The Bill Would Name Smith Mountain Lake State Park for Roanoke Democrat Vic Thomas.

By Michael Sluss and Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 4--RICHMOND -- Vic Thomas was not a controversial figure during his 30-year career in the House of Delegates.


The judge in a major European anti-trust case against Microsoft calls a sudden meeting to discuss procedural matters following high-profile departures.


Blue-chip stocks fell on Thursday as bond yields crept higher, stirring concern about rising interest rates as an increasing aversion to risk kept buyers at bay.


Porn marketer settles spam charges with FTC

InfoWorld - An Internet-based provider of sexually explicit entertainment has agreed to pay a $465,000 civil penalty for sending unwanted e-mail, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.


Renovis continues development of its preclinical compounds.


Hamilton, 10:31 - RALLY, NUOVA ZELANDA: VITTORIA DI GRONHOLM SU LOEB

Il finlandese Marcus Gronholm (Ford Focus) ha vinto il rally di Nuova Zelanda, undicesima prova (su ...


Severe weather, including a possible tornado, damaged about 50 homes in central Florida before the system became a subtropical depression Friday and had parts of the Gulf Coast under tropical storm warnings.


Intel's board of directors has elected current president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini as its next chief executive, succeeding Craig Barrett, who was named new chairman of the board.


Carlton Cole is poised for an extended run up front for Aston Villa after Darius Vassell broke his ankle in Saturdayâs Premiership clash with Fulham.


Garrison gets new one-year deal; King retires

Zina Garrison was given a one-year contract to stay on as US Fed Cup captain, while Billie Jean King retired Tuesday as a coach for the team.


Lifeâs a Little Bit Worse Now That Theyâre Dead

âWristcutters: A Love Storyâ has an offbeat, absurdist charm that turns a potentially creepy conceit into an odd, touching adventure.


Dati Aimpes sul 2007, produzione stimata in 3 mld e 850 mln


U.S. stocks shot higher on Wednesday  as oil prices had their biggest one-day drop in three years and  economic data showed strength in the U.S. manufacturing sector  and personal spending.


San Francisco says no to cookie aroma at bus stops

What was billed as a pleasing alternative to exhaust fumes at San Francisco bus stops ended after officials Tuesday ordered the removal of advertisements that gave off the scent of baked cookies.


MILANO - Belli e vincenti, proprio come desidera il Presidente Silvio Berlusconi, presente in tribuna allo stadio di San Siro. Il Milan regala una prova di grande forza e concretezza battendo la Lazio 3-0


John Mellencamp will celebrate Independence Day with the Boston Pops.


Manchester, 16:27 - CALCIO, MANCHESTER UNITED: TIFOSI REPLICANO A FERGUSON

E' polemica tra Alex Ferguson e i tifosi del Manchester United. Il tecnico scozzese ha lamentato di ...


AC Milan hopes some fans will be allowed into San Siro on Sunday despite the stadium being closed by government inspectors for safety reasons.


Jamaicans have been voting in a general election, expected to be the closest contest for years.


Oracle profit tops Wall Street forecasts, shares up

Business software maker Oracle   Corp. ORCL.O posted a profit on Tuesday that topped Wall   Street estimates and forecast solid growth this quarter, and   its shares rose 9 percent to their highest level in four years.


Slovak Town Hopes to Become 'Warhol City'

An eastern Slovak town that houses the Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art plans to use a European Union grant to help change its image and become "Warhol city." Medzilaborce, a town of 6,500, has received a ...


Roma, 15:41 - CALCIO, AGENTE TAVANO: NESSUNA PREFERENZA TRA ROMA E PALERMO

L'agente dell'attaccante Francesco Tavano, Stefano Guercini, intervenendo a Radio Radio ha dichiarat...


Blu-ray and HD DVD movies: Buy one, get one free

Choose two Blu-ray or HD DVD movies from Best Buy's small but decent selection and you'll pay for only one of them.


Piu' 44% rispetto ad ottobre, 1.850 le vittime civili


Five US soldiers are killed when their patrol is hit by a roadside bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.


Fed's Poole: Fed can ease without risking inflation

ST. LOUIS  - Inflation expectations are "quite well anchored," giving the Federal Reserve breathing room for further possible rate cuts, but there is no clear evidence that a recession is at hand, a top Fed policy-maker said on Wednesday.


The Capitals give up three power play goals and allow three late goals after rallying from a two-goal deficit to lose to the Islanders, 5-2.


News Corp. on Tuesday said it will launch a new service to offer full episodes of its television shows on MySpace.com and the Web sites of its local Fox TV stations after they have aired.


Scientists discover that the symptoms of a severe brain disorder similar to autism can be reversed.


A mother removed  from her parents as a baby in the "stolen generation" scandal plans to emigrate to Australia.


Il Superenalotto tiene con una lieve contrazione del -2,5%


Positive del Ponte hints at more Serb handovers

U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte praised Serbia for "serious commitment" to the handover of war crimes fugitives on Wednesday, saying "we may have other positive results" before her June 18 formal report.


Featured posts from the CNET Blog Network--July 19

Blog: An interview with the CEO of Red Hat and a ruling from Europe on ISPs and digital music.


Oil prices were hovering close to last weekâs record high today after breaking through the 50 US dollars mark again. Production problems in the Gulf of Mexico due to


The market for unpasteurized milk is growing, but advocates face an array of state and federal rules that make getting it a challenge


The nurse behind the Augsburg College flu shot case is insisting she did nothing wrong. Michelle Torgerson told reporters at a press conference today that she did not water down the vaccine she gave to students.


Hewitt Reaches Finals of US Open Tennis Tourney

Former champion Lleyton Hewitt of Australia has reached the finals of the US Open tennis tournament in New York by defeating Joachim Johansson of Sweden in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3.


Internet s&x auction ends in pregnancy, legal feud

Not the sort of seller feedback you'd expect Nobody could have predicted that the plans of a woman in Germany to auction herself online for anonymous sex with six different men could go wrong. Even the noblest of intentions have their ways.â¦


US to open vast region for drilling in Southwest

ALBUQUERQUE -- Despite protests by the governor and environmentalists, the federal government has decided to open nearly all of New Mexico's vast Otero Mesa for exploratory drilling but vowed that the oil and gas industry won't have a ''free-for-all."


Preacher Dies During Sermon About Heaven

OVIEDO, Fla. - A Presbyterian minister collapsed and died in mid-sentence of a sermon after saying "And when I go to heaven ...," his colleague said Monday.  The Rev.


Thereâs Peril in the Parallels as China Takes a Top Spot

China now leads the world in the number of publicly traded companies with market values of more than $200 billion, but this is not necessarily good news for investors.


H&R Block posts loss on U.S. subprime woes

H&R Block Inc. , the largest U.S. tax preparer, posted a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, as the deterioration of the U.S. subprime market hurt the value of its mortgage business.


Annan: Won't Resign Over Iraq Oil, Food Scandal

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday corruption allegations in the Iraqi oil-for-food program had cast a shadow over the United Nations but said again he would not resign as the world's top diplomat.


England's Williams questions Klitschko's fighting spirit

Danny Williams, who spent years as a lightly regarded contender before stunning Mike Tyson, said he will test the heart and chin of Vitali Klitschko in their WBC title fight.


Heart surgery puts Clinton on sidelines for election

Bill Clinton's potent political force may be largely lost to the Democrats as they try to win back the White House, doctors indicated yesterday after they conducted a successful


Higher prices and increased production gave Micron Technology Inc. its second straight profitable quarter, but its fourth-quarter results still fell short of Wall Street estimates.


Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been charged by a British court with 16 offences including 10 of incitement to murder.


'Conosciamo il gruppo di pedofili che ha rapito la bambina'


Automakers focus on disabled drivers at 38th motor show

Automakers over the last decade have expanded their lineup of vehicles catering to the needs of disabled people and the elderly. A Toyota Motor Corp.


A German man is hoping publication of wartime photographs of three young Russian women associated with St.


Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won at least 14 delegates in Nevada's Republican caucuses Saturday, extending his overall lead in the race for delegates, an AP analysis of caucus results showed. Nevada still had 17 Republican delegates to award.


Manufacturing expansion slowed in August as a decline in new orders led factory managers to opt for caution, while construction spending unexpectedly fell in July, according to data released on Tuesday.


Escaped al-Qaida suspect killed in Yemen

Yemeni security forces on Sunday killed an al-Qaida suspect who was convicted of an attack on a French oil tanker and escaped from prison earlier this year, security officials said.


Xerox Corp. on Thursday said third-quarter profit rose as it cut costs and sales of its copiers and printers improved.


2 Chechen women suspected of causing plane crashes lived together: report

MOSCOW  - They lived in the same apartment in Chechnya, worked in the same market and - possibly - died within moments of each other on separate airliners that crashed in Russia last week.


Mitt Romney accused Republican presidential rival Mike Huckabee of "running from the wrong party" for criticizing President Bush's foreign policy as an "arrogant bunker mentality."


RoboNet-1.0, an automatically controlled series of telescopes, has two prime directives: search the heavens for the next big flash and spot an Earth-like planet that could hold intelligent life. By Lakshmi Sandhana.


Bologna, 20:06 - CALCIO, BOLOGNA; MAZZONE: EMERGENZA E' LA NOSTRA FORZA

Carlo Mazzone prima della partita con la Roma aggiunge alla lista degli indisponibili anche Torrisi ...


The biggest recommendation out there deserves the biggest sell rating.


Business News, Johannesberg: South African gold producer Harmony has bid to take over larger rival Gold Fields, a merger that would create the world's biggest gold producer.


Indian outsourcing firm Infosys announces profits up 50% despite exchange rate problems and rising competition.


Le donne lavorino per la causa delle donne


La Guardia Near-Crash Is One of a Rising Number

As air traffic increases, so do close calls, including a recent incident in New York when two planes nearly collided.


US tycoon Donald Trump marries for the third time, in a glitzy ceremony attracting huge media attention.


2 Iraqis killed in car bomb blast in Baghdad

At least two Iraqis were killed and several others wounded when a car bomb exploded on Monday near a foreign military convoy in Baghdad, police and witnesses said.


In Rear-End Crash Test, Most Trucks Fail to Stop Neck Injury

No automaker got a passing grade on all its light trucks in a test administered by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.


Attacks against troops and civilians in Iraq are at their highest level since 2004, a Pentagon report says.


$150,000 mortgage for only $550/month. Lower your mortgage - free quotes.


EADS sees double-digit operating margins in 2015

The European aerospace giant EADS hopes to achieve a double-digit operating margin by around 2015, a company spokesman said Thursday.


Confidence down as housing slump worsens

Consumer sentiment took its sharpest plunge in nearly two years during August while home prices swooned in the second quarter, according to reports that show the housing crisis taking its toll.


Earth Class Mail secures $13.3 million, plans New York store

'Green' postal mail scanning service plans to open retail stores around the country.


BBC, London, September 19: The wife of an American taken hostage with two others in Baghdad has appealed on television for their release.


Imola, Silverstone e Magny Cours pericolo quasi scampato

Sia pure vincolati a clausole da discutere, i gp di San Marino, Inghilterra e Francia compaiono nella bozza del calendario 2005 di formula 1. Confermato l'esordio della prova in Turchia, che si correrÃ  il 21 agosto.


Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on  Tuesday it would buy anti-virus software maker Sybari Software  Inc. in its second such deal in three months to shore up  security in its Windows and e-mail software, which are the most  frequent targets of malicious programmers.


The British government has introduced a new program of security checks for foreign graduate students to prevent sensitive scientific information from being used in other countries to develop weapons of mass destruction.


VATICANO - AVE MARIA a cura di don Luciano Alimandi - ÂRegina del RosarioÂ CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - In questo mese di ottobre, consacrato alla preghiera del Rosario, che vede le parrocchie e le comunitÃ  tutte protese verso i missionari, la Chiesa in cammino sulle strade del mondo per annunciare il Vangelo, con i...


Advertising: And the Winning Flavor Is...

HÃ¤agen-Dazs and Gourmet magazine are sponsoring a multimedia contest find an exotic flavor to sell under the HÃ¤agen-Dazs brand name.


Impegno su energia solare anche se da' fastidio a lobby


OLPC, Microsoft working on dual-boot XO laptop

A forthcoming version of the OLPC's XO laptop could have the ability to boot both Linux and Windows, according to the OLPC's founder.


Israel's Supreme Court has delayed a widely criticized plea bargain that dropped the threat of rape charges and jail time against the former president, giving the state until Monday afternoon to defend the deal.


Bids topping more than $3,500 were pouring into eBay to help care for a seriously ill Va. boy were halted when Web site officials said the auction violated the site's rules.


David Mayhew, chairman of brokerage Cazenove, is a dealmaking legend in the City's financial circles, but he faced the biggest challenge of his career in deciding the future of his firm, bankers say.


A woman believed to be from Belfast has been stabbed to death on the Spanish island of Tenerife.


Sugary soft drinks and fruit juices increase the risk of gout in men, a study claims.


130,000 in Moscow protest terrorism after deadly siege

Tens of thousands of people rallied Tuesday outside the Kremlin in a show of solidarity against terrorism. The demonstration came nearly a week after more than 350 people, many


Intel Capital invests in online storage company

Intel's venture-capital arm has invested in Nirvanix, a San Diego start-up company that offers a scalable online storage service.Intel Capital said Wednesday it had invested an undisclosed amount in Nirvanix, which in turn expects to benefit from access to technologies that can improve its service and expand the number of storage nodes it owns.At the heart of its service is an API (application programming interface) called Nirvanix Web Services that allows developers to incorporate the online storage service in their applications, and can be used by companies to store application data. That service charges customers a monthly rate of $0.18 per gigabyte of data that is stored or transferred. The API allows developers to control the amount stored and the bandwidth made available to the application.In addition to Intel Capital, Nirvanix investors include Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures.


Torino, 16:31 - CALCIO, JUVENTUS: CAMORANESI TORNA IN GRUPPO

Il ritorno a Torino dalla trasferta di Catania della Juventus è coinciso con il rientro in gr...


Ichiro Suzuki singled three times last night to etch out a spot in history and to send the Toronto Blue Jays a little deeper into oblivion.


Colorado Rockies reliever Matt Herges and first base coach Glenallen Hill have issued written apologies for using performance-enhancing substances.


"Unusually Good" Meteor Shower Expected Tonight

Tonight's annual Perseid meteor shower is likely to be a spectacular show of shooting stars zipping across the night sky, according to astronomers.


Internet: 8 pirati su 10 si trovano in Brasile

RIO DE JANEIRO. Otto pirati informatici (gli hacker) su dieci del pianeta si trovano in Brasile cosÃ¬ come vi vengono creati due terzi dei siti di pedofilia su internet, in base a stime della polizia federale brasiliana.


Il ministro degli Esteri, via appena ce lo chiederanno


Former Westlife star Brian McFadden celebrates his first solo number one in the UK singles chart.


Bucarest, 15:06 - CALCIO, ROMANIA: PITURCA CHIAMA CHIVU E MUTU

Due gli 'italiani' convocati dal ct della Romania, Victor Piturca, per la gara di qualificazione agl...


Sooners slide makes for interesting debate

It was darn nice of the new BCS Standings to throw a curve on its very first pitch. Miami sitting narrowly ahead of Oklahoma will get tongues wagging from South Beach to South Central, not far from the campus of No.


Hariri resigns, wonât head new Lebanese cabinet

ISN SECURITY WATCH (20/10/04) - Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri tendered his cabinetâs resignation on Wednesday and said he would not head a new government.


Consumer electronics giant is working with product safety agency to figure out "the widest scope" of alert.


Finance Minister rejects EU criticism of Slovakia's taxes

Finance Minister Ivan Miklos has rejected criticism from several European Union member states, especially Germany and France, about Slovakia's low taxes.


Oracle has dangled its "best and final" offer of $24 per share in front of PeopleSoft shareholders. Oracle's latest bid for the software maker is a $3 hike over a previous offer and values PeopleSoft at just less than $9bn.


Former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto gives President Musharraf 48 hours to seal a power-sharing deal, media reports say.


Futures fall as CPI puts rate cuts in doubt

Stock index futures signaled a weaker market open on Friday after a higher-than-expected consumer prices report raised concern that simmering inflation may hamper further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.


Does Heather Locklear ever age? Or get less-than-stellar ratings? Can the old formula still work in "LAX," her new NBC series?


E Asia must act as counterforce to US, Europeans: Mahathir

East Asian nations must pull together to boost their global stature but Australia and New Zealand should be excluded due to their Western ideology, former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad said.


Mike Piazza, 38, is beginning his 15th full season in the major leagues, but his first with Oakland, his first in the American League and his first as a full-time designated hitter.


Passwords alone won't be enough to get onto America Online under a new, optional log-on service that makes AOL the first major U.S. online business to offer customers a second layer of security.


Shane Warne is expected to announce his retirement  after the last Ashes Test, according to reports in Australia.


Couples tops $3 million mark at Skins Game

With his birdie on the 10th hole to begin day two of the Merrill Lynch Skins Game, Fred Couples earned eight skins and $300,000 to move over the $3-million mark in career earnings at the tournament.


Hurricane Season May Fizzle Further Due to El Nino

Weather forecasters have again downgraded their forecast for this hurricane season, this time because of the possibility of a weather phenomenon called El Niño.


After 171 years, Shell is to move its headquarters from London in a shake-up which will see it formally merged with its partner company, Royal Dutch, to create a 100 billion oil giant.


Palestinian Leaders Travel to France to Visit Arafat

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and other leaders traveled to France to see Yasser Arafat at a military hospital near Paris in a visit condemned by Arafat's wife, Palestinian officials said.


Civilian flight arrives at Chechen airport

The first regularly scheduled civilian passenger flight in six years arrived at Chechnya's main airport Thursday, in what officials say is yet another sign that normality has returned to the war-wracked Russian region.


Apple Computer (Quote, Chart) took the wraps off its new iMac family with a design that puts the entire computer into the flat-panel display.


NY Play 'Fat Pig' Tackles What May Be the Last Taboo

Every day at work, the insults rain  down on Ashlie Atkinson. "Fat pig," "beast," "huge," and "fat  sow" are among them.


The much-ballyhooed  movie reunion of Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz has turned out to  be short-lived.


Jewish settlements slated for evacuation have shown marked population growth, according to figures released Sunday, and settlers said supporters are moving to these communities to bolster them before the planned withdrawal.


Is sunshine the best disinfectant for errors?

If only patients knew more about hospitals' past mistakes, Jacqueline Imbertson thinks fewer of them would die. But if hospitals knew their private safety worries could become


New Southampton manager Harry Redknapp has confirmed coach Kevin Bond will join him at St Mary's. Bond will make the switch from Portsmouth on Thursday and Redknapp's former Pompey assistant Jim Smith could also be joining him.


Ian Woosnam says Thomas Bjorn was "not a happy chappy" after missing out on a selection for the Ryder Cup.


"A-Team" and "Kojak" get new life on NBC sites

NEW YORK  - NBC Universal said Tuesday it will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including "The A-Team" and "Kojak," on its Web sites.


Airline "Risk Assessment": Defending the Right to Snoop

Should federal agents know where you sit on an airplane and what kind of meal you order? Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff says yes


Two separatist Kurdish rebels were killed when a fuel tanker they were planning to ram into a military outpost in a suicide attack was fired upon and exploded before they could approach, officials said Sunday.


Gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms seized 14 people from a computer store in Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.


Simmering feuds, festering grudges and dramatic showdowns are not in keeping with the Christmas spirit, but they do make for good television.


At least 90 people have been killed by floods and mudslides caused by tropical storm Jeanne in Haiti. Jeanne killed 11 people and destroyed hundreds of houses in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.


SNP The Eden Court theatre, where the SNP finished its annual...

The party has become used to such phantom presences: for the past four years, its former idol Alex Salmond appeared like the proverbial ghost at the feast to deliver his speech, take the plaudits, yet shun the ...


Delta, Northwest may merge after union talks: report

Delta Air Lines Inc  and  Northwest Airlines Corp  may reach a merger agreement  within weeks after sharing details of their plans with pilot  unions, according to a report on Bloomberg.com citing people  familiar with the talks.


Al nuovo teatro bar, ristoranti, biblioteca e mostre


Mobiles to adopt single connection standard, eventually, possibly The Open Mobile Terminal Alliance (OMTP) has published a recommendation paper suggesting that mobile phone manufacturers all use micro USB connectors to charge, and connect, their handsets.â¦


Chrysler, Citing Fuel Standards, Drops Plans for Big Luxury Sedan

Chrysler is the first carmaker to announce a change in production plans related to efforts in Congress to require vehicles sold in the United States to consume less gasoline.


Schio, 23:16 - BASKET, SUPERCOPPA DONNE: SCHIO BATTE BANCOSICILIA 95-78

Battendo il Banco di Sicilia Ribera 95-78 Schio ha vinto la Supercoppa Italiana di basket femminile ...


BRDC offers to promote British GP. [pics]

The British Racing Drivers' Club has offered to act as promoter for the British round of the Formula One world championship in an effort to ensure the event remains on the calendar - and at Silverstone.


UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. Security Council vote on whether to threaten sanctions against Sudan hinged on China and other opponents who fear that the specter of punishment could ruin efforts to end a crisis that has killed more than 50,000 and spawned 1.2 million refugees...


Nikkei Poised to Hit 5-Month Closing High

The Nikkei average rose 0.33 percent by midday on Tuesday, poised to hit a five-month closing high after economic data supporting the view that Japan's economic slowdown is temporary bolstered banks and brokers.


Death row Bali bombers to get month to seek clemency

DENPASAR, Indonesia  - Three Indonesian Islamic militants facing execution for the 2002 Bali bombings will get one month to seek presidential clemency after being officially notified of the rejection of their final appeal, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.


Celebrati 30 anni della maison, venerdi' all'olympia


One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" in a novel that touched on the mass killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.


Paris Hilton knows something about nightclubs, so it makes sense the hotel heiress is the inspiration for a handful of clubs that will bear her name.


Some thoughts on recent electoral shenanigans: the Ron Paul spam campaign

Having shown up at wired.com of all places just the other day, a story claiming that Paul's campaign staff or his supporters have been (email) spamming to get the message out. This is pure bullshit, and I'll explain why.


Media should play responsible role in fighting terrorism: Putin

The world media should play a responsible role and could not be observers in the war on terror, Russian President Vladimir Putin said here on Friday.


Four charged in plot to blow up New York airport

Four people, including a former member of Guyana's parliament, have been charged with planning to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. officials said on Saturday.


ATHENS -- It was telling yesterday that the majority of the dozens of journalists who asked questions and attended a news conference into a Greek doping scandal were mostly Canadian. Question after question came from Canadians. We were all there, I think, ...


com. Here are notes and quotes from Washington's 79-76 win Saturday night in the championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage.


TV rabbit ears to go digital for the elderly

Pending changes to free over-the-air analog TV may leave the elderly in the dark come February 2009.


The $399 set-top device offers access to thousands of movies over the Internet. But is that enough?


Google Docs and Spreadsheets clause gives pause

(InfoWorld) - Google is in damage control mode over a clause in the user agreements for its Google Docs and Spreadsheets applications that implies an inordinate degree of power over the content that runs over its services. The clause reads: "By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through Google services which are intended to be available to the members of the public, you grant Google a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, adapt, modify, publish and distribute such content on Google services for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting Google services." This matters more because it's Google, of course, but the issue may be an important one for other online software companies to watch as they seek to build credibility and support among business customers. Most of the controversy centers around the firm's use of the word "public." If you're posting it on Google Docs or in Google spreadsheets, the implication goes, it's up for grabs if the company needs some sample use cases for its next advertising campaign. You really have to stretch yourself to think about how this kind of scenario would play itself out. Might Google use various Docs and Spreadsheets customer's data as case study material? Or perhaps reproduce them in the kind of print magazine ads that it never, ever buys (and why would they, when we give the company this kind of constant media attention)? Maybe we should be paying more attention to the word "modify," in the clause, which might give Google the go-ahead to insert references to its services in the actual content ("Here's today's sales report. I finished it using Google SpreadsheetsÂ®!"). I can't think of a better way to lose customers. And whatever you think about the firm's market cap or long-term investment value, Google is still a bit player in the applications space. It can't afford to outrage users that way. We should also realize that legal mumbo-jumbo aside, we all take a huge leap of faith when we use online program like these. Google could easily "reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, and distribute" whatever it wants. That may be why few are entrusting it with highly sensitive company material. It's not that anything bad has happened, it's that nothing bad has happened yet. Docs and Speadsheets, and their many other budding online rivals, are allowing unprecedented degrees of collaboration, which is why our notion of "public" may be so confused. This is exacerbated by the fact that we often use the same online tools for both work and personal purposes. Both kinds of content have a "public," and there may even be some overlap between them, but the "public" of the wider world is another matter. In order for Web-based software to flourish, we need to engage in a more prolonged discussion with one another about the boundary lines between users, vendors, and everyday Internet surfers. It has to happen before content gets inadvertently (or advertently) misused. It's a discussion we have to make as public as possible.


Small Asteroid Passes Between Satellites and Earth

Astronomers spotted an asteroid this week after it had flown past Earth on a course that took it so close to the planet it was below the orbits of some satellites.


Gaetano Lipari, 47 anni nei 'pizzini' aveva il numero 60


Study: Information security field to grow steadily

WASHINGTON - The number of cybersecurity professionals is projected to grow at an annual compound rate of nearly 14 percent from now until 2008, according to a study released this week during the Computer Security Institute (CSI) trade show in Washington, D.C.


Trial of Berlusconi, other accused opens

The trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi and the estranged husband of Britain's culture minister opened Tuesday with both men facing charges of false accounting, embezzlement and tax fraud in the purchase of TV rights for U.S. movies by Berlusconi's Mediaset empire.


Obituaries for newspapers are already being written in the United States and much of Europe, with the rise of the Internet and shrinking attention spans listed as the causes of death.


Music Review | Farm Aid: Making Connections Between Town and Country

At Willie Nelsonâs salute to Americaâs small farmers on Sunday, some of the performers took on a tricky job: making the crowd understand that the day wasnât really about music.


New Scrutiny of the Flow of Iraqi Oil to American Consumers

Almost until the eve of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, U.S. oil companies, including ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, were among the largest purchasers of Iraqi crude oil.


Canadian producer in talks with US over sale of excess flu vaccine

TORONTO (CP) - US health authorities seeking desperately to overcome a massive shortage of flu vaccine in that country are in discussions with Canada's major influenza vaccine producer, the company confirmed Tuesday.


Nigeria sent over 100 troops to Sudan's troubled Darfur region on Monday, its contribution to a joint force with Rwanda protecting African Union cease-fire observers.


Steinbrenner to Cashman: You're Not Fired

Brian Cashman's job is safe — at least for now. The rest of the New York Yankees have plenty to worry about this winter. Soon after the Yankees completed a historic collapse against Boston in the AL playoffs, volatile owner George Steinbrenner told Cashman, the team's general manager, that he will not be fired before next season.


ASEAN, Japan agree to launch FTA negotiations

JAKARTA -- Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to launch free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations in April 2005, sources said over the weekend.


At least 60 children are believed to have died in a measles outbreak in north-eastern Nigeria.


Jazz artists are the latest to act as ambassadors of American culture.


Owen hoping for Depor lift to ensure England place

England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson says striker Michael Owen must prove in training next week that he deserves to face Wales in a World Cup qualifier - or risk losing his place.


Renault unveils investment plan for Asian hub in South Korea

French auto giant Renault SA said it will invest some 570 million dollars in South Korea over the next three years as part of its global strategy to become a key player in Asia, notably China.


Nostrums: Aspirin May Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

Aspirin may help reduce the risk of colon cancer, a new study suggests, when taken in large doses over long periods of time.


Mount St. Helens Calms Down, Scientists Lower Alert

Government scientists said that  volcanic activity on Washington state's Mount St. Helens had  started to taper off and downgraded their safety warning on  Wednesday, following nearly two weeks of seismic activity and  steam eruptions.


You have to hand it to Iranian diplomacy. Heads of state, scores of ministers, and senior representatives from a number of the world's most powerful nations are working ardently to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons.


Tony Romo can go wherever he wants with Jessica Simpson now. Eli Manning and the New York Giants knocked him and the Dallas Cowboys into the offseason Sunday.


Sarkozy's poll win tempered by left's revival

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


John Eisenhower, son of Republican President Eisenhower, said in a newspaper column this week that he will vote for Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president on Nov. 2.


House Panel Votes to Extend Controversial Farm Subsidies, Signaling Battle to Come

Setting the stage for a contentious congressional debate over farm subsidies, a House panel voted unanimously yesterday to extend for five years the current system of payments to farmers and rejected a series of proposed changes.


Martin urged to take up cause of man jailed in Libya when he meets Gadhafi

OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin must take up the cause of a Queen's University graduate student imprisoned in Libya when he visits Tripoli this month, activists and the man's friends say.


Smart dashboard displays the hidden price of power

Blog: Building energy costs fit within this tidy interface to help a home become more efficient.


Il governo riconosce un assegno anche al musicista Turcoalla terzomondista Forti e alla cantante lirica Goltara                                            Vitalizio a Braibanti, l'intellettuale del plagio Un caso che fece epoca nell'Italia degli anni '60


Fidanzato a pm: voleva uscire con noi, ma Chiara non voleva


Philippines Landslides, Flash Floods Kill Hundreds

In this photo released by the Philippine Air Force, shows uprooted trees littered near a swollen river after it was hit by a storm in Infanta town, Quezon province, eastern Philippines on Tuesday Nov. 30, 2004.


Protected by US Black Hawk helicopters, Tony Blair has flown into Baghdad in a surprise show of political bravado designed to boost prospects for Iraqi elections in January.


Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt announce split

Hollywood's golden couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have formally separated after four and a half years of marriage, 'People' magazine said on Friday.


Becali, the most senior of Mutu's team of four advisers, told Romanian television last night that the 25-year-old striker took cocaine at a party.


Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson are splitting up after nearly six years of marriage, said her publicist, Brad Cafarelli.


India to get a taste of 'British' curries

It was once hailed as Britain's national dish, but chicken tikka masala -- the spicy "Indian" curry popular throughout the United Kingdom -- has remained largely a mystery on the subcontinent.


Roma, 14:21 - CALCIO, LIPPI: PIANGO QUANDO UN ATLETA VINCE

Marcello Lippi, ex ct della nazionale campione del mondo, sdrammatizza sulla sua fama da duro in un'...


WHO warns against possible human-to-human transmission of bird flu

New York (VNA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against a possible transmission of bird flu from human to human. The organisation is studying the case of a Thai woman allegedly contracting H5N1 virus from her sick daughter.