A growing number of contemporary musicians and techno enthusiasts have reignited interest in the Moog, which can synthesize any sound imaginable.


Palermo, 16:39 - CALCIO, GIUDICE; ZAMPARINI: IN ITALIA VINCONO I FURBI

Il presidente del Palermo Maurizio Zamparini accoglie con sarcasmo la notizia che il giudice sportiv...


Juniper Networks Posts a Profit As Sales of Internet Gear Climb

Juniper Networks reported a second-quarter profit of $86.2 million, on a more-than-expected revenue increase of 17 percent.


Busta Rhymes must face a string of trials for assault and driving offences, a judge rules.


Important details in little-seen government reports.


Former all-star pitcher Jeff Zimmerman agreed Tuesday to a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers, pushing ahead with his comeback attempt from elbow problems that sidelined him the last three seasons.


On Baseball: Legal Sideshow, Not Home Run Hoopla, Follows Bonds

Barry Bondsâs threat to Hank Aaronâs career record of 755 home runs couldnât generate more of a sideshow, which includes a possible indictment.


Columbia professor Richard Axel, CC '67, is the recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Assembly announced yesterday.


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Nigeria cracks down on human trafficking

When authorities raided a traditional shrine and found blood-drenched magic charms along with a register listing young girls sold into prostitution, they were closing in on Nigeria's first conviction for human trafficking.


David Hempleman-Adams crosses Atlantic in world's longest flight for helium balloon.


Merrill Lynch is expected to suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage investments, almost double its original estimate.


Thailand's military rulers swore in a former army chief as interim prime minister on Sunday and unveiled a stop-gap constitution, keeping a promise to step back in favor of civilians within two weeks of their September 19 coup.


Mongolians mark 800th anniversary of Khan

Mongolians celebrated the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to world conquest on Tuesday with festivities that mixed commercialism with appeals to nationalism.


The US led assault on Fallujah has begun. Two US Marines have been killed along with dozens of Iraqis insurgents. The military said it happened when their military car flipped into the Euphrates River.


Glamis Gold's McArthur Says McEwen Wooed Him to Run Goldcorp

Glamis Gold Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Kevin McArthur said he never expected to make yesterday's $3.4 billion hostile bid for Goldcorp Inc.


At least 22 killed, 100 injured in Nagaland twin blasts

At least 22 people, including women and children, were killed and over 100 injured when two simultaneous landmine blasts ripped through the busy railway station in Dimapur and a crowded


The second presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry was framed by lingering questions on Iraq and the economy.


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.


Kidnapped Italian agents freed in Afghanistan

Two Italian military intelligence officers kidnapped in Afghanistan were freed on Monday during a raid by NATO-led troops in which nine kidnappers and an Afghan hostage were killed, Italy's defense minister said.


WASHINGTON -- The popularity of health savings accounts for the poor will be put to the test in Indiana under a program approved Friday by the Bush administration. Under the plan, someone making $20,000 a year could get health coverage for about $19 a week.


So instead of phoning home, it could have been more energy-efficient if ET had inscribed information and physically sent it, because radio waves disperse as they travel.


Militants Give El Salvador 20 Days to Leave Iraq

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  - An Islamist group  has given El Salvador 20 days to pull out troops from Iraq or  it would strike inside the Central American country and against  its forces in Iraq, according to an Internet statement posted  Monday.


Baha'is in Egypt fight for recognition as people

If Egyptian dentist Raouf Hindy would only deny his Baha'i faith, he could get his children the identity documents they need to enrol in Egyptian schools and later to marry, drive a car or open a bank account.


Newcastle ensured their place as top seeds in Friday's third round UEFA Cup draw after holding Sporting Lisbon to a 1-1 draw at St James' Park.


Robert Alner left Kempton Park a contented man after seeing Kingscliff turn in a brave performance to finish second to Kicking King in the Stan James King George VI Chase on Boxing Day.


Three young people - two men and a woman, all in their 20s - die in separate weekend road accidents.


Buoni risultati soprattutto nel Centro-sud e in Veneto


Forty-four North Koreans storm Canadian embassy in Beijing

Forty-four North Korean men, women and children scaled the walls of the Canadian embassy in Beijing in a likely bid for political asylum, an embassy spokesman said.


US gives tacit OK to housing in West Bank

Washington -- The Bush administration, moving to lend political support to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a time of political turmoil, has signaled approval of growth in at least some Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, American and Israeli


Russian, British FMs discuss Iran nuclear program, IAEA session

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his British counterpart Jack Straw held telephone talks on the upcoming discussion of Iran's nuclear program in Vienna Monday, Russia's foreign ministry said.


EASTON - The following local students are on the Southeastern Regional Vocational-Technical High School honor roll for   second term:   SHARON  SENIORS - Jonathan Deneault.  JUNIORS -  Regina Dallaire.  FRESHMEN -  Angelia Onyskow, Natasha Young.


The CIA has not been able to gauge whether a videotape threatening catastrophe against the United States is really from al-Qaida. ABC News said it paid $500 to Pakistani


Stem cells from fat used to repair skull, doctors report

Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what's apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.


It was before sunrise on Thanksgiving morning and a U.S. Marine sat on a frigid concrete curb, reflecting on a holiday spent in his violent patch of western Iraq.


The grieving father of 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin speaks out against a state funeral in Australia for his son.


US weekly jobless claims rise 10,000 to 343,000

WASHINGTON : The line of people filing new claims for jobless benefits grew last week, hurt by damage to businesses caused by Hurricane Charley, a US government report showed.


Peers are expected to clash over Northern Rock amid claims its best assets have been 'hived off' to a private firm.


MADCAP Shakhtar Donetsk boss Mircea Lucescu has offered to sign shamed Chelsea star Adrian Mutu. The Romanian international striker is facing a possible two-year ban from football after


Get ready to ride on âThe Polar Expressâ

All aboard a night train pulled by a great black locomotive that clanks and sighs as it materializes like an immense and restless wraith from a cloud of mist and steam.


Nato's secretary general will meet top officials in Russia, at a time of strained relations between the two sides.


Graft charges hang over Zuma as he vows unity

POLOKWANE, South Africa  - Prosecutors said they were ready to charge Jacob Zuma with graft on Thursday, even as he took over leadership of South Africa's divided ruling party with a vow to restore unity and encourage investors.


A woman tells a high court murder trial about the night she found the body of her granddaughter Jodi Jones.


Victorious Arsenal keep pressure on leaders Chelsea

A spectacular 20-metre volley from Patrick Vieira gave Arsenal a 1-0 win at Newcastle United on Wednesday as the champions kept the pressure on league leaders Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.


Investors Abroad No Longer Immune From U.S.

Since late summer, the U.S. economy has demonstrated an enduring power to surprise. And not for the better.


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. While attention focuses on Florida, where election chaos reigned four years ago, voters in many other states also have begun voting.


Otto anni di reclusione per associazione mafiosa


Twelve years and counting for Myanmar's Suu Kyi

Australia slapped financial sanctions on Myanmar's generals and their families on Wednesday as supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi marked her 12 years in captivity with protests in 12 cities across the world.


Customers who purchase or lease a designated Volkswagen model from the new line will get a customized electric guitar.


Trump to Miss USA: You get a second chance

Miss USA 2006 was given a second chance on Tuesday by billionaire Donald Trump who came close to firing her after reported misbehavior.


Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric clears the air over Harry Redknapp's transfers.


Tens of thousands of Israelis thronged a central square in Tel Aviv on Thursday night, calling for the release of three Israeli soldiers being held by Arab militants in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.


Milos Forman left documentaries behind early on. Or did he?


UK composer Malcolm Arnold dies after illness

Malcolm Arnold, the British composer who  won an Oscar for the musical score to the film "The Bridge on  the River Kwai," has died after a brief illness.


Diventa quarto club inglese a proprieta' d'oltreoceano


Senate inches ahead on patent law overhaul

Blog: Panel approves slight changes to divisive patent proposal applauded by Silicon Valley firms but leaves key sticking points intact, signaling more political battles lie ahead.


Goldman family subpoenas Simpson records

In a new attempt to get some of the estimated $40 million O.J. Simpson owes it, the family of Ron Goldman subpoenaed several Hollywood groups Monday for information on payments he may have received for "The Towering Inferno" and other past film and TV appearances.


Three people are killed in Haiti's capital as the continuing violence threatens to disrupt much-needed food aid.


'Absolutely no hope' for 141 miners in China

CHENJIASHAN MINE, China The 141 miners trapped inside a mine in northern China following a gas explosion have no chance of survival and are presumed dead, a local Communist Party secretary said Monday.


Nella CittÃ  Proibita uno striscione umano fatto dai 208 disabili mentali, operatori e familiariNella metropoli delle Olimpiadi 2008, tra mercatino dei tarocchi, tombe Ming e la Grande Muraglia                                          Da Pechino il messaggio dei matti "Insieme si puÃ² essere liberi"                                                                                di FEDERICA MACCOTTA


Australian PM in union activity crackdown

Prime Minister John Howard has vowed to use his government's expanded control over parliament to push through legislation that reports say amount to the biggest crackdown on trade union power in Australian history.


With his considerable experience, personality and public profile, Daniel Barenboim seems a logical candidate for music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2009.


Hot deal: Xbox 360 HD-DVD, plus six HD-DVD movies, for $170

Blog: Have the Xbox, want the HD-DVD player? This one plugs right in, and we just found you a discount.


Effort Will Aim for More HIV-AIDS Testing of Teens, Young Adults

With HIV rates almost doubling among teenagers and young adults since 2000, the District will emphasize prevention and education in a three-year initiative involving community groups, the public schools and strategies geared to a video- and cyber-savvy generation, city leaders said yesterday.


Maria didn't mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite.


Pentagon Plans Deep Cuts in Costly F/A-22 Fighter

The Pentagon is planning deep  reductions in spending on the costliest fighter jet ever built,  the Air Force's F/A-22 Raptor, amid rising spending on the Iraq  war, U.S. defense officials said on Wednesday.


NCAA Game Summary - Miami-Ohio at Cincinnati

James White and Armein Kirkland both chipped in 18 points for the Bearcats (10-0), who have won each of their last three games by at least 20 points.


Battle rages in rebel stronghold, as aid workers flee Iraq

US forces continued to battle Iraqis in the insurgent bastion of Falluja on Wednesday as the kidnapping of two Italian aid workers in central Baghdad prompted workers for foreign charities workers to consider leaving Iraq.


El Paso has reported its fifth death this summer that City-County Health and Environmental District officials are blaming on the West Nile virus.


Bulgarian hardware aces sweat over their tasks during a unique PC...

Business: 7 November 2004, Sunday. Bulgarian computer hardware aces were challenged Sunday by a unique contest for PC assembling.


Who would have thought that the latest design trend for iPod docks would be tubes? And no, we don't mean the Internet(s). From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.


EU tries to project united front over Kosovo's status

European Union foreign ministers sought Friday to present a united front over the status of Kosovo, playing down divisions over how much autonomy the Serbian province should win.


One of those charged yesterday was Dhiren Barot -- known publicly until yesterday as Eisa Hindi -- who is suspected of conducting surveillance of US financial buildings that was detailed in computer files seized recently in ...


JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have said they're willing to meet and try to revive the stalled peace "road map.


Sharon Invites Labor Party Into Coalition

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks to reporters after casting his ballot at the Likud party meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004.


Young Finn sweeps defending champ in final

SAINT-DENIS, France -- Heikki Kovalainen of Finland beat world rally champion Sebastien Loeb of France to win the Race of Champions on Saturday.


Turin Olympic organizer to stay after all

Turin, Italy (Sports Network) - Valentino Castellani, the chief organizer of the Turin Winter Olympic Committee, has resolved a dispute with government officials over control of the games and changed his mind about resigning.


Microsoft's bid for FAST bolsters enterprise search

In November, Microsoft representatives began to comment that the enterprise search market had reached "a tipping point"; on Tuesday, the company backed up that claim with a bundle of cash, offering to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer (FAST) for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion).Analysts and other search firms said Tuesday the move means that enterprise search has truly arrived as a software category, and also that further consolidation will likely occur in the space, creating opportunities for niche players.No immediate stumbling blocks appear to be in the way of Microsoft buying FAST, which is based in Oslo. The company's board has recommended that shareholders accept the offer, which represents a premium of 42 percent over FAST's share price at close of business on Friday. The companies expect the deal to close in the second quarter."It's a great bit of technology acquisition for Microsoft," said Mike Davis, senior analyst with Ovum Group.Microsoft is buying FAST as a way to break into the high-end enterprise search market and also offer customers a full range of search products. In November, it introduced Search Server 2008 and Search Server Express 2008. Microsoft is pitching Search Server 2008 as a cheap entry into enterprise search, while the Express version is free for single installations.FAST's rivals include Autonomy -- which recently acquired Meridio and Zantaz -- and Endeca.Davis said it would not surprise him if a rival vendor, such as Oracle, follows up Microsoft's move with a high-end search acquisition of its own.He and another analyst suggested Tuesday that Microsoft has not only scooped up a solid company but got a bargain in the process.Guy Creese, an analyst with Burton Group, argued on his blog that FAST's recent financial troubles, which led to layoffs last year, probably helped drive down its price tag."While the operational wheels fell off, the FAST technology is strong at its core," added Creese, who called the pending deal "a huge coup" for Microsoft.But cost was not the driving factor in Microsoft's choice of FAST over other high-end search vendors in the space, according to Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division.Raikes insisted during a conference call Tuesday afternoon that FAST simply had the best people and technology.The executive didn't shed much light on the negotiation process that led up to Tuesday's announcement, but did indicate one aspect of Redmond's immediate plans, assuming the deal closes as expected."I can simply say that part of what we will look at ... will be to marry the strengths we have with our software-plus-services model with what FAST is doing."Raikes said FAST's technological strengths, such as its scalability and domain-specific searching capabilities, proved attractive to Microsoft.He declined to say whether the FAST acquisition will have any impact on Microsoft's Internet search products, but did not rule out the possibility.Raikes asserted that Microsoft will emerge as the go-to vendor for enterprise search customers once the deal is finalized."We think most customers are recognizing that they don't want their enterprise search to be fragmented across the organization," he said. "Customers are going to want to choose a search strategy and the offerings from one vendor."Despite that view, Tuesday's news had smaller, specialized enterprise search vendors, such as Brainware, brimming with confidence, at least publicly."We're excited because it really heightens the importance of enterprise search applications," said Brainware's CFO and general counsel, James Zubok. "But the biggest reason we're excited is that technology like ours is highly complementary [to broader offerings]," he said.Brainware claims its search software can return useful results even when search terms are misspelled, or from illegible documents.Robert Tennant, CEO of Recommind, a search company that focuses on e-discovery, said Microsoft's move foretells a changing role for search. "We believe that search is really important to the next generation of all software," he said. "It provides information access with context. We believe that you'll see search ... woven within the fabric of other applications."Tennant also predicted it will be "many years" before Microsoft will produce specialized, vertical search products like those offered by Recommind.Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo, which makes the Velocity Search Platform for enterprises, echoed the notion that Microsoft's investment is good for the market overall. "I think we will have, eventually, one less competitor and many more partners," he said.But he also argued that the real beneficiaries of such consolidation could be companies like his own. "I think there's a lot of uncertainty, and in this environment enterprise customers are going to look for predictability."Microsoft's stock was down $1.14 in late trading Tuesday to $33.47, on a bad day overall for the market.IDG News Service's Peter Sayer contributed to this report.


Pakistani commandos blow walls in mosque standoff

Pakistani commandos blasted holes in the walls of a mosque compound on Sunday with the aim of helping hundreds of women and children escape from the site where Islamist gunmen are in a standoff with security forces.


SocGen reveals how it was duped in trading scam

French bank Societe Generale defended its handling of the world's biggest trading scandal on Sunday, but admitted its risk systems had failed to detect a 50-billion-euro ($73.3 billion) market bet by a lone trader.


United Parcel Service shrugs off sputtering U.S. economy to top third-quarter expectations.


Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes

Many government officials and housing-industry executives had said that a nationwide decline would never happen.


'America's Next Top Model' Ushers in the New CW Network

By Lynn Elber THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Rick Haskins, marketing chief for the fledgling CW network, does more than talk about reaching prospective viewers one at a time.


From scary "surgeons" to potion-swilling mad scientists, the misfits that inhabit these creepy late-night gems will keep you jumpy all weekend. In Table of Malcontents.


Blair presses Sudanese govt to end Darfur crisis

Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, meets with Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir at the palace in Khartoum, Sudan Oct. 6. Blair began his three-day visit to Africa by pushing for an end to the ethnic conflict in Darfur.


Dubai Ports to sell U.S. operations to AIG unit

State-owned Dubai Ports World said on  Monday it had agreed to sell its U.S. port operations to an  American International Group  unit after relinquishing  control of them to allay concerns about U.S. national security.


Car Bomb Near Shi'ite Mosque Kills 13 in Baghdad

Militants detonated a car bomb near a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day,  intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious  communities ahead of elections nine days away.


Skidmore Murder Suspect Waives Preliminary Hearing In Kansas

The woman accused of murdering pregnant Skidmore resident Bobbi Jo Stinnett and taking her baby has waived her preliminary hearing in US District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, and will appear in federal court in Missouri next week.


Barclays declines to comment on a report it may sweeten its Â£44bn offer for Dutch bank ABN Amro.


It's one thing to win Wimbledon, the biggest trophy in tennis. Quite another to live with it. By Anja Niedringhaus, AP. That is the tricky road of risk


Antispam developer: DomainKeys is only a first step

Blog: A Cisco engineer behind the promising new DomainKeys Identified Mail standard warns it isn't immune to exploitation by cybercriminals, but is instead more like "a peephole in the door."


Free reopening lures art lovers to museum

'I hope we have accomplished creating an entirely new museum, rooted in the old museum, where the collection shines as never before.


The company touts the Rokr E8 music phone and Moto Z10 video phone as part of its plan to broaden its portfolio of products.


After long silence, China tackles AIDS prevention

Li Yi squirmed a little as she searched for the right words. Using condoms is important to staying healthy, she wanted to say, but pleasing men is also important if she wants to stay in business.


2 Macedonian Hostages Said Killed in Iraq

Iraqis arrive at a destroyed car after a roadside bomb exploded on the highway leading to the airport of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct 18, 2004.


Opel workers vote to end wildcat strikes

Workers at the Bochum factory of German car maker Opel voted to return to work after paraylsing assembly lines for six days in protest at plans by Opel's US parent, General Motors, to slash 12,000 jobs in Europe.


There are changes afoot as PBS' "Now" begins its new season.


Update 1: AOL Users Report 75 Percent Less Spam

America Online Inc. said Monday that its users reported receiving more than 75 percent less junk e-mail this year as the overall volume of spam blocked by the Internet service provider declined by half from 2003.


Resuming space flight sparks shared dream

It may seem, from a distance, just one small step. But in a few months, it should prove to have been a giant leap. NASA plans today to roll out from an assembly facility near New Orleans a redesigned fuel


Closing a factory is never popular, but it's the right thing to do.


TWENTY-FOUR hours to the fuel price strike called by the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has restated that the action will be total and indefinite.


EUROPA/ITALIA - Alfabetizzazione, istruzione, formazione: piÃ¹ di mille biblioteche inviate in 13 paesi tra i piÃ¹ poveri di Africa e Asia Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Parrocchie, scuole, ospedali, carceri, lebbrosari e comunitÃ  cattoliche di 9 paesi dellÂAfrica e 4 dellÂAsia hanno ricevuto una serie di biblioteche con testi per lÂalfabetizzazione, lÂistruzione e la formazione. Il ÂProgetto B...


Kenya's leader reshuffles his cabinet, after heavy UK pressure to tackle high-level corruption.


Starbucks agrees deal on Ethiopia coffee labels

US coffee-shop chain Starbucks agreed to credit Ethiopia's unique bean varieties on its labels, in a deal signed Wednesday to ending a long-brewing trademark dispute.


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


Raketu looks to combine IPTV, social networking

(InfoWorld) - A new application from Raketu CommunicationsÂ aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the Internet's hip technologies. Raketu.tv, which became available in beta mode on Tuesday, delivers IPTV and VOD (video on demand) programming. The social-networking component factors in when using the IPTV or VOD services with Raketu's other communication and entertainment application, which shares the company's name. Raketu, which debuted last September, aims to integrate separate communication and entertainment programs that should be combined into one client, said Raketu CEO Greg Parker. It includes VoIP, instant messaging, and file-sharing. While simultaneously using other applications and Web sites accomplishes the same tasks as Raketu, Parker said that his software eases communicating and information gathering by combining several services into one program. Users no longer have to use multiple programs and Web sites to accomplish the same task that one application provides, said Parker. For example, friends could use Raketu to watch a video on surfing while discussing it via VoIP or instant messaging. The friends could then use a travel search feature in Raketu that locates airfares in an effort to plan a surfing vacation. "We're a bit of YouTube, a bit of MySpace, a bit of Joost, a bit of different social-networking technologies," said Parker. "We feel that we do a better job of integrating these services." Parker also noted that Raketu differs from other p-to-p services like Skype and Joost by not using super nodes, which link multiple computers together to transfer data. "This means you don't use your bandwidth to help other people get content, which means users get a more secure and faster service," said Parker. Media Global Intertainment will provide the IPTV content. As of Tuesday, the service offered five stations, including Cartoon TV and BBC Parliament. VOD content will come from Klikvu.com, which offers shows in categories such as extreme wrestling, soccer, and sports. VOD selections offered four categories as of Tuesday, including action sports and documentary. The VOD offerings are pay-per-view, which is how the media service will generate revenue, according to Parker. Social networking, which permits users to find friends and create and manipulate online content, has increased in popularity with the advent of Web sites such as MySpace.com, which News Corp. purchased for $580 million in 2005, and Google's YouTube video-sharing site. While Internet video is seen as playing a major role in the Web's development, the availability of content is crucial to this service. YouTube has been sorting out charges of copyright violations from entertainment companies whose content users illegally uploaded to the site. Meanwhile, Joost, an IPTV company launched by Skype's founders, announced Tuesday that it entered a deal with Viacom International to offer its television shows and feature films.


Experts Point to Series of Errors in Crash

LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 30 -- As federal authorities continue their investigation into Sunday's Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, independent safety experts said it is likely that a series of seemingly small events and decisions -- rather than any large single blunder -- led the pilots to...


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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. - You would think the Americans could pair Tiger Woods with Carrot Top, maybe have him hit alternate shots with Gerald Ford, and still reel in one Ryder Cup match after another.


AP Blog: CWS fans have fun tossing washers

Now that the College World Series is underway in Omaha, Neb., AP writers will be filing periodic, behind-the-scenes reports during college baseball's main event:


Three Palestinians, Israeli Killed in Shootings

Three Palestinians and an Israeli were  shot dead in separate incidents of an upsurge of violence in  Gaza and the West Bank on Wednesday, military sources and  witnesses said.


Group claims responsibility for air crashes

A rescuer carries the recorder found in the wreckage of a Russian Tupolev Tu-154, one of two planes to crash after taking off from the same airport 40 minutes apart.


By Alan Laugh  I AGREE with the "Film credits" letter writer.


Ground Squirrels Chew Snakeskins to Mask Their Scent

This eau de snake  acts as camouflage, covering up the squirrelâs own scent so a meal-seeking rattlesnake will leave it alone.


Three bomb explosions in Egyptian resorts kill 25

At least 25 people were killed and over 120 injured in three bomb explosions that ripped through a crowded hotel and a beach resort in Egypt's Sinai peninsula in attacks which neighbouring Israel said bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda.


Homeland Security Drops Data-Mining Tool

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


Navy Delays Presidential Helicopter Deal

The Navy has put off until at least January a decision on the contract to replace the aging Marine One presidential helicopter fleet, giving both prospective contractors more time to lobby for the prized job.


The Iraqi kidnappers of Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni killed him because Italy refused to heed their earlier deadline to withdraw troops from Iraq, says Al Jazeera television.


Ryan Giggs will try to tie Manchester United team mate Gary Neville in knots and score a goal to send the Old Trafford crowd home in tears when Wales side play England on Saturday.


Al Leiter pitched two-hit ball for six innings to earn his first win in six weeks, and the Mets beat the Cubs, 3-2, on Sunday.


By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired from NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.


Warner Chilcott gets second bid approach

Northern Irish drug maker Warner Chilcott says it has received an approach from a second party interested in bidding for the company, raising the prospect of a 1.5-billion-pound takeover battle.


Edwards on farewell tour across North Carolina

ASHEVILLE, NC John Edwards has kicked off a farewell tour as a North Carolina senator -- while promising he's not saying goodbye to politics.


Israeli press savours first Olympic gold

The wave of joy that swept through Israel as windsurfer Gal Fridman won the Jewish state's first ever Olympic gold medal crashes onto the pages of the press.


Cardinal Health to Cut Costs by Eliminating 4,200 Jobs

Cardinal Health, the drug wholesaler, said Monday it would cut 4,200 jobs, or 7 percent of its work force, and close 25 manufacturing and distribution locations as part of a plan to reduce costs.


Libeskind Book Describes Ground Zero Plan

Daniel Libeskind became one of the world's best-known architects when his emotionally charged plan for the World Trade Center site was chosen. Then, according to most versions, he was shunted aside when the developer brought in his own architect to redesign Libeskind's signature Freedom Tower.


Losanna, 18:54 - DOPING, CANOTTAGGIO: SOSPESI PER UN ANNO I TECNICI RUSSI

La Federazione Internazionale di Canottaggio (FISA) ha deciso di sospendere per un anno tutti i dele...


Three new plays explore disparate lives pushed together by music, strife, time, and friendship.


The African Union is brokering peace talks between Sudan's warring government, rebel armies and regional power-brokers, aiming to head off a mounting humanitarian crisis in the Darfur province.


SEOUL -- North Korea suggested yesterday that it would not participate in further six-party negotiations over its nuclear program because of recent revelations that scientists in South Korea had illegally experimented with producing fissile material for nuclear weapons.


Parigi, 17:10 - CALCIO, PSG: CHIUSA AREA DELLO STADIO DEI TIFOSI ESTREMISTI

La polizia francese ha deciso che la Boulogne Kop, l'area dello stadio "Parco dei Principi" che era ...


The bodies of all 17 men trapped underground after a mine explosion in southern Poland have been found, bringing the death toll to 23 in the country's worst mining disaster in three decades, the mining company ...Comment


67 people are dead after separate suicide car bombings in the cities of Najaf and Karbala. Analysts say the bombers could be attempting to spark a civil war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, since a large majority of Shiites populate the two holy cities.


Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied Tuesday that he and former White House chief of staff Andy Card pressured then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to recertify President Bush's intelligence-gathering program during a now-famous 2004 hospital visit.


Italian football could restart on Sunday, according to the commissioner of the Italian Federation.


For three sloppy quarters, retirement couldn't come soon enough for BC High football coach Jim Cotter. But the final 11 minutes of the game showed why it will be tough for the 41-year veteran to walk away after this season. The Eagles scored twice in the last quarter, including a 3-yard touchdown run by Mike Duffy with 1:34 ...


By Will Elliott  Lake Ontario fishing could become even better if plans to restore that lake's fishery are carried out.


Sharon looks to maximise victory in looming Gaza pullout vote

JERUSALEM, Oct 21  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon looked Thursday to maximise his majority in next week's crucial parliamentary vote on his Gaza pullout plan, buoyed by predictions that he was assured of victory.


Harsh Chhaya, who was seen in Madhur Bhandarkar's Corporate, will play a gay fashion designer in his next movie titled Fashion.


Egypt tower block collapse toll rises to eight

Rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed block of flats in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria overnight, bringing the toll to eight dead with many still missing, a security source said on Tuesday.


Yahoo, SBC to Create Multimedia Platform

Internet giant Yahoo Inc. on Thursday said it has extended and expanded its partnership with SBC Communications Inc. to transform their Internet access service into a multimedia platform connecting Web, television and wireless phone services.


Tony Blair arrives to promote Mideast peace conference

British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Jerusalem last night from Iraq, and constrained by a very tight schedule this morning will meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.


Hungry Eriksson glad to be back in business

Sven-Goran Eriksson has described his year out of football as the most stressful of his career and vowed that he can handle the challenge of resurrecting Manchester City as a force in English football.


The pregame sermon was titled, "Christmas Presents or Presence. You Choose." Vin Baker, the preacher's son, wants both.


Duke Prosecutor Jailed; Students Seek Settlement

As Michael Nifong reported to jail to serve a 24-hour sentence, the three students he accused of rape were negotiating a financial settlement and a series of reforms.


Separatist attacks kill 57 in north-east India

Separatists are suspected of bombing a crowded market, a tea plantation and other sites yesterday, killing seven people in a second day of explosions and gun attacks that have


Clemensâs Lawyers Not Worried About What Pettitte Will Say

Andy Pettitte may provide key testimony to the House oversight committee investigating his former teammateâs challenge to the Mitchell report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.


Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest was arrested Monday after a woman called 911 from his home saying she had been assaulted.


Armstrong confident cycling can weather doping storm

Seven-times Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong says cycling's premier race can recover from a series of doping scandals and come back even stronger.


U.S. welcomes North's invitation of IAEA team

Talks and fuel aid aimed at coaxing North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program could move ahead in coming weeks, the U.S. nuclear envoy said on Sunday, welcoming Pyongyang's invitation to U.N. inspectors.


Leonard moves four ahead at Bob Hope Classic

PALM DESERT, California  - American Justin Leonard eagled the par-five 14th on his way to a commanding four-shot lead in the Bob Hope Classic fourth round on Saturday.


China is extending a ban that virtually locks out all foreign cartoons from airing between 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in a bid to protect its fledgling domestic cartoon industry


A Pittsburgh research center will buy a Red Storm system and an Indian physics institute is getting an XD1.


U.S.-Bound German Plane Lands in Dublin After Alert

A Lufthansa plane heading to the United States from Germany made an unscheduled landing in Ireland on Friday after the airline received a call saying there was a suspect device on board, Dublin airport authority said.


Beijingâs Olympic Quest: Turn Smoggy Sky Blue

For the worldâs Olympians, Beijingâs air is a performance issue. For the cityâs estimated 12 million residents, pollution is an inescapable health and quality-of-life issue.


Special X-Rays Unmask Mummy's Face, Virtually

The face of a man who died and was mummified in Egypt 3,000 years ago has been modeled, using special CAT scans and without unwrapping his bandages, Italian researchers said on Wednesday.


Military hospital officials said in a statement on Sunday that Pinochet was no longer in critical condition after a minor stroke on Saturday.


Gunmen killed the governor of the Baghdad province, Ali al-Haidari, and six of his bodyguards on Tuesday, officials said. Earlier Tuesday, several Iraqis were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a fuel truck into a checkpoint near the fortified Green Zone.


Out on DVD for Valentine's Day across Russia is a heartwarming drama about a man and a woman who love each other and their country Â and who bear an uncanny resemblance to Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila.


A nationally renowned cardiac surgeon who worked tirelessly to extend the lives of young heart patients at Arkansas Childrenâs Hospital apparently took his own life early Sunday morning in


American Herron grabs early one-shot lead at Pebble Beach

PEBBLE BEACH, California  - Beefy American Tim Herron birdied two of his last four holes to grab an early one-shot lead in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am second round on Friday.


Sport: Zat Knight scores on his Aston Villa debut to inflict first league defeat on Chelsea in seven months.


Former rocker booted off flight in security scare

Federal agents hauled the former pop singer and convert to Islam off a Washington-bound plane after diverting it to Maine yesterday, and plan to boot him out of the country today because he turned up on a US watch list.


In Lifeâs Web, Aiding Trees Can Kill Them

When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.


Movie studios take sides in fight over DVD formats

Maybe you were out of town last week, or maybe you just weren't paying attention. That's OK. Here's a quick rundown of what you missed, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.


Sport: Steve Coppell and Roy Keane back plans for Premier League games to be staged overseas


New Delhi, Nov. 24: Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz today came out strongly in favour of going ahead with the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline regardless of other issues, but India adopted a more


Jankovic upsets Dementieva to reach semis

Jelena Jankovic exploited Elena   Dementieva's weak serve to upset the fourth seed 6-2 6-1 on   Tuesday and advance to the semi-finals of the U.S. Open.


Torino, 16:23 - CALCIO, JUVE; MIRANTE: E' IL MIO MAESTRO

Ha esordito sabato scorso con la maglia della Juventus, Antonio Mirante è il vice Buffon: "Pe...


'Revocare competenze su Gdf, e un invito alle dimissioni'


Risultato grazie a crescita della distribuzione alimentare


Militants Say Beheaded Collaborator-Web Site

An Iraqi militant group said it beheaded  an Iraqi man it accused of collaborating with U.S. forces and  posted pictures of the killing on the Internet.


As Red Hat Inc. prepares to launch the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system on Wednesday, the question is again being asked whether a robust and feature-laden operating system is really needed for some computing situations.


He's a mean one, but he isn't always wrong.


War Affects TV News Coverage of Hispanics

Television news coverage of Hispanics was more favorable in 2003 — largely because of reports on the wartime service of Hispanic troops — but America's largest and fastest-growing minority remains mostly ignored, according to an annual study being released Monday.


PARIS, Sept. 2 -- North Korea agreed to disclose all of its nuclear activities and disable its nuclear programs by the end of the year, a senior U.S. official said Sunday after negotiations this weekend in Geneva.


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Google-DoubleClick deal hit by deleted Web page controversy

DoubleClick's law firm deleted Web pages hinting at a conflict of interest with the head of the Federal Trade Commission, which is reviewing the merger. The law firm says the Web pages were "confusing."


Indonesian Editor Jailed Following Libel Conviction

A court in Indonesia has sentenced the editor of a leading media group to a year in prison for libeling a controversial businessman.


Karzai Far Ahead of Rivals in Early Tally

Early results Friday showed interim leader Hamid Karzai far ahead of his chief rivals in Afghanistan's first democratic presidential election after a quarter-century of war.


Suicide Bomb Blast Near Australia Embassy in Iraq

A suicide car bomb exploded on Wednesday close to the Australian embassy in central Baghdad, police and witnesses said.


Gloves to Come Off for Roethlisberger? Maybe, Maybe Not

Ben Roethlisberger, the Steelers' rookie quarterback, is going to try to play the American Football Conference championship game barehanded.


Rumsfeld Calls for Unity in War on Terror

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld struck a conciliatory tone at a European security conference Saturday, saying the American-European alliance could withstand its current differences and calling for unified efforts to defeat terrorism and weapons proliferation.


I magistrati milanesi, segreto di Stato non opponibile


A rescue plan for the Hubble Space Telescope is in doubt after reports that its funding has been rejected.


CORRECTED: Blast kills two in apparent criminal Kosovo attack

A bomb blast killed two people  when it ripped through shops in the capital of Serbia's  breakaway Kosovo province early on Monday in what police said  was probably a showdown between criminal gangs.


Former US president Bill Clinton was expected to make his first election campaign appearance today since undergoing heart surgery, urging Americans to vote for Senator John Kerry.


Iran says always ready for nuclear talks

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran was "opposed to any proliferation" of nuclear weapons and was always ready to talk about its nuclear program.


European shares fall as equity sell-off goes on

European shares fell sharply in early  trade on Monday as a sell-off in global equities snowballed,  and the yen hit three-month highs against the dollar and the  euro.


Nuclear Data Found Missing From New Mexico

WASHINGTON - An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department's regional office in Albuquerque, N.M., the department disclosed Thursday.    The Energy Department said that an "accounting discrepancy" involving three copies of a "controlled removable electronic media" - or CREM - was found at the regional office as part of the nationwide inventory of such devices...


ABN's LaSalle sale can go forward: Dutch Supreme Court

Dutch bank ABN AMRO can go ahead with its $21 billion sale of U.S. subsidiary LaSalle Bank to Bank of America, the Dutch Supreme Court said on Friday, boosting the chance that Barclays could succeed in its all-share bid to buy ABN for 64 billion euros ($88 billion).


UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle agrees to be bought by Heineken and Carlsberg for Â£7.8bn.


Riguardera' le violenze nelle aree metropolitane


Colts, city agree on deal for new stadium

The Indianapolis Colts and the city have agreed in principle on a new stadium and a 30-year lease by the NFL team, reports Sunday said.


UN Urged to Ignore Bush Plea for Human Cloning Ban

Britain's national academy of science urged the United Nations on Monday to ignore a call by President Bush to ban all forms of human cloning.


President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia has no objection to Ukraine joining the European Union. ``If Ukraine wants to enter the EU and is welcomed there, then we can only be pleased,'' Putin


Milwaukee Electric Tool, other units to be sold for $626.6M

Atlas Copco Group has agreed to sell its electric tools business, including Brookfield-based Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp., to Techtronic Industries Co.


Oracle wins antitrust suit in bid for rival Ruling lifts major ...

A federal judge handed Oracle Corp. a major victory Thursday when he ruled that the software giant's $7.7 billion hostile bid to gobble up rival PeopleSoft Inc.


Curious gadget fans dissect iPhones to see how they work

Within hours of the first iPhones going on sale, fans scrambled to be the first to discover what makes the devices tick, posting photos and videos of disassembled phones on the Internet.


Mark Mulder has lost his edge, and the Oakland Athletics are in ever-greater danger of losing their spot atop the AL West. Mark Teixeira hit a three-run homer off Mulder, and the Texas Rangers kept creeping back into the playoff chase with a 10-3 victory over the A's on Wednesday night.


Stop di 10 minuti deciso da sindacati in memoria vittime


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


Jacksonville holds PeytonÃÂ Manning to one touchdown pass, but Indianapolis finds other ways to scoreÃÂ to maintainÃÂ its dominance in the AFC South with a 21-14 victory.


Few things could be more romantic than gazing at the Taj Mahal by moonlight - which is now possible for the first time in 20 years thanks to a ruling by India's supreme court yesterday.


Ukraine Rivals Fail to Resolve Stalemate

Ukraine's two rivals for power failed in nearly three hours of talks Friday to resolve the political stalemate over who will lead the bitterly divided nation, and opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko told a huge rally that he was insisting on a new election.


Contatti violenti tra no global e forze dell'ordine Padova


Some FDA Staff Had Drug Safety Concerns-Survey

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. Food and  Drug Administration scientists surveyed in late 2002 said they  were pressured to approve or recommend approval of a medicine  despite their reservations about the drug's risks or  effectiveness, according to documents made public on Thursday.


NEW YORK Sprinters, weight-lifters and other athletes who push themselves to the limit of exertion are familiar with muscle fatigue, and many of them blame that sore, sluggish feeling on lactic acid.


Bush urges Congress to wait for Iraq report

President George W. Bush, facing Democratic pressure to begin pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, urged Congress on Friday to wait for a crucial assessment of his strategy before making any judgments about the war.


Napoli, 20:20 - CALCIO, NAPOLI: 5-0 NEL TEST CON LA PRIMAVERA

Test infrasettimanale per il Napoli, che in vista della gara di domenica con l'Empoli ha affrontato ...


'Servono infrastrutture, non soldi che generano corruzione'


Georgia is likely to have a dismal season on the basketball court.


A couple who tortured a man they had befriended are each been jailed for four-and-a-half years.


Roy Makaay almost single-handedly led Bayern into the second round of last season's Champions League with seven of Munich's eight goals in the competition and Bayern's reliance on the Dutch striker looks set to continue this year.


Two Polish Soldiers Killed In Iraq Avoiding Ambush

Two Polish soldiers serving in Iraq were killed and five injured on Thursday in a car crash as they sought to escape an ambush, a military spokesman in Warsaw said.


Also: Turkish court orders YouTube blocked. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.


Derek makes Tigers topple like dominoes: Red-hot Sox continue ...

At times like this, it is important to remember a simple truth: No matter how much they have improved, no matter how much promise they may show at times, there is something they have yet to escape.


China Lets Currency Appreciate a Bit Faster

Chinaâs currency rose steeply against the dollar this week, feeding speculation that Chinese authorities were allowing their currency to appreciate more rapidly.


Film About Bush's Hometown Wins Top Award

An artist who made a film about President Bush's home town, has been awarded the Turner Prize, Britain's top honor for modern art.


L'Italia nella morsa del gelo, cittÃ  imbiancateneve sulle coste adriatiche, nel Lazio e in Sardegna                                                  L'inverno rigido arriva ovunque nevicate in pianura, scuole chiuse                                                                                Record in Alta Val Venosta: -27 nel paese di SoldaAllerta meteo della Protezione civile per le prossime 36 ore


Via libera all'apertura della causa di beatificazione


The tally of billionaires around the globe reached a high of 946, their combined wealth growing 35 percent to $3.5 trillion


Apple has taken steps to take ownership of the iTunes.co.uk domain name from its current owner, with the company formally complaining to Nominet, the UK domain name registrar, that it is entitled to the domain.


China catches slave-labor boss amid national uproar

Chinese police have captured a man accused of holding workers in virtual slavery, state media reported on Sunday amid a national uproar over teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.


Tokyo - A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the open-ended Richter scale shook western Japan on Sunday and officials issued tsunami warnings, broadcaster NHK reported.


Georgians pay their last respects to the late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who died earlier this week.


The outgoing Secretary will not be a tough act to follow. But many veterans feel they need a better advocate


Summary: Olive Oil May Boost Heart Health

Nov 1, 2004 - EATING RIGHT: Food containing olive oil can carry labels saying it may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, the government said Monday.


France Cautious on Claim for Jewish Center Attack

A previously unknown Islamic militant  group said on Monday it set fire to a Jewish soup kitchen in  Paris, but French investigators treated the claim with caution.


Iran says U.N. decisions on atomic plans worthless

Iran will not abandon its atomic goals because of U.N. sanction resolutions that are "just a pile of papers", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.


Gunmen holding a three-year-old British girl hostage in the Niger Delta make a ransom demand, her mother says.


Firenze, 18:58 - CALCIO, PARMA: ACQUISTATO PARRAVICINI

Il centrocampista Francesco Parravicini è stato acquistato a titolo definitivo dal Parma. Lo ...


The UK's security could suffer if investment in defence research is not increased, a committee of MPs says.


Jerusalem Arabs to Skip Palestinian Vote

Rabi Mimi is a strong supporter of leading Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas. But when the polls open Sunday, Mimi won't be voting.


ZDNet's survey of IT professionals in August kept Wired & Wireless on top for the 18th month in a row. Telecommunications equipment maker Motorola said Tuesday that it would cut 1,000 jobs and take related


U.N. extends peacekeeping mandate for Ivory Coast

The U.N. Security Council voted  on Monday to extend the mandate of a peacekeeping force in  Ivory Coast until January to help create peaceful conditions  for elections that have been repeatedly delayed.


At least 3,000 people have fled more violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur province in the past few days, the UN says.


Democrat John Edwards said Tuesday that honesty and openness were essential qualities for a president, and that he was proud to acknowledge his 2002 vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq was a mistake


One of the nation's most familiar "prosecutors" showed in Scooter Libby's camp in court Thursday.


Missing British girl's parents say hunt must go on

The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann are to launch an advertising campaign across Europe to try to shift attention back to the search for their daughter, a family member said on Saturday.


Cartoon characters named Neve and Gliz, representing a ball of snow and a block of ice, are the mascots for the 2006 Turin Olympics.


In Senate Vote, G.O.P. Fights Off Gonzales Rebuke

Although they fell short of the 60 votes needed to bring the no-confidence resolution to a vote, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzalesâs critics mustered a majority with some Republican support.


Clarke joint leader in season-ending Tour Championship

Britain's Darren Clarke shared the lead with Jay Haas and Jerry Kelly after Thursday's wet first round of the $6 million season-ending Tour Championship.


Oil holds at $60 on OPEC output cut plan

Oil held around $60 on Friday, as traders weighed OPEC's plans to cut production against overflowing stockpiles in top consumer the United States.


Broadband speed and price varies greatly across some of the world's most developed nations, says a report.


The arcane rules governing Thursday's Iowa Democratic caucuses will test even the most organized campaign, but mastery of the process could launch a candidate on a path to the White House.


Production staff - now standing at 1000 - will be cut by two-thirds as News International, the UK newspaper unit of News Corp, moves its London printing facilities from Wapping to Enfield.


Reuters Group PLC said Monday it is acquiring Moneyline Telerate, a market news provider, for $100 million in cash and the transfer of its 14 percent stake in Savvis Communications.


Nasdaq Stock Market Inc , the second-largest U.S. equities exchange, posted a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by a gain from the sale of its stake in the London Stock Exchange.


Insurance commissioners nationwide, including those from Virginia, Maryland and the District, waded into the growing industry scandal yesterday, holding a teleconference to coordinate


Milano, 17:37 - CALCIO, INTER; MANCINI: RECORD? HERRERA E TRAP NELLA STORIA

Nona vittoria consecutiva e record assoluto nella storia dell'Inter. Roberto Mancini perÃ² non accett...


House and Senate candidates have spent at least $487 million this election cycle, $130 million more than congressional candidates had poured in by this point in the 2002 races.


The rapper received 10 Grammy nominations, while Alicia Keys and Usher received eight. Ray Charles, who died in June, has seven.


EU seeks partial freeze in Turkey talks: sources

The European Commission said on Wednesday it was recommending a partial suspension of Turkey's negotiations to join the European Union after Ankara failed to open its ports to EU member Cyprus.


ASK JIM: ; Program Cleans Up, Blocks Downloads

By James Coates  Q. I am at my wits' end with my two sons' IBM laptop computers that are riddled with spyware and viruses to the extent that the computers are almost unusable.   They use these computers a lot for gaming, surfing the Web, instant messaging and, of course, schoolwork.


We uncover the candidates' views on Internet taxes, privacy, and other tech hot buttons.


San Marino, 23:08 - CALCIO, EURO 2008: SAN MARINO-REPUBBLICA CECA 0-3

La repubblica Ceca ha battuto San Marino 3-0 (1-0) in una partita di qualificazione a Euro 2008 (gru...


Demobilized soldiers rioted at a retraining center in northeastern China overnight, the latest in a series of apparently coordinated protests against living conditions, a teacher and a human rights monitoring group said Friday.


Guess who's still the richest man in America?

Bill Gates kept his ranking as the richest person in the United States, boosting his worth to $48-billion. But investor Warren Buffett has edged closer to the top of the rich list, Forbes magazine said on Friday.


Intel Details Upgrade to Itanium Processor

Intel is expected to detail Tukwila, its next generation of 64-bit Itanium processors that are used in enterprise servers.


Shyamalan's latest film dead in the water

Walt Disney Co.'s "Pirates of the  Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" logged a third weekend as the most  popular movie in North America while the latest films from  directors M. Night Shyamalan and Ivan Reitman both bombed,  according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.


Sudan army and former rebels clash in south Sudan

Clashes between the Sudanese army and former rebels have broken out in southern Sudan over recent days, in one of the worst incidents since a north-south peace deal was signed two years ago, the United Nations has said.


Also: UN warning on e-waste 'mountain.' Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.


Death takes no holidays, a cancer study suggests

NEW YORK The common perception that terminally ill people can hang on to life through important religious or personal days is more romance than reality, researchers reported Wednesday.


FORT MYERS, Fla. -- He sat beside Terry Francona in the Red Sox dugout, wearing shorts, not a hoodie.


'Poor Parenting Not to Blame for Hyperactive Children'

Hyperactive children suffer from a genuine inherited disorder that in serious cases can cause severe mental illness, an expert said today.


Yahoo! makes alliances to fend off Google.


Obama hits New Hampshire in possible 2008 preview

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Democrat Barack Obama makes his first visit to the political proving grounds of New Hampshire on Sunday, stoking the growing buzz about a possible 2008 White House run by the rising party star.


SHARES in Kidde soared more than 17 per cent yesterday after it emerged that the fire equipment group had rejected an indicative Â£1.


Ukraine Liberal Vows Street Demos if Cheated in Poll

The liberal challenger in a closely fought  presidential election in Ukraine threatened on Friday to bring  his supporters onto the streets if the authorities tried to  deny him victory by cheating.


Microsoft: Payout of Sasser bounty hinges on conviction

Sven Jaschan, the alleged author of the Sasser worm and several variants of the Netsky virus, was charged this week by German police, but the informant who led authorities to the suspect will have to wait for a promised $250,000 reward, Microsoft


Molson sweetens Coors merger proposal with $381-million dividend

MONTREAL (CP) - Molson Inc. shares gained ground Friday after the brewer announced its shareholders will get a special premium if they agree to a proposed merger with Colorado beer maker Adolph Coors Co.


Danish MPs cancel a trip to Iran after Tehran demands they apologise for the Muhammad cartoon row.


Berlino, 17:37 - CALCIO, GERMANIA: WERDER BREMA AGGANCIA BAYERN

Risultati della 20/a giornata di Bundesliga: Schalke 04-Wolfsburg 1-2 (giocata ieri); Energie Cottbu...


Empoli, 12:21 - CALCIO, EMPOLI: DEL ROSSO NUOVO TECNICO ALLIEVI

E' Fabrizio Del Rosso il nuovo allenatore della categoria Allievi nazionali del settore giovanile de...


Medicine Fueled by Marketing Intensified Trouble for Pain Pills

This article was reported by Barry Meier, Gina Kolata and Andrew Pollack and written by Mr. Meier. In the mid-1990's, the medical community reached an inescapable conclusion.


Restoring trust biggest headache for British TV

For the BBC and commercial broadcasters  across Britain, their problems right now are all summed up in  one word -- trust.


By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 11--Utahns lost their food stamps last month under a new policy that  anti-hunger advocates say they would have opposed had they known about it.    That's fewer than 2 percent of the 54,750 households on food stamps in  any given month.


European and Asian foreign ministers agreed to set a 2009 deadline to complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to limit greenhouse gases, diplomats said Tuesday.


An official from the Palestinian  militant group Hamas was killed on Sunday when a bomb exploded  in his car in Damascus, Hamas spokesmen and witnesses said.


Varese, 22:45 - BASKET, SERIE A: NELL'ANTICIPO VARESE BATTE UDINE

Nell'anticipo della decima giornata del campionato di serie A, la Whirlpool Varese ha battuto la Sna...


Da Palermo il leeader della Cgil interviene nella polemica sull'extragettitoE respinge l'invito alla "moderazione salariale" della Banca centrale europea                                          Epifani: "Il tesoretto esiste" E sui salari attacca la Bce


Judge Clears Contractor of Fraud in Iraq

A federal judge has dismissed a civil case against a military contractor accused of improperly billing Iraq reconstruction authorities for tens of millions of dollars worth of security services that it did not provide.


A truce between warring Palestinian factions entered its third day Thursday, marred by sporadic shootings.


CUPERTINO, CaliforniaâOctober 14, 2004âAppleÂ® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 150 million songs from the iTunesÂ® Music Store, marking another major milestone for the online music business.


Stockings, High Heels for Afghan Women Riot Police

Fishnet stockings and high heels are not the norm for riot police, but this is Afghanistan.


The Minnesota Timberwolves rebounded from their worst game of the season with one of their best. Wally Szczerbiak's 23 points led four starters in double figures as Minnesota routed the Washington Wizards 109-74 Sunday.


The MP3 design modification is a major move for Sony, which has been criticized for a product that only allows its own format to be played.


At funeral Mass, grief, faith and outrage at riot

The pastor who said the funeral Mass for Victoria ``Torie'' Snelgrove yesterday blasted the riotous acts of a rowdy post-Red Sox pennant crowd for the circumstances surrounding her all-too-soon death.


Home foreclosures drop in June but spike likely

U.S. home foreclosures fell in June after jumping to a 30-month peak in May, but default rates will escalate as a horde of mortgages resets at higher loan rates, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Thursday.


Beaver Creek, 22:50 - SCI, CDM; BEAVER CREEK: BLARDONE VINCE LO SLALOM GIGANTE

Trionfo italiano nello slalom gigante di Beaver Creek. Max Blardone ha vinto con il tempo di 2'27"88...


A cruise ship carrying British tourists has collided with a Greek oil tanker in fog off southern Spain.


Israeli blockade deepens hardship in Gaza

Gaza hospitals will run out of drugs and fuel for generators within a few days unless Israel eases the border blockade it imposed to curb Palestinian rocket attacks, international organizations said on Monday.


Thomas Denies Accusations in Harassment Suit

Isiah Thomas spent two hours today denying every accusation made about him by Anucha Browne Sanders, the former Knicksâ senior vice president of marketing who is suing him for sexual harassment.


Update 5: US Pressures China on Currency

The Bush administration lobbied Chinese economic officials on Thursday to overhaul a currency regime that American manufacturers contend gives China a huge competitive advantage.


Escaped convict wanted in N.Y. shootings

Two New York state troopers were in critical condition Friday after being shot with what investigators believe was a high-powered rifle fired by an escaped convict.


The trial of a neo-Nazi accused of plotting a bomb attack on a Jewish cultural centre is to start in Munich.


Indians pitcher Kyle Denney will never complain about having to dress like a cheerleader again. The white go-go boots that went with the outfit might have prevented a bullet from seriously injuring his leg.


EU and US negotiators strike a deal on sharing passenger information for transatlantic flights.


Altri tre riconoscimenti a NY, Barcellona e Shanghai


The scientific journal Nature has corrected a press release regarding an article claiming that embryonic stem cells could be made without destroying an embryo.


Avis blames IT for multimillion-dollar loss

The car rental company takes a major hit because of problems with IT, including high costs associated with an ERP project.


Counting began in Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election Thursday, five days after the poll  took place, an official for the Afghan-U.N. Joint Electoral  Management Body said.


While Greenspan & Co. hinted that growth could be more robust, it didn't stop the anticipated quarter-point rate increase.


National League MVP runner-up Matt Holliday agreed Friday to a $23 million, two-year contract Friday with the Colorado Rockies that avoided arbitration.


Microsoft jumps antitrust hurdle in Iowa

(InfoWorld) - The latest status report on Microsoft Corp.'s compliance with an antitrust settlement in the U.S. has cleared the company of a separate accusation of not complying with orders to disclose information to make its products more interoperable. An expert witness in a class-action suit filed in Iowa, Comes v. Microsoft, testified that the company had not documented APIs (application programming interfaces) as required by the 2002 settlement with the Justice Department and states. The plaintiffs from the 2002 settlement met with the expert witness in the Iowa case and examined material, concluding that "there is no evidence that Microsoft has not fully disclosed the APIs." The conclusion was tucked away in the report, published on Tuesday, by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which monitors Microsoft's compliance with the settlement. Microsoft reached a settlement in February in the Comes case, filed in Polk County District Court, after plaintiffs argued the company overcharged them for software. In April, a judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement that calls for Microsoft to pay up to US$179.95 million to individual users and businesses that bought Microsoft software between May 18, 1994, and June 30, 2006. The case is due for a final review on Aug. 31. If approved, eligible Iowans will be able to receive $16 for OSes; $29 for Office, $25 for Excel and $10 for Word. Individual users will get cash, while volume buyers will get vouchers for products from Microsoft, its competitors and others. Microsoft estimates the cost of Iowa settlement, as well as settlements reached with Arkansas and Wisconsin in March, plus an outstanding case in Mississippi, could cost the company between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion, according to an April 26 filing with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission. Â


Shipowners Association May Expand Lockout

The Norwegian Shipowners Association threatened on Monday to lock out more oil and gas rig workers, a move analysts said could result in a near shutdown of the third-largest petroleum exporter's production and drive world oil prices even higher.


More Than 1.4 Million Flights Late in U.S. Last Year

More than 1.4 million domestic  airline flights, nearly 20 percent of all arrivals, were late  in 2004, according to figures released on Thursday by the U.S.  government.


Bush, Kerry trade gibes on terror threat

The state that launched George W. Bush on the road to the White House and rejuvenated John F. Kerry's presidential hopes took


Moscow Plans First Stalin Monument Since 1960s

Moscow plans to erect a new statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous image to its streets after an absence of four decades, a top city official said Wednesday.


journalists they are holding hostage to try to force Paris to revoke its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools. Baldoni, has given Paris 48 hours to rescind the ban due to apply from the start of state schools on Thursday.


Wall Street treads water as traders await fresh direction

US STOCKS were narrowly mixed yesterday as investors digested a jump in second-quarter gross domestic product, while keeping a close eye on falling oil prices.


Grieving Hendrick Motorsports employees returned to the racetrack Friday determined to honor those killed in a plane crash last weekend by continuing the team's legacy of winning races and championships.


Milano, 19:25 - CALCIO, JUVE; COBOLLI GIGLI: VENDUTI BENE NOSTRI DIRITTI

Accordo ormai fatto tra la Lega e SportItalia per i diritti di B. Soddisfatto il presidente della Ju...


Potenza, incisi anche una stella a 5 punte e un bersaglio


Gallup: Online News Hasn't Beaten Old Media -- Yet

Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Americans are more likely to get their news from local TV and newspapers than national sources, according to a Gallup Poll released today. But of all sources, only news on the Internet is gaining in popularity.


E-BUSINESS: PC World Kills Off the Floppy

Computer retail chain PC World is dropping floppy disks from sale due to plummeting demand.   PC World will no longer stock the computer storage devices once its existing supplies have been sold.


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Bachelor, Master and Post-Grad degrees online from accredited colleges and universities. Business, Education, IT, Healthcare, more. Browse by degree or program. Request info and get started today.


Sure, Come Back to the Nest. Here Are the Rules.

As the number of children who return to live at home after college increases, the best situations are built on financial rules that encourage responsibility.


Shares of Micrel Inc. MCRL.O fell  6.3 percent before the bell on Wednesday, a day after the maker  of analog microchips said fourth-quarter revenue would miss  earlier targets due to weak demand from computing and  communications equipment makers.


Microsoft aims to scuttle pirated copies of Vista

Microsoft Corp's  upcoming  Windows Vista computer operating system will include technology  that is designed to prevent pirated copies from fully  functioning, the software giant said.


Tishman Speyer and Lehman to buy Archstone-Smith

Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  will be acquired by real estate company Tishman Speyer and investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings  for $22.2 billion, including debt, the companies said on Tuesday.


Bobby Robins scored 1:23 into overtime last night, giving UMass-Lowell a 3-2 win over Providence at Tsongas Arena in Lowell.


All'altezza di un cantiere tra Cavenago e Trezzo sull'Adda


Microsoft unveils simplified version of WindowsXP in Asia

World's leading software developer Microsoft has announced that it will promote its cheaper and simplified version of WindowsXP in Russia and soon launch a series of marketing


Congress Votes for a Stimulus of $168 Billion

The rescue package includes rebates for taxpayers and tax breaks for businesses that lawmakers and President Bush hope will set off a rush of springtime spending.


Squirrel Runs Circles Around Yanks, Tribe

CLEVELAND - This squirrelly newcomer caused quite a stir at Jacobs Field. A brown squirrel ran onto the field in the bottom of the third inning Wednesday night and ran circles around the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians...


Madrid, 13:16 - CALCIO, FIFA; CANNAVARO: QUESTO PREMIO CHIUDE BOCCA A TUTTI

Fabio Cannavaro ha parlato alla radio spagnola Cadena Ser del Fifa World Player ricevuto ieri: ''E' ...


Atlantis Heads for the Space Station to Deliver a Science Laboratory From Europe

The space shuttle Atlantis dodged an approaching weather front and rumbled into space, carrying the European science laboratory Columbus to the International Space Station.


Crystal Palace boss Iain Dowie refused to blame striker Andy Johnson after his penalty miss in the defeat to Charlton. "I wouldn't blame Andy Johnson as he has been fantastic like he has been all season," said


Man in Britain jailed over missile plans

A man caught with plans for a missile on his computer was sentenced Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in a British prison after being convicted of a terrorist offense.


The MP3 design modification is a major move for Sony, which has been criticized for a product that only allows its own format to be played.


The parliamentary election in Moldova is set at March 6, 2005. The...

The parliamentary election in Moldova is set at March 6, 2005. The decision was made at a session of the republican parliament on Friday.


Bush warns Iran of consequences if U.S. ships attacked

U.S. President George W. Bush warned Iran on Wednesday of "serious consequences" if it attacked U.S. ships in the Gulf, adding that all options were on the table.


A new massive rocket commissioned by the US government and eyed by NASA to deliver heavy cargo into orbit fell short of its target during a long-awaited inaugural mission late Tuesday.


New police powers to prosecute offenders for possession if they test positive for drugs when they are arrested, even if the only drugs they have are in their bloodstream, are to be announced this week.


Some chemicals should be re-assessed after new evidence that they accumulate in food chains, scientists say.


Site News: Got a job you want the Community to know about? Let us post it!

Here on PHPDeveloper.org, we're always trying to do whatever we can to help out the PHP community, so to further that effort we're going to start posting a weekly "jobs roundup" of the job information we recieve. There won't be a charge and it can be anything from contract jobs out to permenant positions anywhere in the world (hooray for the internet!).   Now, on to what we need from you - we'd prefer the information to be as concise as possible. Cut and paste of a full listing isn't the way to go here. We'd prefer the summary of the position with a link to more details.   Here's the key info we'd like:  Company Name Position title Position location Summary description of the position A link to more information on it (on Monster, Hotjobs, your site, etc.)  Other information included along with the request might me truncated or modified slightly to fit within these guidelines.   To submit your job information, send it along to jobs@phpdeveloper.org and we'll get it posted and include the phrase "JOB POSTING" somewhere in the subject line. Since this will start off as a weekly thing, you'll need to wait until Friday to see the information show up.


Flights Leave in Odd Calm in Ivory Coast

An eerie calm prevailed on the streets of this battered city on Saturday, as hundreds more foreigners awaited flights to Paris that would spirit them away


Job fears over possible Jaguar and Land Rover sell-off

Business & money: Ford's decision to consider the possible sale of its Jaguar and Land Rover brands has alarmed unions and politicians who fear that UK jobs are at risk.


The court's ruling puts a chink in campaign finance law, but it also shows the ideological limits of the Roberts Court


McLeish gives Smith vote of approval for Scotland job

THE imminent appointment of Walter Smith as Scotland football manager has been given a glowing endorsement by leading figures in the game.


Keith Richards embarrassed about tree incident

An embarrassed Keith Richards says  he was merely sitting on a tree stump rather than climbing up a  lofty palm tree when he fell and hit his head while on vacation  in Fiji in April.


24 ago 20:13 Immigrazione: vertice Berlusconi-Pisanu: "La Bossi ...

OLBIA - A ventiquattr'ore circa dal suo viaggio in Libia il premier Berlusconi oggi pomeriggio a Villa Certosa, in Sardegna, ha visto il ministro dell'Interno Beppe Pisanu. Al centro dell'incontro i problemi legati all'emergenza immigrazione.


Material-Turned-Spiritual Madonna Visits Israel

Pop idol Madonna, fresh from her  acclaimed "Re-Invention" tour, began a spiritual pilgrimage to  Israel on Wednesday to practice her newfound faith in the  mystical Jewish Kabbalah.


With its hip new ads and even hipper marketing deal with rock band U2, the iPod has revived Apple Computer Inc.'s image as a cutting-edge company.


An arsonist set five fires in a high-rise building in the...

An arsonist set five fires in a high-rise building in the south-western Austrian city of Klagenfurt early today, forcing authorities to evacuate 40 people.


Sources say agreement bars Coca-Cola from manipulating retailers to give its products an edge. BRUSSELS  - Coca-Cola and the European Commission were poised to settle a long-running antitrust case Friday, people familiar with the situation said.


Pinochet Indicted on Human Rights Charges

Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted Monday for the kidnapping of nine dissidents and the killing of one of them during his 1973-90 regime.


Osaka, 14:17 - ATLETICA, MONDIALI: LE 8 FINALISTE DEI 100 METRI

Ecco le 8 finaliste dei 100 metri ai Mondiali di atletica di Osaka, in Giappone:


Analysis: Tony Blair Meets Separately With Israeli and Palestinian ...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he hopes that a conference in London early next year will be a bridge back to the stalled road map to Middle East peace.


Empoli, 17:10 - CALCIO, EMPOLI: ALLA RIPRESA A PARTE LUCCHINI ED EDER

Ripresa degli allenamenti per l'Empoli in vista della gara di domenica a Catania: lavoro atletico ch...


Bankitalia, 352 partecipanti, importo richiesto 382,68 mld


Bush hints at troop reductions during Iraq visit

Some US troops could be sent home if security conditions improve, president says.


Writers' strike deal could come within week: report

Hollywood's striking writers have made a key breakthrough in contract talks with film and television producers, leading to what could be a deal between the two parties by the end of next week, The New York Times reported on Saturday.


L.A. Jury Clears Allergan, Doctor in Botox Case

A Los Angeles jury on Friday  cleared Irvine, California-based pharmaceutical company  Allergan Inc. and a prominent dermatologist of claims that they  poisoned the wife of former movie studio head Mike Medavoy with  Botox injections.


Dennis denies McLaren favour Alonso over Hamilton in Monaco GP

McLaren team chief Ron Dennis denied vehemently that his team had broken any Formula One rules by favouring defending double drivers world champion Fernando Alonso against Lewis Hamilton in Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.


A frail but determined pope delivered his traditional Christmas sermon in Rome's St.


IN A major strategic reversal, Sony plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players. The shift to support the widely used MP3 music format would end Sony's long-standing insistence on its proprietary Atrac format.


Pardew tells Hammers to revel in Argentinian stars

Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano can transform West Ham into one of English football's leading forces, Hammers boss Alan Pardew has said, urging fans to ignore the uncertainty over the future of the Argentinian World Cup stars.


This Tamil film directed by Puri Jagannath is a big dud. Watch it if you have nothing better to do.


An Arizona man who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp finds he lived next door to an SS camp guard.


Disagi nei collegamenti aerei a Malpensa, Linate e AnconaRallentamenti sulle autostrade di Emilia Romagna e Lombardia                                          Nebbia fitta sul Centronord voli cancellati e traffico in tilt


Beslan mourns as Putin vows tough response to 'all-out war' by ...

Funeral processions snaked through this grief-racked town as relatives buried victims of the school siege in southern Russia in rows of freshly dug graves Sunday.


A think-tank calls for soldiers to be retrained as teachers to tackle indiscipline in the classroom.


Biotech giant Inc. Amgen and the pharmaceuticals division of health-care products company Wyeth said Tuesday the Food and Drug Administration approved their arthritis treatment Enbrel to induce a major clinical


Sudan will not accept a peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region but may agree to extra monitors being deployed, its foreign minister says.


A British embassy group of five people captured almost two weeks ago in northeast Ethiopia and released Tuesday in Eritrea, left Asmara on Wednesday afternoon, a diplomatic source said.


Merrill Lynch (MER:NYSE - news - research), despite a checkered history in the energy sector, is jumping back in with its acquisition of the energy-trading business of Entergy-Koch.


Alba doesn't want to pose naked during pregnancy

Actress Jessica Alba has no plans of following in the footsteps of Demi Moore, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera who posed naked during pregnancy.


DHARMAPURI: After hunting down his prize catch, Tamil Nadu Special Task Force chief K. Vijaykumar rushed straight to the Bannari Amman temple in Sathyamangalam in Erode district.


Voting ends in Romania's election with exit polls showing a dead heat between the presidential candidates.


Mickelson and Woods charge into contention in Boston

NORTON, Massachusetts  - Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods, matching each other with magical shot-making and seven-under-par 64s, surged into contention at the Deutsche Bank Championship on Saturday.


Amazon.com Inc.'s holiday sales set a record on strong demand for electronics and books, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said December sales at its US discount stores are rising about 2 percent as shoppers completed their Christmas purchases.


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interim prime minister warned yesterday his patience is running short over efforts to resolve the standoff in Fallujah peacefully.


Marco Magheri - "UN MONDO PICCOLO" Padre Giuseppe Ambrosoli missionario in Uganda - Tipografia Vaticana Roma (Agenzia Fides) - In questi anni che hanno visto dilatarsi l'impegno missionario, la disponibilitÃ  al sacrificio, la forza dell'amore per i sofferenti, la figura di Padre Ambrosoli Ã¨ testimonianza pregnante dell'amore a Cristo, coniugando spirit...


EU, Iran to hold talks - Teheran torn in nuclear dispute

TEHERAN - Iranian officials are preparing to hold talks with Germany, Britain and France on over its controversial nuclear programme with Teheran torn between willingness to compromise and the urge to maintain national pride.


Senators threaten to block media ownership plan

Two senators on Wednesday threatened  to introduce bipartisan legislation that would block the U.S.  Federal Communication Commission from acting quickly to ease  rules governing media ownership.


By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 7--American astronauts undergo a psychological assessment when they join NASA but face no further evaluations during their careers unless issues arise during their annual flight physicals, the space agency said yesterday.


S.Africa orders probe into botched HIV gel trials

South Africa said on Tuesday it had ordered an inquiry following reports that participants in the clinical trial of a microbicide gel to help prevent HIV infection among women had instead contracted the virus.


TOKYO Nov 7, 2004 - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocked northern Japan on Monday, injuring at least eight people, near the area where the country's deadliest earthquake in years struck last month.


Alexander Popov, twice a double sprint freestyle swimming gold medallist in the Olympics, said on Thursday it was unlikely he would compete again.


Fischer Appeals, Japan Moves Closer to Deportation

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has appealed after a Tokyo court rejected his bid to halt deportation procedures from Japan, a fate he is also trying to escape


Fans Mourn Slaying of Ex-Pantera Guitarist

Stunned fans of the North Texas-based heavy-metal rock band Damageplan jammed the group's Web site Thursday after a gunman's attack on the band during an Ohio concert left its guitarist and four other people dead.


Brand it anyway you want, but tonight's vice-presidential debate between Democratic challenger John Edwards, the first-term North Carolina senator, and the sitting Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney has suddenly become much more important in the wake


HAMISH ROBERTSON: But first to Moscow where the future of Russia's largest oil company, Yukos, isn't looking too bright this weekend.


Ruud van Nistelrooy, absent for Manchester United's last four games with a calf problem, may miss the next seven over the busy holiday period if United manager Sir Alex Ferguson's "worst case scenario" is confirmed.


President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged Friday to send thousands of extra police and more than $700 million in aid to neglected, heavily immigrant neighborhoods that exploded in riots in 2005 and 2006.


President Bush took the last bus tour of his campaign on Tuesday through rural stretches of Wisconsin, urging Democrats to split with their party and rely on him to save their farms and keep the country secure.


Britain yesterday began to clear up the chaos caused by summer downpours across much of the country as forecasters promised a brief respite from the rain before the wet weather returns this week.


Americans forces bomb Fallujah, battle insurgents in Baghdad

American forces unleashed an air strike against a suspected insurgent hideout in Fallujah on Tuesday, the latest in a string of attacks aimed at associates of guerrilla leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.


Ragazzi tra i 18-22 anni con l'accusa di aver causato fiamme


Lancaster County Woman Diagnosed With West Nile

State officials said a 49-year-old woman from Lancaster County has been diagnosed with West Nile virus. This is the fourth human case of the virus in Pennsylvania confirmed by state officials this year.


Roma, 13:54 - CALCIO, ROMA: I CONVOCATI PER LA SAMPDORIA

Il tecnico della Roma, Luciano Spalletti, ha convocato 19 giocatori per la sfida di domani a Genova ...


Syrian President Bashar al-Assad brings new interior, economics and information ministers into the cabinet.


Zing lets satellite subscribers connect wirelessly to music programming via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Apple and Microsoft take note. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.


Microsoft selling new Windows at cut-rate price

The software giant is selling Media Center, its new version of Windows, to PC makers at a new, lower price, CNET News.com has learned.


Photos: Sony Ericsson's new phone players

Company unveils two new music phones in its popular Walkman range, as well as two new camera phones.


The Bank of England raised its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.75 percent, the fifth increase this year, in an attempt to curb inflation.


RIM, Alcatel-Lucent deal brings BlackBerry to China

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A FARMER may be ordered to replant a small forest after chopping down the trees to use as firewood.   Alan Whiteford felled more than half of the young wood before forestry officials caught him.


EXPLOSIVES have been found in the wreckage of one of the two Russian airliners that crashed near-simultaneously this week. The confirmation that at least one of the aircraft was brought down by a terrorist


U.S. Asks Finance Chiefs to Limit IranÂs Access to Banks

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said Iranian front companies were exploiting industrial nationsÂ banking systems.


Honda exec sees 3 percent rise in 2007 U.S. sales

Honda Motor Co Ltd (7267.T)  is  on track for a 3 percent increase in U.S. sales in 2007, an  executive said on Friday, but he also called on the Federal  Reserve to cut interest rates to boost consumer confidence.


At Heinz, Hoping to Leave a Legacy of Product Safety

Heinz chief executive William R. Johnson discusses product quality and the influence of shareholder activist Nelson Peltz on the company.


The world's most-premature baby leaves a Miami hospital, four months after weighing in at just 280 grams.


Iraqi interim leader Iyad Allawi is to meet EU leaders, but France's president says he is too busy to attend.


Business lobbyists believe lawmakers will ultimately strip from Senate minimum wage legislation any sanctions against companies caught hiring illegal immigrants. Whether they can keep it out of immigration law is another matter


Punch Line on T-Shirts Not Meant to Be Joke

A t-shirt with Roger Clemensâs name, the No. 22 on the back and the question âGot Rocket Fuel?â has taken on an unintended connotation since Clemens, known as the Rocket, was linked to steroid use.


U.S. factory growth stayed strong in  September, according to reports on Friday, while construction  spending hit a record high in August for a seventh month in a  row, showing the economy's expansion remains solid.


Iran steps up confrontation with Europe on nuclear deal

Iran yesterday stepped up its confrontation with European countries as its Supreme Leader threatened to break off negotiations over its suspect nuclear weapons programme.


Description: NPR's Neal Conan discusses the latest convention news with NPR's Ken Rudin and Comedy Central's Lewis Black.


Carnago, 16:05 - CALCIO, MILAN; EMERSON: CON FIORENTINA E' PRELIMINARE CHAMPIONS

"Fiorentina-Milan è come un preliminare di Champions League. Non possiamo sbagliarlo". Il bra...


How hard is it to remake the French New Wave? (See the American 'âBreathless.â')


A chef who took over her family's seafood restaurant after the death of her father became the fourth woman to win the highest accolade from France's Michelin Guide, the bible of gastronomy.


Roma, 20:43 - VOLLEY, SERIE A2 MASCHILE: RISULTATI 8/A DI RITORNO

Questi i risultati dell'8/a giornata di ritorno della regular season di A2 maschile di volley.


Livorno, 13:27 - CALCIO, LIVORNO:CONTRO LA REGGINA CON IL LUTTO AL BRACCIO

Il Livorno domenica a Reggio Calabria giocherà con il lutto al braccio per la scomparsa dell'...


N.Y. Fed manufacturing index rises sharply

Manufacturing activity in New York  State factories rose in June to the highest level since March,  with a steep rise in the prices paid component -- a sign of  inflation pressures -- the New York Federal Reserve said on  Thursday.


Novartis Cuts Outlook, Faces U.S. Tasigna Delay

Novartis AG  cut its full-year results outlook as generic competition pressured sales of a key blood-pressure drug, and said U.S. regulators had delayed the approval process for an important cancer treatment.


Russia ditches capital gain forecast, rejects "Yukos effect"

Russia reversed its vow that 2004 would see its first private capital inflow in over a decade, but said the movement of money out of the country had nothing to do with the Yukos affair.


Cda primo partito, laburisti secondo, Ps diventa terzo


Bush Calls for New Consensus on Middle East

HALIFAX, Canada  - President Bush, on a  fence-mending trip to Canada, called on Wednesday for an  international consensus in a new quest for peace in the Middle  East that he said must start with Palestinian steps toward  democracy.


Yoko Ono still mourning John Lennon's murder

Yoko Ono said hat she was still mourning the death of her husband John Lennon more than 25 years on from his murder.


Nine killed in US air raids on Fallujah: hospital

Nine people were killed in two pre-dawn raids by US planes on suspected reel targets in Fallujah, west of Baghdad today, according to a local hospital.


An Earnhardt Revival Would Also Be Nascarâs

Now that Dale Earnhardt Jr. has switched his team, his number, his sponsors and his car colors, Nascar waits and watches with anticipation.


The public has an unprecedented interest in an otherwise obscure medical technology. But is it getting an accurate message?


Lawmaker Blasts FDA Over Antidepressants Risk

U.S. Food and Drug Administration  staff first questioned the possibility of a link between  antidepressant use and suicidal behavior in youth as far back  as eight years ago, a senior U.S. lawmaker charged on Thursday.


Thailand's new military rulers sideline allies of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra in an annual army reshuffle.


EU to restart direct aid to Palestinians

The European Union will resume  direct aid to the Palestinians as part of efforts to support  President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet, EU foreign policy  chief Javier Solana said on Monday.


Rain and Cold Threaten Japan Quake Recovery Efforts

OJIYA, Japan  - More than 100,000 exhausted  survivors of Japan's deadliest earthquake in a decade woke up  in makeshift shelters for a third day on Tuesday as rain  threatened to hamper relief efforts and trigger further  landslides.


FM Distances Poland From Iraq-Pullout Comments

4 October 2004 (NCA) -- Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz today distanced the government from a statement by the country's defense minister that Poland would pull its troops out of Iraq by the end of next year.


By Jefferson Graham  LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection.


"Il governo deve sostenere le strutture attorno alla moda"


Former Prime Minister Charles Haughey received more than $15 million in secret payments and lied about his knowledge of the funds, according to an official report released Tuesday into Ireland's biggest political scandal.


Complaints Build Across Nation on Flu Vaccine Supplies

Complaints assert that health officials are failing to distribute the remaining flu vaccine supply quickly or equitably.


Six people charged by police after sit-in at lobby of CSIS office in Toronto

TORONTO (CP) - Six people were charged by police Wednesday following a sit-in at the lobby of the Toronto offices of CSIS to protest the detention of five Muslim men.


Taiwan UMC's profit down 14 percent in third quarter

United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) earnings fell sharply in the third quarter and warned of a steep fall-off in wafer shipments and capacity utilization rates to come.


Decisione presa dopo valutazione dell'Ufficio politico


Controversy erupts at internet site Wikipedia as one of its editors is found to have falsified academic credentials.


Kerry Says Bush 'Out of Touch' with Americans

Democratic Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush of being "out of ideas, out of touch and unwilling to change" as he kicked off the closing phase of his White House bid on Friday.


A few hours later, she said she felt guilty staying seated for her final round of Olympics interviews. She just didn't have the energy to stand.


A Salvadoran soldier was killed in Iraq on Thursday, the second soldier from this Central American nation to be killed in the conflict in eight days.


Russia's banking sector is maturing, despite the brutal killing of a top government reformer last month.


InfoWorld - Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across its product lines.


Taliban kill Pakistani tribesman accused of spying

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - Pro-Taliban militants shot dead a tribesman who confessed on video to being a U.S. informer, a witness and officials in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region said on Saturday.


Iraqi prime minister warns Fallujah to give up al-Zarqawi or face ...

A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers, and Iraq's prime minister Wednesday warned the people of major insurgent bastion Fallujah to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or face military action.


Oil Rises for Fourth Day as Yukos May Reduce Exports to China

Crude oil rose for a fourth day in New York after OAO Yukos Oil Co. said it will halt shipments to China's biggest oil company because its bank accounts have been frozen in a tax dispute with the Russian government.


The car of the future could be in your driveway in 2005. At least one company promises it will deliver, and advances in materials technology could contribute. By John Gartner.


Yukos loses its crown jewel to a "mystery buyer"

Yukos has lost its main asset, Yuganskneftegaz, sold in an auction held by the Russian Fund of Federal Property, for $9.35 billion.


The lineup was loaded with guys who won't be playing in next week's playoff games. Not one of the relievers who came out of the bullpen has a shot to make the postseason roster.


New Orleans' mayor urged the Big Easy's half-million residents to evacuate, and residents of low-lying Gulf Coast communities were ordered to leave Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan moved toward the northern Gulf Coast with 140 mph


Gunmen shoot dead Hamas judge at Gaza courthouse

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza  - Unidentified gunmen dragged a judge from the Hamas Islamist movement out of a taxi and shot him dead in front of his courthouse in Gaza on Wednesday, increasing fears of a Palestinian civil war.


Music industry opens new front against Kazaa in Australia

The music industry has taken its battle with peer to peer networking down under. The Australian subsidiaries of the major record labels, including Universal, EMI, Sony BMG, Warner and 25 others are suing Sharman