Court schedules hearing on Whole Foods, Wild Oats

Whole Foods Market Inc.   and Wild Oats Markets Inc.  on Tuesday said a  preliminary injunction hearing into antitrust authorities' bid  to block their $565 million merger will be held on July 31.


The Eagles opened their checkbook last offseason for a Super Bowl-or-bust run after three straight losses in the NFC title game, and the result has been a team that has been vastly superior to any other in the conference.


WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators directed banks on Friday to properly explain the risks posed to borrowers from interest-only and other nontraditional mortgages.


Pakistanis bury dead from battle for mosque

Pakistanis buried bodies on Thursday from among more than 70 followers of a revolutionary cleric, a day after commandos killed the last few gunmen hiding in the ruins of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in Islamabad.


Bangkok: Chilling warnings about an inevitable global influenza pandemic that could kill millions signal more turmoil to come after a grim year in Asia when nations weary from fighting SARS faced a new foe in bird flu.


Web portal Yahoo has launched a web search service for mobile phone users in the US, according to a report from Reuters today. Its rival, internet search company Google, had introduced an SMS service to access


Delegates at the UN summit in Bali agree a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling.


In tutte le serate la conduttrice indossera' i suoi tailleur


Il 6 marzo per approfondire il confronto sulle tariffe


Reggio Calabria, 18:29 - CALCIO, REGGINA; BIANCHI: I MIEI GOL PER LA SALVEZZA

La Reggina riprenderà domani la preparazione in vista della gara casalinga di domenica contro...


Georgia Frontiere, the St. Louis native who became a hometown hero when she brought the NFL's Rams from Los Angeles in 1995, died Friday. She was 80.


Japan's prime minister says the world should halve emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.


A U.S.-based group has emerged as the third party vying for control of Liverpool Football Club, the Financial Times has reported.


Royalty payout could await voices behind 'The Wall'

The youngsters who sang the chorus in "The Wall" may be pushing middle age today, but they stand to collect a tidy little sum for their vocal contribution to the Pink Floyd rock opera.


China has created a "climate of fear" in Hong Kong ahead of legislative elections, a New York-based human rights group charged Thursday, as Chinese police released photos of a political candidate in detention.


Tony Blair will continue his tour of Africa in Sierra Leone, where he sent British troops in 1998.


Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's victory in Ukraine's presidential election should help Russia lose its "imperial complex" toward the former Soviet republics, presidential economic adviser Andrei ...


More than 150 sheets of paper are taped to the white exterior of the old Jami Lueng Bata mosque in Banda Aceh, listing more than 1,000 people believed missing.


Inn's Past Haunts Its Present, Stalls Its Rebirth

By Joe Light, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville  Feb. 3--In 1901, as a mob fled a fire that would destroy most of  Jacksonville, a few looked west, toward property that would become a motel  more than half a century later, and worried.


DVD burner from Sony does just fine without a PC. Also: Virgin goes head-to-head with the iPod Mini.


A partially-ignited incendiary device is discovered at a leading chain store in Belfast city centre.


Italy's anti-gay nominee for EU justice commissioner, Rocco Buttiglione, hints he might quit the post.


Colony to pay $5.4 bln for Libya's Tamoil

Private investment firm Colony Capital LLC has agreed to pay 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) for Libya's European oil company Tamoil and Oilinvest.


Bee Gee Robin Gibb says he will campaign for a change in the UK's copyright laws.


Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack apologises for the stamp on Mohamed Sissoko which earned him a red card.


NEW YORK - As President Bush prepared to accept the Republican nomination for a second term, Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed his boss as a decisive commander-in-chief. "He doesn't waffle," Cheney said Thursday...


Italian recluse taken from apartment after 26 years

When Italian health officials came to remove a woman from the apartment she has not left in more than two decades they had to don respirators against the stench, newspapers reported on Sunday.


Karzai team believes victory 'secure' with one-quarter of votes ...

Interim leader Hamid Karzai is certain to win Afghanistan's landmark presidential election, his campaign spokesman said Tuesday, after early returns gave him a commanding advantage.


President Chirac warns French journalists against going to Iraq, two days after a reporter disappeared in Baghdad.


Gladys Knight wasn't sitting in front of a television set watching the Grammy Awards. And she didn't even know she shared a gospel performance Grammy award Sunday with the late Ray Charles for their duet, "Heaven Help Us All," until there was a break in church services.


Scant Progress on Post-Kyoto as Climate Talks End

U.N. talks on climate change ended early Saturday with few steps forward as the United States, oil producers and developing giants slammed the brakes on the European Union's drive for deeper emissions cuts to stop global warming.


Up to 20,000 British holidaymakers have had their travel plans disrupted by the two most recent hurricanes to rip through Florida and the Caribbean.


Manchester United defender John O'Shea believes his teammates are going to need a helping hand from other Premiership sides if Chelsea's surge to the title is to be halted.


Lots of Problems Await Powell's Successor

Secretary of State Colin Powell's successor will find a tall list of problems stacked in the in-box.


Crisis talks to salvage Sudan peace deal to resume next week

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir and southern leader Salva Kiir will resume crisis talks next week in a bid to resolve a political stand-off threatening a landmark peace accord, an official said Friday.


The artistic director of the Glimmerglass Opera is stepping down.


Democrats call for ouster of U.S. health official

Several Democratic lawmakers asked the Bush administration on Monday to replace its new family-planning chief because he has worked for a health provider that opposes the use of birth control.


'Non siamo in Spagna per strategie industriali'


PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- When Osama bin Laden resurfaced Friday in a 26-minute videotaped speech, his most important message was one left unsaid: We have survived.


Empoli, 19:19 - CALCIO, EMPOLI: LAVORO TATTICO, DIFFERENZIATO PER QUATTRO

Allenamento pomeridiano per l'Empoli in vista della gara con la Reggina: il tecnico Malesani ha fatt...


Ali Campbell is leaving UB40 after three decades to focus on his solo career


US planes pound militant hideouts near Najaf shrine

NAJAF/MOSUL, AUGUST 22: US helicopter gunships pounded Shiâite militias in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday as tanks rumbled to within 800 metres of a holy shrine at the centre of a near three-week insurgency.


Government warnings could be sent to parents of obese children as young as five.


Worthington confirmed as Northern Ireland boss

Northern Ireland's bid to reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be led by Nigel Worthington after the caretaker manager was handed a two-year contract by the Irish Football Association (IFA).


Bush Soc. Sec. Plan Protects Those Over 55

Near-retirees age 55 and older would receive benefits without any changes under President Bush's far-reaching plan for Social Security. But the government guarantee would drop for younger workers whether or not they set up personal accounts.


Elan: FDA approves Prialt for severe chronic pain

LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Irish drugmaker Elan Corp. (ELN) (UK:ELA) said the US Food and Drug Administration approved Prialt for the management of severe chronic pain in patients for whom intrathecal (IT) therapy


Methanol fuel cells-- how cost-efficient are they?

Glaskowsky runs the numbers on a new fuel-cell power supply from IdaTech.


One tenth of US two to five year olds obese

A report published by the American Heart Association says one tenth of all American children aged 2-5 were obese in 2002. Ten years ago the figure stood at one in fourteen.


An increasing number of firms are offering web storage for people with digital photo collections.


Bids totaled nearly $13.9 billion in the latest and most lucrative auction of the public airwaves.


Mr. Rude is French and flatulent for British TV

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Zut alors! The popular British cartoon and television series "Mr. Men" has come up with a malodorous Mr. Rude who speaks with a bad French accent.


The Energy Prescription: Switching to Renewables

Pie charts compare energy sources now to goals for 2030. It had better not be pie in the sky, or the sky may be falling.


British government considering tough new anti-terror laws

Britain is considering a raft of sweeping new anti-terrorism laws including special courts to try terror suspects without a jury, Home Secretary David Blunkett said in an interview.


L'Italia del basket sfiora l'impresa con la Serbia. Male Judo e scherma

Rabbia e talento: la Serbia campione del mondo strappa con i denti la seconda gara del torneo olimpico all'Italia. Una partita alla quale l'Italia si presentava dopo la vittoria sulla Nuova Zelanda, i serbi dopo una sconfitta con l'Argentina. Alla ...


The latest proposals on restoring NI devolution are to be discussed  when Tony Blair meet David Trimble.


REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Defense attorneys for Scott Peterson say they expect to begin their cross-examination of Amber Frey this afternoon...


Nigerian kidnappers demand money for British girl

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - The family of a three-year old British girl abducted in Nigeria began negotiating her release on Friday with kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless their ransom demands are met.


Thousands of Ukrainian Americans converged at the Ukrainian embassy and consulates Sunday to vote in their native country's presidential run-off election, including many making the trip for the third time in the fiercely contested race.


Ryan Moore keeps rolling along in the U.S. Amateur, moving into the semifinals with a 3 and 2 victory over Jason Hartwick on Friday at Winged Foot Golf Club.


Liverpool banks on city's year in spotlight

"Liverpool I left you, but I never  let you down," a jubilant Ringo Starr sang as he performed at  the launch party for his hometown's year as European Capital of  Culture.


Beheadings of Turk, Iraqi Kurd shown in Internet video

BAGHDAD, IraqâA Turkish contractor and an Iraqi Kurdish translator were beheaded on a video posted on the Internet yesterday, and a statement said they had been taken captive by the Ansar al-Sunna Army - the same group that killed 12 Nepalese hostages


Top federal safety officials urged the Labor Department in 2006 to adopt critical regulations to prevent deadly dust explosions Â like the one suspected in the deadly blast in a Georgia sugar plant Thursday Â but the government has failed to do so.


New research belies the pervasive belief that the dying can postpone the inevitable for a birthday or Christmas - granting death a holiday.


Space Shuttle Discovery closes in on the International Space Station high above the Earth.


Justine Henin defeated second seed Amelie Mauresmo 6-4 7-5 on Saturday to win the Dubai Open for the fourth time in five years.


Nonostante le crisi del settore tessile nelle Marche


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Turkish authorities are testing four children for bird flu in a southeastern village where avian influenza has already infected the poultry, the agriculture ministry has said.


Aeon joins Kyocera in bid to support Japanâs Daiei

Aeon, Japanâs leading retailer in terms of sales, has teamed up with Kyocera, the ceramics and electronic parts manufacturer, in its bid to sponsor Daiei, the retailer that is


The black T-shirt might as well have been a billboard hanging in the Boston Red Sox' clubhouse. Curt Schilling paraded around with a shirt that said "Why Not Us?


Mauresmo unruffled as Henman rolls back years

Amelie Mauresmo performed her duties as defending champion with a minimum of fuss at Wimbledon on Tuesday, opening Centre Court proceedings on the traditional "Ladies' Day" with an assured defeat of American Jamea Jackson.


Cheney Defends Soc. Security Account Plan

Vice President Dick Cheney took on critics of the administration's Social Security overhaul plans Thursday, arguing that channeling part of workers' salaries into the stock market would help pull poor Americans up the financial ladder.


A trio of generic drug companies announces FDA approval of their versions of the blockbuster drug Coreg.


PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Steelers made certain there's nobody unbeaten now in the NFL, except for Ben Roethlisberger.


Israelis Back Gaza Pull-Out, Want Referendum

(CPOD) Sept. 16, 2004 - Many residents of Israel believe their prime ministerâs proposal to reduce the number of Israelis living among Palestinians should be put to a nationwide vote, according to a poll by TNS/Teleseker.


CME sweetens offer for CBOT with special dividend

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.  on Thursday sweetened its bid for CBOT Holdings Inc.  with a $9.14-per-share special dividend for CBOT shareholders.


Britain, Spain and Gibraltar are due to signs accords to improve living conditions for the people of the contested territory.


Turkey's two main parties signalled yesterday that the government may drop a proposed law against adultery. Several EU foreign ministers have said that the proposal to punish cheating spouses as part of amendments


GBP 2.5m Lift for Fuji's Grangemouth Site

By NO BYLINE  IMAGING company Fujifilm is spending GBP 2.5 million to expand its imaging colourants research and development centre in Grangemouth.


Ernesto has lost the little punch it had as it moved over Florida and was downgraded from a tropical storm to a depression, much to the relief of residents who had initially braced for a powerful hurricane.


Unwired Australia spearheads new WiMAX roaming alliance

Australasian operators set up 'spectrum club' Roaming is one of the critical success factors for any network seeking to be a global standard, and WiMAX is no exception. So far, the main roaming activity has centered on the pre-WiMAX Wi-Bro system, with the formation of the Wi-Bro and Mobile WiMAX Community (WMC) by leading Asian operators plus Covad.â¦


NEW YORK - It wasn't Bono, Tiger Woods, or the pope, but you wouldn't have known that from the throng of 500 people who flooded a Manhattan Barnes & Noble to get a gander at former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan.


Davey Shafik's Blog: PHP Streams Rock my World!

Davey Shafik has gotten more than a little excited by the streams functionality in his latest blog post:   PHP streams are absolutely amazing. As mentioned by Elizabeth Smith (a great read if you don't know how to use streams) PHP streams are super powerful. Streams is something that is (to my knowledge) unique to PHP. The closest thing I've seen to it, is Linux's FUSE "user space" (i.e. not kernel module) file systems.   He shows an example of a stream in action and suggests an interface he'd like to see - an automatic connection to the Amazon S3 storage.


Bush Says Kerry Doesn't Understand Terror War

President Bush charged on Wednesday that Democrat John Kerry has a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the war on terrorism because a leader in the Iraqi insurgency, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has sworn allegiance to al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.


European Interest Rates Likely Unchanged

The European Central Bank council meets to set interest rate policy Thursday, amid expectation that it will keep its key rate steady, as it awaits solid evidence the continent's economic recovery has firmed up.


The OECD revised the growth projections for its major members. The growth of the US economy this year is likely to be 4.3 percent, instead of an earlier forecast of 4.7 percent, it said.


Terry keeps Mavericks rolling into All-Star break

The Dallas Mavericks won their ninth straight game when Jason Terry hit the go-ahead jumper with 1:09 left to help beat the Houston Rockets 80-77 on Thursday.


Rockets Kill 2 Israeli Children, 7 Palestinians Die

SDEROT, Israel  - Palestinian militants eluding an  army crackdown killed two Israeli children in a rocket attack  from Gaza on Wednesday and troops killed seven Palestinians in  raids in the coastal strip and the West Bank.


Basic Instincts: Hospital Billing Never Ends

Unpredictable hospital billing can lead to financial anxiety about the prospect of dealing with insurance companies even before a surgery has happened.


(CBS/AP) The US dollar hit a new all-time low Thursday against the euro, following a mixed economic report from the Commerce Department.


SEC Files Suits in Alleged Timeshare Scheme to Swindle Retirees

The Securities and Exchange Commission, cracking down on scams targeting retirees, sued 26 people and companies for their roles in a $428 million fraud involving Mexican timeshare rentals, the agency said.


Republican Sen. John McCain took a Super Tuesday swipe at rival Mitt Romney's conservative credentials and looked past the GOP nomination race to suggest he was well-suited to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats.


The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of sectarian violence that U.S. commanders warn could lead to civil war.


Best Buy Canada touts iPhone, but lacks sales contract

Blog: North of the border, Best Buy's Web site is promoting the iPhone. But it's not selling them, of course, and doesn't have any plans to do so, at least yet.


Unlimited mobile music for Â£1.99 a week

Et tu, Apple? In what may prove to be the most far-reaching digital music launch since iTunes, Omnifone today took the wraps off its MusicStation service.â¦


Putin says missile test response to U.S. moves

Russia's test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday was in response to U.S. steps that have sparked an arms race and undermined world security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.


Firenze, 19:35 - CALCIO, FACCHETTI; CANNAVARO: ERA IL CAPITANO DEI CAPITANI

Anche Fabio Cannavaro partecipa al cordoglio per la morte di Giacinto Facchetti: ''Giacinto Facchett...


Acquisitions Establish Biotech's Maturity

During the past few months some of the world's largest life-sciences firms -- desperate for new products and technology -- have gone shopping in, of all places, Gaithersburg.


Delta Air Lines said late Wednesday that it was revising its last annual report to reflect its worsening financial condition and to include the possibility of filing for bankruptcy protection.


Top-ranked Southern California ran through, around and all over Nebraska. Stafon Johnson ran for 144 yards and one of USC's five rushing touchdowns and John David Booty threw two short TD passes in a 49-31 victory Saturday night.


Russia's state-owned Rosneft becomes owner of key Yukos unit

BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has reportedly bought the little-known company Baikal Finance Group which bought Yukos' most important production unit Yuganskneftegaz.


Crumbling consumer confidence and slumping home sales could prove to be a bad combination for retailers, and for the broader economy going into the holiday shopping season, if the labor market contracts further and chokes off spending, economic data showed Tuesday.


Heathrow Airport's Terminal 4 reopens after a suspect baggage sparked a security alert.


Life - @ 11:00 A door has been opened for Natalie Caufield, and...

A door has been opened for Natalie Caufield, and there's no way she can forget what's on the other side.


Eight presidential candidates fought to make their points during a two-hour debate in New Hampshire Sunday. Former Sen. John Edwards blasted Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over their handling of a recent war spending bill. Clinton answered the charge and added, "The differences between us are minor. The differences between us and the Republicans are major."


Sen. Clinton blasts Bush, urges women to vote in West Palm Beach

WEST PALM BEACH Â· Blasting President Bush for undoing the "good things" her husband did in office, US Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urged hundreds of Democratic women to vote early


Stocks seen up on Fed; results, data eyed

U.S. stocks are set for a higher opening on Thursday, according to index futures, after any fears of a rate rise receded, and amid a raft of earnings reports and economic data.


Sickle-Cell Transfusions Are Found Critical

A major clinical trial found that children with sickle cell disease who are at high risk of having strokes should continue to be treated with periodic blood transfusions.


Blog: The PCS 2 uses attic heat to warm the pool.


US Stocks Off After Merck Recall,Oil Rise

U.S. stocks were knocked lower on  Thursday after drug maker Merck & Co.MRK.N, a member of the  blue-chip Dow, recalled its widely sold Vioxx arthritis drug  and oil resumed its climb to $50 a barrel.


Peyton Manning's encore is starting even better than last year's MVP-winning performance.


IntelliScanner SOHO Tracks Inventory, Assets

IntelliScanner's portable barcode scanner helps small businesses organize their inventory, assets, and media.


Israel assassinates Hamas militant in Damascus

Israel assassinated a Palestinian militant with a car bomb that exploded after he started his vehicle yesterday. It was Israel's first slaying of a Hamas member on Syrian


Il risultato della perizia chimica ha dimostrato che il colpo non ha urtatocontro pietre o maglie di rete metallica prima di raggiungere il giovane                                          Sandri, il proiettile che ha ucciso non ha subito alcuna deviazione


A good breakfast helps children at school

Nutrition experts advise parents to provide a good breakfast for their children because it improves performance at school and avoids obesity.


Intelligence analysts predicted, in secret papers circulated within the government before the Iraq invasion, that al-Qaida would see U.S. military action as an opportunity to increase its operations and that Iran would try to shape a post-Saddam Iraq.


Retailers report disappointing November sales

The outlook for the holiday season dimmed Thursday as the nation's retailers reported disappointing sales for November following an uninspiring Thanksgiving weekend.


The Fed chairman delivers a modestly upbeat prognosis that may signal an interest rate increase before Election Day. BY JEANNINE AVERSA.


Media & professional: Â·  Video-share site confident in face of litigation Â·  Plans for further worldwide expansion


US economy loses jobs for first time since 2003

The US economy suffered 17,000 job losses in January marking the first monthly losses since 2003, a government snapshot showed Friday in a fresh sign of brewing economic trouble.


Sprint and Nextel set deadline for finishing deal

Sprint or Nextel Communications, the two US mobile phone network companies that agreed to a $35bn merger earlier this week, have set a December 31 2005 deadline to complete the deal.


Bomb explodes in east Beirut, seven wounded

A bomb exploded next to an empty bus in a Christian suburb in east Beirut on Monday, lightly wounding seven people, a military source said.


CHICAGO -- United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp., yesterday said it was suffering "residual delays" hours after resolving a system wide, computer failure that grounded its flights around the world.


Theater: A Dramatic Comeback for the Play

This was the year that the play stood up for itself, reminding us that it can go places inaccessible to other art forms.


This Time, Housing Is Taking Department Stores Down With It

Since April, when investors voiced optimism that the housing slide had been contained, shares of the countryâs biggest department store chains have fallen by about 30 percent.


Bush Ignored War On Global Terror By Invading Iraq: Kerry

Washington, Sept. 26 (NNN): The two frontrunners in the US presidential race have clashed over the Iraq war yet again, with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry accusing President George Walker Bush


McCain was back in stride, while Romney was off his game, says Mark Halperin of last night's Thompson-free gathering


TB case highlights e-mail archiving trend

(InfoWorld) - E-mail archiving and recovery software has proved itself useful in the case of the American who flew to Europe even though he had tuberculosis (TB). The Fulton County, Georgia, Department of Health and Wellness tried to prevent Andrew Speaker, of Atlanta, from traveling to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon in May because his drug-resistant form of TB could make him contagious to other airline passengers. Speaker has said in media interviews that he had not been told he couldn't fly. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper covering the case filed an open records request with Fulton County Georgia Government to disclose e-mail messages among health officials in which Speaker's case was discussed. The Fulton County case illustrates how e-mail archiving software can facilitate e-discovery, the process by which organizations retrieve internal electronic documents sought in a government investigation, a lawsuit, or other matters. The market for "active e-mail archiving" software grew to $207 million in 2006, based on licensing revenue, a 42.8 percent increase from 2005, according to the research firm Gartner, which forecasts a $1 billion market by 2011. The top two vendors are Symantec, with $110 million in revenue and a 23 percent share, and Zantaz, with $106 million and a 22 percent share, according to IDC. Autonomy, a British software company, announced July 3Â plans to acquire ZantazÂ for $375 million. Fulton County uses Symantec's Enterprise Vault software. "All I basically had to do was say. ... I want any e-mails retrieved for me that involved the name Andrew Speaker," said Rich Diller e-mail administrator for Fulton County. The software retrieved about 200 pages of e-mail correspondence related to Speaker's case. Based on those documents, the Journal-Constitution was able to report in a June 13 story that although health department officials were scrambling to find a legal way to prevent Speaker from getting on a plane, he had already left. The county retrieved the requested e-mail messages in about 90 minutes. Had the software not been available, the search would have been "your proverbial nightmare," said Diller. "It would have been me opening up individual mailboxes and constructing one-off searches on each mailbox and compiling all the data." Fulton County Government has 7,000 e-mail boxes, said Robert Taylor, chief information officer for the county. "We could not do an enterprise search [manually]. It would have taken us weeks or months," Taylor said, adding that the county gets four to five document search requests each week. Drivers for the growth of e-discovery technology are many: Most all business communications today are done electronically; new U.S. Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCPs) require companies to establish a policy on how electronic documents are preserved and organized; and some enterprises have been embarrassed by sloppy lapses in saving electronic files sought in various cases. But awareness of e-mail archiving appears limited. An independent survey commissioned by another vendor, C2C Systems, revealed that only 24 percent of IT professionals surveyed could identify an e-mail archiving product by name and 37 percent felt that using PSTs was sufficient for e-mail archiving. The file name extension .PST is for personal files, including e-mail. But that is not an adequate archiving tool, said Nick Mehta, vice president of product management at Symantec. PSTs (the actual term is personal information store) are hard to search if they are scattered among multiple desktops. Symantec's Enterprise Vault copies all e-mail, voice mail and instant messages into secured storage and classifies them based on rules the enterprise sets for what needs to be saved, Mehta said. The software also deduplicates the data, eliminating multiple copies of the same messages, to more efficiently use storage capacity. Messages can be saved for 90 days, seven years or forever depending on the company's rules. The database is keyword searchable to retrieve files as needed. Smaller players in the market can also do well. "This market is. ... on fire," said Mike Ivanov, senior director of the archiving business at CommVault Systems, whose sales doubled to $10 million in 2006, from 2005. Speaker remains in treatment at a TB hospital in Denver, in which he is quarantined by order of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. News reports last week revealed that his TB was not as contagious as originally diagnosed.


The music industry redoubles its efforts to drop the hammer on college students who illegally download music, leaning on the universities for support. By the Associated Press.


Eight of the 10 areas in the UK with the lowest male life expectancy are in Scotland, according to figures.


Iran Agrees to Temporarily Suspend Uranium-Enrichment Program

Following a series of talks with British, French, and German officials, Iran notified the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nov. 14 that it would suspend all of its uranium-enrichment activities for


Diamorphine supplier liases with UK Dept of Health to sort out ...

"The Diamorphine Injection availabilty situation in the UK has become critical because of the disruption of supplies from the major supplier, who accounted for approximately 70% of the supplies in UK.


KarstadtQuelle's Thomas Cook acquires MyTravel

Thomas Cook, the second-biggest European travel group, is to merge with British rival MyTravel, the British group has said.


La copia sara' la star delle manifestazioni per anno Italia


UK Group Accuses Apple of Overpricing iTunes

The price of music downloads has been a contentious issue among fans in the UK, who are quick to point out the pricing scheme often means that downloading a full album costs more than buying the CD.


Prosecution Rests in California Bribery Trial

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 17 -- Prosecutors trying San Diego businessman Brent Wilkes for allegedly bribing then-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) rested their case Wednesday with brief testimony from two prostitutes who said they were paid to have sex with Wilkes and the lawmaker.


PageSix - OLD-hand Regis Philbin easily   beat upstart Carson Daly in   the battle for New Year's Eve viewers.


Here's how Canada and Finland match up in the World Cup final tonight: GOALTENDING: Miikka Kiprusoff will be the busier of the two, but that's something he's used to from both the NHL season and the World Cup.


Egyptian police detain dozens of Islamists before vote

Egyptian police detained dozens of Muslim  Brotherhood members on Wednesday, security officials said,  escalating a crackdown against the country's strongest  opposition group ahead of local elections in April.


Chinese face risks abroad as clout grows: report

Chinese nationals face increasing security risks overseas due to the country's growing global presence, a senior official was quoted as saying on Thursday.


Music Review | London Symphony Orchestra : Haydn and Beethoven, in Epic and Intimate Colors

When Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony, the results are almost always extraordinary, no matter the repertory, and this series was no exception.


Harold Lloyd's Adventures on the Lens's Other Side

The silent-film star Harold Lloyd took more than 100,000 photographs of about 5,000 women. Some of them are featured in the new book "Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3-D."


Adebayor at the double as Gunners sink City

Arsenal strike duo Emmanuel Adebayor and Eduardo ensured Arsenal kept the pressure on Manchester United at the top of the Premiership by ending Manchester City's unbeaten home record.


Pupils in fee-paying schools scored four times as many A* grades at GCSE this summer than the average for teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, according to figures from the Independent Schools Council (ISC) released yesterday.


Israel Apologizes After Tank Kills 3 Egyptian Police

An Israeli tank killed three Egyptian  policemen on the Gaza-Egypt border Thursday, prompting an  Israeli apology for what the army said was a tragic error when  it mistook them for Palestinian militants.


Statin withdrawal after stroke worsens outcome

NEW YORK  - Discontinuing statin treatment after a stroke is associated with an increased risk of death or dependency after 90 days, according to a study in the medical journal Neurology.


Kiss singer Gene Simmons is sued by a woman who alleges he portrayed her as "nymphomaniac".


Mark Thatcher, the son of the former UK prime minister, denies any involvement in an alleged coup in Equatorial Guinea.


Roma, 13:11 - CALCIO, SACCANI PER IL DEBUTTO IN B DELLA JUVE

Rimini-Juventus, debutto in B dei bianconeri in programma sabato alle 16, sarà arbitrata da M...


Tropical storm Durian threatens northern Philippines

Weather forecasters have raised flood and landslide alerts as tropical storm Durian threatened the northern Philippines with winds of up to 105 kilometers (65 miles) an hour.


Lawyers for former Enron Corp. (ENRNQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research) chief executive Jeffrey Skilling on Friday asked a federal court to separate his trial from his former boss Ken Lay's


Movies in a snap: Netflix and TiVo discuss downloads

Bee Staff Writer. The high-tech ground is shifting underfoot again, amid rumblings of a new Silicon Valley alliance that would let owners of TiVo Inc.


CVS Corp.  sweetened its $23.9 billion takeover bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on Thursday with an increased dividend, calling its newest proposal its "best and final" offer for the pharmacy-benefits manager.


$904,800 in refund checks go undelivered in Southeastern ...

PHILADELPHIA - The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 1,088 Southeastern Pennsylvanians whose income tax refund checks could not be delivered.


Ellison tells court Oracle may lower bid for PeopleSoft

Oracle Corp. chief executive Larry Ellison testified yesterday that the business software maker is leaning toward lowering its $7.7 billion bid for rival PeopleSoft Inc. , a shift that might create another snag in the takeover tug-of-war.


A space probe landed successfully on Saturn's giant moon Titan yesterday after a seven-year journey, and immediately began transmitting images of its mysterious surface. A landscape emerged of canyons carved by liquid, a possible shoreline, and ice blocks, parts of a world that scientists believe resembles the early Earth.


An entire order of nuns flees a convent on the Greek-Bulgarian border after running up huge debts.


How to Build a Web Design Business: Part 2

This week we discuss the skills and knowledge needed to succeed as a Web designer, such as knowledge of HTML, CSS, browser issues, programming knowledge, e-commerce shopping carts and more. By Peggie Brown. 0109


Ancient fish could bite a shark in two  Sharks were not always the top predators in the ocean.


Cisco Systems has confirmed that it is to buy routing software start-up BCN Systems for an initial $34 million (Â£17.6 million). In the week it turned 20, the networking giant announced it will pay around


Checking in on two underdog picks, as well as some companies left on the bench.


Fiducia dei consumatori in calo a novembre

ROMA - Dopo cinque mesi consecutivi di rialzi, Ã¨ scesa a novembre la fiducia dei consumatori italiani. Lo rileva lâIsae nellâinchiesta mensile precisando, perÃ², che permane tuttavia su livelli superiori


Marsh & McLennan, the US insurance broker being sued for alleged price fixing, is to cut 3,000 jobs as it faces an expected decline in its revenues.


Low Chance of False Positive Mammography

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- It can be very daunting for a woman to have to undergo additional tests after a mammogram and then to find out there is nothing wrong.


With Oracle in Pursuit, the Quarry Sets Its Price

Oracle rejected as âimpossibly highâ BEAâs offer to be acquired for about $8.2 billion, just two weeks after BEA refused Oracleâs $6.7 billion offer for the company.


Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Ilias Iliadis captured Greece's second gold medal of the 2004 Olympics with a thrilling victory over Roman Gontyuk of the Ukraine in the men's under 81kg category in judo on Tuesday.


India’s BPO industry could reach $50 billion by 2012

India's business process outsourcing companies could attain revenues of up to $50 billion by 2012, but the industry will need greater investments in education and infrastructure by the government, according to a new report released Tuesday.


MUNICH -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday came out against a German proposal that would create a trans-Atlantic rival to NATO to coordinate and develop policy among alliance nations.


By SUDDABY, Reon  A very dry summer and high temperatures have the region's fire crews on alert -- and hoping for rain. Reon Suddaby reports.   --------------------   Fire crews are on high alert as the Waikato bakes in one of the driest summers on record.


ODU women take 16th straight in Colonial

T.J. Jordan scored 17 points and Tiffany Green added 16 to help Old Dominion beat James Madison 78-70 and capture its 16th consecutive Colonial Athletic Association championship on Sunday.


Christine Montross: Before Christine Montross decided to become a psychiatrist, she was a poet, university writing instructor and high school English teacher. So she has a way with words.


Lebanon's captured top al-Qaida operative dies of heart attack

The alleged top al-Qaida operative in Lebanon, who was arrested 10 days ago after authorities uncovered a plot to bomb embassies and kill diplomats, died of a heart attack Monday, hospital and security officials said.


Birds in Great Salt Lake Felled by Cholera by the Thousands

A recent outbreak of avian cholera was especially potent, killing about 15,000 birds.


City to crackdown on illegal immigration

With tensions rising and its police department and municipal budget stretched thin, this small northeastern Pennsylvania city is about to begin what the mayor calls one of the toughest crackdowns on illegal immigrants in the United States.


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Schroeder Praises Libya, Invites Gaddafi to Germany

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, visiting Libya for the first time since the end of its international isolation, praised the reforms of Muammar Gaddafi and invited the Libyan leader to visit Germany.


almost a quarter of its workforce - and split itself in two yesterday in last-ditch attempt to avoid bankruptcy. The struggling Italian airline met


Crude Oil Prices Holding Just Below Recent High

Oil prices have gone up sharply in the past month because of production snags in the Gulf of Mexico, where more than 22.6 million barrels of production have been lost since Hurricane Ivan hit mid-September.


An oil-for-food programme in Sudan could end the conflict in Darfur, says a prominent judge.


Putin springs surprise choice for PM's job

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday named the little-known head of a financial market watchdog as his prime minister in a surprise move that kept Russians guessing over who would succeed him in the Kremlin.


PG County residents jam phone lines for flu shots

Prince George's County health officials averaged nearly 200 calls an hour yesterday from residents requesting appointments for flu shots.


To hear Oklahoma football fans tell it, some things just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt.


BLUE JAY TESTS POSITIVE FOR WEST NILE VIRUS IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY

WILLIAMSON COUNTY -- Franklin-Williamson Bi-County Health Department officials reported Friday that a blue jay found dead near the Williamson County Courthouse in Marion Thursday has tested positive for West Nile Virus.


The Foreign Office is checking claims about a video which apparently shows UK hostage Kenneth Bigley being killed.


Conan O'Brien to Replace Jay Leno in 2009

NBC will announce today that Conan O'Brien will succeed Jay Leno as host of the ``Tonight'' show at the end of Mr. Leno's current five-year contract, in 2009.


The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, is set to visit the country from December 2 to 4 in his capacity as United Kingdom's special representative for international trade and investment, DZMM reported Wednesday.


AT&T competitors could take a hit in the next few quarters as enthusiastic Apple fans switch providers for the hyped device.


Foreign policy has certainly played a major role in the US presidential election, perhaps more than ever before, and it is important to try and seek out the policy differences between the two candidates.


Years of fierce debate about whether the Food and Drug Administration should regulate tobacco and whether tobacco interests should get a buyout because of the plunging value of their crop will be put to the test as a congressional conference committee decides which provisions to include in a major corporate tax relief bill.


Price Tag Grows for Defense's Personnel System

The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.


Scientists believe they have discovered a gene which plays a critical role in the development of sperm.


Kauto Star given all-clear for Cheltenham

Sport: Horse racing: Trainer Paul Nicholls insists Kauto Star will be fit to defend his Gold Cup crown


Current Account Deficit Climbs to Record

The deficit in the broadest measure of trade climbed to a record high of $164.7 billion in the third quarter of this year, reflecting Americans' hardy demand for imported oil and foreign-made goods.


PeopleSoft Says 3rd-Qtr License Revenue Tops Oracle's

PeopleSoft Inc., which is fighting a takeover bid from Oracle Corp., said revenue from new software licenses this quarter has exceeded Oracle's sales of the same kind of products in its most-recent period.


Barry Bonds goes 0-for-2 with two walks in the Giants' 8-0 win in Milwaukee on Saturday and also has some choice words for the media before the game.


The Houston Rockets suffered their second consecutive defeat in the regular season games, after losing the opening game Tuesday in Detroit.


Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey has apologized to Barack Obama for any unintentional insult he committed by raising the Democratic presidential candidate's Muslim heritage while endorsing rival candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.


Blog: A film about the Wii won the first Nintendo Short Stories contest


Assailants gun down 7 police in Acapulco

More than a dozen armed assailants staged simultaneous attacks against two police stations in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco on Tuesday, killing at least seven officers.


Senato, dibattito e voto sulla politica estera                                                                                Concluso l'intervento del ministro degli Esteri Massimo D'Alema che ha illustrato la strategia italiana: "Il ritiro dall'Iraq Ã¨ stata una scelta coerente. La missione in Afghanistan Ã¨ politica e civile. Solo restando si lavora per la pace. Gravissimo errore se la Nato si isolasse". Oggi in aula si vota il rifinanziamento della missione militare a Kabul, nuovo banco di prova per la maggioranza: tre gli "irriducibili" che vorrebbero il ritiro.Potrebbe essere decisivo il voto dei senatori a vita


Oden picked first, Durant second in NBA Draft

Greg Oden, a 7ft center from Ohio State, was made the first overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft on Thursday by the Portland Trail Blazers.


ATLANTA Dec 9, 2004 - You better watch out: Decking the halls for Christmas brings a sharp increase in injuries from falling off roofs, ladders and living room sofas.


TechEd 2007: IronPython May Rival C# for XNA Game Development

ON THE SCENE - This morning, Microsoft's lead program manager for the Common Language Runtime team, Mahesh Prakriya, may have one-upped yesterday's C# demonstration of XNA game development just a bit, showing another XNA revamp of the exact same demo package but using Microsoft's dynamic language IronPython instead.


The company is taking radio frequency identification technology to casino gaming tables.


The Spanish government is set to approve a controversial draft law legalising gay marriages.


Is PeopleSoft waiting for the right price?

PeopleSoft may be willing to be bought by Oracle after all--if the price is right. Steven Goldby, a PeopleSoft board member, testified Tuesday in the trial taking place in Delaware that a sale would be possible


Hollywood studios launched legal attacks Tuesday on the computer server operators they claim are the technological middlemen making online film theft possible.


Phishers (Almost) Scam Grocery Giant Out of Millions

Cybercon convinces grocer to deposit $10 million into fraudulent bank accounts.


Roma, 20:16 - CALCIO, ROMA: APPROVATA SITUAZIONE MENSILE AL 31 OTTOBRE

Il Consiglio di Amministrazione della Roma ha approvato la situazione mensile al 31 ottobre 2006, re...


Coke Enterprises takes $2.9 bln charge, cuts jobs

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.  said on Tuesday it took a $2.9 billion impairment charge in 2006, and the largest bottler of Coca-Cola  drinks plans to cut about 3,500 jobs, or 5 percent of its global work force.


Investors were concerned that a slowing U.S. economy could spell trouble for Asiaâs export-dependent economies.


American 400 meters world champion Jeremy Wariner suffered a surprise loss to Australian Daniel Batman over 200 meters at the Sydney Grand Prix meeting on Saturday.


CBS Web guru Quincy Smith talks Digg partnership

The Valley veteran talks to CNET News.com and says that plenty of cool stuff is on the way through CBSNews.com's partnership with the social news site. By the way, he's not buying Digg anytime soon.


Neo-Nazis March as Dresden Remembers War Dead

Waving black flags and carrying banners, thousands of neo-Nazis marched in Dresden on Sunday, marring the official 60th anniversary commemoration of one of the fiercest Allied bombing raids of World War II.


Many who fled snow for the Sun Belt are moving back to be near family.


U.S. Muslims face isolation, radical threat: study

Muslim Americans must meld into U.S. society before suspicion and mistrust lingering since the attacks on New York and Washington isolates them and sparks radicalism in their ranks, a study said on Tuesday.


NBA Cancels Game in Russia, Citing Terrorism Risk

he National Basketball Association announced yesterday that it had canceled an Oct. 8 exhibition game in Russia featuring the Utah Jazz against the Moscow club CSKA because the recent terrorist


Legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin talks about his new book, Roe v. Wade and what to expect from the new Supreme Court


Karzai Rivals Whittle Away at Afghan Vote Lead

Hamid Karzai remained on course on Friday to win Afghanistan's first direct presidential election, but with a quarter of the vote still to be counted, rivals were whittling


US officers, Shiite leaders meet in talks to end Sadr City ...

US military officials and representatives of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held talks Sunday aimed at reducing violence in the restive


Marvel argues that the character creation engine in "City of Heroes" easily allows players to design characters that are virtual copies of its own superheros, including "The Incredible Hulk.


Producer Sues Over 'Rings' Trilogy Profits

Pay up, Frodo. So says Saul Zaentz, a Hollywood producer who has sued New Line Cinema for $20 million in royalties from the blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.


Gunman kills 3 girls at Pennylvania Amish school

NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - A gunman killed three schoolgirls execution style and then shot himself dead on Monday after bursting into an Amish school in rural Pennsylvania, where he ordered the boys to leave and lined the girls up against the blackboard, police said.


Lebanon's parliament adjourns a crucial session to elect a new president until 23 October.


D.C. Lottery Thefts Tied to Lax Security Processes

D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request f...


IMF Forecasts Decline in Gross Domestic Product

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is forecasting another decline in gross domestic product (GDP) of between 4 to 5 percent, but says the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono's inflation forecast is achievable if the central bank


Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says a wave of mergers in the oil industry should be investigated by the Justice Department to see what impact they have had on soaring gasoline prices.


Your Money: Emptying Nest Eggs, Not the Nests

Like an allowance that extends far past adolescence, parents are helping finance their childrenâs lives longer, and depleting their retirement savings in the process.


'We really need in this country a more flexible, just-in-time labor system. I really think not enough attention is being paid by both candidates to the re-skilling of America.


Sharp-tongued comedian Chris Rock  has been chosen to host the 77th annual Academy Awards, the  film industry's highest honors, next February, the producer of  the show said on Thursday as he reached out to a younger  generation of comedians.


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Spain's Telefonica eyes share of Telecom Italia

Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica has said that it was in talks to acquire a minority share in Telecom Italia, but the deal faces political resistance in Rome.


Why You're Not Getting Your Money's Worth Out of That New CPU

Chip power has increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to new multicore processors from Intel, AMD and other chip makers. The problem is, software developers who understand how to utilize the new hardware are in short supply.


Backup of a Backup Is Never Far From Playing

Eli Manning will make his 46th consecutive start for the Giants on Sunday. But 2007 is shaping up as the Year of the Backup. So why shouldnât Jared Lorenzen revisit every play in the book?


NATO to take over in Afghanistan on Thursday

NATO will assume responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday.


Why Chavez Is a Shoo-in for Reelection: It's the Economy, Stupid

Never mind his anti-American theatrics. The Venezuelan president carries the support of the majority because they believe he's eased their poverty


Skin Deep: Should You Trust Your Makeup?

Momentum has been building for greater oversight of the chemicals in everyday products, with Europe and California taking the lead in imposing new rules for monitoring what is in the perfumes, creams, nail polish and hair sprays.


LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner Friday said he will step down from the media conglomerate in 2006, aiming to end his two-decade reign on his own terms after a shareholder revolt nearly cut it short earlier this year.


Russian president talks trade, terrorism in former foe Turkey

Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Turkey on Monday on a rare visit meant to boost trade and counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries, which have been rivals since the time of the czars and sultans.


Scientist warns of climate change impact

Climate change could mean higher temperatures, less winter precipitation and less spring runoff for the Southwest, a climatologist says.


Majority of British voters support air passenger profiling: poll

A majority of British voters support profiling air passengers in the wake of an alleged plot to bomb US-bound planes in mid-flight, according to a poll.


Sharapova advances to Korea Open semifinals

Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova surged into the Korea Open semifinals Friday with a comfortable 6-2, 6-1 win over Australian Samantha Stosur.


World should brace for possible war over Iran: France

The world should brace for a possible war over the Iranian nuclear crisis but seeking a solution through talks should take priority, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday.


Apple, Cisco reach agreement on iPhone name

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc.  and Apple Inc.  on Wednesday said they have reached an agreement that allow both to use the "iPhone" name, after Cisco sued the iPod maker for using it for a new multimedia phone.


Colombia and Venezuela welcome Brazil's offer to mediate in a diplomatic row over a guerrilla arrest.


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David Beckham is set to face a handful of his former English international teammates as part of a four-team tournament unveiled Friday that will include Chelsea and South Korea's Suwon Bluewings.


Gunmen Attack Mauritania Security Chief's Home

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on  the house of Mauritania's national security chief early on  Sunday, police said, in an attack less than two months after  the West African country said it had foiled an attempted coup.


Absence of Major Disaster in â06 Affected Giving

Although 2006 was heralded as the dawn of a golden age of philanthropy, charitable giving was almost flat last year.


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The Geek shall inherit the earth (or TV, at the least)

On television, the revenge of the nerd has reached its apex on shows such as 'Heroes,' 'Chuck,' and Reaper.' What's driving this trend?


AFRICA/SUDAFRICA - Verso i Mondiali di calcio del 2010: gli interrogativi di un missionario Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides)- I recenti black out elettrici che continuano a colpire il Sudafrica hanno suscitato lÂattenzione della stampa mondiale in relazione ai Campionati Mondiali di calcio che si disputeranno nel Paese nel 2010. ÂIl Sudafrica s...


Ukrainian Opposition Vote-Count Cover-Up

The Ukrainian opposition on Tuesday complained of foot-dragging by officials and a vote-count cover-up in the race for president, claiming that opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko had taken the lead.


N.Korea Vows to Double Deterrent if No US Change

North Korea threatened on Saturday to double the size of its nuclear deterrent if the United States did not drop what Pyongyang sees as a confrontational policy aimed at unseating the communist leadership there.


Bush Will Sponsor New Middle East Peace Talks

President Bush announced today that he will sponsor a new international conference this fall aimed at reviving moribund Middle East peace talks and paving the way toward a final settlement that would see a new Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel.


CORRECTED: Sprint Says '04 Results in Line

Sprint Corp.,   the No. 3 U.S. wireless telephone service company, on Monday said its 2004 results would meet its prior estimates, and the company released its outlook for earnings and revenues in 2005.


Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.


Van Hollen to run Democrats' fundraising

Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, who was elected to Congress only four years ago, will lead House Democrats' fundraising and recruiting efforts heading into the 2008 election, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday.


U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a surprise visit to press Iraqi leaders to resolve their differences and ease raging sectarian violence that has killed thousands.


A White House Warning on Contempt Charges

Congress and the White House continue to move towards a constitutional confrontation in the dispute over the dismissal of federal prosecutors in 2006.


Bits: Tracking the Worldâs Appetite for Innovation

In its quest for what it calls ânew metrics for the knowledge economy,â a nonprofit research group has come up with an index of global innovation confidence.


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Strongwoman hoists 100th gold for Chinese delegation

Tang Gonghong lifted a world record to claim in Athens the 100th Olympic gold for China since its participation in 1984 Olympic Games on Saturday when


Ukraine official dodges move to oust him

Ukraine's interior minister survived an attempt in parliament to dismiss him Thursday after lawmakers fell three votes short of the number needed to dismiss the controversial ally of President Viktor Yushchenko.


Rules Change Requires Apple to Expense Options

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a ruling that will require Apple, among other companies, to begin deducting the value of stock options from profits, starting in 2005.


Seven games, 14 ranked teams, one beautiful day of football. Since The Associated Press media poll started ranking the top 25 teams in 1989, there has never been a day when more ranked teams squared off.


Microsoft Corp. , the world's largest software maker, on Thursday reported that its quarterly profit doubled on stronger demand for personal computers and video games as well as lower costs.


Testimony Helps Detail CIA's Post-9/11 Reach

MILAN -- A few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the CIA station chief in Rome paid a visit to the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, Adm. Gianfranco Battelli, to float a proposal: Would the Italian secret services help the CIA kidnap terrorism suspects and fly them out of the...


New imaging software is making eyes at those squinty camera-phone pictures.


Quattrone Calls Trial 'Unfair' in Appeal

Former star investment banker Frank  Quattrone asked an appeals court on Thursday to overturn his  obstruction of justice conviction, saying the trial was  "palpably" unfair and the judge favored the prosecution.


Regular weightlifting may increase the risk of the eye disease glaucoma, research suggests.


Next for Microsoft Xbox: winning casual gamers

Microsoft Corp  has  cemented its reputation among hardcore gamers with the launch  of alien shoot-out "Halo 3," but it is still struggling to  attract the mass market audience that has flocked to Nintendo  Co Ltd's  Wii console.


China says it is taking "all measures" to secure the release of eight nationals abducted in Iraq.


IBM recalls 500,000 melting notebook adapters

More than 500,000 notebook power adapters sold by IBM are being recalled to offset the threat of melting plastic and even fire. IBM and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall, saying


Amelie Mauresmo's French Open title hopes are ended by Lucie Safarova in the third round.


Primaris to buy 20 Boeing 7E7-8s and 27 737-800s

SEATTLE -- Primaris Airlines Inc. has announced plans to buy 20 Boeing 7E7-8 Dreamliners and 20 737-800s, a deal worth $3.8 billion at list prices, the low-cost carrier and the Boeing Co.


The blast from a suicide bomber on a bicycle also wounded 20 other people, including seven policemen who were severely injured, the authorities said.


Singapore bourse wants more foreign listings: report

Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), which operates the local stock market, aims to have more than half of its listings be foreign firms by 2012, a top executive said in remarks published Thursday.


A firestorm engulfs Senator Arlen Specter's bid to become chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, the place where judicial nominations have gone to die a politicized death ever since the venomous brawl over Judge Robert H. Bork in 1987


Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson pleaded guilty Monday to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence stemming from a traffic stop last year as he was leaving a nightclub.


Smallmouths Have Fishermen Making Big Plans

By Mark Taylor  mark.taylor@roanoke.com 981-3395  To borrow a phrase from a national advertising campaign, fishing season comes at you fast.  That's why every year about this time I spend some time trying to plan  for the upcoming season.


London knife rampage leaves one dead, five injured

Terror struck the pre-Christmas streets of north London when a man went on a stabbing rampage in his car, killing one man and wounding five others.


Shares in Sainsbury's rise by 16% on rumours the supermarket could become the target of a takeover bid.


Trovato in edificio via Lomellina Milano con manopole aperte


Iran nuclear talks must not last years: Kouchner

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said he supports talks between Iran and the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog about Tehran's atomic program, but the dialogue should not drag on for years.


The Boston Red Sox finalized a $1.5 million, one year-year contract with free agent pitcher Wade Miller on Thursday, one day after completing a $25.5 million, three-year deal with right-hander Matt Clement.


Els, Garcia fined for throwing clubs in South Africa event

SUN CITY, South Africa  - South Africa's Ernie Els and Spain's Sergio Garcia have been fined nominal amounts for throwing golf clubs at the Sun City Challenge, tournament officials revealed on Sunday.


Algae start-up signs contract for biodiesel

Blog: Imperium and Solazyme want to put algae in the tank. Stay tuned for when.


Four men shouting Islamic slogans   tried to blow up the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Tuesday but   their car bomb failed to go off and Syrian security guards   killed three of them in a shootout. No U.S. diplomats were   hurt.


Eight Ethiopian soldiers have defected to Eritrea over the issue of Somalia, Eritrea's government says.


Following are short biographies of the leading contenders in the women's singles at the US Open tennis championships. Prefix number denotes seeding.


NFL Network in N.Y. freebie carriage deal

The NFL Network said Monday  it would accept Time Warner Cable's offer to carry the channel  on a digital tier for a week beginning Christmas Eve.


Revenues and profits up - except in UK Computacenter shares jumped over five per cent this morning after the reseller posted better than expected interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007.â¦


Cingular works to certify Audiovox smart phone for its network

Cingular Wireless LLC is testing Audiovox's Windows Mobile smart phone for use on its network, a move indicative of the complications surrounding the carrier's combination with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.


The British broadcaster's deal with file-sharing company Azureus will deliver high-def hit shows  to U.S. computers. In Monkey Bites.


Spector lawyer testifies for prosecution after jail threat

A former lawyer for Phil Spector testified to prosecutors in the music producer's murder trial on Thursday after being threatened with jail time if she refused to give evidence.


Five fox-hunting backers invade Parliament floor

Five protesters angry at plans to ban fox hunting managed to get onto the floor in Britain's House of Commons and accosted members before being dragged off by ushers dressed


(InfoWorld) - India's largest outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has landed a US$140 million contract from India's large state-owned telecommunications services provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., for the deployment of next-generation networks in the country. The nine-year engagement with BSNL involves TCS setting up complex data networks across BSNL's operations in the north and west of India. The agreement also includes deploying operational support systems and business support systems components such as customer relationship management, billing, mediation, and directory inquiry, among others, TCS said Thursday. After a systems integration phase of two years, TCS will manage the operations for BSNL over the next seven years, said N. Chandrasekaran, TCS's head of global sales and operations. The Indian services market is growing, and even though billing rates on outsourcing contracts are lower than in markets in the U.S. and Europe where TCS operates, the costs are also lower, Chandrasekaran said. The contract with a large services provider like BSNL will help the company win systems integration and managed services contracts from telecommunications service providers in other markets, he added. India emerged in the first half of this year as the largest market for outsourcing services in the Asia-Pacific region, according to sourcing consultancy firm, Technology Partners International Inc. in Houston. TPI tracked contracts valued above $25 million for the survey. A number of multinational services companies like IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have focused on the Indian market, and won some large contracts. In the quarter ended June 30, TCS's revenue from the domestic market was only about 9 percent of total revenue but this share is expected to grow, Chandrasekaran said. The U.S. is the largest market for TCS accounting for over 51 percent of revenue, followed by the U.K. at about 21 percent. Indian outsourcers have typically focused on more lucrative markets in the U.S. and Europe instead of India, research firm Gartner Inc. said earlier this year. The growing Indian market and the appreciation of the Indian rupee against the U.S. dollar are now making domestic contracts more attractive to Indian companies.


A Partridge, a Pear Tree, a Price Tag That Grows

This year, the songâs true love would spend $19,507 to give every whimsy on the 12th day,  according to a yearly holiday index tabulated by PNC Wealth Management.


Leslie Grantham, who was "Dirty" Den Watts in EastEnders, says he tried to kill himself after a sex scandal.


Sun's New Multi-threaded Processor, UltraSPARC IV+

Implemented using Texas Instruments' 90 nanometer process technology, UltraSPARC IV+ will double the application throughput of the existing UltraSPARC IV through expanded caches and buffers, a better branch prediction mechanism, augmented prefetching


Chery Automobile, a feisty newcomer to global carmaking, is on the verge of becoming the first Chinese company to crack the U.S. auto market.


10 bodies likely to be Japanese found after tsunami in Sri Lanka

Some 10 bodies, which may be Japanese, have been found at a national park in southeastern Sri Lanka, following massive tsunamis that hit coastal areas across Asia on Sunday, Kyodo News reported Monday.


Light crude dips but remains less than a dollar shy of an all-time high reached earlier this week. LONDON  - Oil prices remained just below record highs on Friday amid concern over possible conflict


Stock in AK Steel Corp. and other publicly traded US steel companies posted large gains Monday on news of a three-way merger that'll create the world's largest steelmaker.


Japan's crown prince to visit Mongolia after surgery

Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito will visit Mongolia in July, just one month after undergoing surgery, but without his wife who has not yet recovered from stress-related illness, the palace said.


Catastrophic Tokyo Quake Expected Within 50 Years

Japan's capital has a 90 percent chance of being devastated by a major earthquake some time in the next 50 years, according to a study by a government panel.    The study, released earlier this week, marked the latest attempt by scientists to address one of this quake-prone country's most pressing concerns: when the next "Big One" would level one of the world's most densely populated cities...


The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states use to put inmates to death in a case that could further slow the pace of executions.


AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Police said today they have identified the man who threw a chair during the Pistons-Pacers basketball brawl.


'Bin Laden' Tape Asks Iraqis to Shun 'Infidel' Polls

An audio tape purportedly from al Qaeda  leader Osama bin Laden, aired Monday urging Iraqis to boycott  January parliamentary polls and saying anyone who takes part  would be an "infidel."


Blair calls for changes in Western fight against extremism

British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for a "complete renaissance" of the global approach to tackling extremism, with as much emphasis on "soft" power as military might.


Oklahoma and Utah moved into premium positions in the Bowl Championship Series standings Monday.


Buenos Aires, 16:58 - CALCIO, SVALIGIATO MUSEO MARADONA: SPARITI 600 PEZZI

E' stato svaligiato il museo itinerante dedicato a Diego Maradona. IL fuoriclasse argentino ha denun...


Bush Gives Wife Dessert Plates for Christmas

President Bush gave his wife Laura  dessert plates to complement her china pattern and she gave him  a raincoat in their Christmas gift exchange on Saturday, a  White House spokesman said.


A man fatally hacked his mother and 2-year-old nephew with an ax before apparently committing suicide by stepping into highway traffic, sheriff's officials said.


A convicted sex offender was killed and a 14-year-old boy injured when a sport utility vehicle the man was driving slammed into an 18-wheeler following a high speed police chase, authorities said Friday.


A cast of more than 600 performers will officially launch Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.


U2 reveal the title of their new album. Plus more entertainment news in brief.


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Mandela ex-wife Winnie remains political force at 70

South Africans marked on Tuesday   the 70th birthday of controversial anti-apartheid heroine   Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who is re-emerging as a symbol for   leftists in the nation's divided ruling alliance.


A House vote to condemn mass killings of Armenians as 'genocide' has stumbled on pragmatic concerns.


U.S. Said to Be Weighing Public Pricing of Derivatives

United States regulators are considering forcing investment banks to make public markets in some of the more exotic financial instruments that have plunged in value in the last six months.


A study of an ancient human pest - head lice â-uggests that the ancestors of today's American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.


International Weather in 1981: A Year of Extremes

By Comte, Douglas Le  Spring Drought in China  On China's North China Plain, water supplies were very low, as dry weather in the spring worsened a drought dating back to the previous July. Millions of people were affected by shortages of drinking water and food supplies.


World focuses on tsunami victims, paying little heed to suffering in Congo

WASHINGTON  - The skies over Asia are being darkened these days by an abundance of relief-bearing cargo planes, reflecting the huge outpouring of international sympathy and support in response to the tsunami crisis.


Ivan skirts Grand Cayman, flooding homes

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands - Hurricane Ivan skirted Grand Cayman with winds near 250 km/h today, uprooting trees, bursting the banks of canals and flooding some homes on the island as it churned toward Cuba.


The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sent its most aggressive agent to work on the case full time, armed with big stacks of files from the FBI and sheriff's investigators. Even with those resources, it took nearly two years to finally solve the 1951 murders of black civil rights activists Harry T. and Harriette Moore, whose house was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members.


PAULA Radcliffe is considering going for the 10,000 metres gold medal in the World Championships in Helsinki next summer. Max Jones, UK Athleticsâ performance director, believes Radcliffe is eager to prove herself as a global track champion.


Madrid, 16:06 - F1, ECCLESTONE: ACCORDO PER GP A VALENCIA

"L'accordo per far svolgere un gran premio di formula uno a Valencia è stato firmato stamatti...


The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents.


Tennis: Scot's campaign lasts just over three hours as he loses to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in four sets


Umbro, the maker of the England football team's kit, agrees to be bought by US sportswear giant Nike.


Navy opens its season at home against VMI on Saturday at noon, making this the earliest opener in the program's 101 seasons.


Chirac, Blair Strive for Unity After Iraq

French President Jacques Chirac agreed  to disagree with Prime Minister Tony Blair over Iraq on  Thursday but pledged full cooperation, from Africa to the  Middle East, when Britain heads the G8 and European Union in  2005.


Jordan have confirmed that Timo Glock will replace Giorgio Pantano for this weekend's Chinese GP as the team has terminated its contract with Pantano.


Apple Macintosh users might feel a bit dizzy next spring. After more than a year of negotiating brought the Macworld Conference & Expo back from New York to Boston in April, the show's organizer, IDG World Expo of Framingham, said yesterday that it is moving the show again -- to the Hynes Convention Center on Boylston Street.


Ballmer Dispels Notion of Vista as Last Client OS

CEO accentuates the positives about new Microsoft operating system at today's launch event.


Italian racism discourages Japanese, says Nakamura

Japan star Shunsuke Nakamura has blasted Italian football for its racism in an interview published on the official UEFA website.


OPEC oil producers are unlikely to change output quotas at their December 10 ministerial meeting and have no need yet to rein in a supply surge that has begun to ease record prices, Nigeria's top oil official said on Saturday.


The Competition Commission recommends that BSkyB should be forced to sell some of its stake in ITV.


The son-in-law of Kazakhstan's autocratic president has appealed to Austrian authorities not to extradite him to his homeland to face kidnapping charges, a magazine reported Saturday.


John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Barack Obama's praise of the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan Â an anathema for many Democrats, particularly union members considered crucial to winning Nevada's Democratic caucuses Saturday.


GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there, and after 43 years, she really doesn't want to leave Greenburgh.


A day after losing shortstop Julio Lugo and right fielder J.D. Drew , the Los Angeles Dodgers concentrated on trying to sign ace Jason Schmidt away from San Francisco yesterday during action at the winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.


Sports Briefing | Soccer: Hamm and Foudy to Enter Hall

Mia Hamm and her longtime teammate Julie Foudy will be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame today in Oneonta, N.Y. Along with Kristine Lilly, Brandi Chastain and Joy Fawcett, Hamm and Foudy were the Fab Five nucleus of the United States team that captured the Womenâs World Cup in 1991 and 1999. They also won a gold medal at the 1996 and 2004 Olympics.


Frank Lampard scores the only goal as Chelsea close the gap on leaders Man Utd to three points.


The company's dismal earnings have dimmed investor enthusiasm.


Tribune staff reporters Geoff Daugherty, Susan Chandler and Gary Washburn contributed to this story. Its financial situation steadily deteriorating, the parent of ATA


New Firefox supplies patches in nick of time

In the very week Mozilla Firefox Version 1.0 was launched, a series of potentially nasty security holes have been uncovered in older versions of the browser.


Comic Richard Jeni dead in apparent suicide

Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Jeni, a regular on NBC's "The Tonight Show," has died in an apparent suicide, police said on Sunday.


Two French journalists kept hostage for four months in Iraq return home saying they had "a difficult experience".


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The player lets the listener choose MP3 or WMA music, ripped from CDs or downloaded from online music sites. The Zen Micro provides intuitive vertical scrolling to allow users to move through easy-to-use menus


Sprint buys Breedersâ Cup sponsor Nextel for $35-billion

Sprint Corp. is to acquire Nextel Communications Inc., title sponsor of the Breedersâ Cup Distaff (G1), in a $35-billion deal that will create the nationâs third-largest wireless telephone service provider


Gaza reporter Alan Johnston says captors have treated him 'very well', in footage on internet.


Milano, 14:31 - CALCIO, MILAN; ANCELOTTI: NON SO QUANDO RIENTRA RONALDO

Carlo Ancelotti, allenatore del Milan, fa il punto sulla situazione di Ronaldo, alle prese con un in...


Napster tests "on-the-go" subscription service

Napster announced yesterday that it is testing a new subscription service model that would add portable devices to the list of its subscription service's supported devices.


HP says reaches civil settlement with Calif. AG

Hewlett-Packard Co.  said  on Thursday it would pay California $14.5 million to settle a  civil case related to board-leak investigations that led to the  resignation of Chairman Patricia Dunn.


Fresh from setting a supercomputer performance record, IBM has announced it will make a commercial version of its Blue Gene system available for businesses and scientific researchers.


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Iran vowed on Thursday never to shelve   its nuclear program, defying the threat of sanctions hours   before a U.N. deadline to stop work the West fears could lead   to atomic bombs.


It's easy to understand why Notre Dame is 0-3 for the second time in school history. The Fighting Irish are last in the nation in rushing offense and total offense, are among the worst teams at stopping the run and have nearly twice as many punts as they do points.


Top Hamas Militant Killed in Israeli Missile Strike

A senior leader of Hamas's military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian witnesses said.


This fourth consecutive N.F.C. championship game does not come without enormous pressure and expectation for Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb.


Eli Manning will start for the New York Giants in Thursday night's game in Carolina, but that doesn't necessarily mean the first pick in the NFL draft has beaten out Kurt Warner for the team's starting quarterback job.


Ricky Williams insists the Miami Dolphins' dismal season isn't his fault. "That's their problem . . . It's not my problem anymore," Williams told "60 Minutes" in an interview to air Sunday night on Channel 4. "I played as hard as I could whenever I put that uniform on, but I'm not doing that anymore."


Barclays may have lost big in Bear fund: report

Barclays PLC  may have tallied big losses in a Bear Stearns Cos.  hedge fund that invested in risky mortgages, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.


Abortion bill fails in waning Republican House

The U.S. House of Representatives, in its last days under Republican control, failed on Wednesday to pass a bill that would have required doctors to offer painkillers for fetuses before they abort them.


Mayrhofen, 18:53 - CICLISMO, GIRO AUSTRIA: PRIMA TAPPA A BALDATO

L'italiano Fabio Baldato, 39 anni, ha vinto la prima tappa del Giro d'Austria, la Mayrhofen-Mayrhofe...


Hezbollah's leader vows to continue mass protests in Beirut aimed at ousting Lebanon's government.


Brazil launches its first rocket into space,14 months after a deadly accident killed 21 people.


Phillies Interview Former Indians Manager

After spending two seasons as a special assistant and adviser with Philadelphia, Charlie Manuel saved his best recommendation for last: Hire him as the new manager of the Phillies.


Tommy Sheridan MSP says those who told the truth during his defamation trial need not fear a police probe.


Auburn Tailbacks Nearly Landed With Vols

For both Carnell Williams and Ronnie Brown, the first choice was to play for Tennessee.


Weekend Developments Near CEC: Some 11 People Taken to Hospital

On Saturday, Oct 23, thousands of people started the action "Syla Narodu" for Viktor Yushchenko, candidate for presidency from opposition, according to a weekends timeline provided by the Institute of Mass ...


Britain unveils private buyout plan for Northern Rock

The British government on Monday unveiled plans to keep Northern Rock, the bank severely damaged by the squeeze on global credit, in the private sector.


Reporter Faces Jail for Failing to Name Source

PROVIDENCE, R.I.  - A federal judge convicted a  Rhode Island television reporter of criminal contempt on  Thursday for refusing to reveal the identity of a source.


Five protesters burst onto the floor of Britain's House of Commons on Wednesday as lawmakers were preparing to vote on a ban on fox hunting.


Lagos-based 'International Awareness Promotion' Our very own John Lettice was very pleased with himself earlier this afternoon since he'd just been handed a shiny new Beemer 5 series and a whopping $850k. Yes, we know what you're thinking - "That's completely ridiculous, why on earth would BMW give away a car and a big, big suitcase full of cash?"â¦


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The bulk of the Elvis Presley estate has been sold to a US promoter for a cool $100 million (Â£52m). Robert Sillerman, founder of promoter SFX Entertainment, will take over Presley trademark rights, intellectual


Site Previously for Students Will Be Opened to Others

Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that has mainly focused on college students, is preparing to open its membership to everyone.


Abbey online banking takes 24-hour lie down

Money marooned Abbey, the banking group, has been having problems with its website, which has left customers unable to administer their accounts for more than 24 hours.â¦


Australian City Pacific says makes bid for MFS

Australian financial services and property group City Pacific Ltd  said on Monday it had made a proposal to acquire most of MFS Ltd's  businesses in a deal with a value of about A$1.3 billion ($1.16 billion).


Strong quake off Vanuatu, no tsunami or damage recorded

A strong earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck off the south Pacific island of Vanuatu, but no tsunamis or damage were reported, Australian seismologists said.


Insurgents continued their attacks on Iraq's fledgling security forces yesterday in a series of bloody assaults across the Sunni triangle that killed at least 22 people, including 17 policeman, and injured more than 30.


An ill-advised PR stunt for Aqua Teen Hunger Force causes chaos in Beantown when authorities scramble to defuse what appears to be a coordinated terror attack. In Table of Malcontents.


Barry Manilow Signs Long-Term Las Vegas Deal

Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, saying it was time to end decades of touring, said   on Tuesday that he had signed a long-term contract to perform exclusively at the Las Vegas Hilton, starting in February.


Cheryl Ford had 21 points and nine rebounds, and Deanna Nolan scored 18 points to lead the defending WNBA champion Detroit Shock past the New York Liberty 76-66 Sunday, evening their first-round WNBA playoff series at 1-1.


Dozens of tourists and local residents are forced onto beaches as a forest fire rages in northern Greece.


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They have for years, in large part because the baseball players union has long ignored the obvious bulking up of numbers and its membership.


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Apple unveiled a 99-dollar version of its hot-selling iPod digital music player, the gadget that catapulted the firm back into big profits, and a cheap mini-desktop.


He May Be Loathsome, but This Evangelist Has Pipes

The opera, as seen at Montclair State University in New Jersey, is a tunefully entertaining and thoughtful piece of theater.


The upmarket Belgian chocolate brand Godiva is to be sold to Turkish firm Yildiz for $850m.


Results in key Senate races: Reuters poll

Democrats must gain six seats in the November 7 election to recapture U.S. Senate control, and they lead in three of the seven most vulnerable Republican-held states, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.


UN: At least 100,000 have fled fighting in eastern Congo

Renegade soldiers are continuing to battle troops loyal to the Congolese government in fighting that has displaced at least 100,000 people in eastern Congo over the last week, UN officials said.


Brent Geiberger started with consecutive birdies and never wavered -- not when he topped a fairway metal on No. 13 and not when he faced a knee-knocker for par on the next hole.


For Ken Narlow, watching a re-enactment of the Zodiac killer's handiwork was nearly as disturbing as the crimes themselves.


Oklahoma State denies Knight's 900th win

Obi Muonelo hit four straight 3-pointers in a 2-minute stretch, and Oklahoma State throttled down in the second half to deny Bob Knight his 900th career win with a 74-55 defeat of Texas Tech on Saturday.


Volunteers are being brought in to help clean beaches littered with debris from a grounded cargo ship off the Devon coast.


Brief: Lenovo, IBM to recall laptop batteries

A fire involving a laptop at Los Angeles International Airport has prompted Lenovo Group and IBM to recall Sony-made batteries used in 526,000 laptops because of concerns about fire.


'Amazing' lesson in volunteerism at stadium

The tent city housing thousands of wildfire evacuees at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium could be mistaken for a county fair, with stiltwalkers and abundant refreshments. But in a cold slap of reality, evacuees in one tent privately read the list of nearly 1,600 homes that have been destroyed.


Christian singer Chris Tomlin, the Dove Awards' artist of the year in 2006, is the leading nominee of the gospel music awards again this year with nine nominations, including another nod for artist of the year.


Andruw Jones' 25th home run of the season helped the Atlanta Braves beat Philadelphia 3-1 Monday. Travis Smith, pitching in place of Mike Hampton, held the Phillies to one run, five


LeBron James' helpers showed up on Christmas. James scored 25 points, Drew Gooden 18, Daniel Gibson 16 and Cleveland's defense arrived in time for the holiday, sparking the struggling Cavaliers to a 96-82 win over the Miami Heat on Tuesday.


Schroder adopts Russian girl of 3 from orphanage

Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, the 60-year-old German leader, and his wife, Doris, have adopted a Russian girl from an orphanage in St Petersburg.


Oregon Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Two Girls

Ward Weaver, a toolmaker with a  history of violence against women, pleaded guilty on Wednesday  to killing and sexually abusing two Oregon City girls in 2002.


Blair named Mideast envoy, Israel kills 12 in Gaza

World powers named Tony Blair as their Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, handing the outgoing British prime minister a daunting new challenge on a day Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.


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French carmaker Renault  had no comment on Wednesday on a report on the online edition of the Wall Street Journal that alliance talks with General Motors Corp  had ended.


CHIBA, Japan  - Thousands of Japanese rocked to the rhythm of a virtual techno beat act on Saturday in the second of nine concerts worldwide aimed at persuading the globe to go green.


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51 more billionaires on `Forbes' rich list

New York: It seems the US billionaires' club is not as exclusive as it once was. There are now 313 billionaires in the United States, a huge jump over the 262 counted last year, according to Forbes magazine


Campaigners bound in chains take part in a 250-mile march to mark the abolition of slavery.


Bush suffers court setbacks in war on terrorism

President George W. Bush's broad assertions of power in his war on terrorism are under assault by U.S. judges who have rejected his indefinite imprisonment of enemy combatants and the domestic spying program.


GM 'marathon' mice break distance records

Mice which can run almost twice the distance of normal mice have been genetically engineered by US scientists. "This is the first animal engineered for increased endurance," says Ronald Evans of the Salk Institute


TONY Blair threw his weight behind Kofi Annan yesterday amid a growing clamour in the US for the UN Secretary-General to resign over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.


Police on Saturday arrested two men suspected of being Islamic militants involved in a series of explosions that ripped through courthouse complexes in three north Indian cities last month, killing at least 16 lawyers.


Sport fishing a threat to saltwater species?

New research indicates that sport fishermen are taking an unexpectedly big toll on saltwater fish populations, in some cases landing more fish than their commercial counterparts.


Arkansas may still be Clinton country, but it's no longer Democratic terrain.


Iran fails to comply with demands to halt uranium enrichment, UN watchdog says.


Gwen Deforte unwinds the line connected to the hand of Spongebob Squarepants as the baloon is prepared for its' first Macy's Parade in New York Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.


A security breach on the Web site of Nikon World magazine exposed the identities of 3,235 of its subscribers on Tuesday, the company said. Adresses, contact details and credit card information of customers were disclosed.


Tour boat captain charged in fatal accident

ALBANY, New York  - The owner and captain of an upstate New York tour boat were indicted on misdemeanor charges on Monday for not having a second crew member on board when it capsized, killing 20 elderly tourists.


Description: The two Mars Rovers, Opportunity and Sprit, are showing signs of wear... not surprising, since their mission was expected to end in April.


Guard of British diplomat shot dead in Athens

A Greek police officer standing guard outside the private home of Britain's military attache to Greece was found shot dead in northern Athens, police said.


Dolphins land former Steelers linebacker Porter

Pro Bowl linebacker Joey Porter agreed to  a five-year contract with the Miami Dolphins on Wednesday.


Airport noise instantly boosts blood pressure

Living near an airport isn't just irritating, it is also unhealthy, researchers said on Wednesday, in a study that showed loud noise instantly boosts a sleeping person's blood pressure.


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Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is set to become Indonesia's next president. The former general has been projected as the landslide winner of this week's presidential ballot.


The bird flu virus is far more lethal than the SARS virus that struck Asia last year and might unleash a pandemic that could kill as many as 50 million people, a World Health Organization official says.


Bin Laden: US security depends on policy

Osama bin Laden delivered a new videotaped message in which he told Americans their security does not depend on the president they elect, but on US policy.


Israel may seek further US funding for security measures

Israel, which receives about $3 billion a year in US aid, may seek extra funding next year to bolster border security and overhaul checkpoints as part of a plan to pull out of Gaza and parts of


Iraqis Brave Long Trips, Cold to Vote in U.S.

Emotional and jubilant Iraqi  expatriates braved long trips and frigid weather to cast their  votes across the United States on Friday, their enthusiasm  making up for their low numbers.


P&O will cut up to 1,200 jobs and slash services in a plan to salvage its loss-making ferry business, which has been hit by competition from low-cost airlines.


Soldier at Center of Iraq Prison Scandal Goes on Trial

FT. HOOD, Texas  - U.S. Army Spc. Charles Graner,  the accused ringleader of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal that  outraged the world, goes on trial on Friday ready to offer a  defense that he was just following orders.


Nokia unveils new short-range wireless technology

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


Cowher Says Roethlisberger Will Play if He's Healthy

Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger could return to the Pittsburgh Steelers' lineup for their second game of the season says Coach Bill Cowher.


Company unveils prototype of top-end camera that features an unusually large sensor--the size of a full frame of 35mm film.


Vogts abused by fans after draw with Moldova

CHISINAU: Scotland coach Berti Vogts was verbally abused by fans after his side's flagging World Cup qualification hopes were dealt a further blow in a 1-1 draw in Moldova on Wednesday.


Gundelfingen, 17:29 - CICLISMO, GIRO BAVIERA: 1/A TAPPA A SCHULZE, ZABEL 4/O

La prima tappa del Giro di Baviera, la Garmisch-Partenkirchen-Gundelfingen di 211,1 km, è sta...


Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg is to call for a "selective" amnesty for illegal immigrants.


Americans will mark the fifth   anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Monday with somber   ceremonies across the country and at the sites of the   devastation in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.


A 17-month-old boy receives emergency treatment after falling out of a window at a block of flats in Glasgow.


Dennis Johnson, the star NBA guard who was part of three championship teams, died Thursday after collapsing at the end of practice. He was 52. Johnson, coach of the Austin Toros of the NBA Development League, died at a hospital, D-League spokesman Kent Partridge said.


Nokia Corp. is getting ready to ship mobile phones based on China's homegrown 3G (third-generation) mobile standard.


Update 1: Citgo Reaches Clean Air Act Settlement

Citgo Petroleum Corp. will install $320 million in pollution controls at six refineries and pay a $3.6 million fine to settle a federal lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations, the Bush administration announced Wednesday.


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Pakistan accuses al Qaeda of killing Bhutto

Pakistan accused al Qaeda of killing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whose assassination has plunged the nuclear-armed country into crisis and triggered bloody protests.


TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday described a European proposal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff as unbalanced and rejected its demands that the Islamic republic halt all uranium enrichment activities, a foreign news agency reported.


The head of the sniffer dog unit at Bogota airport is detained in raids against a Colombian drugs ring.


Avon Products Inc. AVP.N on Friday  posted higher quarterly earnings as business in Latin America  and Europe helped offset weakness in the United States for the  direct seller of cosmetics.


ASHBURN, Va. (AP-CP) - Running back Clinton Portis and linebacker LaVar Arrington have been placed on injured reserve by the Washington Redskins.


Drug shown to improve common male sexual problem

A drug designed to treat premature  ejaculation works well and is safe, researchers said on Friday.


The world's largest music company will sell restriction-free music downloads at Amazon.com and other online vendors. But not at Apple's iTunes store.


Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said his successors at the U.S. central bank should be cautious about cutting interest rates because of inflation risks, and he forecast home prices will drop further, according to interviews published on Sunday.


Turkey's government pulls a crucial legal reform package from debate  amid controversy over an adultery clause.


Northern Ireland takes step to power sharing

BELFAST - Northern Ireland took a step toward restoring a government shared between Protestants and Catholics as it counted votes on Thursday from an election for a new provincial assembly.A ...Comment


On Thursday, the International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that Qualcomm is barred from importing certain high-end chips and chipsets designed for use in 3G cell phones and other mobile devices.


698-pound man dies after stomach surgery

A man who weighed 698 pounds died Friday of heart failure after undergoing an operation to remove 80 percent of his stomach in a desperate effort to reduce his weight.


Critics say the state has been too quick to embrace electronic voting and could be headed for a fiasco in November elections.