An Islamic website claims the second American hostage, Jack Hensley, has been killed. This comes 24 hours after the beheading of Eugene "Jack" Armstrong who grew up in Hillsdale.


A 1,594 milioni e continua boom fisco: in 7 mesi +23 mld


The UN secretary general asks world leaders to make an unprecedented response to the Indian Ocean disaster.


Cristiano Ronaldo inspired Manchester United's four-goal rout of bottom-club Watford to maintain Sir Alex Ferguson's side's six-point advantage over Chelsea at the head of the Premiership table.


Maps used to calculate flood danger in the U.S. rely on data that are decades out of date, according to a report that calls for a new national program to remap land levels.


Another MP calls for a  full independent inquiry into the deaths of four recruits and abuse allegations at Deepcut army base.


BBC Click's David Reid travels to Italy to find out how research into real-time maps may solve Rome's traffic problems.


Yanukovych, Solana discuss election situation in Ukraine

Ukrainian Premier Viktor Yanukovych and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the Council of the EU Javier Solana discussed by phone on Wednesday the presidential election in ...


Pooch power: Clever dogs sniff out bladder cancer

Dogs have been trained to detect bladder cancer by sniffing urine, using their acute sense of smell to identify a tiny but characteristic odour released by tumours, a study says.


A vast underground lake in Darfur probably dried out thousands of years ago, a geologist says.


Florida Congressman Porter Goss was approved Wednesday by the US Senate to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Goss replaces George Tenet, who resigned amid criticism about its handling of intelligence prior


Tropical storm Humberto lashes Texas coast

Heavy rains and whipping winds struck southeastern Texas on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Humberto closed in on the Texas coast from the Gulf of Mexico.


How Scotland became the back office for London's financial industry.


The familiar high-pitch laugh isn't heard as often these days. The regular season is drawing near, and Joe Gibbs is getting more and more serious.


Dent dodges downpour to move ahead in Beijing

BEIJING: American Taylor Dent got lucky on a day of pelting rain, squeezing in an opening-round victory yesterday to reach the second round of the China Open.


Walt Disney Studios is actively proceeding with a second sequel to Pixar Animation's "Toy Story" franchise, a move that could make it more difficult for the two companies to extend their rocky relationship.


Tannishtha Chatterjee's impressive performance as a young Bangladeshi immigrant in Sarah Gavron's critically acclaimed Brick Lane has earned the young actress a best actress nomination and Gavron a best director at the 10th edition of the British Independent Film Awards.


A bereaved family's anger prompts calls for a change in policy over home visits and leave for inmates.


Lue, 27, was on the Los Angeles Lakers championship team in 2001. After spending two seasons with the Washington Wizards, he signed with the Orlando Magic in 2003, averaging a career-high 10.5 points and 4.2 assists a game.


A pair of new add-ons for Nintendo Co.'s Game Boy Advance turn the handheld into something considerably more than a gaming machine - a video phone and a video player. As long as you bear in mind that you're dealing with a toy, you might not be too bothered by the less than stellar quality.


Wal-Mart December same-store sales rise 2.4 percent

Wal-Mart Stores Inc  on  Thursday reported a 2.4 percent rise in December sales at U.S.  stores open at least a year, helped by strong sales of food.


A Cambridge power plant reduced its emissions last year when it switched from oil to natural gas. But environmentalists gathered yesterday to say that the plant simply traded one kind of pollution for another, now threatening the water instead of the air.


Column: Why did NFL muzzle Gary Glitter?

There's a lot to consider when planning the entertainment for an NFL game: keeping the mascot in line, making sure the fake smoke doesn't choke anybody, finding the right D to go with the fence.


Mizuho Financial Group raises full year outlook

Mizuho Financial Group, Japanâs biggest bank, reported an 8.4 percent fall in first-half profit on Monday but raised its full-year outlook by 33 percent due to smaller charges than expected for writing off bad loans.


US Secretary of State Colin Powell has continued his latest Middle East peace mission, urging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make the most of new chances.


Londra, 18:10 - CALCIO, PREMIER LEAGUE: MANCHESTER UTD KO CON WEST HAM

Risultati della 20/a giornata della premier league inglese: West Ham-Manchester United 2-1, Chelsea-...


Terrorism blamed for one Russian plane crash, Islamic group claims ...

MOSCOW : Russia said terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash as an Islamic group proclaiming support for rebels in Chechnya claimed responsibility for the downing of that and another plane.


Former Microsoft exec joins open-source project

One of the guys behind Microsoft's "Halloween memo" regarding Linux is now working on open-source media software.


At least 23 people were killed on Thursday when a bus was strafed by machine gun fire, in what police suspect is a message from local gangs to an aspiring crime-busting presidential candidate.


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Spegnereranno la televisione e usciranno di casa, genitori e bambini, per riscoprire il piacere della vita attiva e combattere la sedentarietÃ . SuccederÃ  a Ragusa, da domani al 15 dicembre, per una singolare


Pakistan's paradox: bombs, blood and record profits

A little more than six years ago, immediately after the September 11 attacks on U.S. cities, few sane investment advisers would have recommended Pakistani stocks.


Rio de Janeiro, 19:27 - CALCIO, BRASILE: CT DUNGA CONVOCA PATO

Il ct del Brasile, Carlos Dunga, ha convocato Alexandre Pato per l'amichevole del 6 febbraio contro ...


RBS is looking to sell Southern Water for around Â£4bn, four years after buying the firm, according to reports.


Cheering Fans Greet Jackson as Attorneys Spar

A white-suited Michael Jackson  waved and smiled to cheering fans as he and his family went to  court on Monday to watch his attorney spar with the prosecutor  who has twice charged the self-proclaimed king of pop with  child molestation.


Roma, 17:59 - SUPERBIKE, STAGIONE 2007: ARRIVA MAX BIAGGI

Il 'riposo' di Max Biaggi durerà solo per questa stagione. Il centauro romani infatti torner&...


Jamal Lewis Deal Could Include Jail Time

ATLANTA - Lawyers for Baltimore Ravens running back Jamal Lewis are negotiating a plea deal in his drug conspiracy case that would allow him to serve jail time in the offseason, a source close to the case told The Associated Press on Saturday.    Under a deal being discussed with federal prosecutors, Lewis would serve four to six months - possibly split between jail and a halfway house - after the season, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity...


Israel's Peres to Open Coalition Talks with Sharon

Israeli Labour leader Shimon Peres said on Saturday coalition talks between his party and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be resolved in days and were vital to speed up a Gaza pullout and bring Middle East peace.


La nuotatrice si confessa a 'Chi': 'Con Luca non c'era vita'


A Snappy Slogan? In German? Don't Smile. Try English.

In the land of Goethe, Denglish, a combination of Deutsch and English, is on the march.


BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The emergency relief  phase is nearly over in Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh  province and foreign militaries should scale back operations,  the government said Sunday as it raised its death toll by  7,000.


Soccer Notebook: FIFA Widens the Bidding for the 2018 World Cup

FIFAâs decision to end its short-lived rotation system among the regional confederations to host the World Cup means increased competition for the United Statesâ 2018 bid.


Bank of America to buy struggling Countrywide

Bank of America Corp said on Friday it agreed to acquire Countrywide Financial Corp, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, in a $4 billion transaction that could help avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.


Being transgender no longer about surgery in NY

Jay Kallio knew at age 4. For Justine Nicholas, the revelation came in kindergarten. Nature had dealt them a confusing anatomy. The genders they were assigned at birth were all wrong.


Kerry: 'I Won't Say Mission Accomplished'

- Sen. John F. Kerry plans to hold a town hall meeting in Wisconsin on Monday, where he'll discuss his plan to "build a stronger America after four years of wrong choices by George W. Bush.


Was getting the lead out of gasoline a factor in the drop in crime?


Clero buddista nuovo in piazza nonostante minacce


The IAAF is set to decide how Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou should be punished for missing drugs tests.


Arafatâs poor health raises question of leadership succession

As the Palestinian president remains critically ill at his West Bank home, the Palestinians are afraid that his poor health could result in a political vacuum, should he be incapacitated.


In which our columnist declares his loyalty to the Blu-ray camp, and readers tell us what they think.


Spain's Bull Run Begins With Few Injured

"They don't know what they're doing; bulls can kill"  Six massive bulls charged down the packed streets of Pamplona on Saturday during the first run of the San Fermin Festival, which combines the half-ton animals with damp cobblestones and revelers steeped in adrenaline and alcohol.Injuries are usually common as the crowds strive to keep ahead of the bulls in the narrow streets. But only seven people were treated for minor injuries this year, including an Australian man who was slightly gored and a Spaniard who escaped with a minor shoulder injury after being tossed in the air and falling into the path of another bull, whose horns missed. Read more


Iraq car bomb kills 8 US marines in deadliest attack in 6 months

A car bomb killed eight US marines outside Fallujah on Saturday, the deadliest attack against the US military in Iraq in nearly six months.


Tennis player Malisse makes winning start in Chennai Open

Defending champion Xavier Malisse of Belgium opened his campaign in the ATP Chennai Open with an easy 6-4, 6-3 win over Gilles Muller of Luxembourg here on Monday.


Former UN head Kofi Annan is to announce the details of a deal reached at talks to end Kenya's political crisis.


Sorenstam holds off Webb, leads ADT by 3

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Annika Sorenstam kept pace with a steady charge from Karrie Webb, then pulled away in the season-ending ADT Championship with back-to-back birdies for a 4-under 68 that set the 36-hole record at Trump International.


A mother says her critically-ill son had to wait two hours for an ambulance  to be transferred to intensive care.


A university student is found guilty at the Old Bailey of possessing articles for terrorist purposes.


Attorney General Bill Lockyer sued Atlanta-based energy company Mirant Corp. Wednesday, accusing it of profiting by "breaking the law and plundering the people of California" during the energy crisis of 2000-2001.


Rosneft, the state-owned Russian oil company, has reportedly moved to take control of Yuganskneftegaz, formerly Yukos's most important oil production plant.


Neil Young will launch an eight-week  North American tour in Boise, Idaho, on October 18, two days  after the release of his album, "Chrome Dreams II."


Supreme Court Allows 'Issue Ads' Near Elections

The Supreme Court today substantially weakened the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act's restrictions on the kinds of ads corporations, unions and special interest groups may run in the days before an election.


Forget bookmarks: Web content managers allow you to create your own personal, searchable cache of web pages.


The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region.


The Falcons felt they could afford to rest three of their top players during yesterday's loss to New Orleans. Atlanta already had clinched the division title, and last week wrapped up the Number Two seed and a first-round bye.


Thousands recall Hiroshima A-bomb, pray for peace

Tens of thousands of people from  around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Sunday to pray for  peace and urge the world to abandon nuclear weapons on the 61st  anniversary of the first atomic bombing.


London shares close lower after Wall Street slide

Leading London shares gave up earlier gains to close lower, after US manufacturing data disappointed Wall Street, but Alliance & Leicester surged 16 percent, on takeover talk.


Canada tells US consumers: get your prescription drugs somewhere ...

It's a message that no doubt pleases the FDA: Canada seems close to shutting off prescription drug exports to US consumers. The concern?


Two new specifications are published by Microsoft, Systinet, Sonic Software, and BEA. WS-Enumeration is a protocol for enumerating a sequence of XML elements that is suitable for traversing logs, message queues, or other linear information models and WS-Transfer is a protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based resources.


Ford says ahead of turnaround plan targets

DEARBORN, Michigan  - Ford Motor Co.  is ahead of where it expected to be in reducing an overhang of excess production capacity at this point in its turnaround effort and has made "encouraging progress" in stabilizing its U.S. market share, a senior executive said on Friday.


South Africa to end racial profiling of blood donors

South Africa is to stop racially profiling blood donors after an outcry over the alleged rejection of blood from black donors because of the risk of HIV.


Ivory Coast accuses France of 'acts of war'

The Ivory Coast President, Laurent Gbagbo, has boycotted African Union peace talks aimed at ending the violence in his country, and opened a war of words with the French President, Jacques Chirac.


MOSCOW: Russian newspapers praised the womenâs tennis squad yesterday for their 3-2 Fed Cup success over France, naming Anastasia Myskina the hero of the triumph.


Torture nel carcere di Abu Ghraib Kerry chiede dimissioni Rumsfeld

WASHINGTON - Il candidato democratico alla Casa Bianca, John Kerry, ha chiesto le dimissioni del segretario alla Difesa americano Donald Rumsfeld accusandolo di non avere fatto il suo dovere nella vicenda delle torture praticate dai militari americani nel


Phelps Eases Back Into Pool at Short Course Meet

Michael Phelps made a comfortable return to the pool at the world short course swimming championships Thursday, touching first in his preliminary heat in the 200 meters freestyle.


Swiss maestro Roger Federer has produced a devastating display of tennis to crush Lleyton Hewitt in a one-sided US Open final at Flushing Meadows.


Steelers hit ground running, top Raiders; Brees leads Chargers

STEELERS 24, RAIDERS 21: At Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh brought the Bus out of the garage and showed off its new Duce coupe on Sunday.


'Occupati' banchi del governo, volano spinte e fascicoli


Saudi Arabia says a most wanted militant was among suicide bombers killed in  attacks in Riyadh this week.


Market rises, led by Oracle, technology shares

Stocks rose on Thursday, led by technology shares, as a reassuring profit and outlook from Oracle Corp  offset nagging concerns about financial companies' exposure to bad debt.


Missing woman's family will not give up search

THE family of a Brisbane woman missing in Thailand said yesterday they had not given up hope of finding her alive. Dina Fryer went missing from Phuket when the Boxing Day tsunami struck the island resort.


BP chief executive warns that revenues will be 'dreadful': report

Energy giant BP's third-quarter revenues are set to be "dreadful," the company's chief executive Tony Hayward told a meeting of BP employees in Houston, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.


Indonesia's Bashir retrial gets underway

Indonesia's prominent Muslim preacher Abu Bakr Bashir has been put on trial again, charged once more over the Marriot hotel attack in 2003 and the Bali bombing in 2002.


Iraq moves troops and tanks to northern city Mosul

Iraqi tanks and helicopters are being sent to the northern city of Mosul and troop reinforcements should arrive later on Sunday for a big offensive against al Qaeda militants, Iraqi security officials said.


Body of US warplane pilot missing in Iraq

U.S. forces hunted for the body of an F-16 pilot who was killed on Monday when his warplane came down in a Sunni insurgent stronghold northwest of Baghdad.


France, Spain Veto Controversial Migrant Camp Plan

France and Spain moved Monday to sink a controversial Italian-German plan to create holding centers in North Africa for would-be refugees.


Wall St. drops on job, housing market stress

Stocks fell on Wednesday after data showed deterioration in the employment and housing markets, underscoring concern that problems of the subprime mortgage market were spreading to the wider economy.


Iraq: morte Bigley, fonti Usa non confermano l'esecuzione

DUBAI - Il corpo di Kenneth Bigley, l'ostaggio britannico rapito in Iraq del quale l'emittente Abu Dhabi ha annunciato la morte, non e' stato trovato e per questo non e' possibile confermarne l'esecuzione. Lo riferiscono fonti militari Usa.


Pepsico Inc.  posted a 26 percent jump in sales in China, its third-largest market worldwide, to $1 billion in 2004 and aims to sustain double-digit growth in 2005, a senior executive said on Tuesday.


Across the nation on Friday, folks gathered around radios and televisions in the middle of the afternoon, putting their errands and phone calls on hold.


Pakistan steps up security in bomb-hit city

QUETTA, Pakistan : Pakistani authorities stepped up security in the southwestern city of Quetta as investigators probed a bomb blast which killed 11 people in a busy market, police said.


The Veterans Affairs Department said yesterday that it no longer will pay for studies that seek to show stress is the primary cause of mysterious ailments afflicting thousands of veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf war.


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PREZZO LATTE: ALEMANNO, IL DECRETO PER LE CRISI DI MERCATO =

(AGI) - Roma, 22 dic. - "Su richiesta del Presidente della Regione Sardegna, ho assicurato che da parte del Governo ci sara' massimo impegno per sottrarre il comparto ovino-caprino alla grave crisi di mercato in cui versa".


ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 : The Indian intransigence to soften its rigid stance on Kashmir in the face of Pakistanâs flexible position and the diplomatic overtures by New Delhi to proceed instead with less important issues could derail the ongoing peace process


Washington hosts Hollywood elite for Kennedy Honors

Washington's elite mingled with  artistic icons at the Kennedy Center Honors on Saturday, paying  tribute to five people for their lifetime contributions to the  arts and American culture.


U.S. and Japanese negotiators struck a deal Saturday to allow limited imports of American beef into Japan for the first time since Tokyo closed its billion-dollar market last year over a mad cow disease scare.


Asset Manager to Oppose Biomet Takeover Offer

At least one significant investor in Biomet, an artificial joint maker, plans to vote against a proposed $10.9 billion deal for the company.


SMART-1's Ion Drive: From Fiction to Fact

SMART-1, the European Space Agency craft currently in orbit around the moon, makes use of a technology that was pure science fiction until the 1960s - the ion drive.


'Non piu' maggioranza Paese, ma non in crisi costituzionale'


Roma, 19:32 - CALCIO, ROMA: SPALLETTI RECUPERA VUCINIC E PERDE PERROTTA

Recuperato Vucinic, Spalletti perde Perrotta. L'azzurro, campione del mondo, ha dovuto interrompere ...


Former "View" host Reynolds back at Court TV

Prosecutor-turned-broadcaster Star Jones Reynolds has joined  Court TV as host of a new daytime talk show, the cable network  said Wednesday.


Chelsea Beats Norwich 4-0 to Stretch Lead

Chelsea beat struggling Norwich 4-0 Saturday to extend its lead in the English Premier League to six points over Everton.


NEAR ABECHE, Chad -- The Chadian government and its allied militias are indiscriminately targeting Arab nomads in eastern Chad, according to interviews with dozens of nomads, who described raids on their temporary villages, at least two aerial bombings, harassment and incidents of torture over the...


Tony Blair's keynote speech at the British Labour Party conference receives mixed reviews in Wednesday's European papers.


Azeri police evict a party and an opposition newspaper from their offices, a day after shutting down a broadcaster.


In a sharp rebuke of a new administration policy, the House moved Thursday to block the Labor Department from carrying out overtime rules that critics argued could deprive millions of workers of their overtime pay.


U.S. residential heating oil prices  declined for the second week in a row as heating fuel  inventories increased more than expected, the Energy Department  said on Wednesday.


Connecticut, by its own admission, has played some of its best basketball the past two seasons in must win situations, and/or when the circumstances are most dire.


A victim of so-called Lotto rapist Iorworth Hoare is to find out whether she has won her fight for damages.


DR Congo army fighting 'war with Rwanda' in east

KINSHASA  - The Democratic Republic of Congo army is fighting "a war against Rwanda" in the east of the vast country, a government spokesman said after two days of fighting in the town of Kanyabayonga had left dozens dead.


EU should set no more conditions for Turkey's entry talks: FM

The European Union (EU) should not link any more conditions to starting accession negotiations with Turkey, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Wednesday.


Milano, 18:42 - CALCIO, INTER; MORATTI: LA MELANDRI NON CI HA AIUTATO

Massimo Moratti ha commentato duro le parole del Ministro dello sport Giovanna Melandri che aveva de...


The mystery of Veerappan's missing moustache

The missing handlebar moustache of forest brigand Veerappan has triggered speculation that it wasn't the sandalwood smuggler who was killed in Monday's encounter with the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force near Dharmapuri.


Sadr Militiamen Still in Control of Iraq Shrine

NAJAF, Iraq  - Rebel Shi'ite fighters appeared  still to be in control of the Imam Ali mosque in the Iraqi city  of Najaf, but the whereabouts of their leader, the fiery cleric  Moqtada al-Sadr, were unknown on Saturday.


WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage but gave Republican leaders a consolation prize by putting lawmakers on record on an issue that will be used as campaign fodder in the November


Even with a performance that lacked his usual ease and electricity, Evgeni Plushenko took the gold.


Crystal Langhorne had 18 points and 18 rebounds to break Len Elmore's school rebounding record and No. 4 Maryland cruised to its ninth consecutive victory by beating Boston College, 88-61, last night on the road.


3 students stabbed; Pa. school evacuated

A junior/senior high school was evacuated Wednesday morning after three students were stabbed, emergency and hospital officials said.


Tre contusi, occupata linea ferroviaria Caserta-Foggia


Aston Villa manager David OâLeary could be on his way to Newcastle United if the mounting speculation over who will fill the hot seat at St Jamesâ Park is anything to go by, as the former Republic of Ireland international is now red-hot favourite to


Recount gives Democrat candidate the edge

A hand recount of votes from King County, Washington, has pushed Democratic candidate Christine Gregoire ahead of Republican Dino Rossi in the governor's race by 10 votes.


Pulitzer Inc. might be for sale, report says

The Pantagraph's parent company, Pulitzer Inc., which also owns the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis and 12 other daily newspapers, may be for sale according to a Friday report by the Reuters news service.


IMF says soft landing in China not yet assured

China has lowered the risk of economic overheating but a "soft landing" is not yet assured, International Monetary Fund chiefs have warned.


With the 20th   anniversary of "We Are the World," the all-American, all-star charity   anthem of the charity-anthem era, looming, plans are underway to   "recreate" the phenomenon that brought to together everyone from Bob   Dylan to Ray Charles in song. Except this time, the lineup could be more   like everyone from Usher to Kanye West.


India's Supreme Court names two prosecution lawyers for the retrial of a notorious Gujarat riot case.


Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lost his appeal against the rejection of his nomination for next month's parliamentary elections, an official said Tuesday, eliminating a key opposition leader from the crucial vote.


Lance Bass and his boyfriend, Reichen Lehmkuhl, have called it quits, People magazine reported on its Web site Monday.


Zimbabwe police fire teargas, bar opposition rally

Zimbabwean riot squads fired teargas and water cannon to drive stone-throwing protesters off the streets of a troubled township in Harare on Sunday after preventing the main opposition party from holding a major rally.


Loonie trades above 80 cents US for the first time in more than a ...

OTTAWA (CP) - The Canadian dollar on Friday eclipsed the 80-cent US mark for the first time in more than a decade, as a jump in job-creation last month pushed unemployment down to the lowest rate in three years and built the case for the Bank of Canada to


If you want to meet Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, a Lithuanian tour firm can help.


In our view: Gymnast should give up the gold

As a point of personal honor, American Paul Hamm ought to give up the coveted all-around gold medal he won after a scoring error by Olympic judges.


Actor Christian Slater escapes injury after  a knife attack outside a theatre in London's West End.


Somali Islamists disarm militia after takeover

KISMAYO, Somalia  - Somali Islamists disarmed   hundreds of militiamen in the port of Kismayo on Wednesday,   seizing battlewagons and guns in a move to further cement their   control over the city they took this week.


Couples from poorer backgrounds seeking fertility treatment are more inclined to want anonymous donors than more well off people, a study says.


Love Focused Only His Play at Greensboro

Davis Love III plans to stay patient and relaxed, hoping that attitude helps him enjoy this week. In other words, everything he missed out on last year.


Roma, 11:33 - CALCIO, MORTO POLIZIOTTO; CONI: MINUTO SILENZIO IN TUTTI GLI SPORT

Un minuto di silenzio sarà osservato in tutte le manifestazioni sportive in programma in ques...


Penguins sign Crosby to five-year extension

The Pittsburgh Penguins signed center Sidney Crosby to a five-year contract extension Tuesday, keeping the league MVP with the club through the 2012-13 season.


Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. was under pressure Wednesday to come up with a takeover offer for UFJ Holdings Inc. that would fend off an unexpectedly generous $29 billion rival bid by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.


Bobby Wadkins shot an 8-under 64 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over Champions Tour newcomer Mark O'Meara, Allen Doyle and Gil Morgan after the first round of The ACE Group Classic.


Two students were shot and wounded, one seriously, at Delaware State University early Friday, prompting administrators mindful of the massacre at Virginia Tech to order a swift shutdown of the campus while police searched for the gunman.


Thousand of homes across Northern Ireland are without electricity following overnight storms.


Sheriff Seeks Leader Who Can Halt Illegal Immigration

SPENCER, Iowa -- The tiny jail here has housed many a typical small-town Iowa criminal since its bricks were laid in 1938 -- drunk drivers, drug abusers, the occasional thief. These days, though, Sheriff Randy Krukow walks the cell row and behind the bars sees a new kind of increasingly typical l...


It looked like a glaring snub when Jonny Greenwood's music for "There Will Be Blood" wasn't among the five Academy Award nominees for best original score.


Egyptian firm says it wins mobile phone licence in NKorea

An Egyptian firm says it has won the right to provide a mobile phone service in communist North Korea, a country which has strictly restricted such services to the general public.


Wall St seen lower as market digests rate cut

Wall Street looked set to fall on Wednesday as investors worldwide struggled to decide whether a surprise U.S. interest-rate cut the day before was a sign of salvation or of worse to come in troubled markets.


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Tom Brady and Eli Manning, the quarterbacks in this yearâs Super Bowl, are models of sex symbol archetypes.


Chamique Holdsclaw has been one huge disappointment for the simple reason that when the Mystics need her, she never delivers.


Blair unveils plan for Palestinian conference, settlers urge ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank  - British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his quest to bring peace to the Middle East, unveiling plans for a conference to prepare the Palestinians for statehood, during a landmark West Bank visit.


Thailand's PM says senior officials' negligance led to the deaths in custody of more than 80 Muslim protesters.


Position: Managing partner for the District and Northern Virginia offices, Morrison & Foerster, a national law firm.


Measures aimed at tearing down barriers to women succeeding in the workplace are to be unveiled.


More than 100 Iraqis  are killed or wounded by a mortar attack on a National Guard HQ, Iraqi  officials say.


FCC asked to probe Sinclair's plan to air anti-Kerry program

Democrats asked the Federal Election Commission and Federal Communications Commission on Monday to investigate Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.


Britain will withdraw around 1,600 troops from Iraq in the 'coming months,' aiming to cut its force to below 5,000 by late summer if Iraqi forces can secure the southern part of the country, Prime Minister Tony ...Comment


Quella di sabato manifestazione 'carnascialesca'


Update 1: Music Industry Group Launches Piracy Suits

The international record industry escalated its fight against music piracy Thursday, announcing that it will file hundreds of lawsuits across Europe against individuals and groups it accuses of illegally sharing music through the Internet.


Daniel Cabrera pitched three-hit ball into the eighth inning, and Jose Leon and Melvin Mora had two RBIs apiece to lead the surging Baltimore Orioles past the Minnesota Twins 4-1 on Monday.


Sees earnings growth and higher margins next year

LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Allied Domecq, the UK drinks and fast-food group, said Thursday pretax profit for the year rose driven by better trading of spirits and wines in the US and UK despite sales remaining flat.


Iraq PM Adamant Jan. Election Will Be Held

Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Sunday elections would be held as planned in January despite a surge in violence across the country.


The names of the characters have also changed.


MARK Latham faced a stinging backlash last night after his pledge to save Tasmania's old growth forests. Labor promised to spend $800 million to stop logging in Tasmania's conservation areas after a scientific review.


SOMALIA: Transitional parliament inaugurated in Nairobi

NAIROBI, 23 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - Some 206 members of the Somali transitional federal parliament took oath of office on Sunday, paving the way for the formation of a government in the Horn of Africa country that has been ravaged by factional violence since


Cyclone possible in Gulf, depression in Atlantic

A tropical cyclone could form in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, while a couple of tropical depressions could form in the Atlantic over the next day or two, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Monday.


Experts unable to find Gulf War Syndrome evidence

Troops deployed during the 1990-1991   Gulf War get sicker than most other veterans, but a panel of   experts looking for evidence of a suspected Gulf War Syndrome   said on Wednesday they could not find it.


Pakistan Says an Important al-Qaida Suspect in Custody

Pakistani officials say security forces have arrested two alleged al-Qaida operatives, one of them an Egyptian who is suspected to be a senior member of the terrorist network.


Hardaway's gay bashing draws ire of NBA stars

Former five-time all-star Tim Hardaway's anti-gay comments have drawn criticism from players assembled to compete in the 56th annual All-Star Game in Las Vegas.


Ford is widely expected to announce another round of job cuts as it finalises a restructuring drive.


New Crew to Leave for Space Station on Oct. 11, NASA Says

A new crew will be sent to the International Space Station next month, even though there are concerns about maintaining adequate oxygen and other supplies on the orbiting laboratory, NASA officials said Friday.


Oil vaulted to a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday as geopolitical turmoil, tight energy stockpiles in consumer countries, and a weak dollar triggered a flood of speculative buying, dealers said.


Nunavut polar bear hunting to increase after growing numbers cause fears

IQALUIT, Nunavut (CP) - Inuit hunters will be able to kill nearly one-third more polar bears in Nunavut this year because of concerns that an increasing number of the predators are prowling the streets of some Arctic communities.


Martha Stewart Is Said to Serve Time in West Virginia

Martha Stewart has been ordered to serve her sentence for lying about a stock sale at the federal prison in Alderson, W.Va.


Estonia dominates wife-carrying championship

Estonians took gold and silver at the world wife-carrying championships in Finland on Saturday, defying rain and exhaustion to stumble along a path with women clinging upside-down to their backs.


A 53-year-old taxi driver dies after being shot in the Pitsmoor area of Sheffield in the early hours.


Clem Labine, a relief pitcher who threw two of baseball's most significant shutouts in his role as a part-time starter and pitched for two Dodgers World Series championship teams in the 1950s, died Friday. He was 80.


UPDATE 2-Soft landing for China economy not yet assured-IMF

A soft landing for China's booming economy is not yet assured, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, despite measures by Beijing to curb credit and slow investment in overheated sectors.


Pressure mounts on EDS over U.K. government IT system grows

LONDON -- After continuous computer failures forced the top civil servant of the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions' Child Support Agency (CSA) to step down from his job this week, the government is considering scrapping a welfare case management and telephony system developed in large part by Electronic Data Systems (EDS).


The next generation battle is heating up even further today with the announcement that Disney will be releasing its movies on the Blu-Ray format rather than Toshibaâs HD-DVD format.


Sudan orchestrated Darfur crimes, U.N. mission says

A U.N. human rights mission accused Sudan's government on Monday of orchestrating and taking part in gross violations in Darfur and called for urgent international action to protect civilians there.


Options review over-shadows RIM sunny Q2

Backdating to the Future Research In Motion today placed a 'preliminary' tag beside its Q2s, warning that the results could restated, subject to an audit of option grants, also announced today.â¦


New Wave of Violence Flares Across Baghdad

Violence flared across Baghdad today, as 60 bodies were reported found and at least 18 people died in attacks on the police.


Gymnastics: South Koreans Still Pursuing Yang Gold

South Korea were still lobbying gymnastics and Olympics officials over the gold medal gymnast Yang Tae-young lost as a result of a judging mistake, the team said Thursday.


TAMPA, Fla. - A hospital chain is taping over patients' LiveStrong wristbands because they are yellow - the same color as the "do not resuscitate" bands it puts on patients who do not want to be saved if their heart stops.


A wave of bugs in the plug-in technology used by Microsoft's browser has some security experts recommending that users disable all ActiveX controls.


Kira Plastinina e' l'idolo dei giovani russi


Russia scorns "dubious" conviction of U.N. diplomat

Russia's Foreign Ministry poured scorn  on a U.S. court's conviction of one of its U.N. diplomats for  money laundering, saying on Thursday it had grave doubts about  the trial.


LOS ANGELES -- BitTorrent Inc., developer of a popular online file-sharing tool, said Tuesday it has reached licensing deals that will boost the number of movies and TV shows it can offer as part of a video download service launching next year.


Acer could block Lenovo's growth in global PC market

A fast growth rate and recent acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe will extend Acer's lead over Lenovo Group as the world's third-largest PC vendor behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell, according to a study released by Gartner on Wednesday.Acer and Lenovo stood neck-and-neck in global PC shipments with 8.1 percent and 8 percent market shares, respectively, in the third quarter of 2007. Before acquisitions, Acer shipped 5.54 million PC units worldwide, a healthy 58 percent year-over-year increase. The growth rate overshadowed Lenovo, which shipped 5.48 million PCs, a 22.8 percent increase.Gartner's quarterly figures were compiled before Acer finished its acquisition of Gateway on Wednesday for $710 million. Acer also funded Gateway's proposed acquisition of European PC vendor Packard Bell for an undisclosed sum. That was a blow to Lenovo Group, which in early August revealed it was in discussions with Packard Bell over a possible acquisition.Packard Bell is largely a European vendor and has a small market share, similar to eMachines in the U.S before it was acquired by Gateway, said Diana Maranon, managing partner at Averil Capital Markets Groups. Maranon's company brokered Gateway's Packard Bell acquisition.An IDC report, also released Wednesday, listed Lenovo as the world's third-largest PC vendor but indicated Acer could overtake Lenovo with its growth rates in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa and Asia-Pacific markets, excluding Japan. Acer's U.S. PC shipments grew more than 100 percent during the third quarter, though it could face more pressure from competitors as it continues to expand, IDC said.In the U.S., Acer replicated the business strategy that made it highly successful in Europe: de-emphasize retail, sell through indirect channels, and offer low, competitive prices, said Roger Kay, founder and president of Endpoint Technologies Associates. Acer stands at the low end in the U.S. market, and the Gateway acquisition gives it a good position in the middle and high-end markets, Kay said.Gateway's worldwide shipments increased 8 percent in the third quarter, though U.S. shipments fell 14.4 year over year, Gartner said.Acer's global growth strategy is paying dividends and could affect Lenovo in the U.S. and Europe, Kay said.The Packard Bell acquisition was a defensive move for Acer to ensure Lenovo doesn't get a toehold in the European market, Kay said. Acer is already one of the top notebook sellers in Europe.Lenovo showed positive growth in global markets, but Acer's acquisitions block Lenovo from acquiring some valuable shelf space for product distribution, said Charles Smulders, managing vice president at Gartner, in an e-mail interview.Lenovo could not be reached for comment.Global PC shipments during the third quarter were 68.4 million, driven by high demand for laptops in the home market, Gartner said. HP was the world's top PC vendor, with 12.8 million units shipped, a 18.8 percent market share, and 33.1 percent year-over-year volume growth. Dell followed with a 14.4 percent market share, shipping 9.86 million units, a 3.5 percent increase.The survey includes desktop PCs, laptops, and x86 servers.


A âTodayâ at a Time, Until Finally She Has a Year

Meredith Vieira, from pressured start to first anniversary, has succeeded in extending the weekly winning streak of the âTodayâ show into a second decade.


Second Opinions, Through a Patientâs Eyes

Second opinions can be awkward, to say the least, for doctor and patient, and surprisingly little is known about them.


A cash-flow problem in a federal program is hindering the ability of many schools and libraries to pay for Internet service. The Federal Communications Commission has ordered


Japanese stocks fell Friday, breaking a six-session rally, as investors took profits after the market reached a seven-year high the previous day.


Vitamins 'may raise death risk from cancer'

Vitamin supplements may increase the chances of dying from cancer, a science review finds. And the studies, which compared the health of people who regularly took antioxidant pills with those who took dummy


Pakistanis want me in uniform: Musharraf

In yet another indication that he may renege on his pledge to step down as army chief by the end of the year, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that 'the vast majority' of his countrymen want him in uniform as they fear that he would be


Darfur towns burned in government attacks: U.N.

KHARTOUM, Sudan  - A major assault by the Sudanese army and allied militia has left two Darfur towns badly damaged by fire, sources close to a U.N. reconnaissance mission to the region said on Tuesday.


64 year-old Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmental advocate and woman, received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize despite 194 candidates.


City officials asked a judge to ban members of the Mob Piru street gang from being able to congregate in a neighborhood of Compton Â and asked that the order include Marion "Suge" Knight.


Substitute Dennis Rommedahl struck a fine winner with seconds remaining to earn Charlton a dramatic 1-0 win at Crystal Palace. Charlton goalkeeper Dean Kiely also denied Andy Johnson his 10th goal of the season


More companies pull spinach products for E. coli

Two more companies have recalled   their products, including pizza and salad, because they may   contain spinach linked to a food poisoning outbreak, the U.S.   Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday.


U.S. experts check into severe child flu cases

An unusually high number of children  have suffered severe illnesses from influenza in Alabama this  year, which has some experts worried, a pediatrician said on  Thursday.


Next stop, fifty bucks. Analysts said crude futures could climb that high today, pushed to the psychological barrier of $50 US a barrel by speculative buying amid escalating threats to Iraq's oil infrastructure.


Analysis If the antitrust lawsuit that Novell filed against Microsoft comes to court, it will reopen long-forgotten battles over technologies that most of us will even have trouble remembering.


CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Odell Thurman was arrested early Monday on a drunken driving charge.


U.S. forces kill 6 Iraqi police in Baghdad raid: U.S.

U.S. soldiers killed at least six Iraqi policemen and seven suspected militants during a dawn raid in east Baghdad on Friday to arrest an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of militant links, the U.S. military said.


The U.S. economy grew at its fastest rate in four years during the third quarter, the government confirmed on Thursday, but a surge in new claims for jobless benefits showed the labor market is softening.


European inflation is confirmed at a six year high on high food prices.


Bangalore, Dec. 21: More than a thousand infotech professionals signed an online petition to Manmohan Singh as the industry rallied behind Baazee CEO Avnish Bajaj, who was granted bail today after his arrest


President Pervez Musharraf gave clerics more time to persuade defiant militants to lay down their arms and surrender a mosque, security officials said.


September 25, 2004 -- A federal judge yesterday dismissed charges against a New York record-store owner who had been selling unauthorized recordings of concerts, saying a law against bootlegging was unconstitutional.


The European Union head office threatened Tuesday to take France to court and demand the return of subsidies to troubled energy and train giant Alstom SA, alleging that the government has not complied with EU conditions for the company's bailout.


New ZebraHosts service lets data center admins deploy Apple machines in dedicated rack space.


Separatists vow revenge after Thai riot as tensions remain high

Muslim separatists are warning of a violent backlash against the brutal quelling of a riot that left 85 protesters dead in the south, as the Thai premier faced mounting questions over the handling of the incident.


Simple model predicts diabetes in middle-age

NEW YORK  - Obesity, other cardiovascular risk factors and parents with diabetes predict the development of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged adults, according to findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.


Sudanese Darfur Rebels Arrive for Peace Talks

Rebel delegates from Sudan's western Darfur region have arrived in Nigeria for talks with Sudanese officials on ending violence sparked by a rebel uprising 18 months ago.


Reservation system glitch delays Air Canada departures in Canada ...

TORONTO (CP) - An early-morning outage at Air Canada's reservation computer caused delays in some flights Wednesday, one day after the troubled airline staged parties across the country for employees with pop star Celine Dion to proclaim it's back on track


Microsoft Facing Pounds 778m Patent Fine

A US jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by the world's biggest software maker Alcatel-Lucent.   Microsoft has been ordered to pay Pounds 778m in damages, however the firm says it may appeal the ruling.   It says the verdict is unsupported by the law or the facts.


Blair to Undergo 'Routine' Heart Procedure

LONDON - British Prime Minister was to undergo a "routine" medical procedure Friday to correct an irregular heartbeat, the second time in about a year doctors have tended to the condition.    Hoping to reassure the public, Blair also announced that he intends to serve a full third term if his party is re-elected in national elections expected next year...


Further delays in delivering Airbus A380

European aircraft maker Airbus is facing further delays in the delivery of its A380 superjumbo airliner, for as much as six months, the financial newspaper Les Echos reported.


Profit fell 94 percent in the third quarter as sales fell in the companyâs cell phone business, but it forecast better-than-expected fourth-quarter results.


Google Announces Search Deal with Seven Libraries

Web search leader Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said late on Monday it is working on a project to digitally scan the collections at seven libraries and will make


By James Fuller Daily Herald Staff Writer  It's the "front door" to Wheaton.


Japanese Cabinet Resigns Before Reshuffle

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reshuffled his Cabinet on Monday, in hopes of solidifying his power and boosting his ability to carry out reforms.


FOXBOROUGH -- The US appeared to have nearly everything in its favor against Panama in a Gold Cup quarterfinal yesterday. But the US nearly squandered its momentum with several missed opportunities before breaking through in the second half for a 2-1 victory at Gillette Stadium.


An employee who apparently did not heed the warning of Dell's laptop battery recall brought about a 45 minute recess for a couple hundred employees at Yahoo's Mission College campus after a notebook burst into flames. No injuries were reported in the incident.


Scientists shed new light on male infertility

Scientists in Hong Kong and China have identified for the first time a protein in sperm from humans and from mice that could be responsible for many unexplained cases of male infertility.


Search Engine Watch editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from October 2006.


Dozens of people are detained following demonstrations in Bahrain after the death of a protester, reports say.


Depressed? The company just may want to help

Work is likely the last place an employee might go to seek help for depression, but employees who took part in a workplace intervention program had fewer symptoms and were far more productive, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.


US GIs push into rebel haven of Fallujah

The skies over Fallujah lit up from the flashes of air and artillery barrages as US troops launched an offensive to seize key insurgent strongholds in a city that became the major sanctuary for Islamic extremists who fought Marines to a standstill last


President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan denounced a peace overture from President Hu Jintao of China Thursday, one that has received a cautious welcome here from two Taiwan presidential candidates .


The German government announces a series of measures to rein in its public deficit, including proposing scrapping one public holiday.


Work and Pensions Secretary Andrew Smith's resignation prompts speculation about a Cabinet reshuffle.


Sears Holdings Corp. posted its lowest profit in nearly two years Thursday after another round of weak sales at Kmart and Sears stores sent the retailer's net income tumbling 40 percent.


A new task force is set up after three teenagers are shot dead in south London in the past two weeks.


Asian neighbors wary over Myanmar leadership shake-up

Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. BANGKOK, Thailand -- The sacking of Myanmar's prime minister prompted concern among the country's neighbors


Prime Minister Tony Blair is meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders today, raising the level of international efforts to revive Middle East peacemaking following Yasser Arafat's death.


Probe Sought on Charges FDA Discredited Whistleblower

The head of the Senate Finance Committee called on the US Department of Health and Human Services to launch a probe of allegations that the US Food and Drug Administration went out of its way to discredit a whistleblower.


Ukrainian PM holds early lead in presidential run-off

Yanukovich had a lead of about six percentage points over opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine's presidential run-off, according to the first results announced early Monday.


"The Sims" to move from PC screen to silver screen

Maybe they can call it "The Sims:  The Movie." Electronic Arts Inc. has sold the movie rights for  "The Sims," the best-selling computer game, of all time to 20th  Century Fox, Variety said on Friday.


Cricket-Pressure will be on Australia in Test series, says ...

KARACHI  - Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq said his Australian counterpart Ricky Ponting's world champion side will be under pressure during next month's Test series against a touring team loaded with young players.


Unique Mass Spectrometer to Explore Mars

A group of U.S. biomedical scientists has won a $750,000 NASA grant to design a mini mass spectrometer to aid in the search for life on Mars.


Maliki urges others to stay out of Iraq conflict

Iraq's prime minister urged regional rivals on Saturday to stop using Iraq as a battlefield to fight out their proxy wars, addressing a meeting at which U.S. officials sat down with adversaries from Iran and Syria.


Tamil Tigers call for international help

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels say Sunday's tsunami killed nearly 10,000 people in areas under their control and they are still trying to locate hundreds of missing fishermen.


A Scottish businessman challenges moves to extradite him to the US to face charges linked to the collapse of energy giant Enron.


Early lead for Italy opposition in local elections

Early results for Italian local elections  in which 10 million people were eligible to vote put the  centre-right opposition ahead on Monday, but Romano Prodi's  left-leaning government appeared to have avoided a drubbing.


U.S. and North Korean officials held talks on Monday aimed at eventually normalizing diplomatic ties as part of an agreement under which Pyongyang has pledged to scrap its nuclear arms programs in exchange for aid.


Bologna, 13:40 - QUESTORE BOLOGNA: EMESSI 4 DASPO PER CALCIO E BASKET

Il Questore di Bologna, Francesco Cirillo, ha emesso 4 provvedimenti di Daspo nei confronti di tre u...


The $50 million compensatory damage award in a federal Vioxx case this month was "grossly excessive," and a new trial must be held to decide how much drugmaker Merck & Co. must pay a retired FBI agent who suffered a heart attack after taking the painkiller, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.


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


The future made an appearance at Fenway Park this week, and it was a beautiful thing.


Media "to Operate Freely" in Southern Sudan State

Text of report in English by independent USAID-funded Sudan Radio Service on 12 December  The minister of information in the government of Western Equatoria [State, southern Sudan] says that his state will allow the media to operate freely.


CVS Dec. Same-Store Sales Up 4.6 Percent

U.S. drugstore chain CVS Corp. , on Tuesday reported that sales at stores open at least a year grew 4.6 percent in December, as higher prescription demand offset lackluster general merchandise sales.


A five-day mad cow disease scare that briefly rattled the cattle markets and raised concerns among some beef eaters has been put to rest after sophisticated chemical tests on


Wikimedia Foundation kicks off 2007 fundraiser

The Jimmy Wales-founded organization, which encompasses Wikipedia and a number of other wiki-based sites, is appealing to its reader for donations to help expand its language reach (among other things).


Afghan Campaign Picks Up as Karzai Heads to Berlin

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main opponent in a landmark election took center stage on Saturday, while the incumbent, almost invisible during the campaign amid security


AMERICA/COLOMBIA - La Chiesa Episcopale realizza una Pastorale Colombiana per la prima infanzia Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Partendo dal testo biblico di San Giovanni ÂSono venuto affinchÃ¨ abbiano la vitaÂ (Gv 10,10), la Chiesa Episcopale Anglicana della Colombia, ha realizzato, lo scorso 30 gennaio, lÂIncontro Nazionale di Pastorale della Prima Inf...


Baseball Former All-Star closer Troy Percival , out of the majors since injuring his right arm in the middle of the 2005 season, will try to make a comeback with the St. Louis Cardinals. The 37-year-old Percival and the Cardinals agreed on a minor league contract yesterday, and the righthander with 324 career saves will report to Triple A Memphis. ...


Labour has a "serious problem" with its finances but can recover, says the party's honorary treasurer.


As Tony Blair sits down to a summit in Ethiopia today the stakes - or hype - could not be greater: the rescue of Africa. The British prime minister's commission on Africa is meeting on the continent for the


Brain Wave Activity Seems Slower in Schizophrenics

New research suggests that schizophrenics process information at a lower frequency than healthy people, almost as if their minds were filled with bad connections.


L'argentino Javier Mascherano tra i desideri di Milan e JuveIl Catania ingaggia l'attaccante brasiliano Ignacio PiÃ                                           Rolando Bianchi alla Lazio oggi le visite nella capitale


Sunglasses maker's new techno shades contribute to a strong quarter.


U.S. forces in Iraq on offensive against Qaeda

U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a series of operations on Tuesday targeting al Qaeda in Iraq after an upsurge in suicide bombings which U.S. commanders say are an attempt by the militant group to reignite sectarian violence.


MPs are to vote on banning hunting with dogs within days - but any ban will be deferred by two years.


Moderate quake strikes eastern Indonesia

An undersea earthquake measuring 6.0 on  the Richter scale rocked eastern Indonesia on Monday, but there  were no reports of damage and there was no risk of a tsunami, a  Meteorology and Geophysics Agency official said.


For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival

Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the schoolâs debating team.


Health care has taken center stage in the race between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry. WebMD Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich talked to top staff members from each campaign to find out


Fed and Regulators Shrugged as the Subprime Crisis Spread

As the mortgage crisis threatens to tip the economy into a recession, many are asking: where was Washington?


Continental Airlines Inc said on Friday it raised its fuel surcharge on domestic U.S. plane tickets to $40 per round-trip from $20, marking the latest test of airline pricing power.


Extra Time: Federation Says Success Is Best Way to Promote U.S. Stars

The union that represents the national team players contends that the United States Soccer Federation has done a poor job of promoting individuals.


In Sundayâs parliamentary election, a party supporting former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won a plurality against a party backed by the junta.


While Bill Parcells was forced to start Henson on Thursday, benching him at halftime proved the future isnât here just yet. In fact, thereâs no guarantee Henson will start again anytime soon.


Keltoum El-Khayat left home barefoot at age 15, along with five other teenagers, telling her parents she was going to stay the night with her aunt. Instead she joined a war against Morocco for the independence of a Colorado-sized chunk of northwest African desert called Western Sahara.


In their boldest ambush yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying US-trained Iraqi soldiers heading home on leave and killed about 50 of them - forcing many to lie


With their favorite rodent gone, Rio residents forlorn

RIO DE JANEIRO -- With buck teeth, short legs, and a hairy, 183-pound body, she's not a conventional beauty. But the departure of a female capybara from one of Rio's most popular parks to a nature reserve has left a void for many residents.


Plane crash in China kills more than 50 people

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is sending a team to China, where a Canadian-built commuter plane crashed in an ice-covered lake in northern China on Sunday.


Hamas makes arrest over Johnston kidnapping

Spokesman of group claiming to hold BBC Gaza correspondent is detained, according to reports.


Gadget makers fear new copyright levies hurt sales

Electronics manufacturers railed  against a European tax on recordable discs and music players  like iPods on Friday, even as a Dutch industry group was  getting ready to impose new local levies on recordable media.


Sri Lanka's rebels remember war dead amid clashes

Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers have commemorated thousands of fighters killed in battle amid sporadic clashes with government forces in the island's embattled northeast, the rebels said.


An Author Sues the Seinfelds, for a Cookbook and for Barbs

The author of  a cookbook of healthy comfort food for children sued Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld on Monday, charging copyright infringement and defamation.


Down and Out and Running Numbers in the Rougher Precincts of Manila

Much like manâs best friend, the rough-hewn Filipino movie âThe Bet Collectorâ chases its protagonist from step to step, misery to misery, all but nipping at her heels.


Indianapolis, 21:22 - F1, GP USA; MASSA: GAP DA MCLAREN STA AUMENTANDO

Felipe Massa, terzo a Indianapolis, lancia l'allarme per la Ferrari dopo l'ennesima vittoria della M...


IT took just eight explo- sive rounds for Felix "Tito" Trinidad to put himself back atop boxing's mantle of greatness.


Home-loan denial rate rose in 2006: report

More Americans had their home loan applications turned down in 2006 than a year earlier, although the majority continued to be approved, according to a report issued on Wednesday by financial sector regulators.


Fire Damages Bonn Opera House, Leaving Beethoven Festival in Doubt

A fire apparently set off by welders doing roof repairs seriously damaged Bonn's opera house Monday, just two weeks before the scheduled start of its fall season with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, the city's ...


Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Bayesian spam filters use math that works like magic

There's an old parable that goes like this:A man is sentenced to death by the king. In desperation, he asks that his life be spared if he can teach a pig to sing. The king agrees, and gives the man a year. Walking the man back to his cell, a guard comments that it seems like a foolish bargain; he doesn't really expect to be able to do it, does he? The man replies, "A lot can happen in a year. The king could die. I could die. Or who knows, maybe the pig will learn to sing."(Maybe it's an allegory. Or a fable. I can never keep these things straight.)I'm using the pig story to segué into Bayesian spam filters. But first, a quick trip back to spam filters in general. E-mail spam has been around for a while, and different schemes have been developed to determine whether a piece of e-mail is (probably) legit, or whether it's spam. One way is to create a blacklist of senders: Nothing from, say, 123junk.com is allowed into your inbox. Another is a whitelist: If you aren't an approved sender (e.g., mom, dad, Cousin Jimmy), you're mail won't go through. A third is the 'word search,' which looks for the kinds of words that rarely make it into a legitimate e-mail: "Viagra" springs to mind, and there are plenty of others that can't be printed on a family Web site. All of these anti-spam techniques have problems, mostly because they were either too narrowly focused to be effective, or because they were too easy for spammers to get around.But then came a different kind of spam filter - one based on the work of an obscure mathematician from the 18th century. One that works.Reverend TomThomas Bayes was an English Presbyterian minister and mathematician who lived from 1702 to 1761 in and near London. He only published two things while he was alive: a paper that tried to prove that God wants everyone to be happy, and another defending the accuracy of the calculus. After he died, though, is when Bayes's most important work was published. Called "Essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances," it was discovered by an acquaintance (one Richard Price, for those of you who like the details) who sent it to the Royal Society which published it in its Philosophical Transactions in 1763.Out of that paper came what's called Bayes's Rule or Bayes's Theorem. It's a formula for guessing how likely it is that something will happen based on two or more independent events. Imagine you want to know what the chances of your 1986 Toyota Corolla making it cross country. Some "independent events" that might stop you are your engine failing, your transmission failing, your tires failing, and so on.To apply Bayesian probability here, you would figure the odds of each of those things, then input those numbers into Bayes's formula (which, by the way, is fairly simple). Let's say you figure the chance of your engine failing is 10%, the chance of your transmission failing is 15%, and the chance of your tires failing is 30%. Popping the numbers into Rev. Tom's formula tells you that the chance of your trip being ruined by any one of these things is actually less than 1%. Happy trails.(Is this counterintuitive? Maybe. Check out another example at Process Software.In 2002, Paul Graham changed the spam war forever when he published an article called "A Plan for Spam". In it, he demonstrated how Bayes's work could be used to sort out spam from legitimate e-mail.Instead of calculating the odds of whether your car will make it across the country, Graham used Bayesian techniques to determine how likely a piece of mail is to be spam. It bases this on how likely each word is to be in a spam message.(By the way, the word "word" is misleading. Bayesian filters also take into account things like Web links, text colors, and font size.)Thus, the more spam messages (and good messages) you get, the more information a Bayesian filter has and the better it gets at identifying junk. A lot of very good anti-spam products are based on Bayesian techniques.And they work very, very well.Basic trainingFirst, a Bayesian filter has to be trained; you need to tell it these are legit messages and these are spam. (Every Bayesian filter has a simple way to do this, usually by having you put all your spam in one mailbox. It then scans that Spam box for spam, and your Inbox for legit mail.)The filter looks at the words in every message to get an idea of what spam looks like. For example, if the word "buy" appears in 100 spam messages and only one legit message, it might be given a score of .99 - there's a 99% chance a message with "buy" in it is spam.On the other hand, the word "column" would (for me) be the opposite; it might appear in 99 legit messages and only one spam, and thus get a score of .01 or one percent.After going through this training process, the Bayesian software ends up with a list of words and their spammish probabilities (often called a "corpus"). When a new message arrives, the filter looks through the words in it and gives each a score based on those 'training' messages. Then it uses Bayes's formula to come up with a score for the message as a whole. If that's above a certain threshold, the message is tagged as spam and either marked, deleted, or separated.But the real beauty of the Bayesian-filter system comes next, when spam gets through. It's bound to do that, because spammers always try new tricks - they put in long passages of poetry, or try to disguise words with odd misspellings, or come up with other ways to sneak by. When a piece of spam ends up in your Inbox, a Bayesian filter has an extra option: one to mark it as junk. Sometimes it's a button or menu choice, other times you just need to move the message to a Spam folder. It also works the other way: Legit messages may land in the Spam box for various reasons, and they must be re-routed. Either way, the filter now knows what the newest kind of spam looks like.Bayesian filters work because they aren't dependent on things that might change: the way words are spelled, or where a message comes from. All they care about is what you say is spam. At least one filter, POPFile, actually lets you set up categories beyond just 'spam' and 'not spam,' so you can teach it to automatically sort out messages on a particular topic.There are a lot of technical ideas out there for curbing the flow of spam, but I'm willing to bet that none of them will work very well. Stopping spam is up to us, and Reverend Bayes has given us a powerful tool.Andrew Kantor is a technology writer, pundit, and know-it-all who covers technology for the Roanoke Times. He's also a former editor for PC Magazine and Internet World. Read more of his work at kantor.com. His column appears Fridays on USATODAY.com.


Iraq Insurgents Kill 18 in String of Attacks

TIKRIT, Iraq  - A suicide car bomber killed seven  policemen in Saddam Hussein's home town and gunmen shot dead  eight people in a minibus south of Baghdad Tuesday in the  latest attacks to threaten Iraq's Jan. 30 election.


Costs have increased steadily in recent years, causing some to wonder about quality.


L'Oreal sues eBay over counterfeit goods

Says tat bazaar is not doing enough eBay is being sued across Europe by the world's biggest cosmetics firm for not trying hard enough to battle counterfeiting. L'Oreal is taking the action in five European countries, including the UK.â¦


SAN FRANCISCO -- Giants general manager Brian Sabean and owner Peter Magowan agree that San Francisco might have to endure a couple more years of losing to turn around the franchise. Sabean will get the chance to lead the team's transformation.


The Dutch are the world's tallest people

Most of us are taller than our parents, who probably are taller than their parents. But in the Netherlands, the generational progression has reached new heights.


Raptors crush Kings to spoil Bibby's return

Chris Bosh scored 31 points to lead the Toronto Raptors to a 116-91 win over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.


Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, has told news media that OLPC and Microsoft are working on a dual-boot XO laptop, able to run either Linux or Windows.


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Filmmaker confronts mortality with "Diving Bell"

Filmmaker Julian  Schnabel says he did not pay much attention when he was given a  copy of the extraordinary memoir "The Diving Bell and the  Butterfly" about six years ago.


E' positivo, dice Piebalgs dopo l'incontro con Scaroni


Music Industry Group Launches Piracy Suits

An international music industry group said Thursday hundreds of lawsuits were being filed across Europe accusing people of piracy for illegally sharing music on the Internet.


Loss of smell offers clue to Alzheimer's

A patient's inability to identify common smells such as lemon and soap can help doctors to diagnose early Alzheimer's disease in those who have developed mild mental problems, researchers said yesterday.


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Sept. 23, 2004 - Three Palestinian gunmen infiltrated a fog-shrouded Israeli army post at dawn Thursday, killing three Israeli soldiers in a fierce gunbattle before they were shot to death, the army said.


Departing World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz in a radio interview broadcast Monday blamed an overheated atmosphere at the bank and in the media for forcing him to resign.


Hewitt knocks Canas out of Wimbledon third round

Lleyton Hewitt ended Guillermo Canas's Wimbledon comeback with a 6-4 3-6 6-3 6-4 defeat in a third round encounter on Tuesday.


Bonn, 14:29 - CALCIO, IFFHS: MERK MIGLIOR ARBITRO 2007

E' Markus Merk il miglior arbitro del mondo per il 2007 nella speciale classifica stilata dall'Iffhs...


Adelphia Creditors Ask Bankruptcy Court to Liquidate Company

Creditors of Adelphia Communications asked a judge last week to liquidate the company and its affiliates to speed payments to creditors.


Barghouti backs Abbas as next head of the PA

The imprisoned leader of Fatah's Tanzim in the West Bank, Marwan Barghouti, announced on Friday that he will not run for the post of Palestinian Authority chairman.


The widow of the Earl of Shaftesbury has been found guilty of arranging his murder by a French court.


Core blimey Apple has announced that its iMac range now exclusively uses the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and itâs celebrating the happy occasion by adding a 24in widescreen iMac to the existing 17 and 20in models.â¦


New Emissions Curbs For Diesel Trains, Ships

The Environmental Protection Agency issued stringent new rules yesterday curbing harmful emissions from diesel locomotive and marine engines.


When DiCaprio and Gisele Bundchen met a Indian witch doctor

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and his one time supermodel girlfriend Gisele Bundchen reportedly


Docs put boy with flu-like symptoms in isolation

KOTA BARU: A 10-year-old boy from Kampung Belian, who has been in quarantine at the hospital here since Monday, is the only one in his family with bird flu-like symptoms.


Bersani: mai piÃ¹ finanziamenti alle imprese, solo detrazioni"Non voglio piÃ¹ sentir parlare della legge 488. Basta, la chiudo. E' superata"                                          "Troppi scandali con i fondi europei meglio restituirli che sprecarli"                                                                                di ANTONELLO CAPORALE


Station managers at several CBS affiliates said Thursday they appear to be a target of a national e-mail campaign placing pressure on the network to oust Dan Rather as anchorman of the "CBS Evening News."


Stocks rallied on Monday as investors snapped up shares of manufacturers and downtrodden banks after more weak housing data bolstered expectations the Federal Reserve will slash rates later this week.


Using a new laptop and a satellite link, FBI agents can find out within two minutes whether the fingerprint from a newly captured suspect overseas matches a terrorist database in Virginia.


Iglesias readies "Insomniac" for light of day

When the always restless Enrique  Iglesias is in the process of recording a CD, he works at night  and sleeps during the day.


Captain Andrew Flintoff shrugs off fears he is being asked to do too much as England try to retain the Ashes.


U.S. House bill aims to curb indecent TV programs

U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday that would protect children from indecent television programs by forcing cable and satellite providers to offer a modified form of la carte programming or make other changes in the way they operate.


Jason and Keenan Simmons represent a demographic NASCAR is seeking to reach out to as the brothers are two of just three black racers at Old Dominion Speedway.


Boasting a stingy defense and excellent special teams play, Bishop Feehan captured a Division 2A Super Bowl berth yesterday and the chance to win a fourth consecutive title.


NFL Wrap: Gibbs Returns to NFL as Redskins Edge Buccaneers

Clinton Portis ran 64 yards for a  touchdown and had 164 yards rushing and the Washington Redskins  used a stifling defense to edge the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16-10  in Joe Gibbs's return to the National Football League Sunday in  Landover, Maryland.


A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 21 near a vegetable market in Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi police said, as insurgents kept up a campaign of bombings despite a security crackdown backed by U.S. reinforcements.


Mexican oil, gas pipelines hit again by explosions

MALTRATA, Mexico  - Explosions rocked Mexico on Monday as attacks on six pipelines disrupted oil and gas supplies and forced thousands from their homes, just weeks after leftist rebels set off a string of pipeline bombs.


Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida

U.S. Postal Service investigators on  Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots  that should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's  most populous counties, officials said.


Opposition claims victory in Kenya polls

Kenya's opposition claimed victory on Saturday in a presidential vote after official figures gave their candidate a four percentage point lead over President Mwai Kibaki on three-quarters of the count.


Las Vegas oddsmakers make Boston favorite over St. Louis

LAS VEGAS Las Vegas oddsmakers are making the Boston Red Sox slight favorites to win the baseball World Series over the Saint Louis Cardinals.


Bush: Nations Form Asian Relief Coalition

With an image of the Christian "Mother Mary" attached to debris, a local resident salvages a bicycle from the devastation to his fishing village by the weekend's massive tsunami, Wednesday, Dec. 29, in the eastern coastal town of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.


China Says It Will Keep Troop Levels to Thwart Taiwan

China will maintain current troop levels at 2.3 million soldiers and promote technological warfare to thwart any independence attempt by Taiwan, the Chinese government said in its 2004 Defense White Paper.


Roma, 10:06 - CALCIO, PETRUCCI: LEGGE DIRITTI TV GARANTISCE EQUILIBRIO

Gianni Petrucci ribadisce la sua approvazione alla nuova legge che regolamenta i diritti televisi de...


Militant Wanted in Pearl Abduction Killed

An Islamic militant wanted in the murder of American Journalist Daniel Pearl was discovered running a clothing shop near the Indian border and killed in a shootout with police, Pakistani authorities said Wednesday.


R&B singer Usher leads the race for the Billboard awards with nominations in 13 categories.


Ivory Coast is set to get a new cabinet after the previous one resigned over a toxic waste scandal in Abidjan.


"Snakes" leads Jackson, New Line to movie deal

LOS ANGELES  - New Line Cinema has   signed a two-year, production deal with Samuel L. Jackson, who   starred in the studio's much-hyped "Snakes on a Plane," as well   as its 2005 bomb, "The Man."


Iraqi city turns against rebel Shi'ite cleric

Peace has failed to bring reconciliation in Najaf, a city considered significant to Shi'ite Muslims and where self-declared holy warriors battled US forces last month.


Its touch panel makes the Nintendo DS a unique and fun gadget, although the system and the current crop of games don't use it to its fullest. By Chris Kohler.


WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry has taken a slight lead over President Bush, according to an Associated Press poll that found him gaining ground with women, boosting his overall popularity and cutting into the president's advantage on national security.    The two candidates remain in a very close race ahead of a second debate Friday night in St...


BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox still trail. The good news for the Red Sox Nation was there was no loss to mourn last night as Game 3 of the American League championship Series was rained out at Fenway Park.


Ben Stiller had to put on pink shoes, a blond wig and silver headband and strut against an Owen Wilson impersonator before claiming Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award.


Information technology company Electronic Data Systems Corp. on Friday said it reached a modified agreement for a Navy Marine Corps intranet contract, effective immediately.


FDA to Study Adult Antidepressant Effects

The Food and Drug Administration will examine clinical trial data for thousands of depressed adults to see if they, like children, suffered increased suicidal thoughts and behaviors while taking antidepressants.    Dr...


China Mobile suspends the Chinese Web portal for a year.


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Tailor AquaPonics Worldwide, Inc. Launches New Website

Tailor AquaPonics Worldwide, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: TQWW) today announced the launch of a new website and a new domain name, www.tailoraquaponicsinc.com.


Aetna Inc. AET.N on Wednesday said  it will end its contract with Magellan Health Services MGLN.O  for mental health coverage and bring those services in-house,  pushing shares of Magellan down about 3.5 percent.


Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion

Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.The market for online advertising is increasingly dominated by one player, Microsoft said, and merging with Yahoo will allow it to offer a competitive alternative.Microsoft expects the market for online advertising to almost double in size over the next three years, from $40 billion in 2007 to $80 billion by 2010. A merger will allow it to realize economies of scale and reduce capital costs as it addresses this market, it said."The combination of these two great teams would enable us to jointly deliver a broad range of new experiences to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own," said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, in a statement.Microsoft expects to cut costs by $1 billion a year by realizing synergies with Yahoo in four areas: obtaining economies of scale as its audience increases; combining its research and development efforts with Yahoo's to innovate faster; eliminating operational redundancy to cut costs, and pooling expertise to innovate in video and mobile.The companies will work together to develop the merger plan, Microsoft said.It intends to pay key Yahoo engineers and other staff to stay following the merger.The offer represents a 62 percent premium over Yahoo's closing price on Thursday. Microsoft expects to receive all necessary approvals in the second half of this year.


BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. warplanes pounded the vast Baghdad slum of Sadr City overnight after an American patrol came under gunfire, the military said Tuesday...


The Metropolitan Police is expected to be criticised for the way it handles internal complaints, particularly when ethnic minorities are involved.


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BOSTON - The New York Yankees had a record-breaking Saturday night on offense and forced the Boston Red Sox to focus on trying to pull off a history-making comeback in the AL championship series.


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Heart Disease Lower in Children of Parents Who Live to 85

MONDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- If you're the child of parents who lived to 85 or more, your risk for heart disease in middle age is significantly lower than children of parents who died earlier, researchers report.


Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Monday said it agreed to buy the privately held BRG Petroleum Corp. for $325 million in cash. The company will fund the deal - which it expects to close on Feb. 1 - using cash on


WASHINGTON - UN Ambassador John Danforth submitted his resignation yesterday after six months in the position, an official said. Danforth, 68, had been mentioned as a successor to Secretary of State Colin


Teheran, 15:37 - CALCIO, IRAN: AHMADINEJAD CEDE A FIFA E RITIRA CANDIDATO

Il presidente iraniano Ahmadinejad ritira la candidatura del suo vice Mohammad AlÃ¬ Abadi alla guida ...


Republican Mitt Romney directly appealed to social conservatives in South Carolina on Thursday, criticizing Democratic rival Barack Obama for supporting age-appropriate sex education for children as young as kindergartners.


Apple options review claims Anderson's scalp

Current management get clean bill of health The fall-out over the All-American Stock Options Scam continues, with Apple's former chief financial officer, Fred Anderson, resigning today from the board.â¦


Christina Aguilera has no problem showing skin — especially on weekends with her husband, music executive Jordan Bratman.


Abbas cancels planned talks with Hamas in Gaza

RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will not travel to Gaza on Tuesday as planned to   try to revive talks with Hamas on forming a unity government,   his spokesman said on Monday.


Weather Hinders Search for Ship's Crew as Oil Spill Widens

Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts on Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and


Ukraine's Yushchenko Heads to Swiss Skin Clinic

KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's President Viktor  Yushchenko, his face disfigured by poisoning, flew to  Switzerland Friday for consultations at a skin clinic, his  office said.


GE to sell silicones, quartz businesses for $3.8 billion

General Electric Co.  said on  Thursday it will sell its advanced materials business, which  includes silicones and quartz, to private equity firm Apollo  Management LP for about $3.8 billion in cash and securities.


The Russian government delays a decision on whether to revoke Yukos' Siberian oil licences by three months.


Bangla blast toll rises to 18, Opposition calls for strike

Dhaka, Aug 22 (UNI) The death toll in the grenade blasts at former Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina's public meeting rose to 18 with two more people succumbing to injuries early today as an angry Opposition accused the


A senior judge questions why a leading loyalist was not arrested after breaching a bail condition.


Weâre All Gonna Die! Grab Your Video Camera!

âCloverfieldâ is nominally a monster movie, but mostly itâs a feature-length gimmick.


Oracle Corp. plans to release the latest version of its CRM (customer relationship management) applications within the next two months, as part of an ongoing update of its E-Business Suite.


U.S. teen retailers seek edge for back-to-school

The back-to-school shopping season has already begun, but the forecast for U.S. clothing sales appears cloudier than in years past.


Major currencies trade in tight ranges ahead of US jobs data

Major currencies moved in narrow ranges against each other as the focus turned to a US labor market report due out on Friday.


New Sony Mylo Communicator Emphasizes Wi-Fi

A second-generation "mylo" communicator device will be on display at CES this week.


Chris Brown runs for 175 yards, Vince Young and LenDale White combine for another 88 and the Titans run over the Jaguars in a 13-10 victory Sunday.


Bush Urges N. Ireland Power-Sharing Deal

President Bush lent his weight Friday to a final push for reviving power-sharing in Northern Ireland, telling the province's Protestant leader to do his


Militants kill three foreigners in northern Iraqi city, saboteurs ...

Insurgents killed at least three foreigners on Friday in Mosul, a northern city that became a stronghold after Fallujah fell to US and Iraqi forces.


NBA signs new TV deals and extends digital rights

The National Basketball Association  said on Wednesday it has reached eight-year agreements to let  Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and ESPN television networks and Time  Warner Inc.'s TNT broadcast league games through 2016.


There was no flexing. No preening. No embarrassing bird-like displays with the US flag. Bernard Williams must have learned a thing or two at the Sydney Olympics, because he his American teammates were on their


Commissioner calls ref's betting scandal isolated

NBA Commissioner David Stern said on Tuesday an FBI probe learned that former referee Tim Donaghy was a "rogue, isolated criminal" who bet on games and that it appeared no other league employees were involved.


Miss Italia, vite da reality a Salso come a Samanà

Comincia sabato il concorso a eliminazione da seguire in diretta tv. Nello speciale, le foto delle 194 prefinaliste e la sorte delle ex


Red-hot favourite Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic has powered to victory in the men's Olympic 400 metres hurdles final.


US says it will investigate reported disappearance of nuclear ...

The United States said Tuesday it will conduct ''a full investigation'' along with the Iraqi government of the reported disappearance


Campaign Strengthens For a Voting Paper Trail

Efforts are intensifying in Congress to pass legislation that would require electronic touch-screen voting machines used in federal elections to provide paper trails that could be checked in the case of a recount.


Adam Tolmach of Ojail Vineyard says his wines have too much alcohol, or does he?.


U.S. not aiming to hit Iran over Iraq role: Burns

The United States does not intend to strike Iran to force it to stop supplying Shi'ite groups with weapons technology to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. official said.


Russia urges Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programme in order to avoid sanctions from the UN Security Council.


Jackson Doesn't Want Accuser Called 'Victim'

Lawyers for Michael Jackson have  asked a judge in his child molestation case to bar prosecutors  from referring to his young accuser or the boy's family as  "victims" in front of a jury, saying that it violates the pop  star's right to a fair trial.


ABU GHRAIB, Iraq -- More aggressive US military operations in Iraq over the past two months have generated a surge in detainees, nearly doubling the number held by US forces to about 8,300, according to the general in charge of detention operations.


Australia reports a slowdown in economic growth, as the country continues to struggle with a severe drought.


I due titoli delle societÃ  telefoniche restano al centro degli acquisti di Piazza Affari tra scambi intensi: su Telecom sono passati di mano oltre 456 milioni di titoli, pari al 2,8% del capitale, mentre il titolo guadagna il 4,37% a 3,08 euro.


Japan eyes troops pullout from Iraq next December

Japanese Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono said Sunday that late 2005 is a possible target date for Japanese troops to withdraw from Iraq.


Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.


December 1 marks World AIDS day, an international effort to spread awareness about the rapidly spreading HIV and AIDS epidemic and to promote preventive measures.


The UN conference envoys of President Bushâs Administration along with some developing countries and oil producing nations have blocked a more resolute and committed effort to cap fossil fuel emissions such as coal and oil after reductions already


The parliament of Spain's autonomous Basque region has voted in favour of a proposal to loosen ties with the central government in Madrid.


Boom di ascolti per la finale Oltre 10 milioni davanti alla tv                                                                                SANREMO - Dieci milioni e mezzo di telespettatori di media con una share di ascolto del 54,27%. E' il primo dato reso noto per la serata finale del Festival di Sanremo che fa prefigurare un vero record per l'edizione condotta da Pippo Baudo


Economy More Sluggish Than First Thought

WASHINGTON Aug. 27, 2004 - Weighed down by high energy prices, the economy was even more sluggish than initially believed during the second quarter.


Maria Shriver breaks foot cheering Red Sox

While the Red Sox survived their World Series championship unscathed, longtime fan Maria Shriver suffered a broken foot while watching the game.


Company names female pop trio new face of marketing campaign to expand appeal among kids, moms. LOS ANGELES  - McDonald's Corp.


Emile Hirsch says a lot of people can relate to his "Into the Wild" character's sense of wanderlust.


Mosul attack probably carried out by member of Iraqi security

Investigation of the Mosul attack has revealed an astounding fact: the suicide bomber could have been a member of the new Iraqi security forces and therefore has made it through the Americansâ screening process.


Business & money: Prospect of fresh rise in UK interest rates pushes sterling to $2.0006.


24th person tests positive for West Nile

LITTLE ROCK - A Phillips County man has tested positive for the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, the state Department of Health reported Thursday.


NBC has taken "Father of the Pride," its foray into computer-animated prime-time comedy, off its schedule for the crucial November sweeps ratings period.


FRENCH President Jacques Chirac, who vowed to forge a "true partnership" with Libya, today wrapped up the latest top-level Western visit to Tripoli as it returns from years in the diplomatic wilderness.


LONDON, ENGLAND -- Jay Kay, 34, lead singer of pop band Jamiroquai, had his driving privileges revoked for six months yesterday for driving 168 kilometres an hour in a 112 km/h zone.


Does Pope Benedict XVI's provocative lecture on Islam that has so raised hackles in the Muslim world display papal fallibility?


Iraqi police missing, Qaeda claims kidnapping

At least 14 Iraqi police officers have gone missing and an al Qaeda-linked group on Friday showed pictures of 18 men it said had been kidnapped to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month.


Presidential Race Still Undecided in New Mexico

Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry has conceded, President Bush has laid out his plans for a second term and New Mexico still does not know who won the election in the sparsely populated state.


UK online auction firm QXL Ricardo faces a hostile bid from Dutch company Florissant after rejecting its takeover offer.


On Baseball: Not Only Yankees Fans Cheering for Week 22

The 22nd week of the 26-week baseball season is full of intriguing contests.


U.S. nuclear envoy on surprise visit to North Korea

The top U.S. nuclear envoy made a surprise visit to North Korea on Thursday as the Philippine foreign minister -- just back from the reclusive state -- said Pyongyang was committed to keeping its pledges under a disarmament deal but wanted other countries to do the same.


Five people are rescued off the north Cornwall coast after spending eight days adrift in a life raft.


"Buffy the Vampire  Slayer" alumna Eliza Dushku will replace the star in Fox's  one-hour comedic drama pilot "Nurses."


The year ended happily for state biologists with news that six more lynx kittens have been born to transplanted lynx in Colorado, bringing the total of newborns to 36 this year and 52 since a reintroduction program began in 1999.


Gadget boom to drive up energy demand: report

Flat-screen televisions, computers and  other hi-tech gadgets will use nearly half of a typical British  household's total electricity by 2020, an energy conservation  body said in a report on Wednesday.


Fashion Wire Daily - As a critic, one had to love the latest Marni collection presented on Tuesday, September 26th in Milan. It was a crafty take on the twin obsessions of volume and leggings,and a highly original vision of what women should be wearing next summer.


Manny Ramirez ends a 50 at-bat homerless streak and Daisuke Matsuzaka has his best performance yet Saturday to lead the Red Sox to a 1-0 victory over the Giants.


MIT team powers light bulb without wires

In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi-Fi liberated computer data.


EBay Inc. faced a double blow Thursday as it announced a key executive's plans to leave and an analyst said Google Inc.'s new online payment service represents a bigger threat than expected to the Internet auction company's health.


French trades unionists and language lobbyists launch a campaign against the use of English in business.


Firenze, 14:30 - CALCIO, SERIE C1: QUATTRO GIORNATE A PALLADINO

In riferimento alle gare della dodicesima giornata di serie C1, il giudice sportivo Pasquale Marino,...


National Australia to Bear Irish Bank Theft Losses

National Australia Bank Ltd., the nation's largest lender, will bear any losses arising from the theft of about 20 million pounds ($38.5 million) from its Northern Bank unit in Northern Ireland.


Seven U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq, including four in the western province of Anbar, where gains in security were hailed this week by U.S. President George W. Bush during an unannounced visit to the desert region.


Syracuse Already Has Its New Coach in Mind

Daryl Gross, Syracuse's new athletic director, appears to have a candidate to succeed Paul Pasqualoni, who was fired as the university's football coach Wednesday.


Singapore Changi Airport testing biometrics-based system

The world's first fully automated check-in and immigration clearance system that uses biometric recognition technology has been on trial at Singapore Changi Airport since Nov. 1.


Jason Giambi has been summoned to a meeting with baseball commissioner Bud Selig next week, the first step in determining what course his future will take.


Le regioni piu' colpite la Calabria e la Toscana


Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.


The Palestinian president draws cheers by vowing that his government will recognize Israel. But he forgot about Hamas


British "Top Gear" presenter badly hurt in crash

A presenter on the BBC's "Top Gear"  motoring programme was seriously ill in hospital on Thursday  after a high-speed crash while filming the show, the  broadcaster said.


Stampede at New Delhi railway station kills four women, girl

Four women and a 12-year-old girl died and at least 10 people were injured in a stampede at the Indian capital's main railway station Saturday as thousands tried to board a train, officials said.


Germany ups stakes with Poland on EU treaty

EU president Germany proposed on Friday launching negotiations on a treaty to reform European Union institutions without Poland's assent unless Warsaw accepted a compromise deal on the voting system.


Pakistan says Iran-India pipeline would be safe

Pakistan reiterated on Tuesday that it would be able to ensure safe supply of natural gas to rival India should New Delhi join a proposed project to bring gas from Iran via Pakistan.


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The nation's capital may be Hollywood for ugly people, but Hollywood celebrities are still attracted to Washington politicians.


Ford expects rise in U.S. retail sales in May

Ford Motor Co. said it would see  an increase in U.S. retail sales in May for the first time in  six months, but overall sales were expected to decline as the  automaker continued to cut low-margin sales to daily rental  companies.


London's police chief has demanded an urgent inquiry after a fathers rights campaigner dressed as Batman evaded supposedly tight security to stage a protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony.


Virgin Group licenses MS co-founder's spaceship concept

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Sobrieta' invece in collezione di Sinha-Stanic


Jurors began deliberations Monday in the murder trial of three men accused of killing six people in a 2004 revenge slaying over an Xbox video game system.


US astronaut charged with attempted murder of love rival

A US astronaut has been charged with allegedly driving cross-country in an attempt to murder or kidnap a woman she believed a rival for the affections of a NASA space shuttle pilot, police said.


With Bargnani at top, NBA draft a mystery

As Andrea Bargnani told a curious media contingent about himself Tuesday, Tyrus Thomas sat a few feet away and was asked what he knew about the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.