Charity single by Band Aid 20 supergroup goes on sale

A re-make of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" went on sale in Britain, 20 years after the original made millions for African aid, and was expected to soar immediately to the top of the pop charts.


DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took a big step on Thursday toward becoming the first black U.S. president when his campaign for change caught fire in Iowa and swept him past Hillary Clinton in the opening Democratic nominating contest.


67 found dead as Typhoon clean-up begins

The death toll from Japanâs deadliest typhoon in more than a decade rose to 67 today as rescue workers digging through sludge from mudslides found four more bodies and the nation tried to assess the extent of damage.


U.S. bomb kills 3 British soldiers in Afghanistan

Three British soldiers were killed by a  bomb dropped by U.S. aircraft supporting them in a battle  against Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the British  military said on Friday.


Minister blames economic inertia on uncertainty

SEOUL - Finance and Economy Minister Lee Hun-jai on Monday blamed South Korea's present economic lethargy on "unsubstantiated uncertainty" about the future, which in turn leads to weakening the confidence of market players.


Rove: Bush Serious About Gay Marriage Ban

President Bush in his second term "absolutely" would push for a constitutional amendment that says marriage consists only of the union of a man and a woman, White House political adviser Karl Rove said.


NZ stocks: Corporate news buoys sharemarket

The was plenty of news but not much in the way of price movements on the sharemarket today. The benchmark NZSX-50 gross index was up 6.50 points to 2861.


Low-Income Cancer Patients Are Less Informed: Study

NEW YORK  - Higher-income individuals with  prostate cancer feel more informed about the disease and more  satisfied with their treatment decisions than do their  lower-income peers, new survey findings show.


Microsoft: Firefox does not threaten IE's market share

Internet Explorer (IE) is no less secure than any other browser and does not lack any important features, according to Microsoft. But the managing director of Cisco admitted that he wouldnât use IE without additional protection.


U.S. stocks to watch on Tuesday: DELL INC. : The world's largest personal computer maker said the rate of market growth had not changed significantly and it saw no reason to alter its guidance for the third quarter.


Jackson Trial to Be Stuff of Drama for E!

An American and a British television company found a creative way around the ban on cameras for Michael Jackson's child-molestation trial: dramatic re-enactments.


Shareholders at Lear Corporation vote to reject a $2.9bn buyout offer from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.


Saudis Use 9-11 Report in U.S Ad Campaign

Stung by criticism about its role in fighting terrorism, Saudi Arabia has launched a radio advertising campaign in 19 U.S. cities citing the Sept. 11 commission report as proof that it has been a loyal ally in the fight against al-Qaida.


Celebrex Prescriptions Plunge After Risk Found-WSJ

New prescriptions for Pfizer Inc.'s  arthritis drug Celebrex fell 56 percent last week after the  company released data showing the drug may increase the risk of  heart attacks and strokes, the Wall Street Journal said.


Swedish center-right alliance ousts Social Democrats

A center-right alliance headed by   Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt won power in Sweden,   ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule with vows to cut taxes   and trim back the welfare state to boost jobs.


Military probing report Afghan detainee killed in US custody

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military is investigating whether American soldiers abused an Afghan detainee so badly that he died last year at a special forces base in southeastern Afghanistan, an official said yesterday.


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Gunmen kill six Iraqi National Guard recruits in Baghdad

Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carryin Iraqi National Guard applicants in Baghdad on Saturday, killing six people, police said. The group had just left a national guard recruiting center


Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai says he is deeply disturbed by a bomb attack in the capital Kabul in which at least seven people died.


Belarus president Lukashenko has a right to reign forever

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will have a right to run at forthcoming presidential election in the country.


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Investor Carl Icahn issued a $20-per-share bid to acquire Mylan Laboratories Inc. on Friday and said "at least" three other potential buyers in the generic drug industry could offer more.


Three Westerners killed in Mosul -- Al Arabiya

Militants attacked a car Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing three Westerners and their driver inside it, the Arabic-language Al Arabiya satellite TV reported.


Abramovich Subdued as Chelsea Beat CSKA in Moscow

Roman Abramovichâs Chelsea continued their fine Champions League form with a 1-0 victory over the tycoonâs fellow countrymen in Moscow.


Jockey John Velazquez set a Saratoga record with his 62d win at the meet when Willard Straight came from behind with a strong late run from the outside in yesterday's $66,800 Troy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.


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Taking on the most sacred cow in US tax policy -- corporate deductions -- is sure to be President Bush's biggest hurdle. BY MARILYN GEEWAX.


A man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2000 strangulation of another man's mail-order bride.


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Dutch 'abortion ship' heads for Portugal to spark debate

DEN HELDER, The Netherlands  - After controversial visits to Ireland and Poland, a Dutch boat made into a floating abortion clinic set sail for Portugal to draw attention to the staunchly Roman Catholic country's highly restrictive abortion laws.


The Right Places to Learn Entrepreneurship

Nearly 3,000 colleges now offer classes in entrepreneurship, up tenfold in the last 20 years.


Milano, 13:35 - CALCIO, MILAN; GALLIANI RIBADISCE: SHEVA NON TORNERA'

Niente Sheva e niente Ronaldinho. Lo ha ribadito Adriano Galliani a margine del "Premio Facchetti" c...


Taliban says bin Laden alive: Al Arabiya TV

Dubai-based Al Arabiya television on   Tuesday quoted a Taliban official as saying al Qaeda leader   Osama bin Laden was alive.


In Haiti, Peacekeepers Take on Militants

Using armored cars and earth movers, U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police moved into an area early Sunday controlled by militants loyal to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, protecting workers removing burned out cars used as road blocks.


Indians want AIDS drugs, Indonesians promote safe sex

Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new HIV drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.


Russia wants to ban Kremlin opponent from election

Kremlin critic Mikhail Kasyanov should be barred from Russia's presidential election, officials said on Thursday, a move likely to fuel criticism that authorities brook little real opposition.


Gas Price Up Near $1.88 a Gallon -Survey

The average U.S. retail price of  gasoline rose slightly over the last two weeks to almost $1.88  a gallon -- the first increase reported since late May,  according to the nationwide Lundberg survey of about 8,000 gas  stations.


Olympic ski champion Stephan Eberharter retires

CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Four-time Olympic medallist Stephan Eberharter announced his retirement from competitive skiing on Friday. In 16 seasons on the World Cup circuit, Eberharter won 29 races and four world


If Iowa and New Hampshire are the favorite sons, then Nevada may be the presidential primary's awkward stepchild.


German economy grew by 2.5 percent in 2007: data

The German economy grew by 2.5 percent last year, provisional figures released on Tuesday by the national statistics office Destatis showed.


Madrid, 15:09 - SPORT, CIO: EX PRESIDENTE SAMARANCH RICOVERATO

L'ex presidente del Cio, il Comitato Olimpico Internazionale, Juan Antonio Samaranch, è stato...


Bush says U.S. missile shield in Europe needed

President George W. Bush insisted on  Tuesday a missile shield in Europe was needed for the security  of the United States and its NATO allies.


Another typhoon is set to hit the Philippines, which is already reeling under the impact of two back-to-back storms. More than 500 people died in the previous storms, and the latest one, Typhoon Nanmadol, packing


The FDA, which has been under criticism for its lengthy approval process, this week approved two new drugs for multiple sclerosis and cancer treatment.


Bellamy's vote of confidence from Blues chairman

Craig Bellamy received a vote of confidence from Birmingham chairman David Gold who has no doubts manager Steve Bruce would bring the best out of him following his spectacular fall-out with Newcastle boss Graeme Souness.


Firenze, 16:53 - CALCIO, SERIE C: CORI RAZZISTI, MULTATE CREMONESE E PERGOCREMA

Cremonese (C1) e Pergocrema (C2) sono state multate dal giudice sportivo della Lega di serie C per c...


Yankees' Torre Suspended One Game, Fined

New York Yankees manager Joe Torre was suspended for one game and fined by major league baseball Saturday because one of his pitchers threw at a batter after umpire warnings during a game against the Boston Red Sox.


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Brown Defends Takeover of Ailing British Lender

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his decision to nationalize the struggling lender Northern Rock but some shareholders are threatening legal action.


Knicks Grind Up Slumping Grizzlies 90-82

Stephon Marbury made five 3-pointers in the second quarter to help put the Knicks ahead for good, and New York received a fourth-quarter boost from Jerome Williams in a 90-82 victory Wednesday night over the Memphis Grizzlies.


Egypt police find explosives, destroy Gaza tunnel

ISMAILIA, Egypt  - Egyptian police found 500 kg (1,100 lb) of explosives hidden in bags in central Sinai and bound for smuggling into Gaza, police sources said on Tuesday.


Dosanjh slams doctors, pharmacists who give prescriptions to unknown Americans

VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada's health minister says doctors and pharmacists who give prescriptions to Americans without meeting them first are being unethical.


Trekkie claims auctioned prop was a fake

A Trekkie who paid $6,000 for a poker visor that was supposedly worn by the android Data on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" claims in a lawsuit against Christie's auction house that the prop is a fake.


Germany's Schroeder Seeks Chinese Support for UN Ambitions

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder says China has expressed support for his country's candidacy for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.


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The final curtain came down on the summer movie season with box office watchers on Tuesday reporting a near $4 billion record haul led by sequels "Shrek 2" and "Spider-Man 2," even as admissions slipped 1.5 percent.


Hassan again pleads with Britain to withdraw troops

Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped aid worker, has made another plea urging Britain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. The video tape plea by Hassan was aired on Al-Jazeera television.


Cuban leader Fidel Castro may have dropped out of sight, but his trademark green military cap is everywhere.


Doctors up pressure on Medicare on anemia drugs

U.S. cancer doctors on Thursday plan to ratchet up pressure on the federal Medicare agency to reverse new limits on use of anemia drugs made by Amgen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson.


Fox's O'Reilly Sues Over Alleged Extortion Scheme

Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly sued one of his associate producers and her lawyer on Wednesday, alleging they threatened him with a high profile sexual harassment case unless he and Fox paid $60 million in "hush money."


Texas seeks millions from major spam operation

A lawsuit filed yesterday by the state of Texas charges two men with running spam operations that used misleading subject lines in e-mail messages and made misrepresentations in the body of the e-mails.


The US Defence Secretary urges Europe to put aside differences with the US on Iraq to aid the war on terror.


A Nasa spacecraft set for launch early next month will explore the two biggest asteroids in the Solar System.


Bridge: Spade Ten Appears, and High Hopes Vanish

In the first daily bulletin from the Hong Kong Inter-City tournament, which ended last Sunday, the editor, Munawar Sawirudin, a top Indonesian player, told a story against himself.


LA court orders Anna Nicole's body preserved

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


Yahoo strikes largest mobile-search deal yet, in Latin America

Internet company's OneSearch to be default search tool for portals of America Movil, a leading wireless-service provider.


Holding Off Late Run, Rider Upends Rutgers

Harris Mansell scored 15 points â including the go-ahead basket in the final minute â to give Rider a 61-57 victory at Rutgers on Friday night.


Christy Jones says her idea for a business to freeze women's eggs came when her own biological clock alarm rang at age 32. It was 2002, and two of her close friends were having trouble becoming pregnant.


Amazon CEO Predicts Record Holiday Season

Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos on Tuesday said the online retailer was poised for record holiday sales, with MP3 players and digital cameras leading the way as this year's hot gift items.


Huge car bomb explodes in central Baghdad, causing casualties

A huge car bomb explosion in Rashid Street in central Baghdad resonated throughout the capital on Friday, causing several casualties, Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite TV reported.


Baghdad Car Bomb Kills 20 on Booksellersâ Row

The car bombing at the Mutanabi Street market, the embodiment of Baghdadâs venerable intellectual history, had symbolic resonance.


A videotape screened in the US shows Princess Diana saying she wanted to run away with her bodyguard.


Syracuse University today fired beleaguered football coach Paul Pasqualoniâeight days after a 37-point loss in a bowl game and less than a month after giving him a vote of confidence, AP and other news services reported.


Construction spending falls more than expected

U.S. construction spending fell a sharper-than-expected 1 percent last month as home building posted a seventh straight drop, according to a government report on Friday that underscored the weakness in the U.S. housing market.


German second division side Alemannia Aachen provided the shock of the inaugural Uefa Cup group stage by beating high-flying French club Lille.


Polygamist community faces rare genetic disorder

COLORADO CITY, Arizona  - In a dusty neighborhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding.


Colombian government shaken by lawmakers' paramilitary ties

BOGOTA -- The government of President Alvaro Uribe is being shaken by its most serious political crisis yet, as details emerge about members of Congress who collaborated with right-wing death squads to spread terror and exert political control across Colombia's Caribbean coast.


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Older Voters Worry About Iraq as Well as Drug Costs

ARDMORE, Pa., Oct 21  - Give elderly voters in  this up-for-grabs Philadelphia suburb an opportunity to air  their fears about health care, and they will. But chances are  the topic will quickly turn to Iraq instead.


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ATHENS - Aaron Peirsol was reminded last night of a lesson he probably learned as a child: It doesn't pay to make the umpire angry.


northern city of Mosul and insurgents have fired mortar bombs at a police academy in eastern Baghdad. The Interior Ministry said there were no casualties in the mortar attack in Baghdad.


Video codec company DivX is seeking individuals to help beta test some "secret stuff" the company is concocting in its labs. Although it's not saying what software (or hardware) products it plans to test, DivX has built a streaming media set-top box code-named GejBox, after DivX's creator.


Oil prices have been at record highs this year, with money gushing into the coffers of oil producers thanks to the world's growing thirst for oil.


UK Group Accuses Apple of Overpricing iTunes

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


HOME Secretary David Blunkett last night admitted he had been wrong to give a rail warrant intended for MPs' spouses to his married lover Kimberly Quinn, and vowed to repay the cost of the train ticket.


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


Vivendi to raise 1-2 billion euros for Neuf bid

French telecoms and media firm Vivendi   said on Friday it planned to raise 1-2 billion euros  in equity as its SFR mobile unit prepares to buy into Neuf  Cegetel and announces a bid for the rest.


People don't commonly associate adjectives like "cool" and "hip" with the Republican Party, but the first broadcast television coverage of the party's convention, from Madison Square Garden in


Alzheimer disease experts at Cardiff University lead a study involving the analysis of 14,000 DNA.


Janjaweed militias massing in Sudan: AU source

Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report.


Judge rules N.Y. town violates Voting Rights Act

A U.S. judge ruled a New York town's election system denies equal participation for Hispanics in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark law associated with the civil rights movement of the 1960s.


Docs Grow New Jawbone for Cancer Survivor

In a new study, researchers describe a man whose jaw was successfully reconstructed using a bone that was grown from scratch under the muscles in his back.


WASHINGTON - The terrorist responsible for the mess-tent massacre in Mosul wore an Iraqi military uniform to elude security at the US Army base, a top general disclosed yesterday.


Giving up was never in this group's nature

NEW YORK -- What manner of mettle separates these 2004 Red Sox from the 25 teams that preceded them in spotting adversaries a 3-0 series lead in the postseason, in refusing to go quietly into that good night?


VIERA, Fla., Feb. 26 -- That night last June, Shawn Hill took to the mound at Fenway Park knowing his right elbow wasn't quite perfect, knowing the situation was bound to go bad. The previous two evenings against the Boston Red Sox, the starting pitchers for the Washington Nationals had failed to...


Chinese authorities offered no details Monday on weekend clashes between ethnic Chinese and Muslims that may have killed 148 in central China's Henan province.


The Supreme Court today wades into a debate begun by California voters in 1996 when they approved the nation's first medical marijuana ballot.


Eating-disorder education shows unintended effects

NEW YORK  - Teaching teenagers about eating disorders can make them more knowledgeable about the problem, but it may also have some inadvertent effects, a new study suggests.


Lenovo ThinkPad is Consistently Strongest Notebook PC Brand, According to TBR

Lenovo today announced it has garnered top rankings in notebook brand  awareness and customer satisfaction in the fourth quarter of last year,  according to Technology Business Research (TBR).


Abuja - Sudan's Darfur rebels announced a boycott of peace talks, alleging a government offensive and saying a return to the negotiating table isn't possible until the government promises to cease attacks.


Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint condemns a former friend cautioned for a sexual assault on a girl.


Bulgaria Marks St. Jordan's Day ... read

Politics: 6 January 2005, Thursday. On January 6th the Bulgarian people celebrate Epiphany or St.


US probing possible Israeli spy in the Pentagon

WASHINGTON : US authorities are investigating an aide to a senior Pentagon official who allegedly passed classified White House policy documents on Iran to Israel, with the help of employees of a powerful pro-Israel lobby, a US official has confirmed.


Michael Howard will unveil a 'timetable for action' for a Tory government in a bid to win back voters.


France's Chirac Says UK Won Nothing from Bush Support

French President Jacques Chirac said in a newspaper interview on Tuesday that Britain has gained nothing from its support for the United States-led invasion of Iraq.


Cigarette smoke produces 10 times more air pollution than diesel car exhaust, research suggests.


A strike at India's state-run domestic airline that caused two days of flight chaos is over, officials say.


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GM, Converters Try to Foster Van Comeback

DETROIT -- An automotive fad of the 1970s, customized vans, might be the next big thing coming out of Detroit. The big vans once decorated with shag carpeting and beads have evolved into sophisticated vehicles for families and groups alike, and General Motors Corp.


Typhoon Tokage lashed western Japan Wednesday, leaving two dead and at least five missing, causing landslides and the evacuation of thousands.


Tiny metallic rods have been turned into miniature "propellers" by a Canadian research team.


Steve Harmison takes a hat-trick as England beat India by seven wickets in the NatWest Challenge at Trent Bridge.


Portland Trail Blazers players are protesting the suspension of teammate Qyntel Woods because of allegations involving dogfighting.


Militants' video shows 3 hostages in plea for lives

KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants released a video yesterday showing three frightened foreign UN hostages pleading for their release and threatened to kill them unless United Nations' and British troops leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are freed from


Catania, 21:27 - CALCIO: CATANIA; PULVIRENTI, NESSUNO ANDRA' VIA A GENNAIO

Nessun pezzo pregiato lascerà il Catania a gennaio. Lo ha garantito il presidente etneo, Anto...


OGGI SU INTERNET/ITALIA - Pubblicato un Dossier sull'attivitÃ  degli Orionini a favore degli ebrei dal 1940 al 1945 Roma (Agenzia Fides) -  E' stato pubblicato uno studio curato da Don Flavio Peloso e Giovanni Marchi con il quale i due autori mettono in luce, attraverso documenti e testimonianze, la grande opera dei religiosi di Don Orione in aiuto e sostegno agli...


Harrington holds on to Lions' starting job

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (Nov. 26, 2004) -- Joey Harrington will remain the Lions' starting quarterback despite the offense failing to score a touchdown against the NFL's 31st-rated defense.


BUCHAREST, Dec. 13. - Prime Minister Mr Adrian Nastase conceded defeat in Romaniaâs presidential runoffs today, calling opponent Mr Traian Basescu the countryâs future President.


Firenze, 14:09 - CALCIO, AZZURRI: TONI MIGLIORA

Luca Toni potrebbe recuperare per Italia-Francia di sabato prossimo. Il professor Andrea Ferretti ha...


Indonesia Police Step Up Hunt for Bombers

Indonesian police found traces of the explosives used in the suicide bombing of the Australian Embassy inside a room rented by the two alleged bombmakers, the national police chief said Saturday.


ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 26 -- Thousands of chanting, flag-waving protesters on Sunday denounced Pope Benedict XVI as anti-Islamic, demanding that he cancel a trip to Turkey this week that the Vatican hopes will help mend relations between the pontiff and Muslims.


The Prophet Muhammad cartoon row in Denmark triggers an unusual dialogue on Facebook, writes the BBC's Frances Harrison.


Thaksin-backed party forms new Thai coalition government

Thailand's People Power Party (PPP), backed by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, won support of five small allies on Saturday to lead a coalition government emerging after a December 23 general election.


Shuttle repair plan remains in the works

The space shuttle may begin flying before NASA has a reliable plan to fix damage similar to that which doomed the Columbia shuttle in February 2003, the manager of the shuttle program said Monday.


Terry Melcher, Shaper of Calif. Surf Sound, Dies

LOS ANGELES, Calif.  - Terry Melcher, a producer,  composer and songwriter who worked with the Beach Boys and  helped shape the '60s era California surf music sound, has  died, according to his publicist. He was 62.


Air Travel May Be Risky for Lung Disease Patients

For people with lung problems, the air quality found in commercial airliners can produce a drop in blood oxygen below recommended levels, Australian researchers report.


Four more Bush Cabinet secretaries resign

The White House said it would make public Monday four additional resignations from the Cabinet of President George W. Bush. White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined further


Yukos awaits US ruling on break-up order

MOSCOW: Embattled Russian oil major Yukos should hear later today whether a United States bankruptcy court will back its last-ditch attempt to halt the sale due on Sunday of its main production unit.


PS3 component cost halved in 12 months, analyst claims

Console's parts now cost $400, apparently Sony's PlayStation 3 costs just $400 (Â£200) to make these days - about half of what the console cost to produce when it was launched in November 2006.â¦


Scientists find stronger evidence that caffeine ups miscarriage risk - even when consumed in moderation.


PHP-Coding-Practices.com: Composing Methods: Replace Temp With Query

In a new article from PHP-Coding-Practices.com today, Tim Koschuetzki offers a different sort of solution for working with those little temporary variables scattered throughout your code - replacing a temporary variable with a queryable structure.   When you are using a temporary variable to hold the result of an expression, extract the expression into a method. Then replace all references to the temp with the new method. The new method can then be used in other methods.   His suggestion basically replaces the quick temp variable with something slightly more complex but something that can be used anywhere in the class. He uses the example of multiplying an amount times the quantity - first just assigned to a temporary variable inside a method then refactored as the result of another method returning the same thing (but accessible from anywhere).


For four years Secretary of State Colin Powell was the most indispensable lame duck any president could have asked for. But Powell's frustrating, often humiliating and highly


A Roman Catholic archbishop in Zambia is excommunicated for trying to install four married men as bishops.


Republican Thompson says U.S. battling "evil"

Republican Fred Thompson,  making his first appearance since his late entry into the 2008  White House race, criticized the immigration pact in Congress  on Saturday and said the United States was battling threats  from "forces of evil."


Another bomb shakes Green Zone checkpoint

A car bomb exploded early today near a checkpoint leading to Baghdad's Green Zone, the second attack in two days on the entrance to the heavily guarded district that houses


US commander: Iraqi province distrusts army, police

U.S. and Iraqi forces are struggling to ease sectarian tension in one of Iraq's most volatile areas where much of the population seeking security turns to terrorists, not Iraqi troops or police, a U.S. commander said on Friday.


Trento, 17:58 - APNEA, MICHELE TOMASI CONQUISTA RECORD ITALIANO DINAMICA

Michele Tomasi, apneista 42enne di Calceranica, ha conquistato, al Centro Sportivo Manazzon di Trent...


NASA's moonbase plan tackles lunar cement and inflatable living quarters; Virgin America planes play Doom; Novell could be banned from selling Linux. In Gadget Lab.


Post-coup Thai cabinet expected in next two days

Thailand's interim, post-coup cabinet is likely to be announced tomorrow or Friday, central bank chief Pridiyathorn Devakula said on Wednesday.


NBC Sees Last-Minute Olympic Profit Boost

NBC Universal, riding high on a  Summer Olympics that appears on track to set a record for  viewership, will beat early forecasts and turn a profit of $60  million to $70 million for its coverage of the Games from  Athens, an NBC executive said on Thursday.


Net violence spills into real world A 33-year-old Russian gamer from the city of Ufa was killed by a member of a rival online clan after virtual violence provoked a fatal real-life scrap, Russia Today reports.â¦


A statue of the notorious former Belgian colonial king Leopold II is re-erected in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa.


North Korea ready to resume talks if Bush offers olive branch

North Korea said it would resume talks on its nuclear weapons drive if US President George W. Bush toned down his rhetoric and formulated a more friendly policy towards Pyongyang.


Bomb Alert Prompts Greek Plane to Land in London

A bomb alert prompted a Greek Olympic passenger airliner to make an emergency landing at London's Stansted Airport on Sunday, an airport spokesman said.


Responding to growing public anxiety about inflation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced that China would freeze prices of oil products, natural gas and electricity in the near term.


UN reform continues to dominate General Assembly session

The reform of the United Nations continued to dominate the fourth day of the general debate of the 59th session of the UN General Assembly on Friday.


California sues automakers over emissions

SACRAMENTO -- California's attorney general yesterday sued the six largest US and Japanese automakers, including GM, Ford , and Toyota , alleging that emissions from their vehicles have harmed health, damaged the environment, and cost the state millions to combat the effects.


UK supermarket says Potter publisher "profiteering"

The publisher of the Harry Potter books called in the lawyers after a British supermarket chain accused it of "blatant profiteering" for charging 17.99 pounds ($36) for the final novel in the series.


Japan urges South Korea to halt marine survey

Japan demanded on Wednesday that South  Korea halt a survey of disputed waters between the two nations  that started earlier in the day, but Seoul said it had a right  to exercise sovereignty over the area.


Georgia opposition leader dies suddenly in London

TBILISI/LONDON  - Wealthy Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, a leading opponent of President Mikhail Saakashvili, has died suddenly in London, his aides said on Wednesday.


SANTA MARIA, Calif. Aug. 17, 2004  The psychologist who notified police of a 12-year-old boy's claims of being molested by pop singer Michael Jackson had patients on both sides of the case, a defense lawyer indicated in court Tuesday.


Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, doctors said Saturday, adding that the highly toxic chemical could have been put in the opposition


MOSCOW The Russian government said Tuesday that it would sell part of Yukos's most valuable subsidiary by the end of November as the company tries to pay off the billions of dollars it owes in taxes.


Health officials need to address vaccine shortage

Anyone who thought this flu season wasn't going to be a mess need only see the hordes of area residents who turned out at the First Presbyterian Church in Mansfield on Tuesday morning.


Annan warns U.S. against go-it-alone diplomacy

INDEPENDENCE, Missouri  - Kofi Annan, nearing the end of his tenure as U.N. secretary-general, urged the United States on Monday to shun go-it-alone diplomacy and human rights abuses committed in the name of its "war on terror."


Law and Disorder: Iraqâs Legal System Staggers Beneath the Weight of War

The system in Iraq for detaining, charging and trying suspects has become another weak link in the rule of law.


Madrid Bomb Suspect's Remains Identified

An Algerian suspected of being a leader  of the Madrid train bombers has been identified as one of seven  people who blew themselves up in April to avoid arrest, Spain's  Interior Ministry said on Friday.


Southeast Asian ministers finalize accords

Southeast Asian ministers on Saturday finalized a free trade pact with China and a host of other accords to be adopted at a leaders summit, but touchy topics like the lack of


England cricketer Flintoff sidelined with ankle problem

England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has been sidelined due to ongoing problems with his ankle.


BlackBerry continues expansion by launching in Taiwan

(InfoWorld) - One of Taiwan's largest mobile phone network operators launched the popular BlackBerry service Thursday, continuing Research In MotionÂ (RIM)'s expansion into Asia. Taiwan became the 17th country in Asia-Pacific to adopt the BlackBerry, but the service could face stiff opposition on an island full of companies loyal to Microsoft. The robust PC industry in Taiwan depends mainly on Microsoft for its Windows OS and other software. The largest handset maker backing the Microsoft Windows Mobile OS is also from Taiwan, High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) Still, Taiwan Mobile Co. launched BlackBerry with theÂ aim of attracting Taiwanese businessÂ and individual users to RIM's community of more than 5.5 million global BlackBerry users through push mail and other data delivery services, including BlackBerry Internet Service. The company is initially offering the BlackBerry 7290 and BlackBerry 8700g, and will expand to other products as the market develops. Taiwanese users can type in Chinese characters via the QWERTY keypads on both BlackBerry handsets, but the two input methods offered, Pinyin and Cangjie, are not as popular on the island as locally developed Zhuyin. The difference is important for simplicity and ease-of-use. Prior to the development of Chinese input methods, typical Chinese computers required several keyboards each with hundreds of keys, forcing users to switch keyboards several times while they worked. Taiwan Mobile said it already had over 160 companies interested in using the new service. The mobile network operator plans to work with them to enable their employees to access email and other corporate data with BlackBerry Enterprise Server. One company hoping to spoil the show for Taiwan Mobile and BlackBerry is Chunghwa Telecom Co., Taiwan's largest network operator. The companyÂ teamed up with HTCÂ to develop a smartphone that runs push e-mail via Windows Mobile 5.0 and Outlook Mobile, the CHT9000.


Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn's wife, Robin Wright Penn, files for divorce, according to media reports.


"Angels in America" dominated the 56th annual Emmy Awards on Sunday with 11 Emmys, and "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City" were also honored.


POLITICAL POINTS | 9.23 12:20 PM All About Allawi

epublicans quickly seized on today's Congressional address by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of Iraq as irrefutable evidence that the invasion of his country was justified and that Bush administration


SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hundreds of Chileans were expected to file past the body of Augusto Pinochet on Monday, a day after the former dictator, whose 17-year rule polarized his South American homeland, died at the age of 91.


The onetime GOP front-runner's strategy of sitting out the early primaries now appears to have big risks


Data on 64,000 Ohio state workers stolen

A data storage device with the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state intern's car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.


Music and film fans will be able to control their digital media players just by speaking to them.


People in a village outside this Hezbollah stronghold used a front-end loader to carry away some of the dead Wednesday after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid inside Baalbek that residents said killed at least 15 civilians.


South Africa's main unions are set to suspend their four-week strike, according to local media reports.


Web Sites Agree to Be Accessible to Blind

In one of the first enforcement actions of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the Internet, two major travel services have agreed to make sites more accessible to the blind and visually impaired.


MONTREAL -- An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec yesterday as an "epidemic" that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.


Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges related to illegal dogfighting. Vick and three others were charged with violating federal laws against competitive dogfighting, procuring and training pit bulls for fighting and conducting the enterprise across state lines.


Insurgents Vowing to Kill Iraqis Who Brave the Polls on Sunday

Guerrilla groups in Iraq are trying to intimidate Iraqi citizens and scare them away from the polls with threats of death.


By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA planned another attempt to return the space shuttle to Earth on Friday after bad weather in Florida a day earlier kept Atlantis' seven astronauts in space an extra 24 hours.


BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 -- A rocket slammed into a hotel in Tikrit late Sunday, killing 15 Iraqis and wounding eight others in the home town of former president Saddam Hussein, hospital officials said.


Village Votes on Water Surcharge: Extra Fee Would Be Added for High Usage in Droughts

By Stephanie Horvath, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 12--WELLINGTON -- Residents slurping up extra water might soon pay the price.


HTC QWERTY candybar smart phone to ship as Vox?

US version as Libra HTC looks set to market its upcoming candybar smart phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard as the Vox, leaked roadmap slides reveal. The Taiwanese handset maker showed off the device in September as carrier UTStarcom's Libra.â¦


Soft-spoken and self-effacing, it is sometimes hard to hear what Bruins rookie Phil Kessel is saying. His eyes look aside, and the words come out so sparingly it seems he might be swallowing them.


'World Community Grid' seeks to harness unused computers

NOVEMBER 17, 2004  - IBM and officials from some of the world's leading science, education and philanthropic organizations yesterday launched a global grid computing project aimed at harnessing unused global computing power to help solve a


Even Soldiers Cannot Bear Brutality of Israeli Officer

An Israeli army officer killed a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, Iman Al-Hams, and then reportedly emptied his gun of bullets on the body of the girl.


A powerful dust storm on Mars has worsened and is affecting the twin rovers' operations on the Red Planet, mission scientists say.


Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered a quarry that provided King Herod with the stones he used to renovate the biblical Second Temple compound — offering rare insight into construction of the holiest site in Judaism.


Pakistan decides "in principle" to delay poll

Pakistani electoral officials have decided "in principle" to delay a January 8 poll after Benazir Bhutto's killing last week sparked turmoil in the nuclear-armed country, but put off a final decision until Wednesday.


At least 13 people are killed in clashes between police and members of an Shia cult in southern Iraq, officials say.


Mid-Atlantic factories robust, jobless claims up

Manufacturing growth in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region accelerated much more than expected in June, suggesting the nationwide factory sector could be in for a surprisingly strong recovery, data showed on Thursday.


Orkut worm demonstrates vulnerability of service

Google's Orkut social networking site appeared to have been hit by a relatively harmless worm, but one that demonstrated the continuing vulnerability of Web applications.Some Orkut users received an e-mail telling them they had been sent a new scrapbook entry -- a type of Orkut message -- on their profile from another Orkut user.They only had to view their profile to become infected by the worm, which added them to an Orkut group, "Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut," wrote the blogger Kee Hinckley on his site TechnoSocial.The name of the group, in Portuguese, roughly translates to "infected by the Orkut virus." Orkut is popular in Brazil, as well as India, but has not caught on as well outside those countries compared to MySpace and Facebook.The description of the group reveals that the worm was designed to show Orkut could be dangerous to users even if they do not click on malicious links, Hinckley wrote. The worm apparently did not try to steal any personal data.The worm was also noted by Orkut Plus, a site that offers Orkut security tips, and discussed in Google's Orkut help group.At one time the infected group was adding new members at a rate of 100 per minute, and had reached a few hundred thousand members, according to various postings, but the problem appears now to be fixed, Hinckley wrote.Orkut's scrapbook feature allows people post messages that contain HTML code, but it may lack a filter to strip out malicious JavaScript, Hinckley wrote."It does not appear at first glance that the worm does anything more dangerous than pass itself on to one or more of your friends," he wrote. "I think it unlikely that it would be able to steal your password, although it could potentially access other private information."


BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (IPS) - Wishing to emulate Kosovo's example, the  Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria is increasingly  rejecting the prospect of a unified state, just as the European  Union (EU) begins to step in.


SYDNEY The Australian government said Wednesday that terrorists may be preparing an attack in Indonesia, possibly at a Hilton hotel.


Costly defects lower profit 10% at Siemens

BERLIN The German engineering company Siemens said Thursday that its profit fell 10 percent in the fourth quarter as costly product defects led to losses in its mobile phone and train car businesses.


TUESDAY'S closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympics will be stripped of its artistic and celebratory part in commemmoration of seven Greek schoolchildren killed today in a bus crash on their way to watch a competition, organisers said.


Woody Allen Says Films Cure Insomnia as Wins Award

U.S. film director Woody Allen said his films were a cure for insomnia on Friday, as he accepted an award at the San Sebastian film festival for his life's work.


Pointed New Shepard Play to Arrive Just Before Election

Sam Shepard has written a sharp-elbowed political farce with an impressively starry cast, scheduled to open Off Broadway in late October.


U.S. schools weigh extending their hours

School principal Robin Harris used to see the clock on her office wall as the enemy, its steady ticking a reminder that time was not on her side.


Iraqi Peace Mission Snubbed by Rebel Cleric Sadr

NAJAF, Iraq  - Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on  Tuesday refused to meet an Iraqi peace delegation because of  "American aggression" as U.S. troops pounded militia positions  in Najaf near the country's holiest Islamic sites.


ISLAMABAD, Oct. 13. âEfforts to secure the release of two Chinese engineers abducted by pro-Al-Qaida Pakistani militants failed for the second time today as their leader refused to meet the tribal negotiators sent by the government.


With the NFL Network carrying two college bowl games, the three-year old network finds itself fighting on another tier with the cable companies that are refusing to carry the channel.


Mercato preoccupato per la crisi dei mutui negli Usa


Polizia: struttura San Francisco ora 'scena del delitto'


Blog: Even before getting to the battlefield, high-tech upgrades for ground troops must maneuver through tough political terrain.


Neither is a man of La Mancha, but the two wandering Americans named Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish may feel like Don Quixote going against malevolent windmills today.


Turkey's Erdogan faces rocky road after big win

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan celebrated on Monday a decisive poll victory but now faces challenges over delayed presidential elections, Kurdish separatist violence and Ankara's troubled EU bid.


Man arrested for shooting cell phones into Swedish prison with bow

STOCKHOLM, Sweden Swedish police say it was a pretty novel way to aid a prison escape.


Shock 88, Mercury 83: Shock Move Within Game of Third W.N.B.A. Title

Katie Smith scored 22 points, 1 shy of her career playoff high, to help the defending champion Shock beat the cold-shooting Phoenix Mercury and take a 2-1 lead in the W.N.B.A. finals.


Bin Laden tells US: 'Security is in your own hands'

Osama bin Laden injected himself into the final days of the US presidential campaign, warning that American voters will be held accountable


News: Number crunching boffins unearth crypto flaws

Cryptographic researchers have discovered weaknesses in the encryption algorithms that underpin the security and integrity of electronic signatures.


Both presidential candidates would like the Vietnam issue to go away, but the war in Iraq is a constant reminder of its Southeast Asian predecessor.


How working out at the gym could make you unhealthy

EXERCISE is promoted as the key to a long and healthy life, but regular work-outs may be a waste of time for those who have the wrong genes.


Tamoxifen Works Similarly in Black and White Women

NEW YORK  - In women who've been treated  for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent  recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the  drug works equally well in black and white women.


Report: Ty Law out 4-6 weeks with broken bone in left foot

Patriots cornerback Ty Law will be out four to six weeks due to a broken bone in his left foot, his agent told The Boston Globe. Law was injured on Pittsburgh's second possession Sunday and did not return to the game.


A state senator said he is evaluating whether to continue his bid for a second term after a Charleston television station aired revealing pictures of him last week.


Foundation Coal debuted on the NYSE yesterday.


US Retail Gasoline Prices Rise; Diesel Sets Record

The average US retail price for regular-grade gasoline rose 4.2 cents the past week to $2.035 a gallon and diesel reached a record as crude oil rallied to an all- time high.


Northern Ireland peace talks are set to continue today as hopes grow for a final deal on IRA disarmament and restoring devolution.


California gets Microsoft to change Vista

California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. has agreed to make "significant changes" in its new Vista operating system to stay in compliance with a U.S. court agreement in Microsoft's antitrust case.


An audacious plot to tunnel through a railway embankment to a cash machine is foiled by builders.


2 Chechens held in American journalist's slaying

Chicago Tribune - Moscow police are holding two Chechen men suspected in the slaying of American journalist Paul Klebnikov, whose murder shook the journalism community here and stirred memories of the kind of gangland mayhem that characterized Russia's turbulent 1990s.


90 dead in Haiti flooding as Jeanne heads out to sea

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Floods and mudslides from Tropical Storm Jeanne killed about 90 people in Haiti and more were missing in the Caribbean nation yesterday as the storm swirled in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas, a civil protection official said.


Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them.


SanDisk remembers how to make a Q4 profit

Passes bump in the road, sees another ahead SanDisk reported a huge swing in fourth quarter income today, but issued a "cautious" outlook for the upcoming quarter due to competitive pricing and an unstable economy.â¦


The Queen sends a special Christmas message of support to British troops stationed in Iraq.


Bappi Lahiri, Anu Malik team up for first time

The two are lords of the ring-tones. Bappi Lahiri and Anu Malik entered the film industry at the same time and carved very different places in the charts for themselves.


Sacchi dt del Real: 'Trattativa in corso'. Per domani atteso l' ...

Arrigo Sacchi sembra davvero destinato a diventare il nuovo direttore tecnico del Real Madrid. Anche oggi la stampa spagnola conferma dell'imminenza dell'annuncio ufficiale, atteso per martedÃ¬. Intanto l'ex


Video: Musician, Researchers Create Dark Matter 'Music Box'

Scientists run an experiment at the bottom of a mine in Minnesota to search for evidence of dark matter are also making music.


The United States rejected the results of Ukraine's presidential election, marred by allegations of fraud, while warning of unspecified "consequences" if Kiev does act.


Kelly Holmes has yet to make up her mind whether to compete in the 800m or the 1500m at the World Athletics Final in Monaco this weekend.


Building products maker Louisiana-Pacific Corp.  on Monday posted sharply lower fourth-quarter profit, hurt by higher raw materials costs, the strength of the Canadian dollar and a higher-than-expected tax rate.


Rapper Foxy Brown was arrested in Florida and held overnight for battery and obstruction of justice, according to the arrest record and local newspaper reports on Friday.


Scientists have shown that a single protein plays a central role in the development of diabetes.


Tibet's Second-Holiest Monk Makes Rare Lhasa Visit

Tibet's second-holiest monk, the Panchen  Lama, has visited Lhasa on a rare trip to the Himalayan region  by the living Buddha, whose selection in 1995 was marred by  controversy after the exiled Dalai Lama chose another boy.


Nail Polish Makers Yield on Disputed Chemical

Several cosmetics makers are removing a chemical from nail polish that is suspected of interfering with the endocrine system.


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


A small explosion outside the British Embassy in Santiago, Chile caused minor damage but no casualties, the Foreign Office said Monday.


Goldman Group to Buy Cooper Tire Unit for $1.17 Bln

A group led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to buy the Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. business that makes automotive fluid-handling systems and other components for $1.


Coles bid group says can't confirm group status

The private equity consortium looking at bidding for Australian retailer Coles Group Ltd.  said on Wednesday it could not confirm whether all four members were still in the group.


The International Atomic Energy Agency says 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives are missing from the Al Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad that was supposed to be under American military control.


ICC names first Darfur war crimes suspects

The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor named a Sudanese minister and a militia commander on Tuesday as the first suspects he wants tried for war crimes in Darfur and suggested more could follow.


Apple market share to slip as Vista temporarily rules, analyst says

A surge in sales of Windows-based PCs and laptops, prompted by the release of Vista, could push down Apple's market share in the first quarter of the year, according to Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster.


WASHINGTON - For the second time in a week the House ethics committee admonished Rep. Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, on Wednesday night, this time for engaging in fund-raising activities that created


Skinner gets shareholders' vote of confidence

Investors gave new McDonald's Corp. Chief Executive Jim Skinner a vote of confidence Tuesday, driving the company's shares up 72 cents to $30.10, a 2.45 percent gain, the day after Charlie Bell resigned the top job.


Argentina rations energy supplies as cold weather blamed for 17 deaths strains the country's power system.


NFL Notebook: Dolphins waiting for Saban's decision

Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga flew to Baton Rouge, La., yesterday and met with LSU coach Nick Saban, who still didn't give him an answer on whether he'll take Miami's coaching job.


AP Interview: Barack Obama is Potter fan

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is the "Harry Potter parent" who has read all six books about the boy wizard's adventures with his older daughter, his wife said Thursday.


Holiday sales seen moderate; housing weighs

It's only September, but inflatable   Santa decorations were already on display at a newly opened   Wal-Mart store here this week as U.S. retailers try to   jump-start what looks to be a decent but unspectacular holiday   shopping season.


A World Food Programme survey says almost half of all families in Darfur are hungry, confirming aid agency fears.


Roundup: Jones sues Conte in the Balco affair

Marion Jones, who won three gold medals at the 2000 Olympics, filed a defamation lawsuit against the Balco chief Victor Conte, who said on a US television program that he had given her steroids and watched her inject herself with them.


The Federal Reserve on Tuesday proposed a much stricter set of rules for mortgage lenders as part of the central bank's effort to avert abusive lending.


The US faces a flu vaccine shortage after British health authorities on Tuesday suspended the license of one of two key makers of influenza vaccine in the country.


Poor Medical Treatment Kills Thousands Each Year

Requiring doctors and hospitals to report publicly on their performance and tying their pay to the results would dramatically reduce avoidable deaths and costs attributable to poor medical care, says a new report from an organization that works to improve health care quality.    Wild variations in medical care led to 79,000 avoidable deaths and $1.8 billion in additional medical costs last year, the private National Committee for Quality Assurance said in its annual report released Wednesday...


Palermo, 16:59 - CALCIO, PALERMO: OUT BIAVA, BOVO E DIANA

Per la difficile trasferta allo stadio Olimpico contro la Roma, il Palermo dovrà fare a meno ...


Italian linked to ex Russian spy infected with radiation

An Italian contact of the poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has tested positive for the same radioactive polonium 210 that killed him.


WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee today released an updated Kerry on Iraq documentary on http://www.KerryOnIraq.com and emailed it to three million supporters in advance of tonight's debate.


Spammers have become enthusiastic adopters of technology designed to spot and stop them.


Does Comcast have the recipe for re-making television?

Comcast's plan, as outlined Tuesday by CEO Brian Roberts, has the opportunity of literally changing television into the biggest consumer of data in the world's wired telecommunications system.


President Bush is casting the war on global terrorism as the central issue of the midterm elections. But it's a risky political strategy.


Hotel operator Wyndham International  Inc. WBR.A has sold six hotels and partial ownership of its  Summerfield Suites by Wyndham chain to Lehman Brothers Real  Estate Partners, the companies said on Thursday.


Losing the luxury to pretend weâre rich, one handbag at a time.


Indonesia's Bali bans movie on deadly bombings

DENPASAR, Indonesia  - Indonesia's resort island of Bali has banned screenings of a film on the 2002 bombings there because it could "reopen old wounds", a provincial film board official said on Thursday.


Illness leads Kostelic to cancel planned welcome party in Croatia

Janica Kostelic, who this week became the first woman in 23 years to win three ski titles at a world championships, canceled a planned welcome party in Croatia on Sunday because she wants to recuperate from the ...


Before the bloody sock, Curt Schilling was a pitcher in ruin: Injured, ineffective, unsure whether he would be able to help the Boston Red Sox reach the World Series, much less win it.


Massive queues in Japan as PSP sells out

Queues over a thousand people long formed at some retailers in Japan yesterday as Sony's PlayStation Portable went on sale, with fears of a shortage realised as stocks sold out within hours at some major outlets.


Ten percent of soldiers injured in Iraq have died from their war wounds, the lowest casualty fatality rate ever, thanks in large part to technological advances and the deployment of surgical


Verizon Posts Flat Third-Quarter Earnings

Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N,  the largest U.S. telecommunications company, on Thursday  reported third-quarter earnings virtually unchanged from the  year before as wireless and high-speed Internet sales offset  losses of local phone lines.


Belarus leader wins mandate for new term

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, accused in the west of flouting democratic norms, has won overwhelming approval in a referendum to run for a third term in office, the top election official says.


The Internal Revenue Service has revoked the tax-exempt status of the anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue West for prohibited political activity during the 2004 election.


UPDATE 1-Werder come from behind for 2-1 away win

Striker Ivan Klasnic scored twice as Werder Bremen came from behind to beat Anderlecht 2-1 away in their Champions League Group G match on Wednesday.


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Senate OKs 7 more years of tax-free Net access, e-mail

But it's not going to the president's desk yet, as the House still has to approve the changes. The current ban is scheduled to expire next week.


D'Brickashaw Ferguson will be right on time when Jets players report to training camp Thursday.


A resurgent al-Qaeda terrorist network has shifted the focus of its attacks to Pakistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday.


Corruption That Shook Capitol Isn't Rattling Elections

HAMILTON, Mont. -- Sen. Conrad Burns gazed at a debate audience and asked if anyone could guess who was blocking efforts in Washington to control health-care costs.


Stop a operazioni improprie in partiti, giornali e sindacati


Before coming upstairs to the Fenway Park interview room yesterday afternoon for his press conference, Red Sox manager Terry Francona delayed his arrival so he could watch a few minutes of the press conference Joe Torre was conducting at a hotel in Rye, N.Y., explaining why he was no longer the manager of the Yankees after 12 seasons.


Racy Japan ritual defies critics in hairy chest row

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Dozens of half-naked men rolled around in the snow in a ritualized brawl at a temple in northern Japan, as one of the country's raciest festivals defied a row over posters featuring a hairy, bare-chested reveler.


On Thursday, the very same edition of the San Francisco Chronicle that disclosed secret grand jury testimony on steroid use by burly Yankees slugger Jason Giambi also carried another BALCO story


Herm Edwards is next up trying to outcoach Bill Belichick and put an end to the Patriots' 20-game winning streak. He has five more days and some long nights to figure it out.


Military planes will drop an estimated one hundred million paper origami cranes on the country's Muslim south. The "peace bombing" of the paper birds has been scheduled to coincide with the


BP Plc  slashed its short and medium term growth targets on Tuesday, hitting the oil giant's shares, as it reported better than expected, but falling, fourth quarter profits.


Pakistan braces for Taliban backlash after arrest

Pakistan braced for reprisals on Saturday, with police on alert for suicide attacks in the city where a senior Taliban leader was captured this week.


Baghdad Bomb Kills 1 or 2, 15-20 Wounded -- Doctor

We want to give you the opportunity to show firsthand what it is like to live and work in Iraq. Portraits of US service members who have died in Iraq since the beginning of the war.


There may not be crying in baseball, but there is crying in the third season of NBC's "The Apprentice."


Jackass: Number Two hits number one in the US box office, but Sean Penn's All The King's Men fares badly.


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Marat Safin overcame a twisted right ankle to reach the Paris Masters final for the fourth time in six years by beating 13th-seeded Guillermo Canas 6-2, 7-6 (5) on Saturday. Safin, the Paris champion in 2000 and 2002, will meet qualifier Radek Stepanek for the title. Stepanek came back to beat Max Mirnyi 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4 to get to his first final of the season.


There's something very strange about the Royals and Tigers on Thursday afternoons. Baseball scores start looking more like football scores.


Quito, 22:44 - CALCIO, ECUADOR: MALORE IN CAMPO, MUORE PER ARRESTO CARDIACO

Jairo Andres Nazareno, 21enne attaccante del Chimborazo, terza divisione dell'Ecuador, è mort...


Leader lies in deep coma `between life and death'

PARISâPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat lies in a deep coma "between life and death," says the Palestinian envoy to France.


President Vladimir Putin backed a government proposal Tuesday to swap state-owned oil company Rosneft for shares in Gazprom - a major step toward removing restrictions on foreign investors' access to shares in the natural gas giant.


Apple breeze past the 200 Million iTunes mark

Apple have announced that their iTunes store has crashed through the 200 million song download mark, a mere five months since we reported on their breaking the 100 million milestone.


Probabile rapido cambio ai vertici della Banca


"Inside Man" thriller inspires ABC drama

LOS ANGELES  - The Jodie Foster character in Spike Lee's thriller "Inside Man" has inspired an ABC drama pilot about a high-powered female PR executive.


Police arrest a 40-year-old man in connection with the death of am unknown man who was left fatally injured in a Newport hospital.


Ryanair makes $1.9 bln bid for Aer Lingus

DUBLIN/LONDON  - Ryanair , Europe's biggest no frills airline, launched a 1.48-billion-euro ($1.9-billion) bid for Aer Lingus  on Thursday and said it had already bought a 16 percent stake in the rival Irish airline.


The Boston Red Sox next week will disclose details of Fenway Park improvements planned for the next two seasons, including the addition in 2006 of a new category of premium seats in an area that will be called the Pavilion.


David Wheeler presents an introduction to the Bricolage content management system (CMS).


Consumer prices -- stoked by more expensive gasoline as well as pricier fruits and vegetables -- heated up in October, rising by 0.6 percent, the biggest gain in five months.


Da An emendamento per estendere il condono fiscale al 2003

ROMA - La riforma fiscale Ã¨ al Senato, dove domani inizierÃ  il suo iter parlamentare. Il governo ha presentato alla commissione Bilancio di Palazzo Madama il testo del provvedimento sotto forma di emendamento alla Finanziaria.


Businesses Blocked From Using White Pages

By PULLAR-STRECKER Tom  DOZENS of businesses were unable to look up phone numbers on the White Pages online directory last week after Yellow Pages Group carried out its threat to crack down on organisations that it believed might be misusing its data.


Two sailors die in a fire on board a Russian nuclear submarine, Russian news agencies report.


John Henry is shopping for a cool new toy to go with his baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, and his 164-foot yacht, the Iroquois. And he may have found it.


By Matt Gryta, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Dec. 19--s The former office manager of St. Christopher Catholic Church in the Town of Tonawanda remained in jail Monday after prosecutors agreed to let her try to post $20,000 bail in a six-figure church embezzlement case.


Viacom to Buy Calif. CBS Station for $285 Mln

Viacom Inc., the parent company of television network CBS, on Thursday said it had agreed to purchase, KOVR-TV, a CBS affiliate station in Sacramento, California, subject to regulatory approval.


iNuisance Miscreants have created a proof-of-concept sample of adware that targets Apple Mac OS X users.â¦


Bruno Kirby, a veteran character actor who costarred in "When Harry Met Sally," "City Slickers" and many other films, has died at age 57, his wife said Tuesday.


Top European pharma firms confirm EU antitrust probe

Anglo-Swedish drugs giant AstraZeneca and British peer GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday they had been approached by EU regulators as part of an antitrust probe into the pharmaceutical sector.


Blame extends to top on Iraq war failures

While reports this week score mid-tier officers for Abu Ghraib abuses, they also reprove higher-ups for handling of insurgency.


Egypt's president makes a hurriedly arranged visit to Syria a day after a divisive debate in the Arab League.


A jury in Rochester, NY, found Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) liable for using patented technology owned by photography company Eastman Kodak (Quote, Chart) in the Java programming language.


VMware Fusion Beta 4 Works with Boot Camp

VMware today introduced Fusion Beta 4, a new version of its virtualization software for Intel-based Macs.


NEW YORK -- Black ministers called on the federal government Tuesday to declare HIV/AIDS among blacks a public health emergency and proposed legislation to address the disease in their community.


Bush ignores laws he inks, vexing Congress

The White House on Tuesday defended President Bush's prolific use of bill signing statements, saying they help him uphold the Constitution and defend the nation's security.


HOUSTON - University of Miami freshman defensive back Anthony Reddick didn't play in the Hurricanes' opener against Florida State, nor did he play much last week against Louisiana Tech.


Melissa Etheridge Has Cancer, Cancels Tour

LOS ANGELES - Singer Melissa Etheridge has been diagnosed with breast cancer and has canceled upcoming tour dates to undergo treatment, according to her publicist.    Etheridge, 43, will undergo surgery and her doctor expects a "speedy and complete recovery," publicist Marcel Pariseau said in a statement...


Oscar-winning actor Kevin Kline becomes the latest star to be honoured on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.


Stuck in the oft-ignored fall portion of the PGA Tour, the 84 Lumber Classic tried to make a name for itself by spending. And spending. And spending.


Blair says potential row over Pakistan terror charges defused

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has claimed to have defused a potential row with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf over claims that his country's intelligence services are backing Islamist extremism.


SMEs urged to 'pick up the innovation ball'

Do or die Innovate or die was the stark warning issued to SMEs by a University of Limerick (UL) professor at a conference in the city on Friday.â¦


George Bush will take a more consensual approach to world politics in his second term as President, says Tony Blair.


Londra, 21:44 - F1, SPY STORY; MOSLEY: ATTENDIAMO DOSSIER MCLAREN SU RENAULT

"Noi non abbiamo ricevuto un reclamo o i particolari che la McLaren aveva promesso di farci avere, m...


Anti-Hollywood Activists Try to Upstage Venice Fest

While stars sip martinis poolside at the  Venice Film Festival, down the beach hundreds of activists are  staging a "camp-in" to protest against Hollywood blockbusters  and high ticket prices at the competition.


Greenspan blows a 'Jackson Hole' in candidates' election promises

As President George Bush and John Kerry outbid each other in rosy promises, Alan Greenspan yesterday brought the election debate on the economy down to earth: Sooner or later


The dusty, lion-colored plains and snowy mountain peaks of East Africa have appeared in numerous Hollywood blockbusters. Now, Kenyans fed up with being the background for high-budget films about white people running around an African playground are telling their own stories.


IBM Unleashes Cheetah, Plans Linux Database Appliance

IBM Corp and Novell Inc have teamed up with Advanced Micro Devices Inc to announce plans for a database appliance server based on of IBM's Informix Dynamic Server database management system.


Initial post-mortem results on Georgian  tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili suggest he died of natural causes.


MOSCOW - Moscow markets opened lower Monday after the opaque sale of Yukosâ main production unit to a dark horse bidder. While analysts have little doubt that the state will ultimately take control of


British police arrest man over letter bombs

British police arrested a man on Monday  in connection with a series of letter bombs in the last two  months and said they could not rule out the possibility that  another, similar device was still in the postal system.


Outside Help Reaches Most of Aceh, U.N. Says

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Emergency relief in  Indonesia's tsunami-struck Aceh is heading for a new phase, now  that first contact has been established with most remote areas,  the chief of U.N. operations there said Sunday.


Atto di clemenza controfirmato dal ministro Mastella


Time Warner unit unveils "Pinpoint Shopping"

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - America Online on Monday unveiled a new service under its inStore brand that offers shoppers the ability to quickly compare features and prices of rival products.


Police investigating the death of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko are examining hours of CCTV footage of his  movements.


Offense Has Been Hitting Its Stride Since Yanks' Torre Loosened Things Up

Joe Torre's explanation for his team's recent turnaround -- looseness among the players.


British troops have achieved many tangible successes in Iraq — securing oil platforms, rounding up rogue police units and driving smugglers carrying weapons and contraband from waterways and border crossings.


Fifa boss Sepp Blatter tells BBC Sport he is surprised England have appointed another foreign coach to lead the national side.


Iran says it's capable of mass producing Shahab-3 missile

Iran said Tuesday it can mass produce a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching Israel and US forces in the Middle East.


Bomber kills 13 Iraq volunteers and 1 U.S. soldier

BAQUBA, Iraq  - A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 13 neighborhood patrol volunteers and a U.S. soldier in a volatile Iraqi province on Thursday.


Klitschko: "I will prove that I am the best heavyweight in the ...

10.25.04 - WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko will make his first title defense against the man who most recently knocked out Mike Tyson, Danny Williams, on Saturday, December 11, 2004, at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.


Fred Wilpon, the Mets' owner, on Thursday insisted that Omar Minaya would have 'full autonomy' as the team's new general manager and president of baseball operations.


Inquiry by City Found Kerik Tie to Building Firm

A relationship between Bernard Kerik and the owner of a company suspected of having mob ties was discovered two months before Kerik became police commissioner.


Adecco, Manpower, Vedior Probed for `Collusion'

Regulators in France, the world's third-biggest temporary employment market, are investigating Adecco SA, Manpower Inc. and Vedior NV, the top providers of such workers, for alleged violations of competition laws.


Mitchell steroid report spreads baseball guilt

Dozens of baseball stars from Barry Bonds to Roger Clemens were named on Thursday in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on steroids use, which U.S. Major League Baseball hopes will help clean its tarnished image.


Health Premiums Rose 5 Times Faster Than Income in 2004

The figures from a survey released today are likely to throw more people into the ranks of the uninsured, analysts said.


Pupils benefit from having worked with creative people such as writers and fashion designers, Ofsted says.


Oil rose more than $1 on Monday as the dollar slipped and tensions between the United States and Iran stoked supply concerns.


Bullet hits Japanese envoy's car in Iraq

An official vehicle carrying Japan's acting ambassador to Iraq was hit by bullets on Thursday in Baghdad, but there were no injuries, the Foreign Ministry said.


KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Kathmandu has been cut off from the rest of the country in the first day of an indefinite blockade of the Nepalese capital by Maoists rebels.


Schools in England are given the legal right to search pupils who are suspected of carrying knives.


Powell: U.S. Wants U.N. Sanctions Vs. Iran

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States wants U.N. sanctions imposed on Iran after the Bush administration concluded the country is on the verge of enriching enough uranium for four nuclear weapons...


Claims that Moldova's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent...

Claims that Moldova's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States means its preferences of Russia versus the European Union are a mistake, Moldovan Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan told the government ...


In Postwar Era, Angolans Now  Face Threat Of HIV-AIDS

HUAMBO, Angola -- Manuel Faustino Gomes, 15, lost both his parents during Angola's long civil war and spent years as a child of the streets, scrambling to survive in this battered city.


Google launches search engine for finding source code online

Google launched a specialized search engine designed to find software source code publicly available on the Web.


'Veer-Zaara' Versus 'M.H.N.', 'K.H.N.H.'

To state that VEER-ZAARA has emerged a big hit in Overseas would be an understatement.


Anti-fraud law sought by Ukraine opposition

Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko yesterday pressed for the prime minister's removal from office, dismissal of electoral officials, and


Oil prices raced to new record highs above $50 on Tuesday, despite a pledge by OPEC producer Saudi Arabia to increase production, as rebel threats against Nigerian oil facilities threatened to inflict further strain on global supplies


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Round-world yachtsman rescued by compatriot

British yachtsman Mike Golding turned back 80 miles in the Five Oceans solo round the world race to rescue rival and compatriot Alex Thomson on Friday.


Clinton holds narrow Nevada lead on Obama: poll

Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a narrow 5-point lead on rival Barack Obama in Nevada on the eve of the state's presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Friday.


As threats mount, Vatican presses for calm

ROME -- The Vatican deployed diplomats to capitals of Muslim states yesterday in an effort to contain anger over Pope Benedict XVI's comments on Islam, as shadowy threats against the pontiff and Christianity multiplied.


NBA Wrap: Timberwolves Rout Sixers by 35 Points

Eddie Griffin scored a career-high 27  points and Latrell Sprewell returned from suspension to score  24 as Minnesota clobbered the Philadelphia 76ers 119-84 in  National Basketball Association play Wednesday.


N.Y. failing to act on wrongful convictions: study

In New York, DNA evidence has exonerated 23 people wrongfully convicted of crimes since 1991, but the state has failed to enact laws that would prevent sending more innocent people to jail.


Nepal has eased a curfew imposed on the capital to contain widespread rioting sparked by the slaying of 12 Nepalese captives in Iraq.


Attendi: Search and chat for instant answers

People search that connects users to chat to find answers.


Roma, 14:09 - CALCIO, COCO: VOGLIO TORNARE A GIOCARE

"Voglio tornare ad essere un giocatore di calcio. Il pallone è la mia vita". E' la confession...


UK scientists develop a process for making hydrogen from sunflower oil which may become an important future source of eco-friendly energy.


Bush visits Fifth Fleet amid Iran tensions

President George W. Bush visited the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet on Sunday amid new tensions with Iran over an incident in which the United States says its ships were harassed in the Strait of Hormuz.


Meeting in drive to ban cluster bombs starts in Oslo

Silhouettes, representing the 2,982 children confirmed killed by by cluster bombs, crowd a snowy square outside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday.Comment


Hillary Rodham Clinton returned Saturday to Arkansas, where she spent 12 years as the state's first lady, to rally Democrats as she seeks her party's presidential nomination. The New York senator and wife of Arkansas' political son Bill Clinton recalled her days traveling Arkansas and the feeling of camaraderie she had with the people she met.


Wal-Mart to sell video downloads: reports

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and  Hewlett-Packard Co. are set to announce a deal with several  major Hollywood studios that would allow the retailer to sell  digital movies and television shows on its Web site, according  to media reports on Tuesday.


A salve amid Darfur woes: better midwives

The Christian Science Monitor - Under the blazing noontime sun in this relief camp, Fatima Abdullah Abou does something she couldn't have done before the Darfur conflict began. She takes her patient, a young mother about to give birth, to get medical help at a local clinic manned by doctors for an international medical aid group, Relief International.


Online manuals enable ATM reprogramming scam

Money for nothing and your gas for free Reprogramming an ATM to dispense more cash than it ought to is far easier than anyone imagined.â¦


Egyptians living near the breached border with Gaza were growing increasingly frustrated with the influx of hundreds of thousands Palestinians over the past week, warning that chaos was brewing and demanding the crisis be resolved.


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Payrolls shrink, first drop in 4-1/2 years

U.S. employers unexpectedly cut  17,000 non-farm jobs in January, the first time in nearly 4-1/2  years that U.S. payrolls shrank as fading construction and  manufacturing sectors reflected the economy's waning momentum.


Car Bombs Kill at Least 60 at Baghdad Market

The blasts occurred in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of New Baghdad only minutes after American soldiers passed through the area on patrol.


Star Soprano Coaxes a Puccini Role From the Vault

There was basically one reason the Metropolitan Opera dusted off its drearily realistic, unbecoming old production of Pucciniâs âManon Lescautâ and brought it back to the house for the first time in 18 years on Tuesday night: the soprano Karita Mattila.


Bolzano, 20:58 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA; PAZZINI: DA VIERI IMPAREREMO TUTTO

Giampaolo Pazzini trova una chiave nuova per esaltare l'arrivo di Vieri in viola. "Vieri è un...


Icahn Makes Bid for Florida Home Builder

The investor Carl C. Icahn bid $955.9 million yesterday for WCI Communities, the Florida builder of condominiums and single-family homes, after saying he wanted to oust the board because the stock was undervalued.


Former Baywatch actress Carmen Electra and rock star Dave Navarro are officially divorced.


BELGRADE, Aug 25 (IPS) - Every other person now seems a spy of sorts.  Bugging devices, secret cameras and other surveillance equipment  are no longer the exclusive tools of the police; more and more,  ordinary people are beginning to use such devices.


A third of graduates believe they studied the wrong course at university, a survey suggests.


Ready for "The Curse of the Mick?" The family of late Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle expressed its anger Friday at a decision to temporarily rename the Yankee slugger's eponymous restaurant — and even worse, to call the place "Ted Williams," after the Red Sox great — following Boston's victory over the Bronx Bombers.


Siemens sets wireless speed record with OFDM

German electronics manufacturer Siemens has set what it claims to be the fastest-ever wireless connection.


Roma, 09:30 - CALCIO, AZZURRI; DONADONI: EUROPEO DIPENDE TUTTO DA NOI

Tre gare alla fine del torneo di qualificazione agli Europei del prossimo anno. Il 13 ottobre l'Ital...


U.S. Youth Antidepressant Use Drops in 2004 - Report

Antidepressant use among children  declined 10 percent in 2004, after U.S. regulators warned the  drugs may be linked with increased suicide risk, pharmacy  benefits firm Medco Health Solutions said on Tuesday.


Business & money: Confidence reaches 18-month high, according to new figures.


The explosions hit five gas stations simultaneously, after a telephone warning from the armed Basque separatist group ETA. Two police officers were slightly wounded by one of the bombs.


Smart Telecom has appointed Ciaran Casey to the position of Chief Operating Officer at the company.


BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Ticker) -- Safety Vincent Fuller stepped up defensively and on special teams as Virginia Tech made certain a former conference rival would not enjoy an undefeated season.


Little-known side of North Korea on display in Beijing gallery

Mention of North Korea inevitably summons up images of nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-Il and starving children, but a Briton has put on display a side of the reclusive country rarely seen -- its artwork.


Virtual reality techniques are helping Danish doctors diagnose heart defects in newborn babies.


WASHINGTON - This fall's presidential debates will pit George W. Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view...


Despite the fact that the cause of Ol' Dirty Bastard's death may not be known for several days, it seems that some of his survivors are already bracing for battle over his assets.


Convalescing Fidel Castro lambasted President Bush on Tuesday for opposing the European Union's goal for an agreement on carbon emissions at next week's Group of Eight summit.


Mobiles can upset hospital equipment A new study published in Critical Care indicates that the signal generated by mobile phones can interfere with hospital equipment, even to the point of inhibiting its function, from a range of up to three meters.â¦


Like a majority of Americans, nurse Peggy Branan feels her job is satisfying and that she is paid fairly. Many workers express concern about job stress, retirement benefits and health care, according to an Associated Press poll, but Branan is not one of them.


Clashing over Iraq, Sen. John Kerry said Friday that President Bush's policies made the war against terror harder to win and "let Osama bin Laden slip away." Bush chastised his Democratic rival for questioning the motives of Iraq's interim prime minister.


Spoofer of Iraq's Chaos Becomes Another Victim

BAGHDAD, Nov. 20 -- For the last three years, Walid Hassan had an impossible task. He had to make war-weary Iraqis laugh. Week after week, the comedian and broadcaster found inspiration in the turmoil and bloodletting. On his weekend television show, "Caricature," he poked fun at the poor security,...


Londra, 10:32 - CALCIO, RABBIA SHEVCHENKO: PERCHE' NON GIOCO?

Andriy Shevchenko è ancora in attesa dell'esordio stagionale col Chelsea e dice risentito di ...


Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific states pledge to bolster anti-terrorism measures and efforts to lower trade barriers.


CORRECTED: U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threat

(Corrects to make clear Apollo 9 orbited the earth, paragraph four)


Seifert colpevole di crimini di guerra in campi di prigionia


Drug stents more likely to clot blood: analysis

Blood clotting is four to five times more likely to occur in patients getting drug-coated heart devices known as stents, compared to the older bare-metal variety, according to a large data analysis released on Wednesday.


Wastewater Plant for Region OK'D; Sewer Rates to Rise

By Erika Pesantes, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 15--DELRAY BEACH -- Residents' sewer rates are set to increase to pay for a $17 million deep injection well project that will pump highly treated wastewater thousands of feet beneath the ground's surface.


Telerobotic surgery performed in zero-gravity environment holds promise for  medicine in space and on the battlefield.


Motivazioni di condanna ad islamici Ansar al Islam


A day after falling to 1-2, Redskins coach Joe Gibbs said he will simplify the offense. He also lauds quarterback Mark Brunell. Joe Gibbs' offensive playbook is full of situational substitutions, formations and pre-snap movements.


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Johnny Damon stayed positive throughout the AL championship series, confident he would break out of his terrible slump.


Gazprom was exempted from a law forbidding companies other than private security firms to arm their employees.


A standard that leaves the good stuff out?

The Storage Management Initiative Specification was created so that vendors could share application programming interfaces to allow interoperability between hardware through a single pane of glass. Users, small vendors and analysts say the standard falls far short because the most important APIs have been left out.


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Republican Fred Thompson said Friday that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is "more symbolism than anything else" as the presidential hopeful warned of possible greater al-Qaida threats within the United States.


The UK experiences its second warmest winter since records began in 1914, Met Office figures show.


Intel has added a high-end model to its range mobile processors. The Pentium M 765 is based on Intel's market-leading 90nm manufacturing process technology and features 2MB of integrated, power-managed Level 2 cache.


Blog: Jerry Yang is Yahoo's new CEO. Is he the right choice for leader?


SLOVAKIA:  Media Bill Threatens EU Treaty

PRAGUE, Feb 8 (IPS) - Slovakia's opposition is endangering approval  of the EU Treaty through its protest against a media bill that it  claims will endanger freedom of speech in Slovakia.


Hamas rebuffed in approach to Israel: source

A prominent Hamas official tried to open discussions with Israel to ease confrontation in the Gaza Strip but was rebuffed, a Palestinian official familiar with the situation told Reuters on Friday.


IN CASE anyone had forgotten, Jim McDonnell, Danny Williamsâs trainer, stood up at the last pre-bout press conference here on Wednesday and repeated his


Fighting breaks out on north-south Sudan border

Militias supported by Khartoum's  army have attacked southern Sudanese soldiers near the  north-south border killing dozens of people, southern army  officials said on Monday.


Mourners attend the funeral of an unarmed black man shot dead by New York police a week ago.


Yukos's Theede Says Putin May Agree to Save Yugansk

OAO Yukos Oil Co., battling to avert bankruptcy, said the Russian government may be considering ways to settle a $7.5 billion tax bill without taking over the company's biggest oil-producing unit.


Report faults response in Virginia Tech shootings

Virginia Tech University officials should have been quicker to notify students and faculty about two killings on campus hours before the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, according to a state report obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.


Picture of Secret Detentions Emerges in Pakistan

Pakistani intelligence agencies have released nearly 100 suspected terrorists in an apparent effort to avoid acknowledging an elaborate secret detention system.


Osaka, 10:00 - ATLETICA, MONDIALI: DIBABA IN DUBBIO PER 5.000 DONNE

Tirunesh Dibaba, vincitrice dell'oro nei 10.000 metri femminili ai Mondiali di Osaka, potrebbe rinun...


He says no. But if Joe Lieberman loses his Senate primary and jeopardizes a Democratic seat, the leading liberal blogger knows that he will be blamed


Manning brothers in spotlight again with big wins

Eli Manning of the New York Giants   hit Plaxico Burress with a 31-yard touchdown pass in overtime   to cap a stirring 30-24 comeback win over the Philadelphia   Eagles on Sunday.


Beijing - The Tibetan capital Lhasa has launched a renovation drive to keep its original ethnic flavour after years of unrestrained urban development filled the city with modern architecture, China's state media said Monday.


Ethanol boom transforms work in Brazil cane fields

PRADOPOLIS, Brazil  - Melquiades Soares, with a sixth grade education, became a cane cutter in Brazil's center-south at age 16, following in the footsteps of his mother, a 40 year veteran of Sao Paulo's cane fields.


KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's capital is under tight security for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the country's first popularly elected president.


Microsoft says end of HD DVD won't hurt Xbox 360

Microsoft Corp  does not  expect sales of its Xbox 360 game console to suffer if Toshiba  Corp (6502.T) discontinues HD DVD technology, Microsoft said in  a statement on Monday.


Three weeks after the Genesis space capsule slammed into the Utah desert after its parachutes failed to deploy, NASA scientists remain hopeful they can salvage the mission and reveal clues about the origin of the solar system.


Election, War, TV Offer Words Deserving Banishment

The U.S. presidential campaign, the  Iraq war and television broadcasts all provided words and  phrases featured on a year-end list of misused, overused and  generally useless terms compiled by a Michigan university.


com / Dec. 15, 2004. Knicks game notes, taken live during the game in Madison Square Garden, raw and completely unedited. Overnight we'll trim this down, but for now, skim the whole thing.


Fund raising and spending in the 2003-04 election cycle by President Bush, Democratic rival John Kerry and national party committees:


Republicans Nominate Bush for Second Term

The Republican Party nominated President Bush for a second four-year term in the White House on Tuesday with a ringing call for his re-election and a torrent of praise for his strength and "compassionate" leadership.


Heath Ledger edgy and anxious over Christmas holidays

Australian actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead in his New York apartment, was edgy and anxious during his Christmas holidays about not seeing his daughter Matilda, close friend and model Sophie Ward told local media.


Judge says man not guilty of IRA bombing

A judge Thursday acquitted the only man charged with murder in the 1998 Omagh bombing that killed 29 people, which was Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.


White House press corps evacuated from work center

The press center across the street from the White House was briefly evacuated on Monday after a bomb-sniffing dog prompted a security check of an Israeli vehicle, U.S. officials said.


The thyroid -- a butterfly-shaped gland at the base of the neck, just below the Adam's  apple -- produces hormones that regulate heart rate, body temperature and energy level. Below is a list of benign thyroid disorders that can develop when those levels go out of whack. Most are diagnosed using a physical exam, thyroid scan, symptom history or blood work to measure thyroid hormone levels.


Rice among 20 inducted into College Hall

Jerry Rice was happy Saturday to be at the College Football Hall of Fame, where he is recognized for his footwork on the football field rather than the dance floor.


Cities wage high-tech battle against graffiti

Global positioning systems (GPS),  digital photography and computer databases are joining the  humble paint can as U.S. cities battle to obliterate graffiti  and catch its shadowy perpetrators.


Well-Rested Knicks Show Some Fight in Overtime

On Tuesday night, the Knicks seemed rested and energized, going on a 19-1 run spanning the fourth quarter and overtime in beating the Wizards.


British Minister Secures Visit to North Korean Blast Site

During his 3-day visit to North Korea, Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell brokered movement on human rights and urged the regime to commit fully to the next round of the regional six-party nuclear talks.


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


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MIAMI -- Free agent outfielder Luis Gonzalez and the Florida Marlins have reached a preliminary agreement on a $2 million, one-year contract.


Pfizer Says 1999 Trials Revealed Risks With Celebrex

Pfizer acknowledged that a clinical trial found that elderly patients taking Celebrex were more likely to suffer heart problems than patients taking a placebo.


Atomic work near peak, Iran president says

Iran's nuclear work is almost at its "peak", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday while the head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog said Iran was probably at least three years from making a nuclear bomb if it so chooses.


Corey Koskie homered and hit a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth inning, lifting the Minnesota Twins over the Cleveland Indians 4-3 Friday night.


Britain backs Israel in call for tougher sanctions on Iran

Britain backed Israel Tuesday in its push for tougher sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought to increase international pressure on Tehran.


The Attorney General on Thursday called for an independent probe into Kenya's election after a day of battles in Nairobi between police and demonstrators disputing the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki.


An antibiotic used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis is showing promise as a therapy for Parkinson's disease.


The director of CBI Scotland questions the Holyrood inquiry into Donald Trump's golf resort plans.


Kabul airport to be guarded by Czech soldiers

Kabul airport is to be guarded by about 100 Czech soldiers from late 2006 till early 2007, Czech Deputy Chief of Staff Emil Pupis said Wednesday.


Barry Bonds asked a federal judge to dismiss perjury charges against him Wednesday, arguing the indictment is "scattershot" and noted for its "striking inartfulness." Bonds was charged in November with lying to a grand jury about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.


California stem-cell move could be test for Scripps

In the increasingly competitive battle for biotech prominence, California just played a trump card: Proposition 71, a voter-approved initiative to spend $3 billion on stem-cell research over the next decade.


RIGHTS-EUROPE:  Seeking Refuge Could Become Criminal

BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Plans by the European Union to allow police to  study data on asylum-seekers have run into difficulty amid  concerns that the move could result in victims of persecution  being treated as criminal suspects.


Found: fewest number of genes needed for life

Â·Hopes for trillion-dollar bounty from breakthroughÂ· Man-made microbes could produce clean fuel


Solana, Iran have weeks to agree on talks: France

France said on Sunday that EU foreign  policy chief Javier Solana and Iran had weeks rather than  months to agree an agenda for talks about Tehran's nuclear  programme.


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Study: Obesity Rises Faster in Poor Teens

Older American teenagers living in poverty have grown fatter at a higher rate than their peers, according to research that seems to underscore the unequal burden of obesity on the nation's poor.


One More Issue For Presidential Election

A new and dramatic issue came into the presidential election this week when it became known that Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has thyroid cancer.


The fruit and floral deliveries for America's No. 1 horse patient, Barbaro, arrive almost one after the other.


Kuchma says he will honor court ruling for repeat vote

Ukraine's leader attempted to ease fears he might hinder a repeat of the fraud-ridden presidential runoff, pledging Monday to honor the Supreme Court's call for a repeat vote.


16 dead, eight injured as bus plunges into river in China

Sixteen people were killed and eight were injured when a truck plunged into a river in southwest China's Guangxi region Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.


Minardi names Albers No. 1 driver next year

Minardi F1 Team, which finished last in the Formula One standings this year, said Dutchman Christijan Albers will drive for the Faenza, Italy-based team next season.


Gibbs century leads SAfrica to eight-wicket win over Zimbabwe

Herschelle Gibbs smashed a century while skipper Graeme Smith made 96 as South Africa coasted to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the second one-day international on Saturday.


Cubs, Marlins to make up Frances series with two doubleheaders

The Chicago Cubs and Florida Marlins will play two doubleheaders to make up the three-game series that was wiped out last weekend in Miami by Hurricane Frances.


Federal Reserve head Ben Bernanke expects the US economy to rebound, even as the housing slump continues.