Udine, 19:28 - CALCIO, UDINESE: DOMANI DECISIONE SU APERTURA FRIULI

Si saprà domani mattina se l'Udinese potrà giocare la sfida di domenica contro il Parm...


Consumer Prices Surged 0.6 Percent in October

Pushed by higher energy prices, US consumer prices rose in October, the Labor Department said today. The seasonally adjusted consumer price index rose 0.6 percent in October, the largest gain since May.


Possible Bank Merger: Banknorth, TD Bank are in talks

Canada's TD Bank Financial Group says it's discussing a "possible transaction" with Portland, Maine-based Banknorth Group.


Roma, 14 settembre 2004 - Lungo tavolo di confronto tra Alitalia e le organizzazioni sindacali e le associazioni professionali dei piloti. La trattativa Ã¨ iniziata alle 23 di lunedÃ¬. Secondo fonti sindacali


San Paolo, 17:07 - CALCIO, SAN PAOLO: PRIMO ALLENAMENTO IN GRUPPO PER ADRIANO

Primo allenamento per Adriano con il San Paolo. Il giocatore si è allenato per la prima volta...


When Pepper Johnson joined the New York Giants as a rookie in 1986, the locker room was ruled by two of his defensive teammates, Harry Carson and George Martin. They were given free rein to run things by Bill Parcells, coach of that Super Bowl-winning team.


UN tries to ease fear about polio outbreak

GENEVA -- The UN health agency yesterday sought to ease fears of a major polio outbreak in Saudi Arabia fueled by Islamic pilgrims from African nations that are still in the grip of the disease.


D'Alema lancia l'allarme sulla strategia del Cavaliere: seminaveleno, poi cerca di rifarsi il look. "Addio metodo Ciampi"                                                  "Berlusconi che punta al Quirinale Ã¨ un pericolo per le istituzioni"                                                                                di GIANLUCA LUZI


DEMAND for water and continued development of the Klang Valley and Selangor has left Mother Nature shaking her head. The Lakum Forest Reserve, home to many protected animals and plants of medicinal value, is to be flooded by the Kelau Dam.


Andre Agassi grabbed his racket bag and headed for the exit. After a few steps, he stopped and turned around, taking time for one last wave to an adoring crowd, one last look at Centre Court. One final farewell to Wimbledon.


LOS ANGELES  - The woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta-Jones maintains that she's innocent. Dawnette Knight, 33, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday (Sept.


Your Money: Getting Out of a 2-Year Cellphone Contract Alive

Itâs not easy to escape a two-year cellphone contract. But it can be done by turning to the innovators on the Internet.


UN watchdog says Britain ignores anti-torture treaty in Iraq, Afghanistan

GENEVA  - A United Nations human-rights panel expressed concern Britain limits its adherence to the global treaty against torture when it comes to its troops' actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.


A nightmarish church burning becomes an echo of the horrors of Rwanda. Will Kenya recover from its controversial election?


SCM Microsystems Announces New Board Chair

FREMONT, Calif., March 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SCM Microsystems, Inc. , a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today announced the appointment of Werner Karl Koepf as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Koepf has been a member of SCM's board since February 2006.


Media companies unveil copyright guidelines for online content

Companies say they want to encourage growth of user-generated content online without violating the copyrights of the content owners.


In other news, GORGOROTH have revealed that it is still uncertain when the video footage recorded at the group's infamous gig in Krakow, Poland will be returned.


Network ratings slide as writers strike drags on

The 12-week-old Hollywood writers  strike is taking a heavy toll on prime-time viewership with  television production largely stopped and the major networks  airing more repeats, game shows and reality shows.


Subprime mortgage sector rattles markets, triggers probes

U.S. financial markets were rattled by news on Tuesday that late payments on U.S. mortgages had reached their highest level in 3-1/2 years, while regulators began a probe of subprime mortgage lending and called for legislation.


Talladega Nights pip the Queen at UK box office

U.S. car-racing movie "Talladega Nights"   shot straight to the top of the UK box office over the weekend,   edging out Helen Mirren's acclaimed regal portrait in "The   Queen," according to Screen International on Tuesday.


After listening to Jerry Rice spend two days talking about his desire to move on to a team that will better utilize his services, the Oakland Raiders got the message Wednesday.


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Ex-Khmer Rouge figure faces war crimes charges

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader was arrested and charged with crimes against humanity yesterday - three decades after the regime left 1.7 million people dead through starvation, overwork, and execution.


TORONTO -- The next time Curt Schilling takes the ball for the Red Sox, it will be on the cusp of September, in the opener of a Fenway Park series next Tuesday against the Anaheim Angels, a team as hot as the Sox in August and one as bent as playing in October as the Olde Towne Team.


Teenager Nadal Sends Spain Into Davis Cup Final

ALICANTE, Spain  - Teenager Rafael Nadal sent  Spain through to the Davis Cup final against the United States  with a scintillating 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 victory over France's Arnaud  Clement on Sunday.


Albany Landfill Discussion Extended 2 Weeks: New Deadline Set After Residents at Packed Meeting Speak Out Against Expansion

By Kate Perry, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 24--ALBANY -- The public comment period on the proposed expansion of the Rapp Road landfill was extended by two weeks Friday at the requests of several residents.   The new deadline for public comment is March 10.


Pilot Completes 1st Stage of Space Flight

MOJAVE, Calif. - Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere Wednesday, completing the first stage of a quest to win a $10 million prize...


It's showtime for Republican Thompson in Iowa

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa  - For Republican Fred Thompson, the former actor turned reluctant politician, the first few months of his floundering bid to be U.S. president were just a warm-up act. Now it is showtime.


60-dollar oil could hurt Asia's confidence: economists

As oil prices keep setting new record highs, there are growing concerns that Asia's energy-hungry economies can no longer continue absorbing the impact with crude creeping toward 60 dollars a barrel.


The Dallas Morning News Ray Sasser Column: Bass Fishing, Muy Caliente

By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 11--COSALA, Mexico -- Like all fishermen, the osprey perched atop a lofty saguaro cactus did not appreciate being crowded. Ron Speed's fishing boat interrupted the fish eagle's breakfast.


Former world No. 1 Tiger Woods has married Swedish model Elin Nordegren at the luxury Sandy Lane resort in Barbados, The Daily Nation newspaper reported on Wednesday.


"Monster" fossil found in Jurassic graveyard

Scientists have found a fossil of a "Monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.


MPs slam Defra over rural payments system

'A master class in bad decision making' Rushed testing of IT and poor management led to the failure of the single payments scheme for farmers, says a parliamentary report.â¦


Swiss police find kilogramme of cocaine in a pair of sandals

Swiss border guards found more than one kilogramme (two pounds) of cocaine in a pair of sandals belonging to a man trying to drive over the border, police said Wednesday.


Bonds' contract reworked; will stage assault on Aaron's record as ...

Now that Barry Bonds is assured of staying with the San Francisco Giants for two more seasons, he already is looking beyond. His children won't let him think about retirement just yet.


Qualys: When rules finally meet technology

Automating credit card compliance Rumour has it that TJX, the embattled US retailer trying to recover its reputation following the loss of 45 million credit and debit card details, is dishing out free ice creams to entice shoppers back in to their stores in major US cities.â¦


Report: Facebook threatens to ban Gawker's Denton

After the New York digital media maven posted copious screenshots of a Facebook profile on Gawker, a blog reports that the social-networking site is ready to crack down on such violations.


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Microsoft goes after bulletproof "spam host"

Microsoft Corp is suing a company it claims provides so-called "bulletproof" web hosting to spammers. A company attorney said it is the first time anybody has been sued for allegedly providing spam "support services".


Crollo palazzina, si accredita l'ipotesi del suicidio

Sembra sempre piÃ¹ accreditata man mano che procedono le indagini sul crollo della palazzina a Prati di Vezzano Ligure (leggi qui) l'ipotesi che l'esplosione che ha provocato la morte di Angela, Giampaolo e Davide Tazzini, sia stata determinata anche se


Brian May has stunned Queen fans by announcing the rock group will reform, with ex-Free and Bad Company star Paul Rodgers taking over vocal duties from the late Freddie Mercury.


Healthy or unhealthy, this national dependence on the web has happened in the 10 short years since IBM targeted the domestic consumer with PCs powerful enough to connect with the web.


Missing Clues in Asthma May Be Uncovered

Sept. 27, 2004 -- Scientists may be one step closer to solving the mystery behind the steps that trigger asthma. Experts have discovered a type of specialized regulatory cell that reduces asthma and airway


Didier Cuche of Switzerland won the next to last World Cup downhill of the season on Saturday to clinch his first discipline title in the event.


Ready to Storm U.S. Motorists' Diesel Barricades

ROTHENBURG, Germany Change happens. Consider this walled medieval village. Despite fortifications -- a mile-long wall replete with multiple gun embrasures -- it fell to invading armies three times during the Thirty Years War, a brutal conflict between Catholics and Protestants that began in 1618.


Stars urge U.N.'s Ban to help Myanmar's Suu Kyi

More than 25 celebrities including  actors Jim Carrey, Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams on  Thursday urged the United Nations to help win freedom for  Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.


As it tries to reclaim former Sun worshippers Comment Sun has announced a series of updates to its flagship Solaris operating system. Solaris 10 11/06 OS enhances efficiency, safety, and reliability.â¦


President Khatami says Iran will never give up nuclear technology, as US pressure on Tehran continues to rise.


James McFadden is red carded and Berti Vogts is sent to the stand as Scotland's World Cup qualification hopes suffer another hammer blow.


Ask makes Web search more visual, less text-based

Ask.com is set to give greater  prominence in Web search results to photos, video and related  searches, responding to growing consumer demand for more than  text links, the company said on Monday.


Sharon pleased with drop in terror attacks

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is pleased with recent results in the fight against terror, but says the fight will continue uncompromisingly.


Bank of Montreal Takes Write-Down and Bolsters SIVs

Canadaâs fourth-largest bank cited turmoil in the credit markets, and said it would provide up to $13 billion in liquidity for two of its structured investment vehicles.


Orthodox patriarch killed in Greek air crash

ATHENSâEgypt's Patriarch of Alexandria, whose post traces its lineage to one of Christ's disciples, was killed with his Greek Orthodox retinue yesterday in a helicopter crash, Greek authorities confirmed.


iPhone's Safari dialing feature can be hacked

Blog: Feature designed to dial Web page phone numbers is subject to cross-site scripting attack.


Russia Casts Public Doubt On Iraqi Elections

7 December 2004 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting today with Iraq's interim prime minister that he "cannot imagine" how free and fair elections could be held as planned in Iraq, given the fact that the country is under what Putin


Hurricane, Tropical Storm Form in Atlantic

While Florida tallied the devastation  from Hurricane Charley, another hurricane and a tropical storm  gathered strength in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.


IAEA Says Tons of Powerful Explosives Missing from Iraq

The International Atomic Energy Agency says several hundred tons of high explosive material have disappeared in Iraq. The agency says a lack of security has led to looting from several sites.


Papelbon Was on the Mound, but His Mind Was Somewhere Else

Closer Jonathan Papelbon was not needed Saturday, and the day off should have helped him forget about a deflating defeat Friday night.


Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai campaigns with nephew in Mazar

ELEANOR HALL: While Australians will be heading to the polls on Saturday, on the other side of the world Afghans are voting this weekend in the first ever democratic election in their country.


Tony Blair wants to avoid a 'stand up row' with Russia's president but will tell him he is being 'counter-productive'.


Male in particolare l'inserimento di donne e giovani


West Japan on Guard for Aftershocks After Quakes

Japanese authorities warned of possible aftershocks after two strong earthquakes hit western Japan on Sunday, but said the tremors were not directly linked to the sort


They'll revel in riverboats, art galleries and posh restaurants Â and, yes, members of Congress will still be welcome at parties thrown by lobbyists during next year's national political conventions.


The lawyer for Abimael Guzman, ex-leader of Peru's Shining Path rebels, says he is denied access to his client.


IAEA set to approve new nuclear mission to N.Korea

The International Atomic Energy Agency's governing body is expected on Monday to authorize the dispatch of U.N. monitors to North Korea to verify the shutdown of its atomic bomb programme, diplomats said.


An eruption of high-energy radiation recently signaled a tantrum unleashed by a black hole, astronomers announced today.


Lebanon minister shot dead, Hariri son blames Syria

Gunmen on Tuesday assassinated Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis over ties with its dominant neighbor.


After Rejection by Yahoo, Microsoft Hints at a Fight

Hours after Yahoo officially rejected Microsoftâs takeover bid, calling it too low, Microsoft called Yahooâs response âunfortunateâ and said its proposal was âfull and fair.â


The Pope's personal preacher urges him to call for a "day of atonement" for child sex abuse by Catholic clergy.


Turner Broadcasting "regrets" Boston security scare

Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert.


Murdoch taps HP boss for News Corp boardroom

Ink-stained veterans join hands HP boss Mark Hurd has joined the board of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on the recommendation of the Silicon Valley veteran who blew the whistle on the 2006 journo spying scandal at the IT vendor.â¦


HOUSTON (Sports Network) - Indianapolis Colts quarterback  Peyton Manning threw two touchdown passes in the first quarter  of Sunday's game against the Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium  to set an NFL record for most consecutive games with multiple  TD throws.


Low-protein diet might reduce cancer risk

NEW YORK  - Researchers studying a group of vegetarians who'd maintained a diet relatively low in protein and calories found that they had lower blood levels of several hormones and other substances that have been tied to certain cancers.


PartyGaming Plc said on Tuesday it was cancelling its interim dividend following its decision to suspend all gaming business with U.S. players in the face of a ban.


Parts of Togo's capital, Lome, are empty after an opposition strike call over the "military coup" earlier this month.


Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks says the club held talks with Jurgen Klinsmann about taking over from manager Rafael Benitez.


Lindsay's parents seek justice for daughter murdered in Japan

The parents of a Lindsay Ann Hawker -- whose naked and bruised body was found in a bathtub filled with sand -- returned to Tokyo on Wednesday aiming to kick-start the stalled investigation into her death.


Saudi security forces have arrested seven suspected militants in a raid on an Islamic militant stronghold north of the capital, where an attack by militants


Sestriere, 13:54 - SCI, CDM DONNE: GOETSCHL LEADER IN PROVE

Renate Goetschl ha ottenuto il miglior tempo in 1'40"45 nella seconda giornata di prove ufficiali de...


An inquiry begins into the crash-landing at London's Heathrow airport, as the UK PM praises the pilot.


A Fee That Developers Would Like to See Rise

The fee increase would help cover the cost of processing offering plans submitted to the attorney generalâs office; such filings grew to 929 in 2006 from 299 in 2002.


WASHINGTON Sept. 1, 2004 - In a dramatic reversal, the Justice Department acknowledges its original prosecution of a suspected terror cell in Detroit was filled with a "pattern of mistakes and oversights" that warrant the dismissal of the convictions.


Oops! Air Force Flies Nuclear Bombs Over U.S.

It was a mistake, the Air Force says -- and the public was never in danger. But nevertheless, a B-52 armed with six nuclear warheads flew for more than three hours last week across several states. They meant to take the warheads off the missiles before they mounted them under the wings, but somebody goofed. A commander is fired over the incident.


Barghouti offers Palestinians real choice

Jailed intifada leader Marwan Barghouti has turned the Palestinian presidential elections into a real contest with his last-minute entry.


A methane blast in a mineshaft in Russia's Siberia killed at least 10 people and injured 30 on Thursday, a government spokesman said.


President Bush scheduled a victory announcement in Washington this morning, with officials of his reelection campaign asserting that he has won at least 286 electoral votes -- 16 more than he


Agassi looking for master stroke against Johansson

Andre Agassi will line up against the last home player to win the title when he faces final opponent Thomas Johansson in a battle of veterans on Sunday at the Stockholm Open.


CHICAGO (CBS 2) "Bridget Jones' Diary" ended on the perfect romantic note, with the long-suffering Bridget kissing her prince on a snowy street corner.


I knocked out Oscar with one hand behind my back, walloping his little glassy-eyed head with a series of right jabs.


MAPPE                                          L'era della campagna elettorale permanente                                                                                di ILVO DIAMANTI


Pechino, 15:15 - TENNIS: ATP PECHINO, GONZALEZ VINCE TORNEO

Il cileno Fernando Gonzalez ha vinto il torneo Atp di Pechino. Il finale ha sconfitto lo spagnolo To...


Don't read more into a stock position than is really there.


Born to moviemaking, producer Canton is back

Mark Canton is a  survivor. A born Hollywood insider, the son of PR maven Arthur  Canton, he ran production at Warner Bros. Pictures and rose to  chairman of Columbia TriStar Pictures, where he infamously  promoted the 1993 Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle "The Last  Action Hero" as "probably the greatest action movie of all  time."


The Boss and The Terminator in US election showdown

In a showbiz showdown for the ages, Bruce Springsteen and Arnold Schwarzenegger will test their celebrity muscle on opposing sides of the partisan divide in the final days of the US presidential campaign.


Mortar Shells Hit Mosque in Old Iraq City

Blood and shrapnel covered the grounds of the ancient Kufa mosque compound Thursday after at least two mortar blasts ripped through a crowd of Iraqis gathered to march to the holy city of Najaf, killing at least 27 people and wounding at least 63.


Bulgaria Readies for EU Military Operation ... |read|

Politics: 8 September 2004, Wednesday. For the first time EU hopeful Bulgaria will join the block of 25 in a military operation of the Union starting end-2004 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


VIC, Spain -- New world champion Sebastien Loeb pulled out of the Catalunya Rally with a mechanical breakdown after winning the first leg on the second day.


Arkansas — the first state to send home obesity report cards to warn parents of overweight kids' health risks — may ditch the plan or weaken it with the help of the new governor.


The Republic of Ireland held France to a 0-0 draw in Paris yesterday in one of their best performances under manager Brian Kerr. Kerr acknowledged a tinge of disappointment that his side hadn't beaten France in Saturday's World Cup qualifier.


A conservative Republican senator said Sunday most lawmakers believe President Bush will focus on reducing U.S. troops in Iraq once a top general reports in September on the war's progress.


Ray Charles Receives 7 Grammy Nominations

Six months after his death, Ray Charles is having a career year. He's the subject of the critically acclaimed biopic "Ray," his posthumous album, "Genius Loves Company," has become a best seller, and on Tuesday, it received seven Grammy nominations — more than any other album by the musical icon.


BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers killed 20 members of Iraq's fledgling security forces near a US marine base west of Baghdad and at a checkpoint to the north yesterday amid a spate of insurgent attacks across the country.


Princess Diana's death not murder: police

Princess Diana was not the victim of a murder plot when she and her lover died in a tragic car accident in 1997, a British police inquiry found on Thursday.


La societa' gia' proprietaria di Robe di Kappa e Jesus Jeans


Cuba to free 7 dissidents at Spain's request

Cuba will free seven of 59 dissidents imprisoned since 2003, a move that opponents of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said reflects a "climate of change" under his brother's rule.


No charges after UK "cash for honors" probe: media

No one will be charged with the illegal sale of state honors as a result of a police enquiry that dogged former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's last months in office, British media reported on Thursday.


Rasmussen Wins 8th Stage of Tour de France

Michael Rasmussen of Denmark won the eighth stage of the Tour de France on Sunday to take the overall lead after a second day of grueling climbs in the Alps.


The BBC's Nick Hawton visits Montenegro, Europe's newest state, to find out how it is coping, a year after it held its first polls since independence.


Staff Told to Protect Thrift Savings Plan's Assets

The federal retirement savings board's first meeting of 2008 began yesterday morning on an ominous note, with reports of a roiling stock market and an emergency interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.


Samsung combo player news; BD-P2400 officially cancelled

Samsung announces new details on its BD-UP5000 HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player and cancels the BD-P2400 Blu-ray player.


Air Products takes charges on sale, reorganization

Industrial gas supplier Air Products  said on Monday it would take charges of 32 cents to 37 cents per share in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2006 related to the sale of its Amines unit and its recently announced reorganization.


Kanye caps banner week with singles chart-topper

NEW YORK (Billboard) - A day after reaching No. 1 on the U.S. album charts, hip-hop star Kanye West took the top spot on the singles chart Thursday.


Interview: Bechtolsheim hails open-source moves

(InfoWorld) - Andreas, or simply, Andy, Bechtolsheim holds the distinction of having employee badge #1 among the thousands of people who have worked at Sun Microsystems in its 25 years of existence. Perhaps best known as the inventor of the Stanford University Network (SUN) workstation, he is among the four founders of the company, along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy. Although he left the company in 1995 to found Granite Systems, a Gigabit Ethernet startup, he returned to Sun in 2004 via the company's Kealia acquisition. Bechtolsheim also was a vice president at Cisco Systems while away from Sun. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently spoke with Bechtolsheim about Sun's past and present situation, with Bechtolsheim chiming in on about topics including open source and the Intel and SPARC chip architectures. [See also a Slideshow: "25 years of Sun" | PDF: "Timeline of Sun's achievements"] InfoWorld: First of all, was Bill Joy actually the fourth employee at Sun? Or wasn't he more like the 15th or 16th employee? Bechtolsheim: I think his official badge number was 6 because there were two people we hired on day one, and he came [onboard approximately] the next week. But he was considered a founder. InfoWorld: And you wore badge number 1, right? Bechtolsheim: Well, that's because I worked on the workstation for three years before the company started, although I think Bill worked on Berkeley Unix longer than that. So maybe he should have been number 1. The way the company started was I had a previous business that was actually licensing the design [of] the Sun workstation to other companies in exchange for royalties. And I had a whole bunch of people set up making these boards. It dazzles me that none of these companies had any clue about the workstation business. They had all the pieces, but they didn't see the market opportunity, and I was kind of getting frustrated because I was really more the engineer, the hardware guy, than the businessman. So Khosla called me saying, "Let's just start a company. This was the obvious solution to the problem of how to bring this product to market. InfoWorld: I know you've left Sun, you've come back, and I think there's been a couple exits and returns.Â  Bechtolsheim: No, no, no, there was just one. I left in 1995 to start a Gigabit Ethernet company called Granite, which Cisco acquired in 1996, and then I spent seven years at Cisco until the end of 2003. And then I left Cisco to start a company, which Sun acquired in 2004. InfoWorld: What are you doing these days? Bechtolsheim: Well, my official title here is chief architect of industry standard [products] and I'm basically responsible for the product definition of our industry-standard architectures [offerings]. InfoWorld: How do you view Sun after 25 years? The company has had its ups and downs, mostly ups except for the last few years. How do you view the company at this point and where do you think it's headed? Bechtolsheim: One reason I left in 1995 is that one of my concerns at the time was that we should be really building an x86-based server, and I was getting worried that the cost performance of those systems was edging up with the SPARC architecture. Here I am 10 years later or 12 years later actually doing what I suggested the company should be doing earlier.... People keep asking was this like a prearranged marriage? But the honest truth was I had no idea I would be coming back to Sun. I was actually happy building this [sort of] little business, but when Sun decided to enter the industry-standard market, it became an opportunity to build a much more significant business here. So that's why I'm back here. InfoWorld: Were you the founder of the SPARC architecture? Bechtolsheim: What happened is Bill, even though he was really the software guy, became convinced in, I think it was 1984, that Motorola and the whole microprocessor architecture they were using, which was the 68000, was just not keeping up, or not taking advantage of what the technology could do. And after some interesting investigations, we concluded that we might as well design our own architecture, which was, for a small startup company, quite the bold thing to do. What was correct about this was it gave us a performance lead for many, many years, and then [we grew] the company to many, many billion dollars. So it was actually a very successful decision. Now, I was not involved in the original SPARC chip design. However, I was involved in the design of SPARCstation 1, which was really the first high-volume product around SPARC, which was a pizza-box workstation that was launched in 1989. And that was actually Sun's best-selling product for a while, and that was followed by the SPARCstation 2 and 10 and 20. And then I guess I got a little tired of doing all these workstations, so I decided there was a new opportunity in gigabit networking. But now I do see an opportunity back in the server space, and that's why I'm back here. InfoWorld: Do you think SPARC has much of a future at this point? Bechtolsheim: Well, it's the mainstream of the company. In fact, it's growing again. And the price performance and power efficiency of these multithreaded architectures is quite compelling. Now, having said that, it is Solaris-only, so it defines the Solaris market, whereas the industry-standard architecture of course runs Linux as well as Windows. From a volume perspective, the industry's architecture is way ahead. But we have a number of very loyal SPARC customers, and we don't see a reason to switch anytime soon, so we will keep investing in SPARC as long as that makes sense. InfoWorld: Would you say that Sun has righted the ship? I remember quarter after quarter after quarter where Sun was just getting bigger and bigger. And then during dot.com bust, Sun, like everybody else, slipped. Would you say that you righted the ship with the open-sourcing of Solaris and Java and that sort of thing? And also, what is your take on the open-sourcing of Java? I don't know if you ever actually publicly stated it. Bechtolsheim: I wasn't at Sun when the crash happened. From the outsider's view, Sun probably reacted a little too slowly to the change in business fundamentally. So the company would have been better off at the time to downsize more quickly. But that was six years ago, so that's neither here nor there. The open-sourcing of Solaris is actually going very well. There have been over 5 million downloads to date. We don't actually know what people are doing with all these downloads. It's kind of fascinating to see people in Pakistan and India and China and all over the world downloading this code, and something interesting is about to happen here, I would think, and the same about Java of course. So perhaps the company should have opened up these systems sooner, but nobody's complaining about the fact that it's open now. And it certainly has received very positive feedback from developers and other people who want to make either extensions or just understand how this stuff is working. InfoWorld: When you say positive feedback from developers, you're talking about Solaris and Java, or just Solaris? Bechtolsheim: Well, I want to touch on the Solaris side. Java, of course, runs on all kinds of platforms, such as Solaris. But I'm not with the part of the company that's working on all the Java things, so I can't really speak to that.... Open-source software has a compelling advantage because the potential customers know that there's a difference in openness with open software than with any kind of closed software. And more and more governments and companies decide that that's the right thing to do. InfoWorld: So you're in favor of the open-sourcing of Java? Bechtolsheim: That was definitely the right thing to do.... Keep in mind that when Sun started, Berkeley Unix was essentially the first open-source operating system because you would get a copy of the source code just by sending a $100 check to Berkeley, which covered the cost of making a tape and sending it to you, right? In some sense, we should have kept that tradition all along, so the fact that Solaris was not always as open as it is today was basically a sort of mistake.Â  InfoWorld: So can Sun still make money selling hardware and services even though the software is now basically free in many instances? Bechtolsheim: It's no different than Linux, right? Even though Linux itself is free, there's a cost for support and so on, and Solaris support actually, as far as that, is less expensive than a Red Hat subscription. So we are in fact competing with the Linux model. InfoWorld: What are you most proud of in the 25 years of Sun, and what is your biggest disappointment? Bechtolsheim: [There are] all the good memories certainly [of] the early days with the first Sun workstation, the first SPARCstation, UltraSPARC, and so on. All of these were major milestones that really propelled the company forward. And my personal involvement was by far the greatest with the SPARCstation series of products. Actually, really all the workstation products, but the SPARCstation really broke new grounds for the company in terms of just being a high-volume platform. One of the disappointments was that we didn't take advantage of the x86 architecture earlier. We should have done that in the 1990s certainly, not just a few years ago. But by the same token, there's ongoing innovation here, and it's not too late to re-enter that market. InfoWorld: I keep thinking back to something like Open Look versus Motif. Do you think Sun has been a rebel sort of company?Â  Bechtolsheim: No, I think that's the wrong way to look at it. If you want to innovate, you sometimes have to throw things out and see whether you can make them successful. Because there's no easy way in advance to predict how exactly it will play out. Open Look is an example where something was not successful, even though we tried, we tried to give it away to the industry, but at the time, there was this counterforce called the Open Software Foundation, which was really the IBM, HP, DEC club to prevent Sun from growing, and whatever [we] were doing, they would oppose and do it differently. Now the Open Software Foundation, of course, wasn't successful either. There's nothing that remains from that. But the unfortunate thing is that what we were telling these other companies at the time was that the problem was Microsoft, not Sun, and they just didn't believe it. And a few years later that was more evident, but a lot of energy was wasted during that period of Unix companies trying to slow each other down, which really wasn't beneficial to anyone. But again, this was an industry matter of fact that we could just observe that not everybody understood open systems at the time, but I think it's clear now.


Hulu Readies Its Online TV, Dodging the Insults

Created by NBC and Fox to bring free television to the Web, Hulu plans to begin sending videos to its partners, Microsoft, AOL, MySpace, Yahoo and Comcast.


Spunta la tassa di soggiorno: 5 euro notte, anche in camping


Berna, 23:13 - BASKET, EUROCUP DONNE: SCHIO VINCE IN SVIZZERA

Ancora un successo in Eurocup femminile per la Beretta Famila Schio. Nella trasferta in terra svizze...


Music Review | Boston Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky Brings News of Summer

James Levine led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a rousing performance of Tchaikovskyâs Fourth Symphony.


Highlights from the SEW Blog: Feb. 5, 2007

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.


Directors Guild, studios reach contract deal

The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and television studios on Thursday -- a move likely to turn up pressure to settle a 10-week-old strike by screenwriters.


Sui rapiti in Nigeria: 'prospettive piu' incoraggianti'


Il ministro Gentiloni, "grazie alla polizia postale"


Weightless Trip to Nowhere Yields Thrills, Nausea

Fancy an airplane trip that takes you nowhere, costs about $3,000, and may make you vomit?


Why Apple should launch iTunes movie rentals now

Rumors are abound that Apple will release a movie rental service on iTunes. And as Don Reisinger points out, the company should do it as soon as possible.


Author Faults a Game, and Gamers Flame Back

The Internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned. Thatâs the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned this week after a program on that channel featured a discussion of the sexual content of the hit video game Mass Effect.


Iraqi tribal leaders, Shiite politicians, government officials and U.S. military officers agreed Sunday to a one-day truce for peace talks to end violence in the Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a day after 10 people ...


WASHINGTON - CBS News mounted an aggressive defense Friday of its report about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard, with anchor Dan Rather saying broadcast memos questioned by forensic experts came from "what we consider to be solid sources."   On Friday's "CBS Evening News," Rather said that "no definitive evidence" has emerged to prove the documents are forgeries. "If any definitive evidence comes up, we will report it," Rather said...


Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.


FedEx Corp. had a "strong" pre-Christmas holiday season and a newly introduced fuel surcharge is enough to address concerns over margins in its ground business, Chairman and CEO Fred Smith said on Monday.


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Zimbabwe general elections set for March 29, 2008

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe announced on Friday that general elections would be held on March 29 in the economically devastated southern African nation.


Long considered something of a junior partner among Europe's elite nations, Italy is carving out a hefty role in world affairs.


Halliburton will restructure its Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary and may even sell the business should it continue to underperform rivals.


By Katherine Imbrie; Journal Staff Writer  With more than 400 miles of shoreline from Westerly to Little Compton, Rhode Island is famous for its beaches. But what makes a beach special is different for everyone.


Eiffel Tower ex-employees avoid jail after stealing hundreds of thousands of euros from ticket sales.


US stocks: Dow dips, Nasdaq up in wait for word on rates

NEW YORK - The blue-chip Dow average ended slightly lower, while the tech-driven Nasdaq inched higher on Tuesday as investors waited for hints from the Federal Reserve about the pace of interest-rate increases on Wednesday.


Economic View: Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago? Do You Care?

Despite an apparently imminent slowdown, economic policy and the general state of the economy have hardly made it onto the evening news of late.


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Britons will buy 30 million electrical 'essentials' such as juicers and cordless phones in the next six months.


Ukraine's Opposition Sees Path to Victory

KIEV, Ukraine  - Opposition hopeful Viktor  Yushchenko said Wednesday a parliamentary vote to root out  cheating in elections opened the way for him to win a re-run of  a rigged presidential poll.


Summary - (Sep 24, 2004) An international team of scientists have discovered one of the most powerful events since the Big Bang: a collision between two galaxy clusters, which is smashing millions of stars into each other.


A wealthy Texan and prolific Republican donor is helping bankroll a television ad assailing Democrat John Kerry's decorated military record in the Vietnam War.


Bidding groups form for Wendy's: sources

Thomas H. Lee Partners and Oak Hill Partners are among the private equity firms bidding for burger chain Wendy's International Inc , sources said on Thursday, as the auction proceeds despite the impact of the credit crunch on deals.


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A full scale emergency operation is under way to rescue a Canadian submarine drifting off the Irish coast.


The FDA said the Viagra ads were so suggestive they touted the drug's effectiveness, thereby requiring a description of the evidence for the claim and the possible side effects.


Halle Berry opened her home in the hills above Sunset Boulevard on Sept. 27 to host a party for acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.


Vietnam Marks Independence with Pardons for Prisoners

Vietnam has released nearly 9,000  prisoners, including 10 inmates whose cases it says had drawn  international attention, as part of traditional pardons granted  ahead of independence celebrations on September 2.


New research finds that low fat beats low carb if you want to lose weight and keep it off. The findings were presented Monday at an obesity conference in Las Vegas.


French defence minister in Asia for high-level talks

French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie travels later this week to Japan, South Korea and China for high-level talks that will touch on key security challenges in the region.


Katie Couric's ratings, attempts to inject an opinion segment into the "CBS Evening News" and search for a signoff have all been meticulously detailed in print. The state of Rosie O'Donnell's relationship with the other women of "The View" is monitored daily.


VALENCIA, Spain  - Alinghi will try to clinch the America's Cup for a second time on Tuesday after their first attempt at winning sailing's oldest and most coveted prize was stymied by a lack of wind.


Cameron reveals family employment and announces plans to enforce greater openness among front bench


Gold medal sendoff for US soccer veterans

As television cameras gathered in front of the US women's soccer team after it defeated Brazil 2-1 in overtime for the gold medal yesterday, the woman who scored the game


Arafat's condition is improving, aide says

PARIS -- Yasser Arafat's health is improving, one of his aides said Tuesday, repeating that tests have ruled out leukemia as the cause of the Palestinian leader's health problems.


Fannie Executives to Defend Accounting Practices

In their first response to regulators' allegations that the company manipulated its books, executives of mortgage funding giant Fannie Mae plan to defend its accounting and say the actions


Lib Dems play Iraq card in run-up to polls

The Liberal Democrat party, for decades a distant third force in British politics, ended its annual get-together with stirring predictions that policies such as opposition to the Iraq war could soon see them in government.


Mikell Simpson began Saturday as an unknown running back but turned in a surprising performance in Virginia's win over Maryland.


Retail sales slow in June amid record wet weather

Retail sales slowed last month, official data showed Thursday, as the country's wettest June on record kept consumers away from the highstreet.


The 'Grand Prix World Championship' will issue a statement later this week, we can reveal. GPWC is a group of disgruntled Formula One carmakers, who may be ready to reaffirm a commitment to break away from


Mutilated body of blond woman found in Fallujah

FALLUJAH - US Marines on Sunday found the butchered body of a blond-haired Caucasian woman lying on a street in Fallujah. "It is a female ... missing all four appendages, with a slashed throat and disemboweled


Bus with baseball team crashes in Atlanta, 6 dead

At least six people were killed and 29 injured on Friday when a bus carrying a U.S. university baseball team fell off an overpass onto a freeway, a police spokesman in Atlanta said.


Depression is more a disabling condition than angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, research suggests.


Philippines issues new warning against job-seekers heading for Iraq

Philippine President Gloria Arroyo's government has issued a fresh warning to Filipino job-seekers trying to fly to Iraq despite a government ban.


IBM readies 32-way Xeon server, hints at Opteron blade

IBM plans to ship a 32-processor Xeon server in the first half of 2005 and is hinting that an Opteron blade may be in the works.


Global High Blood Pressure Rates Set to Soar: Study

A third of the world's adult population -- more than one billion people -- will suffer from high blood pressure by 2025, scientists predicted on Friday.


US Soldier Gets 25 Years In Murder of Iraqi Guard

A US soldier was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi National Guardsman in May, the US military said Saturday.


Crude oil regains strength, thanks to Ivan

CALGARY - Oil prices rose to their second-highest closing price on record yesterday, a final gift from Hurricane Ivan, which ravaged the US Gulf Coast last week, cutting oil imports south of the border and destroying key production facilities.


U.S. may alienate Muslims over human trade: Malaysia

Malaysia dismissed on Monday possible U.S. sanctions over human trafficking and warned Washington of alienating Muslims after it blacklisted mostly Islamic countries.


Roma, 13:29 - CALCIO, UNDER 21: CONVOCATI CASIRAGHI PER SFIDA CON LA SPAGNA

Questi i 22 azzurrini convocati da Casiraghi per le due gare di play off del Campionato Europeo Unde...


What's better than a high-quality stock? A high-quality stock that's got the wind at its back!


S. Korea: A Social Network Reshapes Politics

A South Korean version of MySpace is emerging as a potent political force. How Cyworld is reshaping the country's presidential campaign.


A group of children found a boy's body stuffed into a suitcase and floating in a duck pond at a suburban Sydney park, police said Thursday.


O'Brien to Take Over for Leno in 5 Years

NBC chose the 50th anniversary of the "Tonight" show on Monday to announce that Jay Leno will be succeeded by "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien in five years — or thousands of jokes from now.


The Salt Lake Tribune Business Insight Column

By Dawn House, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 12--SECURING YOUR INFORMATION: Tax returns are a bonanza of  information that you might consider paying theft-prevention companies to  protect -- or you can do it yourself for free -- says Todd Davis, CEO of  LifeLock, based in Tempe, Ariz.


Officers are to patrol the foot-and-mouth protection zone in Surrey after fears restrictions are being ignored.


Microsoft has agreed to buy Medstory, which developed a search engine that specializes in finding health information.


[India News] Dimapur, Oct 3 : Hundreds of Christians in the northeast Indian state of Nagaland were Sunday holding special prayers to mourn the death of 28 people killed in serial bomb blasts.


Jose Lima bounced back in grand style Friday night from one of his worst outings of the season and an eight-day layoff, limiting the National League's most feared lineup to two


European drug regulators are conducting a safety review of four arthritis drugs amid reports that they could increase the risk of strokes and heart attacks.


Kidnappers free Brazilian soccer star's mom

SAO PAULO - Kidnappers freed the mother of Santos forward Robinho, one of Brazilâs most talented young players, on Friday, 40 days after seizing her at gunpoint while she was attending a barbecue.


EMI pitches cross-platform content into the VidZone

Meanwhile, take-over speculation mounts... EMI has signed a licensing and distribution agreement with Vidzone Digital Media to deliver the music giant's full DRM-free digital catalogue to mobiles and PCs via its cross-platform offering.â¦


Typhoon rips central Vietnam city then weakens

A typhoon ripped off roofs, felled trees and cut power lines on Vietnam's central coast on Sunday, killing at least seven people before weakening overland and moving into neighboring Laos, officials said.


Roma, 21:00 - DOPING, PESI: POSITIVO CAMPIONE ITALIANO DISTENSIONE

Franco Omaggio, campione italiano di distensione su panca, tesserato per la Spes-Mestre, è ri...


Tigers' Ledezma gets win over Royals, 7-3

Ledezma (4-2) gave up two runs -- one earned -- and seven hits in six innings to lead Detroit to a 7-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Monday.


This Time, Rate Cuts May Not Be a Panacea

The recent bleak returns on Wall Street have prompted many investment advisers to prescribe the same bromide: switch to defensive stocks and cut back on bonds.


Scientists are researching the long-term environmental effects of winter road maintenance, using the Cascade Lakes near Lake Placid as a laboratory.


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U.S. Forces Bomb Iraqi Rebels; Jordan Has Poll Doubts

U.S. warplanes bombed a suspected  insurgent hideout in rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and U.S.  tanks and aircraft bombarded areas of northeastern Baghdad,  stepping up operations against guerrilla strongholds.


Robin Williams's turning his latest publicity tour into a   referendum on his recent trip to rehab.


CAT Stevens was deported from the United States because of a spelling error, with American officials confusing the former pop star with a man with a similar name on a "no-fly" list, Time magazine reported today.


Choose your side in the Transformers DS games and fight on the Web

Movie tie-in games tend to suck. Hope springs eternal, though, and the allure of giant transforming robots is keeping me at least a little bit hopeful for the Transformers games.


Administration again Elonex Ltd has gone into administration, just three months after it was formed from the ashes of Elonex Plc by Staffs-based stationer Afic.â¦


FDA Panel Urges More Studies of Stroke Med

A US advisory panel on Friday recommended against approving AstraZeneca's new stroke prevention medication, Exanta, citing concerns about the drug's effect on the liver.


FDA gives staff $8m in retention bonuses

The Food and Drug Administration is giving workers more than $8 million in bonuses to keep them from defecting to pharmaceutical and other regulated industries, at the same time the agency is being pressed to spend more on food and drug safety.


New Nokia services, gadgets aim at Apple

Nokia Corp. unveiled new services and cell phones Wednesday that customers can use to download music and play games, a bid by the world's largest mobile phone maker to challenge Apple Inc.'s higher-end iPhone, as well as iTunes and the iPod.


Sharon says nothing will stop his push forward with Gaza pullout ...

(Jerusalem-AP) Oct. 18, 2004 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is standing behind his Gaza pullout plan. Sharon says despite unrelenting criticism from settlers, nothing will stop his plans to get out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.


UN Rights Officials Talks of War Crimes in Darfur

U.N. envoys told the Security Council on Thursday that war crimes had probably occurred on "a large and systematic scale" in Sudan's Darfur region and called for foreign police to help stop abuses.


The incoming EU Commission chief offers a compromise to MEPs threatening to veto his new team.


World's biggest aid operation for devastated Asian countries

The world's biggest-ever aid operation got into gear to help Asian countries stricken by tsunamis that smashed coastal towns leaving misery and the risk of disease in their wake.


Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has always said he never yearned to act in Hollywood.


Hundreds of investors controlling $20 trillion in capital came searching for answers Thursday on how to put a price on carbon emissions blamed for global warming and create a new Â and lucrative Â economy based on cleaner sources of energy.


Ukraine's President-elect Viktor Yushchenko says it will take time to repair ties with Russia.


Former North Korean Soldier Seeks Asylum in U.S.

A man who says he is a former North  Korean special forces captain is seeking asylum in the United  States because he said he has received death threats from the  communist country, his lawyer said on Monday.


For New Center, Harvard Agrees to Emissions Cut

The voluntary agreement will cut emissions for the universityâs proposed science center 50 percent below the levels required by the national standard, according to a Massachusetts official.


Napoli, 19:56 - CALCIO, NAPOLI: TRAUMA CONTUSIVO AL GINOCCHIO PER IEZZO

Doppia seduta per il Napoli a Castelvolturno. Gli azzurri preparano la trasferta di Cagliari, primo ...


Biotech company Elan Corp. reported Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration approved its non-narcotic painkiller Prialt to treat chronic pain.


Palm shares fall on outlook as rivals gain share

Palm Inc , the maker of  Treo cell phones, forecast lower-than-expected revenue amid  tough competition from Research in Motion Ltd's   Blackberry and Apple Inc's  iPhone, sending its shares  tumbling 12 percent on Tuesday.


Boys' Behavior Linked to Prenatal Cocaine Exposure

NEW YORK  - Boys who were repeatedly  exposed to cocaine while in their mother's womb are more likely  than girls or non-exposed children to be hyperactive or have  other problem behaviors at six or seven years of age, new study  findings show.


In Crosbyâs Absence, Malkin Proves to Be the Penguinsâ Best

Since Sidney Crosby sustained a high ankle sprain Jan. 18 against Tampa Bay, Evgeni Malkin â last seasonâs N.H.L. rookie of the year â has responded with several of the best games of his career.


Top Court Finds for 'UK's Guantanamo' Suspects

Britain's top court delivered a severe  jolt to Prime Minister Tony Blair's post-Sept. 11 security  policies on Thursday by ruling against the detention of foreign  terrorism suspects without trial.


IAC's Diller sees more Web media investment

IAC/InterActiveCorp will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Internet programming, betting that professionally produced entertainment will win over Web viewers, Chief Executive Barry Diller said on Wednesday.


Independent Voters May `Crash' New Hampshire Democratic Primary

Bloomberg - May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic presidential candidates may be about to welcome a host of party-crashers: New Hampshire's independents.


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Police are appealing for help in finding a gunman who fired a shot during a football match.


Tim Thomas couldn't make the save. Then again, it's not easy to stop a 6-foot-2-inch, 205-pound puck.


Firefox's New Year resolution: Keep growing

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


No evidence of Iranian support for Sadr: Iraqi vice president

DUBAI  -- Iraqi Vice President Ibrahim al-Jafari said Saturday he had no evidence of any Iranian support for radical Shiite militia leader Moqtada Sadr.


Paris thieves grab diamonds worth 11.5 mln euros in Louvre heist

Thieves snatched two diamonds worth a total of 11.5 million euros (14.1 million dollars) from an antique dealers' show in a bold heist at the Louvre museum complex in Paris, police said.


Britain's Prince Harry will join an  officer training course next year after passing the army's  entrance tests, his father's office said on Friday.


AFRICA/CONGO RD - Una pace ÂamericanaÂ per lÂest del Congo? Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)-Dopo un negoziato procrastinato piÃ¹ volte, il 23 gennaio i belligeranti del nord e sud Kivu, nellÂest della Repubblica Democratica del Congo, hanno firmato un accordo per la cessazione  immediata dei combattimenti e la creazi...


Short Course of Hormone Therapy Boosts Odds With Prostate Cancer

TUESDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- Adding only six months of follow-up hormone therapy to radiation treatment for prostate cancer saves as many lives as three years of the hormone regimen does, researchers report.


It was only a matter of time. On Aug. 19, Amazon.com (AMZN ) finally jumped into the e-commerce market in mainland China, joining an online party that has been raging for a couple of years now.


Libya a group of al-Qaida members arrested

The Libyan minister of the interior Naser al-Mabrouk said yesterday that the Libyan security forces arrested a group accused of belonging to al-Qaida organization.


Cardiff, 14:47 - RALLY, GRAN BRETAGNA: SUCCESSO FINALE DI GRONHOLM

Il finlandese Marcus Gronholm ha vinto il rally di Gran Bretagna, ultima prova del Mondiale 2006. G...


Nel Padovano, e' grave ma non in pericolo di vita


US Air Asks Court to End Labor Contracts

US Airways asked a bankruptcy court yesterday to throw out contracts covering passenger service agents, flight attendants, mechanics and other workers and replace them with less-expensive ones.


African Union Expands Peacekeeping Role in Sudan

The African Union has agreed to expand its peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region. The move comes as the Sudanese government begins peace talks in Abuja, Nigeria, with Darfur's two rebels groups.


Singer Marianne Faithfull has breast cancer

British singer and actress Marianne  Faithfull has been diagnosed with breast cancer but expects to  make a full recovery, her publicist said on Thursday.


Formula One: Desperate days for also-rans

SHANGHAI Far from killing the intrigue and interest, the almost total domination of the Formula One season by Michael Schumacher and Ferrari has, paradoxically, ensured a that the last three races of the year, starting with the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday


IBM transformed the world when it launched the personal computer back in 1981. Its decision last week to sell its PC business to Chinese IT supplier Lenovo shows how profound the changes it brought about really are.


Footwear maker repositions struggling non-core brands.


Into the Life of a Man Fighting for the Right to Die

The new movie "The Sea Inside" depicts the story of RamÃ³n Sampedro, a paraplegic whose fight to be euthanized galvanized Spain in the 1990's.


Military probing whether unit in Iraq refused dangerous mission

The grandfather of an Army Reserve soldier whose platoon refused to deliver supplies in Iraq said his grandson told him Saturday that


More than 200 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say.


Former Computer Associates International Inc.  Chief Executive Sanjay Kumar pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice stemming from a two-year investigation into accounting fraud at the software company.


A Foggia militare ricoverato con prognosi riservata


Will Daniels matched a season-high with 28 points and Jimmy Baron hit a fadeaway jump shot with just over 3 seconds left to give No. 22 Rhode Island a 80-78 come-from-behind win over Duquesne on Sunday.


Milano, 20:51 - CALCIO, MORATTI: PER CHIVU PIU' BARCELLONA CHE NOI

Massimo Moratti conferma che ad essere vicino al romanista Chivu è piÃ¹ il Barcellona che l'In...


US jazz great Randy Weston deplores ignorance about Africa

American jazz pianist and composer Randy Weston on Monday lamented the little appreciation and knowledge people had of Africa, a continent which has influenced much of his music.


Gold drifts lower; focus on Bernanke, U.S. data

Gold prices fell on Tuesday from 15-week highs scored the previous day as investors took profits ahead of the release of key U.S. data, dealers said.


Slain officers buried as gunfire continues in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Hundreds of wailing mourners gathered to bury five slain police officers yesterday as gunfire crackled around the capital, where clashes between supporters of the US-backed government and ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide have plagued peacekeepers. Photographs of three officers who were beheaded sat beside their cremated remains in a police academy where the funerals were held, while the open ...


DSW wore out its earnings shoes this past quarter.


Plans are afoot for excess wine to be turned into ethanol for the European alternative fuel market -- but not in Italy where the fruit of the vine is sacred. By Bernhard Warner from Wired magazine.


Young women are being warned not to put their lives at risk by taking laxatives in a bid to lose weight.


Siemens bribery probe could sink Nokia merger: press

The alleged bribery scandal surrounding the German conglomerate Siemens may scupper a planned tie-up with Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia, according to a German newspaper report.


U.S. Seizes Son of a Top Shiite, Stirring Uproar

The detention of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim's eldest son agitated one of Iraqâs most formidable political movements.


Tens of thousands of Hamas members rally

Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters marched in the Gaza Strip on Friday to show their backing for the militant group, even as its efforts to form a national unity government appeared stalled.


Al centro di una telefonata, energia e Medio Oriente


There's money on the table if you take some energy-saving steps.


Presidente Federmeccanica favorevole in assenza contratto


Gli effetti rischiano di essere assai limitati


Sbarchi di Natale: 400 immigrati arrivati in Sicilia in ventiquatt ...

Circa 400 immigrati irregolari sono sbarcati nella notte e questa mattina nell'isola di Lampedusa ea Porto Empedocle, in provincia di Agrigento, ha detto la guardia costiera. A Porto Empedocle sono approdate


Qwest Posts Third-Quarter Loss on Charge

Qwest Communications International Inc. reported a third quarter loss on Thursday, partly due to lower revenues and to a charge related to litigation reserves.


Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood insists Chelsea's bid to dominate world football is "fantasy".


DaimlerChrysler AG said Monday it has sold its 10.5 percent stake in South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co., a move it expects will raise more than $900 million.


IE ripe for attack, despite Microsoft claims

Year of living dangerously Windows Vista may be "dramatically more secure" than Windows XP but Internet Explorer is destined to remain Windows' Achilles' heel.â¦


Honeywell sees subprime hitting industry: report

Diversified manufacturer Honeywell International  expects the crisis in U.S. housing loans to affect industry and hurt economic growth in 2008, its chief executive said in a newspaper interview.


Nationals Agree to Contract Terms With 12 Players

The Nationals come to contract terms with a dozen players Tuesday, leaving just four players invited to spring training without deals.


Prices on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed lower for the fourth straight session on profit-taking Friday. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index fell 107.01 points, or 0.8 percent, to 13,901.81.


Polish consumers rush to sign up for shares in the country's largest bank, scheduled to make its stock market debut next month.


EU talks on Turkey open today in Brussels

On the eve of the two-day European Union summit that opens in Brussels today and will define the future of Ankara's EU aspirations, it still remained unclear yesterday what terms leaders of the 25 member states would set out regarding Turkey's relations


Roma, 14:00 - CALCIO, NAZIONALE: RINNOVATO CONTRATTO FIGC-RAI

Rai e Federcalcio hanno siglato il contratto per i diritti di trasmissione in esclusiva di tutte le ...


10 years later, TWA families still in pain

Andy Krukar boarded TWA Flight 800 with a diamond ring in his pocket, planning to place it on his fiancee's finger at the Eiffel Tower during a romantic weekend in Paris. His fiancee, Julie Stuart, was going to follow him on another flight the next day.


Tuberculosis exposure feared on India-to-U.S. flight

U.S. health officials are trying to track down 44 people who sat near a woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis aboard an airliner from India to determine whether they have been infected, authorities said on Friday.


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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Red Hat reported a 2005 third-quarter profit Wednesday of $10.8 million as the Linux and open-source software developer's important subscription revenue nearly doubled over the year-ago period.


MPs urge  Britain's top 100 firms to donate a day's profits to the fund for victims of the collapsed Farepak Christmas savings scheme.


Youkilis makes another jump -- Series roster

He opened the season as a Red Sox prospect -- nothing more, nothing less, except for his celebrated distinction as "The Greek God of Walks" in the bestseller "Moneyball." So imagine how far Kevin Youkilis has come, from picking up some tips from the big leaguers in spring training to playing third base for Triple A Pawtucket to, well, the ...


Washington Post buys Slate online magazine

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. sold its popular Slate online magazine Tuesday to The Washington Post Co., a move that makes Slate's political commentary and quirky feature articles more broadly available across the Internet.


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Texas power company TXU Corp.  said on Monday it agreed to be acquired by a group led by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for $31.8 billion in the largest leveraged buyout in history.


Deutsche Bank Agrees to Sell Private Investment Counsel Business ...

NEW YORK, and BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Deutsche Bank and Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE:LM) announced today that they have signed a definitive asset purchase agreement whereby Legg Mason will acquire


Stress impairs thinking via mania-linked enzyme

An errant enzyme linked to bipolar disorder, in the brain's prefrontal cortex, impairs cognition under stress, an animal study shows.


Medicare Covers New Treatments With a Catch

Medicare is paying for new and expensive treatments and tests conditional on agreement by companies or other groups to pay for studies on whether they actually worked.


VANCOUVER -- Two British Columbia residents each gave up a kidney to save strangers, becoming the first living people in Canada to anonymously become organ donors.


Windows XP validation programme launched in UK

Microsoft has begun a short-term validation programme aimed at tackling software piracy. Users are invited to have their copies of Windows XP analysed, with the promise that they will be replaced free of charge if found to be counterfeit.


The Nikkei stock average rose 1.02 percent by midsession on Monday as investors were encouraged to seek bargains by a recovery in US stocks after crude oil prices retreated from record highs.


Hundreds of Vehicles Stuck in Calif. Snow

As many as 200 vehicles got stuck in deep snow early Saturday in the San Bernardino Mountains as the latest in a series of storms struck California. The storms quickly moved eastward, closing all three major highways over the Sierra Nevada.


Foreign investors likely to bid for Yukos unit

MOSCOW: Foreign investors may take part in the sale of assets in Russian oil major Yukosâ main production unit, which could be offered at a 60% price discount to settle back taxes, Russian television reported on Monday.


Aftershocks rattle Parkfield day after strong quake

Two aftershocks measuring magnitude 5.0 and 4.5 hit Parkfield on Wednesday morning, among the strongest of the more than 500 aftershocks roiling the area where a 6.0 earthquake occurred the day before.


Slovakia to deploy 6,000 security forces for Bush-Putin summit

Slovakia will deploy about 6,000 security forces for next month's summit between US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Slovak capital of Bratislava, Interior Minister Vladimir ...


London landmark the "Gherkin" wins a prestigious architecture award.


Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the first French president to hold talks with the far-right's  Jean-Marie Le Pen in decades.


If Lorena Ochoa keeps this up, soccer soon might be taking a back seat to women's golf in Mexico. Ochoa outdueled Jee Young Lee down the stretch, pulling away with birdies at the 13th and 14th holes, to shoot a 7-under 65 and win the Wendy's Championship for Children by three shots Sunday.


Numerose le proposte per ragazze con poca disponibilitÃ  economicaUn appartamento, o una stanza, niente euro ma prestazioni particolari                                          Parigi, l'affitto "in natura" sesso in cambio di una casa                                                                                Fenomeno diffuso nella capitale francese, gli annunci su internetI rischi non mancano, ma molte giovani firmano il "contratto"


Sharon: Stop Terror and Talk; Arabs: Words Before Action

The Palestinian Authority, refusing Israel's demand for a halt in terrorist attacks, also insists that Israel release convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti, who is serving multiple life sentences for murder.


Taking a break from fiery sermons, Malaysiaâs fundamentalist Islamic opposition group enlisted rock singers to loosen up its image.


Il premier incontrerÃ  i sindacati nel pomeriggio. Domani il progetto al CdmD'Alema: "Se non si raggiunge un accordo Ã¨ per un atteggiamento corporativo"                                          Pensioni, attesa per la proposta Prodi Non c'Ã¨ ancora l'accordo sulle "quote"


Nuclear Convoy Reaches French Recycling Plant Safely

A convoy believed to be carrying a large shipment of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium arrived safely at a recycling plant in southeastern France on Friday after a long journey across the country.


Stallone's hotel, plane searched in Sydney: media

Sylvester Stallone's hotel room, private plane and limousine were searched, Australian media reported on Tuesday, just days after prohibited items were seized from his luggage at Sydney airport.


At dusk on New Year's Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the back seat was a nice Canon digital camera. Gunderson asked the driver which previous passenger might have left it, but the cabbie didn't seem to care. So Gunderson brought it home and showed it to her fiance, Brian Ascher. They decided that the only right thing to do was to find the owner.


Rallying huge crowds of volunteers and voters, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry each claimed Saturday to be the only candidate ready to lead America in the fight against terrorism.


Update: EU okays Oracle bid for PeopleSoft

The European Commission concluded that there's insufficient evidence that the takeover would cause competitive harm in the business software sector.


Lindsey Davenport has regained the world No. 1 in the WTA rankings after a 6-4 6-2 win over Russian Dinara Safina in the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.


A red-footed falcon spotted for the first time in North America is enticing birdwatchers to Martha's Vineyard.


The photographer SebastiÃ£o Salgado's haunting images of starved refugees in the Sahara have taken two decades to find a publisher.


Il segretario di Stato americano alla Difesa ha comunicatola notizia all'omologo ministro Parisi con una lettera                                          Maddalena, Rumsfeld a Parisi "Andiamo via da ottobre 2007"                                                                                L'operazione durerÃ  fino alla primavera 2008


1 gunman killed in US consulate attack in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah

At least one gunman was killed by Saudi security forces when US consulate in the Red Sea city of Jeddah came under attack Monday, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV reported.


Catching Up to the Boys, in the Good and the Bad

She lost count of the vodka shots. It was New Year's Eve 2005, and for this high school freshman, it was time to party. She figured she'd be able to sleep it off -- she'd done it before. But by the time she got home the next day, her head was still pounding, her mouth was dry, and she couldn't fo...


Bush Heads to Africa, Scene of Successes on Health Policy

For a president heading into his final months in office, Africa may seem an unlikely place for a victory lap. Yet when President Bush left yesterday for a six-day trip to the continent, he embarked on a mission to highlight his efforts to fight AIDS and malaria in the poorest corners of the world...


Republican Mitt Romney, seeking to make U.S. policy toward Iran his issue, on Thursday urged several elected New York officials to divest any state pension funds from Iran.


Nel pomeriggio manifestazione di solidarieta' a Roma


Palestinian officials scheduled presidential elections for Jan. 9, 2005, pushing forward with steps to a secure a new leader following the death of Yasser Arafat.


An audit of last week's recall vote in Venezuela has found no evidence of fraud in the process that endorsed President Hugo Chavez as leader.


U.S. Prosecutors Plan New Indictment in Tax Shelter Case

Federal prosecutors are planning a fresh indictment in a case that involves tax shelters sold by the accounting firm Ernst & Young.


(AGI) - Torino, 8 nov. - L'"arma" usata per uccidere Samuele la mattina del 30 gennaio 2002 nella villa di Montroz, potrebbe essere stata un moschettone portachiavi, oppure un paio di manette. A sostenere


19 US troops were killed in the deadliest attack on American soldiers in Iraq since the start of the Iraqi war. The lunchtime rocket attack on the military base in Mosul killed more than 20 people and wounded 57 others.


President calls for creating intelligence chief

President Bush yesterday embraced the creation of a strong national intelligence director with ''full budgetary authority" over America's spy


Tropical Storm Relatively Light as It Hits N.C.

NAGS HEAD, N.C., Sept. 10 -- Tropical Storm Gabrielle struggled to stay organized as it moved back over the Atlantic Ocean early Monday, leaving in its wake wet but largely unimpressed vacationers and surfers on North Carolina's Outer Banks.


Company to shut Japan trust unit in light of scandal

TOKYO -- Citigroup Inc. said yesterday it will close its trust banking unit in Japan within a year, after Japanese authorities ordered the US financial services giant to suspend its private banking business there.


Too Cold to Exercise? Try Another Excuse

Your mother was right about the hat. But bundling up is not advised.


Mexico's TV Azteca Earnings Up on Ads, Costs Soar

TV Azteca, Mexico's No. 2 broadcaster, reported quarterly earnings rose 17 percent in the third quarter as summer Olympics advertising increased revenues.


Moscow approves an oil pipeline from East Siberia to the Pacific, enabling oil exports to Japan and dealing another blow to ailing Yukos.


JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel reached a deal with Shimon Peres yesterday to name the opposition leader his senior deputy, clearing a key obstacle to a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip.


A law firm boss and some of his former staff are convicted after claiming up to an estimated Â£10m of bogus Legal aid work.


Colgate was first brush with greatness for Coen

The first time Liam Coen went to Colgate with the University of Massachusetts football team, he was a gangly redshirt freshman with an impressive high school career and not a lick of college experience.


Vice Presidential Debate Hits Center Stage Tonight

When available, the raw script from this video story is presented below. Please note that these scripts come directly from our TV newsroom system and are not edited for web reading.


Non si arresta la spirale di violenza della malavita. Killer in azione a Melito e Secondigliano. Altre tre omicidi tra Napoli e provincia. Le armi della camorra, come anche sabato quando si sono contati due morti, anche ieri hanno sparato all'impazzata.


Chone Figgins credits his offensive onslaught to luck. He had four more singles Saturday night, including RBI singles in the fourth and ninth innings, to extend his hitting streak to nine games and the Los Angeles Angels beat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-3.


UN fears tens of thousands more tsunami dead as aid push gets star power

The United Nations is saying tens of thousands more people may have died in Asia's tsunami disaster as former US presidents to rock stars mobilise to feed the millions of destitute.


Britain's largest medical research charity pledges Â£4bn to investigate the world's killer diseases.


Estonia disaster commemorated in three Baltic countries

A memorial service commemorating the tenth anniversary of the sinking of the passenger ferry Estonia filled Turku Cathedral on Tuesday.


Four emerging bacteria: So tiny, so deadly

An outbreak of water and food-borne disease called acute gastroenteritis stormed all 45 towns of Pangasinan on July 22. Department of Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit reported that the


The revised EU treaty will have to be in Britain's national interests, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett says.


World Business Briefing: The Netherlands: Grocerâs Profit Declines

Royal Ahold, the Dutch owner of grocery chains including Stop & Shop in the United States, said first-quarter earnings and sales were down slightly as a result of worse margins and a weaker dollar. Net profit was 237 million euros ($320 million), down from 239 million euros a year earlier. Sales slipped to 13.2 billion euros ($17.8 billion), from 13.3 billion euros.


European markets stocks rose Friday, buoyed by the prospect of a proposed economic stimulus package aimed at warding off recession in the United States.


Free Google Base / Froogle Submission and Optimization from SingleFeed

My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize their shopping cart feed for free to Froogle / Google Base. Cyber Monday is only 10 days away.  If you’re not up on the shopping comparison engines, you’re potentionally [...]


Roma, 17:31 - CALCIO, FEDELE: TEMPI NON ANCORA MATURI PER CANNAVARO A NAPOLI

Ai microfoni dell'agenzia radiofonica GRT Gaetano Fedele spegne, almeno per il momento, il grande so...


Plans for keeping terrorist suspects under house arrest are set to be opposed by the Liberal Democrats.


Cooked turkey products exported from the UK presented no risk, the government says.


To prepare for a prolonged writers strike, television networks have stockpiled a gladiator battle, a lie-detector game, a remade "Password," a celebrity "Apprentice" and a competition for aspiring Pussycat Dolls.


Pakistan troops kill rebel cleric at mosque

Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 of his militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in a Islamabad mosque compound at the climax of a week-long siege.


Cricket: India Asks Court's Help in Resolving Dispute Over TV ...

Indian cricket officials have asked a court to resolve a dispute over television rights which threatens to derail next month's home test series between India and Australia.


Iran summons EU presidency envoy over statement

Iran summoned the ambassador of European  Union president Portugal on Tuesday to protest a statement  which Tehran said backed elements suspected of spying and  linked to terrorist groups, an official news agency said.


LONDON: Plans to revive a play that infuriated Sikhs in Britain and triggered a mini-riot have been scrapped at the playwright's request, the manager of the theatre that was going to stage it said.


Music, ringtones, cameras, browsers and other 'extras' have become the norm among mobile devices.


Excited about Bonds chasing home run record? Not anymore

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ So it has finally happened. The smoldering fumes of steroid smoke have burst into flames around Barry Bonds. According to his own grand-jury testimony, leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle


PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The highly dangerous Hurricane Felix ripped into Central America on Tuesday, smashing up a port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast and threatening deadly mudslides in Honduras and Guatemala.


Ancient Fossil Is Found on Danish Island

A Swedish geologist has found what appears to be the oldest known fossil from a mammal ever found in Scandinavia — a 145-million-year-old tooth from a prehistoric rodent, a Swedish university said Thursday.


Start-ups are discovering they might have to wait until the timing is right

Is the market for initial public offerings open or closed? Few questions loom larger for venture capital firms, which risk money on entrepreneurial companies and look for ''liquidity events" that will help them recoup their investments. But more than at any other time in the recent past, the answer may depend on your vantage point.


Storico autore di 'Stasera mi butto' e 'Sono Tremendo'


The Internet has taught major league sports teams that scalping was never really the problem. The problem has been the ridiculous amount of effort expended trying to stamp it out.


The deal struck between federal prosecutors and former ferry Capt. Michael Gansas is final confirmation that they have decided to go after the big fish: the city's director of ferry operations, Patrick Ryan.


Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has not been invited to the Franco-African summit in Cannes, French officials say.


Surge of Baghdad Violence Leaves 25 Dead

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed at least 25 people in the city as security appeared to spiral out of control.    Many of the dead were killed when a U.S...


Sex makes women happy -- commuting makes them crazy

WASHINGTON They may find it hard to admit to each other. But most women don't really enjoy the routine of raising kids, and they do enjoy time alone watching TV.


SPAIN:  Hemmed In, ETA Steps Up Pressure

MADRID, Aug 6  (IPS) - Although greatly weakened, the Basque separatist  group ETA has stepped up its pressure on businesses in that  northern Spanish region with a view to raising funds through  extortion, while it has become increasingly radical in its  political demands and is preparing a new attack, according to the  police.


Sporadic clashes rattle north Lebanon camp

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Sporadic fighting erupted on Tuesday between the Lebanese army and Sunni Islamist militants holed up in a battered Palestinian camp and there was no sign of an end to the 10-day standoff.


The only thing that showed up Wednesday night at the big ball park in the Bronx was Dracula, dressed like Johnny Damon, and he sucked the life right out of the Yankees.


Bonds admittance of steroid use a black eye for baseball

Even though I wasn't surprised to read that, in sealed grand jury testimony, Barry Bonds admitted that he used steroids, I was still very disappointed.


Yum shares fall after downgrade, more E. coli cases

Yum Brands Inc.  shares fell 2.4 percent on Friday after an analyst downgraded the stock due to concerns about slowing sales momentum in the United States and difficult upcoming sales comparisons at KFC and Taco Bell.


Pakistani politicians hope to meet radical cleric

Members of Pakistani religious parties hoped to hold talks on Saturday with a radical cleric holed up in an Islamabad mosque and persuade him to send out children among his hundreds of besieged militant followers.


Bhutto's husband fails to stop Pakistani lawsuit against him in England

Lawyers defending the husband of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto failed to stop the Islamabad government from pursuing a lawsuit against him in the English courts.


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Intel stays outside the tent Toshiba confirmed yesterday that it had joined a 32-nanometre chip development group led by IBM and made up of a number of key industry players minus top dog Intel.â¦


Description: Sen. John Kerry takes a campaign trip into rural Ohio. There, Kerry stressed economic issues in the traditionally Republican territory.


Number of children on antidepressants soars by 70 per cent

THE use of antidepressants in children has soared in the past ten years, according to a new study. In Britain, such prescriptions rose by 70per cent between 1992 and 2001, with


The publication date for the last instalment of the Harry Potter saga has been announced.


The chances of an asteroid smacking into Mars this month are slipping away as astronomers continue to refine its course toward the red planet.


Roma, 18:02 - CALCIO, SERIE B: BOLOGNA SOLO AL COMANDO, FRENA IL CHIEVO

Risultati degli incontri della 23/a giornata del campionato di serie B: Albinoleffe-Vicenza 0-0, Asc...


Leaders Spotlight Gap Between Rich, Poor

The leaders of France and Brazil on Monday warned that poverty leads to violence and urged the international community to find ways to narrow the gap between rich and poor, casting a spotlight on the more than 1 billion people living on less than $1 per day.


Maria Sharapova, who didnât really go anywhere, recaptured the spotlight at the Australian Open Tuesday.  And a new star may be emerging on the menâs side in  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who earned a semifinals berth.


The lawyer for a former Baptist church leader who had spoken out against homosexuality said Thursday the minister has a constitutional right to solicit sex from an undercover policeman.


Kicking off what promises to be a dismal round of automotive earnings reports, General Motors yesterday laid out a range of problems that have no ready solutions, from the slowdown in auto-sales growth in China and record-high steel costs to intractable


Da questa sera su RaiTre la nuova serie di "Enigma", con Corrado AugiasLa prima puntata Ã¨ su GesÃ¹: "Per vedere cosa rappresenta per ebrei e musulmani"                                            I misteri della Storia per riflettere con la tv                                                                                Serate anche su Milingo, Salvatore Giuliano, Pio La Torre, Gustavo Role a giugno sei puntate in prima serata, tutte dedicate a figure femminilidi ALESSANDRA VITALI


A United Nations anti-racism panel has questioned Israel's policy on preserving holy sites, asking the country to explain whether it protects places considered sacred to religions other than Judaism.


European equities moved higher on Wednesday thanks to a number of solid earnings releases, but gains were capped by losses in the heavily weighted pharmaceuticals sector.


Gerry Adams is meeting Tony Blair for the first time since the IRA was blamed for December's Â£26.5m bank raid.


Awaji Journal: In a Graying Japan, Lower Shelves and Wider Aisles

In a sign of JapanÂs rapidly graying society, convenience stores once associated with the young are being transformed for the elderly.


Iraq sees need for foreign troops for 10 years

Iraq will need foreign troops to help defend it for another 10 years, but will not accept U.S. bases indefinitely, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.


Pill Boosts Stroke Risk for Migraine Sufferers

Female migraine sufferers who take birth-control pills are eight times more likely to have a stroke than those not using the contraceptive.


American gymnast Paul Hamm will keep his Olympic all-round gold medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected Thursday an appeal from South Korea's Yang Tae-young.


BEAVER CREEK, Colorado -- Austria's Stephan Goergl celebrated the first World Cup win of his career on Thursday when he took the second men's super-g race of the season at Beaver Creek.


Fineman: Is U.S. Political System Collapsing?

Al Gore believes a steady diet of fact-free media is dumbing down America and threatening the political system.


Maryland scores a 1-0ÃÂ win over rival Duke in a midseason ACC showdown that was televised live nationally and played in front of a record crowd of 6,489.


A man is charged with causing death by dangerous driving following a road collision on Christmas Eve.


POLICE on Queensland's riot-torn Palm Island have been accused of using the Aboriginal population as terrorism guinea pigs after children as young as nine were forced at gunpoint to lie face down


Of the three Nobel Prizes announced this week, the five different researchers share one decidedly common trait: They're all American.


At least two people are killed and 70 injured, as a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits south-west China.


SCIOPERO AGRICOLTORI: INTERVIENE IL PREFETTO

Dopo lo sciopero e il presidio odierni Cgil, Cisl e Uil ottengono l'impegno del Prefetto ad intervenire sul Governo. SE il Prefetto Stefano Scammacca si farÃ  portavoce nei confronti della Presidenza del Consiglio


Device will capture high-resolution still images and video--and it still makes phone calls.


Stocks rose on Friday after Ford Motor  Co. raised its earnings forecasts, but wireless technology  provider Qualcomm Inc. held back gains on the Nasdaq after  saying an accounting review may reduce pretax income.


Firenze, 22:23 - CALCIO, SERIE A: FIORENTINA-INTER 2-3

L'Inter ha battuto la Fiorentina 3-2 (2-0) nel secondo anticipo della prima giornata del campionato ...


Kodak posts higher profit on digital sales

Eastman Kodak Co  said on Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit rose, driven by sales of digital products such as inkjet printers.


Countries with private retirement accounts show the high risks and problemic rewards of such programs


Interior Ministers Giuseppe Pisanu of Italy, left, and Otto Schily of Germany talk after wrapping up informal talks with counterparts from France, Spain and Britain on European coordination in the fight against terrorism and illegal immigration, in


Tobias Schlitt's Blog: PHPUGDO proudly presents: The PHP Weekender

Tobias Schlitt is officially announcing a new offering from the PHPers in the Dortmund area as voted on via feedback from others in the surrounding area - The PHP Weekender.   It's been a good month, since the PHP Usergroup Dortmund asked for feedback on the idea of a PHP introduction workshop in Dortmund. Because of the huge masses of interessted people, we expanded the idea and are now going to make a 2 day, 2 track PHP introduction weekend, including 2 workshops and a lot of interessting sessions about topics like "XML handling", "Enterprise PHP", "SOA" and "Shell scripting.   The event will be presented in German and will be happening October 7th and 8th at Dortmund University. You can get complete details about the event (and reserve your spot) from the event's main website.


Iraqi Confesses to German Designer's Death -Police

A 25-year-old Iraqi man has confessed to murdering a German fashion designer famed as much for his eccentric wig and pet dog Daisy as his creations, police said Sunday.


Sailor wasn't wearing mask to fight fire, captain reveals

GLASGOW - The day before he died, Lieut. Chris Saunders was found without a gas mask, collapsed on the floor of the control room of HMCS Chicoutimi, a fellow crewman said yesterday.


Un must per giovani maschi, come segno di sicurezza emotiva


Afghan drugs a worry as Pakistanis confront AIDS

Afghanistan's booming opium trade is a huge concern for Pakistan as it confronts the spread of HIV/AIDS, especially among intravenous drug users, Pakistan's minister of health said on Wednesday.


Lehman 4th-Qtr Net Rises 22% on Investment Banking

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the fifth-biggest US securities firm, said quarterly profit rose 22 percent, exceeding analysts' estimates, and earnings in 2005 may be higher than this year's record.


NEVER surprise the market with a profit downgrading or the shares of your company will be severely caned. A slumping advertising share saw a surly Kerry Stokes yesterday issue a major earnings downgrade for the Seven Network.


MINNEAPOLIS -- Discount retailer Target Corp. said Wednesday its first-quarter profit rose almost 18 percent, although revenue was just shy of analyst expectations.


Soul star Ronald Isley loses his appeal to have a three-year jail term for tax fraud overturned.


THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Iowa


HowTo Forge: Installing The PHP-MemCache Module On CentOS 5.0

On the HowTo Forge website today, there's a new tutorial with a step-by-step process on installing the PHP-MemCache module onto a system running the CentOS 5.0 operating system.   "MemCached" is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. In this howto I explain how you can very easily install it and make it available in PHP.    The process only involves five or six main steps (installation, testing, etc not included) finishing with the loading of the memcache.so file into the php.ini for the system to enable it.


A sharp fall in oil prices boosted European stock markets and energy import-dependent Japan's yen on Thursday, but depressed government bonds as investors factored in a rosier economic outlook.


SEATTLE -- A federal jury found the city of Seattle liable Tuesday for the unlawful arrests of a group of protesters during the World Trade Organization meeting in 1999, a ruling that could cost the city millions of dollars.


Friends, Generals and Captains of Industry, Lend Me Your Ears

A former adviser to President Ronald Reagan has turned his love for Shakespeare into a management-training business.


The proud grandfather of tennis star Andrew Murray followed the teenager's US Open victory point-by-point on the internet.


Bush Talks to Leaders of Iraq 'Momentum'

Eager to capitalize on Iraq's elections, President Bush on Tuesday continued to press fellow world leaders to support the new Baghdad government being formed after Sunday's voting.


Pakistani police step up operations at a mosque in Islamabad, on the fifth day of confrontation with Islamists.


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Federer thumps Roddick for Bangkok title

World number one Roger Federer thumped Andy Roddick 6-4 6-0 for his tenth title of the season at the Thailand Open in Bangkok on Sunday.


From The Patriot Ledger Archives ; 1857 Feb. 7, Page 2

The Quincy Patriot  A PRAISEWORTHY ACT.  Peter Falcon, of Cohasset, Mass. during the late terrible storms, saved the lives of eleven shipwrecked seamen.


Soaring Profits Send Google's Stock Sky High

Investors were scrambling to buy Google stock again after the company's earnings report. Google shares rocketed higher by 13 percent, or more than $20, in trading this morning to $169.


Vonage and Linksys are teaming up to make voice over Internet Protocol service available through Wi-Fi equipment made by Linksys. Vonage will announce the Linksys partnership Tuesday.


Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho got his wish as his side were paired against Barcelona in the first knockout stage of the Champions League.


Citing insurance, Braves disable Chipper

The Atlanta Braves put third baseman Chipper Jones on the 15-day disabled list Thursday night so their insurance company will pay a portion of his $13.6 million salary.


Artificial Grass Roots? 'Astroturf' Groups Represent Industries, Not the Public

By Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Business Writer  A group called TV4US Coalition placed advertising inserts in newspapers statewide last week aiming to "educate" consumers on how to get better, more competitive rates for television in Illinois.  Is TV4US a tax-exempt non-profit? Yes.


Oil prices hit another new record after an unexpected fall in US crude stockpiles adds to winter supply concerns.


al-Qaida Blamed in Egypt Blasts; 29 Dead

TABA, Egypt - Israeli officials said Friday they believe al-Qaida was probably behind three suicide car bomb attacks targeting Red Sea resorts filled with Israeli tourists, as investigators searched for evidence and rescuers pulled bodies from the twisted wreckage of a five-star hotel and casino.    Thursday night's bombings in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed 29 people, according to Israeli authorities, who were leading the rescue effort...


Actor Kiefer Sutherland leaves jail after serving a 48-day sentence for drink driving in California.


Dixie Talking flies down the track to win the $100,000 Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship on Thursday at Pimlico.


Astronomers have spotted three dozen bright, young galaxies that defy the general aging trends of the universe. The galaxies, fairly nearby and massive, are more youthful than they ought to be, based on current theory.


E-Commerce Site Buys Into New Oracle Software

TechWeb - Overstock.com is able to shift work among clusters with Oracle's 10g database.


BOMBAY -- As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims, including women and children, were crushed or burned to death in a stampede and subsequent fire near a temple in western India yesterday, the district's top official said.


Paula Abdul's spacy behavior on "American Idol" have prompted many to ponder if there's a tumbler or two of booze in that red cup on the table in front of her on the Fox talent contest.


U.S. Stocks End Higher After Oracle Deal

U.S. stocks rallied on Monday after  software maker PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O accepted a sweetened  $10.3 billion buyout by rival Oracle Corp.'s ORCL.O and other  big deals raised expectations of more takeovers.


Davidson's F1 test with Williams in limbo

According to some reports, Honda are prepared to put their foot down on Davidson's planned outing with the rival F1 team next month in Jerez, Spain.


US stocks are seen opening mostly flat Friday with no significant economic news to motivate traders and a third-quarter earnings season that remains difficult to characterize.


Authorities in Singapore have expressed concern about the rising death toll from the tropical disease melioidosis. Twenty-three of the 57 people diagnosed with the soil-born disease from January to July died, health officials said.


Perfection Is Afterthought, Perfect Examples Say

Athletes with flawless achievements say making history will not be on the New England Patriotsâ minds Sunday.


Army pounds militants in north Lebanon camp

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, almost three weeks after fighting broke out.