Indian PM Visits Kashmir, Troops Start Pullout

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins his first visit to revolt-torn Kashmir on Wednesday as New Delhi starts pulling troops out of the disputed Himalayan state hoping to boost the chances for peace.


As XM Stock Recovered, Executives' Pay Modest

Thanks to the SEC, shareholders now get a long-term picture of how their stock is doing, which helps in evaluating executive pay.


Snow Denies 5th Florida Trip Is for Bush Campaign

Treasury Secretary John Snow, in Florida for the fifth time this year, rebuffed suggestions on Wednesday he was using taxpayer dollars to fund trips to hotly contested electoral states.


Modena, 20:15 - CALCIO, MODENA: CEDUTO COLACONE ALL'ALBINOLEFFE

Il Modena F.C. comunica di avere ceduto a titolo definitivo all'U.C. Albinoleffe l'attaccante Robert...


Naproxen joins list of questionable drugs

US health regulators are warning of heart risks connected to over-the-counter painkiller naproxen. The drug is sold as a generic and under several brand names, including


Slovakia's economics minister could be barred from driving in neighboring Austria after Austrian police fined him for speeding on a motorway, police said on Monday.


Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra enthralled the students of Whistling Woods International at Film City recently.


Britain's Blair sees chance of G8 post-Kyoto deal

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said  on Sunday there was a real chance industrialized countries  could agree the outline of a deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol  on curbing greenhouse gas emissions at a June summit.


Motorsport.com. There was uproar last week when it was revealed that the provisional 2005 F1 calendar did not feature the British Grand Prix but Silverstone is not dead and buried yet.


Huckabee Has Less Than Half a Million in Bank, Filing Shows

Bloomberg - July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has less than half a million dollars in the bank after raising $763,618 in the last three months.


The annual Christmas party thrown by Nelson Mandela is plunged into chaos as thousands turn up for gifts.


A look back at the eight previous "Grand Theft Auto" video games:


New Yorkers turning to biodiesel for heat

If the Big Apple's initiative helps reduce emissions, other cities and states may follow suit.


Update 23: Crude Prices Stay Above $50 Per Barrel

Oil lingered above the $50 per barrel threshold in Asian trade Wednesday, breaching the mark for the second straight day ahead of key US crude stockpile data.


Girl dies after getting dental treatment

A 5-year-old Chicago girl who never awoke from her sedation during a visit to the dentist died Wednesday at Children's Memorial Hospital, a hospital official said.


Jonathan Raban: "Surveillance" is set in Seattle sometime in the near-future. It's hot. The rain isn't the typical mist, but a hard fall. Water drives through roofs into homes.


Residents question why a new flood prevention scheme failed its first proper test.


Dr. Salim YusufÂ´s Landmark Study Redefines Heart Disease

Boston, 30 August -- A massive international cardiovascular research study by Indo-Canadian physicians is being hailed this week by medical scientists worldwide as a major landmark event.


Rice won't discuss Maliki corruption probe

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vowed on Thursday to examine corruption allegations against Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, but refused to discuss publicly what she said could be rumor.


A writer forced into hiding after her play prompted rioting by Sikh protesters and led to the cancellation of her play has broken her silence and defended her work.


College test anxiety: The new SAT college admissions exam has more high school students seeking test-prep help. B1. Mesa police changes: Nearly a year after four officer-involved shootings, the department has


Monday 28th January 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of an event in Copenhagen that transformed toys and revolutionized childhood


Jeffs wanted followers to keep mouths shut

When he was captured, fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was carrying a list of safe houses and a written decree banning members of his flock from disclosing his whereabouts, according to a Utah prosecutor.


Neolithic site found near England's Stonehenge

Evidence of a large settlement full of  houses dating back to 2,600 BC has been discovered near the  ancient stone monument of Stonehenge in southwest England,  scientists said on Tuesday.


France's Jacques Chirac has reignited a bitter row over the US-led invasion of Iraq on the eve of a state visit to London, accusing the United States and Britain of making the world a more dangerous place.


BT Selects Juniper Networks to Provide IP Network for the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:JNPR) today announced that it has been  selected by BT Plc to provide routers and security solutions for the U.K.'s  Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS) project.


Brazil's Lula tones down rhetoric to lure voters

SAO PAULO, Brazil  - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, facing a run-off in Brazil's election, is toning down his class-war rhetoric in a bid to woo the middle class and business votes that cost him a first-round victory.


Who is the Best Candidate for the Open Source Community?

This is the question posed by Will Hurley of BMC.  After chatting with him today about life, the upcoming elections, and the open source community in general, I decided that I am pretty curious about how to answer that question myself. read more


The Indian army is carrying out a major offensive against rebel bases in the north-east, says a spokesman.


'Hannah Montana' Wins Box Office Super Bowl

Walt Disney's 3-D movie "Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" topped movie box offices, raking in $29 million for the biggest opening over a normally slow Super Bowl weekend, according to studio estimates on Sunday. With U.S. prof...


The wait was excruciating for Samuel Komba Kambo's family. Then, suddenly, he emerged into the alley at dusk behind a downtown detention facility Â and into freedom.


Folla stava assistendo a un combattimento di cani


Justice Department opens Fannie criminal probe - WSJ

The Justice Department has opened an investigation of possible accounting fraud at Fannie Mae, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, after a federal regulator said the mortgage giant may have manipulated its earnings


Apple Locks Out RealNetworks With iPod Update

Apple Computer has updated the software for some of its iPod digital media players so that songs bought from RealNetworks won't play.


Crimson Tide defense clipped Eagles' wings

Boston College-bound running back Isaac Johnson may be Everett's star, but it was the Crimson Tide's defense that shined in yesterday's 35-7 drubbing of St. John's Prep.


Northwest Airlines reports quarterly profit

Northwest Airlines Corp , the No. 5 U.S. airline, reported a third-quarter profit on Monday, compared with a year-ago loss.


com September 29, 2004, 6:50 PM PT. With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority.


Chiefs' skid ends with all-around effort in the nick of time

BALTIMORE -- The Kansas City Chiefs have three words for all us know-it-alls out there who have spent the past three weeks questioning their mettle, their offseason decision-making and everything short of their manhood: Not so fast.


Moneta unica scambiata a 1,3791 dlr e 168,06 yen


Russian Foreign Minister Meets With Castro

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President Fidel Castro and other Cuban leaders Wednesday as the countries worked on re-creating more modest versions of political and economic alliances that unraveled after the Soviet Union's collapse.


The House Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.


Parigi, 22:53 - ATLETICA, STRASBURGO: BAALA RECORD STAGIONALE SUI 1.500 METRI

Il mezzofondista francese Mehdi Baala ha stabilito a Strasburgo la miglior prestazione mondiale stag...


Genova, 16:54 - CALCIO, SAMPDORIA: NON PIACE SPOSTAMENTO GARA CON CAGLIARI

La Sampdoria ha espresso contrarietà per  spostamento di data della partita con il Cagliari (...


Social Equality Comes With a Beat, Again

âStep Up 2 the Streetsâ posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichÃ©s arenât clichÃ©s.


"Saturday Night Live" unveiled the newest face of "Weekend Update" on its season premiere Saturday. Cast member Amy Poehler joined Tina Fey for the first all-female "Update" team in the show's history.


England look to Kevin Pietersen to inspire them towards an unlikely draw against Australia on the final day of the first Ashes Test.


Bush likely to cancel US ASEAN summit over Myanmar: diplomats

US President George W. Bush likely will cancel a summit he was planning with Southeast Asian leaders, following Myanmar's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests, ASEAN diplomats said here Sunday.


Wal-Mart exec says working to beat fiscal capex goal

Wal-Mart Stores Inc  is committed to keeping its fiscal 2008 capital spending at "no more than" $15.5 billion, a company executive said on Thursday.


U.S. commander in Pakistan as Taliban attack fort

A top U.S. commander met with Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani on Tuesday, as Pakistani forces repulsed an attack by Taliban fighters close to a fort in a restive tribal region.


While the Internet's major search engines keep adding more computers to scan the Web and run increasingly sophisticated algorithms to pull up meaningful results, dot-com luminary Jason Calacanis thinks there's still a place for people power.


By JAN SLIVA LUXEMBOURG - As European Union ministers consider how to get the problem-plagued Galileo satellite navigation system into orbit, one man who has been there had some simple advice - do it fast, or the Chinese will steal the show.


Demme Talks U.S. Politics at Venice Fest

With a strong American presence at this year's Venice International Film Festival, it didn't take long for U.S. politics to rear its controversial head.


GameSpot Editors Pick ``World of Warcraft'' as 2004 Game of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 22, 2004 -- World of Warcraft, the highly acclaimed "massively multiplayer online role-playing game" (MMORPG), was named Game of the Year by GameSpot (www.


Trade gaps widens in Nov to $63.1 billion

Record imports and surging oil prices helped widen the U.S. trade deficit much more than expected in November to $63.1 billion, despite a ninth consecutive month of record exports, a U.S. Commerce Department report on Friday showed.


Formaldehyde and Glutaraldehyde and Nasal Cytotoxicity: Case Study Within the Context of the 2006 IPCS Human Framework for the Analysis of a Cancer Mode of Action for Humans

By McGregor, Douglas; Bolt, Hermann; Cogliano, Vincent; Richter- Reichhelm, Hans-Bernhard  Formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde cause toxicity to the nasal epithelium of rats and mice upon inhalation.


New York's revamped Museum of Modern Art opens for business once again after a $425m revamp.


Lucien Freud portrait of Kate Moss sold for almost four million pounds

A painting of British supermodel Kate Moss, portrayed naked and pregnant by famed figurative artist Lucian Freud, has sold for almost four million pounds at auction.


Services were held for 120 of the more than 300 killed when a school was seized in an attack by militants. BESLAN, RUSSIA -- Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday


Struggling US carmaker Ford sees its shares fall 4% after it unveils plans to borrow $18bn (Â£9.3bn).


Google News Archive Boosts News Partnerships Chris Sherman in his Search Day article has a good general overview of the new Google News Archive search, introduced today. (Topix recently released a year-long archive of searchable news stories.) In some cases Google News Archive offers 18th and 19th Century newspaper articles (see below).  To my knowledge, there [...]


EU plans ban on bomb-making info on websites

Part of imminent 'ambitious counter terrorism package' European Union Justice, Freedom (sic) & Security Commissioner Franco Frattini yesterday turned up the volume on terror threats, ahead of the EU's adoption of "an ambitious counter terrorism package" next month. Terrorists, said Frattini, seek new technology, could deploy bioterrorism with devastating effect, and if they got hold of weapons of mass destruction "the consequences would be catastrophic."â¦


Sparring cross-country about who can better protect America, Democrat John Kerry urged supporters yesterday to reject President George W. Bush's scare tactics and "vote your


Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak took over as defense minister on Tuesday, an appointment that restored the job to a man with solid defense credentials at a time of heightened security concerns on Israel's southern and northern borders.


Energy minister from Bangladesh, India and Burma are to meet to discuss a joint gas pipeline project.


Al Qaeda behind Madrid bomb attacks: prosecutor

Al Qaeda inspired the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people, a public prosecutor said on Monday in concluding remarks at the trial of 29 people accused of involvement in the attacks.


La decisione per tutelare anelli piu' deboli della societa'


More than 1,600 people in Columbus were vaccinated this past week. With the Health Department out of the flu shot- what happens now for those at high risk?


Delphi Drops Finance Plan but Expects Another Soon

The Delphi Corporation said that it had terminated a $3.4 billion financing plan to bring the company out of bankruptcy protection but that it expects to sign a new deal this month.


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U.S. Raids Net Song Swappers in Copyright Crackdown

U.S. agents have raided the homes of  five people who allegedly traded hundreds of thousands of  songs, movies and other copyrighted material over the Internet,  Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Wednesday.


MediaDefender is wake-up call for entertainment sector

Tactics used on both sides of the piracy fight continue to get nastier, but scorched-earth mindset may be self-defeating.


Chris Drury fired a pass from behind the net midway through the second period, hoping to set up Brian Campbell. Instead, the puck ricocheted off Brad Stuart's leg and into the net.


As Georgians celebrate the Rose Revolution's first anniversary, Mr Saakashvili still has to deliver.


ProMOS to pay Infineon DRAM license fees

ProMOS Technologies has agreed to pay Infineon Technologies license fees for 0.17-, 0.14- and 0.11-micron DRAM trench technologies.


Peterson college football's ultimate weapon

I admit I thought Reggie Bush was the most devastating player in college football. I thought he was the biggest headache any defensive coordinator could ever have this season, and that he


Mobile carriers to make it easy to send money home

Mobile communications operators and banks joined forces on Monday to make it easier and cheaper for hundreds of millions of immigrants and migrant workers to send money home by using their mobile phones.


A man and two teenagers are charged with murder after a gang attacks a man with learning difficulties.


Zuma says no word from prosecutors on graft

Ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma said on Friday he had not been contacted by South African prosecutors over possible corruption charges.


iPhone sets the tone at Mobile World Congress

The cellphone industry went to Barcelona to âshow off the latest and greatest phonesâ and, once again, hardware took center stage. But, Victoria Shannon (New York Times) points out, âsoftware is growing in importance as smartphones, capable of accessing the Web, become more popular.â So, Shannon continues, âit was no surprise that many of the phones were iPhone clones â with touch screens, sleek flat shapes and spare software interfaces. Apple was able to make a phone that paid equal attention to the software and the hardware. And the rest of the industry was following suit here.â


(InfoWorld) - As one of the world's largest outsourcing providers, Wipro Technologies is ramping up its security services business in a big way. While the massive Indian company has had a security practice in place since 1998, Wipro officials say that the group has seen dramatic expansion over the last several years as customers gradually warm to the idea of offloading IT systems protection to external specialists. With five individual areas of business, nearly 1500 workers, 170 customers, and a claimed internal growth rate of 100 percent per year, the Bangalore-based outsourcer contends that the time for security outsourcing take off has already arrived. Faced with an ever-changing IT threat landscape and increasing pressure in the form of compliance mandates, businesses worldwide are getting over their fear of leaving security in someone else's hands and choosing outsourcing as a means to solve their problems, Wipro executives said. "Attacks are getting more sophisticated, data leakage has become a huge concern, and customers understand that constantly implementing new policies and technologies has become a challenging task," said Prasenjit Saha, global head for security services at Wipro. "We're working with customers to build the comfort factor, and most often, the projects start small, but as customers see what we can deliver and we build confidence under the co-managed model, we're slowly taking over more work," he said. Since security budgets began rising in 2003, Saha claims that Wipro's services unit has flourished. Among the areas of rapid growth for the firm are such projects as access management, security event management, data monitoring, and compliance automation. And while pricing has admittedly driven much of the growth of Wipro's business thus far, the executive said that his company is now winning deals based on its level of expertise. "I have feeling that going forward, if we are focused and can provide good solutions that meet requirements, customers will increasingly look at outsourcing," Saha said. "It will be a cycle, but these deals won't always be driven by cost-savings, they will also be driven by our ability to outperform internal security." By expanding its footprint slowly within customers over time, the executive contends that any negative perceptions of security outsourcing are being rapidly conquered. "If you look at the positioning we're taking with customers, our objective is to work as strategic security partner and provide integrated solutions and services; some people feel it is a risk to outsource security, but those who have made the leap see the efficiency, and they're expanding their projects," Saha said. Industry watchers agree that the security outsourcing space is moving fast. Analysts with market research firm Gartner are charting growth of the sector at just under 20 percent per year in 2007 and say that there will likely be continued growth as the practice of outsourcing security becomes more widely accepted. While he believes that Wipro and other providers of broad infrastructure-outsourcing services are still lagging behind security specialists like Symantec, IBM, ISS, and VeriSign in terms of recruiting customers in North America, Gartner Analyst John Pescatore said that the model is becoming increasingly popular. "Outsourcing is growing in general, and some companies are finding that if they can offload some routine tasks like firewall management and handling of intrusion detection alerts, they can spend more time reacting to emerging business needs," said Pescatore. "Some security groups are being forced to do it by management, and these are the ones that will likely always hate the idea, but those who are doing it by choice are giving the model mostly positive grades," the analyst said. SMBs take to security outsourcing Beyond the enterprise, Pescatore predicts that security outsourcing is quickly becoming attractive to SMBs that are struggling to deal with work like compliance automation that typically demands heavy investment and expansion of IT staffing. Large systems integrators, such as Computer Sciences, IBM, Unisys, and Wipro, will most likely win security deals as portions of larger outsourcing projects, but pure-play security companies like Symantec and carriers like AT&T should also be able to grow their lists of customers, according to the analyst. Speaking at the IDC Security Forum in New York on Wednesday, Edward Amoroso, chief security officer for AT&T's services division, predicted that enterprises will begin adopting more "virtual" security capabilities from their carriers and ISPs in the coming years. The executive specifically said that carriers are better positioned than anyone else to do battle with problems like botnets, spam, and denial-of-service attacks. "Our feeling is that when you look at what needs to be done for perimeter security, we're in the best place to provide that," Amoroso said. "We can't address something like the insider threat, but instead of putting security technologies in place at the pipe, we and other carriers can virtualize those services into the pipe itself." Among technology providers, some say the prospect of selling products to outsourcing companies is as attractive as marketing tools to customers themselves, and perhaps even more so. Officials with data leakage prevention specialist Tablus, one of Wipro's 39 official security partners, said that the outsourcing channel represents a significant opportunity for growing its own businesses in the coming years. "There are obvious benefits for customers to lean on experts who spend their lives focused on security. With the complexity of threats, networks, growth via mergers, and the pull on internal resources, there are a lot of macro forces driving interest in security outsourcing," said Anne Bonaparte, Tablus' chief executive. "As a relatively small player, working with outsourcers is very central to our growth; some customers may still not get it, but those who are more enlightened understand the benefits, and we think others will follow." In the face of such heady enthusiasm, some enterprises who are already dipping their toes into security outsourcing warn that while there are obvious advantages of lowered expense and staffing demands, customers must be careful how they approach the process. Also speaking at the IDC conference on Wednesday was Lynda Fleury, chief information security officer for Unum, a massive financial services provider based in Chattanooga, Tenn. Fleury said that her company has had mixed results with its security outsourcing efforts thus far, and she cautioned that the process of handling partners must be exacting and that customers must actively monitor the service providers they choose to work with.Â  As a result of its experiences, Unum has decided to bring some tasks it previously outsourced back in-house. "You have to make sure that every I is dotted dotted when it comes to service-level objectives. We found in some cases that we had no sight into what the service provider was doing," said Fleury. After outsourcing its network access management tasks to a service provider, Unum found that the company wasn't sufficiently policing the number of administrative accounts that were added to the system and that the people hired to do the job were more interested in sticking to wording of their contract than helping the firm build comprehensive protection. "We ended up with nothing more than paper-pushers who eventually told us that they were being told not to challenge access credential requests," the CISO said. "So, it's pretty clear that you need to be careful"


Bob and Mike Bryan could not stick around at Family Circle Tennis Stadium on Friday night to watch US Davis Cup teammates Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish win their matches against Belarus.


Chrysler said it would cut its production schedule for the rest of the year by 16 percent because of slumping sales as a result of high gas prices.


Scott Starks returns a fumble by Purdue QB Kyle Orton 40 yards for a touchdown in the closing minutes to lift No. 10 Wisconsin to a 20-17 win over No. 5 Purdue.


Singh eyes 10th title of 2004 at Grand Slam in Hawaii

Vijay Singh narrowly failed in his bid to win 10 PGA Tour titles this year but has a golden opportunity to clinch a final victory of 2004 at this week's PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Hawaii.


Harry Potterâs Final Act Is Set for July 21

Millions of fans around the world are fiercely anticipating âHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.â


Lifestyle: 18 September 2004, Saturday. Despite the cool weekend in Sofia, alternative music fans spend their afternoon time to watch the musicians participating in the third edition of the Jim Beam Cube ...


'Substantial gap' remains between Ottawa, provinces on health care

OTTAWA - Canada's premiers are gathered in Ottawa preparing for an historic summit with the prime minister on the issue of health care.


Team India gets death threat, delays departure

NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket team's tour of Bangladesh, which begins next week, has run into major trouble. The Indian High Commission in Dhaka today received a hand-written fax letter from a militant group called the Harkat-ul-Zihad.


Hereâs one way to deal with home prices that remain stubbornly high despite the recent downturn: Buy your second home first.


Colleges throughout the region, faced with cease-and-desist letters and straining bandwidth resources, have stepped up their efforts to curtail students' illegal downloads of copyrighted music. -washingtonpost.com


[TS] Sports of The Times: A Backupâs Job Is to Be Ready to Go in a Snap

If a backup is needed on Sunday, the little-known Jim Sorgi and the more familiar Brian Griese each will be on the Super Bowl sideline, ready to trot onto the field, ready to try to win the game.


Actor Reeve Shown in Calif. Stem Cell Campaign Ad

Less than two weeks after his sudden death, actor Christopher Reeve on Friday began appearing in a taped appeal to Californians to vote for a controversial ballot measure that would fund a decade of stem cell research,


Accept a Gift-Giving Challenge This Season

By Dr. Jacques Gibble  As I write this, seasonal music is playing on the radio and I am reminded that this is a special time of year. I am going to talk about two gifts worth giving and then offer a New Year's challenge.   The first one is an unselfish gift to others.


'Incredibles' May Have Met Their Box Office Match

The family audience is in high demand on the final weekend before Thanksgiving as two new films and two holdovers clamor for its attention.


UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned yesterday that a recent surge of fighting in Sudan's Darfur region could hurt next month's political negotiations on ending the four-year conflict.


Pakistani troops in Waziristan begin a new search for Islamic militants, among them a former US detainee.


Studies Find Higher Rates Of Heart Risk With Vioxx

A paper published Tuesday suggests that Vioxx posed heart risks that a similar drug, Celebrex, does not.


Fecondazione. Referendum: ok della Cassazione, ora tocca alla ...

Primo via libera ai cinque quesiti referendari abrogativi delle norme della legge sulla fecondazione assistita. La Corte di Cassazione ha convalidato le firme raccolte da Radicali, Ds ed altre associazioni


Not even a big home run by Barry Bonds could stop Jaret Wright from winning again. Wright set a career high with his 13th win and drove in the go-ahead run with a surprise bunt Friday night, helping the Atlanta


Shareholders of mining giant Rio Tinto shareholders back Alcan takeover

Rio Tinto shareholders have backed the Anglo-Australian mining giant's bid to buy Canada's Alcan and create the world's largest aluminium firm, the company said Friday.


Rome's atmosphere shows signs of cocaine

Airborne nose ajax drives la dolce vita Scientists from Italy's National Research Council (CNR) have discovered an even greater threat to Rome's population than getting run down by a Lambretta: particles of cocaine and marijuana in the atmosphere, centred around the city's Sapienza university.â¦


Abortion pill thwarts breast cancer gene

Scientists used the abortion drug RU-486 to keep tumors at bay in mice bred with a gene destined to give them breast cancer.


Anesthesia Can Dim Elderly Patients' Minds

TUESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- Many elderly people suffer cognitive decline for up to two years after having surgery that requires anesthesia.


Typhoon Ma-On Nears Japan, May Strike Tokyo

A powerful typhoon, one of the strongest storms recorded in Asia this year, churned toward Japan on Saturday, lashing the nation with heavy rain, prompting evacuations and threatening to strike Tokyo.


Londra, 14:31 - CALCIO, FIFA INDAGA SU CONTRATTO TRAP-IRLANDA

Il contratto che Giovanni Trapattoni ha firmato con nuovo ct dell'Irlanda sarà oggetto di un'...


Gli africani si impongono per 15-6 in una partita dominata dal duello sui calci di punzioneEroe della serata Montgmoery. E il capitano bianco Smith abbraccia Mbeki                                          Rugby, inglesi sconfitti nella finale il Sudafrica sul tetto del mondo


Take away my access to e-mail and online databases, and Iâm nothing but a lonely woman sitting in a cold basement.


Jordan begins trial of suspects in alleged Bush plot

Jordan began on Wednesday the trial of three Islamists accused of plotting to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush when he visited the kingdom last year.


LOS ANGELES - Comedian Ellen DeGeneres is getting a promotion - to supreme being. DeGeneres will star as God in a remake of the 1977 comedy "Oh, God!"   The original starred George Burns as the creator and John Denver as a supermarket manager tapped as a new prophet...


Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty wins Booker Prize

Alan Hollinghurst's novel, The Line of Beauty, a tale of a young gay man dazzled by drugs, power and money in Margaret Thatcher's London, won Britain's most prestigious literary award - the Booker Prize.


Boeing takes 47 new jet orders, worth more than $4 bln

Boeing Co. BA.N announced new orders   for 47 planes from unidentified buyers on Thursday, worth more   than $4 billion overall, including 16 for its new carbon and   titanium 787 Dreamliner.


Italy's De Benedetti dynasty is making a comeback. High-flying corporate raider Carlo De Benedetti, dubbed "the engineer," once ranked as a titan of Italian industry alongside Gianni Agnelli.


Citigroup launched a legal challenge  against Parmalat's restructuring plan on Friday, hitting back  after the insolvent food group rejected its claims for credit  repayment and sued the bank for damages.


The Fed makes billions of dollars available to banks in an auction hoping to ease credit-crunch concerns.


U.S.-Russia tensions, climate in focus as G8 meets

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Leaders of the world's major powers gather on Germany's Baltic coast on Wednesday for a G8 summit likely to be dominated by U.S.-Russia tensions and wrangling over global warming.


Fed Raises Interest Rate to 2.25 Percent

The Federal Reserve pushed US interest rates up by a modest quarter-percentage point on Tuesday and expressed confidence that inflation could be kept at bay by slowly lifting credit costs from rock-bottom levels.


prostoalex writes "The patent dispute between Eastman Kodak and Sun Microsystems in regards to three patents that EK claimed Sun was violating with Java, came to an end.


A team of Irish scientists develops a strain of bacteria that can convert a toxic byproduct of the Styrofoam manufacturing process into biodegradable plastic. By Rowan Hooper.


Reds score five runs off John Smoltz in ninth inning to beat ...

John Smoltz is used to closing out games for the Atlanta Braves. Blowing saves is something he's not accustomed to. "It's a shock to your system," he said.


U.N. prosecutors opened their war crimes case against three members of the Kosovo Liberation Army Monday, promising to call on witnesses to prove charges against the first ethnic Albanians to face the Hague tribunal for actions during the Kosovo war.


Afghanistan's historic presidential election Saturday was mostly fair, independent observers say, despite the claims of 15 candidates who announced a boycott.


Wounded by two Chad Pennington turnovers that were converted into 10 points, the Jets lost a game that brought them back to the rest of the pack.


OV May Raise Water Fees for New Buildings

By Danielle Sottosanti, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 14--Oro Valley's Town Council on Wednesday night will consider drastically increasing water-connection fees for new homes and businesses -- a move that has for months been the center of controversy between the town and developers.


Update 1: Fannie Mae Board Meets to Talk Shake-Up

The board of Fannie Mae has been discussing a possible executive shake-up as the embattled mortgage giant responds to regulators' allegations of accounting violations and faces a likely restatement of $9 billion or more in earnings.


L'utile batte nettamente le stime degli analisti


Yes, boys and girls, the word for this year is 'blog'--that's blog as in 'a website that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks.


The Burt Rutan/Paul Allen private spacecraft is on the brink of nabbing the $10 million X Prize. But that's just the start. The $10 million X Prize is almost in the bank.


Chinese Game Maker Shows Winning Touch (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Chinese Internet companies that lit up Wall Street last year have become fading stars. Most blame the slowdown in the wireless end of their business for their shrinking market value.


The government is to spend Â£7.5m over three years to fight rogue traders who prey on vulnerable householders.


Apple thinks do-it-yourself PC repair is the wave of the future. But another PC maker has other ideas.


Reversing a trend in which private health plans have been quitting the federal Medicare program, US officials Wednesday announced that more plans will join next year.


Buenos Aires, 15:58 - CALCIO, ARGENTINA: MORTO BERNAO, ALA INDIPENDIENTE ANNI '60

E' morto all'età di 66 anni per problemi al fegato Raul Emilio Bernao, famosa ala destra dell...


Iran says can launch missile with range of 2,000km

Iran is able to launch a missile with a range of 2,000 km, the official IRNA news agency Tuesday quoted influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as saying.


The Motley Fool - There's something interesting going on in the world of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), those stock-like/fund-like investments that have been growing in popularity lately. (For the basics on ETFs, what they are, and why you should consider them, drop by our ETF Center.)


When Ron Stevens, the chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, was deciding whether to put Evander Holyfield's career on ice, he kept getting hit with the image of an aging former champion getting pounded in a makeshift ring in some boxing


Seeking to speed the delivery of new communications services to US airline passengers, the government yesterday paved the way for at least one company to compete


Babe Ruth Bat That Felled the Red Sox Goes on Sale

The bat Babe Ruth used to hit the  first home run in Yankee Stadium and help usher in 80 years of  New York Yankee dominance over his former team, the Boston Red  Sox, is going on the auction block.


Maciej Zurawski came off the bench to fire Celtic to a 1-0 win at home to Aberdeen and take them 16 points clear at the top of the Scottish Premier League.


Cincinnati running back Chris Perry broke his right leg in the second quarter of Sunday's 30-0 win over the Cleveland Browns.


European Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer said the US team will have to come up with more than it showed Friday to win back the Ryder Cup.


French hit by transport chaos as unions pressure Sarkozy

France was hit by transport chaos Thurday as unions challenged President Nicolas Sarkozy with a 24-hour strike, but the government vowed to stick by plans to overhaul pensions for hundreds of thousands in the public sector.


Having reminded Mancunians of what they are missing courtesy of a superlative goal at Old Trafford yesterday, David Beckham will sit out England's World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan on Wednesday


Kurt Warner's thing is about the locker room learning what it's like to win together. Michael Strahan's thing revolves around a want of respect and the importance of the next game in gaining that commodity.


Talks begin over the possible takeover of UK Coal's five opencast sites in the north-east of England.


World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Bmw Earnings Rise 28%

BMW, the German automaker, said its profit rose 28 percent in 2006, helped by strong car sales and a one-time gain from the sale of a stake in Rolls-Royce, the British aircraft engine manufacturer. The company, which is based in Berlin, said it was seeking approval from its board to buy back up to 10 percent of its stock and said it would increase dividends. Net profit climbed to 2.87 billion euros ($3.77 billion) from 2.24 billion euros the previous year.


How fear turns to resolve in one Iraqi village

US-Iraqi forces persuade a remote town in Diyala Province to fight against Al Qaeda insurgents.


Make space for God, Pope says in Christmas sermon

Pope Benedict led the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics into Christmas with a midnight mass on Tuesday, urging people to find time and space for God, the needy and the suffering.


Palestinians Present Gaza Deployment Plan to Israel

Palestinian officials presented a detailed  plan to Israel for the deployment of Gaza security forces to  halt attacks on Israelis, and the militant Hamas group set its  terms on Thursday for a cease-fire.


Bush Iraq Adviser Blackwill to Step Down

The Bush administration's lead  official on Iraq policy has told the White House he plans to  leave in the coming weeks, U.S. officials said on Saturday,  ahead of Iraq's planned elections.


The newest member of the Slingbox family is designed to stream true high-definition video--but only within a home network.


Wong Kar-wai makes emotionally exquisite, formally adventurous films that other filmmakers can't help cribbing from Â even if his method borders on madness.


Paris Hilton is set to be released from jail early this week after serving time for a probation violation. Her first post-jail interview will be on Larry King Live on CNN Wednesday night. Reportedly, both ABC and NBC pursued an interview and off...


A Spanish judge has charged 17 people in an alleged Islamic plot to blow up the court in Madrid that handles terrorism cases, according to a judge's order seen by CNN.


What you need to know to win this year -- and for the next 10.


Judge OKs Sprint's $30m overcharging settlement

Pre-paid A federal judge has given Sprint Nextel initial approval to pay $30m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of colluding with other phone companies to overcharge customers. Qualified customers will receive prepaid calling cards from a cache worth $25m. Attorneys get the remaining $5m for fees and costs.â¦


Bush meets pope, promotes U.S. AIDS work

President Bush, denounced by tens of thousands of anti-American protesters on the streets of Rome, defended his humanitarian record on Saturday to Pope Benedict XVI, who expressed concern about "the worrisome situation in Iraq."


The FDA decides to debate the company's lead drug.


Polls Show Nov. 2 Race Even as Bush Bounce Fades

Two national polls on Thursday  showed the race between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry  deadlocked again as Bush's convention bounce faded, although  the president has made headway in key swing states.


Discussions to start on Mitchell steroids report

Major League Baseball and the players'  association have agreed to discuss recommendations from a  report exposing widespread steroid use that could lead to a  further crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs.


Danish police arrest 8 Muslims in alleged bomb plot

Danish police arrested eight young Muslims in pre-dawn raids on Tuesday on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack and having links with al Qaeda.


Roethlisberger, Vilma See Early Successes

Rookie quarterbacks don't have immediate success in the NFL. Neither do first-year middle linebackers. The positions simply are too complicated and too critical, and coaches won't trust them to the novice.


Before Friday night's semifinal in the World Cup of Hockey, coach Raimo Summanen of Finland and coach Ron Wilson of the US discussed different opponents.


U.S. agents make progress in Sudan killing probe

U.S. and Sudanese security agents are close to identifying a suspect in the shooting of an American aid official and his driver in Khartoum, Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.


Israel says thwarts suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv

Israeli police seized an explosive belt that was intended to be used in a Tel Aviv suicide bomb attack on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, a police spokesman said on Saturday.


JSLabs Blog:  How to stop IE from caching AJAX requests

If you've ever had the frustration of working with Ajax in Internet Explorer and have noticed it caching the requests/results, you might want to check out this new post on the JSLabs blog for a helpful hint.   While working on an AJAX project over the weekend, I ran into the following issue: (through a GET request), every time I tried to call a certain function, It was returning the same data (which was supposed to be different each time)   First, he tried just changing the headers (via PHP's header function) to see if IE would understand the new message, but to no avail. He finally figured out that, despite whatever headers were sent or how much the content changed, what he really needed to do was to provide the script some kind of unique identifier with each request (just appended to the url) so that IE knew the request was different. His weapon of choice was a date/time value.


Breast Cancer Drug Hailed as Greatest Advance in 30 Years

The results of the five-year trial involving 9,300 women, the largest ever on breast cancer, show that women taking the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole (brand name Arimidex) were less likely to have their cancer spread.


Dome Provides History Lesson as New Stadium Deal Is Reached

(Indianapolis-December 20, 2004) - The City of Indianapolis is presenting the stadium deal with the Colts as an 'historic economic development project.


Oscar winning movie Crash, named best film of 2005, is being made into a TV series for a US cable channel.


AMERICA/CANADA - I delegati diocesani delle POM del Canada e degli Stati Uniti riflettono sulle nuove sfide che si presentano alla missione e all'evangelizzazione in America del Nord Montreal (Agenzia Fides) - I delegati diocesani addetti alla pastorale missionaria del Canada, si sono riuniti dal 24 al 26 maggio, rispondendo all'invito delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie (POM), per riflettere sulle nuove sfide che si presentano al...


2008 Presidential Convention to Be Held in Denver

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Thursday morning its choice of Denver as the site of the 2008 presidential convention Ã¢ÂÂ choosing the Colorado capital over New York City, its only remaining rival for the event.


Del Ponte Says Serbia Is Deliberately Ignoring Legal Obligations

At least a dozen of the 20 suspects wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal are living freely in Serbia, Carla del Ponte has told the UN Security Council, describing the Serbian government as "the single most important obstacle" to prosecuting indictees.


Vitamin A protein may reveal hidden body fat

NEW YORK  - Measuring blood levels of a chemical transporter for vitamin A may be useful in estimating a person's "intraabdominal fat," a type of fat inside the abdomen that it not visible, but still adversely affects health, new research shows.


Yukos chairman accuses state of trying to re-nationalise oil giant

MOSCOW : The Russian government aims to bankrupt oil giant Yukos and seize its main assets for the state, its chairman Viktor Gerashchenko said in a newspaper interview published.


Parigi, 22:56 - CALCIO, EUROPEI 2008: FRANCIA-SCOZIA 0-1

Impresa della Scozia, che a Parigi ha battuto la Francia 1-0 in un incontro valido per le qualificaz...


Wife of missing ex-FBI agent in Iran, seeking help

The wife of a former FBI agent who disappeared during a trip to Iran arrived in Tehran on Tuesday to press the Islamic republic's government to help find him, a Reuters witness said.


West Brom eye Robson as Hoddle talks stall

Bryan Robson is emerging as a serious contender for the vacant managerial position at his former club West Bromwich Albion as question marks over keeping Glenn Hoddle long


Forget England, India are No 2, says Merv

MUMBAI: India's form slump may have left fans disappointed and the critics carping, but they found support from an unlikely quarter on Wednesday.


Analysis: Is there life after Super Tuesday?

Is Super Tuesday the end? The race isn't over until somebody gets a majority of delegates, and both parties have rules that make it difficult to get to a majority.


Captato misterioso segnale nello spazio. SarÃ  alieno?

Un misterioso segnale Ã¨ stato captato dal radiotelescopio di Arecibo in Portorico. Secondo quanto riferito da alcuni scienziati si tratterebbe di un messaggio extraterrestre. Un misterioso segnale Ã¨ stato


Moises Alou went 3 for 5 with two RBIs and two doubles for Chicago, which has won five of six. Every starter for the Cubs had at least one hit.


Palestinian gunmen yesterday released a CNN journalist abducted in Gaza City apparently to pressure members of an Arab minority group not to serve in the Israeli army.


Bush again accuses Iran of making nuclear material

SANTIAGO, Chile - President Bush increased the administration's pressure on Iran on Saturday, accusing the country of speeding forward in the production of a key ingredient for nuclear weapons fuel, a move he said was "a very serious matter" that


This brilliant, sinister French thriller is a twisty road movie in which every sign points toward catastrophe.


(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Thomson CenterWatch:


A quarter of parents say they worry about whether they are looking after their children properly, a study says.


Grammy nominations shine on Canadian artists

In a strong year for Canadian talent,  acts ranging from alt-rock band Arcade Fire to polka king  Walter Ostanek have tallied up no fewer than 20 Grammy Award  nominations among them.


A close look at choosing your binoculars

Binoculars are as vital to a bird-watcher as a fishing rod is to a fisherman. A requisite tool of the trade, the right pair not only prevents the finches from looking fuzzy but also enhances the total birding experience.


You're probably used to having a big-screen TV or a cell phone charger in the bedroom, but diversified manufacturer Leggett & Platt Inc. wants to take things a step further by bringing tech gadgets right into your bed.


WASHINGTON - The White House has drafted executive orders aimed at implementing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations for a more powerful intelligence director and a new national counterterrorism center...


Two NATO troops, dozens of Afghan Taliban killed: U.S.

Two NATO soldiers were killed on patrol in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a day after nearly three dozen insurgents were killed in southern areas rife with Taliban guerrillas, the U.S. military said.


Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could re-examined.


Grenade explodes in Serb classroom in Kosovo

PRISTINA, Serbia  - A grenade exploded in a classroom used by Serb children in Kosovo on Tuesday, but the elementary school pupils escaped injury, police said.


Bird watchers are invited to marvel at the wonder of up to 45,000 starlings swooping over Brighton.


Ricky Martin, Brooks & Dunn, Tim Robbins, Cate Blanchett, Angela Bassett, Howie Mandel and the late George Harrison are among the celebrities who will be honored next year with Hollywood Walk of Fame stars.


Aventis to Supply 2.6 Mln More Flu Shots

Aventis-Pasteur said on Tuesday it  had squeezed out an extra 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine  beyond what the company already has promised.


LEGA CALCIO/ ZAMPARINI: L'ACCORDO NON E' STATO TROVATO

Milano, 29 ott. (Apcom) - Accordo non trovato. Lo ha detto il presidente del Palermo, Maurizio Zamparini, a margine del secondo e decisivo incontro tra i sei 'saggi' che devono discutere sul futuro assetto della Lega Calcio.


Roma, 16:57 - RUGBY, SEI NAZIONI: CON L'INGHILTERRA SENZA MASI E BERGAMASCO

Due defezioni importanti nell'Italia del Rugby in vista dela sfida di sabato a Twickenam, valida per...


Ugandan government accused of "state homophobia"

An international human rights group has accused President Yoweri Museveni's government of promoting "state homophobia" in Uganda and urged the repeal of a colonial-era law against sodomy.


Germany, France support Turkish invitation to EU membership talks

Germany and France offered a ringing endorsement for Turkey's eventual membership of the European Union at a bilateral summit, as French President Jacques Chirac brushed aside doubts about Paris's backing.


Â«Ci siamo salvati sulle tavole da surfÂ»

Â«Eravamo al largo. Abbiamo fatto passare l'onda e siamo rimasti in mare per un'ora. Al ritorno abbiamo visto il disastroÂ». FIUMICINO (Roma) - Si sono salvati grazie alla loro passione: il surf. La tavola Ã¨ stata la loro zattera di salvataggio.


Cablevision Unit to Buy Five Lockheed Satellites

Cablevision Systems Corp. said its Rainbow DBS unit is to buy five satellites from Lockheed Martin Corp. for about $740 million as it expands its satellite television operations.


Anna Nicole Smith's 5-month-old daughter and the baby's purported father have reclaimed the Bahamas mansion where they lived before the former Playboy Playmate died last week, her lawyer said.


Nokia joins secure digital memory card group

The mobile phone maker will support tiny data storage devices and their multimedia cards.


Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.


Fannie Mae raises 2004 home sales forecast

The MBA, a Washington trade group, said on Wednesday its purchase index, a gauge of new loan requests for home purchases, rose in the week ended Aug. 13 by 6.2 percent to 467.1 from 440.0 in the previous week.


In Video Message, Bin Laden Issues Warning to US

In a new videotape broadcast Friday, Osama bin Laden made a direct, formal address to the American people, saying that the best way for Americans to avoid a repeat of the attacks on Sept.


Initial coverage of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's comments during an event in Singapore yesterday left the folks back at headquarters in Redmond trying to clarify things and put them in context.


Iraq's violent 'brain drain' called a threat to future

WASHINGTON -- Dozens of Iraqi academics and their families have been attacked and killed by extremists in recent weeks in what human rights groups say is an effort to eliminate remaining intellectuals and skilled professionals -- and destroy whatever prospects might exist for establishing a functioning democratic society.


Nova Scotia company provides 700 rapid-HIV tests to Kenyan orphanage

HALIFAX (CP) - A Nova Scotia-based company, in the business of marketing HIV rapid diagnostic tests, recently donated 700 of the units for use in a Kenyan orphanage.


Milano, 19:08 - CALCIO, JUVE; BOJINOV: NON VOGLIO TORNARE A FIRENZE

"Ho sbagliato nel mio comportamento, ma avevo chiesto di andare via perchÃ© non trovavo spazio. Pran...


Senior mainland officials arrive for a funeral in Taiwan, in the highest level visit for more than 10 years.


Goals from Kris Boyd, Stephen McManus and James McFadden keep Scotland in the hunt for a place at Euro 2008.


Intelsat Satellite Lost After Electrical Malfunction

Intelsat Ltd., the second-largest global satellite operator, said its Intelsat Americas-7 satellite that covered North and Central America was permanently lost today because of an electrical malfunction.


UK High Street retailer Woolworths will this year launch a digital music download service, the company's parent revealed today.


A 2-year-old dachshund barked chained to its dingy, wooden house Tuesday, unaware of its fate as South Korea began slaughtering hundreds of dogs, cats and pigs in an effort to stem the spread of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.


Apple holding 'special event' on Sept. 5

Based on the invitation, it appears that new iPods will be on tap in San Francisco during an Apple event.


Tiger Kills 1 After Escaping at San Francisco Zoo

One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed.


Google upgrades Mini workplace search device

InfoWorld - Google has improved the security and search features of its Mini search device, a hardware box with Google software aimed at small and medium-size companies and at departments within large organizations.


Prezzi, Berlusconi: incremento potere acquisto 2,2% nel 2005

Il potere d'acquisto reale delle famiglie puÃ² aumentare nel 2005 del 2,2%. Lo ha detto il premier Silvio Berlusconi, in margine alla conferenza stampa convocata per presentare l'accordo sul calmiere dei prezzi nella grande distribuzione.


Clijsters Wins Comeback Match in Belgium

Former No. 1 Kim Clijsters beat Jelena Kostanic of Croatia 6-2, 6-3 in the Diamond Games on Tuesday in her first match in four months.


Prince of Wales charters luxury yacht to cut costs

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are to tour the Caribbean in one of the most expensive charter yachts in the world in an effort to cut travel expenses and greenhouse gas emissions.


McDonald's may sell breakfast all day: CEO

McDonald's Corp. may soon offer its   breakfast menu all day long as a new restaurant layout will   make it easier to prepare a wide variety of foods at once, its   chief executive said on Wednesday.


A man who hijacked a Turkish Airlines  flight on Tuesday was unarmed, working alone and threatened to  blow himself up if the pilot did not divert the flight to  Italy, Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said.


SAMARRA, Iraq - Bloodied by weeks of suicide bombings and assassinations, Iraqi security forces emerged Sunday to patrol Samarra after a morale-boosting victory in this Sunni Triangle city, and U.S. commanders praised their performance...


Le richieste della difesa "Assoluzione totale per Antonio Giraudo"

Torino, 19 novembre 2004 - Fedina penale bianca, candida, ninete di piÃ¹, niente di meno. Questo Ã¨ quello chiesto dalla difesa al processo per doping in corso a Torino contro lo staff bianconero. Â«L'assoluzione


A Somali minister and militia leader calls on Prime Minister Ghedi's government to leave its base in Baidoa.


VATICANO - AVE MARIA a cura di don Luciano Alimandi - La gioia di seguire il Signore GesÃ¹ CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - ÂNotissima, poi, e persino proverbiale Ã¨ la scena di Tommaso incredulo, avvenuta otto giorni dopo la Pasqua. In un primo tempo, egli non aveva creduto a GesÃ¹ apparso in sua assenza, e aveva detto: ÂSe non vedo nel...


Bush to Survey Frances Damage in Florida

President Bush is returning to storm-battered Florida for the third time in 3 1/2 weeks, this time to survey damage from Hurricane Frances and to personally assure residents that billions more dollars in federal aid is coming.


Positive a fine scambi le piazze di Parigi e Londra


Palestinian Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike

Palestinian prisoners launched a hunger strike Sunday, in what was shaping up to be the biggest showdown between thousands of inmates and the Israeli authorities since the outbreak of Mideast fighting in 2000.


Kerry Hires Ala. Woman Fired for Sticker

Democrat John Kerry has a new campaign worker helping him drum up support in Alabama after hiring a woman who was fired for displaying the presidential candidate's bumper sticker on her car.


Gaza lights up as Israel eases fuel blockade

Israel resumed fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip's main power plant on Tuesday, offering limited respite from a blockade that plunged much of the Hamas-ruled territory into darkness and touched off international protests.


Police in Spain identify the body of an alleged ringleader of the March train bombings in Madrid.


Tra gli azzurri c'Ã¨ anche il maratoneta reggiano Stefano Baldini

ROMA (27 set. 2004) - Un lungo applauso per accogliere gli azzurri vittoriosi ad Atene. E' cominciata cosi' nel salone del Coni la giornata di festa per gli olimpionici. Tra gli azzurri gia' arrivati ci sono


Olympiad Ends Amid Shows of Spirit and Relief

Description: International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge calls the 2004 Games, held at their historic birthplace, "dream games.


Barcellona, 16:10 - CALCIO, SAVIOLA: MANCANZA DI RISPETTO RIFIUTARE IL REAL

Javier Saviola ha rilasciato un'intervista al quotidiano spagnolo Ole che non farà di certo f...


Nepal's King Gyanendra comes under attack from a stone-throwing crowd in the capital, Kathmandu.


Notre Dame's interest in Charlie Weis intensified yesterday as school representatives met with the Patriots' offensive coordinator for the second time this week about their head coaching vacancy.


90-day sentence for subway mercury spill

A man who was caught on a subway surveillance video spilling mercury on a downtown station platform was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to stay away from the area's mass transit facilities.


Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says he will not let his country's blockade of Gaza turn into a humanitarian crisis.


Lifetime Risk of Abnormal Heart Rhythm 25: US Study

NEW YORK  - About one in four adults in the US who are 40 years of age or older will experience an abnormal heart rhythm, also referred to as atrial fibrillation (AF), before they die, according to a report in the ...


Cheers Greet Rescuers in Aceh, Children Suffer

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the  worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as  reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.


Protesters Denounce APEC Summit in Chile

A cloud of tear gas surrounds a demonstrator during clashes with Chilean police as protesters stage a rally against the upcoming APEC summit in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Nov. 19, 2004.


After singing and composing, Shibani Kashyap is now moving on to acting. She makes her debut with director Faisal


European airlines in legal limbo as data talks collapse

An agreement sheltering airlines from European privacy laws, allowing them to hand over passenger data required by U.S. authorities, expired Saturday, leaving most European airlines in legal limbo.


Suicide bomber kills north Iraq police chief

A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of a blast a day earlier that killed 36 people and wounded scores, police said.


Federal health officials said yesterday that 2.6million additional doses of flu vaccine will be available in January, far fewer than the 48 million lost to contamination at an American-owned manufacturing plant in Britain.


Scientists release a first draft of the bovine genome - a run through of the genetic code that describes a cow.


Nella sua villa di Macherio centinaia di telefonatePoi Silvio le fa sapere: vengo a cenare con te e i figli                                            Il lungo giorno di Veronica "Adesso devo riflettere"                                                                                Ha voluto difendere i suoi ragazzi: "Siamo  sempre noi adulti a tradire i giovani"A un'amica ha detto: "Ora sto bene, vorrei andare qualche giornoin un convento"di DARIO CRESTO-DINA


Jeane Kirkpatrick, the first female ambassador to the UN and member of Ronald Reagan's cabinet dies.


Democratic split could hand La. seat to GOP

As the South has grown increasingly Republican over the past four decades, one buffer for Democrats has been Louisiana, the only state in the old Confederacy


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Albuquerque Has Renewal of Attacks on Abortion

A rash of attacks on abortion and family planning clinics has struck Albuquerque this month, the first such violence there in nearly a decade.


Atlantic City Casinos and Patrons Cope on 2nd Day of Strike

For Dolores Del Sorda, Saturday was supposed to be the day that she and her four adult daughters won the jackpot at Caesars Atlantic City.


Iraqi insurgents yesterday kidnapped an American and up to five others in an audacious attack on a house in western Baghdad. An interior ministry source told the Guardian the militants approached the villa


Torino, 14:20 - CALCIO, JUVE: CONVOCATI PER MODENA

Sono 19 i giocatori convocati dal tecnico della Juve, Didier Deschamps, per la gara di domani sera c...


Nasa Astronauts to Attempt to Retract Solar Panel During Spacewalk

KOROLYOV (NEAR MOSCOW). Dec 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The main goal of the fourth space walk by astronauts from the Discovery shuttle, which is scheduled to take place on early December 19, is to fold a solar wing, NASA representative at Russian mission control Sergei Puzanov told Interfax-AVN.


Irish PM defeats no-confidence vote over finances

Ireland's parliament backed Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on Wednesday after the main opposition party called a vote of confidence over his recent testimony at an anti-corruption tribunal.


Seven killed in new Kenya clashes despite meeting between rival leaders


Opponents of legislation that wouldÂ overhaul the U.S. patent system have enlisted new allies who may cause majority Democrats in Congress to rethink their support of the proposals.


WASHINGTON - A lawyer for the tobacco industry on Wednesday rejected the government's claim that cigarette companies conspired for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking and should forfeit $280 billion generated by the alleged fraud.    To win the case, the government must prove the scheme existed and is likely to continue...


America Online Inc. is packaging new features to combat viruses, spam and spyware in response to growing online security threats.


Trip and fall lately? Seniors often won't mention it unless they're hurt, but new guidelines say that first tumble is a good predictor of who's at risk for another, more serious fall.


FIRST TEE 7 a.m. -- Tiger Woods; 7:10 -- Adam Scott; 7:20 -- Mark O'Meara; 7:30 -- Billy Mayfair; 7:40 -- Tim Herron; 7:50 -- Bubba Watson; 8 -- Lucas Glover; 8:10 -- Peter Lonard; 8:20 -- Tim Petrovic; 8:30 -- Bo Van Pelt; 8:40 -- TBA; 8:50 -- Shigeki Maruyama; 9 -- Vijay Singh.


Airlines operating at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport have agreed to cut flights to reduce delays that ripple across the country, sources familiar with the talks said yesterday.


Liz Hurley 'married Indian boyfriend in secret service'

Celebrity model and actress Elizabeth Hurley has already married her fiance Arun Nayar, and Saturday's star-studded event will just be a blessing.


Hard-boiled suites Microsoft is throwing developers working with mixed PC and Mac environments a curveball with the long-awaited release of Office for Macintosh 2008.â¦


America's northern fur seal pup population continues a marked decline this decade, federal biologists reported Friday.


Data exchange format is just too slow, some say. But there's debate over the best way to make Extensible Markup Language fly.


Science & environment: The effects of climate change will be felt sooner than scientists realised and the world must learn to live with the effects, experts said yesterday.


He has been blamed for everything from the state of the economy to the sleaze crisis besetting his party. Yesterday, a new accusation was added to Gordon Brown's charge sheet - the redesign of the 50p coin


Manila, rebels accuse each other of truce violation

The Philippine government and the country's largest Muslim rebel group on Monday accused each other of breaking a nearly three-and-a-half year old cease-fire after 10 militants were killed in a gun battle last week in the south.


Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose  Ramos-Horta was sworn in as East Timor's new prime minister on  Monday, a move aimed at ending weeks of political crisis in  Asia's newest nation.


Yakubu Ayegbeni claimed the first hat-trick of the Premiership season as Portsmouth got the better of a remarkable seven-goal battle at Fratton Park last night.


Personal Health: Mental Reserves Keep Brains Agile

Well-designed studies suggest several ways to improve the brainâs viability.


Homeowners pinched by preservation rules

Kelvin Hewitt began pounding nails into his 140-year-old home just weeks after it was battered by Hurricane Katrina.


Duke now says Cisco, not iPhone, caused Wi-Fi snafu

A conflict between iPhones and Duke University's campus-wide wireless network has been traced to a problem with Cisco hardware in use at the school, prompting consternation from the Mac-fandom community (but relief for those actually using the device on campus).


Video of kidnapped BBC reporter posted on Web

JERUSALEM -- Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent kidnapped March 12 in the Gaza Strip, appeared in a video posted yesterday on a website used by Al Qaeda in which he said he is being treated well and called for an end to sanctions against the Palestinian Authority.


Most of the presidential election provisional ballots rejected so far in Ohio came from people who were not even registered to vote, election officials said after spending nearly two weeks poring over thousands of disputed votes.


Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has barred new construction work, building planning and occupancy tenders at West Bank settlements without his approval, documents show.


Palestinians in Gaza appeal for more aid

Children raced to help parents collect food from U.N. aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip as women sat in the shade near trucks, waiting for their names to be called to receive their food rations.


Indian govt sets talks with U.S. on nuclear deal

The Indian government and its communist allies agreed on Monday to hold next month one last meeting over a nuclear deal with the United States, clearly indicating that New Delhi had backtracked on pushing the pact.


Pittsburgh center Aaron Gray, projected to go late in the first round, is one of four prospects to audition for the Wizards on Friday.


Two more men have been arrested in connection with the killing of a doorman in Londonderry.


ASIA/INDIA - La Chiesa offre un messaggio di pace per il Natale e il nuovo anno New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - ÂIl Natale ci consegna la nascita di GesÃ¹ Cristo e tutti noi abbiamo bisogno di ricevere Dio nella nostra vita. EÂ necessari che ognuno di noi diventi agente di pace, di amore e di riconciliazione. Per tutti gli uomini di ...


October 22, 2004 - After conducting a lengthy worldwide search, Warner Brothers has announced that 25-year-old unknown Brandon Routh has been cast in the title role of the new Superman movie.


About 50 white separatists protested the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday in this tiny town, that was thrust into the spotlight months ago by 20,000 demonstrators who claimed prosecutors discriminated against blacks.


Segni di chiusura della fase di espansione iniziata nel 2001


Iranian president says Israel's days are numbered

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday told delegates at an international conference questioning the Holocaust that Israel's days were numbered.


An inquest hears the operators of a water falls have improved safety after a boy of nine drowned.


More than 900 inmates have contracted a fungal infection that can be lethal, and experts are asking why.


Chirac vows 'true partnership' with Libya

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


The worldâs best-selling Spanish music artist, on his way to Live Earth, holds forth on Al Gore, performing in a gay club, âInsomniaââhis new album and the real thingâand sleeping pills.


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Tuesday night's game between the Yankees and Twins at Yankee Stadium was postponed because of inclement weather, as the New York area was hit by heavy rains brought about by Hurricane Jeanne.


Disney endorsement deadlocks disc format war

The Walt Disney Co.'s endorsement Wednesday of the Blu-ray technology has increased the possibility that consumers, electronics manufacturers or both will be the real losers of the format war over next-generation video discs.


Schneider: Dems want it both ways with Iraq vote

Democrats are trying to have it both ways on the Iraq funding vote. It will be interesting to see if they can do that.


Spears' started drugs, drink in childhood, says uncle

Britney Spears' uncle claims that she started experimenting with drugs and drinks from a very early age.


Foam, not shuttle repairs on the go, key flight issue

NASA can return shuttles to flight even if the agency is unable to fix in space the type of wing damage that caused the February 2003 Columbia accident, the head of an oversight group said Thursday.


Investigators Find Explosives in Russia Plane Wreck

Explosive of a kind used by Chechen rebels has been found in one of two airliners that crashed simultaneously, Russian investigators said, making it look ever likelier that the disaster was a political attack.


Reader Manish Kejriwal shares his memories.


Hollywood Boss Quits Amid Blockbuster Bid

The head of Hollywood Entertainment Corp.'s abruptly resigned a day after Blockbuster Inc. announced a hostile bid of nearly $1 billion for its smaller movie rental rival, which has already agreed to be acquired for less by a third rental industry player, Movie Gallery Inc.


Ode to an Opera Star, in a Movie She Never Made

Franco Zeffirelli's worshipful cinematic tribute to his friend Maria Callas, the quintessential opera diva of the 20th century, is essentially a piece of highbrow karaoke.


Rashard Mendenhall will skip his senior year at Illinois and enter the NFL draft after rushing for a school-record 1,681 yards while leading the Illini to the Rose Bowl.


Dieci anni di attivita' sotto Richemont e 147 di storia


The stars were aligned in Chicago Wednesday, and they were there to talk about lighting the way for the nation's youth.


In a murderous quest aimed at "cleansing" their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County's most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.


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Glazer could bid for Manchester United this week: reports

US sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer could launch a takeover bid for English football giants Manchester United this week after securing financing and making contact with the club's largest shareholders, newspapers here reported.


A top Georgian prosecutor accuses a wealthy opposition leader's campaign chief of planning a coup.


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Oil company BP has indefinitely shut down the nation's biggest oilfield after finding a pipeline leak, removing about 8 percent of U.S. oil production and stoking fears that already high gas prices will shoot up further.


Track and field's world governing body temporarily suspended Greek sprint stars Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou on Wednesday pending a full hearing of their doping cases.


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U.S. Contractor Fired On Iraqi Vehicles for Sport, Suit Alleges

A man who worked in Iraq for a Herndon-based security company is accused in a lawsuit of firing twice into Iraqi civilian vehicles last summer without provocation, possibly killing at least one person.


Shah Rukh Khan will be seen in a wildlife conservation awareness campaign shortly. Sanskara Development Trust, along with the Asian Conservation Awareness Programme (ACAP) / WildAid, will launch a national educational awareness campaign on wildlife conservation.


For 16 months, the whistleblower was ignored. Diann Shipione, a trustee of San Diego's pension plan, sent letters to the mayor, wrote opinion pieces in the newspapers and spoke to the City Council, warning that the fund was a ticking time bomb and that the city was the "municipal Enron."


Arnhem, 18:57 - CALCIO, EUROPEI U 21: ITALIA CON INGHILTERRA, REP CECA E SERBIA

Nella fase finale degli Europei Under 21 in programma in Olanda dal 10 al 23 giugno 2007, l'Italia d...


CHICAGO -- Astronaut Daniel Tani had hoped to spend Christmas with his family, but that was before fuel tank problems scrapped two scheduled December launches of the space shuttle Atlantis, which would have taken him home from the international space station. Now the launch delay -- until late...


British Army-Approved Sneaker Hits Market

The British army is going into battle — for a slice of the sneaker market.


O'Neal calls Kobe's comments 'ridiculous'

While being interviewed by Eagle County, Colo., police after his sexual encounter with a hotel employee, Lakers star Kobe Bryant said Shaquille O'Neal had paid up to $1 million to women to keep them quiet about "situations like this," the Los Angeles


Alt Text: Crazy CES Revelations That Won't Happen

The race to unveil amazing new gadgets sometimes turns ludicrous, but it could be worse. Much worse. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.


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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday headed from China to India, hoping for movement from New Delhi on tackling climate change while also building on trade and investment links.


Senior Bush administration officials are engaged in active discussions about closing the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but deep divisions remain regarding the fate of the approximately 375 foreign detainees currently held there should the prison close, according to...


'Ci guadagnano gli italiani', polemiche sui senatori a vita


Time Warner testing Internet bandwidth caps

There may be limits coming to high-speed Internet from Time Warner Cable, according to details of a memo obtained by Broadband Reports.


US soldier killed, three wounded in Afghanistan ambush

An American soldier has been killed and three others wounded in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan, in the second fatality suffered by US forces in the country in as many days, the US military said.


Indonesia Files Terrorism Charges Against Cleric Bashir

Indonesian prosecutors filed terrorism  charges on Friday against cleric Abu Bakar Bashir that could  bring to trial within two weeks the accused leader of the al  Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah militant network.


Zimbabwe lawyers face campaign of vilification: watchdog

Lawyers are being arrested, beaten and harassed as part of a systematic campaign of vilification by Zimbabwe's government, the International Commission of Jurists said Monday.


For the first time in four years, the next space shuttle launch attempt most likely will be at night, NASA said Thursday.


U.S. drug company Biogen Idec is considering an all-share bid of more than 8.5 billion euros ($10.6 billion) for Irish peer Elan, a newspaper reported on Sunday.


Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew 13.7 percent in the fourth quarter on strong demand from small- and medium-sized businesses and holiday shoppers, IDC reported Tuesday.


Lawmakers push for economic stimulus plan

An economic stimulus package to help stave off recession is on the fast track in Congress after Democratic and Republican leaders in the House of Representatives on Wednesday reached a rare agreement to quickly pull together a bipartisan plan.


New York launches antitrust probe into Intel

New York state launched a formal  investigation of Intel Corp  on Thursday, to determine  if the world's No. 1 chipmaker broke state and U.S. antitrust  laws to squeeze out its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc  .


Annan to mediate on Israeli soldiers release: Fox

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan   has agreed to personally mediate between Israel and Hizbollah   for the release of two Israeli soldiers seized in July, Fox   News Channel reported on Monday, citing a U.N. spokesman.


U.S. Praises 'Moral Courage' of China's Zhao

The United States on Tuesday called China's purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, a "man of moral courage" as Beijing strove to downplay coverage of his death.


Palestinians count cost of Jabaliya raids

The Israeli army has pulled back from Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip after a three day operation that killed eight Palestinians.


Oilers re-sign coach and CEO for 4 years

The Edmonton Oilers gave coach Craig MacTavish and president Patrick LaForge four-year contract extensions on Thursday.


Profit taking after Wall Street's nine-session rally pushed stocks slightly lower Monday even as oil prices continued their downward trend.


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SATELLITE TV giant BSkyB impressed the market with an immediate upturn in subscriber growth yesterday, a boost that helped the firmâs annual general meeting pass without controversy.


Stung by Gov. Bill Ritter's veto of a bill that would make it easier for unions to organize, the AFL-CIO threatened to recommend the Democratic Party move its 2008 convention from Denver.


Earlier in the week, Boston College coach Jeff Jagodzinski was asked about his team's preparation for its Champs Sports Bowl meeting with Michigan State.


European Spacecraft to Visit Saturn's Biggest Moon

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, will soon get its first visitor from Earth. A European space probe is to split off on Christmas from its US mothership for a three-week long descent to the mysterious


Marathon man Nadal into Wimbledon fourth round

Second seed Rafael Nadal beat Sweden's Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (7/9), 4-6, 7-5 on Wednesday to reach the Wimbledon last 16 as his marathon, rain-hit third round tie finally came to a conclusion.


Missing explosives at Al Qaqaa: Bush caught in another Iraq war ...

The Bush administrationâs political fortunes have been dealt a serious blow, only a week before the presidential election, with the revelation October 25 that 400 tons of extremely powerful


Google vs. PayPal : Competition Heating Up

Jefferson Graham at USA TODAY looks at the new offers being pushed by the Google Checkout online payment system in Google’s efforts to attract new and large merchants. First Google has worked on boosting consumer demand for Google Checkout by offering $10 off purchases and other incentives - these offerings were quickly matched by PayPal. Now Google [...]


Apple Computer launched the newest version of its iMac model, which at two inches (five centimeters) is the worldâs thinnest desktop computer, the company said.


Illinois sues DMB after band's bus allegedly empties septic tank ...

(Chicago) Aug. 25, 2004 - The Dave Matthews Band may have to pay for allegedly unloading their filth on some Chicago tourists. The state of Illinois sued the band and one bus driver Tuesday for illegally dumping


Funding Rosneft's Yugansk Buy Seen a Stretch

Russia faces major challenges to structure the $9.4 billion purchase by state firm Rosneft of stricken oil major YUKOS's key unit after Western lenders got cold feet, analysts said on Wednesday.


WorldCom Trial: Ebbers Said 'Hit Numbers'

The former finance chief of WorldCom  Inc. testified on Tuesday that Bernard Ebbers, as CEO, had  pressured him every quarter to meet Wall Street earnings  estimates, repeatedly telling him "to hit the numbers."


Colts outclass Bears in one-sided track meet

Chicago - The Bears needed a perfect performance to beat the Colts and came away with a 41-10 defeat in their poorest showing under Lovie Smith.


Books containing material available online for free, like the 9/11 Commission Report, are still managing to rack up good, and in some cases very impressive, sales. By Joanna Glasner.


Britney Spears' family criticises therapist Dr Phil McGraw for speaking publicly about visiting her in hospital.


By Richard Mullins, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Mar. 9--TAMPA -- Tech Data Corp. posted record quarterly and yearly sales Thursday and showed signs of progress amid a broad corporate overhaul.


Australia plans to withdraw troops from Iraq: report

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is secretly planning to begin withdrawing Australian troops from Iraq by February 2008, Australian media reported on Sunday.


Survey Notes Rise in U.S. Broadband Users

The number of Americans who get on the Internet via high-speed lines has now equaled the number using dial-up connections.


Deaf children invent a new sign language

A study published today shows that a sign language that emerged over two decades ago now counts as a true language. It began in a school for the deaf in Managua, Nicaragua, founded in 1977.


A Danish court upholds a supermarket's decision to dismiss a Muslim woman for wearing her headscarf to work.


London: A man campaigning for the rights of fathers in separation and divorce cases was arrested yesterday after he handcuffed himself to Britainâs minister for childrenâs affairs, police said.


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President Bush will announce additional sanctions on Friday against Burma, where the military-run government has conducted a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters


News Corp. plans poison pill to thwart Liberty

WASHINGTON - Two of the world's media titans may be getting set to square off in a clash that will have a wide impact across the industry.


Amazon says holiday sales beat last year; iPod sells big

MacCentral - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. beat its own holiday-season sales record this year, and on its flagship U.S. site, Amazon.com, consumer electronics sales beat the company's traditional book business for the first time on Thanksgiving weekend, the company announced Monday.


Several hundred Britons were flown out of the Ivory Coast yesterday amid claims that dozens of European women had been raped by rioters.


China blasts "arrogant" Bush ahead of US elections

China criticized US President George W. Bush's war on Iraq, accusing an "arrogant" United States of trying to "rule the world" and blaming the US-led invasion for sparking an increase in terrorist attacks.


Fighting Erupts in Najaf After Peace Bid Fails

NAJAF, Iraq  - Heavy fighting broke out between  U.S. troops and Shi'ite militiamen in the Iraqi city of Najaf  on Wednesday after a peace delegation failed to broker a truce  to end nearly two weeks of clashes.


Would CBS wrap up a canceled serial drama?

The flood of serialized dramas hitting television has created a quandary for viewers when shows fail in the ratings and are canceled, leaving key plot points eternally unresolved.


It's like the Tolpuddle Martyrs all over again The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has today called on employers to reconsider outright bans that have been slapped on popular web time-killers Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.â¦


Genesis Crash a Disappointment, But Was a Better Simulation

Some science may have been lost as the Genesis space capsule landed in the Utah desert with a thud. But there might be a glimmer of good news in the failed NASA mission.


After taking an unintentional elbow to his cheek and lip from the Bulls' Eddy Curry in the final quarter last night, Celtics rookie Al Jefferson decided to lie down on the job.


Major powers fail to settle Iran differences

Major powers failed on Saturday to settle all their differences over a second U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear work but remain committed to passing one soon, the United States said.


Manchester United Draws 1-1 With Chelsea

Manchester United tied Chelsea 1-1 Sunday in a showdown between the top two teams in the English Premier League.Comment


Detroit's Marcus Thames is placed on the 15-day disabled list Thursday, a day after he pulled his left hamstring.


Plan to Revamp N.Y. Justice Courts Is Announced

A 300-year old system has been criticized for decades as outmoded, unsupervised and unfair.


Navigating the mysterious world of nano-medicine

A Fantastic Voyage Most discussions of the future of medicine tend to revolve around genetic manipulation, personalised pharmaceuticals, and putting off death as long as possible.â¦


Facebook, MySpace join NY AG in pushing e-safety bill

New York's attorney general and state legislative leaders presented a bill on Tuesday aimed at protecting people from sexual predators on the Internet, and Facebook, MySpace, and Yahoo backed the effort.


By the time the Blue Jays arrive home following the longest road trip of the year, next weekend's season-ending three games against the Yankees will likely amount to nothing more important than exhibitions in late March.


Poll To Be On Time, Says Iraq Interim PM

London, Sept. 20 (NNN): The ongoing violence notwithstanding, elections in the country will take place in January as scheduled, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has said.


Chen's Taiwan Poll Loss Seen Easing China Strains

The pro-independence party of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian suffered a surprise defeat in weekend legislative elections that could ease tensions with China but paralyze government on the democratic island.


US Vice President Dick Cheney will lead an American delegation to attend the Dec. 7 inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Thursday.


Merck to seek U.S. approval of three drugs in 2007

Merck & Co.  expects to seek U.S. approval in 2007 for drugs to treat HIV, cholesterol and insomnia, and aims to have another four products in late-stage trials by mid-year, the company said on Tuesday.


If you weren't convinced Southern California athletic director Mike Garrett was clueless about basketball when he hired Henry Bibby, you probably should have gotten the message when Garrett fired Bibby on Monday.


Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, has said that 'major neglect' by US-led forces led to the killing of 49 Iraqi army recruits by insurgents at the weekend.


A referendum is due to get under way in Macedonia on a key part of a peace deal signed with the country's ethnic Albanian minority in 2001.


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WHITTIER, Iowa - A wild turkey who lived life in the fast lane near this eastern Iowa town has died doing what he did best - chasing cars.


In the Internet Age, Comcast Expands Fare to Stay Relevant

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe  Feb. 19--As the entertainment landscape changes, cable giant Comcast  Corp. is aggressively expanding its offerings to compete against a slew of new  challengers, from YouTube.com to Verizon.


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Microsoft fights sanctions with a dire warning

Microsoft, seeking to stave off legal sanctions aimed at hindering its ability to dominate markets for desktop media players and server software, warned a European appeals court on Thursday that software developers and consumers would face dire


McCain's Steroids Push Puts Him in '08 Mix

Sen. John McCain, the straight-talking Republican who often challenges the GOP establishment, has taken on a headline-grabbing issue — steroids in baseball — and generated talk of a presidential bid in 2008.


Appeals court weighs who's an enemy combatant

Enemy combatant Marri says the US can't hold him without charge indefinitely.


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The Toronto Blue Jays have offered All-Star center fielder Vernon Wells a contract extension worth more $120 million.


Apple added two new products to its line both at $499. This sets the stage for the price cuts later this year.


World's tiniest baby almost ready to go home

The mother of a baby believed to be the world's tiniest surviving newborn has high hopes for her record-setting daughter. At a news conference at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois on Tuesday


FileMaker ships FS 7 Advanced, 10M copies

FileMaker today began shipping FileMaker Server 7 Advanced, an enhanced version of FileMaker Server 7 that provides advanced web publishing and connectivity options for efficiently managing shared solutions for desktop and web clients.


NEW YORK - The effect of new US overtime rules that go into effect today are the subject of intense dispute between labor groups and the Bush administration.


Ice on jet's wings may have been cause on Ebersol crash

Ice on wings may have caused Ebersol crash: Investigators said yesterday they were looking into whether ice on the wings or a mechanical problem contributed to the fiery crash of an executive jet that killed the 14-year-old son of NBC Sports chairman Dick


Book World's Next Chapter Shows Ominous Plot Twists

Even as readers devour the code-cracking thriller "The Da Vinci Code" and best-selling Iraq War titles, the book trade faces damaging threats from a boom in video games, deeper discounting and online sales of used books.


When you're a company under the watchful eye of governments around the globe for being the 800-pound gorilla of the computer industry, it helps to play nice.-washingtonpost.com


Chuck Liddell was tagged with a vicious right hand that sent him reeling to the mat again. He got up this time, unlike when Quinton "Rampage" Jackson knocked him out to strip the belt away from the Ultimate Fighting Championship golden boy.


The Phoenix Coyotes re-signed right wing Mike Johnson on Tuesday to a three-year contract. Johnson missed 71 games last season because of a shoulder injury. Before his surgery, he had scored 10 points in the first 11 games.


New to Being Dry, the South Struggles to Adapt

The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.


In the last open-air mass of his German tour the Pope deplores use of  God's name to justify hatred and fanaticism.


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The World Trade Organization agreed Friday to accept Ukraine as a member, giving President Viktor Yushchenko a new sales pitch as he sought out more foreign investment while at the World Economic Forum.


HIV-infected women outnumber HIV-positive men

The day of December 1 is celebrated all over the world as the World AIDS Day. The holiday was marked for the first time in 1988. Organizers have chosen the motto "Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS" as the theme for this year's campaign.


Twain's 'Come on Over' Hits 20 Million in U.S.

Country singer Shania Twain has joined an exclusive club of artists with albums that have shipped more than 20 million copies in the United States.


Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, hospitalized in Paris, condemned Monday a suicide bombing which killed three civilians and the bomber in Tel Aviv, his senior advisor Nabil Abu Rudeina said.


Celebumom Lynne Spears says the media have been way too harsh in their criticism of daughter Britney's habit of walking barefoot into public bathrooms and looking generally skeezy.


Car bomber kills 13; 7 Marines die in west

BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber linked to Al Qaeda killed 13 people just outside Baghdad's Green Zone yesterday, the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture. Clashes resumed in Fallujah, a former insurgent stronghold that American forces believed they had conquered, and seven Marines died in combat in western Iraq.


Google Inc. is using its popular Internet search technology to find information and images broadcast on television, continuing a recent effort to extend its reach beyond the Web.


Jackson Judge Won't Rule Yet on Sex Abuse Issue

SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - The judge in the Michael  Jackson child molestation case on Wednesday delayed a ruling on  whether jurors at his trial could be hear prosecution  contentions that the pop star had a pattern of sexually abusing  young boys.


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Three French police officers are suspended from duty during an inquiry into the death of a Tunisian man.


Pricey Drug Trials Turn Up Few New Blockbusters

The $500 billion drug industry is stumbling badly in its core business of finding new medicines, while aggressively marketing existing drugs.


Merkel aloof as public questions troop presence in Afghanistan

BERLIN - When Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg, a legislator in Germany's Parliament, travels around his district deep in conservative Bavaria, he usually talks about local issues and then valiantly attempts to raise international topics.


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Perhaps Microsoft was hoping for all eyes to be on the much-ballyhooed launch Tuesday of its "Halo 2" video game, but the company's efforts to clean up its lawsuit headaches can't be overshadowed by virtual gunslinging.  -washingtonpost.com


Church bells rang out across Europe as shoppers, mass transit and stock exchanges paused for a moment of silence Wednesday in tribute to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.


Bernard Hopkins shoved Winky Wright in the face at the weigh-in for tonight's 170-pound fight, sparking a heated scuffle between their entourages.


Real Madrid striker Fernando Morientes insists he will move to Anfield in January.


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A gang of thieves is likely celebrating their dubious distinction today, after making off with a record $48 million Cdn. from a bank in Belfast.


U.S. Jobless Claims Surge, Retailers Mixed

Initial U.S. jobless claims surged  unexpectedly last week, taking claims to their highest level  since late September, but analysts shrugged off the large jump  as a holiday-related blip.


Scottish Renewables claims that the wind power industry could bring thousands of jobs to Scotland.


Pistons Take Early Lead and Cruise Past Magic

Richard Hamilton scored 32 points and Rasheed Wallace had 13 of his 15 points in the first quarter, helping the Detroit Pistons coast in a 101-93 victory against the visiting Orlando Magic.


Dropkick Murphys get back to blue-collar basics

Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys  admits that Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" has earned the  hearty Celtic-punk crew a great deal of interest.


Gartner analyst: HD DVD has until the end of 2008

A Gartner analyst today predicted that, based on the numbers of movies expected to be available for the two warring high-def disc formats, that HD DVD will once and for all lose out to Blu-ray by the end of this year.


Bombardier Signs Air New Zealand for 17 Q300 Turboprops

Air New Zealand, a Star Alliance partner, has signed a contract to acquire 17 Bombardier Q300 50-seat turboprop aircraft. In addition to this firm order, the contract includes options on an additional 10 Q300 and 13 Bombardier Q400 70-seat aircraft.


Owen delighted to takeover England captaincy

David Beckham suffered a fractured rib in a clash with Ben Thatcher after scoring in England's 2-0 win against Wales. He would also have been suspended after picking up a yellow card, leaving Owen to take over the captaincy in Baku.


Militants Hold Najaf Shrine; Bombing Heard

NAJAF, Iraq - Militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr kept their hold on a revered shrine as clashes flared in Najaf on Sunday, raising fears a resolution to the crisis in the holy city could collapse amid bickering between Shiite leaders.    An unofficial mediator and distant relative of the cleric pleaded with al-Sadr to disarm his militants, pull them out of the shrine and disband his militia immediately...


Scientists produce compelling evidence that autism may in some cases be linked to inflammation of the brain.


Cal Beats Air Force in Armed Forces Bowl

DeSean Jackson and Robert Jordan lead the way as Cal rallies from a three-touchdown deficit to beat Air Force 42-36 in the Armed Forces Bowl.


Researchers Expand on Dangers of Vioxx, Drugs in Same Class

Tens of thousands of people may have been seriously harmed by the painkiller Vioxx, and many more may be at risk from taking other popular drugs of the same class, known


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Man petitions Vatican over Zimbabwe archbishop adultery

A Zimbabwean man who has sued the Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo Diocese Pius Ncube for adultery, has notified the local papal representative of the case, state media reported Sunday.