The United States will appeal a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling that US cotton subsidies violate international trading rules, charging that the verdict was based on erroneous findings.


Cisco, Microsoft team up on network access security

OCTOBER 18, 2004  - Network giant Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a collaborative effort to bridge a divide between their emerging network access security architectures.


Intelligence Suggests Bin Laden Alive - Musharraf

Pakistani President Pervez  Musharraf said on Monday interrogations and technological  intelligence suggested Osama bin Laden was still alive.


"There's a lot of Russian airborne activity above the Gulf of Finland, especially between Kaliningrad and the Russian mainland"  Russian military aircraft were intercepted by British and Norwegian jets Friday after they breached NATO airspace close to the U.K. and Finland, defense officials said.Finland's prime minister demanded an explanation from Moscow. Interception of Russian warplanes in NATO patrolled-airspace has become increasingly common since the Kremlin ordered strategic bombers to carry out long-range missions for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union.British fighter jets intercepted two Russian long-range bombers flying in NATO airspace and shadowed them until they charged course, Britain's defense ministry said, without revealing precisely where the incursion took place. The two Tu-160 'Blackjack' bombers were initially intercepted by Norwegian F16s, defense officials said. Read more


IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY at the two most widely reported 'viruses' for Symbian phones, you'll realise that only a dunderhead would actually manage to get infected.


Mercato in attesa audizione presidente Fed davanti al Senato


SAUDI minister Ali al-Naimi sought to take some of the heat out of the oil market, by promising that his Kingdom could pump an extra 1.5m barrels a day 'immediately' if demand increases.


Post Office Aims to Leave Yesterdayâs Image Behind

The Postal Serviceâs new advertising campaign tries to convey improvements to its service and technology, such as its Web site.


Secondo la stampa russa, la polizia avrebbe preso l'organizzatore dell'omicidioSarebbe Shamil Burayev, ex candidato alla presidenza della Cecenia                                            Politkovskaya, svolta nelle indagini "Il mandante Ã¨ stato arrestato"


Cambiata la norma nel maxiemendamento alla Finanziaria

ROMA - Nuovo scontro all'interno della maggioranza dopo la nomina del ministro per le Riforme Roberto Calderoli (Lega Nord) a commissario per i forestali in Calabria. Â«Alleanza Nazionale non Ã¨ d'accordo


I will not be padlocked to US Tour, says Els

Ernie Els, who today begins his attempt to win the World Match Play title for a record sixth time, is in dispute with the PGA Tour in the States over how many of their tournaments he should play each season.


An explosive device has blasted a monument to Yugoslavia's late communist leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito in his native village of Kumrovec in northern Croatia, state news agency Hina has reported.


AP: Yushchenko Has Historic Dioxin Level

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko speaks to members of the media during a press conference in Kiev, in this Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 file photo.


Two Koreas meet, Bush defends nuclear deal

North and South Korea held talks on  Thursday to mend fences broken by Pyongyang's missile and  nuclear tests, buoyed by an energy-for-disarmament deal that  President Bush defended as a "good first step."


Gadget boom to drive up energy demand: report

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


Acerra, nuovo il blocco dei treni contro l'inceneritore: Â«Nessuno ...

Le prime avvisaglie erano state ieri, venerdÃ¬, indizi di uno spostamento a Napoli della protesta contro il termovalorizzatore di Acerra. Nel capoluogo campano un breve blocco del traffico aveva âaccompagnato


The husband of the former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was put under house detention yesterday as a court ordered his arrest in a murder case, just a month after he had been freed on bail.


NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton was described as doing well Tuesday, breathing on his own as he recovers from an operation to relieve arteries so severely clogged that they had posed imminent danger of a major heart attack.    He was taken off his respirator Monday night - a crucial step in his recovery, Bob Kelly, a member of Clinton's surgery team, said Tuesday...


Profit taking drives European stocks lower

European equities moved fractionally lower on Thursday as investors booked profits in the wake of rising oil prices.


White was the dress code at a star-saturated party thrown by Sean "Diddy" Combs at his Long Island home, and the dress code was strictly enforced.


IBM has filled out the top end of its eServer range with three multiple-processor systems aimed at datacentres and large enterprise clients.


AGE, BIRTH DATE: 49; born Sept. 4, 1955, in Newark, NJ

WASHINGTON - Bernard Kerik helped reform law enforcement in New York and responded effectively to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but will have to overcome a lack of Washington experience to effectively lead


NEW YORK - Anchor Brian Williams takes over as the host for NBC Nightly News on Thursday, marking a new beginning for the top-rated US newscast.


Il 9 incontro con analisti, 16 aprile approvazione bilancio


The United States yesterday pledged more help for the tsunami-ravaged regions of South Asia and East Africa, and President Bush issued his first public statement


Waves began pummeling southern Thailand about an hour after the earthquake Sunday. After 2Â½ hours, the torrents had traveled some 1,000 miles and slammed into India and Sri Lanka.


Quake sparks panic in Indonesia's West Papua

A 6.2 magnitude undersea quake jolted  eastern Indonesia on Monday, damaging some houses and sparking  panic among residents but causing no deaths, a meteorology  agency official said.


Kostya Tszyu's return after 22 months out of the ring with various injuries was short, sweet and sensational. Tszyu retained the junior welterweight world title


Verizon Wireless Won't Oppose Nextel Swap

Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it would not oppose a plan that would give Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) valuable new wireless airwaves, sending Nextel's shares up more than 3 percent.


Radio broadcaster GCap is to cut two digital stations in order to focus on key outlets such as Capital.


AFRICA/SAO TOMÃ E PRINCIPE - La manna petrolifera di Sao TomÃ© e PrÃncipe: una potenziale benedizione solo se sarÃ  ben gestita Sao TomÃ© (Agenzia Fides)- Ã  sempre piÃ¹ vicino lo sfruttamento delle risorse petrolifere di Sao TomÃ© e PrÃncipe,  uno di piÃ¹ Paesi poveri nel mondo. Secondo le stime del Fondo Monetario Internazionale (FMI), dal fondo marino del golfo della Guinea ch...


Britain agrees to US request for troop redeployment

Britain agreed Thursday to meet a US request to move British troops into volatile central Iraq to free up American forces for a stepped-up assault on insurgents, a proposal that has met strong opposition within the governing Labour Party.


Milano, 22:31 - CALCIO, SERIE A: NELL'ANTICIPO INTER-SAMPDORIA 1-1

Nell'anticipo serale della seconda giornata del campionato di serie A, Inter e Sampdoria hanno pareg...


Paris Hilton parts ways with talent agent

She's been jailed for just a week -- not including a day of house arrest -- and already celebrity heiress Paris Hilton has parted ways with the Hollywood talent agency that represented her for two years.


Sales of existing US homes fell 8% in September, the biggest decline in 16 years, a report shows.


Arctic ice cap warming at twice the global rate:

[Technology India]: London, Nov 3: A new study conducted by an international team of 300 researchers from the Arctic Council, which is comprised of the eight nations including the US with Arctic territories suggests that the northern ice cap is warming at


Software transforms brainy games like chess and backgammon. Why not the brawny sport of the pigskin? By Sam Jaffe.


SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is conscious and stable after undergoing a heart by-pass operation on Sunday, a hospital doctor said.


Rs10m relief sent to Lanka: Musharraf, Aziz express grief

ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: The government of Pakistan on Monday dispatched food, medicine and other relief goods to Sri Lanka for the victims of Sunday's massive tsunami.


Democrats Lack Support to Force Vote on Pullout

None of the Republican senators who spoke during an all-night session signaled new support for the Democratic plan to set a deadline for withdrawal.


IBM developerWorks: Get started with Project Zero and PHP

The IBM developerWorks website has posted their introduction to getting PHP up and working with the Project Zero development environment.   Project Zero provides an environment for the rapid development of interactive Web applications based on popular Web technologies such as PHP. This tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to get started with Project Zero, from installing the development tools to constructing an Ajax Web 2.0 sample using PHP as the back-end scripting language. Exporting an application is covered on the way, together with examples of debugging and extending a Web 2.0 application.   It walks you through the installation, developing two simple applications with HTML and Javascript and include the Dojo library for extra functionality. You'll have to have an IBM ID (free registration) to check out the tutorial, though.


A live-action version of the classic arcade game with New York City's Washington Square Park as a grid.


South Korea, Austria Agree to Cooperate in Science

Minister of Science and Technology, Oh Myung, now visiting Vienna, met his Austrian counterpart, Hubert Gorbach, and agreed to strengthen cooperation in science and technology.


Oil Slips Below $46, Supply Woes Persist

U.S. oil prices slid below $46 on Tuesday, marking the third successive session of falls as Iraqi exports returned to near normal, although supply uncertainties kept the market close to historic levels.


Igor-style human, animal parts assembly on horizon

Kit-form Lurch servants/monkey butlers for all Topflight Mancunian scientists believe they will soon pioneer an improved technique for splicing together human nerves. This could offer a range of benefits, not least the ability to assemble huge, powerful bodies out of miscellaneous human parts and implanted brains harvested from condemned criminal maniacs.â¦


"Hustle & Flow" Brewer has "Black Snake" challenge

Authors, musicians and other artists who hit it big with their first work often find it impossible to match that success the second time round -- and film director Craig Brewer faces that challenge this week.


Man Utd brush Tottenham aside to restore their six-point lead at the top of the Premiership.


TYPHOON Meari lashed Japan's southern islands today with heavy rains and winds that injured one man and reportedly killed another, and prompted authorities in Taiwan to issue a warning of rough seas.


European stock markets scaled near-2-1/2 year highs on Friday after strong overnight gains on Wall Street as the euro held off from mounting another assault on $1.30 and as oil prices traded below $48 a barrel.


Poll organisers in Afghanistan set a deadline for allegations of voter fraud before the ballot count may begin.


If Benazir Bhutto were to return to politics in Pakistan, she would stand up to militants, shut down religious schools where extremists recruit children, and work to boost the economy, the former Pakistani prime minister said Tuesday.


Kofi Annan is due to tour tsunami-hit areas of Sri Lanka amid tension over aid between the government and rebels.


Court to Decide Johnnie Cochran Protester Case

The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Tuesday that it would decide whether barring a dissatisfied  former client of high-profile attorney Johnnie Cochran from  picketing at his law firm or making any statements about him  violated the man's constitutional free-speech rights.


The World Trade Organization could impose trade sanctions because of restrictions on GM crop imports.


Combs Ordered to Pay $35,000 a Month Child Support

Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs was ordered  to pay $35,000 a month in child support for the 10-year-old son  he had with fashion stylist Misa Brim, according to a court  ruling made public on Tuesday.


A woman becomes the fifth person in two weeks infected with avian flu in Vietnam, as fears of a new outbreak rise.


Freddy Rodriguez has gone from undertaker to A-lister. The 31-year-old actor, who played embalmer Frederico "Rico" Diaz on the HBO hit "Six Feet Under," has two movies opening this month.


Curtis runs it up: Martin's on record pace

In all likelihood, the first time he touches the ball against the Patriots [stats, news] this afternoon, Curtis Martin will establish a new career high for rushing yardage in a season.


The space rock formerly known as Xena The distant rock which prompted astronomers to strip Pluto of its planethood has been offically named Eris, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced Wednesday.â¦


Santa Looks After Pet Owners, Too: First 400 at HSSM to Get Free Supplies

By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 15--Call it encouragement. Call it a bribe.


Police have charged a man in connection with hoax e-mails sent to the families of people missing after the Asia tsunami.


China is booming and Beijing is its cosmopolitan heart. What's the platform of choice for the city's new tech and media elite? Well, it's not the Mac. But China's Macophiles are banding together. Hector Mackenzie reports from the Chinese capital.


A shortage of priests has some calling for a loosening of the traditional restrictions, but Benedict makes clear it won't happen on his watch


U.S. Cancer Survival Rates Rising - Report

More Americans than ever before are  surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly  because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society  reported on Wednesday.


Gas station blast kills four in W. Virginia

An explosion killed four people, including a firefighter and an emergency worker, and leveled a gas station in Ghent, West Virginia, on Tuesday, local officials said.


Gates Sets Record for TDs by a Tight End

San Diego's Antonio Gates caught his 13th touchdown of the season Sunday, breaking the NFL's single-season record for a tight end.


The shoemaker's competitive advantage takes another hit.


Mantova, 18:23 - CALCIO, MANTOVA: PROBLEMI DI FORMAZIONE PER L'ESORDIO

Mantova pronto al debutto in campionato. Domani la squadra di Di Carlo farà visita all'Arezzo...


Citing Cancer, Chief Resigns at McDonald's

The McDonald's Corporation, the world's largest restaurant chain, announced yesterday that Charles H. Bell was resigning as chief executive to focus on his battle with cancer, and


The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday an attack on Iran over its refusal to freeze programs that could make nuclear weapons would be "an act of madness," an indirect warning to the United States and Israel.


Although Gaylord and Kuressaare, the hometown of Estonian exchange student Mehis Vipp, are separated by several thousand miles, the celebration of Christmas in the two cities do bear a number of similarities.


Four in 10 people do not believe the NHS has got better under Labour, a poll suggests.


Quarti Uefa, Milan-Bayern e Roma-Manchester

Ad Atene, sede della finale del prossimo 23 maggio, il sorteggio degli abbinamenti di Champions. Gli altri match: Chelsea-Valencia e Psv-Liverpool


Without Oscar hopes, a lot of movies would never get made.


Money from Iran Fuels Iraq Insurgency -Rumsfeld

Money and people channeled from Iran fuel the insurgency in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview published on Wednesday.


The development of a molecule which appears to stop a protein forming clumps could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, scientists say.


Mark Buehrle is staying with the White Sox. The lefthander agreed to a four-year, $56 million deal yesterday, ending weeks of trade speculation about Chicago's best pitcher. Buehrle, a three-time All-Star, could have been a free agent after this season. Earlier talks stalled over Buehrle's desire for a no-trade clause, and with the White Sox struggling, his name popped ...


Giuliani fights for survival as Florida votes

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Florida  - Florida voters cast their ballots on Tuesday in a contest that could anoint a front-runner among Republicans in the White House race and spell trouble for onetime favorite former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.


NEW YORK  -U.S. stocks ended mixed on Monday, with a decline in Microsoft Corp. weighing on technology shares, while bonds rose slightly and the dollar mostly firmed against major currencies.


Iraqis outraged by video of Marine killing man in raid

By Sabah Al-Anbaki, Peter Johnson and Mark Memmott, USA TODAY and Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor. The grisly video of a US Marine shooting to death a wounded Iraqi in Fallujah on Saturday is getting


Not even a month ago, the Flyers talked about earning a No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, home-ice advantage in the playoffs and how great it would be for Peter Forsberg to return and add to all the fun.


Security Flaw Found in Google Desktop Search  Google practically sparked the fire in the dynamite called Desktop Search genre. Since then, we have seen entry of Microsoft with MSN Desktop Search and Ask Jeeves. Yahoo! would be releasing their version using X1 technology next month. But Googleâs own entry has not ...


A report says some councils spend five times as much as others on providing free personal care for the elderly.


Parliament's watchdog decides to investigate David Blunkett's giving of free rail tickets to his ex-lover.


Zarqawi Group Denies Report It Bought Italians -Web

A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al Zarqawi denied on Monday it had bought two Italian women hostages from their Iraqi captors, an Internet statement said.


UN Weighs Situation in Burundi Following Massacre

The U.N. Security Council met in  emergency session concerning Burundi on Sunday following the  massacre of more than 150 Tutsi Congolese refugees at a camp in  western Burundi.


Joshua Eichorn's Blog: HTML_AJAX 0.3.0 Released and new Website

In this latest post from our sister site, AjaxDeveloper.org, today, there's a note from Joshua Eichorn's blog about the latest release of his PEAR package and the new site he's started for it.    HTML_AJAX 0.3.0 is huge leap forward from the previous versions, although it still remains mostly backward compatible with earlier releases.  One of the most important and exciting changes with HTML_AJAX 0.3.0 is the addition of three new developers who have been putting a lot of time into the project. They totally eradicated every item on the original todo list, and the feature roadmap has jumped ahead.    He mentions a few other issues that were resolved as well as some new features added - plus the introduction of the wiki page for the project...


Il cadavere e' stato messo in una valigia e poi abbandonato


Utah Overcomes Slow Start to Overpower Opponent

By Dirk Facer Deseret Morning News  It took awhile -- one quarter, to be exact -- for Utah to shake off its rusty play in a 31-10 season-opening loss to UCLA.  In Saturday's home opener against Northern Arizona, the Utes got off to a sluggish start.


Brazil will appeal against the result of the Olympic marathon, after it was disrupted by a spectator.


FAA equipment failure delays Reno flights

Reno/Tahoe International Airport's instrument landing system malfunctioned Saturday, stranding thousands of passengers when all flights were canceled.


A US soldier at the centre of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal has faced an American military judge in Germany seeking to move his pending court martial from Baghdad.


Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq

Australia's top military commander  said on Wednesday the job of the country's combat soldiers in  southern Iraq was done, bolstering a government decision to  bring them home mid-year.


Yukos chief financial officer Bruce Mismore on Thursday testified that Russian authorities were threatening him with legal action and possible extradition


FDA Advises Limiting Use of Pfizer's Painkiller Drugs

Doctors should limit use of Pfizer Inc.'s Celebrex and Bextra pain drugs while regulators continue to weigh their cardiovascular risks, the US Food and Drug Administration said today.


FDA offers drugmakers advice on new obesity drugs

As more Americans struggle with growing waistlines, U.S. health officials on Wednesday set out their own tips for drugmakers seeking to develop products for people trying to shed pounds.


Powerful warlord Hussein Aideed is named as Somalia's deputy prime minister to complete the cabinet line-up.


A Syrian jailed since 2001 and thought to be a major operative for Al Qaeda has been identified as the prime mover behind the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid, a high-ranking intelligence official told the ...


Scientists take step to making synthetic life

Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.


If you want to hit the books online - you can point your Internet browser to hit the online search engine Google. The site is inviting publishers to include entire books in its index.


Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for July 2-8. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.


U.N. powers use Council to push own agendas: SAfrica

Some of the five permanent members of  the United Nations Security Council are using their clout to  raise issues that do not belong in the decision-making body,  South Africa's foreign minister said on Tuesday.


Britain is as important to France as Germany, says Chirac

Jacques Chirac told Oxford students today that France's relations with Britain were as important to it as its ties with Germany, despite recent disagreements over the war in Iraq.


'Rock Phish' blamed for surge in phishing

(InfoWorld) - The first thing you need to know about Rock Phish is that nobody knows exactly who, or what, they are. Wikipedia defines the Rock Phish Kit as "a popular tool designed to help nontechnical people create and carry out phishing attacks," but according to security experts, that definition is not correct. They say that Rock Phish is actually a person, or perhaps a group of people, who are behind as much as one-half of the phishing attacks being carried out these days. No one can say for sure where Rock Phish is based, or if the group operates out of a single country. "They are sort of the Keyser SÃ¶ze of phishing," said Zulfikar Ramzan, senior principal researcher with Symantec's Security Response group, referring to the secretive criminal kingpin in the 1995 film, "The Usual Suspects." "They're doing some pretty scary things out there," he added. This criminal organization first appeared in late 2004 and was given the name "Rock Phish" because the URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) on the group's fake sites included a distinctive subdirectory named "rock," a technique the group abandoned once phishing filters began looking for the word. Since then, it has grown to be one of the most prominent phishing groups in operation. It has developed a variety of new attack techniques that have earned the group a kind of grudging respect among security professionals, several of whom declined to be interviewed on the record for this story for fear of being physically harmed. They estimated that the criminal organization's phishing schemes have cost banks more than US$100 million to date. Rock Phish is not known for targeting the two most popular phishing targets -- eBay and PayPal. Instead, it specializes in European and U.S. financial institutions. At last count, the group had spoofed 44 brands from businesses in nine countries, sending out e-mails that try to trick victims into visiting phony Web sites and entering information such as credit card numbers and passwords. Rock Phish sites have spoofed CitiBank, E*Trade, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank, among others. Security experts estimated that Rock Phish is responsible for between one-third and one-half of all phishing messages being sent out on any given day. "They are probably the most active group of phishers in the world," said Dan Hubbard, senior director, security and technology research with Websense Inc. What causes particular concern among security experts such as Hubbard is Rock Phish's ability to stay one step ahead of both security products and law enforcement. For example, Rock Phish pioneered image spam: the technique of sending e-mail messages in graphic files in order to bypass spam filters, according to security experts. And just as browser makers have been building phishing filters into their products, the group has begun creating unique URLs for its phishing messages to get around blacklists of known phishing addresses. These single-use URLS make it extremely difficult for antiphishing researchers to identify and block phishing pages, Symantec's Ramzan said. This is bad news for products such as the Firefox browser, which uses a blacklist. "Ultimately, technologies that rely heavily on blacklists are going to be useless," Ramzan said. Rock Phish has contributed to a surge in the number of phishing Web sites over the past few months, according the Anti-Phishing Working Group. In August, the group counted 19,000 phishing URLs. By October, the most recent month for which data is available, that number had nearly doubled to 35,000. Security experts guess that Rock Phish is run by an extremely small group of technically savvy criminals -- probably about a dozen hackers -- who set up the phishing Web sites, manage the domain name registration and ensure that the stolen financial information is funneled into a central server, which researchers call "the Mother Ship." This group then sells the credit card and banking information in Internet-based chat rooms to a much wider range of money launderers who actually extract money from these accounts, according to researchers who asked not to be identified. Rock Phish uses a network of hacked computers to redirect Web visitors to the Mother Ship, and the group has been particularly adept at exploiting the decentralized nature of the Internet for its illegal activity. One successful trick has been to register new phishing addresses in little-used country domains -- SÃ£o TomÃ© and Principe (.st) and Moldovia (.md) have been recent targets -- where law enforcement and phishing take-down groups may not have establish contacts, according to researchers. During the time it takes to establish contacts with the domain name registrars and have them take down the fraudulent Web domains, Rock Phish can continue to collect information. "They're the innovators in the phishing space," said Symantec's Ramzan. "Whenever there's a new technique that comes out, it can be traced back to the Rock Phish group."


Remains believed to be of an American soldier killed in Cambodia decades ago during the Vietnam War were flown Monday to the United States for forensic analysis.


Apple's iPhone battery replacement requires 85 bucks, data backup

Blog: Just like with an iPod, iPhone owners will have to return the whole unit to Apple to replace the battery.


Thirty-three injured when Air Portugal plane dives to avoid collision

A TAP-Air Portugal airliner dived sharply to avoid a mid-air collision with a smaller aircraft just before landing on the mid-Atlantic Azores islands, slightly injuring 33 people.


Keep coaches off the court, says Mauresmo

Allowing coaches on court during a match is a step too far in moves to make tennis more interesting for spectators, says women's world number one Amelie Mauresmo.


South Korea, US start new talks on their alliance' future

South Korea and the United States opened new talks aimed at reshaping their half-century-old military alliance, moves that have sparked security jitters here.


Kodak, IBM to make sensors for digital cameras

ROCHESTER, NY Kodak and IBM have agreed to develop and make image sensors for digital cameras and camera phones. Jeff Couture of IBM says the information-technology giant is pursuing the partnership due to


coastline knee-deep in water after it ploughed through parts of Florida scarred by Hurricane Frances three weeks ago. About 4 million people were without electricity as Jeanne -- a record fourth


Golf: Ryder Cup stars return with a bump

WOBURN, England : Colin Montgomerie, who sank the winning Ryder Cup putt last weekend, returned to the European Tour with a bump with only a late flourish keeping him in contention on the first day of The Heritage tournament.


MOSCOW - A top Russian official on Thursday said that flight recorders failed to provide reliable information about what brought down two jetliners nearly simultaneously, killing 89 people, but that terrorism remained a leading possibility.    Vladimir Yakovlev, the Russian president's envoy for the southern region, where one of the planes crashed, said despite the lack of information, the main theory about the catastrophe "all the same remains terrorism," the ITAR-Tass news agency said...


OPEC Producers Vow To Raise Oil Production

Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ali Naimi said the kingdom has raised its capacity to 11 million barrels per day. Kuwait's Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al Sabah called on OPEC


Vinny Castilla of the Nationals homers to lead Mexico over Puerto Rico, 7-5, in the Caribbean Series in Mazatlan, Mexico.


Techies Ponder Computers Smarter Than Us

SAN FRANCISCO -- At the center of a black hole there lies a point called a singularity where the laws of physics no longer make sense.


Tech Stocks End Slightly Higher on Intel

U.S. technology stocks ended up  slightly on Friday, lifted by a higher sales forecast from  bellwether Intel Corp. INTC.O, while a disappointing jobs  report capped blue-chip gains.


Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy

Eager fans are expected to line up outside stores when the new music-playing device hits store shelves June 29.


Torino, 17:11 - CALCIO, TORINO; CAIRO: SERVE UMILTA' PER SALVEZZA

La sesta sconfitta consecutiva ha convinto Urbano Cairo che era ora di cambiare. Via Zaccheroni, spa...


Alabama has the Southeastern Conference's best defense and rushing offense, and leads the nation in kickoff returns.


The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says she will work with "all people of goodwill" to "root out" extremists.


Macworld 2008 Stevenote Highlights Leaked on Wikipedia

A list of highlights for Tuesday's Stevenote were leaked on Wikipedia. Announcements include an official iPhone SDK unveiling, a 16-GB iPhone, a 13-inch, black and silver 0.8-inch thick redesigned MacBook and direct YouTube for Apple TV.


MADRID, DECEMBER 30: Real Madrid have named former Brazil manager Vanderlei Luxemburgo as new coach in a bid to reignite their fading league campaign.


Greek police question bank staff after more than six million euros (Â£4.1m) disappear from a branch's vault.


Advanced Neuromodulation takes stake in Cyberonics

CHICAGO, Aug 20  - Advanced Neuromodulation Systems (ANSI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said it took a 14.9 percent equity stake in Cyberonics Inc. (CYBX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , expressing interest in combining the two companies, ...


Intel Corp., the world's largest semiconductor maker, will cut 10,500 jobs -- 10 percent of its workforce -- as part of a plan to reduce costs by $3 billion annually starting in 2008.


Firenze, 17:44 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA; UJFALUSI: CREDIAMO IN 4/O POSTO E UEFA

"Crediamo sempre nel quarto posto e nella qualificazione in Champions. Siamo consapevoli che possiam...


Egypt arrests 80 Brotherhood Islamists in sweeps

Egyptian security forces detained 80  members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday in sweeps  at dawn, intensifying a clampdown against the government's most  powerful political rival.


Davrotic dummy drinking deterrent A York man fed up with local students has made a Dalek he can sit inside in a bid to frighten away teenage ne'er-do-wells.â¦


Five fox-hunting backers invade Parliament floor

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


Descendants of the original cavalrymen help mark the 150th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade.


Oil prices held firm on Friday after leaping almost $2 a day earlier on news US crude stocks sank to a five-month low last week and distillate fuels barely grew ahead of winter.


Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO.O, the  biggest maker of network gear for directing Internet traffic,  on Monday said it will introduce a new line of low-end routers  in the coming weeks aimed at winning more corporate business.


Jaguars Will Need Running Game Against Patriots

The Patriots, with an aging, slowing group of linebackers, have struggled against good runners like Joseph Addai, Willis McGahee and Willie Parker this season.


Carlton Fisk in 1975. David Ortiz in 2004. Twelfth inning both times. Hold on to those tickets for this afternoon's fifth game of the American League Championship Series. The left-for-dead Red Sox are still breathing.


Gordon Brown indicates he wants to strengthen anti-terrorist laws after he becomes prime minister.


Judges in the four-year corruption trial against Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi retire to consider their verdict.


Attentato contro Bush. Era stato organizzato in Colombia

Un attentato alla vita del presidente degli Stati Uniti George W. Bush. Lo avevano progettato le forze armate rivoluzionarie della Colombia, che volevano assassinare l'inquilino della Casa Bianca la scorsa


Khatami: Iran Will Pursue Nuclear Program

TEHRAN, Iran - President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday that Iran will continue a nuclear program some suspect is aimed at developing weapons, even if that means an end to U.N. oversight...


EU fails on Lisbon strategy, says report

BRUSSELS, 11/04 - The aim of the European Union (EU) to become the world`s most competitive economy by 2010 amounts to a series of "missed objectives", according to a high level report released on Wednesday.


NEW YORK  -Caterpillar Inc.'s warning that the housing slump was infecting the wider economy sent U.S. stocks tumbling by the most in more than two months on Friday, in a drop that was made more unnerving as it marked the 20th anniversary of the 1987 market crash.


With F.C.C. Consent, Cingular Buys AT&T Wireless

The $41 billion deal will create the country's largest mobile phone provider.


He follows the American Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and will be followed in the coming weeks by foreign ministers from Germany and Spain.


(CBS) CBS News Reporter Charles Wolfson is a former Tel Aviv bureau chief for CBS News, who now covers the State Department. Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, the Bush administration


US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says North Korea's decision to allow UN inspectors in is 'a good step'.


He shook the world by demanding justice for the Palestinians. But Arafat's defiance ruined his chances to win them independence.


Bomb in Iraq kills 14 policemen, wrecks station

A suicide truck bomb killed eight policemen and wounded dozens more at a police station north of Baghdad on Sunday in the latest assault by insurgents on Iraq's security forces, police said.


Scary Scenarios Swirl Around '04 Election

Despite all the vows of "never again" after the Florida fiasco of 2000, the scary scenarios for Election Day 2004 seem only to have increased: A tie vote in the Electoral College. A terrorist strike on Election Day. A disputed outcome in a critical state.


Bagdad, attaccate cinque chiese Autobombe, uccisi quattro soldati

BAGDAD - Cinque attentati in meno di due ore: oggi a Bagdad le chiese cristiane sono tornate nel mirino della guerriglia irachena. Ordigni di fattura artigianale, fabbricati con bottiglie molotov ma in grado di provocare seri danni.


Hundreds of Maoists being housed in temporary camps under peace moves in Nepal have fallen ill, the rebels say.


Rain delays inevitable end of Braves run

There was little emotion from players or management Tuesday as the Atlanta Braves got ready for their streak of division titles to end.


Opponents vow to try to block immigration bill

A group of Republican senators opposed to a sweeping immigration overhaul that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants said on Thursday they were determined to torpedo the bill when the Senate resumes debate next week.


Digital cameras come in various different shapes and sizes. Even tiny spy cameras can be considered consumer products nowadays, because they have become so cheap and are sold freely on the open market.


Diet: Yo-Yo Effect in Dieters Who Get Counseling, Too

People lose significant weight with formal counseling programs, but they are likely to put it all back on within five years, a new study reports.


Desperate French growers have had enough, reports Jason Burke.


Wall Street beckons, but so do the World Bank and the CIA.


Nucara (Pri) viceministro dell'ambienteCaldoro e Martusciello ai beni culturali                                          Governo, ecco le nuove nomine Tre sottosegretari alla Lega


Shuttle lands, plans for next mission underway

Swedes in spaaace The Shuttle has landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, a day late, but in one piece.â¦


The family of a four-year-old boy who was stabbed to death say they cannot believe what has happened.


THE Australian Government might help plead for the release of kidnapped CARE Australia worker Margaret Hassan, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.


Judge Recalls Football Glory in Campaign

Judge Dick Ambrose wants his name to stand out on the November ballot like an orange Cleveland Browns helmet in a sea of Steelers black and gold.


'Personal spaceflight revolution' beckons

SpaceShipOne is just one flight away from claiming the Ansari X-Prize, a $10m award designed to kick-start private space travel.


SUPERWEBINAR: Cisco's 40-Gig CRS-1- Light Reading Test Results

Overview: This webinar will provide insight into the results of the first independent industry evaluation of Cisco's 40-Gig core router, the Carrier Routing System (CRS-1).


This is not your kid brother's (or your father's) Furby. Hasbro is rolling out a more advanced version this fall.


Sara Paxton set to "Party" on at Lifetime

Teen actress Sara  Paxton, who recently appeared in the films "Sleepover" and  "Aquamarine," stars in the Lifetime original movie "The Party  Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker."


Mozilla Admits Firefox Has Same Flaw as IE

Mozilla chief security officer says Firefox has the same flaw that the company called a "critical vulnerability" in IE, patch is in the works.


Nokia Go Play event kicks off music store

Singalong with all the pretty, pretty handsets Nokia's much-anticipated product launch is today, and the schedule confirms the expected music store as well as a couple of new handsets and the first device compatible with the newly-revamped N-Gage platform.â¦


The world's highest traffic bridge is to be inaugurated in southern France by President Jacques Chirac.


Trainers out of water after killer whale incident

A killer whale who grabbed her trainer by the foot and pinned him to the bottom of a tank was back performing at San Diego's SeaWorld show on Thursday but whale trainers stayed out of the water while trying to figure out what went wrong.


Crollati i cinquantini, tengono gli scooter, bene le moto


Racial divisions in Britain are deeper than ever, a report by the outgoing Commission for Racial Equality claims.


Liverpool manager refuses to blame Jerzy Dudek after his error hands Portsmouth a draw at Anfield.


I DOCUMENTII dossier dei servizi sulla guerra in Iraq: saldatura tra Md e gli antagonisti                                          L'occhio del Sismi sui magistrati "Fiancheggiatori dei no global"                                                                                di CARLO BONINI


Do your employees have a "Crackberry" problem? Their compulsive BlackBerry monitoring could backfire on you: Checking e-mail via BlackBerry gives employees a sense of control but leads to more stress, according to a recent study from the MIT Sloan School of Management that examined BlackBerry use and organizational behavior. And this problem starts at the top.


Business software giant Oracle Corp. said Tuesday that first-quarter earnings rose 16 percent driven by new database license sales that rose 19 percent.


Pinochet loses his murder trial court fight

The trial of the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on murder and kidnapping charges will go ahead after a defence appeal that he was medically unfit to stand trial was rejected yesterday.


U.S. judge orders Polish murder suspect freed

A U.S. judge denied a request on Friday from Poland's government to extradite a Chicago businessman for allegedly soliciting the murder of a former Warsaw police chief, denouncing the key witness as "a known scoundrel" and chastising prosecutors over faulty evidence.


Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Pleads for Aid

TOKYO - Iraq's deputy leader pleaded with donors Wednesday to fulfill their promises of aid to help rebuild his war-ravaged nation, and accused the United Nations of failing to provide crucial support.    Of the $13.6 billion in grants and loans promised last year by nations and lending institutions, only about $1 billion has been deposited in World Bank and U.N...


WASHINGTON -- Retail sales in August posted the weakest showing in two months as worried consumers curbed their spending habits.


EU experts add new warnings to Glaxo's Avandia

European regulators on Thursday recommended that patients with heart disease or leg pains -- a possible sign of heart problems -- should not take GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia.


Ukraine PM Urged to Accept Defeat by Yushchenko

A leading European human rights watchdog urged Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich to accept defeat on Tuesday as preliminary results showed his West-leaning rival Viktor Yushchenko winning the ...


To Big Pharma, Mumbai-based drugmaker Cipla is a pirate operation. To the developing world, it's a medicine chest. Now its cheap generics are coming to a pharmacy near you. By Erika Check from Wired magazine.


Smart pit strategy puts Jeremy Mayfield in the driver's seat, while other contenders drop out. By BRANT JAMES, Times Staff Writer.


Hagel: U.S. should pullout of 'mismanaged' Iraq

A leading Republican senator called Sunday for American troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq, declaring that a U.S. pullout is needed to head off "impending disaster" in the nearly 4-year-old war.


Angry Putin Rules Out Chechen Talks as Crowds Rally

BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at  least 335 deaths in the school hostage siege, as hundreds of  thousands joined rallies against terrorism.


The dollar falls further against the euro while the pound remains at a 26-year high against the US currency.


Happy Vaentine's from Googe Google has continued its tradition of offering themed logos on days of international import, and is currently sporting a Valentine's Day effort featuring a chocolate-dipped strawberry in place of the usual "g".â¦


Men Allegedly Take Cop Car, Stop Drivers

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - The son of Ballwin Police Chief James Biederman and a friend were arrested Sunday after police said the two took Biederman's unmarked police car and began pulling over motorists.


Jobless claims up on auto industry shutdown

New applications for U.S.  unemployment benefits jumped by 19,000 last week on the back of  the traditional summer shutdown at automobile plants, according  to government data released on Thursday.


Key Democrat Says Kerry's Plan for Iraq Would be 'Aggressive'

In the US presidential race, both the Republican incumbent, President Bush, and the Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry, have put forth similar visions for Iraq's future, namely to create a stable environment for elections as soon as possible.


Aussies Mark Hensby and Stuart Appleby are just two shots off the lead after the first round of the elite 30-man Tour Championship in Atlanta.


Snow avalanche kills 16 in Tajikistan, more trapped

An avalanche killed at least 16 people in the mountains of Tajikistan on Saturday while more people remained trapped under snow, an Interior Ministry official said.


By JOHN FALLON  A EUR4.5MILLION rescue plan was put in place yesterday to help islanders whose homes were about to fall into the sea.   Chunks of land on Inishbofin off the Co Galway coast fell into the sea in recent storms.


Volume Emerging As Fall Fashion Buzzword

Volume is emerging as the buzzword for fall fashion as top designers — Marc Jacobs and Oscar de la Renta, among them — play with proportion.


Tycho:  Sony hasn't been entirely clear regarding what their 1.92 update for the Playstation 3 actually does, suggesting that it "focuses on some PS3 compatibility and playability issues for select titles," but our own experience with the update has been conclusive.  In the Internet's dark places, aggrieved Lair fans are suggesting that this update improves the game's motion controls, and that each media outlet must rescind their previous scores.  I'm fairly certain this is magical thinking - neither Sony or Factor 5 will say with any specificity, and now that both our PS3s are updated it would be impossible to test.  Typically we don't take the traditional holidays off, nor do we take off non-traditional holidays, such at the Feast of St. Motherfucker - a holy day that I've only just now invented.  Gabe's father was around, though, and golf seemed like a good time investment.  Reading greens and choosing clubs for other people is about as far as I get, so for me the social aspects of the game are paramount.  Standing under the awning at the driving range, it's hard not to see where EA's Tiger series could improve.      This year's lobby system is much improved over last year's, but I'm not sure why the lobby itself couldn't be a driving range.  This is how virtually any actual round of golf starts, with every person hitting the bucket they bought and lamenting their performance.  A few of their minigames would work just fine in this context - don't create a custom game to play them, build all of the basic play into a casual, central experience.  From here, modes, courses, and wagers are established.  When new people pull in, carts can be heard.  Links for the 360 wasn't as complete as Tiger, but it had four player modes first - and it had a means to play Speed Golf that Tiger should loot from its fallen enemy.  Essentially, you play the round as normal.  Everyone else plays the round as normal simultaneously, and shots are keyed to a certain color so that the arc of each person's shot is visible to all other players.  They need to steal this - throw the name of each player on there, use the face, whatever.  This needs to be how it works.  You can play an entire course in a quarter of the time.  The RPG metaphor really worked the first few times I bought the product, but it's really lost its currency with me.  There's a point - and it may be with the '08 version of the product - where the number of courses are such that I don't actually want to pay sixty dollars again just to lose all of my character progression every year.  Gabriel's suggestion is to approach it more like a fighting game, which is to say like Mario Golf - with discrete golfer archetypes that have a suite of skills.  I'm wondering if Guild Wars doesn't have the answer - full priced expansions every year, with a perpetually tracked online experience where your prior purchase actually increases the value of the next.  Let all play - online and off - be a part of the core experience, let all play hone your ability.  Don't wall off online play into some purgatory as it is now, untracked, outside of the normal scheme of advancement.    With these thoughts in my head, excited by the sun-dappled future we had envisioned. we sat down to play a round online the next night.  After determining that one of us couldn't play at all or it would crash the game for everyone - a weird kind of crash where you can't play, but you're able to talk to one another about the crash - we were able to play eight holes, at which point it crashed before a victor could be determined.  They've only just made online Photo Game Face available for Tiger, for the first time since launch, but they had to deactivate online features for two other titles to do it.  So, no.  I don't have high hopes.


MADRID, Oct 4  - Spain on Monday expressed further satisfaction at the arrests in France of 17 suspected Basque extremists, saying that the neighbouring country had made hunting down members of the underground ETA group a top priority.


TTM Technologies, Inc. To Present at the Thomas Weisel Partners Annual Technology Conference on February 7, 2007

SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 31  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TTM Technologies, Inc. , a leading manufacturer of time-critical, technologically advanced printed circuit boards, will participate in the Thomas Weisel Partners Annual Technology Conference on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 10:55 a.m.


Climate report warns of drought, disease

The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.


Israel, Europe Could Be on Collision Course-Report

Israel could end up on a collision course with the European Union and face sanctions like apartheid-era South Africa unless the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved, a confidential government report warns.


The Poetry of 'Gimme an A! Gimme an S! Gimme a T!'

Jonny Hurst, Britain's soccer chant laureate, does not have as high a profile as the nation's poet laureate, but their responsibilities are vaguely similar.


Adobe captures ebook standard. What now?

E Pluribus E-Books Unum Reader? Among the charming aspects of the fledgling electronic book industry is the way very large corporations can skirt ethical boundaries in the field - yet not make much money.â¦


Medical examiners have found that Taser electric stun guns may have played a role in at least five deaths, contradicting the manufacturer's claim that the weapons never killed or injured anyone, a newspaper reported Sunday.


Torment of parents with lost loved ones abroad

Erica Duggan treasures her son's black canvas wallet, found with his body at the side of a busy highway in Germany four years ago. It is one of the last tangible connections she has with him.


Parigi, 20:09 - CALCIO, FRANCIA: MARSIGLIA VINCE E RESTA IN SCIA DEL LIONE

Il Marsiglia non molla e alla vittoria di ieri del Lione sul Sochaux (decide Wiltord), risponde trav...


Local government launches the first phase of its open-source migration after a year's delay.


US President George W Bush outlines a new strategy to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a G8 summit.


Todd Cochrane noticed that feedvalidator.org is acting strangely. I checked it out and verified the problems he reported. There's nothing wrong with Todd's feed, at least as far as I can see, and the validator should not be warning about the problems it's warning about, imho. Please, would the maintainers of the validator check this out and make whatever corrections are necessary. Thanks!!


Second-seeded Vince Spadea beat Justin Gimelstob, 6-4, 6-3, yesterday in the opening round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.


Swiss remain competitive despite ratings slip

Switzerland has slipped down another place in the global league of âmost competitive nationsâ, but still ranks in the top ten.


Even with heavy hitters like Spore, G.T.A. IV and Super Smash Bros. on the horizon for 2008, it will be tough for next year to top the crop of 2007.


Thompson criticizes immigration measures

Fred Thompson, a potential Republican presidential candidate, suggested that the 1986 immigration law signed by President Reagan is to blame for the country's illegal immigrants and he bemoaned a nation beset by "suicidal maniacs."


England football captain David Beckham has been offered a role in the new Pink Panther movie but has refused due to his commitment to his game.


Decisione dovrebbe uscire dal Consiglio dei ministri


The Cleveland Indians took advantage of Detroit's depleted bullpen. David Dellucci's tiebreaking, two-run homer in the eighth inning lifted Cleveland to a 6-3 win over the Tigers on Saturday.


Online holiday shopping rose 25 percent in 2004: survey

Online holiday shopping rose 25 percent in 2004 to 23.2 billion dollars, a survey showed.


A defense lawyer played two audiotapes of WorldCom's former chief in court yesterday in hopes of convincing jurors that Bernard Ebbers knew too little about the company's accounting to have overseen the $11 billion fraud that drove it into bankruptcy.


The Devil Appears in a Prequel, and Exorcism Hits No. 1 Again

The demon thriller "Exorcist: The Beginning" opened as the No. 1 weekend movie with $18.2 million, displacing "Alien vs. Predator," which tumbled to No. 4 with $12.5 million, studio estimates showed.


DETROIT _ In the end, the game came down to a jump ball. Jon Kitna heaved a Hail Mary from midfield. A couple of Lions leapt into the air with a couple of Packers on the left side of the end zone. The ball bounced around, Az-Zahir Hakim dove for it and . . .  It hit the turf. Game over.


Photos undermine Cheney's assertion he never met Edwards

Vice President Dick Cheney insisted Tuesday night that he had never met his opponent, Senator John Edwards. But Democrats have unearthed photographic evidence showing otherwise.


Global PC Shipments Rise 11.8 Percent in 2004

Dell Inc.  remained the uncontested No.1 personal computer maker in the world, following another quarter of strong growth, as the global PC market grew 11.8 percent in 2004, market research firms said on Tuesday.


Mexico's president-elect plans transition

MEXICO CITY -- Newly named President-elect Felipe Calderón started building his administration yesterday, appealing to the middle-class voters who fueled his slim victory and working to win over poor Mexicans who believe he stole the election.


Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - Amelie Mauresmo and Jennifer Capriati were among the winners Friday in third-round play at the 2004 US Open, advancing to the round of 16 in different fashion.


Danone in talks on $7.2 bln biscuit sale to Kraft

French food group Danone  is in exclusive talks to sell its biscuit and cereal snack unit for 5.3 billion euros ($7.2 billion) in cash to Kraft Foods Inc , the world's biggest cookie maker, they said on Tuesday.


Suspected rebels set off a powerful bomb in the Nepalese capital Tuesday, wounding at least 38 people, police said. Three men brought the bomb to a shopping mall that was still under


Bosnian Serb police detain eight war crimes suspects

Bosnian Serb police detained eight suspects wanted by the UN war crimes court, the first such arrests since the end of the 1992-95 conflict, police and court sources said.


Cambodia's rare Mekong dolphin is  making a tentative comeback from the edge of extinction after  net fishing was banned in its main habitat, Cambodian and World  Wildlife Fund officials said on Wednesday.


British terror suspect Rashid Rauf escapes custody in Pakistan.


Pakistan postpones election until February 18

Pakistan put off its general election by 6 weeks to February 18 on Wednesday following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, over the objections of the main opposition parties which fear a delay will work against them.


A New Trial of Celebrex, and Questions on Its Timing

Pfizer said that it would sponsor a major clinical trial of Celebrex, its prescription arthritis pain medication, to assess the cardiovascular benefits of the drug.


U.N.: Sudan Bombardment Kills, Injures 100

An airstrike by the Sudanese air force on villagers in southern Darfur killed or wounded nearly 100 people in a serious violation of a fragile cease-fire in the conflict-torn region, the United Nations said Friday.


Pirated Copies of Aussie 'Sopranos' in High Demand

A violent, controversial true-crime drama is fast becoming a hit on file sharing networks after authorities pulled it off the airwaves. Thousands of viewers are rushing to download Underbelly, hailed by critics as an Australian version of The Sopranos, shortly after the broadcast premiere Wednesday.


Brazil Says Amazon Destruction Declining

By MICHAEL ASTOR  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The rate of destruction of the Amazon rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers are illegally removing thousands of square miles of trees each year, the Brazilian government said Tuesday.


SAN FRANCISCO--IBM will upgrade its Opteron-based e325 server for high-performance computing with Advanced Micro Devices' dual-core chip in 2005, the company plans to announce Thursday.


England midfielder Owen Hargreaves tells BBC Sport he will sit out the international friendly with Spain.


Belgrado, 18:57 - PALLANUOTO, EUROPEI: RISULTATI

Risultati degli incontri della prima fase degli Europei maschili di pallanuoto.


Singer Celine Dion is to play two UK concerts following the end of her five-year residency in Las Vegas.


THE intense emotion surrounding Olympian Sally Robbins increased yesterday when she left a team function in tears on Monday night after being slapped by Athens Games teammate Catriona Oliver.


Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson is made a dame as other famous Welsh names are honoured by the Queen.


Ukrainian opposition protesters rushed to parliament and massed at its main door Tuesday after the assembly failed to take any decision over a disputed presidential election the opposition says was rigged.


(AGI) - Buenos Aires, 18 dic. - Stati Uniti e Unione europea hanno raggiunto un compromesso sugli sforzi da compiere in futuro per ridurre l'emissione di gas serra. Secondo una bozza del documento con cui


A power outage trapped tourists in cable cars at Cape Town's landmark Table Mountain, while blackouts in Zambia forced nurses to work by candlelight.


Fewer teens engaging in sex, study finds

WASHINGTON -- Fewer teens are engaging in sexual activity than in the past, and those that do are more likely to use contraceptives, the government said Friday.


A company that snagged a lucrative toy-licensing agreement early on in its history has now established itself as a significant force.


Divisions deepen at S.Africa's ANC meeting

POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's feuding ruling party met on Monday for the election of a new leader, a vote expected to put Jacob Zuma on course to become state president in 2009.


West must prepare for Chinese, Indian dominance: Wolfensohn

Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China and India, whose rapid economic rise will soon fundamentally alter the balance of power, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn has warned.


A group of students paying out-of-state tuition to attend college in Kansas cannot challenge a state law allowing some illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition, a federal appeals court ruled.


Early voting begins in Belarus parliament elections and a referendum on whether the president should stand for a third term.


Nepali capital peaceful after lifting of curfew

The streets of Nepal's capital were crowded and shops opened early on Monday after authorities lifted a curfew imposed last week after mobs protesting against the killing of 12 Nepalis in Iraq ransacked a mosque.


A PBS documentary makes the case that Americans have tuned out marketers pitching everything from cars to candidates. The result: even more crass attempts to get through, and a fragmentation of American society. By Jason Silverman.


Problems linger as aid flows in for Java quake

International relief efforts  picked up on Tuesday for survivors of the earthquake that  killed more than 5,700 people on Indonesia's Java island, but  many victims complained that vital aid was not reaching them.


By Dennis Yusko, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec. 14--HALFMOON -- A $1.68 million federal grant for Halfmoon and  Clifton Park will upgrade the Erie Canal towpath connecting the towns into a  pedestrian-bicycle path that residents of both communities can use.


Suicide Bombs Kill 5 in Baghdad's Green Zone

Two suicide bombers killed five people, including three US nationals, on Thursday in one of the bloodiest attacks inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, and America's top enemy in Iraq claimed responsibility.


Chapter 7: Static Meets Dynamic Adding Caches to Reduce Costs

Static content on a website is like a phone book, but imagine how difficult it would be to use your "paper cache" if the numbers inside the phone book constantly changed or if numbers differed based on who was looking them up.  This is why caching dynamic content poses a more difficult problem than caching static content.


NATO eyes summit as date fixed for US president's trip to Brussels

BRUSSELS  - US President George W. Bush will travel to Brussels on February 22 to meet EU and NATO leaders, NATO officials said welcoming the trip as a new chance to bridge rifts over the Iraq war.


Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]


Brisbane - A high-speed passenger train carrying more than 160 people jumped the rails and crashed in eastern Australia, injuring most of those on board, officials said.


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Ferry captain won't be prosecuted in crash

NEW YORK -- A former Staten Island ferry captain will escape prosecution in a deadly ferry crash in exchange for his help in the case against another official.


Detroit City Council passes modified measure to create black ...

The City Council passed a modified version of a controversial plan to use public funds to create a black business district in the city.


NEW YORK - The corporate tax legislation passed by the US Senate yesterday--billed as the most significant corporate tax legislation since 1986--adds roughly $137 billion in tax relief over ten years but is "paid for" by closing an export subsidy and by


Heading Out for Some Fishing This Weekend? Consider These Spots

By Kevin Klott, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  May 27--Thousands of Alaskans will leave Anchorage this weekend carrying fishing rods and the hope of starting their summer fishing season with a bang.   Unfortunately, cool weather has dampened many anglers' prospects.


Macabra esecuzione, vittima presunto affiliato clan Lauro


Milano, 20:18 - CALCIO, INTER; FIGO: ANCORA UN ANNO, POI LAVORA IN SOCIETA'

Louis Figo non lascia l'Inter. Il portoghese giocherà il prossimo campionato e poi avr&agrave...


Blair defied cabinet doubters over Iraq war

Former prime minister Tony Blair overrode cabinet colleagues who had doubts about going to war against Iraq, his former press chief revealed in diaries published Monday.


Stewart - remains "cautiously optimistic"

Sir Jackie Stewart is "cautiously optimistic" the British Grand Prix will go ahead next year and beyond - but insists nothing is yet guaranteed.


Medic killed in mortar attack on Baghdad hospital

One medic was killed and three others wounded when a mortar round landed in the garden of a hospital in Baghdad Saturday morning, hospital officials said.


Rangers cut Celtic's lead to a point in Scottish soccer

Striker Nacho Novo scored twice to lead Rangers to a 4-1 victory over Motherwell on Monday, cutting Celtic's lead atop the Scottish Premier League to just one point.


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


Indonesian Man Arrested, Lied About Fire

An Indonesian man has been arrested for failing to disclose on his U.S. visa application that he poured gasoline during a riot over gas prices, helping start a fire that killed more than 200 people in Jakarta, authorities said Thursday.


Coca-Cola is trying to explain why the worldâs biggest soft-drink company is struggling. The company says Coke was slow to push water, juice and other non-carbonated drinks as consumers became more health-conscious.


FDA Begins Initiative to Regulate Dietary Supplements

WASHINGTON, Nov 04, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The US Food and Drug Administration Thursday said it was implementing several new initiatives to regulate dietary supplements.


The French health minister reviews security at hospitals after two nurses were  brutally murdered at work.


Trinidad returns as requested, will face Mayorga

For the last two-plus years, Felix "Tito" Trinidad did as he pleased. He spent time with his wife and children. He ate very well, rode his horses and went to cockfights and boxing matches with his friends.


There is now a wide international consensus that providing AIDS treatment to all in need of it is essential, along with prevention.


Four more nabbed for shooting of Colombian coach

Montoya, who led Once Caldas to the Copa Libertadores title earlier this year, recently stepped down as coach of the Colombian club.


A third Bangladeshi policeman is hanged for raping and killing a teenage girl a decade ago.


Illinois added to the longest winning streak in the nation and set some school history.


Calcio, Champions; Roma: Cassano non convocato

Antonio Cassano non figura nell'elenco dei giocatori convocati da Luigi Del Neri per il match casalingo di Champions League che la Roma giocherÃ  domani sera (ore 20.45 a porte chiuse) il Bayer Leverkusen. Torna, dopo un lungo stop, Cristian Chivu.


Tributes are paid to a soldier from mid Wales, who is killed in an attack in the Iraqi city of Basra.


Producers of a reality TV show claim to have recreated torture techniques used at Guantanamo Bay.


A drug may help alleviate the learning difficulties associated with Down's Syndrome.


Iranian president to pay rare visit to Saudi

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make his first official trip to Saudi Arabia, a major U.S. regional ally, on Saturday amid a growing international standoff over Tehran's nuclear program.


Actor Tom Sizemore pleaded with a judge not to send him to prison, after admitting violating his parole.


France sets quotas for immigrant arrests

France set tough new quotas for the number of illegal immigrants authorities should arrest and expel each month, the new immigration minister said Monday.


Plus: Hot gadget preview at CES 2005 Awards. [News.com Extra]


Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that tourism should help different cultures bridge gaps and promote dialogue between people.


Lesbian Singer Melissa Etheridge Has Cancer, Cancels Tour

(Los Angeles, California) Melissa Etheridge abruptly cancelled her concert tour after being diagnosed with breast cancer. In a media statement, the singer's publicist said that the 43 year old singer will begin immediate treatment.


Chinese media demands investment in mine safety

A woman breaks down after she was told the fate of her husband, one of the miners trapped in the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan city, north China's Shaanxi province November 29.


U.S. to Buy Investigational Flu Vaccines

The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today that Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson has finalized a deal to buy investigational flu vaccines from international manufacturers, for use this flu season.


Zend Developer Zone: Acceptance Testing of Web Applications with PHP

From the Zend Developer Zone, there's a tutorial covering acceptance testing of web applications, specifically using PHPUnit and Selenium.   In this article I introduce the topic of Acceptance Testing (aka Functional Testing), something more PHP programmers should be starting to practice. I'm sure many of us are well aware of Unit Testing and even Integration Testing so where does this third wheel come into play for web applications given our growing obsession with Web 2.0 and AJAX and how does it differ from the former two practices? Below I'll explain this.   They start by asking "Why acceptance testing?" at all with an answer of "it's not about isolated testing, but testing as a whole". The rest of the article is broken up into several parts:   Of User Stories and Acceptance Tests The Iteration Plan Preparing For Acceptance Testing (setting up PHPUnit and Selenium) Writing And Running The Acceptance Tests How to run the tests   In their example they show how to validate that a login on the site works as expected (including interacting with a form on the page).


Music Industry Group Launches Piracy Suits

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


British newspapers have been abuzz over a bill that would ensure the right of homeowners to defend themselves against intruders.


Search engine Yahoo says it plans to cut 1,000 jobs as its profits fall 23% in the final three months of 2007.


Top 5 Movies of the Week (As on October 07th, 2004)


Britain's scientific community fuels controversies by shunning colleagues with rebel ideas, research suggests.


"Baldwin's Harlem" (Atria Books, 184 pages, $24), by Herb Boyd: As an adult, James Bladwin Â the novelist, playwright and poet of such works as "Giovanni's Room," "Another Country" and "Go Tell It on the Mountain" Â may have visited Harlem only intermittently, but the uptown Manhattan neighborhood always had a strong hold on him.


Holiday Offers Hope at Lake Cumberland: TOURISM HAS BEEN DOWN, BUT WEEKEND SEEMS TO SHOW A BOOST

By Bill Estep, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  May 27--BURNSIDE -- The people who promote tourism on Lake Cumberland might want to put Ron Kirn in a commercial.


The rather dull world of Romanian politics was shaken up in the last 10 days by two events that intensified the sparring between the government and the opposition: the surprise withdrawal of one of the main ...


Seeking the essence of Ray Charles' life

How do you transpose the life of an American cultural icon who transformed American popular music into a compelling, streamlined biopic?


The head of UAL Corp.'s United  Airlines on Thursday said the airline's restructuring plan  would lead to a significant number of job losses, but it was  not yet clear how many.


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Nearly two years to the day after the most contentious hearing in memory, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission clashed Tuesday over a new rule requiring hedge funds to register with the SEC.


At least three die in Colombia bombing before vote

Two Colombian marines and at least one civilian were killed when guerrillas bombed a military patrol in the country's main Pacific port city less than two days before elections, authorities said on Saturday.


Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Tuesday he would press on with his White House candidacy, emboldened by wins in the South.


Holding up Phoenix IT Group managed to hold up revenues and profits despite contract changes at its biggest customer.â¦


A big Republican donor goes to his governor and senator, saying he was told by President Bush's chief fund-raiser he'd be getting a plum ambassadorial appointment but it wasn't delivered. The senator takes his case right to the top of the White House.


Martin Irungu of Kenya won the Peachtree Road Race on Wednesday, leading from start to finish in his first time running the 10-kilometer course.


Pop star Britney Spears marries dancer Kevin Federline during a private ceremony in California.


Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a US ammunition dump near Tikrit yesterday, killing 17 and raising the toll from three days of intensified and bloody terrorist


Las Vegas - Wyoming and UCLA, opponents in tonight's Las Vegas Bowl at Sam Boyd Stadium, may be miles apart in terms of cultures, but they have a lot in common.


Pitt, Aniston Separate After 4 1/2 Years

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have finally made official what was rumored for months — Hollywood's A-List couple is splitting up.


Australia releases "distressing" pictures of whales harpooned by a Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic Ocean.


Salesforce.com launches on-demand support

com September 29, 2004, 2:57 PM PT. This fourth priority's main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half.


MS Drugs Cut Patient Brain Tissue Loss - Study

Drugs given to patients with multiple  sclerosis can reduce brain tissue loss and slow down the  progression of the illness, scientists said on Friday.


Suppan finally has a role in Red Sox title bid

Jeff Suppan is familiar with the history of postseason failure that haunts the Boston Red Sox. His career was born into it. Suppan was once the organization's prized prospect, a


Shares of network computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc.  fell for a second day on Tuesday after another Wall Street analyst cautioned clients not to expect an unusually strong quarter from the company.


Rihanna continues to shoot down rumors that she hooked up with actor Josh Hartnett.


Kodak Buys Sun Chemical Stake in Venture

Accelerating its push into digital commercial printing, photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. said Wednesday it is paying $817 million for Sun Chemical Corp.'s 50 percent stake in a jointly owned commercial graphic arts business.


Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites March to Najaf Shrine

NAJAF, Iraq  - Walking past pockmarked buildings  and spent ammunition, thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites marched to  Najaf's sacred Imam Ali shrine Friday after a peace deal was  reached overnight to end an uprising.


Speculation grows that US bank Merrill Lynch is to part company with embattled chief executive Stan O'Neal.


Smoking kills nearly a million Indians a year

Smoking is killing nearly a million people a year in India, exacting a higher toll than previously thought, but allied problems are often different to those seen in the West, according to research published on Thursday.


There is a proliferating selection of bridesmaidâs dresses far hipper and breezier than convention dictates, and certainly more versatile.


Sport: FA Cup: Oldham's Gary McDonald makes David Moyes pay for fielding an understrength Everton team


A scheduled March 15 launch has been delayed after the external fuel tank attached to the shuttle Atlantis and possibly the orbiter itself were damaged by a hailstorm at the launch pad Monday afternoon.


Milano, 18:36 - CALCIO, INTER: DAL CHIEVO ARRIVA IL PORTIERE ALFONSO

Enrico Alfonso, portiere classe 1988, è stato acquistato dall'Inter con la formula della comp...


ROY JONES JUNIOR.. A LEGEND THAT TIME CAUGHT UP WITH..

In his prime, Roy Jones was the greatest pound for pound fighter in the world. He dazzled us with electrifying speed, unmatched lateral movement, boxing smarts, and mad slipping ability.


Convicted Bollywood star seeks leniency from court

Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, convicted  for possessing illegal weapons, urged an Indian court on  Thursday to be lenient in sentencing him, saying he had obeyed  all the conditions of his bail so far.


England lacking talent, say Premier chairmen

The English game is being hurt by a lack of over-priced talent and a flood of cheaper foreigners, according to Blackburn chairman John Williams.


Russian spacecraft docks with space station

Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian-US crew successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning. The Soyuz TMA-5, which was launched Thursday


James Buries Raptors With Huge Fourth Quarter

LeBron James scores 24 of his 39 points in the final period to go with 11 rebounds and 8 assists Sunday as Cleveland tops Toronto, 93-90, to reach the .500 mark at 17-17 for the first time since Dec. 2.


Indian envoy had narrow escape in Colombo blast

Dignitaries, including Indian High Commissioner Nirupama Rao, had a narrow escape in the grenade attack on a concert in Colombo that killed two people and injured 19 as Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan made 20,000 star-struck fans rock by screaming "I


Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Saturday by Wesley Clark, the retired four-star general whose early criticism of the Iraq war fueled a high-profile but short-lived run for the party's nomination in 2004.


Ericsson bids for Norway's Tandberg Television

Ericsson, the world's leading supplier of mobile telecommunication networks, bid on Monday for Norway's Tandberg Television to beef up its service to operators who want to broadcast television via the Internet.


Manchester United this morning revealed how the contingent payments to Everton for Wayne Rooney will be structured in a statement to the Stock Exchange.


Two people are killed in a head-on car crash on the outskirts of Portrush in County Antrim


BEIJING, Feb. 10 -- Despite three days of hard bargaining, North Korean nuclear disarmament talks remained stuck Saturday over the energy aid North Korea would receive in return for closing its main nuclear reactor, diplomats said.


Two new whale sharks arrived at the world's largest aquarium on Friday, about four months after one of its prized sharks died.


LOS ANGELES  - Eminem's chart-topping  new album is accompanied by all kinds of new-media tools and  toys, reflecting the growing popularity of listening to music  without using a stereo.


Uganda's army and rebels reportedly agree to pull their forces apart, after the president talks to the deputy rebel leader.


Boeing Co.  Chief Executive Jim McNerney said development of the planemaker's new 787 model was on track and the company did not expect the U.S. government to cancel a $15 billion helicopter deal it had won.


The seven-times Formula One champion spun out in qualifying on Saturday, putting him at the back of the grid. On Sunday, a combination of another spin and a blown tyre left him with a forgettable 12th place showing.


Il contratto sul Dow Jones perde 82 punti base


A Russian rocket carrying two cosmonauts and one US astronaut launched successfully Thursday on a mission to the International Space Station.


The molecular landscapes of various materials, where features are measured in nanometers, has became a jumping off point for artists.


Manning seals legacy with Super Bowl win

Peyton Manning added the missing  ingredient to his Hall of Fame credentials by leading the  Indianapolis Colts to a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in  Super Bowl XLI on Sunday.


Raveena Tandon, who took a sabbatical after marriage and motherhood, is planning to face the camera again, tempted by some of the offers coming her way.


Configuration Management Databases: the big Reg survey

Wanna win a Reg goodie bag? Reg Reader Studies Those among you who'd like the chance to win a Reg goodie bag should take a few minutes to complete our survey on Configuration Management Databases - known as CMDBs to their mates - which form the focus of our latest tap into the expertise of you, our beloved readers.â¦


The British Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday said it would cut about 2,900 jobs, more than 10 per cent of its workforce, as a part of "transformation" of the world's biggest public broadcaster, aimed at saving 320 million pounds a year.


News Analysis: Thailand Reinterprets the Rules of Democracy, Again

The generals billed their takeover as a pro-democracy military coup, and most commentators in Thailand tended to agree.


The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said he is aware nuclear experiments South Korea has conducted were small, but noted his agency needs to make sure they will not be repeated.


Governments around the world hailed as a victory for democracy the Ukraine Supreme Court's declaration Friday that the country's disputed presidential runoff election is invalid. They hailed plans for a new vote.


A missing sketch by celebrated artist John Constable is rediscovered at the British Library.


Roma, 19:29 - F1, FORCE INDIA: IL 10 GENNAIO ANNUNCIO PILOTI PER 2008

La 'Force India' annuncerà il prossimo 10 gennaio i piloti per il 2008. La coppia di drivers ...


Gunfire erupted early Sunday outside a Knights of Columbus hall where a party had attracted hundreds of young people, killing two men and wounding at least 10 other people, police said.


'Drug Trials Secrecy Putting Patients at Risk'

Patients are being put at risk because of the secrecy of drug companies which refuse to publish the results of clinical trials, it was claimed today.


US probably tortured freed Australian Guantanamo detainee: psychiatrist

An Australian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mamdouh Habib, has received support in his effort to dispel allegations of his being an Al-Qaeda agent, after a respected psychiatrist backed his assertions he had been tortured in US custody.


A German soccer referee admitted to fixing games and said Thursday he was ready to cooperate with prosecutors to clear up the sport's biggest scandal in the country in more than 30 years.


The Duchess of Cornwall's decision not to attend a memorial service for Princess Diana has met with approval.


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Olympics: Athens opens Paralympics with ceremonial extravaganza

ATHENS : Some 70,000 spectators filled the Athens Olympic stadium to watch the densely choreographed and emotionally-charged opening ceremony of the 12th Paralympics, the world's premier competition for disabled athletes.


Late Vietnamese cardinal put on road to sainthood

The Roman Catholic Church on Monday began the sainthood procedure for a Vietnamese cardinal who was imprisoned by the communists for some 13 years.


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There must be a new minimum distance between seats on airlines in order to ensure passenger health and safety, a report declares.


AUSTRALIA'S longest-serving communications minister, Richard Alston, has been rewarded by John Howard with the plum $197,000-a-year diplomatic post of British High Commissioner.


Barack Obama is airing state-specific ads featuring praise from elected officials, hoping the endorsements can help raise his profile in the race.


Four Israeli Soldiers Killed, Nine Wounded, in Tunnel Bombing

Four Israeli soldiers were killed and nine others wounded when Palestinian gunmen set off explosives in a tunnel they burrowed underneath an army post just outside the Gaza Strip border crossing to Egypt, Israeli officials said.


Johnson's Trade to the Yankees Depends on Green

The wishes of Dodgers outfielder/first baseman Shawn Green likely will determine if Diamondbacks lefty Randy Johnson joins the Yankees' rotation.


The MtMMPL1 Early Nodulin Is a Novel Member of the Matrix Metalloendoproteinase Family With a Role in Medicago Truncatula Infection By Sinorhizobium Meliloti1[W][OA]

By Combier, Jean-Philippe Vernie, Tatiana; de Billy, Francoise; Yahyaoui, Fikri El; Et al  We show here that MfMMPL1, a Medicago truncatula nodulin gene previously identified by transcriptomics, represents a novel and specific marker for root and nodule infection by Sinorhizobium meliloti.


Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what he called US efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers say.


New South Wales youngster James Nitties leads the way on 12 under after the second round of the Australian PGA Championship in Queensland.


LOS ANGELES - Despite reassurances from state officials, homeowners in fire-ravaged Southern California might have plenty to worry about when it comes to home insurance.


Neither TNT's "The Wool Cap" nor CBS's "Back When We Were Grown-Ups" is perfect, but at a time of wretched sentimental excess, both show admirable restraint.


President Bush welcomed the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes to the White House on Friday, saying he could relate to the NHL champs because they were considered underdogs.


Jerry Yang faces enormous pressure as he decides whether to try to rescue the company from Microsoft, or accept the bid and watch Yahoo become part of Microsoftâs arsenal in its no-holds-barred brawl with Google.


A man is arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice over the murder of 90-year-old Elsie Hughes.


Clubs across Europe have until midnight to add to their squads before the transfer window slams shut.


Matt Anderson scored three goals, including two in the third period to help overcome a 4-3 deficit, as the University of Massachusetts defeated Clarkson, 6-4, last night in its opener in Amherst.


Hillary Clinton, Stumping With Burgers and Bill

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Sept. 3 -- Hillary and Bill Clinton brought their traveling political road show to Iowa on Labor Day. The former first lady and the former president, by now long practiced as a political duo, continued the process of role reversal in the pursuit of a history-making presidency.


With BlackBerry pagers and Treo smartphones all the rage, why would anyone need -- or even want -- a pedestrian personal digital assistant?


Castro says Cuba right to rebuff EU dialogue offer

Cuba was right to reject calls from the European Union for negotiations to improve relations until the EU scraps sanctions against the island, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an editorial published on Thursday.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday faulted chief rival Barack Obama's campaign for twisting her comments about slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.


A House Committee chairman charges that large numbers of crucial Iraq-related messages have vanished. The White House says not so. Who's right?


Golden Globes and Oscars Are Drawn Into Strike

The guild will not allow the Golden Globe show to use its writers, and is denying historical film clips to the Oscars.


Cincinnati CIOs Forecast Increase in First-Quarter Hiring

CINCINNATI, Dec. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- A net 9 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) in the Cincinnati area expect to hire information technology (IT) professionals in the first quarter of 2007, according to the most recent Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report.


Pope John Paul II appealed for swift international aid to help thousands of victims from Sunday's massive tidal waves that swamped coastal areas across southern Asia — triggered by the world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years.


Despite record deliveries, Airbus posts a hefty loss for 2006, dragging down parent firm EADS.


Romano Prodi, the outgoing European Commission leader, says EU plans to become the world's most competitive economy are a "big failure".


Samsung begins investment in new LCD plant

Samsung Electronics is planning to begin construction of a Line 7-2 at its fabrication facility in Tanjeong, Korea. Samsung will make a US$273 million investment in order to start off the construction of the building for the new line.


Aussie gov anti-porn filter 'useless', says teen

'It'll take more than that to stop me' The anti-pornography filtering software dished out by the Australian government at a cost of AUS$84m has been broken in minutes by a teenager, according to reports.â¦


Patient dies after nurse turns down volume on vital-signs monitor

LOS ANGELES When an AIDS patient at a Los Angeles hospital had a heart attack and died last week -- county officials say a nurse didn't notice.


Hungarian novelist Peter Esterhazy wins the prestigious peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair.


O.J. Simpson warned over breach of bail terms

A Las Vegas judge reprimanded O.J. Simpson for attempting to contact a witness in his robbery and kidnapping case here Wednesday before setting out tough new bail conditions.


Krispy Kreme Says S.E.C. Steps Up Its Probe

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts today said it has been informed by the S.E.C. that the agency's investigation of the company has become a formal probe.


Top Banking Legislative Aide Changing Careers

Steve Harris, a top Democratic aide on the Senate Banking Committee for more than two decades, is switching gears. He's moving to the D.C. communication and consulting firm Apco Worldwide as a senior vice president and special counsel.


HOW HIGH WILL IT GO? Ivan's damage to Gulf rigs is helping fuel ...

Crude oil prices climbed above $50 per barrel Tuesday, their highest level since futures began trading in 1983. The increase raises new questions about just how far prices will climb, with


The next series of Doctor Who will bring a new companion, but current co-star Freema Agyeman will still appear.


Tuning Instruments and Ears to Sound of Far Away

Carnegie Hall's Silk Road Project brings its blend of Eastern and Western music to Zankel Hall this Saturday and Sunday.


Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. [Missing Link]


Election results revive speculation on Clinton

After tirelessly storming the country for Sen. John F. Kerry and raising millions of dollars for his candidacy and for Democrats in Congress, she, after Kerry's defeat, has become the party's favorite for 2008.


Arafat's death raises hopes for a new push for peace. But much depends on who takes charge and how the U.S. responds


Arsenal's Edu weighing up Spanish options for the future

Arsenal midfielder Edu, whose contract with the London club expires at the end of the season, says he has yet to make up his mind whether his future lies at Real Madrid, Valencia or Barcelona.


'Bisogna rafforzarla, ne' svenderla, ne' chiuderla'


Li storms to victory in Australian Hardcourt final

China's Li Na completed a successful comeback from injury on Saturday, beating Victoria Azarenka here in the final of the Australian Women's Hardcourt tennis championships.


Doctors questioned over British bomb plot

British police questioned eight people on Tuesday, at least four of them doctors, over a suspected al Qaeda plot to detonate car bombs in London and Scotland after the investigation spread as far as Australia.


Infineon to invest $1bn in Malaysia to produce chips for cars

LONDON, December 9  - Infineon Technologies (IFX.ETR) announced yesterday its plans to invest about $1 billion in Malaysia to build a factory to manufacture chips used in cars and industrial power applications.


Report: Evidence suggests HP spied on Dell

Blog: Hewlett-Packard allegedly obtained 'confidential' material related to Dell's printing business, according to Fortune magazine, citing unnamed former HP employees.


Minister's mum begs Australia PM for time to get wed

Australia's Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promoted family values on his way to winning office in November, but now the mother of his health minister is pleading with him to give her daughter time off to get married.


Nortel warns it now expects 2004 revenue growth will trail its ...

TORONTO (CP) - Nortel Networks shares fell Thursday after the troubled telecom equipment maker warned that its full-year growth in 2004 will likely trail the industry, rather than outperform its peers as the company has been predicting.


Auckland, 10:18 - VELA, MONDIALI WINDSURF: SENSINI SECONDA DOPO SEI REGATE

Aessandra Sensini, campione olimpica a Sydney 2000, è seconda nel mondiale di windsurf RS:X d...


With first CMA wins, Chesney is the man of the hour

Kenny Chesney. Although he's been in the business for 12 years, Chesney had never won a Country Music Association award until Tuesday night.


(09/27/04)-- Crude oil prices are on the rise again, this time because of supply fears. In early trading Monday, a price spike nudged a barrel to within four cents of the all-time high of $49.


Turkey investigates after a man charged with killing journalist Hrant Dink appears in a video posing with police.


Colorado Avalanche defenseman Karlis Skrastins will be out for up to 10 days with a sprained knee.


Australia clinch 2-0 series win over Kiwis

Australia have wrapped up a 2-0 win in the series by bowling out New Zealand for 250 on the fifth day of the second and final test.


From The Patriot Ledger Archives ; 1856 Dec. 13, Page 2

The Quincy Patriot  SUSPENDED  The Dorchester Horse Railroad has suspended running, as the bridge to Dorchester is not yet finished. It is expected that it will be done in a fortnight, or perhaps ten days.  1906  Dec.


Benny Montague has raised cattle in West Texas for 35 years and believes he knows what is best for the nation's beef industry.


Top U.S. consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc.  said on Tuesday its quarterly profit fell, dragged down by sales of lower margin products.


Giants on offense: If anything, Eli Manning is consistent - three straight seasons of 23-24 TD passes, 17-20 INTs, and a rating hovering around 75. Following four straight games with fewer than 20 completions, Giants fans likely are feeling more comfortable after watching Manning have his best game in weeks in the regular-season finale against the Patriots - 22 of ...


SYDNEY - Lawyers for the file-swapping service Kazaa argued in an Australian court yesterday that their software is analogous to the old Betamax videocassette recorders.


A former CIA contractor convicted of mistreating a detainee in Afghanistan is jailed for eight years.


Israeli leader says 2005 could bring "historic breakthrough" in ...

HERZLIYA, Israel A direct message today from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Palestinians: "We have no desire to rule over you.


Noble Energy profit slips on gas price drop

Noble Energy Inc.  said on  Thursday its fourth-quarter profit fell as weakness in natural  gas prices weighed on results.


Democratic presidential contender John Edwards argued on Thursday that President Bush has made the nation less safe and the Republican candidates are trying to become "a bigger, badder George Bush."


Tim Hudson hopes being swept by Boston will serve as a wakeup call for the Oakland Athletics.


Some 37 bodies are discovered as emergency services battle raging forest fires in southern Greece.


GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Australian cowboy who converted to Islam and allegedly fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan went before a U.S. military commission Wednesday and pleaded innocent to war crimes charges...


Imagine how the carpets of power in Brussels must have buzzed with excitement when some hip marketeer came up with the idea of reaching out to the public through a newly created Web site linked to YouTube.


KRESTENA, Greece  - Thousands of Greeks threatened by towering walls of fire fled their homes on Monday as strong winds fanned blazes that have devastated the country and killed 63 people in four days.


L'uomo, che non era stato visto dagli operatori ecologici, Ã¨ morto. Disposta l'autopsia per accertare la dinamica dei fatti                                                  Roma, dormiva in un cassonetto clochard schiacciato da camion


Lenovo laptop boosts performance, reduces energy use

Lenovo Group announced the ThinkPad T61p, a laptop that was designed for heavy-duty applications but that meets the EPA's Energy Star 4.0 standard.


China coal mine gas explosions kill dozens

BEIJING  -- Gas explosions in two different regions of China have killed more than 50 coalminers, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, the latest fatalities to hit the world's deadliest mining industry.


WASHINGTON - After two weeks of staunchly defending a report on President Bush's National Guard service, CBS News and Dan Rather apologized Monday for relying on documents they now say cannot be verified.


Anti-gaming gadfly back in action Everyoneâs favorite anti-gaming gadfly Jack Thompson is back in action, GamePolitics reports, with yet another lawsuit against the purported public nuisances created by violent video games.â¦


USA Today is plunging into a hot new Internet technology, offering users the ability to install "widgets" on their blogs and personal Web pages that contain news updates and other information from the newspaper.


A suicide attacker blew up an explosives-laden car Wednesday outside a police academy south of Baghdad during a graduation ceremony, killing 20 people. A second car bomber killed five Iraqi policemen — bringing the death toll to at least 90 so far this week in surging violence aimed at derailing this month's elections.


Judge Rules Oracle Can Pursue PeopleSoft Takeover

The ruling yesterday came more than 15 months after Oracle made its initial surprise offer for PeopleSoft. The past year has been marked by numerous legal maneuvers and verbal grenades tossed


The new version includes expanded 32-bit and 64 bit OS support for Windows 2000, Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3, among other features.


Bryant lets the game come to him and team rings in its new era in perfect pitch, for at least one night. Did someone have the audacity to suggest the Lakers might miss a beat?


The Conservative Party leader Michael Howard asks the government to  appoint a minister for homeland security.


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The London-based security firm which employed four former Gurkhas killed in a rocket attack on their compound in Baghdad have paid tribute to them as "brave and professional individuals".


Nokia-Intel 'super 3G' laptop module romance over

Add-in canned, flowers sent back Intel and Nokia will not now produce an add-in module for laptops to provided connectivity to 3G cellular networks, the Finnish phone giant admitted today, less than six months after the product was announced.â¦


Itâs unclear whether Iran has withdrawn its demand that some of its technology be excluded from a freeze on nuclear enrichment activities.