UN Warns Sri Lanka Rebels Over Tsunami Children

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations said  on Friday it had received reports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers were  recruiting children displaced by Asia's tsunami and had told  the rebels to leave under-age survivors alone.


Expos Skipper Robinson OKs One-Year Deal

Frank Robinson has agreed to a one-year contract to return as manager of the Expos, although whether he actually manages the team next year will hinge on the pace of the team's sale and the whim of the new owners.


New images of US landing craft on Mars are taken by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) probe.


WASHINGTON  - AT&T Corp.  will pay $100 million to end a class-action lawsuit by investors who accused AT&T and former Chairman C. Michael Armstrong of lying about its outlook to boost its share price, the company said on Tuesday.


ALL four living former US presidents have agreed to become honorary directors of the project for a permanent memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Centre.


Steelers clinch AFC, Roethlisberger injured

CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Big Ben Roethlisberger is now 13-0 as a pro, but had to leave the game at the end of the third quarter in Pittsburgh's 20-7 win over Baltimore at Heinz Field on Sunday.


NSA surveillance was "vital" in cracking the terror ring, a sign of growing cooperation between the two countries


Report: Supremacists Nix Miss. Fair Booth

A white supremacist group has canceled plans to have a booth at the Mississippi state fair after a reputed Ku Klux Klansman under investigation for the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers said he had no intention of stopping by it, a state official says.


South Korea admits it should have reported an unauthorized experiment to enrich uranium to the International Atomic Energy Agency, or the IAEA.


La diagnosi di via Nazionale: risanare per crescere

L'economia mondiale continua a essere caratterizzata, nell'autunno inoltrato del 2004, da un ritmo di crescita molto vivace, sostenuto dal notevole sviluppo dei paesi asiatici, dal consolidamento della ripresa americana, nonostante alcuni segni di frenata


Prince Charles joins 140 widows to remember Britain's war dead

LONDON  - Prince Charles joined 140 military widows Saturday for an annual ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, including those killed in Iraq.


Jens Lehmann made the key saves in the penalty shootout Friday to send Germany into the World Cup semifinals with a 4-2 win over Argentina.


POLL: Kerry Takes Slight One-Point Lead Over Bush

Democratic challenger John Kerry moved into a slight one-point lead over President Bush in a tight White House race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Saturday.


Darfur official calls for return of aid groups

The governor of the troubled north Darfur state said Saturday his government has lifted local restrictions on humanitarian aid groups in a sign of goodwill, but an aid official said the move alone is not enough to allow his group


German brothel offers pensioners 50 percent off

A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalise on the growing number of pensioners by offering them a 50 percent discount for sex in the afternoon.


One is a September call-up while the other is a mainstay to the point that it's easy to forget he's still a rookie. Together, Jacoby Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia formed a dangerous duo at the top of the order in last night's wild 13-10 victory against Toronto.


If you want to buy a home soon, your money shouldn't be in stocks.


Japan quake-hit plant may be shut a year or more

The world's biggest nuclear power plant may be shut for more than a year for checks after an earthquake in Japan caused radiation leaks, prompting speculation of power shortages and deepening concern about the safety of the industry in the tremor-prone country.


The group-messaging application, Twitter, still hasnât broken into the mainstream or become a to-die-for tool for the youngest early adopters.


Broadcom finds more options discrepancies

Microchip maker Broadcom Corp.   said on Friday it found more discrepancies in the  dates of past stock-option grants, and expects to record  additional expenses at least double its previous estimate.


PASADENA, Calif. The spacecraft Cassini has begun beaming close-ups of Saturn's giant moon Titan to Earth. The first image was a low-resolution scene of part of Titan's disk covered in hydrocarbon haze.


The Connecticut execution of a serial killer who wants to die is halted less than an hour before it is due to happen.


NEW YORK (Billboard) - U2 and Apple Computer Inc. are  expected to announce next week that they have signed a deal to  sell custom iPods.


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The One Laptop Per Child Project will start selling its low-cost computers in the United States, one of the founders of the organization says.


Vista to benefit partners more than Microsoft

(InfoWorld) - A new IDC report on the impact of Windows Vista on the industry claims Microsoft's business partners stand to benefit more financially from the OS than Microsoft itself will in 2007. According to the report on the U.S. economic impact of Vista, for every one U.S. dollar Microsoft makes on Vista in 2007, Microsoft partners that offer software, hardware and services related to Vista will make $18. "If there's a surprising thing to people, it's how extensively a Microsoft piece of software ripples out through the ecosystem," said John Gantz, one of the IDC analysts who wrote the report. "Microsoft, as a software vendor, casts a bigger shadow than its revenues." IDC analysts Al Gillen and Marcel Warmerdam co-wrote the report, released Monday, which was commissioned by Microsoft. The report also said that 35 percent to 45 percent of new PCs that ship to enterprises in 2007 will run Vista. "Some thought [adoption] would move faster," Gantz said. "But to me, that's relatively quick." However, he added that most of the Vista adoption in the enterprise will come from new PCs, not upgrades to enterprise computers that are running an earlier version of Windows. And 2008 will be the year Vista really takes hold in the enterprise, with about 80 percent of PCs being shipped to businesses running the OS, and nearly 40 percent of the enterprise installed base running Vista, Gantz said. According to the report, Vista will be good not only for the wallets of Microsoft partners in 2007, but also for the IT industry in general. The OS should produce more than 100,000 new jobs in 2007, according to the report. IDC said that within the U.S. in 2007, as many as 200,000 IT companies that produce, sell or distribute products or services running on Vista will employ more than 660,000 people. Another 1.15 million will be employed at companies using the OS. And more than 60 percent of the growth in Windows-related employment will be driven by Vista, according to the report.


Zambian president seen seeking to consolidate economic gains

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, re-elected in a poll which his main challenger says was rigged, begins his last term on Tuesday aiming to consolidate an economic programme that has won him praise from Western lenders.


State to Add 10,000 Acres to Far-Flung Natural Areas: The Brule River State Forest, Which 5 U.S. Presidents Have Visited, Will Grow By Nearly 6,000 Acres, Doyle Will Announce

By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 27--Gov. Jim Doyle will announce major land acquisitions across Wisconsin today, totaling more than $15 million and spreading over more than 10,000 acres.


iTunes 101: Apple brings college to the iPod

Blog: University content such as language lessons, lab demonstrations, campus tours and, yes, course lectures, available for free via the iTunes Store.


Pakistan said Sunday it still has no information about the whereabouts of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his close associates.


HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- A fourth high school student has died from injuries she got when a school bus nose-dived off an interstate overpass, the police chief said Tuesday.


French police had a second trader in custody Friday in their probe of trades that led to massive losses at bank Societe Generale, respected daily Le Monde reported.


Looming election will be 'tough' says Blair

Prime Minister Tony Blair sought to dispel the assumption he will easily win a third consecutive term in office later this year, predicting the election would be a "tough, tough fight".


Nations split over post-quota system strategy

By Frances Williams in Geneva and Raymond Colitt in SÃ£o Paulo. Developing countries in the World Trade Organisation remain split over what, if any action, the WTO should take to help smaller textiles producers


Battered by one calamity after another, Indonesians have found a resilience that has amazed even foreign aid workers. It's rooted in a widely held belief that the troubles were sent by God, either as a test of their love for him or as punishment for straying from his teachings.


Evacuees find shelter in schools, stadiumMarines evacuating Camp PendletonFierce winds fuel fires; 360,000 acres burnFEMA vows action; Bush visiting Thursday


Indonesian woman dies of bird flu:  health official

A Indonesian woman from an area just west of the capital Jakarta has died of bird flu, taking the country's confirmed human death toll from the virus to 95, a health ministry official said on Monday.


Delta Air Lines Inc., the No. 3 U.S. carrier which has been restructuring in efforts to avoid a bankruptcy filing, is expected to slash fares and remove restrictive rules such as Saturday-night stays, Time magazine reported in its online edition on Sunday.


Judiciary's GOP supports Specter as committee's new chairman

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday unanimously endorsed Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., as the committee's new chairman, overriding complaints from conservative


The boos did not stop high scoring Houston Rockets guard Tracy McGrady from having fun in his first return to Orlando since his controversial departure last year.


The tobacco company Philip Morris secretly acquired a research facility to find out about the toxic effects of cigarette smoke and went to great lengths to conceal that it knew what was going on there, it was revealed last night.


Manila Warns of Plot as Poe Funeral Packs Streets

Filipinos buried movie legend turned politician Fernando Poe Jr with sorrow and spectacle on Wednesday as warnings and rumors of plots failed to materialize among the large, peaceful crowd for the funeral.


Health Insurance Costs Soar, Workers Hit

Health insurance premiums rose five  times faster than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according  to a survey released on Thursday that also showed slippage in  the percentage of American workers covered by employer health  plans.


Amato: Resistere alle pressioni del calcio                                                                                Dopo la presentazione del pacchetto del governo contro le violenze negli stadi, il ministro degli Interni riferisce alla Camera sugli incidenti a Catania: "La serenitÃ  Ã¨ piÃ¹ importante degli interessi del calcio. Basta deroghe agli stadi non a norma. Le societÃ  di calcio aggirano le norme". Oggi la Lega Calcio incontrerÃ  le altre Leghe, il sindacato calciatori, allenatori e arbitri. Zamparini, presidente del Palermo, chiederÃ  le dimissioni di Matarrese. Domani o giovedÃ¬ un consiglio straordinario dei ministri ratificherÃ  i provvedimenti Amato-Melandri


As Drama Plays Out, Mixed Feelings for Arafat's Neighbors

No crowds of well-wishers massed Thursday outside the Mukata, the mostly ruined compound where Yasser Arafat has been confined for the past two years.


Court Upholds Patent Ruling Against Maker of BlackBerry

A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the BlackBerry data device.


Challenger to Afghan president emerges from pack

Yunis Qanooni is running against Karzai, who escaped assassination Thursday.


Adobe's Apollo and the pressing need to upgrade open-source licensing

Blog: The Web and the desktop are increasingly blurring, as Adobe's Apollo project demonstrates. Unfortunately, open-source licensing remains in beta while we're about to go into production.


Baseball players gave their lawyers the go-ahead Tuesday to reach an agreement with owners on tougher testing for steroids. After negotiations with management were outlined to the executive board of the players


U.S. health-plan cost growth to tick up in 2008: survey

Health plan costs are expected to rise at a slightly faster rate in 2008, after three years of flat growth, according to preliminary results of a new survey.


Striking Hollywood union weighs Grammys show plea

After yanking the red carpet out  from under the Golden Globes and threatening the Oscars, the  union for striking Hollywood writers is deciding whether to  picket the U.S. music industry's highest honors.


A revolt against a national driver's license, begun in Maine last month, is quickly spreading to other states.


Prosecutor Drops Case Against 2 Nurses in Four Post-Katrina Deaths

NEW ORLEANS, July 3 -- The district attorney has dropped the case against two nurses in the deaths of four patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina.


U2 frontman and global activist Bono is one of three recipients of the inaugural TED Prize from the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference.


Lindsay Lohan may be in luck. British police said Friday they had recovered a handbag that went missing from the star's luggage cart at Heathrow Airport.


Just five major league teams since 1937 have had a run of 21 wins in 22 games, but only the Rockies have carried such a surge into the postseason. Colorado comes into Fenway Park tonight for Game 1 of the World Series not having lost a road game since Sept. 13, and is 15-3 in its last 18 contests away ...


Intel unveils 'Extreme' system for power users

Intel is targeting extreme gamers and power PC users with its latest high-performance platform based on the Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition and a faster system bus enabled by the 925XE Express chipset.


In pubs, over telephone lines and on the Web, basketball fans and non-fans are voicing their opinions on the chaos that broke out at The Palace of Auburn Hills on Friday night.


Nine firefighters killed in furniture store blaze

CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - Nine firefighters died battling a blaze that raced through a furniture store and warehouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday night, triggering a rolling ball of smoke and flames that destroyed the roof and pelted onlookers with hot ash.


A prosecutor launched an investigation Friday into allegations that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lied under oath about an affair with his top aide. Some political observers are questioning whether the popular yet polarizing figure should stay on the job.


A team of astronomers from the US and the UK obtain some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.


Business tumbles barriers in a new kind of Irish unity

NEWRY, Northern Ireland -- From the windows of a 19th-century textile mill that long lay derelict, Feargal McCormack looked past the Catholic row houses that once seethed with poverty and anger to the road along the Newry canal, where car bombs went off and snipers lurked for 30 years of sectarian violence.


Hopes for Solution to Afghan Hostage Crisis

Three U.N. workers held by militants in  Afghanistan were in their third week of captivity on Friday  after calls from both sides for the crisis to be resolved ahead  of this weekend's Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.


Indian-Pakistani talks on new bus route stall

NEW DELHI -- India and Pakistan hit a roadblock Wednesday in their monthslong effort to open a bus route that both governments agree would be an important step toward bringing peace to the divided territory of Kashmir.


A cervical cancer vaccine cold cut deaths by three quarters if given to all 12-year-old girls, a study says.


Blood Glucose Spikes Impair Mental Function

NEW YORK  - People with type 2 diabetes  experience a decline in mental function and mood during  episodes of hyperglycemia -- an excessive rise in blood glucose  -- according to new study findings.


Militants Threaten to Kill Iraq Hostages

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida linked group threatened in a videotape Saturday to behead two Americans and a Briton within two days, and insurgents carried out a new string of car bombings, killing at least 20 Iraqis and two American soldiers.    The unrelenting violence has taken 300 lives in the past week...


An interview with Benazir Bhutto before the former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated was important enough to keep on the cover of Parade magazine, the magazine's publisher said Sunday Â even though the publication had already gone to print when Bhutto was killed.


Man accused of posing as U.S. agent to Pitt, Jolie

A Los Angeles man was arrested on   Thursday for impersonating a federal agent in what prosecutors   say was an attempt to work as a security consultant for Brad   Pitt and Angelina Jolie.


Sales of new family homes in the US fell 8.3% in August to its slowest rate in more than seven years, figures show.


Posters outside theaters across the country list Jon Voight, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox as the stars of the summer action flick "Transformers."


What It Would Take to Put the Brakes on Global Warming

Two Princeton professors have created a game, with multicolor wedges, to make the global warming problem look solvable.


Ulster Defence Association leaders from across NI gather to present a united front against criminality.


A Jordanian court sentences a failed Iraqi suicide bomber to death for her role in attacks on hotels in Amman.


Dyslexia depends on culture: brain study

Most dyslexia research has focused on letter-based languages such as English or Italian. These studies suggest the condition is tied to the left temporoparietal region of the brain.


Hayden Panettiere doesnât have much to worry about as an indestructible cheerleader on NBCâs âHeroes.â  But during a recent trip to Japan, the 18-year-old actress put her life on the line trying to prevent fisherman from slaughtering a ...


Il ministro degli esteri: "Chi governa non fa i cortei contro il governo ma governa"Il leader della Quercia: "non uso l'espressione 'crisi di governo' anche per ragioni scaramantiche"                                          Ministri in piazza, D'Alema "Contraddizione insostenibile"


New Jersey jury splits on two Merck Vioxx cases

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey  - A New Jersey jury found on Friday that Merck & Co.  failed to provide adequate warnings about health risks tied to its withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx in one case, but decided that it gave adequate warning in another in two suits tried simultaneously.


Kenya government condemns opposition "sabotage" plan

The Kenyan government condemned as "illegal sabotage" on Monday a plan by the opposition to widen its protests against President Mwai Kibaki's re-election to a boycott of companies linked to his allies.


Angry residents have set fire to dozens of heaps of rubbish in a worsening dispute with the authorities.


The government should impose "traffic light" labeling to warn consumers about obesity-causing food and drink products if New Zealand companies won't do it voluntarily, a parliamentary committee said Friday.


G7 finance ministers are expected to discuss the apparent US slowdown when they meet in Singapore.


QBE is the kind of company you may want to own forever.


Utah County Birders Plan Field Trip Feb. 10

PROVO -- The Utah County Birders will hold a half-day field trip in conjunction with Bald Eagle Day at Farmington Bay on Saturday, Feb. 10.  The group will leave from the Provo East Bay Shopko at 8 a.m. Anyone interested is welcome.


'La Bonino? Prodi dovrebbe capire sua coalizione non regge'


Vietnam is set to try a 48-year-old woman  who confessed to poisoning 13 people in what might be the  country's first prosecution of a serial killer.


HAMPTON, Ga. - Ryan Newman blew to his third pole position in as many races Friday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but not without a challenge from red-hot Joe Nemechek.


Alternately promising and pleading, Republican Mitt Romney on Monday asked Michigan residents to vote for him in a primary election that could either rejuvenate or mortally wound his presidential campaign.


Modern medicine can keep people alive into their 9th and 10th decades, but a growing number of these people are asking why.


The national Election Day backlash against gay marriage never reached the state blamed for triggering it: Every Massachusetts lawmaker on the ballot who supported gay rights won another term in the Legislature.


1. "Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood" by Ann Brashares


Tennis: Massu Reaches 2nd Round of Palermo International

Top seed Nicolas Massu of Chile has reached the second round of the Palermo International clay-court tennis tournament in Sicily, but the tournament is over for third seed Fernando Verdasco of Spain.


Is "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" for cure or for show?


Anbar province may be a success story but a truer test of the surge lies in troubled neighborhoods like Ghazaliyah


Olmert, Abbas to try to revive stalled peace talks

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet on Thursday to try to overcome disputes over Jewish settlements that have paralyzed U.S.-backed peace talks.


US carmaker GM agrees a $2bn price-tag with Fiat to get out of a deal which could have forced it to buy the Italian firm.


SitePoint PHP Blog: Win Cash for the best Facebook App!

According to this new post on the SitePoint blog, you could win some cash if your Facebook application is chosen as best:   Our current feature article about developing for the Facebook Platform with PHP is extraordinarily timely, given the recent announcement from venture capital firm Bay Partners on Tuesday that they will be offering cash prizes for the best Facebook applications.   According to the article, Bay Partners will be offering cash awards (ranging from $25,000 up to $250,000) for the best applications built on top of the Facebook API. You can get more information about this AppFactory program from the Bay Partners website (as well as how to apply for the contest).


Si tratta dell'offerta Vodafone Casa Numero Fisso


Aides Say Arafat Has Taken Turn for Worse

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, aboard a French hospital plane enroute from Amman, Jordan, to Paris, France, where he will seek medical treatment, in this picture released by the Palestinian Authority Friday Oct. 29, 2004.


Milano, 12:42 - CALCIO, CHAMPIONS; ORIALI: ANCHE LIVERPOOL NON SARA' CONTENTO

"E' una trasferta difficile, ci prepararemo. Ci poteva capitare una delle squadre piÃ¹ forti ed &egra...


Bush campaign to base ad on Kerry terror quote

President Bush's campaign announced Sunday its plans to use as the basis of a new commercial a quote from an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine article about Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.


Five teams with best chance at NFC wild cards

Darin Gantt, who covers the wild-card chasing Carolina Panthers for the Rock Hill (SC) Herald, lists for FLORIDA TODAY five teams with the best chance to get into the playoffs out of the jam-packed NFC.


Intensive talks aim to end a stalemate over an EU demand that Turkey recognise Cyprus before accession.


A Zimbabwe government minister dismisses a report that heavily criticised last year's housing demolitions.


British gaming shares plunge after US bill bans online gambling

The share prices of gaming giants listed in London have dived after US lawmakers backed a bill to outlaw gambling over the Internet, dealers said.


The government's income from residential stamp duty has risen nine-fold over the last 10 year, new figures show.


Tokyo's Nikkei share average closed  slightly lower on Friday, as lingering disappointment over  recent statistics showing weakness in the economy weighed on  issues such as broker Nomura Holdings


Shropshire's water supplier Severn Trent today announced a multi-million pound drop in profits - but is hoping to get the go-ahead this week to halt the decline by increasing household bills.


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Australian PM disputes claim on Al-Qaeda strike

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has disputed a warning by a leading US terrorism expert that the city of Melbourne was at heightened risk of an Al-Qaeda attack within the next year.


Apple takes over CUPS, Unix printing software

Blog: Apple acquires the copyright to the Common Unix Printing System, but it doesn't have to abide by its open-source license terms.


Photographer Diane Arbus' archive given to NY's Met

The entire archive of New York photographer Diane Arbus -- known for her images of dwarfs, nudists and carnival performers -- has found a home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Roma, 22:18 - CALCIO, MORTE POLIZIOTTO: FIGC IN RIUNIONE

Sono stati riaperti gli uffici a Roma della Figc dopo la notizia della morte del poliziotto negli in...


Japanese stocks fell on Friday as a stronger yen hurt exporters and more problems emerged in the battered consumer lending industry.


Le novitÃ  sono tutte nel pacchetto fiscale contenutonella finanziaria e andranno in vigore al 1 gennaio 2007                                            Arriva il superbollo per i Suv e l'esenzione di 5 anni per le Euro4                                                                                di VINCENZO BORGOMEO


Trainer Todd Pletcher leads the field in Triple Crown nominees for the fourth consecutive year. A total of 357 thoroughbreds were nominated for the 2005 Triple Crown races, with Pletcher leading the way with 34 3-year-olds. The total is down slightly from 434 in 2004.


The UN's emergency aid chief says he is optimistic the world will meet the challenges of the tsunami disaster.


WASHINGTON - In a sharp rebuke of a new administration policy, the House moved Thursday to block the Labor Department from carrying out overtime rules that critics argued could deprive millions of workers of their overtime pay.    The 223-193 vote in favor of blocking the rules defied the White House...


Rudolph rides in to ruin England's early present

Michael Vaughan must have thought Father Christmas had arrived early when a Stephen Harmison full toss ripped through Jacques Kallis' defence and knocked back his off-stump.


The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the region's volatile and porous borders.


IBM wins developer support to build Workplace momentum

Hoping to add some momentum to its Workplace platform strategy IBM has launched an online developer resource center that gives software developers ready access to tools to help create products and services that will exploit the platform.


Con l'accusa di aggiotaggio e false comunicazioni sociali


Nasce una nuova figura: sarÃ  un magistrato e potrÃ  attivare tutte le forze in campoDarÃ  pareri sulle tariffe pubbliche. Ispezioni in arrivo per pane e latte                                          Carovita, arriva "Mister Prezzi" denuncerÃ  gli aumenti anomali                                                                                di LUCA IEZZI


Bush's overall health-care plan is lame. But he's right to fix the tax inequity


Swedish teen shoplifts winning lottery ticket

A Swedish teenager who shoplifted a winning lottery ticket that could be worth as much as $1 million has discovered the truth in that old adage 'crime doesn't pay.' The 15-year-old boy stole the scrape-off ...


In vetrina ritratti della modella e gli abiti della popstar


Citizens Wish to Be Heard: Some Feel Concerns About Growth, Development Are Ignored

By Tom Lutey, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 23--Linda Dixon, like a lot of Spokane Valley residents, has learned to dread the "Notice of Application" signs that crop up on neighborhood streets whenever a new development is in the works.


Apparently heeding to the Left parties' suggestion to wait for the outcome of the US presidential election which would have a sobering effect on international crude oil prices, petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar told reporters in New Delhi "prices are


South Africa drop Percy Montgomery for Saturday's Tri-Nations match against New Zealand.


Su Canale 5 "Belli dentro", la serie ambientata in un carceree nata dall'idea di un gruppo di detenuti di San Vittore                                                  La vita dietro le sbarre diventa sit-com con ironia                                                                                Protagonisti, gli attori della scuola di "Zelig" e "Colorado CafÃ¨"La convivenza forzata, la noia, la ricerca di normalitÃ di ALESSANDRA VITALI


Lovers turn to text message to say it's over

U R dumped -- one in seven say they have  suffered the same fate as Britney Spears' ex-husband and been  told it's all over via text message or email, a survey said on  Friday.


Specialty retailer Sharper Image Corp. lowered its earnings estimates on Monday after reporting weaker-than-expected holiday sales.


Notes, Quotes From 2004 Campaign in Wis.

The last Republican presidential candidate to win Wisconsin was Ronald Reagan in 1984, but the state grows more GOP-friendly every year.


Talks Go On in Iraq; Aide Says Cleric Asks Fighters to Disarm

Talks continued today between the interim government and representatives of the rebellious cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the volatile Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Sadr


Intel said Thursday that President Paul Otellini will become its next CEO -- a change that could help the No. 1 chipmaker overcome recent missteps.


It was a night for the expected and the unexpected at the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. The HBO adaptation of the acclaimed 1991 Broadway play, "Angels in America" was the big winner with a record-tying 11 awards.


PeopleSoft opens way for Oracle bid by firing chief

Peoplesoft, the software company under siege from a hostile $7.7bn (Â£4.3bn) bid by its larger rival Oracle, yesterday sacked its chief executive, Craig Conway, increasing


Nokia launches a music download service that challenges both rival handset makers and network providers.


Iraq Blames US-Led Forces for Army Massacre

Iraq's US-backed government said on Tuesday that "major neglect" by its American-led allies led to a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend.


This Memorial Day, Honor Heroes, Scoundrels, Leaders and the Unknown

By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  May 28--LINN GROVE -- A shadow of a tall spire reaches across the cemetery almost instantly as the morning sun breaks over the prairie horizon.   Like many headstones here, the spire is stone, or marble or granite.


"Dreamgirls" no sure thing for Oscar song win

Some of this year's most interesting Oscar battles revolve around what Academy Award voters hear -- rather than see.


Need capital? China's here to help. Just ask Morgan Stanley.


Attesa per i dati sull'occupazione americana a dicembre


Agassi Sets Up Federer Showdown at U.S. Open

Sixth seed Andre Agassi set up a  mouthwatering quarter-final showdown with world number one  Roger Federer following a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over Armenia's  Sargis Sargsian at the U.S. Open Monday.


Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell were married in a weekend ceremony.


A U.S. battalion commander and an enlisted man will face courts-martial on charges related to the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, the Marines said on Friday.


Alitalia, firmato l'accordo tra sindacati e azienda

E' arrivata in extremis la firma sotto la proposta di riassetto societario. La compagnia si spezza. Cimoli: casse quasi esaurite. ROMA (24 set. 2004) - E' arrivata in extremis la firma sotto la proposta di riassetto societario per Alitalia.


Hexion Specialty Chemicals To Raise Pricing on Allyl Chloride, Epichlorohydrin

Hexion Specialty Chemicals announced today that it will increase prices for allyl chloride by two cents per pound and for epichlorohydrin by four cents per pound effective October 1, or as contracts allow. Both list and off-list prices will increase.


State and federal investigators said a day treatment center in Ashland for disabled people overcharged the government Medicaid program by exaggerating clients' disabilities to earn bigger payments.


New tests for ill-fated Suomenlinna ferry

The Finnish Maritime Administration has ordered new nautical tests for the apparently jinxed Suomenlinna II ferry.


With costs still rising, companies are testing new ways to save. The trendiest    : workers pay more


Estimates range from $3B to $10B following second major storm to hit Florida within a month. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Losses from Hurricane Frances are now forecast to make it the fifth-costliest storm in US


Siena, 18:27 - CALCIO, SIENA: UFFICIALIZZATO DIVORZIO CON PERINETTI

Giorgio Perinetti ha risolto il contratto con il Siena. Il direttore sportivo dovrebbe firmare con i...


The blue-chip Dow average ended  slightly higher on Monday and the tech-driven Nasdaq also  gained as declining crude-oil prices made equities aside from  energy names attractive.


Iranian Nobel Peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi tells the BBC a judicial order calling on her to appear in court is unlawful.


No matter what happened in the AL division series against Boston, Anaheim manager Mike Scioscia said Friday the suspended left fielder wouldn't play in the postseason.


Foggia, sedicenne stava sparando a cani randagi


Entro giugno sara' valutata la fattibilita' del progetto


Emmanuel Adebayor kept the pressure on Manchester United in the English Premier League title race as his brace earned Arsenal a comfortable 3-0 win over Fulham on Saturday.


AUSTRALIANS are continuing to pack their bags and head to Indonesia for Christmas despite warnings terrorists are planning a bomb attack in the country.


Due milioni di persone in piazza. Successo record per mostre e ...

Roma, 18 settembre - Oltre due milioni di persone si sono riversate nelle strade e in piazza per questa seconda edizione della Notte bianca; mezzo milione in piÃ¹ della volta scorsa. Ã il calcolo che anticipa


LAS VEGAS  - Sunday's New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys game on Fox registered as the most-watched regular-season NFL game in almost 10 years.


Developers, Users Eagerly Await New Possibilities in iPhone SDK

Developers are eagerly awaiting the release of Apple's software development kit for the iPhone later this month. The SDK, many believe, will give programmers access to a wide range of the phone's features.


For some amputees, future is in the U.S. army

For some amputees in a rehabilitation exercise room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, recovery means choosing to return to active duty in the U.S. Army.


HONG KONG - If Hong Kong political candidates finish in a dead heat, the election will be decided by the luck of the draw - from a bag of numbered pingpong balls.    It may sound more like bingo than politics, but under Hong Kong electoral rules, the tied candidates must each pick a ball at random...


Capsule from Genesis Space Probe Crashes in Utah Desert

A capsule carrying solar material from the Genesis space probe has made a crash landing at a US Air Force training facility in the US state of Utah.


Roma, 18:55 - NUOTO, SETTE COLLI: RISULTATI

Questi i risultati della 1/a giornata del 45/o trofeo 'Sette Colli' di Roma.


Microsoft revamps its plans for Longhorn

Microsoft is shaking up its plans for the next version of Windows to get the software off the drawing board and into PCs by the end of 2006.


Gazprom Threatens to Halt Fuel for Ukraine

In this latest flare-up of a dispute over money and energy in Eastern Europe, Gazprom threatened to halt fuel supplies unless Ukraine settled a $1.5 billion debt.


Tropical Storm Gaston Closes in on Carolina Coast

Tropical Storm Gaston neared the South Carolina coast on Saturday and forecasters put the US east coast under a storm alert from northern Florida to North Carolina.


iPhone software-unlocked, easy-to-use tool to follow

Calling all iPhone owners. The first free easy to use - well, relatively easy to use - software to unlock your Apple handset has arrived, mere hours after a rather more tortuous process. Well, almost. It's not quite ready for release, but folk who have seen it claim it does the business.â¦


Assam separatists kill a tea estate manager, jolting the peace process in the north-eastern Indian state.


Desertion is a crime like few others. Along with mutiny, it hits at the heart of military service, violating a fundamental code of honor.


Dodgers, Padres win in battle for NL West title

Mike Cameron drove in two runs to   help the San Diego Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 on   Thursday and maintain their half-game lead over the Dodgers   atop the NL West.


Naked Britney Allowed to Stimulate Japan

Britney Spears has been deemed safe for the Japanese public.


Fueled by anxiety awakened by the mortgage loan crisis, private equity firms are finding it harder to borrow as investors demand better terms for loans and bonds.


Beirut Journal: After War, Lebanon Turns to Art, Asking: Who Are We?

After HezbollahÂs war with Israel, there was a surge of music, video, sculpture, poetry and theater in Beirut, examining the issues raised by the 34-day war.


Nigerian president seeking to prolong tenure: opposition

One of Nigeria's most prominent opposition parties, Action Congress (AC), has accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of seeking to prolong his term in office.


Incendio in un locale dove i giovani erano soliti riunirsiSei, tra i 16 e i 17 anni, in ospedale per le ustioni                                          Bari, va a fuoco la "cantina" sei ragazzi feriti, due gravi


Israelis, American Win Nobel for Chemistry

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose won the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a key way cells destroy unwanted proteins - starting with a chemical "kiss of death."   Their work provides the basis for developing new therapies for diseases such as cervical cancer and cystic fibrosis.    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Ciechanover, 57, Hershko, 67, and Rose, 78, for work they did in the late 1970s and early 1980s...


Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday urged policy-makers to consider reducing future Social Security and Medicare benefits, saying the nation probably has promised more to upcoming retirees than the economy realistically can deliver.


A production of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo," dropped for fear of a Muslim backlash over a scene with the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad, returned to the stage under heavy security Monday at Berlin's ...Comment


In a startling turnaround, breast cancer rates in the United States dropped dramatically in 2003, and experts said they believe it is because many women stopped taking hormone pills.


Google mends security flaw in Desktop Search

A handful of researchers at Rice University uncovered a security flaw in Google's Desktop Search offering that could allow attackers to view small portions of personal search results.


A federal judge on Monday gave California officials six months to ease crowding in the nation's largest prison system, warning that court-ordered remedies could include limiting the inmate population and releasing some prisoners early.


New York, 10:27 - HOCKEY GHIACCIO, RISULTATI NHL

Risultati delle gare del campionato americano di hockey su ghiaccio disputate nella notte (in maiusc...


Report of deadly Iraq bombing questioned

State television reported Tuesday that 18 boys were killed when a car bomb exploded in a park in Ramadi, and Iraqi and international officials were quick to deplore the slaughter. But questions about key details of the report emerged just as quickly.


Lindsay Lohan Sued By DUI Chase Passenger

The woman being chased by Lindsay Lohan before the star's notorious DUI arrest last July wants her day in court.  According to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in late December and obtained by the Associated Press, Tracie Rice was in a vehi...


Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.


Palestinian TV Tones Down Martial Posture

Palestinian TV has toned down its martial posture, opting for gentler programming in line with rising hopes for Middle Eastern peace.


THOUSANDS of Scots will shun the shuttle to Heathrow and the M6 to...

THOUSANDS of Scots will shun the shuttle to Heathrow and the M6 to Manchester airport in favour of direct flights to increasingly more exotic locations next year.


Il giorno della resa dei conti si trasforma nella riconciliazione fra l'Ad e il presidenteIn Piazza Affari un guadagno che sfiora il 4%. Soddisfatti i dipendenti del Gruppo                                          Capitalia, Arpe resta al vertice dopo essersi scusato con Geronzi


Bush and Democrats play down support for a decade-old law that most Americans like.


Diatom genome reveals key role in biosphere's carbon cycle

WALNUT CREEK, CA--The first genetic instruction manual of a diatom, from a family of microscopic ocean algae that are among the Earth's most prolific carbon dioxide assimilators, has yielded important insights on how the creature uses nitrogen, fats, and


Italian fashion designer Ferre dies: report

Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre  has died at Milan's San Raffaele hospital after suffering a  brain hemorrhage, Italian news agency ANSA said on Sunday.


San Paolo, 19:38 - F1, BRASILE; FERRARI: COMMISSARI VALUTINO MANOVRA HAMILTON

La Ferrari non presenta reclamo ma stigmatizza il comportamento di Lewis Hamilton nella fase finale...


Group of Cities, Counties Sues Microsoft

A group of California cities and counties on Friday filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.(MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , saying that the world's largest software maker overcharged government agencies for


Lankans outplay Pak by 201 runs in Ist test

FAISLABAD: Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 201 runs on the fifth and final day of the first test match at Iqbal Niaz stadium, Faislabad.


Etheridge Fighting Cancer Rocker undergoes treatment for breast ...

Melissa Etheridge, 43, has cancelled her upcoming seven-city tour to undergo surgery for breast cancer in Los Angeles, where she lives with her partner, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels.


A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel   claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for   saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were   mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.


Djokovic delivers for success-hungry Serbia

Serbia's tennis prodigy Novak Djokovic described their Davis Cup 4-1 win over Australia as an incisive team effort after playing a key role in the outcome that cast contrasting fortunes on the two sides.


The volatile cleric was praised when he said he was freezing his militia. But U.S. officers on the ground are doubtful it will make much difference on the streets


Ultrasounds good for late-term pregnancies

ULTRASOUNDS in the second half of pregnancy do not harm babies' development, says a world-first study that will reassure parents concerned at the technology's use.


Craig Monroe homered and Omar Infante drove in three runs to back Wil Ledezma's six strong innings in the Detroit Tigers' 7-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Monday.


Afghan Militants Drop Guantanamo Prisoner Demand

A Taliban splinter faction that has threatened to kill three foreign UN workers abducted in Afghanistan nearly three weeks ago appeared to narrow its demands for their release Tuesday.


The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole new way.


Sanofi-Aventis becomes world's third-largest pharmaceutical company

Sanofi-Synthelabo said earlier this month it would push for 100 percent control of its former rival and newly-acquired subsidiary Aventis after the French Financial Market Authority confirmed the success of its ...


Sun, Kodak Move Forward After $92 Million Settlement

"Sun is in this big battle with Microsoft for enterprise commitments," Jonathan Eunice, an analyst with the research firm Illuminata, told the E-Commerce Times.


Afghan capital steps up security for Karzai inauguration

KABUL - NATO peacekeepers and Afghan police will draw a tight security blanket over the Afghan capital in coming days as up to 50 foreign dignitaries descend on Kabul for President Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration on Tuesday, officials said.


San Pietroburgo, 15:16 - TENNIS, ATP SAN PIETROBURGO: STARACE AI QUARTI

Potito Starace approda ai quarti di finale del "St. Petersburg Open", torneo Atp da un milione di do...


Hewitt Hits Some Nerves Before Advancing in a Spitting Match

A sunny relatively uneventful day at the Australian Open turned nasty after dark with the match between Lleyton Hewitt and Juan Ignacio Chela.


Barack Obama, combating the perception that he is too young and inexperienced to handle a dangerous world, got a boost yesterday from a paragon of foreign policy eminence, Zbigniew Brzezinski. The former national security adviser announced on Bloomberg Television's "Political Capital With Al Hunt"...


Aaron Devinney hasn't worked since February, when the waste recycling company that employed him for a year and a half laid him off. Oscar Willard's been unemployed for more than three years. Both told Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards on Sunday they just want jobs.


Bush Seeks to Warm Up Chilly Canadian Relations

President Bush on Tuesday began a  two-day mission to Canada to warm relations chilled over Iraq,  insults to the White House and needling trade disputes.


Hindu group making software to partly block Orkut

A right-wing Hindu group has asked  public Internet centers in India to partly block access to  Orkut, and is making a software to monitor abusive communities  on the popular social networking site operated by Google.


For an Era of Twins, the End May Be Near

The number of twins nationwide has increased by 65 percent in the past two decades in part due to reproductive technology for older mothers.


Chancellor to address parliament on Northern Rock

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is to make a statement to parliament Monday regarding the future of troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock.


Top racehorse owner and breeder the Aga  Khan and his wife, Begum Inaara, are to seek a divorce, the  Begum's spokesman said Friday.


The Case of AOL's Missing Programming Initiatives

NEW YORK Last April, AOL gathered a group of prominent media buyers in New York to present five ambitious programming initiatives for 2007-08 at an upfront-like event dubbed First Look. Now, many of these same buyers are wondering when--even if--they will get their second and third looks at these concepts.


Marsh & McLennan Cos.' Kroll Inc. took out ads in Brazil's largest newspapers Thursday to defend five employees arrested amid allegations the international security consultant illegally spied in its probe of a bitter corporate dispute.


Are you ready for the CIO's 2008 'must call on Monday' list

Forrester Research lists the capabilities IT workers will need to meet the requirements of their CIOs in 2008.


U.S. Had Stormy Relationship With Arafat

WASHINGTON — More than two years ago, President Bush cut off all U.S. contact with Yasser Arafat, considering him failed and corrupt. He never invited the Palestinian leader to the White House even as he held out hopes of helping the Palestinians achieve statehood.


Pope off to Turkey, a delicate balancing act

Pope Benedict sets off on Tuesday  on one of the most delicate trips by a Pontiff, visiting  Turkey, where resentment is seething over his comments on Islam  and opposition to Ankara's EU bid.


Microsoft says "Gears" sells 1 million copies

Microsoft Corp.  said on  Wednesday it had sold 1 million copies of its game "Gears of  War" in two weeks, making it the fastest-selling title for its  Xbox 360 video game console.


Despite nationwide protests by hard-liners, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Friday signed into law an amendment to the country's controversial rape statute to make it easier to prosecute sexual assault cases.


Londra, 17:11 - CALCIO, PREMIER LEAGUE: FULHAM-MANCHESTER UNITED 1-2

Nell'incontro che ha aperto la 28/a giornata della premier league, Fulham-Manchester United 1-2. Pad...


Wall Street stocks were set for a higher start on Tuesday, as deal speculation for a number of companies greeted investors returning from the Memorial Day long weekend.


If you're traveling out of BWI Airport this month, you should be wondering about the threat of a strike by flight attendants affecting your plans.


Major League Baseball suspends the Dodgers Milton Bradley for the rest of the regular season by after his bottle-throwing tantrum on Tuesday.


Senate debates port security as 9-11 approaches

Senators called on Friday for   passage of long-delayed port security legislation that includes   steps to intercept nuclear material, as the fifth anniversary   of the September 11 attacks nears.


New York, 11:03 - BASEBALL, MLB: I RISULTATI DI STANOTTE

I risultati delle partite della Mlb, la lega pro di baseball Usa, giocate nella notte italiana: ...


Israeli film on Lebanon pullout shatters war myths

The terrified Israeli soldiers in director Joseph Cedar's new film "Beaufort" cannot see their enemy.


Two winners of the Forward Prize for Poetry have previous successes in the competition.


A man is due in court over an alleged attack on a Teesside woman who lay dying on her doorstep.


Open-source Samba gets inside look at Microsoft specs

The European Union's antitrust actions against Microsoft have freed up server software documentation for use in a major open-source project--for a fee.


Milano, 15:35 - CALCIO, MILAN; MALDINI: SONO PRONTO

Ad una settimana dall'inizio del campionato, Paolo Maldini è pronto per l'ennesima stagione d...


DaimlerChrysler AG said on Sunday that its global car sales for 2004 rose 2.1 percent to 3.9 million units.


Napoli, 16:45 - CALCIO, GENOA; PREZIOSI: CON NAPOLI AMICIZIA SARA' ETERNA

Dovrà battere il 'suo' Napoli per conquistare la promozione diretta in serie A. Enrico Prezio...


Tony Blair is undermining the Labour Party and robbing it of grass-roots support

That's funny... I was talking about this very point just last night: Independent - Blair damages party by clinging to power, say Labour officials : Tony Blair is facing fresh pressure to stand down soon from ...


Delonte West has no ill will toward the Celtics for trading him to the SuperSonics in the offseason. In fact, West would have made the deal, too.


Sarkozy Reins In Spending, Marks 2005 Budget With Return To E.U. Fold

French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy unveils his first and only budget on Wednesday, hoping to leave his mark by holding down spending and bringing France back inside EU deficit limits for the first time in ...


Province unveils renewable energy projects

TORONTO - Ontario is launching 10 new projects to create electricity from renewable resources, Energy Minister Dwight Duncan said Wednesday.


The UK's monthly trade deficit grows in December, as the nation also records a record annual trade gap.


US President George W. Bush has tried to help break a deadlock in the Northern Ireland peace process, telephoning Protestant leader Ian Paisley as negotiations ground on in London and Belfast.


South Korea is petitioning nations participating in the 5 th Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) starting here Oct. 8 to voice their support for resolving the continuing standoff over North Koreaâs nuclear weapons programs.


Difesa Consorte: la gente deve sapere, scalata regolare


Start-up strives for open-source compatibility

A new Seattle start-up called SourceLabs seeks to solve a longstanding problem with the popular open-source software movement: Components often don't talk with each other.


Alleanza strategica rivolta al mercato asiatico


Four reported dead in Chicago-area store shooting

Several people were shot inside a store at a suburban Chicago shopping center on Saturday, police said, and media reports said four were killed and another wounded.


Huckabee tax plan raises eyebrows in U.S.

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's plan to eliminate all income taxes and replace them with a flat consumption tax has the support of martial arts guru Chuck Norris but few economic analysts.


SPORTS OF THE TIMES Clemens Meets Match at Hands of Cardinals

They hit for average and power, run with abandon and last night, they went through one of baseball's greatest pitchers to earn their way into the World Series.


Singer Marianne Faithfull has breast cancer

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


Afghans Say Kill Senior Taliban Commander

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A senior commander from  Afghanistan's Taliban militia previously held at a U.S. base in  Guantanamo Bay was killed by Afghan forces in the central  province of Uruzgan, a senior official said on Sunday.


Roma, 16:44 - CALCIO, SERIE A: 13 SQUALIFICATI PER UN TURNO

Il giudice sportivo ha squalificato in serie A 13 giocatori, tutti per un turno. Questo l'elenco: Gi...


Marilyn, money fueling right of publicity battle

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter, ESQ.) - Who gets to profit from the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe and thousands of other long-dead celebrities?


President Bush called Sunday's elections in Iraq a success and promised the United States will continue trying to prepare Iraqis to secure their own country.


Gov. Bob Riley signed a resolution Thursday expressing "profound regret" for Alabama's role in slavery and apologizing for slavery's wrongs and lingering effects.


A group of MPs call on football clubs to cut the number of foreign players in the English game.


Along the Beach, a Spike In Property Damage

There were just a few modest homes and fish shacks along this white-sand barrier beach when Hurricane Frederic whipped through in 1979.


Black & Decker, Stanley give bleak housing views

Black & Decker Corp  and Stanley Works  on Monday gave dim forecasts for 2008 as a slowdown in the U.S. housing market has stifled demand for building equipment, sending both tool makers' shares lower.


For many of Ukraine's 100,000 Jews, Sunday's presidential revote poses a difficult choice: a Western-leaning opposition leader with past links to people with anti-Semitic views or a prime minister who favors ...


AP: Queen Noor Appeals to Muslim Moderates

Muslim moderates must speak out against the "distorted ranting" of extremists who carry out beheadings and suicide bombings, Queen Noor of Jordan said in an interview with The Associated Press.


Rangers' Sosa hits 600th home run against former club

Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth member of the Major League's 600 home run club on Wednesday when he connected for a solo homer off his old team, the Chicago Cubs.


IBM Lands Voice, Data Deal Worth Nearly $1 Billion

The VoIP deal is the type of technology outsourcing and service agreement that has become an increasingly large and profitable part of IBM's overall business and the sort of development that


Alcohol Tied to 75,000 Deaths a Year in U.S. - Study

Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000  Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by  an average of 30 years, a U.S. government study suggested on  Thursday.


Car bombs explode in three Iraqi cities as the interim PM says he has new plans to crush the insurgency.


As part of his preparations each week, Patriots backup quarterback Matt Cassel gathers as much information as possible on the opposing defense. One of his top sources is Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer .


Thomas hits three homers as Blue Jays beat Red Sox

Frank Thomas smacked three home runs to help the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 6-1 and tighten the American League East race on Monday.


Tony Blair is setting out his vision of the "opportunity society" that will be his mission for a third term.


A remarkable operation to replace the skin and hair of a five-year-old burns victim is said to have gone very well.


Gorbachev recovering from artery surgery

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after undergoing surgery in Germany on a key artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain, his foundation said Wednesday.


Senior Executive Is Leaving Cisco Systems

Cisco Systemsâ chief development officer, Charles H. Giancarlo, widely seen as a top candidate for chief executive, announced on Thursday that he was quitting.


LA County Health Department to Give Free Flu Shots

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County health department today will give free flu shots to at-risk residents at 16 clinics across the county.


A teenager who murdered his 60-year-old grandmother as she slept is sentenced to life in prison.


Ukraine Parliamentary Leaders Agree to Vote on Election Changes

Ukrainian parliamentary leaders agreed after a week of talks to vote on a package of electoral changes to avert fraud that led to a political standoff, opposition lawmaker Victor Kapustin said late today.


OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - La comunitÃ  diocesana di Rockhamton vive lÂAnno dellÂEvangelizzazione: a mezzogiorno tutti i fedeli invitati ad un momento di preghiera, ovunque si trovino Rockhampton (Agenzia Fides) - Compiere uno sforzo di missione, portando la Buona Novella a quanti non lÂhanno ricevuta e lÂannuncio dellÂamore di Dio a quanti soffrono o sono soli e disperati; evangelizzare le famiglie, rimettendo al centro la cultur...


EC 'supports special interests of rivals' - Microsoft

Microsoft will argue that the market for media players is much more varied than the European Commission claims when the two meet in court at the end of the week.


Health Tip: Risk Factors for Preeclampsia

(HealthDay News) -- Preeclampsia is a condition in pregnancy, characterized by a sudden, significant rise in blood pressure and swelling of the hands and feet.


PeopleJam is a portal for lifestyle advice stocked with experts and life coaches aimed at being a network for people on the Web older than 25.


Another Partnership for Personalized Medicine

Celera gets a contract to design a companion diagnostic test for Merck.


BAGHDAD - La speranza di evitare il bagno di sangue a Najaf Ã¨ svanita, la battaglia Ã¨ ricominciata: per la cittÃ  santa sciita sembrano riaprirsi le porte dell'inferno dopo che ieri il leader religioso ribelle Moqtada Sadr ha fatto di nuovo marcia


Â· Only 214 of 1,013 foreign prisoners sent homeÂ· Ministers cleared in crisis that led Clarke to quit


Japan's ruling party considers proposing constitutional changes to let women take the throne, reports say.


Salmonella found at peanut butter plant: FDA

Bacteria linked to contaminated peanut butter that has sickened hundreds of people has been traced to a plant owned by ConAgra Foods Inc. where it was made, U.S. health regulators said on Thursday.


Bush says Kerry 'wrong man' for White House

President George W Bush has said John Kerry lacked the conviction to lead and was ''the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time,'' mocking his Democratic rival's criticism of the Iraq war.


Arsenal then felt they had won a second penalty when Freddie Ljungberg tangled with Elias Kotsios but his appeals were turned down by the referee.


Broadcom-based Handsets Cleared for Sale in US

In another indication that one of the most heated intellectual property disputes in the history of telecommunications could end up a near-wash for both sides, a US District Court ruled late last week that two major handset manufacturers will be allowed to export devices with Broadcom chips to the US, despite a pending patent infringement lawsuit from Qualcomm.


Puerto La Cruz, 09:05 - CALCIO, PARAGUAY-PANAMA 1-1 IN AMICHEVOLE

Venezuela e Panama hanno pareggiato 1-1 in un'amichevole giocata allo stadio General Anzoateguim di ...


Hanks to revisit JFK killing in HBO miniseries

LOS ANGELES  - Tom Hanks' production company has joined forces with HBO to turn Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" into a 10-part miniseries.


Afghanistan must not be allowed to become a failed state again, Gordon Brown says.


Brian McBride opened for the Americans just before the half-hour mark, when he stepped past a defender before beating Misael Alfaro with a shot to the far post.


The only positive Tim Henman could take from his defeat in the third round at the Madrid Masters yesterday was that his racket did not break.


Tony Blair today said the Sudanese government had agreed to a five-point action plan aimed at ending the conflict in Darfur, which has resulted in what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.


Palestinians, Israelis fall into turmoil

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel sacked a key coalition partner yesterday, and Marwan Barghouthi, the jailed uprising leader, decided


NY oil prices fall as storm worries wane

NEW YORK : Oil prices retreated in New York and rose marginally in London as worries about the impact of Hurricane Frances subsided, traders said.


Thai Official Names Interim Leader, Then Denies Doing So

Reports and rumors about the ruling juntaÂs choice for an interim prime minister centered on Surayud Chulanont, a respected retired general.


Pakistan's election is "likely" to be delayed for some weeks after Benazir Bhutto's death, a ruling party official says.


In our view: Gymnast should give up the gold

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


Ukrainian Court Ruling Sows Confusion Before Vote

A top court in Ukraine on Saturday overturned some legal changes intended to cut election fraud, a day before a re-run of a presidential vote that has become a test of democratic legitimacy and national identity.


Finance chiefs inch toward IMF vote agreement

Global finance chiefs on Saturday made progress on reforms that would give emerging economies a greater say in the International Monetary Fund and expressed confidence they could seal a deal next year.


India have dropped wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel and batsman Yuvraj Singh for the final Test against Australia. Opening batsman Aakash Chopra and seamer Ajit Agarkar were also left out after India conceded the


Nestl claims that it can no longer make money out of Perrier because of the over-manning and rigidity of the labour laws at the company's plant in Vergez in the south of France.


Make no mistake, Sen. Ted Stevens still has plenty of friends. Despite a looming FBI corruption probe, Republican colleagues opened their wallets for their longtime colleague in recent months to support his re-election campaign.


CHICAGO -- US employers added a moderately stronger-than-expected 132,000 new jobs last month, despite heavy layoffs in the sagging construction sector and softening factory employment, according to a Labor Department report released yesterday.


Iraqi kidnappers have beheaded a British man who was seized last month, his family said yesterday, ending what one relative called ''three long weeks of agony.


Sono i fondi che gestira' la Protezione civile italiana


"Sideways" leads Golden Globe nominations

"Sideways" led the 62nd GoldenGlobe awards contenders Monday with seven nods, including best director, musical or comedy film and three acting nominations.


India's central bank raised two short-term interest rates Tuesday by a quarter percentage point each, but left a key rate unchanged in a bid sustain the growing economy's momentum.


ANALYSIS-Jaguar exit throws F1 deeper into turmoil

Formula One, already struggling to shape its future and put on a show, is staring into the abyss after Ford's decision to pull out and sell its Jaguar team.


Hamas urges Gaza workers to protest cut-off in wages

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called on Tuesday for public protests against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government over its refusal to pay salaries to workers hired by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.


Business leaders appeal for crisis leadership

DAVOS, Switzerland  - Business leaders rattled by a slump in global markets appealed to the U.S. and other central banks on Wednesday to get a grip on the global economy and some accused them of losing their nerve.


Campbell rules out Lib Dems in Brown cabinet

Lib Dem leader confirms private discussions with Gordon Brown.


Mexico's leftist presidential candidate threatened to disrupt the swearing in of his ruling party rival Saturday, a day after lawmakers blocked the outgoing president from delivering his state-of-the-nation speech to Congress in an escalating crisis over the July 2 election.


A senior Palestinian figure says all factions are united in condemning the abduction of the BBC's Alan Johnston.


Powell and three other US cabinet members resign

US Secretary of State Colin Powell and three of his US cabinet colleagues have tendered their resignations, a senior US administration official said Monday.


Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) will cut about 4,400 jobs and close a third of its factories under a program aimed at fighting rising costs and focusing


Singapore Air expands fleet with US$3.7B Boeing order

Singapore Airlines Ltd., Asia's most profitable carrier, is betting new planes will help it lure passengers from Emirates and Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.


New election setback for India's ruling Congress party

India's ruling Congress party has been ousted from power in another state, the latest in a string of electoral reverses this year, results showed.


While many in Congress are pushing President Bush to alter course in Iraq by September if not sooner, his new status report on the war strongly implies that the administration believes its military strategy will take many more months to meet its goals.


NEW YORK -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the largest Wall Street investment house, on Tuesday said its first-quarter profit rose 29 percent to a company record on robust trading gains and investment banking fees. Its shares rose 2 percent.


Ethiopia said on Saturday it  was in contact with an armed group that kidnapped five European  and eight locals in a remote northern region -- but ruled out a  military operation to rescue them.


The first baby created from an egg matured in the lab, frozen, thawed and then fertilised, has been born.


A Russian physicist convicted of passing space technology to China is jailed for 14 years by a court in Siberia.


Cessione probabile alla luce di manifestazioni di interesse


Kris Dielman agreed to terms with the San Diego Chargers on Saturday, taking one of the most sought-after offensive linemen available off the free-agent market.


Ozone levels are falling sharply in Eastern states where smog has been a recurring summer problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.


PRECI (PERUGIA) - Stordimento, incredulitÃ , ma anche voglia di veritÃ , di sapere come, e perchÃ¨, Enzo Baldoni Ã¨ stato assassinato: a Preci, nell' agriturismo di famiglia immerso nella tranquillitÃ  dei Sibillini, i fratelli del reporter ucciso


Car Bombs Explode Near Saudi Interior Ministry

Twin car bombs exploded near Saudi  Arabia's interior ministry and a security unit on Wednesday in  what appeared to be the latest strike by al Qaeda militants in  the world's biggest oil exporter.


Russia's new PM could stand for president

Russia's surprise choice for new prime minister, Viktor Zubkov, told lawmakers on Thursday he planned changes to the cabinet line-up and he even held out the possibility of running for president next year.


Reliance board meet and shareholder value

Few in the Indian corporate world would deny (at least off-the-record), that there is nobody quite like Reliance when it comes to stealth warfare.


Congress' investigative agency, responding to complaints from around the country, has begun to look into the Nov. 2 vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.


Questions Arise Over Karzai's U.S. Guards

Personnel from a private U.S. security firm in Afghanistan have engaged in "aggressive behavior" while protecting President Hamid Karzai, the State Department said Wednesday.


Chicago defenseman Lasse Kukkonen scored 57 seconds into overtime and the Blackhawks also got goals from Martin Havlat and Jeff Hamilton to beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 on Thursday night in a matchup of the Western Conference's worst teams.


Testifying in a hearing that could lead to exclusion of evidence in the Michael Jackson molestation case, the accuser's mother said Friday she doesn't remember a private investigator telling her that he was working for one of the


AOL offers its customers online shield free of charge

America Online blocked popup ads and intensified its fight against junk e-mail last year. Starting today, the largest online service is carrying its campaign against online plagues even further.


Jim Carrey in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events ...

com Staff. The funnyman's newest film--the dastardly delightful Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events about a trio of orphans who try to defend themselves from greedy Count Olaf, played by Carrey--debuted at No.


Ban on hunting with dogs pits British townies vs. rural folks

BRENT PELHAM, England -- The morning chill was broken with sherry, served on silver platters to riders in smartly tailored red coats, leather crops tucked neatly under their arms. With the shrill blast of a bugle, the chattering was over and the Puckeridge Hunt -- a tradition since 1725 -- was on.


British police granted more time to question 14 terror suspects

Police have been granted more time to question 14 people arrested in the latest high-profile anti-terrorism raid in Britain over the alleged training and recruiting of extremists, a police spokeswoman told AFP.


The roar started 15 minutes before the first pitch, as Curt Schilling walked toward the Boston Red Sox dugout after completing his warm-ups.


All Indonesian airlines including national carrier Garuda are to be banned from flying into the European Union.


What you learn about people â and yourself â when you need them to donate an organ.


Suicide bomber kills 9 Pakistani military recruits

KOHAT, Pakistan  - A suicide bomber killed himself and nine Pakistani military recruits in an attack in the northwestern town of Kohat on Monday, a military spokesman said.


Report: Portable computers on laps can 'fry' sperm

Young men - keep that laptop off your lap if you want to have healthy progeny. That is the advice of State University of New York (at Stonybrook) researchers who found that the heat caused by portable computers


Backed into corner, Cards look to Morris for equalizer

The St. Louis Cardinals will send their opening-day starter to the mound on Wednesday in their most important, and perhaps last, game of the season.


China ; China summons Japanâs ambassador to protest visa for ex ...

âLee Teng-hui is the chief representative of Taiwan independence forces in Taiwan. In the international community, heâs entirely a troublemaker,â Wu was quoted as saying.


[TS] Sports of The Times: The Rangers Know Well the Cost of Concussions

Maybe theyâre superstitious. Maybe they donât want to say the word. Or maybe itâs just easier for hockey people to use âitâ or âthem.â


Italy to stop applying EU sanctions against Libya: Interior Minister

Italy will stop applying EU sanctions against Libya next week even if the measures are not lifted by the European Union, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu revealed.


Vietnam will get a $1.1bn (Â£542m) loan from the Asian Development Bank to build a highway to mainland China.


Officials 'Optimistic' About Safe Release of Afghan Hostages

Afghan officials are optimistic that three UN hostages, including a Briton, will be freed unharmed, a government spokesman said. A Taliban splinter group claims it abducted the trio - Annetta Flanigan from


Red Sox sweep Cardinals to win World Series

The Boston Red Sox ended their 86-year championship drought with a 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game Four of the World Series.


As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales

Toyota beat Ford in 2007 in U.S. auto sales, putting it behind General Motors. Ford had held the No. 2 spot since 1931, according to the companyâs historian.


Edwards Learns Campaign Blogs Can Cut 2 Ways

John Edwards will keep on his campaign staff two bloggers with trails of incendiary comments on sex, religion and politics.


Shuttle Loss Proved 'Cathartic,' Departing NASA Leader Says

The loss of the shuttle Columbia was not just a low point in NASA history, but was also a "cathartic moment" that led to reforming the space agency and pushed the nation


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More and more people have literally found life on the Internet as the estimated $3 billion fertility industry moves increasingly online.


German Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶der arrived in Beijing on Monday for a three-day visit focusing on expanding trade ties and the European Unionâs ban on arms sales to China.


EU, U.S. to meet on Friday to push for trade accord

Top negotiators of the European Union  and the United States will meet on Friday as part of an urgent  push for a breakthrough in long-delayed global free trade  talks, EU and U.S. officials said.


A California broadcaster cannot give Republican candidates free air time unless the same offer is extended to other candidates, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Friday.


The Top Games: Wars, Swords and Joan of Arc

The heated competition between the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii for home console dominance has yielded surprisingly few great games this year. But I can still name 10 of this yearâs games that thrilled me to the core.


BAGHDAD - An American civilian, a Nepalese man and at least two Arabs were abducted Monday by a band of gunmen who stormed a Baghdad home with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and a machine gun mounted atop a pickup truck.


Selig Is Still Examining Cases in Report

Baseball Commisioner Bud Selig is still reviewing cases of players accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs outlined in the Mitchell report.


The chief architect of the new Army field manual on interrogations said yesterday that the document aims to preserve the memory of the detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere so future generations of U.S. soldiers do not repeat the same mistakes.


Three-meter springboard diving champion Peng Bo said he was like a farmer who was eventually reaping what he had been working hard for.


In the past four years, Americans have spent a growing portion of their paychecks on health care and for the most part gotten less for their money, according to government figures and several independent studies.


Explosion kills NATO soldier in Afghanistan

An explosion killed a soldier from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in southern Afghanistan and wounded five others, the force said on Monday.


A last gasp goal by Carlton Cole completed a comeback by Premiership side West Ham on Tuesday to give the Hammers a 2-1 victory over Championship outfit Coventry City in their League Cup fourth round clash.


Actor Chris Langham is due to be sentenced for downloading indecent videos of children from the internet.


A mortar attack killed four employees of a British security firm and wounded 15 others in the Baghdad's Green Zone, a fortified area that houses the US and Iraqi leadership, the company and British officials said Friday.


In Literary London, the Strange Case of the Steamy Letter

A. N. Wilson, falling for a hoax, printed a fake letter containing a hidden insult in his biography of John Betjeman.


Airport Security Technology Stuck In the Pipeline

In the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, government officials and industry leaders talked excitedly about how they expected technology to plug many of the gaps in airport security.


A LONG-awaited refurbishment to a play area in


Torino, 16:48 - CALCIO, BUFFON: ESSERE GIUDICATO IL MIGLIORE E' GRANDE GIOIA

"E' una grande soddisfazione". Gianluigi Buffon Ã¨ stato eletto miglior portiere del mondo dalla Fede...


Madrid, 16:34 - CALCIO, SPAGNA: NATALE A CASA PER AMOR

Potrà passare il Natale a casa, Guillermo Amor. L'ex centrocampista del Barcellona, rimasto c...


NL: Astros Rock Cubs with Five Homers in 15-7 Rout

Carlos Beltran homered in his first  and last at-bats and three of his team mates also went deep to  power the Houston Astros to a 15-7 rout of the Chicago Cubs in  the National League (NL) Friday.


SurfControl to Deliver Worldwide On-Demand Security Services Through Equinix Internet Hubs

SurfControl (LSE: SRF), the leading provider of global on-demand, network and endpoint IT security solutions, and Equinix, Inc.


Tendulkar missed the recent triangular series against Pakistan and Australia in the Netherlands with tennis elbow and has not featured in the one-day series against England.


US agrees to send detainee to Saudi Arabia

US authorities will send Yaser Esam Hamdi, a US citizen held as an enemy combatant for more than two years, to Saudi Arabia without facing charges in the United States.


EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Perhaps it was fitting that a tumultuous week of change ended with a tumultuous victory at Giants Stadium for the New England Patriots.


Notre Dame says victory only way to get revenge

defensive end Kyle Budinscak said. "After last year, the embarrassment we had and this past Saturday, us coming out and not coming up with a victory is not an option.


Gold Cup Laps Stanly Cup Finals in Ratings

NEW YORK -- The CONCACAF Gold Cup final attracted 41 percent more television households in the United States than the Stanley Cup finals clincher -- and that was just for the soccer game's Spanish-language telecast.


Rising Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee risked his standing with Catholic voters on Sunday by courting his evangelical base at the church of a controversial preacher accused of disparaging Catholics.


Iran reaffirms support for Lebanon truce resolution

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday he supported a   U.N. resolution on Lebanon and was determined to negotiate an   end to Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West.


NY Coroner Cites Drugs, Disease in Caminiti Death

An overdose of cocaine contributed to the heart attack that killed former Houston Astros third baseman and National League Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti on Oct. 10, according to autopsy results made public on Monday.


With 14 More Shots, Rangers Lose to Ducks

The Rangers continued two frustrating streaks: their habit of following promising stretches of games with baffling ones and their inability to beat any team in the Western Conference.


Crude oil futures may fall on speculation that rising production and slowing demand growth will boost inventories, a Bloomberg survey showed.


Nuovo bilancio Croce Rossa, 406 vittime e 398 dispersi


Bush: 'We do need to increase our troops'

President Bush says the war on terror is going to "last for a while" and he is asking his new secretary of defense for plans on increasing the size of the Army and Marines, according to a published interview.


A 51-year-old Elgin woman has become the first Kane County resident of the year to be diagnosed with the West Nile virus, public health officials announced Thursday.


A construction crew ruptured a natural gas line on Friday, leading to an explosion that killed a man and forced evacuations, authorities said.


Scottish hedgehogs saved after consciences pricked

A death sentence hanging over hedgehogs on a remote Scottish island was lifted, after conservationists agreed to end an annual cull that has become a prickly issue among animal welfare groups.


Kyle McAlarney scored a career-high 18 points and keyed a decisive second-half run to help Notre Dame beat No. 23 Maryland 81-74 Sunday night, handing the Terrapins their first loss of the season.


Starbucks deal brings Akamai closer to customers

Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge said it had signed a deal yesterday to install server computers in thousands of Starbucks Corp. coffee shops nationwide, in a bid to speed the delivery of music downloads from Apple Inc.'s iTunes Music Store to customers waiting in line for lattes.


The NHS looks like it has underspent by nearly Â£500m last year after making cuts amid pressure to avoid a deficit, early data shows.


THE number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Africa, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to latest findings published in a report entitled: Aids


Sandy Weill and a host of other investors join forces to save the megabank.


Agents search Will County office in permit probe

More than two dozen federal agents with subpoenas spent five hours Wednesday searching the Will County land use department's computer records in an investigation related to building permits.


Carefully Sorting Legal Chaos Out, With Duke Case As Unlikely Guide

Three linemen on the North Carolina football are the alleged victims of kidnapping and sexual molestation in a case that has drawn uncomfortable reminders of the Duke lacrosse scandal.


A research vessel that was deliberately trapped in the Arctic ice emerges after more than 500 days.


Palestinian group Hamas pours scorn on former UK PM Tony Blair's appointment as Middle East peace envoy.


Mend Your Foolish Ways, Would-Be Church Bandits

In âFirst Sunday,â Ice Cube departs a bit from the upright-citizen persona, playing a man driven to crime by desperate circumstances.


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


UK photographic goods retailer Jessops says it plans to list on the stock market, after seeing business boosted by digital camera sales.


Two suicide car bombs kill 11 in Iraq's Ramadi

RAMADI, Iraq  - Two suicide car bombers exploded in the rebellious city of Ramadi west of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding four, police and witnesses said.


EDITORIAL: Short Takes: Work Program Saves Space in the County Jail

By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 3--All over California, there are more inmates than spaces for them in county jails and state prisons.


Futures signal fall on Wall St after Merrill

U.S. stock futures fell on Friday, pointing to a fall on Wall Street later as reports of worse-than-expected subprime-related losses at Merrill Lynch  suggested the credit crisis is far from over.


ZDNet's survey of IT professionals in August kept Wired & Wireless on top for the 18th month in a row. Intel and Nokia will jointly develop smart phones that run on the Symbian operating system, unveiling


Airbus US boss demands end to WTO "histrionics "

The United States and European Union should abandon their costly WTO feud over aircraft subsidies and negotiate a new trade pact, Airbus's US chief said Thursday.


Bush links terror war to independence war

MOUNT VERNON, Virginia  - President George W. Bush linked the U.S.-led war on terrorism on Monday to the country's struggle for independence led by George Washington more than 200 hundred years ago.


1 Killed, 5 Missing in Nepal Rebel Attack

Officials in Nepal say one soldier has been killed and at least five police officers are missing after an attack by suspected Maoist rebels.


BAGHDAD, 25 October 2004 - In one of their boldest attacks yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying Iraqi soldiers home on leave and massacred 49 of them â-any of them shot in the head execution-style, officials said yesterday.


Abbas, hosting Rice, hints at new government

RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, bolstered by a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said on Wednesday he might opt to dissolve the Hamas-led government and unity talks with the group were dead.


Napoli, 18:20 - CALCIO, SAMP; MAZZARRI: E' ANDATO TUTTO STORTO

Walter Mazzarri rende merito al Napoli dopo il ko al San Paolo. ''Il Napoli ha giocato una bella par...


Storms continue to drench the US Midwest, which is already enduring record floods.


Qualifying in Suzuka: Michael, Ralf and Webber up front

The World Champion once again took pole, while Jacques and Fernando finished ninth and eleventh.


Bus careens off bridge in China; 30 dead

A bus careened off a bridge and plunged nearly 100 feet into a river Sunday, killing 30 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, a government news agency said.


Nikon leads SLR market in Japan...gaming the Creative Commons...new geotagging tech...30-minute Olympus E-3 video...Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3...Microsoft Popfly video humor


The Spice Girls are widely expected to announce they are reforming at a press conference in London.


Ora Ã¨ ufficiale, Pallone d'Oro a Shevchenko: "Dedicato alla mia ...

Alle 18,50 Andriy Shevchenko sarÃ  ufficialmente premiato con il Pallone d'oro. Manca solo l'annuncio ma il bomber milanista puÃ² stare tranquillo visto che l'ulteriore conferma arriva direttamente da Parigi.


Top Economic Adviser to Bush Is Leaving Post

Stephen Friedman, who left Wall Street to assume one of the top economic posts in the White House, will return to the private sector Dec. 31 after two quiet years in Washington, White House officials announced yesterday.


(andPOP) - Relax, the music award season is almost over, but one thing is clear: Usher cannot be stopped. The Prince of R&B won 11 Billboard Music Awards last night in Las Vegas.


World Series Notebhook: Lowe now a big hero in Boston

Derek Lowe stood in the boisterous Boston Red Sox clubhouse early yesterday morning, a bottle of champagne in one hand, a cigar in the other.


Nortel attempts to calm fears of possible stock delisting

Nortel Networks Ltd. said both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange are not considering delisting the company as yet.


Race Analysis: Fernando's drive from eleventh to fifth

Fernando's final race position was effectively decided during two periods of the race. Find out how...


SALT LAKE CITY - A suspicious package left outside a fast-food restaurant Wednesday turned out to be a trumpet that has sounded its last note.  Someone noticed a suspicious package, and several blocks were closed down for about two hours as police investigated.


White House backs Rumsfeld as it denies charges on Iraq

President Bush has confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, despite accusations that he botched the Iraq war and earlier efforts by top Bush aides to replace him, the White House said on Sunday.


Ohio firm recalls 47,000 lbs turkey and ham: USDA

An Ohio-based company is recalling 46,941 lbs of turkey and ham products that officials fear could cause listeriosis, a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.


A former key suspect in the cash-for-honours inquiry said he was "hung out to dry" by Tony Blair and contemplated suicide.


The booming popularity of Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld sent the combined sales of game machines and gaming software in Japan to a record high last year, according to research by a Japanese publisher.


Tomlinson wants Chargers to keep Brees as starting quarterback

SAN DIEGO -- LaDainian Tomlinson said it, maybe because Drew Brees can't. And why not? Every one else in San Diego is probably thinking the same thing these days, as the topic quickly becomes the elephant in the room.


NHL players' new offer includes 24% salary cut

The NHL Players' Association is offering to cut player salaries by 24 per cent in a bid to end the lockout, but is not offering the salary cap the league has said it wants.


The popstar's childhood school report will be auctioned.


(CBS/AP) Ten policemen were killed in two separate attacks south of Baghdad on Tuesday, and two car bombs exploded in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, killing four Iraqis and prompting clashes between US troops and gunmen.


Stats Entertainment: A daily crunching of culture's crunchiest ...

1. The Forgotten, starring Julianne Moore, tried to improve its memory with 22 million ginkgo biloba tablets. 2. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow failed to get 6.7 million great photos because it was nearly out of film.


WHO Casts Doubt on Indonesia Claim on Bird Flu

The World Health Organization (WHO)  Thursday cast doubt on Indonesia's claim that a bird flu strain  that had killed millions of chickens in the country could not  be transmitted to humans.


Indian spinner Anil Kumble takes his 400th Test wicket but Australia reach 316-5 at the close in Bangalore.


Arts, Briefly: âBoeing-Boeingâ Is Inbound

A revival of the 1960s farce will touch down at the Longacre Theater in April.


Senior guard Jamie Carey scored a career-high 28 points, including six 3-pointers, to lead No. 7 Texas past New Mexico 73-56 on Saturday.


Marie Antoinette: Home Furnishing Queen Goes Pastoral

An exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco features rare furnishings from Marie Antoinetteâs private domain at Versailles.


Serbian president unhurt in apparent assassination attempt

Boris Tadic's (TAH'-dihj-ihz) press office says a car repeatedly tried to crash into his motorcade. The incident occurred late yesterday in downtown Belgrade when a black Audi "tried several times to crash


Six seriously injured on Air Canada flight

CALGARY, Alberta  - Six passengers face potentially life-threatening injuries after an Air Canada plane made an emergency landing at Calgary airport on Thursday.


War objector pleads not guilty at court-martial

FORT LEWIS, Wash  - A U.S. Army officer who refused an order to deploy to Iraq, pleaded not guilty on Monday to several charges at a court-martial that calls into question the right of officers to speak out against the war.


Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Dido are the latest stars to sign up for a new Band Aid charity single.


Iran misses nuclear deadline, risks more sanctions

The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday Iran had failed to meet a February 21 deadline to suspend enrichment of uranium, exposing Tehran to possible new sanctions over concerns it seeks to produce an atomic bomb.


Exxon Mobil dwarfs whole renewable energy field.


Network operators encouraged to 'think green'

A phone made of recycled materials and a transmission tower that uses 50 percent less energy were two of the green technologies on show at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.


Passed over for CEO job, chief operating officer quits

Delta Air Lines Inc. said yesterday that chief operating officer James Whitehurst, who was passed over for the carrier's top job, has resigned, effective immediately.


An Airbus A380 super-jumbo takes off from southern France on its first test flight with passengers.


Cheered on by tens of thousands who consider him their hometown hero, Phil Mickelson forged a four-shot lead over Kevin Na through three rounds of the FBR Open, a giant party that happens to have a golf tournament going through it.


Sony delays launch of PS3 virtual community

Far from Home Sony is to delay the launch of Home, its virtual community service for users of the PlayStation 3 console, until spring 2008. The service, which was originally scheduled for release this autumn, is a real-time interactive virtual world that serves as a meeting place for PlayStation 3 users.â¦


Hynix is bracing itself for fines, and worse, after Korean regulators found it guilty of a $1.75bn accounting fraud. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) says the memory chip overstated results for 1999.


American Airlines plane undershoots runway

An American Airlines MD-80 undershot a runway at Denver International Airport by 1,000 feet Sunday, wiping out runway lights and damaging the plane's left landing gear and engine.


UN nuclear inspectors due in NKorea next week

UN nuclear inspectors will arrive in North Korea on Tuesday to begin talks with Pyongyang on ways to shut down the reactor at the heart of its nuclear programme, the UN atomic agency chief said.


Britain's new EU commissioner Peter Mandelson joins a "bonding session" with his new colleagues in Brussels.


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Jerry Lewis apologizes for anti-gay slur

Comedian Jerry Lewis apologized on  Tuesday for his use of an anti-gay slur during the weekend  broadcast of his annual Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular  Dystrophy Association.


Norah Jones says she's finally adjusting to all the attention and all that fame.


African twig brushes offer all-day dental care

Brush your teeth every day, dentists say. In Africa, that can mean keeping your toothbrush in your mouth all day long.


Sylantro Systems Appoints Frank Salm Vice President of Marketing

Sylantro Systems Corp., the leading supplier of feature servers for  hosted VoIP services in carrier networks, today announced the  appointment of Frank Salm to vice president of marketing.


Chelsea's two-goal hero Didier Drogba will not face disciplinary action by UEFA for his goal celebrations in the 3-0 Champions League victory over Paris St Germain on Tuesday.


Yahoo reorganizes into three groups, COO to leave

Yahoo will reorganize into three new units, as part of a shake-up that will see Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig leave the company.


Roma, 15:42 - CALCIO, LAZIO: INIZIATE LE VISITE MEDICHE

Primo giorno di lavoro per la Lazio. Questa mattina, alla clinica romana della Paideia, la squadra b...


Sofri: parere negativo sulla grazia dal giudice di sorveglianza di ...

PISA - Un parere negativo sulla concessione della grazia ad Adriano Sofri e' stato inviato dal giudice di sorveglianza di Pisa all'ufficio competente del ministero della Giustizia. Il magistrato avrebbe motivato


Vanity Fair cancels Oscar party due to strike

No one will get inside one of Hollywood's most exclusive Oscar night parties this year: Vanity Fair magazine said on Tuesday it was scrapping its famous fete in support of Hollywood's writers in their three-month-old strike.


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THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- A new vaccine that may help protect children against croup is being tested by scientists at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.


President Bush says he was "taken aback" by reports that the US threatened to bomb Pakistan in 2001.


Nine French citizens are arrested in Chad over an alleged attempt to fly children out of the country.


The European Commission is sticking  with its plan to lift sanctions on $4 billion worth of U.S.  goods on Jan. 1 following Washington's repeal of export tax  subsidies in October, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.


Vietnam houses new plant, animal species

Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday.


A man who sent out 33 letter bombs to former girlfriends and family members is given eight life sentences.


Army Troops Return to Home Base From Iraq

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz welcomed the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division back to its German base Thursday after an extended, 15-month tour of duty in Iraq, joining with soldiers to pay tribute to 130 comrades killed in the Middle East.


Potential new witness says he was in car park of Liverpool pub when 11-year-old was shot.


Shall I compare shooters to a sonnet? They are less lovely and less temperate. But take a closer look. These two classic genres have a lot more in common than you might think. Commentary by Clive Thompson.


Colori scuri, trench di camoscio, giacche di velluto


Taliban Blasts Wound Six in Western Afghanistan

Time bombs planted by Taliban fighters wounded six police and security officials overnight outside U.N.-Afghan election offices in western Afghanistan, Taliban and police officials told Reuters on Friday.


Democratic Leader Ready to Work With Bush

Days after her party lost congressional seats and the White House race, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi struck a conciliatory tone, saying House Democrats "stand ready to work with" President Bush in his second term.


Sept. 6-13 issue - "You are not welcome." Hundreds of people marching through Athens to protest the scheduled arrival of US Secretary of State Colin Powell at the Olympic Games.


A partial solar eclipse will occur on Thursday, and will be visible in northeast China, north of the Pacific Ocean, northwest of North America and part of the Arctic Ocean.


CHICAGO -- Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine...


Russian plane crashes caused by explosives; no sign of hijacking on black box

MOSCOW  - Russia's transport minister, citing a "black box" recording from one of two planes that crashed minutes apart last week, said Monday there was no evidence of a hijacking attempt or any other disturbance before explosions aboard the jetliner.


Heart Scanner Stirs New Hope and a Debate

A new method of diagnosing heart disease takes only seconds to conduct, but critics say the technique is ripe for overuse.


Another government auditor has added his voice to a call for the Pentagon to impose a 15 percent withholding on Halliburton Co.'s payments for work in Iraq.


Report: Malvo, mentor may have shot others

When her son was shot and killed in 2002, Sarah Dillon got a button that read "Billy Gene Dillon is a very important person" and vowed to wear it until a suspect was found. That button was still clasped above her heart Friday after Dillon learned that Washington-area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo reportedly told authorities that he and his one-time mentor were responsible for her son's death and three other unsolved shootings.