Mike Volpi usurps YouTube rival Joost, the internet video start-up, has tapped Mike Volpi, the former Cisco crown prince, to head the company.â¦


Spacewalking astronauts start station inspection

A pair of spacewalking  astronauts left the International Space Station on Tuesday to  begin a planned 6.5-hour outing to inspect damaged parts of the  outpost's power system.


Defendant Hears Charges on Killing and Taking of Fetus

The woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the baby girl from her womb held her hands in her lap and cast her eyes downward on Monday as she


Golden Opportunities: Fine Line: Shielding Eldersâ Money, and Independence

Thousands of older Americans have filed suits against companies who have promoted dubious offers even though the victims concede they freely made unwise decisions.


The creator of Dolly the sheep is due  to be given permission to clone human embryos for medical research.


Ban wants U.N. sanctions for using child soldiers

U.N. Secretary-General Ban  Ki-moon called on the Security Council in a report issued on  Tuesday to impose sanctions on armies and groups that make use  of child soldiers in at least a dozen countries.


MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday updated the company's iBook consumer notebook, adding built-in AirPort Extreme across the line. The new machines feature a 1.33GHz processor at the high-end, and a low-end model that sells for under US$1,000.


Impressive sales of sodas and sandwiches send the stock to a new high.


More than one person is killed in a crash on the M27 in Hampshire.


Four people injured in bomb explosions in Spain

Four people were wounded on Saturday when two bombs exploded at the tourist localities of Sanjenjo and Baiona, in Galicia, north Spain.


Fine della transizione e inizio di una nova stagione


Outspoken Political Scientist Denied Tenure at DePaul

Norman Finkelstein, the political scientist whose bid for a permanent position at DePaul University stirred up charges of anti-Semitism, was informed that he had been denied tenure by the university.


On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, California voters will go to the polls to decide whether to establish, in the California Constitution, an "Institute of Regenerative Medicine," with sweeping powers to regulate scientific experimentation, medical research


Ex-Guardsman: I Contacted Kerry Campaign

AUSTIN, Texas - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry's campaign.    Also, a White House official said Saturday that Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously...


By Neil Gonzales  REDWOOD CITY -- Someday, downtown could feature high-rise gardens.  "We potentially could have rooftop parks if done correctly," city Planning Commissioner Nancy Radcliffe said.


Incroyable! France may finally cut red tape in jobs boost

TWO independent economists are calling on the French government to do the unthinkable: remove the mountain of petty restrictions that limit entry to trades and professional services, from hairdressing to ...


Editor's Summary: Microsoft announced that it paid an undisclosed amount to the CCIA trade group so that it won't challenge the software maker's US antitrust settlement or participate in a European Union antitrust case.


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Tired and shaken, the Iraqi husband of CARE International's Iraq program director pleaded Thursday with kidnappers to release his wife and said he had "no idea" who had abducted her.


Britain's new prime minister, Gordon Brown, started to unveil his government on Thursday, promoting old allies to top positions and bringing in a range of new faces to draw a line under Tony Blair's decade in power.


Clooney, Pitt make Cannes heist for Darfur

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and other members of the all-star caper "Ocean's Thirteen" made off with millions at Cannes ahead of the movie's red-carpet premiere Thursday.


Google Inc.  has consolidated  500 of its advertising and engineering staff into a single  location in the fashionable former meatpacking district of  lower Manhattan, the company confirmed on Monday.


Taranto, 19:54 - CALCIO, TARANTO: FORMALIZZATA L'ISCRIZIONE IN C1

Il Taranto calcio nella prossima stagione giocherà ufficialmente in C1.  Questo pomeriggio &e...


Cardinal Paul Poupard, the president of the Pontifical Council for...

Cardinal Paul Poupard, the president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, will travel to Belarus this weekend for a conference on the spiritual heritage of Europe.


In the animal kingdom, a capacity for trends could mean the difference between life and death.


Largest Pork Processor to Phase Out Crates

The  largest U.S. pork supplier, Virginia-based Smithfield Foods, said yesterday that it will require its producers to phase out the practice of keeping pregnant pigs in "gestation crates" -- metal and concrete cages that animal welfare advocates consider one of the most inhumane features of large-scale factory farming....


Three men arrested in connection with the killing of a doorman in Londonderry are released without charge.


Adrian Mutu admits he took drugs but claims it was not cocaine but a drug to improve his sex life.


Fine jewelry retailer Zale Corp. posted wider first-quarter losses on Tuesday, citing hurricanes and tropical storms that hurt the company's sales in the southeastern United States.


Image: ReCaptcha kills two birds with two words

Tool fights spam and digitizes books by requiring users to identify two words displayed in an image.


Rock 'N' Roil: iTunes Reports Stir Up Investors      (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - A Cambridge, Mass., research firm stirred up a hornet's nest this week with a report that indicated collapsing sales at Apple Computer's iTunes online music store.


Steven Heyer, former president of Coca-Cola (KO) who left after being denied the chief executive slot in May, will take the helm of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (HOT), the company said Tuesday.


Merrill takes about $16 billion in writedowns

Merrill Lynch & Co Inc on Thursday posted a quarterly loss of nearly $10 billion after writedowns and adjustments totaling about $16 billion as bad subprime mortgage bets forced the brokerage to sell stakes in the company to foreign investors to raise capital.


Schroeder Seeks More Budget Leeway, Says Euro Gains `Worrying'

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, saying the euro's gains against the dollar are ``worrying,'' called for changes to European Union budget rules to give governments more leeway on spending.


Middlesbrough complete the double signing of defenders Jonathan Woodgate and Robert Huth.


Survey: Format Influenced Voter Priorities

This presidential election has been described by many as one in which morality mattered most to voters. But that perception may be driven at least partially by how pollsters asked voters about their priority issues.


The US team has regained some ground against Europe on the second day of the Ryder Cup golf competition outside Detroit, Michigan.


European share indexes opened a touch firmer on Wednesday as a deluge of company updates flooded the market, with mobile phone giant Vodafone leading the way higher after posting a big rise in subscriber numbers.


Share prices in Hong Kong rose Wednesday, led by airline stocks, on falling oil prices. The key Hang Seng Index jumped 155.70 points, or 1.2 percent, to end at 13,672.


By Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 13--WAUKESHA -- More than 60 people with concerns about improving water quality heard city officials and consultants Monday say that conservation alone will not resolve this city's water woes.


Stock Investors See Every Glass Half Empty

Monday's global sell-off of stocks brings equity markets in line with the gloom that has pervaded credit markets for months.


Scramjet record attempt delayed by 24 hours

NASA's attempt to break world speed records with its X-43A scramjet test plane was postponed on Monday due to concerns over faulty instrumentation.


The government should review its academies programme before building any more, the TUC argues.


Bolivian Province Seeks Greater Autonomy

Across the low-lying plains in this eastern Bolivia city, green and white flags hang from storefronts and drape from cars — symbols of a growing push for greater political autonomy in the country's most prosperous region.


AMARILLO, Tex., Dec. 22 -- A blinding snowstorm blew across the Plains on Saturday, causing at least two deaths and dozens of injuries in numerous multi-car pileups and forcing authorities to close portions of several major highways.


Progress Cargo Ship Launched From Russia

A Russian cargo ship loaded with supplies and equipment blasted off from the Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday headed for the international space station, a Russian space official said.


MacWorld Software Highlights: Better Leopard, New Office, HD iTunes

Next week's MacWorld Conference and Expo may be the place where iPhones, iPods and all the latest Mac hardware are announced, but it's also the annual curtain-raiser for the Mac software industry. Here's what to expect from Apple, Microsoft and the other big names.


NFL player's body found in Louisiana lake: report

Louisiana officials pulled the body of New England Patriots' defensive end Marquise Hill out of Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans on Monday, one day after he fell from a jet ski into the water, the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper reported.


Perquisizioni a Venezia, Pordenone, Treviso, Padova, Pescara


Plenty of teams still in postseason hunt

3. Packers (9-6) have clinched division title and third playoff seed. Seahawks (8-7) have clinched playoff berth. Can clinch division title with a win or a Rams loss.


China can manage to slow its roaring economy to a sustainable level, but only if it avoids loosening curbs on lending and investment too quickly, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.


Prosecutors tell a jury that producer Phil Spector is guilty of murder, in their closing statement.


Sources: Johnson trade submitted to Selig for approval

The three teams in the proposed trade that would send Randy Johnson from Arizona to the New York Yankees signed off on the deal and submitted it to baseball commissioner Bud Selig for approval.


U.S. stocks were set to open slightly  lower on Wednesday, continuing Wall Street's weak start to  2005, with investors concerned about rising interest rates and  awaiting weekly data on oil inventories.


Reding sets 1 July deadline for data roaming charge cuts

Operators say operators should set prices Mobile World Congress EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has warned mobile executives in Barcelona today that she will impose caps on roaming charges for data and text messaging if they do not cut prices by 1 July.â¦


Duke, ex-lacrosse players reach settlement

Duke University has reached an undisclosed settlement with three former lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape, the school announced Monday. The three students posted a statement on Duke's Web site saying: "We hope that today's resolution will begin to bring the Duke family back together again."


Preparing to depart for visits to Japan, China, and Korea, US Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged that the Bush administration will continue its multilateral effort to solve the North Korea nuclear problem, even as John Kerry sharply attacked the Bush


Reckson shareholders OK SL Green's $4 bln takeover

Reckson Associates Realty Corp.  shareholders approved a $4 billion takeover by SL Green Realty Corp. , but billionaire and rival bidder Carl Icahn hinted he would not abandon his fight for certain Reckson office buildings.


Joseph Estrada's pardon gets the former Philippines leader out of prison   -  and could potentially get his successor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, out of hot water


EDITORIAL: 'Just Compensation' Unjust By Any Name

By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 4--This is the first of two parts.   Back in 2001, Cumberland County officials decided they didn't need the Luther P. Jackson Elementary School on U.S. 60. The 32 classrooms had been empty for years and the building was a wreck.


Chipmaker Intel sees its latest profits surge 43%, lifted by strong demand for its laptop microprocessors.


Jake Stephens, a senior in my AP English class at TC Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., is hooked. "The narrative is so exciting you lose all track of time," he said to me last week.


New Term Offers Laura Bush Opportunities

Look for first lady Laura Bush to get around more in a second term.


IAEA Ultimatum to Iran Suits All Parties to the Row

A Persian proverb says: âFrom this signpost on the road to the next, there is hope!â And it was in that spirit that the International Atomic Energy Agency decided last Saturday to give Iran until Nov.


Morocco and Western Sahara's  independence movement kept negotiations alive on the future of  the resource-rich territory, agreeing on Tuesday to meet again  in August after two days of groundbreaking talks.


Marion Jones is cleared of doping allegations after her 'B' sample tests negative.


Israelis, Palestinians at Odds Over U.S. Election

If Israeli settler Rachel Saperstein  could decide the outcome of the U.S. election, President Bush  would beat Democratic challenger John Kerry by a landslide.


Hussein Aideed , front right, son former Somali warlordMohammed Farah Aideed smiles, Thursday, Oct 7, 2004 during a debate of Somali presidential candidates ahead of Sunday's presidential elections in Nairobi, Kenya.


Tony Blair appealed to Kosovars to refrain from violence and to be patient for independence in a letter sent Monday to the people of the breakaway Serbian province.


Chalone Wine Group has completed an unusual agreement to sell to France's Domaines Barons de Rothschild in a deal valued at $160 million, while retaining the right to shop itself to other bidders.


The United States has added its voice to a chorus of international concern over the continued detention of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.


Data mining is an inescapable fact of life in the digital age. These practices have significant social implications that need to be considered by everyone in a family, from kids, to parents, to seniors.


Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, research suggests.


New York, 10:36 - BASKET, NBA: RISULTATI

Risultati delle gare del campionato Nba disputate nella notte.


The 25th anniversary of the Falkland Islands' liberation will be marked by events in the UK and south Atlantic.


Judge orders FBI to part with John Lennon file

300-page file on John Lennon. The late Beatle John Lennon was targeted by US security services and the British domestic spy agency for his political activities, especially his opposition to the Vietnam War.


Decorated Iraq war veteran Anthony Circosta seemed like an ideal candidate for a pardon from then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for his boyhood conviction for a BB gun shooting.


BRUSSELS: Euro-zone finance ministers yesterday stepped up pressure on the US to show its strong dollar policy was more than just rhetoric even though they feared their calls were falling on deaf ears.


In the valley where Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky meet, people complain about the state of the nation, voicing as many frustrations as there are turns in the Ohio River.


Iraqi recruits targeted in latest wave of attacks

BAGHDADâInsurgents seeking to topple Iraq's interim government have targeted the young men who gather in long lines to seek jobs in the country's nascent security services, killing scores of them in a campaign that poses a direct threat to US efforts to


C. difficile deaths are up in Quebec, situation an 'epidemic ...

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


Some Muslim states not ready to fight bird flu: WHO

Some Muslim countries are ill-prepared to tackle an outbreak of bird flu because of poor resources and public apathy, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said at a meeting of Islamic nations on Wednesday.


Obama leads in South Carolina; McCain up in Florida: poll

COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Barack Obama expanded his lead on rival Hillary Clinton to 15 points heading into South Carolina's bitterly contested presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Saturday.


Winning poles is the easy part for Ryan Newman. Getting to Victory Lane is another matter. Newman's winless streak reached 59 races on Sunday when rain denied him a chance at victory at Pocono Raceway. NASCAR stopped the race seconds before Newman pulled alongside Jeff Gordon in a challenge for the lead, and he was frozen in second place.


ChÃ¡vez forced to deny dictatorship accusation

Venezuela's president, Hugo ChÃ¡vez, last night denied turning his country into a dictatorship and said democracy was blossoming despite an "imperialist conspiracy" to overthrow his government.


Luxcore Networks' Advanced Ethernet Switching and Optical Routing Technology to Be Discussed on CNBC World Business Review

Luxcore Networks' CEO Gerald Ramdeen will  appear on World Business Review (WBR) hosted by General (Ret.) Norman  Schwarzkopf. Ramdeen will be discussing Luxcore's  innovative approach to delivering carrier class solutions based on its Ethernet  Switching and Optical Routing technology.


Verdict due in trial of Krajina rebel Serb leader

The U.N. war crimes tribunal will rule on Tuesday whether a former Serb rebel leader ordered killings and atrocities while installing a Serb state in Croatia during the conflicts which tore apart the former Yugoslavia.


QAQORTOQ, Greenland -- The biggest island in the world is a wind-raked place, gripped by ice over four-fifths of its land, prowled by polar bears, its coastlines choked by drifting icebergs and sea ice. Many of its 56,000 people, who live on the fringes of its giant ice cap, see the effects of...


News.com Extra: Top 10 bewilderingly lame gadgets

Plus: Geneticist creates new life forms, legal problems. Read what people are saying on News.com Extra.


Siemens' shares rise despite scandal: Barron's

Shares of German engineering conglomerate Siemens AG  have been rising in recent months in spite of negative publicity and scandals as a new chief executive continues his restructuring, Barron's reported in its February 26 edition.


Chittagong: Mohammed Kaif had not donned India colours since the eventful Mumbai Test versus Australia, early last month. But, as he showed in Chittagong on Thursday, the seven-week gap had done little to affect his hunger for the game.


Books: A Dictionary Drops 16,000 Hyphens

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary unburdens 16,000 words of their hyphens.


Chile's supreme court postpones ruling on Pinochet indictment

Chile's Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed ruling on an indictment against former President Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges.


The effects of drinking alcohol cost Ireland more than $3bn last year, a new report says.


Branson blames track for fatal UK train crash

A defective track caused a high-speed train accident in northwest England which killed an elderly woman and seriously injured five other people, according to the boss of the train company involved.


Genova, 19:39 - CALCIO, SAMP; NOVELLINO: FLACHI PER ME E' COME UN FIGLIO

"Mi dispiace, per me è come un figlio". Queste le uniche parole pronunciate da Walter Alfredo...


Critics see the flourishing trend of fee-for-service health plans as further evidence that the government is paying private industry to take Medicare off its hands.


Leading food manufacturers stand accused of using tactics to push foods high in fat, sugar and salt to children.


East Rutherford, NJ (Sports Network) - The New York Jets  placed veteran cornerback Ray Mickens on injured reserve  Wednesday and signed defensive back Terrell Buckley.


Turkey abandons plan for adultery to become a crime

Turkey yesterday shelved plans to criminalise adultery which were threatening the country's prospects of joining the European Union.


Mentre nelle aule comincia lo 'sciopero della parola'


With more wireless "walled gardens" coming down, CIOs can finally recast their mobile enterprise infrastructures, FirstHand's David Hattey says.


Jacques Rivette is a director for whom everything is connected, or, perhaps more alarming, nothing is.


Bush seeks to bolster close U.S. ally Colombia

President George W. Bush visited Colombia on Sunday to show support to his closest ally in South America as it fights a decades-old insurgency and drug war supported in part by billions of dollars in U.S. aid.


BEIJING: The world marked Aids Day yesterday, promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.


Are You Ready to Listen? This Rocker Just Wants to Talk

Musician Andrew W. K. has been rejecting concert requests in favor of giving talks on topics of his own devising.


Warner Music says any takeover bid for EMI is likely to be "solely in cash", a day after its approach was made public.


America is getting more Foolish -- by paying off credit cards.


By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.


A young widow and two family members were shot to death as they celebrated Thanksgiving, and two of her late husband's brothers were arrested, authorities said.


Nastia Liukin couldn't watch. She knew she might be the one who had let another world title slip away.


Pakistan Girl Was to Be Poker Debt Bride

By ZARAR KHAN KARACHI, Pakistan - Police are seeking 10 men, including several tribal elders, accused of pressuring a Pakistani woman to hand over her teenage daughter as payment for a 16-year-old poker debt, officials said Tuesday.


Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Sunday in Chile dismissed Chinese President Hu Jintao's criticism of his visits to the Yasukuni Shrine.


Demand for robots expected to increase: UN

GENEVA - The use of robotic domestic help will surge sevenfold by 2007, a new United Nations survey suggests. The UN's annual World Robotics Survey was issued by the Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of Robotics.


The Liberty Media Corporation, the entertainment and Internet retailing company controlled by the billionaire John C. Malone, purchased 14 million shares of IAC/InterActiveCorp, the company controlled by Barry Diller, for $339.5 million.


Truffa alle Poste, undici arresti in varie regioni

Undici persone arrestate Abruzzo, Emilia Romagna, Campania e Calabria, con l'accusa di falsificazione e ricettazione di titoli di credito postali, truffa, riciclaggio di denaro illecitamente percepito e accesso abusivo al sistema informatico a danno di


India's largest software company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) finally has a ticker symbol on the stock exchange. The Rs 5,000 crore issue made its debut on both the stock exchanges and the opening bell


The pilot and designer of a private rocket plane say they are confident it could return next week to the sky in a quest to claim a multimillion-dollar prize, despite a harrowing flight


Bin Laden Condemns Bush, Says New Attacks Possible

Osama bin Laden burst into the U.S.  election campaign on Saturday, issuing his first video tape in  more than a year to deride President Bush and warn of possible  new Sept. 11-style attacks.


Yushchenko won't have Yanukovych in govt

Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has said that that if he is elected, his rival Viktor Yanukovych will not be a member of the new government.


Author Alan Hollinghurst Breaks Social Boundries, Wins Booker ...

Author Alan Hollinghurst has won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for 2004 with his novel "The Line of Beauty.". "The Line of Beauty" is a colorful tale about an Oxford University graduate living in the London


Shane Warne is expected to announce his retirement  after the last Ashes Test, according to reports in Australia.


Wipro second-quarter net profit soars 79 percent

India's third-largest software exporter, Wipro, said second quarter net profit jumped 79 percent as sales rose 44 percent, beating both the market's and the company's expectations.


Many residents in an area of west Belfast badly hit by violence say life has worsened since the end of the Troubles.


Iraq's "Chemical Ali" to be tried first: DM

Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of the closest aides to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and better known as "Chemical Ali", is to be tried first, Iraq's Defence Minister Hazim Shaalan said Wednesday.


Google CEO Schmidt Joins Apple Board of Directors No, it’s not a Google-Apple partnership (Gapple?), but Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt has joined the Apple board of directors with a company he says is “one of the companies in the world that I most admire.” Schmidt has been Google’s CEO since July 2001 and became chairman [...]


Downgraded slightly from hurricane strength, Tropical Storm Jeanne churned along the northern coast of the Dominican Republic late Thursday, bringing with it 70 mph (110 km/h) winds and heavy rains, the National Hurricane Center in


Small is the new big SAP has released its first incremental update to its application suite under a rewritten roadmap that will not see another major update to its ERP until 2010.â¦


Camera maker Nikon sees profits for the last three months of 2006 rise 60%, helped by digital SLR sales.


Alitalia reaches an agreement with all but one trade union over plans to split the troubled national Italian airline into two.


Captain Steven Gerrard reiterates his desire to see out his contract at Liverpool.


ERNIE ELS revealed a putting lecture over the phone from his 96-year-old grandad in South Africa helped him win his record sixth HSBC World Match Play at Wentworth yesterday - and pocket Â£1million.


A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.


Sony BMG to Drop Copy Protection for Downloads

Sony BMG Music Entertainment will become the last of the big four majors to drop copy protection software on music downloads.


Fan fined, banned for racially abusing Yorke

A British court has slapped a $A2,400 fine and a five-year football ground ban on a fan for hurling monkey chants at Birmingham City striker Dwight Yorke.


TRIPOLI, Jan 30 (IPS) - "Please, do not leave us, we'll die  here!" Nasya Nenova, the youngest of the five Bulgarian  nurses sentenced to death by a firing squad in Libya on Dec. 19,  2006 shouted out through the bars of her locked cage.


NEW YORK - In the 21-year history of MTV's Video Music Awards, viewers have been treated to some eye-popping moments - Prince's bare buttocks, Lil' Kim's sequined pasty, Britney and Madonna's steamy kiss last year.    But after the firestorm over the MTV-produced Super Bowl halftime show, in which Justin Timberlake ripped off part of Janet Jackson's costume to reveal her bare breast, might we see tamer VMAs when they air Sunday?    MTV President Van Toffler isn't promising any flesh-baring moments...


Mobile carriers to make it easy to send money home

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


Oscar-nominated  screenwriter Julie Delpy is returning to foreign affairs.


Dolphins to Interview Minority Candidate

The Miami Dolphins will put their courtship of LSU coach Nick Saban on hold to comply with the NFL's hiring policy by interviewing a minority candidate, a team source told The Associated Press on Friday.


An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning linked to peanut butter has widened to 329 people in 41 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.


Zarqawi Group Says Killed One U.S. Hostage, Site Says

An American hostage in Iraq has been  killed by his captors, who say they also will kill a second  American and a Briton they are holding, a message on an  Islamist Web site said Monday.


What are the megahits in this year's toy season?


Spazio, primi indizi di vita su Marte: si tratta di batteri

Potrebbe esserci vita su Marte. A fornire i primi indizi, nero su bianco, della possibile presenza di batteri sul pianeta rosso e' stato lo spettrometro italiano Pfs (Planetary Fourier Spectrometer), che opera


Late singer Ray Charles' last album Genius Loves Company achieves multi-platinum status across the globe.


Rap star The Game is charged with making a criminal threat and possessing a firearm in a school zone.


Explosion at Islamic School in Netherlands

An explosion damaged the entrance of an Islamic school in the southern Dutch town of Eindhoven on Monday, police said, the latest attack on a Muslim institution following the killing of a filmmaker.


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The Acclaimed Fluid, Air & Gas Handling Systems Exhibition Hits China in July 2007

SHANGHAI, China, June 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- PSC 2007, China's No. 1 international exhibition on fluid, air and gas handling systems is coming once again.


For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate

The debate is centered on whether cheap laptops are the best way to improve education in the developing world.


Three former Kmart executives and  representatives of several major vendors were charged on  Thursday with fraudulently accounting for $24 million of profit  before the retailer filed for bankruptcy in 2002.


CBS's Mike Wallace recovers from surgery

Veteran CBS newsman Mike Wallace is recovering from heart surgery three weeks after the broadcast of his headline-making "60 Minutes" interview with baseball star Roger Clemens, the network said on Tuesday.


Keep that copy of Shrek 2 an extra week. Heck, keep it forever: Blockbuster Inc. announced yesterday that the ubiquitous rental chain is letting customers hold onto movie and game


Lindsay Lohan Recovering From High Fever

"Mean Girls" star Lindsay Lohan was recovering at a hospital after being admitted with a high fever and headache, her publicist said Tuesday.


Away on Business: Expanding Your Horizons

If traveling is an education,  corporate frequent flyers hold an advanced degree. Still, for  those who want to keep learning, hotels along the way provide  opportunities in subjects as diverse as French cooking, Arabic  lessons or Zen art.


Brescia assistente presidente senza funzioni coordinamento


The NHL and the players' association will resume talks next week in an effort to end the 78-day lockout and save the season. After nearly three months of silence on and off the ice


Trieste, 16:47 - CALCIO, TRIESTINA: AMPIO TURN OVER A ROMA IN COPPA

Ampio turn over nella Triestina, che domani pomeriggio sfiderà la Roma nel ritorno degli otta...


Healthy sales of software and technology services helped fourth-quarter profit rise 12 percent at International Business Machines Corp., which had already disclosed that the results would be way ahead of analysts' forecasts.


Roma, 14:16 - CALCIO, INTER; MORATTI: PER MANICHE APPUNTAMENTO DOMANI

L'Inter sempre piÃ¹ vicina al centrocampista Maniche. Il club milanese ha fissato un appuntamento per...


Firefighters gained the upper hand on nearly all of the California wildfires on Thursday as winds died down after five days battling 20 fires from the mountains north of Los Angeles down to the Mexican border.


Hopes that healthy local economies might escape the force of a U.S. recession evaporated and fear gripped investors instead.


Just like 2007 This afternoon, during a conference call with industry analysts and reporters, Amazon chief financial officer Thomas Szkutak gave the world a peek into the company's plans for the coming year. "In 2008, you know, we're going to do more of what we did in 2007," he said.â¦


In moments of crisis, it can be comforting to know that there is someone worse off. It may be a small crumb, but it is one that both Real Madrid and AS Roma cling to gratefully as they


Eminent Hindi poet Shail Chaturvedi dead

Shail Chaturvedi, eminent Hindi poet, humorist, lyricist and Bollywood character actor, passed away here early Monday morning.


Pay obese to lose weight, Australian doctors urge

Overweight people should be paid to attend weight-loss programmes to reduce the impact the growing obesity epidemic is having on the healthcare system, a group of Australian doctors said Wednesday.


Vicenza, 19:04 - CALCIO, VICENZA: GREGUCCI PUO' ALLENARE DALLA TRIBUNA

Il Settore Tecnico della Figc ha oggi informato il Vicenza che l'allenatore Angelo Gregucci, se lo v...


UK Approves Human-Animal Embryo Research

"The HFEA License Committee determined that the two applications satisfied all the requirements of the law"  British regulators said Thursday they have approved two proposals for research using human embryos derived from animal eggs. via The Morning Call


Moneta unica europea scambiata a 1,2673 dollari


Per la Suprema Corte "sentenza d'appello logica e motivata"Il processo di Palermo era per mafia e associazione a delinquere                                          Andreotti, Cassazione conferma prescrizione e assoluzione


Viacom, Disney Settle with FCC Over Kids' Ads

Children's cable TV channels owned  by Viacom Inc. and Disney Corp. have agreed to settle  allegations they violated federal advertising restrictions for  children's programming, U.S. regulators said on Thursday.


U.N. Report Urges Rich Nations to Double Aid to Poor

An international team sponsored by the U.N. proposed today a detailed, ambitious plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015.


American Bode Miller still held a commanding lead in the overall World Cup standings after Walchhofer won his first World Cup super-G race and led the first Austrian podium sweep this season -- and 68th overall.


Con la stima di 2.480.000 macchine vendute, crescita 6,6%


British Airways chooses Boeing 777s over Airbus

British Airways  said on Wednesday it was choosing four Boeing 777 aircraft, with options for four more, ahead of Airbus A330s as it starts expanding its longhaul fleet.


Partners pose highest risk to women of violence: WHO

Women are more likely to suffer physical and sexual violence from their husbands or partners than other people and the violence is more severe in rural areas, according to research published on Friday.


Newcastle striker Michael Owen confirms he will undergo surgery on his knee this week.


Modern Love: Dust to Dust: An Affair Post 9/11

Events of the day entangled many of us in an emotional lost and found.


Circola su missive inviate dal Paese scandinavo. Ne Ã¨ stata data notiziain Argentina. L'ambasciatrice a Buenos Aires: "Non Ã¨ una emissione ufficiale"                                            Francobollo con l'immagine di Priebke Le poste finlandesi: "Indaghiamo"


Al-Jazeera TV broadcasts what it says is unseen footage of Osama Bin Laden meeting 9/11 hijackers.


PRODUCT REVIEW: Microsoft search falls far short of Google

Microsoft Corp. isn't often an underdog in anything, so when the software powerhouse released its new search engine, I was anxious to give it a whirl.


'Just a Comma' Becomes Part of Iraq Debate

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 4 -- When the president speaks, every word can be subject to scrutiny. Even the punctuation marks.


Parma, 18:28 - CALCIO, PARMA; PIOLI: GIOCATO ALLA PARI

Stefano Pioli è soddisfatto del pari conquistato dal Parma con il Palermo. ''Abbiamo giocato ...


In Iraq, a Private Realm Of Intelligence-Gathering

BAGHDAD -- On the first floor of a tan building inside Baghdad's Green Zone, the full scope of Iraq's daily carnage is condensed into a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation.


Numbers Are Out on How Rich the YouTube Deal Was

The biggest windfalls went to YouTubeâs three founders and its main financial backer, Sequoia Capital.


Economy grows  in 2nd quarter, but may not last

Strong business investment and higher exports drove the U.S. economy ahead at a robust 4 percent annual rate in the second quarter, before the onset of turmoil in credit markets that is expected to brake growth.


Experts say the terrorist network has rebuilt in Pakistan with inexperienced leaders and murky goals.


Prodi conferma il no alle riforme: sono uno strazio

ROMA - C'Ã¨ intesa nel centrosinistra sulle primarie. Dal vertice della lista unitaria tenutosi a Roma Ã¨ emerso lâorientamento a tenere nel 2005 le elezioni che dovranno designare il futuro candidato premier.


Sino-European relations not directed against third party

Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Tuesday in The Hague that the Sino-European relations were open and not directed against any third party.


Bush approves new military command for Africa

President George W. Bush said on Tuesday he had approved plans to create a U.S. military command for Africa, a move that reflects increased U.S. strategic interest in the continent.


Fake news is more popular, and more trusted, than ever.


Two men receive minor injuries in a "small explosion" involving mail at premises in Berkshire.


Altria's decision to split the company is sweet vindication for long-suffering shareholders.


The German government reverses a decision to ban Tom Cruise from filming at a national monument.


U.S., Iraqis Battle Resistance in Samarra

Sporadic gunfire echoed through this Sunni Muslim stronghold Saturday as U.S. and Iraqi forces battled pockets of resistance a day after the start of what appeared to be the first major push to regain control of a string of cities before elections in January.


Allure of Islam Signals a Shift Within Turkey

Turkey is navigating between the forces pulling it closer to Islam and the institutions that safeguard its secularism.


Oil prices surged nearly 6 percent on Wednesday as the US government reported a fall in heating oil stocks in the midst of the season's first arctic cold blast in the Northeast.


Bologna, 18:09 - CALCIO, CATANIA; MARINO: PER NOI UNA SALVEZZA MERITATA

"Siamo arrivati a giocare partite cosÃ¬ difficili anche con problemi d'organico ma il Catania ha mess...


FDA Marks Thanksgiving With Two Approvals

Biotechnology and pharmaceutical stocks were nearly flat during the holiday-shortened week as two long-awaited drugs received Food and Drug Administration approval.


Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, who has strong ties to the United States, has resigned after the country's prime minister expressed "reservations" about his work, a government spokesman said Monday.


Colombia rebels, Uribe, move closer to peace talks

BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group proposed a conditional cease-fire with the government on Monday, its most significant step toward peace since conservative Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002.


Minute-by-minute report: Can Steve McClaren avoid humiliation in Tallinn and get England's qualification campaign back on the rails?


Toshiba Settles Patent Violation Dispute With Lexar Media

By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Sep. 15--TOKYO -- Toshiba Corp. said Friday it has settled all  outstanding litigation related to flash memory products with Micron Technology  Inc.


CBC SPORTS ONLINE - A nervous Red Sox Nation, desperate for a World Series title, will be keenly focused on pitcher Pedro Martinez on Wednesday.


OAKLAND, Calif. - Johnny Damon hit a leadoff homer in his return to the Red Sox lineup after missing four games with a jammed right pinkie to start Boston's 7-1 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night...


All last week, Wall Street was watching negotiations between Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and a group of big banks to finance the First Data Corporation buyout.


Virgin Active to merge with Holmes Place in UK: report

Entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin   Active is set to merge with the UK arm of Holmes Place to   create a 650 million pound ($1.24 billion) gym chain, The   Sunday Telegraph newspaper said, adding a deal could be   announced as early as Monday.


Greeley Recreation Center Expands Its Outdoor Classes By a Lot

By Dan England, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Mar. 5--David Sanchez asked himself what he enjoyed doing when he and officials from the Greeley Recreation Center wanted to expand its outdoors offerings for the spring and summer.   He liked to fly fish. He liked to hike.


Franzoni, 'legittimo sospetto su giudici Torino prevenuti'


Proud France Inaugurates World's Highest Bridge

MILLAU, France  - President Jacques Chirac  inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation  taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees  and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.


Norway Police Quiz Suspect in 'The Scream' Theft

Norwegian police have identified a suspect  for the first time in a so far fruitless search for gunmen who  stole Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" four months ago,  police said Thursday.


US has responsibility to Palestinian moderates

Few people gained as much fame, or notoriety, in their lifetime as Yasser Arafat. To millions of Palestinians, he embodied their quest for an independent state.


Felton Kicks Top Scorer Brown Off Georgia Team

Senior Takais Brown, Georgia's leading scorer last season who already was suspended for the first nine games this season, was dismissed from the team Friday.


Tropical depression in Caribbean douses Haiti

The 16th tropical depression of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season brought heavy rains to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Sunday after forming in the Caribbean, U.S. forecasters said.


Insurers often have upper hand when haggling over car's value

David Mattera's 1998 Mercury Mystique sits crumpled outside his Ipswich home, the car's insured value still unclear nearly nine months after the accident that left it totaled.


Black Hawk helicopter shot down near Baghdad

BAGHDAD -- Insurgents shot down a US military helicopter with nine people on board north of Baghdad yesterday but no one was killed, the military said.


Bombs kill 14 in Iraq, U.S. blames al Qaeda

Two suicide bombers struck in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people including the leader of a U.S.-backed neighborhood security patrol, police said.


Symbian, security groups warn of Series 60 trojan

A trojan by the name of "Skulls" has appeared in the wild for some Series 60 smartphones, and users are warned to be wary as always.


The 83-year-old former Prime Minister of India, Narasimha Rao, has died of cardiac failure in a New Delhi hospital. In 1991 Narasimha Rao became first outside the Nehru-Gandhi family India's prime minister.


Los Angeles, 10:44 - TENNIS, ATP LOS ANGELES: BLAKE BATTE GOLDSTEIN

Questi i risultati degli ottavi di finale del torneo Atp di Los Angeles (montepremi 525.000 dollari)...


Bush and Blair to meet after US report urges for Iraq policy overhaul

US President George W. Bush is set to host Prime Minister Tony Blair at the White House for talks likely to focus on a hard-hitting report that urged a strategic change in Iraq.


Designer Ferre has angels for final menswear show

A line of children looking like angels  ended Gianfranco Ferre's menswear show on Sunday to a standing  ovation, just a week after the Italian designer died at the age  of 62 after a brain haemorrhage.


Avalanche in remote Russian Far East kills 11, including four children

MOSCOW  - Eleven reindeer herders, including four children, were killed when an avalanche roared through a remote village on Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday.


Japan to take fingerprints, photos of foreigners

Japan is to fingerprint and photograph foreigners entering the country from next month in an anti-terrorism policy that is stirring anger among foreign residents and human rights activists.


Major League makes first rules changes in 11 years

Major League Baseball has imposed a  first set of rule changes since 1996 to address certain  situations affecting play and issue guidelines governing  official scoring decisions.


One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring elections.


Nearly 750,000 Afghan Refugees Sign Up to Vote

Nearly three quarters of a million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan registered to vote in their country's first direct presidential polls this weekend, ignoring warnings not to do so from Islamic militants.


Britain needs to redeploy troops closer to Baghdad so that the insurgency in central Iraq can be dealt with ahead of Iraqi elections, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday.


Nurses and other medical workers at Group Health Cooperative are expected to begin a five-day strike today across Western Washington, including at Olympia Medical Center.


At least 60 people are now known to have died in an explosion in Lagos when thieves tried to siphon fuel.


Suyigama, Rubin, Jankovic upset in first round

It was a day of upsets at the Wismilak International yesterday as Ai Sugiyama, Chanda Rubin, and Jelena Jankovic all fell in the first round to unheralded opponents.


Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checks

A company owned by international  airlines said on Wednesday it had won approval from the United  States for a system providing passenger details to U.S. border  authorities almost instantaneously.


Newcastle United duly finished top of their Group by drawing 1-1 with Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon at St Jamesâ Park, and so ensured they will be paired with one of the third-placed group teams in Friday's draw for the next (knock-out) stage.


EU to give $125M for Darfur peacekeeping

Officials said the European Union will provide up to $125 million to back African peacekeepers in Darfur, as the United Nations warned Friday that crucial relief convoys are in danger.


Letters are being posted to parents across England telling them which secondary schools their children will attend.


Bush Visits Fla., Gives $2B in Relief Aid

FORT PIERCE, Fla. Sept. 8, 2004 - President Bush on Wednesday helped distribute bottled water, bags of ice, food and $2 billion in federal aid to hurricane-battered residents of this vital electoral state.


Airbus warns it may be forced to make further cuts if the euro remains at record highs against the dollar.


Darfur peace talk in Nigeria ends without progress

Peace talks between the Sudanese government and two rebel groups from Darfur ended here Friday without agreement, but the government pledged in a statement it will stick to the


Equatorial Guinea Trial Begins for Alleged Coup Plotters

The trial of 14 South African and Armenian men held since March for allegedly planning to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea is under way after several delays.


A third of dodgy emails are phishing attacks

Whatever happened to mass-mailing viruses? The lazy, hazy days of summer witnessed a continuation of the ongoing shift from large-scale virus outbreaks toward phishing and more targeted attacks, according to a study by net security firm MessageLabs.â¦


Forget passports - teachers and kids are the new ID card targets

Trust and inclusion foregrounded in desperate rescue plan Teachers and 16 year olds are the favoured 'soft targets' for the redesigned ID card scheme rollout, according to an Identity & Passport Service planning document seen by The Register. As suggested in leaks last weekend, IPS now plans to soft-pedal fingerprints and - astoundingly - it seems on the point of abandoning the notion of forcing ID cards onto the public via passport renewals.â¦


Google reaches accord with two Belgian press groups

Google has reached an agreement with two groups representing authors and photographers in Belgium that had objected to the way the company indexes and displays their content on its Google News Web site.


Iran leader backs "brave" gasoline rationing move

Iran's supreme leader on Saturday threw his weight behind a gasoline rationing scheme which sparked angry protests and left more than a dozen petrol stations burnt out in the world's fourth largest oil exporter.


Bush Accuses Kerry of Unreality on Domestic Issues

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa  - President Bush charged on  Friday that Democratic rival John Kerry had problems  recognizing reality on hot-button domestic issues from jobs and  education to health care and Social Security.


'Lost,' 'Alias' Push ABC to Big Wednesday Win

The dramatic combo of "Lost" and "Alias" packed a punch again on Wednesday, giving ABC the nightly win in primetime by a wide margin.


The new Live Aid DVD and new Band Aid single will have their VAT (value-added tax) refunded, which comprises 17.5% of the final cost.


France Cautious About Purported Iraq Hostage Talks

France was torn between hope and doubt  about its two hostages in Iraq on Wednesday after a purported  French negotiator announced their imminent release but  officials insisted they knew nothing about his efforts.


Preloaded with maps of North America and eastern and western Europe, the Nüvifone will be Garmin's first device to include Google Local Search.


A document obtained by NEWSWEEK suggests the Bush team had a shot at meaningful diplomacy with Iran in 2003. What happened--and how the hardliners may be courting war.


Lindsay Davenport made it through breezily in her opening match at the Fildsertadt Grand Prix as she eased past Australian Alicia Molik 6-1, 6-0 on Wednesday.


UK goes green with gassy offshore wind farm

Environmental indigestion? As the UK becomes only the seventh nation to have more than two GigaWatts of electricity generated by wind farms, the government has given the green (no pun intended) light to the world's first offshore combined wind and gas energy scheme.â¦


"Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine." Â A representative for the New York City medical examiner. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment Jan. 22.


Alex Fergusonâs Champions League gamble backfired in Istanbul as his Manchester United side faced the unhappy prospect of a daunting first knock-out phase duel with one of European footballâs biggest names.


N.F.L. Roundup: After Waiting His Turn, Huard Is Named Starter for Chiefs

Damon Huard, who has spent his career backing up some of the top quarterbacks in the N.F.L., is finally No. 1. Kansas City Coach Herm Edwards said yesterday that Huard, an 11-year veteran, would start for the Chiefs.


BC Ferries is Advised to Leave Sunken Ferry Alone, or Risk Further Contamination

By SCOTT SUTHERLAND  VICTORIA (CP) - No attempt will be made to raise BC Ferries' sunken Queen of the North or even remove what little oil is now believed to be still on board the ship which is resting upright more than 400 metres below the surface.


Chrysler exec backs plan, hopes to avoid new cuts

Chrysler LLC has a "realistic" business plan in place and "hopes to avoid" future buyouts or other downsizing due to U.S. economic woes, the company's president said on Tuesday.


Anxious Vigil In France For Two Journalists Held In Iraq

PARIS, Sept 4  - France kept up an anxious vigil Saturday for two journalists held by Islamic militants in Iraq, awaiting fresh news of their fate from their captors.


Apple Stock On Upward Momentum; Analysts Positive

On the momentum of seven Wall Street analysts predicting Apple Computer stock (AAPL) has legs to move as high as US$49, Apple stock opens Friday at $44.


WORLD Cup champion Brazil lost its unbeaten record in South American World Cup qualifying yesterday, while Argentina held off Venezuela 3-2 to take over first place in the 10-team group.


The rebels from the village of Mona Quibundo fought on the same side with Marceal Miji Itengo during Angola's civil war. But their lives have gone in starkly different directions during the country's troubled peace.


Poland says U.S. shield a "foregone conclusion"

A U.S. missile-defense system will be built in Poland despite Russia's anger over the plans, Polish President Lech Kaczynski said on Monday after a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush.


Chaos, Wall of Devastation Hinders Tsunami Aid

The $2 billion Asian tsunami relief operation was encountering chaos and "a wall of devastation" in Indonesia as aid workers struggled to help thousands of survivors huddled in makeshift camps Monday.


Le vittime sono un piccolo imprenditore e due operai


Full Extent of Indonesia Disaster Slowly Revealed

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Survivors huddle in  clearings without food or shelter above the water-damage line  all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float miles out to sea.


Chirac postpones his visit to Russia over hostage crisis

A threat by a militant Islamic group in Iraq to kill two French men unless a law banning Muslim headscarves in schools is abandoned was being treated as a national crisis by the French government last night.


Former UTV presenter Mike Nesbitt is among four new victims commissioners, the BBC understands.


Northwest Airlines Corp. NWAC.O, the  No. 4 U.S. air carrier, on Wednesday posted a quarterly loss,  versus a profit a year earlier, as high fuel prices and low  fares weighed on the industry.


On "Desperate Housewives," John Slattery plays a wily politician.


Overseas Indians turn to Web for festival prayers

Thousands of Indians living abroad  are logging on to religious Web sites in the run-up to the main  Hindu festival of Diwali, courtesy of a stream of sites  offering services like online praying and blessings.


England name James Anderson instead of Simon Jones for the fourth Test.


U.S. technology stocks rose on  Thursday as a strong quarterly earnings report from eBay Inc.,  the world's largest online market place, helped lift the Nasdaq  and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes.


Lawyers for slave descendants asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to a revive a landmark reparations case that demands 17 of the nation's insurers and banks publicize and pay for their roles in the country's slave trade.


A father's emotional testimony over the loss of his son aboard the USS Cole opened a civil trial Tuesday in which relatives of the 17 victims of the terrorist attack are trying to prove it couldn't have happened without Sudan's support.


Average Joes have tough time leaving no-fly list

The nation's confusing array of terrorist watch lists -- like those that snagged Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Lewis -- can be easy to get on, but far more difficult to get off.


For back-to-school shoppers, a new alphabet reigns, and it starts with E for electronics. With camera cell phones and the Apple iPod music player topping student wish lists, some of the hottest gadgets have little to do with pen or paper, much less studying.


Howard, Brown to discuss Indian doctor's arrest

Prime Minister John Howard will late Thursday brief British leader Gordon Brown on the questioning of an Indian doctor arrested in Australia in connection with a plot to bomb Glasgow and London.


Pete Rose says he took "greenies" in his playing days, if only to lose a few pounds. Oh, and he doesn't bet on baseball anymore, but if he did, he'd pick the Twins and the Padres.


After many hours of discussions with Aperi members, non-Aperi members, and SNIA board members, here's where I stand today.


Facebook users resisting Wal-Mart's latest Web 2.0 endeavor

Wal-Mart's "Roommate Style Match" group on Facebook is applauded by analysts, but mostly criticized so far by the target audience.


Barkley awaits scan on injured hip as Ashton rings changes

Sport: Rugby World Cup: England fly-half could join Jonny Wilkinson on sidelines for South Africa clash.


Srinagar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today announced a huge Rs 24,000-crore economic package for development of Jammu and Kashmir.


US Oct. consumer confidence sinks to 92.8 points -

WASHINGTON (AFX) - Consumer confidence in the United States softened for the third straight month in October, the Conference Board said Tuesday.


CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - Australia sent 100 troops to the Solomon Islands Thursday, after one of its policemen was murdered in the South Pacific archipelago.


U.S. tries to see positives in trade talks collapse

The Bush administration is billing  the collapse of world trade talks this week as good news for  its drive to renew negotiating powers in Congress, but it is  not clear that U.S. lawmakers will see things that way.


Marion Bartoli causes one of the biggest shocks in Wimbledon history as she defeats top seed Justine Henin to reach the final.


Ailing supermarket chain Kwik Save announces it is to close more than a third of its stores immediately.


Fornira' alla societa' una consulenza strategica


A judge bans the word from a sexual assault case, sparking debate over freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial


Public and private comments from Kobe Bryant have ended any possibility that Karl Malone would rejoin the Los Angeles Lakers, according to Malone's agent.


U.K. official denies urging Iraq apology

The new deputy leader of Britain's governing Labour Party on Monday denied saying the government should apologize over Iraq, despite a broadcast debate showing her agreeing that an apology was in order.


Le condizioni del leader palestinese si sarebbero aggravate

PARIGI - Si aggravano le condizioni di salute di Yasser Arafat e il numero due dellâOrganizzazione per la liberazione della Palestina, Abu Mazen, Ã¨ partito alla volta di Parigi. Lo riferisce la radio israeliana.


LA police search for rapper Young Buck in Vibe awards stabbing

Police were searching for rapper Young Buck following a stabbing at the Vibe Awards, an assault apparently sparked when Buck's musical mentor, Dr.


Death toll of England's train crash rises to seven

The number of people who were killedwhen a high-speed train hit a car in southeastern England on Saturday rose to seven Sunday, including the drivers of both the car and train.


Sony Corp.  will cut back on future chip spending and may not produce advanced chips used in its PlayStation 3 (PS3) in-house, a senior executive said on Tuesday, in a move aimed at driving the semiconductor unit's nascent earnings recovery.


Russian privatisation officials set a starting price of nearly $2bn for next month's auction of a stake in oil giant Lukoil.


Marsh & McLennan Cos Inc  said on Friday it will replace its embattled chief executive, Michael Cherkasky, following a year of disappointing results and is evaluating strategies to boost shareholder value.


KARACHI, November 01 (Online): Danish Kaneria persevered unflinchingly to throttle Sri Lanka's aspirations of saving the Test with a bowling display that gave Pakistan hope, and asked questions the batsmen had no answer to.


A northern Chinese city has banned the use of "seductive" words like "foxy lady", "handsome guy" and "moneybags" in marriage advertisements in a bid to stamp out fraud, domestic media reported on Tuesday.


MapReduce: a "major step backwards" A database pioneer and honored computer science professor have come under heavy fire for issuing a strong critique of Google's MapReduce technology for processing large unstructured databases.â¦


China Accuses Bush of Attempting to Dominate the World

On the eve of the US Presidential election Deputy Prime Minister of China Qian Qichen accused US President George W. Bush of attempting to dominate the world.


After Trio of Explosions, Scientists Say Supernova Is Imminent

Three powerful blasts from three wholly different regions in space have left scientists scrambling. The blasts, which lasted only a few seconds, might be early alert systems for star explosions called supernovae, which could start appearing any day now.


Apple recalls 28,00 PowerBook batteries due to fire hazard

Apple is recalling 28,000 PowerBook batteries after it was discovered that the batteries could overheat, posing a fire hazard.


TOKYO - Diplomats from Japan, South Korea and the United States on Friday confirmed their commitment to cooperate in six-nation talks aimed at convincing North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, agreeing that the next round of talks must be


Unicredit +0,92%, restano pesanti i titoli dell'energia


T-W, Comcast in Pact on Cable Unit Stake

Time Warner Inc. TWX.N and Comcast  Corp. CMCSA.OQ on Monday agreed to a pact giving Comcast an  option to cut its stake in Time Warner's cable unit, opening  the door for Comcast to unwind the entire partnership.


Netflix Inc. frustrated investors and customers alike Tuesday as its stock price plunged to its lowest point in more than two years while its Web site was inaccessible most of the day because of unexplained technical problems.


Izvestia Editor Fired Over Coverage of School Siege

The editor of the respected daily Izvestia was dismissed on Monday after shareholders complained about the newspaper's weekend coverage of the bloody end to the school siege in southern Russia.


Study shows Weight Watchers only effective weight loss method

(Undated) Dec. 28, 2004 - It's time to make New Year's Resolutions, and for many that means trying to lose weight. A new study says many popular weight loss programs don't stack up to their claims to drop pounds.


Is Arab literature being lost in translation?

BEIRUT: "Arab literature is boycotted in the West, this way my books can never become best-sellers," Rashid Daif said with a squint.


Venus Williams swept past France's  Virginie Razzano 6-3, 6-0 on Wednesday in a second round match  in the Antwerp Diamond Games, a tournament she won in 2002 and  2003.


SAN FRANCISCO - Business software maker Oracle Corp.'s quarterly earnings exceeded analyst expectations, overcoming sluggish sales in a product line that the company hopes to bolster by completing a long-sought takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc.    The Redwood Shores-based company said Tuesday it earned $509 million, or 10 cents per share, during the three months ended in August, a 16 percent improvement from $440 million, or 8 cents per share, at the same time last year...


Nation's second-largest shopping mall owner will pay $7.2 billion for Columbia-based Rouse Co., expanding its holdings of regional shopping centers and commercial property.


Music Review | Michael Feinstein: Chestnuts, Sleigh Bells and Boogie-Woogie

For all its ebullience, ÂHome for the HolidaysÂ distills the loneliness that can suddenly ambush the most dedicated consumer of eggnog during a sudden lull in the festivities.


Bush Bucks boss Sturu Pasiya confirmed yesterday that Khabo Zondo was one of the coaches his club was talking to regarding the vacant coaching job at Bucks.


BALTIMORE, Sept. 9 -- It's not often that a starting pitcher has a 108.00 ERA. But Baltimore Orioles rookie Hayden Penn does, at least until Sunday afternoon.


Sembra difficile a credersi, ma Ã¨ cosÃ¬. Gli alimenti ricci di grassi saturi non danneggiano la funzionalitÃ  del cuore. A tradurlo in dati di una ricerca, un gruppo di analisti svedesi all'ultimo congresso di cardiologia di Monaco di Baviera.


Iraq donors conference winds up in Japan

A two-day meeting of Iraq's donors has wound up in Tokyo with all those involved indentifying the ongoing insurgency as the biggest obstacle to the country's reconstruction.


Milan fashion shows off broken mirror effect

Italian fashion designer Rocco Barocco put a broken mirror effect on clingy cocktail dresses for his spring and summer 2008 show on Sunday, while Clips used feathers to finish long, slim evening gowns.


Suicide truck bomber kills 18 near Baghdad college

A suicide bomber driving a small truck rigged with explosives blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people in an attack that came just a day after bomb blasts destroyed two crowded city markets.


Private contractors provide one quarter of municipal health care and social services

Local authorities are increasingly paying private contractors to provide municipal social services.


Polish woman released by Iraqi kidnappers

Poland's prime minister has announced Iraqi kidnappers have freed a 54-year-old woman they had been holding in the country since late October.


Israel may halt construction of separation barrier

Israel should halt construction work on the West Bank separation barrier if it reached a ceasefire deal with the Palestinians, Israel's president Moshe Katsav said on Thursday, marking the most high-profile criticism of the separation barrier.


Site kick starts a blogging business model New website ReviewMe has just hit the web, offering a unique way for bloggers to make money - by being paid to review products and services.â¦


Palm Beach Gardens chiropractor Eric S. Kaplan and his wife, Bonnie, were confirmed as two patients being treated for botulism at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday.


A rare reef fish called the humphead wrasse should be guarded from the trade that is threatening its future, conservationists say.


"Euros Accepted" signs pop up in New York City

In the latest example that the U.S. dollar just ain't what it used to be, some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise.


Prime Minister Ismail Haniya escapes unharmed in attack on Gaza home as factional fighting continues.


Iraqi police and clerics killed by insurgents

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Insurgents continue to create havoc in Iraq, killing several Iraqi police officers, a US marine, and wounding 14 US soldiers on Saturday.


Turkey Rejects Special Conditions for EU Bid

ANKARA/BRUSSELS  - Turkey signaled growing unease  on Monday that the European Union wants to impose special  conditions on its drive to join the wealthy bloc and insisted  it must be treated in the same way as any other candidate  country.


Carly Patterson Crowned Women's All-Round Champion

Carly Patterson upstaged Russian diva  Svetlana Khorkina to become the first American in 20 years to  seize the women's Olympic gymnastics all-round gold medal on  Thursday.


Sudan govt unleashes offensive in South Darfur: SLA rebels

CAIRO, Dec 17  -- One of the two main rebel groups in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region said that the government had launched an offensive on rebel-held towns in southern Darfur, denouncing it as a truce violation.


It started as a pesky cold -- not surprising given the winter season, two back-to-back cross-country trips, little sleep and mingling with hundreds of people.


The government on Wednesday approved over-the-counter sales of the fat-blocking diet pill orlistat, allowing direct sales for the first time of a version of a diet drug that had been available only by prescription.


MOSCOWâA terrorist attack brought down at least one of the two planes in this week's near-simultaneous crashes in Russia, authorities said yesterday after investigators sifting through the wreckage found traces of an explosive at one of the crash sites.


28th Prague International Jazz Festival to see performances by Saskia ...

Archive Current Affairs A daily in-depth look at current events in the Czech Republic.


States step up push to lure innovators and investors

Increasingly, local prosperity depends on staying at the forefront of new industries and ideas.


Climate Report Warns of Drought, Disease

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


Militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly declares "bitter war" on next Sunday's election in Iraq.


Police and FA to investigate racism allegations at Blackburn

London, England (Sports Network) - Just four days after racist chants marred a friendly between England and Spain, Birmingham City says striker Dwight Yorke was racially abused during a match at Blackburn on Sunday.


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.


State Council sends task force to Henan coal mine blast site

The State Council has sent a task force to the site of a coal mine gas blast that happened Wednesday night in the central Henan proivince and left at least 56 people dead.


MADRID: Two bombs exploded in coastal towns in northern Spain yesterday injuring four people after a local paper received a warning in the name of the Basque separatist organisation ETA.


A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.


Napoli, 22:01 - CALCIO, NAPOLI: I CONVOCATI PER IL CAGLIARI

Allenamento di pomeriggio per il Napoli al Centro Tecnico di Castelvolturno. Gli azzurri hanno svolt...


Poor Renny Harlin. When the director's name appeared on the screen at the end of Exorcist: The Beginning, the friend we dragged along to see this dog's breakfast exclaimed, "That explains everything." ...


Shares of May Department Stores Co.  rose nearly 11 percent before the bell on Tuesday, extending gains from late Friday on the heels of the department store chain's announcement that its chairman and chief executive had resigned.


Software patents raise hackles in Britain

A U.K. foundation gathers testimony from British businesses and coders opposed to software patents.


Inside deal nets ex-Enron exec. 2 years' probation

Former Enron Corp.  executive Paula Rieker, whose testimony helped convict her bosses, tearfully apologized on Friday for insider trading and then was sentenced to two years on probation.


Egypt might copyright its pharaonic antiquities, from the pyramids to scarab beetles, in an attempt to get paid from the sale of replicas, an official said Thursday.


West African floods affect 65,000 people: Red Cross/Crescent

Severe flood damage has in two months affected more than 65,000 people in west Africa, making thousands homeless and wrecking infrastructure, the Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations said Friday.


Italy ground to a halt as millions of workers observed a general strike in protest against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government.


Thrombosis risks double after 4-hour travel: study

The chances of developing deep vein thrombosis double after traveling for four hours or more, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday in a study estimating one in 6,000 long-haul passengers is at risk.


Keep quiet on U.S. election, Martin tells loose-lipped cabinet

OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin served notice to his Liberal cabinet Thursday to clam up with their personal opinions on the U.S. presidential election.


Blog: MySQL is relentlessly pushing its way toward an IPO, as BusinessWeek reports, which makes the entire open source ecosystem that much more valuable.


KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai swore in a new Cabinet yesterday, promising the 27-strong group will leave their ethnicities and regional interests at the door to work for all of Afghanistan and pledging swift action against any minister who does not pull his weight.


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Two Croatian ex-generals go on trial in Zagreb over alleged war crimes, in a test case for Croatia's judiciary.


Audit Finds Hoy Overstated Circulation by 46 Pct

Tribune Co.'s Hoy newspaper, one of several U.S. papers caught up in a circulation scandal, overstated circulation at its New York edition by more than 46 percent last year, an industry monitoring group said on Tuesday.


Notre Dame goalkeeper Erika Bohn seals the Irish's second NCAA championship with a save in penalty kicks to lift them to a 4-3 victory over North Carolina on Sunday.


Japanese hostage in Iraq reportedly killed

TOKYO - There are conflicting reports about whether a Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq last week has been killed by his captors.


Duffy Waldorf rolled in eight birdie putts, didn't make a bogey and still had lots of company atop the leaderboard. Waldorf's 8-under 64 in Wednesday's opening round of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic was only good enough to put him in a five-way tie for the lead.


An Eduardo double helps put Arsenal top of the Premier League as they come from behind to beat Everton.


âDan in Real Lifeâ is neither wildly farcical nor mockingly cruel, but rather, for the most part, winningly gentle and observant.


Gates to tout network-management software

com November 16, 2004, 2:00 AM PT. This fourth priority's main focus has been enterprise directories for several months, but for many IT managers, ERP (enterprise resource planning


Indonesians are preparing to vote in the second and final round of their country's presidential elections. Current President Megawati Sukarnoputri is facing a stiff challenge from former army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.


By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 2--The Yuma Desalting Plant is quiet once again. Its 90-day demonstration run to reduce salinity in water returned to the Colorado River ended at midnight Thursday.


Former Northern Ireland minister Sir Nicholas Scott has died at a London hospice, his family has announced.


Felipe Alou was in the Dominican Republic when the Giants formally announced Monday they had signed his son, Moises, to a two-year contract.


Fifteen years after an earthquake damaged San Francisco's Bay Bridge, engineers are attempting to replace it with a stronger span. The project is said to be the most ambitious in state history. Part 1 of 2. By Amit Asaravala.


Russia's former nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov suffers a heart attack while in custody in Moscow.


At least seven Pakistani soldiers are reported to have been killed in an attack on an army vehicle in the northern region of Swat.


Crab Grass, Cookouts, Sex Addicts and Neuters

John Waters's first film in four years is a grindingly anarchic attempt to have it both ways, to be both cheerfully inclusive and in-your-face nasty.


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COVINGTON, La. - Retired Louisiana pharmacist George Boudreaux hasn't needed Madison Avenue pitchmen to get the word out about his concoction to treat diaper rash...


Both sides were to present closing arguments Wednesday in a trial over whether "Sopranos" creator David Chase owes a New Jersey man money for his help in developing the hit HBO mob drama.


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Iraq. Arrestato Izzat Ibrahim, vice di Saddam

Le forze della coalizione hanno arrestato oggi in Iraq, nei pressi di Tikrit, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, il principale collaboratore del deposto rais, Saddam Hussein. Nella cattura sono rimaste uccise 70 persone


1940s TV star Robert Sterling dies at 88

Robert Sterling, the handsome star of 1940s movies who appeared with his wife Anne Jeffreys in the television series "Topper," died Tuesday at his Brentwood home. He was 88.


Kenya's police commissioner urges poll losers to respect the outcome as counting continues in close elections.


The Person County Health Department plans to move forward with its scheduled flu vaccine clinics later this month, but Person Health Director Marc Kolman said that


Larry Wall's eighth annual State of the Onion address from OSCON 2004 related screensavers to surgery to Perl and the community.


BRASíLIA, Brazil -- Military helicopters lowered a rescue team by rope yesterday into the remote Amazon jungle site where an airliner slammed into the ground, but authorities held out little hope of finding survivors among the 155 people on board.


Ore 22.27 La squadra di Mancini strapazza il Messina di Mutti per 5 a 0. Mattatore della gara Adriano autore di goal tre goal. Chiudono la goleada Mihajlovic e Vieri. Espulso Toldo. Esordio del portiere Carini.


Microsoft is set to unleash its much-anticipated search technology this week, as it ramps up efforts to take on market leader Google.


Johnstons' anguish over as parents, gov't express relief

Freed BBC reporter Alan Johnston's elderly parents said Wednesday their "living nightmare" was over, as his employers and the British government hailed the end of his four-month kidnap ordeal at the hands of militants in the Gaza Strip.


Japan Ministers Resign Ahead of Reshuffle

Japanese cabinet ministers tendered their resignations on Monday, setting the stage for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to make new appointments aimed at boosting his


NEW DELHI: An Indian transport union spearheading a truckers' strike yesterday welcomed a government decision to include six of its members on a panel to study a controversial tax which triggered the dispute, officials said.


Tsunami Victims Prey to Crime from Asia to Europe

Thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers  are preying on tsunami survivors and families of victims in  Asian refugee camps and hospitals and in the home countries of  European tourists hit by the wave.


Very few organizations have as many feet on the street as the US Postal Service. To better get a handle on those feet, the Postal Service said Monday it's implementing SAP Human Capital


Markets Overview: Europe up as growth strengthens

A barrage of economic releases triggered plenty of action in the currency and bond markets on Tuesday while US stocks received a fillip from a burst of takeover speculation in the metals and mining sector.


At least five people reportedly die in Ethiopia's Somali region after two grenades were thrown at a crowd.


Google shares could start trading Wednesday

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. - Google?s initial public offering could hit the Nasdaq Stock Market as early as Wednesday if US securities regulators let the Internet search engine close its auction on Tuesday.


Gizmos, graphics get open source options

MySQL developers turn to an unlikely source for database tool: Microsoft. Patch readies Linux for cell phones, DVD players. Also: SGI visualizes Linux.


Greenspan rejects talk of throwing dollar a lifeline

ALAN GREENSPAN, Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, undercut lingering hopes of staging an operation to support the dollar at a meeting of bankers in Frankfurt yesterday


Defending champion Ivan Ljubicic defeated Stefan Koubek of Austria 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-4 Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Zagreb Open.


IBM Launches Global Computing Grid to Support Research

The project will tap into the power of home PCs to create a virtul supercomputer. By Paul McDougall. As part of a broader effort to spur collaborative research in key industries, IBM on Tuesday launched a project


Analysis That antitrust filing in full - with added chocolate


Economic Scene: Some Records Arenât Worth the Hoopla

The attention thatâs being showered on âDow 14,000â goes a long way toward explaining why our economy has become so susceptible to speculative bubbles.


Gov't launches fund to fight Muslim extremism

The government has launched a five million pound fund to fight Muslim extremism at the grassroots level, calling it a "battle for hearts and minds."


Maryland will be without leading wide receiver Derrick Fenner when it takes on No. 5 Florida State on Saturday at Byrd Stadium.


Illegal Immigrants to Get Amnesty in Spain

Illegal immigrants lined up outside government offices and consulates, seeking documents to help them qualify for residency and work papers as Spain's biggest immigration reform ever went into effect.


A top compound in development could become an important MS treatment.


Shares in Umbro fall 6% after the sportswear firm loses its contract to make Chelsea Football Club kits.


A Tory frontbencher resigns after saying he met "a lot of" idle ethnic minority soldiers who used racism "as cover".


Iran vows to defend its nuclear activities to the end, as world powers prepare for talks on more sanctions.


Dazzle, Splash and Flash, Sean Puffy Combs Turns 35

Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily November 5, 2004 - NEW YORK - Flourishes of royal-style horns trumpeted against a rainstorm that fell hard on Thursday outside Cipriani's new Wall Street location in Manhattan for Sean "Puffy" Combs' 35th birthday party.


Africa floods linked to 'La Nina' weather in Pacific: UN agency

Severe flooding caused by torrential rains stretching across Africa is probably linked to the "La Nina" weather pattern thousands of mile away in the Pacific, a senior UN weather agency scientist said Thursday.


Heavy rain and flooding are seriously hampering the tsunami relief operation in eastern Sri Lanka.


OAO Gazprom, Russia's state-run gas producer, today appealed a US bankruptcy judge's ruling that bars it from bidding for the main unit of OAO Yukos Oil Co.


Hundreds evacuated in Malibu as wildfires spread

Powerful winds fanned wildfires burning through the canyons of the seaside celebrity enclave of Malibu on Sunday, forcing hundreds to evacuate and putting a university campus on alert.


England rugby stars to walk injury minefield

England's hopes of reclaiming the Six Nations title could be wrecked this weekend after the country's top clubs pushed ahead with plans to field a string of internationals in Premiership matches.


Tony Blair becomes Labour's longest-serving prime minister as he marks 2,838 days in his post at Number 10.


Barcelona struggles on Day 2 of blackout

Shops operated with gas-powered lamps, traffic lights remained blank and courthouses turned to battery power Tuesday as Spain's most cosmopolitan city faced Day Two of a major power outage.


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Fresh splits threaten Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's coalition as he seeks parliamentary backing for his budget.


Physicists fire up strontium atomic clock

+/- one second per 200 million years US physicists are rather pleased with themselves having perfected a clock "so accurate it will neither gain nor lose even a second in more than 200 million years", Reuters reports.â¦


VARs, Vendors Seize Patch Management Opportunity

The delayed arrival of Windows Update Services is giving VARs and patch management vendors a chance to cash in.


Hostage Standoff Reported at LA Mexican Consulate

An armed man took a female hostage  at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but he was  shot by police and the woman escaped unharmed, according to  television video.


MOJAVE, Calif. A test pilot yesterday made a successful foray into space marked by a white-knuckle ascent in which his rocket ship rolled at least 16 times in 16 seconds.


Palma de Maiorca, 17:26 - DOPING, CICLISMO: HONDO TORNERA' A CORRERE IN ARGENTINA

Scontata la squalifica di due anni per doping, il ciclista tedesco Danilo Hondo tornerà a gar...


The tiniest blood vessels of the eye can provide a glimpse that may warn of future high blood pressure, Australian researchers report. That finding comes from a computerized analysis of special camera images of the retina, an experimental technique.


High Court to Hear Dispute Over Wine Sales

The Supreme Court is considering whether states may bar people from buying wine directly from out-of-state suppliers, a big-money question that could lead to sweeping changes in how alcoholic beverages are regulated and sold.


Willingham never doubted Irish could beat Michigan

Not following last season's 5-to-7 finish by Notre Dame. Not after a deflating season-opening loss to Brigham Young. Not when the Irish trailed 9-to-zero at halftime to Michigan.


12 killed as Kenyan police intensify gang crackdown

Twelve suspected criminals and members of a murderous sect were killed in Kenya over the weekend, police said Sunday, as a fierce crackdown on surging crime intensified across the east African nation.


Judge Rules Arbitrator, Not Stern, Had Authority Over NBA Brawl

A federal judge ruled that National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern doesn't have the final say in punishing players for behavior during games, upholding an arbitrator's


"Love of the Games," existing infrastructure, cheap ticketing and a smooth transport system will underpin the Paris bid to host the 2012 Olympics, campaign leader Philippe Baudillon said on Wednesday.


As Nextel Cup Series teams roll into Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend, it's the end of a marathon that began a few hours up the road with January testing at Daytona.


Arabic TV shows tape of captured Iraqi guardsmen

BAGHDAD, Iraq Al-Jazeera has aired a videotape from a militant group that claims it's captured 20 Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah. The tape shows the men in Iraqi National Guard uniforms, with their backs to the camera.


U.S. says al Qaeda will "lash out" in Iraq

The U.S. military expects al Qaeda in Iraq to strike back with "spectacular attacks" after major U.S.-led offensives that have disrupted its activities, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.


A man is shot dead at the wheel of a Land Rover car in the Halewood area of Merseyside.


Allen Park, MI (Sports Network) - Robert Porcher, Detroit's all-time sack leader, retired Monday. The defensive end, who was inactivate for all seven games this season, posted 95 1/2 career sacks.


King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is to receive a ceremonial welcome from the Queen later.


Norimberga, 22:41 - CALCIO, BUNDESLIGA: NORIMBERGA-EINTRACHT 2-2

Nell'anticipo della 25/a giornata di Bundesliga, Norimberga e Eintracht Francoforte hanno pareggiato...


New Zealand cruises to 59-10 win against Italy in rugby match

New Zealand got its European tour off to a winning start Saturday, cruising to a 59-10 victory against Italy. The All Blacks dominated from the start, running in a string of early tries and opening


Feisty Hong Kong lawmaker provokes China

Leung Kwok-hung regularly disrupts legislative sessions with pro-democracy outbursts. He has shown up to voting centers in a pig mask and Chinese emperor's jacket. Most recently, he burned photos of the Chinese president during the leader's visit to Hong Kong.


Astacio, Halsey Each Suspended Three Games

Pitchers Pedro Astacio of Boston and Brad Halsey of New York each were suspended Tuesday for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at batters.


US Senator John Kerry is cured of prostate cancer, according to his doctors. In an interview published Sunday, John Kerry told the New York Times that his doctors told him he was cured of the cancer.


Him, Her and Him by the Seashore, Balancing Levity and Suffering

âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.


G-7 Issues Veiled Rebuke to China on Yuan

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven industrialized countries held off taking any concrete actions Saturday to alter the value of the dollar, the euro or other currencies.


Banco Santander will today tell Abbey National's union that about 2,500 jobs will go if the Spanish bank is successful in its takeover bid.


Vice President Dick Cheney arrives in Australia on Thursday to thank one of Washington's staunchest supporters of the increasingly unpopular Iraq war — an ally that has become a rarity by offering more, not fewer, troops for Iraq and Afghanistan.


New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is leading among Democrats in the California presidential primary, while Rudy Giuliani is slightly ahead of his three major Republican rivals, according to a new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California.


A simple urine test that appears to detect early breast cancer and tracks the growth of tumors could be a major advance against the disease.


Royal, Merkel agree on protecting Airbus

The French Socialists' presidential candidate Segolene Royal has expressed support for Germany's position on renewable sources of energy.Comment


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America Online is tapping the vast media assets of parent company Time Warner to outdo rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the search wars.


The Black Sea resort of Sochi, boosted by the personal intervention of Russian president Vladimir Putin, won the right to stage the 2014 Winter Olympic Games on Wednesday.


An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.


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A Romanian man complained to consumer protection officials after his attempt to poison his neighbour's dog failed.


European Union citizens will be protected by the U.S. Privacy Act under an anti-terror deal with Washington on the sharing of trans-Atlantic air passenger data, the EU's top justice official said Monday.


Writer Henri Troyat, who fled Russia's revolution as a child and went on to become one of France's most prolific, popular and respected authors, has died, the Academie Francaise said Monday. He was 95.


The government announces a feasibility study for a tidal power project which could supply about 5% of UK electricity.


Il Financial Times ne Ã¨ certo: entro diciotto mesi sarÃ  ceduto il marchio svedese. I particolari della operazione


East Timor's people have turned out in high numbers for three rounds of elections, but the show of democracy cannot mask mounting challenges facing Asia's newest nation five years after independence.


New York attorney general taps expert to probe lobbying

New York's attorney general on  Thursday named a legislative leader for a nonpartisan  public-interest group to create an Internet database to track  links between elected officials and lobbyists and campaign  donors.


By Paul Burgarino  MANTECA -- The site of an old photoprocessing plant could frame the picture of housing development in Manteca in the upcoming year.


Rongen Named Coach of MLS Expansion Team

Thomas Rongen, who guided D.C. United to the 1999 Major League Soccer championship, was hired Thursday as coach of Club Deportivo Chivas USA, an expansion team set to begin play in April.


Can clean tech VCs fund technology breakthroughs?

Blog: Money is pouring into clean tech start-ups, but recent reports examine longer-term issues.


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.


Gene Deletion Tied to Prostate Cancer Onset

NEW YORK  - Loss of a tumor suppresser gene  called Rb may be the first step in the development of prostate  cancer, according to findings from experiments in mice.


Beckett gets 10th win as Red Sox triumph

Josh Beckett nearly fell behind on the second hitter he faced. After that, he settled down to become baseball's second 10-game winner. Beckett pitched six scoreless innings before heavy rains ended his night and even chipped in at the plate with a run-scoring double, leading the Boston Red Sox past the Atlanta Braves 4-0 Tuesday night.


CPS cites lack of evidence Chatroom users who watched a man hang himself live via webcam in March will not face any charges, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed.â¦


Palermo, 19:43 - CALCIO, PALERMO: UFFICIALIZZATO INGAGGIO DI BALZARETTI

Il Palermo ha ufficializzato  il trasferimento a titolo definitivo dalla Fiorentina del difensore Fe...


Group denounces U.S. over Gitmo suicides

A press rights group criticized the U.S. military Wednesday for allegedly attempting to link an attorney for Guantanamo Bay detainees to the suicides of three prisoners, calling it an attempt to shift blame.


Airbus got tentative approval on Monday to market a new model to rival Boeing Co.'s 7E7 from parent firm EADS, which said a final decision was expected next month.


Kelly Holmes is looking forward to a well-deserved break at home with her family over Christmas after adding the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award to her double Olympic gold.


Two young girls and two men die in four separate accidents in a weekend of tragey on Northern Ireland's roads.


U.S. Job Gains Strongest in Seven Months

New U.S. jobs soared at the sharpest  rate in seven months in October, the government reported on  Friday, helped by a surge in construction activity as  hurricane-battered areas in the Southeast were rebuilt.


British Prime Minister Tony Blair has met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as he continues a trip aimed at breathing new life into the dormant Middle East peace process and bolstering a UN-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon.


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Director Anupam Sinha - thought of a novel way of avoiding releasing their film during the period, yet having a proper release during `shraddh`.


DOVER, Del. - Pink spotlights will shine on Legislative Hall and other buildings in Delaware this month to promote Breast Cancer (news - web sites) Awareness Month.


The French trader that incurred massive losses for Societe Generale was in profit at the start of 2008.


Denver Zoo is taking steps to prevent a possible outbreak of plague after a monkey dies of the disease.


Marsh boss woos clients as UK arm is cleared

THE new boss of Marsh & McLennan will travel to London next week to woo the insurance brokerâs clients, even though the companyâs UKâs subsidiary has been cleared of wrongdoing.


N.H.L. Commissioner Gary Bettman will hold a news conference on Wednesday, presumably to cancel the rest of the season.


Pakistan's parliament elected Shaukat Aziz as its new Prime Minister yesterday. President General Pervez Musharraf named Mr Aziz as his choice as head of government, after his relationship


Ken Livingstone steps up campaign to charge polluting 4x4s with a Â£25-a-day congestion charge


London equities continued to make gains in opening trade on Friday, after news of take building in J Sainsbury lit up the retail sector.


AT&T video sharing service hits 160 markets

Blog: AT&T is taking its video sharing service nationwide.


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Battling Woods in Touch with Mount Juliet Lead

THOMASTOWN, Ireland  - Tiger Woods battled through  back pain to stay in touch with the lead as fellow American  Todd Hamilton set the pace in the WGC-American Express  Championship first round Thursday.


New spy scandal comes as major blow to Israel, AIPAC

WASHINGTON: Washington was rocked late last week by allegations that a Pentagon policy analyst on Iran, Laurence A. Franklin, had passed classified information to Israel through the American


Fighting Flu Isn't Getting Easier, Study Finds

With flu season right around the corner, a new study finds that Americans are still struggling as much as ever with the condition.


Electronic Arts and IMG reach branding deal

Electronic Arts Inc , the  video game publisher, said on Thursday it reached a deal to  form a strategic partnership with IMG, the sports and  entertainment marketing firm.


Coalition forces have started their attack against Iraqi insurgents in the city of Falluja after the final order for the assault was given by Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.


Iraqi archaeologists working in a city south of Baghdad unearthed more than 1,000 antiquities and delivered them Monday to the National Museum, which has struggled to rebuild its collection since it was looted in the U.S.-led invasion.


Former Indian prime minister PV Narasimha Rao died on Thursday at age of 83 after a bout of serious illness over the past fortnight.


Corrected: Duke Energy earnings fall on real estate

(Corrects David Hauserâs title to CFO from CEO in paragraph 3)


AP: Game 2 May Be Schilling's Only Start

Curt Schilling might not be able to make a second start in the World Series because the unprecedented surgical procedure to stitch together his injured right ankle might be too damaging to keep repeating.


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Everton striker Wayne Rooney says he is "disappointed" with the way the club have handled his transfer request. Newcastle and Manchester United want to sign the 18-year-old who requested a transfer on Friday


Fitch cuts Delta Air Lines credit rating

Fitch Ratings said on Thursday it cut Delta Air Lines' (DAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) debt rating after the company said it would initiate an exchange offer that would affect much of the airline's senior unsecured debt.