NYMEX crude oil futures  hit a new record of $46.76 on Monday on worries about possible unrest and disruption to oil supply as Venezuelans voted in a referendum on whether to recall President Hugo Chavez.


Israel stepped up its campaign against Hamas Islamists on Saturday, killing five militants in Gaza in a wave of air strikes, while Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian gunmen in Arab East Jerusalem.


Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's mystery illness was caused by poisoning, doctors say.


Palestinian anguishes over MySpace romance

The Palestinian man who befriended a 16-year-old Michigan girl through the MySpace.com Web site and invited her to join him in Jericho said he is heartbroken by U.S. authorities' decision to send her back home.


Roma, 21:19 - CALCIO, IN FIGC SUMMIT ABETE-DONADONI-RIVA SULLA NAZIONALE

Il presidente della Figc, Giancarlo Abete, il commissario tecnico della Nazionale, Roberto Donadoni ...


5 Pa. students charged in school threats

Five Pennsylvania high school students were arrested after threats of violence shut down their school district for most of the week, police said.


A California condor chick that was part of an ambitious breeding program was found dead near its nest, the week after another was discovered with a broken wing and 35 bottle caps in its gullet.


A steel firm employing around 450 workers in south Wales goes into administration, says a union.


Google to scan universities' library books

By Paul Taylor in New York and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco. Google, the leading service for finding information on the internet, yesterday set out ambitious plans to become a catalogue and digital library for world literature.


Former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks walked free from an Australian jail after completing a sentence for supporting terrorism Saturday, vowing not to let down those who got him home.


Musharraf: Iraq war makes world more dangerous

The war in Iraq has not made the world safer from terror, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told CNN on Tuesday. Musharraf -- often portrayed as being in complete agreement with President Bush -- said he agreed to cooperate in the war on terror in the interests of Pakistan. "We... are victims of terrorism and... are against al Qaeda or any form of terrorism related to [the] Taliban," he said.


Study: Many Students Don't Apply for Aid

A new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don't get it for a simple reason - they don't apply.    The study released Monday by the American Council on Education, which represents colleges and universities, says that half of the 8 million undergraduates enrolled in 1999-2000 at institutions participating in federal student aid programs did not complete the main federal aid application form...


Justine Henin says she is looking to get her tennis back on track after splitting from her husband.


Sono stati creati per la visita di Benedetto XVI ad Assisi


FRANKLIN -- For months, a Super 8 committee member will scrutinize, dissect, and analyze teams. He'll journey from Bourne to Lawrence and back, observing and evaluating all of the very best.


Bombing Kills 47 at Police Station in Iraqi Capital

An increasingly bold and organized insurgency seized the offensive again on Tuesday as a suicide car bomb packed with artillery shells exploded outside police headquarters


Get up to speed with the quick-serve industry.


Bits : A New Twist on Mobile Search: Human Guides

ChaCha, a search engine powered by people, is hoping that it will be more popular on the mobile phone than it was on the Web.


Sprint Nextel, suffering from a steady erosion of customers, said yesterday it is cutting about 7 percent of its workforce and closing 125 retail stores. The company's stock fell sharply, losing a quarter of its value.


Microsoft Expanding Live Search into China Under a deal with China Telecom, Microsoft will be serving a Chinese version of Live Search to China Telecom’s 25 million broadband customers.  The People’s Daily Online reports: Microsoft has been looking for an opportunity to get into the search market since Baidu.com, Yahoo! and Google joined. The launch of Live [...]


Monaco, 13:32 - CALCIO, BAYERN; DUBBI BECKENBAUER: KLINSMANN NON E' PRONTO

Franz Beckenbauer, grande ex capitano del Bayern Monaco e della nazionale tedesca, nonchÃ© ex allenat...


Forse australiani i tre ostaggi decapitati a nord di Bagdad

Il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite in un'intervista alla Bbc: Â«Violata la Carta dell'Onu. A rischio le elezioni di gennaioÂ». LONDRA - La decisione americana di entrare in guerra in Iraq senza lâaccordo


Are schools leaving the most gifted children behind if they don't allow them to skip ahead?


U.S. Gets Subpoena to Force ACLU to Return Leaked Memo

Federal prosecutors are demanding that the American Civil Liberties Union turn over all copies of a secret document it has obtained, in what is apparently the first time a criminal grand jury subpoena has been used in an attempt to seize leaked material, the ACLU and legal experts said yesterday.


Polls have closed in Botswana's general election, with the governing Botswana Democratic Party expected to win an easy victory.


GONAIVES, Haiti - Rescuers pulled bodies from receding floodwaters Monday that had raged through parts of Haiti's third-largest city, swept people from their homes and forced survivors to spend the night in trees, atop cars and on rooftops. The rapidly rising death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne's weekend devastation stood at 241...


Canada Probably Won't Ease Flu Shot Shortfall

Don't expect flu vaccines from Canada and overseas to fill the void left by the British government's decision to shut down a major US supplier, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said Thursday.


ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 28 â The fires that tore omnivorously through scores of villages and olive groves here may now also be changing Greeceâs political landscape: . The government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, facing national elections next month, came under increasing criticism today, not only over its handling of the fires but also over whether it stoked Greeksâ fears about who might be to blame.


Obama, emotional Clinton eye "Super Tuesday"

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut  - An emotional Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama pushed for votes in the U.S. Northeast on Monday, the day before a coast-to-coast Democratic presidential showdown that is neck-and-neck in opinion polls.


The Huntsman group of companies, which includes the world's largest privately held chemical company, announced a proposed initial public offering of stock on Monday in an effort to pay off debt.


Bernanke cautions on raising GSE loan limit

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke warned Congress on Thursday that raising the ceiling  on the size of loans that mortgage finance enterprises Fannie  Mae  and Freddie Mac  can buy could undermine  market discipline.


Geragos: Prosecutors Want Jurors To Hate Him

Redwood City, Calif. -- Prosecutors have portrayed Scott Peterson as a "jerk and a liar" but haven't proved he's a killer.


BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Blame global warming. An Albany, N.Y., man is accused of riding nude in a gondola at Stratton Mountain Resort on Dec. 15. William N. Barrett III, 46, pleaded not guilty to felony lewd and lascivious conduct and misdemeanor marijuana possession Tuesday in Vermont District Court.


Israel seizes Hamas leaders, violence goes on

NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.


After spending the past 45 days in rehab, Lindsay Lohan left California's Promises Rehab facility in Malibu on Friday. On Saturday night, Lohan celebrated with friends in Las Vegas at Pure nightclub and remained sober. She has chosen to wear an ...


Bonds' 700th homer ball brings lawsuit from fan

SAN FRANCISCO -- A court hearing is scheduled for today in a dispute over who is the rightful owner of the ball Barry Bonds hit for his 700th home run.


Proposals to help poor countries work their own way out of debt are being published by a Tory policy group.


Stock index futures fell sharply on  Friday, reversing gains and pointing to a lower market opening,  after weaker-than-expected government data on job growth for  last month fueled recession fears.


GOP Presidential Long Shot Tancredo to Retire from House

ItÃ¢ÂÂs the White House or bust for Rep. Tom Tancredo, the long-shot Republican presidential candidate who has decided to forgo running for re-election next year in ColoradoÃ¢ÂÂs 6th Congressional District.


Brokaw to sign off and say goodbye tonight

After nearly 23 years at the anchor desk, Tom Brokaw will sign off for good at the end of NBC Nightly News Wednesday night. Hours before then, however, he got choked up during an appearance on The Today Show Wednesday morning.


Treviso, 15:15 - BASKET, BENETTON TREVISO: INGAGGIATO PLAY USA JOHN LUCAS III

Un arrivo e una partenza in casa Benetton Treviso. Il club veneto ha ingaggiato il play statunitense...


Two sailors die in a fire on board a Russian nuclear submarine, Russian news agencies report.


Senior Taliban leader held in Pakistan - sources

ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban sources said on Thursday.


South Africa's ANC begins conference to choose leader

POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa's ruling African National Congress party opened a leadership conference on Sunday which could determine who becomes the country's next president.


A leading department store plans to introduce size 14 mannequins to display its women's clothes.


Viduka Goals Help Middlesbrough Beat Man. City 3-2

Mark Viduka scored twice to end his run of 12 matches without a goal and help Middlesbrough beat Manchester City 3-2 in English soccer's Premiership.


Two Pakistani men held over the murder of Benazir Bhutto confess to helping her attacker, police say.


New General Manager at New York City Opera

Gerard Mortier will succeed Paul Kellogg, who leaves in May as general and artistic director.


South Korean farmers in clashes with police

Crowds of South Korean farmers and students hurled rocks and wielded bamboo sticks at riot police on Saturday, demonstrating against free trade in rice.


Stephan Eberharter announced his  retirement on Friday after a decade and a half as a leading  light of the Austrian Alpine skiing team.


It was another down weekend at the box office, although moviegoers helped Sony Pictures and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson score with the football flick "Gridiron Gang."


Provisional Budget for 2006 Olympics OK'd

Organizers for the 2006 Turin Olympics approved a provisional budget Tuesday that includes aid from a public agency to cover a shortfall estimated at more than $245 million.


Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made his first official visit to Iran, a close ally, asking the Islamic regime on Tuesday to crack down on al-Qaida militants infiltrating his country and seeking new deals to help Iraq's troubled oil industry.


Howell's Long Eagle Has Him In Front At Dunhill

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - England's David Howell holed a 105-yard shot for an eagle Friday and finished with a 7-under 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Ryder Cup teammate Luke Donald after the second round of the Dunhill Links Championship.


The Philadelphia Eagles made enough dumb mistakes Sunday for two or three games. The New York Giants made even more. Yet if the playoffs started today, both teams would be in. That's a demonstration of just how bad almost everyone in the NFC is right now. No, drop the "almost." Make it the entire NFC.


Adobe and Yahoo! partner to create PDF documents online

Adobe, the company behind the ubiquitous Acrobat PDF reader and Yahoo! have teamed up to promote each other's products. Adobe has agreed to add Yahoo!


Wal-Mart Sales Slump Keeps Stocks Muddled

NEW YORK - A disappointing sales forecast from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. kept stocks mixed Monday as investors worried that oil prices, which stabilized after last week's highs, would harm third-quarter earnings...


The French president's wife and a top EU official visit Libya to seek the transfer of six medics to Bulgaria.


Major powers fail to resolve all issues on Iran

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


It's sort of a mushy number, but Apple said Monday that it thinks 250,000 of the 1.4 million iPhones sold so far were bought with the intention of unlocking them from AT&T's network.


A judge on Friday declared Steve Williams — the man who ended up with Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball — the lawful owner, freeing him to sell it immediately.


Top general says his Iraq report will be candid

The top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Sunday he will have a good idea in September how well the troop increase has worked and will be able to provide a forthright report to the policy makers in Washington.


British Airways Is Stoking the Business-Class Rivalry

Trans-Atlantic business-class fares are about to become even more complicated as competition grows and demand holds up.


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Crude oil prices fall on optimism about heating oil supplies

Crude oil prices fell Tuesday as traders expected that an upcoming government report would show rising inventories of heating oil.


Beginning of a rivalry? Roddick strikes first

After Andy Roddick's first-round thrashing of wild-card Scoville Jenkins -- he lost only four games, his best effort ever here in 20 matches at the Open -- Roddick was asked about


Sheriff's Legal Fees: $315K: Supervisors Want More Informationnowing How It's Spent: Priceless

By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 12--BILOXI -- The cost of defending the Harrison County Sheriff's Department against civil actions went up again Monday when county supervisors approved payment of more than $14,000 to lawyers representing Sheriff George H. Payne Jr.


Most Britons are taking precautions against identity fraud, a new survey has found.


Super Bowl and Olympics: This Marketerâs Dream Year

Herbert Hainer, the chief executive of Adidas, says his company is using major athletic events like the Super Bowl and the Summer Olympics in its battle to catch up with and surpass Nike.


Lawyers of militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Monday urged a court to release him, in the latest hitch in the struggle to convict the elderly Indonesian of heading the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI).


Prime Minister Gordon Brown sets out wide-ranging plans for constitutional change in his first statement to MPs.


With small caps, one indicator above all others bodes well for future performance.


Polish Cabinet wants Iraq pullout Oct 31

Poland's new government formally asked the president Tuesday to approve the country's withdrawal from Iraq by Oct. 31, 2008.


Apple loses top engineering, support executives

Two Apple Computer executives have quietly left the company in recent weeks, including the Mac unit's head of engineering. Tim Bucher, who became head of Mac product engineering earlier this year, left the company on Nov. 15.


Former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks walked free from an Australian jail after completing a sentence for supporting terrorism Saturday, vowing not to let down those who got him home.


Binge and purge The old guard executive purge at Rackable continues at pace.â¦


French Soldier Threatens to Blow Up Depot

A soldier, angry about being forced to retire, was holed up in an army depot with 60 tons of explosives Sunday, threatening to blow it up.


Business ; More British jobs to be outsourced to India

RSA has been shedding thousands of jobs as part of a major restructuring intended to refocus on general insurance. The firm has also sold its life business and other assets to strengthen its finances.


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That Little Voice Telling You To Skip I-95? It's Your Car

It's cold, it's dark, you're tired, and the last thing you want to face is one more backup on Interstate 66. Imagine if your cellphone or vehicle navigation system knew about one and directed you to Route 50 because it would shave 11 minutes off your ride.


Chantelle Newbery has jumped into sporting history by winning Australiaâs first Olympic diving gold medal since 1924 in the women's 10 metre platform in Athens.


New Citizendium to correct Wikipedia's wrongs?

Also: White House uploads anti-drug videos to YouTube. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.


Victims of violent crimes are being compensated too slowly, the National Audit Office says.


The Dime is Done: Quirky Baltimore Museum to Auction Off Its Oddities Feb. 26

By Jill Rosen, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 3--This time it's for real.   After struggling to persuade Baltimore and beyond to believe in its homage to the grotesque, the freakish and the phony, the American Dime Museum's strange seven-year show has come to an end.


A section of Israel's West Bank separation barrier will leave 17,000 Palestinians on the Israeli side, hampering their access to the West Bank, settler and security officials said Thursday.


Golf / Els favorite to win Sun City Challenge

South Africa's Ernie Els goes into the Sun City Golf Challenge today as the clear favorite to win the $2 million first prize. The languid 35-year-old, who has won the tournament


Breast Cancer Screening Test Deemed Inaccurate

A procedure called ductal lavage is not an effective diagnostic test for breast cancer, investigators report.


German chip maker pleads guilty in price-fixing case

German computer chip maker Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and will pay a $160 million fine, the Justice Department said yesterday.


Searching for more search industry event names

Microsoft's "Searchification" follows Google's "Searchology" and an event called "Searchnomics."  Where will the silly search event names end?


Defying President Bush, Reps. Duncan Hunter and James Sensenbrenner — who led opposition dooming legislation based on the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations — said they won't change their minds without Senate concessions.


California universal health care plan in doubt

California may be losing its chance to set the U.S. agenda for providing health care to millions of uninsured as lawmakers on Friday said a bill supported by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to do just that is on its deathbed.


China promised Wednesday to develop renewable energy for its fast-growing economy but warned that coal consumption will grow dramatically and avoided embracing binding limits on its greenhouse gas emissions.


Late Playoff Qualifiers Unlikely to Go Far

The Jets, Vikings and Rams made it into the NFL playoffs Sunday. The way they played, they might be out in a week. New York and Minnesota backed in. The Jets lost 32-29 in overtime at the Rams, and the Vikings lost 21-18 at the Redskins.


NHL to reject players' latest offer: TSN

TSN has obtained a memo showing the NHL will reject the latest offer from its players. "In sum, we believe the Union's December 9 CBA proposal, while offering necessary and significant short-term financial


U.S. Sees No UN Role in Probing Missing Explosives

The United States said on  Tuesday it saw no need for U.N. involvement in the search for  377 tons of high explosives missing in Iraq, but Russia said  the Security Council should pursue the issue.


LONDON : German Defence Minister Peter Struck appeared in an interview with Britain's Financial Times newspaper to soften his country's stance on Iraq, hinting that Germany might deploy troops if conditions there change.


BetaNews is reporting that the auction site will be dropping Microsoft's .NET support somtime in January 2005. "Auction site eBay announced to members on its Web site Wednesday afternoon that it will drop


AT least 84 Thai Muslims died -- mainly from suffocation in the back of packed security force trucks - after police and troops broke up a violent demonstration in the kingdom's troubled south, Thai officials said today.


Animal rights activists could face five years in prison for targeting research centres under new measures.


In memory of Luke, Loretta races for her life

LUKE. His name is tattooed forever on her right ankle. His memory, just as permanently, in her heart. Loretta Harrop ran the race of her life in Athens yesterday, the inspiration of her late


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Poor, Homeless Rally Against Bush in New York

Several thousand protesters staged  demonstrations and marches against the Bush administration's  economic policies on Monday as the Republican Party opened a  four-day convention to nominate the president for a second term  in office.


Wall Street Beat: Nasdaq bid also a sign for IT

(InfoWorld) - The Nasdaq Stock Market's efforts to buy the London Stock Exchange PLC is another milestone in globalization, and touches the world of IT. As exchanges merge and increase the fluidity of funds globally, a new world of competitive options open. The Nasdaq's latest bid, launched Nov. 20, to buy the part of the LSE it doesn't already own for Â£2.7 billion ($5.1 billion) is poignant in its historic and political overtones. The Nasdaq tapped technology to match buyers and sellers -- starting with simple bulletin boards -- and helped revolutionize trading over the last 20 years. As world class IT companies like Microsoft and Oracle went public on the Nasdaq, the exchange rode the computerization of modern life to great success. Most exchanges have adopted some form of electronic trading, including Nasdaq archrival the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Group Inc.) and the LSE itself. Exchanges have unique advantages and retain distinct personalities, however. Linux vendor Red Hat Inc., for example, will move from the Nasdaq to the NYSE Tuesday. "The New York Stock Exchange has much stronger global recognition, and we're looking for a global branding image," said Linda Brewton, Red Hat manager of investor relations. She also noted that even though the NYSE has adopted electronic trading, trading is still done under live market specialists and that this reduces share-price volatility. The LSE, which traces its history back some 300 years, has rejected Nasdaq's bid, claiming it undervalues the exchange. The mercurial mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is also on the case. Last week he asked the U.K.'s Office of Fair Trading to investigate, claiming that the acquisition would eliminate competition to U.S. markets for international company listings. Livingstone also echoed the concerns of many Europeans, that as U.S. exchanges merge with European markets, tighter U.S. regulations would hamper Europe's growing market competitiveness. This last issue has also caused bumps in the NYSE's deal to merge with the Euronext NV exchange. Nasdaq, having already bought about 29 percent of the LSE earlier this year, is appealing to shareholders. Nasdaq Chief Executive Officer Robert Greifield apparently believes the exchange needs the merger to compete. The merging of exchanges and the broader, growing numbers of mergers and acquisitions that IT companies are involved in are part of the same phenomenon, according to according to Eric Gebaide, managing director of Innovation Advisors, a New York investment firm. "It's a manifestation of the globalization of financial markets," Gebaide said. "That in turn is a precursor of the globalization of technology." When companies in Europe and Asia enjoy the same sort of availability of capital U.S. companies have, it can lead to greater competition for U.S. companies. However, U.S. companies can also take advantage of the new era of capital. For example, U.S. companies looking to efficiently use capital now have access to alternative local financing for offshore ventures, Gebaide notes. In the new global market, companies can even go public with offshore ventures, he suggests. The Nasdaq bid will probably play out into 2007. The offer to shareholders can be extended to 60 days, and the Nasdaq can still buy LSE shares on the open market. But no matter how it ends, the internationalization of capital markets will continue to have a profound impact.


Spanish airport evacuated following 'ETA warning'

A bomb scare forced the evacuation Saturday of the airport on the Spanish Mediterranean holiday island of Ibiza after a warning attributed to Basque separatist organisation ETA.


Scientists in a handful of labs around the country are coating foods with an invisible film to protect them from mold and pathogens and increase their shelf life.


Bush signs $136 billion corp tax cut bill

President George Bush Friday, without ceremony, signed into law a $136 billion US corporate tax cut bill. The bill gives tax breaks to a range of businesses from farmers to Hollywood producers to large corporations.


A combination of video gaming and memory technology could transform the industry.


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Forestali, raggiunto accordo per emendamento in Finanziaria

Roma, 11 dic. (Adnkronos) -Accordo raggiunto per gli undicimila forestali calabresi, che per due giorni hanno occupato le piÃ¹ importanti vie di comunicazione. Per il prossimo biennio saranno stanziati 160 milioni di euro l'anno.


A Hero Whose W.M.D.'s Are Knees and Elbows

Fans of action movies will find much to appreciate in this symphony of flying limbs, breaking bones and elaborately staged chases and confrontations.


RUPERT MURDOCHâS News Corp media empire has posted a 28 per cent rise in quarterly profit as strong results in newspapers, broadcast and cable television countered weaker performances in its film and Italian pay-TV divisions.


170 miners remain trapped in coalmine gas explosion

By 1 pm on Sunday, 123 miners were rescued alive after a major gas explosion took place at the Chenjiashan Coalmine, Shaanxi Province, around 7:10 am but another 170 remained trapped underground.


"Giudizio negativo" sulla lettera degli ambasciatori


Wireless audio without the weight? Review Logitech's Wireless Headphones for iPod offering is back, in black and with a new, more generic moniker. The mouse maker also claims the new set's somewhat lighter to wear than its predecessor...â¦


PHOENIX -- Three models of small hybrid cars will be permitted to use car pool lanes on area freeways under an experiment that also will ban some alternative-fuel vehicles that can now use the special lanes.The federally authorized pilot project was announced Friday by Gov.


Despite criticism, Japan extending troop deployment

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet agreed yesterday to extend the deployment of Japan's 600 noncombat troops in


Police carry out forensic tests into the suspicious death of a woman whose body was found in a flat on Friday.


John Smoltz pitched a five-hitter and got the win when Jeff Francoeur hit an RBI double in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting the Atlanta Braves over the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 Friday night.


Consumer electronics giant Sony Corporation has reversed its policy and now says that it will support the popular MP3 file format for some of its portable music players.


Mr. Uemura, a Japanese makeup artist, won acclaim in Hollywood and then built an international cosmetics brand under his name.


Negotiators Approve Big Tax Cuts for Business

House and Senate negotiators approved a sprawling corporate tax bill that would shower corporations and farmers in politically sensitive states with new tax cuts.


Ma solo nel 35% dei casi si tratta di un messaggio personalizzato

ROMA - I biglietti d'auguri sono sulla via della pensione, scalzati da email e messaggini. Gli italiani hanno preferito affidare all'etere e al web i Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo. Con bilanci - solo al


Academy Lists Producers, Ending Oscar Dispute

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts  and Sciences on Thursday named the producers eligible to accept  this year's Oscar for best film, and among those excluded was a  man who waged a court fight to be listed as a producer of  Oscar-nominee "The Aviator."


Public hearings on Liberia's lengthy conflict are to start at its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.


Pakistan's Musharraf optimistic over Kashmir dispute

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf  expressed optimism on Monday about the decades-old dispute with  India over the Kashmir region saying the two countries were  focusing on reconciliation not confrontation.


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Israelis and Palestinians Agree to a Gaza Cease-Fire

The truce is expected to end the five-month Israeli military offensive into Gaza and rocket attacks from Palestinian militants


Hand Recount to Delay Wash. Governor Race Further

Washington state's unresolved race for governor will be extended further with a hand recount of the 2.8 million votes cast, after Democrats agreed to pay for another tally of the ballots which had their candidate losing to the Republican contender by 42 votes.


New Way to Help Find Quake Survivors -Sniffer Rats

Sniffer rescue dogs trained to find explosives or earthquake survivors buried in rubble may soon have some competition -- rats.


Ecuador's 1-0 win over Brazil has ended the world champions' unbeaten run in the region's World Cup qualifying competition.


Yahoo replaces CEO Terry Semel with Yang

Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel ended his six-year tenure as chief executive officer Monday and will hand over the reins to co-founder Jerry Yang in the Internet icon's latest attempt to regain investor confidence. Semel, 64, will remain chairmain in a non-executive role.


L'immobiliarista si trova nel carcere romano di Regina Coeli


A powerful storm pounded California for a second day yesterday, flooding freeways and desert roads, tossing boats ashore and triggering a rockslide that blocked Highway 1 on the central coast.


Commander of sub tells of ordeal; says Saunders was overcome with smoke

GLASGOW (CP) - The weary captain and crew of the stricken HMCS Chicoutimi told tales of heroism, fear and survival Monday in their first public recounting of the fire aboard their sub, with some expressing wonderment that they lived to tell of their ordeal.


IAEA team heads for North Korea nuclear complex

U.N. nuclear watchdog officials visiting North Korea traveled on Thursday to a reactor complex that the secretive state has promised to mothball under an aid-for-disarmament deal, Kyodo news agency reported.


Curt Schilling doesn't need a matching set of healthy ankles to be right about one thing: In this town, with this team, it always does come back to the manager. He's either a candidate for bronzing or for the hanging tree.


Rose, Broadhurst share lead at BMW event

Justin Rose shot a 6-under 66 Thursday to share the first-round lead with Paul Broadhurst in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.


The European Commission has posted a montage of sex scenes from European films on a new video-sharing Web site, drawing criticism from some lawmakers who described it as "soft porn."


Long power outage a wake-up call to be better prepared

After 36 hours of what seemed like 19th-century living, a reporter emerges with a better understanding of how fragile America's infrastructure is.


Pope Condemns Unethical Science, Cloning

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy - Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II warned in a statement released Sunday that humanity's speedy progress in science and technology risks overlooking moral values, citing with particular concern experiments in human cloning.


California's fate was in Keith Allen's hands, and the Oregon receiver dropped the ball. Geoff McArthur caught eight passes for 121 yards and two touchdowns, and fourth-ranked Cal's defense stopped Oregon near midfield with 1:39 left when Allen couldn't hold the final pass in the Golden Bears' 28-27 victory Saturday that solidified their Bowl Championship Series hopes.


With increasing signs that bird flu is becoming established in Asia and a shortage of flu vaccine in America, health officials from several nations and more than a dozen


Investment Pact May Mark Thaw in SA-Israel Relations

IN A MOVE that s uggests growing political will from the South African and Israeli governments to forge closer economic ties, the two countries sign ed a protection of investments agreement yesterday in Sandton.


No sign of life where Brazilian jet crashed

BRASILIA, Brazil  - Military searchers parachuted down on Saturday to the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed a day earlier in remote Amazon jungle with 155 people on board.


Romania Opens Coalition Government Talks

President-elect Traian Basescu opened talks Tuesday to form a coalition government with a party formerly allied with his opponent and one representing ethnic Hungarians.


it's the sport that won't die, no matter what. You can have gamblers, psychotic fans, spouses that blab and players who cork.


Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 14 people in southern China and forced 20,000 from their homes, a state news agency reported Sunday.


Study cautions when to use defibrillators

Implanting defibrillators in patients just weeks after a heart attack does not improve their chances of survival, according to an international study.


Want to travel on a private space jet? Pack nerves of steel.

. - As soon as Monday, Burt Rutan could send his split-tailed space guppy past the envelope of blue sky for the second


Concussions Kept Tintin Forever Young - Study

Comic book hero Tintin never aged during his 50-year career because the repeated blows he took to the head triggered a growth hormone deficiency, according to an analysis


The United States has been pushing "old Europe" hard, petitioning the European Union to accept Turkey - a NATO member and a major U.S. ally - into the Brussels club.


Witness to Nixon Drama Later Altered Lives in S.Md.

Charles Edward Stuart filled his life with many interests and occupations. As a young man, he co-owned and operated a radio station, worked in an advertising agency and served as an aide in the Nixon White House. Then the historic preservationist and outdoorsman became a prominent Charles County...


After Amisha Patel and Bhumika Chawla, this time singer-composer Adnan Sami will be seen with another Bollywood beauty in his new video from the album Teri Kasam.


No Country For Old Men is nominated for eight Academy Awards, with British film Atonement up for seven.


Billionaire investor George Soros tells the BBC that it will be very difficult to avoid recessions in the UK and US.


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Scientist's chimp cry wakes up Paris climate talks

Jane Goodall, the scientist renowned for her work on African primates, woke up an environmental conference at the French presidential palace by imitating the wild call of a tropical chimpanzee.


SEMPO's annual look at the State of Search Engine Marketing finds that search continues to grow, reaching $9.4 billion in North America in 2006.


An international panel headed by Nobel-prize winner Elie Wiesel released a report Thursday detailing the responsibility of Romania's pro-Nazi authorities in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Gypsies during World War II.


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Bin Laden Warns of Retaliation for Iraqi Deaths

Osama bin Laden said on Wednesday in a full Internet broadcast of a video, partly aired by Al Jazeera last week, that George W. Bush had dragged America into a quagmire in Iraq and warned of retaliation for Iraqi deaths.


HBOS eyes property group Quintain: paper

Britain's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS  Plc , is in the early stages of planning a 1.2 billion  pound ($2.44 billion) takeover bid for property group Quintain  Estates & Development Plc , The Sunday Times reported.


J.J. Abrams' television series being filmed in the Hawaiian islands has gotten a vote of confidence.


Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.52 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.


NEW YORK - Stocks were mixed in early trading Wednesday as investors digested a jump in the second-quarter gross domestic product and kept a close eye on oil prices, which still hovered near $50 per barrel.    According to the Commerce Department, the nation's GDP grew 3.3 percent from April to June, upping its previous estimate of 2.8 percent growth...


A Yemeni-American who was placed on the FBI's list of 26 "most wanted" terrorism suspects after tunneling out of a Yemeni jail with other convicted al-Qaida prisoners last year has surrendered, authorities said Thursday.


The National City Corporation said it was cutting its dividend by nearly half and shutting its wholesale mortgage division.


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I played two seasons of Little League in Queens under a cigar-chomping manager named Morty Silver. My sole distinction was winning a trophy for Best Sport, which Morty gave me for crying the least after striking out. The only other thing I remember were the scoreboards at the better fields: They were all bulbs in the days before monster television ...


Court acquits former Lithuanian president

The Vilnius District Court has acquitted former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas, the court's spokeswoman Lina Vysniauskene told Interfax following the judgement.


Several Utah Law Firms in Chambers Rankings

Chambers & Partners has announced its Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers rankings, with several Utah firms earning the top level.  The rankings were devised after in-depth interviews with clients and attorneys. More than 10,000 interviews were conducted in the U.S.


Investigations of massive corruption scandals in Kenya like Anglo Leasing will be curtailed by a new law.


South Korea's top spy under fire for Taliban mission

South Korea's spy chief is under fire for a high-profile mission to Afghanistan to negotiate the release of hostages which critics said violated the agency's motto to "work in the shade in pursuit of light".


Nintendo Wii hack opens door to homebrew games

Jeux sans frontier Security researchers have hacked into a Nintendo Wii game console to run their own code in a move that makes it far easier to develop homebrew games for the popular gaming device.â¦


22 million doses will be shipped, but health officials aren't sure how many California will get, or when. By Dorsey Griffith -- Bee Medical Writer.


US wants to clear up ex-Chinese official's remarks criticizing Bush

The United States said it would seek clarification from China over remarks by former longtime foreign minister Qian Qichen criticizing President George W. Bush on the eve of elections.


The government agrees to look into funding a first men-only refuge for victims of forced marriage.


Sick note for German firm Poorly NHS software provider iSoft Group said today that it favoured a revised buyout bid from Aussie outfit IBA Health.â¦


Il metallo prezioso scambiato a 644,08 dollari l'oncia


Volkswagen May Be Close to Settling Its Wage Talks

Volkswagen and its workers entered a critical week in their wage negotiations on Monday, with signs that a compromise was taking shape even as protests flared at factories across Germany.


Genova, 20:07 - CALCIO, GENOA: LA CAF RINVIA ESAME DEL RICORSO DI SCULLI

L'esame del ricorso presentato dal giocatore del Genoa Giuseppe Sculli per la squalifica inflittagli...


Actress Patricia Arquette is scared to give birth at home after she had a tough time giving birth to her son in 2003.


Four hundred years after King James I denounced tobacco as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs," the British government is taking heed. It announced plans Tuesday to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub that serves food.


The Who recently pulled the plug on  live Web casts of their concerts, because singer Roger Daltrey  was less than enthused about the concept, but the band is now  back on the air thanks to a deal with Sirus Satellite Radio.


Memo From India: Report Shows Muslims Near Bottom of Social Ladder

A report that found IndiaÂs largest religious minority is Âlagging behindÂ has sparked new soul-searching about Muslim rights and well-being.


Two monkeys exposed to a common pesticide for more than a year developedclassic signs of Parkinson's disease, strong evidence environmental factors may destroy key brain cells regulating movement


Whole-grain diets may help reduce blood pressure

NEW YORK  - Diets with increases   whole-grain foods, high in soluble or insoluble fiber, are   associated with a reduction in blood pressure in individuals   with slightly elevated cholesterol, according to researchers in   Maryland.


Reclusive Russian May Have Made Math Breakthrough

A reclusive Russian may have solved one of the world's toughest mathematics problems and stands to win $1 million -- but he doesn't appear to care.


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Sony Pictures & Eros to produce and distribute Indian movies

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Eros International announced yesterday that they would jointly develop, produce and acquire multiple Bollywood films and distribute them in various parts of the world.


City Room: New York City Fire Dept. Disciplines Three Officers

Three officers have been relieved of their commands as a result of the investigation into the deadly fire at the former Deutsche Bank building.


Yushchenko Makes Pledge on Regime's Crimes

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko promised today to prosecute government officials and their supporters for crimes committed during the last decade should he win the countryâs December.


It's downright strange that the US presidential election campaign - easily the most important in decades â-as come to focus on what happened in a faraway boat during the course of a few minutes more than 30 years ago.


Scams using premium phone rate lines are getting out of control, the Trading Standards Institute says.


An economist has warned that China did not raise its interest rates enough to curb inflation, the China Daily reported. Tang Min, chief economist with the resident mission


Ernie Els ousts Tiger Woods as world number two after winning the WGC in Ireland by one shot.


First direct flight from US to Vietnam after 30 years

After almost three decades of lacking direct flight, a US passenger plane on Thursday left San Francisco for Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon.


New rules on broadband switching seem to have speeded up the process of moving net firms.


As Fool Seth Jayson noted last week, Nintendo (OTC BB: NTDOY) had sold half a million of its portable Nintendo DS units within a week of their November 21 launch in the United States.


A 14-year-old boy found dead at a secure unit 150 miles from his home killed himself, a jury rules.


Lebanese crowds defy Syria at Gemayel's funeral

Tens of thousands of Lebanese paid tribute to assassinated Christian politician Pierre Gemayel on Thursday, turning his funeral in central Beirut into a display of defiance towards Syria and its Hezbollah allies.


WASHINGTON - After a long and comfortable ride, the Celtics hit a big bump in the road.


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

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


Maria Callas million dollar jewels up for auction

Jewellery belonging to the legendary late opera star Maria Callas will be put up for auction in the Swiss city of Geneva on November 17, the auctioneers Sotheby's said.


A baseball executive said that there have been preliminary conversations between the Mets and Dodgers about a trade of Mike Piazza for Shawn Green.


Internet pranksters leave British government red-faced

A British government minister may have thought he was keeping up with modern trends when he put a draft policy on the Internet, but was soon left red-faced when hundreds of pranksters defaced it.


Notebook PCs coming out this year will likely include more colorful screens thanks to LED (light emitting diode) backlights and Blu-ray Disc optical drives this year, an executive from Micro-Star International (MSI) says, as well as more environmentally friendly attributes.


Offenders to get early release to help ease overcrowded prisons

Justice Minister Lord Falconer is expected to announce Tuesday the early release of 2,000 low-risk and non-violent inmates to ease chronic overcrowding at prisons in England and Wales.


A CHEMICAL leak caused an extra job for fire fighters in Leamington.  Officers went to Heinz Frozen Foods in St Mary's Road at 12.35am yesterday after receiving reports that an unknown quantity of ammonia was leaking from a refrigeration unit.


Americans want fit finances before fit body: study

After a year of record mortgage foreclosures and slumping home prices, Americans are more determined to shape up their flabby finances in 2008 than their bodies, according to a study released by Countrywide Bank on Tuesday.


Top 10 New Features in Windows Server 2008

There are a myriad of both subtle and fundamental differences in the basic architecture of Windows Server 2008, which could dramatically change not only the way it's used in the enterprise, but also the logical and physical structure of networks where it's the dominant OS.  But which ones will mean the most to enterprise users?  We chose the ten which we believe will make the biggest difference.


Taiwanese pay their respects to the infamous crime boss Chen Chi-li, who died earlier this month.


Gunning for markets that have long been the domain of RISC-based systems, Intel yesterday delivered updated Itanium 2 processors with larger memory caches.


Reducing OS Boot Times for In-Car Computer Applications, Part III

The final installment in this series--did they meet their goal of a five-second boot?


Sulle targhe il nome dell'opera e l'anno di interpretazione


A man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of eight boys stabbed as they slept in a dormitory, Chinese officials have said.


The humbling of Don Imus has done nothing to quiet Michael Savage, a radio host with a far bigger following and far more checkered track record.


McCain holds steady lead in South Carolina

Republican John McCain holds a steady 7-point lead over rival Mike Huckabee in South Carolina two days before the state casts votes in an unpredictable presidential nominating race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Thursday.


CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., which has been transformed from Wall Street's darling into the bane of carb-conscious consumers, scaled back its expansion plans Thursday after posting second-quarter profits that fell far short of expectations...


Israeli and Lebanese forces clash on their common border as Israeli troops search for bombs, Israeli officials say.


Are tomorrow's guitar heroes playing 'Guitar Hero'?

Some claim that video games help kids hone real musical chops and interest in the instrument.


PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong arrives here today for the Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem), his first international forum overseas since taking over the reins of government in August.


French President Chirac Hints at Departure from Politics

Jacques Chirac delivers speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 4 Jan 2007 French President Jacques Chirac has signaled he will probably not seek an unprecedented third term in this year's presidential elections.Comment


Investigators try to find the cause of a hotel fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people.


England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson denied any link with the Real Madrid coaching post after their coach Jose Antonio Camacho resigned after just six games in charge.


CAIRO, Egypt - Outrage over an Israeli mistake that left three Egyptian border policemen dead dominated the headlines in Egypt Friday, as the Israeli army chief promised an investigation.


THE Springboks will need to reduce the amount of possession they give away through errant kicking sharply if they are to limit Australia's lethal counterattacking power in Saturday's tri-nations clash in Durban.


Palestinian PM urges Abbas to resume unity talks

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday urged President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks on forming a national unity coalition after the moderate leader threatened to dissolve the Hamas-led government.


David Blaine stunt ends with a crash in New York

David Blaine's latest stunt ended with a crash on Thursday when the performer escaped from shackles in a gyroscope 50 feet above New York's Times Square, leapt and fell through a plywood stage below.


TORONTO -- The Toronto Blue Jays agreed to buy SkyDome, the team's ballpark, for about $21.24 million. The 50,000-seat stadium, which opened in 1989, cost about $375 million to construct and was mostly funded by taxpayers.


MIT sues architect for crap computing-dept campus

Boffins sick of krazy-klown Picasso themepark Frank Gehry, a member of the artistic school perhaps best described as Architects Renowned for their Startling Edifices, is being sued by MIT. A $300m building he designed for the famous technical university is allegedly faulty.â¦


New Printers, TVs, iPod at Core of HP Digital Push

Mike McGuire, an analyst with Gartner G2, said HP's moves are born both out of innovation and market necessity, and that the company still faces stiff competition from the likes of consumer electronics giant Sony.


Iraq Assessments: Insurgents Not Giving Up

The recapture of Fallujah has not broken the insurgents' will to fight and may not pay the big dividend U.S. planners had hoped — to improve security enough to hold national elections in Sunni Muslim areas of central Iraq, according to U.S. and Iraqi assessments.


U.S. Senator Closes Capitol Office Citing Security

Democratic Sen. Mark Dayton said on  Tuesday he was closing his office in the U.S. Capitol complex  until after the Nov. 2 elections, citing security concerns  stemming from a classified intelligence briefing.


Groups representing torture victims of Chile's former military government reject a proposed compensation deal.


Lebanon's army is put on high alert after a massive explosion in Beirut kills former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.


Iraq: Najaf, governo approva piano proposto da Sistani

BAGDAD - E' stato approvato dal governo iracheno il piano proposto dall'Ayatollah Al Sistani per porre fine agli scontri a Najaf. L'esecutivo ha anche accettato la richiesta di concedere l'immunita' dall'arresto per il leader sciita Moqtada al Sadr.


Salt Lake, Chivas Join Western Conference

Major League Soccer's two expansion teams, Real Salt Lake and Club Deportivo Chivas USA, will join the Western Conference for the 2005 season.


Tiffany is taking it on the chin as spiking raw material costs eat into its bottom line.


Feud Leaves One Performer Onstage and Other Barred From the Tour

The Best of Both Worlds tour, starring the R & B singer R. Kelly and the rapper Jay-Z, came to a crashing end yesterday afternoon, one day after a member of Jay-Z's entourage was said to have attacked Mr.


Congo hands Ugandan LRA commander to U.N. mission

Congolese authorities handed over a  commander from Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army  to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC) on  Thursday, U.N. officials said.


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Clinton meets sea gypsies on tsunami-hit Thai island

PHUKET, Thailand  - Former  President Bill Clinton met Thai "sea gypsies" on a tour of tsunami-hit Asian countries on Saturday and called for stepped up efforts to provide permanent homes to survivors of the 2004 disaster.


Madagascar's Poor See No Benefit from Conservation

The people of Mahatsara village do not understand why they are forbidden from burning down the wild forests of eastern Madagascar.


Oracle takes over software rival PeopleSoft

Yesterday, Oracle said 75 percent of PeopleSoft shareholders tendered their shares. That officially puts Oracle in charge, moving it closer to closing the contentious $10.3 billion deal.


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Nel Leccese, l'uomo e' convivente della madre del piccolo


Stock futures dip after Yahoo, focus on Fed

Stock futures fell on Wednesday, indicating a dip on Wall Street after Internet media company Yahoo  reported a drop in quarterly profit and ahead of the Federal Reserve's rate decision.


Slammed by all sides, from  high-ranking Republicans to rival networks, CBS News vowed on  Wednesday to answer questions about the authenticity of  documents it aired in a story challenging President Bush's  military service during the Vietnam War.


Bombs kill 34 in Baghdad, 3 UK troops in Basra

A car bomb killed 25 people on Thursday at a busy intersection in Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, while 20 beheaded bodies were found on a river bank south of the capital, Iraqi police said.


Two pairs of companies are developing in-car video systems geared at making it easy for consumers — and perhaps more importantly, their kids — to access and view television programming on the go.


Parigi, 13:55 - CALCIO, AZZURRI: ITALIA ARRIVATA A PARIGI

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British diplomatic and church officials will attend a wreath-laying ceremony in Germany to mark the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden.


The Turkish Cypriot minority government resigns after abandoning efforts to forge a new coalition.


Bin Laden Urges Fighters to Strike Oil Facilities

Osama bin Laden has urged militants to  concentrate their attacks on Iraqi and Gulf oil facilities,  saying it was the most powerful weapon against America, said a  transcript of a tape played on the Internet.


Rumsfeld Gets Friendly Questions in Iraq

The questions from the troops for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were considerably more friendly on his Christmas Eve visit to Iraq than they were on his previous trip to the region a couple of weeks ago.


Ukraine president appoints rival's ally to key post

"We cannot head state institutions which are going to implement programmes that are not consistent with our vision of Ukraine's prospects."  Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Monday gave a top job to an ally of his "Orange Revolution" rival, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, but Yanukovich said he opposed the appointment. via Reuters UK


A car bomb exploded outside an air base used by US forces near Dijiel, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, the US military and police said.


Vioxx. Celebrex. Now Aleve. What's a Patient to Think?

When Audrey Eisen flicked her computer on last Monday night and read the news that the painkiller Aleve had been linked to heart attacks, she winced in disbelief.


SEATTLE -- US trade authorities, prodded by The Boeing Co., reignited a long-dormant trade war Wednesday by filing a complaint before the World Trade Organization accusing the European Union of buoying aircraft maker Airbus with $15 billion in illegal


Around here, T. Denny Sanford is not known just for the billions he made in banking — he's also known for the millions he has donated.


Greek schoolchildren form a human chain around the Acropolis to demand the UK return the Elgin Marbles.


Serb-Albanian talks on Kosovo start U.N. endgame

Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders met  in Vienna on Saturday for what could be the last time before a  United Nations plan offering independence for the breakaway  province of Kosovo goes to the U.N. Security Council.


Israel, Egypt Move Toward Warm Relations

In a series of dramatic steps capped Sunday by a high-profile prisoner swap, Israel and Egypt are moving rapidly to improve relations, seizing the opportunity for a Middle East peace deal presented by Yasser Arafat's death.


An angry mob set fire to a passenger train in central Bangladesh yesterday as they protested against a grenade attack on an Opposition rally that killed at least 18 people and injured hundreds.


A gennaio su "Topolino", sara' Frank Papertotti


Gap 3Q Earnings Meet Analysts' Estimates

Gap Inc.'s third-quarter profit improved slightly even as the clothing retailer's sales began to sag.


Marines Destroy Insurgent Post in Fallujah

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2004 - US Marine jets destroyed a known enemy command and control post in Fallujah today, US military officials in Iraq reported.


NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan have agreed to prolong a ceasefire in force in Kashmir since last year, New Delhi's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh said yesterday.


iPod Shuffle, Mac mini draw crowds at Apple Stores

MacCentral - The word of the day at Apple retail outlets in California was "Shuffle." Approximately 80 or so eager customers stood in line outside the downtown San Francisco Apple Store and 200 lined the halls of South Coast Plaza, waiting to be among the first to get their hands on the new Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle, and the iLife and iWork software suites from Apple.


EU could help Germany's Nokia workers: European Commission president

Brussels could help Nokia workers who lose their jobs when the mobile phone giant closes a factory in Germany to shift production to Romania, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barrosso said in an interview to appear on Monday.


Kyle Lohse and the Cincinnati Reds know they're in no position to be greedy.


British bank Northern Rock praying for panic to pass

Bailed-out British bank Northern Rock was hoping Sunday its attempts to reassure panicking customers would pay off as the lender tried to avoid falling victim to the global credit squeeze.


Robert W. Ingraham Joins Broadcast International As Vice President of Technology and Engineering

Broadcast International (OTCBB: BCST) ("BI") today announced that Robert W. Ingraham has joined the management team as Vice President of Technology and Engineering.


U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Reaches Grim Milestone

The American death toll in Iraq topped 1,000 on Tuesday nearly 18 months after President Bush launched the war that has become a central issue in the November U.S. presidential elections.


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Delta still not out of the woods in terms of avoiding bankruptcy

Delta Air Lines Inc. has a tentative pilot deal on concessions and much-needed breathing room. But it has not detailed the progress of its key debt restructuring efforts.


Semiconductor sales worldwide surged to a monthly record of $20.5 billion in August, fueled by higher demand for memory chips used in PCs and mobile gadgets such as cell phones and digital cameras, an industry group reported Monday.


SYDNEY Sons of Gwalia, the world's leading supplier of tantalum, appointed outside managers on Monday after failing to reach agreement with creditors.


ORLANDO, Florida  - Authorities broke up a suspected steroid ring in Florida on Tuesday that is accused of distributing anti-aging treatments to celebrities and muscle-building drugs to professional athletes.


DOW Jones has agreed to buy online financial information provider Marketwatch Inc for $US519 million ($674.9 million) in cash, or $US18 ($23.


Seven Afghan police officers are killed by US forces in an apparent "friendly fire" incident, Afghan officials say.


Broadcaster Michael Parkinson and singer Kylie Minogue are among those featuring in the New Year Honours list.


High-Tech Radiation Boosts Prostate Cancer Survival

FRIDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Most prostate cancer patients treated with high-dose, intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) were still alive and cancer-free an average of eight years after treatment, according to a large new study.


Goes mad for certifying Security firm McAfee has bought ScanAlert - the company behind the "HACKER SAFE" kitemark used to certify ecommerce websites.â¦


GIAPPONE: IL ROBOT ASIMO CORRE A 3 KM/ORA

TOKYO - Il robot umanoide Asimo ce l'ha fatta e da oggi corre a 3 km all'ora a mo' di leggero jogging. Non e' certo un record, ma per un robot che ha le pretese di assomigliare sempre di piu' ad un uomo, la


Cricket: Kumble reaches 400 test wickets

BANGALORE, India Anil Kumble, the Indian spin bowler, took three wickets Wednesday to reach 400 in test matches as the first day of the first test against Australia finished finely balanced.


Out of a Dark and Soggy Night Comes a Championship Claim

In nearly every frenzied race toward a national championship, there are unscripted moments that yank a title-contending team from the cusp of irrelevance. For Boston College, that moment was Thursday night.


LONDON -- The London and Tokyo stock exchanges announced plans Friday to develop jointly traded products and share technology, marking the latest cross-border deal between stock market operators as international competition heats up.


Maliki orders commanders launch crackdown

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq's military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a U.S.-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks killed hundreds of people in recent days.


Official: Man has less severe form of TB

The globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international public health incident by traveling while infected with tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease than previously diagnosed, a federal health official said Tuesday.


Revelations should cast Thomas in a different light

The news is not so much shocking as sad. Surely, everyone whose eyes were open suspected that Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds had been using performance-enhancing drugs for many years.


Web: Bin Laden Says Fighting in Iraq Muslims' Duty

An audio tape purportedly from al Qaeda  leader Osama bin Laden urged Muslims to wage holy war against  U.S. forces and the government in Iraq, saying they would be  committing "a grave sin" if they failed to do so.


Most Cancer Patients Unconcerned  About Doctors' Ties to Drug Firms

The vast majority of cancer patients participating in studies of experimental drugs do not  care if the doctor running the study has financial ties to the drug's maker, according to a new survey that undermines "full disclosure" as a central tenet of clinical research.


An agreement reached on Saturday by congressional negotiators on post-Sept. 11 intelligence reforms was thrown into doubt by resistance by some Republicans in the House of Representatives.


Study: Dirty air limits kids' lung development

New research shows that teenagers who grow up in heavy air pollution have reduced lung capacity, putting them at risk for illness and premature death as adults.


Melbourne, 09:21 - TENNIS, AUSTRALIAN OPEN: SERENA WILLIAMS ELIMINATA NEI QUARTI

La statunitense Serena Williams, testa di serie numero 7 e campionessa in carica, è stata eli...


New York cleans up after asbestos-tainted blast

Some New Yorkers doubted official assurances on Thursday that the air surrounding a deadly steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan was safe to breathe despite the discovery of asbestos-tainted debris.


VIENNA: Telekom Austria, seeking faster growth in eastern Europe than it can find at home, is in exclusive talks to buy Bulgariaâs largest mobile phone operator for about e1.6bn ($2.1bn), it said on Monday.


Suicide bomber kills Israeli border police

A Palestinian woman suicide bomber blew herself up near a crowded bus stop in north Jerusalem yesterday, killing two Israelis and wounding 17.


Wii a winning mix of fun, family, friends and affordability

Computer game makers and industry analysts agree that Wii is trouncing rival video game consoles due to a captivating blend of ease, fun, family, friends and affordability.


Casi sempre piu' precoci, ricoverata una bimba di 10 anni


Personal blimp sails over fields of Amherst

AMHERST -- There was one thing about flying planes that always irritated Dan Nachbar, a pilot with 23 years of experience. "The view is great," he said, "but the noise is awful."


Fifteen killed in gang clash in Nigeria oil delta

Gun battles between  rival gangs in Nigeria's southern oil-producing state of Rivers  erupted on Tuesday in violence linked to a change of governor,  killing 15 people, local rights activists said.


Firenze, 19:52 - CALCIO, ROSENBORG; HENRIKSEN: PROVEREMO A VINCERE AL FRANCHI

Non è un Rosenborg dimesso quello che giocherà domani sera a Firenze nella gara di rit...


College Basketball: Iowa Upsets No. 15 Texas

MAUI, Hawaii (Sports Network) - Jeff Horner posted 27  points while Pierre Pierce added 18 points, seven rebounds and  seven assists, as the Iowa Hawkeyes defeated a ranked team for  the second night in a row with an 82-80 victory over No. 15  Texas in the first of two semifinal contests at the Maui  Invitational at Lahaina Civic Center.


Intel Corp.'s board of directors Thursday elected current president and chief operating officer (COO) Paul Otellini as the company's next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Craig Barrett who was named new chairman of the board.


A Danish newspaper reprints a cartoon satirising the Prophet Muhammad that outraged the Muslim world.


The Quartet of Middle East mediators considers naming Tony Blair for a top peacemaking post.


Petraeus grilled over Bush's Iraq strategy

Democrats and President George W. Bush's Republicans grilled the top U.S. commander in Iraq on Tuesday, questioning whether security gains were significant enough to keep U.S. troops in the war zone.


U.S. trade representative to visit Russia for talks

U.S. Trade Representative Susan  Schwab heads to Russia late next week for expected talks on  Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization and other  issues, a U.S. trade official said on Friday.


Report: Facebook threatens to ban Gawker's Denton

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


The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights.


Expert: Russian Oil Exports May Decrease

Oil exports from Russia - the world's second-largest oil producer - may decrease within two years, a top Russian oil industry expert warned Tuesday.


Parigi, 23:40 - CALCIO, FRANCIA; COPPA DI LEGA: NANCY AGLI OTTAVI

Risultati dei 16/esimi di finale della coppa di Lega francese (tra parentesi la divisione).


Pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. "strongly" disagreed Thursday with the conclusions of a Food and Drug Administration-funded study that said use of the company's arthritis pain reliever Vioxx increased the risk of heart attack.


Popular Palestinian leader drops out of race for leader

Imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti declared in a letter Sunday that he would throw his support to mainstream candidate Mahmoud Abbas in a Jan.


Two Atlas lion cubs, extinct in the wild, born in French zoo

Two Atlas lion cubs, which are extinct in the wild, have been born in a zoo in western France, the zoo said.


Olympics Coverage Upsets Some HDTV Owners

NBC's high-definition TV coverage of the Olympics has literally and figuratively struck some owners of the fancy sets as a day late and a dollar short.


Chief Says G.E. Aims to Match the Growth Pace Set by India

G.E. plans to participate in the countryâs âmassive focusâ on energy and will create a fund for infrastructure that could reach $1 billion.


Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's health is shrouded in mystery, the extent of his thyroid cancer a closely guarded secret. Several coming events could give the public an idea about the seriousness of his condition.


Captain Michael Vaughan says England were complacent against South Africa A.


Most Americans Believe They Have Good Eating Habits

By JUAN A. LOZANO    HOUSTON  -- Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they are careful about what they eat, and even more say diet is essential to good health, according to a new nationwide health poll in which obesity ranked second among the biggest health concerns...


CORRECTION: France hopes to get EADS deal

France hopes to be able to  announce an agreement about a simplified management structure  for European defense group EADS at a summit meeting on Monday,  but Germany is in no hurry to strike a deal.


Northern Ireland's politicians are of equal standing to any in the world, former US Senator George Mitchell says.


Istat, ad agosto la variazione piu' positiva da marzo scorso


He battled back from a debilitating injury to reach the pinnacle of his profession. But even on the most rewarding day of Johan Santana's


The Back Page - Fool vs. Fool: Apple is Rotten and Macs Suck, So ...

I always enjoy The Motley Fool's Fool vs. Fool debates over a stock, especially when it's Apple they're talking about.


The Fantastic Four sequel turns out to be okay, but flat overall.


Advertising: Away From Home, TV Ads Are Inescapable

Some advertising executives think point-of-purchase advertising may yield the highest increase in sales.


All'ordine del giorno valutazione opportunita' strategiche


Torvalds comes out against EU patent directive

In the statement, issued Tuesday, the three developers argued that the legislation, called the software patent directive, would be harmful to the European economy.


Japan shocked, perplexed after 24-year-old Japanese traveler taken ...

Shosei Koda did not go to Iraq to distribute aid, reconstruct the country or strike it rich in the oil business. He was not connected with Japan's government or its armed forces.


If you wannabe her nanny, you can't be pulling stuff like this.


Obese people have double the risk of losing their sight, a report has warned.


A Ukrainian court rules that key changes to election law are unconstitutional, raising concern about Sunday's vote.


Cubans Seek to Draw Attention to Embargo

Cuba's parliament speaker blasted America's four-decade embargo against the island nation as "genocide" on Saturday, as thousands gathered to draw attention to the upcoming U.N. vote to condemn the sanctions.


By Greg Lacour, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 7--N.C. Gov. Mike Easley is continuing his order for state agencies  in 17 western N.C.


The prosecutor called it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable." But the rhetoric in such terror arrests often doesn't match the charges


After a father is jailed for killing his daughter, human rights campaigners say "honour" crimes are increasing.


Russian media commentators criticise Britain's request for the extradition of Alexander Litvinenko's alleged poisoner Andrei Lugovoi.


WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Sports Network) - Chris Paul scored 23  points and dished out 12 assists to lead sixth-ranked Wake  Forest to an 89-88 win over No. 14 Texas at Lawrence Joel  Coliseum.


Antidepressant warnings could hamper suicide

A federal advisory board is recommending that the Food and Drug Administration require all drugs used to treat depressed children come with a âblack boxâ warning of a link between the use of the antidepressants and suicidal leanings.


Eccessiva estensione della denominazione 'centri benessere'


"Ladder 49," a Hollywood action-melodrama in Hollywood's biggest, brawniest tradition, is structured like an old-fashioned western, with lots of showdowns and chases and men being men.


Its quality woes appear to be behind it and its warranty program has proven to be a big hit with consumers. What does Hyundai do for an encore?


Not long ago, her appearance in a stadium would have set flashbulbs crackling, her every step captured for posterity, the whole place lighting up like it was the first pitch of a World Series game.


U.S. air strikes target insurgents in Iraq

U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting American helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.


Eta says its campaign of violence will continue until it achieves self-determination for the Basque region.


Oil steadies after hitting five-month low

Oil steadied on Friday, having hit a   five-month low under $67 a barrel after U.S. fuel supplies rose   and BP said it might fully restore the largest U.S. oilfield   sooner than expected.


Start-Up Offers Low-Power 'Personal Supercomputers'

Lower electrical power consumption, not just greater data processing oomph, will help a new class of desktop supercomputers unveiled on Monday turn conventional industry logic on its head, its designers say.


Somalia's Islamists reject accusations that they were behind the suicide attack on the government.


Business group CBI has called on the government to slow the rate of minimum wage increases.


Loss in Population in Rural West Counties

If Gilliam County loses much more population, its wide open spaces and collection of three tiny towns — with no stoplights and 1.6 square miles for every person — could soon become a veritable nowhere.


Il presidente del Consiglio interviene a Montecitorio"Cambiamo la legge elettorale lavorando insieme"                                           Camera, Prodi chiede la fiducia  "Siamo pronti a ridurre le tasse"


A commander in Hamas's military wing was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his car as it drove through a Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, witnesses said.


Tredici mld entrate e 20,3 taglio spese, 5,5 per il cuneo


Dell Recalls Millions of Potentially Faulty Notebook Adapters

Dell has announced a massive recall of notebook computer power adapters, saying the components -- made by a company whose products caused a similar recall last month by IBM -- could overheat and spark fires or electrical shock.


Nintendo aims high with low-cost console

The console will cost only USD150, which is less than half the price that Sony is expected to charge for its PSP. Nintendo also intends releasing the DS in November, to take advantage of the US Christmas market.


Futures point to higher open as data awaited

Stock index futures were pointing to a slightly higher open on Wall Street on Thursday, as investors awaited data that could shed more light on the health of the economy.


Hungarians hold biggest protest, but PM holds on

By Alan CrosbyBUDAPEST - Protesters vowed to maintain their effort to topple Hungary's prime minister after mounting their biggest rally yet, but analysts said Ferenc Gyurcsany was likely to survive despite ...Comment


Election Victory in Major State Strengthens India's Governing ...

An election victory by the governing Congress Party in India's second-most-populous state on Saturday was expected to strengthen both the party and the minority


Gaia guru urges ocean pipes to fix Earth's climate

A series of giant pipes in the oceans to mix surface and deeper water could be an emergency fix for the Earth's damaged climate system, the scientist behind the Gaia theory said on Wednesday.


Vespas, those ultra cool Italian motor scooters, have become the hottest way to get around.


Oscar-winning filmmaker Sven Nykvist, who was legendary director Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer of choice, died Wednesday after a long illness, his son said. He was 83.


Gaza Rocket Attack Wounds 12 Israeli Soldiers

Palestinian fighters wounded 12 soldiers  in a rocket attack on Israel Wednesday, ignoring calls for a  cease-fire from Mahmoud Abbas, the frontrunner to succeed  Yasser Arafat in Sunday elections.


Muslim radicals at Islamabad's Red Mosque Thursday freed the two police officers they abducted last week


The UK games industry is celebrating all that is positive in gaming in a week-long event taking place in London.


Movie Review: Fast-paced 'Blade: Trinity' is sharper than first 2 ...

I've never been a big fan of the "Blade" series. But "Blade: Trinity" is the most entertaining of the three films.


EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen is in the media spotlight over a holiday he took with a female aide.


Iran says it is committed to nuke enrichment freeze:

[World News]: Vienna, Nov. 26 : Iran will honor its pledge to the European Union and UN nuclear watchdog to freeze uranium enrichment and all related activities, Tehran's chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday.


AIDS patients suffering from debilitating nerve pain got as much or more relief by smoking marijuana as they would typically get from prescription drugs -- and with fewer side effects -- according to a study conducted under rigorously controlled conditions with government-grown pot.


Congress passes stimulus bill and sends to Bush

The Congress passed a nearly $152  billion plan to stave off an election-year recession by sending  government rebate checks to millions of Americans and providing  business tax incentives to boost spending.


OS sales up 77 per cent year-over-year Novell narrowed losses in the third quarter, bolstered by the SUSE Linux business beginning to pull more weight.â¦


The company reported third-quarter profit of $453.1 million as the weaker dollar and strong sales in Huggies baby wipes and Kleenex tissue helped offset costs for pulp.


Judge Finds Halliburton Settlement Unacceptable

A federal judge in Dallas yesterday rejected a $6 million settlement in a shareholder suit that alleged Halliburton Co. engaged in accounting fraud, saying the lead plaintiffs' lawyer mishandled the case and may have settled for too little money.


AMA and Labor at odds over Medicare Gold

TONY EASTLEY: AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson might like to get a flak jacket and a tin helmet as he comes under continued heavy fire from the Labor Party for criticising its Medicare Gold policy for over 75's.


France and Africa must remould their relationship and change their ways, French minister Nicolas Sarkozy says.


Supporting Boys or Girls When the Line Isnât Clear

Children who do not conform to gender norms are being supported in their choice by parents and doctors.


U.S. offers $968 million for disaster technology

The government is offering $968  million in grants to help state and local public safety  agencies buy sophisticated radios and technology for  communications during disasters, the Commerce Department said  on Wednesday.


NHL accepts players union invitation to meet

NHL officials have accepted the NHL Players' Association's invitation to meet next week in Toronto and discuss a new proposal as the hockey owners' lockout nears its third month.


JazzMutant's multitouch music controller

Blog: Music controller manufacturer Jazz Mutant releases their Dexter controller this week.


And the Unexpected Olympics Winner Is...Athens

The greatest race of the Olympics  produced the most unlikely winner.


A tiny generator that harnesses vibrations to produce power has been created by British scientists.


CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Star pitcher Pedro Martinez confirmed on Tuesday that he's leaving the Boston Red Sox to join the New York Mets.


Advertising: Drivers Size Up Fords (Unknowingly) in New Campaign

Commercials for âSwap My Ride,â Fordâs new advertising campaign feature people who drove Fords for a week instead of the cars they had just purchased.


A TV company has begun legal action to get harrowing film of the Bradford City fire disaster removed from the internet.   Club officials are outraged the footage of the 1985 tragedy - in which 56 people died - is on video site YouTube.


IBM seeks dismissal in second part of SCO case

In documents filed Friday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, IBM sought the dismissal of a major component of the lawsuit filed against it last year by The SCO Group.


In-depth look at U.S. struggle to defeat improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2002.


New Ukraine Poll Looks Likely Way Out of Crisis

A new Ukrainian poll of some sort looked  increasingly likely as parliament and the Supreme Court pressed  ahead on Thursday with efforts to resolve a national crisis  over a disputed presidential election.


George Washington hangs with No. 2 Wake Forest for most of the game, but the Demon Deacons pull away in the final minutes for a 97-76 in the opening round of the Preseason NIT.


Iraqi govt launches broadside against Al Jazeera

Iraq's government on Wednesday accused Al Jazeera television, which it kicked out of the country two years ago, of helping to "spread death and destruction" in its reporting.


Periodo nel mirino dei giudici contabili parte dal 2001


What was supposed to be a tuneup turned into a stunner: Appalachian State 34, No. 5 Michigan 32.


Tomlinson Expects to Play Against Raiders

LaDainian Tomlinson missed practice Wednesday and will probably sit out Thursday because of a strained groin, but the San Diego Chargers running back expects to play against the Oakland Raiders.


Udine, 17:02 - CALCIO, LEONARDI: QUAGLIARELLA E DI NATALE RESTANO A UDINE

Sono uomini mercato, ma Quagliarella e Di Natale non dovrebbero muoversi da Udine. Lo ha detto ai mi...


Pedro Martinez confirmed on Dominican television yesterday that he has reached an agreement with the Mets, representing perhaps the flashiest signing in team history.


Police investigating the murder of a banker in Nairn say his widow is continuing to provide them with new information.


LOS ANGELES  - Donny and Marie Osmond could be making their way back to television together on the heels of their recent association with ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."


[TS] Sports of The Times: Rocky Is Shown, but Wrong Team Takes Cue

The Giants remain alive, temporarily sharing the sixth seeding and last N.F.C. wild card with the Falcons.


Spa-Francorchamps, 11:24 - F1, GP BELGIO; PRIME LIBERE: LA FERRARI DI MASSA FUORI PISTA

Probabilmente per un errore di valutazione, la Ferrari di Felipe Massa è uscita di pista dura...


Sony announced that, in partnership with IBM and Toshiba, it is working on developing a Cell chip, which is designed to deliver high-definition content in an efficient manner.


SISA announcement hot by summer standards

Blog: News last week that Cisco, EMC, and Microsoft are working on Secure Information Sharing Architecture was an exception to the industry tendency to save the juicy stuff for September.


Some Near Deadly S.C. Train Leak to Return

A week after chlorine gas leaked from a train wreck and killed nine people in this mill town, officials will let about half the 5,400 residents displaced by the accident return home Thursday morning.


Jeremy Paxman has attacked the BBC, claiming its future could be in jeopardy if it loses sight of the need for quality programming.


Aggiornamento Software per iTunes e QuickTime

Ora disponibili anche dal pannello Aggiornamento Software, gli aggiornamenti di iTunes, versione 4.7 e di Quicktime, la versione 6.5.2, giÃ  segnalati ieri come disponibili dal web. Per iTunes i miglioramenti


n the wake of a new study showing increased drug use, the hunt continues for the elusive -- more likely impossible -- prevention strategy that will keep Canadians straight and sober.


A Canadian submarine  left drifting in mid-Atlantic after a fire is expected to arrive at a Scottish naval base on Sunday.


SAN FRANCISCO -- Averting a looming court battle over how it has handled the exodus from its Internet dial-up service, AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement with 48 states and the District of Columbia.


The Pentagon releases an annual assessment as Secretary Gates prepares to speak next weekend at regional security talks in Singapore.


European stock markets suffer as euro soars

European stock markets plunged in afternoon trading on Tuesday as the single European currency set a new record high against the dollar.


IBM to introduce chip for consumer products

New York, November 29: International Business Machines Corp is set to introduce a new chip to be used in consumer products that it has developed with Sony Corp and Toshiba Corp, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.


U.S. Is Close to Eliminating AIDS in Infants, Officials Say

Mother-to-child transmission of H.I.V. has dropped so sharply that public health officials now talk about wiping it out.


Stars rock around the world for climate change

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey  - Some of the world's biggest pop stars from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Madonna performed at Live Earth concerts around the globe on Saturday to urge fans and governments to fight global warming.


Two more Indonesians were confirmed as suffering from bird flu on Tuesday and Pakistan reported its first case in a year after finding the deadly virus in a small flock of chickens near the capital Islamabad.


For months the Democratic presidential contest was about change versus experience. Now it's change versus change. Seeking to secure a theme from her presidential rivals, Hillary Rodham Clinton will begin airing an ad in Iowa and New Hampshire this week that casts her as the Democratic candidate best suited to bring about a new direction for the country.


SIF hf. plans to buy Labeyrie Group for an enterprise value of $425 million.


Kerry accuses Bush of 'reckless mistakes'

NEW YORK -- Senator John F. Kerry yesterday sharply escalated his criticism of President Bush on Iraq, accusing him of ''stubborn incompetence" and warning that if Bush is reelected, ''he will repeat, somewhere else, the same reckless mistakes that have


NRG to Submit First New Nuke Application

WASHINGTON -- Power producer NRG Energy Inc. is expected on Tuesday to submit the first application for a new nuclear reactor in the U.S. in nearly 30 years.


US warplanes today bombed insurgents in Fallujah as the American military resumed its plan to destroy houses and buildings believed to be used as hide-outs by militants.


Diana did not want Charles as King, court told

Princess Diana thought her husband,  Prince Charles, should not become king and that the crown ought  to skip a generation, one of her lawyers told the inquest into  her death on Tuesday.


The Lethal Game That Knows No Boundaries

THE video might be three hours old or three days old and Margaret Hassan might have been alive or dead by the time the distressing images were broadcast on Friday evening; there is no way of knowing.


Cutting calories in mice boosts their lifespan, not their smarts

SAN DIEGO - Severely cutting calories helps middle-aged mice live longer and healthier, but not smarter, say some Washington University neuroscientists.


EU regrets US complaint to WTO over customs system

The European Commission said it regretted Washington's announcement that it was filing a complaint against the European Union before the World Trade Organization over the EU's customs system.


British prostitutes get help as police hunt killer

Prostitutes in eastern England are being offered financial help to stay off the streets as police step up their hunt for a serial killer feared to have murdered five women, officials said on Friday.


E' quotato a 82,89 dollari, +3,2% rispetto a ieri


The Ravens spend Monday reviewing what went wrong in their 20-3 loss to the Browns and taking stock of numerous injuries.


U.S. Request For British Redeployment Poses Dilemma For London

The United States has made a controversial request to Britain to re-deploy some of its troops in Iraq.


Cocaine Smuggler Gets 30 Years in Prison

A man who admitted smuggling more than 24 tons of cocaine into the United States from 1984 to 2000 was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison.


Sean Penn to head Cannes film festival jury

American actor-director Sean Penn has been named to head the jury of the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival, organizers of the event announced on Thursday.


Timing of Report Called Inspector's Decision

As the White House's prewar claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs became increasingly discredited, the investigation by Charles A. Duelfer and his Iraq Survey Group provided a convenient out for President Bush and his aides.


Appello del premier: "Basta con questa vergogna, il governo non tollera piÃ¹"Prc: "Inaccettabile ordinanza sui siti di stoccaggio. Chiarezza su ruolo esercito"                                          Rifiuti, monito di Prodi al Paese "Serve responsabilitÃ  collettiva"


COLUMBUS, DECEMBER 9 : A man charged on stage and opened fire at a heavy metal band and fans at a crowded bar, killing four people and wounding two others before being killed by police, officials said on Thursday.


Police launched fresh raids Friday in connection with the failed terrorist plot in Britain, seizing computer files and other material from two hospitals in western Australia, the federal police chief said.


Dopo le vittorie di Huckabee in Iowa e McCain in New HampshireÃ¨ arrivata quella del miliardario mormone nel suo Stato natale                                          Il Michigan rilancia Mitt Romney si complica la corsa repubblicana                                                                                dal nostro corrispondente MARIO CALABRESI


'Disponibili a partecipare a eventuali programmi Farnesina'


An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for âpurposes of interrogation,â the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed.


NASA scientists said Friday they had recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule that crashed this week and were hopeful that the mission to gather solar atoms could be salvaged.


A report released Thursday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project says US workers are increasingly using instant messaging (IM) in the workplace, with approximately 11 million Americans logging into an IM program daily.


Interest Payments Weigh on DirecTV Earnings

The satellite TV operator said higher interest payments on its debt sent fourth-quarter earnings down 2 percent, to $348 million.


Singh shows us a side we didn't know he had

Tears did not flow, the voice did not crack, the lower lip did not quiver. But if the year in golf taught us anything, it is that Vijay Singh cannot be judged by anyone else's standards.


Livorno, 15:25 - CALCIO, UEFA: AUXERRE-LIVORNO IN DIRETTA SU TV TOSCANA

Auxerre-Livorno, gara valida per l'ultima giornata di Coppa Uefa in programma domani alle 20:45, sar...


NASA's Moon-Mars Initiative Harms Science: American Physical Society Report

A new report released by an American Physical Society (APS) Special Committee on NASA Funding for Astrophysics has questioned the space agency's Moon, Mars and Beyond initiative. The APS assessment warns that t  he cost of overcoming technological challenges to make real the plan could far exceed budgetary projections and that numerous approved science programs could be jeopardized.


Ford says Tata front-runner to buy European brands

Ford Motor Co  said on Thursday India's Tata Motors Ltd  was the front-runner to buy its European brands Jaguar and Land Rover.


Thousands of Iranians rallied near the site of a European Union summit Thursday to demand that the nations comply with a court ruling and remove an exiled Iranian resistance movement from its list of terrorist organizations.


Manchester, 14:42 - CALCIO, LARSSON SALUTA MAN UTD: TIFERO' PER VOI

Henrik Larsson ha salutato ufficialmente il Manchester United per fare ritorno all'Helsingborgs. ''S...


The pound was higher against the dollar after the minutes of the Bank of England's (BoE) last rate setting deliberations revealed a dovish stance.


TV car show host wins online backing for British PM

He's the host of one the world's  most popular television programs and now many people in Britain  apparently want him to be prime minister as well.


Rare Magna Carta to be sold at Sotheby's in NYC

A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta valued at up to $30 million is due to be sold by The Perot Foundation at Sotheby's in New York in December, the auction house said on Tuesday.


The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new release of the mature cross-platform C++ application framework.   This is the first version in the new 2.7 series. Please notice that this series is called "development" and not "stable" solely because compatibility is not assured among between different 2.7 series versions but there are no known issues with the stability of the programs using this version.  There have been many changes since the 2.6 series, please see the change log file included in the distribution for more details. The most significant additions to the GUI part of the libraries were:      - AUI (advanced user interface) library providing dockable windows and much more     - richtext library implementing wxRichTextCtrl     - New wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox controls     - New wxTreebook book-like control     - New wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls     - wxHyperlinkCtrl control  https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows


A meeting of NCP legislature party is being held in Mumbai on Monday amid reports that the Sharad Pawar-led party might give outside support to a Congress government in Maharahstra if its demand for chief ministership was not conceded.


Petruccioli, Gentiloni ci tolga da questa situazione


So while the Red Sox and Yankees still are more than a full day away from a yet another apocalyptic postseason meeting -- this is three times in six years that the world


A doctor is convicted of administering banned drugs to Juventus players in the 1990s.


U.S. industrial output growth nearly  stalled last month as production cuts at mines and utilities  nearly swamped a solid performance in factories, a report from  the Federal Reserve showed on Wednesday.


Joy and disbelief as fans celebrate Giants victory

"Unbelievable" was the most common word on the lips of New York Giants fans on Monday after their team's stunning Super Bowl win over the previously perfect New England Patriots.


Actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday, possibly of a drug overdose, New York City police said.


A couple and their grandchild are taken hostage at their home in the Greater Belfast area.


Redskins Seek to Restructure Contracts for Salary Cap Space

The Redskins have begun contacting agents for several key players, attempting to create additional space under the 2007 salary cap, and reworked wide receiver James Thrash 's deal last week, according to sources with knowledge of the situation who requested anonymity because some of the negotiations...


The sharp-shooting Suns have their highest point total of the season in a 133-118 win over the Knicks.


Scientists have discovered that a key cancer gene also plays a role in repairing damaged nerve cells. The Cancer Research UK team hope their finding could lead to new treatments for spinal injuries.


New York, 10:46 - BASKET, NBA: VINCONO DALLAS, TORONTO E SAN ANTONIO

Risultati delle gare del campionato Nba disputate nella notte. Nel successo di Toronto 8 punti e 11 ...


''Inflazione quest'anno e il prossimo sopra la media''


Architects unveiled the designs for three office towers at the World Trade Center site Thursday, including a skyscraper topped by four shining diamonds that would light up lower Manhattan at night.


Electronic Arts will bring Spore to the Mac this year

The highly anticipated new video game from 'The Sims' creator Will Wright, as expected, will be released on the Mac and PC platforms simultaneously.


The broadest measure of the country's trade and investment flows registered a record deficit of $164.7 billion in the third quarter.


Sevilla's Ramos front-runner to take over from Jol at Spurs

Sevilla coach Juande Ramos has emerged as the front-runner to take over from Martin Jol after the Dutchman was sacked by struggling Premiership club Tottenham.


Arts & entertainment: Andrew Rawnsley argues that the self-pitying Alastair Campbell has unwittingly cast the New Labour years as an endless soap opera.


Fewer Tune in to Second Bush-Kerry Debate

The second Bush-Kerry presidential debate drew a smaller audience than the first but viewer interest remained high, according to ratings figures released Monday.


Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt reveled in Sen. David Vitter's admission of a "very serious sin" involving an escort service and said Wednesday he's got leads on embarrassing sexual activities involving other members of Congress.


Mining giant BHP Billiton, which aims to buy rival Rio Tinto, reports record half-year production levels.


Now free, Jenkins arrives to live on Japanese island with family

US deserter and former Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins arrived Tuesday on a remote Japanese island, where he said he hoped to "live my remaining days with my wife and children.


The lake-effect squalls that have buried parts of upstate New York in nearly 12 feet of snow finally ended Monday, leaving road crews with the task of clearing snow piled as high as street signs.


Jane Fonda at 70, still stirring controversy

Movie star, fitness guru and activist Jane Fonda has aged but remains consistent in all the things that matter to her.


Radio Telescope And Its Budget Hang in the Balance

ARECIBO, Puerto Rico -- In the tangled forests of Puerto Rico's steamy interior, suspended by steel cables strung from 300-foot towers, an array of antennas hangs above an aluminum bowl 1,000 feet in diameter that gazes into space.


U.S. General Asks for More NATO Trainers

U.S. allies in Europe have so far mustered fewer than 100 trainers to go to Iraq to assist in the modest NATO mission there, but a top American general said Thursday he was hopeful they would offer several dozen more in the coming weeks.


The 11-day Venice Film Festival winds up   on Saturday after a red carpet award ceremony on the glamorous   Lido beach front, with British entry "The Queen" and   Hollywood's "Bobby" favorites to take away the main prize.


Death toll of 50 is highest for 20 years as debris hampers rescue in eight southern states