Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn meets with delegation of European Parliament

During today meeting Volodymyr Lytvyn informed the delegation about the internal situation in the country and ways of its settlement.


Lawyer: Crime Stoppers official attacked

The head of a crime tipsters group was attacked by a man with a baseball bat and told to drop a lawsuit against a philanthropist over an unpaid reward, the man's attorney said Monday.


Karzai aborts trip after rocket hits near landing site

Afghan President Hamid Karzai aborted his first election campaign trip outside the capital yesterday after a rocket shot over his helicopter as he was landing in southeastern Gardez and exploded nearby.


Dirigente Fi risponde a premier: 'Da noi critiche legittime'


CDC Flu Plan Aims to Guard Those at Risk

The government moved Tuesday to direct scarce remaining flu shots straight to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for the patients who need them most.


Blog: VA Software has become SourceForge after selling its collaborative programming software to erstwhile rival CollabNet.


Single mom wants to make most of financial assets

Your Portfolio:  Each month a financial planner reviews a reader's portfolio and suggests improvements.


Cheap dietary supplements could protect young children from malaria, a study suggests.


Faint praise, candid criticism of Chirac by press

French newspapers mustered polite praise for Jacques Chirac on Monday, one day after France's veteran leader announced he would not seek another term as president, while at home and abroad there was also candid criticism of his record in office.


US President George W Bush and his challenger John Kerry prepare for what is set to be a critical second TV debate.


Northwest Airlines rescinds travel agent fee

Northwest Airlines has ended its controversial attempt to raise the cost of air travel when it's booked through third parties.


Roma, 19:26 - VELA, COPPA AMERICA: MASCALZONE LATINO APPOGGIA ORACLE

Vincenzo Onorato, patron di Mascalzone Latino, prende posizione a favore di Oracle nelle disputa con...


Boeingâs Delta IV rocket not up to the mark

Boeing Co.'s Decatur-built Delta IV heavy-lift rocket failed to put a dummy satellite payload in the orbit it was supposed to.


Rain was forecast to move from the Mississippi Valley into the East on Monday as a cold front pushes through the region. Strong storms were expected to the east of the Mississippi.


Microsoft puts in Stirling work for unified security Nirvana

Also: Visual Studio and SQL Server updates Microsoft is prepping a security software suite that will take it deep into Symantec and McAfee heartland. They won't be quaking in their boots just yet: the suite, called Stirling, hits the streets in 2009, at the earliest.â¦


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


Slovenians Vote in Parliamentary Elections

Slovenians were voting Sunday in parliamentary elections that could snap the center-left's grip on power held virtually since the country gained independence from the old Yugoslav federation in 1991.


Brian Ching did it again, putting the United States in good position to advance to the regional finals of qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.


Boeing gets $5.5 billion Korean Air order

Boeing Co.  scored one of its biggest orders so far this year on Tuesday as Korean Air Co.  said it would buy 25 passenger and freighter aircraft worth $5.5 billion, sending the U.S. planemaker's shares to an all-time high.


By Traci Watson  Hailstones as big as golf balls put more than 7,000 dings into space shuttle Atlantis' fuel tank Monday night and may delay the ship's launch from March until June, NASA officials said Tuesday.


Milano, 19:20 - CALCIO, KAKA' QUERELA RIVISTA GAY PER FOTO SOSIA NUDO

Kakà minaccia di querelare la rivista brasiliana 'G-Magazine', rivolta a un pubblico gay, se ...


Russian Post has started delivering 4.5  tonnes of letters and parcels that were sent from the United  States in 1999.


Mobile phone firm Vodafone is to enter the UK fixed-line broadband market after striking a deal with BT Group.


Focused Tiger has fireworks up his sleeve

HAL Sutton was hardly rationing compliments yesterday when he identified Tiger Woods as one of the greatest putters who ever lived.


SEOUL -- While Americans have been blitzed with news about the iPhone's debut, many in South Korea's and Japan's technology industries initially greeted Apple's flashy new handset with yawns.


Golf: Singh grabs two-shot lead in PGA event

NORTON : Vijay Singh shot an eight under 63 on Saturday to grab the lead in the second round of the five million-dollars PGA event and is now seriously challenging Tiger Woods for the world No 1 ranking.


Former Olympic champion Michael Johnson claims Britain's top sprinters lack pride and ambition.


Despite the strength of "The Incredibles," profits at Pixar Animation Studios dropped 34 percent in the fourth quarter from a year ago, when "Finding Nemo" DVDs went on sale.


Does this 'multimedia monster' shape up? Review After years of flogging the Razr to death, and some very uninspired siblings, Motorola finally has something interesting to offer for the more demanding end of the market. The Z8, announced in May and available in the UK this week, is a well-designed capable media phone. But the Z8 is a rare thing in this day and age: a product the manufacturer actually cares about.â¦


Ma a Jenin le Brigate Al Aqsa al voto con armi in spalla


Charges Hurt 2 Drug Companies; Lilly Beats Estimates

Novartis and Wyeth reported that third-quarter earnings were hit by charges, while Eli Lilly beat expectations as sales of several of its drugs outpaced analystsâ estimates.


England's Matthew Hoggard is "extremely doubtful" for the first Test against India after suffering a back spasm in practice.


A range of measures is needed to encourage people to quit smoking, Health Secretary John Reid said today. Dr Reid was speaking ahead of publication of the Government


Amateur anglers have a significant and possibly damaging impact on certain sea-fish populations, scientists claim. The Science magazine study says the US's 10 million saltwater recreational anglers may need better regulation.


At first glance it was just another prosaic headline. "'Militants' prevent resumption of work in the seaports," Haaretz said.


In an Eastern Congo Oasis, Blood Amid the Greenery

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- They heard the gunshots around 3 p.m., at least two pops that echoed across the green mountains of this vast park tangled up in vines, fallen trees and years of war.


Candid princess Diana video airs on US television

A videotape of Diana, the late princess of Wales, talking frankly about her sex life with Prince Charles and suggesting that a lover on her royal staff was "bumped off" was broadcast on US television.


HTC to use Qualcomm chips in 10 handsets this year

(InfoWorld) - Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest developer of smartphones that use Microsoft software, plans to launch more thanÂ 10 mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants) armed withÂ Qualcomm chipsÂ by the end of this year, the companies said Wednesday. HTC is the first company to launch smartphones based on Qualcomm's latest chip sets, the dual-core Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM7500. The company will use another chip set in the family, the MSM7200, in several of the Qualcomm-based handsets it plans to release by the end of this year. HTC has been working with Qualcomm for years, and its technology is already inside the HTC Mogul and Titan II handsets, said Peter Chou, the CEO of HTC, at a news conference in Taipei. The company has aimed some of the handsets at the U.S. market, but it shouldn't run into any problems from anÂ import ban related to certain Qualcomm chips, said Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, at the news conference. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)Â banned the import of new models of phones and PDAsÂ that hit the market after June 7 and contain certain Qualcomm chips, as the result of aÂ patent infringement disputeÂ between Qualcomm and rival Broadcom. Some companies have foundÂ ways to work around the import banÂ through licenses with Broadcom. Verizon Wireless last month agreed to pay Broadcom $6 for every handset, PDA (personal digital assistant) or data card that uses the mobile broadband technology at the heart of the dispute, EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized). Jacobs also said his company remains in discussions with Broadcom over the issue and he expects to reach a deal at some point. "Broadcom wants to be in the chipset business, so they'll need some licenses from us," he said. Â


Forty-nine people were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger train packed with commuters and a goods train in Athens on Thursday morning, police said.


(InfoWorld) - The Demofall show has never had quite the cache of the bigger Demo conference, but itâs still a fun time, as startups from across the tech sector give their patented six-minute pitches for why their companyâs product will change the world. This yearâs show will feature 66 companies, with products ranging from core infrastructure to enterprise middleware, security, and mobile and wireless services, said Chris Shipley, executive producer of Demo. âItâs a wide-angle lens of what the marketplace is doing now,â she said. Java will be the thread that ties many of the Demo companies together. About 50 percent of vendors involved are offering products based on the platform, Shipley said. Platform considerations aside, there are a few companies in the âthatâs just coolâ category this year. Among them is BuzzLogicâs eponymous technology for performing business intelligence in the blogosphere. BuzzLogic gauges what is being said about a specific product, Shipley said. Topping the âgee-whizâ category is stealth-mode startup Ringcube Technologies, which will demonstrate its MojoPac virtualization and encapsulation software that allows you to run Windows 2000, XP, or Vista from any USB 2.0-compliant storage device. Simply plug your device into a host computer, and your desktop appears, applications and file system included, with no client to install and no files left behind. Translation: Your iPod is now your desktop. Jajah, meanwhile, is offering J2ME (Java 2 Mobile Edition) technology that uses VoIP messaging to circumvent long-distance calling charges from cell phones. With everyone trying to muscle in on Appleâs iTunes monopoly, Zing Systems and Sirius Satellite Radio are getting together to create an end-to-end service for music downloads, Shipley said. Also featured at the show is a keynote presentation on future technologies by John Patrick, president of the Altitude consultancy and a former IBM executive, who is expected to discuss mobility and applied nanotechnology.


Buttiglione bows out to resolve EU crisis

Rocco Buttiglione, the Italian nominee to the European Commission whose views on homosexuality resulted in an impasse with MEPs, yesterday decided to step aside.


A replica Viking ship heads across the North Sea as it tries to recreate the voyages of early Norsemen.


BellSouth: $3.3 Bln Rise in Benefit Costs

BellSouth Corp. BLS.N said on  Wednesday its new labor contract had triggered a $3.3 billion  increase in its estimates of future retiree medical costs,  reducing fourth-quarter earnings by 3 cents to 4 cents a share.


Investigators find likely cause of Genesis capsule crash

JEFFERSON COUNTY - A preliminary investigation shows faulty switches caused the parachute system of NASA's Genesis mission to fail.


Bush campaign fires adviser on veterans issues

The Bush campaign dismissed an adviser on veterans issues late Saturday after learning he was part of an independent group that has been running anti-Kerry ads,news reports said Sunday.


Bush, Kerry Take on Economy, Iraq in Labor Day Rallies

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, fresh from a campaign revamp and slipping in the polls, tried to focus on the economy on Monday but instead offered new criticism of the Iraq war, while President Bush touted his tax reform.


Intel Shelves Plan to Turn Desktop Into Wi-Fi Hub

An ambitious plan to turn millions of desktop computers into hubs of wireless Internet access has been shelved after PC makers balked at the price of the feature, Intel Corp.  said on Monday.


Plane carrying up to 18 people lost off Venezuela

A plane vanished off the coast of Venezuela on Friday carrying up to 18 people, including eight Italians and an American, rescue officials and the Italian government said.


'Target devono essere piu' ambiziosi o rischi per il 2008'


Roma, 10:52 - CALCIO, LIVORNO; ORSI: ABBIAMO RITROVATO LA SERENITA'

Ai microfoni di 'Radio Anch'io Lo Sport' il tecnico del Livorno, Fernando Orsi, ha parlato del pareg...


A federal judge has temporarily blocked Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to the United States, from removing real estate sales proceeds from the United States pending resolution of a class-action lawsuit.


More web surfers abandoning the good ship Internet Explorer

Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer, is continuing its slow but steady slide in market share. According to fresh numbers from web metrics firm Websidestory, IE's share has slipped 1.8 per cent in the last three months.


Musical celebrities turn out in force to support Sir Elton John at the London premiere of his new film.


Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Derrick Burgess will miss the rest of the regular season with a chest injury.


So Google Is Almost Public. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Google, whose initial stock offering was delayed by the S.E.C., must prove that its success is not an accident.


The Williamstown Theater Festivalâs new season includes productions of âShe Loves Meâ and âThree Sisters.â


A leak from a gas canister after a party at a mountain hostel in eastern Spain kills 18 people.


British Energy Falls After Action Against Investors

British Energy Plc shares plunged for a second day after the UK electricity producer took action to fend off investors who are trying to get more money out of the company's debt-restructuring plan.


The jury in the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector is expected to retire shortly to consider its verdict.


Former Prime Minister Tony Blair joins US investment bank JPMorgan in a part-time advisory role.


Usa. Tensione alla vigilia della Convention, due arresti per ...

Nell'epoca della guerra al terrorismo, la Convention di George W.Bush a Manhattan sarÃ  protetta con la tolleranza zero. Alla vigilia della grande manifestazione prevista per oggi intorno al Madison Square


The robbery of Â£22m from a Belfast bank was a carefully planned heist by professional criminals, say police.


Michelle Williams broke her silence Friday, saying her "heart is broken" over Heath Ledger in her first statement since the "Brokeback Mountain" actor's death.


Clinic plans first transplant of a human face

Someone severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using skin and underlying fat from an organ donor.


Recycling Centers Stay Open, but Hours Cut

By Christopher Curry, Ocala Star-Banner, Fla.  Jun. 12--OCALA--It was like a scene from the twilight zone. Some 200  people packed the County Commission chambers Monday, and many asked to have  their taxes raised.


Oil Scales New High as Norway Strike Hits

LONDON -- Oil scaled a new high above $55 a barrel Monday as a threat by Norwegian ship owners to halt production from the world's third biggest exporter stoked fears of a winter supply crunch.


Report: Google to establish R&D center in Singapore

(InfoWorld) - GoogleÂ on Wednesday appeared to back away from a newspaper report that it plans to establish a research and development (R&D) center in Singapore -- even though the company's Web site lists a job opening for the director of such a center. On Tuesday, Singapore's Straits Times reported that Google plans to establish an R&D base in the small Southeast Asian country. The report quoted Richard Kimber, Google's managing director of sales and operations in Southeast Asia, saying the company had picked Singapore because of its "very vibrant ICT space." ICT stands for information, communications, and technology. Google later appeared to back away from that report. "We're continually exploring opportunities to further our investment in Singapore and around the world, which includes actively hiring local talent across various positions. We do not have anything to announce at this time," Google said in a statement released through its public relations firm. Despite that statement, Google is looking to hire an engineering center director for Singapore. A posting on Google's Web site, said the company is looking to hire someone with "experience building a world-class R&D organization" to head an engineering center in the Southeast Asian city-state. The job opening is one of several available in Singapore, where Google is looking to build a stronger presence in Southeast Asia. Google already has R&D centers in China, India, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan to tap local engineering talent and expertise in areas such as wireless and mobile technologies. These centers also help the company localize its various advertising and search services.


Democrats want timeout on special-interest money

Democrats taking control of Congress  next month say they will try to ban for the remainder of fiscal  2007 the special-interest "pork" projects that got Republicans  in so much trouble with voters in the November elections.


A Pacific storm will move slowly eastward from the Northwest to the northern Rockies on Wednesday, bringing showers and thunderstorms to parts of the intermountain West, Rockies and northern Great Plains.


At some point in the third quarter, on the scoreboard at Lane Stadium where the Hokies' total yards were displayed, the number, strangely enough, kept getting smaller.


Boston College has found some tension-filled ways to stay unbeaten early in the season.


The real estate and travel company says it will continue to look for a buyer of its mortgage business.


Vice Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. continues the case to hear additional testimony on PeopleSoft's poison pill.


Oggi il Papa proclama cinque nuovi beati, facendo salire a 1.338 il numero delle beatificazioni celebrate durante il suo pontificato. Saranno beatificati, in piazza San Pietro, la mistica tedesca Anna Katharina


VATICANO - Tradotto anche in swahili il Messaggio del Santo Padre Benedetto XVI per la Giornata Missionaria Mondiale 2006: ÂUpendo, Kiini Cha UmisionariÂ CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - EÂ stato tradotto anche nella lingua swahili il testo del Messaggio del Santo Padre Benedetto XVI per la Giornata Missionaria Mondiale 2006, che sarÃ  celebrata domenica 22 ottobre. La traduzione del Messaggio, che...


Australia regulator says examining Qantas takeover

Australia's competition regulator said  on Friday it has started a review into an $8.7 billion buyout  offer for Qantas Airways Ltd.  from a group led by  Macquarie Bank Ltd.  and private equity firm Texas  Pacific Group.


Joe Davidson: Access to Info in Kobe Bryant Trial

Description: Jury selection got underway Friday in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault trial in Eagle, Colo. News organizations have argued that limits on media access inside the courtroom does not let them fully cover the story.


Mulder to Cards make rebuilding official

After failing to reach the postseason for the first time in five seasons, Oakland traded lefthander Mark Mulder to the Cardinals, just two days after dealing another member of its Big Three, righthander Tim Hudson, to the Braves.


Presidential Debate will Center on Iraq and Economy

(CBN News) - President Bush is getting ready for what is being billed as a "significant" speech Wednesday. It will focus on the top two issues of the President's campaign: the war on terror and the economy.


President Bush pressured Congress yesterday to pass legislation limiting jury awards for medical malpractice, saying the legal system favors attorneys who file baseless cases that drive up the cost of healthcare.


LONDON: Marc Almond, the singer who came to fame in the 80s pop duo Soft Cell, was in a critical condition in a London hospital last night after suffering severe head injuries in a motorbike crash.


Shah Rukh Khan and troupe will perform two shows in South Africa at Durban and Sun City.


Manchester, 15:11 - CALCIO, ROMA: OFFERTA DEL MANCHESTER UTD PER VUCINIC

Il Manchester United sarebbe sulle tracce di Mirko Vucinic, attaccante della Roma. Secondo quanto ri...


After an eventful Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise, championship leader Sebastien Bourdais proclaimed himself happy with the runners-up spot after Newman Haas team-mate Bruno Junqueira claimed the race win.


U.S. insurers catastrophe claims comparatively low in '07

U.S. property and casualty insurers are expected to pay $6.5 billion in losses from 23 catastrophes during 2007, much of it from California wildfires, according to ISO, a company that supplies statistical information for the industry.


China calls on World Bank to help small cotton producers hit by ...

GENEVA : China called on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help small textile and clothing exporting countries that are threatened by the end of import quotas at the end of the year.


Shareholders of Meta Group (META:Nasdaq - news - research) got a late Christmas present Monday when Gartner (IT:NYSE - news - research) said it would buy the research shop for $10 a share, or $162 million.


IBM has added a new management application with the ability to oversee both its high-end array and its SAN Volume Controller virtualization device. The company's mid-range IBM DS4000 arrays now have RAID 6 capability and the N-Series NAS array has virtualization capability with the ability to create a single global name space.


North Carolina to Challenge Duke's Defense

The players at Duke often show their commitment to defense by slapping the floor, a largely symbolic gesture made during the transition from offense to defense. On Wednesday, against No. 2 North Carolina, they probably won't have time.


For college swimming coach, science is the key to winning

In the 1960s, when it wasn't the norm for teenagers to own their own cars, Springfield College student Bob Goldberg used a motor scooter to travel the 90 miles between the campus and his home in Watertown.


An apparent suicide bombing in a crowded Tel Aviv open-air market Monday killed at least five people and seriously injured more than 30 others.


News.com Extra: Third submarine Internet cable severed

Also: U.S. cyberwar games turn into hacker melee. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.


Harrington still cannot believe he is Open champion

New British Open champion Padraig Harrington was still in a state of disbelief on Monday after securing his first major victory by beating Spain's Sergio Garcia in a four-hole playoff.


Genova, 19:53 - CALCIO, GENOA: GASPERINI MEDITA IL TURNOVER PER L'INTER

Allenamento pomeridiano defatigante per il Genoa in vista della gara contro l'Inter. Ancora out Papa...


EDITORIAL: Yes to H-1 Overlay: Hollywood Area Deserves Protection

By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 26--On Thursday, the Urban County Council should vote to make Hollywood Lexington's 15th protected historic neighborhood.   The path to this final vote has been tortured and doesn't need to be repeated here.


Halliburton Has More Time to Verify Costs

The U.S. Army had granted Halliburton a third extension to substantiate its costs in Iraq and Kuwait.


KB Home  posted a quarterly loss of nearly $773 million on Tuesday with abandonment and impairment charges as the U.S. housing market braced for another rough year in 2008.


When Allen Iverson first played against the Philadelphia 76ers, he took shots at them before, during, and after the game.


Protesters demonstrate outside 'Guantanamo UK' jail in London

Human rights activists protested outside a top-security jail in London where some foreign nationals have been detained without trial for almost three years under controversial anti-terrorism laws.


A ottobre a quota 80,9 da 83,4 del mese precedente


U.S. Unit Shoulders Burden At Police Station in Baqubah

BAQUBAH, Iraq -- It took nearly a month to build the tiny bunker on the roof of this Iraqi police station. The U.S. soldiers worked at night to avoid snipers, carrying sandbags up four flights of stairs in the dark.


Davenport rallies in LA; Serena clinches semifinal berth

Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - World No. 1 American Lindsay Davenport earned a three-set win over compatriot Serena Williams in round-robin action Saturday at the season-ending WTA Championships.


Guantanamo changes too little, too late: Britain

New U.S. rules for war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo fail to correct fundamental flaws that are undermining Western efforts to defeat global terrorism, the British government's top lawyer said on Monday.


Top English football club wages are set to break the Â£1bn barrier for the first time in the Premier League's history, a report says.


UN troops and police in Haiti try to curb pro-Aristide violence

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Enraged supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide armed themselves with machetes, guns, rocks, and bottles and roamed a downtown slum, threatening to behead foreigners after UN peacekeepers and Haitian police arrested dozens yesterday.


OMX says board recommends Borse Dubai offer

OMX  said on Wednesday its board had unanimously recommended a takeover bid by Borse Dubai, which had teamed up with U.S. firm Nasdaq  to purchase the Nordic and Baltic exchange owner.


OLD HOME WEEK: Virginia Tech and North Carolina haven't met in the regular season since 1946, but the programs have a history with each other.


Saudi Arabia, where movie theaters are banned, has something new to look forward to, Agence France-Presse reported, citing the English-language newspaper Arab News: its first official film festival. On May 20 a five-day competition underwritten by the government will feature films from Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf and Arab states. Planned as an annual event and including the participation of film critics from the region for the first time, the festival will take place in the eastern city of Damman under the auspices of the Damman Literary Club and the Saudi Society of Arts and Culture. Films were exhibited in private clubs in Saudi Arabia until all public screenings were banned in the early 1980s on the ground that they contravened Islamic law. Nevertheless, cafes in main cities show films, sports and video clips on large-screen televisions.


A protester dressed in a Batman costume scaled the front wall of Buckingham Palace Monday, reaching a ledge near the balcony where the royal family appears on ceremonial occasions.


The president of Ivory Coast urges foreigners fleeing the violence in his country to stay.


New York Convention Security Prompts Relocations, Vacations

Money manager James Awad said there is no point staying in New York during the Republican National Convention this week, when the city's police will mount their biggest security operation


A drug used to treat breast cancer would not be good for preventing the tumours occurring in the first place, say researchers.


E' successo a Caravaggio, nella Bassa Bergamasca


Celebrex continues to sell, while Vioxx got yanked. Courts, doctors, patients, and investors will decide which approach is better.


Rice calls for end to Palestinian violence

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Palestinians to end violence and look into forming a government that wins international acceptance.


US oil prices held above $46 a barrel on Tuesday on worries of a major supply disruption at a time when producers are pumping at full tilt to meet strong demand.


A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers, and Iraq's prime minister warned residents of insurgent bastion Fallujah on Wednesday to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or face military action.


Shark's head cut off to free Australian fisherman

A shark bit an Australian fisherman's leg so tightly on Sunday that fellow fishermen had to cut its head off to free the man.


Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.


Novels published this month take us, among other places, inside the lives of young doctors, to post-World War II Japan and into the world of Shakespeare scholarship.


Breast cancer theory supports African folklore

Scientists who have proposed a controversial theory that surgery to remove a breast tumor may actually help the cancer to spread said on Wednesday their ideas may also explain why black women have been more likely to die of breast cancer in the past.


Shari Redstone may leave Viacom board: source

Viacom Inc.  Vice Chairman Shari Redstone may leave the board over a falling out with her father, Chairman Sumner Redstone, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.


Ismael Valdez pitched six solid innings, Jeff Conine drove in all three runs and the Florida Marlins averted a series sweep by beating the Atlanta Braves 3-0 on Sunday.


A Long-Running Mystery, the Common Cramp

Medical textbooks skirt the topic, often avoiding any explanation. But as anyone who has ever complained of cramps will attest, lots of advice is circulating on how to avoid them.


Read and Write ICO,BMP formats in 100% pure Java   Been a long time in the making, but I've finally gotten round to the final release for 0.7  The library appears to be stable, hence my decision to finalize the current release.  Thanks to Olivier Le Tiec for reporting a bug with irregular icons (width != height), together with the necessary bug fix.  Thanks for using image4j!


He ducked into the bathroom behind the dugout to catch his breath. It wasn't just because of the four home runs he had just hit, a historic feat for anyone, let alone a Red Sox minor leaguer (the last time that happened in a game was 1949). It was also to remember the man who had made it all possible, ...


Deloitte and Banks to Pay $455 Million to Adelphia Investors

Deloitte & Touche, Bank of America and 38 other banks have agreed to pay $455 million to settle a lawsuit with Adelphia investors.


There should be plenty of money and holiday cheer for everyone in town as Hollywood edged near the $10 billion mark at the domestic box office for the first time.


County to Study River Bike Path: Big Trail: Pointes to Brownstown

By Zachary Gorchow, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 11--Bicyclists love a route that takes them through a natural setting, and a path that stretches the length of the Detroit River could be a major draw for casual and serious bikers alike.


Powell in Seoul for more talks on Pyongyang's nuclear push

The American Secretary of State Colin Powell is in South Korea on the third and final leg of his current Asian tour aimed at revitalising stalled talks on curbing North Korea's nuclear ambitions.


Europe's main stock markets were mixed on Thursday, with Frankfurt lifted by news of a possible takeover bid for German truckmaker MAN, analysts said.


Election Workers Kidnapped in Afghanistan

A UN worker piles up the materials and equipment at the counting center after completing the counting of votes in Kabul on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.


Militants try to flee Lebanon camp as 20 killed

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - At least 20 Islamist militants were killed in a battle with the Lebanese army on Sunday when the fighters tried to flee a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, a security source said.


Six people, including two children, are taken to hospital after a fire in the Leith area of Edinburgh.


Celtics among first to join NBA scoring spree

The numbers jump out at you each day, to the point where you think they must be misprints.


Gateway Bank Announces New Financial Center in Raleigh, North Carolina

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 27, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Gateway Financial Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:GBTS), the holding company for Gateway Bank & Trust Co., has announced the opening of its second financial center in Raleigh, North Carolina.


Siniscalco: va tutelato il potere d'acquisto

Una Finanziaria Â«razionale e condivisaÂ», che tenga sotto controllo l'andamento della spesa pubblica, mettendo un tetto del 2% alle amministrazioni, per cogliere l'obiettivo dei parametri di Maastricht. Ma


Sudan Says U.N. Sanctions Would Destroy Society

Sudan said Saturday that U.N. sanctions, threatened over atrocities in the Darfur region, would lead "this society to a complete destruction."


Emotions are finally settling down in the entertainment industryâs bubbling cauldron of labor disputes.


Allstate, Other Insurers Face New Loss From Frances

Allstate Corp., St. Paul Travelers Cos., Ace Ltd. and other insurers face as much as $10 billion in losses after hurricane winds battered Florida for second time in three weeks.


Chile's Supreme Court ruled Friday that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori can be extradited to Peru on five corruption and two human rights abuse charges.


Rice Defends Her Integrity in Clash Over Iraq

Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended her integrity and honesty  as she clashed with senators about Iraq and vowed to press  diplomacy to repair ties strained by the war.


France's president vows to cut thousands of civil service jobs, as unions threaten strikes over pension reform.


A suicide attack in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday injured six people, including two international peacekeepers, police said.


Pope Benedict XVI decried the collapse of marriages, telling tens of thousands of young Catholics Saturday that he was praying that a crisis in traditional family values doesn't become an "irreversible failure."


XM-Sirius Merger Hinges on FCC Ownership Rule

Winning approval for a proposed merger of the nation's two satellite-radio companies turns on whether regulators buy their argument that iPods, Internet radio and other new technologies have expanded so dramatically that a monopoly would not harm consumers' choices or purses.


A special prosecutor aims to hold former political leaders accountable for deaths and disappearances during the country's "dirty war."


Text of President Bush on Monday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.


U.S. TV torture scenes trouble human rights activists

Desperate to get answers from a terrorism suspect who is refusing to talk, steely eyed U.S. intelligence agent Jack Bauer bursts into an interrogation room and shoots the prisoner in the leg.


The never-ending drive to increase productivity has produced new -- and sometimes nuanced -- ways to get more out of the technology you already have.


SOME INDUSTRY OBSERVERS had predicted that BenQ had shot itself in the foot by promoting its own branded mobile handsets at the recent European footie (soccer) fest in Portugal.


A "promiscuous 10%" of the population is at the heart of the UK's sexual health crisis, experts have warned.


In a game against the Knicks in the 1994 NBA Eastern Conference semifinals, Scottie Pippen refused to take the floor with 1.8 seconds remaining after Phil Jackson designed a potential game-winning play for Toni Kukoc rather than Pippen.


CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp. 6758.T on Friday cut   the price of its new game machine PlayStation 3 by 20 percent   in Japan, in a surprise move that will attract more customers   but likely widen losses in its game division.


We are shocked and appalled to learn of the death of seventy-eight Muslims in southern Thailand after some 1,300 protesters had been herded into trucks following a violent demonstration.


Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives back from his diplomatic mission to the Middle East to try to resurrect the peace process.


Mike Huckabee, who strums a bass guitar and cracks jokes at campaign stops, is quietly establishing himself with Iowa voters as a serious candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.


It was almost two years ago that Roy Romanow released his landmark report on the future of medicare. Since then, the study has too often been used as a battering ram by premiers seeking more money from Ottawa.


A bomb is found by staff at the Royal Mail's sorting office in Mallusk, County Antrim, according to police.


The full scale of the catastrophe around the shores of the Indian Ocean is only slowly emerging. The death toll rises by tens of thousands each day, with the prospect that it could redouble


Street Fighter IV focuses on strategy, nostalgia

CHIBA, Japan  - Lining up for an hour and a half  is a long wait to pick a fight. But for those in the arcade and  gaming industry, the global unveiling of Street Fighter IV, the  first new version of the classic fighting game in nearly eight  years, was a chance not only to throw a few fireballs down  memory lane but also to try out some new moves.


In its multi-faceted campaign to wrest back the title of performance leader in consumers' minds, AMD is leveraging its fusion with ATI and ATI's cooperation with Microsoft to make a bold new case for itself: Now that the Windows Vista era is upon us, AMD's executives and managers believe the time has come to throw out the old XP-based benchmarks, and re-evaluate AMD's current line of processors using more updated metrics.


The federal prosecutor overseeing an investigation of steroids in baseball said Monday a newspaper report that five players, including Roger Clemens, had used illegal performance-enhancing drugs contained "significant inaccuracies."


Bear Stearns profits rise on merger fees and debt

Bear Stearns Cos.  said on Thursday quarterly net income soared 38 percent, helped by gains from fees for merger advice and underwriting debt.


United Way's Compass Project to Assess Community's Needs

By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 22--From health care to poverty to education to recreational activities to transportation to economic and other issues, Compass 3 -- a collaborative program organized by Great Rivers United Way -- is working to assess the needs of the region.


WASHINGTON -- Wholesale prices and retail sales jumped in November and jobless claims fell last week.


Street clashes flare in Copenhagen, 300 arrested

More than 300 demonstrators were arrested in the Danish capital on Saturday after violent clashes between police and youths who were protesting against the planned closure of a youth center in the city.


Tom Stoppard's Russian trilogy a U.S. hit

Tom Stoppard's epic eight-hour trilogy  "The Coast of Utopia" about 19th century Russian  revolutionaries has won rave U.S. reviews and defied fears that  its subject matter would be too heavy for theater goers.


More ground was cleared of landmines in 2005 than ever before, says a group monitoring use of the weapons.


Google Aims to Make YouTube Profitable With Ads

Google believes it finally has found the formula to cash in on YouTubeâs potential as a magnet for online video advertising and keep its audience loyal at the same time.


Reconstruction In Iraq at a Crawl, Auditor Reports

Provincial reconstruction teams, the civilian centerpiece of the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq, are making "incremental" progress in some areas and very little in others, a government auditor told Congress yesterday.


Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai arrives in court, cut and bruised, after his weekend arrest.


Dispute on who is boss delays new Darfur force

A dispute over who is to command the proposed 23,000-strong international peacekeeping force for Darfur is holding up any deployment in the violence-torn Sudanese region, U.N. officials said on Friday.


5,000 flu shots available to people in high-risk groups

Flu vaccine may be as rare this year as a Democrat in the Deep South, but Flu-Central nevertheless has rounded up as many as 5,000 doses of vaccine, which it will start giving to high-risk people this week.


Chirac's Popularity Sinks on Turkey and Economy

French President Jacques Chirac's  popularity has sunk to its lowest level in seven years because  of fears over the economy and Turkey's bid to join the European  Union, an opinion poll showed Sunday.


Salvage crews made little progress Wednesday in their attempts to remove the wreckage of three barges and restore traffic on a 42-mile section of the Ohio River.


GE to cut 60 pct of Japan consumer credit branches

General Electric Co.'s  consumer finance arm plans to close 60 percent of its personal loan branches in Japan and shed up to 400 employees amid an industrywide slump prompted by tighter regulation.


Nella lettera al Prefetto in cui rinuncia alla scorta, il Gip milaneseparla di "condotte omissive e attive di alcuni esponenti dell'Arma dei carabinieri"                                          Forleo: "Contro di me gli attacchi non dalla piazza ma dalle istituzioni"                                                                                Domani la risposta dalla riunione del Comitato per l'ordine e la sicurezza


"You know it's been 43 years since the first and only time that a jazz artist got the album of the year award. I'd like to thank the academy for courageously breaking the mold this time. Â Herbie Hancock, on winning a Grammy Award for "River: The Joni Letters."


Nintendo to Bring Music, Video to DS Game Machine

Nintendo Co. will begin selling an adaptor for its DS and Game Boy Advance handheld game players to allow them to play music and video, the company said, matching a popular feature on Sony's portable game machine.


Arafat Worsens as Tension Grows Between Wife and Political Heirs

Yasir Arafat's wife, Suha, has used French privacy laws to keep the state of her husband's health a mystery to the world.


Risky Side of Sears: Retailer Is Recast As a Hedge Fund

Over its 121-year history, Sears has been a watch seller, a giant mail-order business, a home builder and the nation's favorite retailer. And now, in 2007, it is becoming . . . a hedge fund?


Blog: As part of its "Be a Better Planet" campaign, Yahoo names Hastings, Neb., the greenest city in America.


New Orleans remembers Katrina with style

The first anniversary of the biggest calamity to befall this city was marked Tuesday with a moment of silence, wreath-layings, the tolling of bells and, in true New Orleans fashion, a wailing jazz funeral through the potholed streets for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.


Scarperia, 10:46 - MOTO, GP ITALIA: PASINI LEADER IN LEADER 125

Mattia Pasini è stato il piÃ¹ veloce nelle seconda sessione di prove libere del Gp d'Italia cl...


Palm Is Said to Sell Stake to Equity Firm in Revamping

Palm Inc., the struggling hand-held device company that makes the Treo, has reached a deal to sell a quarter of the company to a private equity firm for about $325 million.


Lecce, 14:26 - CALCIO, LECCE; MORONI: FIDUCIA IN ZEMAN

Il Lecce conferma la fiducia a Zeman nonostante una classifica tutt'altro che positiva. ''Zeman ha s...


European government bond prices slipped lower, pushing yields up, on Monday as easing oil prices helped stocks rally, drawing investors away from bonds.


Court Strips Anna Nicole Smith of Millions

A U.S. federal appeals court on  Thursday reversed a judgment awarding 1993 Playboy Playmate of  the Year Anna Nicole Smith $88 million from the estate of her  elderly billionaire husband J. Howard Marshall.


Eisner launches Internet video studio Vuguru

An investment firm run by former Walt  Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner has launched a studio  that will produce and distribute videos for the Internet,  portable media devices and cell phones, as Hollywood strives to  reach tech-savvy viewers online.


Even with power numbers lower than the previous two seasons, Michael Young of the Texas Rangers continued to improve as a hitter this year. Young doubled twice to set a franchise record for two-base hits in a season, and drove in two runs in the Rangers' 6-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.


Israeli missiles kill 3 Palestinians in raid

GAZA CITY -- An Israeli drone fired two missiles into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis early today, killing three Palestinians, two of them Hamas militants, witnesses and medics said.


Motorola committed to mobile phone business

Motorola Inc  said on Monday  it is "fully committed" to its mobile phone business and its  strategic review is aimed at bringing about a "product-led"  recovery for the loss-making division.


Roma, 16:45 - BASKET, LOTTOMATICA ROMA: ARRIVA IL GRECO MAVROKEFALIDIS

La Lottomatica Roma ha ingaggiato il centro greco Loukas Mavrokefalidis, 22 anni, 208 cm, provenient...


Pop star Sir Elton John criticises Australian Prime Minister John Howard's position on gay marriage.


Navy SEALs Sue Associated Press Over Iraq Photos

Six Navy SEALs and the wives of two of them sued The Associated Press and a reporter on Tuesday for publishing photos taken from a Web site that appeared to show the troops abusing prisoners in Iraq.


Setting up a veto showdown with President George W. Bush, the U.S. Congress on Thursday approved legislation to expand a popular children's health care program and pay for it with higher taxes on tobacco products.


Vandals targeted the grave of Marshal Philippe Petain, the leader of France's wartime Vichy regime that collaborated with the Nazis, an official said Wednesday.


Brown lauded for handling of terror crisis

New Prime Minister Gordon Brown won praise Monday for his handling of the terrorism crisis, as he faces a baptism of fire days after succeeding Tony Blair.


Fitness vibrations trendy, perhaps risky

What if you could burn fat while shaking a martini? Actually, it's your body that shakes like a martini on a new type of fitness machine that's generating lots of buzz and celebrity use. Even NASA has tested the concept.


Cambodia's new King Sihamoni is anointed by his father as his coronation day gets under way.


Ice skater doesn't remember what caused fall that left her with a ...

PITTSBURGH World champion pairs skater Tatiana Totmianina (taht-YAH'-nah toht-MYEN'-ih-nuh) says she doesn't remember what caused her to fall during a competition this weekend.


The Real Story of the Lunch-Hour Boob Job

Can you really get your breasts enlarged in your lunch hour? Hereâs the real story behind those reportsâand a look at the research that could make fat your friend.


Athletics: Radcliffe is redeemed by triumph in epic struggle

Whether the 30-year-old marathon world record holder will achieve the global title she yearns for in the wake of her traumatic failure at the Athens Olympics remains to be seen.


Dow Jones to consider Murdoch bid, other offers

Dow Jones & Co Inc.'s  board of  directors said on Thursday that the company plans to consider  alternatives for the company, including a $5 billion bid by  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSa.N) to buy it.


Sri Lanka ends ceasefire with Tamil Tigers

Sri Lanka's government decided on Wednesday to annul a six-year ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers which would allow a full-scale military campaign to recapture the rebels' de facto state in the north of the island.


With Quincy Carter filling in for the injured Chad Pennington, the Jets' season is far from over. Just listen to the TV football experts.


Beckhams buy iphone for eight-year-old son

David and Victoria Beckham have bought their son Brooklyn, who is just eight years old, a hi-tech iphone for 269 pounds.


Carlyle Group Said to Be in Talks to Buy Virgin

The potential bid for Sir Richard Bransonâs Virgin Media could be worth more than $20 billion.


Bombing at Iraqi Ministry Injures Vice President

The attack was the most serious breach of an Iraqi government building since November.


Evangelist Billy Graham underwent successful surgery Wednesday to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain, and was expected to remain in the hospital for several days


CIA Critic of U.S. War on Terror Resigns

A CIA analyst who wrote a book that  criticized the U.S. war on terror has resigned from the spy  agency after it effectively banned him from publicly discussing  his views, his publicist said on Thursday.


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North Korea accuses United States of hostility, lies

An external audit of U.N. funds in North Korea is a hostile maneuver by the United States, Pyongyang said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon circulated on Thursday.


The latest round of U.N.-led peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front ended in stalemate Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to try again in March to resolve a 32-year dispute for control of Western Sahara.


South Africa's traditional healers help fight HIV

MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Tryphina Ngwenya slides a pink condom over the magic wooden stick normally used to conjure up ancestral spirits, unleashing a ripple of laughter among her audience of traditional South African healers.


BILLINGS, Mont. - A man told police not to blame him for crashing his truck into a light post - it was that unicorn behind the wheel. Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings.


Advertisements for painkillers Celebrex and Bextra were misleading and unsubstantiated, overstating the drugs' benefits and understating the risks, the government said yesterday.


Jittery Almunia Keeps Wenger on his Toes

Arsene Wenger was left to consider another goalkeeping switch as he targeted his sights on Chelsea after securing Arsenalâs Champions League knock-out place.


GRAHAM Guy was dozing when it happened. Outside, the bush was an inky blur as the Cairns-bound tilt train hurtled through the night.


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Fidel Castro laughs off fall but admits possible injury

Cuban President Fidel Castro suffered a fall late Wednesday, possibly breaking an arm and a knee, but he laughed off the mishap and assured Cubans he remained in good spirits and "in one piece".


Israel weighs change to free Palestinian prisoners

Israel is considering relaxing its criteria for releasing Palestinian prisoners, officials said on Monday before the start of another round of peace talks bogged down by disputes over settlements.


At least one Russian is dead and 12 others are missing after the bomb blast at an Egyptian hotel, officials say.


President Roh Moo-hyun on Wednesday noted concern in South Korea and the United States about the countries' five-decade alliance but gave assurances that South Korea would continue to support the U.S.-led fight against terrorism.


Italia sale al secondo posto con un 2007 da record


War-Weary Iraqis Begin Inspecting Damage

NAJAF, Iraq - War-weary Iraqis returned to devastated offices and shops in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday, inspecting damage from three weeks of clashes as U.S. tanks and troops patrolled the streets, monitoring a fragile cease-fire...


Humanitarian efforts are poised to begin in Falluja as US and Iraqi forces battle what some officials say are the last remnants of the insurgency in the western Iraqi city.


Winehouse's mom: Amy on road to recovery

Amy Winehouse's successful performance at the Grammys shows the troubled young singer is on the road to recovery, her mother said in an interview to be broadcast Tuesday.


The Home Office is considering whether to ban BNP members from working in the civil service.


MINNEAPOLIS Brad Radke worked seven innings and Corey Koskie collected three RBI's as Minnesota finally beat the New York Yankees 8-to-2.


American Serena Williams has pulled out of the Paris Open women's tennis tournament starting on Monday because she needs dental surgery, organizers said on Friday.


MICROSOFT faces another in-depth probe by the European Commission, this time into plans by the software giant and media group Time Warner to acquire joint control of US ContentGuard Holdings.


Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatâs rule has been a disaster for Palestinians, for Israel, and for US policy in the Middle East. The wily terrorist leader, now believed to be on his deathbed in a French hospital


Genes Boost Fish Oils' Effect Against Breast Cancer

FRIDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- Women with certain genes get an extra protective boost when they take fish oils called marine n-3 fatty acids that may reduce the risk of breast cancer.


Ukraine rivals welcome court ruling on eve of historic rerun vote

Ukraine's constitutional court struck down a section of a recently adopted electoral law in a decision welcomed by both camps ahead of a tense, historic presidential rerun election set for the following day.


Squarespace Lets Users Manage Multi-Page Web Sites

Anthony Casalena was 17 when he got his first job as a programmer for a start-up called HyperOffice, a software company that makes e-mail and contact management applications for the Web. Hired as an intern, he became a regular programmer after two weeks and rewrote the main product line.


US alliance with South Korea will remain strong'

WASHINGTON: US national security advisory Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that US military power on the Korean peninsula will be stronger even if 12,000 troops are withdrawn under a controversial troop withdrawal plan.


A UN agency denies firing an employee in Pyongyang after the man highlighted alleged financial breaches.


Operazione congiunta polizia egiziana e forze di Hamas


Israeli killed in Palestinian rocket attack

An Israeli man died in a Hamas rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on Sunday and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged to press ahead with military action to halt the salvoes, saying "no one involved in terror" was immune.


Bush Asks His Father and Clinton to Raise Funds

President Bush enlisted his two predecessors to lead an effort to raise money from corporations for disaster relief.


Alonso eager to take lead role in Anfield 'project'

LIVERPOOL had discovered Xabi Alonso is a craftsman who thrives on a challenge long before he gave their season a timely jolt at Fulham.


All he wanted were the facts. But Dick Cheney ended up generating confusion_ and lots of it.


According to a study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, air pollution not only causes long-term health problems, but might also trigger heart attacks.


Gasoline prices rise to about $2.81/gallon

The average retail price of a gallon  of gasoline in the United States cost about 6.5 cents more last  week, rising for the first time since early July on the back of  higher crude oil prices, an industry analyst said on Sunday.


U.S. hopes for 6-way Korea nuclear talks in July

North Korea should move quickly to shut down its source of bomb-grade plutonium, a top U.S. envoy said on Tuesday, voicing hope that stalled six-party talks on scrapping its nuclear arms program could resume next month.


Questions will be asked tonight at Madison Square Garden. Difficult questions. Questions about the futures of Felix Trinidad and Ricardo Mayorga. Very likely they will be questions only one of them will be able to answer.


Giuliani's Rhetoric on Terror Contrasts With His Record

As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns for president, he rarely misses a chance to warn about the threat from terrorists. "They hate you," he told a woman at an Atlanta college. They "want to kill us," he told guests at a Virginia luncheon.


The real lowdown on XP license deadlines

With the first end date deadline for the general availability of Windows XP just six months away, June 30, 2008, there are a number of XP licensing questions that are still on the minds of internal licensing desk managers and enterprise IT departments.Part of the confusion comes from the terminology Microsoft uses to describe the end date for license availability, and part comes from the lack of a simple description of what the terminology actually means.Following conversations with three different Microsoft Volume Licensing Specialists, most of InfoWorld's questions have been answered.There are basically just three types of system licenses available:* An FPP (Full Packaged Product) license, which is the boxed, shrink-wrapped version consumers obtain from retailers. * A Direct OEM/System Builder license, which comes in two versions. For the most part, a Direct OEM license is what a computer manufacturer like Dell, HP, or Lenovo would have preinstalled on the systems they sell. An OEM System Builder license is targeted more at VARs (Value Added Resellers), LARs (Large Account Resellers), and smaller white-box manufacturers who are registered with Microsoft but who buy their license through a distributor like Ingram Micro. * Volume Licensing programs, which include large enterprises as well as government and educational institutions. Volume licenses cover only Windows Client upgrades; otherwise the full operating system license is acquired as FPP or through either Direct OEM or OEM System Builder.The only OS license available through a Volume program is a Windows Vista Business Upgrade. Companies must already have a qualified OS on their systems, such as XP, so terms of buying XP rather than Vista, this scenario is moot. Therefore, the Microsoft end date availability is based on FPP and both versions of the OEM licensing systems.Both FPP licenses purchased from a retailer and Direct OEM licensees have a June 30, 2008 cutoff date for ordering an XP license.This does not mean a retailer or an OEM cannot sell XP after that date. It means neither entity can order XP after that date. If a retailer or an OEM wanted to order thousands of PCs with XP installed they can do so as long as the order is placed before June 30.An OEM System Builder License, used by VARs, LARS, and white-box manufacturers and sold through distribution, have a January 31, 2009 cutoff date for ordering an XP license. Again, if the distributor has enough XP inventory before the January 31 cutoff, it can keep selling XP, and resellers can keep buying it until there is no more inventory, so to speak, left.The same deadlines apply if you wanted to purchase additional licenses for additional virtual machines. It does not matter. Also bear in mind that the preinstalled operating system may not be transferred to another PC.Some complications arise due to the fact that some direct OEMs also have System Builder licenses. It is unclear how that affects their sales to the retail market or if selling direct to their largest customers.If a company discovers it needs more XP-enabled systems but the ordering date is past and the distributors they order from have no XP inventory left, is it too late? The surprising answer is no. Companies can trigger the so-called downgrade option. Microsoft will allow companies to downgrade to XP after an initial purchase of Vista. In other words, if the deadline has come and gone the company orders X number of computers from their supplier with Vista, it then uses the downgrade option to reinstall XP.One Volume Licensing Specialists at Microsoft said that while this may appear to be paying twice for one operating system this is not the case. The purchaser simply owns both OSes, and if in a year or two the company decides to finally upgrade to Vista, it already owns that license.What if your company has a site licenses for, say, 5,000 copies of XP and have used only 4,500. Can it get the other 500 of XP indefinitely? The answer is yes, if they were ordered before the deadline. "This is a perpetual license," said one of the specialists.In point of fact, the current XP ordering deadlines are nothing new, according to Rob Horwitz, CEO of Microsoft Directions, an independent company that follows Microsoft technology. OEMs have always been given about two years to transition to the new operating system, said Horwitz. "In the beginning, Microsoft thought they could speed up the time for shifting to the next OS, but certain realities came into play, such as responding to customer demand for more driver availability and bug fixes in Vista," said Horwitz.


Cisco, Juniper Making Noise in High-End Routing Space

Dueling Cisco Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. are both jockeying for the spotlight on the high end of the routing market with announcements of new developments around their respective CRS-1 and T-series core routers.


Console onorario, risultati autopsie resi noti entro lunedi'


Services Index Gained in June; More Sought Jobless Benefits

Both service and manufacturing industries showed strength in June, according to a closely watched index of business activity.


Mauresmo battles past Shaughnessy to reach last 32

Top seed Amelie Mauresmo fought off   Meghann Shaughnessy 6-4 6-3 to reach the third round of the   U.S. Open on Thursday.


Arts & entertainment: Gossip singer becomes naked cover star after previous Cool List snub.


Ferrara, 15:56 - CALCIO, C2/A: SPAL-REGGIANA SOSPESA 7' PER INCIDENTI

Spal-Reggiana, sfida valida per la 15/a giornata del campionato di C2, è stata sospesa per 7'...


Milano, 13:03 - CALCIO, INTER; MORATTI: UNA STECCA IN CHAMPIONS

Il presidente dell'Inter, Massimo Moratti, esprime apertamente la sua delusione per la sconfitta di ...


Balancing it on the lap increases the temperature of the scrotum which is known to have a negative effect on sperm production, researchers found.


Nikkei salito a 18.157,93 punti, apertura a +0,15%


Oracle names candidates for PeopleSoft board

Oracle has opened a new front in its 17-month battle to take over PeopleSoft, announcing a slate of nominees to challenge the rival software companyâs existing board of directors at its annual meeting next year.


A European Union version of Apple’s iTunes Music Store gives music fans in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain the same innovative features and breakthrough price of €0.99 per song that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. Apple will launch the iTunes Music Store in Canada in November. [Oct 26]


Rebels 'Execute' 49 Iraqi Troops, Kill U.S. Diplomat

BAQUBA, Iraq  - Rebels ambushed and killed 49  unarmed Iraqi soldiers and, in a separate attack Sunday, killed  a U.S. diplomat in a mortar strike near Baghdad airport.


Gates dismisses Putin remarks as blunt spy talk

MUNICH, Germany  - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday dismissed as the blunt talk of an old spy accusations by Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States sought to force its will on the world.


Canadian to face Guantanamo tribunal for 3rd time

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba  - The U.S. military is reconvening a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal in a third attempt to try a young Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan.


President Bush faces a fresh showdown with Congress after it votes to expand child health insurance.


Fraternizing is a right, if it's not fun: court

Employers may be able to stop their workers from fraternizing if it's for fun but not if it's to discuss working conditions, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.


Australia's largest seizure of the party drug Ecstasy was expertly hidden inside the metal shell of a bakery oven from Poland.


Iraq. Berlusconi: Â«Prima la democrazia, poi il ritiro delle ...

Si Ã¨ conclusa con una conferenza stampa congiunta Berlusconi-Mubarak a palazzo Chigi (tra breve l'audiovideo) la visita in Italia del presidente egiziano. Temi centrali dei colloqui l'Iraq, il terrorismo, il conflitto israelo-palestinese.


BitTorrent launches movie download service

Web company BitTorrent Inc, once  scorned in Hollywood, on Sunday joined a number of providers in  the nascent arena for legal downloads of movies and television  shows with content from several key studios.


Highlights from the SEW Blog: October 15-19, 2007

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.


Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  on Wednesday said September sales growth was smaller than it estimated just four days earlier, sending its shares lower and dragging down stock futures.


Sainsbury's profits weaker than expected

Sainsbury has confirmed fears of weaker-than-expected first-half profit, following a recent analyst downgrade which sparked an investigation by regulators.


The owner of an Anglesey hotel says she will keep both the 'Union Jack' and the Welsh flags flying, despite objections.


Left-wing French daily's 'last chance' rests with capitalists

Libération, a newspaper created following the French student revolt of 1968, is facing a financial crisis.


Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani showed his emotional side when he could not control his tears after watching Taare Zameen Par, a movie about a dyslexic child.


Per traffico di droga e armi, sgominato il clan Trovato


Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 80, has thyroid cancer and is undergoing treatment at Bethesda Naval Hospital, two senior government officials told CNN.


The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.


Is Osama dead? The argument continues ...

NEW DELHI: The billion dollar question on the third anniversary of 9/11: Where is Osama bin Laden? In the past few weeks there have been a flurry of reports.


Ducks tame Senators to claim first Stanley Cup

ANAHEIM, California  - The Anaheim Ducks tamed the Ottawa Senators 6-2 on Wednesday to clinch their first Stanley Cup and extend a painful title drought for hockey-mad Canadians.


China president shakes hand of AIDS patient

China's president has publicly shaken hand an AIDS patient, in what is being described as a landmark moment. China officially has 840,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers, but experts believe many more people have the virus.


Palestinian PM Urges Tactical Rethink in Conflict

RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie  marked the anniversary of a Palestinian uprising against Israel  on Tuesday by calling on both sides to rethink tactics that  have brought four years of bloodshed.


Microsoft Fixes ISA Server Spoofing Flaw

A bug in Microsoft's Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2 can let hackers spoof Web content, such as a trusted site, with their own fake content, the Redmond


Union officials representing striking Hollywood writers said Thursday they have filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios violated federal law by breaking off negotiations.


La. Swamp Tour Boat Capsizes, Injuring 3

An air boat carrying 16 tourists through the swamps here capsized Saturday evening, critically injuring three aboard, authorities said.


British Airways reported Friday a surge in its net profit and announced plans to launch a new "business class only" service from London to New York.


Iraq to Probe if Army Massacre Was Inside Job

Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad  Allawi Monday ordered an urgent investigation into whether the  weekend massacre of 49 Iraqi soldiers was an inside job,  sources close to Allawi told Reuters.


Philippine communist leader arrested in the Netherlands

The founder and leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Jose Maria Sison, has been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of ordering the murders of former political allies,  Dutch authorities said Tuesday.


Brocade makes hay before McData integration

Bitter pill to swallow? Storage switch specialist Brocade posted a strong set of quarterly results as it prepares to near-double its market share by integrating recently completed acquisition McData.â¦


Celebrity Life: Actor Washington on a lesser known role-mentor

Denzel Washington is  renown for his roles in a list of box-office hits -- but his  real-life role as a spokesman for an organization that helps  guide youths is not so well known.


Angelo presidente onorario, Paolo presidente


Today will come and go without fanfare in Brooklyn, and maybe that's the way it should be. Who wants to remember the end to one of the great stories in baseball?


Putin arrives in India to cement several pacts

NEW DELHI President Vladimir Putin of Russia arrived Friday to hold talks on expanding trade and cooperation in defense, energy and space with India, a longtime ally of the Soviet Union during the cold war.


Former N.Korea Inmates Tell of Suffering in Camps

Three former North Korean inmates gave  harrowing accounts on Monday of alleged suffering at political  camps, part of an event organized by activists aimed at  prodding Seoul to tackle Pyongyang on human rights.


HARRY Potter author JK Rowling gave fans an early Christmas gift yesterday by revealing her new book will be published on July 16.


Bob Bell analyses a 'challenging but successful' season

Ahead of the final race of the season, the Renault F1 Team Technical Director sat down to give his verdict on 2004 and the team's performance.


Germans Use Nokia Phones in Wireless Ticket Trial

The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia said on Tuesday its phones would be used in a project to test wireless public transport fares in Hanau, near Frankfurt in Germany, beginning early next year.


Al Globalfest omaggio al tenore che lotta con il cancro


Scottish ministers defend their opposition to new nuclear energy, ahead of a UK announcement on more power stations.


Factions boycott Palestinian presidential election

LEADERSHIP: Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they want nothing to do with the election of a new leader to replace Yasser Arafat. Hamas also vowed to keep up attacks on Israel.


UPDATE 5-Ford posts profit, autos disappoint again

Ford Motor Co. (FN: Quote, Profile, Research) reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday, but losses widened in its core automotive business


Steroids To Treat Head Trauma Useless: Study

Using steroids to treat patients with severe head injuries can be deadly, according to a new study published in the medical journal Lancet.


MIAMI (Sports Network) - Brock Berlin completed 13-of-19  passes for a career-high 361 yards along with four touchdowns,  while Roscoe Parrish hauled in five passes for 141 yards as  12th-ranked Miami-Florida routed Wake Forest. 52-7, at the  Orange Bowl.


Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been embraced in a most unlikely place: at Bob Jones University, the influential Christian college that teaches that his Mormon church is a cult.


Vote for PM Ahern holds up in close Irish poll

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is on course to win a third successive term but may well have to woo a new coalition partner to be sure of a parliamentary majority, an exit poll showed on Friday.


Ditches Fibre for price point NetApp is launching a smaller iSCSI storage box for its StoreVault line.â¦


It's time to pass torch, younger Dems say

A wave of young Democrats is demanding not just to be heard but to take charge.They are opining, organizing and running for party chairman.


Scrapped Golden Globe ceremony hits Hollywood hard

Hollywood scrambled on Tuesday to  assess the fallout from the decision to scrap the glittering  Golden Globe movie and TV awards ceremony and hold only a news  conference that few stars are likely to attend.


Crackdown closed 18,000 Internet cafes in China

A high-profile government crackdown on Internet cafes in China resulted in the temporary closure of 18,000 Internet cafes between February and August, but few cafes were closed permanently, according to the official Xinhua news agency.


Hollywood Agrees to Movie Gallery Merger

Video rental chain Hollywood  Entertainment Corp. HLYW.O, which may face a hostile takeover  bid by industry leader Blockbuster Inc. BBI.N, on Monday  agreed to be bought by smaller rival Movie Gallery Inc.  MOVI.O for $850 million.


Treasuries Stage Rally Despite Inflation

U.S. Treasury prices rallied on  Wednesday as inflation gains excluding food and energy, one of  the Federal Reserve's preferred price measures, proved less  dramatic than bond bulls had feared.


Hate to be blunt Pack fans, but your club is a bad team that richly deserves to be three games under .500 for the first time since November 1992.


A federal appeals court struck down the Bush administration approach to limiting mercury emissions by power plants Friday, ruling that the government failed to adequately consider the policy's effect on public health and the environment.


FORMER Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu was suspended today from playing soccer in England for seven months after failing a drugs test.


WHAT's IT ALL ABOUT? ; ...Tough Titles Made Simple

WHY AREN'T THEY HERE? by Surendra Verma (Icon, Pounds 12.99) ... WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? OUR quest to find life beyond Earth and to answer a really awkward question: if there are clever aliens out there in space, then how come we haven't seen them? ... NOT SOMETHING ANYONE CAN ANSWER, SURELY? RIGHT.


What the Dell and EMC partnerships really mean When DATAllegro announced earlier this year that it had partnered with Dell to provide node processing capabilities and EMC to be its disk provider I was not particularly impressed.â¦


Saddlebrook's Jennifer Capriati saw her shot at qualifying for the WTA Tour Championships end with a 6-0, 6-1 loss to Vera Zvonareva in the quarterfinals of the Advanta Championships.


Iraq Mortar Attacks Kill Five People and Injure 87, US Says

Four Iraqis and a US contractor were killed and 87 people injured in two mortar attacks on security posts in Iraq, the US military said.


RBS consortium bids $95.6 bln for ABN AMRO

A consortium led by Royal Bank  of Scotland unveiled a 71.1 billion euro ($95.6 billion) bid  for ABN AMRO that included its disputed U.S. bank and a higher  cash component than indicated.


China and Argentina agreed in Buenos Aires Thursday to further step up bilateral cooperation in science and technology. Senior officials from the two countries blueprinted cooperation in this field for the


Crude oil surpassed $50 a barrel for the first time and analysts said Tuesday that prices could keep rising because of a sharp rise in global demand, tight supplies and threats to output in petroleum-producing nations such as Iraq and Nigeria.    Homeowners and energy-intensive industries could feel the sting from high oil prices worsen as seasonal demand picks up this winter, and there is already evidence that the supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Ivan are making it more costly to drive...


By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- "We can work it out." That was the message that iPod maker Apple Inc. and the Beatles' guardian Apple Corps Ltd. sent Monday in burying nearly three decades of trademark strife over the iconic apple logo and name.


Suicide bomber hits Western troop convoy in Kabul

A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of Western troops in the Afghan capital on Saturday and wounded two soldiers.


Il trionfo di Giorgio Rocca Fuori il leader Bode Miller

Giorgio Rocca ha vinto lo slalom gigante di Flachau in 1.34.86. Secondo l' austriaco Rainer Schoenfelder in 1.35.10 e terzo il tedesco Alois Vogl in 1.35.17. Rocca ha cosÃ¬ ottenuto la prima vittoria per l'Italia in stagione.


New Shuttle Team Ready for Walk After Dayâs Delay

NASA officials said that everything was ready for astronauts to prepare the European Columbus science module to be attached to the International Space Station.


Atop the leaderboard for the first time in a major, Luke Donald sat before a room of reporters when he heard cheers a quarter-mile away from the 18th green at Medinah Country Club.


La banca francese ha decuplicato stime su perdite


Belarus OKs doing away with presidential term limits

Belarusians voted in favor of scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission chief said Monday, citing partial results.


Blair prepares to convert to Catholicism

Outgoing PM will travel to the Vatican to meet the Pope in preparation for his conversion.


Small caps have the most growth potential.


Asia, si aggrava il bilancio 113.000 morti in Indonesia

La maggior parte delle vittime da Banda Aceh. Atterrato il primo gruppo di marine americani per iniziare le operazioni umanitarie


Some critics say RISC's time has passed. Sun Microsystems' David Yen has another idea.


Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father Â except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket.


At least 20 newspapers are objecting to Saturday's "Doonesbury" comic strip because it features a profanity, uttered in the strip by Vice President Dick Cheney.


U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack

The U.S. government has warned U.S. private financial services of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against U.S. online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning Friday, officials said.


The UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, says it has frozen almost half its technical aid projects involving Iran.


U.S., Chinese Officials Clash Over Economic Talks

BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- U.S. and Chinese officials clashed publicly on the opening day of strategic economic talks, with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. pushing China to revalue its currency while Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi said that Americans do not have a full understanding of the situation.


Italy beat 10-man Czech Republic 2-0 Thursday to win Group E at the World Cup and avoid a likely matchup with Brazil in the second round.


Time-Space Continuum? No Big Deal. And the Swag...

âJumperâ is a barely coherent genre mishmash about a guy who transports himself across the globe at will.


Seven people were killed in a Baghdad suicide bombing after a bloody weekend which saw nine US troops killed, signalling that coalition forces remain beset by a fierce insurgency on the first anniversary of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein's capture.


The International Monetary Fund approved a $436 million loan to Iraq on Wednesday, a milestone in the nation's effort to normalize its finances and rebuild its economy.


Owners of the AA, Britain's largest motoring group, plan to either sell or float it on the stock market, a report suggests.


Garantiti anche clienti delle altre banche coinvolte


In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly


Some federally financed sex education programs that teach an abstinence-only approach have factual errors and are ineffective, a Congressional report says.


Numerose segnalazioni sollecitavano intervento


Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, seeking to repair ties between the United States and Europe, urged Washington yesterday to reach out to its


Google, Yahoo, Facebook Extensions Put Millions of Firefox Users at Risk

Some of Firefox's most popular third party extensions, including toolbars from Google, Yahoo and Facebook, create a massive security hole by failing to use secure update servers, according to a security researcher.


Bits: Gawker Media Gets Strung Out on Sci-Fi

Gawker Media adds a new science fiction blog to its staple of online media properties.


Players held oranges high and wore the Orange Bowl patch. Fans chanted âOrange Bowlâ at the end of the game. Even head coach Bob Stoops wore a small Orange Bowl emblem.


Arts, Briefly: Winehouse Questioned About Drugs

Amy Winehouse, right, has been questioned by the British police about a video that appeared to show her smoking crack cocaine, The Associated Press reported. The police said that no charges had been filed, but that the investigation was continuing. The Metropolitan Police in London said that detectives had interviewed a 24-year-old woman on Tuesday about allegations of drug possession. Although it is police policy not to name suspects who have not been charged, an officer read out a statement about the matter in response to a question about Ms. Winehouse. Last month The Sun published still images from a video that showed her inhaling from a small pipe. The video was said to have been made during a party at her home in London. Ms. Winehouse has since been admitted to a rehabilitation clinic in London but has said she is hoping to attend the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. She has been nominated in six categories.


Vladimir Putin stars in tale of Kremlin romance

A young KGB spy falls in love with an air hostess called Lyudmila and then conquers the Kremlin.


The Belfast Education and Library Board Library Committee draws up a list of branches it intends to close.


Volatility could be the name of the game on Wall Street next week as rising crude oil prices revive inflation fears and stock investors await congressional testimony from the Federal Reserve's chairman.


Yuan Hongwei is accused of not just pirating a U.S. glue manufacturer's products but copying the whole company. Now, he's jumped bail and has become an unlikely folk hero in China


Update 8: Yukos Files for Bankruptcy in US

In an eleventh-hour move, the Yukos oil company has filed for bankruptcy in a United States Court and is demanding the cancellation of an auction of its main production unit slated for Sunday.


A major trial of one of a new generation of "smart" drugs that selectively attacks cancer cells is launched.


Gerry Adams is to press for continued US involvement in the Northern Ireland political process.


Seinfeld's Puffy Shirt Joins Smithsonian

Move over, ruby slippers. That puffy shirt's moving in.


Berlin Bans Controversial Arab-Islamic Congress

The Berlin state government said Monday it had banned an Arab-Islamic Congress due to be held in the German capital next month to rally support for "resistance and intifada" in Iraq and Israel.


His mates finished, QB still has signals to call

Will the best Harvard team in 103 years be able to crack the top 10 in the Division 1-AA rankings? The 13th-ranked Crimson, who finished the season as the only undefeated team in the division, still would be playing if they were in another league. But they're not griping about the Ivy ban on postseason football.


Cardinals Are Down and Seek Lift From Fans

The St. Louis Cardinals are hoping that the comforts of home make a difference in Game 3 of the World Series.


Bloggers: Early Version of Windows 7 Leaked

Reports surface that an early build of Windows 7 has been  leaked to the Web, but Microsoft won't confirm an early version exists.


GM, Ford October Sales Fall, Japanese Up

General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday posted weaker US vehicle sales for October due to fewer blow-out incentives as inventories of older model 2004 vehicles declined.


Vornado Buys 4.3 Pct. Stake, Shares Soar

Shares of Sears, Roebuck and Co. were  up about 20 percent on Friday after real estate company Vornado  Realty Trust said it raised its stake in the retailer, a step  that could mean Sears plans to convert some of its real estate  assets into cash.


The President Asserted Progress on Security and Political Issues. Recent Reports Weren't Often So Upbeat.

In his speech last night, President Bush made a case for progress in Iraq by citing facts and statistics that at times contradicted recent government reports or his own words.


Oversight board briefed on NSA spy program

Several members of a government board appointed to guard privacy and civil liberties during the war on terror say they're impressed with the protections built into the Bush administration's electronic eavesdropping program.


Judge roundly dismisses attempts to advance claim that he may be illegitimate son of Princess Margaret.


Senior Islamic Militant Wounded in Gaza Blast

An explosion wounded a senior Islamic  Jihad field commander in a Gaza refugee camp Thursday in what  the Palestinian militant group called an Israeli assassination  attempt.


UK verdict may jeopardise Blair's terror policies

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's security strategy, a central plank in his re-election bid, looked in trouble today after a landmark legal ruling against a vital part of his anti-terror policy.


Simpson barred from spending "If I Did It" money

A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday barred O.J. Simpson from spending, at least for now, the advance for his aborted book "If I Did It" about the murders of his ex-wife and her friend.


A wind farm developer says it will take less than a year for its scheme to cancel out C02 released during its construction.


They've stolen cars, used drugs and forged checks. When California is burning, they fight fires.


'Doonesbury' Strip Crashes 'Union Leader' Web Site

Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The Union Leader's Web site crashed this morning after Garry Trudeau put its URL in today's "Doonesbury."


Mars Rover Struggles to Weather Severe Dust Storm

The hardy Mars rover Opportunity is struggling to stay alive  amid a severe and long-lasting Martian dust storm -- posing the greatest threat so far to the unexpectedly long-lived vehicle.


Blog: The company now has 56 percent search market share in the U.S., according to Nielsen/NetRatings.


Ipotizzato l'abuso di posizione dominante nel mercato


George Tenet is a dedicated and brave public servant who once threatened to resign if President Clinton pardoned a convicted spy whose case was under review.


A new study suggests that screening smokers and former smokers for lung cancer doesn't save lives or prevent advanced disease and may lead to unneeded and harmful treatment


Sony also plans to release some new flash-based players with both MP3 and Atrac playback as early as this year in Europe. As for North American customers, a Sony spokesperson would not committ to a time frame for MP3 support.


REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Scott Peterson's fate could be in hands of a California jury by the end of the day. Yesterday, defense attorney Mark Geragos told jurors Peterson shouldn't be convicted of killing his


Sharon courts allies after voting setback

JERUSALEMâPrime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, described by aides as more angry than embarrassed over parliament's symbolic repudiation of his term-opening speech, moved yesterday to renew discussions with opposition parties aimed at expanding his


David Beckham trained with Real Madrid again Friday and is expected to start in the title-deciding match against Mallorca — his final game before joining the Los Angeles Galaxy.


Pegli, 13:32 - CALCIO, GENOA; GASPERINI: NON FACCIAMOCI ILLUSIONI

"Vogliamo consolidarci in serie A senza bruciare le tappe, ma impostando un discorso mirato a cresce...


NASA Says $19 Million Toilet System Is Really a Bargain

The Russian-built loo is efficient, cheaper than building a new system from scratch and can transfer astronaut urine to a device that can produce drinking water.


Ernie Fletcher was the fresh face voters wanted four years ago when he swept into the Kentucky governor's office on the promise that he would "clean up the mess in Frankfort."


KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 7, 2004 - Afghanistan's historic election campaign got under way Tuesday, pitting 17 hopefuls against interim leader Hamid Karzai in the race to become the impoverished country's first popularly elected president.


The New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals used their offenses to show why they are the top two teams in the National League.


A British Army corporal was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, a court martial hears.


The senior negotiator for the Tamil Tiger rebels, Anton Balasingham, is seriously ill with cancer.


Eddie Jones and Dwyane Wade each scored four points in overtime to lift the Miami Heat past the Los Angeles Lakers, 104-102, in the much-anticipated Christmas Day showdown at Staples Center.


A "watershed moment" has been reached with a boy's killing in an apparent case of mistaken identity, say police.


A 13 YEAR old Taiwanese boy has been arrested for running a sexual services business on the web. More than 100 teens had signed up for the boy's "compensated dating" site which usually refers to youngsters trading sex for money or gifts.


The number of Iraqi civilians meeting violent deaths rose to a new high in October, according to the UN.


iPhone to feature special YouTube player

Blog: After announcing YouTube integration for the Apple TV, the company announces that the highly anticipated iPhone will also have built-in YouTube features.


Treasury takings steps to avoid hitting debt limit

In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., Snow called on Congress "to increase the debt limit by mid-November, at which time all of our previously used prudent and legal actions to avoid breaching the statutory debt limit will be exhausted


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


After its recent delays and missteps, chip maker sets its sights on a dual-core future. Intel will look to a multicore future during the Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco this week as it tries


The glass-encased room inside Intel Corp.'s microchip factory here, with its shiny, metallic surfaces and frigid air, is a world away from the blistering sun and brown earth outside. An army of robots suspended from the vast ceiling glide from one refrigerator-sized machine to the next. Their cargo: thousands of 12-inch silicon platters that form the raw material for Intel's most sophisticated computer microprocessor to date.


Roma, 22:56 - CALCIO, MORTO POLIZIOTTO; MATARRESE: E' UN MOMENTO TERRIBILE

''Per tutti noi è un momento terribile, piangiamo la scomparsa di questo giovane agente, siam...


Off the Stripper Pole and Into the Movies

She no longer dances naked, but the first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody is still exposing herself.


Celebrex Trial Stopped After Heart Attacks

Pfizer Inc. on Friday said its popular  Celebrex arthritis drug more than doubled the risk of heart  attack in a large cancer-prevention trial, a setback that comes  just weeks after Merck & Co. recalled its similar Vioxx drug  due to heart safety risks.


HP Pressured to Sell PC Business After IBM Deal

Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N will be  under pressure to sell its personal computer business after  IBM's decision to sell its PC operations to China's top PC  manufacturer, but analysts said the No. 2 computer maker would  hold on to its $25 billion PC division for now.


Senior Japanese diplomat in Jordan over hostage crisis

AMMAN - Japanâs Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa arrived in Jordan early Thursday to set up a task force to deal with the kidnapping of a Japanese in neighbouring Iraq, the embassy said.


Skype, Voiceglo say consumers see the light

The two Internet phone services reach customer milestones--a sign to some that VoIP no longer intimidates consumers.


SanDisk intros internal Flash drive for laptops

Fast, quiet but expensive SanDisk has begun offering a 32GB solid-state drive to notebook makers less than a week after it was claimed Apple's rumoured sub-notebook will only contain Flash storage.â¦


26 Killed in Iraq Attacks, Bush Insists on Election Date

BAGHDAD, December 3 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Twenty six people were killed in two separate attacks against police stations in Baghdad Friday, December 3, as US President George W. Bush insisted that elections in the war-scarred country would


Congress's Analysts See Worsening Deficit

The U.S. budget deficit will balloon  to $2.29 trillion over the next decade, congressional analysts  said on Tuesday, a worse outlook than previously forecast and  one likely to stir election-year debate about President Bush's  economic policies.


Reggio Calabria, 20:20 - CALCIO, REGGINA: LUCARELLI E' TORNATO IN GRUPPO

Allenamento pomeridiano per l Reggina in vista della gara di domenica contro la Sampdoria.  Lucarell...


Organizzazione fa i conti su possibili ipotesi sgravi


On the eve of a comeback, one of rap's most colorful characters, Ol' Dirty Bastard, aka Russell Jones, collapsed and died this afternoon in a Manhattan recording studio.


Coalition of states plans to levy carbon controls

Fred Butler, a New Jersey public utilities commissioner for the UN conference, says the 50 states are 50 'laboratories of ideas.


The Supreme Court agreed to review a murder case in which a judge excluded reliable evidence that someone other than the defendant was the killer, one of three criminal appeals the justices accepted Thursday.


Chanda Rubin won her first match in more than a year, beating Germany's Martina Muller 6-3, 6-0 on Tuesday to reach the second round of the Fortis Championships.


Pakistan's Musharraf nominated for presidential vote

Pakistan's military leader, President Pervez Musharraf, filed nomination papers on Thursday to run for re-election on October 6, while the Supreme Court prepared to rule on the army chief's eligibility to stand.


Half of US web users use Broadband internet connection

A small majority of US Internet users are connected with broadband service for the first time. 51 percent of home Internet connections are broadband services in July, according to a Nielsen/NetRatings report.


Briefly: Dell updates low-end server line

roundup Plus: SAS Institute lures former Red Hat CFO...McAfee CFO joins Cray board...Unisys boosts COO to CEO...Turn your fingerprints into passwords.


Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards

Miramax may be a smaller and calmer organization under Daniel Battsek, but the studio has nonetheless remained in the thick of the awards race.


The US remains the world's leading producer of junk e-mail, according to security firm Sophos. The US is the source of 42 percent of spam, easily outstripping South Korea, which, with 13 percent


Medical plane goes down in Lake Michigan

A medical transport plane carrying six members of an organ transplant team went down Monday afternoon in Lake Michigan shortly after the pilot signaled an emergency, authorities said. There was no word on survivors.


Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma is due back in court on corruption charges.


SANTIAGO, Chile  - Some 5,000 fervent supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned on Tuesday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide for human rights abuses.


Ue, Buttiglione: ''Ringrazio Tremaglia ma ha esagerato''

''Lo ringrazio della solidarieta', forse ha esagerato''. Cosi' il commissario designato per la Ue, Rocco Buttiglione, sulle dichiarazioni del ministro per gli Italiani nel mondo, Mirko Tremaglia. Buttiglione


New Pakistani PM elected despite boycott

Pakistan's Parliament has rubber-stamped the President's choice of Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, despite an opposition boycott and angry protests.


Putin's outdated illusions are dangerous

Before the tragedy of Beslan, Vladimir Putin lived in a vibrant young democracy. Voters gave a Kremlin-backed party an overwhelming mandate in parliamentary elections in December, and


Alexander Holds Upper Hand in Ã¢ÂÂ08 Senate Race as Dems Look for Volunteer

There was some uncertainty heading into the 2008 Senate campaign cycle about whether Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander would seek a second term: The former two-term governor, University of Tennessee president, Education secretary and two-time aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination was 62 years old when he won his Senate seat in the 2002 contest.


Blog: Trend Micro leverages native Windows Vista technology for enhanced security.


Bats Blog: Talking to Mitchell Not Worth It for Schilling

Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said he declined George J. Mitchellâs request to be interviewed as part of baseballâs investigation into performance-enhancing drugs.


The sports apparel giant picks an outsider, William D. Perez, as CEO, but the co-founder will keep a role as chairman. Nike co-founder Phil Knight is stepping down as top executive of the Oregon company he


WSJ Starts Stock-Tracking Feature Online

By SETH SUTEL NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is launching an online stock market-tracking feature next month as it moves to a smaller size and cuts back on the stock tables in the newspaper. The new feature will go live Jan.


Decisione dopo confronto tra Governo e Regioni


A woman accused of giving her teenage son a handgun and telling him to take revenge after he lost a fight was arrested Thursday after another boy was killed, police said.


Per rafforzare la coalizione di governo, nominati, questa mattina, due nuovi ministri dal premier, Silvio Berlusconi. si tratta di Marco Follini e Mario Baccini, entrambi dell'UDC. Nel pomeriggio avverrÃ  il giuramento.


NAIROBI Wangari Maathai has been clubbed in the head by riot policemen. She has been denounced as a subversive. Her efforts for women's rights in a country where men run the show have long been considered quixotic at best.


No Motive Known in Wisconsin Deer-Hunter Shootings

A Laotian immigrant hunting deer in  Wisconsin who turned a semiautomatic assault rifle on other  hunters, killing six and wounding two, was described by his  family as a non-violent man with no criminal record.


Chinese leader says economy to grow about 9.0 percent in 2004

Chinese President Hu Jintao said the booming economy in China would grow by "around 9.0 percent" this year as controls implemented to slow overheated sectors of the economy took effect.


European scientists confirm what is thought to be the first known case of "mad cow" disease in a goat.


WHO urges more research on vaccines for flu, other illnesses

THE HAGUE -- The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, the World Health Organization said yesterday.


Diageo, the world's biggest spirits company, reports a dip in sales revenue after a slide in the US dollar erodes the value of exports.


Television Review | 'Greek' : Campus Sex Scandal Today for Leaders of Tomorrow

A new series about fraternity life feels like a public-relations strategy, a depiction of the whole apparatus of Greek campus life as a breeding ground for a life in power.


Unilever, Fed, rising oil weigh on Europe

Rising oil prices, apprehension over U.S. interest rates and pessimistic corporate outlooks from Unilever and Samsung Electronics pulled European stocks lower Monday.


OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Praises Bulgaria's Presidency

Politics: 3 October 2004, Sunday. The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and US Congressman Alcee Hastings assessed highly Bulgaria's presidency of the organization.