Bangladesh eases curfew after violence subsides

Traffic poured onto the streets of Bangladesh's main cities on Friday as the army-backed interim government relaxed a curfew imposed two days ago to quell street violence, allowing people to venture out to buy essentials.


An Absence of Scoring Leaves Jagr Cringing

For a player with 636 career goals, Jaromir Jagrâs 15 goals in 59 games is an unusually low number. Worse, the Rangers find themselves in a desperate scramble for a playoff spot.


Firefox Grows Browser Share 34 Percent in One Month

Microsoft's Internet Explorer's usage share continues to fall in the United States. Between November 5 and December 3, Internet Explorer's share dropped 1.09 percentage points to 91.80 percent, according to WebSideStory.


Congress approves bioterrorism preparedness bill

The U.S. Congress on Saturday passed a bill to improve U.S. preparedness for bioterrorism or other health crises, in part by accelerating development of new vaccines and drugs.


Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica.


Chelsea draws with Arsenal; Birmingham City stuns Aston Villa

Eidur Gudjohnsen's equalizer 31 seconds into the second half gave league-leading Chelsea a 2-2 draw on Sunday at Arsenal, neutralizing two surprise goals by Gunners' striker Thierry Henry.


T-Mobile marketing exec to leave by year-end

The head of marketing for T-Mobile,   Deutsche Telekom's DTEGn.DE mobile phone operator, will leave   his job at the end of the year as the unit changes its   marketing strategy, T-Mobile said on Tuesday.


Le imprese del generale e la sua intensa vita familiare


Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Monday with little sign of progress on reviving long-stalled peace negotiations beyond a vague promise to meet again.


UN chief Ban Ki-moon says he was "shocked" at comments by the Iranian president about  Israel.


Rarely in history has a political movement been so deliberately set by its founder on a course towards chaos. Arafat not only left no successor, but also no order.


Torino, 18:10 - CALCIO, TREVISO; ROSSI: PAGATA UN'INGENUITA' CLAMOROSA

Il Treviso esce dall'Olimpico torinese  battuto ma a testa alta. Il tecnico Rossi ripensa al match e...


Tropical Storm Jeanne Leaves Battered Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - Floridians mopped, shoveled  sand and lined up for water and ice on Monday as the remnants  of Hurricane Jeanne left the storm-beaten state and whipped  through Georgia after taking six lives.


JOHANNESBURG: Three South African men pleaded guilty to mercenary activities yesterday and agreed to testify against Mark Thatcher who is charged with bankrolling an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, their lawyer said.


Russian gas giant to bid for Yukos subsidiary

The Russian gas giant Gazprom declared Wednesday it would bid for a major oil production subsidiary of the embattled oil company Yukos when the subsidiary is auctioned off by the government on Dec.19.


The price of crude oil surged above $50 a barrel in after-hours trading yesterday, raising fears of an economic slowdown and higher prices at the gas pump.


WASHINGTON - The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.    The study was the latest contribution to a decade-long trend in which violent crime as measured by victim surveys has fallen by 55 percent and property crime by 49 percent...


None of Banned Flu Vaccine Has Been Used, FDA Reports

None of the 5 million or 6 million doses of influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. and currently warehoused in the United States has been given to the public, a Food and Drug Administration official said yesterday.


Promoter Sues, Claims Rights To Williams Fight

(LOUISVILLE, August 19th, 2004, 5 pm) -- A fight promoter claims to have been wrongly knocked out of British heavyweight Danny Williams' future bouts.


Both Radiohead a former Talking Head have advice for young artists on navigating the chaotic music industry.


The assembly government is taking court action to recover a grant from a dairy firm, which closed its plant last year.


Almost 5,000 jobs cut on Bank of America getting funds

Bank of America has an option to cut at least 4,500 jobs while reorganizing its structure. This is not the first time when the bank reduces jobs.


London-based BT Group PLC said Monday it will strengthen its presence in North America and Asia by buying Infonet Services Corp., an international managed voice and data network services provider, for $965 million.


Infrastructure threats: Botnets show DoS who's boss

(InfoWorld) - Malware-infected botnet PCs have overtaken denial-of-service attacks as the top security issue facing Internet service providers and other Web infrastructure hosting players, according to a new survey of the organizations. Arbor Networks published the results of its third-annual Infrastructure Security Report on Monday -- a survey of 75 large ISPs, hosting companies, and other providers -- which found for the first time that botnets currently outrank DoS threats as the most serious concern for the firms. Tens of millions of PCs are likely infected with botnet programs worldwide, according to survey results, and Arbor researchers said the ISPs they questioned admitted to spending more time and resources battling botnets than ever before. Infrastructure providers are finding botnets hard to pin down, as the people responsible for controlling the zombie machines are increasingly employing more advanced detection evasion techniques, said Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor. As they can't accurately gauge the size of the problem, he said, infrastructure providers are afraid they're only scraping the tip of the iceberg in taking on the botnet phenomenon. "ISPs are spending a lot of time trying to measure, and there's a lot of subjective data, but there are such widely different qualities to the various bots that it's a real challenge to get any strong metrics," Labovitz said. "We are seeing a widening separation between the pros and the amateurs, but as easy as it is to infiltrate and measure the less sophisticated botnets, the pro grade stuff is far more problematic and harder to trace." By using the same peer-to-peer botnet propagation strategy that has made the so-called Storm worm a recurring problem in terms of generating subsequent infections, the sophisticated sect of the botnet community is moving forward at a rapid pace, according to Arbor. In eliminating the need for traditional botnet command and control centers using P2P techniques to distribute the threats, the attackers have also removed the most efficient place to attempt to take down the attacks, the researcher said. At the same time, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks -- which have long-ranked as the primary concern of ISPs and their brethren -- have not disappeared, but rather become more targeted and efficient in the application of their resources, making them even more damaging to their individual targets, according to the report. Labowitz said that while a traditional distributed DoS threats have measured at under 10GB, newer DoS attacks are reaching as high as 24GB -- enough to completely shut down a smaller ISP or Web server farm. As the attacks are getting more powerful, they are also being concentrated on smaller groups of individual targets, or groups of sites, versus being unleashed to the Internet at large. In one such situation just last week, Labowitz said, an unnamed gambling site was taken offline for a number of hours. "For the most part, if you read the press you don't hear about DoS as much, so people jump to the conclusion that it's not happening. But it's still out there," said the researcher. "The attacks may only be targeted at a small group of sites, but that can also help to increase the significance of the impact to the provider involved based on the more narrow focus." Despite the lingering threat of DoS, ISPs have become better equipped at warding off the attacks and protecting their customers, and often times have begun charging for premium services to address the issue, according to Arbor. As opposed to five years ago, when infrastructure players often had to scramble to respond to DoS campaigns as they emerged, Labowitz said most sizeable companies now have appropriate procedures and equipment to at least partially deflect the assaults. "Even though 90 percent of the attacks are a soft threat at this point, some of those remaining attacks are bigger than anyone can handle easily -- even some of the big guys," said Labowitz. Arbor predicts attacks on Internet telephony services will represent one of the next immediate pain points for infrastructure players. Only 20 percent of the companies surveyed for the report said they had any gear in place to detect VoIP threats. Only 11 percent reported that they had any plans or tools in place to mitigate VoIP-based attacks. "We haven't seen many of these threats yet, but we know the proof-of-concepts are out there," said Labowitz. "With the amount of VoIP infrastructure that is being deployed, the ISPs and telephony providers will need to ensure that they have something in place to protect those networks from attack."


This file photo provided by the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice showing Texas death row inmate Frances Newton who is set for execution by lethal injection in Huntsville on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004.


Prosecutors Blame Scrushy for Fraud at HealthSouth

Richard Scrushy's trial on corporate fraud charges opened Tuesday with a prosecutor telling jurors the fired HealthSouth CEO was the driving force behind a conspiracy to overstate earnings in the rehabilitation giant by about $2.7 billion.


NBC News goes to "Class" for next 13 years

NEW YORK  - NBC News this week is launching an ambitious project called "Class of 2020," which will follow a group of Los Angeles kindergartners all the way through high school graduation 13 years from now.


Lettere dei bambini napoletani: "cambia cose brutte citta'"


Upgrades to the net's core address books will start the move to a new way of finding websites.


UPDATE 1-Charlton climb to seventh with 1-0 win

A 49th-minute header by Moroccan defender Talal El Karkouri gave Charlton Athletic a 1-0 home win over Blackburn Rovers on Monday that lifted the London club to seventh in the Premier League.


Investigators Look for Clues to Russia Blasts

Russian investigators were under  pressure on Wednesday to establish quickly who was behind a  suicide bomb attack on a busy Moscow street that killed 10  people and injured 51.


Red Hat Wednesday made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand by releasing it for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that hosts business applications.


Preliminary figures in the Afghan presidential election indicate interim leader Hamid Karzai has won the simple majority needed to avoid a run-off.


Kiev, 21:27 - CALCIO, MILAN: 2-2 IN AMICHEVOLE A KIEV, SEGNA ANCHE PATO

Il Milan ha pareggiato 2-2 a Kiev nell'amichevole con i padroni di casa della Dinamo organizzata per...


Vista Looking for New Sewage Spill Safeguards

By Craig Tenbroeck, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.


The massacre of 28 people near San Pedro Sula in Honduras left many Delawareans who have volunteered there stunned and saddened. Honduran officials said Friday that gunmen


Royal Dutch/Shell, the energy group, ignored internal warnings for several years that it was overstating reserves because it was determined to show investors it could find enough oil and gas to keep it at the forefront of the industry.


Zuckerman and Financier to Back Pop Culture Magazine

The owner of The Daily News and Jeffrey Epstein have signed a deal to provide financing for Radar magazine.


Play Well, and May the Blog Buzz Be With You

The CMJ Music Marathonâs lineup included hundreds of indie rock bands, like Black Kids, a fledgling group with buzz on the Internet.


Opposition activists have set fire to a train in Bangladesh, following a bloody attack on a political rally in Dhaka. Details are sketchy, but unconfirmed reports speak of at least 20 people being injured in the train fire near the city of Chittagong.


Ennio Morricone -- more than a "cowboy composer"

Don't mention spaghetti westerns to Ennio Morricone -- they give him artistic indigestion.


Jenson Button has moved to rebuild bridges with his BAR team after being told he is not allowed to quit at the end of the season. Button signed for Williams in an attempt to leave BAR after this weekend's


ATHENS -- Brett Heyl, the Norwich, Vt., native who had hopes of making the finals of the men's slalom kayak event, finished 12th in the morning heat yesterday, dropping him from the finals.


Citigroup Inc., the world's largest bank, was forced to close its private banking operations in Japan after the nation's financial regulator reported it had found "serious" breaches.


Top Palestinians arrive in France to visit Arafat

Four leading Palestinian officials arrived in Paris to visit ailing Palestinian leader of Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites ) as accusations by his wife that they were planning a deathbed coup continued to swirl ...


Calif. Jury Told Peterson Never Professed Love

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - Murder defendant Scott  Peterson's former mistress, Amber Frey, on Tuesday conceded  under cross-examination in the trial that has drawn widespread  attention that the fertilizer salesman never professed his love  for her.


Footage of four women goading toddlers to fight has "shocked and stunned" Devon police and social services, a detective says.


Roma, 11:36 - CALCIO, RANKING FIFA: ITALIA PERDE PRIMATO, BRASILE LEADER

L'Italia viene rimpiazzata dal Brasile nella leadership del ranking Fifa. Con la vittoria in coppa A...


Share prices fall sharply on India's main indices amid fears that a US recession could herald a global slowdown.


Avoiding the Land Mines in Hiring Federal Employees

Opinion: Attorneys Angela B. Styles and Jenny Kim offer four steps to help technology companies make successful hires from the federal government.


Australia Labor Chief Raps Prime Minister

The opposition Labor Party leader blasted Prime Minister John Howard Wednesday for supporting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and vowed to bring most of Australia's troops home by Christmas.


A Dec. 31 deadline is set for an accord to end the region's 21-year civil war. By EVELYN LEOPOLD. NAIROBI, KENYA - Staking its prestige on Sudan's troubled peace process, the UN Security Council met away from


Britney ditches her panties, raises eyebrows

Her necklines have plunged, she's  plying the all-night party circuit with new best pal Paris  Hilton, and she has even ditched her panties.


Brazilian police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari that were stolen last month from the country's premier modern art museum, officials said Tuesday.


New Fitness Instruction: Sing the Body Eclectic

The world of âHow to Look Good Nakedâ is a happy and optimistic place where no one is overweight, but everyone suffers from a curable form of body dysmorphia.


Cisco Systems, the biggest vendor in IP (Internet Protocol) networking, is diversifying into social networking.


UK government tunes out debate on DNA database

Pressure mounts on records of innocents The government has responded to an e-petition on the burgeoning DNA database but rebuffed its main complaint that the world's largest criminological genetic store has been built "by stealth" and without Parliamentary and public consent.â¦


Muslims face hatred, curiosity in U.S. heartland

Tala Ali, 25, has seen the good and the bad of being a Muslim in heartland America. People have leaned out car windows to scream at her: "Terrorist go home." But strangers curious about her headscarf have also approached her apologetically to ask about Islam.


Google's YouTube signing smaller partnerships: paper

Google Inc.  may be frustrated  in efforts to reach comprehensive deals with major media  companies such as NBC or Viacom Inc.  to put their  videos on YouTube, but it is signing up hundreds of smaller  media partners, The New York Times reported on Friday.


Freddie Mac Reports Another Quarterly Loss

Rising interest rates hurt the value of hedges it holds to protect profits on its mortgage portfolio.


Una donna di 23 anni e' rimasta decapitata nell'impatto


No proof of Iran nuke bomb work, but doubts remain-UN

Iran has not put into prohibited activities any nuclear materials it declared to the UN atomic watchdog, the watchdog said on Monday, but it could not rule out the existence of covert nuclear work.


Appearance Nixed for Prof in 9/11 Uproar

Citing death threats, an upstate New York college on Tuesday canceled a panel discussion featuring a professor who compared the World Trade Center victims to Nazis.


Senate Democrats Tap Moderate Reid as Leader

Nevada moderate Harry Reid was  elected by Senate Democrats on Tuesday to lead their battered  party and immediately warned Republicans he could either dance  with them or fight them.


The European plane maker Airbus says it foresees the use of mobile phones on aircraft by 2006.


BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-packed vehicle near a row of police cars on a bridge in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding 20, officials said. The attack came hours after U.S...


Pakistan on Monday test-fired a ballistic missile capable of carry nuclear and conventional warheads. "A successful test of the indigenous surface-to-surface solid-fuel missile Hatf-III Ghaznavi, with a range


Snapshots from the NYC iPhone line: Sellouts and power hounds

Blog: Several people offer to sell their spots in line for several thousand dollars; another, determined to stay, brings a portable generator to power his laptop.


Video: New York's magical 'Harry Potter' bash

Blog: Kids and adults alike--many in costume--show up for the party to commemorate the launch of the final installment of J.K. Rowling's already legendary book series.


Fox's "American Idol" returned as the nation's most popular TV series, but with 4 million fewer viewers than the 2007 season premiere. Tuesday's debut was seen by 33.4 million viewers, down 11 percent from the 37.4 million who watched the first show, according to preliminary ratings by Nielsen Media Research.


Russia's Gazprom to Set Up Holding Company

Directors at Gazprom, the largest natural gas company in the world, approved the creation of an oil holding company Friday, setting the stage for the creation of a state-controlled oil and gas giant and cementing the Russian government's influence in the politically important oil sector.


Economy, Iraq War Frame Bush-Kerry Debate

ST. LOUIS - A lackluster unemployment report and fresh questions about President Bush's rationale for invading Iraq frame the second face-to-face encounter Friday night between Bush and Sen...


The U.S. military said Sunday it has no reports of a helicopter going down after witnesses reported an Apache had crashed north of Baghdad.


A woman says she lost three babies after 'sadistic' treatment she received from jailed GP Clifford Ayling.


The NCAA yesterday approved moving the men's 3-point line back 1 foot in 2008 -- from 19 feet 9 inches to 20-9.


VIENNA, Austria - OPEC will increase its oil production target by 1 million barrels a day later this year in a move widely viewed as more symbolic than significant, given that the cartel has been exceeding the new output limit since the beginning of the year.    Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheik Ahmad Fahad al-Ahmad al-Sabah said Wednesday the cartel agreed to the decision to raise output by nearly 4 percent, adding it would take effect Nov...


Lanxess Chemicals, Polymers Business Debuts

Lanxess AG, the spun-off chemicals and polymers business of German drug maker Bayer AG, made its debut on the Frankfurt stock exchange today.


MS intros Zune music service, Wi-Fi song sharing

Tight-lipped on prices, availability Microsoft yesterday revealed what World+Dog already knew: what it's upcoming Zune-branded digital music player will look like. Yes, the star of US Federal Communications Commission filings and blurry, amateur-look picture leaks is official.â¦


Arlington firm wins $16M contract renewal to provide logistics support and training services to the Navy and Marine Corps.-The Washington Post


Police plan to meet with Claudia Schiffer to discuss complaints that her dogs are intimidating walkers near her country mansion.


The euro hit a new all-time high against the U.S. dollar, trading above $1.40 for the first time since the common European currency was introduced.


With an appealing story of two unlikely people falling in love after their politically arranged marriage, the film is filled with several intriguing plots and out-of-the-world songs.


The dollar creeps to a new low against the euro in early European trade, after hitting a 12-year low against sterling.


Beyonce Knowles will celebrate her 25th birthday with the release of "B'Day," her second solo album. The album will be released internationally on her birthday, Sept. 4, and in the United States on Sept. 5, Columbia Records announced recently.


Palestinians Warn US Over Israeli Settlement Expansion

Palestinian leaders say the United States will destroy the Middle East peace process if it endorses Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied territories.


MTV has renewed "The Real World" for five more seasons, which means the reality show will stay on the air until at least 2008.


Giunta alla quinta edizione l'iniziativa contro le esecuzioni Per eliminarle dalle legislazioni dei 76 Paesi che le praticano                                          Roma si illumina contro la pena di morte in contemporanea con 500 cittÃ  nel mondo


The United States is to resume its space shuttle program next year after the Columbia shuttle tragedy in 2003. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, announced


Non e' un termine perentorio, numerosi i casi di ritardo


People view Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani as the least religious of the major presidential candidates, according to a poll released Thursday. Mitt Romney was seen as most religious, but his Mormonism may hurt him with voters.


The most lethal passing combination in the NFL is now the league's highest-paid tandem. The Indianapolis Colts and wide receiver Marvin Harrison have finalized


The death toll from a mine explosion in Kazakhstan rises to 41, as investigators say blame a gas leak for the blast.


Tamada on pole for Portuguese Grand Prix

Japan's Makoto Tamada powered into pole position for Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix, setting a lap record just before the end of qualifying on Saturday.


Hollywood scribe Nancy Anderson wasn't expecting much when she first interviewed Elvis Presley in 1956 on the set of his movie "Love Me Tender."


EPA Seeks Limits on Paint: Emissions While Drying Seen As a Small Factor in Creation of Ozone

By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Dec. 11--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants to curtail emissions from paints and industrial coatings to help clean the air of harmful ozone.


GENEVA, Switzerland - 11/29/04 - In another broadside in an ongoing trade dispute between the US and the European Union, Japan and several other countries, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has levied punitive tariffs on a variety of US exports ranging


St. John's Stuns No. 17 North Carolina St.

It felt like the old days in Madison Square Garden for St. John's.


Three Saudi security staff are killed while chasing suspected militants, state television says.


U.S. stock index futures pointed to a flat market open on Thursday, with investors cautious a day after the Dow hit an all-time high for a second straight day and before employment data on Friday.


Rossi-Ruggiero a dialogo con Cardia per possibile riassetto


Manchester United's largest fan group is launching a registration drive to stop U.S. businessman Malcolm Glazer from buying the Premier League club.


Saboteurs kept up relentless attacks on  Iraq's oil production system on Saturday, hitting pipelines in  the north and south that disrupted internal supply, oil  officials said.


Entertainment highlights during the week of Jan. 27-Feb. 2:


Strain Is Seen in Giuliani Ties With President

The collapse of Bernard Kerik's nomination has strained a relationship that has long been more complicated than mere friendship.


Dopo taglio tassi, Mibtel guadagna lo 0,93% a 25.844 punti


Rupert Wingfield-Hayes makes a gloomy prediction for Russia's car industry as he travels along the Volga river to sample everyday life in Russia.


With no power or A/C, some people still feeling Frances

Crews from far and near work to restore electricity to places like nursing homes.


Changing City Policies Prompt New Needs for SLO Fire Services

By Sally Connell, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Feb. 4--In the short term, the San Luis Obispo Fire Department is hoping for new equipment to fight wildfires.


Dutch to test 20 people for polonium radiation

Dutch health authorities said on Friday they have called in about 20 people for radiation testing after they stayed in a London hotel where poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko also spent time.


British soccer club Manchester United won't endorse Malcolm Glazer's proposed buyout offer and temporarily suspended talks with the 76-year-old tycoon, the team said Monday.


Officials Make Deals to Learn Who Made Drug Deals

As the use of performance-enhancing substances draws concern from the halls of Congress to the offices of high school coaches, prosecutors have turned their targets into partners in a broader endeavor.


Fatah defiant on West Bank as Hamas takes Gaza

Hamas militants cement domination over Gaza but appear to make conciliatory overtures to Fatah.


Obama Giving Clinton a Race in Her Backyard

New Yorkâs Democratic presidential primary on Feb. 5 is shaping up as the stateâs most competitive since 1992.


E' successo in luna park del Torinese, denunciate in sei


Il parto Ã¨ avvenuto nella notte in Italia: il piccolo pesa due chilie mezzo. Entro una settimana il nome. Un evento atteso 40 anni                                                  La principessa Kiko partorisce un maschio Il Giappone in festa per l'erede imperiale                                                                                L'evento seguito in diretta dalle tv. Gente in strada e celebrazioni


Indonesian police arrest a man they say is an associate of Hambali, an alleged senior militant leader.


ICELAND:  Resistance Rises Against GM Imports

REYKJAVIK, Jan 23 (IPS) - Icelanders are beginning to protest more forcefully  against import of genetically modified food, leading the  government to tighten regulations.


Oil Retreat from Highs Lifts Asia Stocks

Crude oil extended its retreat on Monday from a 21-year high near $50 a barrel, lifting most Asian shares and giving investors some respite from concerns that energy costs would choke off profits and economic growth.


Alex Netkachov's Blog: Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 driver for PHP

Alex Netkachov has posted some of his own thoughts about Microsoft's recent SQL server 205 driver for PHP:   I can add that a few years ago I had bad experience with MS SQL PHP extension. It was just impossible to use it in production environment. These days MS understand that PHP is a very popular programming language and step forward to the community   He also includes a list of some of the things that the driver includes/makes possible such as the fact that it's not a PDO or OOP driver, that there's no source posted for it and that it does support data streams.


India's economy is set to grow by 9.2% in the current financial year, the Indian government says.


Glasgow, 12:05 - CALCIO, EURO 2012: PROBLEMI POLONIA-UCRAINA, SCOZIA SI CANDIDA

La Scozia si candida ad ospitare gli Europei del 2012 in caso di forfait di Polonia-Ucraina. Lo ha a...


George Balanchineâs production of âThe Nutcracker,â which celebrated its 2,000th performance on Wednesday, continues to bring new felicities of drama and construction.


Southern Baptist pastor Wiley Drake said Wednesday that he is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service for his endorsement of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee in a press release written on church stationery.


Diesel in deal for "Hannibal" cartoon at BET

Vin Diesel will take on  the Roman Empire in a new BET Networks cartoon series about  military leader Hannibal.


Ma politica resti fuori, si' a piano Prato su ruolo Malpensa


Afghanistan. Ostaggi Onu: negoziati in corso per il rilascio

I rapitori dei tre operatori Onu ostaggi dell'Esercito musulmano hanno reso noto che nel sud del Paese sono in corso negoziati con le autoritÃ  del governo afgano e dell'Onu e che il rilascio potrebbe avvenire in giornata.


The opposition has set a huge protest to demand the president admit electoral defeat, sparking fears of more violence


Roma, 19:41 - CALCIO, AZZURRI: PANUCCI E FOGGIA PER FRANCIA E UCRAINA

Sono Cristian Panucci della Roma e Pasquale Foggia del Cagliari nel novità tra i 25 azzurri c...


Few Glitches Reported in Early Fla. Voting

Voters began casting ballots Monday in Florida, encountering long lines at the polls and a few ballot box glitches four years after the 2000 presidential election fiasco.


Firefox Users against Bad Taste Mozilla apologised on Monday for an ill-advised viral marketing campaign that featured inappropriate references to cancer. The "wacky" "Firefox Users against Boredom" program featured a variety of off-beat "statistics" that compared Firefox and IE users.â¦


Car Bomb Near U.S. Convoy on Baghdad Airport Road

A car bomb exploded on the road to  Baghdad's international airport on Wednesday, apparently  targeting a U.S. convoy, Iraqi police said.


Parigi, 23:17 - CALCIO, COPPA DI FRANCIA: LIONE ELIMINATO NEGLI OTTAVI

Il Lione, avversario della Roma negli ottavi di Champions League, è stato eliminato negli ott...


Europe's seas are in serious decline as a result of coastal development, fishing and pollution, warn scientists.


Sen. John Kerry will probably avoid the "Will it Float?" routine but might opt to deliver the "Top 10 List" when he appears on the "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Monday.


At least 20 killed in Nigerian road crash: report

At least 20 people were killed when a bus collided with a fuel tanker in southwestern Nigeria, a newspaper said Tuesday.


Brainstorming on Iraq: The Capital Awaits a Masterstroke on Iraq

An unlikely proposal to halt reconciliation efforts and back Shiites says a lot about the dearth of good options.


Aug. 4, 1929: Born in Cairo, Egypt, fifth child of Palestinian merchant Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini. -Jan. 1, 1965: Forms Fatah guerrilla movement, which becomes core group of


Stocks End Barely Changed; Oil Cuts Gains

U.S. stocks ended barely changed on  Tuesday, pulling off earlier lows after tracking the price of  oil, although a brokerage downgrade of technology bellwether  Intel Corp. INTC.O hurt chip stocks.


No Joke, Bulb Change Is Challenge for U.S.

When 2012 hits, stores will no longer be able to sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes.


Through the back alleys and storm drains of Kakaako, state Department of Health workers were on a search-and-destroy mission yesterday for mosquito larvae that could potentially carry the West Nile Virus.


Galliano, Westwood help launch fashion "MySpace"

Iconic British designers Vivienne  Westwood and John Galliano will be online to help aspiring  designers and models around the world as part of a new social  networking Web site, dubbed the "MySpace.com" of fashion.


Two Policemen Dead, 36 Missing After Attack in Iraq

Two Iraqi policemen were killed, 14  wounded and at least 36 were missing after an ambush while they  were on their way to Baghdad from southern Iraq on Thursday,  police said.


NHS inspectors have issued their first warning to hospital bosses for breaching the NHS hygiene code.


Police raid the home of US rapper DMX, finding a dozen apparently neglected dogs and a number of guns.


UNITED NATIONS, September 19 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The UN Security Council late on Saturday, September 18, passed a US-drafted resolution threatening to âenvisageâ sanctions against Sudan's oil industry unless the Khartoum government


Obama, Clinton face off in South Carolina vote

Senator Barack Obama appeared headed for a badly needed victory in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary Saturday after a bruising fight with Hillary Clinton marked by increasingly nasty personal attacks.


The UN Security Council approves a peace force for Sudan's Darfur region - but only if Khartoum agrees.


UPDATE 7-Oil jumps over $50 as Bush nears victory

Oil prices leaped back above $50 on Wednesday as President George W. Bush edged towards US election victory, a result which traders said would bolster fuel demand and underpin anxiety over security of Middle East supply.


Beijing police may force the city's drug addicts into year-long rehabilitation programmes in a bid to present a clean Olympics to the world in 2008, state media reported on Wednesday.


US Holiday Shopping Starts with $8 Billion Day

Americans spent more in stores at the start of holiday shopping than a year ago, according to figures released on Saturday, but retailers' hopes for the key season


Giant-killers Oldham and Huddersfield will discover their FA Cup opponents in the draw live on the BBC at 1330 GMT.


Stoccarda, 13:38 - CICLISMO, MONDIALI; CRONO UOMINI U23 ALL'OLANDESE BOOM

La cronometro Under 23 dei mondiali di ciclismo su strada è stata vinta dall'olandese Lars Bo...


Stocks rebounded on Friday as bond yields retreated from their highs and oil prices fell, easing concerns about rising borrowing costs and inflation.


The cousin of one of the men convicted of killing City lawyer Tom ap Rhys Pryce is jailed for life for murder.


American Eagle cuts 4th quarter earnings outlook

Teen clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters Inc  said on Wednesday earnings for its fourth quarter ending on February 2 would be lower than expected because of a weaker sales environment.


Bishops Plan  To Name Nun to  Sex Abuse Panel

U.S. Catholic bishops are planning to appoint a nun to their lay review board on sexual abuse, a step that could undermine the watchdog panel's independence, several of its members charged this week.


Free phone calls with startup's $399 box

A Silicon Valley startup will begin selling $399 gadgets Wednesday that consumers with broadband Internet service can use to make unlimited free domestic phone calls.


LAS VEGAS (Ticker) - JL Lewis played a nearly flawless round of golf to grab a slim lead halfway through the Michelin Championship.


Justin Gatlin could escape a lifetime ban if he testifies against his coach, the United States Anti-Doping Agency said Friday.


I 13 turchi bloccati su nave chiederanno asilo in Italia

Arriveranno nel pomeriggio in Sicilia, nel porto di Augusta, i 13 turchi di etnia curda che hanno chiesto asilo bloccati a bordo di una nave mercantile al largo di Malta dal 15 ottobre. L'Italia Ã¨ il paese


Symantec acquisition to create new software giant

The Symantec Corp, a leader in security software and one of Silicon Valley's oldest companies, announced early Thursday that it would acquire Veritas Software, a maker of data storage programs, to create the world's fourth-largest software company.


Lawmakers Keep Aerial Tankers on Life Support

Once a week, at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, a crew chief on a tug tows one of a dozen or more aging KC-135E flying tankers a short distance just to keep the tires from going flat. Every 25 to 30 days, each of the planes is taxied to a special spot just to sit while its engines run so that...


Ukraine opposition proposes force to oversee planned national ...

The head of Mr. Yushchenko's election campaign, Alexander Zinchenko, says the opposition leader decided to create the committee because, in his view, neither outgoing President Leonid Kuchma nor Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych can rightfully claim to


Aging: Growing Older Is Found to Hurt Decision Making

As they grow older, even people who seem perfectly on top of things may have trouble making good decisions, a new study suggests.


HOOD RIVER, Ore. -- Two climbers missing on Mount Hood may have fallen on a steep slope on their way down Oregon's highest mountain, authorities said Monday as the search resumed on a clear day and a team prepared to retrieve the body of a third climber found dead in a snow cave.


Rockets Send a Pair to Hornets for Wesley

NEW ORLEANS (Sports Network) - The New Orleans Hornets  acquired guard/forward Jim Jackson and forward Bostjan Nachbar  from the Houston Rockets on Monday in exchange for guard David  Wesley.


Although storage virtualization technology is fairly new, it's quickly gaining traction in the enterprise. In 2006, 20% of 1,017 companies surveyed by Forrester Research had adopted storage virtualization. By 2009, 50% of those enterprises expect to.


Obesity on the rise in Portugal but so is extreme thinness: study

The number of overweight or obese adults is on the rise in Portugal but so are rates of extreme thinness among youths worried about their physical appearance, a study showed.


Movie producer Harvey Weinstein says he would hire the troubled actress   Lindsay Lohan in spite of all her legal and personal problems.


Italian Public Accounts Said a 'Disaster'

Italy's new deputy economics minister on Tuesday called the nation's economic situation "a disaster," saying the deficit in 2006 may exceed 4.5 percent of gross domestic product.


HP talks up voice-centric iPaq smart phone

Long-running PDA line goes candybar 3GSM HP today brought its iPaq brand into phone territory, announcing a candybar-format smart phone pitched primarily at voice usage - including not only GSM but also VoIP. It's also the company's first Windows Mobile 6 device.â¦


Brad Renfro, Former Child Movie Actor, Dies at 25

Mr. Renfro played a witness to a mob lawyerâs suicide in the 1994 legal thriller âThe Clientâ and a suburban youth tutored in evil by an elderly Nazi war criminal in the 1998 film âApt Pupil.â


St. Louis - Pedro Martinez didn't offer full disclosure. Yes, the New York Yankees are his daddy. But he has siblings. The St.


MOSCOW AND KIEV, UKRAINE - Supporters of Ukraine's rival would-be presidents thronged outside the Supreme Court in Kiev Monday, each side sure that the judges would find in their favor - and determined to fight on if the verdict betrayed their cause.


Ad un giornale olandese l'indicazione di dove sarebbe sepolta la bimba inglese scomparsa in PortogalloLa polizia considera il messaggio "importante": similitudini con il ritrovamento dei cadaveri di due adolescenti                                            Lettera anonima: "Maddie Ã¨ morta Ecco dove troverete il corpo"


Australian voters may well be asking themselves this question as the country prepares for a general election: Will the real Mark Latham please stand up?


Millions of young abusing cough medicine

About 3.1 million people between the ages of 12-25 have used cough and cold medicine to get high, the government reported Wednesday.


Keith Tkachuk is gone from St. Louis, and Bill Guerin might soon follow him out the door.


A twinkly-eyed Ronald Reagan is going on a U.S. postage stamp. Nancy Reagan unveiled a giant replica of the stamp Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.


In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind

As summer looms, students at dozens of schools across the country are trying hard to be in the present moment in what is known as mindfulness training.


Kenya pressured over disputed poll as toll rises

The United States and Britain are pressuring Kenya to investigate possible voting irregularities in an election that returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered rioting in which more than 100 people have died.


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People tune in to the MTV Video Music Awards to watch outrageous spectacles, great performances and hilarious surprises.


The enterprise minister says he wants an "urgent meeting" with managers at an aluminium plant to try to save 298 jobs there.


Inventors patent disc that can hold versions of films in two rival high-definition formats.


Administration Shaving Yardstick for Iraq Gains

The Iraqi government is unlikely to meet any of the political and security goals or timelines President Bush set for it in January when he announced a major shift in U.S. policy, according to senior administration officials closely involved in the matter. As they prepare an interim report due next...


After the offensive Gazans survey the devastation

Relatives of IsmaÃ¯l Assawalhi, 70, mourning him at his funeral in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Three Palestinians, including Assawalhi, were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air raid on Rafah during Israelâs recent offensive in the


It was no surprise that the Sacramento Kings' best offensive game of the year came the first time they were able to put Ron Artest, Mike Bibby and Kevin Martin in the starting lineup together.


Greek police question Athens bus hijackers

Gunmen who hijacked an Athens bus and held its passengers hostage are being questioned by Greek police after giving themselves up.


Il regista vuole lanciare una linea di bevande dedicate ai vecchi leader comunistiprodotte con la frutta che coltiva nella sua azienda di agricoltura biologica                                            Il business-provocazione di Kusturica Succhi di frutta "biorivoluzionari"


Ex-oil exec says he paid Alaska lawmaker

The former head of an oil field services company testified Wednesday that he paid a lawmaker nearly $8,000 to help keep him in office and advocate for the construction of a natural gas pipeline tapping the state's vast North Slope Reserves.


Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told Democrats Tuesday the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" is back, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan criticism.


Israel Pushes Gaza Offensive, Faces Vote on Pullout

An explosion killed a Palestinian in Gaza  on Sunday, the 11th day of an Israeli offensive against  militants Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes will defuse  internal resistance to his plan for withdrawing from some  occupied land.


WASHINGTON - CBS got the bill Wednesday for Janet Jackson's eye-catching flash dance during the Super Bowl halftime show: a record $550,000.    The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to fine each of the 20 CBS-owned television stations $27,500, which is the maximum penalty for indecency...


A man dubbed the Dearne Valley Shoe Rapist is jailed for life for the rape of four women.


Symfony Blog: Is symfony too slow for real-world usage?

On the symfony blog today, there's a new article looking to dispel some misunderstanding that's come up surrounding the speed of symfony applications and what effect it can have in a real-world situation.    We regularly see framework benchmarks pop up somewhere on the net, comparing symfony to other frameworks, either in PHP or in other languages. The conclusion of some of them is "symfony takes more time than other frameworks to display a 'hello, world', which makes it unsuitable for real-world web applications".   If some benchmarks show that symfony is slower, jumping to the conclusion that symfony is not optimized is a big mistake. [...] If symfony is well implemented (or so we think), then its speed is just the sum of the individual speeds of all the features it includes. Or, to put it differently, Symfony's speed is the consequence of a series of choices that we made to decide whether a feature should or should not make it to the core.    They suggest that the speed of symfony applications does not come as a result of the main portion of the framework, but rather as a choice of the development team as to what parts they wanted to include in the core and what not to. They also point out that, while speed does matter somewhat, especially in larger applications, it shouldn't be highest on the list.


New IPods Lock Out Linux, But Hackers Concoct a Quick Fix

The intrepid hacker community quickly finds a workaround for the way the latest iPods accept loaded files. Frustrated users who don't like iTunes find many of the third-party music-management apps that have worked for years don't work. With no Linux version of iTunes, users have had to choose -- ditch the iPod or switch operating systems -- until now.


Booming orders for new military aircraft boosted overall orders to US factories by 0.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted $371.51 billion in October, the Commerce Department


Uganda rebels threaten war without new talks venue

Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels vowed on Tuesday to resume an offensive against the government unless Kampala agrees to move faltering peace talks to a new venue outside south Sudan.


Former NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway apologized again Sunday for his anti-gay remarks, telling a Miami television station that he "didn't mean" to say what he said in a South Florida radio interview last week.


KPMG to Pay $10 Million to Settle Charges Over Gemstar Audits

KPMG LLP yesterday agreed to pay $10 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the firm and four accountants engaged in improper professional conduct, leading to repeated audit failures at client Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc.


Lo stilista Tomas Maier si ispira a sportswear californiano


Taylor Stubblefield has never lacked confidence on the football field.


Tourists Await Mount St. Helens Eruption

Camcorder in hand, Sheri Ray stood on Johnston Ridge — named for a man who died in the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 — and waited impatiently for the volcano to blow again.


Report blames Israel for Lebanon war civilian deaths

Indiscriminate Israeli shelling caused most of the Lebanese civilian deaths in last year's war, the Human Rights Watch organization said on Thursday.


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The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook's founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard.


The US military plans to deploy robots armed with machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq.


U.S. Flies 'Enemy Combatant' to Saudi After Delay

The United States flew long-held  accused enemy combatant Yaser Hamdi to Saudi Arabia after a  10-day delay caused by its traditional ally's worries about his  release deal, U.S. officials said on Monday.


As polls closed in Mozambique last night, opposition candidate Afonso Dhlakama accused the government of electoral fraud. Mr. Dhlakama told The Washington Times that several


Pupils in England are being promised at least five hours of "high-quality cultural activities" a week.


The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty, and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, said a new UN survey, which credited dropping prices for the robot boom.


Nominations for the new leader of the Scottish Socialist Party will be closed on Sunday.


Bush pledges to help tsunami-affected countries

US President George W. Bush said on Wednesday he is committed to helping countries affected bythe tsunami disaster "in the difficult weeks and months that lie ahead.


Almost 900 African migrants reached the Canary Islands on Tuesday, a record number for a single day.


Fundamental Mormons seek recognition for polygamy

CENTENNIAL PARK, Arizona  - When Ephraim Hammon returns home from a day of working construction near Arizona's border with Utah, he's greeted by his wife SherylLynne. And then by his wife Leah.


President Bush's new national security adviser is an Ohio native who's known around the White House as "Dad.". Stephen Hadley is a longtime foreign policy aide to Republican presidents -- he's served four of them going back to President Nixon.


In the digital age, the next best thing to being there might be this: a French phone number.


Grizzlies first-year general manager Chris Wallace reminisced about his days with the Celtics as he took the familiar drive from Logan Airport to his Medfield home late Wednesday night.


Pakistan's chief justice is to appear before a panel looking into alleged abuse amid a row over his suspension.


MOBILE phone operator Maxis Communications Bhd expects to roll out its third generation (3G) technology in the local market from the first quarter of next year.


Australia struck back with the ball early on the third day of the third Test against India at the WACA Ground here Friday.


FDA to Create Independent Drug Safety Board

The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating an independent  drug safety board after the agency's monitoring of drugs  already in the marketplace was criticized amid the withdrawal  of arthritis drug Vioxx.


Mortgage lending fell 4% in September, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says - a further sign that the housing market is slowing.


EMOTIONAL Glen Boss admitted he put too much pressure on himself talking up Makybe Diva's chances before the Melbourne Cup yesterday.


Photo by Lloyd Francis Jr./Federal Times

The Office of Personnel Management must tackle many major challenges in the coming months, both in its role as agenciesâ human resources adviser and in improving internal operations.


Patriots near to greatness, says Hall of Famer Brown

Hall of Famer Jim Brown says the New England Patriots will reign supreme in NFL history should they complete a perfect Super Bowl run.


Militants kill 13 at Pakistan cleric's home

At least 13 people were killed when around 100 pro-Taliban militants launched rockets and lobbed hand grenades at the home of a top Pakistani cleric, police and witnesses said.


Report: Jags' Leftwich may miss rest of season

NEW YORK  -- Jaguars quarterback Byron Leftwich may miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, according to a report on Tuesday by the Florida Times-Union.


Report: Medicaid Costs Vie With Education

The cost of Medicaid continues to grow faster than any other portion of state spending, overtaking primary education for the first time and forcing reductions in welfare and other assistance, according to a report released Tuesday by the nation's governors and budget officers.


The tune seems to be changing ever so slowly at some record labels when it comes to DRM. Both out of consumer demand and to some extent necessity, some have begun to offer digital downloads in the unprotected MP3 format.


BP will announce shortly that it is returning to Libya, UK officials say.


A new machine that allows bar-hoppers to inhale liquor instead of drinking it is set to make its debut in New York City tomorrow night.


A police authority study gives people Â£120 to 'spend' on crime areas which they think officers should target.


Markets set for quiet year-ending week, Toronto market reopens ...

TORONTO (CP) - North American stock markets sitting at multi-year highs appear set to end 2005 fairly quietly on thin trading this week, with the Toronto Stock Exchange closed Monday and Tuesday.


A mosque bombing serves as a reminder that even as India roars ahead at the cutting edge of globalizing modernity, it is still torn by ancient hatreds


Russian and Chechen officials commemorated the birthday of slain Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov on Monday, six days before an election to replace him as leader of the republic.


ORADEA, Romania Like it or not, Frenc Alafi could become a European Union passport holder sooner than he had expected. The 43-year-old tailor from this city situated just inside Romania's Hungarian border


Erin Brockovich forces NZ firm to drop sexist ad

Renowned U.S. environment crusader Erin Brockovich has forced a New Zealand retailer to drop a controversial advertisement because of an insulting reference to women, local media reported on Friday.


Popular privacy program used to spill state secrets Tor advertises itself as a means for people and groups to improve their privacy. And when used properly, the distributed, anonymous network does just that. But a Swedish security consultant has used the very same system to gain access to login credentials for a thousand or so individual email addresses, including those of at least 100 accounts belonging to foreign embassies.â¦


TORONTO Press baron Conrad Black says he'd give up his posts as head of the Toronto-based Hollinger Incorporated to ease his plan to take the company private.


Two years ago, Kanye West's Grammy after-party was a booze-filled, late-night affair with 3,000 screaming guests, bikini-clad women Â and his mother, Donde, was in the house.


Firefox Browser Alternative to Microsoft

Web surfing has belonged almost exclusively to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer ever since it buried Netscape's pioneering browser. That doesn't seem to have bothered the developers of the Mozilla Firefox, a feisty new kid on the block that's worth a serious look.


Lavoratori in sciopero per chiusura reparto magnetico


India's economic moment in the sun is dawning as the nation shifts to a new growth trajectory and flexes its takeover muscles abroad, say analysts, amid a flurry of upbeat financial news.


A letter bomb exploded at the London headquarters of the company which administers the British capital's traffic congestion toll, injuring one woman employee.


Is the Segway Â a futuristic, two-wheeled, self-balancing "human transporter" Â headed for the golf course?


Iraq Muslim Clerics Express Doubts Over Elections

An influential group of Iraqi Sunni  Muslim clerics said Tuesday that elections scheduled for  January would be a farce unless they were nationwide.


Long-suffering Curtis captures second PGA title of year

Ben Curtis, who won the 2003 British Open then took nearly three years to win another title, has captured his second US PGA event in three months, winning the 84 Lumber Classic.


Teheran chiedera' spiegazioni a Putin su scudo spaziale


Photo in the News: Python Eats Pregnant Sheep

The greedy-guts reptile had to be removed from a Malaysian road, because the snake was too full to slither away.


The IRA has changed radically and some of its important structures dismantled, a report is expected to say.


Malvo gets life sentence in 2002 killing

Convicted teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced Tuesday to two terms of life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder.


Sudanese, South African presidents to witness signing of Sudan ...

NAIROBI  - Presidents Omar el-Beshir of Sudan and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa are due to arrive in the Kenyan town of Naivasha to witness the signing of the last accords paving the way for the conclusion of a final peace agreement in southern Sudan.


Bush's NASA directive clouds other missions

NASA's plans to send robots and people to the moon and Mars threaten long-planned science missions, a national science panel warns.


Actress Scarlett Johansson will launch the Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of The Black Dahlia.


WASHINGTON - A US Army demolition unit removed and destroyed up to 250 tons of explosives from an Iraqi storage complex shortly after the fall of Baghdad, but Pentagon officials were unable to say Friday whether the destroyed munitions were part of a


Miramax and Disney are discussing terms of an agreement for Harvey and Bob Weinstein to leave the movie studio they founded, The Post has learned.


Spears in touch with mother, says lawyer

Although Britney Spears and her mother, Lynne, have been regularly feuding, they remain in touch through the troubled singer's lawyers.


BHP Billiton 'preparing hostile bid for Rio Tinto'

BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, is preparing a hostile bid for peer Rio Tinto whose board has turned down a friendly approach worth billions of US dollars, British newspapers said Sunday.


Apple set to report fruits of busy summer

With its quarterly earnings due Monday, the expectations are high for the maker of Macs and that fancy new gadget.


Eisner Said to Be Open to Staying at Disney

Michael Eisner indicated that he wants to stay on as chairman of the Walt Disney Company after he steps down as chief executive in September 2006.


The victory which ended the Boston Celtics' worst losing streak in franchise history this week after a league-leading 18 straight losses has failed to console the team's fans.


Air Canada has agreed to buy 30 Canadair Regional Jets from Bombardier Inc. (BBDb.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) in a contract valued at $821 million, the companies said on Monday, but the order falls 15 jets short of an earlier plan.


Microsoft, ISPs launch anti-spam offensive

Microsoft, America Online (AOL), Yahoo and Earthlink have filed a handful of lawsuits against spammers, allegedly targeting some of the world's largest unsolicited mail offenders.


Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis

Scientists have found what they say is the strongest evidence yet linking the first European explorers of the New World to the origin of sexually transmitted syphilis.


Assassination fears as gunshots disrupt Arafat mourning

TWO Palestinian security officers were killed yesterday and five others injured when militants opened fire as PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas arrived at a mourning ceremony for Yassir Arafat in Gaza, sparking fears that the succession race could descend into


Courts not convinced in Apple DRM battle

Virgin's attempt to force Apple to open up its digital rights management (DRM) technology has failed. The French Competition Council has dismissed a Virgin France case that alleged Apple had abused market dominance.


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Nell'allenamento che si è svolto questa mattina a Vinovo, Ranieri ha fatto le prime prove "an...


Opec to cool crude boil with additional gallons

: Opec on Wednesday lifted oil supply quotas by one million barrels a day, 4 per cent, in a renewed bid to force down stubbornly high world crude prices.


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Dutch police arrest 8 in filmmaker murder probe

The Dutch police authorities have arrested eight suspects concerning the killing of the famous film maker Theo van Gogh, Radio Netherlands reported Wednesday.


A top campaign adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton resigned Thursday, a day after suggesting Democrats should be wary of nominating Barack Obama because his teenage drug use could make it hard for him to win the presidency.


Retail group Metoz Holdings on Monday announced that Metcash Australia had made an offer to buy out all the issued shares of Metoz at 2.65 rand a share.


Bush Asks 2 Predecessors to Raise Funds for Tsunami Relief

The president enlisted former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton to lead a nationwide charity drive.


Advertising: Practicing the Subtle Sell of Placing Products on Webisodes

American Eagle Outfitters is at the forefront of a trend toward advertainment, making videos to engross viewers while glamorizing a brand.


ACE fires two employees in bid-rigging controversy

ACE Ltd. has fired two employees and suspended three others over their alleged involvement in the contingent commissions scandal that is being investigated by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.


John Kerry last night accused George Bush of being "unfit to lead" America and of having shirked the call to defend his country in Vietnam.


India and Pakistan held the first meeting Tuesday of a new panel to fight terrorism and discuss intelligence-sharing, in the latest initiative in the South Asian peace process, officials said.


Reba McEntire to design line of women's clothing to be launched in spring

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - Entertainer Reba McEntire will design a line of women's clothing for Little Rock-based Dillard's Inc.


New service offers spam, virus filtering for small and mid-sized businesses.


China's new and old set early pace at worlds

STUTTGART, Germany  - Holders China set the early pace in qualifying at the world championships on Saturday, using a spectacular array of skill from newcomers and champions to build a convincing team lead.


Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda welcomed the overwhelming endorsement contained in a resolution of the European Parliament backing the EU constitutional treaty on Wednesday and urging member states to ratify ...


Nokia hologram to expose fake, unsafe batteries

Nokia has begun applying a holographic sticker to its mobile phone batteries in a bid to prevent fake power packs being inadvertently purchased as the real thing.


ST. GEORGE, Utah - A man who drove himself to the emergency room after being shot in the calf with a nail gun was arrested at the hospital for not stopping when ordered.


Philly Fed factory activity rises in June

Factory activity in the U.S.  Mid-Atlantic region accelerated more than expected in June, a  survey showed on Thursday.


Florida judge avoids decision on Anna Nicole burial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - A Florida judge on Thursday ordered that the body of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith be handed into the custody of the court-appointed guardian of her 5-month-old baby daughter.


Keck zooms in on the weird weather of Uranus

Image: The two sides of the planet Uranus, as viewed in this composite image, by the Keck II Telescope at near infrared wavelengths.


EU blocks low-duty online booze and fags

Booze cruising set to continue The European Court of Justice has ruled that boozers and smokers looking to get cut-price deals from countries with lower rates of duty will will not be able to buy the stuff online, the BBC reports.â¦


HealthSouth Corp.'s first chief financial officer testified Wednesday that then-CEO Richard M. Scrushy told him and a colleague to "fix the numbers" when quarterly earnings were below analyst expectations in mid-1996.


IBM sweats acquisitions for bumper SOA rollout

Work hard for the money IBM today rolled out 23 updated product and 11 professional services offerings for service oriented architectures (SOAs). Some use technology from recent and recent-ish acquisitions, Webify, BuildForge and Bowstreet.â¦


An Addict and a Widow With a Lot of Pain to Heal

âThings We Lost in the Fireâ bends over backward to prove that serious American movies can hold their own with the best films from overseas.


'Cowboy' aggression works for Blackwater

For all its high-profile failings and its reputation for "cowboy" aggression, the secretive security company Blackwater USA has never failed at its primary mission in Iraq: Protecting State Department diplomats.


WASHINGTON -- Gerber Products Co. recalled all packages of its organic rice and organic oatmeal cereals Friday because of potential clumping of the baby food, which can pose a choking hazard.


Accordo tra tutte le sigle, nasce il Banco Popolare


WASHINGTON -- Not one of Roger Clemens' flat-out denials about using steroids or human growth hormone was delivered while he spoke under oath. Now he gets that chance.


Anonymous network staffer recalls battles with snooty attorneys at District Attorney's office.


Romania Presidential Race Too Close to Call

Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu emerged neck-and-neck from the second round of presidential elections on Sunday, exit polls showed.


Israel has arrested 13 UN employees and plans to indict them for "suspected links to terrorism," an Israeli army officer said Tuesday.


Turkmenistan awaits first 'free' elections

The gas-rich nation gets its first multiparty election on Sunday, with a vote that experts say is stacked.


July new home sales and durables orders rise

Sales of new single-family U.S. homes unexpectedly rose in July and new orders for durable goods posted strong gains that underlined the economy's strength just before a credit crisis socked financial markets.


Qatari investment pays off as Shaheen sets record

Qatar's multimillion-pound investment in importing sporting talent reaped some benefit when Saif Saeed Shaheen broke the world record for 3,000 metres steeplechase in the Memorial Van Damme in the Stade Roi Baudouin here last night.


Iraq PM criticizes Blackwater, U.S. curbs travel

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki suggested on Wednesday the U.S. embassy stop using American security firm Blackwater after a deadly shooting, saying he would not allow Iraqis to be killed in "cold blood".


Salman refuses a cameo in Milenge Milenge

ItÂs a known fact that when Salman is your friend, he will go out of the way to help him out.


PM defends Peter Hain after apology to colleagues over failure to declare campaign donations


Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu emerged virtually neck-and-neck from the second round of presidential elections on Sunday, exit polls showed.


Infection, not vaccines, raises heart attack risk

People who are ill with respiratory or urinary tract infections face a higher risk of heart attack or stroke while they are sick, researchers said on Wednesday.


Arsenal return to the top of the Premier League after an easy win against dismal Newcastle.


Henry Higgins now has his Eliza Doolittle. Claire Danes will portray the Cockney flower girl who blossoms into a lady in the Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion."


SARS outbreak unlikely according to World Health Organization

The regional head of the World Health Organization said today that it was possible the region would experience SARS cases this winter, but he doubted the situation would be serious.


Tommy Haas saves three match points before beating James Blake to reach the US Open quarter-finals.


JDS Uniphase loss widens, views below Street

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Dow Jones/AP) -- JDS Uniphase Corp., a leading maker of fiber-optic gear, posted a wider loss for its latest quarter despite an increase in revenue and provided a forecast below analysts' expectations.


U.S.-Led Forces Claim Victory in Samarra

SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces on Sunday  declared victory in Samarra, the first step of a drive to take  back all of Iraq's rebel-held areas before elections due in  January.


Blazers Fine Randolph for Missing Team Flight

The Portland Trail Blazers fined forward Zach Randolph for missing the team flight to Toronto, where they will meet the Raptors Sunday afternoon.


Chiesto il potenziamento dei centri di accoglienza


BEIJING Nov 28, 2004 - A gas explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine on Sunday, trapping at least 188 miners and sending smoke billowing out the mine's air vents, the government said.


MOSTRE: NAPOLI, I CAPOLAVORI DEL CARAVAGGIO A CAPODIMONTE

Napoli, 23 ott. -(Adnkronos)- Apre oggi pomeriggio al pubblico, presso il Museo di Capodimonte di Napoli, la mostra ''Caravaggio l'ultimo tempo''. A quasi venti anni dalla rassegna su ''Caravaggio e il suo


Pharmaceuticals weigh on Singapore's August factory output

SINGAPORE: Singapore manufacturing output growth slowed to 5.3 percent in August from 19.1 percent in July due to a sharp contraction in pharmaceuticals production, the government says.


Report: Holyfield banned from boxing in US

New York, NY (Sports Network) - Former undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield has been banned from fighting by the New York State Athletic Commission, according to published reports.


No doubt that Frank Francisco should have the book thrown at him for what he did in Oakland Monday night. But for that matter, so should the rest of us, for condoning the type of behavior that preceded the Texas Rangers relief pitcher's errant toss.


Rockers Mix Music, Politics at Pro-Kerry Concerts

Bruce Springsteen rocked  concert-goers while trying to rock the vote Friday night,  leading a band of top musicians in a rollicking show to help  elect Democrat John Kerry to the White House.


A federal judge ruled yesterday that a portion of the Patriot Act is unconstitutional, the first time one of the anti-terrorism law's police surveillance provisions has been struck down.


An ecstatic Azzam Azzam, the Israeli Druze businessman held in an Egyptian jail for seven years on spying charges, was released yesterday in a prisoner swap seen as signalling a thaw in relations between the two countries.


Firefighters continue to dampen down a fire which damaged Camden's famous market in north London.


Japanese nuclear plant may be on quake fault line

Leak of radioactive waste and water during tremor was worse than originally admitted.


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


Australia hails 'breakthrough' arrest of Jakarta bomb suspects

SYDNEY  Australia on Wednesday hailed the arrest in Indonesia of key suspects in the Sept. 9 bombing of its embassy in Jakarta as a "major breakthrough".


London, Sept. 23. (PTI): West Indies captain Brian Lara, who had to retire hurt in the semifinal against Pakistan yesterday, has not suffered a serious injury and was expected to be fit for the ICC Champions


A Hindu cleric facing murder charges in southern India is sent to police custody for questioning.


GAZA CITY: Three Palestinians, one a local Hamas leader, were killed yesterday as Israel pressed a major offensive in the Gaza Strip and imposed a watertight closure on the Palestinian territories ahead of the Jewish New Year.


Seven Britons are believed to have died in a crash in Jordan near the ancient city of Petra.


Speculation Favors a Woman to Win This Year's Literature Nobel

Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear ...


IP Address Is Personal Info, Says European Data Chief

The EU's data protection commissioner says IP addresses should be regarded as personal information, a view, which, if adopted, would profoundly affect the privacy policies of companies like Google and Yahoo.


Threats Against Smart Cell Phones Are Mounting

A security firm lays out this year's attack timeline to demonstrate the quickening pace of exploits. By Gregg Keizer. Mobile phone security is bad now, but it is only going to get worse, a security firm said


Calif. Couple Sues to End Gay-Marriage Ban

Calling gays "the most oppressed minority since slavery," an attorney for a gay couple urged a judge Thursday to overturn California and federal laws banning same-sex marriage.


Trulli fiducioso per il prossimo mondiale

Jarno Trulli e' pronto per lottare al vertice il prossimo anno, che vedra' il proseguimento del rapporto di collaborazione con la Toyota iniziato quest'anno dopo il divorzio dalla Renault. In occasione della


CORRECTED:Federer through but Murray slips up in Japan

Corrects to reverse the result of the Suzuki/Paradorn match in the final paragraph.


H5N1 avian influenza poses unprecedented global challenge: WHO ...

TORONTO (CP) - The world faces an unprecedented challenge from the spread of H5N1 avian influenza in Asia, a conference on global infectious diseases was told Tuesday.


COLOMBO: Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down another rival after Norway failed in its latest bid to end a prolonged deadlock in Sri Lankaâs peace process, officials and diplomats said on Sunday.


Search for Rafter Continues as Death Toll Rises in Texas Flooding

DALLAS, July 7 -- The sky was mercifully clear over much of Texas on Saturday after three weeks of drenching rain, as search teams combed the swollen Trinity River for a missing rafter.


AL Wrap: Late Homers by Sheffield, Matsui Rally Yankees

Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui  thumped back-to-back homers in the ninth inning to rally the  New York Yankees to a 9-7 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in  the American League Sunday.


A sheriff's deputy was acquitted of all charges Thursday in the videotaped shooting of an unarmed Iraq war veteran who was a passenger in a car that crashed after a high-speed police chase.


Robbie Keane's late goal gives Tottenham victory after Braga had fought back from two goals down in the first leg of their Uefa Cup tie.


SC declines permission to hold Taj Mahotsav

New Delhi: The Taj Mahotsav to mark 350 years of the Mughal monument in Agra may not start on Monday, as the Supreme Court declined to give permission to hold such an event near the 17th century monument without getting the views of the ASI and the Union


Movie Review | 'National LampoonÂs Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj': Graduate Degree in Grossness

Britain and India face off in ÂNational LampoonÂs Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj,Â a strained attempt to transplant the American campus comedy to more uptight shores.


A Muslim preacher who defended wife-beating is deported from France for a second time.


Wenger Says Referee Cost Arsenal its Unbeaten Run at Manchester

Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger blamed referee Mike Riley after the Premiership champion's record 49- match unbeaten run in English soccer's top division ended with a 2-0 loss at Manchester United.


Mystery disease killing chickens in Indonesia

An unidentified disease is believed to have killed thousands of chickens in Indonesia's Central Java. An official in the region says the symptoms are not the same as bird flu.


Enfield & Haringey Athletic Club's Luke Fagan has put down an early marker for the indoor track and field season.


AT&T Drops 'Fewest Dropped Calls' Slogan

AT&T tells its stores to remove signs that include the old "Fewest Dropped Calls" advertising slogan, used by Cingular before its merger with AT&T Wireless. It turns out the claim was not true.


Roger Federer beats Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets to reach the US Open final.


NEW YORK - Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison and his lieutenants, armed with impressive earnings forecasts, Wednesday made a confident sales pitch to Wall Street on their blockbuster acquisition of PeopleSoft.


Keener, director reunite for fourth movie

Catherine Keener is in  final negotiations to reunite with Nicole Holofcener, who  directed the actress in her previous three films.


Boeing to Sell Up to 50 7E7 Planes to JAL

Boeing Co. could sell up to 50 of its new 7E7 planes to Japan Airlines Corp. (JAL) under a deal announced on Wednesday worth as much as $6 billion at list prices.


Minacce via web alla Libia per visita Berlusconi

TRIPOLI (LIBIA) - Ancora minacce via web all'Italia e alla Libia, per protestare contro la prevista visita a Tripoli prevista per mercoledÃ¬ prossimo del presidente del Consiglio Silvio Berlusconi. IL MESSAGGIO


Conflicts across Iraq as powerful explosives disappear

Conflicts and bombings still rampaged across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 16 people including an American soldier and an Estonian trooper.


Una ricca e lunga carriera segnata da qualche flop


The candidates from both parties were trying on Friday to generate momentum for policies designed to keep the country from sinking into recession.


Dollar Weakens on Sense of Economic Gloom

The dollar weakened across the board  on Thursday, forging new lows as a deepening sense of gloom  over the U.S. economic and external deficit picture weighed on  sentiment, analysts said.


China supply cutback raises stakes in Yukos standoff

Russia's embattled Yukos oil giant raised the stakes in its bitter standoff with the Kremlin as the company slashed supplies to China in a move analysts said was designed to cause maximum embarrassment in Moscow.


Over the last 24 hours Twitter has been down as much as it's been up. As always this gives us a reason to think about what the world would be like without Twitter and then those of us who are engineers or would-be engineers, start thinking about ways to fix the problem, whatever it is. The Twitter folk say that the recent problems are related to an infrastructure overhaul. Of course I believe them, I take it at face-value. I think the MacWorld Expo outage was about traffic, I don't think last night's Republican debate took Twitter down. Anyway, I'd like to really understand what's going on behind the scenes at Twitter, Inc. They say they're confident the new infrastructure will hold up better, I'd like to understand why. Can we have a meeting, with a few people from the tech community who actively use Twitter and a few people from the company, to be briefed on what's going on. The same way the President briefs Congress when there's some kind of international crisis.  Twitter wouldn't exist without its users. Everyone wants to know what's going on. Let's have some real honest direct communication?


Navy Sets $5.5 Million Cleanup of Old Landfill on Camp Peary

The Navy plans to haul away 13,000 dump-truck loads of polluted soil from an old landfill on Camp Peary. It will be a $5.5 million cleanup project that is expected to last two years.


"Crisi dipende dalla saga familiare di un collega"


Mariners' Suzuki Breaks Sisler's Single-Year Hit Mark

Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners broke Major League Baseball's single-season hit record with two singles against the Texas Rangers.


The salt intake in some bread is so high it is killing 7,000 people a year, campaigners say.


Baseball: Dodgers and Angels have California dreaming

The Anaheim Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers both beat rivals from Northern California to capture division titles, making this the first time the two Southern California rivals will be in the postseason playoffs in the same year.


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


Tennessee to End Expanded Medicaid Program

The governor announced plans Wednesday to dissolve Tennessee's expanded Medicaid system and drop 430,000 poor and disabled people from the rolls of the health-care program


California fires helped by slowing winds

Firefighters battling 15 fires across Southern California got a break from slowing winds on Wednesday, but major blazes burned unchecked for a fourth day after forcing the largest evacuation in California's modern history.


Brees Wants Long-Term Deal With Chargers

Drew Brees came to Hawaii four years ago as a college all-star, looking to impress NFL teams at the Hula Bowl.


U.N. force vows to pursue Lebanon role despite bomb

MARJAYOUN, Lebanon  - U.N. peacekeepers will pursue their mission in south Lebanon despite a car bomb that killed six members of a Spanish battalion, their commander said on Monday.


Presidente francese, 'appoggiamo processo politico in Iraq'


A wealthy Syrian arms dealer previously accused of arming militants from Iraq to Somalia has been arrested in Spain on charges he plotted to supply millions of dollars worth of weapons to Colombian rebels, U.S. officials said Friday.


Sixty-six ABC affiliates chose not to run ``Saving Private Ryan''

Sixty-six ABC affiliates, covering nearly one-third of the country, ultimately decided not to air the movie "Saving Private Ryan" on Veterans Day due to skittishness over whether the Federal Communications Commission would deem it indecent.


Revealed: The seven great "medical myths"

Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes, you don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won't make the hair grow back faster.


President Bush said Iran on Wednesday   was taking too long to say whether it will suspend nuclear work   that could lead to the development of atomic weapons and warned   North Korea not to test-fire a long-range missile.


Internet conglomerate IAC/Interactive  Corp  has signed an agreement with online video  syndication service Brightcove Inc to create and distribute  video on the Web for IAC's brands, the companies said on  Wednesday.


Study: Drugs, Therapy Best Treat Teen Depression

Combining drugs with talk therapy works best in treating depressed adolescents, the first large study of its kind has found. But questions remain about suicidal behavior in children.


Bangladesh are dismissed for just 93 to be defeated by nine wickets as South Africa run riot at Edgbaston.


Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old when he and his family were told to leave their 20-acre farm in northern California. The peach trees that his immigrant parents had planted were about to yield their first big crop.


AT&T Corp. said it would restructure its business, cutting 20 percent of its jobs and writing down the value of its network by $11.


Airstrike Kills Mastermind of Deadliest Iraq Bombing

BAGHDAD, Sept. 9 -- A U.S. airstrike in northern Iraq killed one of the men responsible for planning the coordinated truck bomb attack that killed at least 411 people last month, the military said Sunday.


Sotogrande - Ian Poulter beat Sergio Garcia with a par on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win the Volvo Masters at Valderrama on Sunday.


Glasgow, 19:40 - CALCIO, SCOZIA: CELTIC VINCE

Il Celtic Glasgow, avversario mercoledÃ¬ del Milan nel ritorno degli ottavi di Champions League, ha b...


James, Bryant to highlight Las Vegas's All-Star audition

The Las Vegas audition for an NBA  team concludes Sunday with the annual All-Star game, an  offense-only exhibition designed to highlight the talents of  Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and the rest of the game's elite  players.


South Korea's Kospi also tumbles after US loss

TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Japanese stock indexes fell sharply by midday Monday as record oil prices and the dollar's fall to a six-month low against the yen sparked fears about the impact on consumer spending and corporate profits.


Riders Asked to Sign Anti-Doping Charter

The International Cycling Union asks all 600 ProTour cyclists to sign an anti-doping charter and promise to submit DNA samples before the Tour de France.


Native Hawaiians seek right to self-govern

Hawaii politicians are scrambling to gather enough votes in Congress to pass a bill that would grant Native Hawaiians a degree of self-government and possibly a share of the land ruled by their ancestors.


Fans rush to buy big TVs for Super Bowl Sunday

More than 100 million people in the  United States are expected to tune in to the Super Bowl on  Sunday, and many of them will be watching the game on brand new  big-screen television sets.


Police arrested two parishioners who attempted a vigil to keep the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston from closing their 114-year-old parish, one of 83 churches slated to be shut down or consolidated by year's end.


I diari influenzano il traffico in Rete dei giornali online, gli anziani e la tv, scherzi di carnevale in treno. I post


CIA sounded out Italy about "renditions" in 2001

The CIA spoke with Italy's spy chief about kidnapping terrorism suspects in Italy and flying them abroad days after the September 11 attacks, according to testimony being used to prosecute U.S. and Italian agents.


Reality TV Hots Up as UK Channel Airs Sex Videos

A British television channel will this  week stretch the boundaries of reality TV by showing videos of  couples having sex, in a program designed to help address  common sexual problems. The "Sex Inspectors" series starts late  on Tuesday evening and its subject matter goes beyond the main  remit of other popular reality shows like "Big Brother" and  "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here."


Apple Announces New iMac That Breaks Design Barriers

âJust like the iPod redefined portable digital music players, the new iMac G5 redefines what users expect from a consumer desktop,â Schiller told the audience.


GRECIA - Precipitato elicottero patriarca Alessandria

L'elicottero sul quale viaggiava il patriarca di Alessandria Petros VII e' precipitato nei pressi del monte Athos: sette i corpi recuperati. Le squadre di soccorso, dopo un sos del pilota, hanno localizzato


British billionaire Joseph Lewis buys a 7% stake in Bear Stearns.


Stuttgart moved to the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday extending their unbeaten start to the campaign with 2-0 victory over Hamburg.


Rural Wyo. city eyes fiber-optic network

Hay and beans have fueled this rural economy for years. But it's fiber of another kind that city leaders believe is key to Powell's future.


Fegica: in corso alcune precettazioni, atto grave


Lonely hearts grandpa finds new home as au pair

A retired Italian teacher has reportedly found a new home after offering after-school help for a family with kids in exchange for some human warmth and affection.


High-action video games may boost visual acuity, study finds.


Will Adamsdale, who was unknown on the comedy scene until weeks ago, scoops the Perrier Comedy Award.


Their fall to the bottom of the league is complete with an uninspired loss to another very bad team. By Matthew Barrows -- Bee Staff Writer.


Erano dieci anni che l'estate turistica italiana non attraversava un momento di crisi cosÃ¬ forte come quello vissuto in questo 2004. E per il futuro si prevedono riduzioni dell'occupazione e la chiusura di alcune imprese.


We've been seeing Tony Dungy for a while. The Colts have been in the news a lot during this century. We have something of a read on Tony Dungy.


Republican hopefuls for the US presidency are holding a third TV debate, with immigration likely to dominate.


Microsoft this week has appointed Mogens Elsberg as the new head of its Navision enterprise applications business, in charge of leading product strategy and managing partner relationships.ADVERTISEMENTReducing the Total Cost of OwnershipLearn how to reduce the total coast of ownership in enterprise data management in this case study.


ConocoPhillips said on Wednesday it was seeking 20 percent of Russia's LUKOIL in a far-reaching alliance that opens the way for the oil majors to tap vast reserves in northern Russia and Iraq.


Senate considers no-confidence vote in Gonzales

Senators hoping to prod Attorney General Alberto Gonzales into resigning moved on Monday toward a symbolic show of no confidence that President George W. Bush called "meaningless" and is likely to fail.


BRUSSELS The Belgian government struggled Tuesday to settle a dispute over a proposed increase in night flights over Brussels, a problem that could cost the country thousands of jobs with the international shipper DHL.


Vittime di uno scontro a fuoco tra ribelli e forze Nato


"Very serious allegations" The Police Complaints Commission is to investigate "very serious" allegations about misuse of North Wales Police computersâ¦


Shells point to police in guardsmen slayings

Two weeks before the massacre of almost 50 Iraqi national guard recruits on Saturday, 17 national guardsmen were shot execution-style at their base near the Syrian border, apparently with the aid of Iraqi police, US officials said.


Tunisia, plebiscito la rielezione di Ben AlÃ¬

Il presidente tunisino Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Ã¨ stato rieletto per la quarta volta consecutiva con il 94,49% dei voti espressi da 4,8 milioni di elettori. E' questo l'esito delle elezioni presidenziali


Partiti pensino a bene comune e non a fini di parte


In an attempt to allay confusion over its new AJAX-enabled webmail system, Microsoft said Thursday that Windows Live Mail was being renamed to Windows Live Hotmail. The decision follows a recent switch to keep the classic Hotmail interface for existing users.


Emi Fujiwara's holidays can hardly be called that as she juggles a full-time job and evening studies and tries to find money and time to buy presents, organize parties and cook for family and friends.


African Union ceasefire monitors are investigating claims that the Sudanese military bombarded a village from helicopter gunships, driving terrified farmers from their homes, only days before the expiry of a UN deadline to end the violence in Darfur.


Drawings, photographs and sculptures on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art are good indicators of how children are coping with the trauma of Hurricane Katrina.


Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder has his three-game suspension reduced to two games Friday.


Ex Pink Floyd morto di cancro lo scorso luglio a Cambridge


The most successful socialist society on earth goes to the polls on Sunday. It is not the socialism of Lenin, and certainly not of Mao.


Career Imperative: Get Inside The Boss' Head

JP Morgan Chase's decision to in-source the bulk of the IT operations it recently outsourced points to what could be one of the great career-planning hazards over the next couple years: Divining what direction IT strategy is headed.


The opening game of the season brings plenty of excitement for Patriots fans, players, and coaches alike, but today's game against the New York Jets at Giants Stadium also brings an air of uncertainty for those who will be playing and coaching.


Many Obstacles to Digital TV Reception, Study Says

Nearly six million people with digital receivers may still lose TV signals when digital-only broadcasts begin next February, a new study says.


A foreign man is shot dead near a shopping complex in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh.


U.S. retail sales jumped a  larger-than-expected 1.2 percent in December as lower gas  prices left shoppers with more cash to spend, while cheaper oil  also pulled down import prices more than anticipated,  government reports showed on Thursday.


Javier Mojica scored 25 points, including a late 3-pointer that helped Central Connecticut beat Sacred Heart 74-70 on Wednesday night in the Northeast Conference tournament championship and earn an NCAA bid.


Blair ally handed key role in British cabinet reshuffle

British Prime Minister Tony Blair reshuffled his cabinet, bringing back a key ally to lead Labour's campaigning ahead of a general election, expected in Spring 2005.


Leaders from a town dubbed Britain's "yob capital" have rounded on critics, insisting the label was a misrepresentation of what they say is an attractive rural hideaway.


Sondaggio, insufficienti gli ingressi autorizzati dal governo


Even Top Performers Have Flaws, and That Might Be a Good Thing

A virtuoso musician may seem to nail every note, but actually there are tiny variations in even the most skilled performance.


OPEC production levels are increasing to meet escalating demand but over-inflated prices can only be brought down by resolving global conflicts, the organisation's president has said.


Metro Atlantaâs best home mortgage rates continue to hold at historic 30-year lows this week. After being grounded last week, the airlines are raising fares again to cover escalating fuel costs.


Georgia, South Ossetia Reaffirm Agreement to Cease Hostilities

Georgian and South Ossetian officials have agreed to a new cease-fire and plans to demilitarize the separatist region.


Terrell Owens said he's sorry - not because he feels he did something wrong, but because so many other people feel that way. On Thursday, Owens finally addressed


The transition is underway as Joe Kernan and the Democrats who now run state government have already begun discussions with the Republicans who will take over in January.


World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: B.P. to Buy Chevron Assets

BP said it had agreed to buy Chevronâs manufacturing company in the Netherlands, Texaco Raffinaderij Pernis, for about $900 million, excluding working capital and hydrocarbon inventory. BP will acquire Chevronâs 31 percent minority shareholding in the Netherlands Refining Company as well as Chevronâs stake in the jointly owned wind farm located at the refinery; shareholdings in the nearby crude oil terminal and storage facility; and a number of associated pipelines. The deal, which is expected to be completed during the first half of the year, would make the refinery a 100 percent BP- owned asset.


WEARABLE solar panels that help charge mobile phones or music players are likely to come on sale within three years, the New Scientist says.


Huge car bomb explodes in central Baghdad, causing casualties

A huge car bomb explosion in Rashid Street in central Baghdad resonated throughout the capital on Friday, causing several casualties, Qatar-based al-Jazeera satellite TV reported.


Sony woes deepen with PlayStation 3 delay in Europe

Sony Corp. has announced a fresh delay to the launch of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) games console in Europe, pushing back the rollout there of one of its most important new products until March next year.


Baby Stolen from Womb Said in Good Condition

KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - A baby girl cut from her  murdered mother's womb by a woman who later tried to pass the  child off as her own was in very good condition, a Kansas  hospital said on Monday.


NASA on Thursday delayed the flight of space shuttle Atlantis until late January or, more likely, February to replace a suspect connector in the fuel tank. The connector is believed to be responsible for back-to-back launch postponements last month.


Cassini Flies Past Saturn's Moon Titan Today

NASA released one of the best pictures ever made of Saturn's moon Titan as the Cassini spacecraft begins a close-up inspection of the satellite today.


China Vows Tougher Penalties for Web Porn Operators

SHANGHAI, China  -- Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.    The regulations were issued Sunday in a legal interpretation by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, or top prosecutors office, the official Xinhua News Agency reported...


Consumer Innovations to Inform Web Site for Spies

Government agents may soon find valuable information through an online-recommendation system like the one on Amazon.com: Spies who read this report, it might say, also found these reports useful.


Korean LCD-maker suffers huge decline in earnings.


Western Digital's latest external drive tops out at 1 terabyte. Plus: Handy tool kit keeps road warriors connected. In Gear Factor.


A General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) subsidiary announced it would acquire the transportation financing unit of Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) in a cash deal worth approximately $4.4 billion.


Government asks oil companies not to revise oil prices

New Delhi, Oct 31 (UNI) In view of softened international oil prices, the Government today directed the oil companies to maintain the retail prices of petrol and diesel till November 15.


US President George W Bush is reported to have chosen a former New York City police commissioner as the new Homeland Security Secretary.


France's President Sarkozy calls for taxes to hit polluters and French use of pesticides to be halved.


How three Berlusconi guilty verdicts were overturned

One of the most telling insights into Silvio Berlusconi's career as billionaire businessman and centre-right prime minister of Italy comes from Giuliano Ferrara, editor of Il Foglio, a conservative


Why I will clone human cells: Dolly creator

THE scientist who made his name by cloning Dolly the sheep said yesterday that he was "very optimistic" about gaining a licence to clone human embryos to aid understanding of motor neurone disease.


The government should fund television and other health warnings against excessive consumption of alcohol just as it funds campaigns against smoking, the charity Alcohol Concern said yesterday as Britain's teenagers were confirmed as among the worst binge


AUSTRALIA yesterday tightened security at airports and set up a 24-hour federal police operations centre amid fears terrorists could strike again in the wake of the Jakarta embassy bombing.


A strong rally on US and Asian markets overnight boosted the FTSE on Thursday.


Medicare to cover some stop-smoking treatments

Margaret Tatum has smoked cigarettes for nearly a half-century, but at 71, she said, "I desperately want to stop.". "It's hard because it's been so long," said Tatum, a licensed practical nurse from Cleveland.


Verizon and Sprint to Cut Fee For Transferring Cell Numbers

Verizon and Sprint wireless customers will get a small break on their bills soon. The companies have decided to eliminate or reduce a 40-cent-per-line monthly charge imposed to allow customers to transfer their phone numbers to new carriers.


DETROIT, Jan. 13 -- Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is tying his fate in the presidential primary in Michigan to the survival of the American auto industry, casting himself as the champion of its workers while blaming his rival Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for Washington's indifference to...


U2 holds surprise concert Mon. night in NYC

(New York-AP) Nov. 23, 2004 - The band U2 held a surprise mini-concert Monday night in New York under the lights at a waterfront park beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.


Andy Goode will start at fly-half for England when they face South Africa at Twickenham on Saturday.


Romanian Opposition's Basescu Wins Run-off, Early Results Say

Traian Basescu, the head of Romania's main opposition alliance won the presidential run-off election against Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, early results said.


Opinion: Mixing open- and closed-source, managing risk

Talk about the worst of both worlds: When Jon Espenschied tried to untangle a malware attack on his dual-boot system, he found out just how vulnerable combining open- and closed-source software can leave a machine.


Bollywood actor marries longtime girlfriend

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt  married longtime girlfriend Manyata in a traditional Hindu  ceremony in Mumbai on Monday, two years after they started  dating.


The battle of the Web search engines is expected to heat up today as tech behemoth Microsoft begins to unveil its much-anticipated product, aimed squarely at toppling market leaders Google and Yahoo!


A Tale of Mice Illustrates How to Save Money

For an example of how federal employees can make a difference, the Office of Management and Budget yesterday offered up the story of feeder mice.


Senator Barack Obamaâs commanding victory over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton amid record-setting turnout sets the stage for a state-by-state fight.


England captain Beckham raps critics: I'm not thick!

England skipper David Beckham has revealed he deliberately got himself booked on Saturday in the 2-0 win over Wales. The Real Madrid midfielder knew he had cracked ribs in a challenge with Ben Thatcher.


NZ police 'confident' of catching killer of Scottish woman

New Zealand police said Friday they were confident of catching the killer of a Scottish woman found severely beaten near the centre of a lakeside resort town.