After Legal Odyssey, Homecoming Show for Looted Antiquities

âNostoi: Recovered Masterpiecesâ does not pull its punches in explaining how objects made their way abroad: They were looted from Italian archaeological sites.


American Mark Wilson wins the Honda Classic in Florida after a four-way play-off.


Aerowatt discussing $99 mln Mauritius wind project

Aerowatt  is in talks with  Mauritius to invest 70 million euros ($99 million) in a wind  farm that could produce 5 percent of the Indian Ocean island's  electricity needs, a company official said on Monday.


Turkish mobile firm Turkcell could pull out of a $3bn deal in Iran after MPs there approve plans to slash its stake from 70% to 49%.


Milano, 16:12 - CALCIO, GIUDICE SPORTIVO; CAGLIARI: CHIUSA CURVA NORD

Curva Nord dello stadio Sant'Elia di Cagliari inibita agli spettatori per un turno. Inoltre 15 mila ...


A look at the top movies stories this week.


CORRECTED: Cheney Is a Quiet Force Behind Bush Presidency

Dick Cheney is one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history, regarded as a driving force behind the Iraq war and the Bush administration's industry-friendly energy policy.


President Bush opened his first presidential trip to Israel on Wednesday, seeking to build momentum for stalled Mideast peace talks


Parents are encouraged to challenge their children's science teachers over the origins of life.


18,000 Tons of Keys Muck Put in Limbo: A Plan to Dump Tons of Muck From the 18 Mile Stretch Project into a State Park is Dead, but Just Where the Stuff Will Wind Up Remains Unresolved

By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Dec. 18--The state has pulled the plug on a plan to dump more than 18,000 tons of excavated muck from the 18 Mile Stretch widening project into ocean-side rock pits at a North Key Largo park.


President Bush vowed on Tuesday to   prevent al Qaeda from setting up a violent, radical Islamic   empire based in Iraq, which he said was Osama bin Laden's   ultimate goal.


Iraqis dying in record numbers, fleeing: U.N.

A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.


East Rutherford, NJ (Sports Network) - The New York Giants put an end to any possible quarterback controversy as Kurt Warner was named the starter over rookie Eli Manning for the season opener.


Ottimistica la relazione ministeriale sulla spesa pubblicaBuono l'andamento delle entrate fiscali, ridotte le spese                                          Cala il deficit pubblico Risparmiati 22 miliardi


Official: War on Drugs at 'Tipping Point'

Amid record seizures of cocaine and massive spraying of coca plantations, a senior U.S. official says the "tipping point" in the war on drugs has finally been reached. But skeptics are unconvinced and say the war remains unwinnable.


UK takes Linux to the heart of government

Open source software is a viable alternative to commercial proprietary software, with potential significant value-for-money benefits for government, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has concluded.


Supernatural thriller The Forgotten has gone straight to the top of the US box office chart, taking $22m (Â£12m). The film stars Julianne Moore as a mother who is told the son she lost in a plane crash never


Toll Brothers profit falls on housing downturn

Luxury home builder Toll Brothers   on Thursday reported sharply lower quarterly net  income, hurt by a downturn in the U.S. housing market.


A robotic anti-aircraft cannon in South Africa goes berserk during a training exercise and kills nine soldiers, seriously injuring another 14. Officials aren't sure whether to blame a hardware malfunction or a software glitch.


DaimlerChrysler sells EADS shares to private investor, reduces stake to 15%

DaimlerChrysler AG said Friday it sold a third of its stake in EADS, the parent company of planemaker Airbus, to a private investment group in a deal that will maintain the balance between German and French ...Comment


Schumacher Wins Japanese Formula One Grand Prix

Ferrari's Michael Schumacher of Germany won the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday for his 13th victory of the year and 83rd overall in his career, while local favorite Takuma Sato finished fourth.


Gamble of a lifetime for space odyssey to Titan

In a few weeks, after a seven-year journey across the solar system, a robot spacecraft bristling with British instruments will plunge into the atmosphere of the mysterious, methane-shrouded world of Titan.


Verizon will pay as much as $200 million to avoid a possible patent-related ban on handsets using Qualcomm chips.


Economy grows by 0.7 percent in third quarter

Britain has recorded 0.7 percent in economic growth for the third quarter over the previous quarter and 2.7 percent for the year, the office for National Statistics said in its second estimate.


Next up in new cell phones: Sprint-Nextel

Nextel Communications and Sprint Corp. reached a tentative agreement to merge, a deal that would create the nation's third-biggest cellular company, sources familiar with the deal said.


The terrorist events in the US werenât the only unhappy birthdays to be remembered on Sept. 11. A year ago, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was stabbed to death in a department store as horrified shoppers watched.


Egypt begins closing Gaza border, fueling tensions

RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt began closing its breached border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from leaving the Hamas-controlled territory in defiance of an Israeli blockade.


A Backup Battery for All Your Stuff, and Available in Midflight

For travelers in search of an open power outlet for their laptops or cellphones at airports now have another option.


WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Edward D. Jones & Co. will pay $75 million to settle charges that the brokerage promoted mutual funds without informing investors of revenue sharing agreements it had with the fund firms


US Airways Group headed to bankruptcy court Monday to seek permission to keep flying during its second bankruptcy filing in two years.


Schools in the Indonesian province of Aceh have reopened for the first time since an earthquake and tsunami devastated the region one month ago.


Firenze, 13:29 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA: ROTTURA CON BOJINOV

E' rottura tra la Fiorentina e Bojinov. ''Attraverso il suo procuratore - ha detto il ds viola Panta...


Commerce Chief Focuses on Piracy in China

China has "got to start putting  people in jail" to show it is serious about cracking down on  widespread counterfeiting and piracy that costs U.S. companies  billions of dollars in lost sales every year, a top Bush  administration official said.


Hillary Rodham Clinton: former first lady, United States senator, presidential candidate, prop comic.


AT&T picks Sun to serve up on-demand video

Blog: AT&T will use Sun Microsystems' next-generation servers to power its video on demand services.


Freshman Cetera DeGraffenreid scored a season-high 20 points, Rashanda McCants added 19, and third-ranked North Carolina won its eighth straight by routing Boston College, 87-59, last night in Chapel Hill, N.C.


Consumer confidence declines again in September

Continued job worries resulted in an unexpected decline in consumer confidence in September, the second consecutive monthly dip, a New York-based private research group said Tuesday.


Harvard Chief Says His Remarks on Women Were Wrong

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Harvard University President  Lawrence Summers has written a lengthy apology, admitting he  was wrong to suggest women do not have the same natural ability  in math and sciences as men.


ROMA - Le coperture per il taglio del fisco, che per il 2005 sono calcolate dalla Cdl per 9,7 mld, salirebbero a 12,3 mld circa nel 2006 ea 12,1 mld nel 2007. Ã quanto risulta nelle Â«misure condiviseÂ» dai


OGGI SU INTERNET/STATI UNITI - PiÃ¹ di 100 mila contro l'aborto nella capitale nordamericana Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Si attende una grande partecipazione alle manifestazioni del 22 gennaio, giorno in cui gli USA legalizzarono l'aborto nel 1973. Fra le diverse attivitÃ , una conferenza di Helen Alvare (avvocato pro-vida, docente della Cat...


BofA aims new credit card at illegal immigrants: report

Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.


Bills Would Let Military Death Benefit Go to Guardian

Lawmakers introduced companion bills in the House and Senate yesterday that would allow grandparents and other relatives raising children of fallen troops to be designated as beneficiaries of a $100,000 "death gratuity."


Seattle's Strong Not Counting on Pro Bowl

Five or six years ago, Seattle fullback Mack Strong would have felt validated by a Pro Bowl appearance.


'A bordo c'e' sospetto terrorista' dice governo Usa


FEMA Lists Funding in Hurricane Disasters

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reopening disaster recovery centers on Florida's Atlantic and Gulf coasts to resume assisting victims of the parade of storms over recent weeks.


Wealthy Chinese Kids Have Worse Nutrition - Report

A Chinese study has found that children  from wealthy families are more likely to suffer bad nutrition  than those from low-income homes, partly because they eat more  fast food, state media said on Friday.


Advertising: Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change

Big animal rights groups do not share the same mission, but they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving.


MIGRATION-EUROPE:  Young Foreign Workers Shore Up Pension Systems

LISBON, Oct 6 (IPS) - The contributions of young immigrants from the  developing South hold out a solution for pension systems in the  European Union, where rapid population ageing is placing heavy  pressure on social security.


The Cabinet is set to discuss plans to send soldiers from the Black Watch to support American forces near Baghdad, amid reports that more British troops could soon be on their way to Iraq.


Merck & Co. Inc.MRK.N, reeling from  the recent withdrawal of its Vioxx arthritis drug, said  Wednesday it expects 2005 earnings of $2.42 to $2.52 a share --  a decline from expected 2004 results.


After the nations' critics hail the films no one is going to see, the Hollywood Foreign Press find a middle way to prestige and popularity


Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world's largest retailer, said on Saturday it expects a 0.7 percent increase in November sales at its US stores open at least


As State Primary Nears, Pataki Is Barely Visible

When Gov. George E. Pataki left office last January, he was the dominant Republican politician in New York. Today the former governor is virtually absent from the political scene.


Dichiarazione del presidente Tony James oggi a Roma


Centinaia pagine scomode su operazioni anni '50 e '70


Ryan Malone scores twice in the final 3:20 as the Pittsburgh Penguins erase a two-goal deficit in the third period for a 3-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.


The Golden State filed suit on Wednesday for the right to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from autos.


Protest raised against Croatian gulag tourism idea

A proposal to turn a former communist gulag island off the Croatian coast into a tourist camp drew protests from an independent group which is investigating crimes committed by the communist Yugoslav regime.


SEPTEMBER 23, 2004  - SAN FRANCISCO -- Embattled PeopleSoft Inc. is offering a sweetener to customers to migrate to the latest versions of its products, hopefully allowing it to close more sales


Police raid doomsday cult born from floods

Ugandan police have arrested 12 leaders of a doomsday cult that believes floods swamping large parts of the north and east of the country herald the end of the world, state media said on Sunday.


Jim Flora, a long-neglected album cover artist from the 1950's, has become the epitome of retro-chic.


Private Craft Rockets Past Edge of Space

Completing the first leg of a quest for a $10 million prize, a test pilot took a privately financed plane past the cusp of space on Wednesday.


House halts funds for new nuclear warhead

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday moved to block President George W. Bush from developing a new generation of atomic warheads, as Democratic and Republican opponents said the administration had not developed an adequate post-Cold War nuclear strategy.


This last June I took my family to Great Britain. We did much of what you would expect.


U.S. Says Undeterred by Deadly Day for Troops in Iraq

The U.S. military vowed on Friday to do  everything possible to safeguard Iraq's Jan. 30 election,  undeterred by the deaths of nine troops in the deadliest day  for American forces since an attack on a U.S. base last month.


Bulgarian Nurses Case "in Deadlock" ... |read|

Politics: 18 October 2004, Monday. The five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya could only provisionally count on the support of the European officials, Switzerland's Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.


Newcastle are confident Jonathan Woodgate will pass his Real Madrid medical and complete a Â£13.4m move.


Castro says Cuba right to rebuff EU dialogue offer

Cuba was right to reject calls from the  European Union for negotiations to improve relations until the  EU scraps sanctions against the island, Cuban leader Fidel  Castro said in an editorial published on Thursday.


Cassini takes a close-up look at Saturn's giant moon Titan

PASADENA, Calif. - The theory that Saturn's giant moon Titan has oceans or seas of liquid methane and ethane faced its best test yet Tuesday.


La storia si conclude Lo annuncia Camilleri

Pistoia, 13 ottobre 2004 - Si concluderÃ  con il decimo romanzo la saga del commissario piÃ¹ famoso d'Italia, Salvo Montalbano. Lo ha annunciato il suo autore, lo scrittore Andrea Camilleri, in un'intervista


On Wall Street: Dominic Rushe: The slammer is no deterrent for the ...

JEREMY JAYNES is about to make history. As the first spammer to be sent to the slammer, Jaynes was described by prosecutors last week as a modern-day âsnake oil salesmanâ.


James Blunt follows up "Bedlam" with "Souls"

NEW YORK (Billboard) - James Blunt spent the better part of 2006 living and working in Ibiza, Spain, one of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea.


Liberty Media, Echostar to bid for Intelsat: report

Liberty Media Corp.    and EchoStar Communications Corp.  are  preparing a joint offer for satellite-communications provider  Intelsat Ltd, The Wall Street Journal's online edition said on  Thursday.


Intel, SAPÂ® deployments drive down TCO and deliver innovative enterprise solutions.

Staying competitive demands enterprise solutions that can deliver relevant, comprehensive business analytics and intelligence at the lowest possible cost. Intel and SAP are co-engineering solutions-like the BI accelerator-that dramatically improve performance and lower TCO.


Israel-Palestinian summit postponed amid discord

A planned summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was put off on Wednesday in a sign of differences over the scope of Israeli steps to bolster the Fatah leader.


Presidente Pirelli: Buy-back sara' fatto solo se conveniente


Explosives found in Spain, tourist attacks feared

Spanish police on Thursday found a car packed with explosives near seaside resorts on Spain's southern coast and said ETA Basque separatists could be planning summer attacks against the tourist industry.


A federal regulator yesterday adjusted restraints on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying the changes will allow the government-sponsored mortgage-funding companies to buy more subprime loans and help borrowers avoid foreclosure.


Trevor Pryce came into training camp in the best shape of his life. It didn't do him much good.


NYSE CEO says confident on Euronext merger

NYSE Group Inc.  Chief Executive John Thain said on Tuesday he was confident that shareholders of pan-European bourse Euronext  would approve its planned merger with the New York Stock Exchange.


Social network sites look like they will be a popular target for hi-tech criminals in 2008, say security experts.


Opposition leader in Bolivia's wealthier lowlands claim success in a protest against changes to the constitution.


National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman has locked the players out, but he isnât speculating on how far he is going to throw the key.


Still Exploring After Martian Winter, Rovers Send Back More Signs of Water

The two roving vehicles Spirit and Opportunity have explored Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled and keep finding evidence of past liquid water.


Oil prices scaled new heights at $53 for  U.S. crude Thursday on concerns over tight winter heating fuel  supplies and an unexpected strike at Nigerian oil terminals.


More than 1,000 Zimbabwean businessmen and women have been fined for breaking price controls, police say.


Developer.com: Build Multi-lingual Websites With the Zend Framework

Developer.com has a new tutorial posted today dealing with a specific use of one of the more popular PHP frameworks currently, the Zend Framework, and using it to create multi-lingual websites from Jason Gilmore.   Despite my best attempts I'm unable to speak this array of languages, but as a Web developer I wanted to create the most efficient means for hosting a multi-lingual support site, and then work with native speakers to translate the English material. Because the support site runs the Zend Framework, naturally I wondered whether some sort of translation component was available, and sure enough a quick perusal of the Zend Framework website turned up Zend_Translate. In this brief tutorial I'll document how I'm using the Zend Framework to make my website available to the world.   Jason breaks up the article into two main sections - an introduction to using the Zend_Translate component and examples of it in action (including the creation of CSV files to trade out the translations.


Kerry's Votes Key to Bush Win, Rove Says

Reflecting on how he delivered President Bush his second term, White House political adviser Karl Rove admitted Sunday that John Kerry's vote for, then against, funding in Iraq and Afghanistan was the "gift that kept on giving."


THE US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the recording industry seeking to force internet service providers to turn over the names of subscribers suspected of music piracy.


Ceridian to Be Taken Private in $5.3 Billion Deal

The human resources company has sold itself to Thomas H. Lee Partners and Fidelity National Financial for $5.3 billion.


SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Boeing shares failed to get a lift Thursday after Continental Airlines placed the first US order for the aerospace giant's 7E7 passenger jet, in a deal worth $1.3 billion at current list prices.


Russia raised the stakes in a spying row with Georgia on Saturday by suspending a scheduled pull-out of its troops from the former Soviet state.


Margins measure the fuel that powers great businesses.


Fed Debates Policy for Post-Greenspan Era

Battle lines are drawn at the Federal Reserve between those who favor formal inflation goals and those who don't, and the debate is heating up ahead of the coming retirement of Chairman Alan Greenspan.


SWAT, Pakistan - Hundreds of civilians used a cease-fire yesterday between government forces and militant supporters of a pro-Taliban cleric to flee a scenic valley where fighting has killed more than 100 people.


ASE plans $60M investment in China factory

Taiwanese chip assembler Advanced Semiconductor EngineeringÂ (ASE) plans to invest $60 million in a low-end chip assembly company based in China.


North Korea has responded to a personal letter from President Bush, saying Pyongyang will meet its obligations under a disarmament-for-aid deal and expects the U.S. to do the same, White House officials said Friday.


Student flying with dynamite "souvenir" indicted

A U.S. tourist who told airport inspectors that dynamite in his bags was a souvenir from South America has been charged with breaking two security laws and could face up to 10 years in prison and steep fines.


A Japanese government panel has approved plans to send two spy satellites into Earth's orbit beginning next year, a media report said Wednesday.    If confirmed, the missions would be the first since late 2003 for Japan's ailing space program, which has suffered a slew of launch and mission failures...


A novembre a 63,1 miliardi dollari, prezzi import invariati


Deadline extended for kidnapped UN workers in Afghanistan

The United Nations said it was increasingly worried about three of its election workers, abducted at gunpoint in Kabul a week ago by militants who have threatened to kill them.


Salem residents weigh in on Arafatâs death

Although peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians stalled several years ago, todayâs death of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat marked the end of an era in the Middle East peace process.


His agent says there's nothing to reports that Alonzo Mourning plans another comeback, the New Jersey Nets say they wouldn't be surprised if he tried and the man himself isn't saying anything.


Americans rebound to eke out win over Greece

ATHENS, GREECE - The crowd danced and sang and chanted "Hellas, Hellas, Hellas" and a taunting refrain of "Puerto Rico" loud enough to stir the ancients or heal Lamar Odom's pained and poisoned stomach.


Damage to the environment could make existing tensions in the southern Caucasus even more intractable, researchers say.


THE STRATEGY: Politicians are reaching out to voters who have already applied for absentee ballots.


Dutch police arrests seven in anti-terror operation

ISN SECURITY WATCH (11/11/04) - Seven people have been arrested following a 15-hour anti-terror operation by Dutch police forces, ending a standoff with suspected Islamic terrorists that lasted all day Wednesday.


Jason Spezza scored his first goal of the season, Nick Foligno gave his father a big nod after his first career goal and the Ottawa Senators beat the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 on Thursday night.


Hormone Leptin May Treat Infertility in Women

An appetite-curbing hormone that failed to live up to its early buzz as a possible key to slowing obesity is now being probed as a potential aid for women who suffer from infertility and eating disorders.    "This represents essentially a new era for leptin," said Dr...


Tentative settlement reached in controversial Nazi "gold train" ...

MIAMI There's word of a tentative settlement in a case brought by Holocaust survivors against the US government for the plundering of a Nazi gold train in World War Two.


Appliance added to content-management suite

Workshare announced an updated version of its content-protection suite Monday, adding a network-monitoring appliance to augment the company's standalone desktop-monitoring software.The network-based Protect Network appliance, which monitors outbound network Web, instant messaging, FTP, and mail channels, sits at either the network egress point or in front of critical data repositories. It is designed to prevent unauthorized transmission of content.It works in conjunction with other pieces of the company's Content Protection Group suite, including endpoint-security software, Workshare Protect 6, which monitors for unauthorized content use on the desktop. The Workshare Management System is a centralized policy and management server used to establish content-security policy through Workshare's pattern-matching technology."It analyzes what the content is, including whether encryption should be applied, and prompts the user or stops some kinds of transactions," says Marty Jost, senior director of product marketing. "Workshare will also detect hidden fields in spreadsheets, which users may include by mistake."Workshare makes use of a fingerprinting technology to protect unstructured data through automatic or manual blacklisting and whitelisting and can automatically crawl Microsoft file shares. When Workshare detects potential policy violations, it can notify the manager or block traffic.The latest version of the product provides enterprise-wide distribution and management of the software, making it easier to deploy than the previous version, which was manually installed. Workshare has 130 employees and was founded in 1998 by Barrie Hadfield, CTO, with $20 million in venture capital funding from Steelpoint Capital Partners, Intel Capital, and Quester.London-based Standard Chartered Bank, which has global operations that extend into Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, has tested the Workshare content-protection system and is poised to deploy it to approximately 60,0000 desktops worldwide."As a bank, we have a lot of sensitive information and account data as well as proprietary data," says John Meakin, group head of information security at Standard Chartered Bank. "We have to put in place a mechanism that tracks what happens across the network."Sometimes it's necessary for bank representatives in a mobile environment to share client data under certain circumstances, Meakin says, and Workshare would be useful in applying restrictions, such as checking to make sure data is encrypted before it's transmitted. "Workshare will enable us to see where the information is going and intervene," he says.Workshare Protect 6 costs $30 per seat, and the network-monitoring appliance starts at $5,000.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate


An explosion at a Pakistani base kills at least 15 soldiers, most of them officers from an elite counter-terror force.


Edwards Reaches Out to Black Ohio Voters

Vice presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday sought to assure black supporters that he and John Kerry have "fought for this community our entire lives" — and would continue doing so — on a day devoted to reaching out to the base in the Democratic stronghold of northeast Ohio.


Its future at stake, Italy's flagship air carrier Alitalia said it plans to cut 5,000 jobs--almost a fourth of its workforce--as part of restructuring efforts aimed at averting collapse.


U.N. to vote on extending Ethiopia-Eritrea mission

Distracted by Kenya and Somalia, the U.N. Security Council will make only a cursory effort to heal an Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute on Friday at a vote on whether to extend a peacekeeping mission there, diplomats and analysts say.


Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips were subjected to constant racial abuse by sections of the Spanish support in the friendly match on Wednesday at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.


D.R. Horton Inc , the largest  U.S. home builder, posted a quarterly loss on Thursday as it  took $245.5 million in inventory charges and write-offs of land  option contracts.


Ford's US sales fall 10%, adding to the pressure on the carmaker but rival General Motors enjoys a rise in sales.


A gunman who went on a shooting spree in north London, injuring two people, is jailed for life.


Shi'ites bombed as Iraq poll campaign begins

A bomb near a Shi'ite shrine has killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fuelled fears of sectarian strife as campaigning began for Iraq's first election since Saddam Hussein's fall.


Donald Clinches European Masters Title by Five Strokes

CRANS-SUR-SIERRE, Switzerland  - Britain's Luke  Donald repaid Bernhard Langer faith in him by winning the  European Masters Sunday the week after the European Ryder Cup  captain handed him a wild-card.


VARESE, 25 AGOSTO 2004 - Nuovo arresto nell'inchiesta sugli omicidi satanici di Varese. Su ordine del Gip del Tribunale dei Minori di Milano, Anna Zappia, e' stato arrestato questa mattina un altro giovane


Toronto Raptors Vince Carter yells support to teammate Chris Bosh during the Raptors 96-90 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Toronto Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004.


There are two weekends of Hockey East play prior to the conference tournament, with the top eight teams then vying for the title. The bottom two schools in the standings will not make the field, but which two? UMass-Lowell and Providence are tied for eighth with 6-14-3 records in league play. Each has four games remaining, with UMass-Lowell taking on ...


Top Ugandan rebel warns there will be no peace deal unless international indictments are dropped.


Major Japanese automaker Honda Motor is to acquire a 45 per cent stake in the BAR Formula One motorsports team. British American Tobacco will hold the remaining 55 per cent stake in the team, which will continue


When Jason Varitek departed for Toronto yesterday after Children's Hosptial honored him Tuesday night in Boston, his travel plans raised an obvious question: Were the Blue Jays planning to use some of the money they saved with Carlos Delgado's expected free agent departure to try to sign Varitek?


Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday confronted one of the persistent falsehoods circulating about him on the Internet.


A terror suspect accused of a bomb plot was "happy"  about the 11 September attacks on the US, he tells a jury.


Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child.


Chinese leaders closed a key economic meeting on Sunday with pledges to maintain stable fiscal and monetary policies in 2005 and keep a tight lid on fixed-asset investment, state radio said.


Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona was ejected from Saturday night's game against the New York Yankees for arguing with the umpires about fan interference on a double that allowed the tying run to score in the sixth inning.


By Mike Schneider Flashes of flame from space shuttle Discovery lit up the darkened sky Saturday as the spacecraft blazed off the launch pad for the first nighttime liftoff in four years.


Baldini Triumph in Marathon Marred by Intruder

Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic men's marathon Sunday after an intruder dashed on to the course late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd.


Forecasters expect nine Atlantic hurricanes in 2007

The Colorado State University hurricane research team left unchanged its outlook for the 2007 Atlantic storm season on Thursday and predicted there would be 17 storms, with nine growing to hurricane strength.


Oil giant Shell unveils record 2006 profits, but output falters

Anglo-Dutch oil group Royal Dutch Shell has posted record annual net profit of 25.44 billion dollars (19.54 billion euros) but saw output falter due partly to production problems in Nigeria.


Half the world's children threatened by extreme poverty: UNICEF

ROME - Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children's agency.


Assault Slows, but GI's Take Half of Falluja

Advances in Falluja slowed considerably on Wednesday after American-led troops took control of about half of the city. On Tuesday night


Musharraf tells mosque militants "surrender or die"

President Pervez Musharraf told Islamist militants barricaded in a mosque on Saturday to surrender or die, while concern grew for hundreds of women and children inside the besieged compound in the Pakistani capital.


Teenager Handles His Disease With Confidence

Diabetes is a disease that over eighteen million Americans have. The most serious form is Type 1, where the body fails to produce insulin.


Burma's ruling junta says it is releasing 5,070 prisoners who were arrested "inappropriately".


China urged to provide more information on bird flu found in pigs ...

BEIJING : UN health and agricultural officials urged China to provide more details after a top bird flu scientist revealed the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in the country's pigs.


A rash of users of Microsoft's new Windows Live OneCare service, launched last January 30, have been reporting on Microsoft's support forums that virus scans performed by the service have resulted in the deletion of their OUTLOOK.PST files - the local, centralized repositories of e-mail, scheduling, and collaboration data used by Outlook.


NAACP leaders are questioning the timing of an IRS investigation into the civil-rights group's tax-exempt status saying the probe is politically motivated.


Georgian tycoon had severe heart disease

Georgian opposition leader Badri Patarkatsishvili, who died in Britain this week, had severe heart disease that made him liable to sudden death, a pathologist told a coroner's inquest on Friday.


The commander of British troops in southern Iraq has revealed Saturday details of how they would pull out of the city of Basra and leave the way clear for Iraqi units to take control.


Palestinian leader calls to end armed uprising, but won't condemn ...

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader campaigning to succeed Yasser Arafat in elections next month, said in an interview Tuesday that the 4-year-old armed


Chemical giant BASF AG said Thursday it nearly tripled its net profit in the third quarter as sales rose strongly and the company raised prices to cover the higher cost of oil.


Barcelona beats Albacete, opens nine-point lead

FC Barcelona opened a 12-point lead in the Spanish league after Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez scored in a 2-1 win at 17th-placed Albacete on Saturday.


Catania, 19:48 - CALCIO, CATANIA: SPINESI E MORIMOTO IN EVIDENZA NEL TEST

Test in famiglia per il Catania, con gli attaccanti Spinesi (tripletta) e Morimoto (doppietta) hanno...


UK population to reach 70 mln by 2028, study says

The UK population will grow by almost 5 million to 65 million by 2016 and will pass the 70 million mark in 2028, according to official estimates Tuesday.


O.J. Simpson held without bail in Las Vegas robbery

Former football star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week.


James E. Cayne, the embattled chief executive of Bear Stearns, will step down after the deepest losses in the firmâs history, according to people who have been briefed on the situation.


Water Rises in Great Lakes After Near Record Low

Great Lakes water levels have rebounded  from near record lows thanks to a months of heavy rain,  providing a boon to boat owners, swimmers and fish, scientists  said on Friday.


Avrebbero avuto ruolo chiave in avvelenamento di Litvinenko


Next week yet another attempt will be made to restore stability in Somalia, a country torn by 15 years of civil war, military intervention, and foreign meddling.


Federer Demolishes Agassi at Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia  - Roger Federer demolished  Andre Agassi 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday to reach the semi-finals  of the Australian Open with a performance sure to strike fear  into his remaining opponents.


Toronto-based MDS Sciex to open medical instrument factory in Singapore

TORONTO (CP) - MDS Sciex said Monday it will open a new plant in Singapore to manufacture some of its scientific instruments, which are used by researchers working on drug development.


Russia has recalled Marat Safin for next month's Davis Cup first-round tie against World Group newcomer Serbia.


AstraZeneca Plc (AZN) on Friday said US regulators did not approve its anti-clotting drug Exanta. The US Food and Drug Administration followed the advice of an advisory panel, which last


Manufacturing Activity Up for 15th Month

Manufacturing activity rose in August for the 15th consecutive month, but at a slower rate than reported in July, according to a monthly report released Wednesday by the Institute for Supply Management, a research group.


Finnish band The Rasmus were forced to leave the stage after being booed by the crowd at the Reading Festival.


A Social Order Shaped by Technology and Traffic

Silicon Valley is a collection of remarkably local clusters based on industry niches, skills, school ties, traffic patterns, ethnic groups and even weekend sports teams.


Verizon Unveils First 3G Mobile For Consumers (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Verizon Wireless is bringing next-generation 3G wireless data services to the nation's consumers -- behind Asia and parts of Europe, but ahead of all its U.S. carrier rivals.


Israel has decided to move an upcoming military exercise off the disputed Golan Heights to avoid further heightening tensions with neighboring Syria, defense officials said.


One of the best and most original series on television in decades, âThe Wireâ has never received an Emmy.


Lithuania aims to follow fellow Baltic  state Estonia and use the Internet for voting in elections, the  government said on Wednesday.


Dutch violence ends with the arrest of two

Dutch police arrested two people after a violent 15-hour standoff at a house in the Hague, in which four officers were wounded by a hand grenade.


The IAEA suspended nearly half of the technical aid it now provides Iran, in line with sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment


Clinton, McCain claim comeback victories

Hillary Clinton says she found her voice in New Hampshire primary battleClinton won narrow victory over rival Barack Obama, CNN projectsJohn McCain beat Mitt Romney into second place, CNN projectsMichigan primaries on Tuesday are next challenge for candidates of both parties


Stewart Cink, who needed only to play around par to convert a five-stroke lead after 54 holes into a win, did just that in the NEC Invitational at Firestone yesterday.


Chinese officials urged Russiaâs biggest oil exporter Yukos Oil Company to stand by its earlier commitments to export crude oil to China.


GOLDEN, Colorado — It has to be some sort of record. At no time over the five decades of sending robot craft into the heavens have so many spacecraft been on duty at such a variety of far-flung destinations or en route to their targets.


Security researchers discover a serious vulnerability in older version of ICQ IM software.


Diehard Football Fans: There Aren't That Many Bears or Colts Fans in the Area. But They Make Up for It With Abundant Team Spirit.

By Erinn Hutkin, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 4--Armed with a V-neck sweater from eBay, aviator glasses, a Goodwill jacket and a mullet wig chopped at the bottom, Matt Hubbard morphed into famed former football coach Mike Ditka last Halloween.


A friend of Hicham El Guerrouj rang the great one a few days ago from Toulouse and made a prescient comment to him. "In 1997 Athens discovered the prince, in 2004 Athens greeted the King," he said.


Gay marriage legislation starts bumpy ride through Parliament

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government's contentious gay marriage bill has begun what's sure to be a very bumpy ride through the House of Commons.


Film fans around the world eagerly await the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.


Tornadoes ripped across the  Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday, killing at  least 14 people including eight in the southern Alabama town of  Enterprise, emergency management officials said.


McDonald's CEO gets $8.8 million in bonuses

McDonald's Corp.  on Wednesday said Chief Executive Jim Skinner will receive a bonus of more than $8.8 million, mostly to reward him for the hamburger chain's sharp turnaround during the last three years.


Ping Identity www.pingidentity.com  today announced the availability of SignOn.com beta, a new Internet  service designed to provide individuals with better control, security  and privacy over their identity on the Internet.


Sudan and Southern Rebels Sign Deal Ending Civil War

The accord ends a 21-year-old conflict that has killed an estimated two million people, but does not apply to violence in Darfur.


Olympic silver medalist and 2002 world champion Irina Slutskaya presented an almost flawless program to take the lead after the short program at the Cup of Russia on Friday.


The mayor of Falluja tells the BBC that Iraq's central authorities are starving the town of vital resources.


A 14-foot pet python crushed its owner to death, authorities said Tuesday after finding the snake loose in a southern Indiana shed with the man's body.


Georgia Sen. Zell Miller, keynote speaker at this year's Republican National Convention, also was the keynote speaker at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Here's a look at some of the remarks he made 12 years ago and his statements Wednesday.


New York Times drops online subscription service

Two years after experimenting with subscriptions, newspaper announces all content is available free of charge.


Zelda: Ocarina of Time tops a poll of gamers and experts to find the top 100 games of all time.


Rescuers searched Thursday for 53 miners who were feared dead after an explosion occurred inside a coal mine in eastern India, an official said.


Arrests for football hooliganism rose last season for the first time in four years, figures show.


Prosecutor investigating Venezuelan politicians believed killed in ...

CARACAS: Two blasts destroyed a car in a Caracas suburb yesterday and killed its driver, who Venezuelan authorities believed was a key state prosecutor leading a probe into opponents of President Hugo Chavez.


The Canadian navy has said it was convinced that a submarine bought from Britain was seaworthy at the start of a disastrous voyage during which a fire injured nine crewmen and left it adrift in the Atlantic.


Britain's public finances showed a deficit of 22.1 billion pounds in January, marking the highest ever level for the month, official data showed on Wednesday.


Banks "quietly" borrow $50 billion from Fed: report

Banks in the United States have been quietly borrowing "massive amounts" from the U.S. Federal Reserve in recent weeks, using a new measure the Fed introduced two months ago to help ease the credit crunch, according to a report on the web site of The Financial Times.


Lucent Technologies Inc. said US tax officials have approved an $816 million refund to the company which could be recognized in its 2005 fiscal year, pending congressional approval.


Violence Returns to Afghanistan After Election Lull

Afghan children and U.S. soldiers were  among six people reported killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, a  week after millions voted in a landmark election they hope will  bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.


Plane Crash Kills at Least 8 in Missouri

KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - A commuter plane crashed in  the woods shortly before landing in northeastern Missouri,  killing at least eight people, authorities said on Wednesday.


T-Mobile says an online attacker had gained access to its network. Also: Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university.


La Valletta, 16:50 - CALCIO, JUVE; IAQUINTA: A MALTA PER LAVORARE SODO

Iniziato il mini ritiro della Juventus a Malta in vista della ripresa di sabato sera contro il Catan...


Price of MIT professor's "$100 laptop" hits $200

A computer developed for poor children around the world, dubbed 'the $100 laptop,' has reached a milestone: Its price tag is now $200.


Roma, 22:05 - PALLAMANO, SERIE A ELITE: ALBATRO VINCE ANTICIPO

Nell'anticipo della sesta giornata del campionato di serie A elite di pallamano, Albatro ha battuto ...


Bush urges UN to lend hand in Iraq, Afghanistan

President Bush, who once opposed "nation building," told world leaders Tuesday that the US-led military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan are aimed at promoting freedom and democracy


ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered the state to rewrite, reprint and redistribute all of its ballots for the Nov. 2 election, saying the wording of a ballot initiative was inaccurate and biased...


Amnesty International calls for an independent inquiry into reports of execution-style killings by police in Kenya.


Presidents Call on U.S. to Help Tsunami Survivors

U.S. presidents past and present  appealed to Americans on Monday to help victims of the Asian  tsunami as one of the biggest aid efforts in history struggled  to bring food and water to millions of desperate survivors.


Baseball thoughts, while wondering just exactly when Roger Clemens will enter the "twilight of his career."


Broadway-Bound 'Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me' Leaves Toronto

Playbill - Martin Short will close the Toronto run of his new show, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me on July 2. The engagement at the Canon Theatre began May 27. The pre-Broadway tour's next stop is Chicago.


CBS Corporation Creates 'CBS Mobile,' a New Division of CBS Interactive

NEW YORK, Feb. 7  /PRNewswire/ -- CBS Corporation  has created CBS Mobile, a new platform within CBS Interactive dedicated to building and growing the Company's mobile operation across its various properties, including CBS Entertainment, CBS Sports and CBS News.


UK music fans to enjoy cheaper iTunes downloads

Britain's music fans will pay 10  percent less for downloads from Apple's iTunes stores within  six months, the European Commission said on Wednesday.


A plane with 176 people aboard crashed and burst into flames in Sao Paulo on Tuesday after skidding off a runway that has been criticized as being too short in a driving rain, the nation's airport authority said.


2nd plane with U.S. evacuees lands in Md.

A second plane of American evacuees from battle-scarred Lebanon landed early Friday outside Washington, bringing travelers eager to be home after days of heavy bombings and house-shaking explosions.


E-Commerce Report: Online Sellers Discover the Power of Video Clips

Online retailers have begun capitalizing on the YouTube craze, offering a video platform for product demonstrations, rants and raves, and just plain bizarre behavior.


AOL believes spammers are starting to give up - at least when it comes to sending junk to its subscribers. The total number of spam complaints from AOL members fell more than 75% last month.


A Danish man released from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba says he wants to join Muslim Chechens in their fight against Russia.


Spears' family wants her to leave showbiz

The family members of troubled pop star Britney Spears want her to leave showbiz.


One soldier dead and two others injured after operation with Afghan troops in Helmand province.


A rail accident occurred near the British town of Newbury, killing six people according to first estimates. Over 100 people were wounded in the accident, 30 of them heavily.


Lo annuncia un portavoce della casa madre di Airbus


A judge seeks a solution for a 'public nuisance of a major kind' who repeatedly breaks an anti-social behaviour order.


Congress Frets Over Saving Hubble Project

Saving the Hubble Space telescope may be too expensive and dangerous, lawmakers said Wednesday after hearing from scientists who are split on the best way to repair or retire the cosmic camera.


Burma reopens its constitutional convention,  amid criticism the delegates are unrepresentative.


Adding a dash of cash to sweeten the pot, the Liberal government has retabled its much-maligned marijuana bill. Justice Minister Irwin Cotler reintroduced the cannabis reform package


U.S., North Korea deal on track: official

The United States said it had "very good" talks with North Korea on Tuesday and it appeared that a deal on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions was on track for now.


NHL Players Offer to Cut Pay in First Meeting

NHL players yesterday offered to cut existing player contracts by 24 percent, a collective pay reduction of approximately a half-billion dollars over three years, in an attempt to break the deadlock with owners that has resulted in the cancellation of the


Series proves baseball in October has no rival

For all the polls that show how football is now America's most popular game, the Yankees-Red Sox showdown for the American League pennant is this year's sweet reminder that October baseball is the best game, the best theater in sports for moments to remember.


Given all that's at stake in the 2008 presidential race, it's a bit terrifying to realize that by one measure, a major role is being played by an aspiring model/actress/fashion designer/former beauty pageant contestant named Amber.


Company's new player offers 25 percent bigger hard drive and weighs less than the iPod Mini--for the same price.


Crackdown on immigrants empties a town and hardens views

In Stillmore, Ga., more than 120 illegal migrants were arrested last month.


Saudi will intervene in Iraq if U.S. withdraws: aide

Using money, weapons or its oil power, Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq, a security adviser to the Saudi government said on Wednesday.


The Celtics make their one and only visit to the Target Center in Minneapolis today. They've had a great deal of success in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, winning in each of their last four visits. Jim O'Brien was a spiffy 3-0 there. Even John Carroll won there last year, taking his brutal, 36-win, dysfunctional group and beating a team ...


Paul Collingwood hits 206 and Kevin Pietersen 158 as England declare on 551-6 on day two of the second Ashes Test.


(InfoWorld) - Red Hat has pushed out the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an upgrade to its operating system thatÂ includes virtualization technologiesÂ intended to help companies get more use from their hardware. The final version of the product is due to ship by year's end, although it was unclear this week if Red Hat will meet that target. RHEL 5 Beta 1, which was released Friday, was originally due to ship in July, with a second beta expected in September. The beta appears to be aimed mostly at existing subscribers to the Red Hat Network. Non-customers can try out the software but they have to contact a local Red Hat office or apply atÂ http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/eval (The page says RHEL 4 but Red Hat says it's for RHEL 5 as well). The beta is for testing purposes and Red Hat emphasized that it's not intended for production use. It's asking for feedback to hone the final version of the product, and wants to hear about how it is implementing the open-source Xen virtualization technology in particular. Xen allows companies to run multiple operating systems on a server at the same time, making better use of computing power that's often otherwise left idle. Virtualization on mainframes has been around for a long time, but it's now being adopted on lower-end servers as well as they become more powerful. Novell has already incorporated Xen into its Linux distribution, Suse Linux 10 Server, released in July. And MicrosoftÂ has said that Windows Longhorn Server will be compatible with Xen-enabled versions of Linux, allowing customers to run Linux and Windows side by side on the same server. Other new features in the RHEL 5 beta include the disk dumping tool Kdump, which can speed reboot times and is handy for developers who have to reboot systems several times a day, and the SystemTap and Frysk analysis and development tools. The beta also includes a technical preview of what Red Hat calls its stateless Linux technology, which reduces dependencies on individual clients to make the OS easier to manage and modify remotely. The server OS is available for most of the popular hardware platforms; availability for the client OS is more limited. Details areÂ available here.


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In the summertime in New England, screens are important, especially in blackfly country. Last night, screens were again important in New England, even though it's the dead of winter. The New England Patriots used the screen pass to nullify a swarm of nasty blackflies called the Philadelphia Eagles, beating a blitz that was pressuring Tom Brady and ...


With the holiday season now behind us, the nation is awash in gift cards, as stores sold many more in 2007 than they did the year prior.


Ruud van Nistelrooy's 73rd-minute penalty kick and Wayne Rooney's injury-time goal gave Manchester United a 2-0 victory Sunday over league-leading Arsenal, ending the Gunners' unbeaten league streak at 49 games and moving the Red Devils back into the league chase.


Bergamo, 18:52 - CALCIO, ATALANTA: DIFFERENZIATO PER QUATTRO

Seduta mattutina per l'Atalanta. I nerazzurri hanno effettuato prima lavoro in palestra e poi sul ca...


Thanks to a clean, easy-to-use interface, a brand-new social networking site may edge out its competitors. Invite your friends to Thanksgiving dinner the easy way. In Monkey Bites.


Baghdad - Iraq urged the international community on Wednesday to play an active role in rebuilding the war-shattered nation at a donors conference in Tokyo as a Baghdad bombing killed three US soldiers in the latest wave of violence.


Media & professional: Staff get help from US billionaire Ron Burkle to fend off Rupert Murdoch's $5bn (Â£2.5bn) takeover bid.


Joey Bishop, 89, Last of the Rat Pack, Is Dead

Mr. Bishop was the long-faced comedian and the last surviving member of the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatraâs celebrated retinue of the 1960âs.


A 37% rise in NI's property prices in 2006 has led to speculation that the market may slow significantly.


Presidente Sanpaolo, 'Esame operazioni in Europa'


City Traffic Pricing Wins U.S. and Spitzerâs Favor

If the measure is approved, New York will become the first city in the United States to impose a broad system of congestion pricing.


Oracle Secures Nearly 61% PeopleSoft Shareholder Backing

Oracle has won backing from slightly more than 60% of PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders in its $9.2 billion hostile takeover. Friday evening, the software maker announced that 228.7 million out of the roughly 376


Bruxelles, 22:36 - ATLETICA, BRUXELLES: FORFAIT GAY, SALTA SFIDA CON POWELL

A due giorni dal nuovo record del mondo di Asafa Powell sui 100 metri, Tyson Gay ha deciso di cancel...


John McCain and Barack Obama are struggling to win over their party's most loyal voters, and no presidential candidate has a firm hold on what may be the campaign's chief issue, the economy.


Toshiba, Fujitsu hit by price falls, outlook rough

Japanese electronics group Toshiba Corp.  and Fujitsu Ltd.  said quarterly operating profit dropped on sharp price falls in microchips and hard drives, and forecast steeper price declines to come.


Nude bicyclists set to hit the world's streets on Saturday

Nude cyclists are expected to ride through the streets of cities around the world Saturday, to highlight the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and protest against oil dependency, organisers said.


BELGIUM/BRAZIL: 'InBev' gets shareholder support

Shareholders of Interbrew and AmBev today voted in favour of the two companiesâ merger. AmBevâs shareholders also voted in favour of a capital increase and the incorporation of Canadian brewer Labatt at


Weir takes Mickelson's spot at Grand Slam of Golf

Former Masters champion Mike Weir will   replace Phil Mickelson in the elite four-man field for the   end-of-season PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Hawaii, organizers said   on Thursday.


Newark Airport Staff Loses Fake Explosives in Test

Security screeners at Newark  Liberty International Airport lost a bag containing fake  explosives used to test the airport's bomb-detection system,  federal officials said on Wednesday.


Power cuts test Pakistani patience in election year

The last thing any government wants is hot, angry voters, but that is Pakistan's fate with elections just months away.


Were there little people on Flores? A fresh analysis of the fossilised skeleton that sparked the Hobbit controversy, has provided more evidence to support the claim that Homo floresiensis is a new species of hominid, the Guardian reports, and not a diseased human with a shrunken and malformed brain.â¦


Bush Says World Is Watching Ukraine's Election Dispute

President Bush on Friday used his first comments about the disputed presidential election in Ukraine to warn authorities that the world is watching, but he struck a


Ariel Sharon Calls for Expansion of Army's Gaza Raid

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Saturday that Israel should expand its massive raid of northern Gaza, the army's biggest and deadliest offensive in more than four years of conflict with the Palestinians.


UK house prices fell by 0.6% in August as recent interest rate rises took hold, the Halifax says.


LG tech prevents early burn-in on plasma displays

LAS VEGAS - LG ElectronicsÂ on Wednesday announced that it will incorporate its DoubleLife technology, which prevents early burn-in of images onto a plasma screen, into plasma display panels (PDPs) starting in 2005.


Cisco jumps into enterprise video publishing

(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems has rolled out an online video publishing package for businesses, an offering in line with the company's strategy to move beyond its traditional focus on networks to make more of a splash in the unified communications market. Cisco said Tuesday that its Digital Media System could, for example, allow a company to stream an executive keynote online and then archive it immediately for further viewing. The company envisions a range of applications for the system from companies using it to train employees in remote locations to governments broadcasting public meetings online. The system is based on an IP (Internet Protocol) platform, Cisco said. The Digital Media System includes two media encoders, one portable and one a "studio-level" appliance, Cisco said. A second feature, the Digital Media Manager, is a batch of tools that allows metadata and keywords to be added to video clips along with publishing and archiving functions. The third component is a customizable portal to search and watch videos. The product comes out of Cisco's Emerging Market Technology Group, which Cisco described as an internal team that looks outside the company's core networking business. The Digital Media System starts at $133,000. Â


College Basketball Roundup: St. Johnâs Has Early Control, but Georgetown Runs Away

Jeff Green scored 24 points and Georgetown made 73 percent of its shots in the second half on the way to a 72-48 victory against St. Johnâs Thursday night.


About 20 South Koreans feared kidnapped in Afghanistan

About 20 South Korean Christian volunteers are feared to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan by Taliban insurgents, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.


State Fishes for Possible New Rules: Final FWC Session is Thursday Night in Middle Keys

By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Feb. 21--The Florida Keys may have already seen many of the fishing-related issues certain to plague the rest of the state in the near future, fishery managers say.


Madonna directorial debut at Berlin fest

Madonna's debut movie as a director will have its world premiere at the annual Berlin film festival in February.


Choppers Reach Tsunami Villagers, Aid Hits $2 Bln

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Helicopters dropped aid  to clamoring crowds in tsunami-hit Indonesian villages on  Sunday but were unable to land, a week after the waves washed  away entire towns around the Indian Ocean.


Occasionally, I catch myself singing the "incredible edible egg" jingle when I'm cooking eggs. Eggs are a low-carber's best friend, and how great is it that they have such a catchy jingle to dance to?


Investors have been cheered by the decisive lead former army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken in Indonesia's first direct presidential election.


World Business Briefing | EUROPE: Switzerland: Roche Chief to Leave

The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding said its chief executive would step down next March as the company separates that job from the chairmanâs position. Franz B. Humer, who has been chief since 1998, will remain chairman of the board. Next July, he also will become chairman of the beverage company Diageo. He will be succeeded by Severin Schwan, 40, who had been the head of Rocheâs diagnostics unit since January. The company also posted a 24 percent increase in first-half net profit, to 4.92 billion Swiss francs ($4.1 billion) from 3.97 billion francs in the period a year earlier. Roche benefited from its flu treatment Tamiflu as governments stockpile the drug in case of an influenza pandemic.


MND confirms China pulling troops from drill

The Ministry of Defense confirmed yesterday that China's military had withdrawn most of its troops from Dongshan Island where it was to hold an annual war game, but would not say if the action indicated Beijing was calling off the maneuvers that simulate


Northern Rock, one of Europeâs biggest casualties of the credit crisis, sold some of its mortgage portfolio to JPMorgan Chase.


Jay Agarwal of Concord has donated $250,000 to establish the Elizabeth Smith Agarwal Diabetes Center, which will be part of the Center for Specialty Care that Emerson Hospital is building on Baker Avenue in Concord. Agarwal, whose late wife had been treated for diabetes at Emerson, is a consultant to major corporations on metals, minerals, and energy matters. New bank ...


Priest Holmes spoke of retirement after setting an NFL record with 27 touchdowns in 2003. Yesterday, a day after the Kansas City Chiefs put their star running back on injured reserve, he stated his intention to return next season. Holmes, 31, was leading the NFL in rushing and scoring when he strained ligaments in his right knee Nov. 7. This ...


A century on, a sequel to bring Peter Pan back from Neverland

Peter Pan, the green-clad flying boy who did not want to grow up, has succeeded rather well at it for 100 years.


Bush Doesn't See Longtime Presence in Iraq

President Bush says he doesn't envision a longtime presence of U.S. troops in Iraq similar to post-World War II deployments in Europe and South Korea that continue today.


The European Commission was set on Wednesday to give Turkey the green light to start entry negotiations with the EU, while warning there is a long and potentially bumpy road ahead.


Nev. 1st Touch-Screen, Paper-Trail Voters

In what could become a model for other states, Nevada voters on Tuesday became the first in the nation to cast ballots in a statewide election on computers that printed paper records of electronic ballots.


One of the marks of a great player is the ability to produce when it matters. This was England's most important one-day game of the season.


A leading hospital admits it has taken two years to warn patients they could have contracted HIV or hepatitis after shoulder operations.


Philips to Unveil 52-inch Multi-Touch LCD at CES

LG.Philips LCD is planning to unveil a 52-inch multi-touch LCD (liquid crystal display) at next week's Consumer Electronics Show, it said Monday. The screen is 5-inches larger than one it recently showed in Japan and is the largest display of its type in the world, the company said.


Mel Stottlemyre was getting his white blood cells counted for yet another month. Unsolicited, his doctor said he could go back to full-time work again, back to the ballpark routine he had followed just about every summer for 41 years.


Reckson postpones meeting, giving Icahn more time

Reckson Associates Realty Corp.  said on Monday it would postpone a shareholder meeting until December 6 to give billionaire Carl Icahn and his partners more time to firm up financing for their $4.6 billion bid for the company.


Twin suicide raids kill 26 in Afghan south: police

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - At least 26 people, many of them civilians, were killed on Monday in two simultaneous suicide attacks in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a provincial police official said.


ALAN SHEARER is particularly wary of Manchester United after Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson insisted the Red Devils are out of the title race.


The people of Nottingham and Derby pay homage to legendary manager Brian Clough, who died this week.


A fleet of fuel cell-powered SUVs are going into the hands of consumers for real-world testing.


On Monday night, a day before he expected to start against the Canadiens and extend his career-best consecutive-games streak, Tim Thomas ordered grilled tuna for dinner in Montreal .


John McCain and Bill Richardson got their most prized keepsakes 40 years apart, from the same hand.


The toss of a coin decided who would be mayor of a Spanish village after two candidates tied in elections.


Clima economico ha fatto calare vendite al dettaglio


Two political prisoners among hundreds of inmates released in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar  - Two prominent pro-democracy leaders were among hundreds of prisoners released from a Myanmar prison on Sunday as part of a broad amnesty granted by the country's ruling military junta.


The Unifying Theme of Election 2008: Hillary Clinton

Rasmussen Reports - There are three separate races making up the Election 2008 Presidential competition: the race for the Democratic nomination, the race for the Republican nomination, and the general election. All three share one unifying themeÃÂHillary Clinton.


Politicians look for help online with the popular networking site facebook.com


Israel has turned down Syrian President Bashar Al Assadâs peace proposal as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants to concentrate on his Gaza withdrawal plan and doesnât want to be diverted in a peace track with Damascus.


England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson will not be cited for his tackle on Wales flanker Jonathan Thomas in Saturday's Six Nations opener.


Diffusi i primi dati sugli esami. Commissioni piÃ¹ severe del 2006Il vice ministro Bastico: "Valutazioni basse? No, in passato erano state eccessive"                                            MaturitÃ , in calo i super bravi e raddoppia il numero dei bocciati                                                                                di SALVO INTRAVAIA


Children living near  a Russian space launch station suffer higher rates of disease, a journal reports.


Wally Backman will be named manager of the Diamondbacks today, a source familiar with the result of the teamâs search said Sunday.


His sweep of the Virginia, Maryland and D.C. primaries makes him the undisputed front-runner. But pundits have already counted out Hillary Clinton twice in this campaign


Sen. John Kerry said Thursday that Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, put the "best face" on a failed policy when the foreign leader addressed Congress earlier in the morning.


Indian batting star Sachin Tendulkar has been passed fit for the third Test against Australia, which starts in Nagpur on Tuesday. The 31-year-old has recovered from tennis elbow, which has kept him out of action since the middle of August.


U.N. confirms North Korea nuclear shutdown

BEIJING/KUALA LUMPUR  - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday that North Korea had shut down its nuclear reactor and four related facilities, a major step in efforts to get it to give up its nuclear weapons programs.


Friday's papers see the violent demonstrations in Hungary as a symptom of a wider disquiet spreading through the newest members of the European Union.


Havret beats Mickelson for Scottish Open triumph

Gregory Havret, a Frenchman ranked 320 in the world, beat Phil Mickelson in a play-off to claim the biggest win of his career at the Scottish Open here on Sunday.


U.S. suffers first death in new armored truck

The U.S. military has suffered a first fatality in one of a new fleet of heavily armored vehicles designed to protect soldiers from roadside bombs, the military said on Tuesday.


Many NHS trusts are failing to meet core standards for out-of-hours primary care, statistics show.


The state banned all live poultry sales and shows for the rest of July after avian flu antibodies were discovered in a flock of 54,000 turkeys on a Shenandoah County farm.


Blog: Former Googler hired back by Microsoft reveals the dark side to working at Google


Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at how musicians themselves are shaking up the digital music industry.


New Research Disputes Idea of a Holiday 'Will to Live'

The common perception that terminally ill people can hang on to life through important religious or personal days is more romance than reality, researchers are reporting.


Edimburgo, 13:00 - RUGBY, SEI NAZIONI: IL XV DELLA SCOZIA PER L'ITALIA

Il ct della Scozia Frank Hadden ha annunciato il XV che sabato a Edimburgo affronterà l'Itali...


British police arrest man over prostitute murders

British police arrested a 37-year-old man on Monday on suspicion of murdering five prostitutes in eastern England, officers told a news conference.


Divided Peronists poised to win Argentina election

Argentina's ruling Peronist Party is deeply divided and no one knows what it stands for anymore but it will almost certainly retain its grip on power in the October 28 presidential election.


Authorities lifted an evacuation order for this mountaintop community as crews came close to snuffing out a wildfire that scorched more than 14,000 acres in the San Bernardino National Forest.


From Season, and Game, to Forget, Steelers and Jets Are Teams to Beat

After they both finished 6-10 a year ago, the Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers have found themselves linked again, but now in their rise to the N.F.L.'s upper echelon.


By Anne Dudley Ellis, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--[TEXT]Clovis Unified School District will expand and reconfigure the site for an elementary-through-high school complex planned east of Fresno, possibly attracting opposition from property owners.


Who is Hu: He Marks a New Phase in China's Politics

The king is dead; long live the king. That monarchist continuum has found an echo in contemporary China. In a process of seamless succession, Hu Jin Tao, till now the head of state of China and secretary-general


11 open-source projects certified as secure

Under contract with the Department of Homeland Security, Coverity seeks to establish a new security baseline for open-source applications.


Update 8: Yukos Files for Bankruptcy in US

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


Londra, 12:51 - CALCIO, : MONDIALI 2018: PRINCIPE WILLIAM E BECKHAM PER INGHILTERRA

Testimonial reale per la candidatura dell'Inghilterra come paese ospitante dei Mondiali di calcio de...


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


Kadhafi says no prisoners of conscience in Libya

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said that there were no prisoners of conscience in the country and that he was open to any calls for an international investigation.


Italiane liberate. Le due Simone sono arrivate a Roma

L' aereo dell' Aeronautica Militare che ha riportato in Italia Simona Torretta e Simona Pari e' atterrato nell' aeroporto di Ciampino poco prima delle 23.15. Quando si Ã¨ aperto il portellone del Falcon il


Oil prices tiptoed lower on Tuesday, marking a fourth day of losses as worries over potential supply shortfalls ahead of winter faded and Nigerian unions called off a strike that could have disrupted exports.


Caption Only: Smoky Smell Prompts False Alarm

Fire crews climb off the roof of Lincoln Elementary School at 1090 Roberta in South Salt Lake after smoke was smelled inside the building Friday. Students were quickly evacuated. There turned out to be no smoke and no fire.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).


WASHINGTON: NASA will today conduct the final and fastest test flight of its pilotless X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, aiming to send it zooming across the Pacific Ocean at about 10 times the speed of sound -- almost 3.2 kilometers (two miles) per


Startling testimony by an FDA drug safety reviewer about five popular medications has the medical world buzzing about how tightly the agency should be regulating new medications.


Free safety Marcus Coleman expected to be chasing All-Pro running back Priest Holmes around on the field Sunday. Coleman returned an interception a franchise-record 102


Under a New Watch, Miramax Still Homes in on Awards

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


Early iPhone buyers may receive their $100 refund with this SMS message sent directly to their phones from the company.


Bank of NY Mellon Profit Falls in Fourth Quarter

The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit tumbled 68 percent due to its exposure to assets backed by mortgages and a tough comparison to last year, when the bank sold its retail operations for about $1.4 billion.


The European Commission advises that Turkey's EU membership talks be partly suspended over the Cyprus issue.


Colgate-Palmolive Co. warned Monday that second-half earnings will fall well short of Wall Street forecasts due to higher marketing spending.


Guatemala's president says organised crime gangs ordered the murder of four policemen  held in a top security jail.


US Airways Argues for New Deals In Hearing

US Airways Group Inc. will begin liquidation in mid-January if it fails to secure new lower-cost, long-term contracts with three of its largest labor unions either by negotiation or court


Elderly motorist stunned by switch to right-hand traffic -- in 1967

A 79-year-old motorist in Sweden who hadn't driven to town in more than 40 years told a court he was stunned to discover that the country had switched from left to right-hand traffic -- in 1967.


Linspire Signs Up for Microsoft Collaboration and Patent Deal

Microsoft has signed yet another Linux collaboration and patent agreement, this time with its old copyright adversary Linspire, through which the companies will work on interoperability between Windows and Linux.


Madrid, 15:10 - CALCIO, SPAGNA: BRUNO CIRILLO AL LEVANTE

Il difensore Bruno Cirillo, 30 anni, nell'ultima stagione all'Aek Atene, è stato acquistato d...


German politicians question mooted IKB bail-out

Mooted government help to rescue troubled German business lender IKB has drawn cool comment from political figures ahead of an emergency meeting on the issue on Wednesday, press reports said.


N.F.L. Roundup: Cowboysâ Quarterbacks Coach Violates a Drug Rule

Wade Wilson has become the latest person, and perhaps the most surprising, to be suspended for violating the leagueâs rules on performance-enhancing drugs.


Positive stock action has been seen throughout the Net sector this week, as eBay struck all-time highs and Google recovered 11 percent of its value.


Update 1: ECB's Trichet Reiterates Worries About Oil

The head of the European Central Bank reiterated concerns Monday that high oil prices would weigh on the world economy next year but said he still expected inflation to recede in 2005 - "provided there are no further significant shocks.


Schools have improved since Tony Blair became prime minister but it is hard to say by how much, a report says.


'Second Life' publisher must go to court in property case

Blog: A judge has ruled that Linden Lab can't dismiss a property case against it, or move the case to arbitration.


Will It Be Trash or Tribute? Bottle Stands on the Edge

Tillie, the clown face that graced the front of Palace Amusements in Asbury Park for nearly 50 years, was preserved in June before the rest of the building was torn down.


Nuove br, Banelli: non adatta criteri politici brigate rosse

Cinzia Banelli non era conforme ai criteri politici delle Br, da questa mancata disposizione Ã¨ nato il percorso critico che l'ha portata prima "ad un arretramento e poi all'espulsione" dalle Brigate Rosse.


Sinn FÃ©in, the IRA's political wing, and the Democratic Unionists engaged in mutual recrimination yesterday in the wake of Wednesday's announcement by the British and Irish


Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, and IDG News Service had a chance to interview him before his appearance at the event. In this edited version of the conversation, Chizen spoke about Adobe's strategy for hosted software, its baby steps in the online advertising business, and its AIR technology for building desktop-based rich Internet applications.IDGNS: What is Web 2.0 to you, and what is Adobe's role in it?Chizen: To me, Web 2.0 is the realization of everything we talked about in the Web 1.0 era: The ability to take advantage of Web services, to have rich Internet applications, to have socialization and collaboration, to have hosted applications. These things were talked about but hard to do. Web 2.0 is the execution of that, and Adobe is the enabler of a lot of that experience.Most of the images on the Web have probably been touched by Photoshop. Most of the video is probably edited or enhanced with Premiere. Most of the animation and video playback is Flash. A lot of the rich Internet applications are being built with our Flex framework, taking advantage of Flash. The graphics [involve] Illustrator, and on and on.IDGNS: It seems that in recent months, the Adobe story has gotten more complicated than it was a few years ago as the company moves into new areas and technologies like hosted applications. Are you concerned that this might confuse and alienate existing customers?Chizen: Your perception is accurate. Our business has gotten more complex and more diversified. As a company that has been growing 20 to 30 percent a year, in order for us to sustain that growth, we need to address more customers with different products and solutions. But our mission hasn't changed for the past 25 years: To help enable the communication of rich ideas and information in a reliable, compelling, engaging manner.Twenty-five years ago we did that on paper with [printing technology] PostScript. What has changed is the world around us: More people are trying to communicate more information than ever before, so we're able to address more markets.Am I concerned we'll be alienating our current customers? No. As long as we continue to serve their needs, we'll be okay.IDGNS: Do you currently generate any revenue from online ads?Chizen: A very tiny amount today via a hosted application called Premiere Express. It lets consumers do simple video editing. We offer it through partners like Photobucket [and MTV]. Some of those business models are advertising-based. We'll continue to experiment.Our Adobe Media Player [now in beta] is also an ad-based business model. We enable broadcasters and content providers to make money on their content through a very clever advertising user interface. We're also working on a Photoshop Express, which will let consumers do image editing. It'll be either ad-based or subscription-based.IDGNS: Do you foresee online ad revenue becoming a noticeable part of Adobe's revenue mix?Chizen: It depends on how many years you look ahead. Many of our core customers care so much about the quality of the information that they're trying to provide that they want their solutions to be unencumbered and won't put up with advertising. But there will be more casual users who will want our capabilities but not pay directly for it, and that's where you'll see advertising.IDGNS: Do you offer any of your packaged software products in full-featured but hosted versions?Chizen: No, we don't.IDGNS: Will there come a time when your full-featured products will be offered as a hosted SaaS (software-as-a-service) model?Chizen: Yes, but over time. To benefit from a full-featured version of Photoshop, the experience as a hosted application wouldn't be very good, and that's because of bandwidth speeds. The capability of broadband doesn't equate to what you can get from your local computer.You'll see us do hybrid applications that take advantage of the desktop, but where appropriate, we'll provide hosted functionality for things like sharing. Our Kuler [web-hosted application] lets people collaborate using different color settings, [and works in conjunction with] producs like Illustrator, which resides on the desktop.That's going to happen over the next number of years: We'll have these hybrid environments for full-featured applications. As broadband gets greater and greater, there's the possibility of taking the desktop app and moving it to the host. Five years is probably the minimum.But the capability of the desktop and laptop is advancing so quickly ... and broadband capability isn't increasing that rapidly. Even if it increased that rapidly, people are throwing more data into the pipes, which will slow down the delivery of the information.IDGNS: So you're seeing interest from users in hosted software that simplifies workgroup collaboration?Chizen: For more casual users, we'll have hosted services. We announced a service recently called Share [in beta version], which lets you extend what Acrobat does or what the Adobe Reader does -- document sharing, PDF creation, word processing -- which will all be hosted, but you're still going to want to do a lot of things on your desktop.IDGNS: Do you agree the future of software delivery is that SaaS/hosted model?Chizen: Eventually. The key is how long does that take. It depends on the application and on broadband capabilities. I'm smart enough to say that will be in 20 years probably.[Chizen later said during his presentation at the conference that he foresaw the Adobe software delivery model changing from packaged applications to SaaS about 10 years from now.]IDGNS: Does the SaaS/hosted model also present a threat to Adobe if stealthy competitors develop from the ground up as hosted software and offer some credible competitors to Adobe packaged applications?Chizen: Any shift of delivery model or business model is a threat to any company like Adobe that makes a lot of their revenue selling desktop software. It's up to us to make sure that as the environment is capable of delivering functionality to users, that Adobe is there before anyone else.What we've done in video editing with Premiere Express, what we're doing with Photoshop Express with Share, what we do today with PDF creation online are great examples of Adobe being ahead of others in taking advantage of the changing landscape.IDGNS: When did Adobe develop a sense of urgency for reacting to the SaaS trend?Chizen: Back in the first dot-com wave is when we became sensitive to it, and we developed Create PDF Online. I'd say it was a little over two years ago when we got a sense of urgency around it. Our first major hosted application was the Acrobat Connect real-time conferencing product.IDGNS: You're in the process of acquiring Virtual Ubiquity, maker of the Buzzword hosted word processing application. Are you interested in having hosted spreadsheet and presentation applications and forming an office productivity suite?Chizen: Spreadsheet, probably not, but the presentation application is intriguing. The trick is to develop one or acquire one where we believe we're differentiated by leveraging the AIR platform. What excited us about Buzzword wasn't being in the word processing business but that it's a great example of what AIR can do. It also fits really nicely into our Acrobat document collaboration strategy.IDGNS: Do you see Adobe competing against Google's Apps suite of communication and collaboration hosted software and against Microsoft Office?Chizen: It's more about offering the service to someone who is already collaborating with PDF documents, sharing their documents, or protecting their documents with us online and who wants to be able to edit or create a document. We're not looking to target the serious word-processing Office user, but for those people who are in our ecosystem, involved in a collaborative workflow, we want to make sure we can address their needs.IDGNS: Why is the AIR approach preferable to building an offline component for browser-based applications along the lines of what Google is doing with Google Gears?Chizen: For some applications, the browser is great, and having offline capabilities will be a great extension. But for other applications, we want complete control over the user experience [and the browser is inadequate.]That's where we really differentiate: The ability to go a little further in local capabilities, the ability to drag and drop easily from the desktop to the application and back. Those things would be tough to do with a browser. And some applications, you want to stay in them and don't want to be encumbered by a browser. You want local presence, and that's where we really shine.IDGNS: What's your latest take on Microsoft's Silverlight plug-in for delivering video and interactive graphics on the Web like Flash?Chizen: It appears to be trying to imitate the Flash player: It runs in the browser and is designed for interactivity, animation, and video. Fortunately, we've had a 10-year head start, and we have a complete ecosystem around Flash.We're on 99.1 percent of all computers and on 300 million non-PC devices. More than 70 percent of video is streamed through Flash player. Millions of developers and designers use Adobe tools.It's going to take Microsoft a long time to catch up, we believe. In the meantime, we continue to advance Flash, and we're working on AIR. I take Microsoft seriously, but we're in pretty good shape.


Business-to-business online ad network launches

ThomasB2B.com LLC will officially launch on Monday a new online advertising network which is modeled after general-purpose ones from the likes of Yahoo Inc.'s Overture and Google Inc. but which differs in two key aspects: first, it is focused exclusively on the business-to-business market; and second, it matches ads with search queries and content through predefined categories, not keywords.


Blast hits U.S.-led convoy, kills six Afghan police

KHOST, Afghanistan  - Six Afghan policemen were killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle, part of a convoy of U.S.-led forces in southeastern Afghanistan, a provincial police official said.


Consulting Firm Takes On GOP Look at Top

Just as many firms are professing their Democratic bona fides in the wake of the Democratic takeover of Congress, Clark & Weinstock is unabashedly pushing Republican Vin Weber forward.


KYLE JOHNSON 19 YD PASS FROM JAKE PLUMMER

Another blowout loss left Saints owner Tom Benson furious and wondering whether his team belonged in the NFL. Reuben Droughns rushed for 166 yards and a touchdown, Jake Plummer threw for


The top overall draft choice's real introduction to the league came not in training camp or preseason, or even when he handed the ball to Tiki Barber on Sunday and watched the tailback sprint


Shuttle launch still on track for Thurs.

NASA wrestled with two late-breaking technical concerns which showed up Tuesday two days before the launch of space shuttle Discovery, but managers weren't sure if they could delay the start of the mission.


Update 1: CVS Reports Lower Profits on Acquisition

CVS Corp. reported lower profits for the third quarter, as the huge drug store operator absorbed the acquisition of some of rival Eckerd's stores, as well as that company's mail order pharmacy business.


WARSAW - US Treasury Secretary John Snow said yesterday measures to spur faster global economic growth, not European concern about the dollarâs plunging value, will be the focus of weekend talks in Berlin of the Group of 20 nations.


FEATURE-Learning from 9/11, secret US watch post overhauled

Buried inside a mountain beneath 2,000 feet (600 metres) of rock, a top-secret watch post scans the skies around the clock


Myleene Klass, Matt Willis and Jason Donovan face off in the final of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!


Strong Likes Bowl Opportunity at Florida

Charlie Strong roams the practice field just like any other head coach. He works with the offense, the defense and the special teams. He barks out calls and corrections, looking and sounding as if he's been in charge for years.


Vodafone cuts annual losses, looks to emerging markets

British mobile phone group Vodafone announced Tuesday that it slashed net losses last year as its growth strategy in emerging markets such as India and Turkey began to pay off.


GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe's biggest  drugmaker, said on Monday a U.S. court had ruled in its favor  in patent litigation with Israel's Teva Pharmaceuticals over  anti-nausea drug Zofran.


Roma, 14:15 - CALCIO, SERIE B: DOMANI INCONTRO SINDACI-MATARRESE A ROMA

Si terrà domani mattina a Roma, all'Hotel Roma Airport di Fiumicino, l'incontro tra il sindac...


Nobel laureates join pressure on China over Darfur

A group of Nobel Peace laureates sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urging the Beijing Games host to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing its ally Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur.


Chirac Avoids Criticizing U.S. on Iraq; Praises U.N. Role

Clearly the American election is on the mind of the president of France. When President Jacques Chirac stood before his ambassadorial corps on Friday, there was no hint that the relationship between France and ...


Metabolic Syndrome Linked to Dementia in Study

A spectrum of heart-stressing symptoms  called metabolic syndrome raises the risk of dementia,  researchers said on Tuesday.


The pop star is joining a group of some 2,000 other students of Kabbalah from 22 countries, according to the Kabbalah Centre. Designer Donna Karan and Marla Maples, an ex-wife of Donald Trump, are among the


Two bombs have rocked southern Thailand on Friday, wounding at least 20 people, as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed there would be no cover up over the deaths of at least 85 Muslim detainees in the volatile region.


San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Friday she still sees upside risks to inflation but that U.S. interest rates were now "well positioned" to bring inflation down.


Itâs No Longer a Temple Of Doom and Gloom

Temple Coach Al Golden is attempting to carry the Owls far, far away from their dismal recent football history.


Work-up for chest pain in the ER differs by race

NEW YORK  - African American patients who are seen in the ER for chest pain are less likely than patients from other racial groups to receive standard tests, such as a chest x-ray or an electrocardiogram (ECG), which provides an electrical recording of the heart, new research shows.


In anteprima il monologo 'Decidano le madri per la guerra'


UPDATE 1-Federer, Roddick reach Thailand Open semi-finals

Top seeds Roger Federer and Andy Roddick moved into the Thailand Open semi-finals with fairly comfortable straight-sets victories on Friday.


Goldman's Cohen tells paper U.S. recession unlikely

The United States economy is unlikely to slip into recession, Abby Joseph Cohen, chief investment strategist at Goldman Sachs, said in remarks published on Friday.


Husband of special constable Nisha Patel-Nasri had 'number of motives' for wanting her dead, court told


When the tournament Most Valuable Player award was announced last night, Boston College freshman Nick Petrecki heard the words "with two goals" and prepared to make his way to the trophy. Coach Jerry York joked that they had to hold the defenseman back, because it was his fellow rookie - forward Brian Gibbons - who walked away with the hardware ...


Slower global growth means new risks: World Bank

Slower global economic growth has increased risks for developing countries, especially if the record levels of private capital that has flowed into these markets is reversed, the World Bank said on Tuesday.


His recovery was slowed because of an infection, but a man who once weighed half a ton may soon leave a hospital after losing more than 450 pounds.


EDITORIAL: Developing Coliseum Site Will Fuel Region's Future Economic Growth

By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 7--For Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, the Hub is the center of the universe, and yesterday he began a campaign to convince Long Islanders to see it the same way.   We must.


Sharapova Upsets Henin; Venus Williams Loses

Venus followed her sister Serena out of the Australian Open at the quarterfinal stage. But the biggest news in the round came earlier when Maria Sharapova upset No. 1 Justine Henin.


Con il passare delle ore si va delineando con maggiore chiarezza la vicenda culminata, nella tarda serata di ieri, con la morte di Nicola Primiani, il falegname 42enne di Ururi (Campobasso). Mentre le indagini


The former oversight commissioner Al Hutchinson is to succeed Nuala O'Loan as police ombudsman.


Blegrado, 19:35 - CALCIO, CT SERBIA CADE DA BICICLETTA: COSTOLE E POLMONE PERFORATO

Javier Clemente, ct spagnolo della Serbia, è caduto davanti alla porta del suo garage mentre ...


Northern Ireland takes step to power sharing

Northern Ireland took a step toward restoring a government shared between Protestants and Catholics as it counted votes on Thursday from an election for a new provincial assembly.


Skirmishes Continue in Pakistan's Tribal Regions

Pakistani troops and Islamic militants skirmished overnight in a tribal region near the Afghan border. The clashes came a day after Pakistani forces said they smashed a suspected al-Qaida training camp, killing 50 fighters.


Leonard Hamilton spent 10 seasons as the Miami Hurricanes' coach and remains a zealous salesman for the attention-starved program.


With hype high, iPhone may have to fight a flop

Not since Alexander Graham Bell has so  much attention been lavished on a phone.


Il documento entro la prossima settimana sara' reso noto


Andaman Isles Flooded; Indonesia Warns Workers

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Unusually high tides  again swamped parts of India's tsunami-devastated Andaman  islands overnight and Indonesia told aid workers it could not  guarantee their safety in many parts of Aceh province.


U.S. Releases Group of Iranians Held in Baghdad

The members of an Iranian Energy Ministry delegation had been held overnight for having unauthorized weapons, officials said.


Xilinx Virtex Series FPGAs Surpass $5B in Revenue

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Xilinx, Inc. , the world's leading programmable logic supplier, today announced that its Virtex(TM) series of high-performance FPGAs has surpassed $5B in cumulative revenues.


By Cong, Yu Du, Hui  Internet tools let teams write, edit and calculate together online. Here's the problem: Your three-partner CPA firm based in Boston is on a tight deadline to prepare an audit report for a client.


Darfur Still Troubled as UN Deadline Runs Out

A U.N.-imposed deadline for Sudan to  prove it can protect the people of strifetorn Darfur ran out on  Monday, but international officials said the violence was far  from over.


Aveva appena fatto colazione. Ha detto: vado a fumare una sigaretta Se n'Ã¨ accorto il padre: l'ha visto agonizzante su un tetto dell'edificio                                           Giovane anoressico suicida in ospedale  "Lottava per guarire". Aveva 18 anni                                                                                di MASSIMO LUGLI


Federal mortgage reform unlikely in 2007

Homeowners unable to pay monthly mortgage bills and facing foreclosure shouldn't count on help from Washington this year. Regulators and lawmakers seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach as they confront the fallout from several years of lenders making too many home loans to people with inadequate credit.


Xerox works deal with start-up to rival Google

The Palo Alto Research Center and Powerset Inc. are working to develop a natural language search engine expected to live by year's end.


JON STEWART GETS SERIOUS If You Interview Kissinger, Are You Still ...

In a recent dust-up with Tucker Carlson on CNN's "Crossfire," Mr. Stewart defended a soft interview he conducted with John Kerry.


RICHMOND, Va. - The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston battered parts of Virginia with torrential rain Monday, sending cars floating down streets and stranding people in downtown buildings.


AMERICA/VENEZUELA - I Vescovi considerano moralmente inaccettabile la proposta di Riforma Costituzionale perchÃ© Âlede i diritti fondamentali del sistema democratico e della persona, mettendo in pericolo la libertÃ  e la convivenza socialeÂ Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - ÂChiamati a vivere nella libertÃ Â Ã¨ il titolo dell'Esortazione dei Vescovi del Venezuela nella quale analizzano la proposta di Riforma Costituzionale presentata alla nazione lo scorso 15 agosto, al fine di "illuminare, con u...


Despite veterans' ad, Kerry remains in the lead

This week's controversy over allegations made by anti-John Kerry Vietnam veterans in their TV ad and in their book provides an illustration of the way division of labor works today in American politics.


Controversial Olympic gold medalist Paul Hamm is back in the United States and ready to move on. Hamm, in Worcester for the Rock & Roll


Wayne Rooney may be a superstar when he steps on to a football pitch - but from what Darren Fletcher has seen, off it he is just Mr Normal.


Milano, 16:38 - CALCIO, INTER; MORATTI: IN CHAMPIONS GIOCHEREMO AL MEAZZA

L'Inter affronterà la prossima settimana il Valencia in un Meazza aperto almeno agli abbonati...


The average incentive on cars and trucks sold in the United States fell by nearly 11 percent in October from September as automakers ramped up inventories of new 2005 model year vehicles with fewer discounts, an industry tracking group


Qualche critica nell'Unione, Mastella 'non convince metodo'


Islamic Army in Iraq. Paris rejected its demands that France scrap a law banning girls from wearing. the fate of the two reporters after initial hopes of an early release were dashed.


Jerry Brown Wants to Meet With Top Automakers About Emissions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ California's new attorney general, Jerry Brown, said Thursday he wants to sit down with the chief executives of America's top automakers to convince them to settle up on global warming.


Music Review: Exploring Influences and Finding Inspirations

When the violinist Midori and the pianist Marc-AndrÃ© Hamelin performed Ravelâs Sonata for Violin and Piano at the Rose Theater, notes and phrases were as carefully placed as stones in a Japanese garden.


Justin Gatlin always wanted to make his  mark on the world. But as a teenager the new Olympic 100 meters  champion believed fame would come through art not sprinting.


New Breast Imaging Detects Smallest Tumors

NEW YORK  - A technique called molecular  breast imaging (MBI) is highly sensitive in detecting small  lesions and can also spot tumors missed by mammography and  ultrasound, researchers report.


The death toll in a California mudslide rises to 10 as rescuers find the bodies of a woman and three children.


Rock Acts 'Shine' on New Live DVD Series

The drummer of indie punk band Fugazi has created a new DVD series that spotlights live performances from notable rock acts in a given city, all recorded in a single day.