U.S. take opening foursomes in Solheim Cup

HALMSTAD, Sweden  - Juki Inkster and Paula Creamer won two late holes to sneak a point from Laura Davies and Becky Brewerton as the United States took the opening foursomes 2.5-1.5 in the Solheim Cup on Friday.


Sassi: 'una scelta piu' di contenuto che di immagine'


City to Take New Tack To Curb Gun Violence

PHILADELPHIA -- The incoming mayor of this city is proposing a comprehensive plan of aggressive police tactics, including limiting the movement of people in high-crime neighborhoods and directing officers to increase searches of people on the street for illegal weapons, all in a desperate effort to...


Four consumer electronics companies are moving into production of a new 64-bit chip for non-PC devices in a bid to address the next generation of broadband services piped into the home.


Michael Eisner asked Sidney Poitier if he would be interested in a Walt Disney directorship in 1994, even though the two knew one another only casually, the veteran actor told the Delaware chancery court yesterday.


NEW ORLEANS - More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.    Residents streamed inland in bumper-to-bumper traffic in an agonizingly slow exodus amid dire warnings that Ivan could overwhelm New Orleans with up to 20 feet of filthy, chemical-polluted water...


Somalian militia looks to take over port

Hundreds of Islamic militiamen in heavily armed trucks headed Saturday to the strategic town of Kismayo in what appeared to be an imminent takeover attempt of one of the last seaports outside their control in Somalia, witnesses said.


Potter star Radcliffe wins rave reviews in "Equus"

Daniel Radcliffe shook off the mantle of Harry Potter on Wednesday to win rave reviews for his stage portrayal of a tortured teenager in the grueling psychological thriller "Equus".


Britain's favourite TV soap in freefall as viewers turn off

After proving a longtime ratings machine for BBC television since its launch in 1985, the flagship soap opera "EastEnders" has in recent months faced almost as many troubles as the drama's famously luckless characters.


Laser-Firing Physicists Take High-Speed Photography to the Attosecond Range

High-shutter-speed photography has come a long way from Muybridge's galloping horse in 1887 and even from Edgerton's strobe work in the 1950s and '60s. Milliseconds are an eternity compared to the attosecond images of electron drift we see today, if you get our drift.


Resurrection of a Film Flop - 'Heaven's Gate' Redux

Hollywood's most famous film flop, the legendary box office disaster "Heaven's Gate," has been resurrected.


Federal agents armed with search warrants conducted raids in three states Wednesday as part of a nationwide crackdown on the theft of copyrighted materials through the Internet, the Justice Department announced.


Sharif in Saudi Arabia after Pakistan expulsion

Former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif was back in Saudi Arabia on Monday after his expulsion from Pakistan, with Riyadh saying it "welcomed" his return to his former exile home.


Bruce Willis canoodles with Croat catwalk stunner

Rumours are rife that Die Hard actor Bruce Willis is romancing Croatian model Miranda Vadek.


Police Search Kansai Electric Office Over Fatal 2004 Accident

By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 20--NAGOYA -- Police on Tuesday searched Kansai Electric Co.'s  nuclear power business division in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, on suspicion of  negligence over a fatal nonradioactive accident at a nuclear reactor facility  in the town in 2004.


Computer program re-creates ancient Rome digitally

ROME -- Computer specialists yesterday unveiled a digital reproduction of ancient Rome as it appeared at the peak of its power in AD 320, one of the largest and most complete simulations of a historic city ever created.


Admiral Acquisitions, the Goldman   Sachs-led consortium which is buying Associated British Ports   (AB ports) for 2.8 billion pounds, has launched syndication of   the loan financing backing the buyout, banking sources close to   the deal said on Monday.


China urges Iran, Europe to resume nuclear talks

China has urged Iran to resume negotiations with the international community in a fresh attempt to end their long-running standoff over its nuclear programme, state press reported Friday.


Brother of Ex-Mexico President Found Dead

Enrique Salinas, the youngest brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was found dead in a car on the outskirts of Mexico City on Monday, with a plastic bag tied over his head in an apparent murder, officials said.


Advertising: Embracing Change, TV Networks Find Stronger Demand for Ads

The intensifying demand is enabling the broadcasters to raise rates for spots scheduled to appear during prime-time shows next season.


Doggedly Persistent, Untying Medicare Knots for the Elderly

Frederic Riccardi is an attack dog disguised as a health insurance counselor.


Wall Street's merger-fueled rally may continue next week, so long as Friday's payrolls report and other economic news don't spoil the party.


Airbus shareholders approve launch of new A350 to rival Boeing 7E7

Shareholders in Airbus SAS have approved the launch of a new A350 passenger jet to rival Boeing Co.'s 7E7, a spokesman for Airbus parent EADS said Friday.


Allen Will Repurchase Blazers' Rose Garden

By Seattle Times  Feb. 3--PORTLAND -- Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen plans to repurchase the Rose Garden Arena, three years after he gave it up in bankruptcy proceedings.


La ricetta di lunga vita? Pizza contro la vecchiaia

Meglio della chirurgia? Di sicuro piÃ¹ gustosa e divertente. Contro l'invecchiamento cresce il fascino della pizza sperimentale "anti-aging"


President Bush nominates top Treasury Department official Sam Bodman to be the next US energy secretary.


ZFS file system can't be un-open-sourced, Schwartz says on his blog. And if Sun wins, it'll donate some proceeds to open-source and patent reform causes.


Nato's secretary general says its members cannot "run away" from Afghanistan, as it hold talks in the Netherlands.


Roma, 19:50 - CALCIO, LAZIO: MUTARELLI LAVORA A PARTE

Seduta tattica per la Lazio, che ha chiuso con una partitella contro la Berretti. Differenziato per ...


John Kerry forum degenerates into farce A Florida university student who overran his allotted time while quizzing John Kerry on matters of national import at a forum graced by the Democrat senator for Massachusetts received a solid tasering for his trouble, quickly followed by the now-obligatory YouTube martydom:â¦


E' ancora in rianimazione il bambino aggredito probabilmente dalla madreLa donna Ã¨ stata fermata dopo diverse ore di interrogatorio in procura                                            Neonato accoltellato alla gola I medici: "Condizioni gravissime"                                                                                Il piccolo Ã¨ "in uno stato di coma serio", e presenta "del sangue a livello cerebrale"


New Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner acquires 85.5% of the club to take full control.


No a vendita Snam RG, se costretti cederemo tutta quota


New Doubts On Nuclear Efforts by North Korea

The Bush administration is backing away from its long-held assertions that North Korea has an active clandestine program to enrich uranium, leading some experts to believe that the original U.S. intelligence that started the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions may have been flawed.


How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly

The magnitude of the tsunami that remade the coasts of the Asian subcontinent was slowly gauged across the world.


Samsung is close to producing a lighter, thinner, better television.


'Simple Code' Planned for Food Labelling

Manufacturers could be forced to make food labelling more simple, Health Secretary John Reid said today. Under proposals announced in the Public Health White Paper, the food industry


When corporate America came looking for raises last year, Boston's largest mutual funds routinely turned them down, voting in hundreds of cases against lucrative


The two-man crew of the international space station went outside again for more repair work. Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke spent five and a-half hours plugging in new antennas


Djibouti Refuge Shelters Endangered Cheetahs

Working with cheetahs, the world's  fastest land animal and now an endangered species, is a bit  different from treating cats and dogs, but Bertrand Lafrance  felt he had little choice.


Bangladesh relaxes curfew despite sporadic violence

Bangladesh relaxed a curfew for most of Saturday, despite attempts to defy it by unidentified activists, police said.


Bundesliga prepares for striker showdown

HAMBURG - Champions Werder Bremen run into Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga's top clash on Saturday highlighted by a showdown of in-form strikers Miroslav Klose and Roy Makaay.


Pentagon Said to Offer Cuts in the Billions

The Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy's 12 aircraft carriers as part of $60 billion in proposed cuts over the next six years.


Historic Tower in Path of Forest Fire Crews Also Try to Protect Lake Facilities

By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM and EUGENE TONG\\ Staff Writers  ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST -- With a wall of flames charging through thick wilderness, firefighters wrapped a historic treasure in a metallic guard to protect it from a blaze that has burned out of control since Labor Day.


Congress is poised to pass a bill that could bury dozens of lawsuits over the Bush administration's warrantless spying, hiding them behind the closed doors of an intelligence court in Washington D.C. By Ryan Singel.


Repairing airplane wings with nanotubes in-flight

An electrical pulse through nanotubes and wires helps find the crack in an airplane wing while in-flight.


The second lengthy BlackBerry outage in less than a year has one consulting company advising clients not to rely solely on the popular smart phones for critical e-mail messages.Enterprises that really need e-mail responses in less than eight hours to run their businesses should have a backup for the BlackBerry, Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said Tuesday, in the wake of a crash that lasted about three hours on Monday. They should also set up an independent system to notify them whether an important contact has received or replied to an e-mail message, Dulaney said.Late Tuesday, RIM said the outage was caused by a problem with an internal data routing system in the BlackBerry service infrastructure that had recently been upgraded. That upgrade was part of an ongoing expansion of the network, and this type of change had been done previously with no problems, it said.Monday's failure followed a longer outage in April 2007 that RIM attributed to a problem with a minor software upgrade and a subsequent glitch in a failover process.There are about 12 million BlackBerry users worldwide, on a variety of mobile carriers. The crash Monday affected users throughout the U.S. and Canada, preventing them from sending or receiving e-mail or carrying out some other functions, though no messages were permanently lost, according to RIM.Gartner's Dulaney had harsh words for RIM, saying he had given the company a break after last year's failure."This does not appear to be a mission-critical system with the highest service-level agreements, and therefore, to entrust ... that a message will get to the end point is being a bit foolhardy," Dulaney said. He advises enterprises that are worried about dependability to ask RIM for details of its backup system and make their own decisions.After last year's outage, RIM said it would enhance aspects of its testing, monitoring and recovery processes."RIM has made significant investments to improve its system recovery infrastructure and processes over the last year, which enabled service levels to return to normal quickly," the company said Tuesday."They obviously didn't do as deep a dive as they needed to on disaster recovery issues," Dulaney said. But he acknowledged the failure could have been caused by something completely unexpected.The BlackBerry, which RIM introduced in 1999, quickly became the most popular tool for mobile "push" e-mail that automatically comes to a portable device with a wireless network connection. All current BlackBerry models are also phones, and the company now offers a wide variety of handsets with consumer-oriented features such as cameras, Web browsers and social-networking capabilities. But to get to and from the handhelds, e-mail messages traverse a complex system involving mobile operator networks, RIM's network operation centers and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers within companies.Adding consumer features and keeping up with rapid customer growth, such as adding 1.65 million users in the quarter ended last Dec. 1, have probably made it harder for RIM to keep its network running smoothly, said Albert Lin, an analyst at investment bank Sooner Cap. But users accept some level of risk if they want such complex services at reasonable prices, he said. The only truly reliable system is the public switched telephone network, and it has limited functionality, Lin said."When it comes to reliable push e-mail ... it's still hard to find a solution that works better than BlackBerry," Lin said.Gartner's Dulaney acknowledged that competitors, such as Visto and Good Technology (now owned by Motorola), are probably not significantly more dependable.It wouldn't be impossible to make the RIM network more reliable, the analysts said."They have the technical capability to spend more and make it more reliable, but is that what their owners and shareholders really want?" Lin said.Google, for example, has a more highly distributed network, but that would take money and time, and many customers wouldn't want to pay for it, Dulaney said. In the future, RIM may choose to create a higher-end service with greater service assurances and a higher price, he said.


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for a strategic partnership with Belarus Friday, calling his Belarusian counterpart a "brother-in-arms" and lamenting the pressure he said the United States was putting on Minsk and Caracas.


Bergamo, 17:43 - CALCIO, ATALANTA; DEL NERI: DOMANI IN CAMPO PER RUGGERI

Alla vigilia della trasferta con il Genoa, l'allenatore dell'Atalanta Gigi Del Neri manda un messagg...


Bill Nicholson, widely regarded as one of the greatest football managers of the 20th century and the first to win the league and FA Cup double in modern times, has died aged 85 after a long illness.


Stephenson County Health Department To Hold Flu Shot Clinics

Stephenson County, Illinois- Stateline residents, who are considered high risk for contracting the flu, will now have their chance to get vaccinated.


Bernie Ebbers' second-in-command claims the former WorldCom boss told him to cook the firm's books.


A FIRST goal for Charlton from Moroccan defender Tala El Karkouri saw them preserve their unbeaten Premiership home record as they beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0.


Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Wednesday.


Dow ends at record, scores best week since November

The Dow Jones industrial average posted its best week since November on Friday, helped by optimism about merger activity and reassuring comments about inflation from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.


Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings. Gunmen fired shots at the house of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.


The chemical con trick used by Alcon blue butterfly larvae to get ants to take care of them is detailed by scientists.


About 50 people are killed in clashes over cattle between the army and Karamojong warriors in Uganda.


Citizens Financial Group markets itself as ''Not your typical bank." But, as the Providence bank found out this week, it actually is all too typical.


An island of 4 million people seems an unlikely nation to rule the waves. But in 2000, the year New Zealand was defeating the United States, Italy, and seven other countries to take the America's Cup - the highest prize in yacht racing - a Kiwi rower, Rob Waddell, won the gold medal in single sculls at the Sydney Olympic ...


Lite tra tifosi a bordo del volo Milano-Atene


In some ways, the Pistons' 98-93 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Saturday, was about closure. Both teams hope this puts an end, however temporarily, to


Anti-Muslim conflicts continued in the Netherlands as a mosque was set on fire Saturday in the southeastern part of the nation, the BBC reported.


Karzai Win Gives Chance to Cleanse Afghan Government

Incumbent Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of last month's Afghan presidential election Wednesday and now faces the task of forming a government minus the warlords and drug runners who tainted his last cabinet.


Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous "Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.


With flashbulbs firing all around him and cheers ringing in his ears, Terrmel Sledge of the Montreal Expos batted with two outs in the ninth inning and his team trailing the Florida Marlins by 9-1 Wednesday night.


Southwest Airlines plans to begin service at Pittsburgh International Airport, a source familiar with the plans said today. The move is the latest blow to US Airways, which is the dominant carrier in Western Pennsylvania even though it drastically reduced its service at Pittsburgh last year.


Sales of existing US homes fell by 12.8% last year, the biggest decline in 25 years, figures show.


The San Diego Chargers know the odds are pretty good they'll be part of NFL history on Sunday.


Darfur group says government threatens peace deal

A group of former rebels in Darfur accused the government on Tuesday of threatening a fledgling peace deal by launching joint attacks with militia that killed up to 80 civilians in South Darfur.


Tenn. lab to host 1 of 3 bioenergy sites

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory was selected Tuesday to host one of three U.S. Department of Energy bioenergy research centers, each receiving $125 million in funding over five years.


Heath Ledger edgy and anxious over Christmas holidays

Australian actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead in his New York apartment, was edgy and anxious during his Christmas holidays about not seeing his daughter Matilda, close friend and model Sophie Ward told local media.


UK hit by first H5N1 bird flu outbreak in poultry

Britain scrambled to contain its first outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in domestic poultry on Saturday after the virus was found at a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.


Organized Crime Infiltrates Financial IT

The same employees and IT workers who handle and protect sensitive business information may be being trained and recruited by organized criminals to steal it.


Darfur rebel group promises to respect truce

One rebel group in Sudan's troubled Darfur region Thursday pledged to fully respect a truce with the Sudanese government amid contradictory statements and international concern about an escalation in fighting.


Super Bowl coaches: friendly rivals and sticklers for detail

Under Belichick, the Patriots are undefeated this season. With Coughlin, the Giants won a record 10 games on the road.


Are CAPS' top investors right to frown on these hot stocks?


The Boston Red Sox finally laid to rest the 'Curse of the Bambino' by defeating the 'Ruth-less' New York Yankees this week.


It was animal instinct that drew Kate Walsh to movie executive Alex Young â with some help from her pet dog, Lucy.  "He met Lucy, and she immediately loved him, that's one of the tests when you meet a guy," says Walsh, who married Young on Sept. 1 â ...


Obama wants summit with Muslim countries

Democratic presidential candidate Barack  Obama told a French magazine in an interview that if he wins  office, he will hold a summit with Muslim countries to better  the United States' image in the world.


Signing the Kyoto Protocols is one thing, adhering to it something else again. Greenhouse gas emissions rise for the industrialized nations, who look like they're going to have a hard time reigning in their waste to meet 2012 goals.


Prime Minister Tony Blair accepts a job as Middle East envoy, says Irish PM Bertie Ahern.


Shares in French automaker Renault plunged more than 7.0 percent on Friday after weak sales figures from its Japanese partner Nissan overshadowed its own broadly positive trading update.


The African Union chose Ghana to head the 53-member bloc Monday, turning aside Sudan's bid for the second year in a row


ISS astronauts repair solar array during 7-hr spacewalk

Two astronauts aboard the orbiting International Space Station on Wednesday replaced an electric motor on one of three solar wings that provide power to the station during a seven-hour-long spacewalk, NASA said.


Johnson Edges Waltrip to Win Daytona 500 Pole

Jimmie Johnson won his second Daytona 500 pole Sunday, less than 24 hours after his new teammate, Dale Earnhardt Jr., took the checkered flag in the nonpoints Budweiser Shootout.


A 1.137,5 mln di euro (+8%), utile netto a -89,4 mln


Pope Benedict XVI expressed his admiration for Muslims and Islam on Wednesday, and called for freedom of religion and faith that rejects all forms of violence.


Oracle launches identity governance project

InfoWorld - Oracle on Wednesday announced a new project to tackle one of the thorniest problems facing enterprises: the proliferation of sensitive identity information across enterprise networks.


Thompson wary of long-term Iraq presence

Republican Fred Thompson warned Saturday that suggestions the U.S. could maintain a long-term presence in Iraq "would not be a good development," and he conceded that mistakes were made that are only now being rectified.


Joe Torre won't pick sides between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, the former New York Yankees strength coach who accused the Rocket of using performance-enhancing drugs. "You're not going to get me in that jackpot," the former Yankees manager said Wednesday. "I'd rather just stay away from making any in-depth comment about the whole steroid-HGH thing."


Phillies crush Reds to close gap on Mets

The Philadelphia Phillies moved to within two games of first place in the National League East after hammering the lowly Cincinnati Reds 11-4 on Tuesday.


Mauresmo survives but Jankovic downs Hingis in Dubai

Amelie Mauresmo struggled to a 6-3 3-6 6-4 victory over eighth-seeded Slovak Daniela Hantuchova to reach the semi-finals of the Dubai Open on Thursday, while Jelena Jankovic ended Martina Hingis's hopes with a 7-6 6-2 win.


Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Barack Obama's campaign had injected racial tension into the presidential contest, saying her comments about Martin Luther King's role in the civil rights movement had been "distorted" by Obama's supporters.


Julia Roberts gives birth to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus

Julia Roberts, star of "Pretty Woman", had the "Satisfaction" of giving birth to twins on Sunday. The babies (a boy and girl), although born prematurely, are doing fine.


Khomeini's grandson banned from election

The grandson of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini described his ban from next month's parliamentary elections Thursday as an insult to his family and said he would never beg to run.


The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work with blind children suggests.


House panel finds Republicans negligent in scandal

A House ethics panel has concluded that Republicans failed to adequately respond to warnings about a lawmaker blamed for the Internet sex scandal that shook the U.S. Congress this year, a source said on Friday.


Economic, credit worries rattle investors

Worries about the world-leading U.S. economy and fears over bank credit rippled across financial markets on Monday, sending stocks sharply lower and dragging the dollar to a record low against the euro.


Chiefs lose without their Priest on Sunday

New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes missed Sunday's 27-20 loss to New Orleans with a knee injury.


The US Defence Secretary urges Europe to put aside differences with the US on Iraq to aid the war on terror.


PARIS, Nov 4  - The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company reported Thursday that its nine-month net profit more than doubled, thanks largely to sales of Airbus aircraft, and raised its full-year forecast.


Fatturato +5,5% su stesso mese 2006, +4,2% su luglio


Market falls on White House stimulus plan

Stocks fell on Friday on concerns that a White House effort to boost the economy would not be enough to forestall a recession.


Citigroup Says SEC May Take Action Against Jones

Citigroup Inc., the world's largest bank, said the US Securities and Exchange Commission may take enforcement action against Thomas Jones, the head of the company's investment-management unit.


PGA Player of the Year Singh ready for more in '05

Vijay Singh, who took more than 20 years to get to the top of his profession, culminated his career year Monday when he was named 2004 Player of the Year on the PGA Tour.


Global semiconductor sales reached a record $248 billion last year, driven largely by favorable economic conditions and rising demand for consumer electronics such as high-definition TVs, digital music players and cell phones, an industry group said Friday.


German Court Frees Nazi War Crimes Suspect

A court ordered an 86-year-old man accused of Nazi war crimes in Slovakia freed from custody Friday after a key witness said he could no longer clearly remember what happened.


A heavy snow storm pelted the American Midwest, causing deadly road accidents, power outages and grounded flights for Christmas holiday travellers, US media reported on Monday.


Prodi in costante contatto con D'Alema e Parisi


No Plans For RIM Network Operations Center in Asia

Research In Motion has no plans to set up network operations centers outside Canada.


Microsoft extends Dynamics support, promises roadmaps

Microsoft announced a major support upgrade, clearer road maps, and a new financing option for its Dynamics range of business applications on Wednesday.


Q. Yesterday, during a meeting with several other staff members, my boss - who is female, like me - made the following comment: "I like the fact that you've grown your hair longer and gone back to being a blonde. It is so much nicer looking than the spiky hair you had before. You look softer now." All I could ...


Wickets' Fall Allows Tows to Travel on: Traffic Jam on Ohio River Eases With Higher Water Level.

By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 16--BROOKPORT, Ill. -- Barge traffic is temporarily unsnarled at Locks and Dam 52, thanks to rain and a little man-made hydraulic help.   Rainfall on Monday and Tuesday deepened the channel, assisted by the U.S.


College Basketball: Syracuse, Oklahoma, Utah Win

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Sports Network) - Terrence Roberts  scored the game-winning basket with 7.2 seconds remaining as  fourth-ranked Syracuse rallied from an 18-point halftime  deficit to earn an 86-84 victory over Rutgers in Big East  action at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.


PM appears to contradict himself in Commons over whether identity cards will be compulsory


The mother of a 27-year-old woman who died after taking cocaine dies 12 days after her daughter's inquest.


Utah returns to AP women's hoop rankings

Thirteen straight wins got Utah back in the rankings. The Utes entered The Associated Press women's basketball poll at No. 20 on Monday, the first time they've been among the Top 25 since the final poll of the 2005-06 season.


Four jailed for botched London bomb plot

A British judge jailed four men for 40 years each on Wednesday for attempting to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport system in a plot he said had clearly been masterminded by al Qaeda.


Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil on Wednesday announced the launch of its own record label, Cirque du Soleil Musique, which will create, produce and market music associated with current and future productions of the company.


Nextel Communications to supply U.S.-based U.S. Navy personnel with cell phones, voice minutes and wireless data plans.


Where is the best crappie fishing at a small venue? In northeast Kansas, it's:  Ottawa State Fishing Lake - This 138-acre lake gives anglers a small-lake opportunity in Region I of the state.


"It's very clear that there is a relationship. Now the question is what underlies that relationship"  Diabetic children who spent the most time glued to the TV had a tougher time controlling their blood sugar, according to a Norwegian study that illustrates yet another downside of too much television. via NYNewsday.com


Second Briton arrested in prostitute murder case

Police arrested a second man on Tuesday on suspicion of murdering five prostitutes in one of Britain's most dramatic suspected serial killings.


Bush Touts Plan to Help High School Students

President Bush on Saturday touted his plan to boost aid for high school students amid criticism from his Democratic opponent that the president has undercut his own efforts to fix schools.


A Las Vegas court granted bail of $125,000 on Wednesday to former American football star O.J. Simpson, who faces criminal charges stemming from what police say was an armed robbery of his own sports memorabilia at a Las Vegas hotel.


9 reported dead as storms strike Georgia

A system of powerful storms packing tornadoes passed from Alabama into Georgia Thursday night, hitting a hospital and causing at least nine deaths, a state official said.


In the past three weeks, shares of Apple Computer Inc. have flirted with all-time highs after a wave of reports from investment houses like Piper Jaffray, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan issued glowing projections about the Cupertino firm's future.


Conte turned athletes into towers of power

HE IS THE face of sporting evil, this man who once was an accomplished bass player and now leers at us from a television screen describing the hell he hath wrought on the games people play and on the people who play them.


Nashville mayor vetoes English-only bill

Mayor Bill Purcell vetoed a measure Monday that would have made English the official language of Nashville, saying it was unconstitutional, unnecessary and mean-spirited.


Royal Mail says it is consulting on closing its final salary pension scheme to new entrants, to help tackle its Â£6.6bn deficit.


One in five people using the new chip and pin credit and debit cards is still signing rather than using a pin number, research suggests.


With two new Athlon 64 chips, AMD (NYSE: AMD) continues to push industry giant Intel in the battle for position in the desktop-processor space. AMD has launched the Athlon 64 FX-55 and Athlon 64 4000+, with an eye on carving a bigger niche in high-performance personal computing.


Spacecraft Still Operating After 16 Years

The European-built spacecraft Ulysses marked another mission point Wednesday as it flew over the sun's southern polar cap.


Jason Wahler was sentenced to two months in jail for punching a city worker and tow truck driver during an altercation last year.


Video game maker  Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) said on Wednesday its hit Wii  console will still be hard to find on store shelves this  holiday season, more than a year after its debut.


Baldini a Totti: Â«Anche noi vogliamo una Roma forteÂ»

Francesco Totti puÃ² stare tranquillo: per rimanere in giallorosso ha chiesto una grande Roma e la societÃ  farÃ  di tutto per accontentarlo. Lo garantisce il ds romanista Franco Baldini, intervenendo in una


Kalamazoo, MI (Sports Network) - Western Michigan University has hired Bill Cubit as its head football coach. Cubit replaces Gary Darnell, who coached the Broncos from 1997-2004.


New Orleans tornado, snow in winter weather

A winter storm brought near-blizzard conditions to much of the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, forcing schools to close and disrupting transportation across the region, while a deadly tornado ripped through New Orleans.


The number of Americans with jobs fell for the first time in four years in August, as Friday's closely watched government jobs report came in much weaker than Wall Street forecasts.


Parigi, 10:16 - TENNIS, CLASSIFICA WTA: MAURESMO AL COMANDO, SCHIAVONE 14/a

Amelie Mauresmo resta alla guida della classifica Wta. La francese precede la belga Justine Henin e ...


Sentenza del tribunale civile di Palermo, a cui, nel 1990, si erano rivolti i parenti di quattro personemorte il 27 giugno '80. Un verdetto diverso da quello, definitivo, del processo penale                                            Ustica, giudice ordina risarcimento per quattro vittime della strage


Six Porsches, Â£500 bottles of wine and a villa - trail of 'Walter Mitty' thief

Fake accountant sentenced to five years after stealing more than Â£2m from her employers to fund spree.


US November Consumer Prices Rise 0.2%; Core Up 0.2%

Prices paid by US consumers rose for a fourth straight month in November, supporting forecasts that Federal Reserve policy makers will keep raising interest rates.


Resurgent Charlton take inspiration from Murphy

TWO months ago, after Charlton Athletic had been jeered off at the end of a 2-1 defeat at home to Middlesbrough, Alan Curbishley, their manager, felt that unreasonable expectations had been


Calm returns after Venezuela TV protests

The Carter Center called for dialogue Thursday between President Hugo Chavez and opponents protesting his decision to force an opposition TV channel off the air, while relative calm returned to the streets after three days of demonstrations.


I know some golfers take drugs, says Player

Tour golfers are taking performance-enhancing drugs and escaping sanction because the sport does not have dope testing, Gary Player said on the eve of the 136th British Open.


Spain wants ships to slow down and watch out for whales while passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the world's busiest maritime routes.


Novel ideas that exploit the pin-point accuracy of Europe's soon-to-launch Galileo system are being sought.


Lethal Bird Flu Reemerges In Four East Asian Countries

The avian influenza virus that swept across East Asia early this year has reemerged in at least four countries in the region despite optimism among health and agriculture officials that the disease had been eradicated through the mass slaughter of chickens.


Winehouse refused US visa for Grammys: publicists

Amy Winehouse has been denied a visa to enter the United States, preventing the troubled British singer from appearing at this weekend's Grammy awards ceremony, her publicists said Thursday.


Rescue workers today called off a search for survivors under the rubble of an apartment building flattened by a gas explosion that killed at least 17 people.


We join in the applause for finding additional flu vaccine this winter, whether it's in Canada or from some other manufacturer.


The House of Representatives voted to revise rules for foreign investments in the U.S., seeking to make them clearer for businesses while preserving national security.


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Pettitte Apologizes to Yankees and His Fans

Andy Pettitte held an hour-long news conference at which he discussed his use of human growth hormone.


WSJ Weak dollar aids some U.S. companies

American company Tupperware Corp. is rooting for the dollar to stay weak, while Irish crystal maker Waterford Wedgwood PLC wants the opposite.


Bush Vows Second-Term Push for Palestinian State

President Bush on Friday set a four-year goal of seeing a Palestinian state established and he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to mobilize international support to help make it happen now that Yasser Arafat is dead.


Cranky Elephant Packing Trunk for Tacoma

Bamboo, a 38-year-old elephant with no close friends at Woodland Park Zoo and a limited tolerance for the high jinks of baby Hansa, is packing her trunk and heading for the zoo in Tacoma, which welcomes prickly pachyderms.


A suspicious substance sparks a security alert at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in Cumbria.


Afghan intelligence agents backed by international peacekeeping troops have arrested 60 people, with "reported ties" to the Taliban, according to a spokesman for the peacekeepers .


Russia said Monday it has begun fuel deliveries to an atomic power station in Iran, which is at the center of international concerns over Tehran's ambitions to develop nuclear weapons.


Roma, 20:21 - CALCIO. LAZIO; ROSSI: BATTIAMO ATALANTA E ALLUNGHIAMO

Alla vigilia della sfida con l'Atalanta il tecnico della Lazio Delio Rossi chiede ai suoi giocatori ...


Navistar, German counterpart to jointly produce truck components

Navistar International Corp. and MAN Nutzfahzeuge AG of Munich, Germany, have signed an agreement to collaboratively produce commercial truck components.


Europeans Plan Incentives to End Standoff on Iran Nuclear Program

Britain, France and Germany are working to give Iran a last chance to avoid confrontation with the West over its nuclear program by offering incentives to curtail its most sensitive activities.


BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 -- In Najaf on Monday, thousands of Shiite Muslim worshipers marched and chanted for peace, marking the one-year anniversary of the destruction of a sacred shrine that sent Iraq sliding toward civil war.


Kuznetsova, Federer in Top Form at Aussie Open

MELBOURNE, Australia  - Svetlana Kuznetsova  shrugged off the doping controversy clouding her Australian  Open campaign to reach the third round Wednesday and was  swiftly joined by men's champion Roger Federer and Serena  Williams.


Baghdad Car Bomber Targets Green Zone; AP Says 7 Dead

A car bomb exploded near a checkpoint leading to Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraq's interim government and foreign embassies, the US military said.


Rob Glaser and his geek pals from Microsoft wanted to revive pro bowling. So they bought the whole damned league. By Tom McNichol from Wired magazine.


A deal would be a reunion of sorts, putting back together some of the largest pieces of the Ma Bell telephone monopoly, which was broken up in 1984.


25 Terror Suspects Nabbed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 2, 2004 - Afghan intelligence agents backed by international peacekeepers arrested 25 people allegedly linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida in an early morning raid in eastern Kabul Saturday, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said.


Washington, D.C., upstart Orbital Outfitters shows off a prototype of its first pressurized suit for the commercial space industry here at the 2007 X Prize Cup.


Upon further review, the Ottawa Senators are right back in the Stanley Cup finals. Daniel Alfredsson broke out of a scoring slump with the help of the replay booth, and Anaheim defenseman Chris Pronger deflected the go-ahead goal into his own net during Ottawa's three-goal second period, giving the Senators' a 5-3 victory over the Ducks on Saturday night.


Russia Sets Space Station Crew Launch for October 11

Russia's space agency says it will send a three-man replacement crew to the International Space Station on October 11, two days later than originally planned.


Speaking recently at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, new Environment Minister Stephane Dion seemed to support a more science-based approach to environmental policy-making when he said, "We need better science.


The Lure of Treatments Science Has Dismissed

Exploring the reasons people swear by treatments that have no scientific evidence backing them.


Think tank: FCC, Bush have failed on broadband reform

A progressive Washington think tank Tuesday blasted the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Bush administration for failing to invest in and develop a robust broadband network in the U.S. that can support consumers as well as first responders and anti-terrorist teams."The policy of relying on market forces that the Bush administration claimed for seven years would propel broad access is irresponsible and insufficient," Mark Lloyd, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), said in a statement on the CAP's Web site."The result of administration neglect, industry intransigence and the incompetence of the Federal Communications Commission ... has left the American people and most policymakers with no clear idea where broad services are deployed in the U.S.," said Lloyd, who is also an affiliated professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.Although it's a nonpartisan organization, the CAP is headed by John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to Bill Clinton when he was president. P.J. Crowley, CAP's director of homeland security, served as Clinton's special assistant for national security and joined Lloyd in a call with reporters Tuesday.Lloyd and Crowley urged policymakers, including the presidential candidates, to find government funds to support the building of a 10Gbps, redundant and ubiquitous broadband network. They also urged current leaders to create a commission to implement that goal."We should not wait for another Katrina or 9/11 for this to happen," Lloyd said. The CAP said the broadband network could be wired and wireless. The organization also said the network must provide enough components so that if one system fails, another is available and the network can quickly repair itself.The FCC has created an elaborate system to auction off 700MHz wireless spectrum starting Thursday, including a special D Block that would be shared by first responders and commercial users.But even the plans to use that portion of the spectrum for public safety imperiled, since the sole known bidder, Frontline Wireless LLC, failed to submit a $128 million down payment to the FCC to qualify to bid. On Jan. 12, the company issued a short statement saying: "Frontline Wireless is closed for business at this time. We have no further comment.""The bidding on the D Block is a perfect example of the challenge the FCC faces," said Lloyd, who urged Verizon Wireless or Google Inc. to consider bidding on the D Block. "We need somebody to step up to the plate and if not, the feds must. We cannot rely on market forces alone."Lloyd said all branches of government need to work with service providers in a "necessary and forced partnership" to bring about a broadband network.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.


Chiron (CHIR:Nasdaq - news - research) said Thursday that it had found some problems with the production of its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, which will cause a delay in the product's reaching the market until early October.


Candidates give Foley contributions away

Republicans in tight re-election contests were unloading contributions they received over the years from Mark Foley, the former congressman ensnared in an e-mail sex scandal.


Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday that it would share the underlying software code for its Office program as part of its efforts to make governments more confident in the security and compatibility


Actors to switch roles in 'Topdog/Underdog'

Variety - Alliance Theater in Atlanta offers a new twist on Suzan Lori-Parks' "Topdog/Underdog": The actors in the two-man show will switch off playing brothers Lincoln and Booth.


Swiss ski resorts try to plan a future where less snow through climate change threatens business.


Blog: Apple enthusiasts can perhaps become a bit too evangelical....


Iraq: Car-Bomb Carnage in Baghdad, Mosul

At least 17 people are dead and nearly 100 others wounded in car bombings in the Iraqi capital and the northern city of Mosul. Fourteen people died in two Baghdad bombings.


Jackson Acknowledges Settling Past Claims

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson, saying he must respond to "untruths and sensationalism," acknowledged Friday that he has reached financial settlements with people in the past to avoid the public embarrassment of going to court.    Jackson's statement was issued just hours before the scheduled broadcast of a "Dateline NBC" report alleging that the entertainer paid $2 million to the son of an employee at his Neverland Ranch in 1990 to avoid a child molestation accusation...


One pilot dead, one hurt after two Snowbirds crash in mid-air near Moose Jaw

MOOSE JAW, Sask. (CP) - One pilot from the Canadian Forces' famed Snowbirds team was killed Friday and a second suffered minor injuries in a mid-air collision between two jets during a routine training flight in Saskatchewan.


Schwarzenegger, Laura Bush to Speak Today

NEW YORK - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, first lady Laura Bush, Sen...


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A detective urges witnesses to the fatal stabbing of a teenager to be brave and speak to the police.


Easyjet attack on green Virgin Train ads fails

Business & money: Sir Richard Branson has accuses airline of 'shooting themselves in the foot'.


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Milosevic trial resumes with defence lawyer asking to be dismissed

Deposed Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's trial resumed Tuesday at the international war crimes tribunal with the court hearing a British lawyer's request to be dismissed as a standby defence counsel.


Twisted Physics: How Black Holes Spout Off

Black holes are complex beasts. Among their mysterious traits are intense jets of matter that sometimes shoot out from the rotational poles at nearly light-speed.


Mars Rover Find Possible New Evidence of Past Water

The US space agency NASA says one of its two rovers on Mars has found possible fresh evidence that liquid water existed there in the past.


Tide turns:100 naked men can stay on beach

One hundred naked men have been allowed to stay on a northwest beach.


Mike Modano scores the go-ahead goal on a power play with 3:12 remaining as the Dallas Stars win their seventh straight to match a franchise record, 2-1 over the Phoenix Coyotes.


Ulcer bacteria has followed man for 60,000 years

Humans have had an intimate relationship with the bacteria that causes painful stomach ulcers for more than 60,000 years, scientists said on Wednesday.


Algeria: Car bomb blast kills at least 3

A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing at least three people and wounding several others, security officials said.


Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.


Turnarounds are great ... when they actually turn around.


(andPOP) - If Michael Moore has his way, he won't be walking up onstage at this year's Oscars to accept Best Documentary. The controversial director wants Fahrenheit 9/11 to win Best Picture.


Glaxo gets priority review for lung cancer drug

GlaxoSmithKline said on Tuesday that U.S. health regulators granted a priority review to a capsule form of its drug Hycamtin for the treatment of relapsed small cell lung cancer.


It was two for the price of "you're fired" on NBC'S "The Apprentice." On Thursday's episode, Donald Trump eliminated two candidates instead of the requisite one. After losing a task centering on creating a Levi's catalog, project manager Wes Moss of the Mosaic team put the entire group up for firing.


Dell's Income Doldrums May Be Over, But Job Cuts Will Continue

If the figures from Dell Computer's last fiscal quarter hold up after a potential wave of possible corrections due to its admittedly improper accounting of backdated stock options grants, the company may not have fared all that poorly in the three-month period between the first weeks of February and May.


An investigation starts into the collapse of seating at a religious festival that injured more than a dozen people.


Price for North Sea crude hits new high on Tuesday

The price for North Sea oil of Brent quality was Monday sold for US$ 50 a barrel for the first time ever, and on Tuesday it peaked at US$ 51.


A 15-year-old boy was at the wheel of a hijacked car involved in a high-speed police chase, a court hears.


[TS] Sports of the Times: Others Are Trying to Speak Federerâs Language

After dispatching Juan Carlos Ferrero in four sets, Roger Federer started his news conference in English, switched to Swiss German, then High German, and finally to French.


Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the latest of half a dozen political prisoners released over the past few days in a move widely seen as intended to court favor with the European Union.


Roadside bombs kill at least 10 Afghan police

KHOST, Afghanistan  - At least 10 policemen and a district chief were killed by two roadside bomb blasts on Thursday in Afghanistan, officials said.


Life & style: First it was '50 is the new 30'. Then it was '60 is the new 40'. But what's so wrong with '60 is the new 60', asks Angela Neustatter.


In addition to introducing a long list of HD TVs and camcorders, Panasonic on Sunday announced that it will participate in a new company designed to help collect and recycle such products when consumers are done with them.Panasonic, Sharp and Toshiba have jointly formed a new company, Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company (MRM), to provide services to other companies as well as governmental bodies that must comply with recycling mandates in the U.S.The company has already started working in Minnesota, which recently enacted new rules for electronics recycling. MRM has collected about 750 tons of used products there.The company plans to expand its programs to other states this year and next, including Connecticut, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas and Washington.So far, MRM has set up collection and recycling agreements with Hitachi, JVC, Mitsubishi, Philips, Pioneer, Sanyo and others, Panasonic said.Before figuring out their new recycling opportunities, consumers will be able to choose from a long list of new HD camcorders and flat panel TVs that Panasonic also introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Panasonic said that it plans to adopt its Viera brand name for all sizes of flat panel displays going forward.The company expects that as consumers in the U.S. begin the countdown to the switch to digital broadcasting, they'll upgrade to new HD TVs. "In this final year before the digital transition, more and more people will approach this new way of living," said Shiro Kitajima, president of Panasonic's consumer electronics business.Users will be able to control those TVs along with their related components through a single remote. Viera Link lets users easily do things like play back photos from an SD card that slides into Panasonic's plasma TVs.Consumers will be able to store more on those SD cards, since Panasonic plans to launch later this month a new 32G-byte HD SD card, one of the largest available. The card will hold five and a half hours of full HD video, Panasonic said.Users of the cards can plug them directly into a new Blu-Ray disk player that Panasonic is introducing at the conference and watch HD footage directly from the card.Panasonic hinted at other announcements to come on Monday, when Panasonic's AVC Networks Company president delivers a keynote address.


Home-grown advantage critical for Cardinals

St. Louis - About all that can salvage this World Series is the last of the cookie cutters. The St. Louis Cardinals are in trouble.


Miliband in trouble over adoption of boy

LONDON: A new row erupted around a British cabinet minister at the weekend amid questions whether he had received preferential treatment to speed up the adoption of a baby boy from the United States.


Microsoft's decision to release a major upgrade for its flagship operating system in the same month that hundreds of thousands of students are reporting to college campuses across the nation is causing a major headache for some universities.


Napoli, l'uomo ha reagito a un tentativo di rapina


A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.


Virginia Madsen: Days of Wine and Chocolate

Virginia Madsen was with two of her best friends at a tasting at Mel & Rose Wines & Spirits, and the three were showing themselves to be quite expert.


That sentiment came after PeopleSoft's board rejected Oracle's latest offer for the company, which amounted to USD24 per share.


DVLA urged to consider number plate recognition

Keeping an eye on vehicle tax evasion An NAO report has said the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) should consider using automatic number plate recognition to estimate the level of vehicle tax evasion.â¦


LOS ANGELES  - Napoleon Dynamite goes   mano a mano with Bad Santa (the characters, not the movies) in   "School for Scoundrels," an inert and muddled mash-up of   romantic comedy and theater of stupid cruelty.


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Five new satellites - and one candidate moon - have been discovered orbiting the giant planet Neptune, bringing its tally of moons to 13.


On a mission to whip herself into shape, Kate Kowalczyk tossed out the junk food and stocked up on her idea of good-for-you staples like yogurt and low-fat cookies.


LAWRENCE -- Seven hundred workers at Malden Mills Industries could go on strike as early as tomorrow after the mill's largest union voted to reject the company's final contract offer.


Bryant, Lakers Strike Back in the Rematch

Kobe Bryant and Gilbert Arenas nearly match each other in points on Saturday, but Bryant's team is simply better in the Lakers' 118-102 win over the Wizards.


Violence in Baghdad Kills at Least 25 Iraqis

A suicide car bomber plowed into a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad after dawn prayers on Friday, killing 14 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.


Trip to Cologne worth the risk of getting mugged or lost

Travelling to a foreign country can be intimidating. There is often a language barrier, different rules and regulations to follow and sometimes a fear of the unknown.


VenerdÃ¬ si fermano i trasporti locali. Rischio caos nelle cittÃ

Ad un anno circa dagli scioperi che a dicembre dello scorso anno paralizzarono le cittÃ  anche con modalitÃ  fuori dalle regole, il settore del trasporto pubblico torna a surriscaldarsi. I sindacati di categoria


A former Israeli chief rabbi causes anger by saying soldiers die in war because they do not observe Jewish law.


Woody Allen takes center stage this week on a glittering and friendly showcase, with the world premier of his latest New York story and a lifetime achievement award at Spain's top film fest.


Supermarkets emerge unscathed after third major inquiry in eight years

Suggested changes to planning law means hundreds of new stores possible, say lobbyists


As part of a new marketing blitz to promote the Xbox 360 as a "family friendly" video game console, Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a new feature called Family Timer, which will let parents limit the number of hours their kids can play the Xbox on a daily or weekly basis.


Senza pregiudicare ricerca intesa con governo e Anas


A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the shimmering embers of a dying star, and in their midst a mysterious doughnut-shaped ring. The dying star is part of a "planetary nebula" called NGC 246. When a star like our own Sun begins to run out of fuel, its core shrinks and heats up, boiling off the star's outer layers.


Soderling beats compatriot Johansson to advance to semis

Robin Soderling of Sweden beat fourth-seeded countryman Joachim Johansson 6-3, 6-4 in a quarterfinal match Friday at the Lyon Open.


Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose ability to finish the Supreme Court's annual term has been in doubt since he revealed in October that he has thyroid cancer, has returned to the court building to work several times since the week of Dec. 20, the court announced Wednesday.


One man dies in a large street fight that also left police officers and paramedics injured in London.


Bangladesh end 19-year wait to win maiden one-day series

Bangladesh clinched their first-ever one-day series as they thrashed Zimbabwe by eight wickets in the fifth and final one-day international here.


McCartney to donate to minefield charity

A charity backed by Paul McCartney and his estranged wife has canceled a fundraising gala after the former Beatle said he would not attend, British newspapers reported.


Sun Microsystems Inc. said Tuesday it will offer remote computing resources to business customers, allowing them to purchase computer time over a network as easily as they buy electricity and water through wires and pipes.


Nel giorno di paga, i poliziotti governativi sono di nuovo tornati nel mirino degli insorti in Iraq, dove l'esplosione di un'autobomba a ovest di Baghdad ha provocato ieri dodici morti e dieci feriti, mentre nella capitale due soldati americani sono stati


Yemen says its forces killed Egyptian bomb plotter

Yemeni security forces have killed an Egyptian who helped mastermind a car bomb suicide attack three days ago which killed nine people, a defense ministry Web site said on Thursday.


The United States, taking direct aim at North Korea's Kim Jong-il, is trying to make it harder for the reclusive leader to acquire such finer things in life as cognac, cigars, jet skis and plasma televisions.


Doctors and patients are travelling to Manchester for tests which a hospital says could be carried out in Bangor.


THE HAGUE Netherlands -- Flames engulfed a mosque in southeastern Netherlands early Saturday, the latest in a string of fires at Muslim institutions since the killing of a Dutch filmmaker who was critical of Islam.


Firefox Nears Final With Feature-Complete Preview

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday launched a version of its stand-alone Firefox browser that incorporates all the features of the final which is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter.


Sales slide for Ford, Chrysler; Nissan jumps

Despite more aggressive discounts, Ford Motor Co.  and Chrysler Group on Tuesday reported lower U.S. sales for June, underscoring the drag on the U.S. auto industry from high gas prices, fierce competition and a weak housing market.


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LOWELL For some people, vinegar exists only as a complement to oil. Try ordering a salad with vinegar, and oil arrives automatically.


June 28, 2005: It's an Office Tower, Yet So Much More Than That

The building that will replace the fallen World Trade Center towers is fraught with symbolism -- and reinforced as hell.


Clean Energy Tries to Clean Up on Wall Street

The company's IPO was underwhelming, but the long-term prospects look promising.


Nato troops in Bosnia arrest an ex-Bosnian Serb policeman suspected of helping an unnamed fugitive war crimes suspect.


Sadr's aide denies entering of Iraqi police into Najaf shrine

BAGHDAD, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- A top aide to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr denied a government announcement that Iraqi police entered Imam Ali shrine in Najaf on Friday, Al-Jazeera TV channel reported.


Vodafone wins India's Hutch Essar, shares rise

BARCELONA/HONG KONG  - Vodafone  shares climbed on Monday after the British mobile phone giant beat rival suitors with an $11.1 billion bid for a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-biggest cellphone firm.


Berezovsky charged with coup plot over Guardian interview

Russia has charged the exiled tycoon and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky with conspiring to seize power on the basis of an interview he gave to the Guardian in April calling for a violent revolution in Russia.


Schools criticise flagship 'light touch' tests

The government's pilot of new school tests designed to lighten the load on stressed-out pupils has been called into question, after seven schools withdrew


Ailing granny faces jail over cannabis crop

A 68-year-old woman faces jail after being found guilty Wednesday of growing and possessing cannabis which she said was for medicinal purposes.


Oil price to fall to below $53 by 2008: World Bank

High global oil prices are likely to ease to $56 a barrel in 2007 and fall further to just below $53 in 2008 as supplies increase and demand growth eases, the World Bank said on Wednesday.


Koivu Says Next NHL Season Also at Risk -- Paper

The prospects of saving the National Hockey League (NHL) season are grim and unless owners and players start talking soon to end a lockout the 2005-2006 season is also at risk, Montreal's Saku Koivu said.


The Securities and Exchange Commission passed rules Tuesday that will require most hedge fund advisers to register with the government within two years, firming up oversight on an industry that has been linked to several high-profile financial blowups.


Two trains collide in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, leaving several people dead, rescue services say.


Warburg to pick up 2.75% in Kotak Mahindra

Kotak Mahindra Bankâs board of directors have approved a decision to issue 33 lakh equity shares, constituting 2.75% of the current paid-up capital of the bank, on a preferential basis to the sub-accounts of Warburg Pincus International, a registered FII


Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was at a dog fight in 2000 and is "one of the heavyweights" in the sport, ESPN reported. The network Sunday cited a police informant whom a dog-fighting investigator called "extremely reliable."


U.S. says 10,000 troops in major Iraq offensive

The U.S. military using attack helicopters, armored fighting vehicles and 10,000 soldiers launched an offensive north of Baghdad on Tuesday in one of the single biggest operations since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.


Intelligence reform bill heads to Senate

Senate passage of an intelligence reform bill is expected Wednesday, with the measure then heading to President Bush for his signature.


House Lawmaker Seeks Data From Makers of Stents and Drugs

The chairman of a House committee asked two medical device companies and three drug makers for documents as part of an investigation.


"Top Gear": a car show loved by men and women alike

Despite its focus on fast cars, testosterone-heavy stunts and laddish banter, car programme "Top Gear", whose presenter Richard Hammond is in hospital after a high-speed car crash, still manages to lure almost as many female as male viewers.


Vera Drake, a middle-aged housecleaner in 1950s London, likes to hum a happy tune while she works. Unfailingly chipper in her frumpy dress and well-worn apron, she tackles each day's tasks with


Uccisi un miliziano e sua moglie.Olmert, guerra continua


Economic Scene: Lessons Even Thomas Could Learn

Companies involved in the recent toy recalls are not simply the unlucky ones that got caught, but are the ones that didnât make effort to keep their toys safe.


Scientists examine corpse of former Russian spy

British scientists will examine the corpse of a former Russian spy on Friday to try to discover when and how he ingested a fatal dose of radioactive material.


Baseball Tax Raises Question of Fairness

Advocates and opponents of a publicly funded baseball stadium in D.C. say there are big inequities in the details of the business tax that Mayor Williams has proposed.


Whole Foods, Wild Oats to challenge FTC lawsuit

Whole Foods Market Inc.  and Wild Oats Markets Inc.  said on Tuesday that they would challenge U.S. anti-competition regulators that plan to file a lawsuit aimed at blocking the supermarket chains' proposed merger.


New iMac rumors growing; new iLife to come as well?

Blog: Momentum is starting to build behind the persistent rumors of new iMacs, and some think Apple will release an updated version of its iLife suite.


How to avoid pitfalls of health care Wi-Fi networks

Oregon provider cautiously implements dependable network amid minefield of security, performance and privacy concerns.


After years of delays, the European Union's head office is likely to recommend that Turkey begin membership talks with the bloc - an endorsement that comes with one key


Beirut car bomb kills anti-Syrian lawmaker

A car bomb killed an anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmaker and at least six other people in Beirut on Wednesday, just six days before parliament was due to elect a new president, security sources said.


The runner-up to Hamid Karzai in historic presidential elections congratulated the Afghan leader Saturday on the formation of his Cabinet, and said he is in the process of forming an opposition political party.


It is believed Lastman suffered the attack on Thursday, but did not check himself into the hospital until Friday, when doctors operated on a blockage and inserted a stent to keep the affected artery open.


Flight Data Recorders Found of 2 Crashed Planes in Russia

Investigators picked through the scattered wreckage today of two Russian passenger jets that crashed nearly simultaneously Tuesday night after leaving Moscow, and reported


Brazil has no nuclear weapons ambitions, Powell says

SAO PAULO -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday he is confident Brazil has no intention of becoming a nuclear power, but he called on the country to work out differences with the UN atomic watchdog agency over inspections.


The Apple faithful awaits Steve Jobs' annual keynote, in which he is expected to unveil new products.


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Vladimir Putin criticises central and local government officials over contentious reforms of Russia's benefits system.


John McEnroe believes Tim Henman can pick up the Â£1million winner's cheque at the Tennis Master Cup in Houston next week. McEnroe, who will be at the Albert Hall for the Masters


THE improbable dream is almost reality. Glenn McGrath, brilliantly leading the charge in his 100th Test, yesterday joined pace partner Jason Gillespie in choking the life out of India's underachieving top order in the third Test.


British PM calls for radical world reforms to reflect rise of Asia

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Monday for the radical reform of world institutions to help meet the new challenges of the 21st century, and take more account of the rise of Asia.


New judge expels defiant Saddam from genocide trial

A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam   Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defense   lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the   chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.


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Soyuz Spacecraft Docks With Space Station

KOROLYOV, Russia Oct. 16, 2004 - A Russian spacecraft ferrying a fresh crew to the international space station had to be docked manually Saturday after an unexplained glitch sent it toward the outpost too quickly.


U.S. "global NATO" plan to get summit thumbs-down

A U.S. plan to forge a network of  partnerships around NATO from Scandinavia to Asia will get the  thumbs-down at a summit next week from members wary of the  alliance going global, diplomats said on Friday.


Turkish police foil bomb attack in capital

Turkish police foiled a bomb attack in Ankara on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of 9/11 attacks on the United States, averting what officials said would have been a disaster for the capital.


Oil prices have been at record highs this year, with money gushing into the coffers of oil producers thanks to the world's growing thirst for oil.


Bill Backs Island Fire Service: Residents Could Create Districts, Raise Taxes, Seek Municipal Coverage

By Dennis Welch, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Feb. 12--There are some areas in Maricopa County where it's not automatic that firefighters will show up promptly after someone calls 911.


Channel 4 blasted over Diana death pictures

Channel 4 was under fire Monday for vowing to screen graphic images of the car crash which killed Diana, princess of Wales.


The UK is withholding Â£50m from the World Bank in protest at the way it fights corruption, ministers say.


IRVING, Texas  -- The Dallas Cowboys released Mike Vanderjagt on Monday, apparently tired of his inability to live up to his reputation as the most accurate kicker in league history. Martin Gramatica was signed as his replacement.


Syd Thrift, who spent nearly 50   years in professional baseball, has died following knee   replacement surgery, officials said Tuesday. He was 77.


Yet Another Royalties Tier for Internet Radio?

While Congress continues to back-burner the debate over whether it's fair for streaming radio services to be charged as much as ten times their revenue in performance royalties, the US Copyright Royalty Board last week met for a roundtable discussion about whether yet another class of royalties that are already part of copyright law, should apply to Internet radio as well.


As the charter bus turned right on to Lizardi Street and descended into this city's crippled Lower Ninth Ward, the lighthearted mood on board turned serious and sobering.


Four reported dead in Montreal college shooting

At least one gunman dressed in a black   trenchcoat opened fire in a downtown Montreal college on   Wednesday, and early reports said four people had died.


Americans Eclipsed as Olympic Superpowers

With the United States suffering its  worst day at the Athens Olympics, China took center stage as  sporting superpowers on a night to remember on the athletics  track.


Family Tragedy Sends Rivera Home to Panama

Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera traveled Sunday to his home in Panama, where two members of his wife's family died in an electrical accident on Saturday.


Robot Salamander May Give Evolution Clues

WASHINGTON -- The first animal to crawl onto land from the ocean probably looked a bit like today's salamander, and researchers have wondered how it was able to switch from swimming to walking. Now, European scientists have built a robot with a primitive electric nervous system that they say mimics...


The latest death toll from the Asian tsunami has risen dramatically to more than 56,000 after Indonesian authorities found mass destruction in the province of Aceh.


The dollar plunged against major currencies on Friday, pulling the rug from under European stocks as the euro soared and sent investors scuttling into selected safe havens.


At least 30 people are arrested during a second night of protests against the Belarus president.


Second suspect held in British prostitute murder probe

A second suspect has been arrested in the investigation into the murder of five prostitutes in the eastern English town of Ipswich, police said.


The government is making it easier for airports that want to replace federal baggage and passenger screeners with privately employed workers, The Associated Press has learned.


Helicopter with eight people crashes near Shillong

A helicopter carrying eight people crashed in the mountains of northeast India on Wednesday, a police officer said.


U.N. refugee agency appeals for $1.06 billion in 2007

The U.N. refugee agency appealed on Friday for $1.06 billion to provide food and shelter next year for millions of people uprooted by persecution and conflict.


Microsoft hires former Disney, GM exec as CIO

Tony Scott, who replaces the CIO fired in November, will run Microsoft's internal IT operations.


In an Ancient Culture, Americaâs Team Takes Root

For the Acoma tribe in New Mexico, the Dallas Cowboys connect a community fighting to maintain ancient traditions while adapting to the modern world.


Roma, 22:45 - ATLETICA, GOLDEN GALA: POWELL VINCE I 100

Miglior prestazione stagionale mondiale per Asafa Powell nei 100 metri al Golden Gala di Roma. Il gi...


Bahamas prepares for battering by Hurricane Jeanne

Schools and churches were opening as emergency shelters yesterday as Hurricane Jeanne bore down on the Bahamas with violent winds and drenching rains, threatening more destruction on islands still recovering from Hurricane Frances


Of late Nana Patekar has done a lot of films about bonding with younger co-starsÂAjay Devgan in


Patente, i punti si riacquistano via internet

Rimini, 12 novembre - L'Automobil Club Italiano Ã¨ pronto a far recuperare i punti della patente in via telematica: lo ha annunciato il presidente dell'Aci, Franco Lucchesi, in occasione del Salone della sicurezza stradale in corso a Rimini.


Wind delays start of play at Solheim Cup

Winds gusting at 40 mph forced Solheim Cup officials to delay the start of play Saturday by more than two hours.


They have names like Wisk, Revok, Panic and Oiler. They work mostly in the dark, often above six lanes of hurtling freeway traffic, and their spray-can creations sometimes last only a day.


T-shirt mystery makes CSI:NY television debut

The founders of a new T-shirt company are hiding clues to an online murder mystery in the graphics of their apparel -- and inspiring an episode of one of television's hot crime shows along the way.


Mosca, 14:39 - CALCIO, PELLIZZOLI AL LOKOMOTIV: MI FA PAURA IL FREDDO

Il portiere Ivan Pellizzoli è passato al Lokomotiv di Mosca ed è impaurito per il gran...


Rangers cut Celtic's lead to a point in Scottish soccer

Striker Nacho Novo scored twice to lead Rangers to a 4-1 victory over Motherwell on Monday, cutting Celtic's lead atop the Scottish Premier League to just one point.


Sun Launches Free Solaris 10 With Tiered Subscriptions

Sun Microsystems formally launched its Solaris 10 operating-system upgrade on Monday as a free, more advanced, multiplatform OS alternative to Red Hat Linux, with backing from new partners such as eGenera and SAP.


President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will seek a new five-year term in a presidential election set for Oct. 6, officials said.


A federal corruption probe can be career-ending for U.S. politicians Â but in Puerto Rico it could help Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila hold onto power by stirring a nationalist backlash.


Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation that would make it illegal to drink beer in public, news reports said Thursday.


PARIS, France -- A superb performance from goalkeeper Fabien Barthez handed France an undeserved 0-0 draw against a brave Ireland in their World Cup qualifier at the Stade de France.


High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens is sued by a lawyer who claims she owes him money.


Black Friday & Barista propagate anti-terrorism

AdlabsÂ Black Friday is all set for a February 9 release. The movie has affiliated with popular coffee-shop chain Barista to propagate the message of anti-terrorism.


Harare, 12:30 - CALCIO, ZIMBABWE: VALINHOS NUOVO CT

E' il brasiliano Jose Claudinel, meglio noto come Valinhos, 60 anni, il nuovo ct dello Zimbabwe. L'o...


By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Dec. 18--Those huge, unsightly billboard ads at Hartford's gateways on I-91 for sex-oriented establishments don't project the wholesome image that the city wants.


Siria e Iran giustificano attacco libanese, Ue condanna


After sitting ringside and officiating more than 150 professional boxing matches, the former Prospect resident and Holy Cross High football player will be on the hot seat tonight at Madison Square Garden when he presides over the IBF heavyweight title


Rumsfeld gets flak for comments to troops

President George W. Bush said Thursday that concerns expressed by US soldiers in Kuwait a day earlier about having inadequately armored vehicles for their missions in Iraq "are being addressed.


It looks like an undeveloped dirt lot in a residential neighborhood, so city officials decided to put a long-awaited four-lane road extension through it.


BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- A coalition of 300 Iraqi tribal leaders on Saturday demanded the release of Saddam Hussein so he could reclaim the presidency and also called for armed resistance against U.S.-led forces.


Air France-KLM ready to invest 9.4 bln dlrs in Alitalia: report

Air France-KLM could invest 6.5 billion euros (9.4 billion dollars) in Alitalia under a takeover plan which would see up to 2,000 jobs cut at the struggling Italian flag-carrier, a report said Friday.


Tiki Barber isn't about to take back negative comments he made recently about his former team, though he did clarify one of his remarks about head coach Tom Coughlin.


Actress Janet Leigh, best known for the shower scene in classic thriller Psycho, dies at the age of 77.


Clues sought in plane crash that killed 4 Ohioans

Kansas City, Mo. - Investigators are inspecting all aspects of the Corporate Airlines twin-engine turboprop that crashed south of Kirksville Regional Airport on Tuesday night, killing 13 of the 15 people aboard, including four Ohioans.


Director Wang Quan'an's "Tuya's Marriage," which follows the troubles of a young farming woman in fast-changing China, won the top Golden Bear award at the annual Berlin film festival on Saturday.


Barcellona, 19:44 - CALCIO, SPAGNA; ETO'O DIFENDE ARAGONES: NON E' RAZZISTA

"Vi posso assicurare che Luis Aragones non Ã¨ un razzista: lo avuto allenatore al Maiorca e per me Ã¨ ...


Girl, 7, Survives 2 Weeks in Guatemalan Jungle

A seven-year-old girl survived  without food for two weeks in the Guatemalan jungle after her  drunk father lost her while in a bar, emergency workers said on  Monday.


Williams to box Klitschko for world title

Britain's Danny Williams is to challenge Vitali Klitschko for his World Boxing Council heavyweight title in the United States in December.


Two Palestinians described as militants are killed in air raids, as Israel expands a big operation in north Gaza.


Ci sono anche dai 13 ai 17 dispersi, dieci dei quali occidentaliTornavano da un rave party sull'isola di Koh Phangan                                                  Thailandia, si capovolge barca morte 8 persone, 5 sono turisti


Falling birthrate prods Italians to go forth, multiply

Trawling through the stores along the Via Garibaldi, Alessandra Tassi is a mamma on a mission, determined to buy her son everything he wants for his fifth birthday.


Airbus expects air passenger traffic to treble in the next two decades, creating global demand for 24,300 aircraft.


A comfy conference lead. A welcome break in the schedule. A grind-it-out victory over one of the league's elite, a victory without your best player. Not a bad way to end a month of January that brought the Celtics back to earth. A little.


They were so good the first time, we had to come back for more.


Two late goals from Arjen Robben and Joe Cole saw Premiership leaders Chelsea win 2-0 away at Fratton Park as Jose Mourinho's expensively-assembled side went eight points clear at the top of the table.


Source: Mortgage financer may be forced to keep up to $31B on hand while it fixes accounting woes. WASHINGTON  - Embattled mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae was close to a deal with regulators late


Soldiers file lawsuit to end tours of duty

Eight soldiers asked a federal court Monday to prevent the Pentagon from requiring them to continue to serve in Iraq under emergency orders that involuntarily extended their tours of duty.


Yo-yo masters try to spin their way to the top at a state championship tourney held Saturday at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco.


Livorno, 19:00 - CALCIO, LIVORNO: TAVANO IN EVIDENZA NEL TEST IN FAMIGLIA

Test in famiglia per il Livorno, con partitella integrata da numerosi elementi della Primavera. In e...


Chart-topping trio Busted annouce their split following Charlie Simpson's decision to leave the band.


Court Says Rights Case Against Pinochet Can Proceed

By Fiona Ortiz SANTIAGO, Chile  - Murder charges against formerChilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a major human rights casecan move forward, an appeals court said in an unprecedentedruling on Monday.


Chris Leak throws for 283 yards and two touchdowns as the fourth-ranked Gators beat struggling Florida State, 21-14, on Saturday.


Police in Britain are to investigate the fate of UK citizens who have been missing since the tsunami in Asia.


Italy steps in to avoid leaning tower of Venice

VENICE, Italy  - One leaning tower is enough for Italy, according to local authorities in Venice who plan to reinforce the foundations of St. Mark's bell tower to stop it falling down.


Dopo dichiarazioni Padoa-Schioppa su fusione con Abertis


America's five-decade trade embargo on Cuba is expected to be far more durable than Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader it was aimed at deposing.


US service personnel at risk of ID theft

Half a million people's records sent unecrypted Personal details of over half a million US service personnel and their relatives may have been compromised by a Pentagon contractor.â¦


Publish and be damned So you are a small business and you buy your PCs from CDW? Need customer support? Why don't you get support from customers instead?â¦


Qantas Airways chief executive Geoff Dixon today said it was time for the airline to move on now its proposed alliance with Air New Zealand had been rejected by the New Zealand High Court.


Almost 70 Israeli soldiers were injured early Tuesday when Palestinian militants hit their base with a Qassam rocket, an Israel Defense Forces Spokeswoman said.


Per via libera definitivo attesi pareri Ue e Antitrust


Blues forward Drake suspended for dangerous hit

St. Louis Blues forward Dallas Drake has been suspended for two games for hitting Detroit Red Wings defenseman Brett Lebda on the head, the NHL announced Friday.


VeriSign hopes to make passwords obsolete

Internet services and security company VeriSign is unveiling a new token it hopes will replace passwords for gaining access to corporate computers.


Sushmita in a legal hassle with 'Morality' police

Sushmita Sen finds herself in a soup as the Madurai branch of the Madras High Court issued a notice to her, earlier this week, over some comments made by her on Âpre-marital sexÂ


Sir Paul McCartney promises no repeat of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" when he plays at the Super Bowl on Sunday.


While President Bush promised Americans that Canadian help was on the way to deal with the US flu-vaccine shortage, US health officials say that's unlikely.


Vulcan Materials to buy Florida Rock for $4.6 billion

Vulcan Materials Co.  on Monday  said it has agreed to acquire Florida Rock Industries Inc.   in a cash and stock deal that values the two  construction materials makers at around $4.6 billion.


Some of the biggest stars in the music world are uniting to record a charity single for tsunami victims.


Irish consumers wising up to phishing scams

Just 4% would give account details New research indicates that online banking users are getting more savvy when it comes to responding to e-mails purporting to come from banks and building societies.â¦


Americans celebrate July 4 with Afghan twist

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan  - Thousands of American troops celebrated their 4th of July independence holiday in Afghanistan on Wednesday, far from home but treated to a feast of hotdogs, burgers, corn on the cob and ice cream.


Giuliani released after overnight hospital stay

Republican presidential candidate  Rudy Giuliani was released from a Missouri hospital on  Thursday, one day after being admitted for flu-like symptoms,  his campaign said.


Stocks Flat as Apple Rises and Wal-Mart Warns

Stocks were flat as Wal-Mart fell on disappointing holiday sales, offsetting a rise by Apple after brokerages raised their price targets.


Business & money: Warning that small economic shock could be enough to cause serious problems.


Photo yields glimpse into Apple's iPhone preparations

Blog: It turns out that Steve Jobs is involved in making even minor decisions about the iPhone's look and feel. Oh, and Apple employees don't get a substantial discount on it either.


Schroder reaffirms support for TurkeyÂ¡Ã¤s bid

The European Commission is expected later this week to recommend EU membership talks with Turkey. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan are anticipating a "positive report.


Reggie Theus signed a three-year deal worth six million dollars to take over as coach of the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings, the team announced.


One man died of suspected bird flu in Vietnam over the weekend and three people were hospitalized as news reports showed the virus has spread across the entire country.


Springsteen urges fans to vote for Kerry during concert

Rock star Bruce Springsteen has urged fans to support "change" by voting for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as he wrapped up a marathon five-hour concert that brought to the US capital more than a dozen performers.


Pakistan Successfully Tests Nuclear Capable Missile, Army Says

Pakistan successfully fired a medium- range ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, as part of series of tests on the missile system, the Army said in a statement in capital Islamabad.


Here or there, he feels like a nowhere man

On Jan. 14, the day the National Hockey League Board of Governors is due to meet in New York, perhaps to set a drop-dead date for the start of the 2004-05 season or perhaps to cancel it, Bruins defenseman Nick Boynton will turn 26. He's in the prime of his professional hockey career and yet he isn't skating.


European champion FC Porto won the Toyota Cup on Sunday, defeating Colombia's Once Caldas 8-7 in a penalty-kick shootout in a game between the top club teams from Europe and South America.


Switzerland stops the auction on eBay of a 4,000-year-old clay tablet, thought to have been smuggled from Iraq.


Iraqi prime minister receives boost from pope and Italian ...

Iraq's interim prime minister made a quick but productive stop in Rome Thursday, receiving Italy's commitment to keep its troops in the US-led


This time Viacom is accused of violating copyright

Indy filmmaker said Viacom used his footage in a TV show and cried foul when the filmmaker responded by posting Viacom's clip featuring his work on YouTube. Is this hypocrisy?


Shoppers swarmed America's malls and stores yesterday, even before the sun rose, to grab early-bird deals on such hot items as flat-screen TVs and DVD players as the US holiday shopping season officially began.


U.S. appeals over diplomat missing in Cyprus

The U.S. embassy in Cyprus issued a public appeal on Sunday for information on the whereabouts of a senior U.S. diplomat who has been missing for three days.


A gunman is wounded in an exchange of fire with security forces outside the US embassy in Sanaa.


"The Spiderwick Chronicles" may not be in the same fantasy league as the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Yet the family flick based on the books of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black is an all-around class act, even if its world of ogres and goblins is a bit stale in the wake of its more ambitious cousins in the over-the-rainbow genre.


WHO: Asia on Track to Halt Polio Spread by Year-End

India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last three Asian countries where polio is endemic, are on track to halt its spread by year-end after halving cases in 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.


Torino, 17:49 - CALCIO, TORINO: COCO IN PRESTITO DALL'INTER

Il Torino ha preso in prestito dall'Inter il difensore Francesco Coco, 30 anni. (Nic. Api) <b...


Germany's Merck to buy Serono for $13.3 bln

FRANKFURT/ZURICH  - German drugmaker Merck KGaA   MRCG.DE unveiled a surprise 16.6-billion-Swiss franc ($13.3   billion) deal to buy Swiss biotech firm Serono on Thursday,   creating a new force in European pharmaceuticals.


Kerry launches new attack on Bush's Iraq policies

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was set to step up attacks on George W. Bush's handling of the Iraq war, as the president prepared to go to the United Nations to unveil new proposals help rebuild the country.


Darfur rebel leader says no truce for talks

Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Tuesday he would carry on fighting during upcoming peace talks until a final settlement is reached to end the conflict in western Sudan.


Chance of recession at least 50 percent: Greenspan

The likelihood of the United States slipping into recession is at least 50 percent, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted as saying on Wednesday, in an interview with a German newspaper.


Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Phil Angelides headed into a debate Saturday hoping to score an upset over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who holds the lead in polls.


Kuwait's $200 billion fund keeps mum on Citi, Merrill

The $200 billion Kuwait Investment  Authority had no immediate comment on Monday on a report it may  buy into Merrill Lynch & Co Inc  and Citigroup Inc  , two U.S. banks hit by credit market losses.


Personalized Stem Cells Created ... for Monkeys

Scientists use cloning to create personalized stem cell lines in monkeys.


Analysis: China's risks in investing in Argentina

China could be Argentina's next best friend, especially at a time when the country is facing more enemies than allies as it is now.


U.S. urges caution in travel to Zimbabwe

The U.S. State Department on Thursday warned U.S. citizens of the risks of going to Zimbabwe where "state-sponsored violence" and a government crackdown have raised security concerns.


Blood thinner less risky for heart patients: study

The blood-thinning drug Angiomax works as well as rival drugs, but with 47 percent less risk of major bleeding, to maintain blood flow in patients who have had a heart attack or severe chest pain, according to study results published on Wednesday.


Differences over trade, energy, human rights and international policy look set to mark the EU-Russia summit.


At least 78 people died after a riot on Monday in Thailand's violence-plagued deep south, a Thai military official said here on Tuesday.


Des Lynam will leave Channel 4's long-running quiz show Countdown at Christmas, his agent confirms.


Sony to launch blu-ray recorder in Japan

CHIBA, Japan  - Sony Corp. said on Tuesday it will   launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in   Japan in December, in time for the peak of the year-end   shopping season but about a month behind rival Matsushita   Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.


The jury in the fraud trial of media baron Conrad Black is set to retire and consider its verdict.


Israel Says It Has No Need to Spy on U.S.

Israel, seeking to contain damage  from a brewing spy scandal in the United States, said on Monday  it already receives all the classified information it needs  from the U.S. government through shared intelligence.


A federal judge on Tuesday ordered  homemaking icon Martha Stewart to report to prison in less than  three weeks to begin serving her five-month jail sentence for  lying about a suspicious stock sale.


Apple's iPod roadmap said to list three new models for '07

Emphasis on video playback? Apple is planning to launch three new iPod designs next year, it has been claimed. The new models include the long-awaited widescreen video-centric iPod and possibly a recently rumoured 16GB Flash-based video player.â¦


Catholic bishop slams 'billions' spent on Iraq war

Britain's most senior Catholic bishop was due to use his Christmas message to criticise the "billions" spent on the war in Iraq, saying the money could have been better used on poverty relief.


Breast cancer patients need less anaesthetic if relaxed by hypnosis before an operation, US research suggests.


Russia's embattled oil giant Yukos raised the white flag and said it would seek "liquidation or bankruptcy" after the forced government sale of its key oilfield next month, the company said yesterday.


Milano, 15:21 - CALCIO, MILAN: ALLENAMENTO CON PARTITELLA PER EMERSON

Il Milan è tornato subito al lavoro a Milanello dopo la vittoria di ieri sul Genoa nella prim...


SANTIAGO, Nov. 22. - Pacific Rim leaders ended their two-day summit late yesterday with a pledge to shore up anti-terrorism defences, reduce disparities among their economies, stamp out corruption and push


By Matt Gryta, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Mar. 8--The attorney for the main suspect in the disappearance of two  elderly Southtowns women complained today about prosecutors using anonymous  "sources" to keep his client jailed on six-figure bail in an unrelated house  burglary.


Bush, Kerry Camps Claim Momentum in Race

The campaigns of Republican  President Bush and Democrat John Kerry both claimed momentum on  Friday amid a mix of polls offering a less-than-clear picture  of the U.S. presidential race.


Pakistan Supreme Court reinstates chief justice

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, saying his March 9 suspension by President Pervez Musharraf was illegal, court officials said.


Hong Kong marks first decade under Chinese rule

Chinese President Hu Jintao swore in Hong Kong's leader for a new term on Sunday and reminded the territory that the motherland comes first, as the city embarked upon its second decade under Beijing's rule.


Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced  a long-term plan for investment in science education and hi-tech industry in his pre-budget report.


Danish police round up foreigners, violence down

Danish police rounded up foreigners  it said had helped fuel a wave of violence that followed the  eviction of activists from a Copenhagen youth center earlier  this week.


New parking rules to be introduced in England will cause "some chaos" and see fines soar, the AA warns.


Il bilancio delle italiane, Roma a parte, Ã¨ ottimo. Juve, Milan e Inter sono prime nei loro gironi ma adesso si deve guardare ai sorteggi e non Ã¨ detto che essere prime questa volta sia un vantaggio. Con


David Beckham would be honoured to help England's 2018 World Cup bid, if asked by the Football Association.


What's new for the PC of 2005? Not much!

Consumers thinking about buying a new personal computer in 2005 might be better off putting off their purchase until 2006. With few major changes in PC hardware or software due over the next year, the PC of 2005 is likely to look awfully similar to the PC of today.


Dogs Trained to Smell Bladder Cancer in Urine

Man's best friend could also be a lifesaver in the fight against cancer. Scientists said Friday dogs can be used to detect bladder cancer by smelling urine.


The European Union said Thursday it will bring the food and advertising industry together with health officials to contain the increasing problem of obesity in Europe, where one out of every four children is obese.


Camp Zama - An American soldier who vanished from his army unit in 1965 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to deserting the military and fleeing to North Korea to avoid dangerous duty on the Korean peninsula and Vietnam.


U.S. new home sales fell more than  expected in July to the their lowest pace since December, as  higher mortgage rates cooled the housing market, a government  report showed on Wednesday.


A Belarus court sentenced a newspaper editor Friday to three years in prison for reprinting a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked worldwide riots when it was initially published in a Danish newspaper.


NHL players to meet; could 'cap' come into favor?

With the NHL lockout now at 48 days, all eyes will focus on Toronto today for the meeting between Players' Association executive director Bob Goodenow and player representatives from all 30 teams.


We will meet India half way, vibes not encouraging: Musharraf

Lahore, Nov 21 (UNI) Dismayed by India's outright rejection of his recent dramatic proposals, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said vibes coming from the neighbouring country are not encouraging but expressed Islamabad's readiness to leave its


Nostalgia Train Ties a Knot in Serb Mountains

MOKRA GORA, Serbia and Montenegro  - The Sargan  Eight train twists gently through the remote green mountain  ridges of deepest Serbia, triggering flashbacks from the fabled  days of Tito's partisan guerrillas.


Oil prices surged to a new high of $47 a barrel on Wednesday on evidence from major economies that energy costs are not substantially slowing the economic growth that fuels oil demand.


Il Nikkei ha concluso la seduta a 17.504 punti


Where Did All Those Susitna Sockeye Salmon Go?

By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  May 27--Aiming to get the most precise sockeye picture yet, a joint state-private effort is taking on the job of accurately gauging the seemingly anemic returns to the Susitna River drainage.


Indonesian ex-leader Suharto's health has shown some improvement but he remains critical, officials say.


Saudi authorities decide to end a ban on unaccompanied women staying in hotels.


Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota underwent surgery on Wednesday, a source said, after suffering what a doctor called "symptoms of a stroke." The actions prompted concerns about his fellow Democrats' razor-thin majority in the incoming Senate.


LONDON -- A former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice" and should be granted a new appeal, a Scottish judicial panel ruled yester day.


Krispy Kreme CEO resigns, chairman named to post

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc  said on Monday that President and Chief Executive Daryl Brewster resigned for personal reasons and will be replaced by Chairman James Morgan.