BAGHDAD, Dec.16 -- Turkish warplanes pounded Kurdish villages deep inside northern Iraq on Sunday, killing one woman and forcing hundreds of villagers to flee their homes in the largest aerial assault from Turkey this year, Iraqi officials said.


Lead poisoning hits 870 people in northwestern China

The number of people stricken with lead poisoning by an unregulated smelting plant in northwestern China has risen to 870, including over 300 children, state press said.


Soddisfatta l'Udc, critica Rifondazione. Ds: cambiare la leggeIl ministro Prestigiacomo: "Scongiurato il Far West"                                          Esplode la rabbia dei radicali "Una sentenza vergogonosa"


Fonterra Takeover Bid "Grossly Inadequate": Nat Foods

Dairy processor National Foods has again called for shareholders to reject the takeover bid of New Zealand dairy giant, Fonterra. The company has told a shareholder meeting in Adelaide the $5.45 a share bid made by Fonterra is grossly inadequate.


Axel Teichmann's strong finish helped Germany win a World Cup cross-country ski relay Sunday.


Google Inc., the world's most popular Web search engine, slashed the price of its share offering Wednesday, as what had been touted as the hottest dot-com listing in years fell prey to worry about a slump in ...


Sudan expelled the country director of Save the Children, accusing the British aid agency of breaching Sudanese law and interfering in domestic affairs, the Humanitarian Affairs Ministry and the agency said on Monday.


Among the earliest Democratic contenders: Wesley Clark, Joe Biden and John Kerry


U.S., Iraqis dispute raid, at least 17 killed

ISHAQI, Iraq  - Iraqi and U.S. officials gave sharply differing accounts of an overnight raid and air strike on Friday in which up to 20 people were killed, with a town mayor accusing American troops of killing five children.


Milano, 19:47 - CALCIO, RONALDO: C'E' INTERESSAMENTO FLAMENGO MA VOGLIO MILAN

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The troubles of Yukos drive up the price


Television gearing up for post-strike return

With a deal taking shape to end a  three-month walkout by Hollywood writers, the strike-hobbled  television industry is scrambling to get back on its feet and  salvage what remains of the broadcast season.


La precisazione del Gip di Bari Giuseppe De Benedictis sul Â«mercenarioÂ» Fabrizio Quattrocchi non spiega nÃ© giustifica alcunchÃ©. PerchÃ© quella sentenza rimane: e dimostra che quando un magistrato agisce


An MP's elderly mother was burgled by a teenager who had committed almost 1,400 other crimes, he says.


There are certain tools that every SEO should have in their toolbox. Here's one of the best, borrowed from the developer's toolbox.


New Lebanese PM to form new cabinet amid US criticism

BEIRUT - Lebanonâs pro-Syria prime minister-elect warned against expecting miracles as he started talks on Friday to form a short-lived cabinet amid criticism from Washington that his appointment showed up Damascusâ âinappropriateâ role.


Israeli soldiers yesterday shot and killed a Hamas militant who the military said was responsible for a rocket attack


It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills — morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves.


US Airways to cut pay by 21 percent; Delta warns it's near ...

A bankruptcy judge granted US Airways authority yesterday to temporarily cut the pay of its union workers by 21 percent, comparing the airline's financial outlook to "a ticking fiscal time bomb.


A federal judge refused to grant bail to a millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their mansion for five years, finding that no conditions would be suitable for house arrest.


Oil prices fell 23 cents to $46.35 a barrel after Venezuelan Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum, appeasing worried energy markets.


Il provvedimento della magistratura riguarda l'intera area


BBC Sport looks ahead to the next round of matches


The NBA suspended Milwaukee Bucks forward Marcus Fizer on Tuesday for one game following his guilty plea on a gun charge.


Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten.


Romney facing challenges in presidential bid

In a topsy-turvy Republican race for the 2008 presidential nomination, conservative favorite Mitt Romney suddenly found himself under threat in the key states of Iowa and New Hampshire on Monday, less than two weeks before voting begins.


Cowell Hopes for Single for Tsunami Relief

"American Idol" judge Simon Cowell said Friday he is working with Sharon Osbourne on producing a single to raise money for tsunami relief.


IBM says its supercomputer is world's fastest

[New York | Reuters News Service, 30 September 2004] - IBM said yesterday that it has developed the world's fastest computer, putting it back on top after a Japanese supercomputer claimed the title two years ago.


HP Takes a Minor Hit During Holiday Quarter

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Heathrow airport ready to welcome Airbus "superjumbo"

London's Heathrow airport is spending 450 million pounds (643 million euros, 842 million dollars) to accommodate new Airbus A380 planes, the first of which was set to roll out of its hangar.


Gourmet coffee guru Alfred Peet dead at 87

Coffee legend Alfred Peet, creator  of Peet's Coffee & Tea Inc., a forerunner to Starbucks Corp.,  has died at his home in Ashland, Oregon, his company said. He  was 87.


Several proposals are under consideration that should produce a lively floor fight.


Mission to Study 'Fast and Furious' Solar Flares

Solar flares are tremendous explosions on the surface of our Sun, releasing as much energy as a billion megatons of TNT in the form of radiation, high energy particles and magnetic fields.


Salonicco, 22:29 - CALCIO, GRECIA: TIFOSI ASSALTANO SEDE IRAKLIS

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A New Start For The Palestinian People Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of ...

Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation was on course last night for a landslide victory, fuelling hopes that his presidency will mark the beginning of the end of more than four ...


Fewer Americans filed jobless claims  last week and growth in worker productivity slowed sharply in  the third quarter, government data showed on Thursday, hinting  that conditions in the sluggish U.S. labor market have  improved.


Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler - Divorced

The on-again and off-again relationship between former MTV reality show couple Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler is off again â this time for good, he tells PEOPLE.  "No, I'm no longer with her," Barker told PEOPLE over the weekend at the 5th annual R...


Russian police clash with protesters in Ingushetia

Russian riot police fired  warning shots into the air and beat demonstrators who tried to  rally on Saturday against alleged vote-rigging in the Muslim  region of Ingushetia, a witness said.


Putin Says Russia Working on New Nuclear Systems

Russia is working on new nuclear missile systems that other powers do not have in order to protect itself against future security challenges, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.


Mount Asama, one of Japan's largest and most active volcanoes, spewed gray smoke nearly a mile into the air Wednesday as it erupted for the second straight day.


Rangers slipped seven points behind bitter rivals and Scottish Premier League leaders Celtic as they were held to a bruising 0-0 draw by Hearts at Tynecastle.


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London - Oil prices climbed on Thursday, reversing some of the losses seen late the previous day as disruption to production in the Gulf of Mexico continued due to Hurricane Ivan.


'Radical rethinking' of Internet routing under way

(InfoWorld) - Some of the world's top network engineers are engaged in a research effort that could lead to the most radical redesign of the Internet's underlying routing architecture since it was developed in the 1980s. The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) is searching for a new routing architecture that would improve the Internet's ability to scale to support potentially billions of new users in developing countries. The IRTF is a sister organization of the Internet Engineering Task Force, one of the Internet's leading standards bodies. Under debate by the IRTF is how the Internet's backbone routers operate. Owned by carriers and some large corporations and government agencies, these backbone routers run the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to exchange routing information across the many interconnected networks that form the Internet. The BGP routing table is a master list of network destinations that is stored in backbone routers and is used to determine the best available path from one network to another. Experts are worried about explosive growth in the BGP routing table, which is straining the processing and memory requirements of the Internet's core routers. Why BGP growth matters BGP routing table growth is significant because it drives up carrier costs, experts say. "What CIOs really care about is the cost of their Internet connections, and if the cost of the service providers goes up because the routing table becomes unwieldy, that will lead to incremental costs for everybody," says Tony Li, co-chair of the IRTF's Routing Research Group. "We're interested in avoiding that scenario." Slowing routing table growth would provide other benefits to enterprise network operators, too. It would make it easier to split network traffic over multiple carriers in a process called multihoming. "One of the major causes of routing table growth is due to the pervasive practice of site multihoming," says Lixia Zhang, co-chair of the Routing Research Group. "Multihoming substantially increases the number of global routing table entries, and the Routing Research Group is working toward decoupling multihoming from the global routing table growth." Zhang says another benefit will be easier renumbering of networks when enterprises switch carriers. "One of our design goals is to eliminate the need for corporations to renumber their networks when they change providers," she adds. "Renumbering is considered a very expensive and complex process." Seeking a new router architecture The IRTF's Routing Research Group has existed for many years, but it was rechartered six months ago to look at future routing architectures. As a sign of how serious it was about revitalizing its Routing Research Group, the IRTF in February replaced former chair, Swedish professor Avri Doria, with two high-profile experts: uber router designer Tony Li, who has worked at Cisco, Juniper and Procket and is now back at Cisco; and Lixia Zhang, a computer science professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Since the Routing Research Group was revitalized, dozens of network engineers and researchers from around the world have participated in its thrice-annual meetings and online discussions. Among the network equipment vendors and service providers involved in the debate are Cisco, Juniper, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, AT&T, BT and Arbor Networks. "The new focus of the working group is to work on a possible routing architecture that includes new ways of addressing, new ways of doing routing for the global Internet," Li says. "The IP address has both the identification of the node and the location of the node. The question becomes: Can we separate the identification from the locator semantics, and can we still run an Internet with that kind of architecture?" The IRTF's Routing Research Group is "the most radical rethinking of routing ever," says Geoff Huston, a BGP routing table expert and chief scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre in Brisbane, Australia. "Routing and addressing are entirely connected concepts. They're joined at the hip. We did a significant rethinking about addressing when we adopted IPv6 [an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, IPv4]. Now some of those ideas are resurfacing inside routing. We're looking at why we are routing and what we are doing." Huston says the IRTF's Routing Research Group is considering making "a very, very big change for the architecture of routers. It has massive effects on the assumptions made in many applications." Routing table growth The IRTF's Routing Research Group is seeking new solutions to an old problem: BGP routing table growth. Internet experts have known for years that explosive growth in the size of the BGP routing tables was a problem. It was a hot topic in 2001, but interest cooled when the dot-com bust resulted in a slowdown in the BGP routing table. The BGP routing table size has ramped up again rapidly in the last two years, and the issue has come to the forefront once again. Today, the BGP routing table has around 240,000 routes, up from 195,000 a year ago and 100,000 six years ago. "The trend over the last year and a half has been exponential growth," says Huston, who tracks BGP table growth for the Internet engineering community. Huston says some older routers could fail when the routing table tops 244,000 entries. "One of the deployed pieces of hardware out there has a configured upper limit in the content-addressable memory of 244,000 routes before it has a major problem," Huston says. "We are at the point where some of the deployed hardware is hitting its limits." Growth in the BGP routing tables is tied to the number of corporations multihoming their networks as well as the number of service providers peering with others. No one polices the BGP routing table. Any company can add a route to the routing table without paying extra for it, and everyone else in the backbone network has to carry the route at their own expense. Huston says continued exponential growth in the routing table will shorten the life cycle of routers and increase their footprint, cost and power requirements. The unit cost of routing could get higher as routers get bigger, he says. "What if a router two times the size was four times the price?" Huston asks. "Then everything we've ever thought about routing changes." John Scudder, a participant in the IRTF group and a distinguished engineer with Juniper, says he is confident that router manufacturers will be able to support exponential growth in the BGP routing table for at least five years. "Hardware that's on the leading edge of our product line and going forward is pretty well positioned to handle forwarding table growth," Scudder says. "The Juniper MX 960 and MX120 have the ability today to handle a million routes. ... Going forward, the chips available now can scale up to 10 million." Scudder adds that the IETF has "quite a few tricks up our sleeves to make the BGP protocol even more scalable than it is today. And the nice thing is that this is incrementally deployable." Still, Scudder admits that the BGP routing table is worrisome. "Any time you see a growth curve is accelerating, it makes every engineer worried," he says. "I think we will be able to continue to keep pace with it as long as we don't take our eye off the ball." Leading proposals emerge The IRTF's Routing Research Group is in the early stages of its research, and it is still soliciting proposals from academic and corporate researchers for alternative routing architectures. So far, two proposals have generated the most interest: -- Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), which was created by a group of Cisco engineers led by Dino Farinacci. LISP outlines a technique for separating Internet addresses into endpoint identfiers and routing locators. This design introduces the concept of tunnel routers, which add LISP headers to packets and strip the headers prior to final delivery. This approach reduces routing table size by cutting the number of globally visible routable prefixes. -- Six/One, which was created by Christian Vogt at Ericsson, offers an alternative approach to multihoming that was designed for IPv6 networks. With Six/One, enterprises would have provider-dependent IP addresses from each of their service providers, and hosts use addressing spaces from all providers interchangeably. The host addresses differ only in their high order bits, which enables an edge network or a provider to change the address in a packet on the fly depending on the provider to which the packet is routed. Neither proposal is a sure thing. The group is "very much in the discovery phase." says Tony Li, co-chair of the Routing Research Group. "We heard numerous proposals from various different researchers and engineers. We have, in my mind, a few proposals on the table, but those are still very much in the process of going from a framework to a more fleshed-out proposal." It's possible the Routing Research Group will recommend scrapping BGP altogether. "What we're trying to do is look at the fundamental routing architecture and make appropriate changes to that," Zhang says. "Once we've decided what the new routing architecture should look like, we can examine whether BGP may also require changes and what the changes may be." Huston says any change to BGP will be significant. "BGP exists on hundreds of thousands of routers out there, and changing BGP is not something that is going to be done lightly," Huston says. That's why Huston recommends keeping BGP but tweaking it so that it carries different, preferably less, information. "Maybe BGP won't carry the entire noise of the Internet and all the destinations, but instead it may carry a much smaller set of visible landmarks," he says. Leaders of the IRTF's Routing Research Group hope participants will agree on a solution within two or three years. "We don't know if there's a successful workable solution," Li says. "Until we discover one, it's an open-ended process." Any solution that the Routing Research Group comes up with is at least five years away from commercial availability, experts agree. "To expect anything deployed in the near future would be unlikely," Huston says. "This is quite deep research, and it's going to take quite a long time." Li and Zhang say they are cautiously optimistic about the group's ability to solve the routing table growth problem. They agree that whatever solution they come up with must be incrementally deployable and transparent to end users. "It is possible to make a significant change on the routing architecture, with very little disturbance in the currently deployed user base," Zhang says. If the Routing Research Group is unsuccessful, the Internet's backbone routers won't crash, experts say. But they will become increasingly expensive to run. Routing table growth is "not going to cause things to stop. It's just going to increase the pain level for certain people," Li says. If the routing table growth ever outstrips the ability of computer hardware to improve to handle it, "then the costs will start to get very ugly, very quickly," he adds. The Routing Research Group will hold its next meeting in December in Vancouver, British Columbia. The group is "only going to be significant if we do indeed have a deployable solution and it does get deployed," Li says. "If we're unsuccessful, then the group is irrelevant."


Wall Street futures lower ahead of Fed meeting

Stock markets looked set to open lower on Tuesday, with futures on all three main indexes in the red ahead of the start of the Federal Reserve's two-day monetary policy committee (FOMC) meeting.


Rwandan companies using the country's famous mountain gorillas' image for marketing purposes will have to pay a tax aimed at financing the endangered species protection, officials announced Monday.


Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL) said today that the outlook for the company was positive due to a major supply agreement for its Brisbane plant and a possible overseas joint venture.


Bombs kill 133 in Baghdad, curfew imposed

Six car bombs killed 133 people in a Shi'ite stronghold in Baghdad on Thursday, one of the most devastating attacks since the U.S. invasion and likely to inflame sectarian passions in a nation sliding toward civil war.


US Forces Overrun Baghdad's Sadr City District, Reuters Says

Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- US forces with tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles have overrun Baghdad's Sadr city district, where coalition troops have repeatedly clashed with insurgents since last year's invasion, Reuters reported today, citing witnesses.


PA condemns US support for settlement expansion

The Palestinian Authority on Sunday reacted with shock and disbelief to reports that the US will now tacitly support construction in major settlements in the West Bank and warned that the shift in American policy would destroy the peace process in the


Pop singer and American Idol judge Paula Abdul wants to adopt a child with her boyfriend J.T. Torregiani.


350 tonnes of explosives looted in Iraq: UN

UNITED NATIONS - Hundreds of tonnes of high explosives are missing and probably looted from a former Iraqi military facility, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday.


More states stir against ease of 'no fault' divorce

Dissolving troubled marriages is becoming a prominent topic of public discussion and political activity.


Fifa boss Sepp Blatter warns that financial corruption in football is making the job of the referee harder than ever.


Bush Seeks Funds for Abstinence Education

President Bush's re-election insures that more federal money will flow to abstinence education that precludes discussion of birth control, even as the administration awaits evidence that the approach gets kids to refrain from sex.


Review: Tiny projector offers great portability

At less than two pounds even with the battery pack, the Toshiba unit impressed PC World's reviewer with its versatility and overall performance. It's optimal for a small meeting of up to three people.


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Dolphins compound South Florida's misery

The tailgate parties smelled better than ever, perhaps a result of so much recent propane grill practice time by powerless people.


JAKARTA - Indonesians have begun voting in a historic presidential ballot. It will mark the first direct election of a president in the world's largest Muslim nation.


Spanish energy sector lit by power battles

The Spanish energy sector, the scene of clashes between political and corporate forces in the last 12 months, was the scene of more titanic stake-building moves.


Basques set up battle with Madrid for independence

The Basque parliament approved a plan for negotiated independence from Spain last night, thanks to three surprise votes from MPs belonging to a banned separatist party sympathetic to Eta.


U.S. to push for Iran sanctions despite EU talks

The United States said on Monday it   still aimed to seek U.N. sanctions against Iran over its   disputed nuclear program this month despite Iranian hints of   readiness to compromise in talks with Europe.


US Airways Group has given its pilots about one week to negotiate a contract yielding up to $295 million a year in wage and benefit concessions, the union said Tuesday, or the airline could ask a bankruptcy judge to impose such terms.


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Yankee fans forced to face harsh reality

NEW YORK - They clung to hope that the Red Sox would choke at the last minute and once again fail to win the World Series, but when it didn't happen, some Yankees fans yesterday begrudgingly gave the Sox their due.


Larijani, Solana meeting in Berlin Wednesday: Iran

European Union foreign policy chief   Javier Solana and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator were due to   meet in Berlin on Wednesday for talks aimed at resolving the   dispute over Iran's nuclear program, the Iranian embassy said.


No Picky Eaters Among Successful Argentine Ants

Researchers have uncovered one secret to the Argentine antâs success at invading new territory: dietary flexibility.


LONDON -- The British government offered a sweeping plan yesterday for the Group of Seven nations to dramatically increase aid to the developing world and to forgive 100 percent of Africa's $70 billion in debt.


Ed Finkler has pointed out a handy resource for those trying to cope with using the UTF-8 support included in several of PHP's functions - this page on the Web Application Component Toolkit wiki.   This page is intended as a reference for functionality PHP provides which can either help with handling UTF-8 or should be regarded as a risk when used in conjunction with UTF-8 encoded strings. Further information can be found on the Internationalization (I18N) and Character Sets / Character Encoding Issues pages.   It talks about the "dangerous" functionality PHP has (issues that the language has in current functions) when using things like the PCRE extension, the string extension, the array methods, handling variables, the XML extensions (DOM and SAX), image manipulation, and URL parsing functionality.


Haze From Western Fires Cloaks Peak ; Official Says Smoke Too High to Affect Health

By R. SCOTT RAPPOLD THE GAZETTE  A murky pall hovered over the Pikes Peak region Wednesday, caused by smoke from dozens of wildfires burning more than 600 miles away.


Humax USA in its partnership with TiVo are introducting the new Humax DRT800 DVD recorder with TiVo service. For $399 (after $100 rebate), the Humax DVD recorder with TiVo is available from nationwide retailers


Retailer Macy's Inc  said on Friday it signed an accord with Tommy Hilfiger USA Inc to be the exclusive U.S. department store retailer of the design company's men's and women's sportswear, starting in fall 2008.


India captain Anil Kumble becomes the third bowler to take 600 Test wickets.


Wall Street rebounds at open as bargains eyed

Stocks rebounded at the market open on Wednesday, helped by a pullback in the yen and a search for beaten-down shares, a day after Wall Street suffered its worst slide in three weeks.


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Best Buy profit disappoints, shares fall

Best Buy Co. Inc.  reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday as the consumer electronics retailer cut prices on flat-panel TVs to boost sales at the start of the holiday shopping season, sending its shares down 5 percent.


A row over whether only cheese made in Greece can be labelled as feta reaches the European Court of Justice.


Google unveiled a desktop search agent yesterday that lets users find any information stored on their computer, including visited Web pages, files and e-mail as well as instant messages.


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Samsung Introduces First 5-Megapixel Camera Phone

Samsung is turning up the heat in the mobile camera phone market with the introduction of the world's first mobile phone with a 5-megapixel camera onboard.


Tony Winner 'Def Poetry Jam' Gears Up for 51-City U.S. Tour

Playbill - Def Poetry Jam, the unique theatrical production of slam-style poetry which won a Tony Award for its Broadway engagement, is launching a new national tour which will take it to 51 cities.


Burton's "Nightmare" spurs digital 3-D growth

"Tim Burton's The  Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D" changed it all.


Pentagon Scrubs Missile-Defense Flight Test

The first flight test in nearly two  years of a planned U.S. missile-defense shield has been  scrapped two days in a row this week because of bad weather,  the Pentagon said on Friday.


Montgomerie Earns Ryder Cup Wild Card as Europe Team Completed

Colin Montgomerie and Luke Donald were picked as wild-card entrants as Europe's 12-man Ryder Cup golf team was completed. Englishmen Ian Poulter, Paul Casey and David Howell qualified to face the US for the first time.


In healthy Indian job market, developers want it all

BANGALORE, INDIA -- As hiring picks up in Bangalore, India, the city's software professionals are again acquiring the spoiled-brat image they had in the late 1990s, when the dot-com boom increased staff requirements at Indian outsourcing companies.


Analyst Charles Wolf says Apple Computer inc. is on a roll and has bumped up target prices for the company's stock. He also predicted the company could have more than 8% of the worldwide PC market by 2016.


Testy Sea Hinders Response to Alaskan Spill

Capt. Kevin Bell, like others who were on the scene of the monster Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, can still remember it all in haunting detail, 15 years


The US Senate easily gave final congressional approval on Monday to a huge corporate tax bill that aims to end a trade fight with the European Union by repealing US export


NEC goes Back To The Future with XP for biz users

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TechWeb - Boutique services company MozSource now offers e-mail technical support services for the Mozilla Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client.


Bush, Kerry rev up for campaign face-off

It's a classic pre-debate dance, maybe as important as the matchup itself: lower expectations for your candidate's performance and jab the other guy while you're at it.


Caminiti's kindness and struggles remembered

There was a small yellow ribbon next to the red star on Craig Biggio's Houston Astros cap Monday night and a distressed look beneath its brim.


Gunmen Attack Armenian, Chaldean Churches in Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq  - Gunmen attacked two churches in the  tense northern Iraqi city of Mosul Tuesday, in the latest  violence directed against one of Iraq's several religious and  ethnic groups, witnesses said.


By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 15--The Intercessors and Prayer Warrior Network will hold a meeting to discuss developing a 24-hour prayer line for Weld County. All churches are welcome, 9 a.m., Saturday, at the Golden Corral Buffet and Grill, 3035 S. 23rd Ave., Greeley.


Pictures Reveal Mercuryâs Tumultuous Past

The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planetâs turbulent past.


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AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Technology Briefs Column

By AME Info, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  Sep. 5--OFF-PEAK RATES TO INDIA: Etisalat has cut rates for calls from  the UAE to India until 7am Wednesday. All calls will be charged out at  off-peak rates. The special offer marks today's festival of Onam, which is  celebrated by Malayalees.


Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod digital music players are in short supply at US retailers including Amazon.com Inc. and Best Buy Co.


OMAHA, Neb. -- Longtime friends Dave Serrano and George Horton shared an embrace moments after UC Irvine had beaten Cal State Fullerton 5-4 in the longest game in College World Series history Monday.


Business & money: Johnson Cleaners company says consumers appear to be getting clothes cleaned less frequently since ban


Leading hardware and software firms join a campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from computers by cutting energy use.


Congressional Democrats are spoiling for their second veto fight of the spring with President Bush, this one centered on embryonic stem cell research and its disease-fighting potential.


Strauss rejuvenated and back in form after break

Sport: England opener says missing international one-day matches allowed him to come back refreshed.


No a risoluzione politica estera:158 si' ne servivano 160


The number of children dying from abuse could be much higher than previously thought, the NSPCC says.


Travelers can expect full flights and crowded highways during the New Year's holiday as two airlines continue to recover from a troubled Christmas weekend that left thousands of people stranded or without their bags.


Comitato per la difesa del Made in Italy si rivolge all'Ue


Global cooperation needed in 3 areas to fight infectious diseases ...

SINGAPORE: Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has outlined three areas of global cooperation in dealing with international public health emergencies such as the current bird flu outbreak.


Sony Cuts Price of PlayStation 3 to $410

TOKYO -- Sony Corp. said Friday it will slash the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console in Japan by 20 percent, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.


Growth slows, prices up in second quarter

U.S. economic growth slowed abruptly  during the second quarter to less than half the pace seen at  the beginning of the year, while a key gauge of inflation  accelerated, the Commerce Department said on Friday.


Trentamila metri quadrati per la 91/ma edizione


Tory leader Michael Howard says a Spectator article claiming Liverpudlians "wallow in their victim status" is nonsense.


Dave Purpura knew he always wanted to be a farmer. But when the time came for him to make good on his dream and begin growing organic produce on five acres in Middleborough, he jumped in without fully understanding the business.


Moneta unica scambiata a quota 1,3657 sul biglietto verde


Health Insurance Costs Rise Faster Than Wages

Health insurance premiums for workers are rising around three times faster than their wages, and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings


In a historic first visit to Iran, Russian President Putin affirmed support for Tehran's nuclear program and rebuffed any militarization in the Caspian region.


Top Court Upholds Visa, MasterCard Ruling

The Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that the Visa and MasterCard credit card networks violated federal antitrust law by barring their member banks from issuing credit and charge cards on the rival networks of American


NEW YORK: Nearly half of US Internet users say they could not go without the Web for more than two weeks, with many suffering "withdrawal" symptoms while offline, according to a recent survey.


Australia Warns of Possible Indonesia Hotel Attack

Australia said on Wednesday a terrorist attack could be carried out soon in Indonesia, possibly targeting Western establishments such as a Hilton hotel in the world's most populous Muslim nation.


Interest rate rise by China has West confused

CHINA has raised its interest rates for the first time in nine years to curb inflation and stop its fast-growing economy overheating.


Microsoft Corp  lifted its full-year forecasts and posted 23 percent quarterly profit growth on Thursday, topping analysts' estimates on strong sales of "Halo 3" and Vista, and sending its shares up 11 percent.


An outbreak of equine influenza  hits Australia's horse-racing industry, causing meetings to be cancelled.


Clinton, Obama Split Wins in Biggest Primaries Day

Bloomberg - Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split victories as voters yesterday took part in the biggest day of voting in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.


United fans jailed after clashes in Rome

Four Manchester United fans who fought with Roma supporters during the teams' Champions League match in Italy have been jailed, according to reports


North Korea talks - now comes the hard part

After securing the shutdown of a North Korean nuclear reactor, negotiators flying into Beijing on Tuesday face the much harder task of coaxing Pyongyang to give up a trove of atomic secrets long guarded as vital for its survival.


Mitchell tipped for Booker as first-timers fail to make grade

Three literary heavyweights dominated the shortlist for the Â£50,000 Man Booker Prize yesterday, with all except one of the women and one of the first-time novelists on the long list failing to make the grade.


CIA leak jury debate moves into 2nd week

A jury is moving into its second week of debate on whether former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby obstructed the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative married to a prominent Iraq war critic.


High lipoprotein ups heart risk in women

NEW YORK  - Very high levels of   lipoprotein(a), measured by a state-of-the-art assay, are   independently associated with an increased risk of   cardiovascular events in healthy women, Boston-based   investigators report.


Venezuela TV shutdown sparks criticism of Chavez

Venezuela's replacement of an opposition television station on Monday with a state network promoting President Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution drew sharp criticism that the former soldier is attacking democratic freedoms.


Baseball and Players Donate to Tsunami Aid

Major league baseball's 30 teams and the players' association will combine to donate $1 million to tsunami relief efforts.


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New Hannibal Lecter Novel Coming Next Fall

Readers hungry for a good thriller can get ready to welcome an old friend: A new Hannibal Lecter novel, "Behind the Mask," is coming next fall.


OCTOBER 22, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Yahoo Inc. has snapped up privately held software company Stata Labs, which develops technology allowing users to quickly search through e-mail and attachments.


Barcellona, 12:23 - CALCIO, BARCELLONA: DECO LA CHIAVE PER ARRIVARE A LAMPARD

Sarebbe Deco la pedina di scambio con cui il Barcellona intende arrivare a Frank Lampard. Deco &egra...


ASIA/BANGLADESH - Per salvare il paese dalla crisi istituzionale, il Nobel per la pace Yunus annuncia la fondazione di un nuovo partito politico Dacca (Agenzia Fides) - Il paese versa in uno stallo politico che vede due fazioni fronteggiarsi e perdere di vista il bene della popolazione: per questo Mohammed Yunus, lÂeconomista che ha inventato il microcredito, premiato con il Nobel per la Pace...


Capoluogo lombardo batte Firenze e Venezia


A vehicle carrying a group of suspected Taliban fighters attacked a military checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, sparking a firefight that left six dead and at least four wounded, police said Monday.


Fourteen people arrested on suspicion of trying to free a convicted al-Qaeda militant are released after 24 hours.


Some of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's aides will go on trial next week, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Tuesday.


Sports Briefing | College Football: Arkansas Suspends Defensive End

Arkansas defensive end Marcus Harrison was suspended indefinitely after being arrested Friday night in Fayetteville on a felony drug charge and several misdemeanors. He was also charged with failure to appear for a court date in another case.Coach Houston Nutt said in a statement yesterday that Harrison, a 23-year-old senior, had violated team rules and would not play in the No. 21 Razorbacksâ season opener against Troy on Sept. 1.


Mortgage giant Freddie Mac is shutting down some operations of its debt-securities sales division and transferring others -- moves that experts said should tighten the company's internal controls after an accounting scandal.


A government panel recommended that prices be set for greenhouse gas emissions.


Google's path to greatness will be more than a one-way-search street.


A 49-year-old man is remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Gerard Devlin.


Virtual Network Partners Chooses Endeavors Technologies Application Streaming Solution

IRVINE, Calif., June 26  /PRNewswire/ -- Endeavors Technologies Inc., the pioneer in application streaming, today announced a pan-European distribution agreement with Virtual Network Partners, a leading player in the market for integrated virtualization.


Olympics: New Doping Scandal, Judging Scandals at Games

Japan's Mizuki Nogushi won the first Olympic marathon raced from the historic site in 108 years on Sunday, but for Britain the race turned into heartbreak as its top runner quit in tears.


Thousands of opponents of Thailand's military government clash with police in the capital Bangkok.


Linebacker Marcus Washington, who has 110 tackles this season, is the only Redskin heading to the Pro Bow, the NFL's all-star game Feb. 13 in Honolulu.


Abortion Questions Fail to Dim Thompson's Conservative Luster

The 2 1/2 -minute video of Fred D. Thompson that played at the National Right to Life Committee's annual meeting last month dazzled the group, as the former senator talked about "the most important thing of all in this world -- and that is life."


L'accordo tra le due societÃ , leader nell'occhialeria, verrÃ  perfezionato entro il 2007L'azienda statunitense Ã¨ un marchio di punta nel segmento sportivo e lifestyle                                            Luxottica acquista la statunitense Oakley Prezzo pattuito 2,1 miliardi di dollari                                                                                La Borsa premia subito il titolo del gruppo italiano


The wireless company abandoned its legal challenge of F.C.C. rules for its auction of radio spectrum, removing a potential obstacle to the much-anticipated sale.


Microsoft: Google may not be the answer for poor nations

What struck Microsoft executive Marshall Phelps at a recent series of conferences in developing nations was that government, business and academic leaders often asked him, "How can we invent the next Google?"


Two rockets found near Pakistani parliament

Pakistani police found two rockets and launchers on Thursday near parliament house in the capital Islamabad, a day after a blast in a park near President Pervez Musharraf's residence in an adjoining city.


After a series of crash landings caused by landing gear malfunctions, Scandinavian Airlines said it would pull all Bombardier Q400 turboprops from its fleet.


Help from US Congress for housing credit crisis?

Capitol Hill weighs fixes to lending industry, but divergent views on market regulation may limit results.


Fatti concreti o nuove azioni di protesta prossime settimane


The West Indies won the Champions Trophy in a thrilling victory over England at the Oval on Saturday. England were bowled out for just 217 in good bowling conditions, even though Marcus Trescothick got 104.


The show goes on after Snow Patrol keyboard player Tom Simpson is released from police custody.


Man Sentenced for Releasing Computer Worm

A teenager was sentenced Friday to 1 1/2 years in prison for unleashing an Internet worm that crippled 48,000 computers in 2003.


Toyota, Partner to Invest $461 Mln in China Venture

Toyota Motor Corp., Asia's largest carmaker, will invest 3.8 billion yuan ($461 million) with its partner Guangzhou Automobile Group to boost capacity in China and catch up with rivals with established car plants in the country.


Profit at Coke Jumps 79%, Helped by Exchange Rate

The worldâs largest soft drink maker reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by higher sales, acquisitions and foreign exchange rates.


Ashlee Simpson Takes 'SNL' Lip Sync Blame

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Ashlee Simpson is reportedly taking  the heat for deciding to lip-sync during a performance on NBC's  "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend, a plan that backfired  when the vocals to the wrong song were audible during her  second appearance.


Ceti medi sempre piÃ¹ poveri Non si riesce a risparmiare

Roma, 4 novembre 2004 - Se arrivare a fine mese Ã¨ difficile per molti, mettere dei risparmi da parte Ã¨ quasi un miraggio per la maggior parte delle famiglie italiane. E tra i pochi che hanno la possibilitÃ


"Rocky" may move to Philadelphia Art Museum steps

A statue of fictional boxer Rocky   Balboa may move to the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum,   where the character played by Sylvester Stallone famously ran   while training for a fight.


Wal-Mart to offer low-cost Linux notebooks online

Wal-Mart, through Walmart.com, its online vehicle, has charged into the Linux-based notebook market with its US$498 Balance laptop, which runs the Linspire operating system.


THE REPORT: Doctors are reporting that a new breast cancer drug, Arimidex, and others in its class outperform the tried-and-true tamoxifen at preventing recurrence in older women.


HBN, HAVANA, Cuba, Mon. Nov. 8: Cuban President, Fidel Castro, received a surprise visit from his friend, Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias.


Taliban kidnap 23 Koreans from Afghan bus: official

Taliban insurgents have kidnapped 23 Korean Christians from a bus in Afghanistan, officials said on Friday, the biggest group of foreigners seized so far in the militant campaign to oust the government and its Western backers.


Cleaning up Washington's 'Iraqi problem': invest authority in ...

Is there a "Sunni problem" in Iraq, as the United States would like us to believe? If there is, it is entirely of Washington's making.


Egyptian to Appeal Dismissal of Damage Claims

An Egyptian man jailed after the Sept.  11, 2001, attacks on suspicion of having an aviation radio in  his New York hotel room will appeal the dismissal of his damage  claims against the hotel and an FBI agent, his lawyer said on  Wednesday.


European MPs adopt damning report on secret CIA flights

The European parliament has approved a damning report that criticised member states for turning a "blind eye" to secret CIA flights used to transport terror suspects.


ICANN grills domain-hogging Network Solutions

Who's the front runner here? Is Network Solutions attempting to reinvent reality? ICANN's looking into it.â¦


Baghdad's most notorious prisoner, Saddam Hussein, does not have much to do most days. His one court appearance in 10 months has come and gone.


Officials shut down a crowded, run-down county jail amid fire and safety violations including an inmate sleeping on a floor partly covered by water from leaky plumbing.


Botox Found Not to Help Prevent Migraines

NEW YORK  - Contrary to earlier reports,  injections of botulinum toxin A -- better known as Botox -- do  not seem to prevent migraine headaches occurring, according to  results of a small study.


Patrick Vieira believes Arsenal are better placed than ever before to achieve Champions League success - and insisted they would not be muscled out of their stride at home or abroad.


Terrorismo. Ciampi: l'unita' di intenti continui a sostenere la ...

L'esortazione Ã¨ arrivata dopo la consegna al Quirinale le medaglie d'oro alla memoria a operatori della polizia vittime del terrorismo. "L'unitÃ  di intenti e la sincera condivisione dei valori fondamentali


Ancora oggi persecuzioni di cristiani e indifferenza regimi


Italians, Canadians gather to honour living legend: VC winner Smoky Smith

CESENA, Italy (CP) - If he had a choice, Ernest (Smoky) Smith probably would opt not to have had to do it all.


Ground-to-air missiles found in SW France ETA arms caches

BAYONNE, France, Oct 5  - Two ground-to-air missiles have been found in arms caches in southwest France uncovered in weekend raids against suspected members of Spain's armed Basque separatist group ETA, French officials said Tuesday.


Canada warns public support at risk in Afghan role

Public support in Canada for its  participation in NATO peacekeeping in Afghanistan could  dissolve if other allies do not help its troops in the violent  south, Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said on Tuesday.


Brad Bird and Pixar  Animation Studios are proving to be an unbeatable combination.


Computer Problem on Space Station Persists

The Russian computers that help keep the space station in orbit were out of commission for a second day.


The Polish government signed a deal Wednesday with U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. paving the way for the transfer of technology and investment to a Polish weapons producer.


BOURNEMOUTH, England - Britain's new foreign policy chief promised a shift in how the country approaches international relations yesterday, citing humbling lessons of the Iraq war and signaling a fresh path from that of his graying predecessors.


Bush and Kerry Locked in Dead Heat - Reuters Poll

Democratic Sen. John Kerry moved into a dead heat with President Bush four days before a cliffhanger White House election, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Friday.


Tour Organizers Exclude 2007 Winner and His Team

The Astana team has been banned from the 2008 Tour de France because of antidoping violations in 2006 and 2007.


Maryland Court Rejects Electronic-Voting Challenge

Maryland's highest court has rejected a challenge to the state's electronic voting system and upheld a ruling that the touchscreen-style voting machines provide a reasonable level of ballot security.


Nijmegenn, 21:17 - CALCIO, EUROPEI 2008: ISRAELE-ANDORRA 4-1

Israle ha battuto Andorra 4-1 in un incontro valido per le qualificazioni agli Europei del 2008 (gir...


Israeli Army Raid Into Gaza Kills 8 Palestinians

The Israeli army raided south Gaza on  Friday in response to increasing Palestinian mortar attacks,  killing at least eight Palestinians and prompting hundreds to  flee their homes, witnesses and medics said.


Notes, Quotes From 2004 Campaign in Ohio

Of all the bad news for Sen. John Kerry in recent days, perhaps nothing stung quite as much as this: He's trailing President Bush in Ohio.


White Kids More Likely to Be Allergic to Peanuts

Perhaps because of differences in feeding habits, white children appear to be at increased risk for peanut allergy compared with their non-white peers, new research suggests.


Nokia says content key in boosting cellphone use

Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's  largest cellphone maker, sees content for the wireless Internet  as key to snapping up more mobile phone users, including in  emerging markets, the head of its key unit said on Tuesday.


Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity.  A former war correspondent offers a word of caution


Criminal charges, a suspension and a probable lawsuit are on deck for Texas Rangers reliever Frank Francisco, arrested for throwing a chair Monday night that broke the nose of the


Thomas Morgan, a Journalist and Activist, Dies at 56

Mr. Morgan was a former reporter and editor at The New York Times who was a president of the National Association of Black Journalists.


The European Central Bank boosts liquidity in the banking system again after warning of fresh volatility in the markets.


MANILA -- A Filipino who was among four people abducted in Iraq is believed to be an accountant working for a Saudi Arabian company catering food to American troops, sources said Tuesday.


L'intento e' di rilevarlo per servire la popolazione povera


Capital One posts third quarter net loss

Capital One Financial Corp , a  credit card issuer and banking company, posted a third quarter  net loss, hurt by charges from shuttering its GreenPoint  Mortgage business.


A 19-year-old man is due to appear before a County Down court on a charge of attempted murder.


European aerospace firm EADS quashes speculation it was poised to take over the French defence electronics firm Thales.


Indiana football coach Terry Hoeppner died Tuesday of complications from a brain tumor. He was 59.


Six men on the Pacific island of Pitcairn have been found guilty of subjecting women to rape and indecent assaults over a 40-year period.


Liverpool supporters launch an ambitious plan to buy the football club from its current American owners.


Even with Medicare, you'll end up paying nearly half of your health-care expenses, so if you don't have retiree coverage from your employer, you may want supplemental insurance. Make sure you have what you need.


Wisconsin May Drop Song Over Resemblance

MADISON, Wis. - Imitation might be a form of flattery, but a little resemblance might be too much of a good thing.  The state tourism agency may scrap the jingle composed for its new ad campaign because it sounds too much like a 1995 song by a British group.


Does virtualisation = energy savings? No, not "valley" as in John Ford's 1941 classic movie based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 best-seller about a close-knit, hard-working Welsh coal-mining family at the turn of the twentieth century. Nor "vampires" as in the somewhat less classic episode from the Masters of Horror TV series that introduced the "V-word" concept. It's not even the euphemism increasingly being used to avoid saying "Vietnam" when analysing current events in Iraq.â¦


U.S. IT and electrotechnology professionals saw a 1.5 percent decrease in their salaries in 2003, the first decrease since the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA (IEEE-USA) began surveying members in 1972, the group announced Wednesday.


Microsoftâs deal with Giant Software has glitches

Microsoft announced their entry into the security software market with the acquisition of Giant Software. Giant Software is a 12 people strong company based in New York, which specializes in software that


UN Criticizes Polish Abortion Laws, Reopens Debate

Poland's strict anti-abortion laws may  lead women from the predominantly Roman Catholic country to  risk their lives as some are forced to seek illegal and unsafe  abortions, a United Nations report says.


KANPUR, India -- Opener Andrew Hall and debutant Zander de Bruyn defied India's spin attack on Sunday to put South Africa in command of the first Test match in Kanpur.


Bending, Posing and Teaching Beyond the Mat

A small but growing number of yoga practitioners are reaching out to the homeless, to prisons and to troubled youth.


Chris Langham groomed, corrupted and abused teenage girl over three-year period, court hears.


Navy corpsman to testify against Marines

During two tours of duty in Iraq, Navy corpsman Melson J. Bacos experienced fire fights with insurgents, soldiers dying in his arms, thoughts of whether he'd live another day, he said.


High and Low Vitamin a Raise Hip Fracture Risk

NEW YORK  - Women with higher or lower  blood levels of vitamin A than average appear to be at  increased risk of hip fracture, according to a report in the  American Journal of Medicine.


Sprint to lay off several thousand workers: report

Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp  plans to lay off several thousand employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.


Authorities differ on prisoner's release

In a sign of confusion over who runs post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, the United States on Wednesday contradicted an announcement by an Iraqi government ministry


Terror suspect granted bail in Australia

An Indian doctor charged in Australia in connection with the failed car-bomb attacks in Britain was freed on bail Monday.


Stewart Overcomes Illness to Win at Watkins Glen

WATKINS GLEN, New York (Sports Network) - Tony Stewart  battled stomach cramps and leg cramps as well as 42 drivers,  but hung tough and captured Sunday's Sirius at the Glen Nextel  Cup race at the Watkins Glen International circuit.


Ravens Coach Brian Billick didn't wait for the first question to be asked at his daily media gathering at training camp; he gave an answer to the question that he knew was coming.


Siemens is to invest 55m euros in a Chinese joint venture to manufacture parts for a new generation of gas turbines.


Pentagon says missile defence behind schedule

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A limited US national missile-defence system is not expected to be activated until at least early 2005, missing President George W. Bush's year-end goal, a military spokesman said Friday.


An early end to International Business Machines Corp.'s contract with JP Morgan Chase & Co. reveals how mega information-technology outsourcing deals are falling out of favor, with both IT services companies and their customers.


The Golden Globe nominations, seen as an early steer for the Oscars, are due to be announced in Hollywood.


Thornburg Pays Collateral Owed to Wachovia

Thornburg Mortgage Inc., the jumbo mortgage specialist sued by the Wachovia Corporation last week, said that it repaid the $5.1 million in collateral that was the basis of the bankâs litigation.


Chinese weather experts admit the country was not properly prepared for the current severe snow storms.


Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - Tim Duncan led a balanced American attack with 15 points and seven rebounds, as the United States men's basketball team completed the preliminary round with a resounding 89-53 victory over winless Angola.


Shuttle astronauts gear up for Spacewalk

Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts geared up for a spacewalk Monday that NASA said would remain unchanged despite a last-minute switch in crew for medical reasons.


Slow drainage of the flooded Indonesian capital of Jakarta hit a setback Tuesday when heavy rain began and water levels in the city stopped receding.  Officials said at least 36 people are known dead, and thousands of others were camping out on the roofs of their homes.


'Non appena ce lo chiedera', dice la segretaria dei Radicali


Proposals for two major league sports stadiums that would face each other across the Anacostia River evolved independently, D.C. officials said Friday.


In what may prove to be Pedro Martinez's last act in a Boston uniform the pitcher, who becomes a free agent at the end of the month, helped put the Red Sox on the verge of their first World Series title for 86 years.


The Houston Astros, the NL's worst hitting team, signed outfielder Carlos Lee and right-hander Woody Williams on Friday, bolstering its offense and a pitching staff that could be without Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte.


JVC has developed a combination Blu-ray/DVD disk that it says will ease the transition from traditional DVD to next-generation high-denfinition video.


Greenland's ice tells of past climates, maybe ancient life

Plant material and pink ice found at the bottom of the ice sheet under this wind-swept camp could give scientists an unprecedented look at life that's


Fresh Sri Lanka clashes as truce monitors begin pullout

Heavy fighting raged Sunday in northern Sri Lanka where Tamil Tiger rebels said they lost a key leader, as Norwegian-led monitors began pulling out before the formal end of a tattered truce.


The 'Funky Business' consultants want to poke you

Back to work, back to Facebook? Column Recently, we've seen a spate of reports of employers blocking the use of social networking sites at work. With one estimate suggesting that sites such as Facebook cost UK employers over Â£130m a day in lost productivity, this is perhaps unsurprising.â¦


QUELLA BAMBINA NON E' ANGELA CELENTANO. I GENITORI: "SIAMO DELUSI ...

"Siamo delusi. Ancora una volta abbiamo sperato che la bambina trovata ieri fosse mia figlia Angela", ha commentato Catello Celentano, il papÃ  di Angela, appena appresa la notizia . "Ci consola e ci fa piacere


Britain warned that the situation in the war-wracked Sudanese region of Darfur was at a crucial phase, with just 12 days to go before the mandate of an African Union peacekeeping force expires.


It's the year of the flip-flop in U.S. politics

In what has become the year of the flip-flop, U.S. presidential candidates have been accusing each other of switching positions on policy issues as often as they change their clothes.


Peru Starts Retrial of Shining Path Leader Guzman

CALLAO NAVAL BASE, Peru  - Peru began a retrial on  Friday of Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman, the guerrilla  who led a brutal "popular war" to impose communism on the  Andean nation from 1980 until his capture in 1992.


Exits in wake of procurement review The chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has announced he is moving on.â¦


New Drug for Recurring Cases of Breast Cancer

(Dec. 8) -- Researchers believe they have a better drug for preventing recurring cases of breast cancer. After breast cancer surgery, women are often given the drug Tamoxifen to keep the cancer from coming back.


A blast rocks a branch of Citibank in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, killing a security guard, reports say.


Presidente commissione Lavoro Senato: arrivare a 65-70 anni


JLG Industries profit tops Wall Street view

Construction equipment maker JLG   Industries Inc. JLG.N on Monday reported better-than-expected   quarterly profit, helped by the strength of the commercial   construction sector.


A man is killed and two others are injured as a car crosses the carriageway on the A90 near Dundee.


Moldova wants EU, US to join observers in Dniester settlement

Moldova is ready to resume talks on a Dniester settlement under condition that they will be joined by permanent observers from the European Union and the United States, Moldovan Minister of Reintegration Vasile ...


Anticipating the US Ryder Cup team will be the underdog - for perhaps the first time in decades - in the 2006 matches at The K Club outside Dublin, Ireland, newly named US captain Tom Lehman figures that will give his squad a psychological advantage and


To the outside world, Londoners are cold, brusque and unimpressed at the prospect of millions of people turning up on their doorstep to watch the 2012 Olympics.


SpongeBob Pushes Deeper Into Electronics Aisle

Nickelodeon is introducing a line of consumer electronics branded with personalities from some of its most popular shows.


Seven Spanish tourists killed in a suicide bombing while touring a temple in Yemen have been flown home.


Mourners Say Goodbye to Bronx Fire Victims

Just after noon today, eight gleaming Cadillac hearses slowly threaded their way through the heart of African High Bridge, past Fanta Express Hair Braiding and Dia-Bugi 99 Cent and Mohamed Alfa Bah Discount. They turned left onto 166th Street and stopped. Before them was a sea of people.


Windies win toss, field v S. Africa - Champions Trophy

â¢ PREVIEW-Cricket-South Africa, West Indies seek semi-final spot September 17, 2004 02:00:15 LONDON, Sept 18  - South Africa and West Indies came into the ICC Champions Trophy as the least fancied of the established sides but one will progress


NEW DELHI: The zip may be missing from Vladimir Putin's visit this time, but that's because the India-Russia relationship is moving from a declaratory to a pragmatic phase.


An NHS trust rules it will not allow a hysterectomy on a severely disabled girl to go ahead.


Putin Says Plane Crashes Involved Terrorists Linked to Al-Qaeda

Russian President Vladimir Putin today said the explosions that brought down two airliners in Russia a week ago were the work of terrorists linked to the al- Qaeda terrorist network.


Annual reports are usually deadly boring documents filled with legalese -- Google's 10-K makes for interesting reading. Plus: If Steve Jobs is a crook, he's not getting richer from it. In Epicenter.


Fed Seen Sticking to Measured Rate Raises

The U.S. Federal Reserve will take  another small step this week toward raising interest rates to  more normal levels, but may be getting rates up to a point that  allows for a pause in increasing them, analysts say.


âOne thing Iâve really been conscious of is keeping Olympusâs operations as green as possible.â


Christian Right Labors to Find â08 Candidate

A little known but pivotal group of Christian conservatives is dissatisfied with the Republican presidential field and uncertain where to turn.


Convegno di Studio su Maria promosso dalle Missionarie dell'Immacolata - Padre Kolbe Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Le Missionarie dell'Immacolata - Padre Kolbe hanno organizzato un Convegno di Studio su Maria che ha per tema "Eccomi sono la serva del Signore" (Lc 1,38): una riflessione in chiave biblica ed ecumenica sul servizio di Maria in...


Extinct Giant Deer Survived Ice Age, Study Says

Now a new study, published tomorrow in the science journal Nature, suggests that another striking mammal, the Irish elk, likewise lived way beyond the last ice age.


Mystery over bogus DenyHosts listing An investigation by Oracle has revealed the none of its systems were involved in launching a recent brute force attack on secure servers around the net.â¦


Father's Grim Search Ends as 4 Bodies Are Found

The unearthing of the bodies of Jimmie Wallet's wife and three daughters brought to 10 the number of confirmed dead since a hill in La Conchita, Calif., collapsed.


Pentagon Faults Leadership for Walter Reed

Top Pentagon officials today blamed a breakdown in leadership for problems with outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and vowed to take quick corrective action.


New Orleans writers struggle to pen rebirth story

Quirky characters, raucous music,  jazz funerals, a warm climate and plenty of service-industry  jobs made New Orleans an ideal base for writers and a rich  backdrop for their work.


On Baseball: Winter Meetings a Big Deal? Sometimes

Baseball fans anticipate the winter meetings for the trades they expect or hope to happen. But few meetings in recent years have lived up to expectations.


Phillies manager Larry Bowa will be fired at the end of the season and pitching coach Joe Kerrigan will resign, two newspapers reported Saturday, citing unidentified sources.


Indiana Pacers officials backed their players as the National Basketball Association rang with recriminations in the wake of a violent brawl between Pacers players and fans in Detroit.


EU Crisis Over, Turkey's Parliament Readies To Pass Key Reform

ANKARA, Sept 24  - Turkey on Friday recalled lawmakers for a special Sunday session to adopt a crucial penal code reform essential to the country's cherished bid to become an EU member in the aftermath of a crisis with Brussels, which observers


Fannie Mae, the nation's largest source for home mortgage financing, said Wednesday that is is considering two placements of up to $4 billion in preferred stock to qualified institutional buyers.


Israel denies report it is planning an Iran attack

Israel's deputy defense minister denied on Saturday that Israel was in talks with the United States to use Iraqi airspace as part of possible plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites.


The key to widening access to university is to persuade more teenagers to stay on, university leaders say.


Yankees put Loaiza out of rotation, into bullpen

After five mediocre starts, Esteban Loaiza lost his job in the New York Yankees' rotation and was sent to the bullpen yesterday. Loaiza failed to make it out of the fifth inning in Friday's 8-7 victory in Toronto. Loaiza, 0-2 with a 7.30 ERA in five starts for the Yankees, hung his head when manager Joe Torre came out to ...


Flying Mammal Fossil Dates to Dinosaur Age 'Ancient Gliding Beast' Found in China

By John Noble Wilford  Scientists have discovered an extinct animal the size of a small squirrel that lived in China at least 125 million years ago and soared among the trees.


Spam messages in Chinese, Korean and Japanese are on the rise, say e-mail filtering experts.


ADHD Raises Kids' Health Costs Even Before Diagnosis

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- In the two years before and after they're diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), children with the condition typically use more health-care services than other children, U.S. research shows.


Iran's chief negotiator to the United Nations nuclear agency says Tehran is committed to the freeze on uranium enrichment agreed earlier this month.


Oil-Shale Project Nears Uintah Test Phase

By Lezlee E. Whiting For the Deseret Morning News  VERNAL -- A unique project that ultimately expects to prove that oil can be economically extracted from shale rock is moving closer to its test phase.


Firenze, 15:47 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA; PRANDELLI: AFFRONTEREMO UN TORINO FERITO

Ieri il Torino ha perso per 4-0 all'Olimpico con la Roma in Coppa Italia e Cesare Prandelli teme la ...


Catalyst Repository Systems Announces CR 6.0 (Grid Edition), the First Grid-Based Litigation Support and Document Review Platform

Catalyst Repository Systems, a leading provider of web-based repository software, today released Catalyst CR 6.0 (Grid Edition), the first grid-based litigation support and document review platform.


Studio Ofcom: per 4 italiani su 10 squilla solo il cellulare


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1. "Plum Lucky" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Press)


Marine One flew low over destroyed homes, downed power lines and uprooted trees Sunday, giving President Bush a bird's eye view of the destruction caused by Hurricane Charley.


Consulta, no a immunitÃ  su dichiarazioni Pera contro Caselli

Le dichiarazioni che il presidente del Senato Marcello Pera, fece alla stampa nel '99 - quando era senatore di Forza Italia - contro l'allora procuratore di Palermo Giancarlo Caselli che lo querelÃ², non sono coperte da immunitÃ .


Congress Seeks Environmental-Farming Money

The House voted Monday to protect aid to farmers who convert to environmentally sound practices. The measure, now on its way to President Bush, would block the Agriculture Department from tapping some of the funding for administrative expenses. The USDA's use of program money for overhead costs farmers about $150 million a year that could help them learn farming methods that protect air, water and wildlife, said Environmental Defense spokesman Scott Faber.


Branson commits $3 billion to fight global warming

Billionaire Virgin Group Chairman   Richard Branson on Thursday committed an estimated $3 billion   over the next 10 years, or all of the profits from his airline   and rail businesses, to combating global warming.


A NATO helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force said.


Sydney: The newly discovered remains of a previously unknown species of miniature human in the Indonesian island of Flores, 600 kilometres east of Bali, by Australian and Indonesian scientists, are being hailed as the most significant scientific find of


Military Analysis: Will Iraq Study GroupÂs Plan Work on the Battlefield?

The military recommendations issued by the Iraq Study Group run counter to assessments made by some of its own military advisers.


Zergout era stato assolto, insieme a due collaboratori, dall'accusa di terrorismo internazionaleRimane in carcere ai fini dell'estradizione l'assistente condannato in Marocco a 10 anni                                          Varese, espulsione ex Imam in corso La difesa: "un atto illegittimo di pulizia etnica"


European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Thursday that dialogue with Iran must continue even if talks about its nuclear program fail.


A Steffen Iversen penalty is sufficient to secure the points for Norway at Hampden on Saturday.


AOL co-founder backs new online payment firm

Steve Case, the founder of the  AOL Internet service, is backing a new online payment company  that promises to let users transfer funds for free and offer a  credit card with sharply lower fees for merchants.


Freshmen seeds in bloom for March Madness

The big stories at this year's NCAA basketball tournament are young stars and surprising teams without basketball tradition.


First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first elected woman leader after easily winning a presidential vote that was largely a referendum on her husband's economic successes.


The latest losses at chipmaker AMD are not as bad as  expected, thanks to surging sales of laptops.


Abbas seeks to bolster Fatah with Jordan-based force

JERUSALEM -- President Mahmoud Abbas has asked Israel for permission to bring Palestinian forces based in Jordan to the West Bank to try to shore up his control after Hamas's Gaza takeover, Israeli officials said yesterday.


US defence workers were told to keep quiet about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, official memos reveal.


Man Says Tight Jeans Caused Assault Charge

BELLE VERNON, Pa. - A man accused of pointing a loaded handgun at a police officer says he's only guilty of wearing tight jeans. Sean Eldon Duvall, 36, was arrested Tuesday on charges including aggravated assault and reckless endangerment for the June 18 incident.


International troops kill 70 Taleban during a four-hour battle in southern Afghanistan, Nato says.


Vicenza, trovato in cantina dal fratello minore. Pare che alcuni amichettilo prendessero in giro per le orecchie a sventola. Ma non si esclude il tragico gioco                                          S'impicca a undici anni "Lo prendevano in giro"                                                                                di FILIPPO TOSATTO


SHANGHAI, Sept. 21 --A Mattel toy executive apologized to China today, saying design flaws, not maufacturing practices, were responsible for many of the recent problems with toys and that the company had unnecessarily recalled some toys containing lead.


The Fresno Bee, Calif., Rick Bentley Column: New Station Owner Peak Makes a Change

By Rick Bentley, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 14--You probably haven't even noticed that some big things have been going on with several local radio stations and two television stations in recent months.


Plus: Cisco posts higher quarterly profit...RealNetworks reports leap in quarterly earnings...Time Warner earnings perk up. Check back for latest.


Japan's prime minister describes the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by a US marine as "unforgivable".


Al CIVA dal 20 dicembre al 24 febbraio 2008 "Supermarche d'Europe 1957-2007"Dai primi negozi self-service ai centri commerciali "integrati" a basso impatto ambientale                                          I supermercati europei hanno 50 anni Bruxelles li festeggia con una mostra                                                                                Per l'Italia partecipano Esselunga, inaugurato proprio nel 1957, e la Coopdi ROSARIA AMATO


Most believed dead in Thai plane crash: report

A budget Thai airliner carrying 123 passengers and several crew crashed on landing at the resort island of Phuket in driving rain on Sunday, killing as many as 90 percent of people on board, Phuket's deputy governor said.


NASA reports bad smell on space station, no smoke

NASA reported a bad smell on the   International Space Station on Monday but said there was no   smoke on the outpost.


INTERVIEW: Telstra Rev Growth Similar To 2H04 -2-

SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Telstra Corp.'s (TLS) revenue so far this fiscal year has been growing at a similar pace to the second half of 2003-04, Chief Financial Officer John Stanhope said Monday.


Vonage and Linksys are teaming up to make voice over Internet Protocol service available through Wi-Fi equipment made by Linksys. Vonage will announce the Linksys partnership Tuesday.


Mel Gibson has taken out a restraining order against a man he says stalked him and demanded they pray together. The order bars Zack Sinclair from approaching or contacting Gibson, director of The Passion of the Christ.


Florida Classic: Record day fails to make Rattler feel any better

None of Ben Dougherty's half-dozen touchdowns come during the fourth quarter of FAMU's loss. By IBRAM ROGERS. ORLANDO - It was Florida A&M senior quarterback Ben Dougherty's last chance to beat Bethune-Cookman.


il Cellulare che vede Attraverso i Vestiti

In Giappone un rivoluzionario accessorio per telefonini della Yamada Denshi riesce a sbirciare attraverso abiti sottili. Nel mirino soprattutto i succinti costumi da bagno. In Giappone l'azienda Yamada Denshi


Three critical patches star in MS update

No word on Word fixes, yet Microsoft issued seven patches on Tuesday - one more than expected - as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update cycle. Three of the updates earn the dreaded rating of critical.â¦


US Trade Deficit Narrowed to $50.1 Billion in July

The US trade deficit narrowed in July from the prior month's record as exports rose and a decline in oil shipments contributed to the first drop in imports in 11 months, the Commerce Department said in Washington.


The World Golf Championships offer some amazing perks. There's no cut, so everyone is guaranteed a check. The purse is $7.5 million, among the highest in golf, and even last place gets more than $30,000. If that sounds like a defeatist attitude to take at the American Express Championship, there's a reason. Tiger Woods has a five-shot lead.


Trading Deadline Passes Without Impact Deal

Days of aggressive negotiating by any number of N.B.A. general managers came to an anticlimactic conclusion Thursday when only three deals were reached, none of them involving star players.


A former drug sales representative wins award, despite judgeâs criticism that he should have brought scheme to light earlier.


If you're making a list of five players the Patriots would most like to neutralize tomorrow, it probably looks like this:


Some lawmakers want President Bush to move quickly to find a new nominee to lead US Pacific Command after Air Force Gen. Gregory Martin withdrew his name from consideration.


Olmert hints at Israel air raid on Syria

In the closest that Israel has come to confirming a mysterious air raid in Syria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert acknowledged to his Cabinet on Sunday that Turkish airspace might have been violated during the operation.


Court Hears Tapes of Libbyâs Grand Jury Testimony

The tapes underlined the contrast between his sworn account and the testimony of prosecution witnesses.


Seminars Offered for Iraqis Trying Saddam

U.S. and British officials provided a week of training in international law to about 30 Iraqi judges and prosecutors who will try Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants, British officials said Friday.


Troops are on the streets of the Philippine capital ahead of a rally set to demand President Arroyo's resignation.


Suha, wife of late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, walks down from the French plane upon her arrival at Cairo airport to attend Arafat's funeral in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday Nov. 11, 2004.


A storm-lashed cargo ship which was abandoned by its crew after listing to 40 degrees sank early Tuesday in the English Channel, coastguards said.


Rome festival honors Loren with career award

When the Rome film festival forgot to  invite Sophia Loren for its first edition last year, she was  said to be furious at the snub.


Strong-flavored onions show promise for fighting cancer

Strong-flavored onions can be harsh on your social life, but theyâre potentially great for fighting cancer. Researchers at Cornell University have found, in preliminary lab studies, that members of the onion


Palermo, 11:27 - CALCIO, PALERMO: OLUFEMI PASSA AL BELLINZONA

Nella tarda serata di ieri, il Palermo ha ceduto a titolo definitivo il jolly di centrocampo John Ot...


The Bush administration said it would buy 1.2 million doses to ease this year's shortage, but also missed a deadline for a report to Congress on obtaining cheaper drugs abroad.


Grownup, shutdown The old School Virus writers (VXers) scene is dying a death, according to Symantec.â¦


Henrik Larsson scores on his last competitive game at Old Trafford to take them into the Champions League quarter-finals.


A judge says he wants to give David Hasselhoff a chance to prove that he is not drinking before ruling in the actor's custody battle with ex-wife.


OIL FOR FOOD French Play Down Report of Bribes in Iraq Scandal

France reacted cautiously on Thursday to suggestions by the top United States arms inspector for Iraq, Charles A. Duelfer, that French officials and business executives had


Firenze, 15:27 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA; PRANDELLI: IL POSTO SI CONQUISTA SUL CAMPO

"I giocatori scontenti devono solo dimostrare in campo di meritarsi il posto e mettermi in difficolt...


Dog Helps Bust Owner on Marijuana Charge

GRAPEVINE, Texas - The owner of J.D. the Labrador may be wishing his dog weren't such a good retriever. Matthew Porter and two friends were playing Frisbee golf in a park Monday when a police officer who thought he smelled burning marijuana began questioning them.


Reggio Calabria, 17:13 - CALCIO, REGGINA: PARTITELLA IN FAMIGLIA

Partitella in famiglia per la Reggina in vista della gara di domenica contro il Livorno. Mazzarri ha...


Tori Spelling and husband expecting baby

Tori Spelling and her husband, actor Dean McDermott, are expecting their first child together.


Microsoft unveils free SQL management tool

Microsoft today unveiled a technical preview of SQL Server 2005 Express Manager, a newly developed free database management tool and the second Community Technology Preview of the SQL Server 2005 database.


U.S. Suit Against Tobacco Makers Goes to Trial

Major cigarette makers go on trial on Tuesday in the U.S. government's $280 billion racketeering case that charges the tobacco industry with deliberately deceiving the public about the risks of smoking since the 1950s.


Ebay reacted with anger yesterday after police arrested the head of its Indian arm because a customer had used the online service to sell pornography.


Nikolaj HÃ¼bbe will retire from the New York City Ballet to become artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, a position he applied for nearly 10 years ago.


Moderate Senator Fights for Top Judiciary Post

Sen. Arlen Specter pledged on Monday not to oppose Supreme Court nominees just because they are anti-abortion as the moderate Republican fought to keep alive his bid


Milano, 16:39 - CALCIO, LEGA; ZAMPARINI: NON APPOGGIO PIU' MATARRESE

Anche Maurizio Zamparini sbatte la porta: ''Ho detto al signor Matarrese che lui ha tradito il suo p...


Coast and Levees *** Three Proposed Amendments Would Allot Funds, Merge Boards

By WILL SENTELL  First in a series  The management of flood and hurricane protection in southeast Louisiana will undergo sweeping changes if voters approve a ballot measure designed to replace parochialism with a regional approach.


Military chiefs are expected to meet to make a final decision on the future of Scotland's Army regiments.


The United Nations secretary-general has urged the Security Council to take immediate action over a US draft resolution on Sudan's Darfur region.


BAGHDAD, Sept. 11. - The first US military intelligence soldier brought to court in the Abu Gharib prisoner abuse scandal was sentenced today to eight months in prison, demoted to private and expelled from the military.


Family Dollar still unable to file annual report

Family Dollar Stores Inc.  said on Friday that it would be unable to file its annual report for 2006 by the November 24 extended due date, citing an ongoing investigation of its stock option granting practices.


Fall in teenage consumption raises doubts over plan to reclassify drug.


Basilea in Talks with J&J Over Antibiotic

Switzerland's Basilea is in talks with a  subsidiary of healthcare and consumer products maker Johnson &  Johnson over a licensing agreement for the Swiss biotech firm's  BAL5788 antibiotic.


Sweden to donate $3 mln to preserve Bergman works

Sweden said on Monday it will donate  20 million Swedish crowns ($3 million) to ensure the films and  scripts of the late director Ingmar Bergman are preserved.


Don't throw in the towel on this week's episode

This week's bandwagon-crisis quota was reached when Monday Night Football crossed the linen of scrimmage. Now in its 35th season, MNF also dragged us past the neutral zone and into the partisan box.


I dati del Congresso internazionale in corso in Australia. Anche l'Italia nel noverodei paesi ad alto rischio. "Le nuove generazioni sono in pericolo"                                                  ObesitÃ , l'allarme arriva da Sydney "I figli vivranno meno dei padri"


Australia's Virgin Blue says incendiary device found on jet

Australian domestic airline Virgin Blue said an incendiary device had been found on one of its jets and admitted its staff had failed to follow correct safety procedures.


The Church of England will unveil a blueprint aimed at avoiding a rift over the ordination of gay bishops tomorrow, with the release of the Windsor report.


France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, apologises for comparing a French magazine to the war-time pro-Nazi press.


Stocks edged higher on Tuesday as a favorable court ruling for the pharmaceutical sector lifted shares of drugmakers, including Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. , while a pullback in benchmark bond yields tempered interest rate worries.


One of the good things about supporting Portsmouth is that no one has ever had any expectations. A life of mid-table mediocrity - as the unlamented former manager Graham Rix promised the


For the love of a Trabant: Collector fights to save fleet of East...

An English farmer has been ordered to get rid of his massive collection of Trabants after they sparked a cold war in his village.


Tony Blair is urged to use his presidency of the G8 of top industrialised nations to end world debt.


It's not every day that you see Robert De Niro on the cover of Vibe Â with 50 Cent.


When former Boston College coach Tom O'Brien left for North Carolina State, it seemed to signal open season on the 14 recruits who had verbally committed to the Eagles. As BC underwent its coaching change to Jeff Jagodzinski, it was expected that they would lose some recruits.


record of the year, album of the year, song of the year and best new artist -- are a cross-section of genres and ages, appealing to all types of music fans.


China Plans to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky by 2020

China plans to launch more than 100 satellites before 2020 to watch every corner of the country, state-run China Central Television quoted a government official as saying Tuesday.


US presses Iran to respond to European nukes offer

The United States pressed Iran to meet the demands of the UN nuclear watchdog after the three big European countries made a last-chance offer to make Tehran comply.


Madrid, 14:24 - CALCIO, ZIDANE TORNA AL GOL IN UN'AMICHEVOLE IN THAILANDIA

Zinedine Zidane è tornato a giocare e ha realizzato un gol in una partita per beneficienza di...


A European Union court on Wednesday  confirmed it had upheld curbs imposed by the EU's executive on  Microsoft, dismissing the software giant's appeal for a  suspension.


Altro pregiudicato trovato morto vicino a discarica a Marano


US imports to resume in March The USDA ruling also recognizes the country as a minimal-risk region for mad cow disease. By Daniel Goldstein.


Desperate for a Hit, ABC Has 'Housewives'

Now that the women of "Sex and the City" are off the streets, the nation's eyes are turning to a different quartet in a leafy suburban subdivision.


Manchester City boss Kevin Keegan has been charged by the Football Association for his confrontation with referee Steve Dunn in the tunnel after Sunday's 4-3 defeat to Newcastle.


President Leonid Kuchma called on opposition demonstrators to end their four-day blockade of government buildings Sunday, saying compromise was needed to solve the political


Lawmakers are turning  their attention to the television industry as the Senate  Commerce Committee examines the effect of violent content on  America's youth.


Will deals among the manufacturers of flat-panel displays lead to slower price declines of L.C.D. televisions? Donât count on it.


US President George W Bush is due to make his first ever official visit to neighbouring Canada on Tuesday.


Italian, Egyptian Hostages Freed in Iraq

Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were freed on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but an  abducted Briton remained under threat of death.


Scientists find a possible crater left by the biggest space impact of modern times - the Tunguska event of 1908.


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


The ladies of "The View" are laughing off Danny DeVito's loopy behavior during his appearance on the daytime talk show. "Danny DeVito is not an alcoholic," co-host Rosie O'Donnell said Thursday. "He's just a guy who had too many with his friend."


Former Green Bay Packer Reggie White died at his Huntersville, NC, home, ESPN reported Sunday. He was 43. White, who also played defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles and


L'aereo con la bara del militare ucciso in Iraq Ã¨ atterratoa Ciampino alle 17. Domani l'autopsia, martedÃ¬ i funerali                                                  Ciampi, i familiari e Alessandra accolgono il feretro di Simone                                                                                La commozione del capo dello Stato e della vedovain un'atmosfera silenziosa e carica di dolore


The US says it wants to pull its military out of tsunami relief operations as soon as possible.


UK, Danish troops launch major operation in Iraq

BASRA, Iraq  - British and Danish troops backed by tanks seized five suspects accused of attacks on coalition forces in Iraq on Friday in the largest operation of its kind since the U.S. invasion, the British military said.


Dutch boffins tout green petri-dish synthetic meat

Look to eliminate pig-fart methane hazard Dutch bio-boffins are seeking to sate modern consumer lust for animal flesh by growing artificial pig tissue from stem cells.â¦


Kenyans retrieve bodies as Annan pushes mediation

NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Kenyans in the Rift Valley town of Naivasha were braced for fresh violence on Monday after a spate of ethnic killings which complicated efforts by former U.N. boss Kofi Annan to resolve a month-long crisis.


Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.


La protesta proclamata dall'Anm dopo il sÃ¬ del Senato alla ...

ROMA - Poco dopo il sÃ¬ del Senato alla riforma dell'ordinamento giudiziario, che ora passa alla Camera per l'approvazione definitiva, i magistrati hanno annunciato che il il 24 novembre faranno sciopero.


Manning, Colts have had rough time with Patriots

Not even the richest contract in NFL history could totally erase the horror of last season's AFC championship game for Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning.


The assassination of Pakistan's most charismatic politician plunges the country's election campaign into uncertainty. Will the nuclear armed nation slide deeper into instability?


Time Warner is looking to offer cellphone service, expanding its services to include television, high speed Internet access, traditional phone service and wireless phone service.


Republican presidential hopeful John McCain on Sunday said the United States should step up it's war on drugs as part of efforts to secure the country's borders.


Stockton Company Wins Orion Space Vehicle Contract

By Bruce Spence, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Jun. 17--STOCKTON -- Applied Aerospace Structures in Stockton has been awarded a contract by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to manufacture sections of a launch abort system for NASA's planned Orion space vehicle.


Bush sidesteps talk of "civil war" in Iraq

President Bush said on Tuesday the hand of al Qaeda lay behind the sectarian violence racking Iraq, and deflected talk of "civil war".


Al-Zarqawi challenges America to tell the truth

Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq called for rebels to resist US forces during the assault of Fallujah, posted a five-minute message on a Muslim website Friday.


Florida will teach evolution, but only as theory

TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida education officials voted on Tuesday to add evolution to the required course work in public schools but only after a last-minute change depicting Charles Darwin's seminal work as merely a theory.


The interest rate at which UK banks lend money to each other reaches its highest level since 1998 as the credit crunch continues.


Friend Indeed Who Doesnât Judge or Flinch

In â4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,â a ferocious, unsentimental, often brilliantly directed film, the camera doesnât follow the action, it expresses consciousness itself.


Palestinians Fear Infighting Hurts Their Case

Palestinians say their own infighting is making it too easy for Israel to argue that nothing needs to be done now to promote a Palestinian state.


Two state colleges evacuated their shared campus in northwest Ohio and canceled classes Wednesday because of a telephoned bomb threat, a school spokeswoman said.


LSU found a quarterback and a season in a 24-21 upset victory at No. 12 Florida Saturday night. The Tigers finally get it all together after floating in and out of work mode from week to week, and now it's time to take a week off?


Computer Skills Offer Hope: Haitians Proud to Earn Diplomas From Program

By Joel Hood, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 19--WEST PALM BEACH -- Quetel Osterval stood at the podium in a black suit and yellow tie, flashing a sparkling white grin that would not be contained.  "Yes, you did it," Osterval said, pumping his fist for emphasis.


EU proposes new round of constraints on fishermen

FISHERMEN still reeling from calls for them to be banned from a third of all UK waters are to be hit with a fresh wave of quota cuts and fierce regulations.


LA County Health Department to Give Free Flu Shots

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County health department today will give free flu shots to at-risk residents at 16 clinics across the county.


Missiva firmata dalle 'Brigate rosse napoletane'


Q&A:    Corrupted Politicians Expected to Fight Corruption

BUCHAREST, Aug 20 (IPS) - Monica Macovei is at the centre of a national  dispute over cleaning up the Romanian government.


Sanofi tops forecasts but Acomplia delay weighs

Sanofi-Aventis posted higher than expected fourth-quarter profits on Tuesday and predicted more growth for 2007, but a further delay in its key new anti-obesity drug Acomplia hit the shares.


British advertising company WPP on Sunday said it has won an auction for US rival Gray Global (GREY), with what sources familiar with the


A former Nazi prison guard, 83, arrives in Italy from Canada to serve a life sentence for murder.


Yellow Roadway (YELL:Nasdaq - news - research) boosted its third-quarter earnings guidance to $1.30 to $1.35 a share, a dime better than its previous forecast.


Federal prosecutors in Brazil say they have identified 137 politicians and more than 400 officials involved in a corruption scandal.


Novartis Withdraws EU Application for Prexige on Painkiller Safety Review

Novartis AG, Switzerland s largest drugmaker, withdrew an application for European Union approval of its experimental Prexige, a painkiller similar to Merck & Co.


Environmentalists Appeal State Agency's Stormwater Permit

By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb. 14--Conservation groups on Wednesday appealed a stormwater permit issued by the state Department of Ecology for cities in Western Washington, claiming it won't do enough to curb polluted stormwater runoff.


From Rival N.C.A.A. Stars to Subdued N.B.A. Rookies

Last March, Adam Morrison and J. J. Redick were vying for national honors in the college tournament. Now they are both coming off the bench in the professional league.


NASA holds vomit-comet docs v robosurgeons trial

Bones McCoy jobless before even born NASA is to carry out a contest between human and robotic surgeons in conditions of zero gravity this week. Competing fleshy and machine medics are even now carrying out a variety of procedures aboard C-9 military cargo aircraft soaring in parabolic arcs high above the Gulf of Mexico.â¦


GENEVA -- The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome, and Peru's Machu Picchu are the leading contenders to be among the new seven wonders of the world, as a massive poll draws to a close with votes already cast by more than 90 million people, organizers say.


National Hurricane Center: Tropical Storm Jeanne weakens further

Tropical Storm Jeanne continued to weaken Friday after hitting Hispaniola as a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday.


In the days after the Britney Spears soap opera rode a police-escorted gurney to its apex, celeb-mag sales spiked, traffic jammed gossip Web sites, tabloid TV ratings rose and paparazzi photo prices surged.


Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad

The library said it planned to digitize a collection of rare cultural materials and move forward with plans to create a global digital library in cooperation with other nations.


Kenny Rogers helped Detroit reach the World Series last year in his first season with the team. The Tigers are now hoping he'll help them get back to the Fall Classic this season. In what will be the first outing for the lefthander in more than a month, Rogers is scheduled to start Wednesday's home game against the Chicago White ...


Tensions rise in Fiji as Australia warns of "clear evidence" a coup is planned for the next two weeks.


Arsene Wenger has agreed a new contract with Arsenal that will keep him in charge of the English club until 2011, British media reported Thursday.