SPCA Closes Chapter in Ex-NBA Star's Case

A local chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been ordered to close because it did not prosecute former NBA star Jayson Williams over accusations he shot and killed his dog in anger over losing a bet.


Iran's foreign minister said Tuesday that Tehran is ready to restart negotiations with the European Union on its nuclear program, but he ruled out direct talks with the United States.


Doctors, Democrats scrutinize September 11 dust

Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.


Local favourite Thomas Johansson is the last man standing between Andre Agassi and the 60th title of his career as the pair head into the final of the Stockholm Open.


Zimbabwe's detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai must charged or released, the High Court rules.


GM to Extend Interest-Free Loan Incentives-Dealers

General Motors Corp. will offer its  broadest and longest spread of interest-free loans later this  month when it holds a three-day sale to clear inventories of  2004 model-year vehicles, dealers said on Tuesday.


Pros Donovan up by one Matt Donovan of Pittsfield shot his second consecutive 5-under 67 yesterday to grab the second-round lead in the North American Pro Golf Tour's Pinehills Open in Plymouth. Donovan stands at 10-under 134 and takes a one-shot lead over Nick Cook (68) of Shelton, Conn., into today's final round on Pinehills GC's Nicklaus Course. Missing the ...


Some of Iraq's most powerful political groups, including the party led by the interim prime minister, called Friday for a six-month delay in elections scheduled for Jan. 30, citing concerns over security.


Alcan begins merger talks with Rio Tinto: report

Aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  has begun negotiating toward a merger agreement with Rio Tinto Plc to fend off a hostile bid from U.S. rival Alcoa Inc. , a Canadian newspaper said on Wednesday.


Kerry Wins Fans Abroad with Global Warming Plan

Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry has won plaudits abroad for his promises to fight global warming but could find his hands tied at home if he wins next month's U.S. elections.


Hong Kong's Marco Fu failed in his bid to reach the British Masters final on Saturday when he was completely outplayed by England's Stephen Lee 6-3.


Basking in the Sun Though Wary of a Storm

In the three years since Sheryl Crow released "Wildflower" she has changed everything from her residence to her commercial expectations.


Energizer Holdings to acquire Playtex Products

Battery and razor maker Energizer Holdings Inc.  said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire Playtex Products Inc. , for $18.30 a share in cash plus the assumption of Playtex debt.


Tropical Pursuit of Love, Coins and No Tan Lines

In âFoolâs Goldâ Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, as golden as a pair of rotisserie chickens, squabble and cavort in a tropical paradise.


Standard & Poor's on Tuesday said it may cut Chrion Corp.'s (CHIR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) debt ratings, after the company said it will not sell flu vaccine for the coming flu season due to problems at its plant in British.


Balmy temperatures more fit for the likes of early September did not dampen the arrival of the Christmas spirit Sunday evening as evidenced by smiling faces and voices raised to Have Yourself a Blessed Little ...


A survey finds most people believe first-time buyers should be exempted from paying stamp duty.


Kyle Orton hit Taylor Stubblefield for a touchdown pass early in the third quarter, snapping a tie and lifting the 10th-ranked Boilermakers to a 20-13 victory over Big Ten Conference rival Penn State.


Russia Finds Explosive Traces on 2nd Plane

MOSCOW - Officials said Saturday they had found traces of an explosive on the wreckage of the second of two Russian airliners that crashed just minutes apart earlier this week. That would indicate terrorists caused both aviation tragedies...


FAA still seeking cause of flight plan system shutdown

The failure on Friday of a computer system used to help track airplanes flying across the U.S. led to delays and cancelled flights -- and federal officials still aren't sure what went wrong.


Sarkozy poll ratings fall on economy worries

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has  suffered a seven-point drop in his approval ratings, mainly  because of worries over the economy, according to an opinion  poll published in the newspaper Le Parisien on Sunday.


Brian Moon's Blog: Responsible use of the $_REQUEST variable

In one of his recent blog entries, Brian Moon takes a look at what he considers the "proper use" of the PHP superglobal $_REQUEST (as brought on by a thread on the PHP internals mailing list.   I have seen more than one person make the following logic mistake: I may get data via GET, I may get data via POST - Ah, I should use $_REQUEST as it will catch both.   Brian points out the error - cookies aren't in $_REQUEST so improper handling of those values could lead to cookie data overwriting GET/POST data from $_REQUEST. Several of the comments on the post also warn against improper handling of the values, noting that doing so could lead to holes open for attacks (like session fixation).


Andy Roddick overcame some frustrating moments before advancing to the Australian Open quarterfinals on Monday with 6-3, 7-6 (8), 6-1 win over German qualifier Philipp Kohlschreiber.


Canada raises possibility of scrapping sub program

Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham raised the possibility Monday that the controversial submarine program could be abandoned in the wake of a submarine tragedy, according to a Canadian Press report.


Ig Nobel awards publisher to go free online

Journal of unusual research projects and host of famous awards ceremony to offer free issues online.


SE Asian Leaders Meet on China Trade, Myanmar

Southeast Asian leaders met on Monday to agree a landmark tariff-cutting deal with China, the first flesh on the bones of what will be the world's largest free trade deal within a decade.


Engine failure blamed for Heathrow crash-landing

Initial investigations showed that the engines of a British Airways Boeing 777 failed to respond shortly before it crash-landed at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday, investigators said on Friday.


Special Report: Fastest-Growing Tech Companies

Out of 2,200 public U.S. technology stocks, these 25 winners passed hurdles for growth and profitability.


GREAT revolutions in world history broke out or were defeated in the month of October.


Federal panel rules she won't get $88 million

A federal appeals court stripped one-time Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith of an $88 million chunk of her former husband's fortune Thursday, possibly ending the nine-year fight over the estate of Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall II.


Lawrence Dallaglio retires as captain of England's rugby union team with immediate effect.


2008 Regional Ruby Conferences Are Just Around the Corner

With RubyConf 2007 coming up this weekend, it's no wonder that the 2008 regional conference schedule is starting to flesh out.  the Gotham Ruby Conference hasn't mad an official annoucement yet, but should be in April.  Folks on the West Coast will be happy to hear that there are rumblings of two or three California based Ruby conferences.read more


An Iraqi judge confirms criminal charges against prominent politician Ahmed Chalabi have been dropped.


Michael Richards: Jewish by association?

Just when it seemed Michael Richards was about to leave the most troubling incident of his career behind, his publicist is having to explain how the comic could consider himself to be Jewish.


The drug maker's paperwork also is part of the actions required to issue shares in connection its proposed offer Polish pharmaceutical company known as Polfa Kutno.


US authorities approve cloned animal foods

The US food safety authority on Tuesday approved meat and milk from cloned animals, clearing the way for them one day to appear in shops despite opposition on ethical and health grounds.


British grocer Tesco sees group sales rise 12.0-percent

Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket chain, said that group sales grew by 12.2 percent in the third quarter, driven by strong performances from its stores at home and abroad.


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Parents of missing Madeleine return to Britain

British couple Kate and Gerry McCann, named as suspects in the disappearance of their four-year-old daughter Madeleine in Portugal, flew home on Sunday insisting they were innocent.


Britain's Brown throws down gauntlet in Blair succession battle

Gordon Brown, who wants to succeed Tony Blair as prime minister, has sought to dispel doubts he is fit for Britain's top job and welcomed a challenge to face Labour Party rivals for the leadership.


Fingerprints for landed US immigrants not on Canada's radar: Sgro

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government has no plans to fingerprint landed immigrants from the United States when they visit Canada, says Immigration Minister Judy Sgro.


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Gordon Brown's pay deal for public sector workers could cost him a "political price", the TUC warns.


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Hamas leader says group in touch with EU, US

Claim of secret talks broadcast as Syria accuses Israel of targeting Hamas member in Damascus. "The political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has said that it has had secret contacts with the


Child star Macaulay Culkin was arrested on drug complaints in Oklahoma City Friday afternoon, authorities said.


Investors cheer as Viacom's already uncertain succession plans are reportedly thrown into disarray.


A TERRORIST blast at a US army base in Iraq yesterday killed 22 as Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Baghdad. A radical Islamic group claimed responsibility for the attack in Mosul in which 60 were wounded and at least 19 American soldiers died.


The U.S. government will remain involved with the management of the Internet's domain name system after its current agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) expires on Saturday.


Il programma dei colloqui dovrebbe concludersi in giornata


Misses opportunity to enlighten CISAC Google gave a keynote speech to the biggest global gathering of authors' societies today.â¦


Broadcast television network CBS on  Friday said it will pull three Miller Lite commercials from its  airwaves, saying the spots were too disparaging of rival Bud  Light, beer companies Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. and Miller  Brewing Co. said on Friday.


Filmmaker Sai Prakash makes a mess of a potentially serious subject.


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Sports Olympic Results: Sunday, August 29

The Danish women's handball team, defending Olympic champions for the past eight years, won a third straight gold in Athens Sunday, in a rematch of their final against South Korea at Atlanta in 1996.


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Details of the role civilian contractors played in the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison sparked fresh debate yesterday about the effectiveness of laws and rules meant to govern workers hired to support the military.


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Ivan on way toward Western Cuba, Fla. Panhandle on alert

The change in Hurricane Ivan's course that was predicted by forecasters is apparently under way. The category five storm has begun a gradual turn to the north and may graze Cuba's western tip later Monday or Tuesday.


A 78-year-old man has been accused of twice raping a woman more than 30 years ago, amid an alleged culture of sex attacks on the tiny island of Pitcairn.


Chief Is Ousted at Fannie Mae Under Pressure

Fannie Mae, the mortgage finance giant, forced out its chairman and chief executive, days after the company was found to have violated accounting rules.


US comedian Dave Chappelle is treated in hospital for exhaustion, his publicist confirms.


The controversy over the scoring of the men's gymnastics all-around final just won't die despite the fervent desire of the US team that it do just that.


The leader of Cameroon's main opposition party calls for reforms ahead of next month's poll.


NASA's THEMIS Mission Launches to Study Geomagnetic Substorms

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 17  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's THEMIS mission successfully launched Saturday, Feb. 17, at 6:01 p.m. EST from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.  THEMIS stands for the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms.


Presidente, non negoziero' i diritti sul nucleare


The U.S.-led coalition on Friday said 25 Taliban were killed in a joint operation with Afghan forces in the country's south, while a rare gunbattle near the capital killed one militant.


NEWS ANALYSIS GOP's 'Safer World' gambit not necessarily foolproof

New York -- Speaking from a heavily fortified convention hall 3 miles from the barren gap where the World Trade Center towers once stood, the leaders of the Republican Party made no attempt to sidestep the raw emotions that linger from the worst attack in


U.S. Allows Drilling on Sensitive New Mexico Lands

The Bush administration has approved  oil and natural gas drilling on federal lands in the Otero Mesa  in Mew Mexico, despite pleas from the state's governor and  environmentalists to protect the desert grassland from energy  exploration.


General Mills Inc. , the world's  second-biggest maker of breakfast cereal, on Wednesday reported  higher quarterly earnings, helped by strength in its  international business.


Tech groups praise parts of intelligence bill

Technology trade groups cheered parts of a comprehensive intelligence reform bill passed by Congress yesterday, but said the government's chief cybersecurity official should have a more prominent position.


Sony Eyes March Launch of PSP in U.S. and Europe

TOKYO  - Sony Corp.  will likely launch its new PlayStation Portable hand-held game console in North America and Europe in March, a top executive said on Wednesday.


Climate change to hit poor worst, says U.N.'s Ban

The world's poor, who are the least responsible for global warming, will suffer the most from the effects of climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told global environment ministers on Monday.


After Food and Shelter, Help in Coping With Unbearable Loss

Providing psychological services for millions in Asia will become critical in the coming weeks.


Istituto di credito coinvolto nel crac del gruppo italiano


The   legally challenged country singer, who had pleaded guilty to violating   her probation on a drug charge by driving with a suspended license and   leaving the state of Tennessee without permission, petitioned to   withdraw her plea Tuesday, claiming that she has uncovered new evidence   in her case.


Viewpoint: The chairman complains that the chain's atmosphere has changed. Actually, it's worse than that: its stores are now an overdesigned, overcrowded mess


'Italia e Germania rischiano di perdere posizioni leader'


The X.Org Foundation, backed by industry heavyweights such as Hewlett-Packard and Sun, has announced it will name its upcoming X Window System "X11R6.8" and is encouraging beta testers to hunt for bugs. A release plan has been created to list new features and changes, along with detailed test instructions. Downloads of X11R6.8 are availabe via CVS.


US court rules against Yahoo in French case

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court rejected on Monday an effort by Yahoo Inc. to have US courts step into a battle over the sale of Nazi paraphernalia in France.


Heart Bypass Seen Riskier for Short People

BUENOS AIRES  - The chances of dying after  heart surgery seem to be higher for people who are on the short  side than for taller people, Argentine researchers report.


Olympic Wrap: Crawford Wins the 200m Amid Jeers

Shawn Crawford led an American sweep of  Olympic medals in the 200 meters in Athens Thursday, ignoring  the jeers of a hostile crowd livid that their local hero was  not on the starting line after missing a doping test.


(11/01/04) New England's win streak is over. It took a rookie to stop it at 21 games. Ben Roethlisberger threw for 196 yards and a pair of first-quarter touchdowns


New Lava Has Pushed Through to Surface of Mount St. Helens

Lava has appeared around the crater the first time since Mount St. Helens awoke three weeks ago with bursts of ash and steam.


China Automotive doubles after a subsidiary announces a supply deal with GM.


Deutsche Bank has filed a motion to dismiss a bankruptcy claim by Yukos in the US after a Houston court barred the German bank from lending money to Gazprom to bid for Yuganskneftegas, Yukos's main asset.


The US Supreme Court heard argument Monday on whether the federal act outlawing marijuana pre-empts 10 state laws that allow its medical use to some degree.


Iran says no obstacle for French FM visit

Iran said on Sunday there was no obstacle for French Foreign Minister to visit Tehran to clarify his comments that raised the specter of war over the country's atomic work, which the West fears is a cover to obtain atomic bomb.


Jock Soto, the retired ballet star, is a teacher, caterer, son, companion, activist and focus of a documentary.


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NASA clears shuttle for Thursday landing

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA managers on   Wednesday cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a Thursday landing   attempt in Florida, confident that unidentified objects spotted   near the spaceship did not result from heat shield or other   critical equipment damage.


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FOUR INDIVIDUALS MAY HAVE BOTULISM LINKED WITH BOTOX INJECTIONS

Shares of Allergan Inc. dipped 4.3 percent Tuesday after four individuals were admitted to hospitals with symptoms believed to be indicative of botulism, some of whom may have received injections of Allergan


Disney CFO sees improvements in studios, parks

Walt Disney Co.  sees improved margins at its theme parks and better profitability at its film division in fiscal 2007, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday.


FCC's McDowell says market key to Sirius deal

The proposed merger between Sirius  Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.  depends "a lot" on how the market is defined, U.S. Federal  Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said on Thursday.


HOUSTON (Ticker) - Andy Roddick's superior play in tiebreakers earned him a semifinal berth at the year-end $3.7 million Tennis Masters Cup.


PC superstore refuses to take sack in hand

Says bag is 'incompatible with Mac laptops' Walking lopsided when carrying a laptop from A to B on important business trips is one of the modern-day perils many IT professional bods face.â¦


Five firefighters are injured putting out a blaze on a London-to-Boston BA flight after it lands in the US.


UK researchers claim to have  found a way to make the hospital 'superbug' vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.


Internet software developer Commerce One Inc. on Friday said it laid off about 61 percent of its staff to conserve cash ahead of plans to close down its business, sending its stock plunging during morning trading.


Evander Holyfield was suspended indefinitely by New York State boxing officials in the wake of his loss on Saturday in New York City to a journeyman fighter, Larry Donald.


Unidentified callers urge KGB probe commission to drop investigation says chairman

Skirmantas Pabedinskas, a Lithuanian lawmaker heading an ad hoc commission that probes the alleged ties between senior officials and the KGB, has said that he received telephone calls of unidentified persons ...


RIM chairman resigns amid options review

Jim Balsillie, the co-chief executive and chairman of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., stepped down as chairman as the company announced a $250 million earnings restatement relating to mistakes in how it granted stock options.


New strain of Gozi Trojan prowels the net

Variant of SSL-sniffing malware unleashed in nasty PDF attack A new variant of the Gozi Trojan has been discovered, raising the specter of a comeback for the infamous malware, which excels at pilfering financial information even when it's protected using supposedly secure mechanisms.â¦


The Sacramento Bee, Calif., Dan Walters Column: Short-Term Mentality and Water

By Dan Walters, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--THERE'S NO INHERENT -- i.e., rational -- reason why California could not resolve its two-sided water dilemma.


Jeff Weaver supposedly was a changed man since leaving the Bronx, but New Yorkers surely recognized who was on the mound for the Dodgers last night: good ol' Mr.


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POSCO cuts monthly stainless steel output 20 pct

POSCO , the world's fourth-largest steel maker, started in early December to reduce monthly stainless steel output by 20 percent, responding to slower demand, company officials said on Friday.


Woods rallies to capture seventh Grand Slam of Golf title

Tiger Woods fired a bogey- free six-under 66 to surge to a two-shot victory over Jim Furyk at the $1 million PGA Grand Slam of Golf at Poipu Beach, Hawaii on Wednesday.


California broadband report may be model for other states

A California report offers a deep look into who has broadband there and who does not and may serve as a model for other states, said an official with Cisco Systems.California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Broadband Task Force, which released the report Thursday, found that 96 percent of Californians have access to broadband, but speeds vary significantly region to region. Only about 54 percent of Californians have access to 10Mbps, and about 56 percent of the state's residents subscribe to broadband service, the report said.The report makes several recommendations, but one of the other major benefits of the study is its household-level information about broadband service availability, said Jeffrey Campbell, Cisco's senior director of technology and communications policy. An examination of broadband availability with this granularity hasn't been completed in the United States before, he said. Charles Giancarlo, Cisco's former chief development officer, served as co-chairman of the Broadband Task Force.The mapping "was necessary and important," Campbell said. "It's something that other states and the federal government can learn from. It's difficult to figure out how to start solving the issue of whether there's enough broadband ... when we just don't know where there is and isn't broadband in this country."California is "poised to become the world's leader" in broadband if it adopts the recommendations in the report, said Dale Bonner, the secretary of the state's Business, Transportation and Housing Agency and a task force co-chairman, in a statement.Critics of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission have long complained that the agency's broadband statistics aren't granular enough. Currently, the FCC counts a zip code as served by broadband if just one residence has service, but many zip codes are only partially served by broadband, critics say. A year ago, the FCC reported that broadband providers offered service in 99 percent of U.S. zip codes.Only a handful of states have also attempted to map broadband service. Kentucky has been particularly noted for its mapping effort.The California report contains a series of maps that show where broadband is available and at what speeds. For example, most of Silicon Valley has broadband of 5Mbps to 10Mbps available, while some spots have faster speeds. But large chunks of California's far northern coast have no broadband availability, according to the maps.All of California's broadband providers cooperated with the task force to create the maps, Campbell said. Broadband providers in the past have expressed concern that providing that information would give away their trade secrets, but the task force allowed the providers to give their data confidentially to a third-party aggregator.The report shows that many Californians don't have access to the 10Mbps necessary for telemedicine applications, specialized gaming and high-quality video, the report says. "It's not going to be good enough to have 500K[bps] broadband going forward," Campbell said. "We have to work to get it to people who don't have it at all, but also to ensure that the people who do have it available to them continue to get faster broadband and higher quality."The report recommends that the state build out broadband infrastructure to all residents, permit providers to work with each other, and create a statewide e-health network to encourage broadband use.Broadband provider AT&T praised the work of the task force. The economy needs a strong broadband infrastructure as its "foundation," said Ken McNeely, president of AT&T California, in a statement. Such a digital infrastructure will mean new jobs for the state and ensure that California "remains a leader in driving new, innovative technologies."


Wesley Snipes trial stays in Ocala, Fla.

Wesley Snipes' federal tax-evasion trial will go forward next month in this central Florida city, despite arguments by the actor's lawyers.


Small manufacturers in the UK are struggling in the face of soaring oil prices and higher interest rates, the CBI says.


Blair builds 'bridge' on road map to peace

Tony Blair secured unequivocal endorsements from the Palestinian leadership and Israel yesterday for a US-backed conference that is designed to ensure the Palestinians enforce


The prime minister is recovering in Downing Street after hospital treatment to correct an irregular heartbeat. Tony Blair was discharged on Friday from London's Hammersmith hospital, where he underwent the procedure.


Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 at Microsoft Corp.'s annual shareholders meeting in Bellevue, Wash.


NASCAR driver Dale  Earnhardt Jr. is on the road to reality television.


Conley, No. 4 Ohio St. Beat Purdue 78-60

By CLIFF BRUNT  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Mike Conley scored 18 points and Jamar Butler added 16 to help No. 4 Ohio State beat Purdue 78-60 on Wednesday night and win their sixth straight game.


Hewitt routs Gaudio, eases into Masters Cup semis

Houston, TX (Sports Network) - Third-seeded Lleyton Hewitt humbled eighth- seeded Gaston Gaudio 6-2, 6-1 on Friday to secure a spot in the semifinals at the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup.


Can `Blackout' beat Britney's bad press?

On her new CD, "Blackout," Britney Spears acknowledges that 2007 hasn't been a charmed year.


Four members of the militant group ELA were complicit in dozens of bombings, finds an Athens court.


49ers' Coach and G.M. Are Out in Shake-Up

After finishing 2-14, the San Francisco 49ers fired their coach, Dennis Erickson, and Terry Donahue agreed to resign as the team's general manager.


MySpace's parent company has agreed to buy Photobucket, the largest photo sharing site in the U.S.


EU commissioner in Libya working on medics' release

EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner is in Libya working with Cecilia Sarkozy, wife of the French president, to win the release of six foreign medics, a statement said Sunday.


Dallas Girl Kills Mother Over Grounding, Police Say

A 12-year-old Dallas girl has been charged with fatally shooting her mother in the face because she was angry over being punished, police said on Monday.


An injured Iraqi man in a mosque in Fallujah. The US military said on Tuesday that it was investigating a shooting incident in which a marine shot dead an Iraqi prisoner in the battlefield city of Fallujah.


April durable goods orders tumble 4.8 percent

New orders for U.S.-made durable  goods tumbled an unexpectedly large 4.8 percent in April on  drops in orders for civilian aircraft and computer and  electronic products, a government report showed on Wednesday.


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In Tonga, pigs fish but don't fly - yet.

Feral pigs in the South Pacific nation wade offshore to catch fish, crabs, and mussels.


A former top television star whose career foundered after a man was found dead in his swimming pool was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder, police sources said.


EDS is likely to be affected by the financial difficulties facing the US Airways Group, which filed for bankruptcy protection this week.


Just don't forget basic IT principles Mobile workshop Our recent wireless workshop has demonstrated yet again that the genuine experts in any area are the people out there doing it for real. Indeed, we saw a number of examples of pragmatic ânon trendyâ opinions coming back from experienced Reg Readers that donât necessarily tally with some of the more idealistic views we often hear from the pundits and the press (Reg journalists excluded, of course).â¦


A Democratic candidate accuses her Republican rival of not doing enough to stop disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley and his cybersex exchanges with teenage males in an ad for Christian radio stations.


ROTHLEY, Leicestershire  - The family of missing British girl Madeleine McCann dismissed the evidence against her parents as "spurious" on Monday and appealed to Portuguese police to keep looking for the 4-year-old.


Landis faces lengthy wait for hearing outcome

Embattled Tour de France champion Floyd Landis is unlikely to hear the outcome of his doping hearing before this year's Tour starts on July 7.


President Bush plans to veto a defense spending bill that Congress passed this month, the White House said Friday.


Square Feet | Ventures: ItÂs a Good Time to Be a Landlord

Landlords are enjoying booming times these days as more people are choosing to rent.


World donated $17B for disasters in 2005

Individuals and governments donated a record $17 billion to help disaster victims in 2005, the international Red Cross said in its annual report Thursday.


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Two French Journalists Missing in Iraq - Ministry

Two French journalists are missing in Iraq and have not been heard from since Thursday, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said Saturday.


Study finds US blacks lack prostate cancer tests

US black men aged 65 and older run twice the risk of dying from prostate cancer than comparable whites, but they are less likely to have a common blood test to detect the disease, a study said on Monday.


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Larry Birkhead and Howard K. Stern both plan to sue the author of a new book that claims the two men shared a sexual encounter before Anna Nicole Smith's death and worked together afterward to manipulate the media and maximize profits.


Radio, music mergers show digital arena crowded

The urge to merge within both the  recording and satellite radio industries this week reflects how  tough it is to compete profitably within the evolving digital  media market.


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Queen Elizabeth II was recently photographed by famous photographer Annie Leibovitz. The shoot took place in the Queen's home and BBC cameras were there with full access. During the shoot Leibovitz asked the Queen to take off her crown and this request...


Simpsons movie spotlights an enduring icon

SPRINGFIELD, Vermont  - In the Vermont town of Springfield nestled in a mountain valley, a banner decorated with images of pink doughnuts is festooned across Main Street, welcoming visitors to the "Home of the Simpsons".


The death toll from a triple car bombing in central Baghdad on Saturday rose to at least 24 dead and 85 wounded, a police source said.


A strong explosion shook Baghdad's Jadiriyah district late Sunday, residents said. Emergency vehicles were seen rushing toward the area, but it was unclear if anyone was killed or injured.


A woman who ran brothels is spared a jail term after a judge said "no-one was harmed" by her trade.


Hailed by 40,000 delirious supporters, France's most popular politician yesterday took triumphant control of its ruling centre-right party, promising to restore battered Gallic pride with a mix of honesty, energy and new ideas.


And here's a no-muss, no-fuss way to snag 'em all.


Poland's Bumar signs 10.5-million-dollar contract to supply weapons to Iraq

Polish arms firm Bumar has signed a 10.5-million-dollar (8.7-million-euro) contract with the Iraqi authorities to supply weapons and ammunition to the war-torn country's army and police, the company said.


McDonald's CEO says to speed restaurant openings

OAK BROOK, Illinois  - McDonald's Corp.  chief executive said he expected the world's largest restaurant chain to increase the pace of opening new restaurants, which had been reduced four years ago as the company focused on improving operations.


Roma, 17:45 - CALCIO, PREMIER: TIFOSI DEL LIVERPOOL CONTRO SOCIETA'

I tifosi del Liverpool sarebbero pronti a boicottare gli incontri della loro squadra se i due propri...


Allen Iverson scored a season-high 46 points in his return to the lineup and the 76ers led all the way in a 123-108 victory over the Chicago Bulls last night in Philadelphia.


Business & money: Second consecutive monthly drop signals market is cooling off, Nationwide building society says


Iraqi forces abusing detainees, group says

Iraqi security forces are arbitrarily arresting people and systematically torturing and abusing detainees, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Tuesday.


World champion Fernando Alonso boosted his Formula One title chances on Saturday by seizing pole position on an all-Renault front row at a rain-swept Chinese Grand Prix.


Iraq war was illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan

The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal.


The Paris Anthropology Museum screened 37 documentaries on Iran during a five-day program which started on October 20, Mehr News Agency (MNA) reported.


Romney Suspends Presidential Campaign, Clearing Way for McCain

Bloomberg - Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney suspended his presidential campaign today, clearing the way for John McCain to seal the Republican presidential nomination.


Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis took a deep breath as he prepared to answer yet another question about Terrell Owens, the wide receiver who spurned an


Poll: Voters Like Schwarzenegger As Gov.

California voters love their governor but do not want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger as president and do not like the idea of amending the U.S. Constitution to let him run.


The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered a review of all prevention studies involving drugs such as Celebrex and Bextra, which have been associated with increased risk of heart problems. The agency also urged the public to limit use of over-the-counter pain medications.


New anti-smoking adverts to target families

UK government yesterday launched a Â£6m campaign to encourage more people to quit smoking in 2005. A series of five advertisements showing parents and children struggling to come to terms with terminal cancer


'Sopranos' creator defends famous finale

Just when we had made our peace with "The Sopranos" finale and moved on with our lives, David Chase has stirred things up again.


Film on Mexicoâs Disputed â06 Election Stirs Emotions

A documentary about last yearâs disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.


Security Worries in Baghdad, US Debates Polls

The ability of Iraqi insurgents to snatch foreigners from their guarded Baghdad offices highlighted the country's poor security as US officials argued whether elections could be held in towns under rebel control.


Kenya's Christmas comes early in election cash blitz

In Kenya, elections mean money. From cash to T-shirts to new roads, and the lucrative business of helping aspirants by fair means or foul, Christmas has come early in the east African nation.


Pinochet May Face First Trial After Court Ruling

SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto  Pinochet moved closer to his first trial on human rights  violations on Tuesday when Chile's Supreme Court allowed murder  and kidnapping charges against him to go forward.


New York Panel Rethinks Securities Oversight

A commission assembled revise New York Stateâs financial regulations recommended having one regulator oversee the securities industry, instead of the current four.


ST. LOUIS -- Chris Correnti supervised the training program that transformed Nomar Garciaparra from a 165-pound minor league shortstop to a magazine-cover mass of muscle. He also is the man in whom Pedro Martinez entrusted his rehabilitation from a damaged shoulder, the guy who helped nurture five starting pitchers through an entire season without missing a start, the man who ...


Bush senior: US will work with Blair on Mideast

Prime Minister Tony Blair's call for a new Mideast peace push "was heard loud and clear in Washington," former US President George HW Bush said in comments broadcast Sunday.


MBIA seeks to reassure investors; S&P puts on review

MBIA Inc  said on Thursday it will have enough cash to meet its commitments even after reporting a worse-than-expected quarterly loss, while Standard & Poor's is reviewing the top ratings it gave to the world's largest bond insurer.


Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world's second largest reinsurance company, on Thursday posted a net profit of 1.4 billion Swiss francs ($1.1 billion; euro910 million), more than double its net profit for the same ...


Can using a TV reality show to pick two stars for a musical revival really be bad for Broadway? Hardly


Justice Minister Jack Straw is to update MPs on government plans for constitutional reform.


Ban on St. Nick raises political flap in Vienna

VIENNA -- A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna's kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots this year.


Montreal Expos Fans to Bid Adieu to Team

Fans of the Montreal Expos prepared to bid adieu on Wednesday, as Major League Baseball said Canada's first big league team was to be relocated to Washington for next year's season.


LONDON (Dow Jones/AP) -- Corus Group PLC, one of the world's largest makers of steel, Thursday reported a profit for the first time in its five-year history.


Sharon seeks backing for pullout from Gaza

Israeli leader tells lawmakers that his plan is the only way for the nation to be secure. JERUSALEM -- Israel gave Yasser Arafat permission Monday to leave his compound briefly to receive medical treatment


The scoreboard at Travelers Championship made the U.S. Open seem like a distant memory. A week after only eight sub-par rounds were carded at the U.S. Open, 62 players broke par on Thursday before play was suspended with 39 golfers still on the course.


Hunter Killings Heighten Racial Tensions

The fatal shootings of six white deer hunters by a Hmong man in northern Wisconsin last month have fueled racial animosity against the growing immigrant population, according to Hmong community leaders.


PeopleSoft Forges Ahead With Product Plans

At Connect conference, customers will hear about the progress of its Total Cost of Ownership initiative, as well as upgrades to its HR and JD Edwards' manufacturing software.


Sharp to offer Blu-ray recorder with 1-terabyte HDD

Sharp Corp (6753.T) said it would launch  a Blu-ray high-definition DVD recorder with a 1-terabyte hard  disk drive (HDD), the world's largest storage capacity on any  Blu-ray recorder, as it competes with the HD DVD camp.


Taking on baseball's steroids problem once again, Congress kept the finger-pointing and tough questioning to a minimum. Maybe that's because the people under the most scrutiny this time Â Miguel Tejada, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens Â were nowhere to be seen.


Liverpool bring back boyhood memories for Rijkaard

Barcelona's laidback coach Frank Rijkaard doesn't get emotional, at least not usually in public, but the prospect of playing Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday has got him excited.


Creationist vs. Atheist YouTube War Marks New Breed of Copyright Claim

A dispute between an atheist group and a creationist group over some postings on YouTube  has critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act crying foul. They say it's a new and disturbing trend, and that false copyright claims can distort political and cultural debate.


NVIDIA, graphics card manufacturer, has reported that it's partnering up with Sony on the graphics hardware for PlayStation 3. The companies have been developing a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) incorporating next-generation GeForce technology


No-frills Polish carrier Centralwings begins two new routes from the UK to Poland.


P.P.S. Take Tissues to This Weepy About a Romance Tested by Death

âP.S. I Love Youâ looks squeaky clean and utterly straight. Yet as directed by Richard LaGravenese, it has a curious morbid quality.


The war crimes trial of Kosovo's former PM, Ramush Haradinaj, is set to begin at The Hague tribunal.


Protesters stop speech by Romanian president at Montreal park

MONTREAL (CP) - About 100 protesters booed and jeered the Romanian president Saturday, preventing him from giving a speech at a city park.


OPTUS was one of seven Asia Pacific telcos to form a joint venture that will try to overcome the hurdles facing mobile phone carriers across the region.


New AIDS drugs aim to combat resistant HIV strains

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK  - More than 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, many drugs are used to treat HIV, but an alarming number of patients are becoming resistant to therapy, driving research into new ways to combat the virus.


This week's "Ask the Editors" session will be hosted by yours truly, and we'll discuss anything you want about Apple for an hour.


England begin the third Test against South Africa on Sunday hoping to recharge their batteries in time.


A US team reports how it built in the lab the entire set of genetic instructions needed to drive a bacterial cell.


A legless artist documents the world in 32,000 stares

Tired of gawkers, Kevin Connolly traveled by skateboard, capturing their sheer human curiosity.


Fears could hamper kid's asthma therapy: U.S. study

If doctors hope to improve asthma symptoms in the 6 million U.S. children with the disease, they may first want to have a chat with their parents, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.


Chinese court deploys sentencing software

'Computer says 10 years, comrade' China has tested a software programme designed to "help decide prison sentences", Reuters reports.â¦


'Wash Times' Site Translates Most Articles Into Downloadable Audio Clips

Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The Washington Times has launched a new online feature that automatically translates all of the newspaper's staff-written content, as well as some AP content, into streamed audio and MP3 files, allowing users to listen to articles they would normally read in the print version or online.


Obama, McCain win Va.; Md delayed by ice

Sen. Barack Obama won the Virginia Democratic primary Tuesday night and reached out for victories in next-door Maryland and the District of Columbia, determined to erode or even erase Hillary Rodham Clinton's delegate lead in the party's presidential race.


US says 60 foreign fighters die in Iraq strike

US forces have launched fresh attacks in and near the restive Iraqi city of Falluja overnight, killing about 60 foreign fighters, the US military says.


Six killed in tense Gaza, world concern grows

Gun battles between Hamas forces and those loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah raged on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, where at least six fighters were killed, reviving fears of civil war.


The second earthquake struck about 200 miles to the northwest of the first earthquakeâs epicenter.


Patriots tame Jaguars to remain on perfect track

FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts  - The New England Patriots's perfect season continued with a 31-20 divisional playoff victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday.


Judge Clears Way for Start of Jackson Trial

SANTA MARIA - A judge denied two defense motions to dismiss the Michael Jackson child molestation case and also rejected their bid to delay the trial, keeping alive a Jan. 31 trial date.


Making wholesale substitutions as the Yankees piled on the runs yesterday, Red Sox manager Terry Francona removed Jason Varitek. The catcher


A slow August snapped an eight-month winning streak for Federated Department Stores Inc., which reported its first drop in sales since November.


Carmelo Anthony finally has some good news about his personal life: He's engaged to MTV veejay La La Vasquez.


Wasps keep their Heineken Cup hopes alive after just holding on for victory in a thrilling game at Adams Park.


17 killed in latest Pakistan suicide attack

A suicide bomber killed 17 people in northwest Pakistan as police tried to arrest him Tuesday, the latest attack in a wave of violence that is piling pressure on President Pervez Musharraf.


Nascar Readies for Another Season, and More Cries of Foul

When the green flag drops at the Daytona 500 on Sunday, Nascar officials will gird for another season of thrilling wins - and the conspiracy theories that accompany them.


Hope Turns to Caution in French Hostage Crisis

BAGHDAD/PARIS  - Two French hostages held in Iraq  are being well treated but there are hurdles to overcome to  secure their release, officials said.


Torino, 18:21 - CALCIO, CAGLIARI; GIAMPAOLO: HO CERCATO DI DARE FIDUCIA

Nuovo esordio con sconfitta per Marco Giampaolo sulla panchina del Cagliar, battuto di misura a Tori...


The Fifth Down Blog: The Fifth Down: Tie-Breaker Rules May Apply

It turns out that next week will not just be about the Patriots' pursuit of perfection. After the Browns and the Vikings failed to clinch playoff spots Sunday, Week 17 will now feature several games with potential playoff implications. There are two berths left â the No. 6 spot in each conference â and five [...].


Leading a sedentary lifestyle may make us genetically old before our time, research suggests.


New Lab to Find Fraudsters' Computer Secrets

By NINNESS GREG  CORPORATE INVESTIGATION company Paragon NZ is setting up what will be the country's largest forensic computer laboratory at its Auckland headquarters.


Torino, 16:44 - CALCIO, SACCHI: LA JUVE HA RITROVATO L'ETICA

L'ex cittÃ¬ azzurro Arrigo Sacchi convinto che il nuovo corso della Juve sia all'insegna della pulizi...


A team of Tunisian doctors has been granted permission to examine Yasir Arafat, who has been suffering from the flu, an Israeli official said Saturday.


A SWEEPER found a grenade in the parking lot of the heavily guarded Hilton hotel in Jakarta on Monday, police said, just days after warnings that militants might attack one of the three Hiltons in Indonesia.


A BBC documentary reveals that tests indicate Princess Diana's driver was drunk the night she died.


Shining Light: New England Inks Tackle to Extension

FOXBORO, Mass. (Sports Network) - The New England Patriots  Wednesday signed left tackle Matt Light to a six-year contract  extension. As per team policy, financial terms were not  released.


'Mary Poppins' Registers to Vote in Ohio

DEFIANCE, Ohio - Elections officials knew something was wrong when they got voter registration cards for Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Michael Jordan and George Foreman.


U2, Grandmaster Flash Lead Rock Hall Nominees

NEW YORK (Billboard) - U2, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious  Five, Randy Newman and the O'Jays are among the nominees for  the 2005 induction class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.


Some schools are now using TV cameras to monitor teachers' classroom performance.


Time Warner, Comcast in Pact on Cable Unit Stake

Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. on Monday agreed to a pact giving Comcast an option to cut its stake in Time Warner's cable unit, opening the door for Comcast to unwind the entire partnership.


In which our columnist declares his loyalty to the Blu-ray camp, and readers tell us what they think.


London, Dec 07 - Arsenal face a decisive Champions League Test against Rosenborg on Tuesday. If the English Premier League champions can beat the Norwegian outfit, then progress to the last sixteen of the tournament is assured.


Kosovo Serbs to boycott vote despite NATO security beef-up

More than 1,000 extra NATO troops have poured into Kosovo to secure Saturday's election but the Serb minority is insisting on a boycott amid simmering ethnic tensions.


Cade indagine su presunta rivelazione di segreto d'ufficio


By Andrew Wellner, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 16--WASILLA -- A shiny silver Matanuska Maid milk tanker on its regular run drove slowly past a crowd of more than 100 farmers, their friends and politicians Friday in the driveway of Havemeister Dairy Farm.


Reuters Poll: Bush Holds Three-Point Lead on Kerry

President Bush holds a slender three-point lead over Democratic rival John Kerry in a tight race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Monday.


(InfoWorld) - Microsoft's Windows Vista OS doesn't pose antitrust issues so far, according to the latest status report on Microsoft's compliance with the U.S. antitrust settlement. The company has addressed all of the bugs identified relating to how third-party middleware software interacts with Vista, according to the report, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Microsoft has increased its cooperation with the court's technical committee in several ways to help ensure that middleware vendors have their software ready for Vista before the OS ships, the report said. The document defines middleware as software programs such as instant messaging programs, media players, e-mail clients, and Internet browsers. Around 30 vendors are working with regulators and Microsoft on how their software works with Vista, the report said. The U.S. government and states that were a party to the antitrust suit against Microsoft have conducted "extensive testing" of interim builds of Vista and Internet Explorer 7 to ensure compliance with the November 2002 antitrust settlement, the report said. As part of that settlement, Microsoft agreed to license communication protocols to IT vendors interested in developing server software that works smoothly with its Windows operating system. After complaints, Microsoft is rewriting some of the technical documentation for its Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP). The status report said Microsoft has made the new documentation easier to understand, but the company needs to stay on schedule for delivering further documents. Microsoft has until November 2009 to provide the information. The European Commission has also beenÂ scrutinizing Vista, following its 2004 antitrust ruling against Microsoft. So far, the Commission has taken no action against Vista. Microsoft has warned that if regulatory interference delays Vista's European launch, it couldÂ hurt Europe's economy. Microsoft plans to release Vista to business customers on Nov. 30. In 2004, the CommissionÂ fined Microsoft â¬497 millionÂ ($613 million at the time) for abusing its monopoly in the desktop OS market, ordered it to release a version of Windows XP without Windows Media Player software, and mandated it to license and document protocols used by its server products. Microsoft is appealing the decision before the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg.


Avago Technologies Introduces Industry's Thinnest Optical Mouse Sensor With Integrated LED Bundle and Trim Lens

Avago Technologies, today announced a new series of small form factor  (SFF) optical mouse sensors with an integrated chip-on-board (COB) LED  illuminated optical navigation system that is the thinnest in the  industry.


Guide to Link Buying : Directories, Ads and Reviews

Link building has been an essential part of the online marketing mix since the first commercial sites and Internet resources originated.  As search engine optimization has evolved over the past decade, links have become the core of defining the value of a site. Whether links are obtained via the old fashioned email request, building or [...]


Boeing, still far from 7E7 sales goal, says it's not backing down

There's not much of 2004 left, but officials at aerospace giant Boeing Co. said Thursday they weren't giving up on a goal of securing 200 orders for the planned new 7E7 jetliner by the end of the year.


Peru Rebel Chief Scores Publicity Coup in Court

Punching the air with a fist and chanting rebel slogans, Peru's Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman scored a propaganda coup on Friday and forced his terrorism retrial to be postponed for a week.


La deposizione del campione danese che Ã¨ stato anche direttore sportivo di Basso"L'ho comprato e utilizzato da solo. Faceva parte della mia vita di corridore"                                            Doping, confessa anche Bjarne Riis "Ho preso l'Epo al Tour del 1996"


The sudden disappearance of a visiting Sri Lankan handball team in Frankfurt has baffled German authorities and there is suspicion the team may have landed in Italy to seek employment as immigrants.


It's time for some fans to pay a high price

On the day the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit clowns were charged with various crimes against civility, Indiana guard Anthony Johnson put the whole sad, absurd thing into perspective.


Uno studio americano spiega perchÃ¨ si prova piacere ascoltando una canzone"Migliora l'uomore perchÃ¨ si attivano i circuiti nervosi che livellano la dopamina"                                            La musica? Una droga naturale "Stimola l'ormone del benessere"


UPDATE 1-Wenger extends Arsenal contract until 2008

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has extended his contract at the English champions until May 2008. Wenger, 55, arrived at Highbury in 1996 and has led the London


Jodhpur's majestic 548-year-old Meherangarh Fort decks up to host the grand wedding of celebrity couple Hollywood actor Liz


As much of the world marked Sept. 11 by remembering the 2001 attacks on the United States, India celebrated it as a day of peace — the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mohandas K. Gandhi's philosophy of peaceful resistance.


Car explodes at Scottish airport after London bombs

A four-wheel-drive vehicle rammed into Glasgow airport's main terminal on Saturday and exploded in flames in what police described as an attack, a day after a twin car-bomb plot was foiled in London.


Congresso elegge De Michelis presidente e Del Bue segretario


In Brief: MySQL announces new affordable consulting packages

InfoWorld - MySQL this week made available three new consulting packages that aim to help IT departments quickly design and implement open source database systems. The packages feature MySQL-certified senior consultants who work at customer sites for short-term engagements and provide in-depth application analysis as well as recommendations on application design, performance optimization, and help with migrating legacy databases to MySQL. The packages are MySQL Architecture & Design, which offers two days consulting for $5,000; MySQL Performance Tuning & Optimization, which provides three days for $7,500; and MySQL Migration Jumpstart, which includes five days consulting for $10,000. MySQL also provides longer-term, customized consulting services. For more information visit www.mysql.com/consulting.


MIAMI -- Ruben Brown finally made it to the Super Bowl. If things had gone differently, he would have sooner.


Archbishop defends Pope, sympathizes with Muslims

The head of the world's Anglican church   stepped in to defend Pope Benedict on Monday in the face of   fury from some Islamic groups about the Roman Catholic leader's   use of a medieval quotation on Islam and violence.


US Marines launch air and ground attacks after Fallujah delegation ...

US Marines launched air and ground attacks Thursday on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city representatives suspended peace


More than 20 American TV stations last night boycotted a Veterans Day screening of war picture Saving Private Ryan because of fears that they would be censured by a newly aggressive television regulator over the movie's violence and graphic language.


Eastern areas of the Philippines are steeling themselves for another in a series of powerful storms.


Bush Mulls Resumed Energy Drilling Off Alaska

President Bush is considering lifting bans, which would open Alaskan waters to energy drilling, much to the consternation of environmentalists.


PITTSBURGH (Sept. 15, 2004) -- Ben Roethlisberger injured his right knee during a passing drill at the Pittsburgh Steelers' practice field.


Mounting trouble for Mok and Lai Two "ace" sniffer dogs who have performed sterling service combating drug trafficking in Thailand's Chiang Rai airport have been given their marching orders for urinating on luggage and "sexually harassing" female passengers, the Bangkok Post reports.â¦


Concerned that all that glitters is not gold, the U.S. Mint wants to crack down on unscrupulous coin dealers passing off fake commemorative coins.


Cadbury Schweppes drink sales hit by poor weather

Cadbury Schweppes said trading at its beverage business had been weaker than expected during the US and European summer with sales of fizzy drinks hit by poor weather.


The same embryonic stem cell bill that prompted President Bush's only veto is headed to his desk again, this time from Democrats who have it atop their agenda when they take control of Congress in January.


Bomb Hits Jakarta's Paris Embassy; Motive Unclear

A small package bomb exploded outside the  Indonesian embassy in Paris before dawn Friday, slightly  injuring 10 people and shattering nearby windows.


US positive on Darfur at UN despite resistance

Several UN Security Council members objected on Thursday to a US draft resolution that threatens oil sanctions against Sudan but they supported a large


Senate gives final approval to detainee bill

The U.S. Senate on Thursday gave   final approval to a bill for tough interrogation and   prosecution of terrorism suspects, as President George W. Bush   prevailed after a series of setbacks on his detainee policies.


Up this week are blue chip bargain hunters Harry Burn III and Gibbs Kane.


Lo ha scoperto l'associazione Meter di Don Fortunato Di Noto


Qantas reports takeover approach for potential 8 billion dlr deal

Australian flag carrier and icon Qantas has received a takeover approach, potentially worth more than 8.0 billion US dollars and sending its share price soaring to record levels.


Sul trasporto pubblico, la stima e' dell'Asstra


The Government Accountability Office (what you and I remember as the General Accounting Office) last week issued a long-awaited report (which was supposed to be out last spring) on the nettlesome issue of offshoring/outsourcing.


U.S. military denies killing al Qaeda leader in Iraq

The U.S. military on Thursday denied reports it had killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri.


OJIYA, Japan -- Strong aftershocks rocked northern Japan today after a barrage of powerful quakes jolted the region yesterday, killing at least 14 people and toppling buildings.


Canada temporarily withdraws three of its UK-built submarines from service after the Chicoutimi blaze.


Stocks set to sink; global sell-off persists

Stocks looked set to sink at the open on Monday as a reduced appetite for riskier assets hit overseas equities overnight, partly reflecting worries about the global economy.


NEW YORK (Billboard) - With music specialty stores dying by the hundreds this year between the liquidation of Tower and Musicland, Nordstrom and Sears may be picking up some of the slack. Both retailers have added an entertainment cache to their stores by carrying CDs.


Scelto dal Tesoro, sentito il Comitato Privatizzazioni


La quinta edizione al Lingotto dal 21 al 25 ottobre

Ã' annunciata la visita anche del principe Carlo d'Inghilterra. Terra Madre: incontro mondiale tra le ComunitÃ  del cibo. TORINO - Ci sarÃ  anche il principe dei buongustai al Salone del gusto a Torino. Un


The world's most expensive military project, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is due to take to the skies next week.


Bremer Says US Never Had Enough Troops in Iraq, AP Reports

Paul Bremer, the former US governor of Iraq, said that the US didn't have enough ground troops in Iraq after the fall of Baghdad, contradicting comments made by the Bush administration, the Associated Press reported.


Libby's Lawyers Argue Against Prison as Fitzgerald Seeks 30 Months

Defense lawyers argued yesterday that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff should serve no time in prison for lying about the leak of a covert agent's identity, on the grounds that he is a selfless, apolitical public servant with an otherwise "exemplary" record.


Last time ballots were cast in New Hampshire's presidential primary, hardly anyone in America knew the name Barack Obama. Now he is a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination hoping that momentum will propel him to become the first black president.


Il Papa: "Venite a omaggiare l'Immacolata"

Wojtyla durante l'Angelus appare in buona forma e si prepara a festeggiare i 150 anni del dogma mariano. L'8 il Pontefice si recherÃ  in Piazza di Spagna per esprimere la propria devozione. E invita romani e pellegrini a seguirlo.


Here is the official English translation of Pope John Paul's "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) Christmas message on Saturday.


Defense foundation of the Celtics' success

Obviously, the main draws for James Posey to sign as a free agent with the Celtics were the chance to play with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen, and the possibility of a legitimate run at an NBA title. As for playing on the NBA's best defensive team thus far, that has been a bonus.


One week, it's E. coli in fresh spinach. Then there's the recall for botulism in canned chili, beef stew, hash and gravy. And another for "gripe" water for colicky infants due to concerns about cryptosporidium. Just this week, there was an expanded recall for E. coli in frozen burgers and another...


The UK foreign secretary says thoughts should be with relatives of the dead in Beslan, not on the political implications.


HP goes high-definition with Pavilion HDX laptop

Hewlett-Packard, the top global PC vendor, Thursday introduced a multimedia notebook packed with high-definition features, including a screen that allows users to watch full HDTV movies.The HP Pavilion HDX laptop, targeted at multimedia enthusiasts, has a 20.1-inch high-definition screen that plays back true 1080p high-definition television, according to HP. Users will have the option of selecting from an HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc drives to play back high-definition movies.Powered by the Core 2 Extreme or Core 2 Duo processors from Intel, the system includes a hybrid TV tuner that lets users watch high-definition or analog TV broadcasts. The tuner will also provide digital video recorder capabilities, with users able to record and pause live TV.The system includes an Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTS graphics card with 512MB of video memory, HP said. It also includes has four Altec Lansing speakers with a subwoofer built in. The system will support storage of up to 500GB and have integrated wired and wireless networking.The system will run on Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate. Starting at $1,999, the system will ship in the U.S. this month, according to HP.HP on Thursday also introduced the Pavilion tx2000 tablet PC, a portable laptop targeted at students and professionals. Users can rotate the screen 180 degrees and use a stylus to capture handwriting or surf the Internet, according to HP.Powered by Advanced Micro Devices' Turion 64 X2 dual-core processor, the PC comes with a 12.1-inch screen and Windows Vista OS. It will have a DVD+/- RW drive, up to 250GB of storage, integrated wireless and wired networking, a fingerprint reader and a webcam. It weighs 4.29 pounds (1.95 kilograms) with a four-cell battery, according to HP.The PC will be available starting at $1,299, depending on configuration. It will ship later this month in the U.S.The laptops were announced ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas between January 7 and 10, where they will be on display.


The US is considering sending more troops to Iraq in the run-up to January election, the Pentagon confirms.


There are few things Stephen King hasn't tried when it comes to his work. He's already the master of horror fiction, a tour guide through disturbing and fantastical worlds, a writing coach, a nonfiction author, a screen writer and even a director.


DECOURCY: Rededicated Huggins back at Cincy

CINCINNATI - His workday began Friday at 12:01 am ET. Bob Huggins made a couple of recruiting calls, one to a point guard who interests the Cincinnati Bearcats, another to a power forward.


"The Covenant," a tale of supernatural teens trying to destroy each other at an elite boarding school, ascended to the top of the weekend box office with a modest take of $9 million, according to studio estimates.


OTTAWA -- About 8,000 employees of the federal tax agency walked off the job yesterday in Ontario and BC, including 280 in London, leaving public phone queries unanswered and federal revenue cheques uncashed.


At least 23 passengers killed in Honduran bus shooting

Unknown men assailed a public bus in northern Honduras on Thursday, killing at least 23 passengers, the Honduran La Prensa newspaper reported on its Web site.


Iraqi government delegation visits ill Sistani in London

Representatives of Iraq's interim government have visited Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in London where he is recovering after medical treatment, a statement said.


Media group Emap has agreed to sell its trade magazine and exhibitions businesses for Â£1bn.


US troops accelerate operations against Sunni insurgents before ...

US troops went on the offensive from the gates of Baghdad to the Syrian border Tuesday, pounding Sunni insurgent positions from the


L'agenzia d'informazione cattolica riporta l'intervento del presidente del Copercom"Questo filmato, piÃ¹ che un'inchiesta, in realtÃ  Ã¨ un video a tesi, non credibile, con grandi falsitÃ "                                            Video Bbc, la Sir contro Santoro "Trasmetterlo Ã¨ sciacallaggio mediatico"


Militants give Israel deadline on releases

Militants gave Israel 24 hours starting Monday to begin releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, implying they would kill an abducted Israeli soldier if their demands were not met.


The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack their visitors. They found more than 3 million of them, meaning that about one in 1,000 Web pages is malicious, according to Neils Provos, a senior staff software engineer with Google.These Web-based attacks, called "drive-by downloads" by security experts, have become much more common in recent years as firewalls and better security practices by Microsoft have made it harder for worms and viruses to directly attack computers.In the past year the Web sites of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth movie and the Miami Dolphins were hacked, and the MySpace profile of Alicia Keys was used to attack visitors.Criminals are getting better at this kind of work. They have built very successful automated tools that poke and prod Web sites, looking for programming errors and then exploit these flaws to install the drive-by download software. Often this code opens an invisible iFrame page on the victim's browser that redirects it to a malicious Web server. That server then tries to install code on the victim's PC. "The bad guys are getting exceptionally good at automating those attacks," said Roger Thompson, chief research officer with security vendor Grisoft.In response, Google has stepped up its game. One of the reasons it has been scouring the Web for malicious pages is so that it can identify drive-by-download sites and warn Google searchers before they visit them. Nowadays about 1.3 percent of all Google search queries list malicious results somewhere on the first few pages.Some of the data surprised Provos."When we started going into this, I had the firm intuition that if you go to the sleazier parts of the Web, you are in more danger," he said.It turns out the Web's nice neighborhoods aren't necessarily safer than its red-light districts."We looked into this and indeed we found that if you ended up going to adult-oriented pages, your risk of being exposed [to malicious software] was slightly higher," he said. But "there really wasn't a huge difference.""Staying away from the disreputable part of the Internet really isn't good enough," he noted.Another interesting finding: China was far and away the greatest source of malicious Web sites. According to Google's research, 67 percent of all malware distribution sites are hosted in China. The second-worst offender? The U.S., at 15 percent, followed by Russia (4 percent), Malaysia (2.2 percent), and Korea (2 percent).It costs next to nothing to register a Web domain in China and service providers are often slow to shut down malicious pages, said Thompson. "They're the Kleenex Web sites," he said. Criminals "know they're going to be shut down, and they don't care."Malicious site operators in China fall into two broad categories, Thompson said: Fraudsters looking to steal your banking password, and teenagers who want to steal your World of Warcraft character.So how to stop this growing pestilence?Google's Provos has this advice for Web surfers: Turn automatic updates on. "You should always run your software as updated as possible and install some kind of antivirus technology," he said.But he also thinks that Webmasters will have to get smarter about building secure Web sites. "I think it will take concentrated efforts on all parts," for the problem to go away, he said.


G7 seeks to pressure China to let currency rise

Global finance chiefs sought a way on Friday to put pressure on China to let its currency rise in value to ease global trade imbalances and also aimed to craft a message to soothe turbulent financial markets.


Avellino, 20:04 - CALCIO, AVELLINO: UFFICIALIZZATE LE DATE DEL RITIRO

LAvellino ha ufficializzato le date del ritiro pre campionato. La formazione irpina sarà dal ...


âPersepolis,â austere as it may look, is full of warmth and surprise, alive with humor and a fierce independence of spirit.


Ferre parts with creative director after 5 months

Italian fashion house Gianfranco Ferre has parted ways with Lars Nilsson just five months after hiring him as creative director.


Terrorist attacks affect people's mental health even when they are not directly involved, experts say.


Parigi, 09:52 - CALCIO, HENRY CONFERMA: HO SCELTO IL BARCELLONA

Thierry Henry conferma in un'intervista al quotidiano francese L'Equipe di aver scelto il Barcellona...


Hunting Down a Living In the Wilds of Canada

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories For David Giroux, happiness is a dead marten.


2 of 5 terror suspects jailed in Denmark

A Danish court jailed two men Wednesday on preliminary terror charges, but said five others must be released within days unless investigators submit stronger evidence against them.


Cricket: Black Caps offered help from Greg Chappell

ADELAIDE - New Zealand cricket coach John Bracewell has not ruled out tapping the knowledge of former Australian captain Greg Chappell as the tourists plot to avoid a repeat of their first test humiliation.


Cifra riferita al 2001-2004, da decidere importo per 2005-06


Societa' alimentare ceduta per 360 milioni di euro


Thai gov't to investigate 78 people deaths in south

Thai government will set up a committee to investigate the deaths of 78 people on crowded trucks following the latest riot in the deep South, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said here on Wednesday.


Pakistani Chief Might Retain His Dual Role

Pakistan's information minister announced Wednesday night that President Pervez Musharraf would renege on a public promise to take off his military


Millions Must Work Longer to Pay for Pensions Blackhole

Millions must work longer or save harder to pay for the pensions blackhole detailed in an official study published tomorrow. At Â£57 billion the annual savings


More than 1.3m Bangladeshis hit by Cyclone Sidr will face monsoon rains in inadequate shelter, Oxfam warns.


Seattle SuperSonics: The Sonics signed Turkish shooting guard Ibrahim Kutluay, who lit up the United States Olympic team in a pair of exhibition games this summer.


MMC Names New Chairman, CEO at Marsh Inc.

Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC) on Friday announced a change in the management of Marsh Inc., its risk and insurance services subsidiary.


Gay Advocacy Group Says Its President Is Resigning

In a surprise shake-up, Cheryl Jacques, president of the Human Rights Campaign, is resigning immediately after 11 months on the job, officials of the group, the


U.S. Astronauts Preparing for Another Spacewalk

KOROLYOV, Moscow region. June 13 (Interfax-AVN) - U.S. astronauts Patrick Forrester and James Reilly, who recently arrived at the International Space Station aboard the Atlantis space shuttle, will perform a spacewalk early on Thursday for the second time this week.


Shuttle Crew Wraps Up Space Station Visit

The crews of the International Space Station and the space shuttle Atlantis had their last full day of joint operations Saturday.


Loews Corp. , the conglomerate run by the Tisch family, reported a nearly six-fold increase in fourth-quarter profit on Monday, helped by gains at its insurance and oil drilling units.


Most IT Managers won't question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies.


North Korean Media Drop `Dear Leader' Title, Press Monitor Says

North Korea's official media have dropped the honorific ``dear leader'' from reports on Kim Jong Il, a Japanese news agency reported a day after other reports said his portrait had been removed at some public sites.


HUNDREDS of Norwich Union workers were dealt a double blow today after it was announced more jobs in the city were to be lost. Bosses said up to 70 posts were to go abroad while more than 140 jobs would transferred to York.


HIV is the fastest growing serious health condition in England and Wales, according to a United Nations report into the Aids epidemic.


Poison in politics - often suspected but seldom proved

Poisoning has been used throughout history as a political weapon, but by its very nature, it is a secretive method of killing that is designed to keep people guessing.


Your Money: Avoiding a Heaping Helping of Disappointment

Diners often face the unknown when looking for a good dining experiences. But there are techniques that can help.


United Warns It May Jettison Pension Plans to Stay Afloat

nited Airlines said yesterday that it would most likely terminate its four employee pension plans and replace them with less generous benefits, a drastic move that United said was needed to attract the ...


Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, has admitted for the first time that his government does not intend to honour the American-backed "road map" to peace.


Few net users get the top speed promised by their net provider finds a study of average browsing speeds.


Topaz Wins Us$ 4 Million Black & Veatch Contract

Topaz Energy and Marine Ltd. announced that its Abu Dhabi subsidiary, Adyard L.L.C Abu Dhabi have recently been awarded a contract from Black and Veatch to supply Claus Reactors and CBA Reactors for the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project undertaken by Reliance Petroleum Limited.


WhatÂs Online: Making Inventions and Money

A series of popular posts on Digg.com about a company called Inventionland were discovered to be someone ÂspammingÂ the site.


Harley's latest numbers are a lot like the bikes: powerful underneath but not too speedy.


President Bush and other critics of a $35 billion spending increase for children's health insurance say they'll support expanding coverage to families of four making as much as $62,000 a year, but they want to limit states' ability to go beyond that level.


A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's Aceh province kills at least three people, officials say.


Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing

The apparent breakdown comes just as the White House is struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward a functioning government.


Riley: Bush Re-Election Will Change Court

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley told a Republican breakfast that President Bush's re-election will change the U.S. Supreme Court, described by the governor as "very liberal."


The software maker drops the Azyxxi mouthful, but its replacement Amalga draws only mixed reactions, at least in the News.com newsroom.


Sainsbury's supermarket agrees a new milk supply deal with Robert Wiseman and Dairy Crest which the firms say could benefit hundreds of dairy farmers.


UK Man Held Over Cisco Source Code Theft

Police said on Monday they have arrested a 20-year-old British man on suspicion of stealing Cisco Systems  source code, the basic instructions for the machines that direct Internet traffic across the globe.


Being overweight as a child significantly increases the risk for heart disease in adulthood as early as age 25, according to a large new study that provides the most powerful evidence yet that the obesity epidemic is spawning a generation prone to serious health problems later in life.


An abrupt end to an osprey breeding season and bad weather are affecting a centre's visitor numbers.


China Iron Mine Fire Death Toll Rises to 49

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 49 Chinese miners killed when fire swept through an iron mine complex in the northern province of Hebei, the State Administration of Work Safety said on Monday.


Catania, 22:38 - CALCIO, SERIE B: CATANIA-CATANZARO 2-0 NELL'ANTICIPO

Nell'anticipo della 24/a giornata del campionato di serie B, il Catania ha battuto il Catanzaro 2-0 ...


November 19, 2004 - NVIDIA Corporation and Intel Corporation today announced that they have entered into a multi-year, cross-license agreement.


Abbas forces overrun part of Gaza after polls call

Forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas overran a Hamas ministry and sealed off the area around his compound on Sunday as the threat of violence hung over Gaza following the president's call for new elections.


Culture: No Stumping for Culture in the French Presidential Election

Franceâs art world appears to be losing its political clout, but can a new leader energize the countryâs play-it-safe art scene?


Waxman has Bush administration in sights

The lawmaker who may cause the most headaches for the Bush administration when Democrats take control of Congress is a grocer's son from Watts who's hardly a household name off Capitol Hill.


Pakistan's Bhutto assassinated in gun, bomb attack

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan  - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday as she left an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, putting January 8 polls in doubt and sparking anger in her native Sindh province.


John Paddock was promoted to the job of head coach after two seasons as the Senatorsâ assistant coach, taking over a team that made it to the Stanley Cup finals this spring.


New Zealand super maxi Konica Minolta has increased its lead over Australian rival Skandia in the 60th Sydney-Hobart as rough weather slams into the fleet and forced 31 boats to retire.


Former owner Alex Langer is poised to resume operations of WBIX-AM this week amid signs the station is about to significantly cut back on its signature business news and information programs. Langer sold WBIX to accused embezzler Bradford Bleidt in 2002 for $10 million, but was still owed $7 million when Bleidt was arrested and charged this month with stealing ...


Russia Probes Cause of Two Plane Crashes

BUCHALKI, Russia - Russian emergency workers searched heaps of twisted metal and tall grass Wednesday for clues to what caused two airliners to plunge to Earth almost simultaneously, killing all 89 people aboard. Officials said one jet sent a hijack distress signal, raising fears terrorists had struck...


Three Royal Ascot racegoers are taken to hospital, one with serious injuries, after their coach overturns, police say.


Software giant Microsoft is joining the ranks of companies offer blogs or online journals.


New royalty rates may doom many small stations and the struggling musicians who depend on them.


Intervista premier a Le Figaro a vigilia vertice di Lucca


PHP victory over Ruby: was Gosling right?

Project failure 2.0 Remember when Java father James Gosling got flamed for uttering the ultimate Web 2.0 heresy: scripting languages aren't good enough for enterprises?â¦


Brawl Involves Players, Fans at Pistons-Pacers Game

A brawl involving players and fans at  Friday's game between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons in  Auburn Hills, Michigan may result in serious punishment from  the NBA.


The bill passed Friday in Congress states that the Air Force can buy -- but not lease -- the manufacturer's tankers in coming years.


Two teenage girls are accused of gaining unauthorized access to their school district's Web site and posting a fake winter school closing, police said.


The Vatican offers priests a course in casting out devils with lessons on psychology and the law included.


Spurs Pull Away to Beat Shaq, Heat 93-84

Shaquille O'Neal's last basket cut San Antonio's lead to one point with nearly five minutes left, but the Spurs' defense held their longtime nemesis scoreless down the stretch en route to a 93-84 victory over the Miami Heat on Friday night. Manu Ginobili scored 29 points for San Antonio and hit a big shot to help the Spurs pull away.


LOS ANGELES - Harold Benjamin, who, after his wife was treated for breast cancer, gave up a successful law practice to found the Wellness Community, a groundbreaking network of support centers for cancer patients and their families, died Thursday at his


Bombs Hit Three Argentine Bank Branches, One Dead

By Mary Milliken BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Bombs exploded at threebanks in the Argentine capital on Wednesday, including twobranches of U.S. giant Citibank, killing one security guard andinjuring a bomb squad officer, officials said.


A multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought by the government against major tobacco firms is to open in Nigeria.


LONDON, September 25 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Prominent British Muslim activist Yusuf Islam, formerly known as famous pop singer Cat Stevens, said Friday, September 24, he began a legal action against the US government over its refusal to


Kentucky churches packed after jet crash

Shaken by tragedy, people packed Kentucky churches on Sunday, a week after the crash of Comair Flight 5191 killed 49 people in Lexington.


U.S. blue chip stocks fell on  Wednesday after Honeywell International Inc. HON.N and J.P.  Morgan Chase & Co. JPM.N had quarterly reports that  disappointed investors, while oil prices hovering at $55 per  barrel sparked fresh worry about higher corporate energy costs.


NEW YORK - Investors sent stocks falling sharply for a second straight day Thursday as crude oil prices surged near $55 per barrel and General Motors Corp.'s earnings disappointed the market. The Dow Jones industrial average, having fallen 153 points over two days, dropped back below 10,000...


Connecting Business and IT Goals with Closed Loop Client Management

(Source: BMC Software) This paper investigates the problems associated with client management and explains the ITIL best practices for client management.  Download the "Connecting Business and IT Goals with Closed loop Client Management" white paper, compliments of BMC Software, now.


Reports: Apple plans to sell ringtones through iTunes

New iPods are expected to be the major news next Wednesday, but Apple will also announce a deal to let iPhone users buy ringtones through the iTunes Store, according to reports.


L'azzurra si aggiudica anche il gigante nella Rep.Ceca


Rookie Ubaldo Jimenez dueled postseason star Curt Schilling for the first four innings, and the Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox were tied 1-1 Thursday night in Game 2 of the World Series.


France detains two Rwandan genocide suspects

Police said they had arrested two Rwandans living in exile in France who are wanted by an international court trying suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.


By AP Wire Service  Video:  NASA Takes Steps to Return to the Moon     WASHINGTON  -- NASA may be going to the moon with a ship that looks a lot like a 1960s Apollo capsule, but the space agency said Monday it's going to do something dramatically different this time: Stay there.


ATHENS - These were the Olympics protected by Nato and never a shot was fired. Yet on the last day, the last event, one sick individual, a lapsed Irish priest, molested an athlete and broke the sacrosanct


When the Giants play in Dallas on Sunday, the outcome may depend on how the Giantsâ aggressive defensive line performs against the Cowboysâ big and gifted offensive line.


It's soooo fashionable to have a reality show nowadays. Following the likes of Donald Trump, Tyra Banks and Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Hilfiger is the next celebrity strutting onto the reality TV runway.


Milan Martic, former head of Croatian Serb rebels, is jailed for 35 years in The Hague for war crimes.


India's prime minister offers unconditional talks over Kashmir

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh vowed Wednesday to move peace talks forward in insurgency-wracked Kashmir, saying he "was prepared to hold unconditional talks with anyone and everyone.


There's a shot of Brad Pitt standing in a stunning shiny metallic gray suit, an unusually long take that embodies the style-is-substance attitude of "Ocean's Twelve," Steven Soderbergh's A-list


Burt Rutan takes a V2-powered wander down memory lane

Aviation pioneer Burt Rutan has been fondly remembering his childhood hero - German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. The X-Prize victor recently hooked up with two surviving members of von Braun's V2 team


Not all files on peer-to-peer networks are genuine. Here are tips to help you dodge the fakes.


Two Syrians Sentenced to Death for April Attack

Two Syrians have been sentenced to death and two others to life in prison for a car bomb attack and gunbattle that killed four people in Damascus, the official SANA news agency said on Thursday.


Attacco contro Baquba, sessanta chilometri a nord-est di Bagdad                                            10mila soldati contro Al Qaeda                                                                                L'assalto "ancora nelle fasi iniziali". Finora almeno 22 integralisti sono stati uccisi


Najaf Dispute Disrupts Political Conference

More than 1,100 Iraqis convened for the start of a conference aimed at selecting a national assembly, but the meeting was roiled by a dispute over the use of military force to confront militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.


Orange celebration as Yushchenko claims 'clean' victory in Ukraine vote

Jubilant Ukraine opposition supporters massed once again in Kiev's central Independence Square as their hero Viktor Yushchenko claimed victory in a landmark presidential vote rerun and proclaimed that their country was now both independent and free.


Agenzia energia, puo' arrivare a 150 dollari


The traditional competition for U.S. offshore outsourcing business was between nations. That's about to change, according to a new study.


N.H.L. Roundup: Honors Pile Up for Former Ranger Leetch

For Brian Leetch, being honored Wednesday with the Lester Patrick Award for contributions to American hockey was one of a series of events that followed his retirement this year.


Oil hits $51 as hurricanes halt supplies

Crude oil prices jumped above $51 a barrel yesterday, setting a fresh record amid a prolonged production shut-down in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Ivan.


Fiji army chief says he's the boss as coup simmers

Fiji's defiant military ruler declared he is the boss in the South Pacific country as the prime minister returned to the capital on Saturday, a day after his cabinet went into hiding over concerns of a coup.


Prenderanno parte Cisco, i Faraualla e Di Marco dei Csi


Rescuers search through a collapsed building housing Turkish army families after an apparently accidental blast.


Share dell'11% tra le 15 e le 18, 8,2% nel preserale


Researchers studying Swedish men say  they have uncovered five genes responsible for nearly half of  all cases of prostate cancer in that country and said their  findings might lead to a better test for the disease.


Infineon executives fined; jail term for price fixing

NEW YORK, December 6  - The US Department of Justice has imposed steep fines and announced jail terms for four senior executives of Infineon Technologies (IFX.


LG Group to Swap Maximum of 264.3 billion Won In Debt For Equity ...

LG Group and LG Card Co.âs creditors continued standing face-to-face with each other on Wednesday over their allotment for swapping the cash-strapped company âs debt for equity.


Blog: Yahoo hires first ever chief compliance and ethics officer


SINGAPORE - Bill Gates might not use AOL, but he's definitely got mail. The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives millions of Internet messages a day, said Steve Ballmer, the company's chief executive.


IDF exchanging fire with 2 Palestinian infiltrators

Two armed militants infiltrated Israel early on Sunday from the southern Gaza Strip near the community of Holit, near the Sufa crossing.


Job portal Monster.com has released details of how cyber thieves stole confidential information.


Preterm babies at risk of hospitalization as adults

NEW YORK  - People who were born early or just had an unusually low birth weight are more likely to be hospitalized in adolescence and young adulthood, Swedish researchers report.


Pakistan test-fires short-range, nuke-capable missile

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range, nuclear-capable missile Monday in its efforts to beef up its national defense, a Defense Ministry official said.


HONG KONG China Netcom Group (Hong Kong), controlled by the second-largest fixed-line phone operator in China, has filed with US regulators to raise as much as $1.


Palermo, 17:53 - CALCIO, PALERMO; GUIDOLIN: COMPLIMENTI AL LIVORNO

Reduce da tre sconfitte consecutive, il Palermo cerca il riscatto nell'anticipo di domani (ore 18) c...


The Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a grand jury from obtaining patient records from a physician who is one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers.


Works, the Whole Works and Nothing but the Works

The Brooklyn Museum has set out all, or a great many, of its jaw-dropping objects or artworks for our delectation in its new open-storage display.


Champaign Dreams: Illini Host Wake Forest

FACTS & STATS: Site: Assembly Hall (16,500) -- Champaign, Illinois. Television: ESPN. Home Record: Wake Forest 3-0, Illinois 3-0.


Parents of children with asthma are failing to clear their homes of substances that can cause an attack.


Torino, 11:00 - CALCIO, JUVE: ANCHE NEDVED IN RITIRO

Pavel Nedved è presente al raduno della Juve a Vinovo (Torino) che precede la partenza per il...


Clippers Activate Kittles; Place Jaric on IL

LOS ANGELES (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Clippers  placed guard Marko Jaric on the injured list prior to  Saturday's game against Phoenix and activated guard Kerry  Kittles from the IL.


Hong Kong retail investors have flocked to the US$3bn listing of shops and car parks by the local Housing Authority with nearly one in ten of the territory's


Report: Ravens to Hire Fassel, Neuheisel

The Baltimore Ravens are expected to hire former Giants coach Jim Fassel as their offensive coordinator, and former University of Washington coach Rick Neuheisel as quarterbacks coach, The (Baltimore) Sun reported in Monday's editions.


Brush with TV segregation over at "Survivor"

"Survivor" has ended its brush with segregation after two episodes -- just as it planned to do all along.


Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — A year ago, more than 100,000 anti-American demonstrators stomped through the streets of London as President Bush met with Prime Minister Tony Blair about the troubled aftermath of the Iraq war.


Microsoft's Bill Gates calls on firms to engage in creative capitalism that creates a profit while helping the poor.


VALENCIA, Spain -- Spanish coach Luis Aragones accused Scotland of playing too hard after his side were held to a 1-1 draw in Friday's abandoned friendly.


Messina, 17:28 - Calcio, Messina: GiampÃ  in campo dal primo minuto

Ci sarÃ  anche GiampÃ  nel Messina che domani affronterÃ  in trasferta il Cagliari. Lo ha deciso Mutti ...


Tour Leader Faces Ban After Missing 2 Drug Tests

Michael Rasmussen was cleared to start the 12th stage today, but he could be suspended if he misses another test.


France Telecom shares have fallen after the French government opted to reduce its substantial stake in the business.


INCHEON, South Korea -- A stalled process to dismantle Pyongyang's nuclear programs could resume within weeks now that a dispute over the transfer of North Korean funds is over, U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said Monday.


The new PlayStation 2 game makes ingenious use of the gimmicky EyeToy controller, but glitches and repetition keep it from taking off. By Chris Kohler.


Few Americans Buy Medicines Online, Study Finds

Few American adults have bought prescription drugs via the Internet, despite rising drug costs and increased pressure to import cheaper drugs from abroad, according to a new study released on Sunday.


The Path to Enterprise Desktops: From Personal Computers to Personalized Computing

(Source: VMWare) Download this IDC white paper and learn more about how VMware is changing traditional desktop deployment and management.


Kingfisher First-Half Net Rises 30% on Store Refits

Kingfisher Plc, the world's third- largest home-improvement retailer, said first-half profit gained 30 percent as the company bought more cheaply from suppliers and revamped Castorama stores in France to attract customers.


Ministro Ambiente, trovare misure strutturali e durature


AT&T says hackers accessed customers' credit cards

AT&T said that its online store has been hacked and that the credit card information and personal data of as many as 19,000 customers may have been compromised.


Witnesses: Gunman snatches boy  from bus stop

Children say a man with a gun abducted a boy from a bus stop this morning. Sheriff Charlie Wells of Parrish, Florida, said 13-year-old Clay Moore was forced into a red or maroon truck by the kidnapper, who is either a tanned white or Latino man.


Court Panel Says New York Schools Need Billions More

A panel has found that an additional $5.6 billion must be spent on schoolchildren every year to provide a basic education.


Varna, 19:36 - VOLLEY DONNE,  WGP 2007: ITALIA KO CON LA TURCHIA

Esordio amaro per la nazionale femminile di pallavolo nelle qualificazioni al WGP 2007. L'Italia &eg...


London equities opened in positive territory on Thursday as a raft of bid news helped lift sentiment on the market. The FTSE 100 started trade up 0.3 per cent at 4,740.1 and the mid-cap FTSE 250 stayed flat at 6,755.7.


State carrier Alitalia could be faced with collapse within 20 days without the approval of a restructuring plan that would allow the airline to tap into a loan of 400 million euros ($488 million), the company's chairman was quoted as saying in Italian news reports Tuesday.


Jimmy Walker would love to have a fairy-tale finish at the Sony Open. Given the bad memories from this place, he was thrilled Thursday with the first chapter.


Eat to Your Health With These 10 Super Foods

Can you eat your way to good health? Well, there are no guarantees. But here's what we can guarantee: Make these 10 foods part of your diet, and you'll be giving your body lots of what it needs in terms of nutrients.


Secondo governatore Banca di Francia, Christian Noyer