Druglords Blamed for Attack on Karzai's Running Mate

Drug runners were behind a bomb attack on  one of President Hamid Karzai's running mates just days before  Afghanistan holds an historic election, Interior Minister Ali  Ahmad Jalali said Thursday.


NL Wrap: Morris Shuts Out Dodgers as Cards Keep Winning

Matt Morris pitched a two-hit shutout, striking out a season-high 11, as the St Louis Cardinals blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-0 in a showdown between two division leaders at Busch Stadium on Friday.


OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Cam Cameron, coming off a 1-15 season as head coach of the Dolphins, was hired Wednesday as offensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens.


A former Cambodian boy soldier defuses his past

Aki Ra laid mines with his bare hands for the Khmer Rouge and now takes them away to villagers' delight and official frustration.


Scientists pinpoint a new gene linked with late-onset Alzheimer's disease.


Retailer's Japanese arm posts product page for hotly anticipated game console.


Prosecutors show letter at court-martial

A British army colonel accused of failing to stop soldiers from abusing Iraqi detainees said in a letter that rough conditions in southern Iraq sometimes "got the better of otherwise professional troops," prosecutors said Friday in a court-martial proceeding.


In Eastern Europe, a Switch to the Euro Comes Slowly

Across much of the region this year, target dates for euro adoption are being pushed back to 2009 or beyond with regularity.


Monitors say a referendum on extending the rule of Belarus' authoritarian leader fell short of democratic standards.


Microsoft to launch Xbox 360 in Japan on Nov 22

Microsoft Corp.  said on  Wednesday it will launch its Xbox 360 HD DVD player in Japan on  November 22.


Australian brewer Fosters buys 18.8% of winemaker Southcorp and reveals they are in talks, triggering takeover rumours.


The UN votes in favour of setting up a court to try the suspected killers of ex-Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.


THE SITUATION: Peace Process Comes to Life With a Flurry of ...

As suddenly as it fell apart four years ago, the Middle East peace process sprang back to life this week in a rapid-fire series of dramatic developments that left Israelis rubbing their eyes in disbelief.


The late president's son is sworn in in Togo amid international concern at what some say was a "coup".


Gulf Arabs Want Polls to Lead to Broad-Based Iraq

Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq's elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.


Victory Looms for Karzai as Vote Probe Continues

Hamid Karzai was assured of a majority in Afghanistanâs election to become its first democratically chosen president. With nearly 95 per cent of votes counted, the interim leader already has more than half


Vendor claims about storage virtualisation flawed

Over the next two years network based storage virtualization will remain a niche, while thin provisioning will enjoy rapid adoption in the enterprise. And, applying network-based storage virtualization to pool arrays isn't likely to improve this environment if efficient utilization hasn't already been achieved.


Il Tribunale amministrativo ha deciso che sono da considerarsi valide le provesostenute per l'accesso ai corsi di medicina e odontoiatria. Esclusi i candidati indagati                                          Bari, Tar accoglie ricorso no all'annullamento dei test


Powell leads trio of double jackpot winners

Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell and   American 400 meters runners Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards   completed perfect Golden League seasons on Sunday to scoop   $250,000 shares in the double jackpot.


Kidnappers demand U.S. allies leave Iraq

Militants have piled more pressure on Washington's military allies in Iraq, seizing an Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.


Read about the last British computer company - in the bath

Psion special goes binary Last month, we published something unusual for us: a long feature about the consumer electronics pioneer Psion. It's full of previously untold stories: the plucky outfit could have been the British Sony. But we know that reading long pieces on the web is a pain. So as promised, we're making it available as a PDF download.â¦


Ma Musharraf avverte: non pensate di sconfinare


G7 presses China on yuan, says world economy sound

Global financial markets are improving but uneven conditions may persist, and China must allow the value of its yuan currency to rise more rapidly, finance officials from the rich nations said on Friday.


Mobile Clinic: How do you make mobile data secure?

Keeping it safe Mobile Clinic We asked and you responded in kind with the key issues you're facing with mobilising your workforce. Below, we've got three industry experts - all of whom have racked up more years in the mobile world than most of us have had hot dinners - who are trying to give you some pointers on nailing this stuff.â¦


Cosi' l'ad Scaroni, difficile pero' fare previsioni su tempi


Britain Probes Killing of Iraqi Civilian

Britain is investigating the killing of an Iraqi civilian who died when British soldiers who suspected he was a suicide bomber opened fire on him at a checkpoint in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said Monday.


he problem with playing a series that feels like October when it is only September comes the day after. When Boston and the playoff-like fervor cleared out of Yankee Stadium, the Toronto Blue Jays and the late-season torpor moved in.


Solar installers look to sunny Colorado for new projects.


US Marines of the 1st Division train in a former Iraqi army barrack outside Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control


European consortium Airbus prepares to unveil the world's largest plane, the 555-passenger A380.


Ducks on brink of Stanley Cup after Game Four win

Andy McDonald scored a pair of goals and set up another as Anaheim edged the Ottawa Senators 3-2 Monday to leave the Ducks on the brink of their first Stanley Cup.


Acerra: dopo 14 giorni manifestanti lasciano presidio di Pantano

ACERRA (Napoli) - Dopo 14 giorni di appostamento i manifestanti hanno lasciato il presidio di Pantano. Vicino al futuro termovalorizzatore rimangono oggi soltanto le forze dell'ordine che continuano a presidiare l'area.


US President Bush calls for more democracy in Egypt as he wraps up his eight-day tour of the Middle East.


With Detroit Downbeat on 2008, Its Suppliers Are Singing the Blues

Carmakers expect 2008 to be challenging, but hundreds of automotive parts suppliers are anticipating the year ahead to be one of the ugliest ever.


Arsenal look towards titanic clash with Manchester United

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger warned an ugly fracas must be avoided when his all-conquering side travel to Old Trafford next Sunday for a mouth-watering Premiership clash against bitter rivals Manchester United.


Just hours before it ended, the Republican-led 109th Congress sent President Bush legislation early on Saturday to normalize trade with former enemy Vietnam, renew popular tax cuts and open the Gulf of Mexico to new oil and gas drilling.


USOC rejects call for Hamm to return gold

US Olympic officials Friday rejected as âdeplorableâ a suggestion by the International Gymnastics Federation that menâs all-around individual champion Paul Hamm


London has unveiled its detailed plans to stage the 2012 Olympics, promising a Games of excellence without extravagance. Bid chief Sebastian Coe said on Friday the city would


A scene in Allstateâs 60-second commercial at the conclusion of âFriday Night Lights.â (Leo Burnett USA) It is common knowledge on Madison Avenue that branded entertainment is becoming increasingly popular on television as marketers â worried about how easy it is for viewers to avoid commercials -Â arrange for their products to be woven into the [...].


Despite having left the door open to the possibility of allowing the importation of drugs, yesterday the Bush administration reinforced its opposition to importation of prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.


Luol Deng scored 23 points and tied a season-high with 12 rebounds, and the Chicago Bulls won for the 12th time in 13 games, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 94-89 on Tuesday.


Yang Loses Court Case But Vows to Win Gold in 2008

Gymnast Yang Tae-youngâs last hope of claiming the gold medal in the all-around event of the Athens Olympics ended in disappointment as the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed


Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, left, arrive in Potsdam near Berlin after a ride in a interurban train Wednesday Nov. 3, 2004.


Texas Instruments is unconvinced WiMax will replace DSL

Despite all of the hype surrounding WiMax, chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. remains unconvinced the technology will revolutionize the way that broadband Internet services are delivered to homes and offices, according to a company executive.


Daniel Cabrera pitched three-hit ball into the eighth inning, and Jose Leon and Melvin Mora had two RBIs apiece to lead the surging Baltimore Orioles past the Minnesota Twins 4-1 on Monday.


The Beetle and 911 Turbo in one garage: A dynasty is going full circle.


The Detroit Lions placed running back Kevin Jones on injured reserve Tuesday, ending his season two days after he injured his left foot.


Kazaa challenged over kiddie porn control policy

If it can boot off smut peddlers, it can boot off copyright infringers


Football: England Defeats Wales, Scotland Loses to Norway

England has defeated Wales, 2-0, while Scotland lost to Norway in first round qualifying matches for the 2006 World Cup football tournament in Germany.


From Coldplay to Outkast, the music industry is anticipating a year of major releases.


For Â£110,000, Branson offers his passengers a voyage into space

within 25 seconds - to 2,500mph. For no more than five minutes they will float about, 80 miles above planet Earth. Lavatory and in-flight drinks?


A sharp plunge in energy prices  pulled U.S. producer prices down 0.7 percent last month, a  sharper-than-expected drop and the biggest in more than 1-1/2  years, a government report showed on Friday.


Qaeda's Zawahri Appears in New Tape on Al Jazeera

Ayman al-Zawahri, the number two figure in al Qaeda, appeared in a new videotape aired on Al Jazeera on Thursday, ridiculing US forces as stuck in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan.


KPMG Wrote New Versions of Shelters Ruled Illegal

Newly disclosed internal e-mail messages may show that KPMG, the accounting firm under scrutiny for promoting abusive tax shelters, didn't heed official warnings.


Hamas fighters and looters control Gaza, defy Abbas

Islamist Hamas fighters and looters ransacked the blood-spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday as their leader ordered an end to reprisals against their routed, Western-backed Fatah rivals.


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


Federal gasoline taxes should be increased up to 40 cents per gallon over five years, a divided special commission urged Tuesday in calling for drastic changes to fix aging bridges and roads and reduce traffic deaths.


Kuwait Blocks Sites That Incite Violence

Kuwait is blocking Islamic Web sites that incite violence as part of its all-out war on terror following recent clashes with fundamentalists who allegedly planned to attack Americans and the country's security forces, a senior official said Monday.


Bologna, 19:28 - BASKET, FORTITUDO: MANCINELLI FIRMA UN TRIENNALE

Reduce da una positiva esperienza nella Summer League della Nba, Stefano Mancinelli ha rinnovato il ...


Probabile relatore Del Bono, in aula non prima di un mese


A baby whose body was found on the side of the road next to his car seat was killed by head injuries before his body was dumped in Galveston, according to autopsy results released Wednesday.


Venezuelans, fleeing Chavez, seek U.S. safety net

A surge in the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum in the United States has some drawing parallels with Communist Cuba in the early 1960s.


Spanish Leader Rejects Basque Independence

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Thursday rejected a proposal to grant virtual independence to the troubled Basque region and warned the group's leader to comply with Spanish law.


CFTC sues Amaranth for natgas price manipulation

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading  Commission said on Wednesday that it charged failed hedge fund  Amaranth Advisors LLC and its former head trader, Brian Hunter,  with trying to manipulate natural gas futures prices.


Pressed Over Nuclear Arms, Iran Slams U.S., Israel

Iran, under fire on suspicion of  secretly seeking nuclear arms, accused the United States on  Friday of "lawless militarism" in Iraq and called Israel the  biggest threat to peace in the Middle East.


Shampoo, iPods and Starbucks lattes have suddenly become security threats. Terrorists could easily slip a few apparently innocuous items past airport security and assemble them into a lethal explosive once aloft, security experts said.


Fans of the Fox drama "24" will have to wait until next January to see Jack Bauer again, this television season's most prominent casualty of the Hollywood writers strike. The network has committed to air a full season on consecutive weeks, and had been planning to start last month.


Sinn Fein's relationship with the IRA remained in the political spotlight today as the Irish government continued to insist that the Provisionals must go out of business for the peace process to continue.


The Queen expresses her shock at the devastation caused by the flooding in England.


UN delivers mixed report on Iran nuclear program

UN inspectors delivered a mixed report on Iran's nuclear activities Wednesday that listed unanswered questions but contained no "smoking gun" confirming US allegations that Tehran is building a bomb.


The Dow Jones industrial average ended slightly lower while the Nasdaq composite index inched higher yesterday as investors waited for hints from the Federal Reserve about the pace of interest-rate increases.


Wash. Center to Study Child Medical Ethics

Children's Hospital is establishing a new center to examine ethics issues that arise in the care of children.


Big Turnout at Hearings on Growth Expected: Future of Two Rural 'Megaprojects' Will Be Discussed Today

By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 14--The battle over Kootenai County's rural lands continues tonight as two developers will ask to change the growth plan to allow megaprojects in the countryside.


Doctors successfully separated 4-year-old twin sisters born fused at the midsection, with just one kidney and one set of legs, and were continuing with reconstruction surgery early Tuesday.


China rules springboard, reaches volleyball final

World champion diver Guo Jingjing snatched China's fifth straight women's Olympic three meters springboard title on August 26, finishing ahead of teammate Wu Minxia and Russian Yulia Pakhalina.


Judges hold make-or-break talks in a bid to open long-awaited Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia.


U.S. mortgage applications rose last week: MBA

U.S. mortgage applications rose last week, with both new purchases and refinancings driven up by the lowest long-term home loan rates since early December, an industry trade group said on Wednesday.


At least 12 people die in an explosion outside a government office in southern Afghanistan, police say.


Manning Appears to Be Evolving Into the Special One

Three weeks ago, Eli Manningâs unpredictable play was the biggest threat to the Giantsâ championship hopes. But since then he appears to have become a different player.


Today on Digg.com, one of the top stories is a domain valuation tool run by DNScoop which valued YouTube at $969 Million and Digg.com at $106 Million.  Seems they are pretty close with YouTube, and Digg could be valued a bit more. I clicked over to their site and it’s down (the Digg Effect) but [...]


Trionfa Damiano Cunego Bettini campione del mondo

COMO, 16 OTTOBRE 2004 - Damiano Cunego trionfa nell'ultima corsa della Coppa del Mondo, il Giro di Lombradia. Paolo Bettini vince la classifica finale. Tutti aspettavano Bettini e Rebellin in lizza per la


Bush heads to Europe for democracy agenda, G8

U.S. President George W. Bush flew to Europe on Monday with his popularity at home at a low point over the Iraq war and tensions abroad over global warming and missile defense.


Guild members boycott gala, picket outside Sun-Times building

The Chicago Sun-Times' management and unionized reporters planned to return to the bargaining table Wednesday morning on the heels of a vote authorizing a strike and picketing by employees outside a gala thrown by the company.


US Senate Panel to Review Iran Intelligence -Report

U.S. senators have launched a review of U.S. intelligence on Iran to try to avoid pitfalls that marked the path to the invasion of Iraq, the Los Angeles Times said.


La proposta di Carraro sulla moviola in campo non Ã¨ stata approvata dal presidente della Fifa Joseph Blatter. In un"intervista al quotidiano "Il Giornale" Blatter ha espresso chiaramente la sua diffidenza


Scientists say they have mapped the most important genes that put people at risk of type 2 diabetes.


Apple and T-Mobile said Wednesday that the carrier will begin selling the iPhone in Germany on November 9, the same day UK consumers first see the device.


Actor and Neighbor Told to Stop Suing Each Other

A New York judge told Sean Connery and a neighbor to stop bickering over renovations at the Upper East Side house they share.


A coroner says a student jumped off a bridge to her death as a "direct consequence" of being raped.


IT was a given that someone of influence within Pakistan cricket would seek to destabilise their national team before a ball was bowled in the Test series with Australia.


MOSCOW - U.S. oil giant ConocoPhillips on Wednesday paid nearly $2 billion for a 7.6 percent stake in Russia's Lukoil - the world's No...


Lebanese crowds defy Syria at Gemayel's funeral

Tens of thousands of Lebanese choked downtown Beirut to pay tribute to assassinated Christian leader Pierre Gemayel on Thursday, turning his funeral into a show of defiance against Syria and its Hezbollah allies.


Action film star and presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., who refused to concede May's election, died early Tuesday after suffering a stroke. He was 65.


Monaco, 15:19 - CALCIO, BAYERN: ZE' ROBERTO VIA NEL 2009, ANDRA' NEGLI USA

Il brasiliano Zè Roberto ha annunciato che lascerà il Bayern Monaco al termine della s...


L. Brent Bozell, one of America's best-known crusaders against broadcast indecency, has stepped down as president of the Parents Television Council, the organization said Friday.


Leader Barcelona hosts defending champion Valencia in Spanish ...

Defending champion Valencia's recent improvement will be put to the test when it visits runaway leader FC Barcelona in the Spanish league's 16th-round this weekend.


Verizon Wireless to offer YouTube on cell phones

Verizon Wireless will start offering video content from YouTube in an attempt to increase the number of subscribers to its Vcast mobile media service.


Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 09.03.2007

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Il Tribunale partenopeo ravvisa un difetto di giurisdizione. Ora sarÃ  il TAR laziale a decidere: la C sembra piÃ¹ vicina, del resto la Figc si dice disposta ad un aiuto. Delusi i tifosi â in cittÃ  si stanno verificando disordini â e Gaucci.


Flight delayed 30 hours, annoying passengers

Nearly 30 hours after they were scheduled to depart the city, a group of angry passengers finally boarded Air China flight CA935 to Germany yesterday afternoon, Shanghai Daily reported Wednesday.


Huge storm barrels across the United States

A massive late winter storm swept across the United States Thursday, dumping snow on the north and spinning tornadoes to the south, killing at least one person.


Martin Scorsese's biography of the famously eccentric empire builder Howard Hughes is visually sumptuous if disappointingly hollow.


DOCTORS have discovered that as many as one in five secondary...

A pilot screening programme carried out on 11-14-year-olds, involving detailed tests on their circulation system, has revealed that although the children appeared healthy, one in five already had defective ...


For Kofi Annan, the widely respected secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), these are no easy times. He has for some weeks now been under intense pressure from the United States Congress to resign for


Pakistan on Saturday successfully test-fired a new air-launched cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the military said.


A policeman suffers serious head injuries after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in County Armagh.


Shuttle Loss Proved 'Cathartic,' Departing NASA Leader Says

The loss of the shuttle Columbia was not just a low point in NASA history, but was also a "cathartic moment" that led to reforming the space agency and pushed the nation


266 Chimps From Lab Adopted by Florida Refuge

With an influx of chimps previously used as laboratory animals, Florida's Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care is transforming into the largest chimp sanctuary in the world—almost overnight.


We're stronger and better prepared, says Gilchrist

For all the hype surrounding the upcoming India-Australia Test series, Australia stand-in captain Adam Gilchrist's perspective of it is simple: "It's a very big tournament, but it is not the be all and end all of our cricketing careers.


According to a survey, sites such as Facebook could be costing more than Â£130m a day in lost productivity.


U.S. employers add moderate 128,000 workers in Aug

WASHINGTON  -U.S. employers added a moderate  128,000 workers to their payrolls in August, in line with  expectations, according to a government report on Friday that  suggested the Federal Reserve may not need to raise interest  rates further.


TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Dec. 28 -- For J.D. Vaz and M.Vasantna, the earthquake-driven waves that roared ashore without warning Sunday were a great leveler.


J.P. Morgan Profit Falls on Merger Costs

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. , the No. 2 U.S. bank, said  on Wednesday profit fell in the third quarter, missing analyst expectations, as a result of costs from its July merger with Bank One Corp. and lower fixed-income revenues.


Pakistan Claims New Victory Against Al-Qaida Fighters

Pakistan's military says it has flushed out hundreds of al-Qaida-linked militants from its semi-autonomous South. Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan.


Radio hams drafted into US emergency network

Calling all stations President Bush has approved legislation that will make amateur radio hams part of the emergency communications network in the US. The provision was tucked away in a section of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2007 Appropriations Act (HR 5441), which was signed into law on Wednesday following earlier Congressional approval.â¦


Napster to explore alternatives, sale of company

Online music service Napster Inc.  said on Monday that, in response to recent third-party interest  in strategic partnerships or potentially acquiring the company,  it has hired UBS Investment Bank to assist in evaluating  strategic alternatives.


Roma, 22:34 - CALCIO, LAZIO: UN MESE DI STOP PER FIRMANI

Una buona e una cattiva notizia per la Lazio in vista della sfida di domenica con la Reggina. Quella...


By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 23--Destin's City Council has approved the hiring of the second new head of a city department in two months.  In July, the council hired Merle "Lee" Brown as head of the Public Works Department.


Schianto fatale a Modena Cinque morti sull'asfalto

MODENA, 15 DICEMBRE 2004 - Cinque persone sono morte in un incidente stradale avvenuto la scorsa notte attorno all' una nel modenese. Nello scontro frontale tra un fuoristrada e una vettura che procedevano


France ready to hand over Arafat file to next of kin

PARIS, Nov 19  - France's defence ministry said Friday the medical file on recently deceased Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat was ready and would be handed over to his next of kin "without delay".


Just hours after her husband gave up his bulldog battle for the vice presidency, Elizabeth Edwards got the devastating news that she has breast cancer.


Peterson's Mistress Set for TV Interview

Scott Peterson's mistress still thinks about him periodically and, in a book to be released this week, wrote, "I sometimes wonder if he thinks about me."


Princess Diana's death an accident: police probe

A British police inquiry ruled on Thursday that Princess Diana was not the victim of a murder plot when she died in a tragic car accident in 1997.


HD DVD isn't dead, at least not quite. That leaves many options and potentially expensive mistakes for consumers.


Jackson Acknowledges Settling Past Claims

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson, facing child-molestation allegations, acknowledged he has reached financial settlements with people in the past to avoid the embarrassment of going to court, but added he would never harm a child.    The six-paragraph statement was released hours before "Dateline NBC" broadcast a lengthy report alleging that the entertainer paid $2 million to the son of an employee at his Neverland Ranch in 1990 to avoid a child-molestation accusation...


[TS] High and Low Finance: New Worries for Small Banks

Smaller banks find problems in some commercial real estate loans.


INTERNET users are being invited to quiz a police officer on a live web chat.   Chf Supt Andy Ward, area commander for Liverpool North, is fielding questions between 12-lpm, on March 19.   To take part, log onto www.merseyside.police.uk/forum  (c) 2007 Liverpool Echo.


LOS ANGELES - Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath has signed on as permanent co-host of the TV entertainment show "Extra," producers said Thursday. McGrath plans to continue working with the band, which has a greatest-hits CD in the works, and will fit performances and tours into his TV schedule...


Manchester United yesterday revealed that it agreed payments to players' agents of Â£5.5m last year, equivalent to more than 9% of the club's operating profit and almost 20% of its pre-tax profit.


By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON - A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come.


Barcellona, 11:17 - MOTOGP, GP CATALOGNA: PEDROSA AL COMANDO DOPO PRIME LIBERE

Lo spagnolo Dani Pedrosa è stato il piÃ¹ veloce nelle prime prove libere della classe MotoGP d...


Millions of tons of sediment-heavy water are being sent through the Grand Canyon in a bid to help local wildlife.


Baldini, un mese di stop dopo il calcio a Di Carlo

L'allenatore del Catania è stato squalificato fino al 30 settembre 2007 dal giudice sportivo per la pedata rifilata al tecnico del Parma


John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee battled for the hearts Â and votes Â of Michigan on Saturday, as the Republican presidential contenders tried to position themselves for its potentially make-or-break primary.


Heatley Joins Russian Club Ak Bars Kazan

Atlanta Thrashers' Canadian forward Dany  Heatley has become the latest National Hockey League's top  player to move to Russia, joining Ak Bars Kazan.


MIAMI -- The Louisville Cardinals drew flags for excessive celebration in the second quarter and again in the third. Against Miami, the displays of jubilation were premature.


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The smiles should be wider than the Wasatch Mountains this week at The Y., as they call Brigham Young University. The Cougars are coming off a triumph of Biblical proportion over Notre Dame, in


: Marat Safincruised to a 6-2, 6-4 win over America's Kevin Kim on Friday to advance to the semifinalsof the China Open and a step closer to his first title of the year.


Twenty-three people died and three others were injured Sunday in an explosion at a coal mine in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, officials said.


(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-PackardÂ is upgrading its inkjet printers to appeal to small business owners for whom a big business machine is too expensive but a small consumer-oriented printer inadequate. Meanwhile, HP faces new competition in the consumer printer market from Eastman Kodak, which introduced new inkjet printers Monday. HP on Tuesday launched the HP Officejet J5700 printer series, scheduled to go on sale this month at a starting list price of $149. Also coming on the market, in March, is the Officejet Pro K5400 series, starting at $149, and the Officejet Pro L7000, starting at $299. Each of the new printers are identified as "All-In-One," which means they can print, scan, copy and fax documents. HP is migrating down to the sub-$300 market features previously available in more expensive laser printers used by businesses and large enterprises, said Karl Schwenkmeyer, vice president of marketing for inkjet systems within HP's Imaging and Printing Group. HP seeks to dispel some misconceptions about how inkjet printers can't handle business workloads because they are too slow, expensive to maintain and unreliable, Schwenkmeyer said. He said the printers can print color pages for as low as $0.06 each and black ink documents at as low as $0.015 each. And the machines are engineered to print 7,500 pages a month without a failure. Offering new features in lower priced printers is a lot like carmakers that first put anti-lock brakes only in luxury cars but now also offer them in compacts, said Robert Palmer, director of printer research at InfoTrends Inc., a printing market research firm. "There's nothing here that is really new, but they [HP] have done a good job of putting products out that are more robust," said Palmer. HP holds a market share lead of 50 percent in the inkjet printer market, according to 2005 InfoTrends numbers, said Palmer. Lexmark International follows with 16 percent, while Dell has 15 percent. Seiko Epson has 12 percent and Canon 8 percent. But one more company is lining up to challenge HP. Kodak entered the consumer inkjet market on Tuesday with models that aim for the heart of HP's printing profitability: the replacement ink cartridges. Kodak's replacement cartridges list for $9.99 for black ink and $14.99 for five-color ink, about half what HP and other brands charge. Different models of the Kodak machines, which can print, scan and copy -- but not fax -- documents, list for $149.99, $199.99 and $299.99, depending on the features. They are also targeted at consumers and home-based business operators.


U.S. Tribunal Charges Suspected Al Qaeda Accountant

A Sudanese man described as an al Qaeda paymaster was formally charged on Friday with conspiring to commit terrorism.


French doctors are checking Yasser Arafat for viral infection after tests ruled out leukaemia and any other life-threatening illness, aides to the Palestinian leader said today.


Colonia, 18:21 - F1, TOYOTA; TRULLI: POSSIAMO ASPIRARE AL PODIO

Il team Toyota ha presentato oggi la TF108, la nuova monoposto per il Mondiale di Formula Uno 2008. ...


MI5 recruitment has always been a secret affair - and none more so than for their most famous agent, 007. But plans for another James Bond outing have been put on hold as the film's producers have been unable to find someone to try out Q's latest gadgets.


KIEV - An agreement was reached at Wednesdayâs crisis talks in Ukraine to change the countryâs election laws and implement political reforms, outgoing Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said after the meeting.


Denzel Washington will be the latest Hollywood celebrity to take on Broadway, this time in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."


Argentine Teen Kills Three in School Shooting

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A 15-year-old schoolboy  armed with a pistol killed three fellow Argentine students and  wounded six on Tuesday in a school shooting that shocked a  country unaccustomed to such violence.


European aircraft maker Airbus SAS said it will apply for loans of up to $1.24 billion from European governments to help finance development of its planned new A350 aircraft, the Financial Times reported Friday.


U.S. Pounds Iraq Shi'ite Rebels, Car Bomb in Baghdad

NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes and artillery  pounded Shi'ite militia positions around a shrine in the Iraqi  city of Najaf, trying to break the will of rebels who have  defied the interim government for three weeks.


Pakistan said Monday there was no evidence Osama bin Laden is hiding in the country, and denied it allowed CIA agents to set up bases along the border to search for the al-Qaida leader.


Dell paints a sunny, customizable future

New desktops, AMD processors, customer service initiatives and "Dell 2.0" image announced its annual tech gathering in NYC.


The health of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat continues to improve at his hospital outside Paris from where he is following with close attention the climax of the US presidential elections, Palestinian officials said Tuesday.


Romanian president-elect promises reform and EU entry

Â¡Â¡BEJIJING, Dec. 14 -- Romanian opposition candidate Traian Basescu has won the presidential election after overcoming current Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in the tightest of contests.


As jury decides Peterson's fate, maze of appeals looms

The jury that convicted Scott Peterson of murder reconvenes this week to decide whether he should be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison, a decision that may not


Apparently anyone who thought there was a major scandal at insurance brokerage Marsh & McLennan is mistaken. That, at least, was the claim yesterday of new chief executive Michael Cherkasky.


Gordon B. Hinckley, the longest-serving president of the Mormon church who presided over one of the greatest periods of expansion in its history, died Sunday, a church spokesman said. He was 97.


Media Hears From Jurors on Peterson Trial

After six months of service, jurors in the Scott Peterson murder trial have completed their final task. And the decision is death.


Cingular Wirelessâ Loss Is Alltelâs, MetroPCSâ Gain

In the aftermath of its purchase of AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless is selling several sets of 10 megahertz wireless licenses to two different carriers.


It is a situation about which defensive linemen dream. Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis sprinted off the line unblocked in the third quarter of Sunday's game against Buffalo.


Allergy, Asthma Drug Labels OK for Kids - Panel

Warning labels for certain steroid-based allergy and asthma drugs provide sufficient warnings about potential side effects -- including stunted growth --  in children and teenagers,  a U.S. panel of medical experts concluded on Wednesday.


CHICAGO -- Nomar Garciaparra can become a free agent after the World Series and will consider returning to the Chicago Cubs, his team for the final two months this season.


Khartoum studies the increase in the number of observers in Darfur ...

Sudan's deputy foreign minister Najib al-Kheir Abdul Wahab said that Khartoum will negotiate with the African union to increase number of the observers of the cease fire agreement working in Darfur to the west of Sudan.


Former OAS Chief Under House Arrest in Bribe Probe

A Costa Rican judge on Saturday put the former head of the Organization of American States under house arrest for six months, while he is investigated for bribery claims, judicial officials said.


Government Bans Kevin Trudeau Infomercials

Kevin Trudeau — star and producer of infomercials for such products as the Coral Calcium Supreme dietary supplement and the Biotape painkilling adhesive strip — was banned by the FTC Tuesday from advertising any such products.


Ultrafast Supercomputer to Simulate Nuke Explosion

LIVERMORE, Calif.  - Leading nuclear scientists  with top security clearances will gather next summer at a  screening room east of San Francisco and witness the results of  the greatest effort ever in supercomputing.


McCaffery:Desperate Cowboys are Eaglesâ challenge

IRVING, Texas -- By now, according to the script, Bill Parcells should be deep into a Super Bowl journey, with a Monday night opportunity to take in a little more of the breathtaking scenery.


The success of pan-Arab pop idol show Super Star is a welcome distraction from the region's many problems, writes the BBC's Kim Ghattas.


7-Eleven drops Citgo gasoline; cites Chavez

7-Eleven Inc. will drop   Venezuelan-controlled Citgo Petroleum Corp. as its gasoline   supplier, the convenience store operator said on Wednesday, a   week after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called President   Bush "the devil."


CNN says it is beginning a nightly prime-time wrap-up of election news, further evidence that the 2008 presidential campaign is a television hit.


U.S. uncovers crossborder drug tunnel in Arizona

NOGALES, Arizona  - U.S. authorities have discovered a cramped but sophisticated drug smuggling tunnel linking Nogales, Arizona, with its Mexican sister city, Nogales, Sonora, officials said on Friday.


Protezione Civile: previste precipitazioni anche al Sud


Palestinian officials scheduled presidential elections for Jan. 9, 2005, pushing forward with steps to a secure a new leader following the death of Yasser Arafat.


The National Consumer Council considers making a 'super-complaint' about the BSkyB-Virgin Media TV row.


Autopsy: Rapper O.D.B. Had Drug Overdose

The death of rapper O.D.B. was deemed an accident by the medical examiner, who said Wednesday that he died from the combined effects of cocaine and a prescription painkiller.


Visa hires president pre-IPO, Visa USA CEO resigns

Visa, the world's largest credit card network, on Tuesday said it hired Hans Morris from Citigroup Inc.  to fill the new position of president of Visa Inc., which is planning to go public by early next year.


Returning to the state that dashed his presidential hopes in 2004, Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry rallied with college students on Tuesday for next's month elections, urging them to "Take back Ohio, take back our country."


Chip Maker Is Nearing Profitability Despite Loss

Advanced Micro Devices inched closer to profitability despite posting a huge loss as it struggled to absorb the huge cost of its acquisition of ATI Technologies.


Actress Lindsay Lohan has returned to rehab after a weekend drunken-driving arrest, her publicist said on Tuesday, raising questions about whether she can start shooting her latest film as planned.


Sun stresses multicore chips, Linux with dev tool

(InfoWorld) - Sun will unveil compiler and tool technologies on Monday that leverage multicore chip architectures and extend to Linux application development. Sun Studio 12 enables development in the C, C++, and Fortran languages for Solaris and, now, Linux. Developers can build enterprise transactional and Web applications and migrate existing programs to support multithreaded capabilities, according to Sun. "With Sun Studio 12, we are continuing that tradition of record-breaking performance. However, the big message with this release is about multithreaded development," said Sun's Jeet Kaul, vice president of developer products and programs. With the emergence of multicore chips from Sun and Intel, developers are under pressure to build multithreaded software that leverages multicore chips, Kaul said. "What we have done with Sun Studio 12 is we have made the building of these multithreaded applications easier," he said. With multicore processors, programmers need to be able to write software that features parallelism. Although Sun already has offered this, Sun Studio 12 provides more tools for it, such as its thread and performance analyzers, Kaul said. "Both of these tools have the ability to understand multiple threads," said Kaul. In addition, Sun Studio 12 is the first time Sun is supporting C, C++, and Fortran development for Linux, Kaul said. Developers also can build applications on Linux and compile them, then take the same application with the same source code and run it on Solaris, said Kaul. Sun's enabling Sun Studio 12 to be used across Solaris and Linux and on different architectures such as Intel and SPARC is valuable to the scientific community, which comprises a good portion of the user base, said analyst Joe Niski of Burton Group. "I think they made a lot of really smart moves in terms of getting broader reach, not just for the IDE but for the compilers," Niski said. Sun Studio 12, which is offered free of charge, is based on the NetBeans 5.5 platform. It is accessible on Sun's Web site. Sun offers support services for Sun Studio 12.


Oil prices vaulted to a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday as violence in Nigeria, tight energy stockpiles and a weaker dollar triggered a surge of speculative buying, dealers said.


Viacom asks YouTube to remove 100K clips

Media company Viacom Inc., which owns the cable networks MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures movie studio, asked YouTube on Friday to remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips from its hugely popular video-sharing site.


New Shuttle Team Ready for Walk After Dayâs Delay

NASA officials said that everything was ready for astronauts to prepare the European Columbus science module to be attached to the International Space Station.


Da Vespa ad Afef facce da piccolo schermo

Il giornalista: guai a chi tocca Porta a Porta. La Jnifen da stasera a La Grande Notte


The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the way it monitors safety risks associated with medicines already on the market, such as Merck & Co.


Abbas Makes One Last Call for EU Support

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.Comment


A powerful blast rocked the center of  the Tajik capital Dushanbe Monday in what appeared to be a car  bomb placed near the central Asian state's Emergencies  Ministry, witnesses and officials said.


Nearly one in four people in the Atlanta area are exercise enthusiasts stuck in neighborhoods without sidewalks or other walking amenities, according to a study that illustrates a problem for many Americans. Researchers said the findings point to the need for more exercise-friendly places to live.


Da Bossi appello a Napolitano: la gente vuole andara al voto


Elan shares jumped this morning after it said that US regulators had approved it new once-a-month multiple sclerosis drug. Tysabri, developed by Elan and Biogen and formerly called Antegren, is the first kind


Video game aficionados lined up before dawn on Monday for the midnight release of "Halo 3," the acclaimed alien shooter game that Microsoft Corp hopes will widen its lead over Sony Corp in the battle for industry dominance.


Russia's President Putin denies claims that Russia is using its energy exports as a foreign policy tool.


IBM is to introduce the first of a range of low-cost Linux-only servers based on its 64-bit Power 5 chip in a bid to attack the low-end Sun Microsystems and HP Unix user bases.


A group of international researchers at Michigan State University has decoded the genome of the chicken and found that the main ingredient of McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) Chicken McNuggets has a genetic


Singapore Airlines sells stake in Air New Zealand

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) will sell its 6.3 percent stake in Air New Zealand, officially ending its venture in the now government-controlled carrier.


Victims who lost relatives, homes and belongings in Tropical Storm Jeanne are now tormented by street gangs who attack food convoys, raid homes at night and shoot those who get in their way.


Bayern routs Ajax behind Makaay hat-trick; Juve beats Maccabi Tel ...

Bayern Munich shrugged off some indifferent early season form as a Roy Makaay hat-trick helped them to a 4-0 win over Ajax Amsterdam in their Champions League Group C match at the Olympic Stadium on Tuesday.


Taiwanese lawmakers on Friday failed to pass an opposition-backed motion that would have referred the recall of President Chen Shui-bian to the island's voters, providing the embattled leader new breathing room in his effort to stay in office.


The turnout suggested that banks might be more inclined to borrow from the Fed under its auction-based system.


Abdul Helil Mamut's good behavior earned him a spot in a medium-security compound at the Guantanamo Bay prison, where he slept in a barracks, shared leisurely meals with other prisoners and could spend more than half the day in an outdoor recreation area.


Al-Qaida's British chief recently active

The man in custody suspected of being al-Qaida's top man in Britain attended a terror summit in Pakistan just five months ago, Time magazine reports.


Former Mexican pop star Gloria Trevi is cleared of sex abuse charges on the grounds of insufficient evidence.


SchwarzeneggerÃ¢ÂÂs Shift to Center Boosts Re-election Bid

California Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger entered his second campaign for governor this year with sagging approval ratings and uncertain prospects. But a sharp rebound, especially since the June 6 primary, has enabled Schwarzenegger to put a little distance between himself and his Democratic challenger, state Treasurer Phil Angelides Ã¢ÂÂ just in time for the final sprint toward Election Day.


Il cantante: 'ho un cuore randagio come il loro'


La vittima, Antonio Iazzetta, aveva 38 anni. Colpito con colpi di arma da fuocoRitrovato in provincia di Napoli anche il cadavere del proprietario di un ristorante                                          Agguato nel napoletano ucciso mentre era in auto


Running back Willis McGahee has asked the Buffalo Bills to trade him if he is not their starter on opening day, a source told The Associated Press on Friday.


AOL is doing a decent job tackling spam, but it's also doing some spin doctoring in the process.


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No reservations about Zimbabwe tour, says Vaughan

Michael Vaughan has insisted that no member of his side has reservations about the decision to tour Zimbabwe for five one-day internationals later this year.


H & M's launch of its Karl Lagerfeld line, Loulou de la Falaise's spring collection at Bergdorf Goodman and Oscar de la Renta's party at his Madison Avenue store made for a busy week of fashion.


Edwards on farewell tour across North Carolina

ASHEVILLE, NC John Edwards has kicked off a farewell tour as a North Carolina senator -- while promising he's not saying goodbye to politics.


Musings on sleep from scientists, philosophers, artists and more.


Stocks may come under pressure this week as investors sell shares at year's end to prepare for tax season. But crude oil prices, earnings outlooks and moves in the dollar will also be closely watched.


Indonesian President Is Sworn In, Promising a Cleaner Government

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a former general, took the oath of office on Wednesday as the first directly elected president of Indonesia, and in a businesslike address


Milosevic's Court-Appointed Lawyer to Request Trial Suspension

A defense lawyer appointed to Slobodan Milosevic by the U.N. tribunal said Tuesday he would seek a suspension of the war crimes trial after failing to line up witnesses.


A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two civilians. It was the third straight day troops there have been hit by suicide attacks.


Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Peace Prize

Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight ...


Luxury goods maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA posted a sharp increase in its first-half earnings Wednesday, helped by more stable international currency markets and strong sales from its wines and spirits, fashion and leather goods and perfumes and cosmetic divisions.


Britney Spears Hospitalized for 'An Evaluation'

Britney Spears has been taken to a Los Angeles hospital for "an evaluation" after police were called to her Studio City home for a "custodial dispute" Thursday.  At around 8 p.m. police responded to a call "about a custodial dispute regarding Britney...


Blackstone units close below $31 IPO price

Blackstone Group LP  units slid 5.2 percent on Tuesday, closing below the $31 price the private equity giant fetched in its initial public offering last week, as investors fretted the private equity boom may have peaked.


Most people just grumble and hit delete, but when Gordon Dick received a spam message advertising Internet services, he fought back.


Wigan manager Paul Jewell is charged with improper conduct by the FA after criticising referee Phil Dowd.


LG Using Broadcom Chips in Dual HD Disc Players

LG said Wednesday that it had selected Broadcom's integrated dual HD disc format system-on-a-chip had been selected to power the company's next dual-format player.


JosÃ© Manuel DurÃ£o Barroso, the incoming president of the European Commission, is expecting to have to make a clutch of changes to the line-up of his executive if he is to get it past a rebellious European Parliament.


Audit of Venezuelan vote confirms Chavez victory

CARACAS, VENEZUELA - An audit of ballots from 150 voting stations has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez won last week's recall referendum, reported the Organization of American States Saturday.


HP gives Latin lessons in building P2P grid software Brazilian boffins have developed a peer-to-peer grid computing system called OurGrid, which enables members to freely donate and use spare compute cycles.â¦


CME Group Inc , the world's largest derivatives exchange, hopes to broaden its reach by buying the energy and precious metals mart Nymex  for $11 billion, the companies said on Monday.


Per il leader Udc, "nessuno ha il coraggio di farlo cadere"


The company behind eDonkey will pay $30 million to avoid the legal wrath of the recording industry. It's also disappearing from the scene.


Japan's KDDI profits rise despite heated competition

Japan's number two mobile telephone operator KDDI Corp. said Friday it has weathered increasingly fierce competition to post a rise in interim profits on the back of brisk subscriber growth.


Man Sentenced to Life for N.Irish Finucane Murder

A former Protestant guerrilla was  sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for the murder of  Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane, one of the most controversial  killings in 30 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.


Jackson says he won't be making `Hobbit'

Peter Jackson says he will not be directing a movie based on J.R.R. Tolkien's novel "The Hobbit" or a planned prequel to "The Lord of the Rings."


Cinemas in Bangladesh, Pakistan squeezed by Bollywood

DHAKA/ISLAMABAD  - The traditional family trip to   the local cinema has become little more than a nostalgic memory   in Bangladesh and Pakistan, where locals prefer to stay home   and watch banned Bollywood films on their television sets.


Acclaimed investment banker, Quattrone, sentenced to jail

NEW YORK, September 9 (New Ratings) - Frank Quattrone was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday for obstructing a federal investigation into the allocation of some of the most popular stocks during the technology boom.


Focus on hazing in L.A. firefighter case

The emotional debate over whether Los Angeles should pay nearly $3 million to a black firefighter who had his meal laced with dog food by white colleagues has put the spotlight on a larger issue that often goes unmentioned: the hazing rituals that are part of a macho culture that is the firefighter's world.


Startup P.A. Semi releases dual-core 64-bit CPU based on IBM's Power Architecture.


Reprising Anonymous Role in Another Super Bowl

Giants tight end Jerome Collins is part of the teamâs 53-man active roster and practices with the team, but Giants Coach Tom Coughlin has not yet put Collins in uniform.


Uruguay's leftist candidate Tabare Vazquez is headed for victory in presidential elections with an estimated 50.9 to 53 percent of the vote, exit polls and pollster projections showed.


Logging Plan Spurs Fears for Tenino Swimming Hole

By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb. 19--TENINO -- Plans to log the hillside above the historic quarry swimming pool have some residents and city officials in this south county community on edge.


The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 on Tuesday to adopt a rule that for the first time will require hedge fund advisers to register with the agency and submit to SEC examinations.


Scambiato il 2% del capitale, Telecom -0,43%


Survey: golfers' health lands in the bunker

No one would mistake David Voekel's body for that of Tiger Woods.


Segretario Stato a Pukhet, assistenza in vari settori


U.S. Eyes New Mobile Brigade for Germany from 2006

The United States plans to station a new Stryker armored vehicle brigade in southeastern Germany as early as 2006, just as it starts withdrawing some 30,000 troops from the country as part of a major force ...


ZHUKOVSKY, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin took the pilot's seat on Wednesday as he was shown around a new airliner, leaving the man likely to succeed him in the co-pilot's chair.


US Army 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment soldiers lead Iraqi men suspected of insurgent involvement from the scene of a joint raid by Iraqi National Guard and US forces near a mosque in central Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004.


EU, Japan to Get WTO's Go-Ahead to Hit Back at US Handouts

US queries about how Japan and the European Union will sanction American imports were resolved today, paving the way for retaliation against a US law that has handed $750 million in customs levies to companies since 2001.


Satellite unlikely to pose danger to humans

A disabled U.S. spy satellite is likely to break into small pieces when it falls to Earth within weeks, posing little danger to humans, U.S. government officials and space experts said on Monday.


Japan Issues Order to Deport Ex-Chess Champ Fischer

Japan on Tuesday ordered the deportation  of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted at home in  the United States for breaking sanctions, rejecting his demand  for protection as a political refugee.


Dell Recalls 1 Million Laptop Power Adapters

If you have an Inspiron, Latitude, or Precision notebook, then a recall is in effect for your power supply. "Dell on Friday announced that it's recalling almost a million faulty power adapters sold with its


Thais vote in poll unlikely to heal divisions

Thais voted on Sunday in a general election meant to restore democracy after last year's military coup but which is unlikely to heal Thailand's deep political divisions.


A breakthrough in contract talks has been reached between Hollywood studios and striking writers and could lead to a tentative deal as early as next week, a person close to the ongoing negotiations said Saturday.


Republicans Push Ahead to Extend Tax Cuts

A House-Senate conference is expected to agree today to extend a package of tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year.


Indonesian prosecutor wants hardline cleric Bashir jailed for eight years

An Indonesian prosecutor sought an eight year jail sentence for hardline cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for allegedly engaging in terrorism acts linked to a series of deadly bombings in recent years.


Madrid: Spain coach Luis Aragones landed himself in trouble on Wednesday after appearing to make a racist comment about French striker Thierry Henry during a training session.


Deve ancora essere perfezionata l'opa per l'autunno


George Wallace's Shooter Set to Leave Prison in December

After 35 years in prison, Arthur H. Bremer, the man who attempted to assassinate Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace during his 1972 presidential campaign, is scheduled to walk out of the Maryland Correctional Institute at Hagerstown in December.


NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Nearly 200 nations agreed at U.N.-led talks in Bali on Saturday to launch negotiations on a new pact to fight global warming after a last-minute reversal by the United States allowed a breakthrough.


Firefighters tackling a major blaze following an explosion at an Essex oil refinery say it is now under control.


THE prosecution on terrorism charges of extremist Islamic cleric and accused Jemaah Islamiah leader Abu Bakar Bashir will rely heavily on the potentially tainted testimony of at least two convicted Bali bombers, his lawyers have said.


Arsenal striker Thierry Henry insisted there must be an end product to the Gunners' record-breaking run. As Arsenal equalled Nottingham Forest's 42-game unbeaten League run Henry said: "Even on the pitch we didn't realise what we had done.


A Canadian town council issues new rules to immigrants telling them not to stone or burn women.


US seeks Islamic courts' help in Somalia to catch extremists

Stung by setbacks to its latest strategy in Somalia, the United States for the first time reached out to hardline Islamists, its erstwhile enemies, to help catch &quot;terrorists&quot; allegedly hiding in the shattered African nation.


Microsoft's new search engine includes a "near me" button that helps users find sites for a given location and a feature that answers questions such as "What is the capital of Turkey?


Hamas fighters and looters control Gaza, defy Abbas

Islamist Hamas fighters and looters ransacked the blood-spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday as their leader ordered an end to reprisals against their routed, Western-backed Fatah rivals.


Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles?


A person has died after being hit by a train in Berkshire, a day after the Ufton Nervet carnage. A British Transport Police spokesman said a train hit someone standing on the tracks at


The Lede: Babies vs. Chimps in Mental Olympics

106 chimpanzees, 32 orangutans and 105 babies face "The Primate Cognition Test Battery.".


Opel workers vote to end wildcat strikes

BOCHUM, Germany  - Workers at the Bochum factory of German car maker Opel voted to return to work after paraylsing assembly lines for six days in protest at plans by Opel's US parent, General Motors, to slash 12,000 jobs in Europe.


Germany Rebuffs U.S. On Troops in Afghanistan

BERLIN, Feb. 1 -- Germany on Friday rejected a formal request from the United States to send forces to war zones in southern Afghanistan, the latest setback to the NATO alliance as it tries to scrape together enough troops to battle resurgent Taliban forces and stabilize the country.


Australia Beats NZ for Sweep of Test Cricket Wins

Australia beat New Zealand by 213 runs in the second cricket Test in Adelaide to clinch a 2-0 series victory and complete a winning record against all nine nations at the sport's elite level.


Ex-guerrilla Thaci seals Kosovo governing coalition

PRISTINA, Serbia  - Kosovo's prime-minister designate Hashim Thaci sealed agreement on Monday on a governing coalition expected to lead the Albanian-majority province to independence from Serbia early this year.


Film Industry Hunts Stories at Frankfurt Book Fair

The world's biggest book fair is binding itself closer to the silver screen.


A natural gas blast ripped through an apartment building in Russia's Tatarstan region early Wednesday, killing at least four people, officials said.


The glitterless Golden Globes provided the most visible and dramatic moment yet for the two-month Hollywood writers strike Â but will it advance the union's cause?


BEIJING, Dec. 24 -- Vietman's top veterinary official warned Wednesday of the dangers of bird flu spreading on a large scale over the holiday season running up through Tet, or Lunar New Year.


Bonino l'ha annunciata entro l'8 settembre


Kilkenny, Ireland - British Open champion Todd Hamilton eyed another million dollar pay-day after shooting a blistering six-under 66 in the first round of the $7m WGC American Express Championship here on Thursday.


LUKE DONALD will tell Bernhard Langer next week he is confident enough to be paired with any of his European team-mates in the Ryder Cup at Oakland Hills.


Turtle Buttes Subdivision Spurs Controversy: Some Area Residents Say ?Cluster Development' Acceptable, While Others Oppose It.

By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 18--The Red Creek Land Co. is nearing completion of plans for a cluster development of 90 home sites in the Turtle Buttes area east of Beulah.


Torino, 14:51 - CALCIO, JUVENTUS; CHIELLINI: A GENOVA PER VINCERE

La Juventus non vuole fermarsi proprio ora. Lo afferma Giorgio Chiellini: "Andremo a Genova per vinc...


Forster: "Un anno davvero intenso, Chevrolet da record"


A car bomb explodes near a police checkpoint in the Iraqi Shia city of Najaf, killing at least eight people, police say.


Hats are back for spring-summer 2005, adding extra cheer to the young, upbeat styles offered in this round of Milan preview showings.


The Tories attack the government after it says its "deep clean" scheme will not be centrally monitored.


Before leaving on holiday, a German couple set up a loudspeaker and timer with the sound of a crowing cock to blast their neighbours every morning.


England are hopeful Simon Jones will be fit for the second Test after going down with a stomach bug.


Yoko Ono pressured her chauffeur to perform âimmoral and illegalâ acts, the chauffeurâs lawyer asserted today.


Big Waves Mean No Small Preparation for Surfers

More than bronzed slackers in board shorts, big wave surfers study oceanography and weather patterns to help them ride waves that can be more than 50 feet high.


Some lasting images from historic events

During Wednesday night's postgame coverage, NESN studio host Tom Caron advised, "It's time for the Red Sox to retire another number.


Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed to stand by embattled interior minister David Blunkett, who faces an independent probe into claims he abused his ministerial powers to help a former lover.


Celebrity Clothier Manuel Helps Elvis, Dylan Sparkle

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - The Mexican-born fashion  designer who created glittering jackets for such stars as Elvis  Presley and Dolly Parton thinks that today's celebrities don't  measure up.


Yanks Pull Out of Talks for Randy Johnson

The New York Yankees pulled out of trade talks for Randy Johnson on Wednesday, telling the Diamondbacks that their proposals for deals involving the five-time Cy Young Award winner were unreasonable, The Associated Press learned.


BORMIO, Italy  - Bode Miller grabbed his second  gold medal in the space of eight days, winning Saturday's  Alpine ski world championship men's downhill in emphatic style.


L'attore appare nudo in una scena di sesso di 10 minuti


An online service to help people find British relatives who were born or died abroad launches on Monday.


Search site adds color--and clutter--to its famously clean design.


The United States Anti-Doping Agency last night banned the sprinter Michelle Collins for eight years, even though she has never tested positive for drugs, in a case which could have serious repercussions for Marion Jones.


The mobile phone maker seeks to boost competition for Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry.


Football Roundup: Eagles to Use Backups as McNabb Gets Night Off

A. J. Feeley will be Philadelphiaâs starter in the teamâs preseason finale at Lincoln Financial Field, while the second-round draft pick Kevin Kolb will also play.


Former Boston College forward Jared Dudley held a party at a club in downtown San Diego with a couple of hundred family members and friends last night, but even the partygoers weren't expecting what came out of commissioner David Stern's mouth when he announced the 22d pick in the NBA draft.


Comic Richards to apologize to blacks from L.A. club

"Seinfeld" co-star Michael Richards will personally apologize to three black men and a black woman he offended in a torrent of racial slurs unleashed during a recent nightclub performance, his spokesman said on Friday.


Roma, 13:10 - CALCIO, COCO: BRIATORE E QUEEN'S NON HANNO UN PROGETTO SERIO

"Mi scuso con Briatore ma devo anche dirgli che, per ora, non è il migliore nel mondo del cal...


About $1.35bn in overdue taxes to be recovered from YUKOS

RBC, 11.10.2004, Moscow 18:23:18.The Moscow Arbitration Court has recovered RUR39.113bn (about USD1.35bn) in overdue taxes for 2001 from YUKOS.


Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet Thursday to try to resolve a dispute over Israeli building in east Jerusalem that is paralyzing efforts to renew peace negotiations, officials said.


Dutch royal couple edited own Wikipedia entry

Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands and his wife Princess Mabel edited information about her past in the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, the royal family said on Friday. via XtraMSN Real Estate


Filmmaker Lumet to Receive Honorary Oscar

Veteran director Sidney Lumet, who picked up five Oscar nominations but never took home a prize, will receive an honorary statuette at the 77th annual Academy Awards on Feb. 27, organizers said Wednesday.


Rifiuti, a Napoli 'in molti non hanno fatto il loro dovere'


Globes Open to 'Passion'; 'Fahrenheit' Is Out

Two of this year's most-talked-about films have hit snags on the road to awards season, specifically in their quest to secure nominations for the Golden Globes. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is out of the running, while Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" cannot compete in the best-drama category.


WILMINGTON, Delaware  - General Motors Corp.  is making progress in its turnaround effort, the automaker's chief executive said on Tuesday at its annual meeting, where all 10 shareholder proposals were rejected.


Protest mocks Kosovo leaders, demands independence

Hundreds of ethnic Albanians  demonstrated in Kosovo on Saturday, trampling on effigies of  the province's leaders and calling for an end to the diplomatic  deadlock over its demand for independence.


Reporters Without Borders appeals to religious chiefs to help save ...

Reporters Without Borders expressed "extreme concern" today at a threat to kill two kidnapped French journalists and called on the country's top religious authorities - the Sunni Committee of Muslim Ulemas and the Shiite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani


Iraq again at core of US campaign as Bush prepares for new debate

US President George W. Bush was bound for the northern state of Wisconsin to drum up support for his re-election campaign as he readied for a second debate with Democratic rival John Kerry.


The leading Democratic presidential candidates clashed Sunday over each other's claim to be the true candidate of change in the final hours of the slushy New Hampshire homestretch. Clinton told voters they should elect "a doer, not a talker." Obama countered that his rivals are stuck in the politics of the past.


Six children die in Chicago apartment fire

Six children, including two   3-year-olds, died in a fire started by candles that family   members used because their apartment lacked electricity, fire   commissioner Raymond Orozco said on Sunday.


Everest conqueror Hillary makes last journey

Thousands of people gathered in parks, halls and churches around New Zealand on Tuesday as the country buried Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Mount Everest.


Tom Brady was flawless at the start and off the bench, too. With his team winning easily, Brady came out of the game early in the fourth quarter Sunday, then re-entered to throw a team-record sixth touchdown pass, capping unbeaten New England's 49-28 rout of the winless Miami Dolphins.


Dollar stronger as market awaits US retail data

The dollar rose against major rivals as the market turned its attention to the release of US retail sales data later in the week, analysts said.


Norton Antivirus software maker Symantec merges with Veritas Software in a $13bn deal.


A representative of the Cayman Islands has said that the island nation is getting back on its feet after the weekend onslaught of Hurricane Ivan.


By JEANNETTE J. LEE  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne expressed confidence in an upcoming oil lease sale in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska when he visited the North Slope last week.


What to see in the January sky The Earth and its Sun will be at perihelion on Jan. 2 at a distance of 147,099,111 km or (912,014,488.82) miles.


Malaysia flirts with Google over world's biggest data center

Hopes to taunt India and Vietnam with boxes Always enjoyable and ambiguous "media reports" coming out of Malaysia have Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi bragging that Google plans to build the world's largest data center in his country.â¦


MGM Deal Brings Sony Closer to Its Vision

With its acquisition of Hollywood film  studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Sony Corp is one step closer to its  vision of linking hardware and content, and to winning the key  battle for the next generation DVD.


Alcohol is currently sold in outlets adjacent to many Coles supermarkets, and licensing laws in most states forbid sales in supermarkets.


Virgin Digital Online Music Store Is Open For Business!

Virgin is all over the map. Yesterday morning, Sir Richard Branson introduced to the world that he was ready to make astronauts of us all by 2007.


Eight Philippine marines are killed, four of them beheaded, by Islamic rebels in the south, the army says.


Instead of piecemeal, project-by-project approaches, companies must understand that SOA needs to be a companywide design philosophy.


Dead Mourned at Soccer Game in Indonesia

In a soccer tournament overshadowed by the deadly earthquake and tsunami, Malaysia defeated Indonesia 2-1 Tuesday in a game in which the teams wore black arm bands in tribute to those killed in both countries.


Armed robbers have stolen art worth $100 million, including works by Monet and van Gogh, from a Zurich museum, police said Monday.


TOKYO - IBM, Sony and Toshiba on Monday announced the first technical details of the widely-anticipated "Cell" processor, also known as a "supercomputer on a chip," with Power architecture at its heart.


A total of 185,284,269 shares were bought back at $4.05 per share, representing three per cent of Telstra's non-government owned issued capital.


Cyprus threatens to block Turkey's EU membership talks unless Ankara lifts trade restrictions on Nicosia.


Cisl preoccupata per rinvio temi economia-sociali dopo crisi


Holocaust denier Zundel loses appeal in Canada

Canada's Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from German Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, who faces deportation to Germany.


Several Hurt in Blast in Pakistan's Lahore - TV

Several people were hurt in an  explosion in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore Sunday, the  private TV channel Geo reported.


Pharmacists decry Medicare drug payments

Pharmacists say a government report released Thursday validates their concerns that payments under the Medicare drug benefit are driving some of them out of business.


Knoxville's district attorney was found dead in his pasture in 1992, his breastbone and some of his ribs broken, a hoofprint on the chest of his overalls. Investigators concluded he had been knocked down and trampled to death by his cattle.


An Israeli man is seriously injured by a rocket fired at the border town of Sderot, Israeli medical officials say.


Oil holds above $75 as U.S. crude stocks seen lower

Oil held above $75 a barrel on Wednesday, as traders awaited data that is expected to show U.S. crude stocks fell last week and an OPEC meeting next week where supply is likely to remain unchanged.


Typhoon Kills 31 in Japan, Deadliest in a Decade

Rescuers were searching through rubble for survivors Thursday after Japan's deadliest typhoon in a decade triggered floods and landslides that killed at least 31 people and left 39 missing.


Those talking heads on TV may be profiting by front-running.


Hungarian police clash with extremists after peaceful demonstration

Hungarian police clashed with small groups of extremist protestors in Budapest after a peaceful demonstration by some 10,000 people calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.


U.S. Proposes Expansion of AbbasÂs Force

The expansion would be part of a $26 million plan to shore up the Palestinian leaderÂs position, according to donors.


An non ha questa tentazione e chiede fine delle ambiguita'


British Prime Minister Tony Blair held out hope Thursday that world leaders could agree on a substantial reduction in long-term greenhouse gas emissions despite U.S.-European disagreement over binding cuts.


Singapore DBS: Exposure To China Aviation Oil "Modest"

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--DBS Group Holdings Ltd. (D05.SG) Friday said its exposure to China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp. (C47.SG) was "modest," and that it didn't own any shares in the Chinese aviation fuel supplier.


SpaceShipOne Wins Ten-Million-Dollar X Prize

SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built manned spacecraft, completed its third round-trip journey to space today, laying claim to the ten-million-dollar (U.S.) Ansari X Prize.


L'appello Ã¨ stato lanciato dal ministro della Salute, a Milano, in occasione del lancio del quinto anno di vita di Internet Saloon, scuola di web per persone anziane. Una iniziativa che lo stesso Sirchia


âSopranosâ Tops Drama Contenders for the Emmys

Also prominent on the list of this yearâs Emmy nominees were âHeroes,â â30 Rockâ and âUgly Betty.â


You can sell your home but stay in it -- sort of.


Finley day-to-day after spraining ankle against Magic

ORLANDO, Fla. Dallas Mavericks guard Michael Finley is day-to-day after spraining his right ankle in last night's 94-to-84 loss to the Orlando Magic.


Politicians and fishing leaders prepare to embark on the latest round of annual talks over catch limits.


Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Miracle Blesses eBay  A partially eaten piece of a grilled cheese sandwich has become the most talked about item on eBay over the past week, bringing in bids of almost $19,000. Don't get me wrong, this is not ordinary grilled cheese sandwich. You see, it's a miracle. ...


The Dutch master Rembrandt may have been walleyed, according to a new report. The condition, known by its medical term strabismus, is a deviation of the alignment of one eye in relation to the other.


Yankees edge Twins to reach AL Championship Series

MINNEAPOLIS - Alex Rodriguez scored the game winner on a Kyle Lohse wild pitch in the top of the 11th inning, sending the New York Yankees to their second consecutive American League Championship Series after edging out the Minnesota Twins 6-5 Saturday.


'Coppie di fatto uno schiaffo alla Chiesa a Natale'


Film Fans Make Bush 'Movie Villain of the Year'

President Bush may see himself as defender of democracy and compassionate conservatism but British film fans have voted him "Movie Villain of the Year."


NATO tensions surface as Gates faults Afghan forces

Tension among allies over the war in Afghanistan spilled into the open on Wednesday as NATO rejected U.S. criticism that some of its troops did not know how to fight a guerrilla insurgency.


Bomb threat that diverted flight from HK to British airport was hoax: police

LONDON  - A Virgin Atlantic plane heading from Hong Kong to London was diverted to an airport north of London on Thursday after receiving a bomb threat, police said.


Hot teen social website MySpace to sell music

MySpace, a website considered the hip place to socialize online, announced it will enable members to sell their music.


Zimbabwe at risk of more southern Africa floods

Zimbabwe faces the threat of renewed  flooding which has destroyed homes and put new pressure on the  country's ailing economy, disaster management authorities said  on Wednesday.


Apple Profits Quadruple as iPod Sales Surge

Apple Computer Inc.'s first-quarter earnings more than quadrupled, dramatically exceeding Wall Street expectations, based on strong holiday sales of laptop computers and its wildly popular iPod music players.


Parents are confused over the salt content of foods and the dangers of eating too much salt, research shows.


Most people in the free software world know two things about Apache.  The first is that its name derives from the fact that it was a âa patchy serverâ, built out of patches to the earlier NCSA HTTPd Web server.  The other is that in terms of market share, Apache knocks Microsoft's IIS into a cocked hat.  Unfortunately, neither of these statements is true.


Google Launches Knol, a Potential Wikipedia Competitor

Google this morning announced a test project it's calling "Knol," which will comprise a collection of authoritative articles on various subjects. The project is currently invitation-only, and represents only a minor threat to Wikipedia, Scott Gilbertson argues.


Pentagon to Probe 8 More Air Force Deals

The Pentagon on Monday said its  internal watchdog would investigate eight more contracts  handled by Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force official  convicted last year of violating conflict-of-interest rules.


The chief prosecutor said Tuesday Russia would not allow the extradition of possible suspects in the poisoning of a former KGB agent in Britain and he dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by another ex-security officer of a death squad for Kremlin critics.


Sackhoff, NBC ink 11th-hour "Bionic" deal

In a real-life thriller  rivaling the twists and turns on NBC's "Bionic Woman," Katee  Sackhoff has inked a last-minute deal to continue on the  upcoming series as a recurring character after almost walking  off the project.


Roma, 15:58 - CALCIO, LAZIO; ZAURI: TORNO IN CAMPO NEL 2008

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EU Translation Costs to Surpass $1B Mark

Translation costs at the European Union are set to pass a billion dollars a year as the economic bloc struggles to accommodate 10 new members after its expansion into Eastern Europe and the Baltics, officials said.


High humidity helped firefighters fight blazes across California on Wednesday, while a lack of rain allayed fears of possible mudslides and flooding, officials said.


Ex segretario Cisl, pressione fiscale eccessiva


InfoWorld - AMD hopes to seize a larger share of the server chip market from its rival Intel on Monday when it launches the Barcelona quad-core processor.


Assertive Sarkozy irks EU partners over finances, ECB

"I'm worried about the growing attacks that France is deploying against its European allies, against the Germans, the Luxembourgers, against all of the European countries."  France faces thinly concealed and growing frustration from Paris' European partners, irked at President Nicolas Sarkozy's strident position towards EU spending limits and attacks on the ECB. via Raw Story


Crisis talks in Paris as concerns grow for kidnapped French journalists

As hopes dimmed that two French journalists held captive in Iraq would be freed soon, French President Jacques Chirac was to discuss the crisis with his foreign minister, who returned from a mission to the Middle East with no news of their imminent release.


Italian Seized in Iraq; Vote Counting Continues

Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad Friday, the latest in a series of brazen abductions  but the first since Iraq's election.


There are new Sidekicks in town. On Tuesday, T-Mobile USA released two new cell phones in its youth-oriented Sidekick line. The new handsets include a luxury model and one with a screen that slides to hide or show a keyboard.


Suicide Blasts Kill 25 in Pakistani Garrison City

Powerful coordinated explosions were set off by two suicide bombers in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital.


Want to Lose Weight Insurers Consider Paying for Weight Loss

In November, Medicare's advisers will assess the safety, efficacy and cost of a popular method of weight loss: surgery.


Chip Makers Delay a Merger of Their Memory Divisions

STMicroelectronics and Intel announced a delay in the merger of their unprofitable memory units.


Police are investigating how a 25-year-old Georgia man entered the former World Trade Center site in New York and killed himself. The ground zero site is protected by high fences and owned by the Port Authority.


Sudan "must do more to protect civilians" - Straw

ABUJA/KHARTOUM, Aug 24, 2004 (dpa) -- As British Foreign Minister Jack Straw visited Sudan's western Darfur region during his two-day factfinding mission, day two of peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels got underway in the


U.S. consumer prices held steady in November, confounding expectations of a small rise, as energy and vehicle costs dropped, according to a government report on Friday that eased inflation worries.


Software giants shut as strike hits Indian tech hub

Operations of global software  companies, financial institutions and government offices in  India's main technology hub shut on Wednesday after activists  called a strike over a border dispute with a neighboring state.


Bangladesh's election commission head agrees to step aside after weeks of protests, officials say.


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who often accuses the U.S. of plotting to overthrow him, warned Bolivia's president Friday he could be facing the same prospect.


Marlins move closer to new park and new name

Major League Baseball's Florida Marlins moved a step closer to a new $525 million home in downtown Miami after Miami-Dade county commissioners approved in principle a multi-billion dollar development plan.


French prices rise 0.3 percent in August, 2.4 percent in 12 months

French consumer prices rose 0.3 percent in August and were up 2.4 percent from the same month last year, the national statistics institute INSEE reported, citing definitive figures.


When jaguars kill cattle, ranchers retaliate. Now conservationists are trying for a truce that could save the Americasâ biggest cat.


Huckabee faces his own Willie Horton case

Will the ghost of Willie Horton  haunt the U.S. campaign trail of Republican presidential  candidate Mike Huckabee?


PMs urge stronger cooperation between Serbia, Croatia

Prime ministers of Serbia and Croatia said on Monday that further enhancement of cooperation between their countries is of great importance to stability in southeast Europe.


Campaigners marching across Scotland are to hold a rally calling for an end to the Trident missile programme.


The actress Sandra Oh recently talked about her new television series, working with her husband and what it's like being one of the only actors of Korean descent working in Hollywood.


Bonaiuti, governo salvato per un pelo ma ormai finito


Instant Nostalgia? Letâs Go to the Videotape

The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.


Hughes had been battling the illness for 15 months but deteriorated in the past few days, his wife Barbara said. "He died at his home in Sheffield with his family around him," she said.


Schering teams up with AstraZeneca on breast cancer drug

German drug maker Schering, recently acquired by pharmaceuticals and chemicals giant Bayer, has said that it was teaming up with British drug giant AstraZeneca to develop a new treatment against breast cancer.


Liam Mower, the last of the three boys who launched the Billy Elliot musical, performs the show for the final time.


Police investigating the murder of Rhys Jones arrest four people in connection with the shooting.


At a time when D.J.âs are as well known as the artists they spin, is it any surprise that their managers are enjoying their own kind of celebrity?


SAN ANTONIO -- It felt a little like returning to school after summer vacation. After all, the Celtics could not remember receiving another three-day non-All-Star break during the regular season. The players and coaches reconvened at shootaround yesterday morning and waited until game time to see what benefit, if any, the layoff produced.


Group, Dell Launch Anti-Spyware Campaign

A prominent Internet safety organization and leading computer-maker Dell Inc. launched a campaign Friday to help consumers fend off "spyware," software that can cause sluggish computer performance or popup ads and secretly monitor the activities of Internet users.


The Giants front office knows how to close a deal in a hurry. The team needed someone who could be just as efficient in the ninth inning.


With expiration of key patent, it's time to fire up the infrared

ALBANY, Ga. -- For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you.


Ohio St., BC and LSU hold steady in poll

For a change, there was little change at the top of the Top 25. Ohio State was No. 1 with Boston College second and LSU third, which is how they they lined up last week.


Anniversary of Majestic 12, Purported Secret Government UFO Board

Maybe we've been visited by aliens, and maybe we haven't. Maybe the Majestic 12 exists, and maybe it doesn't. Maybe you'll click on this link, and maybe you won't.


John McCain has an automatic advantage Tuesday when Michigan votes.


Villa move into top half of Premiership with 2-0 win over Everton

Aston Villa moved into the top half of the English Premier League with a convincing 2-0 win over Everton at Villa Park Sunday.


Rusty Wallace to retire after 2005 Cup season

NASCAR veteran Rusty Wallace, in announcing the 2005 season would be his last behind the wheel of a race car, said one of the main factors in his decision is he didn't want to wind up like Dale Earnhardt, who was killed on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona


A judge Thursday rejected a request by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport to delay a trial dealing with alleged sex abuse by priests, a ruling the diocese said would force it to file bankruptcy.


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Alcohol Acts on Blood Vessels to Promote Cancer

Previous reports have suggested that alcohol use helps cancers grow and now, new research offers a possible explanation for this phenomenon.


Oil prices fell as the market tracked fresh concerns about the US economy, with fears that a slowdown in the United States could dampen demand for crude, traders said Monday.


Business deals to dominate Prodi-Putin summit

Business deals are set to take centre stage at a summit on Wednesday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi in the southern Italian city of Bari.Comment


US to Recognize Former Yugoslav Republic as Macedonia

The United States announced today that it would recognize a former Yugoslav republic as the Republic of Macedonia, touching off protests in Athens and celebrations in the streets of Skopje, the tiny nation's capital.


Palestinian tensions flare despite appeals for calm

Gunmen from rival Palestinian factions killed one person and wounded four others in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank on Monday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas appealed for an end to the internal fighting.


More ground was cleared of landmines in 2005 than ever before, says a group monitoring use of the weapons.


Doppia di quella calcolata da Istat e piu' alta anche a Nord


Combinazione: 6-10-13-17-22-46.Jolly: 43.Superstar: 85


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Deadly clashes erupted Monday between rival factions in the Gaza Strip for the first time in more than a month, despite a conciliatory speech toward Hamas by Fatah's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.


Water was released from three Chinese dams in response to an ongoing drought that has shrunk drinking water supplies for 5 million people nationwide.


White House: Safe pills would cost consumers dearly

Making imported drugs safe for US consumers would be so expensive that US consumers would see a price break of only about 1 percent, the Bush administration contends.


Baltimore Man Possibly Infected With West Nile Virus

BALTIMORE -- Mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus may have claimed two possible cases in Baltimore so far this year, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Lisa Robinson reported.


Philippines mobile phone operator Smart Communications Inc. is in talks with Singapore's Mobile One for a possible tie-up, BusinessWorld reported Monday.


US President George W Bush says Iran and Syria should not interfere in Iraq in advance of January's elections.


Saga, the holidays and financial services group for the over-50s, has put an end to the near year-long saga over its future by agreeing a Â£1.


N.H.L. Roundup: Oilers Shut Out the Islanders

Ales Hemsky, Shawn Horcoff and Jarret Stoll each had a goal and an assist Monday night and Mathieu Garon made 35 saves for the Edmonton Oilers.


A powerful blast ripped through a coal mine in Kazakhstan on Sunday, killing 23 people, a spokesman for the Central Asian state's Emergencies ministry said.


It's typically the hottest party in town on Oscar night Â but not this year.


South Korean troops fired warning shots on Saturday after five North Korean soldiers briefly crossed into the southern side of the demilitarised zone (DMZ) dividing the peninsula, South Korea's joint chiefs of staff said.


Bush team to stop using song Democrat wrote

Washington -- The Bush campaign said Friday it would stop using the 1970s hit "Still the One" at campaign rallies after the songwriter claimed the Republicans never got permission.


AP Poll: Bush Holds Slight Lead on Kerry

WASHINGTON - President Bush opens the fall campaign with a slight lead over Democratic Sen. John Kerry, an Associated Press poll shows, as voters express growing confidence in the direction of the country and the performance of the incumbent...


Seahawks' Hasselbeck Questionable After Acupuncture

Seattle Seahawks starting quarterback Matt Hasselbeck did not practice Wednesday and was listed as questionable for this week's game against Buffalo with a nagging thigh injury.


NEW DELHI - At least 25 people were feared killed and more than 250 injured on Tuesday in a collision between two passenger trains in northern India, television stations reported.


Gasquet defeats Vacek at Nottingham Open

Two-time defending champion Richard Gasquet beat Jan Vacek 6-4, 6-0 in the second round of the Nottingham Open on Wednesday to keep alive his unbeaten record at the key Wimbledon warmup.


Health Spending Exceeded Record $2 Trillion in 2006

National health spending soared above $2 trillion for the first time in 2006 and has nearly doubled in the last decade.


Movie fans couldn't pass up three Eddie Murphys for the price of one. Murphy's comedy "Norbit," in which he plays three wildly different roles, opened as the top weekend movie with $33.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.


Where Thieves Lurk, Making a Wary Living

In South Ozone Park, where a bodega owner was shot in the face during a robbery on Monday, shopkeepers these days assume the worst.


Biologists Concerned About Bobwhite Quail

The bobwhite quail, which is disappearing in the Southeast, can make a comeback and add millions of dollars to the rural economy if landowners are willing to make changes in the way they manage their crops and timber to protect the birds' habitat, biologists say.


Body is DJ Kevin Greening's, Met confirms

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed that the body found at a home in south London was that of former Radio 1 DJ Kevin Greening. By Mark Sweney


Study finds chocolate seems to temporarily improve blood vessel ...

Dark chocolate is rich in flavonoids, which act as natural antioxidants _ chemicals that combat the damage oxygen does to the body.


India's HIV cases highly overestimated, survey shows

The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates released on Friday.


DaVita to acquire Gambro's US clinics for $3.1bn

NEW YORK, December 7  - DaVita Inc (DVA.NYS) has agreed to acquire Gambroâs dialysis clinics in the US for $3.1 billion in cash, a Bloomberg article said today.


A man accused of causing a car wreck that killed three college students fled to Ireland only because he feared for his own safety amid the outcry over the crash, his lawyer told jurors Thursday.


The family of Dublin-born Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan believes she has been killed by hostage-takers.


Redskins' Monk and Green lead six into Hall of Fame

Former Washington Redskins team mates Art Monk and Darrell Green were among six players to win election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday.


Baghdad Blast Kills at Least 2, Wounds 13 - Police

An explosion near the Jordanian and  Libyan diplomatic missions in western Baghdad killed at least  two Iraqis and wounded 13 on Friday, police said.


Google Wins Trademark Victory Over GEICO

ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - A federal judge on Wednesday  handed online search engine Google Inc. GOOG.O a victory in a  trademark infringement case on Wednesday, ruling that when  users searched for insurer GEICO, Google could display rivals  as well.


Abit IP35 Pro Intel P35-based motherboard

Good all-rounder? Review The Pro is the current feature-packed flagship of Abit's P35 range of motherboards based around - surprise, surprise - Intel's P35 chipset, and supports Intel's range of 1333, 1066 and 800MHz frontside processors, including the Core 2 Extreme, the Core 2 Quad and the Core 2 Duo.â¦


Family Says West Nile Victim Suffered for Year

A Montana woman who died in Salt Lake City of complications from West Nile virus contracted the disease a year ago in her home state, her family said Monday.


Severn Trent said last night it was still investigating alleged wrongdoing by its staff as it reported a 6.5% slump in first-half profits and predicted lower second-half growth from its services side.


Google Move Could Commercialize Libraries

The Internet company that famously promised to "do no evil" is on a new mission to digitize the collections of some of the nation's leading research institutions and establish a massive online reading room.


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Ahead of nuclear talks between senior Iranian and EU negotiators, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Tehran on Thursday to heed the U.N. Security Council and freeze uranium enrichment, saying Washington was ready for wide-ranging talks if it complied.


The Supreme Court asked federal courts Monday to reconsider sentences for hundreds of defendants who contend they were wrongly punished under a sentencing system the court declared unconstitutional earlier this month.


India beat England by two wickets with just two balls to spare at The Oval to level the seven-match series at 3-3.


Union leaders representing pilots at American Eagle, the commuter division of American Airlines, have accepted a tentative contract agreement that includes pay raises.


British police comb houses, attack risk "critical"

British police searched houses near Scotland's second city Glasgow on Sunday after what they described as a terrorist attack on its airport that they linked to two failed car bombings in London.


Reminders of Mortality Bring Out the Charitable Side

Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scrooge . . . "Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been . . . "


60 Companies Plan to Sponsor Health Coverage for Uninsured

In an attempt to extend health coverage to uninsured workers, 60 large employers are joining together to sponsor an array of low-cost health insurance options.


Allied Domecq, the world's second-biggest spirits company, says its annual earnings will show growth, led by a strong performance of its top spirit brands.


Study: Chicken Genome Fills Crucial Knowledge Gap

"The chicken genome fills a crucial gap in our scientific knowledge," says Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.


Sudan's Islamist government may have imposed its own harsh ideology, but the country's gently tolerant Sufis continue to search ecstatically for "oneness"


Tennis coach guilty of having sex with pupil, 13

Â· Girl's mother found them naked in bed together Â· Jury told how pair tied their hair the same way


Ukraine, Russian Leaders Paper Over Differences

Ukraine's new president, visiting Moscow on his first foreign trip, pledged to maintain an eternal alliance with Russia in talks with President Vladimir Putin on Monday, but said his country would still look westward.


Obama, Clinton try to put racial spat behind them

Democratic presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton promised on Tuesday to put an end to their recent harsh dispute over race and praised each other's commitment to civil rights.


Interpol's chief tells of his "surprise" at shortcomings in the way his passport was checked on arrival in the UK.


User-generated IT support I have lived through re-orgs, outsourcing and off-the-shelf applications being shoehorned into niche markets by over-zealous management. The latest trend in software, though, is for user-generated mashups.â¦


The Russian oil giant Yukos said on Sunday that it would immediately reduce some of its rail exports of crude oil to China. It appears to be the first time that Yukos's


Baseball-Molina Leads Angels to Sweep of Yankees

Bengie Molina had four hits, including  a three-run homer, as the Anaheim Angels completed a three-game  series sweep of the New York Yankees with a 4-3 win on Sunday.