NEW YORK - Wall Street shares took a beating yesterday as a fresh surge in oil prices dented sentiment among investors already fretting about the coming corporate earnings season.


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German finance ministry backs French socialist for IMF top job

The German finance ministry has said it supports French socialist politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a candidate for the post of head of the International Monetary Fund.


Job Gain Less Than Expected, 2004 Strong

U.S. employers added 157,000 new  jobs in December, slightly fewer than expected, as retailers  surprisingly shed employees during the holiday shopping season,  the Labor Department reported on Friday.


The newest addition to the Tennessee Aquarium is a recently hatched rare turtle of an endangered species displayed in only a few places in North America.


Evidence that mobile phones can interfere with vital intensive care equipment has been strengthened.


Cameramen unite against foreign technicians in Bollywood

Discontent is brewing in Bollywood over the gradual entry of foreigners without work permits into key filmmaking activities


Score one for the lion tamer. The federal regulator that oversees home-mortgage giant Fannie Mae finally persuaded that government-sponsored enterprise to agree to clean up its questionable accounting practices.


EBay was the online winner this  "Black Friday," data published on Saturday showed, but overall  Internet traffic growth was well below last year's even as  bargain hunters tracked down sought-after toys and electronics  on the Web before "Cyber Monday."


About 400 protesters gathered outside the Statehouse on Saturday to support a recount of the presidential election in Ohio and call for an investigation into Election Day irregularities.


Lehman quarterly earnings fall 11 percent

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc  said on Thursday that quarterly earnings fell 11 percent, hurt by writedowns in bond trading.


The pop diva is in Mumbai, with her husband and three children.


Police are searching an area of scrubland nine miles from where Madeleine McCann went missing.


Globalization harbors inflationary risks: Bank of France study

The Bank of France has warned that globalization could aggravate inflationary pressures that would justify greater vigilance on monetary policies.


North Korea is "more or less ready" to conduct a nuclear test deep inside an abandoned coal mine but might hold off it can win concesssions from the United States, a Chinese source briefed by Pyongyang said on Friday.


Facebook modified its help pages to tell people that if they wanted to remove their accounts entirely, they can direct the company by e-mail to have it done.


O2 yet to get first bite at UK Apple deal

Spanish-owned mobile phone operator O2  has yet to sign any deal to bring iPhone mobile phones -- Apple  Inc.'s latest "must-have" gadget -- to Britain.


Victor Navarra Dies at 55; Directed Marathon Start

Mr. Navarra was a retired New York Fire Department lieutenant who coordinated the starts of the last 26 New York City Marathons.


Indian police find 30 bags filled with baby bones

BHUBANESWAR, India  - Thirty polythene bags stuffed with the body parts of female fetuses and newly born babies have been found in a dry well near a private clinic in the east Indian state of Orissa, police said on Monday.


Two ways to tango with Symantec services

Security firm will formally launch two programs for businesses to get its help with antivirus and data protection.


Manchester United will bring its all-star squad to China in July for a friendly against Chinese Super League team Beijing Hyundai.


Bills TE has surgery after spinal injury

Buffalo Bills reserve tight end Kevin Everett had surgery Sunday after injuring his spine on a kickoff against the Denver Broncos, and there is concern about whether he will be able to walk again.


Techs Push European Stocks; LSE Hits High

European equities advanced on Monday, supported by a recovery in drug heavyweights and a rise in Finnish mobile handset giant Nokia, but volumes were light before the Christmas holidays.


Lakshmi Mittal, the Indian-born steel magnate, yesterday staked a claim to overtake Roman Abramovich as Britain's richest man with a Â£10bn deal to create the world's largest steelmaker.


Genova, 18:31 - CALCIO, SAMPDORIA: CASSANO IN PANCHINA A CATANIA

Dovrebbe partire dalla panchina contro il Catania per poi giocare titolare contro il Milan.  Il tecn...


LONG before he left for medical treatment in France, Yasser Arafat had all but vanished from the streets of downtown Ramallah in the West Bank.


District Attorney David McDade has handed out some 35 copies of a video of teenagers having sex at a party.


UBS AG is to acquire the branch network  of McDonald Investments, a unit of KeyCorp, for up to $280  million, the Swiss investment bank said on Wednesday.


Air Berlin to buy Condor from Thomas Cook

German low-cost carrier Air Berlin said Thursday it was planning to buy the Condor airline from British-based travel operator Thomas Cook.


Annual US economic growth fell to 2.8% in the second quarter of 2004, marking a slowdown from the 3% estimated a month ago.


Yet Another Bidder Emerges for Australian Pub Operator

Australia's largest retailer, Coles Myer, waded into a takeover battle for the pub operator Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group yesterday, offering 1.18 billion Australian dollars ($856 million) in a bid with a local bank.


'Il grande capo' l'ultima fatica di Von Trier

Dal regista di Dogville una satira feroce sul mondo del lavoro. Nei cinema dal 5 gennaio


BAGHDAD, Iraq - The search continued Saturday for the body of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was decapitated by his abductors, as a report emerged that Bigley escaped from his captors for a short time before he was killed.


BERLIN, Germany -- Germany, stripped of two equestrian golds in Athens, will almost certainly lose a third title after two of its show jumping horses failed dope tests.


Udine, 19:16 - CALCIO, UDINESE: FELIPE, FERRONETTI E DE MARTINO IN GRUPPO

Allenamento intensdo per l'Udinese in vista della gara di domenica contro la Juventus. Felipe contin...


Oil futures prices surged to new heights above $55-abarrel on Friday as concerns about the global supply of heating oil persist ahead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.


Russian newspapers carried harrowing photos Saturday of the bloody climax of the school hostage-taking by militants demanding independence for Chechnya, but carefully avoided assigning blame.


MySpace announces it's opening up its platform to developers at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.


iPhone battery life longer than expected

Apple Inc.  on Monday said the  battery of its widely anticipated music-playing iPhone will  last longer than expected, sending its shares higher.


Toronto fest a venue for transformations

Celebrities always are looking to show new sides of themselves, and the Toronto International Film Festival is one of the best showcases for their transformations.


Rusmfeld proposed Iraq shift before resigning: NYT

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House two days before he resigned last month that the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed a major change, The New York Times reported on Saturday.


S&P may cut $12 bln worth of subprime-related debt

Standard & Poor's may cut 612  residential mortgage-backed securities backed by U.S. subprime  loans, affecting $12 billion in debt, the rating company said  on Tuesday.


A report from the CDC says U.S. emergency units are overcrowded, understaffed and turning away trauma patients.  In Bodyhack.


A day after a PeopleSoft executive vice president said that Oracle and SAP are its only software competitors when dealing with large enterprise companies, more


Men jailed by judge who said they were 'intoxicated' by extremist propaganda are freed by court of appeal


Report Recommends Hefty Rewards to Catch E-Mail Spammers

FTC says $100,000-250,000 bounty would provide incentive for citizens to identify perpetrators of in-box overload.


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Recently the British House of Commons has adopted a legislation to ban fox hunting in England and Wales.


New York fashion shows see muted colors for spring

Spring fashion will look like a rainy day, if the latest predictions are true, with plenty of gray, brown and just brief glimpses of color like the sun breaking through a cloudy sky.


Titolo riduce calo in borsa, -0,77%. Consob convoca organi


Mavericks crush Lakers to seal 17th straight win

The red-hot Dallas Mavericks routed the Los Angeles Lakers 108-72 to notch up their 17th consecutive victory on Sunday.


Indian, British scientists working on drug to fight malaria

At least 27 people are reported to have died of malaria in Alindra, India and 293 are seriously ill with the disease which broke out after the heavy rains and floods.


Dual Citizenship formalities to be completed soon: PM

The Hague, Nov 8 (UNI) Asking the overseas Indian community to strengthen their links with their motherland, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today assured that the long overdue dual citizenship for Non Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIO


Ex-HarperCollins Publisher Settles Defamation Suit

Judith Regan the publisher who was fired from HarperCollins in late 2006,  has settled her $100 million defamation lawsuit against News Corporation, Harperâs parent.


F.D.A. Warning Is Issued on Anemia Drugsâ Overuse

The move follows recent studies suggesting that the medications might cause heart attacks.


The US economy grew more slowly in the second quarter than first thought amid shrinking corporate profits and higher imports, the government said on Friday in a report


The Catholic Church in Los Angeles apologises to people abused by its priests, after offering a $660m settlement.


China brickwork slave children may number 1,000

As many as 1,000 children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media said on Friday amid an expanding scandal about official neglect.


South Korea Urges Atomic Talks, North Softens Tone

South Korea urged the United States to try talking to North Korea instead of taking a hard line over its nuclear plans, while Pyongyang said it would be "quite possible" to solve the crisis if Washington changed its stance.


Ha quattro anni, non si hanno notizie dalle 18 di ieri


Chinese police have arrested a journalist accused of faking an investigative report on buns stuffed with shredded cardboard that made headlines around the world and Beijing Television apologized for airing the footage.


50 Killed, 120 Injured In Massive Baghdad Blast

Baghdad, Sept. 14 (NNN): In one of the deadliest attacks in recent times, at least 50 local Iraqis were killed and 120 others injured in a massive mid-morning explosion in central Baghdad police station on Tuesday, according to health officials here.


Pronta offerta anche sulla totalita' di Hugo Boss


Tra misure 'big' tfr, taglio cuneo e ticket pronto soccorso


Zafi virus threat finally begins to subside

The impact of the W32/Zafi-D worm, which disguised itself as an electronic Christmas card, has reduced from its peak of 1 in every 10 emails earlier this week, to 1 in 30 in the last 24 hours according to reports from Sophos's global network of monitoring


Clinton battles to keep New Hampshire from Obama

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire  - Democrat Hillary Clinton, her back against the wall in New Hampshire, battled to keep the state from swinging to rival Barack Obama on Sunday while Republican Mitt Romney lashed out at John McCain.


A group of US and European banks borrow $2bn from the Federal Reserve to ease credit woes, following recent turmoil.


Capital One posts third quarter net loss

Capital One Financial Corp , a  credit card issuer and banking company, posted a third quarter  net loss after taking more than $800 million of charges from  shuttering its GreenPoint Mortgage business.


Knocked down by an egg: TV shows attack on Ukrainian premier

Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who was briefly hospitalized after being knocked down during an election campaign scuffle on Friday, was in fact hit by nothing more dangerous than an egg, according to TV pictures.


Standard Life shares climb in London stock market debut

The share price of Standard Life has risen following flotation of its stock on the British stock market.


Among the few companies set to report in September, FedEx clearly bears watching.


Podcast: Will a judicial left hook floor TorrentSpy for good?

Judge rules against BitTorrent indexing service; harnessing power from the ocean, and Sprint Nextel names CEO.


The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser.


NASA will soon send its damaged Genesis space capsule back to Colorado, where builders at Lockheed Martin will join other experts in trying to figure out why it crashed in Utah earlier this month.


Race, racial politics won S.C. for Obama

As a black woman, Jeanettea Bryan had been waiting eight years to cast a presidential vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton, until the rhetoric in the Democratic primary got rough and racial.


Gadhafi's Son: Convicted Nurses Won't Die

Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for allegedly infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV-contaminated blood will be spared, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Thursday.


The White House is to consider whether defence chiefs should take over CIA covert paramilitary operations.


Siena, 17:51 - CALCIO, SIENA: CODREA, RINAUDO E LOCATELLI IN GRUPPO

Siena al lavoro dopo il ko con il Messina. Lavoro defaticante per chi ha giocato l'intera gara di ie...


Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo are investigating the brutal murders of six homeless people in recent attacks.


British Hospital to Screen Embryos for Colon Cancer

Couples who have a risk of passing on an inherited form of colon cancer to their children will be allowed to have their embryos screened to ensure they do not carry the faulty gene that causes the illness.


Movie Review | 'Caramel': A Haircut, With an Affair and Highlights of Support

In the Beirut beauty salon where most of âCaramelâ takes place, women of various shapes, sizes, ages and backgrounds gather to bond and gossip.


Amburgo, 13:37 - CALCIO, AMBURGO: CONFERMATO IL NO DI MAGATH

E' giunta da un portavoce dell'Amburgo, Jorn Wolf, la conferma che l'ex tecnico del Bayern Monaco ha...


Not bad, not bad Computerland, which provides IT services to medium and larger business, made an operating profit of Â£1.3m on turnover of Â£30.8m for the six months ended 31 October 2006. Profits before tax were Â£1.3m, up from Â£686,000 for the same six months of 2005â¦


Two Palestinians Killed in Israeli Army Raid on Gaza

Israeli troops raided the southern Gaza Strip Friday killing two Palestinians, wounding seven and making others homeless through the demolition of their houses, local witnesses and medics said.


Wilkinson on track for international comeback

England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson is on track for a return to international rugby after playing for 60 minutes in a club friendly.


Free-market think tank urges EU to unbundle Windows

'No natural monopoly' The Globalisation Institute, a European think-tank run by advocates of the free market, today went on the offensive against Microsoft, calling on the EU to require all PCs to be sold without operating systems.â¦


The contract driller shells out big for an uncontracted rig.


Iraq war chemicals found stored in U.N. office

The United Nations found small amounts of a chemical warfare agent, removed from Iraq a decade ago, in offices near its New York headquarters but officials said on Thursday there was no danger.


Dalla nuova 500 ad Alinghi la settimana è online

Debutta la nuova edizione della storica utilitaria Fiat. Gli svizzeri riconquistano la Coppa America. Le risposte di Padoa Schioppa e le polemiche sulle pensioni. Fatti e personaggi degli ultimi sette giorni


Fishing Pier Proposed for Old Chowan River Bridge

By Lauren King, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 3--Since 2000, a 600-foot portion of the old Chowan River bridge has sat parallel to the newer bridge that carries traffic between Chowan and Bertie counties.


Games with a political and social agenda have provided a novel take on world events.


This country remains divided on many issues - how the war on terror is conducted contributing much to this divide. Itâs not at all certain that Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel whom President Bush


Police search Manchester properties in three anti-terror raids

Police raided three properties in Manchester under the main anti-terrorism law, Greater Manchester Police said.


Metz, 17:59 - TENNIS, ATP METZ: RISULTATI

Risultati del primo turno del torneo Atp di Metz (323.250 euro, cemento).


UN Warns Tsunami Death Toll Could Double

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations warned  on Wednesday Asia's tsunami death toll could double to about  300,000 unless survivors received clean water and other basic  services by the end of the week to prevent disease.


Despite widespread attention, Ken Dunham, Director of Malicious Code at iDefense, characterizes the Linux Trojan as a low threat. "It looks like there was a low volume of e-mails that spread over a period of several days," he said.


"The announcement by Tony Blair that next year's election campaign will be his last is a disaster ... The reality is that the prime minister will have to hand over the reins of power long before this government reaches the end of a third term .


Higher-than-forecast inflation and expectations of interest rate rises have sent New Zealand's currency to a 22-year high.


US Air wrestles with reservation system snafu

US Airways Group on Monday said it sent 20 extra workers to its Charlotte, North Carolina, hub after a glitch in its self-service reservation system on Sunday forced thousands to wait in lines for up to three hours.


Lewis Hamilton's attempt to win the Formula One drivers' championship at the Brazilian Grand Prix begins in Friday's practice session.


I suppose there's only room for one winning team in New England at a time. Maybe the Patriots will win another Super Bowl in 86 years or so.


One of three sailors injured in a fire that disabled a Canadian submarine off the coast of Ireland has died, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Wednesday.


Blast in Egypt-Israel Border Hotel, Bomb Suspected

A huge blast tore through an Egyptian  hotel used by vacationing Israelis at the border resort of Taba  on Thursday, scattering dozens of bodies in what Israeli media  said was a suspected car bombing.


Iraqi Statement: Saddam's Top Deputy Still at Large

Iraqi officials now say Saddam Hussein's former top deputy was not arrested as had been announced Sunday. The Interior Ministry says Monday medical tests indicate that a person arrested during a raid Sunday near Tikrit is not Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.


Clashes in Haitian capital kill at least 14

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Three Haitian politicians allied with ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide surrendered to police Saturday after barricading themselves in a radio station for six hours, denying involvement in clashes that have killed at least 14


Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency for 85 counties in the state Saturday.


Pakistan's National Assembly condemns Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.


US and North Korean envoys are due to start talks in New York aimed at normalising relations.


Three-team baseball trade still unresolved

If this gets done, the New York Yankees will greatly upgrade their rotation - if this gets done. The Yankees continued discussions Friday with the Dodgers


Tokyo's Nikkei average fell 0.4 percent  to a six-week closing low on Tuesday, marking an eight-day  losing streak, after oil prices topped $50 a barrel, fanning  concern over the business outlook for Japanese companies.


NEW YORK: American Express Company, the travel and financial services giant, said yesterday it was suing Visa and MasterCard over anti-competitive business practices.


BANGKOK A day after Thai and international officials confirmed the first probable human-to-human transmission of a virulent strain of avian influenza in this country, public health systems around the globe were scrambling to prepare for a possible pandemic


School becomes first to teach compulsory Mandarin

A school has become the first in the country to make learning the Mandarin Chinese language compulsory, saying it was facing up to the challenges of the 21st century.


Ukraine's East Backs Autonomy Referendum

Andriy Reshetnyak tied a Russian flag to the Ukrainian one, joining thousands of demonstrators backing a referendum on autonomy for their eastern province on Donetsk's central Lenin Square on Monday.


Eastern Europeans who have no plans to settle in UK often change their minds within months of coming here, according to new research.


Cyprus warns it could veto Turkey's EU talks

NICOSIA: Cyprus has upped the ante in its demands for recognition from Turkey, warning its European Union partners it may otherwise veto the start of accession talks with Ankara, local newspapers reported.


Davydenko faces Murray in Qatar tennis semi-finals

Russian top seed Nikolay Davydenko earned a chance of revenge over Andy Murray, the Briton who beat him in last year's semi-finals, as both of them reached the last four of the Qatar Open on Thursday.


Until recently, it seemed that Holocaust movies came from everywhere but Germany.


The layoffs of 55 employees at Miramax last week on the heels of similar layoffs last month leave the studio diminished just when it most needs muscle.


Western Digital ships 1TB RAID-able external HDD

Max capacity or max data security Western Digital has beefed up its My Book Pro line of external hard drives with a RAID-equipped model that packs in two HDDs to yield a whopping terabyte of unformatted storage capacity.â¦


Planet with sea views? Let's move For the first time ever, water has been conclusively identified in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.â¦


Intel Strikes Up Tri-Band Wireless Technology For Centrino

Intel, looking to maintain mind share and market share in the mobile PC space, said Thursday it will begin shipping new, tri-band wireless functionality in its Centrino platform next month and will boost software and security support.


Low-risk bird flu at Virgina turkey farm but not spreading: USDA

Laboratory tests confirmed a strain of low-risk bird flu at a turkey farm in Virginia but there is no evidence of it spreading, the U.S. Agriculture Department's chief veterinarian said on Tuesday.


Thailand: Myanmar PM May Have Been Ousted

Myanmar's Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt is seen in this photo taken in June 2001 in Yangon, Myanmar. Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is in the town of Mae Sot near the Myanmar border for a special Cabinet meeting, said Tuesday, Oct.


It was time for the ice packs, wrapped tightly and designed to soothe, to be removed. So even as reporters waited to ask more questions, the trainer descended to take the ice off the aching parts of Hideki Okajima's body, his lower back and his side, not long after the Red Sox had fallen, 6-4, to the Toronto Blue Jays ...


Blunkett pulled strings for married mum 'friend'

Home Scretary David Blunkett pulled strings with US officials to ease an administrative hassle for the woman alleged to be his married lover.


Londra, 14:58 - CALCIO, LIVERPOOL: SISSOKO VUOLE LA JUVE A GENNAIO

Momo Sissoko si pente di aver detto no alla Juve. ''Non essere passato alla Juventus è stato ...


As big companies spread their brands to Web-based social networking communities, some employers are also exploring Multi-User Virtual Environments, or MUVEs.


Mastella: nessuna preclusione o il governo rischia


When, where: Today, noon, at TD Banknorth Garden. TV, radio: NESN, WBZ (1030).


Moving to unload an unprofitable venture, Cablevision Systems Corp. on Thursday sold its satellite broadcasting business to rival EchoStar Communications Corp. for $200 million cash.


Sebastien Bourdais took a big step toward a third straight Champ Car World Series title Monday, winning the Montreal Grand Prix while his closest pursuers in the championship failed to finish.


Viareggio, 16:30 - CALCIO, TORNEO VIAREGGIO: ESCLUSI ANCHE ADDETTI AI LAVORI

Il servizio d'ordine al torneo giovanile di Viareggio fa sul serio. La disposizione delle porte chiu...


After years of setting aside less for bad loans, time for some serious catch-up.


Nokia, Trimble in navigation license deal

The world's biggest mobile phone  handset maker Nokia unveiled a patent-licensing deal with  technology firm Trimble Navigation on Monday, aimed at tapping  into the fast-growing mobile navigation market.


Seventh-seeded Cyril Saulnier advanced to his sixth ATP quarterfinal this season with a 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) victory yesterday over Gilles Elseneer in the Legg Mason Tennis Classic at the William HG FitzGerald Tennis Center.


Update 1: Honeywell Income Grows Again on Orders

Aerospace and high-tech manufacturer Honeywell International Inc. on Wednesday reported an 8 percent increase in third-quarter profits behind double-digit growth in sales for three of the conglomerate's four business divisions.


Suspected suicide bomber kills two soldiers in Pakistan

A suspected suicide bomber crashed his explosives-filled car into a military convoy, killing two soldiers and injuring six others in a remote northwestern Pakistan town, police said.


Deaths among children infected with HIV in Africa could be almost halved if all those with symptoms were put on a simple, cheap and readily available antibiotic, new research has established.


Insurer and fund manager AMP has reported a better-than-expected profit for the first half on higher investment returns and improved margins after casting off its British operations.


Big Blue unwraps packaged networking services

But this parcel is passing partners by IBM is developing off-the-shelf service products covering real-time collaboration, unified messaging and SOA, after launching a pair of networking packages last week.â¦


Peru Arrests Siege Leader, to Attack Police Post

Peruvian authorities have detained a former army major who led a three-day uprising in a southern Peruvian town and are preparing to storm the police station he took over with 200 supporters, a government source told Reuters early on Tuesday.


Microsoft's Gates Is World's Most 'Spammed' Person

E-mail users inundated with  unsolicited "spam" messages have reason to hope Microsoft Corp.  will develop better tools for tackling the problem: Bill Gates  is suffering more than anyone.


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Louisiana State football coach Nick Saban speaks to the media in this Dec. 8, 2004 photo, prior to the contracts being signed between LSU and Iowa to play in the Capital One Bowl in Orlando, Fla.


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Treating Diabetes During Pregnancy Could Lead to Thinner Kids

TUESDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- When women develop diabetes during pregnancy and don't get treatment, their kids face an increased risk of childhood obesity, but new research suggests that treatment can essentially eliminate that risk.


Berlusconi Empire Buys Radio, Launches Digital TV

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's family bought into its first major radio group on Saturday to bolster an empire embracing television, book publishing, movies and magazines.


Bush says hopes to solve Iran issue diplomatically

U.S. President George W. Bush said on Thursday he remained hopeful of convincing Iran through diplomatic means to give up its nuclear ambitions.


Africa Failing to Meet Development Goals - Annan

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told African leaders Sunday they were failing to meet targets for reducing poverty and combating killer diseases five years after agreeing to global development goals.


Still unclear whether Barroso will make changes to planned team, or simply delay vote to another date. Incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso withdrew his proposed 24-member executive team


Pakistan: Musharraf allies' election prospects fade

Many cite economic woes as campaigning for the Feb. 18 election picks up Friday.


Peace campaigners rally outside a Suffolk airbase to protest at US military facilities.


Verra' ceduta quota di controllo, titolo sospeso al rialzo


Si dice 'prigioniero politico' e 'militante rivoluzionario'


A tearful Tiger Woods won his 11th major championship with a masterly display of controlled shot-making at the British Open.


Politica. Berlusconi: sulla finanziaria e' necessario un voto di fiducia. Elezioni: scheda unica senza preferenze. "Garantisco che ci sarÃ  la necessitÃ  del voto di fiducia". Silvio Berlusconi, nel corso della


Stake in China HP for Sale to the Highest Bidder

A 30 percent stake in Hewlett-Packardâs Chinese operations is up for sale to the highest bidder as the companyâs Chinese partner looks to sell its shares.


Populist Labor Party Leads Lithuania Vote

Lithuanians casting ballots in parliamentary elections Sunday rejected the current ruling coalition for the opposition Labor Party, a sign that many voters liked its promises of lower taxes and higher pay.


OMAHA - Methodist Hospital and Dillard's, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, are reminding all women that early detection is the best protection against the risks of breast cancer.


The House oversight committee has postponed a deposition of Andy Pettitte as part of its investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.


O.J. Simpson must give any money a Florida lawyer is holding for him to the family of slaying victim Ronald Goldman to satisfy a multimillion-dollar wrongful death judgment, a judge has ruled.


Cowboys' Plans Compromised by Owens's Injury

Terrell Owens suffers an injured ankle in the first half, forcing Dallas to turn to its running game in a 20-13 win over Carolina on Saturday.


Live Earth: NBC learns lessons from Live 8

This weekend's Live Earth  extravaganza aims to bring awareness of global warming as well  as music to the world, and NBC Universal wants to make sure its  wall-to-wall television coverage doesn't strike a sour note.


House OKs bill to cut student loan rates

Legislation to lower interest rates on student loans and increase aid to poor people who want to go to college won House approval on Wednesday.


Owner Ken Ramsey isn't exactly thrilled with the name of his horse, Kitten's Joy. "It sounds like a feminine name," he said.


Foggia. Crolla una palazzina: 8 morti, 6 feriti. S'indaga sulla ...

Un boato nel cuore della notte, quella di ieri, poi polvere, terra e macerie dappertutto, e in pochi secondi due famiglie sono state annientate. Ancora una volta Foggia Ã¨ segnata da un lutto collettivo per


Heavy rains and flooding in Panama have left at least eight people dead and damaged hundreds of homes, the government said Friday.


Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 09.24.2007

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Jury finds Vonage infringed on 3 Verizon patents

A federal jury on Thursday  found that Vonage Holdings Corp. , an Internet phone  service, infringed on three key patents owned by Verizon  Communications Inc.


With his two bandmates and their autocratic leader gathered around a dining table, David Crosby is telling a George Bush joke.


Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai arrives in court, cut and bruised, after his weekend arrest.


US Airways Argues for New Deals In Hearing

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


European stocks lost steam on Wednesday ahead of a US interest rate decision with banks and oil stocks leading the slide after Swiss investment banking giant UBS (NYSE:UBS) shocked investors with a $4bn writedown.


Current champions Egypt face Cameroon in Group C while Sudan kick off their campaign against Zambia.


Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-9/11 security rules to be unveiled Friday by federal officials.


UPDATE 2-United beat Arsenal, Liverpool reach Cup semis

An early David Bellion goal gave Manchester United a 1-0 win over arch-rivals Arsenal, while Liverpool joined them in the League Cup semi-finals after a 4-3 penalty shoot-out win at Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday.


Transcript Excerpt: The Post's Interview with President Bush

Washington Post reporters Peter Baker, Michael Fletcher and Michael Abramowitz interviewed President Bush at the White House earlier today. Below is a transcript excerpt from their conversation.


Nove vittime tra i militari statunitensi in tre giorni


Wie bombs out men's event in Japan at 17 over par

KOCHI, Japan  - Michelle Wie missed the cut for the 11th time in 12 professional men's events after a nervous 80 left her at 17 over par at the Casio World Open on Friday.


U.S. lawmakers berate BP for Alaska pipeline gaffe

The head of the House Energy and   Commerce Committee chided BP Plc. BP.L executives on Thursday   for overlooking corrosion that threatened to shut down the   giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, calling the UK-based   energy giant's policies "as rusty as its pipelines."


Valve's Gabe has sent some fresh info to fan site HL Fallout in which he reveals the various Half-Life 2 retail and Steam packages that will be available to the public once Half-life 2 actually goes on sale.


Quentin Richardson makes eight three-pointers and scores 37 points to give the Suns a 121-99 victory over the Trail Blazers.


President Bush on Tuesday approved changes aimed at modernizing the country's controls on the export of sensitive products to foreign nations. U.S. manufacturers said the changes should boost the ability of American companies to make overseas sales.


An aide to Yasser Arafat said yesterday that the Palestinian leader's condition was improving after treatment by doctors in Paris.


A look at how independents compare to Republicans and Democrats, according to Associated Press-Ipsos polling conducted this summer.


Asian Tech Stocks Rally, Dollar Edges Up

A rally in semiconductor-related stocks, including Advantest Corp., propelled Asian shares higher on Monday as investors added to a U.S. buying spree and turned optimistic on earnings prospects.


The Bank of England held interest rates steady at 5.5 percent on Thursday, resisting calls for a cut amid mounting signs of a slowing domestic economy.


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Ovary Transfer to Arm Preserves Hormone Balance

A woman undergoing treatment for cervical cancer had one of her healthy ovaries successfully transplanted into her upper arm, in order to maintain hormonal function, a Dutch team reports.


Astronomers have spotted three dozen bright, young galaxies that defy the general aging trends of the universe. The galaxies, fairly nearby and massive, are more youthful than they ought to be, based on current theory.


Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer, lowered its sales forecast for August, citing Hurricane Charley's swipe across Florida and slower than expected back-to-school sales.


For Wii Players, a Swing and an Unexpected Hit

Nintendo's new game console has been flying off the shelves at retail stores across the country this season. And some game fans are reporting that the Wii's controller has been flying, somewhat unexpectedly, across their living rooms.


troops to monitor renewed fighting in Darfur, where 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes. Ethiopia and Chad to the talks in the Nigerian capital, which analysts say have little chance of success.


Iran Announces Delay in Reactor Start Up

Iran said today that it will delay the start-up of its first nuclear reactor, in the southern city of Bushehr, until 2006 but that it intended to build more nuclear power plants with Russian help.


Blair to press NATO allies over Afghanistan

British Prime Minister Tony Blair will use a NATO summit this week to press his allies to do more in Afghanistan, where British troops are on the frontline of bloody fighting with Taliban insurgents.


Baby Wipes to Body Armor: Texas Cop Aids U.S. Snipers

Looking for a cause with a difference?  Adopt a sniper. A Texas police SWAT officer is running a  charity for frontline snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan,  supplying everything from baby wipes to body armor.


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The threat of a constitutional crisis hangs over the EU as MEPs vote on whether to veto the new Commission.


Is Petro-Can sale tied to Kyoto revival?

A few days ago, under the cover of darkness, the Ottawa Liberals' shiny new Environment Minister Stephane Dion slipped into Alberta to make a speech.


A top Jewish community leader in Iran on Wednesday described the recent immigration of 40 Iranian Jews to Israel as a "misinformation campaign" and insisted that Jews living in the Islamic Republic were not endangered by the hard-line policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


U.S. stocks tumbled on Tuesday after  minutes from a December Federal Reserve meeting showed the  policy-making committee was concerned about the potential for  inflation, triggering investor worry about more rate increases.


Sprint Corp., FON.N  the No. 3  U.S. wireless telephone service company, on Monday said its  2004 results would meet its prior estimates, and also released  an outlook for earnings and revenues in 2005.


Afghans accuse US troops of insulting Islam after footballs bearing the name of Allah are handed out.


Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency would be a step back to the past, turning her husband's image of a bridge to the future against her. The former first lady decried the tenor of his comments in an interview with The Associated Press.


EU officials are in Libya to try to resolve the case of medics sentenced to death for infecting children with HIV.


US Airways Is Predicting a Smoother Weekend

US Airways said that with the help of volunteer employees, it expected a smooth weekend at its Philadelphia hub after a Christmas weekend of mishandled bags.


MOSCA, 22 OTT - La Duma ha ratificato con 334 voti a favore e 73 contrari il protocollo di Kyoto per la riduzione dei gas all'origine dell'effetto serra.La quota dei Paesi sale dal 46% al 63%. Comunisti e


The new head of the European Commission has re-submitted key nominations in hopes of gaining parliamentary approval. Jose Manuel Barroso announced the new nominations in


The Republican convention in New York is set to open amid tight security, after a mass protest against George Bush.


Opinion: The promise of digital collaboration

Letting people easily share information on their desktops and in back-end systems could greatly boost productivity, says Avanade CTO Ashish Kumar. But we're not there yet.


Italy seeks 139 suspects from dirty wars

Italy is requesting the extradition of 139 former South American leaders and their underlings over the disappearance, torture and death of Italians who were caught up in a crackdown on dissent in the 1970s and '80s, a prosecutor said Thursday.


Thank You Cams to be Implemented at Oscars

The Oscars, also known as the Academy Awards, are the most prominent and most watched award show. The number of viewers may even increase this year because instead of "thank you" speeches, this year's winners are encouraged to use "thank you" cams.  Th...


U.N. union urges independent Algeria bomb probe

The U.N. Staff Union called on  Wednesday for an independent investigation into last week's  bombing of its offices in Algiers that killed 17 employees of  the world body.


A five-year-old girl is involved in following a 95-year-old man to his home with two teenage girls who mugged him.


By LEN IWANSKI  HELENA, Mont. - Former Gov. Thomas L. Judge, who in two terms in the 1970s oversaw creation of many of Montana's environmental laws, died Friday, his family said. He was 71.


Serbia mass grave probed, thought to hold hundreds

Serbia started an investigation  on Tuesday into a mass grave believed to contain up to 500  Albanian victims of the Kosovo war, a reminder of why the  United Nations is considering independence for the province.


A bomb explosion Saturday at an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in northwestern Pakistan damaged four vehicles, but no one was hurt, police said.


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The British Library raises Â£635,000 to save a rare 15th Century manuscript from being exported to Germany.


Google Print: Google's Answer to A9.com?

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have unveiled Google Print, a tech service that will let users view book excerpts in the standard Google Web-page search results.


Former Apprentice candidate Katie Hopkins loses her job with The Met Office, a spokesman confirms.


Released From Prison but Never Really Free

Nicole Kassell's lean, disturbing first film stars Kevin Bacon as a child molester struggling to re-enter society after 12 years in prison.


EU ruling on Santander's Abbey bid due next week

The European Commission first expects to make a decision next week on competition issues raised by the bid from Spain's Santander Central Hispano for Abbey National, a spokeswoman says.


Four employees of US mining company Newmont are detained in Indonesia over a controversial pollution case.


"Wives" bow scores ratings of a Lifetime

Several cable networks  were blessed Sunday night with strong ratings from a range of  high-profile shows, including Lifetime Television's "Army  Wives."


Dollar bounces off low against the euro after ECB complaints

The dollar bounced back from a new all-time low against the euro after stern comments from European Central Bank president Jean-claude Trichet about the greenback's slide.


While Intel and AMD continue bringing low-power mobile chips to market, Transmeta is faced with the possibility of shifting its focus from operations and toward licensing its technologies.


Susan Wojcicki's grandmother, a librarian for over 30 years, ran the Slavic department at the Library of Congress. Now Wojcicki is running a project that could revolutionize libraries much as Gutenberg's printing press transformed publishing.


EU leaders back plan to combat climate change

European leaders gave strong backing Thursday to an ambitious plan to combat climate change, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, but cautioned work is still needed on a key element - binding targets for ...Comment


BRUSSELS - The 25-nation European Union has agreed to open groundbreaking accession talks with Turkey next year. But the bloc insisted that talks can only begin 3 October, 2005, if Turkey ends its long-standing


North American cash registers ring up $125 million US in sales of ...

TORONTO (CP) - North American sales of Halo 2 reached $125 million US in the first 24 hours of the video game's release, according to Xbox parent company Microsoft.


Yahoo said it has paid $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, an Internet company that sells a system for managing advertisements in online videos.


(InfoWorld) - More than two years after a security researcher first called attention to Sony BMG's use of a stealth program to enforce digital rights management on its music CDs, the company reached a deal with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the incident, the FTC announced on Tuesday. In a deal that was approved by a 5-0 vote by the FTC, Sony agreed to clearly disclose limitations on consumers' use of its music CDs and promised not to collect information for marketing or install software without consumers consent, the FTC said. The company also agreed to reimburse consumers up to $150 for computers damaged by the program, the FTC said. The settlement marks an end to a long and embarrassing incident for the company, which began when Mark Russinovich, an expert on Windows security of WinTernals Software, now part of Microsoft, published the results of his investigation into a rootkit that had infiltrated his Windows machine. Russinovich's research uncovered a stealth program, dubbed "XCP," distributed on CDs from Sony BMG that silently installed and concealed itself on the machines of customers who played the CD. The revelation and Sony's awkward response to it -- first denying that there was any problem with the XCP program, then making halting efforts to release programs to remove XCP -- set of a chorus of criticism on blogs and in the mainstream press. Subsequent investigation revealed that the XCP program was poorly conceived, hastily written and could be used by hackers to conceal their own malicious programs on systems that had the XCP program installed. Eventually, Sony posted a software removal program for the XCP and conducted a widescale recall of XCP enabled CDs. But the incident was a watershed, prompting discussions of the competing interests of copy protection by corporations and consumers' right to privacy. In the consent agreement announced today, the FTC said that "the installation of software without consumer consent that exposed consumers' computers to security risks was unfair and violated federal law." Hiding the software and failing to provide a way to remove it were also violations of U.S. law, the FTC said. The company will have to offer its removal program for another two years and will have to continue allowing customers to exchange CDs with the concealed software purchased before December 31, 2006. The company will also have to provide retailers with financial inducements to return XCP infected CDs and allow the FTC to continue to monitor its compliance with the consent decree.


Short legs linked to liver disease in study

Women with short legs may have a higher risk of liver disease, with both probably caused by diet or other factors early in life, British researchers reported on Monday.


Google Introduces New Views for Searches

Google give users the opportunity to try new ways of using its search engine, according to the company's Tech Lead on the project.


After more than a decade running Paramount Pictures as chairman of its motion picture group, Sherry Lansing announced Tuesday that she plans to step down when her contract expires at the end of next year.


Verizon, partners to build US-China optical cable

Verizon Communications Inc.  and  five Asian partners plan to build an underwater optical cable  between the United States and China to meet rising demand for  high-speed Internet access.


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The Supreme Court considered Monday whether an almost all-white Texas jury unfairly convicted and sentenced a black man to death, the latest in a string of capital cases to reach the court from the state that executes more people than any other.


Wired's How To Wiki: Lose Weight While You Work

What if your desk or computer platform was also a treadmill? What if every meeting you attended took place on the indoor office track? Are you an exercise junkie? The Office of the Future and the Mayo Clinic thwarts work day stress by introducing physical activity into the workplace and demonstrates how to lose a few pounds while surfing the net, I mean working.


Ukraine Liberal Yushchenko to Take Power on Sunday

Liberal Viktor Yushchenko, who won last month's presidential election re-run, will be sworn in as Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of political turmoil in the ex-Soviet state.


The growth of cervical and womb cancers may be fuelled by a  molecule in semen, a study suggests.


The Lede: Bill OâReilly Talks About Race

The conservative pundit talks for far too long while on the subject of equality.


PeopleSoft fires its CEO; shares rise 15%

PeopleSoft Inc. fired chief executive Craig Conway, raising the likelihood that the business-software maker may give up a 16-month fight against Oracle Corp.


Dream weddings are happening throughout June in city parks and gardens and the center of Times Square.


Afghan Passenger Plane Missing with 100 on Board

An Afghan passenger plane carrying more  than 100 people has gone missing after failing to land at Kabul  airport in a snow storm, an airline official said on Friday.


Sickle cell disease pain underestimated, study finds

Daily pain is more common and severe among people with sickle cell disease than previously documented, U.S. researchers said on Monday.


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Industria. Istat: i prezzi alla produzione a ottobre sono ...

I prezzi alla produzione ad ottobre sono cresciuti del 4,4% rispetto ad ottobre 2003 e dello 0,7% rispetto a settembre scorso. Lo comunica l'Istat precisando che l'incremento tendenziale Ã¨ il piÃ¹ alto da febbraio 2001 (+4,8%).


OTTAWAâPremier Dalton McGuinty says the upcoming health summit will likely be the first of many meetings between the federal government and the provinces as they attempt to "move the ball down the field" on improving health care.


Mortars fired at Mogadishu airport: Reuters witness

More than a dozen mortar bombs were fired at Mogadishu's international airport on Tuesday shortly after Ugandan soldiers landed there as the vanguard of an African Union peacekeeping force, a Reuters reporter said.


UTStarcom 3Q Profit Down, Beats Estimate

UTStarcom Inc. on Tuesday said its third-quarter profit plummeted, but beat Wall Street expectations. The networking products company reported earnings of $5 million, or 4 cents per share, down from $59.


Breast cancer drug effective for fibroids in women

In premenopausal women with  fibroids, the breast cancer drug anastrozole (Arimidex) reduces  fibroid size and improves bothersome symptoms, according to  results of a prospective study conducted at the Aristotle  University of Thessaloniki in Greece.


Report: SEC to Sanction 3 Stock Exchanges

Federal regulators are planning to sanction three U.S. stock exchanges for allowing trading firms to cheat investors by allegedly failing to fully enforce their rules, according to a newspaper report Friday.


MO, solo la politica ferma la spirale guerra-terrorismo


Nikkei segna +0,08%, euro si rafforza su dollaro


Three companies led by Chevron say they have found what may be the biggest US oil field outside Alaska.


Rep. John Doolittle's former chief of staff is cooperating with federal prosecutors investigating Doolittle and his wife in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, the aide's attorney told The Associated Press on Monday.


A stainless steel device meant to replace natural but diseased shock-absorbing disks in the neck should receive government approval, government health advisers said Tuesday.


US scientists have developed a gene therapy treatment which they hope could revolutionise pain relief.


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Oil steadies at $99, calmer after record rally

Oil held steady on Friday, hovering at about $99 a barrel, after falling the day before as traders took profits from a record rally that saw crude prices spike to over $100 a barrel.


Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O said   on Tuesday it will begin selling movie downloads from Walt   Disney Co.'s DIS.N film studios, aiming to turn its iTunes   online music store into a one-stop shop for digital   entertainment.


Gateway PC Delivers New Motherboard Standard

BTX technology cools down the company's new 700GR desktop.


Chelsea were awarded a penalty in the 77th minute when Tomas Repka clearly brought down Robben despite the heated protests from the disgruntled West Ham players.


Bells ring with deeper resonance in volunteer

There are lots of noises that fill downtowns and shopping malls on a given day: garbage trucks, honks, sirens, schoolchildren. Each registers at a certain level on a personal annoyance meter.


India Rethinks Plan for Manned Moon Mission

By S. SRINIVASAN    BANGALORE, India  -- India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday...


Coke CEO: the company may face tough times. Earnings targets ...

Coca-Cola Co., the worldâs top soft-drink maker, has lowered its long-term earnings and sales targets on key markets slump. The companyâs CEO E. Neville Isdell promised Cokeâs investors an improvement


Roma, 16:35 - CALCIO, SERIE B: TREDICI SQUALIFICATI

In relazione all'ultima gara del campionato di serie B, il giudice sportivo ha squalificato tredici ...


Sale of driver details is out of control Deja-Datapocalypse The DVLA's sale of driver details to anyone with Â£2.50 to spare must stop, says the Scottish National Party, having uncovered just how many peoples' records have been sold by the department.â¦


U.S.: Lack of Info Stymied Tsunami Alert

The U.S. weather agency didn't have the phone numbers nor staff to alert all Indian Ocean coastal countries when it saw the first signs that tsunamis could be heading their way, its top official said Thursday. He cautioned that the Caribbean and Atlantic also lack an early warning system.


Norman Mailer, whose many books have taken on sex, death, war, Hitler and Jesus Christ, is now ready for his biggest subject.


Now a team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress - like that caused by divorce, the loss of a job, or caring for an ill child or parent - may speed up the aging of the body's cells at the genetic level.


BLAKELY, Ga. -- New Orleans defensive end Charles Grant was stabbed in the neck, and a pregnant woman was shot and killed early Sunday in an altercation at a nightclub in southwest Georgia.


IFC and Focus Features have acquired Danish helmer Susanne Bier's "Brothers" for joint U.S. distribution. It's the first time the two companies have teamed on a release.


Aid Pours Into Asia, Not Reaching Tsunami Victims

Hundreds of tons of emergency supplies  of tarpaulins, water purification systems, food and medicines  poured into Asia on Thursday, but little was reaching injured,  sick and hungry tsunami survivors.


Roma, 19:28 - CALCIO, MELANDRI: STADI DEVONO ESSERE DELLE SOCIETA'

Il ministro dello Sport, Giovanna Melandri, al termine del vertice antiviolenza a Palazzo Chigi, ha ...


When HBO introduced Tony  Soprano to audiences in 1999, he was mashing a cigar between  his thin lips and gazing intently at a family of ducks that had  taken up residence in his swimming pool.


Gordon Brown is expected to announce billions of pounds of investment in schools in his 10th pre-Budget report.


An Islamic website claims the second American hostage, Jack Hensley, has been killed. This comes 24 hours after the beheading of Eugene "Jack" Armstrong who grew up in Hillsdale.


, 12/8/2004. IBM's awaited personal computing division sale to Lenovo Group Ltd. became official this morning with an announcement that Big Blue will pass the unit to China's number one PC maker for $1.75 billion.


New Windows-based downloader software named for the popular Bruce Willis movie franchise zoomed to the top of Kaspersky's "Virus Top Twenty" chart in December (no) thanks to what the security firm calls "explosive propagation."


Biological Clock Ticks for Men, Too, Studies Say: Older Fathers Raise Babies' Health Risks

By Michael Stroh, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 10--A flurry of new genetic and epidemiological studies is chipping away at a prized male myth: Sperm, it turns out, don't age as well as some men imagine.


China shut 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August and imposed 100 million yuan ($12.1 million) worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, state media has said.


Raging Calif. wildfires force 1M to flee

Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased an estimated 1 million people away.


Flaws found in Windows-based media players

Microsoft Windows users need to watch out for several flaws in non-Microsoft media players.


AT&T Inc  on Thursday posted a  higher quarterly profit as strength in its wireless business  offset weakness in traditional consumer services.


Seven US marines among 10 killed in Fallujah car blast

FALLUJAH: A car bomb blast near Fallujah on Monday killed seven American marines and three Iraqi National Guardsmen, the US military said.


SHAYNE MYHAND, the day-shift manager of Dell's flagship factory here, does a lot of chaperoning. As many as four or five times a day, he finds himself playing host to corporate chieftains and


Upbeat Bush campaign rides convention bounce

President Bush tried to sustain the momentum from last week's Republican National Convention with a weekend of campaigning focused on his


Street kids get lessons in life at surf school

In Muizenberg Beach, near Cape Town, surfer Gary Kleynhans teaches poor kids discipline, respect, and how to ride the waves like a champ.


Al via da oggi missione di De Castro con molti imprenditori


The Basque separatist group, Eta, says it will continue its violent campaign for self-determination.


The government says the loss of patient records by NHS Trusts affects 168,000 people.


Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded in municipal offices where he was making a speech


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Scientists Warn of Global Warming Results

Scientists warned Tuesday that a long-term increase in global temperature of 3.5 degrees could threaten Latin American water supplies, reduce


Sun to Buy Swedish Software Firm for $1 Billion

Sun Microsystems, the large U.S. seller of open-source software, said it would buy MySQL, the world leader in open-source database software, for $1 billion.


Kerry Team to Have Supporters Call Voters

Democratic Sen. John Kerry's campaign is adding a new twist on phone bank calling: Ask thousands at a post-debate rally to dial up their cell phones and call three undecided voters in Arizona.


White House says Iran has not met its obligations

The White House said on Thursday that a U.N. watchdog report shows that Iran has not met its obligations to halt its nuclear fuel program.


Londra, 11:56 - RUGBY, FORMULA MONDIALI 2011: SUDAFRICA CONTRO NUOVA ZELANDA

Il tecnico del Sudafrica neo-campione del mondo di rugby, è contrario alla proposta neozeland...


It's The Year of the Monkey - a lucky year on the Chinese lunar calendar - and more couples have planned to give birth. All Chinese have their sheng xiao - one of the 12 animals used to symbolize the year when a person is born.


Putin discusses with ministers aid to victims of terror act in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday discussed with cabinet ministers the questions of aid to those who suffered from the terrorist tragedy in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Itar-Tass reported.


Polish Cops Bust 100-Member Computer Piracy Gang

Polish police have broken up a gang of more than 100 hackers who sold pirated music and films, using academic computer systems around the world to store their wares, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday.


MPs vote to ban hunting with dogs by a majority of nearly 200 at the Bill's second reading.


Sports Briefing | Golf: Flesch Holds on for Victory

Steve Flesch shot a one-over-par 73 and beat Michael Allen by two shots to win the inaugural Turning Stone Resort Championship in Verona, N.Y. It was Fleschâs second PGA Tour victory in two months.


S&P lowers America West outlook to negative

Standard & Poor's on Monday revised the outlook on America West Holdings Corp. (AWA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) to negative from stable, citing the difficult operating environment


Stocks slip on weak dollar in short session

U.S. stocks fell on Friday in light, choppy trading in an abbreviated session on inflation worries after the dollar slid. But the losses were partly offset by mining shares, which rose after gold prices gained.


While grid computing vendors Sun and IBM are taking the reins of the utility computing market, the competition is collaborating to provide proof-of-concept projects to improve and showcase their services and offerings.


Romney to Pitch a State-by-State Health Insurance Plan

Mitt Romney, an architect of Massachusettsâ universal health coverage plan, is unveiling his proposal for overhauling the nationâs health care system.


Pentagon planning base near Iraq-Iran border: report

The Pentagon is preparing to build a military base near the Iraq-Iran border to try to curtail the flow of advanced Iranian weaponry to Shiite militants across Iraq, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday in its online edition.


Jury Convicts Man for Murder of UK Tourist, Australian Says

A Queensland state Supreme Court jury found a 32-year-old man guilty of murdering British teenage backpacker Caroline Stuttle in 2002, the Australian newspaper said on its Web site.


Suzuki's new plan hits Maruti stock prices

THE country's largest carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd's (MUL) stock prices slipped on Monday, triggered ostensibly by parent company Suzuki Motor Corporation's announcement to set up a new car assembly unit in India through a separate joint venture.


Parents of Madeleine "shocked" to be suspects

PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal  - Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter's disappearance has riveted Europe, are shocked to have been declared suspects by Portuguese police, a spokeswoman for the family said on Saturday.


AN explosion next to a house in Gaza City early today killed five people, witnesses and hospital officials said.


Bergamo, 17:18 - CALCIO, ATALANTA: I CONVOCATI PER IL MESSINA

Sono 20 i giocatori convocati dal tecnico dell'Atalanta, Stefano Colantuono, per la gara di domani c...


Carlos Penate went into a RadioShack store looking for a memory card for his cell phone. He left with a new job.


FDA removes arthritics drugs critic from advisory panel meeting

Cuty Furberg has been removed from the FDA advisory panel meeting on arthritic drugs such as Vioxx (COX-2 drugs) because of his criticism of the entire class of medications made last week.


Sony said it will make half the console's components, compared with 40 percent for the PlayStation 2, to set itself apart from competitors.


Gran Turismo 4 finished; Sony annouces Nike bundle for Japan

Sony Computer Entertainment held a party in Tokyo yesterday to celebrate the completion of Polyphony Digital's long-awaited Gran Turismo 4, which is set for release in Japan - and, apparently, in North America - this December.


The fixed line phone in the home could soon disappear, a study by mobile firm Nokia shows.


An advance in the shares of General Motors Corp. helped U.S. blue-chip stocks swing into positive territory in afternoon trade on Thursday after the automaker posted a stronger-than-expected rise in February sales.


Josh Howard had career highs of 26 points and 16 rebounds, and the Dallas Mavericks opened a 39-point halftime lead in a 123-94 demolition of the New York Knicks on Tuesday night.


A UK team is developing a way to use mobile phones to make lives of diabetics easier.


Bush Acknowledges 'Time of Change' for Workers

TROY, Ohio  - President Bush on Saturday  acknowledged U.S. manufacturing workers have seen a "time of  change" in the economy but said his private sector-based  policies were the way to boost growth.


IBC seeks to rise again through bankruptcy

As CEO and chairman, James Elsesser kept looking for a way to make Interstate Bakeries Corp. as solid as its brand names. Inheriting a company with aging factories and slow reflexes that for decades


St. John's Imposes Penalty After Basketball Inquiry

Officials said that a former St. John's player received cash from an employee in violation of N.C.A.A. rules. Two years of sanctions will be imposed on the men's program.


EU mobile phone operators to adopt child safety code

Leading European mobile telephone operators have pledged to draw up a voluntary code over the next year aimed at protecting children using mobile phones.


Rangers missing nine for Inverness match

Scottish Premier League leaders Rangers have nine players out of action for Sunday's clash against Inverness Caledonian Thistle at Pittodrie.


Sport: Carling Cup: Vibrant performance will encourage Roman Abromovich.


Barry Bonds is just a tad bitter about his departure from the San Francisco Giants.


Annika Sorenstam shot a second-round 68 to open up a three-shot halfway lead at the ADT Tour Championship at Trump International in West Palm Beach, Florida.


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Counterfeit goods cost city over $1 billion

The Big Appleâs counterfeit-goods industry cost the city $1.03 billion in lost tax revenue last year, says Comptroller Bill Thompson in a new report.


Egypt has abolished the life-threatening practice of female circumcision, its health ministry says.


Bush Picks Federal Judge to Head Homeland Security

President Bush on Tuesday nominated  U.S. Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff, an architect of the  Justice Department's anti-terror response after the Sept. 11,  2001, attacks, to become secretary of homeland security.


Viewpoint: The attack on Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan and the murder of four Frenchmen in Saudi Arabia show that militant Sunnis are a growing danger


Martin Jol is likely to be named the new manager of Tottenham after Jacques Santiniâs shock decision to quit yesterday. The Dutch assistant coach will take charge of todayâs game against Charlton, and


Paid governors for groups of schools might be an answer to recruitment in poorer areas, a study suggests.


This history-rich Hudson River community has yielded a museum's worth of 18th-century military artifacts over the decades, from musket balls to human skeletons.


Nokia Dominates, but Rivals Insist That Could Change

Competitors say the industry leader, Nokia, is still vulnerable to the vagaries of the cellphone business, with its fickle consumers and aggressive challengers.


L'uomo Ã¨ morto nel suo sacco a pelo in piazza Mastai a TrastevereA Capodanno altra vittima alla periferia di Modugno nel Barese                                          Roma, il freddo uccide un barbone trovato senza vita in pieno centro                                                                                Un'associazione francese: "Si muore per violenza, logoramento, umiliazione"


U.S. Companies Back in Business in Libya

Libya awarded its first contracts to  U.S. companies in 18 years Saturday, handing oil and gas  exploration licenses to three American firms to draw a line  under decades of international isolation.


U.S. Marks Anniversary of Sept. 11 Attacks

Americans rang church bells,  remembered the nearly 3,000 dead and gathered to pray on  Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the devastating Sept.  11, 2001, attacks on the United States.


Five shells exploded in Baghdad on Thursday, with several landing in the fortified Green Zone area. Clouds of black smoke were seen rising from the Green Zone area on the west bank of the Tigris river after


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Washington -- If the new National Museum of the American Indian confined itself to such displays as its impressive collections of Seminole, Shoshone and Hopi kachina dolls, or North American peace pipes and tomahawks, it would differ little from other


Glitter and glamour returned to the forefront as the 79th Academy Awards ceremony got under way.


(InfoWorld) - MozillaÂ has released an update to its Firefox browser, fixing a number of security flaws in the product. The Firefox 2.0.0.2 release includes a fix for a bug disclosed by security researcher Michal Zalewsky last week. That flaw can be exploited by attackers to manipulate cookie information in the Firefox browser, making it probably the most important fix in the update, according to Window Snyder, Mozilla's head of security strategy. "The potential to compromise a user's account is almost as serious as compromising their machine," she said Friday via instant message. "Since the details of how to exploit the vulnerability are publicly available, the risk to users is increased." The updates also include a fix for a previously undisclosed memory corruption flaw in the browser that could be exploited to run unauthorized software on a Firefox user's computer. This flaw could also affect Thunderbird users who have configured their mail client to run JavaScript automatically, something that Mozilla does not recommend. Thunderbird is Mozilla's free e-mail client. The patches were released on Friday afternoon and should soon be delivered via Firefox's automatic software update mechanism, Snyder said. Mozilla has patched a total of seven Firefox bugs and is also addressing two bugs in Thunderbird. The latest browser release also includes enhancements to make it run better with Windows Vista as well as support for the Afrikaans, Belarusian, Georgian, and Kurdish languages.


Ministers are told Scotland's publicans will fight "tooth and nail" to stop plans for an outright ban on smoking.


Kevin Spacey prefers acting in theatre to movies

Kevin Spacey has revealed that he loves performing in theatre so much that he may never return to the glitzy world of movies.


Japan pushes whaling as consumers' appetite fades

Whaleburgers are on the menu at Akiji  Ichihara's restaurant to lure young customers, who tend to turn  up their noses at boiled blubber or sliced raw whale.


Two US soldiers were killed and another was wounded in Afghanistan Wednesday in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device. The incident occurred in central Afghan


By Will Quah  THERE are a lot of new ways to entertain yourself out there on the market these days, and it seems like the Internet is at the heart of all of them.


Giuliani, Romney court conservative base

Republican presidential contenders Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney frequently invoked Ronald Reagan and boasted about their allegiance to the GOP's core principles as they sought to win over skeptical conservatives Friday.


Fujitsu's Ultraportable Shows Up Outside of Japan

Fujitsu is widening the sales of it srecently launched convertible ultraportable PC.


San Francisco police probe zoo after tiger attack

San Francisco police combed the city's zoo on Wednesday for clues as to how a tiger escaped from its enclosure on Christmas and killed one man and wounded two others.


Zagat Family Is Putting Guide Empire on Market

A âclever and sharpâ restaurant guide company with tellingâ rankings and âa penchant for quote marksâ from its thousands of âin-the-knowâ reviewers is âon the block.â


Accra, 16:40 - CALCIO, COPPA D'AFRICA: CT BENIN DENUNCIA TENTATA CORRUZIONE

L'ombra della corruzione si allunga sulla Coppa d'Africa. Il ct del Benin, il tedesco Reinhard Fabis...


Four of the Pacers involved in last month's brawl pleaded their cases before an independent arbitrator on Thursday, but no representative from the N.B.A attended.


LOS ANGELES  - Lake Bell, who most  recently co-starred on ABC's "Boston Legal," has been cast as  the female lead in NBC's drama pilot "Fathom," which revolves  around mysterious creatures deep in the ocean.


Court hears appeals in commando-style bank robbery that left police officer dead

OSLO, Norway Thirteen men appealed their conviction for a commando-style bank robbery that left a police officer dead, arguing in a court Monday that some were innocent while others should be sentenced to less ...


Across the globe, at least 15 nations are considering sending troops to an eventual U.N.-mandated international force in southern Lebanon — including Malaysia, Indonesia and Norway.


US consumer confidence slips for second straight month: job ...

Job worries helped push consumer confidence down in September for the second consecutive month, the Conference Board reported Tuesday.


10,000 Web Sites Rigged with Advanced Hack Attack

A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year appears to be affecting an increasing number of Web servers.


Report seeks one-stop source for health info

For patients weary of scary headlines about popular treatments like the heart drug Vytorin, a new report issued on Thursday by U.S. Institute of Medicine may offer welcome relief.


Obama takes narrow lead over Clinton in Nevada

RENO, Nevada  - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a small lead over rival Hillary Clinton in Nevada ahead of Saturday's caucus, according to a poll released on Monday.


Public transport grinds to a halt in the Netherlands as workers strike against the government's planned welfare cuts.


Parigi, 14:31 - TENNIS, ROLAND GARROS: CHAKVETADZE AGLI OTTAVI

La russa Anna Chakvetadze, testa di serie numero 9, si è qualificata per gli ottavi del Rolan...


DENVER Oct 20, 2004 - A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions.


Fidel Castro said Friday that as a young man he hoped to cling to power but has long since outgrown the urge, the latest ambiguous statement about his future at the helm of the country he has ruled for nearly five decades.


The sprawling fish processing plant that once dominated the downtown waterfront of this Arctic town is gone, with workers racing in the Polar darkness to build its replacement, a sparkling new cultural center.


Washington School Still Feels Pain of 9/11

Madeleine V. Leckie Elementary School lost a student, a teacher and two parents in the terrorist attacks.


Japan has cut short its annual whaling expedition, which was dogged by environmental protests, after a ship was badly damaged by fire, officials said Wednesday.


Variety - Feature scribe Dan Pyne ("The Manchurian Candidate") has returned to television, pacting with former Paramount TV head Kerry McCluggage to produce an hourlong drama for Fox.


Almost 300,000 civil servants will be balloted for a one-day national strike against government plans to cut jobs.


STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Andre Agassi had little trouble reaching the Stockholm Open quarterfinals, beating Jonas Bjorkman 6-3, 6-4 Thursday.


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday threatened opposition governors with jail if they lose in the upcoming Oct. 31 election and refuse to give up their posts.


England Beats Ukraine in World Cup Soccer Warm-Up

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Shaun Wright-Phillips scored in his international debut as England beat Ukraine 3-0 in a warm-up for soccer World Cup qualifying, while Italy lost 2-0 to Iceland.


Myanmar junta allows Red Cross to reopen

Myanmar's military junta has told Red Cross officials that the humanitarian group can reopen field offices that the government had ordered shut in October, the aid agency said Thursday.


Bank of America appeals "shocking" ABN ruling: paper

Bank of America  has accused a Dutch court of unlawful action by blocking its $21 billion purchase of ABN AMRO's  U.S. unit LaSalle Bank in an appeal filing, the Financial Times reported on Friday.


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Democrat Barack Obama criticized John Edwards on Saturday as an unconvincing populist who passed up chances in the Senate to curb the power of lobbyists and is tolerating presidential campaign tactics that he claims to oppose.


New DES Commissioner Bridges Business and the Environment

By Tuohy, Dan  The state's new top environmental official has a clear message: business and the environment don't have to be at odds in NH.


Israel kills 3 Egyptian police by mistake

when the Jewish state wants Egypt to help secure Gaza after a planned Israeli withdrawal there next year. across the border into the Sinai peninsula, a senior Israeli security source said.


Blog: Glimpse the innards of the Nikon D3 and D300 digital SLRs without voiding your warranty.


High Street chain Woolworths reports narrower half-year losses after a pick-up in sales at its retail division.


Serena Williams thinks her sister Venus got a bum rap when a television station played slow motion clips as a male commentator admired her bottom on air.


Mockery and muckraking enliven France's Internet hustings

One of the most popular Internet sites of France's presidential election shows a mocked-up figure of the right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy dancing to disco tunes.


Germany's national railway on Wednesday backed off a target of selling shares on the stock market by mid-2006, saying that it "does not appear realistic."


Kidd returns for Nets, assists on game-winning basket

Jason Kidd played only 21 minutes in his season debut. That was just enough to lift the New Jersey Nets. Making his return from knee surgery, Kidd assisted on Richard Jefferson's jumper from the lane with


Natsios fara' pressione sui non firmatari della pace


Childhood obesity triggers early puberty: study

Childhood obesity in the United States appears to be causing girls to reach puberty at an earlier age, for reasons that are not clear, a study said on Monday.


Community News: More from the Itn'l PHP Conference

A few more of the International PHP Conference slides have surfaced for your enjoyment:  Sandro Zic - A comparison of PEAR Installer, Phing, and ZZ/OSS Installer alan@akbkhome.com - PEAR and PHP 5 (blog entry)


Delphi investor group may sell part of stake

An investor group backing a $3.4-billion plan to support auto parts maker Delphi Corp.'s  emergence from bankruptcy may sell more than 70 percent of its common stock stake to additional investors, one of the group's co-leaders said on Monday.


FBI background-check system for gun buyers hit by technical woes

The FBI system used to conduct instant background checks on would-be gun buyers suffered several software-related outages on Sunday and Monday but has since been repaired.


New Zealand bank raises key interest rate

WELLINGTON New Zealand's central bank raised the benchmark interest rate by a quarter point on Thursday, to 6.5 percent, and said the sixth increase this year may be the last as economic growth slows.


A Jordanian who was sentenced to four years in prison for helping plan terror attacks in Germany has been granted early release, a German court said Friday.


An investigation begins in  Pakistan after two airliners carrying hundreds of people,  including a senior minister, nearly collide.


Ottawa, 09:02 - HOCKEY GHIACCIO, STANLEY CUP: OTTAWA ACCORCIA LE DISTANZE

Ottawa ha battuto Anaheim 5-3 in gara 3 della finale della Stanley Cup, il trofeo assegnato alla vin...


Ukraine's new president heads to Moscow ahead of Europe trip

Ukraine's newly-inaugurated President Viktor Yushchenko prepared to fly to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin, moving quickly to reassure the leadership in Moscow on his plans to orient his country firmly towards the West.


Top U.S. Iraq commander faces criticism from senator

The top U.S. commander in Iraq  defended his record on Thursday in the face of strong criticism  from Sen. John McCain, a Republican presidential contender in  2008.


CHIBA, Japan  - Thousands of Japanese rocked to the rhythm of a virtual techno beat act on Saturday in the second of nine concerts worldwide aimed at persuading the globe to go green.


Minnesota's Ventura campaigns for Kinky Friedman

Colorful former Minnesota Gov.   Jesse Ventura helped promote writer and musician Kinky   Friedman's independent quest for the Texas governorship with   speeches at Texas colleges on Monday.


The US military closes all roads into the Iraqi city of Falluja, amid speculation a major assault is imminent.


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Iraqi leader tells Fallujah: Give up al-Zarqawi, or else

As anxiety mounted over a feared wave of insurgent violence during the sacred Muslim month of Ramadan, which begins tomorrow, two roadside bombs in Baghdad killed


First Google ratings show search engine revved up

Five Wall Street firms that helped take Google Inc public started investment coverage of the internet search engine on Tuesday, giving it their highest stock ratings and predicting substantial gains.


Officials: Hezbollah agent helped plan Iraq raid

A top special operations officer from Lebanon's Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah has been captured in Iraq, where U.S. officials say he played a key role in a January attack that killed five Americans.


UK Prime Minister Tony Blair visits his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi with Italy on high alert after a terror threat.


Eurolega: Climamio Bologna-Cibona VIP Zagabria 99-88

BOLOGNA - Quinta vittoria consecutiva in Eurolega della Climamio Bologna che batte in casa il Cibona VIP Zagabria con il punteggio di 99-88. I quintetti di partenza sono Vujanic, Basile, Douglas, Rancik, Lorbek


Comedian Bill Cosby is investigated by police after an undisclosed allegation is made against him.


Il Pontefice ha chiesto un forte impegno contro il problema


Intel Names 30-Year Veteran as Its First Non-Engineer CEO

Intel Corp. named President Paul S. Otellini as its next chief executive officer, for the first time choosing a non-engineer to run the world's largest computer-chip maker.


Ferrell takes dramatic turn in 'Fiction'

On the set of his latest movie, Will Ferrell did whatever the little voice in his head told him to do. Luckily, the words arrived in the classy voice of Emma Thompson.


Brookfield Properties Corp.   on Monday forecast 2007 funds from operations above analysts' expectations and said it plans to sell 30 million shares.


A senior British diplomat was summoned by Sri Lankan police after he photographed a presidential motorcade with his mobile phone, the British High Commission said on Friday, terming it an "innocent mistake".


Private equity firm Blackstone Group is buying the owner of Madame Tussauds waxworks museums for about 1 billion pounds ($1.9 billion) cash, creating the world's second-biggest theme park group behind Walt Disney Co.


Hollywood's two major actors unions announced late Thursday they have agreed to a new contract with film and TV producers worth $200 million over three years.


Update 4: Tokyo Stocks Hit Five-And-A-Half Week Low

Tokyo stocks slid Monday to a five-and-a-half week low as concerns about rising oil prices sent the Tokyo stock market's main index to its seventh consecutive decline.


Though it is only 38 pages, a federal indictment handed up last week offers a panoramic view of the corporate corruption that allegedly permeated San Diego's Peregrine Systems.


Mac users not welcomed to view bills on line If the last batch of rumours turn out to be true, and O2 is planning to stock the iPhone, then they'll have to do something about their on-line billing system; it can't be accessed by most Apple Mac users at all.â¦


Car bomb attacks were launched at the gates of the main US-Iraqi headquarters in Baghdad and major hotels today, killing at least 21 people and wounding 96.


Sainsbury's warns of first-half profit dip

LONDON -- Troubled grocery chain J Sainsbury PLC, Britain's third-biggest supermarket retailer, said Monday it expected to announce a big drop in profits for the first half of this year.


Google vs. Verizon: The 'open access' saga continues

Verizon Wireless' objections to rules requiring soon-to-be-auctioned wireless spectrum to be open to all mobile devices are anti-consumer, Google says.


Italians remember Canadians with fondness, gratitude as veterans return

CESENA, Italy (CP) - For a few stormy days in October 1944, a young Canadian tank sergeant became part of the Bocchini family in an ancient Italian town caught up in the whirlwind of a world war.


A US air strike in Iraq destroyed a building in Falluja believed used as a meeting place by terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his followers.


Wal-Mart Says September Sales Are Rising 2% to 4%

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said September sales are rising 2 percent to 4 percent as consumers scaled back their spending last week amid high gas prices and a sluggish job market.


White House Expects Steady Economic Growth

The Bush administration released a new economic forecast for 2005 in which it boosted growth forecasts slightly from a year ago but cut back sharply on its estimates of new jobs.


Channel Four is fined Â£1.5m by Ofcom for misconduct involving phone-in competitions on Richard and Judy and Deal or No Deal.


Books of the Times: The Case That the Presidentâs Reach Exceeds His Grasp

Charlie Savage suggests that after Sept. 11 a âperfect storm of political pressuresâ enabled an aggressive White House to expand vastly the powers of the executive branch and dangerously tip the constitutional system of checks and balances.


Wenger dismisses minor incident - but will Lauren stay

The reports of a fight on the Arsenal bus have been dismissed by Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger. After drawing 1-1 with Rosenborg in the Champions League police were called after an incident on the Arsenal coach involving Patrick Vieira and Lauren Bisen.


Some People With Mild Alzheimer's Can Drive

While some people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites) can drive safely, regular assessments of their driving and memory are the best


U.S. stocks rose on Monday as a higher price target for shares of Apple Computer Inc.  prompted enthusiasm for technology stocks and a rally in crude oil stalled.


THE NEW: The Sudanese government and southern rebel leaders promised to end a 21-year civil war. Sudan's vice president set a year-end target for a peace accord.


Activist hedge fund manager David Einhorn quit New Century Financial Corp.'s  board late Wednesday, two days after the subprime lender's stock fell 69 percent following disclosure of a federal criminal probe.


For most of the second half, Baylor's standout forward, Bernice Mosby, kicked back on the Lady Bears' bench. The fact that Mosby scored 12 points in 22 minutes is telling — No. 18 Baylor didn't need her much after the first half, as the Lady Bears cruised to a 71-54 win over Kansas in a Big 12 Conference women's tournament quarterfinal game on Wednesday night.


Il 21 si esprime cda azienda poi l'esame dell'esecutivo


Two large explosions have rocked the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. The blasts were caused by car bomb detonated near Interior Ministry buildings.


Ukraine's Yushchenko Seen Heading for Win

Opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko appeared headed for a comfortable victory Monday in a bitter campaign that required an unprecedented three ballots and Supreme Court intervention to pick a new Ukrainian leader.


FAA equipment failure delays Reno flights

Reno/Tahoe International Airport's instrument landing system malfunctioned Saturday, stranding thousands of passengers when all flights were canceled.


Florence threatens to become a hurricane

Residents of Bermuda installed storm shutters and hauled their yachts onto beaches in preparation for Tropical Storm Florence, which intensified Saturday and was expected to become a hurricane as it approaches the North Atlantic island.


World News > Five arrested in Pakistan in terror plot:

Five terrorists have been arrested in Pakistan on charges of plotting to attack top Pakistani politicians and the US embassy, a minister was quoted as saying Sunday.


Electronic downloads make us want our Pavarottis in person even more

Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: With entertainment available on tap, we yearn for the real.


A majority of Scottish Labour MP backbenchers do not want a general election called this year, a BBC poll finds.


Democrats Question Bush's Service, Costs of War

Democrats raised new questions about  President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service on  Wednesday as White House hopeful John Kerry charged the Iraq  war was draining resources from the U.S. economy at home.


Opponents to Afghan vote soften their position

The chief challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he and several other presidential contenders are withdrawing their rejection of Saturday's election.


Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather than a possible ally, a Senate report says, contradicting assertions President Bush has used to build support for the war in Iraq.


Keeping elderly healthy is major challenge for doctors: WHO

GENEVA  - Keeping old people in good shape is one of the biggest challenges facing the health sector with the number of people aged 60 and above expected to top one billion by 2025, the World Health Organisation warned.


Microsoft overhauls Live.com search page

The software maker is in the midst of a major revamp to its search product. Over the coming weeks, the company will make more changes, including to the engine itself. Whether the changes add up to more eyeballs is an open question.


Governors Seek More Money for Children's Insurance

Governors from both parties appealed yesterday for the Bush administration and Congress to provide more money for a health-care program that insures millions of children.


Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin indirectly criticises President Putin's decision to increase his powers.


Microsoft: No extra licenses needed for multicore chips

Customers that use the dual-core processors that Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) are expected to begin shipping next year will not need to buy extra licenses for Microsoft Corp. software, the software maker will announce Tuesday.


Notre Dame situation has columnist shaking his head

Puzzling is the best word to describe Notre Dameâs attempt to find a new head football coach after dumping Tyrone Willingham unceremoniously two weeks ago.


BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on the tactics of Serbia's nationalist Radical Party, and the charms of the capital, Belgrade.


At the rate the Boston Red Sox are going, they will soon be selling their World Series highlight film, which should be quite a bargain, considering it can double as a bloopers video.


Merkel confident world powers will agree on Iran

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she was confident world powers would agree on further steps against Iran, which has repeatedly defied international calls to suspend its nuclear fuel program.


Hijackers surrender in Athens bus standoff

ATHENS -- Two armed Albanian hijackers surrendered and released their hostages early today, 18 hours after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb and threatening to blow it up if authorities did not pay a ransom.


Robert A.M. Stern will design Bush's presidential library and 'Freedom Center,' so think conservative and traditional.


Blair leaves hospital after heart operation

LONDON : British Prime Minister Tony Blair left hospital for home after undergoing surgery to correct an irregular heart beat, according to live television reports from the scene.


Nine Eagles flying to Hawaii for Pro Bowl

Owens was selected to the annual NFL All-Star Game for the fifth time, but his first year as an Eagle may have already come to an end after ankle surgery on Wednesday.


Starbucks launches first of "music bars" for CD burning

SEATTLE, Washington, Oct 14  - Coffee shop giant Starbucks said Thursday it was launching the first of its "music bars" where customers can listen to digital recordings and burn their own CDs.


Uruguay's struggles continue, Saudi Arabia wins again in World Cup ...

Two-time champion Uruguay continued to struggle in its quest to qualify for the 2006 World Cup on Tuesday, while Saudi Arabia maintained its unbeaten record in Asia.


A Franco-Swiss team uses a robot amphibian to study how the first land animals on Earth might have walked.


Il procuratore capo: 'atto molto grave', aperta inchiesta


Amazon stock drops, but brokers raise targets

Shares of Amazon.com Inc  plunged 15 percent on Wednesday, depressing the overall market and delivering a rude wake-up call to investors whose hopes for the online retailers' sustained profit performance had more than doubled share prices since January.


France and Germany escape EU deficit doghouse

The European Union executive body dropped disciplinary action against serial deficit offenders France and Germany, ending a three-year standoff that left the eurozone's budget rules crippled.


Exit Tom Ridge: Needed now - a hard-charger

For fans of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Tuesday was a blue day. Not exactly a blue alert day, but a blue day all the same.


Early Voters Transform Campaign Landscape

In an election year when just a few thousand votes in a few states could decide the winner, the growing number of voters who cast ballots weeks before Election Day is transforming the landscape for political campaigns.


Unlike rivals, Letterman has his writers

After eight weeks of reruns, David Letterman should be in a joking mood next Wednesday: Not only does he join his late-night brethren back on the air, but he'll have his writers backing him up.


The average person may find it tough to understand state government, but Washington state officials want to deploy changes to alleviate state personnel's employment of acronyms, jargon and legalese that routinely pervade interfaces with constituents.


Filmmakers using relatively cheap digital technology throw a harsh light on the plight faced by indigenous societies trying to survive the intrusion of a modern world. Jason Silverman reports from New York.


US President Bush is in Mexico on the final leg of a Latin America tour, with drugs and migration top of the agenda.


Edwards Seeks Help Creating 'One America'

The nation has faced innumerable challenges in its history — social, medical and political — but the American spirit always bounces back, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday.


Patrice Bergeron thought it was "a wake-up call." Strange observation, because the New Jersey Devils rarely are associated with anything that arouses consciousness.


ADR Report: ADRs End Dn; Terrorism, Oil Woes Take A Toll

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--American depository receipts tip-toed into the red Monday, as concerns over a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia and rising oil prices spooked investors.


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A major restructuring process has pulled this respected audio company into penny land.


Blair calls for expanding Palestinian forces

JERICHO, West Bank  - Middle East envoy Tony Blair, seeking to bolster Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking efforts, said on Wednesday it was critical to expand the capabilities of Palestinian security forces.


The five-year drought parching much of the western United States could continue for years and may be just the beginning of a long era of drier times due to global warming, a new study suggests.


Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria broke the U.S. record of most time walking in space Thursday as he and another astronaut did maintenance work outside the international space station during their third spacewalk in nine days.


Xcel settles tax dispute over insurance policies

Xcel Energy  said on Wednesday  it reached a tentative settlement with the U.S. government  related to a tax dispute over its life insurance policies.


Bush criticizes Russia, China on democracy

President George W. Bush on Tuesday criticized Russia and China on democracy, saying the United States would continue building relationships with those countries but without abandoning its values.


Univ. of Washington to forward RIAA legal notices to suspected student pirates

While the University of Washington in Seattle is willing to pass on letters from the recording industry accusing students of music piracy, not all schools are willing to go along.


FDA tells Viagra to pull "Wild Thing" TV ads

WASHINGTON - Pfizer has begun pulling two television advertisements for Viagra after US officials said they made unsubstantiated claims about a return of sexual desire.


Heinze poised for United debut, Van Nistelrooy returns

Argentine international Gabriel Heinze is set to make his Manchester United debut and Ruud Van Nistelrooy could return from injury via the substitute's bench at Bolton Wanderers on Saturday.


A surfer rode a wave on his stomach to rescue a struggling dog that had been swept off a pier and into Lake Michigan by a wave.