A friend of a poisoned Russian dissident said they both received e-mail threats days before he was taken ill.


The fifth report of an inquiry into serial killer Dr Harold Shipman, who murdered over 200 of his patients, has criticised the watchdog governing doctors for putting the needs of doctors above patients.


Two lifeguards are suspended after a nine-year-old girl is caught in a rescue boat's propeller off the Merseyside coast.


Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country is not heading for armed conflict with the US.


Government launching human trials of experimental SARS vaccine

Researchers have been studying severe acute respiratory syndrome since it was first recognized in 2002. It killed 774 people worldwide before being contained by quarantine, patient isolation and travel restrictions.


The US economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3% in the spring, the government reported Wednesday in the final revision to second-quarter gross domestic product.


in more ways than one - but a Buick LeSabre is not. The sleek Escalade EXT, with its high-gloss chrome and its lowdown street appeal, is far and away


Poor still suffering from last recession

Many of the poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn.


Top seed Rafael Nadal suffered a 6-0 6-1 defeat by Russia's Mikhail Youzhny in the Chennai Open final.


Moody's revises Occidental Petroleum outlook

NEW YORK, Nov 12 - Moody's Investors Service revised Occidental Petroleum Corp's (OXY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the international oil and gas company's outlook to positive and affirmed its ratings.


Thai authorities have shut down a political Web site that spoke out against the monarchy, the site's operator said Sunday, in another move to punish critics of Thailand's most revered institution.


Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue

Experts say the move could lead to suits against the U.S. or private companies.


The Bruins locked up their last restricted free agent yesterday, signing Dennis Wideman to a one-year contract.


New Type of Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Shows Promise

TUESDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- A new kind of drug designed to lower levels of "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and reduce heart disease risk has proved safe and effective in a phase II clinical trial, researchers report.


Chelsea, Inter Milan Advance in Champions League

Chelsea defeated CSKA Moscow 1-0 to reach the last 16 of the Champions League, while Ronaldinho's goal helped Barcelona beat six-time champion AC Milan.


Tiny Antennas to Keep Tabs on U.S. Drugs

The F.D.A. is expected to announce an agreement to put tiny radio antennas on the labels of medicine bottles to combat fraud.


Bad Weather, Tight Security Slow Heavy Holiday Travel

Travelers headed home for Thanksgiving were greeted Wednesday with snow-covered highways in the Midwest, heavy rain and tornadoes in parts of the South, and long security lines at some of the nation's airports.


Questions and Praise for Google Web Library

When Randall C. Jimerson, the president of the Society of American Archivists, heard of Google's plan to convert certain holdings at Oxford University and at some of the leading research


Suicide Blast Kills at Least 7 People in Afghanistan

KABUL, Sept. 17 -- At least seven people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vest outside a government building in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a stronghold of the Taliban insurgency and one of the most violent regions in the country.


Kerik Indictment on Tax and Corruption Charges Imminent

Federal prosecutors are planning to unveil an indictment against former New York City police commissioner Bernard B. Kerik as early as week's end, spotlighting alleged corruption that occurred a decade ago when he worked was a trusted adviser to former New York mayor -- and now presidential...


Saint Joseph's Extends Martelli's Contract

PHILADEPHIA (Sports Network) - Saint Joseph's University  extended the contract of men's basketball coach Phil Martelli  on Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed,  but the new contract will keep Martelli on Hawk Hill through at  least the 2011-12 season.


After Leading Twice, U.S. Settles for Tie

HOUSTON, Feb. 6 -- Nothing was at stake except national pride -- there were no trophies or tickets to the next World Cup awaiting the winner -- but when the United States and Mexico collide on a soccer field, the ramifications are always magnified.


Molte iniziative a Milano dove si innamoro' e conobbe Parini


Pentagon Is Investigating Another 8 Air Force Contracts

The Pentagon is investigating the contracts as part of a broader investigation into influence-peddling involving a former Air Force official and the Boeing Company.


French troops in Ivory Coast have been accused of over-reacting and killing up to 30 unarmed civilians in retaliation for the killing of nine French peacekeepers.


Londra, 12:24 - GOLF, TIGER WOODS: SCHUMI IL N.1 DELLO SPORT MONDIALE

Anche il dominatore assoluto del golf mondiale, Tiger Woods, in Inghilterra per partecipare al World...


BARRY Geraghty performed an incredible Houdini act to save victory from the jaws of defeat for 3-1 favourite Kicking King in a dramatic renewal of the Stan James King George VI Chase at Kempton yesterday.


Toshiba begins another recall of Sony batteries

InfoWorld - Toshiba is recalling a small batch of laptop batteries that could overheat and burn users, a company spokesman said Thursday.


CHEERLEADERS in skimpy outfits are OK, but a promotional teaser involving a black footballer and a blonde star of the hottest show on US television is out of bounds.


Il 2006 in immagini le foto piÃ¹ belle dell'anno

Eventi sportivi, politici, personaggi, le scene che hanno caratterizzato i 12 mesi che si concludono secondo la Reuters


US biotech firms launch tracking system for cloned livestock

US biotechnology firms launched Wednesday a program to track cloned cattle and pigs in anticipation of the possible end of a moratorium on meat and milk from cloned livestock.


In Texas, Weighing Life With a Border Fence

A planned border fence has provoked alarm among land owners fearful of being cut off from their own property.


Milano, 13:14 - CALCIO, INTER: TRONCHETTI PROVERA: TOTTI? GRANDE CAMPIONE

''Totti Ã¨ un grande campione''. E' quanto si Ã¨ limitato ad affermare Marco Tronchetti Provera commen...


Zambia's President Promises to Provide More AIDS Drugs

Zambia's president has pledged to make good on a promise to extend antiretroviral drug treatment to 100,000 AIDS sufferers.


Let's get specific Reader Poll Our workshop on selection of mobile email platforms taking place over here is leading to some interesting insights. In particular, a couple of readers with direct experience of both BlackBerry and MS Exchange/Windows Mobile contrast the two environments. Here are a couple of extracts from their feedback to give you a flavour:â¦


Poland's parliament backs removing collaborators with the old communist secret services from public life.


Mickelson Makes It a Sweep of West Coast

Phil Mickelson held on long enough for Jeff Quinney to self-destruct on the back nine Sunday at Riviera, closing with a 1-under 70 to win the Northern Trust Open.


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

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


Karzai overcomes obstacles on way to final victory in Afghan polls

Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai, having gained over 54 percent of the votes counted so far,has successfully surmounted all the barriers towards final victory,an official of the joint UN-Afghan election commission said.


How Porn and Family-Friendly Photos Coexist on Flickr

Yahoo balances family-friendly and adult-oriented photos on the same photo-sharing site, with little overlap between the two.


Apple to launch iPhone in Europe with Britain's O2

Apple announced here Tuesday that Britain would be the first European country to get its much-vaunted iPhone, when mobile phone operator O2 launches the gadget on November 9.


Torino, 14:12 - CALCIO, TORINO: ACQUISTATO NATALI

L'Udinese ha acquistato a titolo  definitivo dall'Udinese il difensore Cesare Natali. Il difensore, ...


After years of silence, the Spanish government tells the BBC thalidomide was on sale between 1957 and 1961


Yahoo Mobile Brings Search to Cell Phones

Yahoo Mobile can obtain localized search results, make calls from the results page, and obtain images. Shortcuts offer quick access to information, such as weather, stock quotes, sport scores and flight information.


The head of an Iranian human rights group jailed on security charges was sent to a local hospital after collapsing in a prison shower, his lawyer said Thursday.


AL QUDS, Dec 10: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon moved swiftly on Friday to forge a national unity government after winning approval to reshape his coalition and crushing internal opposition to his Gaza pullout plan.


State health departments, which are scrambling to ensure that their highest-risk residents get flu shots, can now log on to a secure, private government Web site


Traffico di donne dall'Est, arresti in tutta Italia

ROMA, 19 NOVEMBRE 2004 - Una vasta operazione dei Ros dei carabinieri Ã¨ in corso in tutta Italia contro un'organizzazione transnazionale dedita al trasferimento in Italia dai paesi dell'est europeo di ragazze da avviare poi alla prostituzione.


Targeting a key protein may help overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to existing drugs, UK researchers say.


The Walpole Rebels made themselves feel right at home yesterday at Boston College's Alumni Stadium as they wore down the Brookline Warriors and ran away with a 28-3 victory. "This field is great. It was cool to play here," said senior running back and tri-captain Jeff Cuqua about the opportunity to play on BC's field.


Bear Stearns soars on report of Buffett, bank stake

Bear Stearns Cos shares soared 7.7 percent on Wednesday on a report that several investors, including Warren Buffett, may buy part of the Wall Street investment bank.


Lakes, ridges, faults? A map of Titan emerges.

Early snapshots of Titan, the enigmatic moon of Saturn, show it may be dimpled with huge lakes. Its surface also seems to be etched with cracks or ridges - similar in signature to pressure ridges found in ice flows at the Earth's polar caps.


Nestle raided as part of German cartel probe

Nestle  operations in  Germany were raided last week as part of a German cartel office  investigation of suspected price-fixing by chocolate makers,  the company said on Monday.


Bush Accuses Kerry of Undercutting Allawi

President Bush on Friday accused Sen. John Kerry of attacking the credibility of Iraq's leader as he branded his Democratic rival unfit to lead America.


AMD introduces new chip for notebook computers

US chipmaker AMD on Monday introduced a faster mobile chip, Athlon 64 processor 3000+, for thin and light notebook computers. The new chip enables a powerful 32-bit computing


Barclays settles insider trading charges

Barclays Bank  has agreed to pay about $10.9 million to settle charges of illegal insider trading in bond securities, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday.


Somali Leader Seeks African Peacekeepers

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Oct. 23 -- Somalia's newly elected president, Abdullahi Yusuf, has asked the African Union to send 20,000 peacekeepers to disarm militias controlling his lawless Horn of Africa country, a spokesman for the organization said Saturday.


Clinton not ready to release tax returns

Resisting calls from Barack Obama to release her income tax returns, Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she would only do so if she secures the Democratic presidential nomination and contended her rival had been less than candid about his relationship with major campaign contributors.


Hitchcock tries Blue Jackets on for size

Ken Hitchcock was hired as coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday and will make his debut against the team that sacked him less than a month ago.


Il popolo che cerca il giudizio universale                                                                                di EUGENIO SCALFARI


Keith Devens says:  It turns out it's much faster to build large strings from many smaller strings by concatenating them onto one string than it is to append to an array repeatedly and then join that array into a string. I timed it and was surprised by the results.  But that's not Secret #812. Read what Joshua Paine has to say in that post's comments.


Japanese stocks fell by midsession on  Tuesday following a decline in U.S. stocks, with chip maker  Elpida Memory Inc. pacing the decline in the tech sector after  it cut its profit outlook for the year.


One of the men who attacked Glasgow airport was employed as a doctor in Paisley, BBC Scotland understands.


A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews.


Nintendo Sells 500,000 DS Handhelds in First Week

Nintendo Co. Ltd.7974.OS sold  500,000 Nintendo DS video game devices during the first week of  sales in U.S. stores for the new handheld featuring two screens  for game playing, the Japanese game maker said on Wednesday.


Japan children to spend more time on math, science

Japanese schoolchildren will spend more time on core subjects such as math and science under guidelines unveiled on Friday, in an effort to boost academic standards months after the country slipped in global education rankings.


More Americans than ever before have no health care insurance, 45 million at last count. Five million of these have lost health care coverage in the past four years.


U.S. lawmakers opened their own  investigation on Thursday of the cybersex scandal involving a  Republican congressman who sent lewd messages to young aides,  and will interview dozens of officials just weeks before the  November 7 elections, imperiling Republican control of  Congress.


Pennsylvania's attorney general on Monday sued two men for allegedly violating state law by sending out junk e-mail touting an online university that grants diplomas in 72 hours.


Departing U.S. Envoy to Zimbabwe: 'Keep the Faith'

HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 15 -- Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Christopher W. Dell ended his three-year term in Zimbabwe with a message for the citizens of the troubled southern African country: "Keep the faith. Things will change soon."


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Patients can boycott NHS system, says commissioner

Health dept does u-turn The Information Commissioner has been told that patients will have the opportunity to refuse to have their details uploaded onto the new NHS medical records system. The news comes just weeks after the Department of Health refused patients that right.â¦


HTC's new trio of smartphones include a device resembling a tiny laptop and a Window Mobile 6-based handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.


- Belgium's Kim Clijsters, left, kisses Australian Lleyton Hewitt, center, after their "love match" tennis game at the Expodroom in Bree, Belgium, in this Saturday April 17, 2004 file photo.


Concern Mounts That North Korea May Be Planning Missile Test

There is concern in Japan and South Korea that North Korea might be preparing to launch a ballistic missile. Officials in both Japan and South Korea say that since Tuesday, they have detected signs of activity


White House pleads for more time on Iraq

The White House appealed Tuesday for more patience on the war in Iraq as Democrats warned that time was running out and a prominent Republican declared that President Bush's strategy was not working.


The World Health Organization warned Monday that countries should be on alert for bird flu because it is again on the move, with Pakistan reporting South Asia's first human infections and Myanmar logging its first human case.


DARPA continues military AI air-traffic project

Handy for flying cars, machine genocide against fleshies DARPA, the US warboffin bureau which curls a supercilious lip at established wisdom and tweaks the nose of consensus opinion, has decided to press ahead with its automated artificial-intelligence air traffic control system.â¦


Budget airline Ryanair has launched a 1.48 billion euros (Â£1 bn) bid to buy Irish carrier Aer Lingus.


Michael Dell Says ''I Like Our Odds'' in Exclusive Interview With New PQR Magazine

CTPartners, the executive search firm with a public commitment to  performance, quality and results, released today the first issue of PQR,  a business publication for executives to be issued twice annually.


U.N. and African Union close to deal on Darfur troops

The United Nations and the African Union reached tentative agreement on Wednesday on a 23,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur by glossing over a dispute on who controls the operation.


World Business Briefing: Anadarko Sells Energy Assets in Canada

The Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, an energy exploration and production company, said it had agreed to sell its Canadian unit for about $4.24 billion to Canadian Natural Resources, partly to pay off debt associated with its acquisition of the Kerr McGee Corporation and Western Gas Resources. The sale excludes AnadarkoÂs interests in the Mackenzie Delta and other Arctic frontier properties, which remain for sale. Tom Covington, an analyst with A. G. Edward, said Anadarko was trading out lower-growth properties for higher-growth properties acquired from Kerr McGee and Western Gas.


Globalization and low taxes have created a golden age of inexpensive wine and liquor, but cheap booze comes at a heavy societal cost.


Talking Business: A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is

If the proposed acquisition of Yahoo signals anything, it serves as a confirmation that Microsoftâs glory days are in the past.


A.I.G. Hit Bonus Pool to Pay Bulk of Penalty

Most of the $126 million that American International Group paid to settle with regulators last year came out of a bonus pool for executives.


Dimissioni Tronchetti, per Cdl 'vicenda ancora piu' oscura'


Medicare Premiums to Rise Record 17 Pct.

WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record $11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked...


Madrid, 12:16 - CICLISMO, HERAS SI RITIRA

Roberto Heras ha deciso di ritirarsi dal ciclismo per mancanza di offerte soddisfacenti. "Ho gettato...


Per Formigoni 'ha ragione Berlusconi', giusta consultazione


Doctors need guidance on how to avoid problems using technology to reach patients, says a researcher.


Britain's trade gap widens as oil imports hit record high

Britain's international trade gap widened in July as it ran up a monthly deficit on its oil balance for the first time in more than a decade,official figures showed Thursday.


Governo, ennesimo rimpasto: Follini entra dalla porta di servizio

Lâistantanea di Marco Follini che giura davanti al capo dello Stato Ã¨ la foto che Berlusconi ha temuto fino allâultimo di non poter mettere nellâalbum-ricordo del suo governo. GiovedÃ¬, poco dopo le 18, Ã¨ stata scattata.


Ex consigliere: "la impegnero', atti del Cda saranno nulli"


AN AWARD-WINNING computer club for youngsters is to be rolled out across Glasgow.  Computer Clubs for Girls - dubbed CC4G - encourages girls aged 10 to 14 to become more interested in technology and consider a career in computers.


CIAMPI, INTERVENTO PER L'IMPIANTO DI UN PACEMAKER

Potrebbe rientrare al Quirinale gia' domani per mettersi al lavoro da martedi'. L'operazione, programmata da tempo, resa necessaria per lieve aritmia. Roma, 23 ott. (Adnkronos) - Il presidente della Repubblica


Drugmaker Teams With Law Enforcement To Use RFID To Halt Thefts

Pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma LP is working closely with law-enforcement agencies to use radio-frequency identification technology to protect shipments of OxyContin, Purdue's painkiller drug that's a frequent target for theft.


Rwandan president again hints at military action against rebels in Congo

KIGALI, Rwanda  - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said Saturday he has not ruled out sending troops to eastern Congo if Hutu rebels continue to threaten his country.


US Treasuries Fall as Manufacturing Likely Gained This Month

US 10-year Treasury notes fell in Asia as an index of manufacturing probably rose from last month, giving further evidence the economy is expanding.


The economy is poised to grow by 6.4 per cent during the current year and 6.7 per cent in 2005, but a poor monsoon is raising concerns over agricultural growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said here today.


Australia's Oct. 9 Election Marathon Begins

Australian politicians set off on a marathon campaign Monday for an election that will focus on the way forward for one of the world's strongest economies


There's no Triple Crown on the line and the Kentucky Derby winner isn't running, yet there's still a compelling story line for Saturday's Belmont Stakes — a filly is in the field.


Japan outraged by clash with anti-whalers

Japan expressed outrage on Friday after anti-whaling activists poured acid on the decks of a whaling ship in the Southern Ocean and slightly injured two crew members, terming their activities "piratical, terrorist acts".


Microsoft is significantly expanding its software development operations in India as it opens a new campus near Hyderabad, its second-largest campus after its headquarters in Redmond, Wash.


Viewpoint: Global leaders  still flock to the annual World Economic Forum. But they no longer shape the global agenda


Radiation for breast cancer not always best

Women over the age of 70 who have small breast cancer tumours removed in surgery need not bother with follow-up radiation treatment if they take the cancer drug tamoxifen, according to two new studies.


Crew of 5 rescued after week in life raft

For almost seven days, they drifted off the Cornish coast in a tiny inflatable raft, at the mercy of rough seas, battered by huge waves and high winds.


Congress backs stimulus for stressed US economy

The US House of Representatives approved an amended giant economic stimulus plan Thursday which had been sought by President George W. Bush amid fears the economy is sliding into a recession.


La malaria ogni anno uccide oltre 1 milione di persone. Buone notizie nell'ultimo numero di The Lancet: risultati promettenti sono stati ottenuti da un nuovo vaccino nei trial clinici condotti su circa 2.000


The Consumer Safety Agency, Stalled by Room at the Top

From the outside, it looks like business as usual at the Consumer Product Safety Commission . The agency issued more than a dozen voluntary recall notices during the first two weeks of this month, pulling off the market batteries that can ignite, hooded sweatshirts with drawstrings that can choke...


The Royal Glamorgan Hospital is 'overwhelmed' by a very high number of emergency admissions since the weekend.


An inquest into the deaths of six Britons killed in a fire at an Australian hostel finds they were unlawfully killed.


Spanish PM defends house arrest decision

The prime minister on Wednesday denied suggestions his government had bowed to terrorists by allowing a hunger-striking Basque separatist to serve out his jail term under house arrest.


Daily Mirror, diverse aziende interessate ad accordo


DoCoMo, Google to join forces, say Japanese reports

On the heels of talks between DoCoMo and Apple over iPhone, Japan's biggest carrier will reportedly ink a deal with Google to provide search and e-mail on its handsets.


Americans observed a moment of silence at the very hour and place of the first Sept. 11 attack on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of a day remembered with solemnity and ceremony.


Gunman arrested outside U.S. Capitol: police

A man with a rifle was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday but no shots were fired or injuries reported, police said.


Former Pakistani PM Sharif arrested after return

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested at Islamabad airport on Monday and taken into custody about three hours after arriving home from seven years in exile.


Unidentified gunmen kill a top women's affairs official in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, police say.


Hospitals will be allowed to claim for the cost of treating people injured at work, under plans being considered.


Roma, 12:07 - ZANARDI: VOGLIO ANDARE CON HANDBIKE A PARAOLIMPIADI 2008

Dopo la maratona di New York, in cui è arrivato quarto, Alex Zanardi ci ha preso gusto e fa u...


Sport: Formula one: Lewis Hamilton expresses confidence in his team ahead of spying hearing.


NBA Calls for Do-Over in Hawks-Heat Game

ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat must replay the final 51.9 seconds of their game last month because the NBA said the official scorer ruled incorrectly that Shaquille O'Neal fouled out. This will be the first time since 1982 the league has sent teams back on the court for a replay.


Ethiopia's prime minister said Monday that officials have a good idea of the whereabouts of five Europeans kidnapped in one of the country's most remote, inhospitable regions.


Military communications via PFI British military intelligence satellite SkyNet5 blasted off into space this weekend from Kourou in French Guiana. The launch was originally scheduled for Saturday, but a small glitch in ground equipment prompted a 24 hour delay.â¦


Norwegian Director Helms D.C. 'Enemy of the People.'

Playbill - The Shakespeare Theatre Company opens its 2006-07 season Sept. 5 with Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, translated by Rick Davis and Brian Johnston and directed by Norway's Kjetil Bang-Hansen.


Frankly, Franklin best of strong Hockomock

Back when city teams were routinely shredding the rest of Division 2 at the start of the decade, Boston was virtually the only place to find boys' basketball excellence in the state. Teams such as Charlestown and East Boston had a chokehold on the rest of the Commonwealth, and seemingly no one else had a chance.


Myanmar lifts curfew imposed after protests

Myanmar's military junta lifted a curfew in the country's main city Yangon on Saturday in another sign the generals are feeling strong enough to relax their grip after crushing a monk-led revolt last month.


Flamboyant US pop band Scissor Sisters lead the winners at the UK music industry's Brit Awards.


Five people including two children are in hospital and one is unaccounted for following a house fire.


Ash and he will play the villains in Dhoom 2.


Da Kroll Ontrack la classifica 2004 sui dieci modi piÃ¹ curiosi ...

Kroll Ontrack presenta la Top Ten annuale delle piÃ¹ strane e divertenti disavventure che riguardano i computer. Stilata con il contributo degli esperti di Kroll Ontrack, questa sorprendente classifica elenca


Man United shares drop amid reports that takeover talks collapsed

Share prices in Manchester United fell dramatically Thursday amid reports that talks involving a proposed takeover by American businessman Malcolm Glazer had collapsed.


Ford and Chrysler Unveil Their Redesigned Pickups

Cowboys and live cattle took over downtown on Sunday as Ford Motor and Chrysler heralded new versions of their all-important pickup trucks.


Microsoft doesn't often produce memorable ads, but the one for its car computer, co-developed with Ford, is pretty good.


Arafat's brother, French FM agree: medical truth will harm ...

By israelinsider staff November 21, 2004. The family of late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat had initially decided to postpone demanding from the French authorities his medical records and disclosure of


2 underground tremors with the magnitude of 5-6 points registered in the Moldovan capital Chisinau

Two underground tremors with the magnitude of 5-6 points on the Richter scale were registered in the Moldovan capital Chisinau at 00:45, Moscow time, Thursday, a duty officer of the republic's emergency ...


Lawyers for record producer Phil Spector cannot immediately use what they claim are diary-like writings of a suicidal vision taken from the computer of the woman Spector is accused of murdering, a judge ruled Monday.


Laying the Foundation for In-House SEO Success in Large Organizations: Part II

Successfully building an in-house SEO team requires coordination between many parts of the organization, with defined targets and a plan to reach those targets.


The number of mortgage approvals at UK banks is now steady, but remains near a record low, bankers say.


WASHINGTON -- Most of the alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are likely to be freed or sent to their home countries for further investigation because many pose little threat and are not providing much valuable intelligence, the facility's deputy commander has said.


US tech support outfit seeks pocket sniffer

Highly-specialised freelance gig Attention all IT freelancers with a couple of spare hours and a fully-functioning olfactory system: US tech support outfit Computer Assistant recently issued a request for a highly specialised onsite service:â¦


Oil prices dropped nearly 6.5 percent in thin holiday trade on Monday as forecasts of a return to mild winter weather in the US Northeast eased worries about heating oil supplies.


Scientists discover planets in our galactic back yard

Until recently, they were able only to detect the presence of planets equivalent in size to our own neighboring gas giant Jupiter.


Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary, Roland Martin, author and executive editor of the Chicago Defender and Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.), host of Black Love III - Keys to a Successful Relationship: Mating, Marriage and Money, a forum scheduled Sept. 8 during the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation legislative conference, will discuss relationship issues facing African-Americans.


Star Lawyers Shine in $82 Million Patent Case

A case pitting two of the biggest names in IP law against each other came to a head Tuesday, when an Oakland, Calif., jury awarded $82 million to a San Jose, Calif.


Samples from Genesis Capsule Sent to Lab

The first solar-wind samples recovered from the crashed Genesis space capsule will be examined by researchers in California. The Genesis crashed earlier this month into Utah's west desert.


Quarterâs Weak Growth Adds to Signs of Slowdown

Over all, the economy expanded by 2.2 percent in inflation-adjusted terms for all of 2007, the slowest rate of growth in five years.


Tomorrow's huge winners are out there today. The trick is finding them.


Putin congratulates Sharapova on her WTA win :

Moscow, Nov 17 : Russian President Vladimir Putin called up teen tennis sensation Maria Sharapova to congratulate her on the spectacular win in WTA final over Serena Williams.


AT&T will participate in the FCC's wireless auction, but hasn't decided whether to bid for the open-access 700 MHz band.


3 soldiers from Maine are injured in attack

Three Maine soldiers were injured when their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in Iraq, officials said yesterday.


Japan to Let Taiwan's Lee Visit, China Protests

Japan plans to allow former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to visit for a sightseeing tour, the government said on Thursday, prompting an angry protest from China at a time of already frosty ties.


Some high school biology classes are using real human cadavers to teach students anatomy in a different way.


Israeli Minister Retracts Threat to Quit

Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday took back his threat to withdraw from the governing Likud Party, but a minority religious party quit Prime


Visa details restructuring, results ahead of IPO

Visa, the world's largest credit card network, unveiled details of a planned restructuring on Friday as it prepares by early next year to follow smaller rival MasterCard Inc.  in becoming a public company.


As expected today, Intel rolled out its long awaited tri-mode wireless module with support for three Wi-Fi standards, 802.11a, b and g. The new module includes software intended to make it easier for end-users


Secondo ministro vanno rispettati diritti degli utenti


Murray defends ATP title against Karlovic

Andy Murray has won his second consecutive title at the 416,000-dollar ATP SAP Open, downing Croatia's Ivo Karlovic 6-7 (3/7), 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) here the final.


NBA great Pippen retires after 17 seasons

(Deerfield, Illinois-AP) Oct. 5, 2004 - Scottie Pippen has called it quits. Pippen has announced his retirement as a member of the Chicago Bulls, who he helped lead to six NBA titles alongside Michael Jordan.


Iran Says Nuclear Freeze Talks Must Not Last Long

Iran reiterated Tuesday it was only  prepared to keep its uranium enrichment activities frozen for a  few months and would not, as the EU and Washington want,  permanently mothball facilities which could make atomic bombs.


Canadian lawsuit raises messaging privacy issue

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has submitted scores of BlackBerry e-mails and messages as evidence that several former executives took confidential information and tried to recruit others while they worked at the bank.


La combinazione: 3-12-32-43-51-58, Jolly 13, Superstar 44


2008 Democratic Presidential Primary: Clinton 28% Obama 23% Edwards 13%

Rasmussen Reports - Senator Hillary Clinton (D) continues to enjoy frontrunner status and now attracts 28% of the vote from Likely Democratic Primary Voters nationwide.


Three former Christian Peacemaker hostages urge forgiveness for Iraqi captors

Three peace activists held hostage in Iraq for 118 days last year say they forgive their captors and don't want to see them face the death penalty.Comment


More vigorous Fidel Castro shown on Cuban TV

Fidel Castro appeared more vigorous on Sunday in the first television images of the Cuban leader to be broadcast in Cuba in four months, adding weight to reports that he has put his health crisis behind him.


Last week it became perfectly clear which candidate Russia -- specifically President Vladimir Putin and parliament -- should support in the Ukrainian presidential election.


Brewing giant SABMiller has plenty of firepower for potential acquisitions, with the ability to raise up to $2.5 billion in debt even before tapping its record level shares, the firm said on Thursday.


The U.S. FCC is working to ensure that wireless carriers meet E911 location accuracy requirements within five years.


Tropical storm kicks off hurricane season

A tropical storm bearing down on Florida formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, just in time for the official June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season.


Indian Graves Have Wash. Set to Exit Site

The ancient remains of hundreds of Indians unearthed at a massive bridge construction site have state officials ready to cut their losses — millions of dollars and months of delays — and find another site.


Oprah Winfrey rolled out the red carpet Saturday for Barack Obama at a gala fundraiser attended by high-wattage stars that was expected to raise $3 million for the Democratic presidential candidate.


Interrogatorio di Vincenzo Iacono, il pizzaiolo di 45 anniaccusato di aver abusato di una bimba di quattro                                           Agrigento, pedofilo resta in carcere prime ammissioni davanti al gip


Morgan Stanley , the second-largest investment bank by market value, said on Tuesday it would spin off its Discover credit-card division and posted better-than-expected quarterly results on strong banking and trading.


France is extending a smoking ban to bars, cafes and restaurants - but after New Year parties.


The board of national carrier Air-India on Wednesday approved the purchase of 50 new aircraft as part of an ambitious expansion program, an airline spokesman said Wednesday.


Domestic Equity Funds Shaken By Worst January In 18 Years      (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - The market in January handed stock fund investors their worst month in years.


Stocks open higher as Cisco, data lift optimism

Stocks opened higher on Wednesday as solid earnings from Cisco Systems Inc.  and data showing unexpected weakness in labor cost growth and a surprisingly strong jump in productivity boosted investor optimism.


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Life in the New England secondary isn't necessarily a ticket out of town, but a career as a Patriot pass snatcher is a sure path to perdition.


Stocks Knocked Lower by Merck Drug Recall

The blue-chip Dow Jones average fell  on Thursday after drug maker Merck & Co.MRK.N withdrew its  widely used Vioxx painkiller after evidence showed the drug  could increase risk of heart attack and stroke.


Gay Couples Challenge Calif. Marriage Law

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 -- Ten months after San Francisco's mayor defiantly granted marriage licenses to thousands of gay couples, a judge began hearing arguments Wednesday in a pair of lawsuits that seek to have California's one-man, one-woman matrimony law declared unconstitutional.


New clue for HIV drug side effects: study

Researchers have a new clue about why a widely used AIDS drug has certain side effects such as mysterious fat deposits, they reported on Monday.


Ukraine Supreme Court orders new presidential run-off election

On Friday evening, after five days of deliberations, the Ukraine Supreme Court issued its ruling on the disputed presidential election.


Drew Brees and Antonio Gates are making it look too easy. Brees, the quarterback the front office didn't want coming into this season, threw four more touchdown passes — three to tight end Gates — and the San Diego Chargers beat the punchless New Orleans Saints 43-17 on Sunday.


McEwen sprints to victory in first stage of Tour

Australian Robbie McEwen of the Predictor-Lotto team won the first stage of the Tour de France, a 203-km ride from London to Canterbury on Sunday.


Microsoft Corp. launched a new online store for music downloads on Wednesday, taking direct aim at Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iTunes music service.


Do You Know Where your Data Is?  Centralizing Backup Over the WAN with Double-Take and Riverbed

(Source: Double Take)  LIVE WEBCASTThis webinar will review how to deliver an optimized recoverability solution. Two companies offering these solutions are Riverbed Technologies and Double-Take Software. Together, they simplify and optimize the transfer of data over the WAN for comprehensive data protection with proven return on investment (ROI). These revolutionary technologies have been tested and proven in numerous customer implementations for out-of-the-box compatibility.


A court ruling moves TNK-BP a step closer to losing the licence for the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia.


Palestinians kick off a long election season with the first local voting contests since 1976.


Raptors' GM expects unhappy Carter to honor contract

Vince Carter wants out of Toronto, but the Raptors' new general manager says he isn't going anywhere. "It doesn't change anything with us," Rob Babcock told The Associated Press on Friday.


Sharp Electronics plans to stop selling its Linux-based personal digital assistant (PDA) in the US, reports Associated Press. The company will continue to


An Afghan militant group that abducted three UN workers a week ago say that the government and the United Nations have agreed to start formal negotiations for their release.


Baghdad's governor survives assassination attempt

Baghdad's governor survived anassassination attempt when a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning as his convoy was passing by, Interior Ministry said.


Click With Care, Security Experts Warn Companies

By Ryan, Jim T  REGION  Exploitive ads proliferate on World Wide Web  Computer experts are advising companies and Web surfers to be wary about what they double-click on, even when visiting trusted sites.


Books of The Times: Sci-Fi Dream Turns Worldâs Worst Nightmare

In the atomic age, total annihilation of the human race haunted the imagination of scientists and writers alike.


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Police blame separatists for deadly attacks in India

Guwahati, India -- Five people were killed and scores wounded in the northeastern Indian state of Assam yesterday when men described by officials as separatists blew up two buses, threw a grenade into a market and triggered twin blasts on a railway track.


CNET News.com covers Bill Gates' CES keynote live, with details about demo updates and celebrity sightings. Check back often during the speech for updates.


Maruyama in tie for Hope lead after birdie run

PALM DESERT, California  - Japan's Shigeki Maruyama birdied his last six holes to rocket into a five-way tie for the lead in the Bob Hope Classic first round on Wednesday.


Gary Payton is way too much for second-year pro Luke Ridnour to handle. That's why the Boston Celtics have notched two of Seattle's four losses this season.


Judge Weighs Case Against Mexico's Trevi

A judge began weighing testimony Wednesday in the kidnapping case against Mexican pop star Gloria Trevi after defense and prosecution attorneys concluded their arguments.


GLASGOW  - Former Everton and Rangers manager Walter Smith will be confirmed as the new manager of Scotland on Thursday, according to the BBC.


Vols Safety Allen to Stay for Last Season

Tennessee safety Jason Allen will stay for his senior season instead of heading to the NFL after leading the SEC in tackles as a junior.


SANTA MARIA, Calif. - In a high-stakes drama of legal gamesmanship, prosecutors and defense lawyers in the Michael Jackson child molestation case are battling over still-secret evidence that might make or break the case against the pop star...


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Microsoft's Passport to be tossed by eBay

Online auction giant eBay Inc. will stop letting members sign in to its site using Microsoft Corp.'s Passport service, another sign of the scaling back of the Redmond company's once-sweeping vision for its user authentication system.


Cathode that operates at 500-700 degrees C lowers cost of solid-oxide fuel cells that could one day power individual homes.


High-Tech Alliance on Base for a Digital Health Network

Eight of the nation's largest technology companies have agreed to embrace open technology standards as the building blocks for a national health information network.


Jonesâs Soaring Career Has Turned Into Cautionary Tale

Marion Jones, who became a household name after winning five medals in the 200o Olympics, will be sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to two counts of perjury.


The first Airbus A380 super jumbo passenger jet is towed inside a hangar in Blagnac, near Toulouse, southwestern France, Saturday, Jan.


An extensive collection of vinyl records and discs of 1970s music, including original recordings by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, has vanished from the archive of the former Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation.


Per taglio previsioni vendita negli Usa di Toyota


Companies Trailing in Global AIDS Fight -Survey

Companies around the world are falling behind in the fight against AIDS, leaving a "black hole" in education and healthcare, experts said on Thursday.


Classifica de 'Il Sole 24 ore', Sud protagonista in coda


The Dow Jones industrial average rose above 14,000 for the first time on Tuesday, boosted by optimism about corporate profits.


O2 trials one off the wrist for VIP access

Wireless music festival gets crystal-studded treatment O2 is trialling a wristband loaded with a computer chip at this year's Wireless Festival that could act as a credit card, electronic ticket, and Oyster card.â¦


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Baghdad Rocket Attack Kills Two US Soldiers

Two American soldiers were killed and five injured Monday in a rocket attack in Baghdad. The military said the incident occurred in the southern part of the city but provided no other details.


Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died


Forecaster predicts busy 2007 U.S. hurricane season

The United States, which has emerged from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in 2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.


Natalie Portman has vowed that she will never strip again for screen after filming a risquÃ© scene for her new short movie "Hotel Chevalier".


Get ready, ladies, Justin Timberlake has your "SexyBack."


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Call for worldwide use of cervical cancer vaccines

International health experts called on  Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to new cervical cancer  vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million  lives a year.


Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said he will run in France's presidential elections next year, according to comments posted Wednesday on the Web site of the newspaper Liberation.


JAWS Offers Freedom: With Program, Visually Impaired Use Common Computer Skills

By Paula M. Davenport, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 21--People with severe visual impairments can now send and receive e-mails, navigate the Internet and create documents and presentations at a new computer workstation in the Spokane Valley Library.


Tim Henman has won his second all-British battle in a row as he shrugged off a pair of poor line calls to defeat Alex Bogdanovic 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 for a place in the quarter-finals at the Thailand Open.


Cani rottweiler scappano da recinto e aggrediscono 3 persone

SASSUOLO (MO, 5 dic. 2004) - Tre giovani, due cittadini marocchini di 29 e 36 anni e una ragazza italiana di 21, sono stati aggrediti da due cani rottweiler scappati da un recinto nella zona artigianale di Maranello (Modena).


Birgit Fischer wins her eighth Olympic gold after guiding her German crew to victory in the women's K4 500m.


The UN's nuclear watchdog meets this week meets to discuss Iran's nuclear programme. Simon Jeffery explains. The country is close to completing a civilian nuclear programme that would allow it to generate electricity


Fishing leaders welcome new figures which suggest fragile North Sea cod stocks are beginning to recover.


WASHINGTON - There are two presidential races going on: One here, one in Iraq. George Bush has to convince voters he isn't losing the second to be sure of winning the first.


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Champion at Checkers That Cannot Lose to People

The creators of Chinook, a computer program that plays checkers, now argue that it is unbeatable by human or computer competition.


While it waits for a federal court to rule on its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Oracle (Quote, Chart) is keeping the deal in play. The database giant extended its previously announced tender offer of $21 for


Mr. Market provides a haircut in response.


Leader: Russia's grasp on Ukraine rising

Ukraine's main opposition leader, on the eve of a trip to the U.S., warned Saturday that the former Soviet republic is at risk of sliding back under the influence of Russia.


Progress is cited in N. Ireland peace talks

Three days of talks aimed at breaking a two-year deadlock in the Northern Ireland peace process ended yesterday without a deal, but with officials


Clinton urges ouster of Iraq's al-Maliki

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Iraqi Parliament should replace embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a "less divisive and more unifying figure" to reconcile political and religious factions.


LOS ANGELES  - FX has bought exclusive cable rights to the Mark Wahlberg football feature "Invincible," a spokesman for the network said.


A FATHER who scaled the walls of a Cardiff court dressed as superhero Robin said the Buckingham Palace protester posed no threat. Fathers 4 Justice activist Jim Gibson, who earlier this year staged an eye-catching


JPL Presents Workshop to Assist Small Businesses

PASADENA, Calif., Sept 22  /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host a workshop to assist small businesses on Oct. 10 at the Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego's Mission Valley.


"Dr. Death" set to speak out after prison release

Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate known as "Dr. Death," steps out of prison on Friday and back into the debate over whether the terminally ill have a right to end their lives with medical aid.


Washington, entertainment elite at Kennedy Honors

Washington's elite hosted an eclectic mix of entertainers ranging from multiple-Oscar winner Tom Hanks to pop singer Jessica Simpson at the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, paying tribute to five superstars for their lifetime contributions to the arts and American culture.


Il 2007 senza veli della Morgane, le dichiarazioni dell'ad del Milan. La rielezione di Chavez. I protagonisti di oggi


The Socceroos lead the Solomon Islands 4-0 at half-time in their Confederations Cup qualifier in Honiara. A double from midfielder Josip Skoko and strikes to Ante Milicic and the impressive Brett Emerton have


A Roman road is discovered on the route of a gas pipeline cutting through the Brecon Beacons National Park.


Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation.


Woman who tried to kill President Ford released

Sara Jane Moore, one of two women who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in a three-week span in 1975, was freed on parole on Monday after almost 32 years in prison, a government spokesman said.


The Associated Press is to complain to the US military alleging troops censored video of a controversial attack.


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Roma, 28 ott. - (Adnkronos) - ''Maggiore e' la tutela degli investitori maggiore e' lo sviluppo dei mercati''. Lo ha detto il ministro dell'Economia, Domenico Siniscalco, parlando alla Camera. ''Se gli investitori


UK troops to stay in Iraq until job done: Blair

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Sunday British troops would stay in Iraq "until the job is done" and pledged to support the country's weak government as it battles sectarian violence and a raging Sunni Arab insurgency.


U.N. should lead Afghanistan peace effort: Britain

Britain lobbied U.N. officials  on Thursday with a proposal for the world body to lead a  comprehensive "campaign plan" for peace in Afghanistan, where  NATO-led troops are struggling against Taliban insurgents.


The FTSE 100 closed lower today, hit by profit taking after breaching the 6,000 level this morning, with a reversal in commodity stocks and an uncertain start by Wall Street making investors nervous ahead of the weekend.


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USGS: Minor Aftershocks Won't Stir New Tsunami

Aftershocks beneath the Indian Ocean  continued to rattle Indonesia but none have been strong enough  to stir powerful waves, let alone spawn another tsunami, the  U.S. Geological Survey said on Wednesday.


Pope Benedict XVI removes restrictions on celebrating the Latin Tridentine Mass, despite concern from Jewish groups.


SAN ANTONIO -- Clear Channel Communications Inc., the country's largest owner of radio stations, Thursday said it will convert 20 to 25 stations to "Hispanic formats" over the next 12 to 18 months.


Blast in Iraq's Mosul kills 15, wounds 132

At least 15 people were killed and 132 wounded when a building used by militants to store weapons and tonnes of explosives blew up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, senior security officials said.


moving northeast over large parts of the country including Tokyo, with winds up to 67 miles per hour. Media reports said at least nine had died, but public broadcaster NHK said the toll had reached 11.


O'Brien to Take Over for Leno in 5 Years

NEW YORK - NBC chose the 50th anniversary of the "Tonight" show on Monday to announce that Jay Leno will be succeeded by "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien in five years - or thousands of jokes from now.    The unusual succession plan solves a delicate problem for NBC, blocking other networks from poaching O'Brien to move him to an earlier time slot...


NEW YORK The US labor market snapped out of its summer lull to add 337,000 new jobs in October, the biggest increase since March, the Labor Department reported Friday, raising hopes that American businesses were overcoming years of caution and beginning


Science & environment: Millions spent on sperm of prize-winning horses may be misplaced, study reveals


Toys R Us Inc. TOY.N, which is  considering getting out of the toy business, on Monday posted a  second-quarter operating loss on poor sales of video games and  markdowns on older merchandise.


BAGHDAD: A chained British hostage in Iraq begged Tony Blair for help yesterday, cranking up the emotional pressure on the prime minister as Italians celebrated the release of two women aid workers after paying a ransom.


Chelsea's drive to claim the club's first English title in half a century gathered pace as Newcastle were blown away by a late four-goal blitz at Stamford Bridge.


French Jewish families demand Arafat interrogation

PARIS, Oct 29  - The relatives of six French citizens killed in Palestinian attacks in Israel several years ago have called for French authorities to question Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat while he receives treatment in Paris for a serious medical


Fresh violence across Iraq kills 12 people

Twelve people were killed in fresh violence across Iraq Monday, as an Iranian diplomat kidnapped two months ago by the same Islamic extremist group holding two French reporters was released.


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Government keeps control of Web domain group ICANN

The U.S. Commerce Department said on   Friday it would retain oversight for three more years of the   company that manages Internet domain names, renewing an   agreement that was scheduled to expire this weekend.


Where is Osama? He's in a cartoon, at Sundance

PARK CITY, Utah  - After years of watching Osama bin Laden in grainy television footage, audiences have a chance to see a less chilling version of the al Qaeda leader -- as a cartoon character dancing to rap music and a video game villain.


A top Chinese commerce official said Monday that General Motors Corp. hasn't provided enough evidence to prove that a local company copied one of its car models.


Strike sees Albertsons' profits take Â£20m slide

ALBERTSONS, the second largest grocery chain in the United States, has seen its quarterly profits hit badly by a five-month strike by employees.


Virgin to Become the Worldâs First Commercial Space Tourism ...

SpaceShipOne, which is solely funded by Paul G. Allen, was designed by aviation legend Burt Rutan and built by his company, Scaled Composites.


DreamWorks Animation SKG said Tuesday that it swung to a fourth-quarter loss on costs to write off âFlushed Away,â which performed poorly at the box office.


More troops will be sent to southern Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Des Browne announces.


I would have enjoyed being a fly on the wall at the meeting where it was decided Joe Cannon should be the new editor for the Deseret Morning News. I wish him the best and hope he has more success managing newspaper content than he had at Geneva Steel.


Home loan demand rises amid Fed rate increase

U.S. mortgage applications rose for  the first time in three weeks as interest rates on home loans  fell from a four-year high during a week when the Federal  Reserve raised borrowing costs, an industry trade group said on  Thursday.


Ford Motor Co. on Thursday reported a quarterly profit, reversing a year-earlier loss, on the strength in its finance arm.


Google seeks surfers' help to label images

(InfoWorld) - Google is asking surfers with time on their hands to help it categorize and label the images indexed by its search engine, building a database of knowledge about the contents of the images. The company launched a new online game on Friday, Google Image Labeler, which it describes as "a fun way to help us organize all the images on the Web." In the game, two randomly selected players are each shown the same image, plucked at random from Google's search index, and given 90 seconds to suggest as many keywords or phrases as they can to describe it. They score points if any of their descriptions match. Google's image search engine currently returns results based on captions and other text adjacent to images on Web pages, without reference to the content of the images themselves. The game will allow it to improve the performance of the search engine by returning results based on the players' descriptions of the images. The game is not the first attempt to use volunteer labor to create a database of knowledge: The Wikipedia online encyclopedia and the DMoz search directory two of the better known examples. Google's game, based in part on technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University, is not even the first to use volunteer labor to categorize images: TheÂ ESP GameÂ developed by Luis von Ahn and other researchers at Carnegie Mellon first put players to work tagging its image database in October 2003. Building a database using information provided by volunteers has its risks: campaign groups or pranksters might influence or pollute the raw data by associating an insulting term with the image of a political candidate. The campaign to link the term "miserable failure" to theÂ online biography of U.S. President George W. BushÂ is one example of how this can happen. The ESP Game and Google Image Labeler limit the possibilities for such pranks, since they select players and images at random, and only associate a label with an image if both players independently suggest it. Von Ahn and his colleagues study "human computation," or finding novel ways to put human brains to work. Their work includes Peekaboom, a game which harnesses players' brains to locate objects in images, and Phetch, which goes further than the ESP game by inviting players to create longer descriptions of images. You can also blame them for Captchas, those puzzles featuring sequences of distorted letters that are intended to distinguish between humans and computer impostors. Google says its search engine indexes billions of images. That may make Google's goal of labelling all the images on the Web seem far-fetched, especially since players of Von Ahn's game have only attributed around 17.8 million labels to images since October 2003, according to the game's Web site. However, computer users around the world collectively wasted 9 billion hours playing Solitaire on their computers in 2003, Von Ahn estimated in a presentation to Google staff in July. If they had spent that time playing The ESP Game or Google Image Labeller instead, they could have labelled almost 200 billion images.


Kerry to Go Hunting for Conservative Votes

John Kerry planned to go hunting Thursday, showing he's a regular guy to voters who might harbor some doubts.


Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has dominated news coverage of the 2008 White House race, partly due to negative segments about her on conservative talk radio, according to a new study released on Monday.


A Medical Publisherâs Unusual Prescription: Online Ads

The international media giant Reed Elsevier hopes to pep up its lackluster medical publishing unit by giving away the latest articles from 100 of its own medical journals on the Internet.


Attempts to fight spam by identifying e-mails have hit problems over Microsoft's involvement in the process. The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards body, has rejected Microsoft's contribution to the so-called Sender ID proposal.


Rubens Barichello won the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday to clinch second place in Formula One while Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher had a rare rough race - spinning out and finishing 12th, more than a lap behind.


Social Democrats under threat in Swedish election

Sweden votes on Sunday in a close  election that could see a centre-right alliance take power from  the Social Democrats who forged the country's long-cherished  welfare state.


McDonald's: CEO Resting After New Surgery

The chief executive of McDonald's Corp. (MCD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is recuperating after another surgery, the world's largest fast-food company said on Saturday.


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Gli australiani del Sidney FC vogliono Roberto Baggio. L'ex-nazionale azzurro, che si è ritir...


Yahoo investor met with Microsoft on offer-report

A major investor in Yahoo Inc   has met with Microsoft Corp  Chief Executive Steve  Ballmer to see if he would raise a $42 billion unsolicited  offer for the company, the New York Post reported on Friday.


Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, on Friday said its quarterly net profit rose by 76 percent, boosted by digital video, high-speed Internet and higher advertising sales at its cable networks.


Police investigators inspect the meat section of a public market in General Santos city in southern Philippines following an explosion Sunday Dec. 12, 2004 that killed at least 13 people and wounded 53 others.


Tutu slams S.Africa's efforts to fight HIV/AIDS

Archbishop Desmond Tutu berated South Africa's government on Friday over delays in introducing an HIV/AIDS drug treatment plan and said its leaders' unorthodox views had led to unnecessary deaths.


Asia stocks hit 1-month highs, but Nikkei dips

Asian stocks touched one-month highs on Tuesday as worries about a global credit squeeze continued to recede, but caution ahead of influential U.S. data this week kept a lid on markets and major currencies.


Kerry Hints GOP May Suppress Black Votes

John Kerry suggested Saturday night that Republicans may try to keep black voters from casting their ballots to help President Bush win in November.


India, Pakistan swap annual list of nuclear sites

Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India exchanged annual lists of their nuclear facilities on Saturday as part of an agreement prohibiting attacks on such installations, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said.


U.S. fliers may face separate fees for jet fuel

U.S. airlines may start charging passengers separately for jet fuel as oil prices inch past $100 per barrel.


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Centralizing IT gives rise to bureaucracy

When you're having problems with your enterprise laptop or workstation, who do you call? Is your IT staff just down the hall, or are they on the other side of the globe?


Europe Delays Changing Rules on Cheap Goods

The move illustrates deep divisions within Europe over how to deal with the surge of Chinese exports and the job losses caused by the outsourcing of production to Asia.


Thousands of Shiite Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah took to the streets of southern Beirut on Thursday night, burning car tires and blocking roads, police and witneses said.


A retooled Draper now makes what it devises

CAMBRIDGE -- The hunt for terror-thwarting technology has brought an unexpected revenue boost -- and a new in-house production burden -- to a research lab best known for its work on submarine missile guidance and navigation during the Cold War.


A number of changes and updates are coming to Vista by way of the upcoming Service Pack 1. We took a look through Microsoft's change log to see just what's new.


Apple's quest to trademark the word "pod," (and potentially "podcast," by extension) continues, as the company tries to block another trademark registration; meanwhile, a trademark attorney says the battle for "pod" could eventually reach the Supreme Court.   In Listening Post.


The man who filed a case against Ash, Hrithik

'Dhoom 2 cannot be watched by Indian families because it is a vulgar film,' says Shailendra Dwivedi.


Spurrier gets money, years added to deal

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has almost a half-million more reasons to stay with the Gamecocks.


PARIS -- Qatar Airways extended a much-needed boost to Airbus on Wednesday, ordering another 20 A350s to become the European jetmaker's largest customer for the wide-body jet with a total order of 80 planes worth a listing price of $16 billion.


Rising temperatures in the Arctic will likely increase the region's biodiversity as new species are drawn to the extreme north, but in a dramatic paradox many animals unique to the region, such as polar bears, risk extinction.


Some 600 killed, 1,000 missing and presumed dead in Haiti: premier

PARIS : Floods in Haiti have killed 600 people and left 1,000 others missing and presumed dead, Prime Minister Gerard Latortue told French radio.


Two explosions rock Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, damaging some buildings, the police say.


Microsoft will let governments access the computer code behind its Office software as part of a broader campaign to provide alternatives to open-source applications.


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Britain Charges 8 in Terror Plot Tied to US Alert

Britain charged eight terrorism suspects Tuesday and said one had plans which could be used in terror attacks on US financial targets in New York, New Jersey and Washington.


Conduttrici protagoniste di un nuovo reality show


Operazione da 3,3 mld per controllata France Telecom


Both Sirius and XM issued open letters to their customers, assuring them that all radios will continue to work well after the merger, and that current customers will not see their monthly fee raised.


Legal action is threatened after American and European trade leaders fail to agree on how government can help the aerospace rivals.


Hypnosis 'helps reduce pain suffered by cancer patients'

Cancer patients should be offered hypnosis therapy to help reduce their pain, researchers said yesterday after a series of scientific studies.


Symanted has warned Mac OS X users to update the open source technology.


Iraqi forces, backed by US troops, kill three people in a raid on one of Baghdad's most important Sunni mosques.


Lithuania Government Vies With Labor Party in Run-Off

Lithuania's governing coalition may win enough parliamentary seats in today's runoff election to stay in power after the Labor Party of Russian-born millionaire Viktor Uspaskich won a first round two weeks ago.


A disgruntled Yemeni terror informant was in critical condition Tuesday after setting himself afire outside the White House. Mohamed Alanssi, 52, approached a guardhouse on


A military jury acquitted a Marine major of assault and battery Wednesday in connection with the death of an Iraqi prisoner, but found him guilty of two lesser counts.


A strain of the C. difficile bacterium with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest that this strain may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of


The state acted correctly when it seized Rush Limbaugh's medical records, Florida's 4th District Court of Appeal announced in a written opinion issued Wednesday.


Researchers in Canada say it may be possible to reprogramme the immune system to accept tissue from people with other blood types.


Poor weather forecast for the Florida area may prevent Europe's space lab, Columbus, from launching on Thursday.


Rescuers hunt survivors in Russia gold mine disaster

Rescuers found the bodies of at least 11  miners trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in Eastern  Siberia and searched for more than 20 missing, officials said  on Friday.


The national exams sat by pupils in England before they are 16 should be scrapped, a watchdog urges.


Windows, Boxes and a Halo Bolster Microsoft Profit

Microsoft posted solid growth in quarterly sales and profit on Thursday, buoyed by strong holiday sales of personal computers and video games.


Home Secretary David Blunkett is expected to quit on Wednesday, BBC political editor Andrew Marr has said. The news comes amid claims he misused his office to fast-track a visa for his former lover's nanny.


Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara extends his overall lead in the Tour de France, winning the third and longest stage of the race.


NEW YORK - After preliminaries stuffed with enough lawsuits and trash-talk to make Don King proud, the first of TV's battling boxing series faced its opening round Tuesday.    Fox's "The Next Great Champ" takes 12 amateur boxers and has them compete for a contract with Oscar De La Hoya's promotional company and a title fight within the World Boxing Organization...


Scientists Study Deep Tremors Under San Andreas Fault

Seismologists are studying mysterious tremors deep under the San Andreas Fault that may signal future earthquakes. The continuous tremors are "a kind of chatter" emanating from a depth far below the surface


Government ministers in Nepal condemn explosions in the capital, Kathmandu, that left two people dead.


Regimens: Low-Fat Diet May Lower Risk of Ovarian Cancer

A low-fat diet only conferred the benefit if it lasts for many years, a new study indicates.


It was a Midsummer Night's Dream that even Shakespeare would have had a hard time matching. A thousand guests — many of the ladies in Valentino's best — sipping flutes of sparkling wine, as they strolled past the priceless marble sculptures of the Galleria Borghese museum, on their way to a gala ball set up under a tent in the adjacent park.


Vietnam Finds New Case of Human Bird Flu

A 16-year-old Vietnamese girl has been  infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus and her condition  is stable, a doctor said on Thursday.


Siemens Says Cellphone Flaw May Hurt Users and Its Profit

Siemens, the world's fourth-largest maker of mobile phones, said Friday that a software flaw that can create a piercing ring in its newest phone models might hurt earnings in its handset division.


Chennai: Internet major Yahoo Inc will own a 25-member high-skilled software professional team in Chennai, after it acquired US-based Stata Labs.


Genova, 16:00 - CALCIO, SAMPDORIA: BASTRINI AL MODENA

La Sampdoria ha ceduto in prestito sino a giugno al Modena il giovane difensore Alessandro Bastrini....


Australian ministers will urge Pacific rim leaders to do more to free up global trade and fight terrorism when they attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Chile this week.


French socialist head warns against political play over IMF role

France's decision to back a leading socialist to head the IMF brought mixed reactions at home on Sunday, while media reports suggested Italy and Poland might yet put forward competing candidates.


Groups Fight U.S. Plan to Kill Prairie Dogs

Eight conservation groups are fighting the U.S. government over a plan to poison thousands of prairie dogs in the grasslands of South Dakota, saying wildlife should not take a backseat to ranching interests.


IBM Uses RFID to Track Conference Attendees

IBM used RFID technology to track the movements of attendees at its Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas.


Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, manager Dusty Baker and Houston Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt were ejected Sunday during the NL Central rivals' final game of a three-game series.


Security has been stepped up for the arrival of Nicole Kidman at the Venice Film Festival after a series of gaffes at Al Pacino's premiere on Tuesday.


Ford's Mulally realigns organizational structure

Ford Motor Co.  President and Chief Executive Alan Mulally said on Thursday the automaker would realign its organization to put more focus on worldwide markets and customers.


Seoul Sees Efforts Gathering Pace for N.Korea Talks

This week's talks between Japan and North  Korea show efforts to hold more six-party talks on the North's  nuclear plans are gathering pace and most countries want a  meeting before the year ends, South Korea said on Wednesday.


Bob Dylan tops the US album charts for the first time in 30 years with his latest release, Modern Times.


Women show pre-diabetes heart risk sooner than men

NEW YORK  - Women with "pre-diabetes" may show signs of impending heart trouble long before the same warning signs show up in men, a new study suggests.


'Dedico questo premio a mia moglie Maria', ha detto


WASHINGTON: NASA will today conduct the final and fastest test flight of its pilotless X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, aiming to send it zooming across the Pacific Ocean at about 10 times the speed of sound -- almost 3.2 kilometers (two miles) per


Rioting erupts after funeral in Pakistan

Gunfire and rioting broke out for a fourth straight day Tuesday after the funeral service for a prominent tribal chief killed by Pakistani government forces. Two police were wounded and dozens of shops destroyed.


U.S. Forces on Offensive in Iraq Rebel Strongholds

U.S.-led forces launched operations in  three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two  dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing  targets in Falluja for the third straight day.


Vaidisova into second round at French Open

Sixth seed Nicole Vaidisova of the Czech Republic reached the second round of the French Open on Tuesday by defeating Emmanuelle Gagliardi of Switzerland 6-4, 6-2 despite struggling with a wrist injury.


This year's Grammy Awards  tabulations reveal again, especially in jazz, that David-like  lean slays Goliath-like bulk. Case in point: the upstart Zoho  Music label, which boasted two nominations in the Latin jazz  category.


Notes stolen in Belfast bank heist may be withdrawn from circulation

A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery this week is considering a drastic method of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul by taking all the types of notes seized out of circulation, it said.


Japan's Kyocera to exit China mobile handset market

Japanese electronics maker Kyocera Corp  (6971.T) plans to withdraw from China's booming mobile phone  handset market due to mounting losses amid competition from  cheaper producers.


At the heart of the scandal is a relationship between the Air Force and its main supplier, the Boeing Company, that had grown increasingly cozy.


Apple always manages to keep us guessing up until the very last moment. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.


Theo Van Gogh was an unlikable sort, if you ask me. He derived a lot of pleasure from attacking orthodoxy and mocking any convictions other than his own.


President Bush came to Florida on Thursday and publicly complimented Rep. Katherine Harris for the first time since she won the GOP Senate nomination over the opposition of her own party.


Calif. diocese seen in record settlement

The Roman Catholic diocese of Orange County, Calif., has reached a settlement that reportedly exceeds $100 million with 87 people who were sexually abused by


In a locker room where failure and regret are now daily companions, perhaps no one has a stronger bond with those twin specters than Jamal Crawford.


Google's Android Stirs Mobile-Device Industry

Google's Android platform is stirring up the mobile-device industry. Introduced this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the open-source platform based on Linux powered prototypes shown by Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, HTC, Motorola, LG and Samsung.


NL Wrap: Ramirez Shines in Cubs Victory Over Reds

Aramis Ramirez homered three times and drove in all of Chicago's runs as the Cubs edged the Cincinnati Reds 5-4 in National League play at the Great American Ballpark on Thursday.


A coroner asks internet shop Amazon to stop selling a book about suicide after a teenage girl killed herself.


Public broadcaster SABC apologises after news bulletin shows footage of American beheaded in Iraq.


Las Vegas builds its own Great White Way

Casinos are spending huge sums on theaters for their most lucrative performers.


German papers Thursday speculated on whether the double plane crash in Russia is the result of a terrorist attack. "Attack or accident?


Browns Fire Grantham as Defensive Coordinator

Todd Grantham, the Cleveland Brownsâ defensive coordinator, was unexpectedly fired Friday after Clevelandâs defense finished the season as one of the N.F.L.âs worst units.


Thanks to a variety of unforeseen circumstances over the past few days, Red Sox manager Terry Francona has gone from mere lineup crafter to juggler.


US backs new European resolution on Iran sanctions

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed optimism  that the UN Security Council will finally impose sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program after the US and Russia closed ranks around a European draft resolution that was months in the making.


Nuance Communications has agreed to purchase Tegic Communications from AOL for $265 million, the companies reported Friday. Tegic, a little-known subsidiary of AOL, makes the T9 text input software common on mobile phones, as well as a touch input solution.


Poverty, tradition shackle Mauritania's slaves

Born a slave, like his entire family, Matalla Mbreik toiled from dawn to dusk selling water and tending his master's flocks on the lonely fringes of the Saharan desert, until he could take no more.


The fledgling industry may be the most revolutionary development in radio since the rise of FM in the 1970s. By Stephen Humphries | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.


A volunteer for John Kerry said Friday he picked up a flier in Bush-Cheney headquarters in Gainesville, Fla., promoting Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group the Bush campaign has insisted for weeks it has no connection to.


TOYKO, Japan -- North Korea has warned Japan that it would treat economic sanctions against the nation as a "declaration of war" as a row brews over the remains of abductees.


New York, 09:41 - HOCKEY GHIACCIO, NHL: DETROIT VINCE A NEW YORK

I Detroit Red Wings si sono imposti per 4-3 in casa dei New York Rangers nell'unico match del campio...


LSU coach Nick Saban has talked to the Miami Dolphins about their vacant head coaching position. In a statement issued by LSU on Wedensday, Saban described the talks as "a preliminary conversation with the


Pubs owner Punch Taverns said it had bought InnSpired Group, which operates more than 1,000 pubs, in a deal worth 335 million pounds (490 million euros, 599 million dollars) including debt.


Alitalia board picks Air France-KLM's 6.5 bn euro rescue plan

Alitalia's board of directors said Friday it had advised the Italian government to pursue an offer by Air France-KLM to rescue the near-bankrupt airline with a long-term investment of 6.5 billion euros.


American, two Israelis share prize in chemistry

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN -- Two Israelis and an American won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for showing how cells can give a "kiss of death" to destroy unwanted proteins, a finding that could help scientists find new medicines for cancer and other


Rovigo, 20:27 - CICLISMO, GIRO DONNE: PRIMA TAPPA ALLA BRONZINI

La velocista piacentina Giorgia Bronzini (Safi-Pasta Zara-Manhattan) ha vinto la prima tappa del Gir...


Il sorprendente Palermo di Guidolin strappa a sorpresa un punto nella tana della Juve. Per la formazione di Capello, finora a punteggio pieno, si tratta del primo mezzo passo falso in campionato, capitato


In Health Debate, Clinton Remains Vague on Penalties

What might seem a mundane debate over health policy has taken on outsized importance because it is one of the few substantive differences between the two leading Democratic candidates.


OLPC parts shortage manageable, says maker

(InfoWorld) - The company manufacturing the One Laptop Per Child notebook played down the impact of component shortages in the industry, rebutting local reports that the shortages will affect supplies of the computer when it ships in October. Strong sales of notebook computers and aÂ massive battery recall are causing shortages of many key components, including screens, certain kinds of chips and other parts, analysts and companies say. The production schedule for OLPC's laptop is also problematic because it's starting in the peak season for notebook demand. OLPC shipments are slated to begin in October. Back-to-school sales and the run-up to Christmas are hot times of the year for people to buy laptop PCs, and hype around Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista and Intel Corp.'s Santa Rosa laptop chips has given an added spurt to demand this year, said C. C. Leung, vice chairman and president of Quanta Computer Inc., at a news conference Friday in Kuei Shan, Taiwan. But the OLPC project should be shielded by commitments already made by companies in the supply chain, he said. The special screen used in the laptop could run into supply issues, but even that is backed by a major company that has given delivery assurances, he said. A spokesman at Taiwan's Chi Mei Group, which is responsible for the laptop's screens, said there is no supply trouble and the company does not foresee any issues. Quanta will be building the first OLPC laptops. All notebook computer makers are facing a shortage of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels, the screen part of a laptop, while only smaller companies are having trouble with shortages of batteries and hard disc drives, according to analysts. The OLPC laptop uses a special kind of screen, not an LCD. The recall of around 10 million laptop batteries tied to Sony Corp. has kept the vital parts in short supply since last year. The shortage is tied to lithium-ion cells, and the OLPC laptop uses both lithium iron phosphate batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries. The tight supply of laptop parts could start to dissipate once the peak season ends and demand slows down after the holiday season. About 78 million laptops will be sold this year, according to Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC. Quanta Computer, the largest contract laptop computer maker in the world, expects to ship up to 28 million, or more than a third of all laptops forecast to be shipped globally. The company declined to comment on how many OLPC notebook computers will ship this year. OLPC is a nonprofit project formed by Nicholas Negroponte to distribute ultra-low cost notebook computers to children in the developing world. Several high-profile technology companies support the venture, including Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Red Hat Inc., Google Inc. and Nortel Networks Inc. Â


Chinese Prosperity Seen as Threat to Endangered Wildlife

Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.


Kiev, 12:58 - CALCIO, DINAMO KIEV: STOP DI TRE MESI PER DIAKHATE

La Dinamo Kiev, avversaria della Roma in Champions League, dovrà fare a meno per tre mesi del...


What does Bill Parcells do now? The Dallas Cowboys' coach has been unable to coax inspired play out of his downward-spiraling team, and now the situation has become truly desperate in the aftermath


Ex-Playmate Anna Nicole's Fortune Reversed

A federal appeals court Thursday threw out a judge's ruling that awarded $88.5 million to former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith from the estate of her late husband, an oil tycoon who died at age 90 just over a year after they wed.


Blair: U.S. Must Work With Rest of World

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday the United States must do more to address the concerns of the rest of the world if it expects support for its own policies, and he cited global warming as a prime example.


Gallinas Watershed Thinning Project Approved

By STACI MATLOCK  Santa Fe National Forest's acting supervisor sided with forest staff Thursday in a controversial plan to thin and selectively burn about 8,200 acres in the Gallinas Watershed near Las Vegas, N.M.


Firenze, 19:36 - CALCIO, COPPA ITALIA: 2-1 ALLA FIORENTINA, LAZIO IN SEMIFINALE

La Lazio si è qualificata per le semifinali di Coppa Italia battendo 2-1 (1-1) la Fiorentina ...


Four men are charged in connection with the murder of a biker who was shot on the M40 motorway.


Roma, 18:39 - CALCIO, MONDIALI FEMMINILI: GERMANIA E USA IN SEMIFINALE

Germania e Stati Uniti si sono qualificate per le semifinali dei Mondiali di calcio femminili, in co...


Earnhardt Jr. Wants Majority Ownership of Dad's Company

Dale Earnhardt Jr. wants his stepmother to give him majority of his father's company, a negotiating demand that might force him to part ways with Dale Earnhardt Inc. after this season.


Google purchases the garage that launched the company

SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire -- the Silicon Valley home where co founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.


Rep. William Jefferson pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of soliciting more than $500,000 in bribes while using his office to broker business deals in Africa.


Well, he would say that wouldn't he? !!!!! Microsoft's offer for Yahoo! is fair, it's not going up and the company should take a long, hard look at it, Bill Gates reckons.â¦


Britain's defence secretary defends downed plane's safety record

Britain's Defence Secretary Des Browne has defended the safety record of the Nimrod reconnaissance plane after one of the aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, killing 14 armed service personnel.


Tropical Storm Jeanne leaves more than 500 dead in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE.âMore than 1,000 people have died or are missing as a result of Tropical Storm Jeanne, particularly in the northeastern region of the country where, at the close of this edition, more bodies were being discovered and the banks of certain


Tishman, Lehman near deal for Archstone-Smith: WSJ

Tishman Speyer Properties and  Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  are close to a deal to  acquire real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith Trust  , according to the online edition of The Wall Street  Journal.


EU agency asked to rule on cloned meat and milk

Europe's top food safety agency has been asked to determine whether meat and milk from cloned animals are safe to eat, European Commission officials said on Thursday.


Moraine View May Be New Home to Albino Deer

By Scott Richardson  Lots of good stuff has been happening while Ive been "off work" recovering from cancer surgery. Ive been trying to keep up from home so I can keep you informed.


Ministro, bene se servira' a redistribuzione verso il basso


Democratic powerbroker Edward Kennedy will announce that he is backing the Illinois senator


New Delhi: The Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, has expressed his deep grief on the death of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao.


The âBlack Listâ has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.


In un campo di addestramento di al Qaeda la cerimonia del terroreMansoor Dadullah: "Presto un attacco suicida in Gran Bretagna"                                            Afghanistan, 300 kamikaze giurano pronti a partire per Usa ed Europa


New specification to lock down mobile phones

(InfoWorld) - A new set of security standards designed to lock down mobile devicesÂ has been hammered outÂ and is set to be unveiled at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show being held in Los Angeles next month. Called the Mobile Security Specification, it is billed as the basis for a new generation of secure phones and mobile devices that will be harder to tamper with and more secure. The standards are backed by companies such as Nokia, Samsung Electronics, and France Telecom. The specification has been years in development, said Janne Uusilehto, head of Nokia product security and the chairman of the working group developing this technology. "It is a big deal. This is the first time that we have created such common security specifications for all handheld devices," Uusilehto said. The new specifications are built on work done by the Trusted Computing Group, (TCG) an industry association that has already created similar standards for PCs, servers and networks. Uusilehto's Mobile Phone Work Group expects to announce the specification on Sept. 13 at the CTIA show, provided that the remaining minor details can be worked out. The specification will beÂ published here. Â The Nokia executive declined to say when his company or others will be producing phones that comply with the new specification, but he predicted that manufacturers would soon begin using the technology to lock down basic parts of their devices, such as the operating system. When these devices appear, they will make things more difficult for data thieves and mobile virus writers. Down the line, the technology could be used to build electronic wallets into mobile phones. In general terms, the specification calls on hardware vendors to store protected information in a secure area of the phones. Similar to the Trusted Platform Module used in PCs, this technology could be used to ensure that the phone's operating system, applications and data have not been tampered with. This type of trusted module could also be used by network operators to ensure that the phones on their network can't be used if they are stolen, said Mark Redman, a principal engineer with Freescale Semiconductor Inc. who is familiar with the specification. "That is probably one of the biggest concerns that the cell phone operators have at this stage," he said. Though some companies may be early adopters of the Mobile Security Specification, it could take years before cell phone users reap any benefits, said Roger Kay, an analyst with Endpoint Technologies Associates who serves as on the TCG's advisory council. "What typically will happen is that there may be some early adopters who start adhering to the specification before it's fully accepted," he said, adding that "just because [the Trusted Computing Group standard] promulgates, it doesn't mean that it's going to be adopted." Even after years of development, there is still debate about whether trusted modules are the right approach for the PC industry, he said. "The most interesting, most advanced features are going to take years, because everybody has to agree to adhere to the new standard."


With two days to spare, the October Surprise arrived yesterday, but it was not the type either campaign had in mind. Instead, it was America's most loathed enemy, injecting himself into Tuesday's


Three people have been discovered murdered at a house in south Manchester, police said Friday.


A cheaper and safer treatment for heroin addicts is found to be as effective as methadone, according to a new study.


Gia' cancellata scritta ingiuriosa in via Fani


Ma Biagi, Luttazzi e Guzzanti? Domanda in prima puntata


Chicago Bulls' Luol Deng, top, and Milwaukee Bucks' Zaza Pachulia, bottom, of Georgia scramble after a loose ball during the first quarter Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 in Chicago.


Israeli Troops Kill Five Palestinians in Gaza Raid

Israeli troops killed five Palestinians on Thursday as tanks pushed into the southern Gaza Strip in what the army called a raid to root out militants behind mortar and rocket fire on Jewish settlements.


Laoping writes "News.com has a story about a new Web services management specification designed to simplify network administration across a wide range of devices.


Britain says body found in Iraq not murdered hostage

The British government confirmed Wednesday that a Western woman's body found by US forces in Iraq last month was not that of British hostage Magaret Hassan, who wasbelieved to be killed by her captors.


Newmont admits mercury leak in Indonesia

US gold mining company Newmont admitted that it released mercury into the environment at one of its Indonesian mines, but denied that it had any health impact on its employees or nearby residents.


Saudi Arabia detains 136 suspected militants

Saudi Arabia, fighting a violent campaign by al Qaeda supporters, has detained 136 suspected Islamist militants including a would-be suicide bomber, an Interior Ministry source said on Saturday.


Se la chitarra di Pat Metheny sfida il piano di Mehldau

Due virtuosi per una collaborazione rara e intensa, un nuovo album da scoprire e un prossimo tour per portare avanti il progetto. Ce li racconta, in video, il chitarrista americano


Pampling jumps atop Memorial leaderboard

Rod Pampling finished the storm-delayed third round with a flourish Saturday, holing a 40-foot birdie putt to take the lead and hitting a terrific fairway bunker shot that capped off a 4-under 68, giving him a three-shot lead at the Memorial.


'Mi sembra un buon lavoro preparatorio a vendita'


France's Chirac seen bowing out in TV address

French President Jacques Chirac is expected to confirm that he will not stand for re-election when he appears on television on Sunday, marking the end of a political career spanning more than four decades.


Amaranto vincono 1-0 a Pasching, qualificazione storica


Fifa chief Sepp Blatter warns that England may miss out on hosting the 2018 World Cup.


Perdita di 74 mln fa crescere debiti, aumentano clienti Adsl


Technology Can Be a Blessing for Bored Workers

The white collar, officebound workers arenât the only ones turning to high-tech devices to escape from tedium at work.


Rebels Strike as US Prepares to Hit Fallujah

With a major US attack apparently imminent, insurgents struck Saturday with two suicide car bombs and another attack on a police station that killed at least 34 Iraqis and wounded 40 others in Samarra, another Sunni town some 60 miles from Fallujah that


Top pick Oden out for season after knee surgery

Greg Oden, the top pick in this year's  NBA draft, is likely to miss the entire season after undergoing  knee surgery, the Portland Trail Blazers said on Thursday.


ZARIT, Israel  - Israel's army pulled out of south Lebanon without fanfare on Sunday to complete a handover to the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers under a ceasefire deal that ended a costly war with Hizbollah guerrillas.


Ron Reagan, son of the late  president and conservative hero Ronald Reagan, will co-host a  new political talk show on MSNBC, the network said on  Wednesday.


We are shocked - shocked! â-hat pop tart Ashlee Simpson was caught lip-syncing on âSaturday Night (ahem) Liveâ over the weekend.


The UN calls for the creation of safe zones in Somalia for about 1.5m children caught up in the conflict.


US forces press offensive in insurgent-held districts of Fallujah ...

The skies over Fallujah lit up from the flashes of air and artillery barrages as US troops launched an offensive to seize key insurgent


Thousands of Bombay bar girls and ermployes protest against a recent police crackdown.


At This Drive-In, the Space Steals the Show

In the Lower East Sideâs version of a drive-in movie theater, patrons can rent space in a Ford Falcon, watch a DVD and eat popcorn in a store on Norfolk Street.


Shares in Indian software services giant Tata Consultancy soar by 24% on their market debut.


The semiconductor industry will consolidate, with nearly 40 percent of today's chip vendors disappearing over the next few years, market researcher Gartner said in a forecast released this week.


Rice Says US Couldn't Underestimate Threat From Hussein

US President George W. Bush couldn't afford to minimize the threat from Saddam Hussein when determining whether he was rebuilding Iraq's nuclear weapons capability, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said.


The lack of standby rescue helicopters at CFB Moose Jaw was not a factor in the fate of two Snowbird pilots after their planes crashed on Friday, says Defense Minister Bill Graham.


The Offspring is the latest act to sign on for the 2005 Vans Warped Tour next summer.


Militants Kidnap Relatives of Iraqi Minister-TV

Militants have kidnapped two relatives of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan and demanded US forces leave the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported Wednesday.


Attorney: Benoitâs Doctor Charged in Federal Probe

The personal doctor of a pro wrestler who killed his wife and son before committing suicide was charged Monday with improperly dispensing painkillers and other drugs to other patients.


Massive computer failure at the Department for Work and Pensions may affect some benefit claims, says the government. Are you affected?


Terrorism Damage Bill Is Passed by House

The House approved a government insurance program on Tuesday that commits Washington to paying for most of the damage in the event of a terrorist attack in the next seven years.


Vietnam foreign minister starts US visit

Vietnam's foreign minister was set to start an official six-day trip to the United States Sunday, paving the way for visits by the communist country's president and prime minister later this year.


La Spezia, 15:14 - CALCIO: SPEZIA; PRESO IOVINE, DO PRADO AL MANTOVA

Lo Spezia ha acquistato Marco Iovine dal Genoa. I centrocampista, ventuno anni, ha iniziato la stagi...


Bergamo, 20:30 - CALCIO, ATALANTA: ROSSI SPERA DI RECUPERARE NATALI

Dopo la sconfitta nel recupero di Messina, l'Atalanta si Ã¨ trasferita direttamente a Bari per prepar...


InterContinental to Give 750 Mln Pounds to Investors

InterContinental Hotels Group Plc, the world's largest hotel operator, will sell more than half its properties as part of a plan to focus on franchising and return 750 million pounds ($1.


The Northeast got a break Wednesday from the heat wave sizzling much of the nation, but elsewhere temperatures climbed back up through the 90s and topped 100 degrees in some cities by noon.


German high-tech sky sail may cut costs, emissions

BREMEN, Germany  - Putting a harness on ocean winds, a German shipping company plans to unfurl a giant high-tech kite over a cargo ship next year to boost the vessel's propulsion and to conserve fuel.


At first blush, a lot of people might find that to be a laughable proposition. But a prominent architect of the Recording Industry Association of America's legal strategy confided to me last week that his


Inexperienced firms "are going to burn their fingers," says one VC veteran. But the greater risk is in being left behind.


After 40 visits, Bush still courts Pennsylvania

If President Bush is to carry Pennsylvania on Nov. 2, it will take the help of the thousands of true believers who filled Hersheypark Stadium on a wet, chilly afternoon yesterday.