Documents: Kazaa Adware Annoys Own Company

Internal documents made public in an Australian court indicate that it's not just consumers who are often annoyed by programs that install with the Kazaa file-swapping software.


Caron Butler scores six of his team-high 21 points in a decisive 25-6 run over the game's final six minutes Monday as the Wizards stun the Celtics again, 88-83.


In Party Speech, Blair Admits Political Cost of Iraq Mistakes

Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged today that there had been a decline of public trust in his government over the military campaign in Iraq and he offered


Santini resigns as Tottenham Hotspur coach

Jacques Santini has quit as manager of Tottenham Hotspur after just 13 games in charge. A Spurs statement on Friday said the former France manager is returning to France for "personal reasons".


Top Court Finds for 'UK's Guantanamo' Suspects

Britain's top court delivered a severe jolt to Prime Minister Tony Blair's post-Sept. 11 security policies on Thursday by ruling against the detention of foreign terrorism suspects without trial.


George W Bush and Tony Blair voice optimism for the setting up of an independent Palestinian state.


Insurers, Travel Firms Tally Tsunami Cost

European insurers face new costs and travel firms could lose business after tsunami waves killed more than 21,500 in Asia this weekend, but the financial impact is expected to be limited compared with other ...


Sick Arafat to Head for France, Cancer Suspected

RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat, badly  weakened by what doctors believe may be leukemia, was to fly to  Paris for treatment on Friday, leaving his besieged West Bank  headquarters for the first time in more than two years.


News: New Downloadable Content Is Available

Tycho: The actual writing of this strip was fairly quick, but there's an extended tangent about The Club that lends heft. You can download the podcast for today's comic here, and (as always) get a jump on the official announcements by subscribing to our tender feed. (CW)TB


Folk Singer Mary Travers in Treatment for Leukemia

Singer Mary Travers, 68, of Peter, Paul & Mary fame, is undergoing chemotherapy for a form of leukemia, but she is expected to be in full remission within a few months, her publicist said on Tuesday.


US Muslims have embarked on a vast drive get the community registered to vote in the presidential election to build what could be a potentially powerful voice in deciding the winner.


Australia comdemns apparent killing of aid worker in Iraq

Australia's Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, says the apparent murder in Iraq of aid worker, Margaret Hassan, is a heinous and inexcusable crime.


ShoZu Media Services Selected for New Motorola MOTORIZR Z8 Hi-Def Smartphone

ShoZu Inc. today announced a broad agreement for download and  pre-installation of its mobile media services on the new generation of  Motorola handsets that is being launched with the just-unveiled MOTORIZR  Z8 hi-def.


Take aches and pains out of your workplace

Occupational therapist Karen Jacobs stumbled into the study of ergonomics quite by accident. She walked into her children's computer classroom in middle school and was horrified. "Everything was a mismatch," she remembers about the chairs, tables, and computers. "I thought, 'Oh my gosh, they are predisposing themselves to discomfort.' "


Ford to Slash 14,000 Jobs, Offer Buyouts

DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co.ÃÂ ÃÂ Ford Motor Co. said Friday that it plans to cut 10,000 more salaried jobs, offer buyouts to all hourly workers and shut down two more plants as part of a dramatic restructuring plan designed to rein in expenses and restore the struggling automaker to profitability.


Debian delayed as contributors get grouchy

Fourth version of Linux distribution is late because of slowdown by key developers linked to a funding "experiment."


AFRICA/EGITTO - Riunione del Comitato permanente del SECAM: il tema principale allÂesame dei Vescovi sarÃ  il traffico degli esseri umani, a 200 anni dalla fine della schiavitÃ¹ in Africa Il Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Il Comitato permanente del Symposium delle Conferenze Episcopali di Africa e Madagascar (SECAM) si riunirÃ  in Egitto, a Il Cairo, dal 25 al 29 ottobre 2007. Uno dei temi principali in agenda sarÃ  quello delle nuove schiavit...


Aniston said to be dating British model - magazine

Actress Jennifer Aniston has a new  boy "friend," People magazine reported on Wednesday.


Dalai Lama warns against China containment

The Dalai Lama warned nations on  Tuesday not to try to contain China's economic and military  emergence, but urged countries like Australia to use their  trading clout to pressure Beijing on human rights.


House passes warrantless domestic spying measure

The House of Representatives passed   a bill on Thursday that would provide congressional   authorization for President George W. Bush's warrantless   domestic spying program but subject it to new rules.


YouTubers Try a Different Forum: Real Life

Move over, Trekkies. Some new self-described "geeky" enthusiasts are in town.


Tennis star Maria Sharapova is resolving to run more miles than LeBron James in January.Â Find out what she has to do if she doesnât succeed in her resolution. Then set up and track your own New Yearâs resolutions with Nike+.


UK Sept. Manufacturing Index Falls, Costs Increase

UK manufacturing growth unexpectedly weakened to the slowest pace in 14 months in September as surging oil prices boosted costs, a survey of purchasing managers showed.


French President Jacques Chirac urged Turkey on Saturday to acknowledge the mass killings of Armenians in the early 20th century as genocide.


The chief delegate to the United Nations General Assembly accused the US of destroying the basis for negotiations on Pyongyang's nuclear programme.


US Airways, Relying on Cash, May Face Liquidation

US Airways Group Inc. must rely on daily revenue and cash to operate during its bankruptcy reorganization, leaving it vulnerable to liquidation unless the carrier can raise exit financing.


French and British rescuers battle gale force winds in search for six French fishermen missing after their boat sank off the Cornish coast


ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating a new drug  safety board to improve the monitoring of medicines already in  the marketplace, a response to charges the agency has failed to  protect the public from dangerous side effects.


Rent-a-womb in India fuels surrogate motherhood debate

Jyoti Dave is pregnant, but when the 30-year-old gives birth in March the baby will not be taken home to bond with her other child, but will instead be handed over to an American couple unable to conceive.


Owners are paying special attention to the Âcurb appealÂ of well-designed lobbies to attract premium tenants.


The Tampa Bay Lightning were supposed to raise their Stanley Cup championship banner this week to kick off the new season. Instead, the arena that rocked during the finals in June will be dark because of a labor dispute that shows no sign of ending soon. That will be the case, too, for Ottawa, Chicago, Colorado, Phoenix, Anaheim and San Jose, also slated to host openers Wednesday night.


Top seed Roger Federer wins in straight sets to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals.


Australian detainee enters not-guilty plea

A former Australian cowboy accused of attending an al-Qaida training camp and fighting alongside the Taliban pleaded not guilty to all charges in a makeshift military courtroom yesterday.


Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman crashed baseball's winter meetings on Saturday with some shiny baubles and proposed to the sport in a manner befitting Britney Spears more than Bud Selig: Let's go to Vegas and get married.


WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will talk with European allies later this week about possible economic incentives to Iran if it agrees to suspend the enrichment of uranium, a key step in the production of nuclear weapons, US officials said yesterday.


Laci Peterson's Mother Sobs, Yells at Calif. Trial

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - Murder victim Laci  Peterson's mother sobbed and screamed at her son-in-law,  convicted killer Scott Peterson, on Tuesday as she testified on  the first day of a hearing that will determine if he should  live or die.


In progresso anche Parigi, Londra e Francoforte


Testing times Mozilla is calling on developers to help it ensure that the next version of the open source web browser is solid. And it has released an alpha version of Firefox 3 for developers to play with.â¦


Leading scientists make final plea for the right to create the first animal-human embryos to help advance understanding of genetic diseases.


Oracle Corp.'s $9.2 billion takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. neared the finish line early Saturday morning when a majority of stockholders agreed to tender their PeopleSoft shares.


New Breast Cancer Drug Better Than Tamoxifen-Study

A new type of breast cancer drug is  clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many women  and should now be the first drug used to treat the cancer, U.S.  and British researchers said on Wednesday.


No Preferred Stock Dividend at OKC-Based LSB Industries

LSB Industries on Monday said its board of directors will not declare a cash dividend on  outstanding shares of publicly held $3.25 convertible exchangeable Class C preferred stock, Series 2.  The preferred stock is traded over-the-counter under the symbol LSBD.


Italy, German bourses may make Euronext offer: report

Italian stock market operator Borsa  Italiana is ready to study a joint offer with Deutsche Boerse  for Euronext , which has already agreed a $10 billion  deal to merge with the NYSE, Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper said.


ORLANDO, Fla. - The oak tree in Ilyse Kusnetz's back yard caused one headache when it crashed into her house during Hurricane Charley...


Geico Corp. yesterday urged a federal judge in Alexandria to issue an injunction prohibiting Internet giant Google Inc. from selling ads based on searches using the Washington insurance giant's


Business & money: Average interest rates on personal loans have jumped to almost double the advertised rate


Fate of 30,000 in India's Andamans unknown as death toll nears 7,000

Rescuers were anxious to discover the fate of 30,000 people unaccounted for in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands as the nationwide death toll from weekend tidal waves reached nearly 7,000.


(InfoWorld) - Thereâs a common nightmare haunting CISOs (computer information security officers) that features a glance at the morning paper, and 72-point banner headlines with the name of their employer and the words âLOSTâ and âCUSTOMER DATA.â Thereâs no question about it: protecting customer and employee data is one of the thorniest problems facing enterprises today. Last week, Oracle took a swing at solving that problem, announcing the Identity Governance Framework, an initiative to develop specifications for sharing identity data across heterogeneous applications. The project has the support of identity and access management (IAM) vendors Ping Identity, Sun Microsystems, and Securent, as well as CA and Novell, according to Amit Jasuja, vice president of product development for Oracleâs security and identity management products. Problems such as lost data on laptops and identity theft point to the need for overarching standards that govern all the sensitive data squirreled away in data repositories across an enterprise, such as human resources, customer relationship management and custom-built internal applications, he said. IGF addresses that problem by establishing a governance model that allows organizations to create âcontractsâ between applications and repositories of identity data. The model would cover how data flows within an enterprise and outside the enterprise to supply chain or business partners, he said. Because the framework came together quickly, the real value of IGG will be determined in the coming weeks and months, as Oracle and its partners work to develop the specifications and transfer them to a standards group such as OASIS or the Liberty Alliance to manage, Bowen said. âItâs a good first step. It will get us closer to the goal line,â said Don Bowen, director of identity integration at Sun. âWill it get us into the end zone? I donât know.â


Whatâs Online: Debating American Serfdom

Do more than half of all Americanâs depend on the government for their livelihoods? Do movie posters fill seats? What are the 7 I.T. wonders? And more...


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Weekend Explorer: In the Mansion Land of the âFifth Avenoodlesâ

The Upper East Side contains the cityâs most exclusive residences, private schools and social clubs. But it has never been quite as socially exclusive as some might have liked.


Circuit City to close stores, shake up management

Circuit City Stores Inc.  said on Thursday that it would close a number of stores, cut some jobs and change its management structure as it faces increased pressure in the electronics retail market.


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

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


Changing nearly 30 years of election regulations, House and Senate candidates as well as state parties will have to abide by federal fundraising limits to pay for vote recounts, federal regulators decided Wednesday.


La vittima, dirigente squadra di calcio, ucciso a sassate


Georgian president sworn in as opposition rallies

"I promise before the nation and God to protect the Georgian constitution"  Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was sworn in Sunday to lead this strategic Black Sea nation for a second five-year term as his opponents rallied for his election win to be overturned. via The Age


Dollar Falls on Speculation US to Refrain From Stemming Drop

The dollar fell to a record against the euro and tumbled versus the yen on speculation US officials will refrain from joining any effort to stem the currency's drop.


What, they're not made of organic hemp? Apple is a grubby polluter and isn't doing enough to change that, according to environmental pressure group Greenpeace. A new campaign comes on the back of a Greenpeace investigation into the contents and destination of hardware which ranked Apple below less hippyish brands like Dell and HP for environmental responsibility.â¦


UPDATE 2-Qwest posts quarterly loss after SEC settlement

Qwest Communications International Inc. (QN: Quote, Profile, Research) , the No. 4 US local telephone company, on Thursday reported a third-quarter loss as it settled


Fegica, si' all'incontro ma restano perplessita'


Russia has released six more Japanese fishermen who had been detained earlier this month after their boats were seized in disputed waters, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.


Anti-Torture Statute Used to Indict Son of Liberia's Ex-Leader

The Justice Department invoked a 12-year-old federal anti-torture statute for the first time yesterday, indicting the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in connection with the alleged use of a hot iron, scalding water and an electrical device to shock and burn an ally of his father's...


France vows to stomp out soccer violence

Racism and violence have clouded Paris' premier soccer team for 20 years, but France's leaders are determined to stomp it out after a shooting death outraged the nation and exposed the long-ignored problem.


Belarusian opposition clashes with police

Police clash with opposition activists, who protest against the nationwide referendum preliminary results in a square near the presidential administration, in Minsk, Belarus, Oct 18, 2004.


LARGO, Fla. - Brandy the Chihuahua is 6 inches long and weighs less that two pounds. She's not allowed on the furniture because if she jumped off, she'd break. She's also, according the Guinness, officially the Smallest Dog in the World.


MySpace Comic Books, the comics corner of this online social network, and Meltdown Comics, a store in Los Angeles, have teamed up to commemorate the end of âY: The Last Man,â the comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan, above, and Pia Guerra. The event, âY: The Last Party,â will be held on Friday, Feb. 8, and will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The organization, founded in 1986, is dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comic book business. Of late the defense fund has been involved in the case of Gordon Lee, a comic book retailer in Rome, Ga., who has found himself in court over the distribution of obscene material to a minor. The material in question depicted Picasso in the nude. Mr. Vaughan, who is also a writer on ABCâs âLost,â is a firm believer in the defense fund. âItâs obviously a completely different situation from the writersâ strike, but, similarly, itâs creators taking care of their community, which I always support,â he said in a telephone interview. The $100 V.I.P. tickets have sold out, but a limited number of $25 tickets will be available the day of the event. More information:www.myspace.com/cbldf.


Tokyo's Nikkei edged down 0.33 percent  Monday, falling for a seventh straight session in its longest  losing streak since December 2002 as worries about oil prices  and weaker business sentiment plagued the market.


Ransom-Note Ads About Childrenâs Health Are Canceled

N.Y.U. is dropping a controversial ad campaign aimed at raising awareness of childrenâs mental health disorders.


A California court has shut down the U.S. version of Wikileaks.org, where whistle-blowers anonymously post documents.


Buffett boosts stake in Burlington Northern to 17.6 percent

- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc   further increased its stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp  this week to about 17.6 percent.


Jury split in Spector murder trial verdict

The jury in the murder trial of  Phil Spector said on Tuesday it was unable to reach a unanimous  verdict on the charges against the legendary rock producer, and  the judge dismissed the jurors for the day.


Bologna, 22:47 - BASKET, SERIE A: NEL POSTICIPO BOLOGNA BATTE MILANO

Nel posticipo della decima giornata del campionato di basket, la VidiVici Bologna ha superato l'Arma...


WASHINGTON -- Shoppers put aside worries about the slumping economy to go to the malls and auto dealerships in January. That propelled retail sales to a surprising rebound following a dismal December.


Milano, 16:07 - CALCIO, INTER: ACQUAFRESCA CEDUTO AL CAGLIARI IN COMPROPRIETA'

L'attaccante dell'Inter, Robert Acquafresca, è stato ceduto al Cagliari in compropriet&agrave...


Putin backs liberalization of gas giant's shares

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to government's decision to allow foreigners access to gas giant Gazprom's local shares, the Interfax news agency reported.


A Catastrophe Strikes, and the Cyberworld Responds

Much of the initial information about what had happened in Asia came from the World Wide Web, especially from the personal journals called weblogs, or blogs.


U.S. says would not extradite CIA agents to Italy

The United States will not meet any request by Italy to extradite 26 Americans, most thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial over the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, the State Department's legal adviser said on Wednesday.


THE Russian government has approved the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and sent it to parliament for ratification. Until now, Moscow has wavered over the treaty, which can only go into force with Russian backing.


Microsoft Challenges Rivals With New Online Music Service

Microsoft started selling music tracks on its MSN online service, taking on Apple Computer and a host of others in the fast-growing market for digital music.


Venezuela, Uruguay win amid refereeing row

PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela  - Uruguay and Hosts Venezuela got off to winning starts in the Copa America on Saturday, although both victories were marred by foul play and refereeing problems.


For Second Day, Bomb Explodes Near Green Zone

Description: For the second consecutive day, a suicide bomb explodes near the entrance of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.


A POLICE sergeant is suspected of having fatally shot two British tourists after a quarrel early today in western Thailand, police said.


India's Tribal People Safe After Tsunami-Official

India's dwindling aboriginal population in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is safe as most lived in jungles, far away from the coast hit by a devastating


Israel Apologizes After Tank Kills 3 Egyptian Police

An Israeli tank killed three Egyptian policemen on the Gaza-Egypt border Thursday, prompting an Israeli apology for what the army said was a tragic error when it mistook them for Palestinian militants.


What happens in the online world can be a freeing experience. Sometimes too freeing, so be careful out there. Commentary by Gina Lynn.


U.N. extends prosecutor Del Ponte's term to year-end

The U.N. Security Council on Friday extended the appointment of Carla del Ponte as prosecutor of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia until December 31, when her still-unnamed successor will take over.


Britain seeks gold mkt stability in IMF revaluation

Any revaluation of International Monetary Fund (IMF) gold reserves would have to be done in a way which would preserve gold market stability, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said on Monday.


Defiant lawmakers - shouting ``Death to America'' - unanimously voted Sunday to approve the outline of a bill requiring the government to resume uranium enrichment, a


Employees of some of Wall Street's top banks were among more than a dozen people charged on Thursday in what authorities called one of the most pervasive insider trading rings since the 1980s, accused of using leaked information and even blackmail to make millions of dollars.


Symantec: Viruses Aimed at Windows Grow in Number

According to the Symantec report, there is a sharp rise in so-called "bot networks" of compromised PCs that are used by hackers to launch denial-of-service attacks.


Mile-high hopes are dimming that Denver will secure the 2008 Democratic convention. Democrats posted against-the-odds victories in several statewide elections last month in the West, making Denver an attractive choice for a party looking to expand on recent gains in the Republican-leaning region. But even once-optimistic Colorado boosters are lowering their odds to 50-50 that Denver will beat out New York City for the convention.


Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. has convicted "The Sopranos" of spreading what he says are stereotypes about Italian-Americans.


Humana Inc.  said on Monday that quarterly net profit more than doubled on strong Medicare membership growth, which prompted the health insurer to raise its 2007 earnings forecast.


Extremists a problem for Thailand, says Australia

MELBOURNE: Islamic extremist activity poses a significant problem for southern Thailand, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Saturday.


Negli Usa incremento del 7,4%, in Europa dell'8,9%


Concluding the 2004 regular season with a chance to tie the franchise record for seasonal wins, the Indianapolis Colts, 12-3, visit the Denver Broncos, 9-6, on Sunday, January 2, 2005.


Blog: Wis.dm launches. Social network site where members ask and answer yes and no questions. Could be useful for market research and targeted advertising.


Seimone Augustus pours in 19 points as No. 1 LSU keeps Southwest Missouri State at bay for a 66-54 triumph in the Triple Crown Classic on Saturday.


The sun smiled on Tony Parker and Eva Longoria's wedding day, breaking through after days of gray Paris skies. Their VIP guests, though, were concealed by big black umbrellas.


Angry Arsenal stormed out of Old Trafford fuming with referee Mike Riley after Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wayne Rooney combined to shatter their 49-game unbeaten record after the 2-0 defeat at Manchester United.


Holiday Bowl notes: Former Cordova defender hopes to tattoo Cal

Bee Staff Writer. SAN DIEGO - Mike Leach noticed all the markings in fall drills, then the Texas Tech coach known as "The Strange One" wondered if they come off with a good scrubbing.


Merck wins reversal of Vioxx class-action status

Merck & Co Inc  said on Thursday the New Jersey Supreme Court has reversed a lower court ruling that granted nationwide class-action status to insurers seeking reimbursement for past spending on Vioxx, the drugmaker's withdrawn arthritis treatment.


Controversial Dutch film maker shot dead - agency [02/11/2004]

Controversial Dutch film maker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, who made a film about violence against women in Islamic societies, was shot dead in Amsterdam, Dutch news agency ANP reported.


CollegeHotList.Com Launches - Social Network Connects College Students Nationwide

CollegeHotList.com, the most comprehensive, innovative social networking  site designed exclusively "for college  students by college students," officially  launches today.


Oil Money Cultivates a Mideast Ivy League

Education City, the largest enclave of American schools overseas, has become the elite of Qatari education.


Nokia's luxury unit strives to meet high demand

The luxury unit of the world's top  mobile handset maker Nokia, Vertu, has seen strong demand this  year and is struggling to increase production to keep up, a  senior official said on Thursday.


France's AXA drops bid for Australian subsidiary

SYDNEY, Oct 18  - Shares in Australian financial services group AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd tumbled Monday after its France-based parent AXA SA withdrew a AUD 3.1 billion (USD 2.2 billion) offer to take 100 percent control, dealers said.


5 days to go, candidates continue their trek

With less than a week to go until Americans head to the polls, the candidates continue their trek through the swing states. For the second day, President Bush is campaigning in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.


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British economy well-positioned to 'weather the global financial storms', prime minister says


Modificato statuto, per Finocchiaro 'ha ragione Napolitano'


The Boston Red Sox exercised their option Friday on third baseman Bill Mueller, a former batting champion who had the season-saving single against the New York Yankees in the AL championship series.


Four fans are ejected after trouble at a tie between Liverpool and Millwall is allegedly sparked by taunts about the Hillsborough disaster.


The holiday shopping season began with a surge in spending but consumers faded by the long Thanksgiving weekend's close and many retailers were facing decent but hardly impressive sales.


MediaRiver Seeks Profit From Links: Chicago Firm Makes Another Attempt to Market Its System

By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune  May 28--Watson software is great at discovering information on the Web and has located almost everything anyone might need -- except a profitable business model for itself.


Billboard magazine has picked Reba McEntire for its first "Woman of the Year" award. The magazine says the award coincides with its second annual Women in Music issue, which will be published in early October.


WSJ.COM: Online Ad Sales Continue to Push Higher

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Online-advertising revenue was a record $2.37 billion in the second quarter as the industry continued to push past the levels reached during the dot-com boom, according to a trade group.


Flames' Sutter undergoes appendectomy surgery

----- CALGARY, Alberta (Ticker) - The Calgary Flames announced Friday that coach and general manager Darryl Sutter has undergone successful appendectomy surgery.


Taveras quickly has gotten back on stage

He is in just his third full season in the major leagues, so it would seem incongruous to characterize 25-year-old Willy Taveras as a veteran of anything. But Taveras is the ranking member of the two World Series veterans - catcher Yorvit Torrealba being the other - on Colorado's youthful roster.


GONAIVES, Haiti -- Hunger and thirst racked survivors Wednesday as Haiti dug mass graves for some of the 1,071 confirmed dead from Hurricane Jeanne.


'Four more Bush cabinet members to leave'

Washington: The White House will announce the resignations of four members of US President George W. Bush's Cabinet late on Monday, said spokesman Scott McClellan, who declined to say who would be leaving.


CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Ticker) - A day after losing their fourth straight game, the Carolina Panthers learned that running back DeShaun Foster will miss the rest of the season.


Gartner points out the security you don't need

London -- The plethora of security technologies on the market are enough to overwhelm even the most knowledgeable IT managers, but in sorting through all of the options, it may be helpful to look at what is not needed, according to Gartner Inc. research detailed hereÂ at its IT Security Summit conference.


Xstrata ups bid for Resource Pacific to A$1.1 bln

Swiss-based Xstrata  on Friday raised its cash offer for Australian coal miner Resource Pacific Ltd  by 12 percent to A$1.08 billion ($964 million) and declared it final.


THE husband of Margaret Hassan, the charity chief abducted at gunpoint in Baghdad, made an emotional plea yesterday for her release.


By Meg Haskell, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 13--A deadly virus that is the most common cause of cervical cancer in women is the target of proposed legislation in Maine.   Sen.


PARIS, Sept 28  - Jacques Chirac has confirmed his "total determination" to help Paris win the race to stage the 2012 Summer Olympics ahead of London, New York, Madrid and Moscow.


Al termine di un'operazione in piu' fasi avra' il 45%


Lindsay Lohan says she's been going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for a year, but hasn't talked about it because "it's no one's business." "I just left an AA meeting," the 20-year-old actress tells People magazine in a story posted Tuesday on its Web site.


Pakistan unsure if missing envoy kidnapped

Pakistani authorities said on Tuesday they didn't know whether their ambassador to Afghanistan had been kidnapped, a day after he went missing in a Pakistani tribal region plagued by bandits and militants.


L'ex magistrato, "Ho gia' trasmesso la mia lettera"


After playing only two downs last Sunday against Tennessee, Randy Moss will get another opportunity to increase his role against the Giants.


The No. 1 ranked team in the annual The Associated Press' preseason college baskteball poll. (x-denotes eventual national champion):


Gift cards are more popular this year and are easier to use, thanks to key rulings by the Federal Trade Commission and efforts by a number of states to regulate them, several retail experts said.


Lennar posts lower profit, slashes outlook

A steeper-then-expected drop in the   U.S. housing market pushed Lennar Corp.'s LEN.N quarterly   profit down 39 percent and prompted the home builder on Tuesday   to slash its forecast for the current period.


According to AMD, the Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ is the first processor manufactured with AMD's 90-nanometer technique, a semiconductor process designed to enable higher performance without increased power consumption.


England-Spain match sparks racism row, government protests

Racist chanting aimed at black England players at a football friendly international in Spain sparked an angry reaction at the highest levels of both governments and calls for an inquiry by the game's governing bodies.


Hard-boiled Robinson bids emotional adieu

Frank Robinson, the Hall of Fame baseball player and manager who demanded excellence of himself and his players in a 51-year career, bid goodbye on Sunday to an adoring crowd at Washington's RFK Stadium that cheered his every appearance on the field.


Microsoft Corp. has agreed to change the name of a stripped-down version of its Windows operating system after European regulators balked at the company's original choice.


MEXICO'S Ana Guevara was unbeaten in 23 straight 400m finals. Then came Bahama's Tonique Williams-Darling. After beating Guevara earlier this year with the fastest time in the world, Williams confirmed her


Alibaba, China Post join forces for online shopping

(InfoWorld) - Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.com has signed a deal with China Post, the country's postal service, intended to smooth the online shopping experience for Chinese consumers, the company said Wednesday. Under terms of the deal, Alibaba will offer consumers the option to ship goods purchased online through a service called e-Youbao, which will be operated by China Post, the e-commerce company said. That service is currently being tested, it said. Besides delivering mail and packages, China Post's Postal Savings Bank is the country's fifth-largest bank. Alibaba users will be able to deposit money into their AliPay online payment account at any of China's 66,000 post offices and China Post's Green Card debit service will become an AliPay partner. Alibaba hopes the deal with China Post will woo consumers wary of shopping online. The company estimated that 24 percent of China's 123 million Internet users -- about 30 million people -- shop unline. Getting more users to shop on the Internet would be a boost for Alibaba, which operates the country's biggest online auction site, Taobao.


The Long Run: In Turmoil of â68, Clinton Found a New Voice

Hillary Rodham Clintonâs course was set, in large part, during the supercharged year of 1968, as the nation boiled over Vietnam and civil rights.


When it comes to air pollution, the smallest size can do the most harm. More than a decade ago, a pioneering study by Harvard's School of Public Health showed that one of the most dangerous forms of air pollution is particulate matter 10 microns (about 0.0004 inch) or less in size.


NY bans most trans fats from restaurants

New York City's board of health on Tuesday voted to phase out most artificial trans fats from restaurants, forcing doughnut shops and fast-food stands to remove artery-clogging oils from their cooking.


An "alarming" number of patients with suspected breast cancer wait too long for diagnosis, doctors warn.


Malaysian PM outlines road map for East Asia Community

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Monday outlined a seven-point road map with important milestones for charting the course and measuring the progress of the East Asia community.


Apple wants to expand music download service across Europe

Apple Computer is planning to expand its online music download service to more European countries, the company announced at the Popkomm music trade fair.


The leading Democratic presidential candidates and their allies on Capitol Hill have launched fierce attacks in recent days on a White House plan to forge a new, long-term security agreement with the Iraqi government, complaining that the administration is trying to lock in a lasting U.S. military...


Blair denies he led Britain to war with false justification

Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday denied leading Britain into war on a false prospectus, despite intelligence on the threat posed by Iraq being wrong.


Mother of Michael Jackson's Accuser to Testify

SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - The mother of the boy who  accused Michael Jackson of child molestation was ordered by a  judge on Friday to testify in a pretrial hearing in the case  after the pop star's lawyers called her a liar.


Oracle posts strong quarterly profit and outlook

Oracle Corp  posted a 35 percent  rise in quarterly profit on higher-than-expected software sales  and issued a strong outlook, easing concerns it may be hurt by  the slowing U.S. economy and pushing its shares up 6.5 percent.


The Palestinian and Israeli leaders accept an Egyptian invitation to a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh next week.


In the first elections in 40 years, one woman jumps in. But can women even vote?


Francesco Rosano, 37 anni, ucciso in un agguato a Adrano


Â«PrestitoÂ» per i consumi anche ai privati

LA ROMA - Anche i dipendenti privati potranno accedere al credito con il meccanismo della cessione del quinto dello stipendio, storico istituto per prestiti a bassi tassi d'interesse di cui finora hanno potuto usufruire solo i dipendenti pubblici.


TEMPE, Ariz. - A woman has been arrested on suspicion that she tied up a man during sex, then stabbed him repeatedly with a knife and told him she likes to drink blood, police said.


Police are holding one person as they probe the killing of a 14-year-old girl gunned down just steps from her home in central England, the BBC reported.


Investors found renewed confidence in a report that Bank of America is close to buying the struggling mortgage lender Countrywide Financial.


The US dollar falls to a record against the euro as investors bet that interest rates will be cut next week.


WASHINGTON - With Vioxx off the market and heart-risk questions being raised about Celebrex and Aleve, what is someone who needs pain relief to do?


The original script for the classic Two Ronnies Fork Handles sketch sells at auction for Â£48,500.


Fatone wants to appear on ABC dance show

Actors, pop singers and athletes have busted some moves on "Dancing With the Stars." Now celebs seem eager to appear on ABC's ballroom hit.


Sex in Church: Local Church Takes on the Subject of 'Pure Sex'

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Feb. 20  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A no-holds- barred series on sex is one of the ways that Epic Church wants to talk about an often ignored topic in churches, as well as within people's homes.


Bush to meet with both Musharraf, Karzai

President Bush, already scheduled to meet separately in the coming days with the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, has now added joint White House talks where all three leaders can discuss regional security.


A hospital consultant is calling for widespread HIV testing for accident and emergency department patients.


Broadband pushes Europe Web users to 100 million

Wired & Wireless continues its reign as the top IT priority among IT managers due to widespread wireless installations, IP telephony deployment, and other network infrastructure upgrades.


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Microsoft tells GPLv3 to talk to the hand

Nothing to do with us We were all wondering what Microsoft would do about GPLv3. Turns out the firm wants nothing to do with it, and has issued a statement outlining exactly how it plans to ignore the new license.â¦


N.Y. Candidate Seeks Springsteen Boycott

Upset with Bruce Springsteen's effort to oust President Bush from the White House, the New York Conservative Party's candidate for the U.S. Senate is launching a "Boycott the Boss" television commercial.


The boy named by Beijing as the 11th Panchen Lama praises the Communist Party in his first interview.


By Rebecca Roussell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Feb. 16--Small businesses have long wrestled with doing payroll on their  own. Most avoid outsourcing the work to an outside company, fearing that the  cost will nip away at their profits.


Genova, 20:08 - CALCIO, SERIE  A; ANTICIPO: SAMPDORIA SIENA 1-0

La Sampdoria ha battuto il Siena 1-0 (1-0) nel primo dei due anticipi della prima giornata di ritorn...


Afghan opium crop soars to "frightening levels": UN

Opium production has soared to "frightening record levels" in Afghanistan, which now has more land producing drugs than Columbia, Bolivia and Peru combined, the United Nations said on Monday.


Bush Is `Determined' to See Iraq Elections in January

President George W. Bush said he is ``determined'' to see Iraq hold elections Jan. 30 even as rebel attacks escalate, and any delay would ``send a wrong signal.


One million copies of the new Band Aid single will be sent to record shops in time for its UK release on Monday.


Glenn Ford: No Oscar, but a great career

He never won an Academy Award_ in fact, was never nominated. He never earned the big bucks that stars of his stature enjoyed. Yet for 52 years Glenn Ford remained an in-demand actor whose name above the title could attract movie ticket buyers.


Pilgrim's Pride Corp. PPC.N, the No.  2 U.S. poultry producer, on Monday said quarterly earnings  increased nearly five-fold on strong chicken sales, cheaper  feed, and an acquisition.


Christopher Reeve's widow joins Kerry to promote science, research

GIRARD, Ohio John Kerry makes a speech today about science, research and innovation and he'll be joined by the widow of actor and spinal cord research advocate Christopher Reeve.


Iniziata nel 1997 con il celebre âEpisodio IVâ, la saga di Guerre Stellari si appresta ufficialmente a raggiungere il sesto capitolo, il terzo della seconda trilogia. Il film, intitolato "La vendetta dei


French President promises to further promote relations with Vietnam

Vietnamese leaders on Thursday met with leaders from Asian and European countries who are attending the fifth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 5). While meeting with Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroya, ...


Biggest Bank in China Planning an I.P.O.

The sale of shares by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China as part of an I.P.O. could set a record by raising a project $19 billion.


Woman Dies Of AIDS During Drug Study; Family Not Told

The family of an HIV-infected pregnant woman said they were never told Joyce Ann Hafford died from the experimental drug she was taking in an effort to keep her baby from being infected.


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


Microsoft contro Apple, ma lo scontro non Ã¨ piÃ¹ sul personal computing come in passato. Ã tutto sulla musica online. La casa di Bill Gates ha, infatti, lanciato la versione preliminare di un negozio di


Stroke risk doubles after diabetes diagnosis

NEW YORK  - Compared with the general population, the risk of stroke is doubled for people who begin treatment for type 2 diabetes, Canadian researchers report.


You bet your life. And now you can bet Tony Soprano's life.


Israel is urged to ensure Palestinians can access life-saving medical treatment after it withdraws from Gaza.


Israel's Labor holds runoff vote for new leader

Israel's Labor Party voted in a runoff leadership election on Tuesday pitting former prime minister Ehud Barak against ex-intelligence chief Ami Ayalon, a race that may help decide Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's future.


Bush warns of 'tragedy' if US is weak in war on terror

President George W. Bush warned on the eve of the anniversary of the September 11 strikes that the world would face new tragedy if the United States shows weakness in the war on terrorism.


Greece hosts its second major sporting spectacle of the summer when the 12th Paralympics start on Friday.


Connecting the Symptoms, From Skin to Joints to Abdomen

Abdominal pain in an adolescent girl can have a simple common explanation, but it cannot be taken for granted as a simple question.


HP faces expanded civil lawsuit in spying case

HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd and seven other company executives are accused of selling $41.3 million worth of HP stock at "inflated prices" just before the company revealed details of a boardroom spy scandal.


Bones of missing woman found at her home

Four years ago, Florence Bock went missing. It turns out she was home the entire time.


By Ron Bartizek, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Dec.


Ernie Els is a red-hot favourite to win the Dunhill Championship, which begins at Leopard Creek in South Africa early tomorrow. The Big Easy is as short as 11-10 with the fixed-odds firms to brush aside a


Barack Obama declared Thursday he's the only candidate who can bring true change in Washington, hoping to persuade Iowa voters to give him the first victory in the Democratic presidential race.


Rap Mogul Damon Dash Launches Electronics Entity

Startup consumer electronics company ROC Digital on Monday unveiled its Rocbox line of digital music players, further expanding the $350 million hip-hop generation properties of music mogul Damon Dash.


This business with Joe Torre is getting kind of bizarre. After two days of much-hyped meetings, owner George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees still won't say whether they plan to bring back Torre for a 13th season as their manager.


New York, 10:43 - BASKET, NBA: RISULTATI

Risultati delle gare del campionato di basket Nba disputate nella notte: NBA: Indiana Pacers - Orlan...


'State wants to shift blame for Aids policy'

The government was trying to blame everyone else for its decision to use nevirapine in its mother-to-child HIV prevention programme, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Saturday.


If you want to get out of your cellphone contract, try calling the company a few hundred times.


US Army struggles with Windows to Linux overhaul

The greatest penguin migration of all time In multiple media reports over the past two weeks, the US Army has professed its love for the penguin. The Army eventually intends to move from a Windows-based infrastructure over to Linux for its new, roughly $200bn weapons program.â¦


Schools Must Help in Fight Against Obesity

TUESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- Health experts are trying to move the nation's battle of the bulge to an important new front: the schools.


The nominees will be announced for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards this morning -- and it appears to be a wide-open race. So far, only the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men," appears to be a shoo-in. But the Globes often opt for star power, which means that "Michael Clayton," featuring George Clooney, is a likely pick.


Programs: a Checklist for Tuning Up Your PC

You change the oil in your car every 5,000 miles or so. You clean your house every week or two. Your PC needs regular maintenance as well -- especially if you're using


A bomb causes "multiple casualties" among Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan, the force says.


Roma, 23:20 - CALCIO, ROMA; SPALLETTI: A LISBONA LA SFIDA QUALIFICAZIONE

Luciano Spalletti ritrova il sorriso grazie al 2-1 allo Sporting Lisbona. Un successo firmato Vucini...


Atlanta Braves: Left-hander Mike Hampton was not able to pitch for the Braves on Wednesday, still bothered by a stiff neck that kept him out of his scheduled start Monday.


etter Solberg and Phil Mills (Subaru Impreza WRC) continued to stamp their authority finishing the second leg of the Supermag Rally Italia Sardinia, the Italian round of the FIA World Rally Championship, in top position.


Essay: Why Hospitals Are Cold, and Doctors DonÂt Cry

We give our loved ones the perfect send-off from life in the information age: a shower of facts delivered crisply and without drama.


Un messaggio in rete: "Abbiamo giustiziato le prigioniere italiane ...

Palazzo Chigi invita alla cautela ma la tensione Ã¨ altissima. Poco dopo la mezzanotte (ora italiana), un gruppo islamico ha annunciato, su Internet, l'assassinio di Simona Pari e Simona Torretta. Il messaggio


'E.T.' Cereal Grain Gets $804 on Auction

SYDNEY, Australia - First it was a purported likeness of the Virgin Mary in a cheese sandwich. Now, a single grain of breakfast cereal with an uncanny resemblance to cuddly movie alien E.T. has reportedly fetched $804 in an Internet auction.


Paper Cuts: Questions for Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell (Jerome De Perlinghi) Madison Smartt Bell’s most recent books are ‘’Toussaint Louverture: A Biography'’ and ‘’The Stone That the Builder Refused,'’ a novel. 1) What are you working on? Officially, and to a considerable degree in fact, I am working on a novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate Cavalry general. It’s a less straightforwardly [...].


An investigating board says the capsule was doomed by faulty engineering drawings that were done backward. The drawings led to incorrect placement of switches that were supposed to detect Genesis' re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.


Barry Bonds isn't sure about his future or thinking about breaking Hank Aaron's home run record. Swarmed by cameras, microphones and a horde of reporters, an affable Bonds sat in the dugout and discussed various topics ranging from his ability to tune out fans to his fondness for Philly cheesesteaks.


The Florida Gators have two early losses for the third time in as many seasons under coach Ron Zook. And it seems to be wearing on the coach, players and fans.


Lamson & Sessions Fourth-Quarter 2006 Earnings Conference Call to Be Broadcast Live Via the Web

CLEVELAND, Feb. 9  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lamson & Sessions  will broadcast over the Internet a conference call discussing their fourth- quarter 2006 results at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, February 16, 2007.


Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien hit a stunning late equaliser to salvage a 1-1 draw against Arsenal.


President Bush will huddle with top diplomats and military advisers Monday on the inaugural day of a Mideast truce, with a list of challenges spreading far beyond the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.


A global fund designed to shrink the technology gap between rich and poor is to be launched in November.


Xilinx Announces Scalable LogiCORE FlexRay Controller IP

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 19  /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. , announced today immediate availability of the industry's first single-channel LogiCORE(TM) FlexRay(TM) controller IP, optimized for the Xilinx(R) Automotive (XA) Spartan(TM)-3 generation devices.


Belo to cut 250 jobs, mostly at Dallas Morning News

The layoffs are expected to come by November First, with most coming at Belo's flagship newspaper, The Dallas Morning News. Belo also says it's reassessing the future of its Dallas-based Texas Cable News television operation.


Explosives Missing from Iraqi Ex-Military Site -UN

Hundreds of tonnes of explosives are  missing from a site near Baghdad that was part of Saddam  Hussein's dismantled nuclear arms program but never secured by  the U.S. military, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Monday.


Free downhill riders, typically men in their 20's to mid-30's, often spend close to $10,000 on customized bicycles designed to withstand violent landings.


Rapper-producers Kanye West and Lil Jon  win three awards each at the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards in Miami.


Ben Roethlisberger is beginning to wonder about what he calls "that black cloud over my head."


London, England (Sports Network) - The Football Association (FA) charged Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney with violent conduct Wednesday.


(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors has leapt out of the mainstream with the recently disclosed scandal that's set members against each other, but changes over the past several years have made conflict on boards more likely. Boards have evolved from clubby groups of company executives and tight partners to more independent bodies, management experts said Friday. HP's messy fight, in which investigators hired by the board used possibly illegal techniques to uncover apparent leaks of confidential information by some directors, is a spectacle unto itself, they said. But directors are now more likely to call companies to account. "Boards have changed very dramatically in the last 20 years, and especially in the last 4 years," said Nell Minow, editor at The Corporate Library, a research company in Portland, Maine, that specializes in corporate governance. "There isn't a board in America that isn't much more active, much more vital, much more independent." Many boards used to be heavily laden with investment bankers and lawyers who worked for the company, and often had four or five company executives, said Harvard Business School professor Joseph Bower. That hasn't been true since at least the 1980s, as the percentage of independent members grew, he said. "I think boards are much more diligent ... than they were 15 to 20 years ago," said David Larcker, a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. "In the process, there are controversies that didn't crop up back then." The probe of HP's board, though embarrassing, was probably necessary, The Corporate Library's Minow said. "They have not been a functional board," Minow said, criticizing the handling of former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina's hiring and dismissal. Some of the leaks from the HP board involved discussions about Fiorina. It's hard for boards to work if there are leaks and directors don't trust each other, Minow said. Yet to find out who was leaking information, they unfortunately had to give the investigators a lot of independence. "I think they made the best of a very bad situation." The trend toward truly independent boards has accelerated with recent scandals and stepped-up regulation, Minow said. A key factor was out-of-court settlements of suits against Enron and WorldCom in recent years, in which directors who weren't involved in wrongdoing accepted some liability. "Those settlements shivered the timbers of every director in America," Minow said. Also in the past few years, companies that sell "director and officer" liability insurance have raised premiums on companies they thought didn't have enough oversight to prevent Enron-style legal meltdowns. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley regulations made boards more diligent by forcing companies to ensure proper oversight of accounting, cybersecurity and other issues, she said. However read, a drama like HP's is not unprecedented, according to Harvard's Bower. About 20 years ago, there was a succession battle at American Express that included leaks to the media, he said. He sees the latest board fight as another aberrant event rather than an outcome of boards becoming more independent. "Every once in a while, there are battles and people disagree strongly. And when people disagree strongly, sometimes they do silly things," Bower said.


The press corps heaps praise on Google's latest Microsoft Killer. Welcome to the '80s.


Palermo, 18:58 - CALCIO, PALERMO: CONVOCATI PER L'ASCOLI

Sono 19 i giocatori convocati dal tecnico del Palermo, Francesco Guidolin, per la gara di domani con...


Commerzbank says sacks U.S. business managers

Commerzbank has sacked the head of its U.S. business, Hans Joachim Doepp, and another top manager responsible for the lending business in the United States, a Commerzbank spokesman said on Wednesday.


Deaf Kids in Nicaragua Give Birth to New Language

Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated


Motorola Bets on High-Speed Services for Sprint

By Deborah Cohen CHICAGO  - Motorola Inc.  is betting it canwin more business from U.S. mobile phone company Sprint Corp. as a result of Sprint's planned takeover of NextelCommunications Inc. , Motorola's chief strategist said.


Ha infilato testa sotto un braccio, liberata da vigili fuoco


The beheading of a Buddhist village leader in southern Thailand was in "revenge" for the deaths last week of 85 Muslims in the area.


A gunman shot someone outside a high school cafeteria Wednesday, and the school was locked down, a school district official said.


UPDATE 1-Leeds says no to purchase offer by Sainsbury

Leeds United, one of the great names in English soccer, have denied they are negotiating a possible sale of the second division club to British businessman Sebastian Sainsbury.


Paris Hilton was in jail, then out, then back again as her bizarre case became more erratic than the driving that landed the hotel heiress in hot water.


Tennis player Davydenko lashes out over sullied name

World number four Nikolay Davydenko has again denied he has ever been approached to throw a match and questioned claims by some players that they had been offered money to fix results.


FORT MYERS, Fla., Aug. 17 -- President Bush dispatched two Cabinet secretaries and more federal money to this hard-hit state on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people flooded disaster relief hotlines, seeking everything ...


Bayer, Onyx Drug Shrinks Some Liver Cancer Tumors

A drug being developed by Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. shrank tumors in some liver cancer patients and temporarily stabilized the


RAFAH, Egypt  - A leading member of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas entered Egypt from Gaza on Thursday to resume talks with the Egyptian government on arrangements at the border, a security source said.


Clashes break out in Najaf as militants hold onto shrine

US warplanes bombed Najaf's Old City and gunfire rattled on Sunday amid fears a plan to end the standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr could collapse.


FDA OKs Tysabri to fight Crohn's disease

Tysabri, a treatment for multiple sclerosis made by Biogen Idec Inc. and Elan Corp., received regulatory approval on Monday for use among patients with a severe intestinal disorder.


Tomlinson Leads Chargers to 6th Straight Win

LaDainian Tomlinson scores two touchdowns and the Chargers' defense holds off the Bills comeback bid as San Diego wins its sixth straight, 24-21.


Presidente, e' essenziale il rispetto reciproco


Seeking New Leaderâs Persona in Turkmensâ Murky Isolation

The man who is the new public face in Turkmenistan holds the keys to enormous gas fields and state coffers and has promised reform.


Study finds declining dark sheep due to genes

The declining number of dark sheep among a wild herd in Scotland comes down to genes, researchers said on Thursday.


China to Crackdown on âUndesirableâ Online Games

China said it would issue new rules cracking down on âundesirableâ elements of online games amid fears of growing Internet addiction as the number of players soars.


Torii Hunter and the Minnesota Twins are used to celebrating in September. The playoff party never gets old, though. The Twins clinched their third straight AL Central title Monday night with an 8-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox, then topped it off with a raucous celebration in the visitor's clubhouse.


Man Utd begin their Premiership title defence with a home game against Steve Coppell's Reading.


Service held for Ky. plane crash victims

Candles glowed throughout Rupp Arena Sunday evening in remembrance of 49 people killed when a commercial jet crashed after trying to take off from the wrong runway.


Shares of Google Inc. rose as much as 20 percent on Friday, to trade at more than twice the level of it cut-price IPO, after the Web search


Blockbuster Offers $700 Mln for Hollywood Video

Blockbuster Inc., the largest U.S.  video rental chain, on Thursday said it has offered to buy  competitor Hollywood Entertainment Corp. for about $700  million, topping Hollywood's agreement with a private buyout  firm.


Breast-fed Babies Less Likely to Have Crooked Teeth

Breast-feeding appears to help prevent crooked teeth in babies, says a study in the current issue of the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.


Dollar falls to 103.75 yen on remark by Snow

The dollar slipped close to its lowest level of the year Thursday in Tokyo, entering 103 yen territory as market players dumped the currency in the belief that the United States tacitly approves of its weakening.


Three years after sitting out an entire season because of a contract dispute, New York Islanders captain Michael Peca is resolved to do it again now that the NHL has locked out its players.


Cisco aims to plug channel knowledge gap on VoIP

Train to win Cisco says it has doubled its European channel partners in the last year to more than 2,300. It announced plans to improve the training it offers resellers, adding that many lack VoIP expertise.â¦


A three-week march against trafficking children into forced labour in South Asia sets off from Calcutta to Delhi.


CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait  - Defense Secretary Donald  Rumsfeld came under friendly fire Wednesday from troops who  took up his invitation to ask tough questions about Iraq.


Oil falls more than $2 on demand concerns

Oil dropped more than $2 a barrel on Friday, joining a slump across the commodities markets amid concern higher interest rates could slow economic growth and cool demand.


President Bush did not violate the law when,  using his power to make recess appointments,  he named Sam Fox, a GOP fundraiser who helped bankroll a controversial ad campaign against Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) during the 2004 presidential campaign, as  ambassador to Belgium, government auditors...


Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charities designed to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of the groups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leading watchdog organization and federal tax filings.


Powell Says Israel Will Ease Strictures for Palestinian Vote

Israel promised to ease conditions in the West Bank and Gaza so that Palestinians can vote for a successor to Yasir Arafat.


With temperatures in the Arctic rising at twice the rate of elsewhere, the ice cover there will within the next 100 years completely disappear in summer and the biodiversity will change dramatically, according to a scientific study published this week.


FedEx Corp. on Friday said the Department of Transportation demanded the shipping firm repay $29 million of the $101 million in compensation it has already received under the Air Transportation Safety and Stabilization Act.


Will Smith, Chipmunks send box office soaring

The last man on Earth was first at the weekend box office in North America as Will Smith's sci-fi thriller "I Am Legend" crushed the competition with a record opening, distributor Warner Bros. said on Sunday.


Adding a new twist to the tale, Dawnette Knight, the woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta Jones, has claimed that she had an affair with Catherine's husband, Michael Douglas and that he paid her to keep it a secret.


Making fun of my mother is not done: Bhansali

Tension is brewing between Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Farah Khan over the release date of their films Saawariya and Om Shanti Om respectively. The former is upset with his colleague for ridiculing him and his mother on chat shows and interviews.


Apple chooses O2 as iPhone carrier in UK

O2 UK, part of Spanish telecoms giant  Telefonica, and European mobile phone retailer Carphone  Warehouse have clinched the long-awaited deal to bring Apple  Inc's prized iPhone to Britain.


Update 4: Alitalia Reportedly to Cut 5,000 Jobs

Its future at stake, Italy's flagship air carrier Alitalia said Monday it plans to cut 5,000 jobs - almost a fourth of its workforce - as part of restructuring efforts aimed at averting collapse.


For the last eight months, one of Dean Richardson's first stops on his morning rounds was Barbaro's ICU stall. Richardson looked into the colt's bright eyes, made sure he was comfortable and formed an emotional bond with the Kentucky Derby winner that maybe only owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson equaled. One day after Barbaro was euthanized, the morning rounds felt terribly empty.


I.B.M. Prepares Substitution for Pensions of New Hires

I.B.M. is planning to close its employee pension plan to new employees at the end of the year and give all new workers a 401(k) plan instead.


Crowd kills undercover officers staking out Mexico City school

The images are chilling: A young man, his face bloody and swollen, struggles to tell a television reporter that he is an undercover federal agent, then a mob burns him and another officer alive on camera.


Capo comitato militare Nato, successo obbiettivo prioritario


Bush Accuses Kerry of Unreality on Domestic Issues

OSHKOSH, Wis  - President Bush charged on Friday  that Democratic rival John Kerry fails to recognize reality on  hot-button domestic issues from jobs and education to health  care and Social Security.


Survey: Corporate computing expands green streak

Enterprise IT departments increasingly value green strategies, equipment and energy savings, Forrester Research finds.


Iraq Bomb Wounds 10 on Street to Allawi Office

A suicide car bomber struck on Monday  near a checkpoint on a street leading to Iraqi Prime Minister  Iyad Allawi's party office, wounding at least 10 people in the  latest guerrilla attack before Jan. 30 elections.


U.S. expects N.Korea to shut reactor in 3 weeks

The United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its atomic arms development within about three weeks, top U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said on Saturday.


Budapest, 16:36 - CALCIO, UNGHERIA: PEGGIORANO LE CONDIZIONI DI PUSKAS

Peggiorano le condizioni di Ferenc Puskas, 79 anni, ex fuoriclasse del Real Madrid


Talk intensifies that oil company will sell its key Siberian unit for low price to pay back taxes. MOSCOW  - Shares of Russian oil company Yukos fell Monday as fears intensified that the firm's key


Venezuela offers to help release Colombian hostages

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered on Wednesday to send aircraft to pick up three hostages held by Colombia's leftist guerrillas, including a child born in captivity.


Two passenger trains collided head-on in northern India on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people and injuring 60, officials said. Several coaches went off the tracks


Salgono a cinque le vittime del rogo avvenuto in agriturismo


A British tourist who went missing in Venice while on a Valentine's trip with his girlfriend is found dead.


3D Xgl Compiz Eye Candy for Ubuntu/Kubuntu Dapper and NVidia

To each his own, but I love eye candy.  When I heard that you could get the 3D Xgl and Compiz environment running on Ubuntu/Kubuntu dapper (my default distribution), I immediately searched the web for instructions.  Most of the instructions take a reasonably timid approach, which gets your 3D environment running in a test console (the second display, or :1).  I'm more adventurous, however, and I immediately went for a total replacement.  What follows are instructions for doing the same.


Preliminary figures show that violent deaths in Iraq dropped substantially in August from record levels the previous month, Health Ministry officials said Thursday. Most of the recorded killings were of civilians.


Judge Rejects Delay in Michael Jackson Trial

SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - A California judge denied  on Monday a bid by Michael Jackson's lawyers to throw out the  child molestation charges against the pop star or delay his  trial by several months.


Embattled mortgage finance company  Fannie Mae FNM.N agreed to keep billions of dollars more cash  on hand while it corrects accounting problems, its government  regulator said on Monday.


Cheney's Suspected Role in Security Breach Drove Fitzgerald

In a small room on the third floor of the D.C. federal courthouse in late March 2004, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald stood before I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and asked him three separate times whether his boss, Vice President Cheney, had discussed telling reporters that Valerie Plame worked for...


Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi holds crisis talks as the departure of an ally threatens his governing coalition.


Business & money: Google may have to wait another year to overtake ITV1 as the UK's biggest single advertising income generator, despite UK revenues of Â£1.3bn for 2007


F.C.C. Approves Sale of Nationwide Spectrum to AT&T

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the purchase by AT&T of 12MHz of wireless spectrum that covers 60 percent of the U.S.


Top-seeded Lindsay Davenport won her fourth consecutive title on Sunday, easily defeating second-seeded Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-3 6-2 in the final of the Cincinnati Open.


Ex premier ricoverata per intervento di emergenza


Indiana's Ron Artest is banned for the rest of the season after the brawl involving fans and players at Detroit.


Obama recruits close friend for campaign

One of Barack Obama's closest friends and long-term advisers will be spending more time guiding the Democratic presidential candidate as he enters the final three months of the primary race still in second place.


Modernisation plan transforms Britain's Royal Mail

Just two years ago the Royal Mail was losing over one million pounds (1.4 million euros, 1.9 million dollars) every day.


Dad begs judge to give sick baby time to experience a miracle

The father of a desperately ill baby said Friday that he believed in miracles as he pleaded with a High Court judge to give his daughter the chance to live.


A fossil unearthed in China gives scientists a rare glimpse of what dinosaurs were like "in the flesh".


LOS ANGELES - Michael Imperioli and Drea de Matteo, who played a hard-luck mob couple whose relationship ended badly on HBO's "The Sopranos," won drama series supporting actor and actress Emmys Sunday.    The stars of two departing comedies captured supporting actor and actress awards: David Hyde Pierce for "Frasier," which ended its 11-year run, and Cynthia Nixon for "Sex and the City," which wrapped a six-year run...


US -Factory Orders Up More Than Expected

U.S. factory orders rose at the  fastest rate in four months during November as strong demand  for new commercial aircraft pushed business up by 1.2 percent  to a seasonally adjusted $377.42 billion, the Commerce  Department said on Tuesday.


US Airways says reaches new contract with trainers

US Airways (UAIRQ.OB: Quote, Profile, Research) , which this month sought bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years, said on Sunday it reached a new union contract with 65 flight crew training instructors.


Gov. Mitt Romney said Thursday one traffic lane in the tunnel linking Interstate 90 to Logan Airport would reopen soon with temporary supports propping up ceiling panels.


FIFA to Research Mysterious Soccer Death

FIFA plans to establish a medical research center in response to a series of heart-related deaths on soccer fields around the world, president Sepp Blatter said Wednesday.


Film studios seek damages from China online firm

Six U.S. film studios have filed civil  complaints against Chinese file-sharing firm Xunlei Networking  Technology Co Ltd, part-owned by Google Inc, for copyright  infringement and are seeking more than 7 million yuan ($1  million) in damages and costs, the Motion Picture Association  said.


Vina del Mar, 10:23 - TENNIS, ATP VINA DEL MAR: FUORI GONZALEZ

Risultati dei quarti di finale del torneo Atp di Vina del Mar (448mila dollari, terra).


Manmohan to hold talks with Bush, Musharraf

New York, Sept. 20 (PTI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, arrives here tonight for the first major diplomatic engagement that includes his talks with US President George W Bush, and Pakistan President Pervez


Malaysia's Anwar Appeals Conviction, Seeks Political Re-Entry

Malaysia's former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim asked the nation's highest court to set aside a corruption conviction for which he has already served jail time, seeking to clear his name and pave the way for a return to politics.


Giving up cigarettes is tough, even if you're not running for president.


TOKYO (CBS.MW) - The dollar edged higher against the yen Wednesday in Asia as investors covered short positions ahead of a Japanese market holiday Thursday.


By Kent, Joan  La Crosse leaders will start off the new year by considering a proposal directing City Engineer Randy Turtenwald to design barriers for the Riverside Park levee.  The proposal comes three months after the Sept.


The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the adoption of new accounting standards to be used on the financial reports submitted by companies starting January 2005.


Preity Zinta, the vivacious, dimple-cheeked Bollywood star, celebrates her 33rd birthday.


Blair Presses for $150M in Aid for Darfur

At a conference to discuss Africa's future, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pressed the international community to raise $150 million to help people caught up by violence in Sudan's western Darfur region.


The world's top athletes are paid to peddle Nike gear.


Could the Meadowlands be the next stop for the vagabond Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals Major League Baseball franchise? That would be good move for the sport, according to New Jersey Sports


But it's Ashlee Simpson's post-"SNL" appearances that provide the most interesting study in how not to follow up a gaffe on live TV.


US Women's NBA stars get the message - gold or failure

Hours before the United States women's basketball Dream Team routed Greece 102-72 to reach the Olympic semi-finals, US captain Dawn Staley gathered the squad to make sure they knew the stakes.


Segretario dei Ds invia lettera a presidenti Camere


The US Federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Lexmark cannot prevent Static Control Components from manufacturing printer toner cartridges that operate with


Developer Decides to Rework Mixed-Use Plan

By J. Scott Trubey  The Columbia County Planning Commission on Thursday tabled a large rezoning request near a proposed high school, but approved a second large development near a new middle school.


Expatriates find artistic freedom in a new Berlin

Chicago Tribune - The tea comes, the waitress smiles and Jason Forrest, an unquiet American, tells you how his life leaped off the tracks and found rebirth in this winter dark city he calls "hipster ground zero."


Hu Takes Full Power in China as He Gains Control of Military

China's president, Hu Jintao, replaced Jiang Zemin as the country's military chief and de facto top leader on Sunday, state media announced, completing the first orderly transfer


Red McCombs asked Fox Sports to remove Joe Buck from calling the playoff game in Philadelphia because of critical remarks he made about Randy Moss last Sunday.


Congo Army Factions Clash in East - Army Officer

Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a local military commander said on Sunday.


Oxford, Harvard... libraries online on Google:

[World News]: London, Dec 15 : Rare and contemporary works from the libraries of five of the world's most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google and made available online.


Bhutto says she'll return to Pakistan even without deal

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said yesterday that negotiations on a power-sharing agreement with Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, were at a standstill but that she would return from exile regardless of whether the two strike a deal.


The Bush administration, as part of a renewed push for peace in the Middle East, plans to give $20 million in U.S. aid directly to the Palestinian Authority, sources familiar with the plan said Wednesday.


Japan issues a deportation order against former chess champion Bobby Fischer.


Liu Hongbin, a 20-year-old student from Beijing Jiaotong University, is announced dead after losing consciousness during the Beijing International Marathon, October 17, 2004.


Going live, part 2: Introducing Musix and Studio To Go

In this week's entry we'll look at two more "live" CDs of Linux systems optimized for multimedia creation and performance. I've been having a great time with these systems, and I hope that my mini-profiles inspire you to try them all. They're a great way to introduce someone to Linux, they show off the system optimized for multimedia performance and they provide a wealth of high-quality sound and music software to exploit that system. They all include the standard cornucopia of applications for the mundane tasks, word processing, text editing, graphics, networking, and so on. All that, for the cost of a download and a disc.


Far more mutations than thought involved in cancer

A painstaking scan of the DNA of tumor cells shows hundreds of previously unsuspected genes are involved in cancer, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that offers new ways to fight the disease.


Bickerstaff won't return as Bobcat coach

Bernie Bickerstaff will not return as coach of the Charlotte Bobcats next season, but will be invited to stay with the organization.


Taiwanese tech mogul donates $454 million to fight cancer

InfoWorld - The chairman of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, which assembles gadgets from Apple iPods to Nintendo's Wii game console, pledged NT$15 billion (US$454.4 million) to Taiwan's most prestigious university to build a new cancer ward and fund research against the disease.


Changes to some variants may mean the Trojan's creators are 'selling' compromised systems to spammers.


Vendite al dettaglio scese dello 0,4%, alimentari dell'1%


Calpers Boardroom Reformer Shown the Door

The ouster of the president of the California Public Employees' Retirement System comes amid a growing backlash against corporate reform, but shareholder advocates expect the move to have little direct effect on the corporate governance movement.


St. Louis coach Mike Martz made the highlight shows when he flamboyantly said the Rams won't hold hands and sing "Kumbaya." Seattle's Shaun Alexander accused his coach of stabbing him in the back.


Shooting shines light on murky world of Iraq security

Their helicopters buzz through the Baghdad sky, their patrols bristle with the latest weaponry and their armored vehicles carry the latest hi-tech gadgets.


SHREWSBURY -- Barnstable cruised to its second consecutive MIAA Division 1 state volleyball championship, and its eighth in 10 years, with a 3-0 win over Quincy last night.


Germany Paves Way for First Census in 20 Years

Germany's parliament has cleared the way for the first census in decades. The tally isn't expected to provoke storms of protest as it did in the past.But it could show that there are fewer people in the country. The census will begin in 2011, the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, decided on Thursday, Sept. 21.


Green Groups Praise Russian Decision to Ratify Kyoto

Major international environmental groups have hailed the decision by the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin to endorse ratification of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol as a historic breakthrough in curbing global warming.


Seoul Journal: New Cell Number for Drinkers: Dial-a-Designated Driver

Tens of thousands of âreplacement driversâ in Seoul, South Korea, make their livings by delivering inebriated people and their cars home.


Firebrand fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar provided the thunder and lightning at the Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday on a day in which intermittent showers dampened enjoyment of a Test that has come alive thanks to a back-from-the-abyss series fightback by


The Australian share market renewed its climb Tuesday, led by gains on Wall Street and a turnaround in the miners that had driven the market to its biggest fall in six months the day before.


U.S. strikes deal to hand over naval base to Iceland

The U.S. State Department said on  Tuesday it had reached agreements with Iceland to turn over the  U.S. Naval Air Station at Keflavik, which is to be formally  closed on September 30.


Rice: U.S. Could Help Train, Equip Palestinian Forces

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  on Tuesday held out the possibility of U.S. support to train  and equip Palestinian forces as she seeks to promote Middle  East peace on a visit to the region next week.


BEIRUT, Lebanon  -- Relatives of Islamic fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon began leaving the besieged area Friday, according to a Muslim clergyman mediating between the militants and the army.


Video footage of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's death reportedly shows him pull a stingray barb from his chest.


The basilica in which General Franco is buried will no longer be used to hold political rallies in celebration of Spain's former dictator, according to a new law to be voted on at the end of the month.


AOL said Thursday that it would open up its voice over IP platform to developers in an effort to spur development of new functionality and hardware that utilizes its AIM Phoneline service. The company plans to release three APIs to share various features.


Jose Mourinho said Chelsea played the "perfect game" after they romped to an impressive 3-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain.


Pfizer's Celebrex, Increased Heart Risk Linked

A woman walks past the Pfizer headquarters in New York. The pharmaceutical giant warned of an increased risk of heart attack for its drug Celebrex.


A memorial service is held in Birmingham to remember the victims of the IRA pub bombings 30 years ago.


In mostra, nella base a sud di Roma, oltre cento velivoli per la Giornata Azzurra 2007Oltre sei ore di esibizioni di aerei italiani e stranieri. Nel pomeriggio le Frecce Tricolori                                          Naso all'insÃ¹ a Pratica di Mare in 400mila per la festa dell'Aeronautica                                                                                di DANIELE SEMERARO


IBM's Blue Gene to topple Japanese supercomputer

BIG BLUE has pre-briefed US journalists about an announcement it will make today which means its Blue Gene supercomputer will knock NEC's Earth Simulator off the top performing slot.


Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotts his war crimes trial as it was due to resume in The Hague.


Volkswagen's labor negotiations in Germany began Wednesday with union demands for raises and job guarantees and company calls for a two-year pay freeze.


No plans for further apology from Prince Harry

Britain's Prince Harry, having made a "full and public apology," has no further plans to react to the furor over his appearance in a Nazi costume, a spokesman said.


Race and civil rights issues fuel the latest row between US Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.


Spending Cuts May Close Italy's Uffizi -Minister

Italy's culture minister has threatened to shut down Florence's Uffizi museum, home of masterpieces by Michelangelo and Botticelli, if the government doesn't scale back planned spending cuts.


The U.S. technology industry has faced dozens of lawsuits by "patent speculators" in recent years, and it's time for Congress to fix problems with the patent system, Intel's general counsel said Monday.In the last 21 months, U.S. technology vendors have contended with 193 patent infringement lawsuits, and 70 percent of them came from patent speculators -- "people who buy up patents for the purpose of litigating them," said Bruce Sewell, Intel's executive vice president and general counsel, at a patent forum.By contrast, companies in the pharmaceutical industry have been defendants in 28 patent infringement lawsuits during the same stretch, and 24 of those lawsuits have been between competitors, he said.Patent lawsuit reform is needed to fix the problem with patent speculators -- called patent trolls by some people -- Sewell said, speaking at a patent reform forum in Washington, D.C. Patent reform legislation pending in the U.S. Senate doesn't target legitimate inventors, he said."We're not talking about individual inventors who sue for patent infringement," Sewell said. "We're talking about patent speculators who warehouse patents and use those patents to go after successful companies."But Hans Sauer, associated general counsel at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), called the Patent Reform Act, a version of which passed the House of Representatives in September, a "very patent-hostile bill." In the Senate, the bill has stalled over objections from the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, as well as inventors and some labor unions.The House version of Patent Reform Act, supported by several large tech vendors including Microsoft and IBM, would allow courts to change the way they assess damages in patent infringement cases. Currently, courts generally consider the value of the entire product when a small piece of the product infringes a patent; the bill would allow courts to base damages only on the value of the infringing piece."Not all patents are identical," Sewell said. "Some patents are more important in a product, and some patents are less important."The bill would also allow a new way to challenge patents within one year after they've been granted.Changes in the way patents are enforced could hurt innovation, Sauer said. The bill could diminish incentives for the health industry to innovate in the coming years, he said."Will I, 30 years from now, pay $10 less for an iPod and have a 10 percent less chance that Alzheimer's medicine will be available?" he said.It is difficult to predict the effects of the patent reform legislation, added Anat Hakim, a patent lawyer with Foley & Lardner, the law firm that sponsored the patent forum.Sewell complained that there's a small "cottage industry" of patent speculators that have sprung up. "The concern is that we don't end up encouraging another cottage industry," Hakim said.The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on several patent questions in recent years, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is instituting new rules later this year, Sauer noted. Adding a patent overhaul bill on top of those changes is "a lot to happen at once," he said.But Sewell said the changes are needed for the IT industry, if not biotech. "You have a group of companies that are happy with the status quo, and are saying, 'Don't change it; it's not broken,'" he said. "That's fine, but it's broken for a lot of other people."


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


Swedish power metal band NIGHTSCAPE have inked a deal with Lion Music.


Kim Jong Il dials back his personality cult as protest activities pick up.


Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby believe that NBC News holds a key to clearing him of perjury and obstruction charges in the CIA leak case


Gasoline price down 12 cts/gallon to $2.50: govt

The freefall in U.S. gasoline prices   continued as the average pump price dropped 12 cents over the   last week to $2.50 a gallon, the government said on Monday.


Seimone Augustus scored 22 points before crashing into the basket support midway through the second half Saturday and leaving before the end of No. 1 LSU's 76-52 win over 17th-ranked Georgia.


Qinghai Province has offered peasant women a medicare scheme that covers medical expenses related to childbirth. One of the first beneficiaries, Zhoema, a herder's wife in Guinan County, paid 50 yuan (US$6


Former Professor Convicted in Criminal Case

CLAREMONT  A former visiting Claremont McKenna College psychology professor, who reported her car was vandalized with racist and anti-semitic slurs while she was on campus, was convicted Wednesday of insurance fraud charges.


Motorola To Develop FOMA Mobile Phone Handset for DoCoMo

DoCoMo previously procured FOMA handsets only from domestic manufacturers. The two companies -- Motorola and DoCoMo -- said they aim to market the new handset from next spring targeting business users.


Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil marries girlfriend Lia Gerardini in a Las Vegas ceremony


Threatening Idaho fire nearly surrounded

A wildfire that has forced the evacuation of hundreds of expensive homes and once threatened the Sun Valley ski area was expected to be fully contained Monday, a fire manager said.


Washington state's resident killer whales, with two newborns in tow, dodged a potentially lethal roadblock in their voyage south to feast on a healthy run of chum salmon, experts say.


Report finds retailers suffer fourth month of tepid sales as job security issues, gas prices and food bills scare consumers. By Anne D'Innocenzio.


Blog: Thousands were on hand for the launch of Boeing's newest plane, the 787 Dreamliner


Gunmen kidnapped three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's family, a spokesman for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.


Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. on Wednesday posted slightly stronger-than expected results, but its shares fell 2.6 percent as investors fretted about the investment bank's subprime mortgage exposure.


Youhana century helps Pakistan to 318-6 lead in cricket Test ...

Stand-in captain Yousuf Youhana blazed his maiden century against Australia as Pakistan rebounded from a drubbing in Perth to reach 318 for six at stumps Sunday on the opening day of the second cricket Test.


A leading Polish newspaper laments voter apathy ahead of a parliamentary election on Sunday.


Microsoft Corp. announced yesterday that it will leave out some planned features from its next major operating system to meet a goal of rolling out a new version of Windows in the second half of 2006.


WARSAW -- An empty lawn in the heart of what was once the Warsaw Ghetto will soon become a place not only of mourning, but of celebrating the Jewish life that flourished in Poland before it was destroyed in the Holocaust.


Israeli troops kill three men from the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, in a raid into the Gaza Strip.


Comcast, Verizon troubles illustrate peer-to-peer software opportunity

Internet service providers have to walk a fine line between fairness and profitability. Users want maximum service, and are entitled to honest contracts. Maybe there's a way to help everyone at once.


French crooner Henri Salvador dies at 90

Henri Salvador, the velvet-voiced French musician credited with inspiring the bossa nova, bringing rock 'n' roll to France and helping create the music video, died Wednesday, his record label said. He was 90.


Advisers recommend a radical overhaul of the UK organ donor network in a bid to double transplant numbers.


Uniqall Joins The Envox Worldwide Developer Program

Uniqall announced today that the company has joined the Envox Developer Program, formalizing the software development efforts between two companies and laying a foundation for further cooperation on integrating ...


Outsourcing, Globalization Eroding Unions

Description: Labor leaders are trying to find ways to reverse decades of dwindling membership caused, they say, by outsourcing and globalization.


Drive to Nab Last German Nazis to Begin in January

The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center will begin a campaign in January to flush out the last surviving Nazi war criminals in Germany, the head of the center's Jerusalem office said Sunday.


E' uno dei cinque nuovi beati proclamati dal Papa

ROMA - Tanti aristocratici e circa ventimila fedeli domenica mattina in piazza san Pietro dove il Papa ha beatificato Carlo I, l'ultimo imperatore austroungarico. Â«Un esempio per chi ha responsabilitÃ  politiche


Bernie Ecclestone's vice-like grip on Formula One has loosened after a judge ruled that a consortium of banks controlled the board of Formula One Holdings (FOH) - the company that runs the Grand Prix circuit.


Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has canceled a presidential campaign visit to New Hampshire this weekend because the stepfather of her husband, former President Clinton, is seriously ill.


Perchlorate Levels in Food Safe for Most, FDA Says

Levels of a chemical used to make rocket fuel found in commonly consumed food are not high enough to pose a health risk to most people, including children and pregnant women, U.S. regulators said.


Bangladesh Nobel laureate's political quest sparks debate

The launch of a political party by Bangladesh's Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has taken most politicians by surprise but is being welcomed by ordinary citizens desperate for change.


Air accident investigators urge a ballooning firm to review procedures after a crash landing injured 15 people.


HK economy on track to reach 7.5 percent full-year growth

Hong Kong's economy is on track to reach the forecast 7.5 percent growth for the full year, government economist Kwok Kwok-chuen said here Friday at a press briefing.


Il presidente della Lega Galliani: "Tutto quanto chiesto Ã¨ stato ...

Ora Ã¨ ufficiale. In serie B verrÃ  adottata la formula dei play-off e dei play-out. La conferma arriva direttamente dal presidente della lega Adriano Galliani e dal vicepresidente della Figc Giancarlo Abete, al termine del consiglio federale.


A dead woman's letter pointing the finger at her husband helps prove he poisoned her, a prosecutor said Monday as the man's murder trial began. His defense called it a touch of over-the-top theatrics she used to frame him for her suicide as punishment for his cheating.


Pitt, Jolie spend Thanksgiving in Vietnam

Instead of stuffing themselves with turkey and all the fixins', Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving cruising around Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike.


Iran rejects any deal with IAEA chief over nuclear report

TEHERAN - Iran on Sunday rejected any deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohammed ElBaradei over his report on Iranâs nuclear programme.


Ad Campaign Urges British Women to Reduce Drinking

An advertising campaign in Britain is using a cosmetics-ad spoof to educate women on how binge drinking can damage their looks, the BBC reported Aug. 26.


In Construction Mode, Astronauts Add to Station

The 16-ton new module will serve as a connection point for two new laboratories for the station.


LeBron James and Kobe Bryant went back and forth throughout an intense fourth quarter. James and his Cleveland Cavaliers won out in the end, even surviving a few raindrops at Staples Center.


BAGHDAD -- Thousands of Iraqi troops launched a crackdown in Kirkuk yesterday, ordering residents to stay in their homes in an effort to put down violence that has swelled in the north amid efforts to rein in bloodshed in Baghdad.


Krispy Kreme Scales Back as Profit Dives

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. (KKD.N) on Thursday posted sharply lower quarterly earnings, signaled that the second half of the year would be weak and scaled back store openings after it was battered by the low-carbohydrate diet craze.


Firenze, 16:26 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA: CONVOCATI PER UDINE

Questi i giocatori della Fiorentina convocati per il posticipo di domani contro l'Udinese: Blasi, Br...


Viareggio, 19:26 - CALCIO, TORNEO DI VIAREGGIO: RISULTATI DEI QUARTI

Risultati e marcatori dei quarti di finale della 59/a edizione del Torneo di Viareggio, Coppa Carnev...


Nikkei hits highest close since early Sept on tankan

The Nikkei average rose 0.79 percent on Monday to end at its highest close in nearly a month, as Canon Inc.  and others with strong profit prospects rose after a Bank of Japan survey showed improved Japanese business sentiment.


Redwood City, Calif. -- Jurors in Scott Peterson's murder trial deliberated for a third day Friday before retiring to a hotel for the weekend.


A series of reports concludes that the agency is so overwhelmed by a flood of imports that it is incapable of protecting the public from unsafe drugs, medical devices and food.


Israeli Fighters Force Lufthansa Jet To Cyprus

Israeli jet fighters forced a Lufthansa passenger plane bound for Tel Aviv to land in Cyprus on Tuesday due to a bomb threat. Lufthansa said it had not judged the threat to be serious but that Israel had insisted


Survey: Users unhappy with PC call centers

Offshore call centers are having a negative affect on customer satisfaction, according to the survey by the CFI Group.


Findings: A Survival Imperative for Space Colonization

J. Richard Gott III has issued a wake-up call: To ensure our long-term survival, we need to get a colony up and running on Mars within 46 years.


Houghton Mifflin to Be Acquired by Irish Publisher

Riverdeep Holdings, an Irish educational software company, agreed yesterday to acquire the American textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin for $1.75 billion.


BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 10 Iraqis and wounded 17 others, including an American soldier.


'We don't do unprotected' Sky by Broadband (BSKyB) customers are a quiet bunch, according to a BSkyB spokesman. In fact, they're as silent as the Sky Movies website right now as it continues to display a statement about waiting for an "essential update" from its "industry partner" Microsoft.â¦


The Spice Girls said Friday that they had canceled concerts planned for China, Australia, South Africa and Argentina, shortening their reunion tour, Agence France-Presse reported. The group pulled out for âfamily and personal commitments,â a spokesman said, though there have been reports of poor ticket sales. Concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Sydney, Cape Town and Buenos Aires are off, and the tour is now set to finish in Toronto on Feb. 26. The Spice Girls, who last toured almost 10 years ago, sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and had nine British No. 1 singles in the 1990s.


Teenagers and young men who want to have a family one day would be well advised to keep their laptop computers not on their laps but firmly on the desk, a study suggests.


Sloping off: Nathan Deakes walks with one foot off the ground after his disqualification from the men's 50km walk. Photo: AP Picture:MARK BAKER.


Korea's tortured reckoning with collaborators

It has only just begun and already South Korea's program of historical reckoning of the often brutal Japanese occupation and colonization has produced its first victim. With no small amount of irony, it was the chairman of the governing ...


MONTREAL -- Despite a jump of 19% in world air traffic so far this year, airlines are expected to lose as much as $4 billion US in 2004 due to high fuel costs, says the International Air Transport Association.


Cable & Wireless Group PLC swung to a profit in the first half Wednesday and said it would cut 600 jobs in a reorganization in Europe.


A French court decides on Friday whether a satellite Arabic channel should be banned in France.


It was an inauspicious start to the 10-race playoff for NASCAR's Nextel Cup championship, with rain washing out qualifying yesterday at New Hampshire International Speedway.


Ordinanza per 38 persone, accuse anche di tentato omicidio


Northwest a Player in World Wireless Congress

By Tricia Duryee, Seattle Times  Feb. 12--Kirkland-based Wildseed spent years tinkering with the concept of a kidney-bean-shaped wireless phone that makes sending messages a snap, especially for teens.


Road trip ends on rough note; Ichiro goes 1 for 4

The Mariners begin a 13-game homestand today. It will be nice for them to put a word after home other than "run.". The day after Chicago hit five home runs in an 8-7 victory, the


In the ruins of this Sumatran city, French soldiers and local men scoop buckets of water from a filthy canal, passing them hand to hand down a line of 30 people trying to douse a smoky fire in a pile of rubble. Nearby, another blaze consumes a wooden boat lying in a street a half mile from the shore.