Clamor Rises for McGreevey to Resign Now

Gov. James E. McGreevey returned to the Statehouse this week hoping to get back to work after his stunning resignation announcement. He met with cabinet members and his homeland security advisers and took steps to hand over the reins of his administration to the new governor.


Bayer (NYSE: BAY) is the latest company to find itself in hot water over a drug recall. But as the company gears up to burnish its image, the improvement in its financial performance promises


Cervical screening should be reinstated in England for women in their early 20s, researchers say.


Bank of America to buy Countrywide for $4 billion

Bank of America Corp said on Friday it would buy battered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp for $4 billion, a move that could avert one of the biggest collapses in the U.S. housing crisis.


Iran: Israel, U.S. Rigging Iraq Election

Israeli and U.S. agents were behind  bombings in Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities of Kerbala and Najaf,  Iran's Supreme Leader said Monday, accusing Tehran's arch-foes  of trying to rig Iraq's elections for their own ends.


Warren Buffett avoids five types of stocks. Maybe you should, too.


Ispirazioni orientali e una dedica alle bambine indiane


Alaska Wildfires Grow to Record 5 Million Acres

ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Wildfires have scorched over 5 million acres in Alaska as of Tuesday, forestry officials said, a new record that signals possible changes in climate conditions and the composition of the vast forests.


Owners Lock Out Players Over Contract Dispute

National Hockey League owners carried out their threat to lock out players on Wednesday, shutting down the league after the two sides were unable to reach a new labor deal.


Tropical storm little danger in Atlantic

Tropical Storm Jerry weakened to a depression Monday as it headed toward cooler water in the open North Atlantic.


US Raids Kill Family of 6 in Rebel-Held Iraqi City

US air strikes killed a family of six in an attack meant for fighters loyal to a self-declared al Qaeda ally, while one of the world's largest aid agencies suspended


Mike Lamb had not started any of the Houston Astros' first 10 playoff games, so he was somewhat surprised when he saw his name on the lineup card prior to Game 6 of


After being named the 2007 Horse of the Year on Monday, Curlin appears on track to take another run at the title.


Unlocking the iPhone Could Invite DMCA Suit

Apple and AT&T could use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to sue hackers who unlock the iPhone and publish their methods.


Dismal show by Bollywood in mid-year report card

Star appeal, big budgets and swanky  foreign locations have all failed to bring cheer to Bollywood  as the world's biggest film industry struggled to make a profit  in the first half of 2007.


Pechino, 09:09 - OLIMPIADI, PECHINO: INAUGURATA NUOVA PISCINA CUBO D'ACQUA

E' stata inaugurata a Pechino la piscina che ospiterà le gare di tuffi e nuoto delle Olimpiad...


If the first half was any indication, last night's Division 1 EMass girls' basketball final between Needham and Central Catholic was going to be one for the history books. A blistering pace over the opening 16 minutes led to 14 ties and lead changes. Central Catholic headed into the locker room with a 26-25 lead, ...


Judging by the thousands of spectators who made the trek to Mojave to watch SpaceShipOne fly early Monday morning, a lot of people are still interested in space flight.


Codelco hopes for end soon to port workers strike

Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, is hoping for a resolution soon to a strike by workers at its Angamos port, which ships copper from its largest division, Codelco Norte.


By BRYAN CORBIN, Courier & Press Statehouse bureau (317) 631-7405 or corbinb@courierpress.com  Planting new hardwood trees to restore forestland and link disconnected nature preserves in Southwestern Indiana will be funded through a donation announced Tuesday.


Prince Harry says he wants to continue Diana's legacy in a revealing interview for an Aids documentary.


US arms given to Iraqi security forces traced to crimes in Turkey

Weapons that were originally given to Iraqi security forces by the American military have been recovered over the past year by authorities in Turkey after being used in violent crimes in that country, Pentagon officials said yesterday.


Shoe man Choo says love your work, forget the past

With little effort and no arrogance, famed shoe couturier Jimmy Choo lets drop pearls of wisdom he has harvested over more than 20 years in the business.


A British television channel is seeking a terminally ill volunteer to donate their body after death so it can be filmed as it decomposes.


Charles Burnett was ringing a bell in front of the Wal-Mart in Fairmount. It was Burnettâs first day, but the Salvation Army has stationed volunteers by red kettles for more than a hundred years.


Fernand Pouillon - "IL CANTO DELLE PIETRE" Diario di un monaco costruttore - Ed. Lindau Roma (Agenzia Fides) - ÂIl canto delle pietre" Ã¨ il diario immaginario, in forma di romanzo, del monaco che nel XII secolo edificÃ² in Provenza l'abbazia di Le Thoronet, un capolavoro di architettura cistercense. La prima abbazia a essere costruita fu...


24 Million to Die From Heart Disease, Says WHO

The World Health Organization has warned that by 2020, heart disease and stroke will become the leading cause of both death and disability worldwide, with the number of fatalities projected to increase to over 20 million a year and by 2030 to over 24


Jacques Villeneuve has admitted he is desperate to get one over on former team BAR after signing a three-race deal with Renault. Renault and BAR are currently vying for second in the constructorsâ championship.


A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of Kenyans fleeing election violence, police said.


Making his first campaign appearance in this state, Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday tackled a question that's still on the minds of many voters: Is he experienced enough to be president?


Character in Harry Potter expected to die by end of seven-book ...

JK Rowling, the author of the wildly successful Harry Potter series, confirmed on her website that one of the characters in the books would die by the end of the seventh book.


Montreal Expos Team Report - September 11

(Sports Network) - Livan Hernandez has 50 wins since the start of the 2001 season. Unfortunately for the powerful righthander, he hasn't solved the Atlanta Braves.


SpaceShipOne Readies for $10 Mln X Prize Flight

MOJAVE, Calif.  - A privately built rocket plane  will try to blast out of the atmosphere over the Mojave Desert  on Monday for the second time in less than a week to win a $10  million prize for the first commercially viable manned  spacecraft.


com November 29, 2004, 4:00 AM PT. This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients.


FOUR Iraqi religious leaders, including two imams, appealed today for the release of four aid workers - two Italians and two Iraqis - who were taken hostage in Baghdad overnight.


A text-messaging service is put into action to choreograph fast-moving political protests.


Signorini, Ivan Cattaneo al posto di Coco


A Marine who was called home from Iraq because his wife suffered pregnancy complications has been arrested in connection with the death of their 3-month-old son, police said.


Halliburton Co. said Monday a bankruptcy judge approved the final insurance settlement agreements between Halliburton subsidiaries and insurance carriers.


Currency trading in Kenya is delayed amid violent protests against the outcome of the presidential election.


Potter Has Limited Effect on Reading Habits

The truth about Harry Potter and reading is not quite a straightforward success story.


U.S. Diplomat and Driver Are Shot Dead in Sudan

An American diplomat in Sudan was shot and killed as he was returning from a New Yearâs Eve party, officials said.


Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s  head of marketing communications, who led a recent switch to a new advertising agency, has left the company, the world's biggest retailer said on Tuesday.


The Arizona Diamondbacks and outfielder Eric Byrnes agreed to a $4,575,000, one-year contract Tuesday, avoiding arbitration.


Da Maldini a Mancini lo sport affare di famiglia

Calcio, ciclismo, basket, tuffi, Formula Uno. 'Mestieri' che possono tramandarsi di padre in figlio. E a volte l'allievo supera il maestro


Alarmed that a 52-year-old paper was stoking the arguments of creationists, a chemistry professor has retracted a paper on the origins of life.


Labor unrest looming for airlines in the US

Already hit by multiple bankruptcies, consumer displeasure and out-of-control fuel prices, the US airline industry next year faces the prospect of its worst labor unrest in more than a decade.


Govt expels Russian diplomats amid Cold War clouds

Britain said Monday it will expel four Russian diplomats to protest Moscow's refusal to extradite a key suspect over the murder of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, in a major escalation of the row.


Patriots Deny Another Accusation of Taping

The Patriots responded to a rumor that they had taped the St. Louis Rams walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI, and the N.F.L. said it had found no evidence that the taping had occurred.


Oracle links business process analysis, SOA

(InfoWorld) - Oracle is announcing Wednesday an enhanced version of its business process analysis software that enhances collaboration between process modelers and implementers. Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite 10.1.3.3 features "closed loop support" for business analyst and IT collaboration, sharing a common process model format with the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle said. The new business process analysis suite features round-trip engineering, said Amlan Debnath, vice president of server technologies at Oracle. "What it lets you do is share the [business process] model with IT," Debnath said. A developer, for example could make a change to a business process that would be shared with the business persons. Modeling of processes is done in the business process analysis package and then executed in the SOA Suite, which features an SOA execution engine that leverages BPEL (Business Process Execution Language). Business users can build and change business models in the business process suite while IT persons can view and modify these processes in the SOA package. Integration between Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite and Oracle SOA Suite includes linking of business process analysis, execution, and monitoring tools. Oracle's business process suite is the company's version of the IDS Scheer Aria product, said analyst Bruce Silver, principal at BPMS Watch. Oracle addresses the round-tripping problem in which business persons model a process and hand it off to IT, which then implements its own idea of what it believes the process should be, Silver said. Oracle has created an intermediate format based on shared metadata between the modeling tool and the implementation tool, which is the SOA suite, Silver said. "You solve this round-tripping problem now because the model is not just initial requirements for the implementation, but it's a continuous business view of the business process throughout the business process [implementation] lifecycle," said Silver. Oracle Business Process Suite is a component of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform. The suite starts in price at $5,000 for five users.


Cuba's Brilliant Ballerinas Wow Dance World

From a dilapidated Havana mansion run by a nearly blind legendary ballerina, Cuba is turning out some of the world's finest ballet dancers who are hotly sought by leading international companies.


'American Taliban' Appeals for Early Release

The lawyer for an American sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his sentence after a man in a similar case was freed.


com November 15, 2004, 11:23 AM PT. This fourth priority's main focus has been enterprise directories for several months, but for many IT managers, ERP (enterprise resource planning


The Texas attorney general launches a lawsuit against two men it says are spammers.


Next avatar on Second Life: the Swedish taxman

Swedes earning tax-free money on Internet games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life may have to think again after Swedish authorities said they were planning a clampdown.


No. 1 Tennessee Holds Off N.C. St. 64-54

Brittany Jackson drew fouls twice in the final minutes with the shot clock winding down and made four free throws, helping No. 1 Tennessee hold off North Carolina State 64-54 Sunday in the Jimmy V Women's Classic.


Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are preparing for the mission's first spacewalk.


ACTOR Johnny Depp's new film about the creator of Peter Pan is the early frontrunner to win the Best Film Oscar. Finding Neverland has been named Film Of The Year by the prestigious


The United States must diversify its global oil supplies, expand a world network of strategic petroleum reserves and raise fuel efficiency standards to ensure its energy security, a panel of experts will recommend Wednesday.


ROLLING HILLS ESTATES  Comments sought on condo plan  An environmental analysis that will study a proposed 163-unit condominium development on Deep Valley Drive has been initiated by the city of Rolling Hills Estates.


The UN Operation in Ivory Coast says the commercial capital of Abidjan and other major cities were calm Tuesday with life returning to normal.


A 71-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man die after accidents in County Tyrone and east Belfast.


French "Mediator" Says Awaiting Us Green Light For Hostage Release

A French national who claims he has secured a deal for the release of two French reporters kidnapped in Iraq last month said Wednesday he is waiting for a US authorisation to extract the pair by air.


Although their primary off-season goal of acquiring a front-line starter remains unfulfilled, the Mets are trying to offset those troubles by bolstering their bullpen. On Tuesday, they signed Matt Wise.


A Chris Sutton strike gave Celtic a 1-0 win at home to Dundee United which increased their lead over arch rivals Rangers in the Scottish Premier League to four points.


Federal employees get special treatment on car usage, say documents

MONTREAL (CP) - Nearly 460,000 Canadians on the federal payroll are eligible to be reimbursed tax-free for using their cars on government business, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press.


The Disk Mini is available in capacities from 80- to 250GB and connects via USB.


Americans who served in the military will be well represented at the upcoming Republican convention, more so than at last month's Democratic convention or in the U.S. population overall, according to the GOP.


XM settles patent lawsuit with Universal Music

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc   said on Monday it has settled a patent infringement  lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group and hopes to reach deals  with the other music companies.


Rifts emerge in Iraq govt after "bomb plot" foiled

Sunni and Shi'ite political leaders in Iraq clashed publicly on Sunday over U.S. allegations a bodyguard for a top Sunni politician may have plotted an al Qaeda suicide attack on the vast Green Zone government compound.


US consumers spend more in May than the month before, encouraged by higher personal income.


Major German parties suffer loss in parliamentary elections in two ...

Germany's major parties Sunday saw their popularity decline in local parliament elections in the two eastern states of Sachsen and Brandenburg.


Wrinkle-filler regenerates collagen, study finds

Restylane, a popular cosmetic treatment for temporarily plumping out wrinkles, actually makes the skin produce more collagen, the natural stuff that makes skin look young, researchers said on Monday.


LONDON, Nov 25 (SW) - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will be anxiously waiting to know whether star striker Thierry Henry can play in his sideâs clash away to Anfield this weekend.


Militari in tenuta antisommossa presidiano il varco. Gli agenti hanno respintocon gli idranti gli abitanti di Gaza che protestavano per la chiusura della frontiera                                          Rafah, egiziani schierati al confine sassaiola dopo annuncio chiusura


US stocks rose on investors' hopes for a year-end rally, while the dollar eked out gains and oil advanced again on Thursday as OPEC ministers supported supply cuts by applying official output quotas.


Studies shed light on autism effects and treatment

Two studies shed light on the possible effects of autism on the brain and point to potential treatments, researchers said on Monday.


David Beckham stood toe to toe in a furious finger-wagging row with a senior FA official after Englandâs victory in Poland. The shocking incident will cast doubt on his role as Sven Goran Erikssonâs captain


Dubai's ruler is accused of enslaving thousands of children for camel races, in a US class-action lawsuit.


Greenback strengthened slightly after energy price spike pressures ...

The dollar strengthened slightly against major currencies in Asian trade yesterday, with the yen coming under pressure from a further spike in crude oil prices, dealers said.


Man with iron fist tightens his grip on Russia

FOR many Russians it was a week of funerals, mourning and horrified disbelief. The reaction of Vladimir Putin to the deaths in Beslan, however, has been rather different: to go on the offensive.


Novell foray into Linux market targets large enterprise customers

Strong words  the likes of which the industry has heard before  accompanied Novell Inc.'s release of its next-generation Linux desktop for enterprise customers, Novell Linux Desktop 9, powered by SUSE Linux.


Whaling activists in ship clash, Japan hosts meeting

A Japanese whaling ship and protest  vessels have collided in the Southern Ocean, with the  protesters saying they will next ram a Japanese factory ship,  despite Australian calls for them to back off before someone is  killed.


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Chelsea accuse 'weak' FA over seven-month ban for Mutu

ADRIAN MUTU, the Chelsea striker, yesterday paid the penalty for testing positive for cocaine. The flamboyant Romanian with the playboy reputation was suspended from football for seven months and fined Â£20,000.


U.S. Forces Storm Iraqi Town, Say 94 Rebels Killed

SAMARRA, Iraq  - U.S.-led forces stormed Samarra  on Friday and said nearly 100 guerrillas were killed in air  strikes and street-to-street combat during a major new American  offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi town.


Bottom Line: New story, new characters, and a new city: "Grand Theft Auto" is back. The long-awaited sequel in this controversial series expands upon the adult-theme material that has made it famous.


Kendrick Perkins is now, unequivocally, unambiguously, officially part of Celtics lore. He joins Pervis Ellison on the short list entitled "Celtics centers who missed games because of injury involving a toe and a piece of furniture." Poor Pervis, who was almost always hurt (resulting in Danny Ainge nicknaming him "Out of Service Pervis"), missed most of a season when a ...


CINCINNATI - Aramis Ramirez homered three times for all of Chicago's runs, and the Cubs kept pace in the playoff race by rallying to beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-4 on Thursday night.


Ten-Day Window for West Side Water: Tracy Pump Station Shut Down to Protect Imperiled Delta Smelt

By Michael G. Mooney, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 1--West Side farmers and residents of Diablo Grande, a golf and resort community in the foothills west of Patterson, could be left high and dry should south San Joaquin Delta pumps remain shut down for more than 10days.


MetroFi, Microsoft launch Portland Wi-Fi

(InfoWorld) - Portland, Oregon, became the latest city to launch a municipal wireless network, starting a free, ad-supported service featuring localized content and services from Microsoft Corp.'s MSN. The network, being built by MetroFi Inc., went live in a few central neighborhoods on Tuesday and is intended eventually to provide Internet access in 95 percent of the city's indoor and outdoor spaces. Cities and counties around the U.S. wantÂ to build wireless networksÂ to promote business and tourism, provide Internet access to residents who can't get or afford wired broadband, or add another choice to the usual options of cable or DSL (Digital Subscriber Line). Municipalities in some other countries, including Taipei, are also part of the trend. Traditional carriers have opposed city-owned networks. But many municipalities, including Portland, are simply contracting with private service providers to build, own and operate their systems. Portland's is the first service to feature local content from MSN. It will appear on a special MSN home page for Portland that will always appear after users start up the service. When they first try to use the network, users will see a MetroFi page that asks them three anonymous demographic questions, such as whether they are male or female. Then the network will remember the client device's MAC (media access control) address, and the next time the user goes on the network, there won't be any questions, according to MetroFi. There are no plans now for services or ads that use the subscriber's physical location in the city. MetroFi has built municipal wireless networks in several cities, including Aurora, Illinois, and Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Foster City and Concord in the San Francisco Bay area. It uses mesh technology in which a Wi-Fi access point can reach the Internet partly through other access points rather than needing a direct wired connection. The service in Portland will deliver speeds comparable to DSL, according to the company. To pay for the service, banner ads about 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) deep will appear continuously at the top of the user's screen, Van Haaften said. MetroFi has already secured a handful of local sponsors and plans to add more over time. The City of Portland will act as an anchor tenant, with public-safety and other employees using the network for improved connectivity in the field. MetroFi may offer the city a special grade of service, Van Haaften said. The service became available Tuesday in Pioneer Courthouse Square and in much of the Buckman, Lloyd and Kerns neighborhoods. The network, using access points mounted on street light poles, is scheduled for completion by mid-2008. To improve reception inside homes, MetroFi recommends indoor modems from Ruckus Wireless Inc. that can amplify the signal from the service.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.


Class of 2007 ; Woodward School for Girls

AVON - Sharon Lawler.  BOSTON - Jasmin Johansen, Rosalyn Medina-Cook, Melissa Michel.  BRAINTREE - Meagan O'Neill.  HOLBROOK - Jenna Snow.  MARSHFIELD - Zoe Snow.  MILTON - Dana Gaymond.


On Wall Street: Dominic Rushe: The slammer is no deterrent for the ...

JEREMY JAYNES is about to make history. As the first spammer to be sent to the slammer, Jaynes was described by prosecutors last week as a modern-day âsnake oil salesmanâ.


Ethnic Peace May Be in Jeopardy in Myanmar

One of the few unchallenged accomplishments of Myanmar's military junta - securing peace with the country's armed ethnic rebel groups - may be in jeopardy after Prime Minister Gen.


LONDON  - The acute sense of smell that  makes dogs useful for detecting illegal substances at airports  might also be used to help doctors diagnosis bladder cancer,  researchers reported this week in the British Medical Journal.


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Update 1: Deutsche Telekom to Buy Back Provider

German phone giant Deutsche Telekom said Saturday it plans to buy back full control of its Internet unit by next year to profit from burgeoning demand for broadband Internet services, a move that could cost the company euro2.


An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after landing, government and airline officials said.


Amministrative 8-9 giugno, mercoledi' decisione giunta


[TS] Fair Game: The Invitation That Isnât in the Mail

Shareholders of Sunrise Senior Living may have been eager to hear from their companyâs executives and board this year, but no meeting has been scheduled.


Victoria No 203 is nothing like the original.


New Nuclear Weapon to Surpass Others, Putin Says

President Vladimir V. Putin, meeting with Russia's defense officials and military commanders here, said today that the country would soon deploy new nuclear missile


Fierce Clashes in Iraq Kill 36; 203 Hurt

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday in clashes that killed at least 36 people, including one American soldier, and wounded 203, U.S...


Snarky, self-referential and exhibitionist: That's my generation. Why are we so willing to bare our private lives and, well, our skin? It's just business.


YouTube signs broad licensing pact with EMI

Google Inc.'s YouTube has agreed to a breakthrough deal with major music label EMI Group Plc to give users of YouTube's video sharing site broad access to music videos by EMI artists.


Schering's Low-Dose Yasmin Launch Seen in 2005

German drugmaker Schering expects a  U.S. launch for a low-dose form of its key contraceptive drug  Yasmin in the second half of next year, its head said on  Wednesday.


Judge won't halt AT&T wiretapping lawsuit

San Francisco court says lawsuit alleging the carrier illegally allowed the U.S. government to spy on its customers can continue.


Federal Lab Says It Can Harvest Fuel From Air

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a way to produce a truly carbon-neutral fuel using carbon dioxide removed from the air as the raw material.


Study: Migraine Sufferers May Be More Sensitive To Pain

CHAPEL HILL, NC -- It's possible that people who have migraine headaches are simply more sensitive to pain than others. That's according to a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Crude futures prices fell slightly on Friday, capping off a 5 percent decline from a week ago, as worries about low winter fuel inventories dissipate amid rising oil supplies.


Google AdSense, YPN & Porn Ads Over at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz covers a DigitalPoint thread about porn (or adult content) ads being show within Google AdSense ads on publisher sites.  Barry gives his two reasons why adult ads should not be shown within Google AdSense: There are two reasons why these types of ads should [...]


The European Union's top justice official on Wednesday called for a massive shake-up of the bloc's border security, recommending that all visitors be screened and fingerprinted and a satellite surveillance system be set up to keep illegal migrants out.


Sirius ends 2007 with 8.3 million subscribers

Sirius Satellite Radio  ended  2007 with more than 8.3 million subscribers, a 38 percent rise  that met its target for the year.


Manhattanites Face Driving Fee on the Way Out

The mayorâs plan would charge residents below 86th Street to drive their cars out the congestion pricing zone.


Iraq's Allawi Optimistic on Jan. Elections

WASHINGTON - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi sees a bright future for Iraqi democracy, brushing aside skeptics who say elections set for January may be truncated or canceled altogether because of violence.    Defense Secretary Donald H...


ILL HEALTH -- Under a portrait of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia talks to journalists after an emergency Fatah Central Committee meeting at Arafat's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday.


Snoring "frequently or always" is common among school-age children, new findings show.


US soldier gets 25 years for murder of Iraqi national guardsman

A UNITED States soldier has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi national guard soldier in northern Iraq this year, the US military said yesterday.


Milano, 14:12 - CALCIO, MILAN; ANCELOTTI: KAKA' DEVE RITROVARE LUCIDITA'

Secondo l'allenatore del Milan, Carlo Ancelotti, "Kakà deve trovare lucidità nel gioco...


From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual

(InfoWorld) - While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes. On the x86 server side, Nationwide reached 5,000 servers two years ago, running all sorts of departmental applications, notes Scott Miggo, vice president of technology solutions. "We were growing at a steady pace, so we wanted to control the server space and the costs for new development," he says. "A lot of our servers had only a 10 percent utilization rate," he notes, wasting much of the server capacity. Roughly half are production application servers and half are test-and-development servers. Today, there are 3,500 physical servers in operation but still 5,000 instances under management. The VMware servers typically host a dozen instances per physical server. "We assume every new server or application can be virtualized," Miggo says. He expects to have more than 1,000 virtual servers running on 89 physical servers by 2009. His team works to tweak I/O requirements or settings for virtual servers that may have trouble supporting I/O needs in their default state, and it works with vendors to support VMs where possible, before falling back to dedicated servers. Lotus Notes and database applications are examples of where the I/O requirements make virtualization not an option. Although it's easier to deploy servers in a virtual environment by using predefined images, "our staffing has stayed pretty much the same," Miggo says, because the same number of servers must still be monitored. The slight reduction in management overhead is offset by the need for VMware experts to manage the VMware environment, in addition to the server instances. And Nationwide learned the hard way that it needs to monitor both its virtual and physical servers, then correlate the two to identify potential trouble spots, Miggo says. Not doing so can make diagnosis hard, since a VM issue may be caused by a physical issue that a server monitor application running in only the VM won't detect. There's also more overhead needed for Miggo's shared-services group to coordinate all users (such as developers and application managers) of a physical server, as changes to the physical server could affect them all -- and because adjustments to one VM's application mix could affect I/O and other physical server performance characteristics. "We now have to coordinate with 12 users," Miggo says. "People were used to having their own boxes and doing their own thing. Now they're more tightly controlled, which they don't like. But they have to follow control processes like code management and release management since what they do could affect others," he notes. The use of EMC's VMotion software to load-balance and failover VMs across physical servers might reduce management, but the insurer is still exploring that technology. One barrier: Its requirement that all server instances run on physical servers with the same CPU family, requiring a consistent server pool to be in place. Nationwide runs its Web servers in a zLinux environment on IBM zSeries mainframes, supporting 650 guest operating systems (VMs) today, with space for another 650 before additional hardware frames would be needed. Often, using z/VM to support the virtualized Web servers requires a different strategy than using VMware to support virtualized Windows servers, Woeckener notes. For example, you might add memory, CPUs, or network cards to increase I/O on a VMware server. On a zSeries, the CPUs just handle executables, offloading physical I/O (such as network bandwidth and resource scheduling) to dedicated processors, so you don't need to worry about performance-sapping overhead incurred by server resource management. Another difference: Increasing heap size can improve performance in a Windows application but also degrade it in a zLinux application, Woeckener says. That's because Linux steals resources wherever it can find them, so any extra heap space is used by Linux for its own purposes, degrading application performance. When the heap size is reduced, Linux seeks resources elsewhere, giving the full heap to the application and improving performance. In both the VMware and z/VM environments, the ease of deploying new virtual servers has led Nationwide to align demand with real needs, as well as to encourage the use of VMs rather than physical servers. Virtual Windows servers cost a requestor $750 per month versus $2,000 per month for a physical server. And zLinux VMs add a per-MIP rate for weekday usage exceeding 15 MIPs. This overage charge steers batch processing to overnight and weekend periods, when overall demand is less, and forces developers of applications in use during the business day to optimize for performance, saving datacenter resources at the same time. Virtualization special report Case study: Credit Suisse Case study: Purdue University Case study: Stonebridge Bank Case study: Transplace


Canada's Toronto Dominion Bank said Wednesday it is in talks with US-based Banknorth Group about a possible deal, while a published report said the two parties are in advanced negotiations that could lead to a $2.


Japan Scrambles to Win Hostage's Release

Japan scrambled Wednesday to win the release a 24-year old Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq, dispatching high level diplomats to the middle east and launching an appeal for his freedom on Arabic television.


The first woman arrived with seesawing high blood pressure. Another walked in with a handful of pill bottles and a history of chest pains. Yet in the clinic's small waiting room in Bethesda, they and half a dozen other people shared more than worries over heart problems.


Austrian Kidnapping Victim Describes Lost Years of Youth

VIENNA, Sept. 6 -- Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped as a bright-eyed 10-year-old and held for more than eight years, dreamed in her underground cell of chopping off her abductor's head with an ax and despaired as she read newspaper accounts of police dredging ponds for her corpse.


Clark maintains lead in Colonial Invitational

FORT WORTH, Texas  - South African Tim Clark held on to a one-shot lead as the water-logged second round of the Colonial Invitational tournament finally finished on Saturday, nearly 24 hours behind schedule.


Israeli commander on trial over slain Palestinian schoolgirl

An Israeli commander accused of emptying his weapon into a dead Palestinian schoolgirl went on trial Thursday in a military court in a case that has shaken public confidence in the armed forces.


Futures point down as risk aversion grows

Stock index futures fell on Friday, pointing to a weaker market open, as investors worried about the increasing risk aversion pervading global financial markets.


Portugal seeks foreign markets for its 'green wine'

Most people outside of Portugal have never heard of "vinho verde", or "green wine", a light sparkling wine with a slightly biting quality which is only produced in the country, but makers of the beverage hope to soon change that.


As the markets dropped sharply last week, sending volume soaring and backing up trades handled by the New York Stock Exchange, at least one stock market player was resting easy.


Ah, the game of expectations! Ten years ago, when an American ski racer put in a second-place finish, "We'd be running around here like a chicken with its head cut off," Bill Marolt, head of the US Ski and Snowboard Team, said.


Jailed US lifestyle guru Martha Stewart signs a deal to present a new show for NBC from late next year.


Lee the hero as Hornets grab precious point

Richard Lee's goalkeeping heroics helped struggling Watford earn a precious point at Manchester City.


Conclusa trattativa joint venture Open Air Systems


Inside an altitude chamber that simulates conditions at 9,000 feet above sea level, Marquette University guards Wesley Matthews and Jerel McNeal start pedaling stationary bikes. Realizing the challenge ahead, they look less than thrilled. Within minutes, Matthews and McNeal experience shortness of breath. Heart rates rise quickly. In five minutes, Matthews and McNeal have stressed their bodies far beyond what ...


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Another slip-up will end Real's title hopes - Casillas

Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas says another slip-up will end the former European champions' hopes of winning the Spanish league title.


Boeing and IBM join forces to gain edge at DOD

To nab network-centric work at the Defense Department, Boeing Co. and IBM Corp. today announced a 10-year alliance. The two companies estimate that DOD will spend $200 billion for ground- and space-based systems for net-centric operations.


DLO has launched an iPhone application that lets you find open FM frequencies for your iPod or iPhone-compatible FM transmitter.


It's a little Microsoft-centric, but we generally like the software giant's full-featured beta antispyware program.


Tratta degli esseri umani: la parola ai giornalisti Roma (Agenzia Fides) - ÂLe parole della trattaÂ. Questo il titolo del press meeting che si terrÃ  martedÃ¬ 17 luglio alle ore 11 nella sede dellÂAiccre (piazza Trevi 86). Nel corso dellÂincontro sarÃ  presentato agli organi di informazione il documento ...


While the economic weakness has been concentrated in the financial services, home building and related sectors, investors are growing fearful that it is spreading.


LOUDENVIELLE-LE-LOURON, France  - Alexander Vinokourov clinched his second victory of this year's Tour de France with panache when he won the 196-km 15th stage from Foix on Monday.


Pete Candoli, Trumpeter and Studio Musician, Dies at 84

Pete Candoli was a jazz trumpeter who made his mark as a high-note specialist in the big-band era and went on to become one of the busiest studio musicians in Hollywood.


American Express Profits Rise 17 Percent

American Express Co. AXP.N said on  Monday fourth-quarter profit rose 17 percent, driven by strong  holiday and travel-related sales, as well as gains in its asset  management business.


The Supreme Court said Monday it would meet again Thursday to hand down some of the 11 decisions remaining for this term. The court has one more session scheduled for next Monday.


Stocks to Weather Earnings, Oil Politics

Stock investors may want to fasten their seatbelts for the week ahead, when a flurry of  earnings and economic data will once again be in focus.


While talks between the U.S. and North Korea seem to be progressing, Tokyo and Pyongyang are at an impasse


John Lennonâs Death Revisited Through the Words of His Killer

Andrew Piddingtonâs devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts.


p2pnet.net OT News:- The Arctic Ocean could be almost ice-free in summer by the end of the century. Inuit hunters are falling through ice, permafrost is thawing and destabilizing foundations of buildings and


China's economy smaller in new measure, still number two: study

The size of China's economy is overestimated by some 40 percent based on most current measures, but is the world's second largest, the World Bank said Monday.


Celebrating independence, S.Lanka vows to defeat rebels

Tanks and armored personnel carriers paraded through Sri Lanka's capital on Sunday as President Mahinda Rajapakse, marking the 59th anniversary of independence from Britain, vowed to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.


Crepe nell'Unione in vista del confronto del 6 giugno


China cracks down on "vulgar" entertainment

China is cracking down on "vulgar" entertainment and asked all video and audio producers to check their inventory for risque material with threats of fines and other punishment for those who do not weed it out.


Roma, 16:36 - CALCIO, LAZIO; VELTRONI: STADIO A FIUMICINO? SI PUO' FARE

Il sindaco di Roma Walter Veltroni è pronto a supportare la proposta della Lazio di uno stadi...


La celebre catena mondiale acquistata per 965 milioni di dollari dai nativi americaniConta 124 locali in oltre 45 Paesi e la piÃ¹ grande collezione di cimeli musicali originali                                            L'Hard Rock CafÃ© diventa "indiano" Il marchio comprato dai Seminole                                                                                di ALESSIA MANFREDI


L'Istat conferma stima preliminare, su base mensile +0,2%


Australia's Hanson to Stand as Independent at Oct. 9 Election

Pauline Hanson, whose anti-immigration stance won her a parliamentary seat in 1996, will stand as an independent candidate at next month's national election.


Actor Viggo Mortensen is on a three-day fundraising tour for Robert Johnson, the Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. John McHugh for the 23rd Congressional District seat.


Some books find paradise only on film. Written by talk-show host and Tuesdays With Morrie author Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is one of those gift-shop inspirational parables that usually are more popular with book buyers than book critics.


Francesca Zenobi partecipÃ² ad un festino a luci rosse con l'onorevole UdcNell'inchiesta della Procura di Roma finisce anche il suo ex legale                                          Caso Mele, soldi per ritrattare Indagata la "squillo" del deputato


Australia's Alicia Molik has advanced to a career-high 13th in the world after winning her second consecutive WTA title overnight.


Customers might not like the idea of technology that allows some uses of music (like copying iTunes downloads to their iPods) but forbids others (like copying the same song to another kind of music player). But until recently, it didn't seem to bother the executives behind these anti-piracy systems.


NEW YORK, Oct 11  - World oil prices scaled record peaks Monday, rising on concern over disruptions to supply from strike-hit producers Nigeria and Norway.


Retailers push packagers to think "green"

Growing demand from retailers and manufacturers for smaller, eco-friendly packages is pushing box makers and chemical companies to create compact packaging that is bio-based and recyclable.


Mount St. Helens began blowing a large cloud of smoke and steam Friday afternoon following a week in which scientists have closely monitored the volcano.


Google brought the simplicity of its popular Internet search engine to the computer desktop last week, releasing software that allows people to use its home page to search their hard drives for documents, e-mail messages and other hard-to-find files.


Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.


The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed experienced linebacker Jeremiah Trotter two weeks after he was released by the Philadelphia Eagles.


N. Korea's No. 2 Meets Chinese Counterpart

North Korea's Parliament head Kim Yong Nam, right, inspects a guard of honor with Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, during a welcome ceremony in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 18, 2004.


A global grid of desktop PCs clocks up 4,000 years worth of scientific calculations in under three months.


Milano, 13:35 - OLIMPIADI, PRESENTATA LA TORCIA PER TORINO 2006

Presentata la fiamma olimpica di Torino 2006: si tratta di una reinterpretazione in chiave moderna d...


Italian Communists choose Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop

Blog: The Italian parliament is swapping from Windows to SUSE Linux, and expects to save a bundle in the process.


The new head of the Criminal Bar Association calls for a change in the way young people are treated.


In an action that combines America's love of sport and litigation, two baseball fans have called on the courts to resolve their opposing claims to own the ball with which a top player hit a record 700th home run.


ATLANTA -- The Red Sox officially cut ties with lefthanded reliever J.C. Romero yesterday, placing him on waivers for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release. They had designated Romero for assignment 10 days earlier in Arizona, a move that came as a shock to the 30-year-old pitcher, less so to those who had watched him put runners on ...


Charred ferry in Jakarta port as death toll hits 41

An Indonesian ferry that caught fire last week packed with hundreds of people has been towed to Jakarta's main port as the navy searches for victims and survivors in the area where flames engulfed the ship.


Almost a year old, the Canon Powershot A80 is due to hit the stock-clearance bins soon, offering great value for a 4.0 Megapixel top-name digital camera.


Duemila esuberi, 6,5 mld investimenti al 2015


Udine, 18:58 - CALCIO, UDINESE; QUAGLIARELLA: SONO GIUNTO NEL POSTO GIUSTO

L'attaccante dell'Udinese Fabio Quagliarella è raggiante nel giorno della presentazione in bi...


POLL-Kerry Opens Three-Point Lead on Bush

Democratic challenger John Kerry expanded his slight lead over President Bush to three points in a tight race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Monday.


Through a Yankee Fan's Expectant Eyes, the World Turns Upside Down

There was a breakdown in the cosmic order Wednesday night. At least that's how it felt to Yankees fans.


BBC Click reports on the futuristic homes offering intelligent technology in South Korea.


Great news -- your stock just got downgraded!


Â· Brown threat to impose new conditions todayÂ· BMA attacks 'disgraceful method of negotiation'


Israel allows Arafat to leave his compound for medical treatment

Israel gave Yasser Arafat permission Monday to briefly leave his compound to receive medical treatment in the West Bank city of Ramallah, heightening concerns the Palestinian leader is seriously ill.


Trento, 19:08 - CALCIO, JUVENTUS: NIENTE AMICHEVOLE PER CAMORANESI E BUFFON

Nell'amichevole che i bianconeri sosterranno domani pomeriggio a Pinzolo (Tn) contro il Mezzocorona...


The United States intensified Friday its diplomatic drive to recruit more coalition troops for Afghanistan amid fears its allies could abandon a cornerstone of the US-led "war on terror."


PRINCE Harry is set to become the 'People's' Prince of Wales, learning the language and serving in one of the nation's army regiments.


Retrial of Shining Path leader starts in Peru

The Peruvian government started on Friday retrial of Abimael Guzman, the leader of the rebel group Shining Path. Guzman, 69, and 17 other members of the rebel group will also be on trial, according to justice authorities.


Violence Tackled at Online Gaming Parlors

Six days a week, teens crowd the Blue Screen Gaming cybercafe to hunt each other down with assault rifles inside virtual computer worlds. In these video game halls, nobody gets hurt. But real-life violence has flared around some of these businesses, prompting municipal crackdowns.


Soldiers Challenge Enlistment Extensions

An Army specialist, saying it was "a question of fairness," filed a lawsuit Monday with seven other soldiers challenging a policy forcing them to serve in Iraq beyond their terms of enlistment.


Giants' Bonds returns to starting lineup

Barry Bonds returned to the San Francisco Giants' starting lineup Thursday for the series finale against the Chicago Cubs.


Sony begins mass production of OLED screens

The electronics giant has begun production of next-generation screens using organic light-emitting diode technology.


Manager e impiegati, l'Europa con troppe barriere

Scende la propensione delle imprese europee ad assumere lavoratori di altre nazioni. Le difficoltà: conoscenza della lingua e poca integrazione dei sistemi legislativi


European shares rose on Wednesday as oil  prices fell to seven-week lows, easing pressure on profit  margins, but gains were pared as the euro edged back toward  record highs on the dollar before key U.S trade data.


How Scots helped Britannia rule the waves

IT WAS the greatest battle in naval history and turned the tide of European power, securing the future of the British Empire.


A boy of three uses his mother's account to order a Â£9,000 pink Nissan on an internet auction site.


Roma, 18:55 - Calcio, ds Lazio: legittima esultanza giocatori

"La lealtÃ  sportiva vorrebbe che l'occasione di rivincita sia l'Olimpico nel match di ritorno e non ...


La compagnia: gli esuberi sono previsti ma non quantificati


West Nile Virus Said to Be Ariz. Epidemic

PHOENIX Aug. 17, 2004  With triple-digit heat and nearly nonexistent rainfall, Phoenix seems an unlikely spot for this year's West Nile virus epicenter. Yet, federal health officials say Arizona is the only state where the mosquito-borne virus is an ...


British Home Secretary Charles Clarke has announced a five-year strategy to tighten immigration and asylum controls, prompting accusations of a "bidding war" after the Conservative Party unveiled similar plans ...


Middlesbrough beat Man. City to narrow gap with top four

Middlesbrough narrowed the gap within two points with the top four after grabbing a 3-2 win over Manchester City in the Premier League at the Riverside Stadium on Monday.


Construction Work at Nuke Reactor Finished

Russia has finished construction work at the Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran and hopes to sign agreements on shipping nuclear fuel in November, officials said Friday.


ARGENTINA: INCENDIO DISCOTECA, SALE A 169 NUMERO MORTI

(AGI/REUTERS/AFP) - Buenos Aires, 31 dic. - Almeno 169 morti e 375 feriti sono il bilancio provvisorio di un incendio che ha devastato ieri sera un'affollata discoteca nel centro di Buenos Aires. "Vi sono


The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today filed 762 new lawsuits against alleged file traders using peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file sharing services.


Nasdaq to Increase Fees to Listed Companies and Add Services

The Nasdaq Stock Market has won regulatory approval to increase fees and offer more services to the 3,200 companies listed on it.


Britain, Ireland Launch 'Final' N.Irish Peace Push

The British and Irish prime ministers presented bitterly divided Northern Ireland politicians on Wednesday with what their governments insist is their final plan for restoring home rule in the province.


Music bigs show each other and city the love

In typically hyperbolic style, the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards celebrated music's biggest rock, R&B and rap stars last night.


Broncos defensive lineman Luther Elliss will miss the rest of the season because of a herniated disc in his lower back. Elliss has missed Denver's last four games with an injured calf.


Nepalis in the streets to celebrate peace accord

Thousands of Nepalis took to the streets on Wednesday to celebrate the signing of a peace deal between the government and Maoist rebels which many hope will end a decade of civil war, kidnapping, murder and fear.


R. Kelly Files $75 Million Lawsuit Against Jay-Z

R&B singer R. Kelly yesterday (Nov. 1) filed a $75 million breach-of-contract suit against rapper Jay-Z, accusing him and his associates of threats and violence that turned their joint tour into a "nightmare.


Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards implored New Hampshire voters Friday to repudiate the Iowa caucus results and vote for a candidate "who will fight for the middle class" against corporate interests that he accuses of moving jobs overseas and making health care expensive.


Bulgarian princess gives birth to baby boy: official

Bulgarian princess Kalina, the only daughter and youngest child of former exiled king Simeon Saxe Coburg, gave birth to a baby boy early Wednesday in Sofia, the royal family spokesman Galya Dicheva told AFP.


Blog: A member of Stanford's technology licensing office recounts a mid-1990s visit from Larry Page.


We're all celebrities in post-privacy age

Move over, Paris Hilton. We all have celebrity issues in an age when anyone can create an online profile, post confessional videos on YouTube, or make snarky online comments about other people.


Firenze, 13:32 - CALCIO, FIORENTINA: CORVINO DIFENDE GIOCATORI DA CRITICHE

Pantaleo Corvino, direttore sportivo della Fiorentina, difende la squadra dalle critiche avanzate da...


Lebanon fears more violence after minister slain

Lebanon began three days of mourning on Wednesday for an anti-Syrian cabinet minister whose assassination, blamed by his allies on Damascus, raised fears of a new spasm of factional violence.


Research into the oceans is under funded despite its benefits to humanity, a committee of MPs warn.


Le Scienze in edicola quando esplode una stella

I progressi della catastrofisica. Gli specchi della mente e quelli dell'autismo. La storia della regina di Saba


Software AG Pays $26M for Mainframe UI Tools

The sale marks Jacadaâs move out of the application modernization and middleware software business in order to concentrate on development of call center systems.


Malaysia PM vows to resolve Muslim conversion woes

Malaysia's prime minister vowed on  Monday to look into politically sensitive cases of Muslims  seeking to renounce Islam in favor of other religions.


The US Supreme Court opted Monday not to hear a case involving the national "do-not-call" list, effectively ending a bid by telemarketers to have the popular registry deemed unconstitutional.


Starbucks is pushing its new digital music offering into Seattle and Austin in the next month. The Hear Music media bar is an in-store kiosk that allows consumers to buy customizable CDs.


High Court Grants Stay In Alabama Execution

ATMORE, Ala., Jan. 31 -- A murderer who would have become the nation's first executed inmate in months won a reprieve Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.


The Bears' defense has overcome injuries and the team's own stagnated offense to spark a three-game winning streak that's made the playoffs more than a fever dream.


The audience cackles as Sony launches Crackle

It's just Grouper regrouped Comment You may have heard that Sony has renamed the Grouper user generated website that it bought a while back for some $65m, as Crackle, and begun trying to drag its content into the professional zone by putting up minor amounts of content that Sony owns to make the professional level of the site stronger than, say, YouTube.â¦


THE revenge of an ex-lover has forced the resignation of British Home Secretary David Blunkett, dealing a blow to Tony Blair less than six months before an expected general election.


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Se Generali ben gestite, valore Mediobanca aumenta


Severn Trent, the UK water and waste group, saw first-half profits hit by the weak US dollar, as well as a Â£15m pension fund charge.


Erevan, 19:33 - CALCIO, QUALIFICAZIONI EURO 2008: ARMENIA-POLONIA 1-0

In una gara valida per il gruppo A delle qualificazioni agli Europei del 2008, l'Armenia ha battuto ...


Five months later, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of a kiss from Richard Gere. Immigration officials at Mumbai airport briefly detained Shetty, saying she was still wanted for obscenity charges filed in the wake of the public kiss with the Hollywood star, her publicist, Dale Bhagwagar, said Thursday.


The men and women who died fighting for their country are to be remembered on Armistice Day.


Express plans $26 bln bid for Caremark: reports

U.S. pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Inc.  is preparing a $26 billion bid for rival Caremark RX , topping an offer made last month by drugstore chain CVS Corp. , newspaper reports said on Monday.


Surging oil prices 'a threat to EU recovery'

BERLIN: Surging oil costs heighten the risks to the euro zone recovery, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said yesterday in an interview that pushed prospects for a credit tightening further into the background.


Operazione da 96,6 milioni di azioni dopo fallita opa su Bnl


Armitage faces hostile questions over Iraq election

Political opponents of the United States Government have questioned its ability to ensure that full elections are held in Iraq in January.


No longer breaking stories in high heels and skimpy outfits, Lauren Jones has signed off from the KYTX-TV "Eye of East Texas" news team and returned to modeling swimsuits.


Barcelona came from a goal down to thrash Real Zaragoza in a one-sided Primera Liga match at the Nou Camp on Thursday and go level on points with champions Valencia at the top.


Japan Shares Seen Moving in Narrow Range

Japanese shares will probably move in a  narrow range in a week shortened by public holidays, but could  dip below the 11,000 level as earnings disappointment saps Wall  Street's momentum and as concern lingers over the global  economic outlook.


At least one person is killed in a crash on the M27 in Hampshire.


Bush tells Putin not to fear missile shield plans

U.S. President George W. Bush sought to calm Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday over plans for a U.S. missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, saying on the eve of a big-power summit that Russia had nothing to fear.


Al-Sadr's militia keeps fighting in Baghdad

US forces and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia battled Saturday in Baghdad even as the truce that ended the bloody fighting between US-Iraqi troops and the militia forces in Najaf held for a second day.


Crystal Palace win season's first league match

Newly-promoted side Crystal Palace scored their first Premier League win of the season with a 2-0 victory over London rivals Fulham here on Monday.


Wedding back on as dad says 'sorry' for nude escapade The Worcestershire builder cuffed for jumping naked into a fountain in Bratislava during drunken stag night revels and subsequently slapped with a two-month jail sentence for his trouble has been released, the BBC reports.â¦


More Vaccine Coming; FluMist Could Fill Gap

OMAHA, Neb. -- There was good news Tuesday for people hoping to be vaccinated against the flu, and advice for alternatives. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said manufacturer Aventis Pasteur


NFL Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu signed a four-year contract extension yesterday worth $30.19 million that makes him the highest-paid player in team history and one of the NFL's top-paid defensive backs. The deal guarantees the Steelers will keep their most versatile defensive player through the 2011 season, when he will be 30. Polamalu was a first-team All-Pro when Pittsburgh ...


Havret beats Mickelson for Scottish Open triumph

Gregory Havret, a Frenchman ranked 320 in the world, beat Phil Mickelson in a play-off to claim the biggest win of his career at the Scottish Open here on Sunday.


Rising Democrat Star Wins Illinois Senate Seat-TV

Democratic rising star Barack Obama swept into the US Senate on Tuesday, becoming only the third black ever popularly elected to the chamber, US television networks projected.


State-Specific Mercury Rules Now Go to EPA

By Nardone, Ralph On Nov. 16, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) submitted mercury emissions rules to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which will require stricter mercury emissions reductions for state-based industries.


Aug. 26, 2004 -- You've heard how people can shed pounds on those controversial but popular low-carb diets. So how do rodents, those treasured laboratory test animals used to predict human results, eat their way to less body fat and better health?


Talks that could lead to cheaper flights across the Pacific start in Washington on Tuesday.


Justices to Hear Case on Sharing of Music Files

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether online services can be held liable for enabling copyrighted songs and movies to be shared freely.


LOS ANGELES  - 20th Century Fox has struck a deal with Microsoft Corp. to make the first two seasons of the animated series "Family Guy" available for downloads on the Xbox Live service beginning Monday.


War Ends in Ivory Coast but Peace Is Still a Dream

For most Ivorians, little has improved since rebels signed a peace pact in March ending a five-year war.


Back from its Fourth of July recess, Congress returns to two contentious topics that dominated the news from Capitol Hill for the first half of the year: the White House's strategy regarding Iraq and last year's Justice Department firing of nine U.S. attorneys.


Pakistan Says Militants on the Run, Despite Blast

Pakistani forces are driving al Qaeda-linked militants out of mountains near the Afghan border but attacks such as a bomb that wounded soldiers on Saturday could not be ruled out, a commander said.


Love, others may follow Radiohead's no-label lead

Rock band Radiohead's decision to  release its new album "In Rainbows" by itself -- online,  without a record label's help and at any price the user chose  -- rocked the industry last fall.


From the air, and on the ground, devastation

MEULABOH, Indonesia -- In town after town, the scene was the same from the helicopter taking one of the first glimpses of Sumatra's ravaged coast: whole villages ripped apart, covered in mud and sea water. The only signs of life were a few desperate people scavenging a beach for food.


No. 1 Illinois takes control with 10-0 run late in first half

It took a while for the top-ranked Illini basketball team to find a little traction Thursday night. But when the Fighting Illini dug in â-t one point going


Cowboys upset A&M to end road skid at 19

Byron Eaton had 17 points, including two free throws with 9 seconds left, to lead Oklahoma State to a 59-54 victory over No. 16 Texas A&M on Saturday, breaking a 19-game road losing streak.


Chiron says some flu shots tainted Distribution halted -- bad lots ...

With influenza season just around the corner, the East Bay maker of half the nation's 100 million flu shots has temporarily halted distribution after tests found that up to 4 million doses of unreleased vaccine might have been tainted.


Grosseto, 17:01 - CALCIO, GROSSETO: STADIO OK PER NOTTURNA CON IL BRESCIA

Lo stadio del Grosseto potrà ospitare la gara della seconda giornata di serie B con il Bresci...


Livingston, Scotland (Sports Network) - Livingston hired former Scotland and Rangers defender Richard Gough to be its new head coach on Tuesday.


Billy Ray Cyrus says he and his daughter, the "Hannah Montana" actress Miley Cyrus, simply forgot to buckle up for one of their scenes in their new hit movie.


A German law that protects Volkswagen from takeover breaks European Union rules, a top court official rules.


IronPort updates e-mail security appliances

E-mail security systems vendor IronPort Systems Inc. is releasing new versions of its C-Series line of Email Security Appliances, with features that make it easier for administrators to predict new virus outbreaks and manage e-mail security across corporate networks, the company said Monday.


United Air Creditors Oppose Deal With Pilots

United Airlines' creditors have joined the federal government in opposing a deal in which United would terminate its pilots' pension plan.


p2pnet.net News:- China says itâs achieved a world-first with its next generation Internet network CERNET2, the largest Internet Protocol Version 6 network anywhere.


Motorola Inc. , which has been losing market share amid criticism of its mobile phone line-up, on Thursday posted a quarterly loss as revenue fell amid weak phone sales.


Potrebbe essere uno straniero di circa 35 anni


At some stage in everyone's career  comes a desire to throw down tools and walk away, and plenty of  motivational books say you should resist that temptation. Now,  a new book says quitting can be a good strategy.


Afghan vote count resumes against backdrop of violence

The vote count in Afghanistan's historic election resumed with President Hamid Karzai far ahead of his rivals in early results, as a new surge in attacks left seven people dead, including two US soldiers.


A federal appeals court today cleared the way for Whole Foods Market to buy rival organic grocer Wild Oats Markets.


VALLEY FORGE, Pa. - A computer network outage at The Vanguard Group, which manages $1.1 trillion in mutual fund assets, temporarily left customers unable to access online accounts Thursday afternoon.


Veteran World Cup defender Eddie Pope is traded by the MetroStars to the expansion team Real Salt Lake on Tuesday for a foreign allocation and a draft pick.


Jeff Cunningham scored twice on a penalty kicks in the game's final minutes to give Real Salt Lake a 2-1 win over D.C. United on Saturday night.


Many Eastern European migrants living in the UK still spend no time with British people, a survey suggests.


BOLDFACE NAMES There Goes Our Last Chance to Talk to Mary Tyler ...

"God bless you for wanting to talk to a writer," said JAMES HERZFELD at the Los Angeles premiere of "Meet the Fockers" on Thursday.


Fino al 18 febbraio la quinta edizione del salone internazionalein cui 300 espositori propongono oggetti destinati a pochissimi                                            Guardare non costa nulla a Verona il lusso in fiera                                                                                Dalle borse d'oro e brillanti agli yacht e agli elicotteridalle bambole erotiche ai jeans lavorati con lo champagnedi ELENA DE STABILE


Vladimir Putin says he does not rule out running for Russia's presidency again in 2012 or 2016.


Phelps’s dominant performance pays off after all

ATHENS -- US swimmer Michael Phelps received bonuses of more than $1 million for his Olympic feats, even after missing out on Speedo's million-dollar offer for matching Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals, Phelps's manager said.


Thai PM in London for 'private' visit after coup

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in London for a "private" visit after the military coup in his homeland, amid deep uncertainty about the country's next step.


Roma, 17:35 - RUGBY, HEINEKEN CUP: TREVISO FIRMA PRIMA VITTORIA ITALIANA

La Benetton Treviso ha firmato la prima vittoria italiana stagionale nella Heineken Cup di rugby. Be...


North Korea has turned the enriched uranium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible nuclear strike by the United States, a North Korean minister said Monday.


Supermarket group Morrisons announces a fall in half-year profits, dragged down by losses across its recently acquired Safeway stores.


U.S. Details Some Data-Mining Programs, Hints at Others

News analysis: From probably helpful to definitely secretive, there's a whole lot of information being gathered and sifted. A pair of reports shed light on the government's data-mining programs.


HONG KONG A senior Chinese health official disclosed on Friday that her country had found a lethal strain of avian influenza among pigs at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus one step closer toward becoming a global problem for humans.


Bologna, 11:47 - CALCIO, KAKA': UNA VOLTA HO PENSATO DI LASCIARE IL MILAN

Ricardo Kakà, fantasista del Milan, si confessa in una intervista rilasciata al 'Guerin Sport...


Two men are jailed for posting  poisoned vodka bottles as part of a campaign for Scottish independence.


No case for extending terror limit, MPs say

Government and police yet to make convincing case for extending terror detention limits, says influential group of MPs


Il presidente del Senato a Cernobbio invoca 'piu' sobrieta''


Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, announced Thursday the sale of his independent production company Reveille to a British firm, the Shine Group, for $125 million.


Oscar-nominated writer Scott Frank is set to make his directorial debut on DreamWorks' "The Lookout."


Bob King, the architect of New Mexico basketball who never had a losing season while coaching the Lobos for 10 seasons, died Friday at 81.


An Indian rhino was born at the Buffalo Zoo this week, one of less than a dozen births in North America in the last decade, zoo officials said.


Bid for attention: Belgian puts his country on eBay

BRUSSELS - The keys of the kingdom were posted on eBay . Fed up with a three-month political standoff, a Belgian teacher posted an ad on the online auction site: "For Sale: Belgium, a Kingdom in three parts . . . free premium: the king and his court (costs not included)."


Motegi, 10:34 - MOTO, GP GIAPPONE; 250: POLE DI LORENZO SU DOVIZIOSO

Pole spagnola nella classe 250 del Gp del Giappone. Jorge Lorenzo (Aprilia) partirà davanti a...


Federal regulators on Wednesday fined CBS a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," which exposed the singer's breast during this year's Super Bowl halftime show.


Genova, 18:08 - CALCIO, SAMPDORIA: PROSEGUONO TRATTATIVE PER QUAGLIARELLA

Proseguono le trattative tra Sampdoria e Udinese. Oggetto il rinnovo della comproprietà dell'...


Ford has made a four-year commitment to the World Rally Championship, ending fears that they could pull out of that series as well as Formula One, reports Reuters.


Baseball: Schilling and Boston rise again, tying series

NEW YORK The Yankees are one loss from sinking to an inglorious place in baseball history. Their fans beat them to it Tuesday night.


Turkish warplanes fire into northern Iraq, the military says, targeting suspected Kurdish rebels.


Giorgio Armani Has Got Paris on his Mind

Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily January 21, 2005 - MILAN - Four days before Giorgio Armani sets out on his latest fashion frontier – staging his debut haute couture show in Paris at the age of 70 – the designer presented his fall/winter 2005/2006 men’s collection inspired by France’s most self-indulgent artist Jean Cocteau.


Italian airline Alitalia tells unions that 5,000 would have to go under a proposed rescue plan for the state carrier.


Morten Andersen became the leading scorer in NFL history Saturday night with a pair of extra points in the Atlanta Falcons' game against Dallas.


Resist the urge to say you will "wordsmith" your list of New Year's resolutions rather than write one. And don't utter, "It is what it is" when you fail to meet your first goal.


Bush to visit Ground Zero on eve of September 11

President George W. Bush on Sunday   will visit the site where New York's twin towers once stood, as   he marks the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks amid   an intensifying election-year debate over whether his policies   have made America safer or more vulnerable.


Red Bull Close to Deal with Jaguar Formula One Team

Austrian energy drink company Red Bull  is poised to take over the Jaguar Formula One team after weeks  of negotiations.


Qaeda vows violence campaign in North Africa: Web

Al Qaeda's North Africa wing said on Monday it was planning a violent campaign against "infidels" and government forces in the region and urged Muslims to stay away from possible targets.


BMW Unveils World's Fastest Hydrogen-Powered Car

German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the Paris auto show on Wednesday, dubbed the H2R, capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour.


VITAL SIGNS Habits: For Nicotine, a Too Happy Home

Why is it so hard to quit smoking cigarettes? One reason may be that nicotine acts on the same brain system in humans as heroin and morphine, a new study has found.


Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has challenged his side to build upon yesterdayâs 3-1 victory at Newcastle and rekindle their Barclays Premiership title hopes.


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Roma, 19:12 - CALCIO, LAZIO: STAFFETTA MAURI-DEL NERO, MUSLERA TRA I PALI

Contro l'Atalanta, Delio Rossi sembra intenzionato a riproporre lo stesso undici che martedÃ¬ ad Aten...


Southbound air traffic grounded Radio, radar outage halts travel ...

Airline flights destined for airports within a huge swath of the southwestern United States were halted for several hours Tuesday when the region's radio and radar system broke down, according to Bay Area airport officials.


Scientists have high hopes for a new mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.


Genova, 16:48 - CALCIO, COZZA DAL GENOA AL SIENA

Il centrocampista del Genoa Francesco Cozza Ã¨ passato al Siena con la formula della comproprietÃ . Co...


At least 23 people are killed in triple car bomb attacks in Samarra, north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.


Gambling on the flu: The vaccine shortage

â-nless you work on Capitol Hill or are willing to trek across the Canadian border, your chances of receiving a flu shot just reached Lotto-like proportions.


OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma Olympic legend spoke out Monday on the controversy surrounding the gold medal won last week by American gymnast Paul Hamm.


The Pentagon appoints a retired general to review its Iraq operations, amid growing concern about security.


South-Eastern Europe reels from a wave of extremely hot weather that has killed more than 30 people.


Actor Glenn Ford died on Wednesday   in his Beverly Hills home, police said. He was 90.


The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration said on Tuesday it was creating an independent  drug safety board after the agency's monitoring of drugs  already in the marketplace was criticized amid the withdrawal  of arthritis drug Vioxx.


Music at the movies for rock-heavy Berlin festival

Music comes to the movies at the Berlin  Film Festival this year, with the Rolling Stones and Madonna  expected on the red carpet and a heavy metal band from Baghdad  banging heads on the big screen.


ADIC combines disk, tape in new storage appliance

Advanced Digital Information (ADIC) has announced a mid-level storage system that combines disk and tape in a single appliance, the Pathlight VX 2.0.


Cagliari, 19:55 - CALCIO, CAGLIARI: CON LA JUVE A CENTROCAMPO TORNA FINI

Nel Cagliari impegnato contro la Juve all'Olimpico fuori Biondini per squalifica, Ballardini sembra ...


Here's how to reach your financial goals and get your beauty rest.


Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll.


Suicide bombers rammed a dump truck packed with 1,500 pounds of explosives into a combat outpost yesterday and then slammed a car loaded with bombs into an Army patrol on its way to respond to the first attack.


A new front has been opened in the long-dormant browser war, with an open-source program called Firefox aiming to challenge Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer.


Serbian actors busted during faux robbery

Serbian police surprised a group of actors when they busted a faux robbery being staged for the big screen outside of Belgrade, Sky News reported Wednesday.


Japanese car firms record lower sales in August compared to a year earlier, as demand slows.


Chiamparino a funerali operaio Thyssen: 'fare giustizia'


Britain's Blair Meets Middle East Leaders to Push Peace Efforts

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is seeking to revive Middle East peace efforts, including arrangements for an international conference he hopes to host early next year.


Treviso, 20:35 - CALCIO, TREVISO: I CONVOCATI PER IL RIMINI

Il tecnico del Treviso Giuseppe Pillon ha convocato i seguebnti giocatori per la gara con il Rimini:...


Accolto ricorso prescrizione reati ai danni 2 impiegati Enel


Music from politically themed films  were top Oscar winners on Sunday.


Bomb Blasts in Baghdad Kill at Least 35, Wound 120

Insurgents detonated three car bombs near a US military convoy in southern Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 35 people and wounding around 120, many of them children, officials and doctors said.


Obama and Clinton tied in Iowa; Edwards close

DES MOINES, Iowa  - Democrat Barack Obama pulled even with Hillary Clinton in Iowa, with John Edwards close behind, in a tightening three-way race one day before the first presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.


Dopo scarcerazione islamico Daki, ministro: Csm intervenga


Global sportswear brand Nike has reassured market analysts with quarterly sales above expectations.


Iran's president says Holocaust now up for debate

The Holocaust is now a subject of serious debate, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.


Kitzbuehel, 15:40 - SCI, CDM UOMINI: CLASSIFICA GENERALE

Ecco la classifica della Coppa del Mondo maschile di sci alpino dopo 24 delle 41 gare in calendario:...


An international forum including China and Russia expressed support Saturday for an Asian to be the next head of the United Nations.


Communist leaders called Tuesday for the revolutionary ideals of ailing leader Fidel Castro to live on as they marked the 50th anniversary of a failed attempt to assassinate dictator Fulgencio Batista.


ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Everyone talks about the smile, the ever-present indicator that life is good and that baseball has been very, very good to him.


ATHENS, Ga. - It's news that would make Jackie Gleason shout out his trademark "And away we go!" A new "lost" episode of the classic 1950s TV comedy "The Honeymooners" has been uncovered in the Peabody Awards archive at the University of Georgia...


Yankees playoff hopes hit by loss to Blue Jays

The New York Yankees' hopes of gaining an automatic playoff spot suffered a setback with a 4-1 home defeat by the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.


Oil eased on Thursday after crude stocks piled up in top consumer the United States and weighed heavy on amply-supplied markets.


Prisoner Abuse Suspect Faces German Court

MANNHEIM, Germany - A key suspect in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison voiced fear he was being made a scapegoat when he was asked to turn over a laptop computer and other evidence suspected of containing photos of the maltreatment, an investigator told a U.S. military court Monday...


Dems' Ad Buys Show Race Down to 14 States

Sen. John Kerry and the Democratic Party are limiting television advertising to just 14 states as the fall campaign opens, curbing their ambitions for a broader playing field against President Bush. The shift reduces Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and four Southern states to second-tier status.


David Coulthard has been given a glimmer of hope by F1âs newest team Red Bull Racing. The Scot is fighting for his F1 future after parting company with McLaren at the end of the future.


Bear Stearns not planning to bail out second fund: source

Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  is not  currently planning to bail out a second hedge fund that has  suffered big losses, a source close to the matter said on  Tuesday.


Airbus Sees Mobile Phones On Planes By 2006

European planemaker Airbus reported progress on Wednesday in plans to allow passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006.


By -- Alejandro Guzman  Welcome to your latest print edition of valleynews.com where San Fernando Valley citizens participate in sharing news and information with the rest of the community.


BEIJING Sept. 20, 2004 - President Hu Jintao's new status as commander of China's military should strengthen efforts to fight corruption and control a surging economy, forcing resistant lower-level officials


Driving Forces: Saving Money at the Gas Pump

Washington is finally tackling fuel-economy reform. But any payoff is years away. How best to save money on gas right now? The answer may surprise you.


AMD's Spansion unveils new flash memory products

Spansion, the flash memory joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu, unveiled two products that introduce a new design into Spansion's lineup and expand the density of its current products, the company said Tuesday.


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Millions Celebrate Christmas Across Globe

Worshippers brought hopes for greater peace in the coming year as they flocked to Manger Square in Bethlehem and to St. Peter's in the Vatican to hear Christmas messages urging an end to violence, particularly in the Middle East. But from Indonesia to Iraq, fear overshadowed the festivities.


Losail, 18:38 - SUPERBIKE, TEST LOSAIL: MIGLIOR TEMPO PER BAYLISS

L'austrialiano Troy Bayliss (Ducati) è stato il piÃ¹ veloce nella prima giornata dei test Pire...


Roma, 12:30 - CALCIO, SEEDORF: IN ITALIA IGNORANZA E PAURA PER DIVERSITA'

''In Italia non c'è razzismo, si tratta piÃ¹ che altro di ignoranza e paura di certe realt&agr...


Agassi stays alive with five-set win over Baghdatis

Andre Agassi kept his U.S. Open tennis   campaign alive and staved off retirement again with a 6-4 6-4   3-6 5-7 7-5 victory over a battling Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus   to reach the third round on Thursday.


Arafat Seriously Ill but in Stable Condition

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was said to be seriously ill but in stable condition Thursday as a team of international doctors prepared


Milano, 15:52 - CALCIO, AZZURRI: ZAMBROTTA E AMBROSINI IN GRUPPO

Gianluca Zambrotta e Massimo Ambrosini tornano a disposizione del ct della nazionale Roberto Donadon...


Even as His Profile Rises,  Campbell Stays Grounded

Jason Campbell enters the Redskins' three-day minicamp as the team's undisputed leader on the field yet remains unassuming.


Iraq forces Gates to pick new top officer

The Bush administration said on Friday it would not renominate Gen. Peter Pace as the top U.S. military officer, avoiding a contentious debate with the Democratic-led Congress over unpopular Iraq war.


Economy sends mixed signals, but stocks still rise

WASHINGTON - America's consumers came off a buying binge and were somewhat less jolly spenders in November. New-home sales, meanwhile, cooled from a record high, while demand for big-ticket manufactured goods rebounded.


We asked the novelist what he's watching, reading, and listening to.


Government keeps control of Web domain group ICANN

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


Milano, 10:14 - CALCIO, CAMPANA: SOSTA UTILE, NON SIAMO INGLESI

Sergio Campana, presidente dell'Assocalciatori, considera utilissima la lunga sosta natalizia nei ca...


Roma, 18:34 - ATLETICA, MONDIALI: BEKELE CORRERA' SOLO I 10000 METRI

L'etiope Kenenisa Bekele non correrà 5.000 e 10.000 metri ai Mondiali di atletica che si disp...


MILWAUKEE - Joe Bee Xiong said hunting is a key part of life for many Hmong. But after a St. Paul, Minn., Hmong man was arrested Sunday in the shooting death of six hunters, Xiong is advising all hunters to stay home.


Operazione da 166 milioni di euro, annuncia il finanziere


Update: Groove unveils customizable collaboration templates

Groove Networks on Monday rolled out a set of downloadable templates designed to offer ready-to-use forms for collaborative processes such as marketing programs, competitive intelligence, incident tracking, and HR (human resources).


China's top leaders meet to improve party's grip

BEIJING - China's top communist leaders met behind closed doors yesterday for a key meeting aimed at shoring up its 'ruling capacity' amid swirling rumours of the possible retirement of ageing strongman Jiang Zemin.


Wall Street was sharply higher as investors shrugged off concerns about problems in the bond insurance industry.


ASIA/BIRMANIA - La Birmania vive una delle epidemie di Hiv/Aids piÃ¹ serie che abbiano colpito il paese, con 360 mila contagi ed una prevalenza dellÂ1,3% di casi tra gli adulti Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Secondo il coordinatore del Programma Globale di Accesso alla Salute che ha sede a Los Angeles, lÂelevato numero di casi di Hiv registrati tra la popolazione al confine indiano con la Birmania costituisce una minaccia seria per...


As lawmakers discuss adjustments to Virginia's budget, they will see that the state's share of health care costs continues to be one of the driving forces.


The NCAA alleges Oklahoma failed to adequately monitor the employment of several athletes, including some football players who worked during the academic year.


French President Chirac's ruling party risks losing its outright majority in an indirect vote to the Senate.


Boeing's Carson says 787 jet on schedule

The chief of Boeing Co.'s  commercial airplanes unit said on Wednesday the company's hot-selling 787 Dreamliner, which is crucial to Boeing's financial prospects, is on schedule for first test flight next year and first customer delivery in 2008.


GE raises dividend, sets 2007 profit target

General Electric Co.  said on Tuesday that it was raising its quarterly dividend by 12 percent, and that it expects to report a profit of $2.17 to $2.23 per share in 2007.


A list of major terrorist incidents blamed mostly on Chechen militants since 1995:


African leaders end their summit in Ghana without reaching agreement on setting up a pan-African government.


Several hurt as earthquake rocks Indonesia

Powerful earthquake damages buildings and injures several people in Indonesia but does not trigger a feared tsunami


Sekondi, 23:33 - CALCIO, COPPA D'AFRICA: COSTA D'AVORIO IN SEMIFINALE

La Costa d'Avorio si è qualificata per le semifinali di coppa d'Africa battendo nei quarti la...


Rwandans hope Darfur presence will halt violence

EL FASHER, Sudan -- As the sun set over this desert camp, Private Lambert Sendegeya, an African Union soldier from Rwanda, popped in a tape of music from his country and launched into a series of leg bends. Lieutenant Eugene Ruzianda peered from his canvas tent and, removing his green beret, joined the evening exercises.


IRAQ: CROCE ROSSA ITALIANA RESTA A BAGHDAD

Le notizie, circa l'allarme lanciato da un'informativa dei servizi, che indicano il personale Cri quale eventuale obiettivo dell'anonima sequestri irachena, non cambiano i piani di lavoro della missione se non sotto il profilo di un innalzamento dei


Top-ranked Boston College dominated the first two periods, but Providence came on in the third and emerged with a 2-2 tie at Schneider Arena last night.


Yahoo Inc. will introduce new features Monday for its popular Web-based e-mail program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to someone's cell phone.


UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett says violence in Gaza is "deeply alarming" and joins calls for a ceasefire.


The board of Societe Generale pored over the fate of its chairman on Wednesday, torn between political pressure to dump him over a trading scandal and the need to close ranks against potential predator BNP Paribas.


Combs Ordered to Pay $35,000 a Month Child Support

Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs was ordered to pay $35,000 a month in child support for the 10-year-old son he had with fashion stylist Misa Brim, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.


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Sarkozy's ex-wife loses case to stop book

The ex-wife of French President Nicolas  Sarkozy on Friday lost an attempt to hold up publication of a  book in which she is quoted as describing her former husband in  unflattering terms.


The average U.S. retail price of  gasoline fell slightly over the last two weeks to about $1.86 a  gallon, restoring a trend of declines after a modest increase  late last month, according to the nationwide Lundberg survey of  about 7,000 gas stations released on Sunday.


Google sued for 'crimes against humanity'

Brin and Page face $5bn payout A Pennsylvania crusader has slapped Google with a $5bn lawsuit, claiming that the world's largest search engine is endangering his personal safety.â¦


AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Nomina del Vescovo di Solwezi CittÃ  del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI in data 30 maggio 2007 ha nominato Vescovo di Solwezi (Zambia) il Rev. Alick Banda, Cancelliere della diocesi di Ndola e Docente di Diritto Canonico in vari Istituti Ecclesiastici di Z...


L'ad del gruppo ha acquistato titoli per 3,4 milioni di euro


General Motors Corp. GM.N said on  Thursday it expects earnings this year to fall due to lower  profits at its financial services unit and a $1 billion rise in  health-care costs.


Rare retrial opens for blind China activist

The retrial of a blind Chinese legal expert began on Monday, after an appeals court overturned his controversial conviction for damaging property, but not before one of his lawyers was detained, witnesses said.


EU Ministers Agree to Digital Fingerprinting

In a bid to improve security, ministers from five EU countries said today they hoped to start digital fingerprinting for passports in 2006, but they split over a German proposal to put illegal migrants in transit camps in North Africa.


Microsoft Sharpens Its Software Factory Vision

VANCOUVER, British ColumbiaâIn a speech at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applicationsâor OOPSLAâconference here, Microsoft Corp.


Cable Companies Going After Telephone Customers

By Andrew D. Smith, The Dallas Morning News  Jun. 20--Time Warner Cable is striking back at phone company television.   The TV giant has already wired more than half the Dallas region for a new kind of phone service. The rest should be online by year's end.


At least nine people have died and  dozens more are injured, after a trio of bomb attacks in the Philippines.


Capacious but costly SanDisk yesterday dealt its most capacious SD memory card yet: a 32GB SDHC that it expects to see on store shelves in April priced at $350 (Â£176/â¬235).â¦


Gene Tweaking Turns Couch Potato Mice Into Racers

Altering a single gene turned ordinary mice into marathon racers that could run for hours and eat huge amounts of food without getting fat, a team of researchers reported on Monday.


Nuovo record indice Dow Jones, oltre 12.750 punti


US BitTorrent servers shut down under Hollywood pressure

Some most popular web servers that publish lists of movies, TV shows and other free downloads suddenly went dark Monday, after Hollywood sued operators for copyright infringement.


Hijackers of Athens bus give up to police

Two armed men who hijacked a bus carrying two dozen passengers in Athens yesterday, and threatened to blow it up freed their remaining hostages last night and surrendered to police.


All he wanted were the facts. But Dick Cheney ended up generating confusion_ and lots of it.


Settlement hopes dim in Boeing-Airbus trade clash

Prospects for a speedy settlement in the tit-for-tat transatlantic clash over aircraft subsidies appeared dim on Wednesday as a case involving Boeing Co  resumed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).


Like candidates trying to sway voters on Election Day, Kanye West and 50 Cent will appear on BET's "106 & Park" on Tuesday, when both their heavily anticipated albums hit the stores.


They couldn't be more different. One is the prototype quarterback, seemingly built using the create-a-player function from a video game, standing tall in the pocket and firing laser beams across the field.


Torino, 11:38 - CALCIO, JUVE: UN ANNO PER AVER LANCIATO PETARDO

Nicola Ravasio, il 26enne che domenica ha lanciato un petardo dagli spalti dell'Olimpico di Torino d...


Webb Toys With Tactics and the Field in Winning the Mile

Alan Webb remains Americaâs best young miler, but at 24, he is still learning and still experimenting.


RIO DE JANEIRO, July 6 -- Magazine surveys have called the residents here the friendliest in the world, the local music can melt stress on contact, and geological terms seem less apt than religious ones for the spectacular landscape.


Santos, 09:07 - CALCIO, COPPA LIBERTADORES: GREMIO IN FINALE

La formazione brasiliana del Gremio si è qualificata per la finale della Coppa Libertadores n...


LAS VEGAS, Oct. 14 -- John F. Kerry rolled out a new campaign speech packed with populist rhetoric and sharp indictments of the Bush administration Thursday, while President Bush sounded the theme he will take to voters in the next 2 1/2 weeks: that Kerry is a big-government Massachusetts liberal.


Libya Is Enticing U.S. Executives With Its Abundant Oil Reserves

At a time when oil around the world is harder to come by, Libya is dangling the rights to explore and develop new sources of petroleum.


Home appliance firm Whirlpool agrees to sell the Hoover vacuum cleaner business to Techtronic Industries for $107m.


Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday threw his support behind efforts to craft a fiscal stimulus package and repeated that the U.S. central bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks.


The head of Oslo's Munch museum appeals to thieves who stole The Scream not to destroy it.


NAACP President Kweisi Mfume plans to announce he is stepping down as the head of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group, a spokesman said Tuesday.


'Forgotten' Earns $22M to Top Box Office

LOS ANGELES Sept. 26, 2004 - It's been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like "The Forgotten," which claimed the No.


Lou Diamond Phillips is charged with domestic battery over an alleged incident involving his girlfriend.


David Letterman's idea of cheating is apparently much more severe than Jimmie Johnson's.


Supporters of fox hunting are expected to take part in the practice on the last day before it is banned.


N.Korea Wants Urgent Atom Talks, UN Tells Yonhap

North Korea wants to restart six-party talks on its nuclear programs urgently but still wants certain conditions met, a top U.N. official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency on Thursday.


NASA's longest-serving astronaut retiring

His first space flight was in 1965 when he piloted the first manned Gemini mission. Later he made two trips to the moon -- orbiting during a 1969 flight and then walking on the lunar surface during a mission in 1972.


DALLAS, July 10  â D. R. Horton, the home builder, said Tuesday that it would post a loss for the just-ended quarter after net orders fell 40 percent and it wrote down the value of unsold houses.


Airlines and activists unite  to fight Stansted plan

Â· Inquiry into 10m increase in Stansted passengersÂ· Airlines say BAA scheme would put up prices


Depression Hits U.S. Blacks Harder Than Whites

THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans are more likely than whites to suffer severe, untreated and disabling depression, U.S. research shows.


Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Crosby makes the tough but wise decision

Knowing when to back off is as much the mark of a top drawer chief executive as the determination and vision needed to push through controversial strategies and acquisitions, so James Crosby shouldn't be criticised too much for the decision to pull out of


As Subway strikes back at mockery in a Quiznos-sponsored video contest, it has sparked a novel legal question: Whoâs liable for the videosâ claims?


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The reintroduction of wild wolves into the Scottish Highlands is likely to benefit the area's ecosystem, a study concludes.


H&R Block loses bid for dismissal of IRA lawsuit

H&R Block Inc.  has failed to win the dismissal of a lawsuit by former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accusing it of fraudulently marketing Express IRA retirement accounts that caused hundreds of thousands of mostly lower-income clients to lose money.


The New York Islanders finally found free agents willing to sign, inking All-Star forward Bill Guerin to a two-year contract and center Mike Comrie to a one-year deal on a busy Thursday.


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


OPEC Chief: Concerned with Oil Price Rise

OPEC President Purnomo Yusgiantoro said  on Friday he was concerned with the continuing rise in global  oil prices, but the cartel had not yet seen a cost-driven  increase in inflation.


RIM to offer Lotus Connections on BlackBerry

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion   plans to offer IBM's  Lotus Connections  business networking software as a free download later this  year, the company said on Wednesday.


Amelie Mauresmo beat Kim Clijsters 6-4 7-6 in the Diamond Games final on Sunday, becoming the first player to win the event's diamond-studded racket estimated to be worth one million euros (674,000 pounds).


I will not be padlocked to US Tour, says Els

Ernie Els, who today begins his attempt to win the World Match Play title for a record sixth time, is in dispute with the PGA Tour in the States over how many of their tournaments he should play each season.


Tycho:  My heart went out to the woman in the recent clip for Dungeons and Dragons: Stormreach.  At one point, a green face is shown.  Maybe it was a jade face.  Anyway, it looked like it was entrance to a dungeon that I had no interest in raiding for ancient wealth.  Your dungeon entrance says something about you as a subterranean civilization, and this one said that I could avoid it altogether, and not miss much.


Fire, Logging Threaten Borneo's Rich Ecosystem

Massive fires that ravaged Indonesia's vast tropical rain forests over the last decade are remaking one of the richest biological landscapes on the planet.


NJ jury awards plaintiff $20 mln in Vioxx case

A New Jersey found on Monday that Merck & Co. Inc.'s  withdrawn arthritis drug Vioxx was responsible for a plaintiff's heart attack and awarded him $20 million in compensatory damages.


Putin rules out changes to Constitution in medium term

MOSCOW, November 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has ruled out the possibility of amendments to the Constitution in the foreseeable future.