Juventus-Milan Per Ancelotti l'albitro ideale Ã¨ Collina

Per Carletto Ancelotti, Collina sarebbe l'arbitro ideale per dirigere Juventus-Milan di sabato sera al Delle Alpi di Torino. Â«Gli arbitri li conosco tutti bene - dice il tecnico del Milan - anche se alcuni hanno piÃ¹ qualitÃ .


Microsoft Warns Spyware Could Foul Up System

Microsoft said some spyware could cause computers to freeze up upon installation of the SP2 update. Microsoft recommends that users clean their PCs of spyware and back up their data before


An explosion in a chemical works on an industrial estate sends a fireball 40ft into the air.


Tirato in ballo da telefonata Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia


Rap Singer Snoop Dogg Sues Woman, Lawyers

Rap singer Snoop Dogg has sued a woman and her attorneys for extortion, alleging they demanded $5 million to keep silent about an alleged assault against her, according to a lawsuit.


In Writers Strike, Signs of Internal Discontent Over Tactics

Some writers wonder whether the guildâs militant tactics are actually doing more damage than good.


Amazon.com Inc posted a decline in profit margins on Wednesday as the impact of its discounting overshadowed quarterly earnings and a sales forecast that topped Wall Street targets.


Home Depot warns of falling profit, but company seems well-positioned to ride out the housing storm.


Apple finally launches Canadian ITunes service

ITunes finally launched in Canada on Thursday, bringing with it over 700,000 songs, exclusive tracks, celebrity playlists and multiple CD burning rights.


Wall Street retreats after economic data

Wall Street retreated Thursday after new housing data showed sales surged in April by its biggest amount in 14 years, dampening hopes an interest rate cut would be needed to stimulate the economy.


'Determinazione al dialogo e all'impegno comune per la pace'


Officials Fear Iraq's Lure for Muslims in Europe

Intelligence officials fear that for a new generation of disaffected European Muslims, Iraq has become a new holy war.


'Astronaut Farmer' lacks the right stuff

The far-fetched Billy Bob Thornton vehicle struggles to get off the launchpad.


Reclusive Austrian writer is awarded Nobel Prize

PARIS Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive Austrian novelist and playwright who is well known in the German-speaking world for works that denounce sexual violence and oppression and rightist extremism in Austria, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on


TWO US Marines were killed in Iraq's Baghdad province, the marines said in a statement which gave no further details. The deaths followed the killing of eight marines over the weekend in the restive western Al-Anbar province.


Group Claims Russian Plane Crashes- Web Site

An Islamist group has claimed that it hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an Internet statement posted on Friday.


should brace for even more losses as they pursue insurgents bent on wrecking an election scheduled for January. personnel have died here in the first three and half weeks of the month.


Guild says it won't picket Grammy Awards

The striking Hollywood writers guild said Tuesday it will refrain from picketing the upcoming Grammy Awards, possibly allowing the music ceremony to escape the fate of the wrecked Golden Globes show.


Champions League: Group H - roundup including Duffers Robben the ...

Chelsea ensured their place in the last 16 of this year's Champions League with a 1-0 win over CSKA Moscow. A quite spellbinding piece of football between Damien Duff and Arjen Robben, who by the way are not


Kaiserslautern sub Selim Teber probably kept coach Kurt Jara in his post with two late goals in a 2-1 Bundesliga victory over Arminia Bielefeld.


Treasuries Bounce After Soft Chicago Data

U.S. Treasury debt prices rallied on  Thursday, more than undoing losses posted earlier this week as  a survey of Chicago-area manufacturing pointed to a slowdown in  hiring.


Mob sets train ablaze in Bangladesh protests

DHAKA, BANGLADESH -- An angry mob set fire to a passenger train and protesters clashed with police across Bangladesh yesterday, leaving dozens of people injured, as violence spread a day after a grenade attack on an opposition rally killed 19 people and


Russian President Vladimir Putin promotes a close ally in a reshuffle ahead of next year's presidential elections.


Hemophiliacs Infected with AIDS through Domestic Blood Products

Research results have been released that indicate that some hemophiliacs may have been infected with AIDS because of domestic blood coagulation products.


A senior Iranian official suggests France could help solve the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.


Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is undergoing treatment for throat cancer, a band spokesman has said.


Australia rethinks migrant citizenship test

A high failure rate among migrants  sitting a citizenship exam introduced by Australia's former  conservative government has prompted a re-think of the  controversial test, criticized by some as racist.


Australia beat battling Wales and eye England showdown

Two-time champions Australia beat Wales 32-20 in a bruising World Cup clash at the Millennium Stadium here on Saturday to virtually make sure of avoiding South Africa in the last eight.


More than 250 protesting dairy farmers stop delivery trucks from getting into an Asda distribution depot.


It was no wonder Kelly Holmes took an age to complete her lap of honour after clinching Britain's seventh gold medal of the Games in a thrilling 800m final.


UN Warns Darfur Falling Into Anarchy, Lawlessness

Sudan's Darfur region could fall into anarchy unless the 15-nation Security Council takes bold action and thousands of African Union troops arrive quickly, a senior UN official warned on Thursday.


US industrial production jumped the most in three months in October, housing starts surged and consumer prices rose, suggesting the Federal Reserve may keep raising its benchmark interest rate.


Punch Taverns, the acquisitive tenanted pubs owner, has swallowed a further 1,064 pubs, taking its estate to more than 8,000 sites.


French superfast rail link to Germany starts working life

The first high-speed rail link between France and Germany began scheduled services Sunday, slashing travel times and marking a major step towards a truly pan-European rapid transit network.


Former world number one Martina Hingis is  planning to make a one-off return to the WTA tour, more than  two years after her last professional match.


A proven way to find real cost of health care

With the first ministers meeting in Ottawa, governments at last seem to be heading down the right track. For the first time in years, the tough questions about the true costs associated with specific health


No longer feared by rivals, Serena just sheep in wolf's clothing

MUCH of the New York mentality these days is governed by what is said on late-night television talk shows. So when one particular inquisitor asked Maria Sharapova to explain how she was able to dismantle such


Turkey's parliament on Saturday approved the first of two constitutional amendments that would lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves in universities despite the fierce opposition of the secular establishment.


I giornali britannici puntano il dito contro 'Espiazione'. Sarebbe troppo simile a 'No Time for Romance', un libro di memorie di Lucilla Andrews morta il mese scorso                                            Plagio, scandalo a Londra per McEwan  Ma lo scrittore nega: "Non ho copiato"                                                                                Replica il romanziere: "Mi sono solo ispirato". L'ex agente della scrittrice: "Doveva consultarla"


Three U.N. Hostages Freed in Afghanistan

Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed unharmed Tuesday, almost four weeks  after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the  capital Kabul, the United Nations said.


GE posts profit in line with expectations

General Electric Co  on Friday posted a profit that met expectations on strong demand for heavy equipment such as jet engines and electricity-producing turbines.


Mexico's defense will be bolstered for tomorrow night's game against Brazil at Gillette Stadium. Barcelona's Rafa Marquez arrived in Boston yesterday, a late addition to the roster,


A Southwest Airlines plane headed from Chicago to San Diego Wednesday afternoon was evacuated after a passenger found a written bomb threat in a magazine inside the plane, authorities said.


A well-researched study by the National Academy of Sciences makes a persuasive case for refurbishing the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, which is reluctant to take this mission, should rethink its position.


Bomb Kills Former Lebanese Prime Minister

A massive bomb tore through the motorcade of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who resigned last fall following a sharp dispute with Syria, killing him and at least nine other people Monday.


Ukraine Opposition Converges on President's Office

Thousands of demonstrators pressing to  install Ukraine's opposition leader as president after a  disputed election vowed to protest on the streets of the  capital for the third day on Wednesday.


The sounds of tinkling bells could be heard above the bustle of the Farmers Market on the Long Beach Promenade, leading shoppers to a row of bright red tin kettles dotting a pathway Friday.


Philip Morris Knew of Passive Smoke Danger in 1982

Philip Morris, one of the nation's biggest manufacturers of tobacco products, conducted a study in 1982 that revealed the dangers of passive smoking.


Baseball's Winter Hearth Is Burning Hot on Cash

After two winters that seemed to point to a downward trend in salaries, it is good to be a free agent again.


Some Question Background of Unit's Leader

Inexperienced personnel cited as a risk to espionage work.


The US Department of Justice has targeted a group known as the Underground Network for its first criminal investigation into intellectual property piracy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.


Milano, 18:05 - CALCIO, COPPA ITALIA: MERCOLEDI' SORTEGGIO IN LEGA

La Lega calcio ha reso noto che il sorteggio per stabilire l'ordine di svolgimento delle gare dei qu...


A disgruntled employee shot and seriously wounded three co-workers at a menu printing plant Monday, then killed himself before a SWAT team entered the building, authorities said.


Italy's government and its fashion chiefs are working on a manifesto to crack down on the use of ultra-thin teenagers on the catwalk, as pressure grows on the fashion world to promote healthier looks.


The metamorphosis of a Communist Party expatriate to business consultant mirrors China's shift from a closed-door state to a freewheeling money-making society.


US-led airstrike kills 7 afghan children

Seven children were killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike targeting suspected al-Qaida militants in eastern Afghanistan, a coalition statement said Monday. The strike came hours after the deadliest insurgent attack since the Taliban fell in 2001.


Shares and currencies drop in Asia after a massive underwater earthquake sent giant waves crashing into coastlines across the region.


Even the most convention-bound theatergoers will remain shock-free through this alternately garish and pallid revival of Jerry Herman's 1983 musical.


Rahul Bose thinks he will be a great dad!

Rahul Bose is a 'chained' person. Bonding with his 13-year-old co-star Zain Khan in Ken Ghosh's children's film "Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii has made him conscious of the biological clock ticking way.


'Niente voto nel 2008, non interessa far tornare chi c'era'


Golfer Sjoland hits course record to take South Africa lead

Resurgent Swede Patrik Sjoland has produced a course record eight-under-par 64 to take the lead on 12-under 132 at the halfway mark in the South African Airways Open on an unusually calm day on the Humewood links.


Report: 'Huge Fortune' Spent on Media Influence

Unions and big communications companies spent more than $1.1 billion in their efforts to elect lawmakers and influence the government over the past half-decade, according to a report released Wednesday.


Mortar Fire Heard in Najaf After Peace Mission Stalls, AFP Says

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Mortar fire and gunshots were heard in Najaf a day after an Iraqi delegation failed to meet Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on a peace mission aimed at ending an uprising by the cleric's militia, Agence France-Presse said.


Blair Seeks to Shift Focus Away From Iraq

Prime Minister Tony Blair was hoping to use his party's annual conference to switch attention from Iraq to his campaign for a third term in office, but the unrelenting bloodshed in Iraq and the kidnapping of a British engineer are eclipsing the event.


Usefulness of hospital quality measures questioned

NEW YORK  - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.


Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney cast himself as more businessman than politician Sunday, as the one-time venture capitalist tried to differentiate himself from his rivals during his first townhall meeting in California.


Police Blame IRA for $50 Million Bank Robbery

Police in Northern Ireland on Friday blamed last month's $50 million bank robbery here on the outlawed Irish Republican Army, in a move that is certain to derail peacemaking efforts in the province.


The US Justice Department has agreed to defer prosecution of Computer Associates International Inc. (CA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in its long-running investigation of accounting fraud


Brazil coach Dunga says Argentina favorites

MARACAIBO, Venezuela  - Brazil coach Dunga on Friday declared Argentina as favorites to win the Copa America final against his team on Sunday.


The Armenian-controlled breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh was holding a presidential election Thursday amid a rumbling dispute with Azerbaijan over the mountainous enclave's unrecognized independence.


Scottish crooner Leon Jackson looks set to be the UK's Christmas number one after winning the X Factor.


Sharapova Downs Venus to Reach Zurich Semifinals

Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova beat  former world number one Venus Williams 6-3, 6-4 on Friday to  reach the semi-finals of the $1.3 million Zurich Challenge  event.


Will Ferrell's NASCAR spoof "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" enjoyed life in the fast lane with a No. 1 finish in the weekend box office race, taking in $47 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.


Oil Ends Lower Ahead of Long U.S. Weekend

World oil prices eased on Friday, with  shortened trading hours in New York and London, as traders  squared positions ahead of a long U.S. weekend.


Citizendium : A More Accurate & Accountable Wikipedia

Just came across Citizendium today which is taking advantage of the problems of spam and altered reality at Wikipedia by positioning itself as being more accurate & accountable. The project, started by [Larry Sanger] a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real [...]


As American children grow fatter and more out of shape, physical education classes are being found wanting. Experts say there's little accountability for P.E. teachers in most schools. They say the classes are often poorly run, and students don't spend much time in them anyway.


Charest trip to Mexico with France's Raffarin will weaken Canada: critics

QUEBEC (CP) - As Premier Jean Charest prepares for a trip to Mexico with French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, at least one federalist insists the trip will weaken Canada and its image on the international stage.


Space shuttle Atlantis lands in California

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California  - U.S. space shuttle Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Friday after a fiery descent through the Earth's atmosphere that capped a two-week mission to the International Space Station.


For producer Harry BawejaÂs son HarnamÂs launch film sheÂs being paid Rs. 2.5 crores- an unheard-of fee for a female actor in India.


David Duffield has resigned as PeopleSoft Inc.'s chief executive officer and chairman less than three months after taking over again as CEO at the company he founded and which is in the process of being acquired by rival Oracle Corp.


ALLERTA METEO, IN ARRIVO ROVESCI E VENTO FORTE AL CENTRO

ROMA - Rovesci e temporali, localmente anche intensi, accompagnati da forti raffiche di vento e frequente attivita' elettrica, a partire da domani mattina e per le seguenti 24-36 ore su Liguria, Toscana, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Umbria e Lazio.


MacCentral - When Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco last month to make his keynote speech, suspense was thick in the cavernous hall. But it wasn't the standard "What will he announce?" brand of suspense that has marked Apple Computer's recent events of this kind.


Mario Pino and Hard Spun take on the likes of Street Sense and Curlin in their last race together, the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic.


MELBOURNE -- No one has to say the Russians are coming. They're already here. Seven of the final 16 women at the Australian Open are from Russia, including Wimbledon champ Maria Sharapova, French Open winner Anastasia Myskina, and US Open victor Svetlana Kuznetsova. It could have been nine, but two others lost yesterday.


'Finche' non c'e' colpevole, per me sono tutti colpevoli'


Zurigo, 15:56 - CALCIO, MONDIALE CLUB: IPOTESI NUOVA SEDE NEL 2009

Nel 2009 il Mondiale per club potrebbe lasciare il Giappone. La manifestazione potrebbe traslocare i...


Finanziaria, Siniscalco ai sindacati "Non ci saranno condoni"

ROMA - Nessun condono, due tavoli su competitivitÃ  e prezzi e una diminuzione delle tasse per un totale di sei miliardi di euro nel 2005. Il taglio non sarÃ  varato il 29 settembre con la Finanziaria da 24


Salvation Army seeks volunteer bell-ringers

Last month, Target stores decided to no longer allow Salvation Army bell ringers to solicit in front of its stores. Now, with just a week until the bell ringing kick-off, the Salvation Army is scrambling to


U.S. files charges against 3 Guantanamo inmates

The first trials under a new system for trying foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, moved a step closer on Friday when a U.S. military prosecutor filed charges against three inmates.


Britons are paying 62 pence per person per year to support Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family, according to Buckingham Palace accounts.


Sir Menzies Campbell tweaks frontbench to face new-look Labour and Conservative teams.


Israeli troops killed two Palestinian gunmen in separate clashes in the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian sources said.


The lowdown on how antivirus software works and what it needs to do in the future. A section is a series on security basics.


A pair of bombings tore through crowded public areas in the southern city of Hyderabad on Saturday night, killing 28 people and wounding dozens more, officials said.


Ministers will unveil plans to give health workers are to be given more protection against attacks in communities.


NY teenager accused of cutting Sikh student's hair

A Pakistani student at a New York City high school was charged with a hate crime on Friday, accused of cutting the waist-length hair of a 15-year-old Sikh.


Anna Nicole Smith left the chicken shack for the Playboy Mansion and reality TV stardom. She got what she wanted, but tragedy stuck to her like lint.


The President lifted his game, and challenger Kerry, despite some fudges and fuzziness, also scored points. The series is tied 1-1.


Letterman Fall Adds to Dakides' Star Power

Tara Dakides is one of the most decorated and influential athletes at the Winter X Games, someone who can't walk through a ski resort without being recognized. She can thank David Letterman for that. What would have been just another appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" last February turned into a media frenzy when Dakides went flying off a makeshift snowboarding ramp outside the studio and fell onto the street below.


US biotech firm in new human cloning claim

Hwang on a minute... An obscure California biotech company says it has cloned the first embryos from adult human DNA. It's a claim that has been made by frauds and crackpot cults in the past, but the news been greeted with a sceptical welcome by other scientists.â¦


The Met Office is celebrating 150 years by unveiling a new supercomputer which they predict will put them at the forefront of weather forecasting.


In Milan, Prada unveils a new man. Heâs already housebroken.


The general public can now register website names ending .mobi as part of a shake-up of the mobile web.


Arctic boom town lit up by gas development

A 100-metre-high flame from  a new gas plant symbolizes the rebirth of Hammerfest, which  claims to be the world's northernmost town and is seeing its  fortunes transformed by fossil fuels found off its coast.


SUNRISE, Fla. - President Bush on Saturday questioned Sen...


Filmmaker Ken Burns chronicles WWII from bottom up

Ken Burns, one of America's greatest visual historians, unveils his most ambitious television project yet on Sunday, a seven-part, 15-hour documentary that tells the story of World War II "from the bottom up."


Twitter doubly dead for some TMobile users

TMobile is blocking Twitter SMS, but users won't notice since the service is going offline for 12 hours on Saturday.


Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill says two men arrested for the airport attack are not Scottish.


In passerella abiti ispirati al pittore metafisico


U.S. lawmakers squared off on Tuesday over President George W. Bush's troop buildup in Iraq, with Democrats declaring Americans had lost faith in the war and Republicans warning against undermining the U.S. struggle with terrorism.


TB Carrier's Case Called Less Severe Than Believed

The strain of tuberculosis infecting Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who was the object of an international hunt by public health authorities in May, turns out not to be as dangerous as doctors originally thought.


The Wake Forest offense gives Maryland fits all night in a 38-24 win for the Demon Deacons -- the school's first win over the Terps in the last eight tries.


Democrats make all-night push for change in Iraq

A weary and sharply divided U.S. Senate headed on Wednesday toward a showdown vote on an apparently doomed Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008.


Manchester United stops Arsenal's record 49-game unbeaten streak in the English Premier League with a 2-0 victory at Old Trafford.


A finer, mellow blend of phone and PDA, PalmOne launched the Treo 650 in the US yesterday. There are changes on the outside and changes on the inside - some cosmetic, some ergonomic, and some fundamentally technical.


E' l'unico paletto, mi auguro siano imprenditori italiani


Brian Leetch, the Rangersâ second-leading career scorer and the highest-scoring defenseman in the teamâs history was honored Thursday at the garden as the team retired his number.


GamesAreFun has screenshots and info on the upcoming PStwo that will be released in the US on November 1. In other Playstation news, Yahoo!


Calpers, the biggest US pension fund, said on Thursday that it had tendered its 1.5 million shares of PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT) to Oracle Corp.


For Hong Kong's democracy activists, the results of legislative elections announced yesterday suggest that the deck will remain stacked against them for years to come.


As one VoIP provider is laid to rest, another is born. Ooma today launched its long-awaited Internet-based telephone offering for consumers. While the company is entering into a crowded market, Ooma is hoping to entice customers with a promising offer: free domestic calls for life.


West Bank town unites amid Palestinian divisions

SHYOUKH, West Bank  - Life is booming in one hilltop West Bank town despite a year of crippling Western sanctions against a Hamas-led government and recent bloodshed elsewhere between rival Palestinian factions.


Obesity Lowers Odds of Surviving Breast Cancer

NEW YORK  - Previous reports have shown  that obesity increases a woman's risk of developing breast  cancer -- and now new research indicates that obesity continues  to have a negative effect once breast cancer occurs.


Chaka Khan releases first album in decade

R&B veteran Chaka Khan covers tunes  by the likes of Prince, Joni Mitchell and Jimi Hendrix on her  first album in almost a decade, which hit stores this week.


A judge is to question Chile's former president Augusto Pinochet over allegations of human rights abuses.


Sarkozy Lists Foreign Priorities, With Iran First

âA nuclear-armed Iran is for me unacceptable,â President Nicolas Sarkozy of France said in a speech today.


Hacker Decries U.S., Israel On Vietnam Memorial Site

A computer hacker promoting Turkish nationalism posted a video and message on a U.S. Vietnam memorial Web site in recent days, blocking one of the site's search functions while defacing the site with a statement against the United States and Israel.


McCain Overstates His Criticisms of Rumsfeld

Tenure of Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno reflects new understanding of counterinsurgency doctrine.


The last novel by the author Iris Murdoch reveals the first signs of Alzheimer's disease, experts say.


Something about NBC anchors and bloggers just does not click.


India ; Train services resume after accident site cleared of ...

"There was a collision between a train coming from Ahmedabad and a local train. Both trains were going at great speed," said Kewal Krishna Sharma, one of the injured.


BSkyB Shuts Video Service After DRM Crack

A crack in the digital rights management software for Windows Media has caused a British television network to suspend its movie and sports content download service while it updates the DRM on its files.


Russian Girl Who Clutched Cross Recovering

It was an iconic image of hope in the death and chaos that ended the three-day Beslan school siege — a girl's bloodied hand clutching a golden cross.


Stephen Jones must play at fly-half against Australia next Saturday, says Wales great Jonathan Davies.


Aggredita da uomo entrato in casa anziana datrice di lavoro


White House Says No to Releasing Full Report

Partisan battles heat up over intelligence conclusions on Iraq


European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti will hold a  news conference on Tuesday afternoon on the long-running  antitrust case against Coca-Cola, a European Union spokeswoman  said.


Online auction The long-rumoured and speculated Initial Public Offering (IPO) by Netsuite, the software as a service (SaaS) specialist, is at last underway. and it looks like it will use a novel way to determine the share price and the volume of shares to be issued.â¦


Schoolgirl killer Homolka could quietly slip into any town in Canada: top cop

TORONTO (CP) - Convicted Ontario schoolgirl killer Karla Homolka, considered a real danger to reoffend by the National Parole Board, could quietly slip into any community across Canada after her release next July.


Political Memo: Crisis Overseas Is Sudden Test for Candidates

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is one of those rare moments that lays bare presidential candidatesâ leadership qualities and geopolitical smarts.


Tahitian Leads French Polynesia Elections

A coalition headed by a pro-independence leader won the most seats in legislative elections in French Polynesia but fell short of an overall majority, provisional results showed Monday.


Sydney - Australian retailer Coles Myer on Tuesday said it would not raise its bid for pubs operator, Australian Leisure and Hospitality, as rival Woolworths said it had gained more than 20 percent of the company and declared its offer unconditional.


$70 a barrel keeps Faroes dreaming of oil wealth

TORSHAVN, Faroe Islands  - The scene looks nothing like a Middle East capital: on the outskirts of this sleepy fishing town of 15,000, men mow grass roofs on their houses while sheep roam freely on steep, rocky hills.


The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is to present evidence of alleged war crimes in Darfur.


Roma, 20:25 - CALCIO, PETRUCCI: ORDINE PUBBLICO AL PRIMO POSTO

"Attraverso il ministro Amato ho ringraziato il prefetto De Gennaro per quello che le forze di poliz...


An American held in Hong Kong on allegations that he raped his underage daughter and posted video footage of it on the Internet has been returned to the United States, federal authorities said Thursday.


Major Creditors Agree to Cancel 80% of Iraq Debt

The world's leading industrial nations agreed Sunday to cancel 80 percent of the nearly $39 billion debt owed them by Iraq, a critical step in rebuilding the country's devastated


Eight children stabbed to death as they sleep

A man broke into a school dormitory and stabbed eight sleeping children to death before fleeing. The murders at the Ruzhou No2 Senior Middle School in Pingdingshan, in the central province of Henan, was the


Blockbuster, the video rental company, yesterday said it plans to eliminate late fees as the chain struggles to stem the decline in the film rental market.


Ukraine's parliament passes no-confidence motion in govt

Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday passed a no-confidence motion in the government on its second try. The motion, put forward by the opposition, was supported by 229lawmakers in


STOCKHOLM/DUBAI  - Nasdaq  and Dubai's stock exchange struck a deal on Thursday that shakes up ownership of some of the world's top share markets and takes the Nasdaq brand into the Middle East and Asia.


Annie Lennox, Corinne Bailey Rae and James Morrison are to headline a concert calling for global peace in September.


The playwright of a Tony-nominated play about a serial killer and his psychiatrist has been accused of plagiarizing passages from the work of a criminal psychiatrist and a writer for The New Yorker magazine.


Bush, Kerry Tied in White House Race-Reuters Poll

Democratic Sen. John Kerry pulled into a statistical dead heat with President Bush in a seesawing battle for the White House, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Monday.


David Ortiz is driven around this island in a white Hummer by three beefy bodyguards. At night, he looks like Darth Vader has just gone on an intergallactic jewelry shopping spree. The trademark black wraparound sunglasses, a black cap, and black T-shirt. The diamond earring, diamond rings, gold chains, and designer jeans with a spattering of ...


Germany Thwarts Possible Attack on Iraqi Leader

German police arrested three men suspected of planning an attack on Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who was in Berlin on Friday.


GOP Looks Beyond War Measure to Fight on Funding

With Republicans speaking out against President Bush's war policy on the House floor yesterday, GOP leaders and the White House conceded defeat on a resolution opposing sending additional U.S. troops to Iraq and began looking toward the coming battle over the war's funding.


A man's body floated up near where a crew was filming a scene for the crime show "CSI: Miami," authorities said.


UW-L Enrollment Plan Advances in Legislature

By Jenny Dolan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Jun. 6--MADISON -- A state committee's votes to amend the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse's Growth and Access plan ended in stalemate Tuesday, sending it on as proposed to the state Senate.


A judge warns Britney Spears that she faces trial in a driving licence case if proceedings are delayed.


EYES AND EARS: NATO's top military commander said Monday there is a need for more intelligence-gathering and surveillance systems for the fight in Afghanistan.


FOXBORO, Mass., (Sports Network) - The New England Patriots  placed rookie wide receiver P.K. Sam on injured reserve  Wednesday with a groin injury.


Checks from Hollywood's A-list stars such as George Clooney, Eddie Murphy and Barbra Streisand added up to an expected, one-night take of $1 million for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.


Entro il 15 olandesi scelgono cosa fare del loro 7,7%


Nuovo messaggio audio trasmesso su Al Jazira

IL CAIRO - In un nuovo messaggio trasmesso dalla televisione al Jazira, Osam bin Laden ha incoronato Abu Mussab al Zarqawi leader di al Qaeda in Iraq. Sullo schermo di Al Jazira si sono succedute in rapidissima


Photos: Greatest arcade games of the '80s

Your mission is to travel back to the '80s, the golden age of arcade games, and play your favorite one.


Warren Buffett lunch sells for record $650,100

A bidder agreed to pay $650,100 to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett, surpassing last year's record for the annual charity auction.


Sanzione da 188,8 milioni per aver superato la soglia


Free Podcast: National Geographic News (January 26, 2007)

This week: African rebels eat gorillas, spiders' glow seen as sexy, humans killed off Ice Age Aussie animals, "black" diamonds hail from space, and more.


Costarring Dimple, the film is a loser from Day 1.


Modena, 20:21 - CALCIO, MODENA: PARZIALMENTE DIFFERENZIATO PER PINARDI

Ripresa degli allenamenti per il Modena dopo il giorno di riposo: il tecnico Mutti ha fatto svolgere...


The IMAX story started slow, but wait for the surprise ending.


Complice il clima, per minor ricorso ai riscaldamenti


SAN DIEGO -- Saks Fifth Avenue Enterprises announced Friday it intends to close eight Saks Fifth Avenue stores nationwide, including the La Jolla location.


'Quit it! You're mean!' Facebook has silenced a 20,000-strong campaign group dedicated to the seemingly innocuous goal of stopping the site from forcing people to use the verb "to be" in their status updates.â¦


Farting Herring, Suicides Garner Ig Nobels

Oct. 1, 2004 - A research team that showed herring communicate by farting and the authors of a study on the effect of country music on suicide were among the winners of the 2004 Ig Nobel prize.


A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip takes effect, with Palestinian rocket attacks to halt, as Israel plans to pull out.


Services Restored in La. City After Storm

Service was restored Monday for residents of a Louisiana city where Tropical Storm Matthew broke a water main, but residents of some coastal areas were still waiting for a wind shift to push high water back out to sea.


The company reported net profit of $526 million on higher sales of agricultural and nutritional products in Latin America and it lifted its full-year outlook.


U.N. talks aid eels, elephants to ease extinctions

Elephants and eels may find life  slightly easier after trade curbs imposed by U.N. talks ending  on Friday that are a pinprick to slow what may be the worst  wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs.


Pioggia torrenziale rinviata Messina-Atalanta

MESSINA - Messina-Atalanta Ã¨ stata sospesa e rinviata al 23' del primo tempo sull'1-0 per i siciliani. Dopo un quarto d'ora di interruzione per la pioggia torrenziale che si Ã¨ abbattuta sul "Celeste", l'arbitro


Some cosmetic surgery clinics are putting sales before patient safety, warns a consumer watchdog.


Scientists have identified the first direct link between stress and aging, a finding that could explain why intense, long-term emotional strain can make people get sick and grow old before their time.


The company's researchers from around the world gather at TechFest '07 to play show and tell with their latest creations. In Monkey Bites.


EU Presses United Nations on Genocide Question in Darfur

Foreign ministers of the European Union have called for the United Nations to immediately probe whether atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan are genocide.


Indian leader in Kashmir as some troops pull out

SRINAGAR, Kashmir The Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, arrived on Wednesday in the part of Kashmir that is controlled by India for the start of a troop pullout that has been hailed by Pakistan as an important step toward easing tensions over region.


The statement, made yesterday, said he's known about his condition since 1998, when it was diagnosed during a bout with pneumonia.


Afghanistan Approaches Next Significant Milestone

Another milestone is on the horizon for the people of post-Taliban Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai takes the oath of office Dec. 7 as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president.


Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War II. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.


SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Yahoo Inc  posted a drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday and forecast 2008 revenue below Wall Street forecasts as it cuts jobs and invests to shore up its Web advertising business.


For beef lovers, 2007 will go down as another year of eating dangerously.


Chubby Checker: Let's twist again and other stories

Chubby Checker removes his overcoat,  bends his knees slightly and slowly swivels his hips.


Health Tip: Risk Factors for Placenta Previa

(HealthDay News) -- Placenta previa  occurs when, during pregnancy, the placenta drops lower in the uterus and covers the opening to the cervix. The placenta may also separate from the uterine wall as the cervix begins to dilate.


Mexico Election Down to Wire in Key Veracruz State

JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  clung to a narrow lead early on Monday in the race for governor  in Veracruz state, where it is fighting to hold on to one of  its oldest electoral bastions before 2006 presidential  elections.


Why doing the housework could give your children asthma

They said exposure to indoor pollutants from domestic solvents and cleaning products in early life may trigger the condition. A study of almost 200 youngsters revealed those exposed to the most volatile organic


S.C. Police Use Stun Gun in Nursing Home

ROCK HILL, S.C. - A police officer used a stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who became distraught when she could not locate a sick friend at a nursing home, according to an internal report.


Six simultaneous rock concerts in Pennsylvania on Friday night kicked off the Vote for Change tour, a week of voter-registration benefits in battleground states.


Greater protection to great white sharks and other big fish are among successes to emerge from the world species summit.


Roma, 17:09 - CALCIO, SAMP; AGENTE QUAGLIARELLA: VOGLIAMO RESTARE QUI

Silvio Pagliari, procuratore di Fabio Quagliarella, ai microfoni di Rete Sport ha fratto il punto su...


Haim Saban finally finds buyer for ProSiebenSAT1

The fate of commercial television group ProSiebenSAT1 finally appeared to have been sealed, with private equity groups Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and Permira apparently winning the race to buy Germany's biggest free-to-air broadcaster.


HP CEO shoulders probe burden before lawmakers

Hewlett-Packard Co.  Chief  Executive Mark Hurd told lawmakers on Thursday there were no  excuses for a probe of boardroom leaks that led investigators  to obtain private telephone records deceptively.


Ultrasound Approved to Treat Uterine Fibroids

Oct. 25, 2004 -- A new device that uses sound waves to destroy uterine fibroids may offer an alternative to surgery for some women who suffer from the bleeding and painful condition.


Mubarak predicts Abbas winning Palestinian elections: TV

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday that Mahmoud Abbas would probably win the upcoming Palestinian presidential elections, Egyptian television reported.


Jumper Applies Showbiz Science to Teleportation. Beam Us Up!

Doug Liman, director of the new sci-fi thriller Jumper, employs teleportation technology to connect two different environments for a split second.


Mauritania's security chief denies that an attack on his home was linked to last week's alleged coup plot.


Clannish Bollywood readies the kids to take over

At least half a dozen children from top  Indian film families are debuting this year in Bollywood, a  clannish industry that has for generations shoehorned its sons  and daughters into instant stardom.


Vista Ultimate Buyers Fume Over Missing Extras

Critics chide the software giant for missing its self-imposed deadline to provide promised extras for the most expensive version of Vista.


Advocates for open government are creating search engines and websites to let citizens peek into the inner workings of official agencies. Now more than ever, they say, openness is essential to self-government. By Ryan Singel.


Teen risk factors for schizophrenia identified

NEW YORK  - Five key factors can help predict whether at-risk young people will go on to develop schizophrenia, researchers have found.


Family of British hostage in Iraq ask Libya to intervene

The family of British engineer Kenneth Bigley, held hostage in Iraq for more than two weeks, has asked Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to help secure his release, they said.


Food Nutrition Claims in EU Watchdog's Sights

The European Union's food safety watchdog may start checking whether food manufacturers are telling the truth when they claim food is "low fat" or "high in vitamins," the agency's head said on Monday.


Lamenting the Decline of the Home-Cooked Meal in Japan

In a nation with a nutrition problem, eating "Japanese" increasingly means going out to a restaurant


Treasury debt prices made modest gains  on Thursday following a surprise jump in weekly jobless claims  and retail sales that were slightly below expectations after  auto sales were stripped out.


Fed's Pianalto: Inflation trend too high in long term

Inflation of around 3 percent in the  United States since 2005 is too high for comfort in the longer  term, Cleveland Federal Reserve President Sandra Pianalto said  on Monday.


Though both the red and blue groups at the ATP Masters Cup this week have the best players in the world, there is no question that the blue group is the weaker of the two -- if there is such a thing.


Stop a rotazione dell'erogazione dopo black out in citta'


Ten top Wall Street firms are sued for $3.5 billion by Overstock.com.


Polymeal a day: the recipe for long and healthy life

A new scientific research has concluded that heart disease could be cut by 76% and men could expect to live more than six years longer if they simply ate in the right combination.


How to improve your Wi-Fi network's performance

Get answers to your questions about boosting the speed and range of your wireless network.


DNA dating site predicts chemical romance

A DNA-based matchmaking service claims to hook up couples who will share an aromatic attraction.


Israel parliament to debate Sharon's pullout plan

The Knesset has been holding a two-day session to approve Israeli Prime minister Arial Sharonâs pullout plan according to that after 37 years of occupation 8,000 Jewish settlers would be evacuated down four other settlements in the West Bank would close


A court in Turkey sentences seven people to life in jail for the 2003 Istanbul bombings that killed 58 people.


The explorer Christopher Columbus is responsible for bringing syphilis into Europe, research suggests.


The European Commission has resumed  its probe of Oracle's $7.7 billion hostile attempt to buy  PeopleSoft in a bid to complete approval before Competition  Commissioner Mario Monti leaves office, sources familiar with  the situation said on Thursday.


4 Chechens charged with murder in Russia

Russian prosecutors on Tuesday charged four Chechen men with murder as part of their probe into clashes in a northern Russian town that left two local residents dead and triggered a wave of mob violence, officials said.


The strange journey of Appleâs popular iPhone is another sign of its extraordinary popularity and a blow to the companyâs business model.


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Pfizer Inc.  that television and print advertisements for its painkillers Celebrex and Bextra misled consumers, according to a letter made public on Wednesday.


A device that appeared to be a bomb was found under an overpass on a busy Interstate highway near Cincinnati on Wednesday, and local media said a bomb squad removed and destroyed it.


An auction of 40 paintings by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano fetches more than Â£2.5m during fierce bidding.


US ex-football star OJ Simpson returns to custody on charge of violating bail for his robbery trial, reports say.


The names are released of five people who died in a head-on motorway crash involving a car which was earlier pursued by police.


Russia to Help Train South Korean Astronaut by 2007

Russia agreed on Tuesday to help train South Korea's first astronaut by 2007 -- although it is still not clear whether Seoul's space cadet will make it into orbit that year.


FOXBOROUGH - They nicknamed him "Hands" at Tennessee, because that's where the ball always seemed to end up, nestled into the outstretched arms of Donté Stallworth.


Lo ha detto l'amministratore delegato Vincenzo Novari


The US Department of State says it may order diplomats to work in Iraq to fill vacancies at the Baghdad embassy.


Dollar gains against euro, yen in late European trading

The dollar gained strength on Monday ahead of key data releases later in the week, while traders also anticipated legislation that might address charges that the Chinese yuan is deliberately undervalued.


Microsoft loses FAT patent, wins Smart Tag case

Microsoft is fighting a rejection by US patent authorities of a patent for its FAT filesystem, the company said on Thursday. Meanwhile, it's celebrating a jury decision clearing it of patent infringement charges


Robert Altman's wild and unruly 1978 film "A Wedding," which grew out of an ill-tempered comment he made 30 years ago, has now become a full-fledged opera.


Irish strive to keep Celtic 'Tiger' feisty

The victors in Thursday's election will face formidable challenges as Ireland's economy begins to slow.


James Brown Recovering From Prostate Surgery

Singer James Brown has been released from an Atlanta hospital, after surgery to treat prostate cancer. Doctors expect a full recovery and say if Brown takes proper care of himself he should be cured of the disease.


Al-Sadr Offers To Hand Over Al-Najaf Shrine

20 August 2004 -- Radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to hand control of the Imam Ali shrine in Al-Najaf to the top Shi'ite religious authorities.


Indian Schools Help Students Connect With Their Culture

MILWAUKEE -- Fifth-grade teacher Amy Tromp lights a match and then the small pile of sage she holds in a shell. The sage begins to smolder, its smell stinging the nose.


Terror Meeting a Showcase for Saudi Efforts

Delegates from the around the world will spend four days discussing ways to combat terrorism at a conference hosted by a country some in the West blame for exporting terrorism, even as Saudi Arabia sees itself as the victim of such violence.


Itâs No Longer a Temple of Doom and Gloom

Temple Coach Al Golden is attempting to carry the Owls far, far away from their dismal recent football history.


Geoffrey Beene, Innovator of American Fashion, Dies at 77

Geoffrey Beene was a single-minded innovator who put fashion above commerce yet succeeded in making a business from originality.


Tribune Chief to Step Down as Newspaper Chain Goes Private

Dennis J. FitzSimonsâ decision comes on the eve of an $8.2 billion privatization deal and clears the way for real estate billionaire Samuel Zell to assume control.


Google launches historical research service

Google launched a new service for finding archived information that covers roughly the past 200 years.


Amburgo, 14:45 - CALCIO: E' MORTO L'EX ALLENATORE MAX MERKEL

E' morto all'età di 87 anni Max Merkel, ex allenatore dell'Atletico Madrid con il quale conqu...


Syrian Paper Says Lebanon Redeployment Reversible

The ruling party newspaper in Syria said on Wednesday a decision to redeploy some troops within Lebanon was not linked to relations with Washington and could be reversed if necessary in future.


Treo 650 boasts a high-res display, an improved keyboard and camera, a removable battery, and more. PalmOne this week is announcing the Treo 650, a hybrid PDA/cell-phone device that addresses many of the shortcomings


The RAF shows off its controversial Eurofighter after the government ordered an additional 89 of the jets.


Only days before Saudi Arabia's first elections in more than 40 years, the kingdom is engaged in a wide-ranging civics seminar on what it means to vote in a country named for the family that rules it.


AFI Cites 'Passion,' '9/11' Among 2004's 'Moments'

LOS ANGELES  - Putting its own stamp on  2004, the American Film Institute has selected nine "Moments of  Significance" as an adjunct to its annual AFI Awards, which  will be presented to the creators behind 10 previously  announced film and TV shows at a luncheon Jan. 9.


China Hints U.S. Must Return Guantanamo Separatists

Beijing has hinted that if the United States releases any Guantanamo Bay detainees from its restive Muslim far west Xinjiang region, they should be handed over to Beijing and not sent to a third country.


A federal appeals court Friday rejected the government's attempt to recover $280 billion from tobacco companies, even if the Department of Justice prevails in its suit that the companies defrauded and misled the American public.


A British soldier has been killed and five others were "very seriously injured" by a landmine in Afghanistan.


Boeing and British Airways finalize contract for 787s

NEW YORK/LONDON  - Boeing said on Thursday that British Airways finalized an order for 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, an order valued at $4.4 billion at list prices.


The governors of Illinois and Wisconsin on Monday launched the first state-sponsored program to help residents buy cheaper prescription drugs from both Europe and Canada — despite federal laws banning prescription drug importation.


Security lapses exposed at Manchester airport

Security at Britain's third largest airport has been highlighted as woefully inadequate by a BBC documentary to be screened on Tuesday.


Ky. Park, Univ. Open Cave Learning Center

Mammoth Cave National Park and Western Kentucky University have opened a facility that is designed to give students a hands-on learning environment in the longest known cave system in the world.


Couple linked with embassy attack arrested in Indonesia

A man and his wife have been arrested in the Indonesian province of East Java with possible link to the last week's bombing outside the Australian Embassy here, police said Thursday.


Giornaliste piloterebbero le date delle sfilate milanesi


ASIA/HONG KONG - La Commissione diocesana per lÂIstruzione Cattolica ha deciso di istituire il corso di ÂMorale e ReligioneÂ in tutte le scuole cattoliche di Hong Kong, medie e superiori Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) - ÂMorale e ReligioneÂ sarÃ  un nuovo Corso facoltativo di studio in tutte le scuole cattoliche medie e superiori di Hong Kong a partire dal 2009. Secondo quanto riferisce Kong Ko Bao (il bollettino settimanale diocesano in v...


Two young brothers found locked in the trunk of their mother's car died of hyperthermia and likely lost consciousness quickly in the heat, the county coroner said Monday.


The Los Angeles city attorney's office said Friday it will not charge Brandy in a deadly December 2006 freeway crash.


The fate of some of the world's animals and plants may be decided at a conference on wildlife trade.


Blue Jays, Koskie Finalize $17M Contract

Corey Koskie finalized a $17 million, three-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, who hope the hard-hitting third baseman will help offset the loss of Carlos Delgado.


Now that rocketmen in the desert have soared into space and captured the St. Louis-based Ansari X Prize, commercial space travel seems as close as ever.


Prosecutors in Russia charge three police officials with criminal negligence over the Beslan school siege.


If they retake control of Congress, Democrats will act quickly to increase the minimum wage, lower prescription drug costs and slash interest rates on student loans, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday.


Umpire Mike Winters was suspended by Major League Baseball for the remainder of the regular season on Wednesday because of his confrontation with the Padresâ Milton Bradley last weekend.


Arafat may be near death; Palestinians, Israelis make preparations

With Yasser Arafat gravely ill in a French hospital, some of his powers were formally transferred to other Palestinian officials yesterday, as Israel readied plans to stem potential unrest in the event he dies.


CHARLESTON, S.C. - The head of Charleston County's detectives has been arrested after neighbors told police he was on a roof, staring into the bedroom window of an adjoining home, authorities said.  Sheriff's Capt.


SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA -- Intel is drawing the curtain on some of its future research projects to continue making transistors smaller, faster, and less power-hungry out as far as 2020.


NATO pressed its allies at a summit Tuesday to deploy more troops to Afghanistan's volatile south, but Germany resisted any permanently expanded presence and Canada complained of bearing the brunt of an ...Comment


BRUSSELS, Dec 22 (IPS) - Campaigners have hailed the EU decision to postpone  the adoption of controversial new rules for patenting  computer-based inventions as a victory for âEuropean democracyâ.


The haul has been codenamed "Old Bridge". It could be the beginningof a series of assaults against the "Cosa Nostra" 'families' in America                                          90 jailed in Palermo and New York the bosses of the new Italy-Usa pact


FondÃ² il gruppo con Wayne Shorter, Peter Erskine e Jaco PastoriusDue le canzoni che restano nella storia: "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" e Birdland"                                            Addio a Joe Zawinul anima dei Weather Report


The Duchess of York says people should stop criticising her nephew.  But the Prince is still under pressure for wearing a Nazi symbol. Breakfast discusses at 7.39am


LOS ANGELES  Fast National ratings for Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004. ABC dominated the late evening with new dramas, but CBS was able to hold off the resurgent network thanks to early evening strength.


Former Cold War borders fall away in new Europe

ZITTAU, Germany  - Frontiers in east Europe once guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.


Train Carrying Methanol Derails in Detriot

A train carrying a flammable liquid derailed Monday in a residential neighborhood, and hundreds of people were evacuated along with three schools, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or illness.


Ex-Bush aide gives few answers at prosecutor probe

A former White House aide apologized on Wednesday for calling one of nine fired federal prosecutors "lazy," but refused to answer a host of questions at an investigative congressional hearing on the dismissals.


Frenchman arrested for trying to sell lock of pharaoh's hair

A 50-year-old Frenchman who tried to sell a lock of hair he said was taken from the mummy of Egypt's most famous pharaoh, Ramses II, has been arrested.


Islamic Web Site Says British Hostage Dead; UK Doubts Claim

Kenneth Bigley, the Briton held hostage in Iraq by the Tawhid Wal Jihad group, has been killed, according to an Islamic Web site. The UK foreign ministry said it doubts the authenticity of the report.


A Tennessee man's claim that the maker of the painkiller Vioxx should be blamed for his 2003 heart attack was rejected yester day by a federal jury, the fourth victory for Merck & Co. in five federal trials.


NY eateries face new rules on trans fats, calories

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


Italy's Aged Turn to Foreigners for Care

"My terror is that we will reach old age abandoned"  As a police officer, Luigi Marzano was used to being in command. He still walks ramrod straight, but at 97 and deep into retirement, his memory is weakening and he has turned over command of his household to a virtual stranger half his age.Rita Duda, who left Ukraine in search of work, lays out caffe latte and cookies each day for Marzano's breakfast, shops for him, and, every afternoon after his nap accompanies him to a bench on the corner, which he shares with ladies and gentlemen in their 70s and 80s while their caretakers _ Ukrainians, Moldavians, Poles and Romanians _ catch up on gossip. Read more


Israeli Parties Seen Finalizing Unity Coalition

Israel's ruling Likud and opposition  Labour parties plan to seal a deal on Saturday to forge a unity  coalition seen as crucial to carrying out Prime Minister Ariel  Sharon's Gaza pullout plan, party officials said.


Europe stocks decline as drugs groups fall

European equities were lower on Friday as drugs, metals and mining groups slipped, and although the losses were less severe than those seen last week, strategists were cautious of calling an end to the recent market volatility.


A giant video screen, hung inside a warehouse here that has been transformed by the U.S. Air Force into a state-of-the-art operations center, provides a window on the military action that still occupies the skies over Iraq.


IBM'S Blue Gene supercomputer, which is still being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has set an unofficial performance record.


SAN'A, Yemen - A Yemeni judge sentenced two men to death and four others to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years Wednesday for orchestrating the 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, an attack blamed on Osama bin Laden's terror network.    Saudi-born Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is in U.S...


Goodness gracious me, Sophia Loren is 70!

It may come as something of a shock to generations of men across the globe, but Sophia Loren, the very paragon of sultry Latin beauty, celebrates her 70th birthday on Monday.


Just How Long Does the Average Baseball Career Last?

Fewer than half of all rookies remain long enough to play a fifth year. And only about 1 percent of players last 20 seasons or more.


Russia is backsliding on democracy and  the EU must take Moscow to task while bringing other former  Soviet republics closer to the West, the bloc's incoming  External Relations Commissioner said on Tuesday.


Six more held over British schoolboy's murder

Liverpool police arrested six more teenagers, two of them girls, on Saturday in connection with the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones and renewed appeals for help in finding his killer.


Cleveland's star forward didn't play in the second half on Wednesday night after bruising a bone near his left eye when he was accidentally struck in the face by Houston's Dikembe Mutombo late in the first half.


Bigley's brother thanks Blair for apology

The brother of a British engineer held hostage in Iraq has thanked Prime Minister Tony Blair for apologising over intelligence errors in the conflict but said he should still step down.


Jerry Stackhouse scored a season-high 29 points and Dirk Nowitzki had 28 points to surpass 10,000 for his career as the Dallas Mavericks racked up the most points in the NBA this season with a 137-120 rout of the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night.


Citi in talks to buy electronic trading firm: report

Citigroup Inc.  is in advanced talks to buy Automated Trading Desk, an electronic trading firm, for about $700 million, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Tuesday.


Margaret Thatcher, Britain's 'Iron Lady', turns bronze

A bronze statue of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister known as the "Iron Lady," was unveiled Wednesday in her presence.


Pakistan Court Drops Charge in London Plot Case

Rashid Rauf was suspected of being a key figure in a plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic Ocean.


Sure, outsourcing lowers a firm's costs, but it also drives prices lower and stimulates job growth.


Rescuers Script a Possible Ending for a Strike

The writersâ strike is on the brink of ending in true Hollywood fashion: through connections.


For those who need to make telephone calls in flight and don't want to sell the second car to finance them, help is on the way.


So how are you enjoying your offseason so far? Anyway, I'll bet you didn't sign a $54 million contract. I know I didn't.


Jeff Gordon has not won since June 10, when his crew chief, Steve Letarte, used a cunning pit strategy to help Gordon win a rain-shortened race at Pocono.


As Christmas nears, the Red Sox are looking to give their fans a holiday gift. The club is close to announcing a four-year contract with stalwart catcher Jason Varitek, a


The government is readying 102 court cases against landowners in Arizona, California and Texas for blocking efforts to select sites for a fence along the Mexican border, a Department of Homeland Security official said yesterday.


Fish Biologist Foresees Some Strong Runs

By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 9--PALMER -- Sam Ivey may sound as if he has a dream job as a sportfisheries biologist in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.


Hamas warned Tony Blair on Saturday that his credibility as the new international Mideast peace envoy will be damaged if he ignores the Islamic militant group.


Russia to meet commitments in exporting oil to China: PM

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said on Friday Russia would keep meeting its commitments in exporting oil to China. "There are no reasons for any emergency", Fradkov was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.


Roma, 13:49 - CALCIO, LEGA; JUVENTUS: COBOLLI GIGLI ARRIVA ALL'OLIMPICO

Il presidente della Juventus Giovanni Cobolli Gigli è arrivato allo stadio Olimpico di Roma, ...


NHL star Todd Bertuzzi pleaded guilty to assault Wednesday, reversing his earlier plan to fight charges laid after he slugged an opponent with an on-ice sucker punch watched by millions.


Hans Stern Dies at 85; Built Global Jewelry Empire

Mr. Stern founded H. Stern in the U.S. as a gemstone trading business to harvest the potential he saw in marketing Brazilian gems.


Safeway's taking its organics line further.


Cleric Charged With Incitement in Britain

Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al Masri talks during a press conference in central London in a Wednesday, January 20, 1999 photo. Abu Hamza al-Masri appeared in British court Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004, and was charged


Some 125,000 Turks, mostly women, denounced the government on Saturday over its plans to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at universities in the mainly Muslim but secular nation.


NASA rovers will explore Mars for six more months

PASADENA, CALIF. - The twin Martian robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity will explore the Red Planet for another six months, NASA said Tuesday.


"Transformers" audiences get peek at new disaster pic

While unleashing  "Transformers" onscreen this week, Paramount also lifted the  lid on a top-secret project in the form of a teaser trailer for  a new film, "Cloverfield."


Reuters Poll: Kerry Trims Bush Lead to 2 Points

Democratic challenger John Kerry cut  President Bush's lead to 2 points with just over two weeks to  go before the Nov. 2 election, according to a Reuters/Zogby  poll released Sunday.


The United States basketball team are through to the Olympic semi-finals after a 102-94 victory over Spain. The 'Dream Team' had a one-point lead after the first-half then pulled away in the last quarter, but Spain always posed a threat.


Delco pols: Clinton visit âsomething specialâ

com. Standing inside the ropes at the very front of the crowd that gathered to hear Bill Clinton and John Kerry speak Monday near Love Park, David Landau knew he was witnessing something special.


Giuliani released from hospital, tests normal

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was released from a Missouri hospital on Thursday one day after being admitted for flu-like symptoms, his campaign said.


Asus EN8800 Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra-based graphics card

AMD who? Review Nvidia has never been shy about slicing and dicing its product line-up to meet the needs of specific groups of the graphics-card buying public with the result that you can buy its flagship DirectX 10 GeForce 8800 chip in a number of versions.â¦


Agile prey would have had no trouble keeping clear of a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex, a study confirms.


Indetto per 18 maggio ma slittera' con scioglimento Camere


WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate dropped to 4.5 percent, and workers got fatter paychecks in February, even as bad winter weather sent a bit of a chill through US job growth.


SEOUL -- An explosion that shot a 2-mile-wide mushroom cloud into the sky was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, North Korea said yesterday, and it invited a British diplomat to visit the site.


Thai songstress seeks international fame

Tata Young is Asia's version of Britney Spears: Catchy pop tunes you hear once and can't get out of your head, stiletto heels and a dash of scantily clad, gyrating naughtiness. Tata's 2004 debut English-language album, "I Believe," won her fans throughout Asia, placing her among a small circle of Asian pop stars to grow beyond their nation's borders.


Blue-chips ease as jobs data suggest no Fed cuts

Blue-chip stocks edged lower on Friday after data showing moderate job creation in January suggested that the Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates yet, while the Nasdaq bobbed up.


EPA contends company failed to share findings that raise health and environmental concerns about a compound known as C-8 or PFOA, a key ingredient used in making Teflon.


Genzyme and Millenium vie to purchase the Canadian biotech.


Elizabeth Edwards kept her secret for more than a week, as her husband crisscrossed the country in an unsuccessful bid to win the vice presidency.


Favre enjoys his role in quarterback duel

The energetic Green Bay quarterback couldn't help but wince after signaling six more points in the third quarter of Sunday's offensively entertaining game of catch-up with the Indianapolis Colts.


President Bush on Wednesday asked  Treasury Secretary John Snow to stay in his job and Snow agreed  to do so, the White House said, ending weeks of speculation.


Lione, 16:04 - CALCIO, LIONE; COUPET: TOTTI GRANDE PERICOLO PER ME

Il portiere del Lione e della nazionale francese Gregory Coupet, impegnato domani nella sfida di Cha...


Stocks open higher on upgrades, oil drop

Stocks rose after the open on Monday as positive broker comments on shares of General Motors Corp.  and falling oil prices fueled a rebound from Friday's sharp losses.


Roma, 11:35 - CALCIO, ZEMAN: TOTTI E' IL NUMERO UNO

Zdenek Zeman non perde occasione per lodare Francesco Totti: ''Juninho se ne intende davvero - ha de...


Dollar bounces off another low against euro

NEW YORK  - The dollar managed to firm slightly, lifted by stronger than expected US factory orders, after hitting yet another all-time low against the euro.


Finland can't stop hockey power from claiming title of world's ...

There were about 40 seconds left. The Finns had pulled their goaltender. Coach Pat Quinn had to put out someone to protect Canada's one-goal lead in the final of the World Cup of Hockey on Tuesday night.


Treading into yet another flashpoint city, US Marines and Iraqi security forces began a series of raids Tuesday on mosques in and around the Sunni city of Ramadi following an upsurge in the


One of Bosnia's three presidents helped a family rush to the hospital for the delivery of their baby and the grateful parents named the child after him, his office confirmed Monday.


Il presidente della Lombardia attacca su bilanci regionali


President Bush's final-year agenda is a stripped down list of what he can realistically hope to get done, since the clout he once touted is fading away.


Caterpillar to raise stake in Mitsubishi Heavy JV

Caterpillar Inc.  said on Thursday it planned to take control of a construction machinery venture with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.  as part of its efforts to beef up its presence in Asia.


Virgin Atlantic is to tow planes to take-off areas in a move designed to cut carbon dioxide output.


A couple tell an Australian court they saw UK backpacker Peter Falconio after he is thought to have been killed.


Afghanistan: Onu chiede liberazione dei tre funzionari

KABUL - Appello delle Nazioni Unite per la "liberazione immediata" dell'irlandese-britannica Annetta Flanigan, del filippino Angelito Nayan e della kosovara Shqipe Habibi, i tre funzionari Onu rapiti giovedi' scorso nella capitale afghana Kabul.


Eircom injects â¬5m in Northern Ireland network

More good news for the job market Eircom is to make a â¬5m investment in its network in Northern Ireland as the telecoms firm looks to develop its business in the area.â¦


A new report into an E.Coli outbreak in which a boy, five, died makes a number of recommendations.


Obesity Linked to Leukemia in Older Women

NEW YORK  - Being obese more than doubles the risk of a type of leukemia -- acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) -- in older women, according to a new report.


False Alarms in Screening for Cancer Prove Costly

A new study found that people spent an extra $1,000 or so on health care in the year after a test screening for cancer raised suspicions that later proved unfounded.


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani troops backed by artillery and aircraft attacked two suspected terrorist hideouts near the rugged Afghan border on Saturday, killing and wounding a number of militants, Pakistan army and security officials said.    The attack was launched near Shakai in the South Waziristan tribal region, scene of several military counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida fugitives and renegade tribesmen in the recent months...


TIGNES, France  - Briton Mark Cavendish of the T-Mobile team pulled out of the Tour de France on Sunday.


Taye Diggs used to be an ugly duckling. "No one believes it, but I was kind of very thin, very insecure, big glasses," he says.


Love Story: Red Sox fans ride the emotional roller coaster

There is joy and elation, and there is emotional torture and bitter disappointment in this torrid relationship that changes with the seasons in New England.


The Oracle Corporation has taken control of PeopleSoft, making Oracle the world's second-largest maker of business-management software.


GRAPEVINE, Texas A little computer seems to be a big hit at an auto dealership in Grapevine that's been checking out the high-tech system.


WASHINGTON - The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal could effectively end the careers of four Army generals who are linked indirectly to the misconduct but face no criminal charges.    The four are singled out for varying degrees of criticism - mixed with instances of praise - in two comprehensive investigative reports released last week...


Video games were hot in July, and video game stocks should follow the trend.


European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso sets out his work plan, with an emphasis on prosperity.


Markko Martin won his second event in succession as he held off a late charge from Marcus Gronholm to come out on top in Rally Catalunya.


Comment is free: Peter Singer: Until western states treat all animals ethically, the case against the whalers will always be weakened


British police arrest suspect in Cisco code theft

A man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems has been arrested in the U.K.


Iraq. Nassiriya: arrestato un uomo legato ad Al Zarqawi. Attentato a Beiji: 14 morti. Scontri a Ramadi: 9 vittime. Un uomo che avrebbe legami con il militante giordano Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, Ã¨ stato arrestato


Europe Opens Another Inquiry Involving Microsoft

The European Commission has opened an investigation into the planned acquisition of ContentGuard Holdings by Microsoft and Time Warner.


Airbus Throws Glitzy Party for A380 Superjumbo

TOULOUSE, France  - Planemaker Airbus threw a  spectacular party Tuesday for the world's largest airliner, the  A380 -- overweight, overbudget and yet to fly, but hailed by  its makers as a major European feat that will reshape aviation.


US House of Representatives votes to boost penalties for online ...

The US House of Representatives voted to boost penalties for online piracy. The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act (PDEA) will make it easier for federal investigators to convict file-swappers.


A young girl and her family find ways to handle the challenges of a rare genetic disorder.


Congress will vote on Friday on  legislation that is a big step toward allowing nuclear-armed  India to purchase U.S. nuclear reactors and fuel for the first  time in three decades, lawmakers and aides said on Thursday.


General Motors rinuncia dopo annuncio divisione per razze


Transplant group frowns on ads for organ donors

The national organ transplant network is asking hospitals to discourage patients from advertising for donors and, if possible, to refuse to perform transplants that arise from these campaigns.


David Hockney says a show of "stunning" JMW Turner works he curated gives an insight into the late artist's technique.


Windows Vista has had incredible reception: Gates

Microsoft Corp.  founder Bill  Gates said on Tuesday the company's Windows Vista operating  system has received an incredible reception.


Roma, 10:13 - CALCIO, LAZIO: SI DIMETTE DIRETTORE SPORTIVO SABATINI

Walter Sabatini si è dimesso dalla carica di direttore sportivo della Lazio. "Il sottoscritto...


A federal report released Wednesday on the shooting of a suspected drug smuggler by Border Patrol agents concurs with prosecutors that the men failed to report the shooting, destroyed evidence and lied to investigators.


It's been a number of years since I headed out to college in New England and discovered the Polo Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) brand.


Markets in London, Paris and Frankfurt plunge on fears that China's stellar growth could slow.


Catania, 17:22 - CALCIO, CATANIA: IN MEDIANA TRE PER UNA MAGLIA

Tutto esaurito a Catania per l'arrivo della Juve. Il tecnico degli etnei Silvio Baldini, deve rinunc...


Irishmen with links to IRA now face 17 years jail in Colombia

THREE Irishmen with links to the IRA were sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday on charges of training Colombian Marxist guerrillas in explosives and terrorism techniques.


Two Rockets Hit Downtown Baghdad Sheraton

BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct. 7, 2004 - Two rockets hit a downtown Baghdad hotel housing foreigners and journalists Thursday, and gunfire erupted in the neighborhood across the Tigris River from the US Embassy compound.


Mexico's Fox, in Book, Chides and Praises Bush

ANTIGUA, Guatemala, Sept. 18 -- President Bush and Vicente Fox once portrayed themselves as diplomatic allies and close friends, but the former Mexican president takes some jabs at Bush in a new autobiography, calling him "the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life" and a "windshield cowboy" afraid...


FDA budget seeks generic biologics, user fees

New funds for the Food and Drug Administration to speed review of generic pharmaceuticals and new authority to approve copycat versions of biotech drugs were proposed in President George W. Bush's budget on Monday.


Update 1: Amazon.com Tops Record for One-Day Sales

Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said sales of consumer electronics surpassed book sales for the first time and was its largest sales category over the Thanksgiving weekend, jump-starting the online retailer's busiest


Plans for a new walkway to Jerusalem's holiest site are scrapped amid archaeological concerns, Israeli officials say.


U.S. Mulls More Troops in Iraq for Election

The Pentagon is considering  increasing the U.S. force in Iraq for the January elections by  delaying the departure of some troops and speeding the arrival  of others, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.


The US health secretary asks local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.


"It seemed to go on forever," Larry Brown said yesterday morning. "It seemed like it was some terrible part of a movie you were being forced to watch, frame by frame by frame.


Intesa-Sanpaolo sfiora 4% Unicredit, ma scendera'


Israel Frees 159 Palestinians; Abbas Wants More Out

Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a "serious release" of thousands of security detainees.


Eight television networks feed video content to mobile phones through the new service, which costs $15 to $25 a month. By the Associated Press.


Londra, 15:56 - CALCIO, INGHILTERRA: RESPINTA RICHIESTA SCARCERAZIONE BARTON

Joey Barton, il centrocampista del Newcastle arrestato ieri per una presunta aggressione avvenuta ne...


Rapper happy with son's innocent pastimes

Rapper Snoop Dogg, a former gang member in his youth, is happy that his teenage son Corde has found safer pastimes than drugs and crime.


Internet gangs hire students for cybercrime

Organized gangs have adopted "KGB-style"  tactics to hire high-flying computer students to commit  Internet crime, a report said on Friday.


No one's overlooking Cristman these days

Chivas USA defender Claudio "El Emperador" Sanchez had not played against the Revolution's Adam Cristman before last Saturday night. But Sanchez soon realized the importance of paying attention to Cristman, something teams neglected to do during the MLS draft in January.


Exxon's chief urges allowing more drilling

Exxon Mobil Corp.'s chief executive, making a Boston appearance yesterday, said the best hope for lowering gasoline prices is for federal officials to allow more oil exploration off US coasts and under federal lands and national parks.


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Do I offend? I must. Why else would immigration restrictionists be trying to pull the plug on commentaries like this one?


Billionaire tycoon Warren Buffett outlines a timetable by which he wants most of his $48.4bn fortune donated to charity.


Man Leaps to Death from Empire State Building

A man jumped to his death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, New York City police said on Saturday.


Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi urges Iraqis to work together for a common future after Sunday's historic election.


AmeriCares sending relief to earthquake victims

Humanitarian aid organization AmeriCares has begun emergency relief efforts to help millions of people affected by the powerful earthquake Sunday that devastated southern Asia.


Rain was pelting. Sideways, as they say over here. It was a cold rain, too. And the wind? Surely, even the foundation of Glamis Castle had to be shaking.


Fox Buoyed Again by World Series on Tuesday

The Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals were the big draw in primetime on Tuesday as Boston scored its third straight win in its quest to clinch the fall classic for the first time in nearly 90 years.


Google to discontinue PeakStream products

(InfoWorld) - While Google is declining to be specific about plans for its newly acquired PeakStream technology, a Google representative confirmed Wednesday that PeakStream's product line will no longer be commercially available. Google acquired PeakStream on Tuesday. The representative, who asked to not be named in this article, said Google believes PeakStream's broad technical expertise can help build products and features to benefit Google users. The future, Google believes, is in the ability to scale high-performance applications that can work on multicore processors. Founded by former Sun Microsystems and VMware officials, PeakStream launched its PeakStream Platform in 2006, featuring an application server and developer tools for programming multicore processors, graphics processor units, and cell processors. The technology was aimed at markets such as oil and gas exploration, financial services, and life sciences. PeakStream's two product editions will no longer be sold, said the representative, who did not know specifics of customer support obligations pertaining to these products. The representative also did not know the size of the PeakStream installed base of customers. Google is impressed with the PeakStream team itself, the Google representative said. Google has been on a buying binge of late, also acquiring hot Internet properties such as YouTube and DoubleClick. With these acquisitions, Google is looking to build its advertising business, said Rebecca Lieb, an observer of Google and editor of ClickZ Network, which offers interactive marketing news. She also runs Search Engine Watch. "That's how Google makes its money," she said. Google already is taking on Microsoft in the enterprise application space by offering its free Google Docs & Spreadsheets applications, Lieb said. These allow for selling of contextual ads based on user habits, although the user is not personally identifiable, she added.


With the lighting of a candle for peace in his window, Pope John Paul began Christmas holiday celebrations that posed a new test for his frail health not long after visitors celebrated in Bethlehem.


FBI reviews 100 civil rights-era cold case murders

The FBI has been reviewing nearly 100 unsolved suspected murders from the civil rights era more than 40 years ago and is focusing initially on a dozen cases to investigate further, FBI officials said on Tuesday.


Omicidio Giusy: sorella "Non aveva relazione con questo animale

MANFREDONIA (Foggia) - ''Non e' vero niente che mia sorella aveva una relazione con questo animale. Questo e' sposato, ha due figli, una femminuccia di sette anni e un maschietto di due anni''. Lo ha dichiarato


Wyoming Edges UCLA to Win Las Vegas Bowl

Corey Bramlet drilled a 12-yard touchdown pass to John Wadkowski with 57 seconds left Thursday night to give Wyoming its first bowl victory in 38 years, a 24-21 win over UCLA.


Botox's new ads to take on product's stereotypes

The maker of the wrinkle-smoothing blockbuster drug Botox -- used by Hollywood's elite and news anchors everywhere -- is taking jokes about its most famous product seriously.


A joint venture between a subsidiary of Russian steel giant OAO Severstal and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. will create new opportunities for Wheeling-Pitt, company spokesman Jim Kosowski said Tuesday.


A federal grant pays for a program that recruits and trains truckers to be on the lookout for safety hazards and suspicious behavior. By Ryan Singel.


Pakistani president hails 'blow to terrorism'

Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, says the killing of an al Qaeda militant by security forces is a major blow against terrorism.


Faster clearing comes with change on Thursday

On Thursday, banks will begin implementing the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, better known as Check 21. The law is designed to speed up the processing of many of the 40 billion checks written each year.


West Bromwich Albion have named their former player Bryan Robson as manager in succession to Gary Megson. Robson, 47, has signed a two-and-a-half year contract and installed Nigel Pearson as his assistant.


NEW: Search for Missing Microsoft Engineer Extends to Mexico

By Mary Anne Ostrom/  The search for Jim Gray, the missing Microsoft engineer, was extended to Mexico on Wednesday, said Mike Olson, an Oracle vice president and a spokesman for the private search effort. Olson said U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican officials have been notified.


China's foreign exchange regulator  crushes rumours that yuan revaluation could take place soon.


Two couples have been charged in a price-switching scheme that allegedly defrauded Wal-Mart stores in 19 states of $1.5 million over the last decade.


Fears Ease Over Disease Risk in Tsunami Zone-U.N.

Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami could unleash epidemics which would double the death toll are fading as access to clean water improves, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.


Musharraf lifts emergency rule in Pakistan

President Pervez Musharraf lifted emergency rule in Pakistan and restored the constitution on Saturday, in a move Western nations hope will stabilize the nuclear-armed state as Islamic militant violence spirals.


(InfoWorld) - Demand for data storage and retrieval products will increase thanks to new rules governing how digital documents are gathered for civil cases in U.S. federal courts. Among other things, the amended Federal Rules for Civil Procedures (FRCP) delineate how enterprises must respond when compelled to produce documents in a lawsuit. They also let judges decide whether a records request puts an undue financial burden on an enterprise. The updated FRCPs take effect in federal courts on Dec. 1, but individual states are in various stages of implementing some or all of the same rules in their own court systems. California, New Hampshire and Maryland are in the process of adopting these so-called "e-discovery" rules; changes took effect in Idaho July 1. New Jersey's new rules went into effect on Friday. The rule changes focus new attention on technology to catalogue, retrieve and restore documents stored on backup tapes or hard drives. These e-discovery rules, on top of data retention requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley for public firms, HIPAA for health-care enterprises and other regulations, should further spur the already robust data storage and retrieval market. The e-mail archiving market -- most of the documents sought in a corporate lawsuit are e-mails -- is expected to grow to US$7.8 billion by 2010, from $796 million by the end of 2006, according to research firm The Radicati Group Inc. Zantaz Inc., a seller of information retention and discovery management software and services, unveiled this week a tape cataloging service. Cataloging backup tapes can help an enterprise comply with one new e-discovery requirement, said Francis Lambert, senior compliance advisor at Zantaz, in Pleasanton, California. It requires that the IT staff of a company being sued meet with the company's lawyers and opposing counsel early in the discovery process after the suit is filed. The IT professionals need to be able to explain where records being sought are located, in what format and how they can be retrieved, said Lambert. This puts a new onus on an enterprise to get a handle on its document system, he said. "It's important that the IT people be able to inform the company and their counsel what's in their system. They need to better arm themselves for their pretrial conference," Lambert said. Better cataloging can save the cost of restoring documents from dozens of tapes if the enterprise is able to identify the one tape that contains the requested documents. New technology has made tape restoration less expensive, said Kris Haworth , the managing director of the Law and Economics Consulting Group, which advises clients on compliance issues. The firm is advising clients being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly backdating stock options. Since some of those cases date to the mid-1990s, a lot of e-mails are on backup tapes, she said. "It used to be $1,000 a tape to restore, but now it's in the hundreds of dollars," Haworth said. Judges have the authority to decide that requested documents are inaccessible because reproducing them would impose an "undue burden" on the company asked to provide the information. But as the cost of data retrieval goes down, "it's going to become very difficult to argue that the data is inaccessible," Haworth said. The new rules could also spur sales of hard disk storage hardware for data protection and retrieval, said Manish Goel, vice president and general manager of data protection and retention at Network Appliance Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based storage device maker. Seventy to 80 percent of the files stored on enterprise networks are "unstructured data," Goel said, such as Word documents, PDFs (Portable Document Formats), Excel files. Network Appliance introduced software modules Aug. 14 to its Information Server 1200, designed to find that unstructured data, which the company introduced in November 2005.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.


Strage Taba, 5 arresti Iraq, bombe vicino a una scuola

Il Cairo, 25 ottobre 2004 - Cinque cittadini egiziani sono stati arrestati oggi dalle autoritÃ  del Cairo con l'accusa di essere membri del commando di nove uomini che lo scorso 7 ottobre si rese responsabile degli attacchi nella penisola del Sinai in cui


This Halloween, Man in Noose Wins a Reprieve

A series of race-baiting incidents have left some wondering about the display of Halloween ghouls in nooses.


Putin open to European ideas on Chechnya

Russia recognises it has "problems" in Chechnya and is happy to cooperate with other European countries to solve them, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.


Semiconductor designer ARM Holdings ARM.L has agreed to buy US technology firm Artisan ARTI.O for $913 million (503.3 million pounds), to boost its product range, but


A strategy to win Iowa and New Hampshire didn't work. Now Romney hopes a new message and a home state advantage might do the trick


Justices Approve Seizure of Land ; Mt. Laurel Sought to Keep Space Open

TRENTON  The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Mount Laurel Township Council was within its rights to seize land from a developer in order to preserve open space.


ATHENS -- The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad -- the great disaster that wasn't -- come to an emotional end this afternoon and, really, the world owes Athens an apology.


Apple Inc.  said on  Wednesday that it will put Google Inc's  YouTube  Internet video catalog on television through its Apple TV  set-top box.


One in 4 Zimbabwe children are AIDS orphans: UNICEF

Zimbabwe now has the world's highest percentage of children orphaned by AIDS, with almost one in every four children having lost at least one parent to the disease, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday.


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E-Commerce Report: To Raise Shopper Satisfaction, Web Merchants Turn to Videos

For years Internet merchants have poured millions of dollars into new technologies to make their sites easier to use. So why arenât online customers happier?


Devastating floods in Haiti have claimed more than 700 lives and at least 1,000 people are missing. Tropical Storm Jeanne swept north of Haiti during the weekend, drenching the impoverished Caribbean nation


Microsoft signs up 1st licensee for code

Under threat of new multimillion fines, Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that it had signed up its first licensee for a scheme EU regulators told it to set up three years ago to share code that helps servers work with the Windows operating platform.


Ex-UN chief Kofi Annan is meeting Kenya's president after rival Raila Odinga agrees to call off mass protests.


Solana visits Pristina and Belgrade, says short delay in Kosovo talks possible

Postponing the final round of Kosovo status talks by about a week would be acceptable to the EU, the bloc's foreign policy chief said Wednesday.Comment


Iraqi soldiers have found a mass grave of mutilated bodies in a restive region north of Baghdad, a local security official told CNN Thursday.


Nader leaves '08 door open, slams Hillary Clinton

Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on Sunday left the door open for another possible White House bid in 2008 and criticized Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as "a panderer and a flatterer."


Chinese shares continue their breakneck surge, pushing the main stock index past the 4,000 mark for the first time.


Motorola sues Aruba for patent infringement

Mobile phone maker Motorola Inc   said on Tuesday that two of its subsidiaries had sued  Aruba Networks Inc  for infringement of patents  involving short-range wireless network technologies.


And just quis custardies Destiny Welles? Letters Last week, Microsoft confused us all by announcing it had no incompatibilities in its shiny new OS, except the ones it put there itself, that weren't there at all, but were still a grave threat to us all. Still with us? No? Not surprising. Was it all about content? Oh we give up. Over to you:â¦


As New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas remembers it, his contact with former team executive Anucha Browne Sanders was infrequent and usually friendly and respectful.


Londra, 12:35 - CALCIO, STAMPA INGLESE: LAMPARD E MOURINHO INSIEME AL REAL

Josè Mourinho e Frank Lampard potrebbero ritrovarsi al Real Madrid dalla prossima stagione. S...


British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) said in a report on the software. It also supported use of the international standard ODF (Open Document Format) for storing files.Schools might consider using Vista if rolling out all-new infrastructure, but should not introduce it piecemeal alongside other versions of Windows, or upgrade older machines, said the agency, which is responsible for advising British schools and colleges on their IT use."We have not had sight of any evidence to support the argument that the costs of upgrading to Vista in educational establishments would be offset by appropriate benefit," it said.The cost of upgrading Britain's schools to Vista would be £175 million ($350 million), around a third of which would go to Microsoft, the agency said. The rest would go on deployment costs, testing and hardware upgrades, it said.Even that sum would not be enough to purchase graphics cards capable of displaying Windows Aero Graphics, although that's no great loss because "there was no significant benefit to schools and colleges in running Aero," it said.As for Office 2007, "there remains no compelling case for deployment," the agency said in its full report, published this week.The agency was equally skeptical about the benefits of Vista and Office 2007 last January, when it published an interim report based on its evaluation of beta versions of the new software. Then, it advised that the added value of Vista's new features was not sufficient to justify the cost of deployment, while Office 2007 contained no "must-have" features.In this year's report, BECTA warned schools that do choose to use Office 2007 to avoid Microsoft's OOXML (Office Open XML) document format because of concerns about compatibility between different applications -- even though interoperability is one of the benefits Microsoft claims for the format.It called on schools to make teachers, parents and pupils more aware of free alternatives to Microsoft's products, and asked the IT industry to facilitate their use.The agency also recommended setting up desktops to make it easy to use such open-source applications, and advised schools to insist their suppliers deliver office productivity software that can open and save ODF documents, setting it as the default file format.However, it slammed Microsoft for dragging its feet with incorporating support for ODF in Office 2007."While the product includes the functionality to read virtually every other relevant file format 'out of the box', the processes for dealing with ODF files are very cumbersome," BECTA wrote.In addition, it said, ODF file converters provided by Microsoft are not intuitive because they behave differently from the regular file save dialogs."We believe that these arrangements present sufficient technical difficulties for the majority of users to make them disinclined to use competitor products and this may weaken competition," the agency said.


Security Council again urges Syria to withdraw troops from Lebanon

The UN Security Council urged Syria on Tuesday to withdraw its remaining 14,000 troops from Lebanon and called for reports from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan every six months on its compliance.


Pemex Says New Gulf Deposits May Double Oil Reserves, Post Says

Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico's state- owned oil company, said it found oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that may double the country's reserves, the Washington Post reported.


Empoli, 19:49 - CALCIO, EMPOLI: 6-1 NEL TEST CON IL SIGNA

Test infrasettimanale per l'Empoli, che in vista della gara di domenica a Udine ha affrontato i dile...


Credit Card Processor Sues Blackstone to Finish Buyout

Alliance Data Systems sued the Blackstone Group, seeking to force the private equity firm to complete its $6.4 billion buyout of the company.


NEC ships HydraStor grid storage platform

Consolidated backup and archiving not a Herculean effort NEC of America is rolling out the first product based on its HYDRAstor grid storage platform this week, offering a high-tier system for businesses looking to cram backup and archive data into a single system.â¦


Tornado survivor: 'We were just shocked'

Candra Pennington and other students scrambled to a bathroom as windows shattered and the ceiling collapsed when a tornado struck Jackson, Tennessee. "We were just shocked at what we saw," she said. In Memphis, a survivor said he's lucky to be alive: "I was thinking about my mom, and I was calling on Jesus."


Richard Park scored 3 minutes 43 seconds into overtime Saturday night to help the Islanders to a 3-2 victory over the visiting Washington Capitals.


Iraqi Shi'ites Launch Powerful Election Bloc

Iraq's most powerful-looking electoral  bloc unveiled a slate of candidates for its election campaign  on Thursday, throwing down a gauntlet to minority Sunni Arabs  who complain next month's vote will be marred by violence.


PNC Financial, the big regional bank in Pittsburgh, may run a close second to the Steelers as a favorite turnaround story.


Karzai leading polls with over 1/3 votes counted

Afghan interim President Hamid Karzai has been keeping on leading the ballot counting as he garnered 62.6 percent of the votes counted till Wednesday noon, Afghan election website said.


NBA to review Sprewell's comments against female

Minnesota Timberwolves Latrell Sprewell's profane comments, made to a female heckler, are being reviewed by NBA officials. The Star Tribune reported Tuesday that Sprewell's


Some Muslim Leaders Want Pope to Apologize

Muslim leaders around the world accused Pope Benedict XVI of dividing religions in comments he made Tuesday about Islam.


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