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Beyonce reportedly makes up to $4.7 million for just 10 days of work a year — and that's just her hair. But she has to inform L'Oreal of "any radical change to her hair any concert tour may necessitate" and keep it in excellent condition, according to The Smoking Gun Web site, which has posted the contract between the singer and the cosmetic giant.


Marsiglia, 14:47 - CALCIO, ZIDANE: VINCERE CONTRO ITALIA E' SEMPRE DIFFICILE

Zinedine Zidane ha fatto visita alla nazionale neo zelandese di rugby, che sabato affronterà ...


The Italian Prime Minister has resigned from his Presidency role at Milan after 18 years of success. Silvio Berlusconi has stepped down as President of Milan, leaving the job vacant for the time being with


Roma, 17:24 - CALCIO, LAZIO: MUTARELLI IN MIGLIORAMENTO

Il centrocampista della Lazio, Massimo Mutarelli, è stato sottoposto a risonanza magnetica nu...


UK Seeking to Corroborate Reports of Bigley's Death

UK government officials said they were seeking to corroborate reports by Abu Dhabi television that British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been killed.


Il sondaggio di una societÃ  di comunicazione milanesesulle proposte di Rutelli e le parole del turismo                                          Natale? A casa o in settimana bianca Le ferie hanno ritmi immutabili


Oak Hills Faces New Challenges: Residents Are Gearing Up to Fight a Commercial Development With More Than 1,300 Parking Spots

By Ryan Orr, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Mar. 6--OAK HILLS -- The Oak Hills Property Owners Association will form a committee to deal with a proposal for a 22-acre commercial development that will have "big box" stores, a market and more than 1,300 parking spaces.


As the Comair crash revives a fight over staffing levels, the DOT's inspector general starts a probe.


Chicago White Sox: The White Sox claimed right-hander Bobby Jenks off waivers from Anaheim on Friday and designated righty Eduardo Villacis for assignment.


Heiress Paris Hilton is released from her Los Angeles jail after serving 24 days for a probation violation.


Ukraine's Parliament Ready to Present Deal

Ukraine's parliament determined Wednesday that it had enough support to bring a package deal on constitutional and electoral changes to a vote in a compromise aimed


Nigerian Police Say Dozens Killed in Pipeline Blast

Dozens of people were killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos early on Thursday morning, Nigerian police said on Friday .


It's Good to Be Back, Says Marathon Winner Paula

A triumphant Paula Radcliffe put her Athens nightmare behind her by winning the New York City marathon today and declared: âItâs good to be back.


Pirate Bay hits ten million peers, one million torrents

Swedish prosecutor hopes to crash party The Pirate Bay thumbed its nose at the authorities again this weekend, claiming it now has more peers worldwide than there are people in its home turf of Sweden.â¦


Alpharma Inc. said Friday that a federal court dropped an order preventing the generic drug maker from launching its version of Pfizer Inc.


Ukrainian Parliament Calls on President to Withdraw Peacekeepers From Iraq

The Ukrainian parliament on Friday called on outgoing President Leonid Kuchma to withdraw the nation's 1,600 peacekeepers from Iraq, where they make up the fourth-largest contingent.


Migrants Help More Than Harm Their New Lands -UN

Despite widespread unease over  immigration in the industrialized world, migrants do not  significantly drive down wages or employment rates in the  countries they move to, the United Nations reported on Monday.


Brian Swiniarski scored on a power play late in the first period and Northeastern never looked back as it rolled to a 3-1 Hockey East triumph over Providence yesterday at Schneider Arena.


Rumsfeld Urges Latin America to Unite in Terror War

By Charles Aldinger QUITO, Ecuador  - All of Latin America mustrealize that terrorism is a growing threat in the Americas andthat the only way to defeat extremist guerrillas like al Qaedais to join ranks, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said onTuesday.


Bernanke Is Said to Support Stimulus Measures

The chairman of the Federal Reserve told members of Congress he would back tax cuts or spending measures, so long as they are temporary.


Man Carves Marriage Proposal in Cornfield

NAPOLEON, Ohio - Corey Cook didn't heed warnings from his girlfriend not to do anything corny if he proposed to her. In fact, he did just the opposite...


By SAMANTHA YOUNG SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leaving the congestion and sky-high housing prices of the San Francisco Bay area for a quiet retirement near the state capital seemed like a no-lose idea to Achilles Melendres.


The International Olympic Committee wants the organisers of the 2012 Games in London to press on with their preparations.


YouTube launched nine localized versions of its popular social video site on Tuesday, which will at first only place navigation and functionality in the country's native language.


Aggiornata al 4% la cedola nominale del BTP triennale


Lilly buys Lexington maker of sleep pills

NEW YORK -- Eli Lilly & Co. will buy Hypnion Inc. as part of an effort to enter the market for sleeping pills.


Devils Defeat Flyers Again and Regain First Place

The low-scoring defenseman Johnny Oduya had a goal and three assists Tuesday night for the Devils, who scored five power-play goals in a victory over the Flyers in Philadelphia.


US Airways Tries to Reorganize for a Second Time

The airline, whose workers refused to accept $800 million in wage and benefit cuts, joins United Airlines in bankruptcy. Delta could soon follow.


US Secretary of State Colin Powell, known as the odd man out in the Bush cabinet, has resigned, US TV networks have reported. The former general, who headed the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the first Gulf


A remake of the 1984  cult classic "Revenge of the Nerds" has been shut down after  only two weeks because it was too raunchy for the Atlanta  university hosting the production.


Treasuries Fall as Investors Take Profits

U.S. Treasury debt prices fell for a second straight session on Wednesday as buyers' resistance to higher prices spawned a wave of profit-taking.


Health officials insist there's no cause for widespread worry, but many gamblers aren't taking any chances after the confirmation of a case of tuberculosis at MotorCity Casino.


NKorea raises hopes at start of nuke talks

North Korea said it may be willing to give up its nuclear weapons as fresh six-nation talks began here amid warnings that four years of tough diplomacy on Pyongyang was at a crossroads.


Viterbo, 20:00 - CALCIO, VITERBESE: SETTE GIOCATORI MESSI FUORI ROSA

Dopo la sconfitta per 3-0 contro il Cuoio Cappiano e la annunciata sospensione di tutti i giocatori ...


U.S. Ends Effort at U.N. to Ban All Human Cloning

The U.S. abandoned a bid that it had aggressively pursued to obtain a U.N. treaty banning all human cloning, including that done in the name of medical research.


The dead heat in the race for the US presidency left Britain's papers with bated breath, ready to see a high-drama fight between challenger John Kerry and incumbent George W. Bush.


The controversial Sikh play Bezhti (dishonour) which provoked violent protests in the UK city of Birmingham looks like it will not be re-staged elsewhere.


The new TV season's biggest faceoff so far went to the randy doctors. ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" beat CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," for years TV's most popular drama and leader of its own franchise, in their first competition.


Prisons Purge Books on Faith From Libraries

In federal prisons, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries.


A 30-year-old gorilla died Tuesday at Brookfield Zoo, but motherhood may continue: The animal's eggs will be fertilized, frozen and later placed into another female to create new life.


Hilton returned to jail cell after hospital stay: report

Paris Hilton was returned to a cramped Los Angeles jail cell after a six-day stay at a prison hospital facility, celebrity news website TMZ.com reported Thursday.


A key Republican senator announced his support Wednesday for efforts by Sen. John McCain and others to block partisan interest groups from spending millions of dollars in big donations in next year's congressional elections as they did in last year's 2004 presidential race.


Kahne ends Johnson's Coca-Cola 600 reign

Jimmie Johnson's reign ended in frantic &#151; but fruitless &#151; pursuit of Kasey Kahne.


INDIANAPOLIS -- That blur speeding through Indy was Tyson Gay. Running on a wet track, with the wind blowing in his face, Gay completed one of the most impressive sprint doubles in the sport's history yesterday.


Detained Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai must have access to lawyers, a judge orders.


London's FTSE 100 shot higher on Monday, with banks in focus amid the nationalisation of troubled lender Northern Rock.


Nintendo Says 'Touching Is Good' in Sexed-Up DS Ads

Japanese game maker Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) is sexing up its U.S. advertising to launch the DS handheld device, promising mature players that the gadget is not their little brother's Game Boy.


Citigroup Bond Trading Investigated by UK Regulator

Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., the world's biggest bank, is being investigated by the UK market regulator over ``unusual trading activity'' in European government bonds earlier this month.


Bush Campaign Adviser on Catholics Quits

The publisher of a conservative Catholic journal and leader of GOP efforts to reach out to Catholics says he's resigning as a Bush campaign adviser because of what he called "personal attacks" over allegations involving an episode with a female student years ago.


This little OQO  machine is certainly pretty cool.  The biggest problem though is that it doesn't run Linux.  This leaves you with a device heavier than your PDA and all the insecurity and bloat of Windows and with a price tag of only sub $2000.  People don't care what OS their PDA/Handtop runs.  It can run an alternative OS and for the most part consumers don't care.  WinCE hasn't exactly been a stellar market success.  While Microsoft does have significant market share PalmOS, Symbian, and Linux are doing just fine.  Also most of the WinCE devices never have the fit and finish of their Palm and Symbian counterparts.  I don't know where OQO thinks they are going to fit in.  If they were to  ...


Two Misplaced Souls Decide They Might as Well Live

Love doesn't just hurt in this jagged German romance about two strangers with suicidal tendencies; it cuts and bleeds and even kills.


Skipping Diabetes Meds Ups Risk of Hospitalization

Type 2 diabetic patients who take their oral medications only part of the time have an increased risk of being hospitalized within a one-year period, the results of a new study indicate.


China Offers Unproven Medical Treatments

BEIJING -- They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments _ and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China.


Profit at Coke Jumps 79%, Helped by Exchange Rate

The worldâs largest soft drink maker reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by higher sales, acquisitions and foreign exchange rates.


Indian court keeps Internet auction portal chief in jail over sex ...

NEW DELHI - An Indian court Saturday remanded in custody the head of a popular Indian Internet auction site owned by US giant eBay Inc.


Britain to deploy fighter planes to Afghanistan

Britain said it would deploy six Royal Air Force Harrier jets to Afghanistan, the first time it has sent combat planes to the country following the fall of the Taliban regime.


Ipswich football fans mourn murdered prostitutes

A crowd of 25,000 spectators at a football match here observed a minute's silence and said prayers for five prostitutes murdered in the area by a serial killer.


French Police Find Anti-Aircraft Missiles in Raid on ETA Hideouts

French officials say they found two portable anti-aircraft missiles among weapons seized in weekend raids against suspected members of Spain's Basque separatist group, ETA.


Oprah Winfrey Surprises Audience With New Cars

_ In addition to advice, encouragement and inspiration, Oprah Winfrey had a special gift for every member of her audience _ a $28,000 car.


Lido di Camaiore, 17:40 - CICLISMO: TENTATO FURTO IN ABITAZIONE PETACCHI A CAMAIORE

Il velocista azzurro Alessandro Petacchi ha subito un tentativo di furto nella sua abitazione a Lido...


Taliban leader taunts NATO and calls for Afghan pullout

Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Tuesday called on foreign forces to withdraw from Afghanistan and taunted NATO about its capture of the southern town of Musa Qala, saying celebrating such a small victory only showed its weakness.


The Democratic senator's plan has many of the elements of Hillary Clinton's from the 1990s. Could it fly this time?


Palestinians protest Gaza border closure

Tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday against the closure of a border crossing with Egypt as local security forces struggled to keep the protest under control.


Rub your eyes and look again at the NBA standings. The Washington Wizards are seven games over .500 — for the first time since 1985.


Baghdad - The killers of Kenneth Bigley were asked on Sunday to return his body to end the "agonising wait" for his family and to "finally allow them to lay him to rest", in an appeal by the British ambassador to Iraq.


In New York, Old-School Officers Swear By the Vanishing .38

Although most officers in the New York City Police Department carry semiautomatic pistols, some older officers still prefer their .38-caliber revolvers.


The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep interest rates at their current level of 5.25% on Thursday.


Iraqi unrest poses a threat to the outside world as Islamist groups gain experience and contacts, the CIA warns.


LOS ANGELES  - Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the  advocate of doctor-assisted suicide who is serving a 10- to  25-year prison term, will be the subject of a feature film.


The Indo-American Arts Council brought in the Oscars with a fun party in New York City.


Oil Prices Rise On Yukos Woes, Hurricane Impact

LONDON  - Oil prices climbed to the highest level for almost one month after Russia's embattled oil giant Yukos slashed deliveries to China and as traders fretted over the impact of hurricanes on supplies.


European press pulls in horns in face of Iraqi terror

Threatened with kidnap or death, European journalists are reducing coverage of the Iraqi election process to a strict minimum.


Peace, love, exams - U.S. anti-war movement quiet

KENT, Ohio  - Jerry M. Lewis has seen anti-war protests at their mightiest and most tragic. As a faculty peace marshal in 1970, he saw Ohio National Guardsmen kill four students at Kent State University during a protest against the Vietnam War.


It is unlikely that the global temperature rise can be kept below the EU's target of 2C, a leading climate scientist says.


Centuries-Old Makeup Reveals Roman Beauty Secrets

an ancient Roman beauty cream made of refined animal fat and tin-oxide -- have recreated the formula. They found that contains


The Red Cross calls on warring parties in Afghanistan to do more to protect civilians as the conflict spreads.


Jermaine O'Neal said he was relieved rather than vindicated. However, both he and his coach viewed yesterday's ruling by a federal judge in Manhattan as confirmation that character counts.


AMA Lists Risks, Rewards of Human RFID Implants

Report gives mixed reviews on the use of implanted radio frequency identification (RFID) based technology to keep track of medical patients.


Major league owners unanimously approve the $223 million sale of the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday from the family of commissioner Bud Selig to Mark Attanasio.


Grazie allo spettacolo 'Faccio del mio meglio'


Elderly "greeters" give U.S. troops warm welcomes

Cynthia Burks doesn't just talk about supporting her country's troops serving in Iraq.


Attacks Kill Two U.S. GIs in Afghanistan

A bomb killed two American soldiers and wounded three others in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Saturday, while a separate attack in an eastern Afghan province killed at least three children and a policeman on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.


Gartner: CIO exclusion, business skill shortages constrain IT growth

The lack of involvement between CIOs and corporate executives in setting strategy -- along with a shortage of business skills -- are constraining IT departments, according to a study by Gartner Inc.


iPhone Plans Are Priced for Masses: ; Service Will Range From About $60 to $100 Per Month From AT&T

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CUPERTINO, Calif. - AT&T Inc. and Apple Inc. on Tuesday said wireless service for the iPhone will range from $59.99 per month to $99.99 per month.


Ofcom raises concerns over competition in pay-TV

Britain's media regulator said on  Tuesday it has concerns about competition in the pay-TV  industry and whether firms such as BSkyB have the incentive to  make premium content such as sports available to other  operators.


Savion Gloverâs Objections to Festivals Reflect a Schism in the Tap World

The biggest name in tap wonât be found at the annual Tap City festival at the Duke on 42nd St.


For Kansas Farmers, Water Is a Vanishing Commodity

Soaring energy costs and one of the worst droughts to grip Kansas in a century have led farmers to work hard to conserve water.


Three down and one to go, how's the flight path looking?


Forget Ohio, Washington State is the new Florida


Barcelona's Eidur Gudjohnsen beats Athletic Bilbao's Ustaritz Aldekoaotalora to the ball during a Spanish league football match at San Mames stadium in Bilbao, north of Spain.Comment


Troubled airline US Airways asks a court to impose wage cuts of up to 23%, warning it may go into liquidation.


The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday approved Google Inc.'s IPO plans, and the company's stock jumped 20% on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange.


Space Station crew become "Weightless-Watchers" with low food ...

With food supplies becoming critically low onboard the International Space Station, the astronauts have been told to cut back on their food consumption.


US soldiers tend to the wounded after an apparent insurgent mortar attack on a dining facility during lunchtime on FOB Marez in Mosul, Iraq on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004.


Help sought in Chinese tire recall after accident

A New Jersey importer has asked the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for help in recalling about 450,000 light-truck tires made in China after a fatal car accident, lawyers said.


Forensic tests will be carried out to establish when victims found in a mass grave in Afghanistan died.


Princess Alice, oldest British royal, dies at 102

LONDON - Princess Alice, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and the oldest member of the British royal family, has died, Buckingham Palace said Saturday.


All 11 Taco Bells implicated in an E. coli outbreak in New York and New Jersey used the same food distributor, the restaurant chain said Tuesday as health officials tried to pinpoint the source of the dangerous bacteria that sickened at least three dozen people.


Milano, 12:57 - CALCIO, BRIATORE: MAI TRATTATO CON MOGGI

"Non ho mai parlato nè con Luciano Moggi nè con altri di acquisire società di c...


US FDA to Review Post-Market Safety Checks

ROCKVILLE, Md.  - The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration on Friday asked an outside group to review the  way the agency monitors safety risks of medicines after they  hit the market, such as Merck & Co. Inc.'s withdrawn painkiller  Vioxx.


E' la ragione per cui chiede di fare un'altra legge


The first European spacecraft sent to the moon has entered lunar orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on November 16, 2004.


With stock markets around the world falling last week, New Yorkers cut back on the essentials, like dry-cleaning their sheets.


Hundreds killed in south Sudan clashes: ex-officer

Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between Sudan's former north-south foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a senior former rebel officer said on Thursday.


Massive N. Ireland bank heist may be IRA 'pension fund'

A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution.


Prayers are being said on the first anniversary of the RAF Kinloss Nimrod crash which claimed 14 lives.


Surfers Defy Giant Waves Awakened by Storm

A perilous spot for surfers off the coast of Southern California had been surfed only a handful of times in the past decade. Four of the most experienced big-wave surfers in the world were not fazed.


Pocuratorial organs will continue to crack down on gang-related and economic crimes to create a sound environment for the country's economic and social development, a procuratorial official told the National People's Congress (NPC) yesterday.


Illinois, Kansas Stay 1-2 in Men's Top 25

Illinois and Kansas remained 1-2 in the AP college basketball poll for the sixth straight week, while Marquette and Oklahoma cracked the Top 25 for the first time this season Monday.


Global Mobile Phone Use to Pass Record 3 Billion

More than 1,000 new customers are effectively signing up for mobile phones every minute around the world.


Roadside bomb kills 2 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

A roadside bomb killed two NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, as the alliance decided to increase its forces in the country to overcome a resurgent Taliban.


ChÃÂ¡vez Raises Volume Of Government's Voice

CARACAS, Venezuela -- In the 1990s, Venezuelan journalist JosÃÂ© Vicente Rangel hosted a television talk show whose aggressive style and muckraking led to the downfall of President Carlos AndrÃÂ©s PÃÂ©rez. Now, after eight years as President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's deputy, Rangel is back on television, interviewing...


Realizzera' e vendera' l'"isola nucleare"


Britney Spears Reportedly Marries in California

Ooops! Pop star Britney Spears did it again and got married for the second time this year -- this time to dancer Kevin Federline in a private ceremony in Studio City, California, "Access Hollywood" reported on Sunday.


Electric cars and Beijing Olympics at Sam's Club

Can I get a price check on this Schwinn Lil' Princess bike and the electric smart car?


Short delay of chemo safe after breast surgery

Research has shown that women  who undergo chemotherapy after surgery for early-stage breast  cancer have an improved chance of survival. Now, investigators  have evidence that therapy can be safely delayed for up to 12  weeks - but waiting longer may adversely affect the outcome.


Dutch premier glad donor show a publicity stunt

The Dutch prime minister said a  reality television show about a "dying" woman donating her  kidneys, which turned out to be a hoax, was not the most  suitable way of highlighting the need for more organ donors.


In Spitzer's office, hours of drudgery, moments of 'gotcha!'

One of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's investigators was perusing a stack of subpoenaed documents in a Manhattan office last month when he let out a yelp, slammed down his coffee and sprinted down the corridor.


Schools should not be allowed to promote marriage over same-sex partnerships, academics have said.


Zambia Declares AIDS Emergency to Produce Drugs

Zambia has declared HIV/AIDS a national  emergency in a bid to start manufacturing generic AIDS drugs  under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, a senior government  official said on Friday.


Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.


Sharp puts Internet, sort of, on its TVs

An Ethernet jack on the TV will let Sharp customers get some Web sites on their TV for free. But will they go for it?


They operate in different parts of the government, but both have decided to go digital and phase out their signature paper products.


REAL, Philippines, Dec. 4 -- Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared on Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that killed 640 people and left nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.


Eight schoolboys slain; attacker escapes

A knife-wielding man stabbed 12 students in a provincial high school, killing eight and injuring four, local police said on Friday.


Magnetospheres, the giant magnetic fields around planets, are extraordinarily good at trapping plasma. To study them, and gain insights into how to produce fusion power, a group of scientists builds a mini magnetosphere at MIT. By Rachel Metz.


Under a proposal announced last week, all employees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including intramural scientists, would be barred from engaging in paid consulting activities with drug and biotech companies for at least 1 year while the


The Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control will take no action against a restaurant that served Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock his death.


A test project, now in use at Reagan National Airport, aims to give frequent fliers a quicker pass through security checkpoints by using the latest biometric technologies -- such as eye scans -- to verify a passenger's identity.


U.S. agents make progress in Sudan killing probe

U.S. and Sudanese security agents are close to identifying a suspect in the shooting of an American aid official and his driver in Khartoum, Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.


Il club nerazzurro oggi chiude per il brasiliano. Il Genoa licenza De Canio e prende Cosmi. MILANO - Cannavaro alla Juve, Cesar allâInter. Tutto come previsto. Acquisti annunciati da settimane, tormentoni


Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns

Embattled Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has resigned from his post, ending a controversial cabinet tenure that included clashes with Congress over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and the scope of efforts to spy on U.S. citizens, according to an administration official,


Appiano Gentile, 18:32 - CALCIO, INTER; A UDINE BALLOTTAGGIO CRESPO-SUAZO

Seduta di allenamento mattutina per l'Inter in vista dell'esordio in campionato contro l'Udinese (ar...


SAN FRANCISCO Naysayers used to assert that packaged-goods companies would never have much success attracting people to their Web sites because there isn't much tech sizzle in a bar of soap or box of crackers. New evidence on Web traffic would suggest otherwise. Companies such as Kraft, General Mills and Betty Crocker are attracting new unique users at twice the rate of the Internet as a whole, according to recent data from comScore.


iPhone unlock hackers promise to fight Apple updates

The iPhone Dev team said it will fight any attempt by Apple to "brick" iPhones that have been unlocked by owners using its anySIM software.


Eurozone finance ministers mull rising euro, stability pact

Eurozone finance ministers were to focus at a meeting on the rise of the single currency to record levels against the dollar, with swelling deficits also set to share the limelight.


The UN says Iran has  ceased uranium enrichment, but the US says it could still press for sanctions against Tehran.


Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri has resigned along with his government and said he would not lead a new government. The resignation on Wednesday came after the Lebanese constitution


Dirk Nowitzki and Jerry Stackhouse got rolling in the final five minutes, just about the time the Dallas defense found a way to throttle Shaquille O'Neal and the Miami Heat, leading the Mavericks to a 109-104 victory last night at Dallas.


Gunmen kill clerics in influential organization

Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric as he entered a mosque in Baghdad to perform noon prayers Monday, the second slaying of a cleric from


For the second day running, Ukraine's deepening political crisis takes up a vast acreage of inches in Europe's press.


The Paris Club of rich lending nations is to discuss a proposed debt freeze for tsunami-affected countries.


A New Script for Searching Texts Written by Hand

Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.


U.S. Marines ponder if "shoot first" justified

CAMP PENDLETON, California  - Does a U.S. Marine serving in Iraq have the right to shoot first and ask questions later if hostile forces could be nearby?


Letters: Blame Navy in oil-for-food scandal

The Bush Administration (with the help of the Fox News Channel) is engaged in an assault on Kofi Annan and the entire United Nations.


Senate Dems plan new round of Iraq votes

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home.


Caffeine ups blood sugar level in diabetics: study

Cutting down on caffeine could help people with the most common form of diabetes better control their blood sugar levels, researchers said on Monday.


Pavano tagged for five runs, 12 hits in defeat

com. The Cubs dealt the Marlins' playoff hopes a severe blow with a convincing 5-1 victory in the first game of a doubleheader Monday afternoon at Pro Player Stadium.


La fiamma di Harry parla ai tabloid e fa infuriare Carlo

Londra, 8 dicembre 2004 - Nel secondo speciale su Diana trasmesso dalla NBC, la principessa del Galles, morta in un incidente stradale nel 1997 ma sempre alla ribalta delle cronache, rivela di aver pensato di scappare dal suo matrimonio infelice con il


Captors of Britons in Iraq linked to Iran: Petraeus

The top U.S. commander in Iraq said in an interview published on Thursday that kidnappers who seized five Britons in Baghdad last month had links to Iran, adding he believed the captives were still alive.


PM holds substantial talks with counterpart

NEW DELHI, Nov 24 : Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz held substantial talks with his Indian counterpart Mr. Manmohan Singh in all aspects of bilateral relations, Kashmir on-going composite dialogue and SAARC, an official spokesman told newsmen in New Delhi.


Longtime eBay Chief Preparing to Step Down

Meg Whitman, who has guided eBay for a decade, wants to retire. She's helping to pave the way for a smooth transition, reports say.


Lavoro, da Nord a Sud le imprese che assumono

Le nuove opportunità in Italia, dalla consulenza al commercio. Dalle promozioni turistiche alla telefonia. Tra i profili ricercati: neolaureati, esperti amministrativi e project manager


Nerves, ring-rust and a battling baseliner haunted three of the world's leading women at the Australian Open on Monday before Serena Williams, Justine Henin and Jelena Jankovic moved into round two.


Music Review: A Rare Jewish Bid for the Classically Sacred Concert

Robert Bass and the Collegiate Chorale gave Ernest Bloch's âAvodath Hakodeshâ a thoughtful, richly textured performance at Central Synagogue on Monday evening.


Ryan Giggs' header gives Man Utd a fourth successive win as Spurs pay for wasting chances at Old Trafford.


Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday introduced a new larger-capacity iPod with a color display as well as a first-of-its-kind digital compendium of the rock band U2's songs.


Italians train Iraqis to secure election

Election workers and U.S.-trained security troops have become Iraq's most hunted, facing slaughter by insurgents out to ruin this month's landmark vote.


Anti-Syrian leader warns of more Lebanon violence

Hundreds of Lebanese mourners pressed on Wednesday to touch the coffin of minister Pierre Gemayel whose assassination, blamed by his allies on Syria, stoked fears of more killings and a surge in factional violence.


Stoccarda, 12:18 - CALCIO, BUNDELISGA: SOSTA INVERNALE PUO' SCOMPARIRE

Il clima sta cambiando, anche in Germania. E con gli inverni non piÃ¹ rigidi come una volta, la Bunde...


British soldier charged with murder of Basra lawyer

LONDON: The British army's rules of engagement will go on trial at the Old Bailey after a soldier was charged yesterday with murdering an Iraqi lawyer while on active service in Basra.


Rheumatoid arthritis patients' mortality unchanged

NEW YORK  - The decline in mortality seen in the U.S. population over the past four decades has not extended to patients with rheumatoid arthritis, despite innovations in rheumatoid arthritis treatment, according to a report in the current issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism.


Critic Bashes Massachusetts on Open XML Proposal

Only a week remains to collect comments on a plan to adopt Ecma's Open XML standard.


Amazon's independent A9 unit is ready to officially unveil its customized search engine, which debuted in preview form last April. A9.com combines Web and image searches from Google, movie and book searches from Amazon and reference materials from GuruNet into an interface that can be custom tailored for each user. A9 also recommends Web sites in a TiVo-like fashion and includes a Diary for taking notes on a Web page. It is not yet clear if A9 will become a part of Amazon.com.


The son-in-law of Kazakhstan's autocratic president has appealed to Austrian authorities not to extradite him to his homeland to face kidnapping charges, a magazine reported Saturday.


Cyber-Security to Get Higher-Profile Leader

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said yesterday that the role of overseeing computer security and the Internet should have a higher profile at the agency, in the face of increasing concern


Hitachi, the Japanese electronics company, sees quarterly profits soar but cuts its full-year forecast as flat-screen prices fall.


The government's chief scientist is expected to set out a universal code of ethics for scientists.


The Stanley Cup must start to watch its weight. Due to restrictions on weight of luggage, the championship trophy went missing in baggage claim in Vancouver for a while on Sunday.


Nasa is to invest $170m in the Orbital Sciences Corporation to help it develop a commercial resupply ship for the space station.


Crude Oil Rises to Record in New York on Stockpile Fall, Iraq

Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil futures in New York rose to a record after a report showed near-record imports aren't helping US oil inventories keep pace with demand and as fighting in Iraq raised concern about its ability to boost exports.


Amid strong PC demand from consumers and businesses, Microsoft reported on Thursday quarterly revenue and earnings that topped the company's earlier expectations.


Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts clinches a deal to release his album in 15 countries.


Hollywood star Nicole Kidman pregnant: publicist

Oscar-winning Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman is expecting her first baby with her husband, country crooner Keith Urban, her publicist said Tuesday.


Play of the Day: Tim Robbins for Edwards

Actor and film director Tim Robbins came to Iowa Wednesday to praise John Edwards Â and bury the media.


Ukraine's Constitutional Court says restriction a violation

A day before Ukrainians were to go to the polls for another presidential runoff, a court is ruling restrictions on voting at home violate the constitution.


HILLA, Iraq  - Suicide bombers killed 21 people in  attacks on an Iraqi police academy and a checkpoint on  Wednesday, part of a campaign to derail Jan. 30 elections which  Iraq's prime minister vowed will go ahead.


Is DHS Privacy Chief Writing Checks U.S. Data Miners Won't Honor?

Homeland Security promises greater privacy protections for European travelers, contradicting a U.S. push for more data.


A Federal Communications Commission proposal would relax decades-old rules, including one that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city.


McDonald's Corp.  on Friday said November sales at hamburger restaurants open at least 13 months rose 6.2 percent, boosting the company's shares to a seven-year high, as Snack Wraps and family game promotions kept customers coming back.


The UN passes a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples despite opposition from four developed nations.


Where Is Appleâs Rental Service for Music?

The latest iPods have built-in clocks that could support music subscription services as well as movie rentals.


Motorcycle maker KTM's success in racing, including repeated first place wins in the Paris-to-Dakar rally, led it to venture into four-wheel racing. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.


Vietnam officially confirms two children died from bird flu

Vietnam has officially confirmed that two young boys have died from bird flu as state media says two other people are suspected of contracting the virus.


Afghanistan Arrests Warlord After Battle

A renegade Afghan warlord has been arrested and brought to the capital by the central government, just weeks after his troops clashed with militiamen loyal to a powerful regional governor, officials said.


Colombia's Carlos Meza Declared Brain Dead

Colombian boxer Carlos Meza was declared brain dead Tuesday, four days after being knocked out in the ring.


The FSA warns  flood victims to be sceptical if approached by people offering help with insurance claims.


Thousands of commuters are warned of perilous travelling conditions as temperatures fall following flooding.


The NHL is using its All-Star weekend to spotlight its efforts to increase African-American interest in playing and following the sport. But it's still fighting a losing battle


FDA TO CONDUCT IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF ITS DRUG SAFETY PROCEDURES

The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday its intentions to conduct a major evaluation of its approach in dealing with safety concerns involving drugs, primarily those that are already marketed.


LAHORE, Pakistan -- An explosion that tore through the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, injuring at least six people, was caused by a short circuit, Islamabad's chief of police told CNN.


Elton John says 'Up yours' to Aussie PM over gay marriage

Outspoken British pop icon Sir Elton John has delivered a blunt public message to Australian Prime Minister John Howard over his opposition to gay marriage: "Up yours".


Adventurer Steve Fossett is set to fly an experimental jet around the world without stopping or refuelling.


First a little background. I stopped using a Mac in 1997, as Apple was transitioning to the new operating system. I started using the Mac again as my primary OS in late 2005, a little more than two years ago. This is the first new version of the OS to come out since I switched back. Based on a tour of the new features, pretty late at the end of a long week, it's safe to say an OS is still just an OS, the purpose of the OS is to stay out of your way until you need it. Leopard may be prettier than the last version, I'm not sure it is or isn't. Not sure I'll use many of the new features. For people who hadn't used VNC before, "screen sharing" would certainly be a big new feature if they're working in a networked enviroment. And maybe the new backup code will fit into my routine. I have some ideas about that. (Maybe I'll just have one computer on my LAN that is backed up and copy things there if I want them backed up.) File sharing is more convenient in Leopard, the shared computers are listed in every Finder window, and this is good. FInding the disks that are available on each of these computers is one step easier too.  The Preferences applicaiton appears largely unchanged, except the Networking section where a lot of functionality seems to be missing. I have to look at this more closely. The Download stack is lost on me since I don't use Safari or Apple's mail app. I would find it useful if Firefox had a similar feature (but they kind of do, I can direct all downloads to a specific folder). All in all, changes to an OS aren't that important. The action is in the apps, and for me, just a couple of primary ones, the web browser and my integrated writing and programming environment. It's been quite a while since there have been meaningful improvements to either, and those improvements would end up meaning a lot more to me than improvements to the OS. There isn't much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn't already been done.  Net-net, my first impression of Leopard is that it isn't a big deal one way or the other.  PS: I wonder if the next version of the OS will be called Leonard, to honor Leonard Rosenthal, a famous Mac developer in the 80s and 90s.


Waterloo Man Accused of Child Pornography: Had Worked at Teen Summer Camp

By Ashley Tusan Joyner, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Dec. 13--A Waterloo man was arrested Tuesday on three charges of child pornography and one count of indecent solicitation of a child, both felonies, according to Columbia Police.   Aaron J.


The United States made a dramatic reversal Saturday, first rejecting and then accepting a compromise to set the stage for intense negotiations in the next two years aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.


Crawford Takes the Blows and Delivers the Shots

A more judicious Jamal Crawford attacked the Jazz' defense, and that newfound wisdom helped the Knicks capture their fourth victory in five games.


Gaza truce shaken by attack on Hamas ministry

Palestinian factions reached a new Egyptian-mediated truce on Monday in a bid to halt a cycle of bloodletting but the deal got off to a shaky start as shootings continued, including an attack on a Hamas minister's office.


Oil prices have fallen as much as $16  from their peaks, their steepest reversal in 16 years, in a  correction that traders say may be harder to shake off than  past setbacks over the market's four-year rally.


Rachida Dati, a self-made daughter of immigrants, triumphantly joined the Cabinet as the star symbol for the president's bid to make France value its diversity. But the hard-charging justice minister has lately hit some speed bumps.


UN observers encounter 100 suspected Rwandan troops in Congo

GOMA, Congo  - UN observers encountered what they believed to be about 100 Rwandan troops in eastern Congo, a UN official said Wednesday, marking the first UN sighting since Rwanda threatened to send in its forces against Rwanda Hutu rebels sheltering there.


Obama Delivers Populist Message in Wisconsin, Attacks Clintons

Bloomberg - Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama delivered a populist message in Wisconsin today as he shot back at rival Hillary Clinton's claim that he's all talk and no action.


'Wicked' Star Menzel Injured in Stage Fall

Idina Menzel, the Tony-winning star of "Wicked," fell through a trap door during the Saturday matinee of the Broadway musical and cracked a lower rib.


Aboriginal bush medicine heals body and soul

NHULUNBUY, Australia  - As the campfire burns slowly, a group of Aborigines build a "place of healing" in a remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using traditional bush medicines.


Four Police Dead in Peru Shootout; Rebel Defiant

LIMA, Peru  - Four Peruvian police died on Sunday  after security forces battled to retake parts of a southern  town seized by an armed group early on New Year's Day to demand  the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo.


Berlino, 20:26 - ATLETICA, 'ETIOPE DEFAR BATTE RECORD MONDIALE 3.000 F. INDOOR

La etiope Meseret Defar ha battuto a Berlino il regalo mondiale dei 3.000 metri piani indoor, corren...


Four British men held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years are to sue the US government.


News Corp to sell 8 U.S. TV stations for $1.1 bln

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  will sell eight U.S. television stations to private equity firm Oak Hill Partners for about $1.1 billion.


ASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - Consumer prices declined slightly in July, pulled down by an incongruous drop in gasoline prices and by lower prices in other less volatile areas, suggesting that inflation may be slowing, the government reported ...


Blair aide quizzed in 'cash for honours' probe

A senior aide in Prime Minister Tony Blair's Downing Street office has been questioned by police probing claims of shady financial dealings by the governing Labour Party, reports said.


Gov't to Appeal Ruling on Abortion Measure

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it will appeal a Nebraska judge's ruling striking down the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.


The families of people buried in the wrong graves react angrily after the person responsible avoids a jail sentence.


Global Markets: Bond Prices Dip After CPI

Government bond prices fell on Tuesday  after data showed U.S. core inflation rose faster than expected  in September, while upbeat earnings reports and a slide in oil  prices gave stock markets a boost.


Florent Sinama-Pongolle scored two crucial spot kicks to send Liverpool into the English League Cup semi-finals at Tottenham Hotspur's expense in a thrilling 4-3 shootout win.


Governments agree a deal to harness an alternative source of nuclear power which would be clean and abundant.


"Racing Stripes" is unlikely to ascend to the pantheon of perennially watchable children's films, but what it lacks in skill, it makes up for in heart.


Panel Upholds Landisâs Positive Drug Test

Floyd Landis, the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, must forfeit his title and is subject to a two-year ban.


Brazil's Singing Minister Disowns 'Die, Bush' Call

Brazil's culture minister and singing superstar Gilberto Gil is not calling for the death of President Bush, whatever concert-goers might have thought.


Top-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia overcame Fernando Vicente of Spain 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 on Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Thailand Open.


Insurgents Attack Baghdad Police Station

Insurgents attacked a police station Saturday in northwestern Baghdad with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire, witnesses said.


Residents working in waist-high mud salvaged family photos from washed-out neighborhoods as fresh rains Thursday triggered more flooding, compounding the misery for hundreds of thousands forced from their homes.


India is to cut troop levels in the disputed territory of Kashmir this winter, the prime minister announces.


Qaeda in Pakistan, in a gun battle on Sunday afternoon in the southern city of Nawabshah. Two other. men, caught during the siege, were under interrogation.


Empoli, 22:58 - CALCIO, EMPOLI; CAGNI: GIOVANI CI REGALERANNO SALVEZZA

Ancora una buona prova dell'Empoli, ma anche con l'Inter, come domenica scorsa con la Fiorentina, &e...


Celebrities Talk About Christmas Memories

It isn't the smell of a Douglas fir or baking cookies that reminds Renee Zellweger of Christmas; it's the smell of cigars. For Tom Hanks, it's the smell of banana bread. He says he always took the bus to visit his mom on Christmas, and if he was lucky, he'd sit next to an old lady who'd give him banana bread.


California, Ontario join forces on stem cell, global warming efforts

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced plans Wednesday to join forces to advance stem cell research and curb global warming.


Bomb at Iraqi Shi'ite Office Causes Casualties

A car bomb exploded outside the Baghdad offices of one of Iraq 's leading Shi'ite Muslim political parties on Monday, killing and wounding several people, party officials and witnesses said.


Reggio Calabria, 19:04 - CALCIO, REGGINA: I CONVOCATI PER IL MILAN

L'allenatore della Reggina, Renzo Ulivieri, ha convocato 19 giocatori per la gara contro il Milan, r...


'Con compagnia italiana piu' forte ci saranno discussioni'


Two Indian airlines announce merger to cut costs

India's biggest discount carrier, Deccan, will merge with liquor baron Vijay Mallya's upmarket Kingfisher Airlines to create the nation's biggest domestic airline, officials said.


Roma, 16:47 - CALCIO, RIVA: ITALIA PRIMA MA CON SERI PROBLEMI ALLE SPALLE

Il vice commissario della Figc, Gigi Riva, ha commentato con Sky il ritorno dell'Italia al primo pos...


The New York Yankees have become the  first major league side to sign Chinese players after bringing  in two teenagers, the team said on Monday.


Jerry Yang makes his first move as chief executive of Yahoo, buying the college sports website Rivals.com.


AMD invests in ailing chip company Transmeta

(InfoWorld) - Advanced Micro DevicesÂ is investing $7.5 million in energy-efficient chip company Transmeta, which has beenÂ battling falling revenueÂ and widening losses. The investment, announced Friday, comes a year after AMD said it wouldÂ resell Transmeta's Efficeon processorsÂ in PCs for developing countries, and three months after Transmeta said itÂ faced delistingÂ from the Nasdaq stock market because of its low share price. Transmeta shot to fame in the late 1990s when the vendor said it was developing a groundbreaking line of ultra low power processors for notebooks PCs. The Crusoe chips did not sell as well as expected, however, due to product delays and disappointing performance. Transmeta did secure a few licensing deals, notably in Japan, but it also wracked up heavy losses. In January 2005 the vendor announced job cuts and said it would switch its focus to licensing its power management technology to other companies. Later that year Transmeta agreed toÂ sell its Crusoe chips to Hong Kong companyÂ Culturecom TechnologyÂ for $15 million in cash. Last year's deal with AMD, to resell Transmeta chips in Microsoft's pay-by-instalment PC initiative, raised the vendor's prospects again. But in March Transmeta said it faced delisting from the Nasdaq because its stock price fell below $1 for more than 30 consecutive days. Transmeta's stock closed at $0.70 a share on Thursday, but it jumped 50 percent in premarket trading Friday on news of AMD's investment. Transmeta reported revenue of $2.1 million for its first fiscal quarter in May, down from $19.5 million in the same period a year earlier. Its losses widened to $18.7 million, from $1.7 million in the first quarter of 2006. AMD made its investment in exchange for Transmeta stock. The chip vendor called Transmeta "an innovative force in the industry" and said it had been a key ally in bringing AMD's AMD64 technology, the basis of its Opteron chips, to market. "Our investment will support Transmeta's technology development work and AMD's efforts to leverage Transmeta's innovative energy-efficient technologies to the benefit of AMD's customers," Dirk Meyer, AMD's president and chief operating officer, said in a statement. Separately, Transmeta said in a regulatory filing last month that David Ditzel, the company's co-founder and its first CEO, was resigning from the vendor's board of directors effective June 15. He'll receive a severance payment of $210,000 in three installments, the company said. Ditzel may do consulting work for the company until June 2008, according to the filing. Â


Motorola to buy quad-play service delivery vendor

InfoWorld - Motorola has agreed to acquire Leapstone Systems, which makes software that helps carriers create and deliver services for wired and wireless networks.


GEORGIA, COLUMBIA COUNTY  THIS LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.


Il senatore italo-argentino conferma il sostegno a Prodi


The Detroit Lions reportedly fired Mike Martz on Wednesday, ending his fractious two years as the team's offensive coordinator.


Saudi in 8.9 billion dollar deal with Britain for Eurofighter

Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it has signed a 4.43 billion pound (8.86 billion dollar) deal to buy 72 Eurofighter planes, after tortuous negotiations on one of the largest ever British export orders.


"Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington, making amends for his use of an anti-gay slur, cautions in a public service announcement that "words have power" to hurt or heal.


Jets general manager Terry Bradway received a two-year contract extension Thursday that will keep him in the organization through 2007.


Electronics Maker to Invest $5 Billion in Vietnam

Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.--which assembles iPods, PS3s, and more--is spending $5 billion to build factories near Hanoi.


It's not like the old days, when Ted Johnson would uncoil his body and send it shooting through the air like a projectile, smack into the chest of a running back with a force that would drop the poor soul like a dead weight dropping from the top of a skyscraper.


The United States insisted on Tuesday that it was working closely with Turkey on a whole range of issues regarding Iraq amid reports that Turkey warned that it would halt


A former energy and industry minister was named Kyrgyzstan's prime minister on Monday, the president's office said.


Filipinos in Singapore to test online voting

In a first for the Philippines' cumbersome electoral process, Filipinos working in Singapore can use the Internet to vote for their candidates in May mid-term elections, the service provider said.


U.S. warns Iran of consequences of any new naval crisis

Iran must bear the consequences of any new confrontation between U.S. and Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, a senior U.S. official warned on Wednesday.


L'ex imama rapito nel 2003 a Milano. "Finalmente giustizia"Per il sequestro sotto accusa ex vertici Sismi, 26 agenti Cia, un sottufficiale del Ros                                            Le lacrime della moglie "Porta i segni delle torture"                                                                                di ALBERTO CUSTODERO


Russia threatens to place rockets near Poland

Russia issued a veiled warning on Friday that it could deploy rockets in its Kaliningrad enclave bordering the European Union if Washington does not draw back from its missile defence plans.


Should LinkedIn do battle with Facebook?

Dan Farber, over at ZDNet, is reporting that LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, has made their plans clear to open up API's and create a developer platform. From CNET Blogs Network.


Iraqis vow to fight al Qaeda after sheikh death

RAMADI, Iraq  - Sunni Arab Iraqis and U.S. forces in Anbar province vowed on Friday to keep fighting al Qaeda after the assassination of a tribal leader who worked with Americans to create one of Iraq's few security success stories.


European shares drop after euro, oil hit record highs

Europe's main stock markets slid Thursday after the euro struck a record dollar high and oil prices surged above 80 dollars a barrel in New York, threatening company profits.


VANCOUVER, Wash. - A man drove 18 miles in the wrong direction on Interstates 5 and 205 before State Patrol troopers stopped his car...


Probabile autore attacco contro base Usa Bagram, Afghanistan


The city hall of the southwestern French city of Bordeaux was damaged by a small bomb blast overnight, local police chief Alain Gehin said.


Germany Nabs 2 Suspected al-Qaida Members

German police on Sunday arrested two suspected al-Qaida members believed to be planning a suicide attack in Iraq, federal prosecutors said. One of the men also allegedly tried to obtain uranium.


Bush should try to cement a possible Mideast breakthrough

Israel's parliament made a historic decision in backing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw settlers from the Gaza Strip and four small West Bank settlements.


BAGHDAD -- A boycott by several political groups caused the legislature yesterday to put off a rancorous debate again on a federalism bill that Sunni Arabs say may split Iraq apart and that may fuel sectarian bloodshed.


Books of The Times: A Portrait of Bush as a Victim of His Own Certitude

In Bob WoodwardÂs highly anticipated new book, a passive leader presides over a grossly dysfunctional war cabinet.


Gold hit a record high above $900 an ounce on Monday as turmoil in financial markets, expectations of aggressive U.S. rate cuts and a falling dollar helped raise the metal's safe-haven appeal.


Who's written a new rock opera? Pete Townshend

More than 30 years after his seminal "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia," The Who's Pete Townshend has written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a theater festival in New York this weekend.


Parigi, 18:57 - TENNIS, ROLAND GARROS: DAVIDENKO BATTE CANAS, E' SEMIFINALE

Il russo Nikolay Davidenko si è qualificato per le semifinali degli Internazionali di Francia...


Bonds extend gains after Beige Book reads benign

U.S. government bond prices recovered on Wednesday after a week of heavy selling, reaching session highs as the Federal Reserve's Beige Book did little to upset the notion of a modestly expanding national economy.


A suspected bomb attack has killed "tens of people" in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, police say.


Groups Try to Aid Elderly Charley Victims

SARASOTA, Fla. - The devastation brought on by Hurricane Charley has been especially painful for an elderly population that is among the largest in the nation...


The unbeaten Indianapolis Colts rolled to their sixth consecutive win with a 29-7 road victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday.


Assam separatists kill a tea estate manager, jolting the peace process in the north-eastern Indian state.


Cuban parliament speaker calls US Embargo 'genocide' ahead of UN ...

Parliament speaker Ricardo Alarcon blasted Washington's four-decade trade Embargo against Cuba as "genocide" Saturday as thousands gathered to draw attention to the upcoming UN vote to condemn the sanctions.


Solar storm satellites launched from Florida

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Five satellites were launched into space from Florida on Saturday aboard an unmanned Delta rocket to investigate electromagnetic storms, the dark side of the phenomenon that causes Earth's dazzling aurorae.


British police end Litvinenko probe in Moscow: Ifax

British detectives probing the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have wound up their investigation in Moscow and are preparing to leave for home, the Russian news agency Interfax said on Monday.


âWatching my dad, I learned the importance of not disappointing a customer.â


ABN AMRO keeps neutral stance on competing bids

ABN AMRO  stuck to its neutral stance on Sunday on competing takeover bids for the Dutch bank, saying it could not support a break-up under the financially superior RBS-led  consortium's bid.


Brown contemplates calling a snap election

Speculation mounted Friday as to whether Prime Minister Gordon Brown would call a snap general election after the Labour Party wound up an upbeat annual conference.


No more tentative agreements--in what the two companies deem a "merger of equals," Sprint and Nextel officially announced a definitive agreement to merge.


Love triangle astronaut wants tracker removed

The lawyer for Lisa Nowak -- the former NASA astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival -- will ask a judge Friday to throw out her statements to police, suppress evidence collected from her car and remove her ankle-bracelet monitor.


Pennsylvania Turnpike managers and temporary workers held out their hands again yesterday to collect tolls from shoppers, football fans and end-of-Thankgiving weekend


Research Study Outlines U.S. Economic Impact of Windows Vista

REDMOND, Wash., Dec. 11  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A research study released today by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by Microsoft Corp.


"Gladiator" heart-throb Russell Crowe is reported to have had a brawl with his own bodyguard because he tried to stop him from getting drunk in a bar!


Study finds painkillers raise blood pressure

Popular painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen can raise blood pressure and thus the risk of heart disease among men, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.


The United States on Wednesday backed European Union candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund, virtually assuring the Frenchman's victory as the selection process neared a conclusion.


Whereâs a Nimbus 2000 when you need one? Caught up in the airline security scare last month, JK Rowling won an argument with New York airport officials to allow her to fly with her latest Harry Potter manuscript.â¦


The strengthening of Syria's influence in Lebanon's government prompted Secretary of State Colin Powell to renew his criticism of Syria after a brief period of praise.


A man who killed the 6-year-old daughter of an acquaintance after she resisted his attempts to rape her was convicted Monday of murder.


NBC Studied Dow Jones Bid With Microsoft

General Electricâs NBC unit and Microsoft explored making a joint bid for Dow Jones but decided against it a week ago, a person close to NBC and Microsoft said.


The top U.N. envoy in the Middle East said Monday there is a new opportunity for peace, citing recent statements from the Israeli and Palestinian leadership as well as President Bush.


Congress Takes Up Alleged Pressure on Drug Critic

A panel is examining claims that GlaxoSmithKline tried to suppress a doctorâs criticism of its drug Avandia.


Pakistani electoral officials will decide on Tuesday whether to go ahead with a January poll, with up to a two-month delay widely expected in a country plunged into crisis by opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination.


Death toll in China's coal mine blast expected to rise

BEIJING : A gas explosion in a coal mine in China has killed at least 56 miners and left nearly 100 others missing. The death toll is expected to rise further


Delphi settles with GM, to file reorganization plan

Auto parts maker Delphi Corp   said it would file a reorganization plan on Thursday that lays  out a definitive agreement with former parent General Motors  Corp  and a path to exiting bankruptcy by the end of the  year.


Abandoned toddler sparks three-nation police hunt

Police in three countries are hunting for the parents of a little girl in a red jacket nicknamed "Pumpkin" after she was abandoned at an Australian railway station.


Risentimento, si blocca Alvaro Recoba Scelta obbligata per la ...

APPIANO GENTILE (Milano), 16 ottobre 2004 - Si blocca anche Alvaro Recoba. L'attaccante uruguaiano dell'Inter non sarÃ  a disposizione di Mancini per la gara di domani contro l'Udinese, gli unici attaccanti


Canton biotech to get state incentives, plans to expand

Organogenesis Inc., a once-troubled Canton biotechnology company that makes living artificial skin, plans to build a new headquarters and factory in Massachusetts and add 300 jobs over the next five years after the state offered it an incentive package worth up to $18 million, the company said yesterday.


US Airways shares climb as pilots work on pact

Shares of US Airways Group Inc. (UAIR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped on Friday after the air carrier's pilots union said it was working on a new labor contract and that its


Apple sells more than one in six laptops in U.S.

(InfoWorld) - Apple's share of the laptop market is growing -- the company now sells more than one in every six laptops purchased in the United States, a research firm said today. "Apple's definitely up," said Stephen Baker, an analyst at Port Washington, N.Y.-based NPD Group. "Their sales are continuing to grow faster than the rest of the marketplace." NPD, which collects its data primarily from retail sources and excludes most online and all direct sales, said Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops accounted for 17.6 percent of June's unit sales, an uptick of more than 3 percentage points from May's 14.3 percent. Baker attributed the jump in market share to refreshes that both laptop lines recently received. The lower-priced MacBook was updated in mid-May with faster processors and more memory, while 15-inch models of the high-end MacBook Pro were outfitted with new backlit LED screens in early June. The market share increase pushed Apple past Gateway into third place on NPD's list of laptop sales leaders, behind Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba. Research firm IDC also has Apple in the third spot; data it released last month put Apple's share of U.S. sales at 5.6 percent, far behind leaders HP (28.4 percent) and Dell (23.6 percent) but tied with Gateway. Back-to-school sales during this month and next, Baker said, should be strong for Apple, but his forecast is that the company's share will remain stable through the quarter. "I don't expect it to improve any from the June numbers," said Baker. The next move by Apple, said Baker, will likely not be in its computer business -- it refreshed the iMac family earlier this month -- but on the iPod side. "I'll stay firmly in the path of conventional wisdom and say that it's iPods next," Baker said. "They haven't been refreshed in almost a year." Although bloggers and Apple-centric Web sites have been touting rumors of iPod announcements coming as soon as next Tuesday, Baker didn't have any inside information on possible release dates or even details. However, he did have some predictions. "Apple will up the capacity of the Shuffle," he said. The diminutive player, which sells for $79, currently maxes out at 1GB. "And Apple has to decide where they want to go with the Nano. It's a music player now, so the question is what can they do if they want to keep it in that form factor?" Some reports have surfaced with photos showing a shorter, wider Nano, with a screen better suited to video. At least one such posting has pulled the photos at Apple's request, fueling speculation that the images were legitimate. "I think we'll also see a whole revamp of the iPod video line," added Baker, citing talk of an iPod with the same size and shape -- including screen size -- as the iPhone as one possibility.


E sulle vendite a causa del calo dei prezzi


Seoul says North Korea asks for aid resumption

North Korea asked the South on Wednesday for 300,000 tonnes of fertilizer in its first such request in several months, Seoul's unification ministry said.


Tokyo's Nikkei rose 1.14 percent by  midday on Thursday as gains on Wall Street encouraged investors  to scoop up bargains, including key technology shares,  following nine days of losses.


Qwest Communications may not be immediately affected by a Sprint-Nextel merger, but its options could become more limited. At one time, Qwest and Sprint were viewed as possible merger partners.


President Bush flew to Enterprise, Ala., today to survey the devastation caused by a massive tornado that hit Thursday afternoon and to comfort a town grieving the loss of eight students, killed in their high school as they huddled in a hallway seeking to avoid the storm's wrath.


In the dead of night, the Senate apparently turns into something other than the oft-cited greatest deliberative body in the world.


Brazil wins behind Ronaldo's record goal

Ronaldo broke free early, flashed past Ghana's flailing goalkeeper and poked the ball into the net.


The Army's civilian leader is ousted, after sacking the general in charge at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. If only the men who led the war in Iraq faced the same accountability


Endangered Ferrets Make Comeback in Ariz.

Endangered black-footed ferrets are reproducing more and surviving longer in the wild in Arizona than they have since recovery efforts began nearly a decade ago, according to wildlife biologists.


NASCAR point dock for swear drops Little E into 2nd in Nextel Cup ...

(Daytona Beach, Florida-AP) Oct. 5, 2004 - A slip of the tongue has cost Dale Earnhardt, Junior, first place in the Nextel Cup standings.


WASHINGTON -- The Iraq war gave birth to a new generation of Islamic radicals and the terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a US intelligence report cited yesterday in The New York Times .


For the past two weeks, high school nurse Colleen Kahler has been on high alert.


Maurice Papon, who was convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died, his lawyer said Saturday. He was 96.


Internal romances and breakups, backbiting, drug-fueled excesses — Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham could write the book on what tears bands apart.


Apple Brings iTunes Music Store to Canadian Customers

Apple Computer Inc., whose iTunes Web sites make up world's largest online music store, opened a version of the service for Canadian customers.


Mantova, 19:50 - CALCIO, MANTOVA: INDISPONIBILE SOLO RIZZI

Seduta di rifinitura per il Mantova in vista della gara con il Genoa. Unico assente Rizzi mentre il ...


Joe Gibbs Racing Announces Switch to Toyota Next Season

Joe Gibbs Racing will switch to Toyotas in 2008, ending a 15-year relationship with General Motors that produced three NASCAR championships.


Sindacati: governo subito un segnale partendo da detrazioni


No Small Preparation for Hitting Big Waves

More than bronzed slackers in board shorts, big wave surfers study oceanography and weather patterns to help them ride waves that can be more than 50 feet high.


Coach OK with untestedkicker underpressure

MIAMI Â· Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops is fairly sure he knows what he will say if the FedEx Orange Bowl comes down to a final field-goal attempt by his freshman kicker.


Poll: Canadians want pot smoking legalized

Most Canadians support the decriminalization of marijuana, says a North American group advocating such a policy. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said a poll conducted Oct. 26-Nov.


86 years on, Boston banish Curse of Bambino

ST LOUIS, OCTOBER 28: The Boston Red Sox lifted a championship and buried a curse on Wednesday, turning fantasy into reality with a stirring World Series victory over the St Louis Cardinals.


ELDORET, Kenya -- Kenya's opposition leader rejected an invitation for talks with the president on Tuesday, describing the meeting as "public relations gimmickry" that would undermine international attempts to end the election standoff that has left more than 500 people dead.


Barcellona, 22:38 - BASEBALL, EUROPEI: ITALIA KO CON LA SPAGNA

La nazionale italiana di baseball è stata battuta dalla Spagna per 6-4 nella quarta e penult...


Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic pulled off a major upset Wednesday, eliminating top-seeded Marat Safin 7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-3 on the Russian's home turf in the second round of the US$2.


LAS VEGAS -- Phil Jackson, Chris Mullin and Dick Vitale led the list of 15 finalists for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame announced during the NBA's All-Star weekend Friday.


Fischer Delivers Strong Message in Syria

German Foreign Minister Fischer focused on economic ties between Syria and the EU as well as concerns over human rights and weapons of mass destruction in Syria during a visit to Damascus Saturday.


Health aides in Maryland's largest Medicaid home care program often end up earning less than the federal minimum wage.


Reentering history s arena. The scheduled partial U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe were long overdue; some of us had become shrill and hoarse in calling for them over the past few years .


Florian Mayer beat defending champion David Ferrer 6-4, 6-2 Friday in the quarterfinals of the Romania Open.


Nextel leader Busch goes out early with blown engine

HAMPTON, Ga. -- The Nextel Cup championship playoff got a major shakeup Sunday when points leader Kurt Busch went out with a blown engine early in the race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.


Vodafone "looks forward" to 3G iPhone version

Vodafone Group Plc  said on  Thursday it was concerned that the current model of iPhone  mobile phones -- Apple Inc's  latest "killer" gadget --  did not operate on fast 3G networks.


Hundreds gather for an alleged al-Qaeda leader's funeral in his hometown in eastern Lebanon.


Ministers are to publish a bill outlining changes to the state pension system, including raising the pension age.


Democrats Seek Unpaid Taxes, Setting Up Clash

Congressional Democrats and the Treasury Department disagree over the amount of unpaid taxes that could be collected.


Japan PM-to-be Abe eyes cabinet, faces challenges

Japan's prime minister-to-be, Shinzo Abe,   turned his attention on Thursday to the line-up for his cabinet   amid concerns about how the hawkish, youthful leader will cope   with diplomatic and economic challenges ahead.


Oil prices firmed after touching a  four-month low on Wednesday, as a government report showing  that U.S. supplies of heating oil rose only slightly last week  kept dealers on edge ahead of Friday's OPEC meeting.


Hundreds of thousands could die in Darfur if violence forces aid workers to leave, a top UN official says.


BAGHDAD: Fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City slum announced yesterday a deal to trade in their weapons for cash and to stop attacking US and Iraqi forces, raising hopes for an end to violence in the war-ravaged district.


Lebanon to Bury Hariri as Pressure on Syria Mounts

International pressure mounted on Syria  to ease its grip over Lebanon as stunned Lebanese prepared to  bury slain former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on Wednesday.


When the raging ocean waters subsided, 7-year-old Karl Nilsson from Sweden thought he had been transported to another city.


Bobby-Viveik more or less on for Mission Istanbul

Confirming that Apoorva Lakhia has indeed been paid Rs 1.25 crores to direct the espionage thriller Mission Istanbul


InfoWorld - Infortrend?? quietly marked a storage milestone last week, shipping the EonStor B12, the first enterprise-class array based on 2.5-inch drives. Combining power and reliability in a small size, the B12 could become the measuring stick for all storage arrays in its class, surpassing those that mount 3.5-inch drives in both efficiency and performance/space ratio.


British H5N1 may be 'identical' to Hungarian: government

The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu found in turkeys in Britain last week "may well be identical" to the virus found in wild geese in Hungary, British officials said.


South Korea aims to curb rising suicide rate

South Korea may make farm chemicals less toxic and install more fences on the tops of tall buildings in order to cut down on one of the developed world's highest suicide rates, a health official said on Tuesday.


Driven by demand for flash memory chips used in cell phones, Intel's profits rose as it struggled to overcome weak PC sales, growing inventory, product missteps and stiff competition.


NOGATA, Fukuoka -- The elder brother of the Japanese man found murdered in Baghdad said his parents were unable to respond when a city official visited on Sunday due to shock.


Apple admits flaw in Danish iBook laptops

(InfoWorld) - Apple has admitted that a manufacturing defect caused power failures in an iBook G4 laptop sold in Denmark and refunded the customer's money, said the country's Consumer Complaints Board. The case is justÂ one of many concerning the iBook G4Â that the board has heard about, Frederik Navne Boesgaard, the complaints board's legal adviser, said Wednesday. Apple also faces a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California concerning a similar problem with the iBook G4. In a complaint filed on Nov. 7, plaintiff Alan Vitt said the computers' motherboards fail at an abnormally high rate. Apple is seeking to have the complaint dismissed -- its filing on that motion is due Thursday -- with the next hearing in the case set for Oct. 4. The Danish complaints board, part of the government-funded National Consumer Agency, published a technical report on faulty iBooks in May. The study found solder joints around a voltage regulator were flawed in such a way as to deteriorate each time the computers were turned on or off, until they would no longer start up. However, using a clamp to apply pressure to the computers' casing, next to the trackpad, closed up the broken joints and allowed the computer to start -- a clear sign of an original design flaw, the study concluded. In response, Apple submitted its own technical report saying that the flaw was not due to cycling the power on and off, but this was not enough to sway the board's decision. Two weeks ago, the board challenged Apple to concede the point and refund the customer's money, or take their customer to court. Apple paid up, said Navne Boesgaard. The complaints board is handling four such cases, and owners of faulty iBook G4s continue to come forward: 15 more have called him in recent days, he said. The faulty iBooks were among the first notebooks using the G4 processor that Apple produced, and had an opaque white casing like their G3 predecessors. The machines examined, the 800MHz Model 9164LL/A and the 1GHz Model 9426LL/A, were introduced in April 2004 and discontinued in October of that year. The board received the complaints between April and November 2006. A spokeswoman for Apple in the U.K. said she believed the case had been settled, but was unable to comment further. Â


Movie Review | '1408': An Unlucky Number

A Stephen King short story is adapted and brought to the screen in â1408,â more psychological thriller than outright horror.


Xstrata, Vale takeover talks at impasse: report

Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata Plc  and Brazil's Vale  have been in serious talks over a 46 billion pound ($90.6 billion) takeover but the miners appear to have reached an impasse, the Financial Times said.


Roma, 14:15 - CALCIO, ROMA; R. SENSI: FIDUCIOSI SU RINNOVO MEXES

La Roma conta di chiudere al piÃ¹ presto la questione del rinnovo di contratto di Mexes. ''Avremo un ...


Britain battles H5N1 bird flu outbreak in poultry

Britain scrambled to contain its first  outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in  domestic poultry on Saturday after the virus was found at a  farm run by Europe's biggest turkey producer.


Media giant Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that third-quarter earnings declined year-over-year, and said it established $500 million in legal reserves related to pending government investigations and intends


ARBIL, Iraq  - Kurdish separatist guerrillas in northern Iraq said on Monday they had suffered no casualties from Turkish airstrikes and cross-border incursions in December.


Local residents arrive to examine a destroyed building in the center of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday morning, Oct. 12, 2004 following an US air strike.


The judge in Phil Spector's murder trial may ask jurors to consider a lesser charge, after they fail to reach a verdict.


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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg all but concedes defeat on his plan to introduce a congestion charge.


FedEx + DHL Isn't Necessarily Bad for UPS

Competitive pricing environment continues for small package shippers.


British royals try to stem 'Nazi gaffe' furor, Harry gets Auschwitz invite

Britain's royal family aimed to put the wraps on the uproar over Prince Harry's Nazi costume, rejecting calls for further public atonement even as organizers of Auschwitz commemorations invited the prince to volunteer at the former death camp.


Suicides among children and young adults rose by an alarming 8 percent in 2004, a year when concerns about the dangers of antidepressants triggering suicides were widely publicized, federal researchers reported on Thursday.


MOSCOW, Russia -- President Vladimir Putin says Russia's armed forces will soon have access to advanced nuclear missile systems unlike those held by other countries.


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The PGA Tour will start the 2005 season along the shores of the Pacific Ocean, with the first two stops in Hawaii followed by the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines in San Diego.


Dow Jones Earnings Off on One-Time Items

Excluding the one-time items, earnings per share more than doubled at the publisher as revenue rose nearly 20 percent.


Firefighters Gain a Little on Anchor Point Fire

By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 17--Firefighters south of Anchor Point kept a wildland blaze at bay Saturday, felling trees, laying hose and drowning out hot spots on the fire's edge, state firefighters said.


US Airways is dangerously close to its second Chapter 11 filing in two years, a bankruptcy that could cripple the airline and its frequent fliers if it fails to cut costs severely.


Swedes Ponder Whether Killer Can Be a Doctor

A prestigious medical school was tipped off that one of its students had been a Nazi sympathizer, released on parole after being convicted in 2000 of a murder.


Mayor Williams outlines his plans to publicly finance a baseball stadium to a gathering at the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church.


Four executives at German memory supplier Infineon and its US subsidiary pleaded guilty to charges of illegally setting prices for PC memory chips, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.


A military judge on Wednesday approved a second U.S. soldier's guilty plea to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the slaying of her family.


Londra, 16:31 - CALCIO, INGHILTERRA: CHELSEA-LIVERPOOL 1-0, DECIDE DROGBA

Il Chelsea ha battuto 1-0 il Liverpool in un incontro della quinta giornata della Premier League ing...


New Gehry-Hardy Design for Brooklyn Theatre Unveiled

Playbill - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Feb. 3 unveiled architects Frank Gehry and Hugh Hardy's collaborative design for Theatre for a New Audience's new home in the emerging BAM Cultural District in Downtown Brooklyn.


Afghan militants set new deadline for UN hostages

KABUL - Militants who abducted three United Nations hostages in Afghanistan warned they will decide on Friday whether to kill them because talks have broken down, news reports say.


'White-label' social networking set for shake-up

InfoWorld - Scores of vendors are now in the "white-label" social networking platform business, according to a running tally by a Forrester Research analyst.


The decline in home prices accelerated and spread to more regions of the country in October, according to new data.


Is there a way to "retrofill" sprawled suburban landscapes?.


Imf Warns House Buyers to 'Exercise Caution'

Sudden changes in the housing market pose the biggest threat to the UK economy, the world financial watchdog warned today. In an unusually stark message, the International Monetary


UK consumers are Europe's top tech spenders

More than $31bn spent on electronics this year Brits spend more on consumer electronics than any nation in Europe, market watcher GfK has claimed. Together, we have spent Â£16.8bn ($31.7bn) on high-tech toys this year. Every UK household has spent, on average, Â£325 ($612) this year on gizmos, gadgets and assorted electronic equipment - Â£42 ($81) more than their nearest rivals, the Swiss.â¦


Police arrest dozens at Zimbabwean rally

Police arrested dozens of people Sunday as they used tear gas and water cannons to break up a rally where Zimbabwe's main opposition leader planned to launch a presidential campaign, a spokesman for the opposition party said.


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Montoya leads opening practice in Brazil

Williams' driver Juan Pablo Montoya made the perfect start to his final race with the team when he set the fastest time in opening practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix today.


The company that put power consumption on the map is thinking of getting out of the expensive business of making chips.


Cisco pushes IronPort smarts to firewalls

(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems will begin offering IronPort's security filtering tools to its firewall customers after the networking giant's acquisition of the company closes on June 25. On tour to evangelize the benefits of the buyout to media, analysts and customers, top Cisco security executives and IronPort Chief Executive Scott Weiss said that the combined company will move quickly to create a software upgrade package that will provide content filtering functionality and behavioral reputation intelligence into the networking market leader's 2.5 million existing firewall systems. Once the deal closes on Monday, Weiss will assume a role as a senior security marketing executive with Cisco, he said. The for-pay security add-on derived from IronPort, which has maintained a San Bruno, Calif. headquarters, will allow customers to employ what the company has dubbed as "wide traffic inspection" at the firewall, arming users with more comprehensive network traffic analysis tools, the executives said. The content filtering package represents only the first of many opportunities borne of San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco's $830 million buyout of the firm, said Weiss and Mick Scully, vice president of product management at Cisco's Security Technology Group.Â  "The e-mail and Web filtering capabilities we bring into Cisco's self defending network vision will allow customers to do more granular filtering of traffic traveling across ports that have traditionally been left open by firewalls," Weiss said. "Today, most threats are coming into the network as links embedded in e-mail messages; putting this type of intelligence at the firewall will increase its efficacy in stopping those attacks." Through blending the malware-distribution data gathered by IronPort's SenderBase IP address reputation service into Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls, the devices will become more dynamic security filtering gateways that can detect a far greater number of potential attacks before they enter the network, the companies claim. "As Cisco takes what it has been doing at the network layer and adds content awareness, customers will be provided with a whole new set of traffic monitoring abilities," said Scully. "This is a new business model for us, but we believe we can take advantage of the fact that content filtering has traditionally been a highly-fragmented market." Scully estimates that the firewall market currently represents a roughly $5 billion annual sales opportunity. By integrating content filtering, which Cisco projects as a $2 billion per-year market that is growing at 30 percent per year, the executive said that the massive networking and security firm expects its products to serve a $10 billion per-annum segment sometime around 2011. For its part, Weiss said that IronPort is expecting to report growth of 70 percent for its current fiscal year, pushing its revenues over $200 million. After moving to integrate the filtering specialists' tools into its firewall business, Scully said that Cisco would begin adding IronPort's technologies into its Integrated Services Router (ISR) products. "We'll be integrating IronPort's content and e-mail filtering technologies into our switching and routing products over the next several years," said the colorful Cisco security executive. "This is a strategy that reaches beyond the current wave of Web 2.0 technologies and services oriented architecture technologies into the next decade and beyond as customers demand more integrated security features." Weiss said that another immediate benefit of the merger will be an opportunity for Cisco to expand its abilities to provide data leakage prevention (DLP) protection at the network gateway. "We'll be looking to leverage the footprint of firewall and switches to better inform customers about many different aspects of security," he said. "Anything we can add to what Cisco is already doing has a network effect, and there will be a lot of opportunities for us to help companies monitor for malware and even look into issues such as data leakage prevention." At least one industry analyst said that the IronPort acquisition dovetails nicely with emerging customer demands to look at patterns in IP traffic to eliminate malware attacks such as botnet programs -- without having a negative impact on their overall network performance. "When you look at reputation services, if you know who the people are who are sending out spam or malware, there's a big opportunity to filter-out a lot of unwanted content at the gateway," said Andrew Jaquith, analyst with Boston-based research firm Yankee Group. "To do that you must have visibility into the actual flow of data, and that's what Cisco and IronPort should be able to provide." Selling additional features and services to existing customers is a sensible place for the two companies to begin their joint efforts, but their new products will need to prove their efficacy at stopping threats such as botnets which remain problematic for many large enterprises today, to gain wide acceptance quickly, the analyst said. "If you know that certain IP ranges are harboring botnets, or see something within the company network trying to communicate with those addresses, you have a pretty good clue that you've got a problem," he said. "That's one of the best potential uses for tying-in visibility into external reputations and correlating that with things going on inside the network." Jaquith believes that IronPort's technology will find its way into many of Cisco's routing and switching products over the next several years, and he cited the ability to leverage reputation-oriented information about what types of Web sites endpoint devices have visited in Cisco's network access control (NAC) technologies as another potential benefit of the merger. "Cisco really wants to be thought of as a security player, and for them to do that, it means they needed to move up the stack a couple of layers and start looking at e-mail and layer seven type-applications, they really needed to play in that space," the analyst said. "It's a mature market, and Cisco picked a strong company to help plant its security flag a little deeper."


Standards Group Rejects Microsoft's E-Mail Authentication Plan

The Internet Engineering Task Force has nixed Microsoft's Sender ID proposal because of patent concerns. By Thomas Claburn. The Internet Engineering Task Force, an international standards organization, has


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The plight of Polish low-cost carrier Air Polonia, which ceased operating on Sunday, is not the only warning that the wave of new capacity launched earlier this year serving the new European Union member states was over-ambitious.


Science & environment: Trainee surgeons are turning to game consoles, which boost dexterity, to hone their scalpel skills


Yankees 12, Blue Jays 11 10 innings: Yanksâ Offense Finally Closes the Door After Bullpen Canât

After two long days of seemingly endless baseball, Melky Cabrera and the New York Yankees finally nudged a little closer to a playoff berth.


Brig. Gen. David Rodriguez, deputy operations director of the Joint Staff, said Wednesday that Pentagon officials considered sending some 3rd ID troops over earlier than anticipated, but relented, agreeing


Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp. (6758.T)  on Thursday said it will recall certain lithium-ion notebook  computer batteries following complaints of overheating by some  computer makers.


Fans turn out for footballer O'Donnell's funeral

More than 500 mourners attend the funeral of Motherwell footballer Phil O'Donnell


Howard Stern, the ribald radio host  who has become a poster boy for bad behavior on U.S. airwaves,  will jump to Sirius Satellite Radio SIRI.O in January 2006,  freeing him from the grips of regulators and giving the nascent  satellite radio sector a big boost.


Figlio: ''Dopo tante amarezze, non credo piu' a nulla''


BOSTON - BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. said Tuesday that sales growth boosted second-quarter earnings 25 percent, and the bulk retailer disclosed it faces $16 million in claims over the theft of some of its customers' credit and debit card ...


The company reported fourth-quarter profit of $85 million on weakness in its risk and insurance services business.


The Bank of England has lent banks Â£10bn, a move that should ease the impact of the global credit crunch.


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Electric town car's launch paved with $60 million more

Blog: Think got $60 million to help launch its electric town car. But will consumers take it for an expensive golf cart?


The curtain rises on the keenly anticipated Global Indian Film Awards in Dubai.


Nissan to build factory in India: report

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor plans to build a car plant in the Indian port city of Chennai with its French partner Renault SA and local firm Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, a news report said Saturday.


Men's Gymnastics Mired in Scoring Fiasco

In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.


POLITICS-BALKANS:  Reconciliation Waits for 'Truth'

BELGRADE, Oct 11 (IPS) - Ten years after the wars in the Balkans left a  quarter of a million dead, reconciliation moves are still waiting  for the 'truth' to come out first.


Antidepressants Need Stronger Warnings -Panel

BETHESDA, Md.  - Antidepressants such as Paxil and  Prozac should come with strong warnings that they raise the  risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in some children and  teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded on Tuesday.


The Government is accused of failing to deliver on a pledge to fund a unit reinvestigating Troubles murders.


Portugal PM says abortion to be legalized

LISBON - Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on Sunday he would ask parliament to vote to lift a ban on abortion despite a referendum on the issue looking likely to fail due to low voter turnout."The ...Comment


England's Lawyers Try to Get Photos Thrown Out

Lawyers for Pfc. Lynndie R. England sought Wednesday to throw out evidence at the heart of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal -- the now-infamous photos showing her smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi detainees.


Stocks set to drop on data and credit worry

Wall Street looked set to open lower on Friday after the latest fallout from the U.S. mortgage sector cropped up in Europe and data showed U.S. retail sales, excluding autos, unexpectedly declined last month.


Big Night for Contemporary Art Sales at Christie's

Impressionist art still brings out the big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on Wednesday pulled in $92.5 million and showed that contemporary art sales are where the action.


The wrestlers sign a new contract with British Sky Broadcasting.


Voters show they want more say in growth issues

Voters are sending mixed signals about how they want their communities to grow, embracing strict controls in some places and rejecting them in others.


Businessman to submit development proposal

Boston businessman Steven Belkin said he would submit a proposal to develop the site of Boston's car garage at Winthrop Square, where Mayor Thomas M. Menino called for a tower as high as 1,000 feet. In a statement from a public relations firm, Belkin said the proposal would include land at 133 Federal St., under a building he owns next ...


UK Official Confirms Minister Blunkett Resigned

Senior British government minister David Blunkett, a trusted ally of Prime Minister Tony Blair, resigned on Wednesday, a government official confirmed.


"Hills" stars Heidi, Spencer and nemesis Lauren were all in attendance at last night's Us Weekly Hot Hollywood party-- ironically a party where Elodie- Heidi's other nemesis-- was working out front. Us gave Lauren an award. Heidi? Not so much. H...


Las Vegas Central Reservations Corp and Its Subsidiary 1-800-LAS-VEGAS Officially Launch Its Highly Anticipated 1-800-LAS-VEGAS.Com Website

Las Vegas Central Reservations Corp. and its subsidiary 1-800-LAS-VEGAS (PINK SHEETS: LVCC) announced today it has officially launched its online travel site, 1-800-LAS-VEGAS.com, now offering an online component to its traditional phone-based reservation service.


Weâre All Gonna Die! Grab Your Video Camera!

âCloverfieldâ is nominally a monster movie, but mostly itâs a feature-length gimmick.


US presidential candidate John Kerry was to deliver a major speech on Iraq as his Republican rival President George W. Bush prepared to unveil his latest proposals to rebuild the country before the United Nations the following day.


Alhurra, a network with 150 reporters based in Springfield, is the U.S. government's largest and most expensive effort to sway foreign opinion over the airwaves since the creation of Voice of America in 1942.


Mariners pound Yankees to close gap in wild card race

The Seattle Mariners thumped the New York Yankess 7-1 on Monday to snap a season-high nine-game losing streak and cut the Yankees' lead in the American League wild card race to one game.


USS Cole Prosecution Seeks Death Penalty

A trial into the almost four-year-old bombing of a U.S. warship in Aden Harbor that killed 17 Navy sailors concluded Wednesday with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for six defendants.


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Hu ends South Asian trip focused on trade diplomacy

Chinese President Hu Jintao ended a four-day visit to Pakistan on Sunday during which he promised to work with Islamabad to elevate strategic ties to "a new high" and strengthen trade and economic cooperation.


Triple police killer verdict 'in months'

A decision on freedom for triple police killer Harry Roberts could be made by the end of the year, it is claimed.


BOSTON -- It's likely the federal government will be handing down a set of rules for voice communication over the Internet. FCC Chairman Michael Powell said he will seek a broad set of rules to cover what


About 50 African migrants are missing off the Canary Islands after their boat sank, survivors say.


James Bond has two new Bond Girls.  Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton will co-star in the latest installment of the 007 franchise opposite Daniel Craig, Columbia Pictures has announced.  Craig made his debut as Bond in 2006's "Casino Royale," which...


Gaza pullout: Israeli Parliament backs Sharon's plan

The Israeli Parliament, the Knesset has voted in favour of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal to pull out Israeli settlers from occupied Palestinian land in the Gaza strip.


McDestiny's Child: burger chain "shares our passion for music"

Cor, that BeyoncÃ© Knowles is one fat porker, eh? No? Ah well, I must be having visions of the future then, as Knowles and her Destiny's Child girls are the new faces of McDonald's.


Microsoft Invests $240 Million in Facebook

Microsoft yesterday announced a $240 million deal with Facebook, giving the technology giant a minority stake in the popular social networking site and the exclusive rights to sell worldwide advertisements that target Facebook's 50 million members.