BAGHDAD -- At least 20 mortar rounds and Katyusha rockets struck the fortified Green Zone yesterday afternoon, killing an American service member and two other people in an attack on the heart of US and Iraqi government facilities in the capital.


IBM user group SHARE has released a study acknowledging mainframe usage in service-oriented architecture.


Britain gave the all clear on Thursday to one of four aircraft being monitored for radiation in an ever widening probe into the death from poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow.


UN atomic experts back in Iran to test bomb claims

TEHRAN: UN atomic inspectors have returned to Iran and will be free to visit a disputed military site in their investigation of US allegations that Iran is seeking nuclear warheads, state television reported.


WORCESTER -- It was exactly the situation North Reading hoped for, and the one Turners Falls feared.


The bigger they are, the harder they (might) fall.


LG Group offered the creditors of LG Card, the second-largest credit-card company in South Korea, about 264.3 billion won ($254 million) compensation.


Marlon Anderson went a little too wide with his slide. Anderson's hard takeout attempt might have been enough to bust up a double play in the ninth inning and allow the tying run to score for the New York Mets. Instead, Anderson went far outside second base, knocked down Philadelphia's Tadahito Iguchi, and was ruled out on a game-ending interference ...


Division I transfer quarterbacks Justin Rascati and Craig Ochs will lead James Madison and Montana, respectively, in the I-AA final Friday.


Defiant Fergie says United can go all the way

Sir Alex Ferguson defiantly predicted that Manchester United can cope with a mounting injury crisis as his side chase a repeat of their 1999 treble of Premiership, FA Cup and Champions League trophies.


Ukrainians Vote in Runoff Round of Presidential Election

Millions of Ukrainians are heading for polling stations to vote in a runoff presidential election between one candidate who seems the clear favorite of the Russian government and another who appears to be favored by Western countries.


Actually, what's really happening is that the embedded Linux market appears to be growing up.  It's about time.


Conan O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno in 2009

Monday night, NBC's ''The Tonight Show'' celebrated its 50th anniversary, but the popular show already is looking to the future.


It wasn't just an enshrinement ceremony for Jerry Colangelo Friday night. It was an episode of This is Your Life with an audience of basketball ghosts staring from the walls of the Basketball Hall of Fame.


Potential jurors in the Michael Jackson child abuse trial have links to the singer's Neverland Ranch, court papers reveal.


Two unnamed Premiership clubs join Liverpool and Newcastle in the race for Real Madrid's Fernando Morientes.


Sony's PlayStation Portable sold out on its first day!

Sony's anticipated PlayStation Portable (PSP) has virtually sold out on its debut day in Japan - the launch outside Japan will follow next year.


Interstate Bakeries Corp. IBC.N,  maker of Hostess Twinkies and Wonder Bread, filed for  bankruptcy on Wednesday after struggling with more than $1.3  billion in debt, high costs and weak demand for bread products  amid the popularity of low-carbohydrate diets.


Top marketers are going digital to track the delivery of commercials into U.S. homes with a system some advocates say will revolutionize advertising the way product codes changed the selling of sliced bread.


Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor ASA on Tuesday said second-quarter profit rose 42 percent as the company benefited from higher sales. via Forbes


The glass is half empty: Americans and Civil Rights for Muslims

The Media and Society Research Group of Cornell University conducted a survey in November of Americans with respect to their attitudes towards Muslims.  Nearly half (44%) of respondents favored restricting the civil rights of Muslims in some way.    The press release, with links to the report, is available at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-17  -2004/0002639656&EDATE=


At least 53 miners are killed in explosions in two coal mines in China, official media reports say, with more injured.


Societa' Usa spende 3,65 mld dlr per quota UnitedGlobalCom


Ellen MacArthur solves some of the problems threatening to end her bid to break the solo round-the-world record.


Denunciati 3 giovani studenti, distrutta una delle opere


Doctors say Chile's former leader Augusto Pinochet has suffered a stroke, ahead of a new ruling on his case.


L'australiano sesto nel gp del Giappone, Valentino solo 13/o


Two more children taken ill in Hong Kong hospital flu outbreak

HONG KONG : Two more children have come down with fever and symptoms of respiratory infections in a hospital where an outbreak of flu has claimed one life and stricken another 33.


By Steve Bonser, Santa Barbara News-Press, Calif.  Jan. 31--In a deal that will combine two vendors of Internet-based voice  processing, or VoIP, technologies, CrystalVoice Communications Inc.


Impact of Domestic Violence on Kids Can Be Reduced

NEW YORK  - Children who are exposed to  domestic violence in the home may have less behavior problems  if the couple takes time to help them express and manage their  emotions, new study findings show.


Suicide bomber hits foreign troops in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber plowed his car into a convoy of NATO troops in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Tuesday, wounding nine civilians and two soldiers, witnesses and officials said.


Before the Bell- Calpine Drops 6 Percent

Shares of Calpine Corp. CPN.N fell 6  percent before the bell on Tuesday following reports that one  of its joint ventures received a default notice.


Music Review | Natalie Merchant: Songs From an Unrecorded Minstrel

Ms. Merchant sang with thoughtful passion, traversing American music from folky fingerpicking to soul grooves to pop hymns.


Yorkshire's finest enjoy an afternoon of pure luxury

The Popular Front of Yorkshire's takeover of the England dressing room is in full swing. The Holy not-far-from Wakefield Trinity of skipper Jason Robinson, fly-half Charlie Hodgson and vice-captain Mike Tindall


Mystics Can Pocket a Million - When Pigs Can Fly

A sworn enemy of superstition, Canadian-born magician James Randi has thrown down the gauntlet to mystics, promising $1 million to anyone who can prove supernatural powers or a phenomenon beyond the reach of science.


The European Commission is to propose a Blue Card to attract skilled immigrants, and rival the US Green Card.


Sanjay Leela Bhansali turns editor with Sawariya!

So far the magician movie-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has allowed his talented sister Bela Sehgal (who's married to the late filmmaker Mohan Sehgal's son Deepak) to edit all his four masterpieces.


IS IT because they are black? It makes you wonder. Not just about how the people of Darfur are treated by the Government of Sudan, but also about how they are treated by the wealthy nations of the world.


Southern Discomfort for a Hollywood Talk-Show Host

âRoscoe Jenkinsâ is just a shaggy diversion that gives its energetic star and its populous, accomplished supporting cast a chance to clown around.


Police in India say they are holding three people after Sunday's bomb attack on a train to Pakistan.


Turkey: EU Green Light Would Bolster Rights Reform

(Ankara, December 15, 2004)-A European Union decision this week to begin membership negotiations with Turkey would ensure that essential human rights reforms in the country continue, Human Rights Watch said today.


November Consumer Prices Rise Moderately

U.S. consumer prices rose modestly  in November as a surge in energy costs a month earlier  moderated, the Labor Department said on Friday.


A shortage of donor bodies is putting medical teaching at risk, the Royal College of Surgeons warns.


Rookie Safety May Help Seahawks Beat Rams

For all the discussion about how Seattle's secondary collapsed in its first test against St. Louis this season, there's something different going into Saturday's playoff rematch.


MySpace officially launches instant messaging service

Blog: The News Corp.-owned social network, having ditched its old browser-based IM service, formally unveils the new download after a year of buzzless beta.


US consumers are still worried about their jobs and income, the University of Michigan's index of consumer confidence indicates.


Roma, 21:37 - CALCIO, PROCURATORE LUCARELLI-PANDEV: PER ORA IMPOSSIBILE PACE

Pace lontana tra Lucarelli e Pandev, protagonisti domenica di un brutto screzio. ''E' una situazione...


TOKYO  For a country that shut out foreigners for hundreds of years, Japan has proved strangely attractive for problem migrants of late.


Spanish police arrested two men for suspected links to armed Basque separatists ETA, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.


MYC gene can be turned off to stop liver cancer

Researchers in California have managed to turn off the MYC gene and thus allowing liver cancer cells to revert to being normal healthy.


Two people die as a helicopter crashes just after take-off at a golf resort near Harrogate, North Yorkshire.


A suicide bomber detonated his booby-trapped car in the western outskirts of Baghdad Thursday, wounding four US soldiers, security reports said.


Security companies forge an anti-malware standards organization

Security computer companies recently met in Spain to officially create the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO), with the objective of formulating new guidelines for the proper review of anti-malware software.


Singer Russell Watson is re-admitted to hospital a week after an operation to remove a brain tumour.


(CBS/AP) More flu vaccine is expected to be available for millions of Americans in January, but that could be too late. The flu season typically peaks in January or later.


Around the CFL: The Argos are all business

Head coach Mike "Pinball" Clemons and the Toronto Argonauts are all business this week heading into Sunday's Grey Cup matchup against British Columbia at Frank Clair Stadium.


Government asks talks with blockading rebels

KATMANDU, Nepal Nepal's deputy prime minister appealed on Thursday to Maoist rebels who are blockading the capital for talks to end the two-day-old stand-off as food prices began to rise.


CORRECTED - UPDATE 2-Stelco loses contract to supply steel to GM ...

In Toronto story headlined 'Stelco loses contract to supply steel to GM-lawyer', please read in first paragraph...General Motors Corp...instead of General Motors Inc. Corrects company title. TORONTO, Nov 22  - Stelco Inc.


Nutrition: Childrenâs Supplements May Skew Research

Nutritional supplements are generally not taken into account when health researchers try to get a snapshot of the nationâs nutritional habits, a new study finds.


Purdue University researchers who set up cameras in fields to catch wild animals in the act of gobbling up crops found that deer and raccoons — not wild turkeys, as many farmers believe — are the greediest crop-raiders.


Probably came from Coalition source, not insurgents A film showing the naked body of a British airman was offered for sale on eBay, it emerged yesterday. The distasteful footage has since been removed from the online listings, and the police alerted.â¦


PeopleSoft CEO: 'We will not blink' in fight against Oracle

PeopleSoft (PSFT) CEO Craig Conway isn't about to go down without a fight in his company's takeover tussle with rival Oracle (ORCL).


Court backs Indian tribe on sacred mountain

An Arizona ski resort's plan to use reclaimed wastewater to make snow on a mountain sacred to several Native American tribes violates religious freedom laws, a U.S federal appeals court ruled on Monday.


Microsoft steers 'R2' server for '05 release

com October 18, 2004, 9:58 AM PT. This fourth priority's main focus has been enterprise directories as organizations spawn projects around identity infrastructure.


Sara' consegnata dall'ambasciatore in Belgio Siggia


The major motion picture  studios had egg on their faces Wednesday as they tried to  explain to Congress and educators why a key number in a highly  touted study of on-campus piracy was wrong.


Safety fears wipe billions off drug shares

More than $31bn (Â£16bn) was yesterday knocked off the value of Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company and maker of Viagra, after doubts surfaced over the safety of one of its key drugs.


One of London's best-known hotels is to close for 16 months while a Â£100m refurbishment takes place.


A Kenyan preacher who claims to have helped infertile women conceive...

A Kenyan preacher who claims to have helped infertile women conceive - oemiracle babies - denied today that he was involved in an alleged child trafficking ring.


Four big newspaper companies set online ad network

Four of the largest newspaper  companies in the United States are teaming up to create an  online advertising sales network focused on premium advertisers  seeking a national audiences.


Israeli Leaders Approve West Bank Pullback

Israeli leaders approved on Thursday  a troop pullback from West Bank cities and a plan to release  Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of an  Israeli summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next week.


Hobart, 09:47 - TENNIS, WTA HOBART: PENNETTA IN SEMIFINALE

Flavia Pennetta si è qualificata per le semifinali del torneo Wta di Hobart (170 mila dollari...


US officials held a conference call yesterday to discuss ways to aid the south Asian countries inundated by the Indian Ocean tsunami.


Icelandic shoppers signal beginning of Nfld. Christmas shopping season

ST. JOHN', Nfld. (CP) - Montreal has its Santa Claus parade, Ottawa lights up Parliament Hill. But in Newfoundland, nothing signals the beginning of the Christmas season like the annual arrival of hundreds of Icelandic shoppers.


Clinton, Romney on Offensive As Pivotal Contest Draws Near

HAMPTON, N.H., Jan. 6 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, slipping further behind her chief rival in the Democratic primary here, has taken direct control over her strategy and message as she scrambles to block the ascent of Sen. Barack Obama.


Lohan's dad: Lindsay hooked on OxyContin

Lindsay Lohan's estranged father says she suffers from multiple addictions, including alcohol and the painkiller OxyContin, the Web site E! Online reported Wednesday.


The United States has circulated a draft UN resolution that would back a beefed-up monitoring force for Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region and threaten punitive action against the country's oil exports if the government does not act quickly to stop


For Pet Owners, Too, Toys a Reason for Concern

Following the pet food scare this year, and a spate of childrenâs toy recalls, pet owners have been stepping forward to ask: How safe are pet toys?


Il Pontefice ha chiesto un forte impegno contro il problema


The Texas Rangers weren't about to let Vladimir Guerrero beat them, so Juan Rivera and Garret Anderson did.


Buxom R&B star Jennifer Lopez's first husband is suing her for being wrongfully dismissed as manger of her restaurant. According to media reports, Ojani Noa claims he was wrongly sacked as the manager of her California restaurant, Madres.


Corn prices spur growth, but the long-term growth is pegged to new seed traits.


CIA-launched fund invests in image sensor company

Blog: In-Q-Tel, a private investment firm launched by the CIA to support U.S. intelligence agencies, is among those that invested $15 million in Pixim, which makes image sensors for surveillance cameras.


Northern Irish bank withdraws notes to foil robbers

Northern Ireland's Northern Bank is replacing all the paper notes it has issued to foil robbers who stole 26.5 million pounds from it last month, the police and bank announced.


Japan Approves Bill on Afghan War Mission

The Japanese government rammed through a special law authorizing its navy to resume a refueling mission.


Justin Leonard and Steve Flesch combined for a 9-under 63 and a one-stroke lead over Hank Kuehne and Jeff Sluman on Friday after the first round of the Franklin Templeton Shootout.


US astronauts travelling to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Russian space shuttles will no longer be able to benefit from free travel, the Russian space agency announced today.


Charles Graner, the suspected ringleader in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal and three others are facing pre-trial hearings in Germany, marked by warnings by the judge for the US to speed up investigations.


Giustizia: soluzione problemi richiede sforzo condiviso


Circuit City Stores Inc. reported a gain of 2.9 percent in quarterly same-store sales Tuesday, but growth lagged estimates due to a calendar shift and reduced spending in August.


New specialist schools are being tried in England - focusing on helping children with learning difficulties.


Teen's Goal Gives U.S. Shot at Soccer Gold

IRAKLION, Greece - The only teenager on the U.S. women's soccer team gave the old vets a chance to leave with one last gold...


Madrid, 20:12 - CALCIO, REAL; RAUL: CAPELLO PER ME E' STATO FONDAMENTALE

Dichiarazione di pubblica stima da parte dell'attaccante del Real Madrid Raul nei confronti di Fabio...


For the outcast A&E bounty hunter Duane Chapman, the foreseeable future is ending. Mr. Chapman, below, familiarly known as Dog, is going back on the air in his reality show âDog the Bounty Hunter,â the gossip Web site TMZ.com reported on Tuesday. The site said that preparations were in progress to restart production as soon as possible, although a premiere date had not been set. The series, the most successful on A&E in recent years, was suspended last fall after Mr. Chapman made racially charged comments in a private telephone conversation that was made public by The National Enquirer, which paid Mr. Chapmanâs son for it. At the time, A&E announced it was stopping production âfor the foreseeable future.â.


Humorless Metalheads Shut Down Popular YouTuber

The three unnamed artists filed copyright infringement claims against the parody videos of Finnish media artist Santeri Ojala, causing YouTube to shut down his account over the weekend.


Five Britons due in court in connection with 'Iraq-style' plot

Five men charged with terrorism offences by police in connection with an investigation into an alleged "Iraq-style" plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier are due to appear in court.


Arizona Cardinals 25, Seattle Seahawks 17

When the opportunity arose to seize the day, the Seattle Seahawks looked more ready for a mausoleum than carpe diem. The Seahawks couldn't take advantage of a prime chance


Black to Sue Hollinger Committee for C$1.1 Bln

Fallen press baron Conrad Black will sue Hollinger International Inc.'s special committee and others for C$1.1 billion ($870 million) over a report that accused him of looting the company of millions of dollars.


Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the US health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found.


With the first day of the opening battle between South Africa done and dusted, we look at some crucial moments of the first day's play in Port Elizabeth.


OLYMPICS: Former USC athlete takes silver in Men's 100-meter ...

Liu Xiang of China tied the 100-meter hurdles world record and set a new Olympic mark Friday, winning the gold medal in 12.91 seconds.


Ford Motor Co.  on Tuesday posted a 5.4 percent fall in U.S. vehicle sales for January, its eighth straight month of weaker results, as stronger sales of its new cars failed to offset falling SUV and minivan sales.


Archbishop addresses sharia law controversy

In a speech to the general synod, Rowan Williams clarifies his comments on introducing Islamic law


After winning union backing for job cuts, Alitalia gave formal approval Monday to a four-year business plan aimed at saving the near-bankrupt Italian carrier from collapse.


NEW YORK - If PalmOne's Tungsten T5 handheld was an automobile, it would be described as being a facelift rather than a complete overhaul of the model that preceded it, the Tungsten T3.


Bilancio sempre piu' pesante (ANSA)-TOKYO,21 OTT - Si fa smpre piu' drammatico il bilancio delle vittime del violento tifone Tokage, il piu' disastroso abbattutosi sul Giappone da oltre 15 anni. Stando all


Illinois Democrat Barack Obama and Arkansas Republican Mike Huckabee comfortably won the Iowa precinct caucuses Thursday night, giving their presidential campaigns early triumphs in the first voting of a wide-open 2008 White House nomination process that now moves to the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.


(CBS/AP) The FBI is trying to obtain the cooperation of a Pentagon analyst suspected of spying for Israel, the New York Times reports.


Trilog Group this week rolled out an integrated J2EE  development framework designed to let IBM Lotus Notes developers use their existing skills for J2EE development projects.


Test Finds Inaccuracies in Help Line for Medicare

Medicare's toll-free telephone line, one of the main vehicles for disseminating information about new prescription drug benefits and drug discount cards, gives accurate


Bush Names Confidante Rice as Secretary of State

President Bush reached into his  inner circle on Tuesday and nominated a trusted confidante,  national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin  Powell as secretary of state.


UK interest rates have been kept on hold at 5% following the latest meeting of the Bank of England.


Additions give Sox pen a better finishing touch

Keith Foulke professes to not watch "SportsCenter." He claims he never felt the urge to view highlights of his iconic postseason performances of last October.


NYSE gives Hollinger International more time to file delayed 2003 ...

NEW YORK (CP) - Hollinger International Inc.'s listing on the New York Stock Exchange appears secure, at least for now, despite the newspaper company's inability to file audited results for 2003 by a Thursday deadline.


iPhones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University

(InfoWorld) - The Wi-Fi connection on Apple's recently releasedÂ iPhoneÂ seems to be the source of a big headache for network administrators at Duke University. The built-in 802.11b/g adapters on several iPhones periodically flood sections of the Durham, N.C. school's pervasive wireless LAN with MAC address requests, temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access points at a time. Campus network staff are talking with Cisco, the main WLAN provider, and have opened a help desk ticket with Apple. But so far, the precise cause of the problem remains unknown. "Because of the time of year for us, it's not a severe problem," says Kevin Miller, assistant director, communications infrastructure, with Duke's Office of Information Technology. "But from late August through May, our wireless net is critical. My concern is how many students will be coming back in August with iPhones? It's a pretty big annoyance, right now, with 20-30 access points signaling they're down, and then coming back up a few minutes later. But in late August, this would be devastating." That's because the misbehaving iPhones flood the access points with up to 18,000 address requests per second, nearly 10Mbps of bandwidth, and monopolizing the AP's airtime. The access points show up as "out of service." For 10-15 minutes, there's no way to communicate with them, Miller says. "When the problem occurs, we see dozens of access points in that condition," Miller says. The network team began capturing wireless traffic for analysis and that's when they discovered that the offending devices were iPhones. Right now, Miller says, there are about 150 of the Apple devices registered on the campus WLAN. The requests are for what is, at least for Duke's network, an invalid router address. Devices use the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) to request the MAC address of the destination node, for which it already has the IP address. When it doesn't get an answer, the iPhone just keeps asking. "I'm not exactly sure where the 'bad' router address is coming from," Miller says. One possibility: each offending iPhone may have been first connected to a home wireless router or gateway, and it may automatically and repeatedly be trying to reconnect to it again when something happens to the iPhone's initial connection on the Duke WLAN. They're still sorting out what that "something" is. On two occasions, one last Friday and one today, Monday 16 July, both users seemed to be behaving completely normally, yet both iPhones started flooding the net with ARP requests. In both cases, the user first successfully connected to the WLAN at one location, and then moved to another building, where the ARP flood began. "It may have something to do with the iPhone losing connectivity and then trying to reconnect in a new location," Miller says. Most of the W LAN is comprised of Cisco thin access points and controllers. Some older autonomous Cisco Aironet access points tend to uncover the flooding first, since they try to resolve the ARP request themselves. But Miller's team has seen the CPU utilization on the WLAN controllers spiking as they try to process the request flood passed on to them in control traffic from the thin access points. "I don't believe it's a Cisco problem in any way, shape, or form," he says firmly. So far, the communication with Apple has been "one-way," Miller says, with the Duke team filing the problem ticket. He says Apple has told him the problem is being "escalated" but as of mid-afternoon Monday, nothing substantive had been heard Apple.


OpenWFE is an open source java workflow engine. It is a complete Business Process Management suite, with 4 components : an engine, a worklist, a webclient and a reactor (host for automatic agents). It can also be used behind the scene. OpenWFE 1.4.1 is a bug fix release. One important concept was introduced for stores : the order in which they are instantiated in the worklist configuration file is now the order in which they are asked if they accept a workitem for a given participant name.   The first store to accept (by name pattern matching) a workitem 'wins' it.  The default store is not 'Store.default' anymore, it is now the last declared store. To follow this scheme, the example Store.default has been moved at the end of the release store declarations.


Saving the planet on just â¬3 a week The president of the European Union has outlined specific, binding national targets for European countries to reduce carbon emissions and use more renewable sources of power.â¦


A Marine who was reported abducted in Iraq last summer and later turned up in his native Lebanon was charged Thursday with desertion.


Hurricane Ivan kills at least 14 in Jamaica and gains in strength as it powers on to the Cayman Islands and Cuba.


Now selling at a rate of more than a million downloads per day, Apple Computer Inc. said Monday customers have purchased a total more than 250 million songs from its online iTunes Music Store.


1 in 4 adults may develop irregular heartbeat

By middle age, people face surprisingly high odds of experiencing an irregular heartbeat that increases the risk of strokes, a study has found.


When the first bullets snapped by overhead, Iraqi civilians collecting corpses in Fallujah on Wednesday stood confused, rooted to the ground — until U.S. Marines opened up on the insurgents with heavy machine guns. That sent the workers dashing for cover.


Bush Nominates Gonzales as Next Attorney General

President Bush nominated White House  legal counsel Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday as the next U.S.  attorney general, replacing John Ashcroft.


South Korea Admits Having Enriched Uranium

Description: The South Korean government denies having any plans to develop nuclear weapons, despite the government's admission Thursday that its scientists developed a small amount of weapons-grade uranium four years ago.


Consumer Prices and Housing Starts Surge

Surging energy costs drove U.S.  consumer prices up a hefty and larger-than-expected 0.6 percent  last month, the biggest jump since May, while housing starts  showed the most strength since December, government reports  showed on Wednesday.


Milano, 15:53 - CALCIO, AGENTE CANNAVARO: NESSUN CONTATTO CON IL MILAN

"Cannavaro al Milan? Smentisco tutto. Non c'è nulla di vero, nessun contatto con nessuna squa...


Now It Can Be Told: Saga of UK Office Cats

Now it can be told: Britain's Home Office had not one official cat but a whole dynasty of mouse catchers, one of which nearly insulted the queen.


Hoping Democracy Can Replace a Palestinian Icon

The post-Arafat era will be the latest test of a quintessentially American article of faith: that elections provide legitimacy even to the frailest institutions.


Writersâ Strike Tests the Mettle of 2 Outsiders

The president of the writers guild and his lieutenant are deliberating a question that may bode ill for both: Is their rebellion over?


America Loses Its Stature as Tallest Country

Pundits often opine that America's stature is declining on the global stage. It turns out that Americans -- literally -- are not standing as tall, compared  with the rest of the world, as they used to.


Lebanese infantry battled Islamic militants at close range Sunday, moving deep into a besieged Palestinian refugee camp and hoisting Lebanon's red-and-white flag atop newly taken buildings, security officials and witnesses said.


Officials from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan hold talks on managing the movement of Afghan refugees.


Gilbert Revises Water Crimes Ordinance: Stealing or Wasting It Will Now Be Misdemeanors

By Beth Lucas, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 4--Stealing or wasting water in Gilbert will become a misdemeanor crime under new ordinances approved by the Town Council.


Carl Everett homered and the Chicago White Sox took advantage of Texas' season-high five errors in a 7-4 victory over the fading Rangers on Monday.


Former Kosovo prime minister war crimes trial begins

Kosovo's former prime minister has  "blood on his hands," the U.N. chief prosecutor said on Monday  at the start of a war crimes trial on charges stemming from the  war against Serb forces in 1998-99.


"Alchemy" Was the Secret to Making Stradivarius Violins, Study Says

High-tech chemical tests reveal that master violinmakers Stradivari and Guaneri likely used a "magic potion" to give their instruments their celebrated tones.


A thunderstorm drenched homeless people living on rooftops and sidewalks in Haiti Saturday, adding to the woes of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne, who are looting aid trucks and attacking food distribution centers in desperation


Martial arts star Jackie Chan attends a televised rally in Hong Kong protesting against local media intrusion.


Eddie Johnson is still getting over what he calls the worst day of his life. "Devastating. Hard to explain," he said.


L'ad Scaroni: con accordo abbiamo gettato basi settore gas


Spacecraft To Release  Probe to Survey  Saturn's Titan

The Cassini spacecraft hurtled toward a Christmas Eve mission to release a probe that will plunge through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan.


December 27, 2004 -- THE Shaquille O'Neal vs. Kobe Bryant show down on Christmas Day drew the largest audience in six years for a regular-season NBA game.


Airbus steps up challenge to Boeing's 7E7

PARIS Airbus announced Friday that it would move ahead with two new long-range versions of its widebody A330 aircraft to cobble together a competitor for Boeing's planned new 7E7.


Exelon, which owns utility companies in Illinois and Pennsylvania, has said that it will buy Public Service Enterprise Group of New Jersey in a deal valued at about $12.8 billion that would create the largest power company in the United States.


MATCH-WINNER Lee Carsley celebrated Everton's first derby win at Goodison in seven years by declaring: "It feels like we've won the title itself!


Chirac sets record straight on Iran after blunder

French President Jacques Chirac has said that a nuclear-armed Iran was unacceptable, setting the record straight after stating that Tehran's possession of the bomb would not be "very dangerous."


Indian train blast probe widens to several states

The hunt for the bombers of a train from India to Pakistan spread to several north Indian states on Thursday as investigators said they were pursuing new clues and had detained two people for questioning.


Spain is talking once again about a royal pregnancy, with Crown Prince Felipe's wife expecting her second child. But the impending birth also has energized debate over scrapping the bias toward males in succession to the throne.


Law curbing inmates' lawsuits questioned

As longtime chairman of the American Conservative Union, David Keene seems an unlikely ally of the American Civil Liberties Union in a prisoners-rights campaign. But this cause is personal.


Horse Racing: Rags to Riches Out of Ruffian Handicap

The much-delayed return of the Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches has one more week to go. As expected, Rags to Riches, the first filly in 102 years to capture the Belmont States, will not run in tomorrowâs Ruffian Handicap at Belmont Park, but she is set for the one-and-an-eighth-mile Gazelle Stakes a week later. Rags to Riches, a 3-year-old filly, has won all five of her starts this year, and the Gazelle would be a final prep before the Breedersâ Cup Distaff at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27.


Iranian freeze on enrichment will continue

Iran notified the UN nuclear watchdog in writing yesterday that it would suspend uranium enrichment and related activities to dispel suspicions that it was trying to build nuclear arms.


Italy's grapes of wrath symbolize fight with Mafia

A new Italian white wine has become a symbol of the fight against organized crime, incurring the wrath of gangsters from Naples because it was produced from grapes grown on land confiscated from a Mafia godfather.


AMERICANS anticipating a close presidential election and anxious about the legitimacy of the outcome might consider Sunday's inconclusive presidential vote in Ukraine, a nation of 48 million people whose geopolitical perch between Europe and Russia makes


Microsoft Packaging Scratching Halo 3 Discs

Anecdotal evidence suggests that Microsoft special packaging is to blame for scratched Halo 3 discs on arrival.


NASA Says Fixing Space Shuttle Fleet Could Top $2 Billion

NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe said Wednesday the cost of fixing all the problems with the space shuttle fleet could top $2.2 billion - double the estimated price tag given to Congress a year ago.    O'Keefe, testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, was pressed on whether that estimate again could rise...


Man charged with shopping mall bomb plot

A man was arrested Friday by federal agents on charges of planning to set off hand grenades in garbage cans at a shopping mall.


Yukos unit sold for $9.3 billion -- report

BaikalFinansGroup won the auction for Yuganskneftegaz on Sunday, agreeing to pay $9.3 billion for the main production unit of Yukos, Russia's largest oil producer, according to published reports.


The price of the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell 11/32 point, or $3.44 per $1,000 in face value. Its yield, which moves in the opposite direction, rose to 4.24 percent compared with 4.20 percent late Wednesday.


Concervationist sue Interior for records

A conservation group sued the Interior Department on Thursday seeking documents about decisions on endangered species the group alleges were tainted by political pressure from a former senior Interior official.


Top Texas court gets embryo custody case

She got the house and he got the Honda. The problem in Augusta and Randy Roman's divorce came over the little things — the really little things. Frozen embryos that they once hoped would bring them children.


Dame Anita Roddick, one of most famous entrepreneurs of her generation, dies aged 64. Who was she?


Just as the Enron scandal triggered an overhaul of corporate accounting practices, the nation's prescription drug crisis may prompt a sweeping revamp of


STM, Oil Prices Pressure European Shares

European shares inched lower on Friday as a broker downgrade hit STMicroelectronics and volatile oil prices continued to feed economic worries, offsetting solid earnings at utility Veolia.


In an Oct. 28 review of the Vienna State Opera's new production of Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades," The Associated Press erroneously reported it was Neil Shicoff's first appearance on an opera stage in Austria since the summer, when he canceled performances at the Salzburg Festival. The AP also misspelled the name of set and costume designers Johannes Leiacker and Marie-Luise Strandt.


JK Rowling has not ruled out an eighth Harry Potter novel but is unlikely to consider writing it for another 10 years.


He has a department at the company devoted to ensuring the four million-plus emails sent to him each day don't make it to his personal inbox.


Sudan and Darfur rebels will hold peace talks on 27 October, the Khartoum government and the UN say.


Iran sets conditions for talks with U.S. on Iraq

Iran will only hold direct talks with the United States on Iraq if Washington announces plans to pull its troops out, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.


The recently rediscovered Ajax technique makes the client side of web programming much more useful and pleasant. However, it also means revising your existing web applications to take advantage of this new power. Dominic Mitchell shows how to use CGI::Ajax to give your Perl applications access to this new power.


If tax rebates aren't the answer, what is?


The president of this West African country appeared to have a strong lead in the election Tuesday, garnering more than half the votes counted.


Tutto esaurito, tra applausi e fischi, per lo show del comicoE i fan del Vaffa day sbarcano in massa a sostenere il loro "capo"                                          E Grillo irrompe alla Festa dell'UnitÃ  "Non compro banche come D'Alema"                                                                                di PIERO COLAPRICO


Domani voli a rischio per stop autonomi di quattro ore


Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive author whose feminism, leftist politics and pacifism are common themes in her works, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Swedish Academy called her "musical flow of voices and counter


Expectations that U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow would survive President Bush's Cabinet make-over for at least six months are rapidly yielding to a belief he may make a hastier exit, people close to the Bush administration said on Thursday.


"American Idol" runner-up Kimberley Locke is a winner when it comes to love. Locke, who competed in season two of the Fox television talent contest, said she is engaged to marry her high school sweetheart, Don Campbell. She made the announcement to TV entertainment magazine "Extra" in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday.


New York, Sep 25 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday accepted an invitation from Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to visit Pakistan and the general also agreed to come to New Delhi on a state visit.


The ninth Cricket World Cup begins on Tuesday - with holders Australia favourites once again.


Web site crops up for New Yorkers who've lost a mitten or glove. Excluding baby-animal sites, could anything be sweeter?


Cold Weather Snaps Are Bad for Your Heart

Cold weather snaps can trigger heart attacks, particularly in people suffering from high blood pressure, researchers said on Monday.


Mantova, 19:55 - CALCIO, MANTOVA: IN QUATTRO RIENTRANO IN GRUPPO

Seduta pomeridiana per il Mantova in vista della gara con l'Arezzo. Il tecnico Di Carlo ha fatto svo...


Pakistani officials were to meet to decide the fate of scheduled January 8 elections, after Benazir Bhutto's party announced it would contest the vote despite her assassination.


SANTIAGO, Chile -- Manuel Lincovil is one of the most sought-after doctors in La Pintana, an area of Chile's capital Santiago known for its poverty, alcoholism, and gang violence.


The Nvidia Corporation and Wind River Systems joined a long list of tardy technology companies scrambling to clean up stock option problems.


Myanmar refugees refuse to go home 15 years on

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh  - Imam Sharif and his family have lived in a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh since they fled Myanmar 16 years ago.


Senato, continua con difficoltÃ  l'esame da parte della commissione BilancioEntro domenica, al massimo lunedÃ¬, i lavori dovranno essere chiusi                                          Finanziara, esame al ralenti e modifiche pagina fantasma nel testo sulle successioni                                                                                In arrivo novitÃ  sulla tracciabilitÃ  dei pagamenti e sui passaggi di aziendeAmato: "Anch'io scontento. Se non cambia da ministro avrei ragioni per protestare"


Stronger earnings outlook may lift stocks

Signs of an improving economy may have dashed hopes for an interest-rate cut, but the potential for better profits may whet the appetite of stock market investors.


A bill is introduced in Zimbabwe's parliament to allow President Mugabe to choose his own successor.


Federal health authorities are considering broadening the range of people who can get flu shots because of an unexpected quantity of unused vaccine.


Russia's lower house of parliament considers ratification of Kyoto protocol

MOSCOW  - Russia's lower house of parliament was expected to vote Friday on ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on combatting global warming, putting the pact firmly on the road to realization.


Tech Industry Builds Lobbying Machine for Patent Fight

Just about every industry you can think of has worried about, and lobbied on, legislation that would alter the way patents are enforced.


Explosion in Baghdad kills 3 Iraqi police

An explosion rocked central Baghdad on Sunday night, killing three Iraqi police officers, police and hospital officials said. Hospital sources said another eight people were wounded


Testimony: Wife shot minister after fight

A minister's wife charged with murdering her husband told police she shot him after they argued over family finances and then told him "I'm sorry" as he lay dying in their bedroom, according to testimony at a bond hearing Friday.


Growing up the son of televangelist Rex Humbard, Charles Humbard remembers family suppers with gospel music greats: Pat Boone, June Carter Cash, The Gatlin Brothers.


Official campaigning begins in Portugal ahead of a referendum on easing its strict abortion law.


A Blackberry for WLANs is fruit of RIM research

Research In Motion (RIM) is demonstrating a new model of its Blackberry handheld device, the Blackberry 7270, that integrates Support for both voice and data capabilities on 802.


Ready to develop, if users want it UK-based VoIP provider Truphone last night demonstrated its ability to place a VoIP call from an Apple iPhone, as well as some Facebook integration.â¦


Police: 3 dead in Tel Aviv suicide bombing

At least three people were killed and 32 others wounded in a suicide bombing at an open-air market in Tel Aviv on Monday, Israeli police and ambulance services said.


PARIS, Jan. 31 -- It was an unseemly and unusual lovers' spat -- in public, on camera, over tax policy.


Parliament Finally Approves Bulgaria's 2005 Budget, Opposition Urges President to Veto It

Parliament on Sunday finally approved the next year government budget, but the opposition urged President Georgi Parvanov to veto it because of guarantees it provides for a loan to build a new paediatric ...


Jelinek Says Nobel Prize May Ruin Her Privacy

Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek is  afraid that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature will turn  her into something she never wanted to be -- a celebrity.


Yahoo discussing online music deals: report

Web portal Yahoo Inc is in early  discussions with major record labels to offer an online music  service, the Associated Press reported.


Bush: Would Give 'Mission Accomplished' Speech Again

President Bush said he had no regrets about donning a flight suit to give his "Mission Accomplished" speech on Iraq in May 2003 and would do it all over again if he had the chance, according to excerpts from an television interview released on Sunday.


Judge Juan Guzman made the announcement nearly three months after questioning the 89-year-old former ruler and having him examined by doctors to determine whether he can stand trial.


Brad Haddin blasted a career-best 154 from 162 balls in a brutal display to earn New South Wales first innings points against Victoria at the Junction Oval.


Government-backed Red Hat is leading an initiative allowing software companies to brief users of a US government-backed security database on how far vulnerabilities affect their products.â¦


US Prods Ukraine Courts to Uphold Yushchenko Win

The United States prodded Ukraine's courts on Tuesday to uphold the re-run election victory of the pro-West opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, if his opponent follows through on a threat to challenge the result.


Gorillas, corals and vultures are all  closer to extinction, according to the latest bleak analysis of the natural world.


Benzinaio ucciso: anche il 18enne ha confessato

LECCO - Anche l'altro giovane fermato, un operaio 18enne di Lecco, ha confessato la sua partecipazione al delitto di Giuseppe Maver, il benzinaio ucciso il 25 novembre in seguito a una tentata rapina. Sul


Yes, ItÃÂs a Spoof, but ItÃÂs Also Selling Something

Advertising agencies have turned to spoofing their own industry to attract viewers long enough to deliver a new message.


Hopkins ready to put past behind him, defend titles

Jail never made anybody tougher. Youâre either tough before you go in or youâre not. If anything, jail makes you paranoid. Hopkins, 39, is probably boxingâs most paranoid representative.


US regulators found "deviations" from good manufacturing standards at Chiron Corp.'s British flu-vaccine plant in June 2003, a newspaper reported Monday.


Cat Stevens Says Many Americans Apologized to Him

Yusuf Islam, the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens, says he has received "more apologies than you can count" from Americans embarrassed after their government deported him over potential terrorism links.


Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia?

Anthropologists stepped into a hornets' nest on Monday, revealing research that suggests the original inhabitants of America may in fact have come from what is now known as Australia.


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Google's love for solar may extend to other renewables

Company intends to generate 50 megawatts of electricity from renewable energy forms for its operations by 2012.


Vision: New Scanner May Improve Exams for Multiple Sclerosis

A machine that assesses nerve fibers in the retina may offer a better way to measure the progression of multiple sclerosis, researchers said.


The pound has been under pressure after a survey overnight showed UK house prices fell for the first time in nearly two years, adding weight to expectations that the Bank of England will not be in a position to raise interest rates further.


Shakespeare Theatre of NJ Has Four 'Henry' Plays, Plus Saroyan and Molnar in 2007

Playbill - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will celebrate its 45th season by expanding its Main Stage season from six productions to seven.


A YOUNG Iraqi man has been arrested in southern Germany on suspicion of murdering flamboyant fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer because he refused to pay for sexual favours, police said today.


Cincinnati, OH (Sports Network) - The Cincinnati Bengals signed veteran safety Anthony Mitchell on Wednesday to fill their depleted secondary.


Three British soldiers who had recently been deployed to provide cover for US troops in Iraq have been killed in an attack, according to the government.


Another US Soldier Reported Killed In Afghanistan; Former Taliban ...

_ An attack on a patrol killed an American soldier, the third US fatality this week in Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday, amid a flurry of attacks that wounded over a dozen Americans in the run-up to the Oct.


Treasury Secretary: 'We're making progress'

After hearing a talk by US Treasury Secretary John Snow on Monday, Susan Falde felt more confident about the country's economy.


With Zook ousted, talk turns to Spurrier

Most of the citizens of Gator Nation hungrily devoured the juicy piece of news yesterday morning: The University of Florida fired its beleaguered football coach, Ron Zook.


U.N. peacekeeping split to 2 departments

The U.N. General Assembly divided peacekeeping into two departments Friday, a victory for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after months of negotiations to overhaul management of the overburdened operations.


This was supposed to be an exhilarating weekend for futbol fans in El Salvador, what with those dastardly Americans in town for a 2006 World Cup qualifier Saturday night


Elton John Photo Collection Nets $900,000

Is Elton John's fortune going multimedia? The British pop star, who usually makes his living tickling the ivories, netted $900,000 Thursday night by auctioning off a collection of photographs taken by some of the world's most famous photographers.


Crude oil futures rise ahead of long layoff

Crude oil futures rose yesterday ahead of an extended weekend for traders, even though weekly government data showed rising domestic inventories of crude and distillate fuel, which includes heating oil.


Stocks dropped for a sixth straight session on Wednesday, led by the Nasdaq's 3 percent slide as profit forecasts from Apple Inc and Motorola added to recession fears.


UPDATE 1-US Treasury's Roseboro to step down Dec 31

The US Treasury Department's under secretary for domestic finance, Brian Roseboro, will resign resign effective Dec. 31, the department said on Monday.


The battle for Warner Chilcott moved to the next round today when the drugs group confirmed an approach that could value it at more than Â£1.


International Entertainment acquista quota gruppo Delta


Combinazione: 15 17 25 31 85 87 Jolly 82 Superstar 57


Space shuttle blasts off on construction mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a construction mission to the International Space Station on Friday, ending a three-month grounding to repair the ship's hail-battered fuel tank.


AMD's Q3 led by strong Opteron, Athlon 64 sales

SAN FRANCISCO - As expected, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD's) third-quarter revenue came in a little under the company's earlier predictions, but strong increases in sales of its 64-bit desktop and server processors led to the company's fourth straight profitable quarter.


Venezuela says it is investigating claims that a Colombia rebel leader was seized on its territory.


A woman is charged in connection with last year's alleged attempted bombings in London, police reveal.


Pakistan PM's India Visit Seen Maintaining Momentum

Pakistan's prime minister makes his first official visit to India this week and while hopes are slim for a breakthrough in the rivals' cautious peace process, his trip should at least keep momentum going.


+16% dopo vendita Organon al gruppo Usa Schering-Plough


A female cyclist is left with life-threatening injuries after being knocked off her bike and robbed in London.


Environmentalists around the world are holding their heads a little higher. Wangari Maathai is being honored for her work in preserving the earth.


Andy Murray's hopes of winning a second tournament in a row end in defeat to Andy Roddick in the Memphis International semi-finals.


Holloway Favors Deliberate Course: Height-Development Talks Set

By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 10--BILOXI -- The City Council next week will consider matters that could determine what the new Biloxi looks like.   It is holding a workshop on the laws for condominium heights and development density.   Mayor A.J.


Private eye defends integrity of "honey trapping"

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - When Richard Martinez goes to a nightclub or bar, he often goes alone.


Per collaborare a indagini su assassinio ex premier


Livorno, 19:50 - CALCIO, LIVORNO: ALLENAMENTI SULLA TECNICA

Allenamento pomeridiano per il Livorno in vista della gara di domenica contro l'Empoli. Il tecnico A...


Udine, 16:16 - CALCIO, UDINESE; ASAMOAH: NON DATECI BATTUTI CONTRO INTER

L'Udinese vuole fermare la marcia dell'Inter. Ultima squadra a non perdere contro i nerazzurri (0-0)...


In doppiofondo 5 kg cocaina, valore di mercato 3 mln euro


Vicepremier, visione strumentale di Berlusconi


Security flaw means demonic possession for Apple iPhone Security researchers have discovered a security flaw in Apple's iPhone that could allow miscreants to wreak havoc on users of the highly-revered device, which has been dubbed the Jesus Phone by its more blindly faithful users.â¦


A post mortem is expected to be carried out on a body discovered in the grounds of an Antrim college.


TD Ameritrade's 6 million customers hit with security breach

TD Ameritrade warned customers Friday that its client database suffered a security breach, potentially putting their social security numbers and trading information at risk.


The UN's refugee chief says Sudan should grant more autonomy to Darfur to try to end continuing violence.


News Analysis: can 1 million barrels of oil revive world market?

OPEC decided at its ministerial meeting here Wednesday to increase its oil production ceiling by 1 million barrels a day beginning Nov. 1, but the decision will have little real impact on the high oil prices.


Wizards conjure up bizarre win over Warriors

Washington's Gilbert Arenas made three free throws after a technical foul was called on Golden State coach Don Nelson with less than a second to play, giving the Wizards a 107-106 win on Sunday.


Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car


Troops searching for Osama Bin Laden along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan have no idea where he is, says Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf.


As of Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, at least 2,666 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,119 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.


Active 2007 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season will be busier-than-average with an expected 14 tropical storms, of which seven will strengthen into hurricanes, a noted forecasting team founded by Dr. William Gray said on Friday.


The dollar hits yet another record low against the euro on Wednesday amid speculation Russia may increase reserves of the single currency.


Blog: Sprint announces the Sprint Mogul by HTC smart phone running Windows Mobile 6.


KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian woman has broken a world record by enduring 32 days enclosed in a glass box with 6,069 scorpions, suffering seven stings in the process, her sponsor claimed Tuesday.    Nur Malena Hassan, 27, will remain in the case, on display in a shopping mall in the eastern city of Kuantan, until Saturday, said Bohari Rahmat, whose biscuit company sponsored the stunt...


Feuding Anna Nicole entourage views her corpse

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida  - The feuding mother, partner and former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith took a brief break from a courtroom battle over the Playboy model's corpse on Wednesday to get a private viewing of her rapidly decomposing body in a Florida morgue.


Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or face a "major attack".


When Will Nickelson and his daughter want to spend some quality time together, they fire up Nintendo Co.'s Wii and play a few rounds of "Wii Sports" or "Mario Party 8."


Bush and Kerry Trade Charges on Iraq, Clinton Joins Campaign

Republican President George W. Bush and his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, are charging into the final week of the US campaign for the White House trading increasingly tough charges on the continuing conflict in Iraq.


The National Transportation Safety Board said the copilot of Flight 587 moved the rudder back and forth several times, putting so much stress on the tail that it snapped off.


World oil prices fell in New York and rose in London Tuesday as traders eyed volatile global stock markets and awaited US energy stockpiles data, a US interest rate call and an OPEC production meeting later in the week.


The first state-appointed Chinese Catholic bishop for 50 years to have the Pope's approval is being consecrated.


Strong Quake Kills at Least 3 in Northern Japan

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 and several aftershocks hit northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 250 while knocking


Wider Troubles Trickle Down to Oil Sector

As fears of an American recession ripple across the globe, analysts are wondering whether the great oil boom of the last five years is finally coming to an end.


JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - Five attackers thought to be linked to al-Qaida staged a brazen daytime raid on the US Consulate in this kingdom's most cosmopolitan city on Monday, storming through the sprawling compound's fortified gate and starting a three-hour


Bologna, 19:58 - BASEBALL, SERIE A1: RISULTATI

Risultati di gara2 dell'8/a giornata di ritorno del campionato di serie A1 di baseball.


Con 113 ordini e un fatturato che sfiora 1,1 mld di dollari


Goosen Forges One-Shot Lead at Grand Slam of Golf

South Africa's Retief Goosen fired a  seven-under-par 65 to take a one-shot lead over the season's  other three major winners after the first round of the 36-hole  PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Kauai, Hawaii on Tuesday.


Blair Was Warned of Post-War Iraq Chaos -- Paper

Britain's foreign secretary and senior officials warned Prime Minister Tony Blair a year before invading Iraq that chaos could follow the toppling of Saddam Hussein, a newspaper said Saturday.


Cadavere trovato nell'auto nel centro storico


Apart from a few marquee matchups, college basketball has yet to command prime attention during the first two months of the season, and for schools in lesser leagues, the best opportunity to make a national impression is winding down.


Authorities said a bomb threat is what forced a Greek airliner to make an emergency landing at an airport in England Sunday. The Olympic Airlines plane was headed from Athens to New York when it was diverted to Stansted Airport outside London.


Pakistani parliament protests honor for Rushdie

Pakistan's parliament has condemned the award of a British knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world, and said Britain should withdraw the honor.


Europe could give Microsoft verdict soon

Secret meeting last month The European Court of First Instance could deliver its verdict on Microsoft's appeal of its anti-trust ruling before the summer recess.â¦


"No Country," "Blood" lead Oscar nominations

BEVERLY HILLS, California  - "No Country For Old Men," a gory meditation on moral decline, and "There Will Be Blood," a gritty drama about a pioneering California oilman, led the nominations for the 80th annual Academy Awards on Tuesday, organizers said.


Putin Says Russia Will Get New Nuclear Missiles in Near Future

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia's armed forces will shortly acquire unique missile technology, unmatched by any other nuclear power.


'Morning Edition' Returns: Making Space for Trash

Description: Trash pickups on the International Space Station ended nearly two years ago, when the Columbia disaster halted shuttle flights.


US military kills 25 insurgents in Mosul clash

American troops and warplanes repulsed a massive insurgent attack against an outpost in the restive northern city of Mosul, killing at least 25 insurgents, the military said yesterday.


Scientist Group Warns of Warming 'Threat'

The board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's leading general science organization, yesterday issued a consensus statement declaring global climate change "a growing threat to society."


EDITORIAL: A Surprising Fall From Space -- and Grace

The meltdown of astronaut Lisa Nowak is strange and sad. Even though we no longer throw ticker tape parades for NASA astronauts returning from outer space, they still hold a special place in our collective national image. Astronauts are our heroic pioneers.


Don't let yourself get excited over stock splits.


ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Sept. 25 -- The African Union will add 4,000 troops to its Darfur peacekeeping mission, bolstering the 7,000 poorly funded and under-equipped A.U. forces currently monitoring a battered cease-fire.


Dutch extremist suspects planned to murder deputies: report

THE HAGUE : Two suspected Islamic extremists arrested this week are suspected of plotting to assassinate two Dutch lawmakers known for their critical stance towards Islam, the Dutch press reported.


POLITICS:  New Moves to Improve EU-U.S. Relations

BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (IPS) - European Union officials watched with interest, and  some with dismay, as U.S. President George W. Bush was  inaugurated for a second four-year term at a lavish ceremony  Thursday (Jan. 20).


Tradition and innovation collide at Wimbledon

Amelie Mauresmo stepped over the paint pots and surveyed the Centre Court, scene of her Wimbledon triumph last year but, without its roof, looking like a completely different arena.


Renault re-tools management ahead of Ghosn's arrival

French automaker Renault re-tooled its management, paving the way for the arrival next year of Japanese partner Nissan Motor Company's chief Carlos Ghosn, head of its Japanese affiliate Nissan Motor Company, who will pilot both enterprises.


Flaxseed, ginseng show benefit in cancer treatment

Flaxseed slowed the growth of prostate tumors in men, while ginseng helped relieve the fatigue that cancer patients often feel, U.S. researchers reported on Saturday in two of the first scientifically rigorous looks at alternative medicine.


BellSouth, SBC to Jointly Buy YellowPages

BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. are expanding their partnership beyond Cingular Wireless with a joint purchase of YellowPages.


Six Egyptians kidnapped in Iraq as gunmen storm their employers' ...

Gunmen abducted six Egyptians working for Iraq's mobile phone company, seizing two in a bold raid on the firm's Baghdad office and


Want HDTV Without Paying the Cable Bill? Get One of These

By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe  Feb. 25--Rooftop antennas are back in vogue.   Many homeowners are trading up to expensive television sets and hooking  them up to old-fashioned antennas that can pull in the digital and  high-definition signals of local broadcasters for free.


Sony and Nintendo go into battle this year to win the next generation handheld gaming battle.


AP: Yanks, Angels BoSox to Pay Luxury Tax

The Boston Red Sox got an extra bill after winning the World Series. Boston and Anaheim must pay baseball's luxury tax along with the New York Yankees, according to final figures compiled by the commissioner's office.


Failure in demand causes LCD sales slump

IT'S OFFICIAL. People didn't flock to buy LCD units in the second quarter which is disappointing news for manufacturers, which are now awash with the fancy thin film transistor glass.


Blunkett tickets gift broke Commons rules

David Blunkett was in "clear breach" of parliamentary rules by giving his lover, Kimberly Quinn, free rail tickets, a Westminster watchdog found today.


Utah doctors to separate conjoined twins

They are fused mid-torso, sharing a kidney, a liver, a pelvis, a pair of legs and part of the large intestines. On Monday, a team of surgeons will try to separate 4-year-old Kendra and Maliyah Herrin in an operation that could take 14 to 30 hours. Doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center say it is the first known separation surgery attempted on twins with a shared kidney.


ATHENS -- The day after, as the US regrouped from another loss and looked ahead to the medal round, the name of Sarunas Jasikevicius still resonated. The Lithuanian point guard torched the Yanks for 28 points in a 94-90 victory Saturday night. He is leading the Olympics in assists. He is ninth in scoring. He is clearly a take-charge, take-no-prisoners ...


Think slathering on the highest-number sunscreen at the beach or pool will spare you skin cancer and premature wrinkles? Probably not, if you're in the sun a lot.


Ucraina. Compromesso fra Yanukovic e Yushenko sul legge e commissione elettorale.Ma Yanukovic non lascia prima del voto. La commissione elettorale sarÃ  sciolta e rinnovata, la legge elettorale modificata.


Nine French citizens are arrested in Chad over an alleged attempt to fly children out of the country.


Parents of missing Madeleine head home to Britain

FARO, Portugal  - British couple Kate and Gerry McCann, named as suspects in their four-year-old daughter Madeleine's disappearance, headed home from Portugal on Sunday.


Intelsat's Triple-Flip Is Anchored on Debt

Washington's own Intelsat,  the world's biggest and most respected satellite operator,  is on the auction block again.


An English-speaking man, presumed to be a Millwall fan, was taken to a hospital by ambulance with life-threatening injuries, said Pal Gyorfi, a spokesman for the National Rescue Service.


Don't Run From That Portfolio. Tweak It.

If 2003 was the year for investors to live dangerously, 2004 is fast becoming the year to duck and cover.


UK to Seek Bush Support on G8 Poverty Goals

Britain will seek Washington's support to help it achieve goals on global poverty reduction, debt relief and fair trade during London's G8 presidency next year, finance minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday.


Amid a Whirlwind of Change, MartÃnez Returns to His Roots

Less than 24 hours after Pedro MartÃnez stood inside Shea Stadium for his introduction as the Mets' newest pitcher, he was on an island in the Caribbean Sea.


Apple to launch movie store, new iPods next week?

Core 2 Duo iMacs too, reports claim Tuesday, 12 September is the big coming out day for Core 2 Duo-based iMacs, new generations of iPod and iPod Nano, and Apple's iTunes Movie store, it has been claimed after Apple began mailing out invites to the media to come along to Cupertino or attend a London-hosted simulcast of the proceedings.â¦


Analysis: The prime minister who promised peace by negotiating with a Basque terror group is left with egg on his face


Cazenove, one of Britain's last independent investment banks, joins forces with US banking giant JP Morgan.


Madonna's daughter has written a story which is featured in a Christmas charity fund-raising book. Plus other entertainment news in brief.


Producers of a reality television show are paying suspects arrested by gun-toting celebrity cops to persuade them to show their faces on the air.


Bancrofts meet to discuss Murdoch bid for Dow Jones

BOSTON/NEW YORK  - Members of the Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co Inc met in Boston on Monday to consider a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.


Polizia: probabile bomba.Almeno 4 morti e 35 feriti


Weaker-than-expected jobs growth in September has stocks searching for direction. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 15 points in today's early going.


WASHINGTON - Iraq does not have to be perfectly peaceful before the United States can withdraw its troops, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday.


Iran Boasts of Victory Over US on Nuclear Case

Iran boasted on Tuesday it had defeated US efforts to send its nuclear case to the UN Security Council while warning that its uranium enrichment freeze would only last for a few months.


'Molto soddisfatto' per avvio incontri su modello contratti


Hilton Hotels Corp. HLT.N posted a  strong rise in third-quarter earnings on Monday as business and  leisure travel increased, filling its big urban hotels.


Terrorista di al Qaida organizzo' attacco a comunita' yazide


Merck Raises Vioxx Prescription Estimate

Merck & Co. on Friday raised its estimate of the number of prescriptions written in the United States for its recently recalled heart disease treatment Vioxx.


The British army is set to pull out its base at Bessbrook in County Armagh for the last time later on Monday.


CIA agents to stand trial for Italy kidnapping

A Milan judge on Friday ordered 26 Americans, most of them thought to be CIA agents, to stand trial with Italian spies for the 2003 kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, who says he was flown to Egypt and tortured there.


British tale of gay life wins Booker Prize

Planet Out - SUMMARY: Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty" has won the Man Booker Prize. It's the first time the award has been given to a novel dealing predominantly with gay issues.


At Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo, more than 1,000 people formed a line beginning Saturday, forcing the store to open earlier than usual.


Mike Hargrove managed the Indians to five straight AL Central ...

One of the two managers that have knocked the Mariners out of the playoffs just two wins short of the World Series apparently could get a chance to return the team to its glory days.


Hurricane Felix upgraded to Category 2 storm

Hurricane Felix, the second hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season, was upgraded early on Sunday to a category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph (160 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.


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Three men are rescued after their car fell down an embankment onto a railway line.


Migrant women clean houses in bid for American dream

For Mexican housemaid Estela, the day began before dawn feeding and changing the six-month-old baby of her American 'patrona' or boss in a Los Angeles suburb.


Cheney Unleashes Stinging Attack on Kerry

Vice President Dick Cheney unleashed a stinging attack on Sen. John Kerry Wednesday night, ridiculing him as a politician who has made a career out of changing his mind. "More wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure," agreed Sen. Zell Miller, a Democratic keynoter at the Republican National Convention.


Mount Asama, one of Japan's largest and most active volcanoes, erupted almost continuously for a third straight day Thursday, spewing molten rocks and gray smoke into the air and setting off more than 1,000 tiny earthquakes.


Byrd amendment buys US $150 million in WTO sanctions

The World Trade Organization granted authorization Friday to the European Union, Japan, Canada, Korea, Mexico, India, and Chile, to slap retaliatory sanctions if the US fails to repeal the Byrd amendment.


New York RangersGM Glen Sather says Tuesday that he is not ready to surrender his job to Mark Messier, the man who delivered a long-awaited Stanley Cup to the Rangers.


Senior Taliban commander arrested in southern Afghanistan

(Kandahar, Afghanistan-AP) Sept. 26, 2004 - Afghan officials say an alleged senior Taliban commander and two fighters have been killed in a raid on a village home in southern Afghanistan.


Hungary's radical youths take to the streets

Young people -- easily mobilized through the Internet and mobile phone -- are a vocal and radical force in Hungary's near-tribal political conflict, now increasingly being fought out on the streets.


Florida Marlins right-hander AJ Burnett will miss his next scheduled start because of elbow inflammation, an ailment that could hurt the team's chances in the NL wild-card race.


Stephen King: Why 2004 is unlikely to become another 1994

Earlier this year, it appeared that the West was about to embark on one of its periodic bouts of inflation. Commodity prices were rising swiftly.


EUROPE:  Treaty Tinkered With, Not Amended

BRUSSELS, Oct 19 (IPS) - Bleary-eyed European Union leaders agreed a  'reform treaty' for the 27-country bloc after a working  dinner in Lisbon continued until the early hours of the morning  Oct. 19. Yet despite suggestions that governments like those of  Poland and Britain had driven a hard bargain, sizeable chunks of  the text they signed up to are identical to the EU constitution  rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.


Mobile phone use does not raise the risk of any of the most common brain tumours, a Japanese study suggests.


Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama predicted Thursday that Congress won't directly challenge President Bush's plans and will focus instead on putting a ceiling on the number of troops deployed to that country.


THE man charged with the murder of Australian peacekeeper Adam Dunning in the Solomon Islands was out on bail for another killing.


Mobile phone provider 3 launches a pre-paid handset that will allow users to make free calls using Skype.


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A delicate figurine of a movie, âBeauty Remainsâ is an account of a tragic love triangle set in China in 1948, just before the Communists won the civil war.


The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will not try to block Google's acquisition of online ad-serving vendor DoubleClick, the agency said Thursday.The commission voted 4-1 to approve the deal after an eight-month investigation. "After carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick is unlikely to substantially lessen competition," the majority wrote in a statement.The commission downplayed concerns brought by some privacy groups. Privacy concerns are "not unique to Google and DoubleClick," and "extend to the entire online advertising marketplace," commissioners wrote.Google, the provider of the most widely used search engine, announced in April that it planned to acquire ad serving giant DoubleClick in a $3.1 billion deal.The commission examined several factors and concluded that the two companies are not direct competitors, the FTC said in a news release on Thursday. The agency found that competition in online ad-serving markets is vigorous and likely to increase.The agency will closely monitor the ad-serving space, however, commissioners wrote. "The markets within the online advertising space continue to quickly evolve, and predicting their future course is not a simple task," the majority wrote. "We want to be clear ... that we will closely watch these markets and, should Google engage in unlawful tying or other anticompetitive conduct, the commission intends to act quickly."Google, which faces a similar examination before the European Union, praised the FTC decision."The FTC's strong support sends a clear message: this acquisition poses no risk to competition and will benefit consumers," Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "We hope that the European Commission will soon reach the same conclusion, and we are confident that this deal will deliver more relevant ads for consumers, more choices for advertisers, and more opportunities for Web site publishers."Google will remain committed to user privacy, Schmidt added. "For us, privacy does not begin or end with our purchase of DoubleClick," he said. "We have been protecting our users' privacy since our inception, and will continue to innovate in how we safeguard their information and maintain their trust."The same month that Google and DoubleClick announced the deal, three privacy groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), filed a petition asking the FTC to block the deal unless Google made significant changes to its privacy policy. The groups argued that the combined company with have unparalleled access to Web users' personal information.EPIC and the CDD didn't have an immediate reaction to the ruling.FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour voted against the deal, saying she disagreed with the majority's view on the direction of the ad-serving market.And Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, while voting with the majority, said the deal raised serious competition and privacy issues. Those issues, "though in part brought to light by the deal, clearly transcend it," he wrote.In late May, Google announced that the FTC was examining the deal for potential antitrust problems. The FTC can rule that a merger raises antitrust issues, and the agency can recommend remedies. If the merging companies don't reach a settlement with the FTC, the agency can see an injunction against the merger in a U.S. court.Leibowitz, in November, said the agency was reviewing the case on antitrust, but not privacy, grounds. The privacy groups have argued, however, that the privacy issue is related to antitrust partly because of the competitive edge Google would get in targeting advertising to specific people.In December, EPIC and CDD filed a new complaint, asking FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras to recuse herself from the case. Majoras' husband works for a law firm that is advising DoubleClick, but DoubleClick and the FTC said that the Jones Day law firm hasn't represented the company before the FTC.


In a groundbreaking deal, cable channel Showtime Networks and Yahoo! Inc. have partnered to stream the complete first episode of "Fat Actress" simultaneously with the comedy's debut March 7.


NEWSMAKER-Rugby-Pioneering Woodward seeks fresh challenge

Clive Woodward, a pioneer in spirit, has always been up for a challenge and will certainly find one in football after saying he would resign as England rugby coach later on Wednesday.


LA CROSSE, Wis. - In 2000, political pundits summed up the race in three words: Florida, Florida, Florida...


Oprah's audience is driven to tears of joy

Oprah Winfrey celebrated the premiÃ¨re of her 19th season by surprising each of her 276 audience members with a new car. "We're calling this our wildest dream season, because this year on the Oprah show no


Crude oil prices decline on easing winter supply woes, cancelled ...

Crude oil futures prices fell Tuesday on growing expectations that a winter supply crisis will be averted and after union leaders cancelled a strike in major exporter Nigeria.


Bush says he'd send troops into Pakistan

President Bush said Wednesday he would order military action inside Pakistan if intelligence indicated that Osama bin Laden or other top terror leaders were hiding there. "Absolutely," Bush said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.


House Overwhelmingly Approves Broad Overhaul of Intelligence

The House voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve the sweeping intelligence-overhaul bill sought by President Bush and the independent Sept.


Reports: China 'hijacking' Google, Yahoo, Microsoft search sites

When Chinese Web surfers try to the big three U.S. search engines, they're reportedly redirected to Baidu. Recent political events, including Dalai Lama's American award, may be to blame.


Candor about faith marks this presidential election season. Critics say a line is being crossed.


Washington Redskins kicker John Hall will be back in uniform Sunday after missing five games with a groin injury.


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The 67-year-old retired print technician doesn't make enough in Social Security to cover prescription drugs for his stomach ulcer and his wife, Delores' bone density problems.


Tony Blair is expected to make the case for compulsory ID cards during his regular news conference on Monday.


With their starters playing into the second half, the Minnesota Vikings looked as if they would easily overmatch the depleted San Francisco 49ers.


The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, today welcomed Israel's announcement that it would allow international observers to monitor forthcoming Palestinian presidential elections.


GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to disclose information on all clinical studies of its drugs to settle a lawsuit that accused it of withholding negative information about the antidepressant Paxil, the New York Attorney General's office says


White House Two-Termers, Fathers and Sons

Here is a list of the 16 U.S. presidents elected to two terms and the years they served. President Bush also is part of two father-son presidents.


By Courtney Sherwood, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 7--Per capita personal income in the Vancouver-Portland metropolitan area did not grow as fast in 2005 as it did the year before, and inflation may be catching up.


Friends of Clarence Thomas Speak Out      (U.S. News & World Report)

U.S. News & World Report - They're calling themselves "Friends of Justice Thomas," and they say that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his bestselling memoir have gotten a bum rap from the "mainstream media."


Lawyers for Democrats say they will fight to make every vote count

The Democratic Party announced plans to mobilize an army of attorneys, particularly in battleground states, to defend voters' rights and help deter any intimidation during the November 2 presidential vote.


Middle East ; Saudi oppn rally to demand speedy reforms in kingdom

If Thursdayâs protests go ahead, they may test how much support the Movement for Islamic Reform has gathered in Saudi Arabia since Fagih began using radio, satellite TV and the Internet.


Internet Speed in W.Va. Slower Than in 48 States

By Tom Breen  Downloading a large file off the Internet in West Virginia? If so, don't make any other plans; it could take a while.  A new national study says Internet connection speed in the Mountain State is slower than every other state except Alaska.


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Around the stove on cold nights, tales of the back-to-back Boston North titles captured by the 2003 and 2004 East Boston football teams will be told to Jets-in-training for years to come. Yesterday, East Boston pulled away from Madison Park in the second half to take a 29-12 win, setting up Eastie for a Nov. 30 Division 3A playoff matchup ...


Iraq Wants 90-95 Percent Debt Forgiveness

Iraq hopes to reach a debt forgiveness deal with leading creditor nations by the end of the year, and views as a "starting point" a proposal by France to initially relieve 50 percent of its debt, Iraq's Finance Minister said on Tuesday.


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Kobe Bryant wasn't about to look ahead. Not with a groin injury and a showdown with LeBron James approaching.


Investors didn't appreciate news of their management's plans to sell shares.


Blog: Founding CEOs often outlive their effectiveness. Boards seem reluctant to carry out their primary function: hiring and firing the CEO.


A tool that makes it easy to craft malicious JPEG images then let them loose against vulnerable Windows PCs has appeared, security experts said Friday, leading many to believe


Lost star Naveen Andrews has revealed that he struggled with drug addiction


Committee Investigates Ad Tactics for Lipitor

A Congressional committee wants information about people who might have served as stunt doubles for Dr. Robert Jarvik in televised ads.


Linebacker LaVar Arrington's recovery from knee problems that ruined his 2004 season is encouraging the Redskins, according to team physicans.


Help take back America! Donate $50 to MoveOn PAC. With your support, MoveOn PAC will undertake a groundbreaking, precinct-level, neighbor-to-neighbor campaign to leave no voter behind.


Traditional expectations and conservative tastes in dance have contributed to an inhibited visual aesthetic.


Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.


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Even a report that showed sales of existing homes had been nudged up in November failed to lift the market as traders closed their books on the year.


Hundreds Held in New York Anti-Bush Bike Protest

Thousands of cyclists snarled traffic in New York on Friday night and police said they arrested more than 250 people and confiscated their bicycles in the first significant protest against President Bush before the Republican convention.


Turk Parliament Approves EU-Backed Reforms

Turkey cleared a hurdle on its long path toward European Union membership on Sunday when its parliament approved a new penal code which will boost women's rights and punish police more severely for torture.


OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham today rejected claims that funds would be taken from the states to pay for free hospital care for people aged 75 and over.


THE FORMER ADVISER A Smart, Self-Assured Man With Political Ambitions

ver since Gov. James E. McGreevey's bombshell disclosure of his relationship with a man, Golan Cipel, the man in question, has been in seclusion - first in New York, then in Israel, where his house has recently been surrounded by ...


Stronger Hurricane Jeanne Batters Bahamas

Hurricane Jeanne lashed the northern Bahamas with fierce winds and torrential rains Saturday, shredding roofs and flooding neighborhoods in the country's second largest city before raging on toward Florida as a reinvigorated and dangerous Category 3 storm.


The International Space Station Safety Task Force issued its final report Tuesday, giving good marks to station safety and crew health issues.


Fossil in China May Show Ancient Bird Development, Study Says

A fossilized bird embryo with feathers was found in northeastern China, which may be evidence that early birds were more developed at birth than their modern ancestors, according to a study in the journal Science.


Mateja Kezman believes he can go on a goalscoring spree after finally opening his account for Chelsea. The former PSV Eindhoven striker scored the matchwinner in the 57th minute


Across the world, women are making great strides in just about every professional arena, including politics. Among the world’s 10 most populous nations, how many have not had a woman as head of government or state in modern times?


Confusion over status of dome of marshmallow on a biscuit swathed in milk chocolate could cost Â£3.5m


Lumet Not Too 'Guilty' for Pre-Oscar Bash

Director Sidney Lumet can't head to the West Coast until four days before the Feb. 27 Academy Awards ceremony where he will receive an honorary Oscar, because of post-production deadlines on his latest feature, "Find Me Guilty." So the Academy will throw him a "Congratulations, Sidney" party here at the Plaza Athenee on Feb. 23.


The US economy grew at its fastest rate in one and a half years in the summer, a government report says.


RESEARCH ALERT-Goldman ups UK's Matalan on bid prospects

Investment bank Goldman Sachs raised its rating on British discount retailer Matalan (MTN.L: Quote, Profile, Research) to "in-line" from "underperform" on Friday, saying prospects for a bid had grown.


WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A middle-aged New Zealand woman rang police to report a theft of cannabis plants she had been growing at her North Island home, local media reported.


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Web bug uncovered under Congressional spotlight Congressional hearings have revealed how HP made controversial use of email tracking technology in an attempt to identify the source of a board-level mole.â¦


Injections of a hormone made by fat cells can jump-start an idling reproductive system, research shows. Twice-daily injections of leptin restored menstruation in female athletes who had become so lean that their periods had stopped.


New documents reveal Amin threats over British royal jubilee

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin sent a hectoring message demanding an invitation to Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee celebrations and a Commonwealth meeting in 1977, newly released documents showed Friday.


A girl receives tetanus shot from a medic at a relief camp in Nagore, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004.


Massive hacker attack slows but fails to bring down Internet

The worst attack in years on the Internet's infrastructure, which slowed traffic but failed to bring down the Web, used infected computers around the world as "zombies," security experts said.


Salesforce.com Unveils Site Aimed At Providing On-Demand Call ...

Salesforce.com Inc. took the next step in its evolution Wednesday, introducing a new site, Supportforce.com, that's designed to provide on-demand call-center and customer-service software along


MACAO President Hu Jintao of China arrived here Sunday for celebrations of the fifth anniversary of this territory's transfer from Portugal to China, proclaiming the small gambling enclave a success under Beijing's rule.


Website honours battling Glasgow baggage handler

Buy a pint for 'BAA's answer to Jack Bauer' A website set up to honour battling Glaswegian baggage handler John Smeaton, who magnificently waded in to prevent al-Qaeda's comedy kamikaze division raining fiery apocalypse upon the UK's airport infrastucture, has succeeded in getting grateful netizens to stick 480 pints behind the bar of the Glasgow Airport Holiday Inn for his drinking pleasure.â¦


Gotti jury says deadlocked but keeps deliberating

Jurors in the trial of accused mob   boss John "Junior" Gotti said they were deadlocked on Tuesday   but the judge sent them back to deliberate further.


IRANIAN MPs have submitted a bill which would force the government to resume uranium enrichment, a key process in the nuclear fuel cycle, in defiance of the international community, a deputy said today.


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U.N. prosecutor: Pressure Serbia, Bosnia

The chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor urged the Security Council on Friday to pressure Serbia and Bosnia to arrest fugitive leaders from the Bosnian war, saying it was clear after 11 years that neither country was willing to do so.


Apple said Wednesday that its update to Apple TV to allow viewing of YouTube videos was available, along with announcing similar functionality for iPhone. But the lack of 3G connectivity will limit the feature's usefulness.


Contender in Boxing TV Show Takes Own Life

A promising young boxer who got the break of a lifetime when he was selected by NBC's upcoming reality TV program, "The Contender," committed suicide.


The prime minister issues a dire warning on climate change as he sets out policies to tackle it.


Gordon Brown says he wants the prime minister of the day to lose their final say on who gets peerages.


Countrywide Posts 47 Pct Drop in Earnings

Countrywide Financial Corp. on  Wednesday posted a 47 percent drop in quarterly earnings and  cut its outlook as mortgage refinancings fell and interest  rates climbed, sparking a broad sell-off in mortgage company  stocks.


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Saddam War Crimes Trial Nears Next Stage

Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants will take a step closer to trial in the coming weeks but don't expect an O.J. Simpson-style courtroom drama, a Western legal expert involved in the process said on Wednesday.


Earthquake in Japan kills six, injures hundreds

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - A strong earthquake flattened houses in northwestern Japan on Monday, killing at least six people, forcing the evacuation of thousands and sparking a small fire at the world's biggest nuclear power plant.


Oil Rises on Nigeria, Norway Disruptions; OPEC May Curb Output

Crude oil rose from a three-month low on disruptions to supply from Nigeria and Norway and after OPEC members said they may need to cut output after prices plunged.


Editors Race to Cover Aniston-Pitt Split

In the world of celebrities and those who love them, the Jennifer Aniston-Brad Pitt breakup was like the fall of the Berlin Wall. That sent celebrity magazines hurtling into a race to be first in the biggest breakup story of, well, the year.


Oracle extends reach of its enterprise search software

Oracle has shipped the first major upgrade to the stand-alone enterprise search software itÂ debuted last yearÂ emphasizing new links to third-party data sources and identity management systems.


Siebel Systems Inc., the largest maker of customer-relations management software, Friday said it agreed to acquire Edocs Inc., a closely held provider of electronic-billing software, for $115 million.


BitMicro Ultra320 SCSI flash drive crosses terabyte divide

BitMicro Networks unveiled a new flash drive based on the Ultra S320 standard that offers up to 1.6GB of storage.


An angry and frustrated crowd in Southwest Washington last night denounced Mayor Anthony A. Williams's proposal to build a baseball stadium in their community, saying they feared being displaced


A journey into the epicenter of the Sadr standoff

We alerted the Iraqi government, the US military, and the Mahdi Army; we were planning to go to the shrine.


US health officials say the flu season is off to a slow start and that means the public has more time to get a flu shot. There was a huge turnout to receive flu shots in Grove City, making it hard for some at-risk people to get their vaccine.


THOMASTOWN, Ireland -- Ernie Els held off a strong challenge from playing partner Thomas Bjorn to win the American Express Championship by one shot Sunday.


Indonesia struggles to reach quake victims

Military ships rushed to get desperately needed aid to the ravished coast of Sumatra island on Thursday, as villages strewn with bloating corpses remained isolated for a fifth day after a huge earthquake and tsunami devastated


UEFA Cup: Villarreal downs Middlesbrough 2-0

Antonio ``Guayre'' Betancor and Javi Venta scored in each half to earn Villarreal a 2-0 win over Middlesbrough in UEFA Cup Group E on Thursday.


The Food and Drug Administration gives doctors the go-ahead to implant radio frequency microchips in patients. When scanned, the chips will release patients' medical information to doctors, speeding care.


Georgia Tornado Strips Area of Medical Services

The storm left a town of nearly 17,000 and the outlying area without a hospital or clinic that could handle emergencies.


Amy Winehouse will not perform at the Grammy Awards this weekend because she's been refused permission to touch down on American soil, according to her publicist   "The singer has been invited to appear at the event on Sunday after receiving an amazi...


Michael calls in Michael to sort out Dell

Solectron boss to head ops Battered Dell has moved to get its act together by drafing in a tech manufacturing veteran to oversee its global operations.â¦


Fool contributor Tim Beyers finds that when it comes to stocks, it might pay to be Scrooge.


The South Korean government is drawing up an ethical code to prevent humans abusing  robots and vice versa.


A Â£3m BBC docu-drama about a volcano erupting in the US is postponed in the wake of the tsunami disaster.


Cisco sends a whole load of dollars to India

Plans R&D, phone factory Cisco will make internet phones in India as part of its revamped $1.1bn investment in the country.â¦


Teheran tries to rewrite EU deal on nuclear programme

By Damien Mcelroy in Vienna and Philip Sherwell in Washington. Iran's rulers want to revise a deal part-brokered by Britain to suspend their nuclear weapons programme, throwing the agreement into doubt just


What's a Red Sox fan to do now that the Curse is over?

Not to be macabre, but we are heading into a Halloween weekend. It occurred to me that if the best way to find an apartment in a crowded city is to check the obituaries (remember this regrettable collaboration


Merseyside police detain 15-year-old boy on suspicion of murdering 11-year-old.


Face Transplant Procedure Ready: Surgeons

Researchers from Kentucky and the Netherlands say they are ready to perform a face transplant. The procedure involves replacing someone's entire face with a dead donor's face.


The population of the UK will increase by 4.4 million to 65 million by 2016, according to new estimates.


Motorola said yesterday it would cut 1,000 jobs, as the company continues to refocus on its core mobile phone business. It said some positions being cut were related to the Freescale Semiconductor division that Motorola is in the process of spinning off.


More rains hit flood-stricken Indonesian capital

More heavy rains struck Indonesia's capital on Thursday, hampering clean-up efforts and piling on misery for hundreds of thousands of people camping under make-shift shelters after days of floods.


The fate of kidnapped Iraqi humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan may depend on which group's hands she has fallen into. A staggering number of kidnappings take place in Iraq, the vast majority for money.


Ziad H. Hamzeh's documentary is important as a record of a disturbing incident that occured when 1,100 immigrants from Somalia settled in Maine.


Branson hopes to trace Fossett with Google Earth

RENO, Nevada  - British billionaire Richard  Branson said on Wednesday he was hoping to trace Steve Fossett  through a satellite mapping service offered by Internet data  provider Google as the search for the missing U.S. adventurer  resumed.


Movie Review | 'Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins': Southern Discomfort for a Hollywood Talk-Show Host

âRoscoe Jenkinsâ is just a shaggy diversion that gives its energetic star and its populous, accomplished supporting cast a chance to clown around.