IL COLLOQUIO. Il presidente della Camera avverte gli alleati "Il programma di governo deve essere rispettato"                                           Bertinotti: "Sulle pensioni non voglio la crisi  ma ammetto che il rischio esiste"                                                                                "Socialmente intollerabile alzare l'etÃ  per gli operai"   di MASSIMO GIANNINI


A Pitcairn Island man on trial for sex abuse used to act as though young girls were available for him whenever he chose, a prosecutor said in a makeshift courtroom on this remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.


Eleventh Palestinian killed in Khan Younis

The eleventh Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in the town of Khan Younis in southern Gaza on December 18, Palestinian medics said.


After Fiasco, Giants Close Ranks Behind Coach

After three straight losses, the latest an unhinged collapse against the Titans Sunday, the Giants are closing ranks behind Coach Tom Coughlin who is under increasing scrutiny.


Nokia delays N-gage gaming service launch

Nokia has again pushed back the launch  of its gaming service N-gage due to delays in software testing,  a spokesman said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the  Internet services ambitions of the world's top cell phone  maker.


A woman in west India strips to her underwear in public as part of a dispute with her family over a dowry payment.


Windsor Report Leaves Conservative Episcopalians Hopping Mad

Conservative network leader: "The disease of the US church has found its way into this report.". By Douglas LeBlanc | posted 10/19/2004.


Britain planned for Iraq war despite Blair denial: report

Britain started to plan the Iraq war months ahead of the conflict, even as Prime Minister Tony Blair was denying he was on a course for war, according to a report Wednesday quoting a leaked Pentagon document.


In 'The Brave One,' Jodie Foster goes all Charles Bronson as a gang victim bent on vengeance.


AU undeterred despite new Somali Islamist threat

The African Union vowed on Wednesday to continue deploying peacekeepers in Somalia, brushing aside threats from an Islamist commander and an ambush of its troops in the lawless capital.


Text of President Bush's news conference

Good morning and happy holidays to you all. I thought I'd come and answer some of your questions. Before I do so I've got a statement I'd like to make.


The soldiers in The HBO documentary âAlive Day Memoriesââ the title refers to the day they sustained, and survived, their injuries â express a range of feelings, from anger to emotional distress.


Two of the nine men arrested during anti-terror raids in Birmingham are released without charge.


BASEBALL: RED-HOT SOX CLIP THE ANGELS' WINGS

BOSTON RED SOX fans are enjoying their best week of the season. While their beloved team swept wild-card rivals Anaheim in a three-game series to establish a nine-game winning streak, the hated New York Yankees endured the heaviest loss in their history.


Soaring Rise and Splashy Fall of an Ambitious, Sleek and Fragile Teen Idol

Kevin Spacey's biography of Bobby Darin is a mess, but it captures Darin's desperation, his braggadocio and his magnetism.


Motorola trying to recapture 'Razr' edge

New Motorola Inc. CEO Greg Brown doesn't have the secret weapon his predecessor Ed Zander possessed when he arrived at the cell phone maker four years ago Â the Razr. But that could be a good thing Â if Brown, who took over Tuesday as chief executive, applies lessons learned from Motorola's nasty fall last year.


U.S., Others Want Thai Custody Deaths Investigated

PATTANI, Thailand  - The United States asked close  ally Thailand to investigate fully the deaths of 78 Muslim  protesters in military custody after Thai Prime Minister  Thaksin Shinawatra defiantly defended the actions of his  troops.


Christian Coalition Mobilizes for Election

With choruses of amens, Christian activists on Friday affirmed that they have the power, with a little prayer and a lot of legwork, to assure that President Bush stays in the White House.


Investigators found traces of explosives on the second of two passenger airliners that crashed simultaneously in Russia, security officials announced Saturday, confirming


For one last time, it will be flying under the banner of the Big East Conference. But you won't find any sign of it -- or any logos -- on a single stitch of clothing Boston College's football team will don today against North Carolina in the Continental Tire Bowl.


com September 20, 2004, 4:00 AM PT. This fourth priority's main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half.


Suspect charged in abduction, sexual assault of 11-year-old girl

SURREY , B.C. (CP) - Six charges were laid Monday against a man in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault last week of an 11-year-old girl.


Registrar denies 'front-running' Net registration

Network Solutions, a major registrar of Internet domain names, counters accusations it's grabbing domain names after customers show an interest but before they register them.


President Bush urges North Korea to give up nuclear ambitions at a summit rocked by  protests.


Russia presents Kyoto ratification to UN

Russia's ambassador to the United Nations Thursday formally presented Moscow's ratification of the Kyoto global warming treaty to Secretary-General Kofi Annan.


EyeTV 3 revamps interface, adds file-sharing and extended program guide for better searches.


Today, the Pentagon will kick off one of the Bush administration's most controversial creations in its war on terrorism by conducting preliminary hearings for


Today is Thursday, January 27th, the 27th day of 2005. There are 338 days left in the year.


Delray Beach Â· It may not have been the best tennis James Blake has ever played, but it was good enough. In the opening round of the Millennium International Tennis Championship on Tuesday


Applause CEO Bob Solomon Commits Suicide in Calif.

The chief of plush toy maker  Applause LLC shot himself to death hours after telling an  interviewer that he was awaiting news about a deal that could  save the privately held company from ruin, police said on  Monday.


Pakistan accuses al Qaeda of killing Bhutto

Pakistan accused al Qaeda of killing opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whose assassination has plunged the nuclear-armed country into crisis and triggered bloody protests.


If procrastination is bad, why does it begin with the prefix 'pro,' which means 'good?'


U.S. ups airport security; threat level unchanged

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - The United States boosted security at airports following what British police called a terrorist attack at Glasgow airport and car bombs found in London, but left the U.S. threat level unchanged.


Bill Clinton Returns To The Campaign Trail

He was welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd to an outdoor rally for John Kerry in Philadelphia Monday -- Clinton's first campaign appearance since his heart surgery last month.


Most terror attacks cost al-Qaida little, report finds

The al-Qaida terrorist network spent less than $50,000 on each of its major attacks except for the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings, and one of its hallmarks is using


Defense Doesnât Just Win Championships, It Helps Teams Play for Them

Hardly anyone in baseball this season has made routine defense look, well, routine, like the Colorado Rockies and the Boston Red Sox.


Suzuki Motor beats estimates as small cars shine

Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp booked a better-than-expected 23 percent jump in quarterly profit as its Swift, SX4 and other compact cars powered a robust global sales growth amid record-high fuel prices.


CAIRO - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's cousin, Ghazi Allawi, has been released by his kidnappers, Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television reported Sunday.


New Losses at A.I.G. Trouble Wall Street

Accounting flaws at the insurance giant that understated the companyâs losses raised new questions about the deteriorating health of financial companies.


Did AOL (Quote, Chart) jump the gun in its decision Wednesday to ditch Sender ID and continue with its Sender Policy Framework (SPF) deployment in the battle against spam?


Shaquille OâNeal, one of the greatest centers in N.B.A. history, was traded Wednesday by the Miami Heat to the Phoenix Suns.


Birders Flock to See Rare, Lonesome Falcon

Hundreds of U.S. bird-lovers have  flocked to a New England resort island to catch a glimpse of a  rare falcon that appears to have made a wrong turn, ended up  half a world away and may never find its way home.


Stock markets across most of Asia fell Monday following declines on Wall Street last week amid investor pessimism over the U.S. government's stimulus plan to prevent a recession.


AMD releases dual-processor graphics card

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday introduced a high-end graphics card whose core will also be part of its next-generation Fusion processors.The ATI Radeon 3870 X2 graphics card combines two chips from its predecessor, ATI Radeon 3870, on one board, doubling its performance, said Patrick Moorhead, vice president of advanced marketing at AMD. The ATI Radeon 3870 had one chip on the card.The chips, manufactured using the 55-nanometer process, are more power efficient and deliver better performance than the previous graphics processors, Moorhead said.AMD will incorporate a graphics-processing core based on the X2 in its upcoming Fusion processor. Fusion will integrate a graphics processor and CPU on one chip, said John Taylor, an AMD spokesman.There are no overt tie-ins between Fusion and the X2, but the graphics-processing cores are expected to be similar, Taylor said.While X2 is designed for maximum graphics performance, the graphics-processing core will be adapted for notebook platforms and implemented in Fusion, Taylor said.AMD last week said the Fusion family's first processor, code-named Swift, will be based on the Phenom core and optimized for power management with the latest graphics and processing technology on a single chip. Notebooks with the Fusion processor are expected to be out in the second half of 2009.Targeted at PC users who want high-end graphics, the X2 graphics board supports Microsoft's DirectX 10.1 gaming platform, Taylor said.The graphics board plugs into a PCI Express slot and supports up to 1GB of memory. It includes DVI and DisplayLink ports to support external multimedia devices.The card will support CrossfireX technology by the end of this quarter, which will allow up to four graphics cards to work together to scale multimedia performance, AMD said in a news release.Priced at $449, the card is available worldwide.With high-end features and midrange pricing, AMD's Moorhead hopes the new graphics card will boost the company's product offerings and heat up competition with rival Nvidia.Pricing makes the X2 impressive, but even more significant is the card's improved performance while using just one slot, said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research. Users seeking a graphics performance boost usually end up buying two cards, which uses up two card slots.It's hard to predict whether the card will help AMD steal graphics market share from Nvidia, he said. "It has the potential to do that if AMD is able to manufacture [X2] in volume," Peddie said.Nvidia held a 37.8 percent global market share in the third quarter of 2007, while AMD was in third place with 18.8 percent, according to numbers from Jon Peddie Research. Intel was in second place with 33.5 percent market share.


One missing in Antarctica's Ross Sea Japanese whaling ship the Nisshin Maru - currently in Antarctica's Ross Sea - has been partially evacuated following a fire, the BBC reports.â¦


Heinrichs Resigns As Coach of U.S. Women

April Heinrichs is resigning as the United States women's soccer coach, six months after leading the team to an Olympic gold medal.


McDonald's sees EPS above Street expectations

McDonald's Corp.  said on Monday it expects to report quarterly earnings of 71 cents per share before costs related to the sale of businesses in Latin America, above Wall Street expectations.


ISN SECURITY WATCH (01/10/04) - The US administration said on Thursday that it was working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming, on its own, reiterating its opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, which the Russian government approved


DHS huddled masses tracker further delayed The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s plan to build hundreds of all-seeing networked surveillance towers along American borders has run into further problems. The project in question is the technology portion of the Secure Borders Initiative (SBI).â¦


THE gap between the coalition partners did not appear to be all that great when it came to the full sale of Telstra, Communications Minister Helen Coonan said today.


West Nile season ends; only six people infected

The season for West Nile virus in Montana ended quietly after the disorder spared the state the hard punch health officials had feared.


MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian Islamist group Hamas urged the West on Friday to accept a new Palestinian unity government which it said was the only way to ensure stability in the Middle East.


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Blair apologises for Iraq intelligence, not war

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has remained defiant at a Labour Party annual conference, but admitted that some mistakes had been made over the war in Iraq.


Judge to order Apple to show option records: paper

A California judge plans to order  Apple Inc  to turn over company board-meeting minutes  and records relating to stock options accounting to an  investor, according to a newspaper report on Tuesday.


A row breaks out in Italy over a decision  to dismiss terrorist charges against five Islamic fundamentalists.


Britain gripped by fear of keyboard-wielding foreigners A man in India offered to sell the front man of a Channel 4 sting operation the credit card details of 200,000 people, the programme Dispatches will reveal tonight.â¦


The DUP has said it will give the UK government an ultimatum next week to make a decision on how to overcome the obstacles to a return to power-sharing. Party leader Ian Paisley said he would stand firm on the ...


Dow Chemical accepts causing 1984 disaster

It is reported that the US multinational firm, Dow Chemical, has said it has accepted full responsibility for the world's worst industrial disaster, which occurred in India on this day 20 years ago.


Robert B. Zoellick, a seasoned player in international financial and diplomatic circles, won the unanimous approval of the World Bank's board yesterday to become its next president.


Marc Warren birdied the second playoff hole Sunday to beat Simon Wakefield and become the first Scottish winner of the Johnnie Walker Championship.


Secretary of State Colin Powell appealed to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Thursday to step aside for the sake of achieving his lifetime goal of a Palestinian state.


Area's First 2008 Baby Clocks In at 12:02 A.M.

Melanie and Justin Jones expected their first child in time for Christmas, but their baby waited out the holiday and the rest of 2007, plus two minutes.


La nuova moda dei "locali ibridi". Piace sempre di piÃ¹ anche in Italial'idea di mescolare shopping e servizi a una pausa gastronomica                                              Il ristorante? Dal fioraio o in lavanderia E l'antiquario-gourmet cucina l'arrosto                                                                                A Torino da un profumiere si degustano pietanze su tovaglie di lino Un parrucchiere propone spuntini tra vestiti e gadget di designdi ANNALISA IZZO


PM to meet US commander to discuss Britain's withdrawal from Basra, according to reports.


A series of 17th Century paintings worth 10 million euros (Â£7m) are stolen from a Netherlands museum.


Red Sox's Feat: âAs far back as I can rememberâ¦â

In the world of sports, when a great feat is accomplished, sometimes it takes a while for everything to set in and for people to gain a full appreciation for what just transpired.


Kidnappers Say They Have Killed Italian Hostage --TV

The hostage takers who grabbed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni on the road between Baghdad and Najaf in Iraq have killed him, the Italian government confirmed Thursday.


The State Department instructs American globetrotters to stockpile provisions, set up "social distance" quarantines and chlorinate rainwater, just in case. Now, wouldn't that scare the locals? In Beyond the Beyond.


Andy Roddick, who says his kitchen skills are lackluster, cooked with celebrity chefs as the guests at the Dacor Taste of Tennis charity event Thursday in Manhattan.


Investigation into Saudi bribery allegations moves ahead.


Jose Mourinho will relish the hostile reception he will receive from the fans who used to adore him when he takes his place in the dug-out at the Estadio Do Dragao.


Eating Red Meat Ups Diabetes Risk in Older Women

NEW YORK  - Middle age and elderly women whose diets include a lot of red meat appear to have an increased risk of developing diabetes, according to a report in the medical journal Diabetes Care.


Population decline? It's the economy, stupid

In the year that ended June 30, 2004, Massachusetts was the only state in the country that lost population -- 3,852 people to be exact. So here is my question: Are we Sweden or North Dakota?


DALLAS - Nearly a third of American adults have high blood pressure, putting them at greater risk of stroke, heart attack, kidney failure and other problems, according to a new government analysis.    The obesity epidemic and an aging population are to blame, experts say...


A row breaks out between the US and Russia as Washington accuses Moscow of bullying its smaller neighbours.


The London Stock Exchange   reiterated its opposition to a hostile bid from Nasdaq Stock  Market Inc  on Monday, noting that valuations of  trading exchanges had risen since its U.S. rival launched its  bid.


Oil prices fell more than a dollar to  under $43 a barrel on Monday as unusually mild winter weather  in the United States eased fears that thin heating fuel  stockpiles could prove inadequate.


Beijing snowed under as 200-day countdown approaches

A cold snap brought snow to the Chinese capital this week, but the freezing temperatures did nothing to slow the frenzied preparations for the Beijing Olympics as the 200-day countdown approached.


From Ruins of Afghan Buddhas, a History Grows

BamiyanÂs Buddhist relics are again the focus of debate: Is it possible to restore the great Buddhas?


No Pause in Foreign Exodus from Ivory Coast

An exodus of foreigners from Ivory  Coast showed no signs of easing on Saturday as African leaders  prepared to met to seek ways to end the crisis in the West  African country.


Arnold Schwarzenegger has settled a dispute with an Ohio car company which used photos of him in an advertising campaign without his permission.


Bush wants global meeting on climate change

U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire for resisting tough action on global warming, on Thursday called on about 15 influential countries to agree by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut emissions.


In a second attack, also shortly after 6 am, a car bomb shattered the wail of dawn prayers at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Azamiyah, a mainly Sunni Muslim neighborhood where sectarian passions already were inflamed.


Oil Prices Ease From 21-Year High But Remain Volatile

New York, Sept. 29 (NNN): Hitting fresh 21-year highs of more than $50 a barrel a day earlier, oil prices eased slightly on Tuesday but remained quite volatile as increased fighting in Nigeria forced several


The crash happened along a rural stretch of track between the cities of Pathankot and Jalandhar, in India's northern Punjab province, about 180 miles north-west of New Delhi.


Everton have a Â£6m bid accepted for Southampton's James Beattie.


KYIV, UKRAINE -- A convoy of supporters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko moved deeper yesterday into the hostile eastern strongholds of his rival, who has ignored requests for safe passage.


Ex-Cable TV Controller Convicted of Fraud

A former controller at a cable television company was convicted of fraud and other charges for her role in trying to bilk the Pentagon out of $8 million.


British property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten is arrested in Zimbabwe, according to local media.


Marsiglia, 12:04 - CALCIO, BOCA JUNIORS: KRUPOVIESA AL MARSIGLIA

Il difensore argentino del Boca Juniors, Juan Angel Krupoviesa, 28 anni, è stato ceduto in p...


Souness backs Boumsong to be king of defenders

Newcastle boss Graeme Souness believes his new eight-million-pound acquisition Jean-Alain Boumsong could become one of the best central defenders in the Premiership.


Offshore Opportunity ; A Maine-Based Freezer Ship Opens a Market Ot Fishermen, While Others Voice Concerns.

By TOM BELL Staff Writer  Jim Odlin, a Portland fisherman who has prospered by pursuing new ideas and taking big risks, has embarked on the biggest gamble of his career.


Iran Calls on World to Recognize Its Atomic Rights

The world must recognize Iran's right to enrich uranium for fueling power stations, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday, responding to a U.N. call for Iran to suspend enrichment-related activities.


Tevez facing ankle injury worry at Premier League football

Carlos Tevez faces an anxious wait to discover the extent of an ankle injury sustained against Birmingham City after being carried off at the end of Manchester United's 1-0 New Year's Day victory here at Old Trafford.


Arts & entertainment: Ed Pilkington meets taboo-busting comic Chris Rock on the eve of his first British tour


Romanian president reinstated after vote

Romania's suspended president was reinstated on Wednesday after he won a referendum on his removal from office.


Singer Bobby Brown seeks custody of his teenage daughter from his former wife Whitney Houston.


Although Barry Bonds is still dragging from the flu, he was strong enough to get his first hits of spring training in what might be his new spot in the San Francisco Giants' batting order.


They were so good the first time, we had to come back for more.


Massage found to relieve post-surgery pain

Massage can ease pain after surgery and may complement the use of drugs for patients, U.S. researchers said on Monday.


Zimbabwe bank chief summoned over cash shortages: report

A parliamentary committee in Zimbabwe has summoned the country's central bank chief to explain current nationwide cash shortages, a state daily reported on Tuesday.


Calif. Man Pleads Innocent in Train Wreck Deaths

A California man whose abandoned  suicide bid was blamed for a fatal commuter train wreck last  month pleaded innocent on Tuesday to 11 counts of murder.


Elder Manning admits unlikely support for Bears QB Grossman

Former NFL player Archie Manning has admitted rooting for a quarterback who could stand in the way of one of his sons winning a Super Bowl.


Valley football players become movie critics

Myer. Where hundreds of people show up to watch practice. Where fans fill the stadium Friday night with the gameâs outcome affecting their attitude for the next week.


Oil Prices Rise Toward Record $54 A Barrel

NEW YORK -- Oil futures prices headed to a new high Monday as a strike began in Africa's largest exporter of crude oil. Crude for November delivery rose 33 cents to $53.


England's army of rugby fans descend on the French capital to rally their team in Saturday's World Cup final


Return of the Rotund Guy (No, Not Santa)

The screen version of the animated television series "Fat Albert" opens with a glint of promise. From there, the movie, alas, just lies down and dies.


South African golfer Richard Sterne rescued his European tour career in brillant fashion yesterday by winning the Madrid Open with a closing 65.


Iraq's war-weary footballers extended their fairytale Olympic run with a 1-0 victory over Australia on Saturday, giving them a chance to make history.


Effort to Get Companies to Disclose Climate Risk

A coalition of environmental activists and investors is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to require companies to disclose the risks that climate change may pose to their bottom lines.


Internet billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban announces Friday that he has added his name to a list of potential Chicago Cubs buyers.


Australia to send more troops to Solomons

The Australian government announced on Wednesday it will send more troops to the Solomon Islands after an Australian officer of a regional intervention force was killed by


Samba has fighting chance now against Microsoft

Microsoft's  compliance with a  landmark European Union antitrust decision has opened  competition for servers, where one rival says it now has a  fighting chance to take on the software giant's dominance.


Investors brace for bank losses in pivotal week

Major American banks are expected to unveil substantial losses and secure more cash from abroad in what is shaping up to be a pivotal week for the global credit crisis, with central banks also poised to weigh in again.


Study Shows Weightlifters Don't Lift Enough

It might be time for workout warriors to stack a couple more weight plates onto the pile. A recent study showed that many inexperienced weightlifters don't come close to pumping enough iron to change the shape of their muscles, or really get any benefit at all...


British police patrols stepped up after bombs found

British police bolstered patrols on the streets of London and scoured CCTV footage on Saturday after foiling a possible al Qaeda plot to detonate two fuel-and-nail-packed car bombs in the heart of the capital.


Londra, 23:19 - INGHILTERRA, PREMIER LEAGUE: SHEFFIELD ESPUGNA WATFORD

Lo Sheffield United si è aggiudicato l'anticipo della 15/a giornata della Premier League, pas...


Despite having no DNA match from John Mark Karr, prosecutors say they will keep searching for JoBenet Ramsey's killer


Hudson's departure means Brooks will stay

A looming showdown between Kentucky football coach Rich Brooks and athletic director Mitch Barnhart over staff changes has been averted.


Thousands of Miles From Home, and Possibly Carrying Avian Flu

Scientists have found proof that bar-headed geese â one suspect in moving avian flu around the world â can travel 3,000 miles from their breeding grounds.


Russia's Aeroflot orders Airbus's new A350 XWB plane in a major boost to the European aircraft maker.


Gatlin wins sprint classic... by 0.01 seconds

It was only a hundredth of a second but Justin Gatlin said it felt like a hundred miles as he won the closest and possibly greatest 100 metres final in Olympic history on Sunday.


The biggest star of the Emmy afterparties wasn't the cast of "The Sopranos" or a cigar-chomping Jeremy Piven. It was Kanye West.


Police conduct a search-and-rescue mission for senior editor James Kim and his family, who were last seen Nov. 25 in Portland, Oregon, during a road trip to the Pacific Northwest.


Musharraf memoir could be used in Pearl murder appeal

The lawyer of an Islamist militant   sentenced to hang in Pakistan for his role in the murder of   U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said on Tuesday he would use   President Pervez Musharraf's memoir to support an appeal.


Piena sostenibilita' dell'indebitamento del Gruppo Telecom


Everton beats Liverpool 1-0 in Merseyside Derby

Lee Carsley scored early in the second half to bring Everton a 1-0 victory on Saturday over Liverpool in the Merseyside Derby, the Toffies' first victory in 10 tries in the fierce, cross-town rivalry.


Olympics: Games Wrap Up with Drama Until Last Gasp

Greece staged an exuberant closing  ceremony on Sunday to bring the curtain down on the Athens  Games, which took the Olympics back to their roots and provided  drama right down to the last gold medal.


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Shock 76, Liberty 73: Shock Makes the Right Moves to Hold Off a Liberty Rally

The Detroit Shock kept alive its quest to repeat as the W.N.B.A. champion by beating the Liberty in a close game on Sunday.


Malice at the Palace - the last thing the NBA needed for their ...

Take your pick of culprits in the stunning melee Friday night at The Palace of Auburn Hills, in a heated game between Central Division rivals: the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers.


Olympic competitors like Paul Hamm and Carly Patterson are skipping out of the closing ceremony in Athens and heading to Miami for the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday, the New York Daily News reported.


Gunmen attack Iraqi ministry in central Baghdad

Guerrilla fighters attacked an Iraqi government ministry in central Baghdad on Thursday with mortars and machineguns in one of the most dramatic shows of force by militants in the capital since the U.S. invasion.


Nikki Laff, a single mother and dental office manager in Chicago, thought a vacation home "was not in my life plan."


For Many Jets Fans, Super Sunday in Name Only

Not since Joe Namath made good on his guarantee to beat the Baltimore Colts in 1969 have the Jets been back to the Super Bowl.


Police are intensifying their search for a violent paranoid schizophrenic  who failed to return to a mental hospital.


The extent of the damage of a major blaze in Belfast city centre is being assessed by the Fire Service.


(WebMD) Pediatricians may be overlooking cases of teen substance abuse by relying on their intuition rather than on standard screening tools.


Pakistan test-fires a short-range nuclear capable missile, the second in just over a week, officials say.


Cubs beat Rockies for sixth consecutive win

Mark DeRosa's three-run homer and sharp pitching from Carlos Zambrano powered the Chicago Cubs to their sixth win in a row on Wednesday, a 6-4 victory over the Colorado Rockies.


Arafat buried as Palestinians swarm his coffin (9:50 am)

Police firing wildly in the air failed to restore order as the tens of thousands of mourners rushed toward the coffin, struggling to be close to their charismatic leader - hailed as a Nobel peace laureate and branded a terrorist - for one final time.


FDA to Create Drug Safety Oversight Board

The Food and Drug Administration  will announce on Tuesday it will create an independent drug  safety oversight board as a new measure to strengthen the  safety of drugs already in the marketplace, an administration  official said.


Futures ottobre cedono l'1,2% a 68,85 dollari il barile


Ex-Pentagon Official Gets 9 Months for Conspiring to Favor Boeing

The former official was sentenced after acknowledging that she had favored the Boeing Company in Pentagon contracts while seeking a job at the company for herself.


Sudanese government, rebels restart talks on Darfur

Sudan's government and rebels resumed peace talks in Nigeria's capital Monday aimed at resolving the crisis in Sudan 's Darfur region, which has left tens of thousands of people dead and displaced more than 1 million


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The MIAA raised the price of an adult playoff ticket to $10 this season. Last night, after six lead changes, including a touchdown by each team in the last two minutes, no one leaving East Boston Stadium after North Shore's 26-20 victory over St. Mary's in the Division 3A playoffs can say they didn't get their money's worth.


Some 100,000 people in Japan remained in emergency shelters Monday night as aftershocks shook Niigata Prefecture following weekend earthquakes that killed 26.


The Liberal Democrats call for a parliamentary inquiry into the handling of the proposed Â£1bn Trump golf resort.


Bosnia And Herzegovina: Bosnia Police Fail to Find War Crimes Suspect

Bosnian Serb police acting on a tip from the U.N. war crimes tribunal sealed off part of the northern town of Bijeljina on Saturday and searched homes but found no fugitives.


Concerned by NKorea, Japan calls for stronger US alliance

Japan's Defense Agency, voicing "grave concern" about North Korea's recent missile tests, has called for the quick implementation of a controversial plan to realign US military bases.


Praga, 13:49 - CALCIO, REPUBBLICA CECA: ROSICKY GIOCATORE DELL'ANNO

Tomas Rosicky, centrocampista dell'Arsenal, è stato eletto miglior giocatore della Repubblica...


Tories plan to test immigrants for tuberculosis, HIV

The Conservative party promised to test immigrants from outside the European Union (EU) for HIV, tuberculosis and other diseases if it wins elections expected in May.


The actor Macaulay Culkin has been arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana and a controlled substance. The star best known for his role in the comedy film Home Alone, was arrested during by traffic police in in Oklahoma City.


Blair struggles to lead party divided by war

LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair came under intense attack from rivals Wednesday in a parliamentary session on Iraq that demonstrated the potency of the issue and Blair's inability to turn the national agenda to domestic matters.


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UK researchers reveal room-temperature graphene transistor

You electrons - one at a time, please Boffins at Britain's University of Manchester have created a transistor out of an atom-thick sheet of carbon. The high-speed device is so small only one electron can pass through at once. Crucially, the transistor operates at room temperature making it potentially viable for future microprocessors.â¦


Attack on US consulate in Saudi comes amid mounting anti-American ...

RIYADH - The spectacular attack against the US consulate in Jeddah, claimed by the local branch of the Al Qaeda network, came to the backdrop of rising anti-American sentiment in Saudi Arabia, fueled by the ongoing conflict in Iraq.


Running Extra Mile Sets Humans Apart in Primates' World

If walking upright first set early human ancestors apart from their ape cousins, it may have been their eventual ability to run long distances with a springing step over the African savanna


CLEVELAND - Sen. John Edwards accused the Bush administration Tuesday night of bungling the war in Iraq and presiding over a historic loss of jobs...


Gatlin Sprints from Unknown to Olympic Gold

American Justin Gatlin roared from  virtual unknown to win the blue ribband Olympic men's 100  meters race on Sunday, upstaging more illustrious rivals in a  pulsating final.


Cuba sees U.N. rights body's move as triumph over U.S.

Cuba hailed on Wednesday a decision by the new United Nations human rights watchdog to drop the communist nation from a list of countries with poor rights records, calling it a major diplomatic victory over its longtime ideological foe the United States.


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A businessman with a rape conviction attended a fundraising event for the Labour Party, the BBC reveals.


Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets, and Tell Them

Hobbyists uncover some of the deepest of the governmentâs secrets and share them on the Internet.


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U.S. News & World Report - Americans had ethics on their mind when they took control of Congress away from Republicans. In fact, 41 percent of voters in a post-election survey said corruption and scandals were "extremely important" factors in their vote. And both the winners and the losers promised to heed the message; Republicans said they'd learned their lessons, while Democrats pledged substantive reforms. Steny Hoyer, the current minority whip, followed that lead in a meeting with reporters, as he talked of the Democrats' legislative priorities come January. ...


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Technology shares fell on Friday as  Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O dragged on the Nasdaq after the  software maker's revenue forecast late on Thursday lagged  analysts' expectations. Blue chips were little changed.


No new arms race despite U.S. missile plan: Russia

SEVILLE, Spain  - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Friday rejected U.S. arguments for deploying an anti-missile defense system in eastern Europe and insisted Russia would not be drawn into a Cold War-style arms race.


KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Ivan lashed Jamaica with giant waves and winds nearing 155 mph early Saturday, but as panicked residents braced for a direct hit, the storm unexpectedly wobbled and lurched west, possibly sparing the island the worst of its fury.    The change in course could be good news for hurricane-weary Florida, since Ivan may now head off into the Gulf of Mexico...


A team at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital points to evidence in two young boys with cystic fibrosis who had been given lung transplants.


Formazione del premier Balkenende avrebbe ottenuto 38 seggi


Yanukovych is facing a rerun of a presidential election he was officially declared to have won.


NetEase gets a timely upgrade after early success with a new title.


As incomes rise and cheap cars proliferate, many hurdles still litter the new Indian romance with the road.


Steven Rosen, the longstanding head of the "research department" of the powerful AIPAC lobbying organization, prefers to operate in the shadows.


Quiet for Too Long, Jets' Jordan Deserves to Be Heard

For four seasons, LaMont Jordan has been the Jets' quiet understudy. He has backed up Curtis Martin and waited for his time to come. Time is running out.


Myanmar troops fire shots to disperse crowds

Troops fired shots over the heads of a large crowd in central Yangon on Wednesday, sending people scurrying for cover as a crackdown intensified against the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years, a witness said.


But playing in 'social situations' Teenagers are using violent video games to vent their stress, a new study has found.â¦


Blog: Some Webcasters say they're encouraged by recent offers by the record industry group charged with collecting higher fees--including a potential reprieve for some smaller online DJs.--but nothing's set in stone yet.


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


Sarkozy letter surprises French cartoons hearing

A French paper accused of insulting Muslims by printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad surprised a court hearing on Wednesday with a letter of support from presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy.


Bush Paints Grim Outlook to Sell Social Security Plan

President Bush warned younger  workers on Tuesday of a grim future for their Social Security  benefits but critics accused him of exaggerating the retirement  system's problems to try and sell his plan to change it.


A record-setting daredevil and the first American woman in space are among five people slated for induction Saturday to the National Aviation Hall of Fame.


Apologetic Pettitte calls it a 'horrible situation' with Clemens

Andy Pettitte never backtracked or said Roger Clemens was wrong to say he "misremembered" their conversation about human growth hormone, but after one hour of answering questions from reporters at Legends Field yesterday, it was clear how terribly conflicted the Yankees pitcher is about being in the middle of the life-changing controversy with two men he calls his ...


Democratic 2008 hopefuls clash over Iraq

Top Democratic presidential hopefuls slugged out their most heated clash yet over Iraq Sunday, as differences over the war enlivened their second televised debate.


Man Fakes Chest Pains to Avoid Paying Tab

MACHIAS, Maine - A 54-year-old homeless man who routinely complained of fake chest pains to avoid paying the tab for restaurant meals may have gotten his just desserts.  A judge sentenced Elias I. Elias on Friday to 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to theft of services.


Powell and 3 other cabinet members announce they're leaving Bush ...

Secretary of State Colin Powell and three other cabinet members have resigned, escalating the shakeup of President George W. Bush's second-term team.


Turkey's new president, the former Islamist Abdullah Gul, is to review a new cabinet formed by the PM.


While Jothe Jotheyali is produced by superstar Darshan, he isn't its leading man.


Glazed over Windows Twenty-one years after Windows ignited the PC revolution, at least according to Microsoft, analysts are at odds over just how well Redmond's newest operating system will go down.â¦


Japan vows to help with Iraq reconstruction; no word on troop plans

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi renewed support for the reconstruction of Iraq but made no commitment on future troop deployments in a meeting with US President George W. Bush.


Lettuce probable cause of Taco Bell E. coli: FDA

An ingredient used in 70 percent of Taco Bell's products, lettuce, probably caused an E.coli outbreak that sickened dozens of people in the U.S. Northeast, food safety officials said on Wednesday.


Air Berlin to Order 70 Airbus A320 Planes

Air Berlin, Germany's second-biggest airline, has agreed to order 70 Airbus A320 aircraft, worth 4 billion euros ($5.09 billion), with options for 40 more, it said on Thursday.


Words proposed for Spain anthem scrapped

A set of lyrics proposed only last week for Spain's wordless national anthem were yanked Wednesday amid criticism that they smacked of the country's right-wing past and did not reflect its rich cultural diversity.


There just might be some hope for the hockey season. While the NHL Players Association has been denying it is not currently preparing a new proposal designed to at least reopen talks with the league, the rumor won't go away.


Wealthy may be next in line in U.S. home crisis

HINSDALE, Illinois  - A house in this wealthy Chicago suburb is far beyond the reach of most Americans.


(InfoWorld) - Despite the industry's focus on efficient chips in recent years, Intel will continue to build new designs for high-speed processors, including a prototype teraflop chip displayed at the company's Intel Developer Forum. The popularity of the video-sharing Web site YouTube demonstrates this growing need for speed, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini said Tuesday. Downloading a 60-second video clip would have taxed more than 80 percent of the power of Intel's 2003-era Pentium M, and about half the power of its 2004-vintage Pentium 4, he told a crowd at the conference. That same clip calls for only a few percent of the Core 2 Duo, Intel'sÂ current top-of-the line PC processor. This demand will continue to grow in coming months, as the price of high-definition camcorders is predicted to drop below $1,000 this holiday season. Complex video games and next-generation operating systems like Microsoft 's Vista and Apple Computer's OS X also call for increased processing muscle, he said. Apple made its first appearance at the Intel trade show, reporting that it has now transitioned its entire Macintosh PC line to Intel microprocessors. The chip's combination of fast processing and low power draw has allowed Apple to build creative products like an entire PC built into the back of a flat-screen monitor, said Phil Schiller, senior vice president for worldwide marketing at Apple. Intel's short-term answer for the growing computing challenge is a quad-core chip, scheduled to ship for servers and high-end gamers by November and for a larger audience in the first quarter of 2007. In the midrange, Intel continues to make progress in photonic computing, using a chip-scale,Â electrically pumped laserÂ announced last week. And the long-term answer could be the prototype of a frisbee-size, teraflop-speed chip Otellini showed off during his remarks at the conference. The chip could shrink the processing power of a room-size supercomputer down to a single chip, enabling data-intensive tasks like real-time video search and real-time speech translation between languages, Otellini said. The chip fits 80 cores on a single die, running at 10 gigaflops per watt at 3.1GHz. The mega-datacenters needed to feed such fast computers still demand improved power efficiency, said Luiz Barroso, a distinguished engineer at Google. One of the biggest wastes of computing electricity today is the power supply unit, which runs at just 55 to 70 percent efficiency as it struggles to provide a range of different voltages to a PC. In contrast, a single-voltage rail could provide 12 volts at 90 percent efficiency, he told the show crowd. At the level of an entire data center, about two-thirds of electricity produces wasted heat, not productive computing cycles, said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer. Even Barroso's solution raises that sum merely to 50 percent efficiency. So Intel engineers are working on a power converter that skips redundant stages, providing high-voltage DC power at 90 percent efficiency, Rattner said. The improvement would allow companies to run 60 percent more servers per megawatt, or keep the same number of servers and pay a cheaper electric bill, he said.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.


Great Plains healthiest part of U.S., South sickest

NEW YORK  - People living along the southern Atlantic coast of the US, as well as those residing along the Mississippi River, die at a faster rate than the national average, while death rates are below the norm in the upper Great Plains, a new study shows.


On the surface it is a simple stock purchase, but on another level, the maneuvering is part of an angry chess game between two mighty entrepreneurs who are used to running the board.


Shuttle Atlantis to Undock from Space Station

HOUSTON -- Seven NASA astronauts will bid farewell to the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday when their shuttle Atlantis undocks after a busy construction mission.


Repairing Solar Array Is New Focus of Spacewalk

Mission managers at NASA have put off a spacewalk in order to focus on repairing a torn solar panel on the International Space Station.


Spain applauds arrest of ETA leader by France

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday thanked the French government for the recent capture in the country of a top leader of the separatist organization Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA).


A German woman who was kidnapped by militants in Iraq in February is free but her son remains in captivity, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.


Barry Manilow Signs Long-Term Las Vegas Deal

Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow,  saying it was time to end decades of touring, said   on Tuesday  that he had signed a long-term contract to perform exclusively  at the Las Vegas Hilton, starting in February.


High Body Weight Linked to Kidney Cancer Risk

In the first study, Dr. Boukje A. C. van Dijk, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and colleagues analyzed data from the Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer, covering more than 120,000 older ...


Stocks tanked Wednesday afternoon, the first trading day of 2008, as oil and gold prices at record highs and a report showing contraction in the manufacturing sector raised worries about the threat of a recession.


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Robertson: I warned Bush on Iraq casualties

The founder of the US Christian Coalition said Tuesday he told President George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq that he should prepare Americans for the likelihood of casualties, but the president told him, "We're not going to have


Analysis: It's Clinton's race to lose...

Memo to the Democratic presidential candidates: You can still beat Hillary Rodham Clinton, but you better act fast.


Embrace immigrants, pleads England's Catholic leader

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales urged people in Britain to be more welcoming towards immigrants in his Christmas address Tuesday.


Brazil's Lula in high-stakes battle in runoff vote

SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a month of high-stakes campaigning against an inspired challenger who will try to hammer on corruption scandals to unseat the former metalworker in a runoff vote.


More than 4,300 killed in Sri Lanka's worst-ever disaster

At least 4,300 people, mostly children and the elderly, were killed and hundreds were missing after giant tsunamis caused the worst ever disaster in Sri Lanka, prompting appeals for international help.


Attack on Canadian convoy comes a day after more than 100 people died in most deadly attack since 2001


BLM gets OK for new North Slope drilling

The Bureau of Land Management could go ahead with plans to allow drilling in a sensitive area near Teshekpuk Lake on the North Slope, an agency spokeswoman said.


BELGRADE, Jun 12 (IPS) - Weapons from the Balkans wars of the 1990s are  beginning to arm conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, well-placed  officials have revealed.


The taped conversation alleged to show Prince Harry cheated in his art A-Level at Eton is insufficient evidence to reopen an exam board's inquiry.


Thai army says in contact with southern Muslim rebels

Several insurgent groups have approached the Thai army for talks to end nearly three years of unrest in the Muslim-majority south, but they must first impose a ceasefire, the region's top general said on Thursday.


Self-conscious about what you wear while working out? A Dutch gym plans to introduce "Naked Sunday" for people who like to huff and puff in the buff.


Yahoo further strengthens its service to advertisers by buying online advertising business BlueLithium for $300m.


Almost 40 percent of tech-savvy Singaporeans have broadband access

High-tech Singapore is also proving to be high-speed, with almost 40 percent of households hooked up to the Internet via broadband technology, the government said.


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Google shares bounce up 18% in trading debut

In the stock's first day of trading, investors bought, sold and flipped shares at a furious pace, with the price ending just above $100 - 18 percent higher than where it started. It was, in other words, everything the company's founders, Sergy Brin and ...


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Mike Modano becomes the second U.S.-born player to score 500 goals, and the 39th in NHL history, leading the Dallas Stars to a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.


Anna Nicole Smith — dressed in a designer gown, her coffin covered in a pink rhinestone-studded blanket — was buried in an extravagant funeral, but the fight over her baby and a potential large inheritance remains.


Abbas meets Palestinian militant leaders

Damascus: PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas held talks with the leaders of three Damascus-based Palestinian militant groups as well as Syria's president as he made the first official Palestinian visit to the country since 1996.


"Chuck and Larry" overtakes "Potter" at box office

Adam Sandler's faux gay comedy "I  Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" charmed $34.8 million from  moviegoers its first weekend in theaters to nudge the latest  "Harry Potter" film from the top of the box office, according  to studio estimates on Sunday.


Construction work on a state-of-the-art emergency unit at a Pembrokeshire hospital underway.


Firefox tries again for URI fix, adds Leopard support

InfoWorld - Mozilla has released a critical security update to Firefox, taking a third shot at patching bugs in the way the browser can be used to launch programs from Web links.


Abbas welcomed by leading gunman in refugee camp visit, Israelis ...

JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas rode on the shoulders of the West Bankâs most famous gunman during a campaign stop, prompting questions of whether Abbas is playing campaign politics or identifying with


At least 78 people are now said to have died in a crush after Monday's clashes in southern Thailand.


Merck (MRK), under siege because of lost revenue from its recalled blockbuster arthritis drug Vioxx, will cut about 5,100 jobs by year end, more than planned, and will slash hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, Chairman


Florida is giving away bags by the truckload after stocking up for a 2006 hurricane season that didn't arrive.


Zuma says only court can rule on grafts claims

South Africa's top prosecutor believes there is enough evidence to bring renewed graft charges against Jacob Zuma, newly elected head of the ruling ANC, a local radio station reported on Thursday.


DES MOINES, Iowa  - Barack Obama took the first big step to winning the Democratic nomination on Thursday with a victory in Iowa, while underdog Mike Huckabee capped a stunning political rise to beat Republican rival Mitt Romney.


After three days of delay, of squelch and mud, of lift and clean and occasionally of hit and hope, the World Match Play title will be contested today by Ernie Els and Lee Westwood, two of the most easygoing golfers this side of whatever is on the other


DR Congo's Supreme Court rules that the second round of landmark elections can go ahead as planned.


Rain drowns Australian-India at Amstelveen triangular

Torrential rain forced officials to abandon Australia's one-day match against India in the Amstelveen triangular tournament on Monday, wasting Australia's innings of 175 for seven and awarding both sides three points for


Pitt, Clooney plug "Ocean's" and talk Darfur

CANNES, France  - The men of "Ocean's Thirteen" -- Brad Pitt, George Clooney and their crew -- have turned their Hollywood hype machine into a campaign to raise money for Darfur refugees.


Bush and Kerry spar over health, social security

President Bush pivoted sharply to domestic issues yesterday, parrying Sen. John Kerry's charges that he had bungled the flu-vaccine


Israel agrees to ease Gaza blockade after protests

Israel agreed to allow some fuel, medicine and food into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on Tuesday, at least temporarily easing a blockade that has plunged much of the territory into darkness and sparked international protests.


French govt to stand firm on headscarf ban

The French government has indicated that it intends to stand firm on its decision to ban the wearing of headscarves by Muslim girls in state schools.


Germany to continue Iran talks before Nov.25

LONDON, Oct 23 (IranMania) - The German government on Friday called for continued political talks on Iran`s nuclear programme ahead of the November 25 meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency`s (IAEA) Board of Governors, Iran's State news Agency


The 14-year-old son of NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol was presumed dead Monday after a fiery jet crash that killed two crewmen and left the injured executive and another of his sons begging bystanders for help.


China looking at four events on next season's schedule

The European golf tour could be playing four events in China next season under a schedule released Thursday at the Volvo Masters. The European Tour begins the new season Nov. 25-28 with the China Open in Shanghai.


Manning's 49th TD pass leads to Colts' overtime win

Peyton Manning always said he wanted it to happen in the normal flow of the game, that he wanted it to mean something. Whew. Nothing normal happened Sunday at the roiling, boiling RCA Dome


British American Tobacco, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, has posted a 20 percent rise in nine-month profits, saying its wide brand portfolio and geographic spread have helped offset the strength of the pound.


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Floods from Tropical Storm Jeanne Kill 90 in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Floods and mudslides from  Tropical Storm Jeanne killed about 90 people in Haiti and more  were missing in the Caribbean nation on Sunday as the storm  swirled in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas, a civil protection  official said.


Striking Hollywood union weighs Grammys show plea

After yanking the red carpet out from under the Golden Globes and threatening the Oscars, the union for striking Hollywood writers is deciding whether to picket the U.S. music industry's highest honors.


The latest installment in this PlayStation 2 action series tries to be all games to all players. To its credit, Jak 3 largely succeeds. By Chris Kohler.


Botswana Bushmen win court case over land

Botswana's High Court on Wednesday ruled that the country's Bushmen were entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, in judgment hailed as victory for the hunters.


Wage inflation sinks offshoring for one startup

(InfoWorld) - The outsourcing and offshoring of software development work has become such an ingrained part of the technology industry in the U.S. that stories about it no longer rouse the public's interest as they did even a few years ago. That means the only way to gauge the growth of the phenomenon is by watching the bottom line of outsourcing giants like India's Wipro, which recently reported a 41 percent jump in revenue in its latest fiscal year, and the heated debate in Washington over the number of H-1B high-tech visas that the federal government grants. But the runaway growth of offshoring has created its own problems in countries like India, where a substandard infrastructure and stiff competition for talented workers has changed the economics of setting up shop outside the U.S. The decision to hire a staff in India "wasn't even a second thought" when Munjal Shah, CEO of RiyaÂ , was laying the groundwork for his visual search startup back in 2004. (Riya is part of InfoWorldâs Month of Enterprise Startups feature.) "At 30 percent wage rates [the ratio of an Indian salary to a U.S. salary], it still was worth the communication overhead, the travel, and the late-night conference calls," Shah recalls. Those were the good old days. Today, wages in India have risen so much that maintaining development operations in Silicon Valley and India no longer made sense, forcing Riya to make what seems like an unusual decision: In April, the company nixed its Bangalore operations and consolidated operations back in the company's Silicon Valley headquarters. In the end, the cost advantages of lower Indian wages did not outweigh the efficiency losses that came from maintaining some 35 employees in two offices, 12 hours apart, Shah said.Â  Indian software development shops have been the workhorse for countless high-tech firms and U.S. enterprises for more than a decade. But steady demand for development talent is erasing some of the cost advantages that offshore development outfits have enjoyed, according to a report by Gartner. In fact, the wage rates for Indian software engineers will reach between 40 to 50 percent of Silicon Valley wages by 2008 with the gap continuing to narrow after that.Â  Wage increases for Indian engineers averaged 15 percent from 2005 to 2006, compared with a 3 percent average increase for U.S. engineers, according to a recent Gartner report. That's not to say that things will be even-steven any time soon, though. "Even if Indian salaries continue to grow at 15 percent annually, it would take 16 years for Indian software engineers to catch their U.S. counterparts," the report says. But wages among startup employees have been growing much faster than that, especially among top engineers in Bangalore, Shah said. A native of India, Shah paid a premium to hire experienced graduates of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology. Unlike IBM or Infosys, a startup doesn't have the resources to train the brand-new graduates who would work for smaller salaries. "Startups aren't places where you train people from the ground up," Shah said. "They're places where either you know what you're doing or you don't. We paid to hire the best." To that end, Shah said, wage increases among his engineers in Bangalore tended toward twice the national average. "Salary increases have been 30 percent for more than a year now," Shah said; the engineers who lost a job when Riya decided to close the Bangalore office all have received multiple job offers with significant wage increases, he said. Differences in the high-tech cultures of the U.S. and India also play a part. Indian workers are less likely than their Californian counterparts to be wooed by the prospect of working for stock options instead of cash.Â  "In Silicon Valley, you see your friends from Google driving around in new Ferraris, and you think, 'Huh, occasionally this actually works,'" said Shah. "But there's no comparable value for options [in India]."Â  And without the lure of options that might someday make a software engineer wealthy, money isn't just one reason for a Bangalore engineer to join a company â it's the only reason.Â Â  "If you can't build a core loyalty with options, then you're in for a tough time," said Keerti Melkote, cofounder of wireless LAN hardware company Aruba, which went public in March. Aruba tried outsourcing to India shortly after the birth of the company in 2002 but found that it slowed down operations too much for it to be worthwhile.Â  "You need a critical mass for offshoring to work -- a whole project as opposed to part of one project -- and for a startup, offshoring might not make sense. Especially now, the loaded cost of all the late-night conference calls is high enough that it might not make sense." Melkote said that with its growth in the last few years, Aruba can now afford to support a fairly autonomous Indian operations center in Bangalore. But startups don't have that option. "We found that if you gave a guy less than a 30 percent salary increase every year, then he'd walk," Shah said. "By the middle of this year, we would have been paying [the Indian engineers] 75 percent of a U.S. salary, and at that point, it doesn't make sense because of all the other overheads that take away from productivity." What kinds of overheads you ask? "On average the power probably goes out three or four times a day," said Fran Karamouzis, a research vice president at Gartner who specializes in outsourcing issue. âYou get surges for 15 or 20 minutes, and if you don't have adequate power supplies, then that's a big issue." Thatâs a big issue for startups, whose employees often work odd hours from home, Shah said.Â  Of course, infrastructure problems are nothing new and are considered par for the course in India, but with competition from China, Russia, Eastern Europe, and even Vietnam and Africa, unreliable infrastructure is starting to cost India business, such as Intel's recent decision to locate a $2.5 billion chip plant in China. The nature of work at a startup makes them even less tolerant of those kinds of risks than companies like Intel. "If you're a startup and you're doing a lot of iterative design and you constantly need a higher level of agility, you might find it more burdensome than the cost differential is worth," Karamouzis said. On the other hand, "If you can give the Indian team things that are clearly delineated that they can own and drive on their own, then it works out pretty well," said Pejman Roshan, cofounder and senior director of marketing at Agito Networks, a wireless technology startup in Sunnyvale, Calif. that outsources software coding to a services firm in Bangalore. Roshan acknowledged, though, that the wage gap is shrinking. "I'd heard there was a five-to-one [ratio of Silicon Valley wages to Bangalore wages], and we were salivating at that notion," Roshan said. "We're seeing a three-to-one benefit, and we're still happy with that." Riya's Shah is confident that moving the company's operations back to the U.S. was the right move and expects to see more companies doing the same in the months ahead.Â  "We might be a little bit ahead of the curve in our decision -- maybe six to 12 months -- but I don't think wages are going to stop rising," said Shah, who detailed his decision in his CEO blog, Recognizing Deven. "I don't think weâre isolated." Still, despite wage increases, new startups aren't likely to rule out Indian operations any time soon, Gartnerâs Karamouzis said. In fact, they may have to consider such operations in order to get venture capital. "More often than not, what I hear is that venture companies are almost demanding that [startups] leverage India or Russia both to optimize the cost structure and to maximize a 24-hour cycle to get things done faster," Karamouzis said.


Palmer Passes Bengals Over Patriots 31-3

Carson Palmer passed for three touchdowns and set up another with a 48-yard completion to Chad Johnson as Cincinnati scored on its first three possessions and beat New England.


Welsh Water customers will see their bills go up by an average Â£66 over the next five years.


Beyonce's father says Aretha Franklin's criticism of his daughter for referring to Tina Turner as "the Queen" at the Grammys is "ridiculous."


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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday his government is working very hard on peace talks with the Taliban that would draw the insurgents and their supporters "back to the fold."


Bush expected to brief on Iraq, Iran, N. Korea

Possible Iranian involvement in Iraq and North Korea's nuclear program are expected to be key topics when President Bush holds a news conference at 11 a.m. Wednesday.


Watershed Serbia vote plays out in shadow of Kosovo

Pro-Western Serbian President Boris  Tadic faces nationalist challenger Tomislav Nikolic on Sunday  in an election that will decide Serbia's attitude to the West  after the imminent loss of breakaway Kosovo province.


Masked intruder may have killed power to SkyDome

Power to the SkyDome and surrounding areas went off for about an hour yesterday afternoon, and officials say the reason could have been a raccoon in the wrong place at the wrong time.


Serbia said Tuesday it had agreed to a multibillion dollar gas pipeline project as part of an energy deal with Russia that would boost Moscow's control over supplies to Europe.


The U.S. boycotted a conference on victims of terrorism Thursday after a group that has exposed abuses of civilians in Chechnya was not allowed to participate.


Military Tests Lasers to Warn Off Aircraft

The U.S. military said it is testing a system to beam red and green lasers at aircraft in the Washington area as a warning when they enter restricted airspace.


Kerry team slams reports VP Cheney had a flu shot

Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign slammed Vice President Dick Cheney, a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine.


Kenyan opposition offers power-sharing plan

Offer made at talks aimed at resolving election crisis which so far has cost 1,000 lives


Countrywide seeks another investment: report

Countrywide Financial Corp  is  working to structure another strategic investment similar to  the deal Bank of America Corp  struck last month, the  New York Post reported in its online edition on Tuesday.


On the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, see how the U.S. is forever changed with images of the attack sites as they were a year ago and as they stand today.


Probe: UN program open to NKorean abuses

A United Nations anti-poverty program in North Korea paid $50,000 to a company with ties to North Korean weapons sales and left itself open to exploitation by the communist-led country, according to a Senate investigation released Wednesday.


A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance to a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, killing three Afghan soldiers and one Afghan civilian, a U.S. official said.


More than 50 people were killed in the troubled north-eastern states of India at the weekend in a wave of shootings and bombings by separatist rebels.


China kicks up stink over Nike footwear ad

China has kicked up a stink over a Nike footwear advertisement in which US basketball star LeBron James takes on and subdues a series of traditional Chinese characters ranging from a cartoon kung fu master to a couple of dragons.


New Food Formula: Tastes Fine, Kills Worms

Kraft Foods is working on a new and unusual product line â food that is not only tasty, but kills intestinal worms.


WASHINGTON - President Bush and John Kerry have accepted $75 million each in government financing for their campaigns for the White House but tens of millions more will be spent by the parties and partisan interest groups to influence the race.


Vision fuzzy for Ralph's World 2 despite expected fourth majority

CALGARY (CP) - An ebullient Ralph Klein welcomed Albertans to Ralph's World after the 2001 election, to a future primed with promise.


LONDON  - Up to six people were stabbed yesterday as an individual armed with a knife went on a morning rampage in north London, police and ambulance officials said.


Prison Abuse Inquiry  Cites 26  Soldiers

Probe into deaths of two detainees in Afghanistan leads investigators to recommend bringing abuse-related charges against soldiers.


Marion Cotillard, who  was nominated for an Oscar for her star turn as Edith Piaf in  "La Vie en Rose," is in negotiations to join Johnny Depp and  Christian Bale in the Depression-era crime drama "Public  Enemies."


Vitamin E may ward off physical decline in elderly

Vitamin E may help elderly people keep their vim and vigor, researchers said on Tuesday.


Judge Allows Unusual Auction for MAXjet Airways

A bankruptcy judge has authorized the all-business-class airline to auction itself under conditions that have raised the concerns of the federal official monitoring the case.


Track and field Seven years after winning a women's record five Olympic track and field medals and snagging multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, Marion Jones is almost broke. The sprinter is heavily in debt, fighting off court judgments, and down to a bank balance of about $2,000, according to recent court records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times. Last year a bank ...


Baseball: Cubs and Red Sox, in lock step, stagger toward their ...

They are not sad sacks, in point of fact, the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, or are they, inevitably? In a loony, heartbreaking coincidence, they each collapsed just short of the World Series a year


Ukraine turns away from Europe, started dreaming of Russia

Russia has apparently become the central theme of the presidential election in Ukraine.


Wal-Mart Vice Chairman Coughlin to Retire

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  on Monday said Tom Coughlin will retire as vice chairman after 25 years with the world's largest retailer.


Judge extends Microsoft monitoring until 2009

Blaming Microsoft for much of the failure of the 2002 antitrust consent degree between itself and state and federal regulators, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly threw on another two years of monitoring. And she might not be done yet.


Investigators eye Bedouin link to Sinai blasts

TABA, Egypt -- A Bedouin tribesman has confessed to selling explosives that might have been used in three deadly car bombings targeting Israeli tourists, and investigators were looking into possible Palestinian militant involvement, Egyptian security officials said yesterday.


Queen Mary 2 celebrates first anniversary

It's hard to believe that one year has passed since the unrivaled pomp and pageantry ushered in the era of the biggest (151,400 tons), longest (1,132 feet), tallest (236 feet), widest (135 feet) and most ...


John Kerry The Rolling Stone Interview By JANN S. WENNER

For two days in October, the John Kerry campaign came to a brief stop at a hotel and conference center on the high-plains sprawl of suburban Denver, where the candidate holed up with his staff and prepared for his second debate with George Bush.


Police carry out tests on a body found in Glasgow to see if it was the man wanted in connection with the murder of student Sally Geeson.


"Rocky" may move to Philadelphia Art Museum steps

A statue of fictional boxer Rocky   Balboa may move to the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum,   where the character played by Sylvester Stallone famously ran   while training for a fight.


270K Fewer Workers Will Have Been Hired In 2004--ITAA

Staffing trends--including offshore outsourcing--continue to strip IT workers from their jobs, according to the trade association.


Heavy metal content found in Indian herbal medicines

NEW DELHI, DEC 15: One out of every five ayurvedic herbal medicinal products produced in South Asia, mainly India, and available in South Asian grocery stores of Boston in the US, was found to contain potentially harmful levels of lead, mercury, and/or


Shotgun Wedding: Enterprise Architect 7.0

Good UML diagramming that won't break the bank Agile development, for some, means avoiding diagramming (whether for documentation or analysis and design) and just getting on with testing and coding.â¦


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It's critical to have a will in place, even if you're young.


Kraft Foods Will Sell Altoids And Life Savers to Wrigley

Kraft Foods said yesterday that it had agreed to sell its Life Savers and Altoids brands to the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company for $1.5 billion as part of a reorganization plan.


IBM widened its lead last year in the US market for Internet hosting services as it won a greater share of the midsize-business market, according to data recently published by market researcher IDC.


A health minister is to face a panel of MPs investigating whether the abortion time limit should be reduced.


Game Day Is Special for Jets' Rookie Bryant

Three Jets rookie defensive backs, including Roderick Bryant, have displayed poise and maturity beyond their years in training camp.


After an 18-month takeover saga, which included courtroom battles and the ouster of PeopleSoft's chief executive, Oracle Corp.


Six foreign medics convicted of infecting  Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday under a deal to  improve Tripoli's ties with the European Union.


Food safety a big problem worldwide: WHO officials

China should not be singled out for particular concern over food safety, a big problem that rich and poor countries alike must tackle through better regulation, top World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Tuesday.


Football: Arrington Released From Hospital

The three-time Pro Bowl linebacker LaVar Arrington was released from a hospital two weeks after breaking his right arm and severely cutting his leg in a motorcycle accident. His lawyer said Arrington had a slight limp from a gash in his left leg and was still recovering from a broken arm, but there was no timetable for his full recovery.


Friday 26 November 2004 British security firm says four killed, 15 injured in attack in Green Zone in Baghdad. Baghdad - A mortar attack killed four employees of a British security firm and wounded 15 others


Ferguson relieved after United rediscover cut-throat quality

Alex Ferguson has admitted his relief after watching his side rediscover their "cut-throat" quality in time to claim revenge over Benfica and reach the Champions League knockout phase as winners of group F.


ÂTesoros/Treasures/Tesouros,Â now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a rich cultural collision for anyone interested in a big dose of worldliness.


Norway Searches for Treasured Masterpieces

OSLO, Norway - Norwegian police said Monday that they were working on several tips in their search for two Edvard Munch masterpieces, including a version of "The Scream," after a bold daytime theft from an Oslo museum in front of stunned visitors.    The paintings were stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum on Sunday by masked, armed thieves, who pulled them from the walls as visitors and staff watched...


Thailand's interim government votes to accept a recommendation to partially lift martial law.


Critics Doubt Liquefied Natural Gas Safety

When an explosion flattened a liquefied natural gas plant in Algeria, killing 30 workers, one might say the heat was felt half a world away — in coastal towns in New England, Alabama and California. The Algerian inferno a year ago undermined industry arguments that the modern era of LNG transport is inherently safe. It also became rallying point for groups fighting proposed new LNG terminals in their towns.


Sachin potty about opening India's bowling

Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar has said he was prepared to spearhead the Indian bowling attack with Zaheer Khan in case it was needed in the fourth and final cricket Test against Australia that began on Wednesday.


S. Korea Reports New Outbreak Of Avian Flu

SEOUL, Nov. 25 -- South Korea said Saturday that an outbreak of lethal bird flu at a poultry farm was caused by the highly virulent H5N1 strain of the virus, the country's first case in three years.


Jay Fiedler will replace A.J. Feeley at quarterback and start for the winless Miami Dolphins against the New York Jets on Sunday, a team source told The Associated Press on Tuesday on condition of anonymity.


Argentina suffer record loss in women's World Cup opener

Argentina slumped to a humiliating 11-0 loss to Germany in the opening match of the women's World Cup, the worst defeat in the tournament's history.


RNC says Calif. leaders can change rules

The Republican National Committee has told top California party leaders they can change their voting rules to allow independents to vote in the presidential primary.


Insurgent Video Claims Captured U.S. Soldiers Are Dead

MAHMUDIYAH They have taken the thumbprints and retinal scans from more than 1,000 people. They have locked down three suspected attackers in American custody. They have dispatched 4,000 of their own soldiers and 2,000 Iraqis to traverse 32 search zones day after day in the heat and the dust of th...


Two Italians held hostage by Iraqi insurgents feared for their lives until they stepped onto a plane that took them from Baghdad to Rome, the two women said in their first meeting with the press since their release.


How could any two people (OK, they're fictional, but still) be more different than Harry Potter and Tony Soprano?


Sending a clear message to foreign investors that India offers good business opportunities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last night said, the UPA government remained committed to the reforms process and would carry out "corrections" if required to give


Sydney bishops to boycott Anglican meet over gays

Bishops in Australia's largest city Sydney are pulling out of the Anglican Church's top global meeting this year in a dispute over gay bishops and same-sex marriages, a spokesman said Sunday.


Ericsson posts strong 2006 but lowers forecasts

Ericsson, the world's largest supplier of mobile telecommunication networks, on Friday posted an 8.2 percent rise in profits in 2006 but disappointed the market by revising downwards its forecast for 2007.


U.S. television personality and psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw on Monday scrapped plans to air a show about Britney Spears after he was criticized for a visit to the troubled pop star in hospital on the weekend.


The EU is set to unveil its version of the US Green Card - a Blue Card targeting skilled immigrants.  Is it necessary?


Downing St seeks to distance Gordon Brown from a minister's comments about first cousins marrying.


Canada's Grandi grabs second surprise World Cup win

FLACHAU, Austria  - Canadian Thomas Grandi stretched a pre-Christmas explosion of form, winning his second race in 48 hours with a World Cup giant slalom victory.


SANTIAGO, Chile  - Hecklers angry at the government shouted over the sound of choirs at the tense funeral on Tuesday of Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator whose repressive rule from 1973 to 1990 made him infamous around the world for human rights abuses.


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Fires in southern Greece blamed on high temperatures, drought and arsonists.


Palestinian delegation cancels Arafat visit

A planned trip by Palestinian leaders to visit ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a French hospital has been postponed, Palestinian officials confirmed Monday.


Victor Yushchenko calls fresh blockade of Ukraine government

Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, victorious in a weekend rerun presidential election, called on his supporters to renew their blockade of government headquarters to prevent his electoral rival Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich from chairing a cabinet meeting the next day.


Japan to Seek Missile Info at Talks with N.Korea

Japan will seek an explanation at weekend talks with North Korea on activity indicating Pyongyang may be preparing a missile test, although Tokyo does not think a launch is imminent, Japan's top government spokesman said.


British gov't accused of misleading on Iraq

The British government was accused Saturday of "clearly misleading" the British public over plans for post-war Iraq after a newspaper reported Prime Minister Tony Blair was warned a year before the invasion ...


'Death star' black hole seen blasting nearby galaxy

The massive cosmic assault of a black hole blasting an immense jet of energy and radiation into a nearby galaxy has been observed by astronomers for the first time, NASA announced Monday.


Anant Mahadevan on his latest film, Dil Maange More.


The group Democrats Abroad has made it easier for expatriates to weigh in on Super Tuesday.


All of a sudden, 20-year-old Phil Kessel seems like a veteran. After all, the forward has been around for a season and a half, enough experience with the Bruins to top many of his fellow forwards.


China press: EU to increase tariff on China flat-panel TVs

The European Union (EU) is likely to place tariffs of more than 20% on flat-panel TVs exported to Europe, according to Liu Hai Zhong (transliterated from Chinese), spokesperson for Sichuan Changhong Electronics, as quoted by the China-based web portal Sohu


Video game sales rose 35 percent in  the United States in October, analysts said on Friday, as the  blockbuster criminal adventure "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas"  sold more than 2 million units in just five days of release.


Google's top legal officer to pay $700,000 in SEC fines

Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, has agreed to pay nearly $700,000 in fines to the Securities and Exchange Commission for overstating the revenue of SmartForce PLC while he was the e-learning company's chief financial officer.


A Paris court is set to deliver its verdict on Congolese pop star Papa Wemba, accused of people-smuggling.


Riven by class and no social mobility - Britain in 2007

Poll shows no change in 10 years of Labour rule and deep North-South divide as 89% say they are judged by class.


Rapper Snoop Dogg is sentenced to three years' probation after admitting carrying a collapsible baton.


Iraqis Decline to Send 2nd Peace Mission to Najaf

AJAF, Iraq, Aug. 18  An Iraqi national conference in Baghdad declined today to send a second delegation to Najaf after the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr refused to meet here on Tuesday with its first peace team, which had tried to end ...


Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk's abdication statement last week stunned the nation and left politicians scrambling to figure out how to choose a new king.


Pest-Control Provider Rollins Posts 43 Percent Hike in Fourth-Quarter Income

By Robert Luke, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb. 10--Atlanta-based Rollins Inc. posted a 43 percent increase in  fourth-quarter net income as the provider of pest control services attracted  more new customers and kept more existing ones.


Waris Shah was directed by the late Manoj Punj.


'Finding Neverland' Named Year's Top Film

"Finding Neverland," the whimsical, wistful story of "Peter Pan" creator J.M. Barrie, topped the National Board of Review's list as the best film of 2004.


Avoid conservatives: Avoid socially conservative speeches that ...

Amid a tight election contest and reminders of Sept. 11, 2001, the Republican National Convention opens in New York with a script designed to portray President Bush as a warrior against terrorism and a centrist with a forward-looking domestic plan.


Rollin' on, but not rollin' out Nine years after the project began, the government is still failing to put a completion date on the roll out of the IT system for magistrates' courts.â¦


Update 17: Oil Prices Fall; US Crude Supply Grows

Oil prices fell Wednesday morning after government data showed that the nation's crude supply grew for the second week in a row.


Rumsfeld comments on intelligence report

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld steered clear of any judgment on a classified document that concludes the terrorist threat to the U.S. has increased, saying efforts to judge whether the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have fueled terrorism would be futile.


Ashcroft, Evans Resign From Bush Cabinet

Attorney General John Ashcroft, a fierce conservative who generated controversy with his tough tactics in the war on terror, and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, one of President Bush's closest friends, resigned Tuesday, the first members of the Cabinet to quit before the start of a second term.


Florida Court Strikes Down Law in Right-To-Die Case

Florida's Supreme Court struck down a  state law on Thursday that let the governor order a severely  brain-damaged woman's feeding tube be reinserted against her  husband's wishes to let her die.


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Consumatori, si ricevono sms anonimi che invitano a chiamare


Myanmar junta extends Suu Kyi detention by a year

Myanmar's military junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for yet another year on Friday, ignoring international pleas for her release, a government source said.


Ruiz, Byrd retain belts in heavyweight fight card at MSQ

New York, NY (Sports Network) - John Ruiz retained his World Boxing Association heavyweight title with a controversial but unanimous decision over Andrew Golota on the "The Battle for Heavyweight Supremacy" fight card at Madison Square Garden.


CHICAGO Aug. 25, 2004 - Authorities were considering criminal charges Wednesday against the Dave Matthews Band and one of its tour bus drivers for allegedly dumping human waste from a bus into the Chicago


French aerobatics show to open French Culture Year

The famous aerobatics team with French Air Force, "Patrouille de France (PAF)," will perform in Beijing Thursday for French President Jacques Chirac's state visit to China.


WBC champion Vitali Klitschko and his younger brother Wladimir have announced plans to promote their own fights. The Ukrainian heavyweights are in a court battle to end their contract with German promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl.


College football University of New Hampshire quarterback Ricky Santos was named winner last night of the Walter Payton Award, given to the most outstanding player in Division 1-AA. Santos, a junior from Bellingham, passed for 29 touchdowns and ran for 12 more this season. He also topped 3,000 passing yards for the third straight year, finishing with 3,125. He edged ...


Iranian-born space tourist blasts off into orbit

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft  blasted off on Monday carrying a woman set to notch up three  space records: the first female tourist, first female Muslim,  and first Iranian in orbit.


GARY PETERSON: TIMES COLUMNIST: Which curse will fill the void?

Baseball lost nearly a century's worth of lore when the Boston Red Sox retired the Curse of the Bambino on Wednesday night. The curse was a crock, of course, and the elegant suffering of Boston fans surpassed its sell-by date decades ago.


Sepang, 11:14 - MOTOGP, TEST SEPANG: CADUTA PER VALENTINO ROSSI

Primo test a Sepang in vista del Motomondiale 2008. La prima giornata di lavoro sul tracciato malese...


Renewed faith, fellowship found during mission

It's been nearly 13 years since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, and many Russians still are getting used to the freedoms which have followed.


Three important tasks of Chirac's visit to China

French President Jacques Chirac started a state visit to China Saturday. President Chirac is an old friend of China. On his visit to China seven years ago he established the all-round strategic partnership


Issues related to war in Iraq help define election in Australia

SYDNEY -- On one side is the incumbent, a conservative career politician who steadfastly defends his decision to send troops to Iraq.


Yushchenko, his victory all but assured, faces major obstacles as ...

Reformer Viktor Yushchenko, whose victory in Ukraine's presidential election was all but assured Monday despite his opponent's threat to appeal the outcome, is expected to move quickly to bolster ties with the West while trying to ease tensions with Russia


Sportsview: Manning Assaults NFL Records

There are traces of Johnny Unitas, Dan Marino, Joe Montana and Steve Young in Peyton Manning, not to mention the DNA of dear old dad, Archie. They're all there in his arm, his accuracy, his eyes, his brains.


LA PELLICOLA OGGI IN CONCORSO: L'ATTRICE SMENTISCE I TAGLI

VENEZIA - Â«Non c'Ã¨ alcuna sessualitÃ  in "Birth" altrimenti sarebbe stato orribileÂ»; per quanto riguarda, invece, i tagli al film: Â«Non Ã¨ affatto vero. Non Ã¨ stata tagliata nessuna scenaÂ». Nicole Kidman


Lance Bass "tells all about his life, his music and his sexuality" in an upcoming autobiography, the publisher announced Wednesday. "Out of Sync" is scheduled for publication in October, said Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.


Court reinstates Pakistan judge in blow to Musharraf

Pakistan's Supreme Court reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in an historic ruling on Friday that dealt a blow to President Pervez Musharraf, who suspended the country's top judge four months earlier.


Thailand, setting the standard for sex changes

BANGKOK  - American Robert Higgins was just a toddler when he first longed to be a woman. Fifty years later that dream has become a reality with the help of surgeons half a world away, in Thailand.


Stasera incontro Prodi-leader dei partiti dell'Unione


N.F.L. Camp Preview: Hut One, Hut Two-a-Days: N.F.L. Camps Set to Open

N.F.L. training camps open this week, which means the Sept. 6 season opener between the defending champion Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints cannot be far off.


Coach says Bodybuilding-Mr Universe robbed

The furious coach of Malaysia's world amateur bodybuilding champion Sazali Abdul Samad branded the Asian Games competition a disgrace on Saturday.


Almost 90% of school staff in England want to tailor the curriculum to suit pupils' needs, a survey suggests.


Coppola Accuses 3 Oscar Winners of Being Apathetic

Everyone wants to work with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson â except Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola â who directed Pacino and De Niro in "The Godfather" trilogy â says the trio of Oscar-winning actors have become...


MGM has scrapped plans to release the 21st James Bond movie in 2005, Daily Variety reported Thursday. The paper said MGM put off the release date until some time in 2006 because the studio and Eon Productions have not managed to decide on a director.


US Presidential Candidates Hit Key States

With just over a week to go in the campaign American polls indicate the presidential election couldn't be any closer. Newsweek's most recent survey has President Bush and Senator John Kerry tied with 46% support.


UN Staff: 'No Confidence' in Top Leaders

UNITED NATIONS - A union representing United Nations (search) staff has voted "no confidence" in senior management, including Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search).


As rivals circle each other in Northern Ireland, pressure is on

LEEDS CASTLE, England -- Northern Ireland's rival politicians face ''a moment of decision" in their six-year struggle to forge a stable Catholic-Protestant government, Prime Minister Tony Blair declared yesterday as he launched a high-stakes round of talks.


Turkey's president vetoes a constitutional change which would have let the public elect the head of state.


Virgin Group to launch US online music service

Richard Branson's Virgin Group said it was jumping into the increasingly crowded market for online music, with a "Digital Megastore" offering US customers song downloads for 99 cents.


Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Tuesday he would press on with his White House candidacy, emboldened by wins in the South. Huckabee suggested he and John McCain were now the main two GOP candidates.


In the 10year deal, SBC Communications will launch video services over high-speed data lines using Microsoft technology. WASHINGTON: SBC Communications will use Microsoft Corp.


Twelve U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: military

Twelve more U.S. soldiers were killed in the past two days, officials said on Thursday, as the U.S. military pressed ahead with one of its biggest operations since the 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.


Some 150 charities say problems with an online system mean they have missed out on government grants.


More than 300 people are feared dead after a storm triggers flash floods in the Philippines, officials say.


Microsoft and Amazon couple to fight spam

Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., two Seattle-based technology rivals, came to cooperation against deceptive and fraudulent e-mail.


KITENGELA, Kenya  - A short distance from the slums and skyscrapers of Nairobi, Naanyu Ntirrisa pulls thorn bushes around her Maasai village to keep out marauding lions that have killed a cow and two sheep.


Iran Must Pay $2.6 Billion for '83 Attack

A federal judge yesterday ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors of a 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 soldiers. The ruling brought cheers and tears from survivors but faces long odds of being fulfilled.


Clinton Calls Health Care Plan a `Moral Imperative'

Bloomberg - Sept. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called overhauling the U.S. health-insurance system a ``moral imperative'' and said that raising taxes on the wealthy along with cost savings would be enough to pay for the proposal she unveiled last week.


Powell unhappy at Sudan's Darfur camp relocations

US Secretary of State Colin Powell voiced displeasure on Monday at Sudan's movement of camps for people who fled their homes in Darfur.


West Coast rapper The Game, who was arrested on charges of impersonating a police officer last year, rejected a Manhattan prosecutor's offer Wednesday of a guilty plea for a sentence of time already served.


Tenn. Man's 5-Day Dive Sets World Record

HAMPTON, Tenn. - A Tennessee man beat his own record for staying underwater with scuba gear after five days in a lake - complete with recliner, a checkerboard, music and good friends to keep him company...


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Sport authorities take action against illegal live football and cricket broadcasts over the internet.


BP Relies on Russia for Higher Production

BP Plc's oil and gas production rose 11 percent on the year in the third quarter but analysts expect strong earnings for the quarter to be mainly due to runaway oil prices rather than BP's record in finding oil.


Iran demands muslim-world summit on Iraq

Iran's President, Mohammad Khatami, has called on Muslim countries to convene an urgent meeting on the situation in Iraq, particularly the 2-week standoff in the holy city of Najaf.


Antiwar Protester Accosts Rice at House Hearing

She dissected prospects for Middle East peace, railed at Iran, fretted about rebel attacks on Turkey and acknowledged cost overruns at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. But the biggest flap when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday occurred...


President Bush's decision to resume U.S. aid to the Palestinian government has left some lawmakers uneasy, including at least one Republican who wants to pass a law that would reverse it.


Taiwanese chipmaker dangles open-source software lure to attract programmer interest.


L'amarezza del Capo dello Stato dopo il caso Sapienzaevitiamo spirali di tensioni che possono portare al peggio                                          "Attenti all'anticlericalismo rischiamo un ritorno al passato"                                                                                Napolitano: ora dobbiamo recuperare un clima di tolleranza