Euro supercomputing initiative welcomes users

European researchers can now turn to a new supercomputing network for help in their scientific endeavors. "We have just completed testing," said David Henty with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, a


Wembley builder Multiplex backs 6.1 bln dlr Canadian offer

Australian property and construction group Multiplex announced Tuesday that it backs a 7.3 billion dollar (6.1 billion US) takeover offer from Canada's Brookfield Asset Management.


Blair, Ahern urge power-sharing after N.Irish vote

Britain and Ireland urged Northern Ireland's politicians on Friday to agree to a power sharing government after the province's main Protestant and Catholic parties dominated assembly elections this week.


Saakashvili wins Georgian presidential election

Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili was on Monday celebrating Orthodox Christmas and victory in a presidential election his opponents called rigged.


Dunn Sets Major League Strikeouts Record

Cincinnati Reds slugger Adam Dunn set the major league record for strikeouts in one season with 190, when he fanned in his first two at-bats Thursday against the Chicago Cubs.


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SJ man is Bay Area's first human West Nile virus case

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department today confirmed the first human case of West Nile Virus in the Bay Area. The department reports that a 50-year-old man became ill on Aug. 25 and was hospitalized on Aug. 29 with mild neurological symptoms.


Global temperatures could rise by as much as 11 degrees Celsius, a major climate prediction project suggests.


Saving world trade talks and bolstering   global financial systems against fiscal crises were the focus   of finance ministers of the United States, China and other   Pacific Rim economies meeting in Vietnam on Thursday.


Lonely people may be genetically pre-programmed for poorer health, say US scientists.


Matritech becomes the latest of Inverness' acquisitions.


Pentagon Acknowledges Eight Afghan Detainee Deaths

Eight detainees have died in American military custody in Afghanistan, more than previously reported, the Pentagon said on Monday, while a human rights group assailed a US "culture of impunity" on prisoner abuse.


Exclusive School, Running Deficit, Is at Risk of Closing

Rock Creek International School in Northwest Washington, an exclusive private school known for its language immersion program and student diversity, is operating with a deficit and could close before the end of the school year, according to parents, school officials and financial documents.


UN Chief Congratulates Cambodia's New King

The UN chief congratulated Cambodiaâs incoming king today, a day after the former ballet dancer was chosen to succeed his ailing father to secure the countryâs ancient monarchy for another generation.


UPDATE 1-Big Lots sees wider third-quarter loss

Big Lots Inc. (BLI.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday forecast a larger-than-expected third-quarter loss and said full-year profit could also fall short of Wall Street's


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Axis Company has shaken the dust off a lowbrow stage work called âA Glance at New Yorkâ that was a hit in 1848 and injected it with a huge dose of 21st-century adrenaline.


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U.S. Shuttles May Resume ISS Flights in May

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - The United States'  grounded Space Shuttle fleet may resume flights to the  International Space Station next May or June, a senior ISS  official said Tuesday.


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Ukraine's presidential election ended in a dead heat calling for a runoff, while thousands of protesters on Monday alleged fraud in the west, and international monitors


The Senate approved the measure 92-3 Thursday night less than an hour after it cleared the House by a similarly lopsided 339-65. The measure now goes to Bush for his signature.


Ferdinand returns to United after eight month drug ban; Howard ...

Rio Ferdinand returned to action after his eight-month suspension on Monday and produced a solid performance as Manchester United beat local rival Liverpool 2-1 to climb five places in the Premier League.


The wait is over -- Harry Potter finale goes on sale

Harry Potter fans poured into book stores around the world on Saturday to get hold of the seventh and final volume in the series and discover the secret of the boy wizard's fate.


Scientists from SUNY Stony Brook have discovered that heat generated by laptop computers can potentially affect sperm quality and quantity.


Charles Nolan ditched stick-thin waifs in favor of "civilian models" to present his whimsical spring line Thursday at New York Fashion Week.


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


Vogue magazine, the venerable  112-year-old fashion bible, will launch a Chinese edition by  next September, keeping pace with an expanding base of wealthy  Chinese with an insatiable demand for Armani, Prada and  Bulgari.


Ivan Slams Gulf Coast but Leaves Less Damage Than Feared

Hurricane Ivan is now Tropical Storm Ivan, but is still pounding the South as it moves inland. The powerful storm made landfall at 3 am Thursday, battering the Gulf Coast with 130 mile per hour winds and heavy rain.


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Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed the bill it's in with billions of dollars for farms, flu preparedness, New Orleans levees, home heating and other causes.


HHS: Foreign flu shots coming to US to ease shortage

The Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the safety of a portion of five (m) million doses that are available from plants in Canada and Germany.


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But Wii record remains intact How many weeks does it take to sell a million PS3s in the UK? According to the latest industry figures, just 46 weeks.â¦


EU gives Turkey two weeks to honour trade commitments to Cyprus

Turkey must open its ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus before December 6th, or face a possible suspension of its accession talks, the EU said on Monday.Comment


BRITISH-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan is believed dead after a video surfaced showing a blind-folded woman being shot. Hassan, kidnapped last month in Baghdad, was said by her


Brandon Roy had 25 points, nine assists and eight rebounds and the Portland Trail Blazers won their ninth straight game, beating the Toronto Raptors 101-96 on Wednesday night.


Arafat undergoes more medical tests; condition remains serious

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Swiss Bidders "Interested" in Bulgarian Airports Concession

Business: 31 January 2005, Monday. Swiss companies have shown interest in bidding for the 35-year concession of Burgas and Varna airports, according to local Pari daily.


Fed weighs future of contactless payments

(InfoWorld) - You can call it 'cash 2.0': a new age of wireless payment technology that may replace even the smallest cash transactions in the coming years with the wave of a credit card or mobile phone.Â  But as major corporations like CVS, McDonald's, and Walgreens begin deploying new RF, or "contactless," payment technology, the Federal Reserve is taking a closer look at the technology and is asking the payment industry and card companies, among other questions, whether the new payment systems are secure. The rapid deployment of RF-equipped contactless payment technology was behind a meeting at the Boston Federal Reserve in May. According to interviews with those at the meeting, the payments industry argued that, while not foolproof, the new RF payments systems are a vast improvement over existing, "magnetic stripe" payments technology and that Americans' casual handling of their credit cards poses a far greater risk to sensitive financial information than wireless hackers that might target the cards. Contactless payment technology uses RF technology embedded in credit cards, mobile phones, or USB devices to negotiate credit and debit transactions. As opposed to older generation magnetic strip technology, the RF cards can be waved in front of a card reader. While most consumers in the U.S. have yet to use the new cards, the availability of contactless payment technology is growing by leaps and bounds. Between 18 and 20 million RF-enabled credit and debit cards were issued between 2005 and 2007, according to Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance, an industry group. Payment card company Visa has issued seven million of the cards globally, the majority of them in the U.S., said Brian Triplett, a senior vice president of emerging product development at Visa. "Adoption is growing at a faster rate than any other payment technology introduced in the last 50 years," said Vanderhoof, with banks like Chase Manhattan, Wells Fargo, and Keybank among the first to issue the cards. The major advantages of the cards are speed and convenience, especially in the realm of "small value transactions" under $25, he said. That's because RF equipped credit cards reduce the time it takes to complete a transaction by almost two thirds from cash transactions and take less than half as long as traditional credit or debit card transactions, according to a presentation given at the Federal Reserve by Peter Nash, CVS's director of store treasury operations. That decrease in checkout time means increased customer volume for high-traffic retailers like CVS and McDonald's, compared with cash or traditional credit card transactions. And studies show that consumers who use credit cards for small purchases tend to buy more with each purchase, said Avivah Litan, an analyst with Gartner. RF cards are also being used by transportation authorities in cities like Boston and New York, where subway riders now use contactless cards instead of tokens to pass through turnstiles. So far, the biggest obstacle to commercial adoption has been merchant acceptance of the new platform, which requires them to purchase and install RF reader terminals and pay higher costs per transaction than with traditional magnetic stripe cards, said Litan. Still, one security expert on the RF enabled payment cards says that bigger problems are lurking behind the scenes with contactless payments technology, about which too little is known for consumers to be put at ease about the security of their financial information. Kevin Fu was part of a team that published research that raised concerns about the security of first-generation RF-enabled credit cards in 2006. That study revealed that some of the cards transmitted cardholders names and account numbers in the clear to reader devices, and, in some instances, were susceptible to so-called "replay" attacks in which data eavesdropped from an RF card was "played back" to a reader, which accepted the data. Speaking with InfoWorld, Fu, who is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts, said that in the last year, the card industry has corrected some of the faults of the first generation of RF cards but that many cards still broadcast information like a credit card account number in an unencrypted form. Card companies don't consider the account number to be "personally identifiable information" or PII, acknowledged Nasreen Quibria, a senior payments industry consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. "Stealing information from these cards is not as easy as it may seem, but I'm concerned that consumers are unaware that their information is being broadcast in the clear," Fu said. The payment card industry continues to take a dim view of Fu's research, arguing that attacks that eavesdrop information from RF cards would be all but impossible to carry out successfully outside of the laboratory, that newer generation cards mask the account holder's name, and that an arsenal of other security features stand between fraudsters and successful transactions, including CVCs (card verification numbers) that are generated dynamically with each transaction and hefty back-end fraud detection systems, said Visa's Triplett. "Each (contactless) transaction is unique. There's data that's generated on the card itself, then encrypted and sent through the network for validation of the transaction," Triplett said. "It's not just the 16 digit account number. You have to have additional information." "If you look at fraud on card platforms versus other kinds of payments, it's a small fraction," he said. Triplett noted that card issuers like Visa reviewed Fu's research when it came out but concluded that they had the "right level" of security in place for stakeholders in the payments system: consumers, banks, and merchants. Still, the payment industry may be making at least one concession, turning a recommendation that RF cards be shipped with protective mailing shields into a mandate, Triplett said. The shields prevent eavesdropping of card information while the card is still in its mailing envelope -- a technique that Fu and his fellow researchers used to obtain card information. Outside of that, the payment card industry is limited in what it can do by a legacy infrastructure of card readers that can't handle RF transactions. That means that even new RF cards have to sport magnetic stripes that contain cardholder and account information on them in unencrypted form, said Triplett. "You have to look at the complete picture, and when you get the full picture, you see that the RF makes (payments) more secure," he said. Besides, if all else fails, consumers have zero liability for fraudulent transactions. Still, payments industry experts anticipate a long-running arms race between the payment card industry and increasingly sophisticated fraudsters who will be motivated to test the limits of the new system, especially as contactless payments features migrate to cell phones and other devices. Still, Fu and others say that the payment industry's preference for keeping the details of how its contactless technology works under wraps will make it difficult to assess how well the industry is standing up to hackers. "Public scrutiny is important," he said. "It's great that they're doing work in-house, but we won't know if it's not working unless there's public scrutiny and openness," Fu said. SSL is one such example of a widely used encryption technology that has been vetted and improved through the efforts of independent researchers, Fu said. Crucial components of the contactless payment system, such as the protocols used in contactless transactions and the algorithms used to generate the dynamic transaction codes, should also be open to scrutiny from independent security researchers and cryptographers, Litan and Fu agreed. "I think the dynamic CVC code is a good security scheme, but the only reason I say its good is because (the payment card industry) told me. I haven't heard that from a third party researcher," she said. But security researchers interested in the inner workings of the RF technology shouldn't hold their breath, according to Triplett at Visa. "We're aggressive in having people look at risk and inform us, and we share that information with critical stakeholders, but that's not something we're going to open up to industry groups to report on," Triplett said. That approach limits visibility into the industry's system but could prove disastrous if hackers were able to crack a critical payment component like the algorithm for creating the dynamic CVC codes, Litan said. In the end, though, the debates about possible hacks are academic, especially when compared to the quotidian nature of most credit card fraud, which often stems from ordinary theft or sloppy behavior, such as restaurant patrons in the U.S. handing over their magnetic stripe card to waiters and waitresses before paying their bill, said Jania. Despite that, the security of the new payments technology is an issue that consumers are concerned about, said Karen Webster, a researcher at Market Platform Dynamics. "There seems to be a schism between the perception and the reality (of security risk), but clearly in the mind of the consumer, it's an issue," she said. For now, security in contactless payments is a small issue because despite the millions of RF cards issued, readers are still hard to find and there's no evidence that contactless payments are catching on with consumers. A survey of around 4,000 16-to-43-year-olds by Market Platform Dynamics in 2006 found that the cards were being used for only around two percent of purchases under $25, according to information presented by Karen Webster of Market Platform Dynamics. But as readers become more plentiful (CVS, for example, has installed 40,000 RF-enabled, signature capture Payment Terminals in 5,400 stores) and "killer apps" like payments through mobile devices take off, the payments industry will have to be poised to respond to increased interest from hackers and fraudsters. "As payment mechanisms and form factors change, we can expect the security methodologies to evolve along with them," said Jack Jania, vice president for financial services at secure card maker Gemalto. The U.S., for example, may soon join the EU and countries like Mexico in embracing the EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) standard for authenticating debit and credit card payments.Â  "I see it as being inevitable," Jania said. "Security is like a staircase that you're always climbing."Â


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.


Trying to Be Heard Above the Din, and Be Trusted

A new JPMorgan Chase campaign aims to overcome cluttered airwaves, nervous customers and cuts in marketing budgets.


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US should not have hyphenated ties with India, Pakistan :

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Defiant Zimbabwe opposition chief heads to hospital

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai defiantly vowed Tuesday his push to topple President Robert Mugabe would go on as he headed to treatment for a beating that he received in police custody.


Vodafone Investors Seek Verizon Wireless Spinoff

A group of shareholders on Thursday suggested that Vodafone give its investors tracking shares representing the companyâs 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless.


The Conservatives would return to a system in which only a fixed proportion of A-level students got top grades.


Kerry says he will use Bush debate to counter Republican distortion

Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry admitted that the Bush campaign has run a successful campaign portraying him as indecisive but said he would use a looming presidential debate to set the record straight.


Fed expected to boost rates for third hike this year

The US Federal Reserve Board, wanting to keep inflation at bay, is expected to boost short-term interest rates Tuesday for a third time this year, a move that would come in the final stretch of the presidential campaign.


Exclusive: For the second time, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is transferring a top-level commander rather than promoting a younger leader - raising eyebrows among military leaders


Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee won 18 delegates here Tuesday as backers of rival John McCain threw him their support to prevent Mitt Romney from capturing the winner-take-all GOP state convention vote.


LONDON: The dollar headed for its first weekly gain in more than two months against the yen after Japanese officials suggested they may stem the currency's slide and on expectations that US firms employed 200,000 workers last month.


England's four Champions League teams are in the hat for the knockout stage of the competition.


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Clarke wins Taiheiyo Masters? (updated PM 5:06)

Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke fired a 4-under 68 Sunday to win the Japan Golf Tour's Taiheiyo Masters. The European Ryder Cup star started the day with a four-stroke lead and widened it six after carding


Mauresmo into Philly final as Sharapova withdraws

Top seed and defending champion Amelie Mauresmo of France advanced to the final of the WTA Championship on Saturday after Russian third seed Maria Sharapova withdrew ahead of their scheduled semi-final with a right shoulder injury.


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A watchdog says all-postal voting should not be used in UK elections. Do you agree with these findings?


Georgia Tech 33, Notre Dame 3: Minus Quinn, Notre Dame Is No Match for Georgia Tech

If the Irish continue to take beatings like this, so will Charlie Weisâs reputation as a head coach and as an offensive mastermind.


The Appalachian Trail gives hikers a nearly 2,200-mile trek through mountains, meadows and forests stretching from Georgia to Maine. But to scientists and land managers it's also a living laboratory that could provide warnings of looming environmental problems while there's still time to fix them.


Abbas Claims Victory in Poll to Succeed Arafat

RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas won a  landslide victory on Sunday in a Palestinian election to  succeed Yasser Arafat, securing a strong mandate to talk peace  with Israel after years of bloodshed and end corruption at  home.


GE sells 60% of pioneering India division

The General Electric Co. said Monday it had sold a 60 percent stake in its pioneering back- office unit in India to two private equity firms for $500 million.


Prodi ei giovani di Fi: Â«Io non mi scusoÂ»

ROMA - Il giorno dopo Ã¨ tutto come prima. Con Prodi che difende le sue posizioni e con la Cdl che lo attacca, indignata per quanto detto a proposito dei giovani militanti che Berlusconi intende reclutare in vista delle prossime elezioni.


Colbert swaps imaginary iPhone for real one

Blog: Host of 'The Colbert Report' laments the pervasiveness of technology, but whoops it up after bagging iPhone.


Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein acknowledged Edgar Renteria was more a luxury for the 2005 Red Sox than a necessity. But there's nothing wrong with getting the keys to a BMW, and that's what the four-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glover is in the eyes of the Red Sox.


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Cambodia's dancing royal likely new king

PHNOM PENH: The former ballet dancer son of Cambodia's king was named his likely successor yesterday, as hopes faded that his father would reverse his decision to abdicate.


Most women unclear on hormone therapy risks

NEW YORK  - Fewer than one third of women 40 to 60 years old have heard about the landmark study that found the risks of hormone therapy for most menopausal women probably outweigh their benefits.


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Widget makes it a snap to turn photos into cell phone wallpaper or songs into ringtones and even put a price tag on them if you like.


New Yorkers sue IBM over toxic contamination

Lawsuit alleges IBM efforts to clean up contamination are inadequate and problems persist.


Yorkshire website to aid SMEs in phish fight

Help for the small fry A new website has been developed to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) protect themselves from cyber crime.â¦


CIA, FBI Warn Panel on Top Threats to U.S.

The United States faces a range of threats from North Korean and Iranian missiles to a Sept. 11-scale attack by Islamist militants, inspired by Osama bin Laden and hardened by their experience in Iraq, top U.S. intelligence officials warned Wednesday.


University urged to cancel Ahmadinejad speech

Columbia University was urged on Thursday to withdraw a speaking invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.


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The âBlack Listâ has become the kind of underground document that writers with projects in development pray will mention their script.


D.Telekom to buy SunCom Wireless for $1.6 bln

Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) said on  Monday its mobile phone division T-Mobile USA had agreed to buy  SunCom Wireless for about $1.6 billion.


Krispy Kreme Profit Drops, Stock Hammered

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. KKD.N on  Thursday reported a sharp drop in quarterly profit and signaled  that business may not recover any time soon, sending its shares  down more than 17 percent in pre-market trading.


AL Wrap: Wakefield Three-Hitter Helps Red Sox Tame Tigers

Tim Wakefield tossed a three-hitter over eight innings to inspire the Boston Red Sox to their sixth straight victory, a 6-1 defeat of the Detroit Tigers in the American League Sunday.


Analysts say Apple appears to have topped Cisco in iPhone agreement

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Cisco Systems and Apple said Wednesday they have settled the trademark-infringement lawsuit that threatened to derail Apple's use of the "iPhone" name for its much-hyped new iPod-cellular phone gadget. he companies said they reached an agreement that will allow Apple to use the name for its sleek new multimedia device in exchange for exploring wide-ranging "interoperability" between the companies' products in the areas of security, consumer and business communications. No other details of the agreement were released.


U.S. consumer sentiment slipped in November, data showed on Wednesday, sparking concern over the outlook for the country's retail sector during the holiday gift-giving season.


Business & money: General Motors reahes tentative agreement with union leaders that could bring biggest US industrial dispute in seven years to an end.


The consensus is clear: Britney Spears performed like she was sloshing blindfolded through mud at MTV's Video Music Awards. No one disputes that the troubled pop princess royally mangled her much-heralded comeback.


No housing woes in booming Washington state

While California suffers in the housing crisis, the economy of nearby Washington state is flourishing with strong job growth and some of the highest appreciation in home prices in the nation.


The federal agency that enforces laws against employment discrimination collected a record $420 million for aggrieved workers last year, when the number of complaints filed with the government was down slightly from the previous 12 months.


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Almost every database driven Web site uses alternating row colors when displaying a list of records, a concept used all over the Internet. In this article you'll learn about the process and how to implement it. By Michael Berman. 0620


World Cup overall leader Bode Miller won a giant slalom for the second time this season Sunday, rallying from fourth place in the opening leg.


HP coughs up surprise update to desktop PC range

Breeds flock of hybrid DVD boxes HP has quietly snuck through an update to its home desktop PC range with the computer giant now officially shipping its media centre systems with hybrid Blu-ray/DVD drives.â¦


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Girl trapped in buried car confirmed dead; quake toll 35

NIIGATA (Kyodo) Rescue operations to save three people trapped in a buried car in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, ended without a second miracle Thursday after a 3-year-old girl was confirmed dead.


Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies at the age of 71 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.


The U.S. military announced on Friday the deaths of six more soldiers in Iraq, hours after U.S. President George W. Bush predicted a bloody summer lay ahead.


With the thermometer hovering at 22, and the wind ripping off a frozen Lake Mendota, Rink DaVee and his brother Jim decided to take a stroll.


MOLE CREEK, Australia -- For years, Trudy Richards searched the forests of Tasmania for the elusive creature with the head of a wolf, the pouch of a kangaroo, and the stripes of a tiger.


"Underinvested" Citigroup behind in branches

The United States is in the middle of a retail banking war, but Citigroup Inc., one of the biggest U.S. banks, has fallen behind.


Newly crowned Miss Belgium speaks several languages Â including French, English and Czech Â but it seems that doesn't count for much when she doesn't speak Dutch.


Mumbai: The stock market surge on Friday, when the Sensex crossed the 6,500-mark, is said to have been buoyed by a 3.5-per cent spurt by Reliance as the punters anticipated great things from the Monday's board meeting.


Children's nursery rhymes contain 10 times more violence than television shows broadcast before the 9 p.m. "watershed" after which more adult content can be shown, research has said.


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Kuwait reports 20 cases of bird flu at zoo, farm

Kuwait's health ministry on Monday confirmed outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, potentially fatal to humans, at a zoo and a farm in the south of the country, the first in two years.


U.S. reporter's Iraq saga wins top non-fiction prize

An American reporter's account of the surreal world inside Baghdad's top security Green Zone was named on Monday as winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, billed as the world's richest award for non-fiction.


Iran resolves plutonium issues under atom pact: IAEA

Iran has resolved U.N. questions about tests with plutonium, a key fuel for atomic bombs, and the International Atomic Energy Agency considers the matter closed, according to the text of an IAEA-Iran accord released on Monday.


Eurolega: Treviso cede al Cska Mosca 72-80

Non riesce neppure alla Benetton Treviso lâimpresa di fermare il Cska Mosca, che si impone per 80-72 al PalaVerde nella prima giornata di ritorno del girone C di Eurolega e si conferma lâunica squadra imbattuta della competizione.


Carrie Underwood heading to Persian Gulf

Country music star Carrie Underwood has signed up to entertain troops on her first United Service Organizations tour of the Persian Gulf.


August consumer sentiment beats expectation

U.S. consumer sentiment was stronger  than expected in August, a report showed on Friday, though  expectations of the future economic situation worsened.


Forecaster Sees Fewer Atlantic Hurricanes in 2005

Next year's Atlantic hurricane season will again be more active than usual but is unlikely to be a repeat of this year's disaster, a noted storm forecaster said on Friday.


Weary of Highway Bribery, Russians Take on the Police

The beating of a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights in the face of police corruption has prompted an outcry.


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Mike Huckabee, a Republican relying on support from religious conservatives in Thursday's hard-fought presidential caucuses, on Sunday stood by a decade-old comment in which he said, "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."


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Chechen favourite was always Moscow's man

Alu Alkhanov, almost certain to become president of Chechnya in Sunday's election, is a career policeman who, unlike many officials who will form his government, never fought against Moscow's rule.


Senator Adds to Calls for Steroid Tests in Baseball

Senator Byron L. Dorgan joins Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, in vocally pressuring the Major League Baseball Players Association to accept such changes without hesitation.


Scottish student found guilty in terrorism trial

A Scottish student was found guilty on  Monday of possessing terrorism-related materials including  bomb-making instructions, despite arguing he was only  conducting research.


A fire swept through a wooden mosque in Helden in the south of the Netherlands early on Saturday, without causing any casualties, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.


Coaches who have worked with troubled Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait have backed him to make a successful return to cricket once he re-discovers his enjoyment of the game.


HP, IBM, Intel, Sun Join on Grid Computing

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Intel and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) have formed an industry group to promote open standards-based systems for enterprise-level grid computing.


BAGHDAD: US-led forces swept hotspots in the "triangle of death" yesterday in a push to reclaim rebel enclaves ahead of January polls.


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Bush Gains in Battleground State of Florida - Poll

President Bush has gained ground over Democratic nominee John Kerry in Florida, a key battleground state, extending his lead to nine points in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of likely voters released on Wednesday.


Introducing Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers

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UN Security Council off to Africa for Sudan meeting

UNITED NATIONS - Ambassadors from the UN Security Council will head to Kenya on Tuesday for a rare meeting outside New York aimed at pressing for an end to Sudanâs long-running civil war and the separate crisis in Darfur.


U.S. Lawmakers Urge China to Release Scholar Yang

Members of U.S. Congress have urged  Chinese President Hu Jintao to parole a U.S.-based scholar  jailed for entering China illegally and accused of spying.


Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.


Blair: Iraq controversy will go when I go

Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview to be published Sunday that domestic controversy over his backing for Washington over Iraq will end when he leaves office in the coming months.


Bologna, Fassino dal palco accoglie il leader tra gli applausi"Tu credi in noi e noi crediamo in te. Puoi contare sulla Quercia"                                          Prodi, ovazione al congresso Ds "Grazie per la vostra fedeltÃ "


In staid Geneva, foreigners and locals learn how to party

Sweaty bodies grind to the thumping dance music at a popular party venue in Geneva that is challenging the city's reputation as a quaint but dull destination.


Envoys from the Quartet of international powers trying to mediate peace in the Middle East will meet in Jerusalem on Tuesday, diplomats and Israeli officials said on Friday.


Retirees Will Shoulder More of the Cost in '05

As many of the nationâs largest employers struggle to control rising retiree health costs, they are asking their retirees to pay more and plan to do so again in 2005, according to new survey results.


Murphy trial testimony ends; jurors to return

Testimony in the sexual abuse trial of former Houston Rockets star Calvin Murphy ended this morning. Jurors will hear closing arguments and begin deliberations Monday, state District Judge Michael McSpadden said.


SAG Show Is New Star of Awards Telecasts

For most of their first 13 years, the Screen Actors Guild Awards played little more than the role of a seat-filler. This year they might be the biggest star in town.


Red Sox rookie pitcher Lester battling lymphoma

Rookie pitcher Jon Lester has a form   of lymphoma and will begin treatment this week, the Boston Red   Sox announced on Friday.


Rite Aid Corp. RAD.N, the  third-largest U.S. drugstore chain, on Tuesday warned that its  fiscal 2005 results would fall below expectations if current  sales trends continue, driving its shares down 10 percent.


Amos Oz: Israeli, Palestinians Want Peace

Acclaimed Israeli novelist and peace activist Amos Oz said that most Israelis and Palestinians want peace, even if only for pragmatic reasons, and are grudgingly accepting the concept of a "two state solution."


Charlton headed into the Christmas period seventh on the English Premiership table after a 2-1 win against London rivals Fulham at The Valley this morning.


Researchers Take Step Toward Synthetic Life

Researchers say they have created the entire genome of a bacterium by stitching together its chemical components.


Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.   She made her revelation to a packed house in New York's Carnegie Hall on Friday, as part of her US boo...


Catholic leaders issue advisory on flu precautions

Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Boston and Springfield issued advisories to parishioners in recent weeks telling them that if they have the flu or


A fourth teenager is charged with the murder of gay barman David Morley.


Buone le previsioni sulle vendite,tra 8 e 9 mld di dollari


Afghan air raid kills 12 civilians, 20 Taliban

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A U.S.-led air strike killed 12 members of an Afghan family and 20 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, the provincial police chief said on Friday.


UConn Suspends 2 Players, Including No. 2 Scorer

Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun has suspended the starting guard Jerome Dyson and the backup guard Doug Wiggins indefinitely for violating team rules, university officials announced Friday.


Ethiopian opposition leaders get life sentence

An Ethiopian court sentenced 35 opposition members to life in prison on Monday, rebuffing a prosecution request that they be executed for trying to overthrow the government, treason and inciting violence.


Free agent outfielder Mike Cameron and the Milwaukee Brewers reached a preliminary agreement on a one-year contract that includes a club option for 2009.


Two UK gamers are about to embark on a tour as part of the most lucrative-ever global games tournament.


Parts of the Caribbean are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Ivan within the next 36 hours.


Brazil's president promises to spend $270m creating new reservations for indigenous groups in the Amazon.


The '3:10 to Yuma' is a ride worth taking

Russell Crowe and Christian Bale square off in an updated Western full of familiar tropes, now on DVD.


David Beckham will be sidelined for a month after hurting a knee ligament during a Spanish League game last weekend, an injury that eliminated his chance of being recalled to England's national team


It's the battle of the Springfields with residents in 14 towns with that name across the United States competing to be chosen on Tuesday to host the premier of the upcoming Simpsons movie.


Borland smoothing out Silk apps testing line

InfoWorld - Borland Software on Tuesday will refresh the Silk application testing product line it acquired last year.


TALK about an October sur prise. As Senator John Kerry might say, "Who amongst us would have thought a year ago that the price of oil would be above $50 dollars a barrel


A fifth man accused of murdering two teenage girls is named after a judge lifts a banning order.


Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Wednesday that the Bush administration was doing all it could to get China to move more quickly on currency reform in the face of a soaring U.S. trade deficit.


Allen shot 3-for-3 from three-point range, including a long basket that put the Sonics ahead to stay in the first quarter. Rashard Lewis added 17 points and Nick Collison grabbed eleven rebounds to help the


The career of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia has been a bewildering trail of political twists and expedient turns. Now the man they call the 'mercurial monarch' has announced his abdication.


Xaraya is extensible, open source software written in PHP and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Xaraya utilizes robust permissions, data management and multilingual systems to dynamically integrate and manage content. We are pleased to announce the release of Xaraya 0.9.10 Beta. It is an exciting time in Xaraya development with the pace quickening as we approach Version 1.0. In this 0.9.10 Beta release we see further consolidation and stabilization of the code base and much enhanced functionality. There is also a move towards a concentration on performance and usability enhancements which are evident in the feature list for this release. Congratulations and thanks to all those who have contributed. I'd also like to thank our users who have been providing invaluable feedback and bug reporting during our journey towards Version 1.0. Your continued support in this area will ensure Xaraya maintains its place as a leader in Web Application Framework development and innovation.   Read on for more details of the release ...  General enhancements: - Reduced dependencies between subsystems - New import and export tools to ease both site migration, and the movement of specific data to and from Xaraya - Code rework and tidying for improved performance, security and ease in moving to PHP5  Performance and Security enhancements - Implementation of binding variables for database calls throughout the codebase - Improved cache management for module, block and pages, and introduction of query caching - New Xaraya sessionless caching for anonymous site users - Faster security checks  Internationalization - Additional language support for core and modules with Xaraya now translated into over 20 languages - Numerous improvements to the Xaraya installer, in particular default installer support for 8 languages - Translations functionality for themes in addition to previous module support - New configurability and translation of module names  General Module and Usability enhancements - A number of WYSIWYG editors providing a choice in functionality,including formatting using classes in a CSS style sheet of your choice - Navigation enhancements in the Roles and Privileges modules providing easier management - Added functionality so Roles names can be reused, with recall and purge functions for deleted roles - Templates for Mail and Roles email messages allowing fully customizable email messaging - Improved notification and subscription services through enhanced Mail and PubSub functionality - Enhancements to the logging subsystem allowing the Site Admin to configure the logger - Improved events handler - New dynamicdata properties, additions without core file editing, and enhancements to existing properties - Many enhanced features in other favourites such as Xarbb and Articles  Blocklayout and Templates - Improvements to the Blocklayout compiler and enhanced functionality - Large scale cleanup of templates and improved code - Improved standards compliancy for XHTML 1.0 Strict - Enhancements to custom BlockLayout tags  .. and of course many bugfixes to the previous version.  Visit:  http://www.xaraya.com Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64578 Language Packs: http://xaraya.com/downloads/languages Discuss: news://news.xaraya.com Chat: irc://irc.xaraya.com Forums: http://www.xaraya.com/index.php/xarbb


Observatory: On a Moon of Saturn, Fractures, Hot Spots and Jets of Water Vapor

Scientists have concluded that Saturnâs frigid moon Enceladus is one of the few volcanically active bodies in the solar system.


The Federal Trade Commission said yesterday it is investigating TJX Cos. in connection with a major security breach at the Framingham retailer that potentially exposed millions of customers' credit and debit card data.


This image of a cheese sandwich was taken from the www.ebay.com Web site. Sandwich owner Diana Duyser, of Hollywood, put the sandwich up for sale last week, drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night.


The EU and US impose travel bans on four top Belarus officials over disappearances of dissidents.


Cal beats Air Force in Armed Forces Bowl

DeSean Jackson and Robert Jordan had touchdown catches to help California erase a three-TD deficit sustained while the starting receivers watched from the sideline, and the Bears rallied to beat Air Force 42-36 in the Armed Forces Bowl on Monday.


TONY EASTLEY: In Britain Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, has had a run in with the paparazzi. The young prince who's soon headed to Sandhurst Military college for officer training apparently


Lebanon army takes control of camp after battle

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops on Sunday seized control of a Palestinian refugee camp where they had been battling militants for more than three months, killing at least 31 fleeing fighters, security sources said.


One of seven men facing a total of 55 charges of sex offences against young girls on the tiny island of Pitcairn has changed his plea to guilty.


Palestinian officials said they foiled an assassination attempt Sunday against a top security chief loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas, discovering a large roadside bomb planted shortly before the commander's motorcade was to pass through the area.


News Analysis: Stalking Oscar, With Carnage and Mayhem Galore

The fight for the Oscar is often a bloody one, metaphorically speaking. But this year an unusual amount of mayhem is showing up in the movies themselves.


By SONJA BARISIC ATLANTIC, Va. - A rocket carrying two experimental satellites into orbit blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, blazing a streak across the sky just before sunrise.


Pending sales of existing U.S. homes  slipped in November but were much stronger than previously  thought in October, according to a report on Tuesday that  offered mixed news on the battered U.S. housing sector.


Expressing a desire to "put this nightmare behind me," Martha Stewart said Wednesday that she would enter a federal prison soon to begin serving her five-month sentence without


Israeli air strike near Palestinian PM's home

Israel carried out an air strike near the Gaza residence of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Friday, but insisted he was not the target.


The British actor Ian McShane opens next week as the patriarch Max in Harold Pinterâs âHomecoming,â a man-monster of diminishing powers and, of course, many vulgarities.


An uneasy calm settles at a Lebanon refugee camp after a minister declares victory against Islamist fighters.


Tokyo, Sydney kick off climate change concerts

CHIBA, Japan  - Pop stars in Tokyo and Sydney kicked off a global chain of climate change concerts on Saturday aimed at persuading the world to go green.


Indonesian capital on health alert over floods

More than 50,000 residents in the Indonesian capital have sought treatment for conditions ranging from coughs to diarrhea after days of floods and authorities are monitoring for more serious diseases, officials said on Monday.


INCHIESTA/Camorra, la droga da sola non spiega la mattanza di Scampia. CosÃ¬ la Procura ha imboccato, per caso, un'altra strada                                          Una rete d'affari in mezzo mondo ha scatenato i "balcani" di Napoli                                                                                Dalla Cina al Brasile: ecco tutti i traffici dell'industria dei falsi di GIUSEPPE D'AVANZO


The Bush administration is pushing for approval of a Mideast cease-fire resolution from the U.N. Security Council, but is warning the action is unlikely to put an immediate stop to the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.


Iraq's insurgency spread to a relatively calm area near the Syrian border yesterday when a suicide car bomber killed at least 16 people at an Iraqi National Guard centre.


Berlino, 22:39 - CALCIO, BUNDESLIGA: BAYERN VINCE ANTICIPO, TONI IN GOL

Il Bayern Monaco ha battuto in trasferta l'Hansa Rostock 2-1 nell'anticipo della prima giornata di r...


Plans for regular testing of doctors are  reviewed following recommendations by the Shipman Inquiry.


BHOPAL: At least 15 students were crushed to death on Sunday by the Bhopal-Beena passenger train, when they were crossing the railway track.


Roma, 16:40 - CALCIO, LAZIO; AGENTE JIMENEZ: POCHI DUBBI SU CONFERMA

L'avvocato Rocco Dozzini, agente del laziale Jimenez, ha risposto alle dichiarazioni di ieri di Patr...


Engineers Kill Anti-spam Effort Amid Microsoft Patent Row

Failure to reach consensus on Sender ID halts ambitious effort to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.


Pakistan Says It Has Foiled Terror Plots

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has arrested at least five al-Qaida-linked terrorists who were plotting suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S. Embassy, officials announced Saturday...


Fighting near scene of Pakistan suicide attack

A fierce clash broke out today between security forces and pro-Taliban supporters in north-west Pakistan, near the scene of a suicide attack that killed 20 people.


US Judge Rejects Law to Block Child Porn on Web

A Pennsylvania law allowing the state to force Internet service providers to block access to child pornography sites is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Friday.


Frenzy Follows Madonna to Israeli Cemetery

JERUSALEM - Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early Sunday, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage. The singer is in Israel on a five-day spiritual quest along with 2,000 other students of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism...


The high-flying Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of 2006 has given way to a company in financial peril, saddled with debt and bleeding from a brutal price battle with its larger and suddenly resurgent Silicon Valley archrival, Intel Corp.


The Carolina Panthers are 0-2 when Steve Smith doesn't play, 2-0 when he does. The All-Pro receiver is healthy for the third straight week and Cleveland's cornerbacks are not, troubling news for the Browns as they travel to Carolina on Sunday.


Spain's Socialist government approved new conditions governing research with embryonic stem cells Friday, allowing scientists to investigate using frozen embryos while seeking cures to diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes.


3Com Lowers Revenue Forecast, Shares Drop

3Com Corp. (COMS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , a smaller rival of telecommunications equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , on Friday


American Express sues MasterCard, Visa, 8 banks

American Express Co. has filed suit against Visa, MasterCard and eight major banks alleging anti-competitive practices. Banks named in the suit include Bank of America, US Bancorp, JP Morgan Chase, Capital


The UK's former top diplomat says developing nations need much more money to adapt climate change.


The Astros have counted Nolan Ryan, Mike Scott and Randy Johnson among their postseason starting pitchers. Though Backe didn't get the victory in the Astros' 3-0 win over St.


Modena, 19:10 - CALCIO, MODENA: ALLENAMENTO TATTICO

Seduta pomeridiana per il Modena al Campo Zelocchi, con il tecnico Mutti che ha fatto lavorare la sq...


Attacks in Russia Expose Rifts With West

The fight against terror was supposed to unite Russia and the West, pounding the last nail into the coffin of the Cold War. But three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a series of stunning assaults on Russia has pried the lid open, prompting angry accusations that the West is hindering Moscow's battle against terrorists — and dark suggestions that it may even be aiding them.


In-Depth Analysis: Satellite Uplink Facilities For Professional TV Services Available Now

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c49817)  has announced the addition of "In-Depth  Analysis: Satellite Uplink Facilities for Professional TV Services"  to their offering.


Sony to stop some PS3 shipments to Japan

Sony Corp (6758.T) said on Thursday it  would stop shipments of PlayStation 3 models with 20- and  60-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drives in Japan this month, focusing  instead on the 40-GB model.


Investigation Continues Into Alabama Bus Crash

Officials appeared to be focusing on an orange 1990 Toyota Corolla that was driven by a student at Lee High School, the school attended by the students on the bus.


Europe's betting industry says a German law banning online gambling breaks European Union law.


Scotland's voters were "treated as an afterthought" in the planning of May's elections, a report says.


No deal on dollar as US shrugs off European pressure

Europe and Japan failed yesterday to persuade the United States to address the decline in the dollar, despite talks at a fractious meeting of the Group of 20 industrialised and developing nations.


Il ministro francese della difesa e' giunto per visita lampo


Altered stem cells offer cystic fibrosis hope

Patients with cystic fibrosis could one day be treated using their own stem cells which have been given a shot of gene therapy to fix a faulty gene, suggests a new study.


Ukraine court nullifies presidential election

A Ukrainian Supreme Court judge listens to an appeal by an opposition representative.


U.S. blue chips advanced on Friday  after Ford Motor Co. F.N raised its earnings forecasts, while  wireless technology provider Qualcomm Inc. QCOM.O checked  gains on Nasdaq after saying an accounting review may reduce  pretax income.


A suicide car bomber linked to al-Qaida killed 13 people at an entrance to the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad today, the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture.


BUCK STOPS HERE: Cuba announces that dollars will no longer be accepted in stores and businesses, saying it is trying to regain control of its economy as Washington cracks down on the flow of the US currency to Cuba.


An Indian railway official has been arrested following Tuesday's rail disaster in which 36 people died, the country's rail minister says.


Hollywood's earnest antiwar films were a bomb at the box office. But Mike Nichols' picture about war and politics, says Richard Corliss, manages to be both rational and inspirational


Australia claw back after Langer smacks 181

Australia: The long-awaited showdown between two of the world's best pace attacks did not disappoint on Thursday when first the ball, then the bat dominated proceedings on the opening day of the Test between Pakistan and Australia.


Prince Harry has made a documentary film about the Aids-stricken nation of Lesotho, it is announced.


Bjarne Riis became the first Tour de France winner to admit using performance-enhancing drugs to win the sport's premier race, further eroding cycling's credibility after a series of doping confessions


In 14 locations around the Washington area, MobilTrak devices are sensing which radio stations drivers are listening to by picking up electronic signals emitted from car antennas. -The Washington Post


Kyrgyz government resigns following referendum

Kyrgyzstan's government resigned on Wednesday, in line with requirements set by a new constitution adopted at a referendum last weekend.


John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole Again

John Lennonâs killer Mark Chapman will not be released from prison after being denied parole for the third time. Chapman stood before a parole board yesterday (October 5) who were to decide if Chapman would


D. R. Horton posted a loss of $128.8 million, or 41 cents a share, for the first quarter ended Dec. 31, in contrast to a year-earlier profit of $109.7 million, or 35 cents a share.


Microsoft: Linux is a threat, it may mean prices cuts and less ...

Microsoft has filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - and it looks like the Redmond giant could be in for a lean year ahead, even going as far as to hint that Linux and other open-source rivals might be to blame.


Litvinenko suspect made secret London trip: witness

The chief suspect in the murder of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko paid a previously unreported visit to London in the weeks before his poisoning with radioactive polonium, a witness in the case told Reuters.


Retail sales report bolsters Wall Street

NEW YORK Stocks moved mostly higher Friday as a stronger-than-expected retail sales report showed that record oil prices had not scared consumers away from spending.


My Turn: What My Epileptic Daughter Needs

My daughter, Rebecca, is resilient, but we need more research and treatment for the epilepsy that plagues her.


Confidence among UK manufacturers has slipped in the face of slowing demand and higher costs, a survey has said. The CBI said the sector was facing "clear threats", with profit margins under pressure from


Imagine travelling from Los Angeles to New Delhi in little over an hour. Or completing a round of the globe in five hours flat. On Tuesday, NASA moved the concept of dream planes closer to reality as its hypersonic


Attackers continue to use well-worn techniques, such as SQL injection, to exploit holes in popular Web applications but have also moved on to other targets, including government sites, and newer exploit methods, such as cross-site request forgery, according to the latest report filed by the Web Applications Security Consortium.


Star Trek XI release knocked back to 2009

No Xmas joy for expectant Trekkies Paramount Pictures has announced it has knocked back the release of Star Trek XI from 25 December this year to 8 May 2009, on the grounds that "the pic's gross potential is greater as a summer tentpole", as Variety puts it.â¦


Powell Urges Middle East Calm After Arafat Death

On word of the death of Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat, Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged  on Thursday the United States "will do all we can" to help  Palestinians achieve peace and urged calm to prevail in the  region.


Londra, 23:22 - CALCIO, COPPA D'INGHILTERRA: AVANZANO LIVERPOOL E TOTTENHAM

Il Liverpool, avversario dell'Inter in Champions League, si è qualificato per i sedicesimi di...


A federal grand jury is investigating  products American International Group Inc. sold that companies  might have used to make their earnings look better, AIG, the  world's largest insurer by market value, said on Thursday.


Interrogation Tricks Under Scrutiny After Ruling

Doubts about Martin H. Tankleffâs confession tap into a legal debate about how much deception is too much.


A Russian cosmonaut makes golfing history firing a shot outside the International Space Station.


Cabir Virus Source Code Published Online

As many security firms feared, the source code of the dreaded Cabir virus has been posted on the Internet. This means we just might have seen the tip of the iceberg of possible variants being noticed in the wild.


Avery John scores his first career goal in the 25th minute to help the Revolution snap the Crew's 18-game unbeaten streak with a 1-0 victory Saturday in the MLS playoffs.


Ukraine Anticipates Final Official Results of Presidential Re-Run

Ukraine's Central Election Commission (CEC) has said it expects to announce the final, official results of the December 26 re-run presidential election early this week.


Finanziamento ai partiti, Follini: ''Aumenti ingiusti''

''Nel momento in cui si avvia la discussione su una Finanziaria che vuole essere rigorosa, trovo ingiusto che si pensi di aumentare i rimborsi elettorali dei partiti. Non amo la demagogia, ma amo ancora meno le ingiustizie. E questa tale sarebbe''.


An outbreak of cholera in northern Iraq kills eight people and infects 80 others, the Kurdish authorities say.


Israel Kills Top Hamas Militant Ahead of Gaza Vote

Israel killed Hamas's top bomb and rocket  maker in Gaza and launched a missile strike on the home of  another leading militant on Friday in the run-up to a key  parliamentary vote on a plan to quit the occupied territory.


GOP's Toughest Race In Oklahoma May Be With Candidate's Mouth

There are those who would say that former House member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) could and should have a leg up in winning the open Senate seat in Oklahoma, a conservative, Christian


Apple Computer Inc has rolled out a new iPod that allows users to view and share photos as it opened nine new iTunes music stores in Europe, spurring its rivalry with Microsoft Corp and others.


Competition Commission to probe Sky's ITV buy

Sky says: 'Bring it on' Almost a month after the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) recommended Sky's purchase of over 19 per cent of ITV be brought to the attention of the Competition Commission, DTI Secretary of State Alistair Darling has done just that.â¦


LG Electronics Inc.'s battle to beat the iPhone is far from over. The South Korean electronics company has unveiled its second iPhone-like handset and this one packs several important features the iPhone doesn't: 3G and high-speed cellular data networking.


England striker Michael Owen has voiced his delight at being able to run for the first time since suffering a serious knee injury during last summer's World Cup finals.


Bush lifts sanctions and freeze on Libyan assets

President Bush has decided to lift sanctions on air travel and a freeze on $1 billion in assets that belong to Libya, which he expects will trigger release of more than $4 million to each family of Lockerbie bombing victims, an administration official


Mauritanian security forces foil a coup attempt, the third in 15 months, says the interior minister.


Powell Sees No Rise in U.S. Tsunami Funds for Now

Secretary of State Colin Powell said  Monday he did not expect U.S. financial aid for tsunami-hit  Asian nations to increase for now as he visited the region  after criticism that Washington's initial response was slow and  stingy.


Parties spar in US Congress on Medicare increase

Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday battled over blame for a record increase in Medicare health premiums, which Democratic presidential candidate John


Kelley is one cool Kitty; Nixon will be a no-show

KITTY CORNER For someone at the center of a media maelstrom, Kitty Kelley looked mighty relaxed the other night signing copies of The Family, her scandalous new book about the Bushes.


New York, 10:34 - HOCKEY GHIACCIO, NHL:  ISLANDERS VINCONO DERBY NEW YORK

Risultati delle gare del campionato di hockey su ghiaccio americano (NHL) disputate nella notte.


L'attore chiede in cambio vitto e alloggio


itâs the only reason I watch, really â-but I still get chills remembering the one starring Christopher Reeve. It aired a couple


Top U.S. Auto Safety Official Expects to Stay On

The top U.S. auto safety official, a  man often seen as a thorn in the side of Detroit's Big Three  automakers, said on Tuesday that he expects to keep the post  under the Bush administration's second term.


Oil prices pushed above $49 a barrel  on Monday, approaching record levels as worries about the  stability of supplies from Iraq, Nigeria and Russia compounded  concerns over low fuel stocks ahead of winter.


Spagna: Eta preannuncia 4 attentati in citta' del nord

MADRID - Il gruppo terrorista basco Eta ha annunciato che fara' esplodere quattro bombe in quattro diverse citta' nel Nord della Spagna. Lo ha riferito l'agenza basca Vasco press, riportando il messaggio di


Alley Broussard ran for a school-record 250 yards with three touchdowns and No. 14 LSU rallied to beat Mississippi 27-24 Saturday night.


More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began major operations in a Shi'ite militia bastion in Baghdad on Sunday, meeting little resistance as they searched homes for illegal weapons and carried out patrols.


Criticism and Praise for New HDS Storage Platform

Hitachi Data Systems' (Quote, Chart) TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform was designed to grab market share from high-end competitors EMC and IBM (Quote, Chart).


China to veto US draft on Sudan sanctions

China has threatened to veto a new US draft resolution calling on the UN to consider oil sanctions against Sudan if violence in Darfur continues.


DECLARING the occupation of one nation by another to be "a horrible disaster for both peoples", Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday the coming year offered a historic opportunity for peace with the Palestinians.


Pogueâs Posts: Finally, Hotel Check-in Kiosks

Each year, my wife and I each take each of our two older kids on individual special weekends awayâthat is, four trips total (the babyâs not old enough to appreciate it). Itâs a treat for both participants; one-parent/one-child has a very different dynamic, and more bonding moments, than the constant uproar of whole-family trips. Over this [...].


Neri: RP far from declaring default on debts

Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri on Tuesday said the Philippines is far from declaring default on its debts. "We are not yet in that situation (bankruptcy)," Neri told dzMM when asked if the Philippines


L'ordinanza del giudice Salvini con le intercettazioni. Nel mirino anche l'Halliburton di CheneyUn'autobomba per l'Eni: "E' complicato assaltarla...". I legami con Ghiringhelli, irriducibile Br                                          Tiro a segno con i kalashnikov nelle campagne del Veneto                                                                                di PIETRO COLAPRICO


Tom Sizemore was sentenced Monday to 16 months in state prison by a judge who ruled the alleged discovery of methamphetamine in the actor's car had violated his probation in a previous drug case.


Images: Linux gets a taste of Windows and Mac

A major KDE overhaul gives a leading Linux interface a new look and new apps. Some features will be familiar to Windows and Mac OS X users.


Saturn's moon Titan may offer huge clues to Earth's evolution

With a whole universe to explore and dozens of potential targets in the solar system to examine in closer detail, spending $3.3 billion on an 11-year


Israel: Hezbollah moves rockets in towns

Hezbollah guerrillas have moved most of their rockets in south Lebanon among civilians in villages, an apparent attempt to avoid detection by Israel and U.N. troops, Israeli military officials said Sunday.


Lebanon army shells camp, three soldiers killed

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - Lebanese troops shelled al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday and three soldiers died in the heavy battles, security sources said.


"Pirates" races past $400 million overseas

"Pirates of the  Caribbean: At World's End" overwhelmed the international box  office for the second consecutive weekend, making off with an  estimated $105.4 million from 103 markets.


Al Qaeda issues video of U.S. pilot killed in crash

An al Qaeda-led group in Iraq appealed to Americans on Thursday to reject the policies of President George W. Bush and issued a video apparently showing the remains of a U.S. pilot killed in a crash last year.


Gatlin Blazes to 100M Gold; Greene Third

ATHENS, Greece - Justin Gatlin ran the race of his life, barely holding off the fastest Olympic 100 field in history to win the gold in 9.85 seconds. Francis Obikwelu of Portugal got the silver in 9.86...


Russia seeks role in Iraqi settlement - Putin

SOCHI. Sept 1 (Interfax) - Russia wants to help bring the situation in Iraq back to normal and restore order in the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Turkish journalists in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.


Konica Minolta leaves Skandia back in its wake

New Zealand entry Konica Minolta pulled away from super maxi rival Skandia to take an extended lead Monday in the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race as rough seas battered some of the smaller and slower boats.


British minister sees Iraq vote on schedule

British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, who visited troops in Iraq today, said he saw no reason to delay next month's election as preparations are on track.


Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott defends the right of Muslim women to wear a veil - disagreeing with Jack Straw.


Microsoft profit up on Office, swallows Xbox charge

Microsoft Corp  posted a 7  percent gain in net profit as demand for its Office software  and improved results from its online arm more than compensated  for a $1.1 billion charge to repair Xbox video game consoles.


US July Spending Increases 0.8%; Incomes Up 0.1%

US consumer spending rose 0.8 percent in July after a smaller decline in June than previously reported, a sign the economy is accelerating.


Microsoft hopeful of settlement in EU case

The California-based group has challenged the European Commissionâs finding from March that Microsoft abused its dominance of PC operating systems, but its top counsel said negotiations remained the preferred course.


Yankees' Pettitte apologizes for growth hormone use

TAMPA, Florida  - New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte apologized on Monday for using human growth hormone and said he had not talked to his good friend Roger Clemens since the U.S. Congress held hearings last week on drug and steroid use by baseball players.


The clubs left in this year's FA Cup will find out their next opponents when the fifth round draw is made at 1325 GMT on Monday.


VENICE, Italy - Robert De Niro dismissed accusations that his Mafia roles have smeared the image of Italian-Americans, arguing that he plays realistic characters including many who could not be construed as stereotypes.    De Niro's defense Friday came after the Order Sons of Italy in America, a fraternal organization of Americans of Italian heritage, wrote a letter to the Italian government, urging it to cancel its plan to award the actor honorary citizenship...


Jeremis Smith and Ra'Sean Dickey, two junior big men on a team known for its freshmen stars, dominated the boards in the second half and No. 19 Georgia Tech overcame a 16-point deficit for a 92-85 victory over No. 12 Memphis on Tuesday in the semifinals of the EA Sports Maui Invitational.


41 killed as Valencia metro train derails

Forty-one people were killed and 39 others hurt when a metro train derailed in a tunnel in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia as pilgrims gathered ahead of a papal visit, officials said.


Turkish leader vetoes election amendment

Turkey's president on Friday vetoed a newly passed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the people — and not Parliament — to elect the new president.


Iomega Corp. will cut its workforce by 25 percent and end development of its DCT (Digital Capture Technology) product line in a restructuring aimed at cutting costs and returning to profitability, the company announced Thursday.


Telekom Austria to Buy 100% of Bulgaria's M-Tel for EUR1.6 Bln

Austria's largest mobile phone operator Telekom Austria said Monday it won the right to purchase 100% of Bulgaria's largest cellular phone operator MobilTel (M-Tel) for EUR1.6 billion.


German bank customers victims of Internet fraud

German banks Postbank and Deutsche Bank said that their customers had been recent victims of Internet fraud via copycat web sites.


Iranian released from US custody in Iraq

An Iranian detained in northern Iraq more than three years ago has been released by U.S. authorities, Iran's ambassador said Wednesday.


Cisco to breaks free of desktop with digital signage company nuy

(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems is taking it to the storefront, the stadium and possibly even the streets by acquiring a digital signage company. The acquisition of privately held Tivella Inc. will let the networking vendor extend its video, image and information distribution system beyond desktops, said Thomas Wyatt, director and general manager of Cisco's Digital Media Management division. Tivella, in Half Moon Bay, California, was founded in 2001 and has just 10 employees, most of whom work in Milpitas, California, near Cisco's home town of San Jose. They will join Cisco's Emerging Markets Technology Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cisco is branching out in many new directions, with a particular emphasis on video, executives said this week at the company's C-Scape analyst conference in San Jose. At the conference, President and Chief Executive Officer John Chambers demonstrated networked electronic signs using technology from Tivella, which has had a partnership with Cisco for a few years, according to Wyatt. The Cisco Digital Media System, introduced in September, lets enterprises create, schedule and publish content to desktops via the Cisco Video Portal interface. That content could include video on demand for training or live messages to employees. Through Tivella's technology, Cisco can bring that kind of content to monitors and TVs in stores and other public places, Wyatt said. The company's Piccolo Media Players are small, lightweight devices with a wide range of display interfaces for use with different kinds of screens, including analog TVs. No PC is needed and they can be powered via Ethernet, without a local electrical socket. Linked via an IP (Internet Protocol) network, they could display constantly updated messages or video tailored to the place where each is located. The new technology adds more flexibility to public video displays, which traditionally have been stand-alone, manually controlled devices, Wyatt said. For example, displays in a store could be used for employee training during off hours and for up-to-date promotions while the store is open. Networked screens, on an IP network that also included surveillance cameras and police and fire radios, could also be used for public safety, he said. For example, they could be used to direct stadium crowds to the nearest exit for evacuation. Combining the two companies' technology, Cisco will have a suite of products in the near future for remote control and management of displays over IP, Wyatt said.


Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, Filipino Angelito Nayan and Kosovan Shqipe Habibi were kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last week.


Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived in Jordan for medical tests on Sunday after suffering a drop in blood pressure, Jordanian and Iraqi officials said.


Blogosphere shouts 'I'm Spartacus' in Usmanov-Murray case

Uzbek billionaire prompts Blog solidarity Political websites have lined up in defence of a former diplomat whose blog was deleted by hosting firm Fasthosts after threats from lawyers acting for billionaire Arsenal investor Alisher Usmanov.â¦


'Shark Tale' remains on top of the box office in its second week of release, after taking in an extra $31.7 million. Billy Bob Thornton's 'Friday Night Lights' debuted in second place with $20.


U.S. FDA Needs to Fix Post-Market Drug Safety

The Food and Drug Administration needs more staff, funding and authority over the drug industry to better track the safety of medicines after they reach the market, an Institute of Medicine report said Friday.


The new iPod Touch has Wi-Fi access, a web browser and a touch screen. For $299 and up. Meanwhile, Apple cut $200 from the price of the iPhone.


Professor Ian Wilmut, the man who led the team which created the clone known as Dolly the sheep, is knighted.


British hunters seek to end fox-hunt ban

Defeated in Parliament, supporters of fox hunting went to court Friday to try to overturn a legislative ban on their more than 300-year-old sport and vowed a campaign of civil disobedience


Cynics mock, charities defend stars aiding Africa

Madonna feels  responsible for the children of the world and has found herself  a "big, big project" to help orphans in Malawi.


By Srisamorn Phoosuphanusorn, Bangkok Post, Tha


England will need a special performance from their bowlers on day three of the Perth Test.


Four Dead, 80 Hurt in Attack Iraqi National Guard

Four Iraqi National Guards were killed  and up to 80 others wounded in a mortar attack on their  headquarters north of Baghdad Tuesday, the U.S. military and  Iraqi Defense Ministry said.


The murderous Khmer Rouge regime's most senior surviving leader was arrested Wednesday, plucked from his home in the Cambodian jungle to face justice at the country's long-delayed genocide trials.


Report: Apple Readies Photo-Capable iPod

According to a report by Think Secret, Apple is putting the finishing touches on a new iPod, complete with 2-inch color LCD screen and photo viewing capabilities. The device will boast a 60GB hard drive, iPhoto synchronization, along with a video-out port for connecting the iPod to external viewing devices such as a television. The new iPod will likely be announced within the next 60 days, with a reatail price of $499 USD.


Dell and Microsoft collaborate to reduce patch work.

Dell and Microsoft are to combine their patch management programs, making it easier for users to secure their servers. Dell will combine its OpenManage 4 server management software with Microsoft's installation


High Court Petitioned on Cable Net Access Rule

The Bush administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a decision that requires cable companies to open their high-speed Internet networks to rival online providers.


Playbill - More than three years after the New York City Council passed a law banning the use of cell phones in theatres, has anything changed?


Pakistani troops patrol the city of Multan after bomb blasts at a Sunni gathering left 39 people dead.


Hand-holding couples may be protected from pain and stress, a study shows.


"Housewives" welcome mystery woman, hero

Oscar-nominated  songwriter-actress Kathleen York and Matt Roth have landed  recurring roles on ABC's "Desperate Housewives," which begins  its third season on Sunday.


Fans flock for his autograph. Cameras record his simplest moves. Batters look for his mysterious "gyroball" — if it even exists. He's just one of hundreds of rookies at baseball spring training camps this year, but he's swooned over like a rock star.


By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and supply of oxygen and water have failed, potentially extending the space shuttle's mission - or cutting it short.


A video purporting to show the killings of Nepalese kidnapped in Iraq was posted on a Web site linked to militants.


If the founder of GreenDimes has his way, millions of tons of unwanted mail will go the way of pesky phone solicitations.


Mercosur Trade Talks Begin Amid Bickering

Top officials from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay gathered Wednesday for high-level trade talks ahead of a two-day summit taking place 10 years after leaders officially created South America's Mercosur zone.


Shares Decline on Larger Loss at Circuit City

Shares of the electronics retailer Circuit City Stores fell sharply after the company reported a wider-than-expected loss.


China, Russia to Hold Military Exercise in 2005

China and Russia will hold their first  joint military exercises on Chinese territory next year, the  Interfax news agency quoted Russian Defense Minister Sergei  Ivanov as saying in Beijing on Monday.


To celebrate the completion of their film Ho Sakta Hai!, Venus and Ashco Media Arts P. Ltd. hosted a get-together on November 24.


U.S. pushes non-proliferation, N.Korea defends nukes

Washington has urged Asian countries to call for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula while North Korean officials defended Pyongyang's development of nuclear weapons, at meetings this week in Manila.


The European Union (EU) said yesterday it would remove trade sanctions imposed on the US in a dispute over US corporate tax subsidies, but warned it might levy new penalties next year over continued benefits it sees as illegal to Boeing, the aircraft maker


Tony Blair's Heart Procedure Considered Routine

British Prime Minister Tony Blair underwent a successful heart procedure last week to correct an irregular heartbeat, a procedure British Heart Foundation cardiologist, Professor John Camm described as a simple ...


Star Trek XI logged for Xmas 2008 launch

Franchise reboot to boldy cast Matt Damon as Kirk? Paramount Pictures has confirmed the next Star Trek movie will be released on Christmas Day 2008.â¦


Japan leadership race starts after PM quits

Japan's finance minister became the first to launch a bid to lead the country on Thursday as the ruling party scrambled to avoid a policy vacuum after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's shock resignation.


John Kitching's tiny magnetic-field sensors will take MRI where it's never gone before.


Mibtel +0,21%, All Stars -0,17%, Europee positive


Vonage, an Internet phone service provider, and emergency telecom specialist Intrado say together they've conducted successful trials of an advanced means of making emergency phone calls using the Internet.


ELEANOR HALL: To South American now, where one of the world's most notorious dictators finally looks set to face trial for murder and human rights abuse.


Clinton, Obama Brace for Battle After Tuesday Split

Bloomberg - Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Hillary Clinton won the biggest of the Super Tuesday primaries while Senator Barack Obama won more states, extending their struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination into next month and beyond.


By Jim Wyss, The Miami Herald  Mar. 4--One of the most well-funded battles of the last legislative session is heating up again as the cable industry and telephone companies face off over the right to provide cable TV service.


The ex-chief finance chief at US Foodservice, a unit of Dutch retailer Ahold, gets three years' probation.


Ohio Scientists Develop Armor for Humvees

The military is ordering more lightweight armor developed in Ohio that protects troops in Humvees from automatic weapons fire and grenades without slowing the vehicles. Unarmored Humvees have become targets in the war in Iraq.


CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Arizona Diamondbacks went into their farm system to find a new manager, naming Wally Backman the team's skipper on Monday.


No housing woes in booming Washington state

While California suffers in the housing crisis, the economy of nearby Washington state is flourishing with strong job growth and some of the highest appreciation in home prices in the nation.


Florida Storms Kill 18 Whooping Cranes Led South By Planes

All 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida, a spokesman said.


Blackwell Taking His Conservative Views to Web Site, Radio

By Mark Niquette, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Mar. 1--Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell soon will be posting his views on the conservative Web site Townhall.com and will produce weekly commentaries for a national radio network.


A government Web site designed to help travelers remove their names from aviation watch lists was so riddled with security holes that hackers could easily have stolen personal information from scores of passengers, a congressional report concluded yesterday.


Israel approves new West Bank housing settlement

Israel's housing ministry has approved tenders for the construction of about a thousand new homes in West Bank settlements.


Internet in India Slowed by Middle East Outage

Cut cables in the Mediterranean Sea have slowed Internet traffic from India to the U.S. and the UK.


Triumphant Olympics end with pride and relief

A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens Olympics that quelled fears, surprised skeptics and greatly honored the birthplace of the games.


France's new foreign minister pressed Sudan's president Monday to commit to a joint U.N.-African mission to end the bloodshed in Darfur, hoping his clout as a former humanitarian activist would boost diplomatic efforts to end Sudan's standoff with the West.


"Mad Men," "Extras" take top TV Golden Globes

BEVERLY HILLS, California  - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave its top Golden Globes for television on Sunday to the new advertising-themed drama "Mad Men" on cable network AMC and HBO's recently canceled Hollywood satire "Extras."


Alpine Skiing: Poutiainen Wins Slalom, Kostelic Out

Finland's Tanja Poutiainen won a Women's  World Cup slalom Thursday but the Croatian fans were left  disappointed when Janica Kostelic failed to finish the first  leg of the race on her home ground.


Eli Lilly sees U.S. prasugrel filing next week

Eli Lilly and Co  plans to  submit a U.S. application next week for its experimental  blood-clot preventer prasugrel, the most important drug in its  pipeline, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.


Minnows exposed to red tide died quickly

Minnows exposed to samples of red tide from waters in southeastern Virginia and the lower Chesapeake Bay died within hours, scientists report.


Russia's lower house of parliament ratified the long-stalled Kyoto climate change treaty on Friday, clearing the last major hurdle for the global pact to take force seven years after it was drafted.


LOS ANGELES - "Full House" actor John Stamos has filed for divorce from "X-Men" actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos.    The couple announced in April they were separating after five years of marriage...


Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) will ship new 2.5-inch hard drives with capacities up to 100GB for notebooks by the end of 2004, the company said today.


Few Seniors Surf the Web for Health Information

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- Even as the Internet becomes an increasingly rich source of health information, most American seniors remain out of the loop, a new survey finds.


About 18 months ago, Tony Kornheiser was slightly critical of Jacksonville, but now that he is in the city, he insists it was a typo.


Real Madrid's doctor Alfonso del Corral claims he warned the club they were taking a risk in signing Jonathan Woodgate and has not ruled out the possibility of an operation to cure the defender's long-standing thigh problem.


Five weeks before Paul Tagliabue's retirement date, there remain more than a dozen candidates for his job.


Sapporo, 13:13 - SCI DI FONDO, MONDIALI: STROBL PUO' GAREGGIARE

L'azzurro Jochen Strobl puÃ² gareggiare ai Mondiali di sci di fondo di Sapporo. Strobl, come altri 5 ...


'Blog' is most popular search term on dictionary site

NEW YORK - "Blog" is now the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its frequent lookup paralleled its growth on the political scene this year as keepers of Web logs


2008 -- Glendale, Ariz.  2009 -- Tampa, Fla.  2010 -- Miami  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.


The number of homes sold in England, Wales and Northern Ireland hits its highest level since the 1980s boom.


UPDATE 1-Liverpool's "Crazy Horse" Emlyn Hughes dies

Former England captain Emlyn Hughes, the driving force behind Liverpool's European Cup glories in the 1970s, has died of cancer aged 57.


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Dec. 21, 1842: Birth of an Anarchist, and Darwin's Detractor

Peter Kropotkin moves from privilege to the army to anarchism, accompanied by a scientific career that includes a riposte to the theory of social Darwinism.


Belarus' authoritarian president easily won approval in a referendum to run for a third term as leader of the former Soviet republic in 2006, the Central Elections Commission announced Monday.


NAIROBI, Feb. 12 -- Kenya's new government awarded a $34 million contract to a foreign firm for a new passport and visa system to prevent attacks such as the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. But in what became known as the "Anglo-Leasing scandal," top members of the president's office were accused last year of pocketing the money.


Energy regulator Ofgem says it has no concerns about competitive issues in the UK, despite rising bills.


Velivolo precipita dopo scontro con un parapendio


Legge elettorale, Berlusconi "Scheda unica e niente preferenze"

ROMA - Una scheda unica che comprende la quota maggioritaria e quella proporzioanle e no alle preferenze, "per il resto tutto resterÃ  come ora". Questo l'orientamento espresso da Silvio Berlusconi riguardo alla modifica della legge elettorale.


Members of the First Battalion Black Watch check a military vehicle at Battalion Headquarters at Shaibah Logistics Base in Al Basra Province, southern Iraq on Monday Oct.


Oswalt agrees new five-year deal to stay with Astros

Houston Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt has   agreed to a five-year contract worth $73 million, Astros   general manager Tim Purpura said on Tuesday.


Bosnian rafters say paradise under threat

GLAVATICEVO, Bosnia  - A group of French peacekeepers rafting on a sunny October day through the spectacular gorge of the Neretva river are among the last of many tourists before the cold, rainy season.


Security Council agrees on Sudan resolution as foes pledge ...

NAIROBI  - UN ambassadors agreed here unanimously on the text of a resolution aimed at restoring peace to war-ravaged Sudan, as the country's main foes promised to conclude talks on their 21-year-old conflict by the end of the year.


Shortcuts: When Recycling the Presents, Beware the Gift of Gaffe

Fifty-two percent of you out there admit to regifting Â and a whopping 78 percent say that it is acceptable some or most of the time. If, that is, it is done correctly.


Official: U.S. foes 'eating our lunch' online

The man nominated to head public diplomacy at the State Department said Wednesday that al Qaeda is doing a better job than the Bush administration in winning friends over the Internet.


LONDON, Sep 24 (IPS) - Mikhail Gorbachev is an ex-president going after  weapons of mass destruction. But not the way U.S. President  George Bush thought he was going after them in Iraq.


AT&T adjusted profit up on strong wireless sales

Top telecommunications service provider AT&T Inc.  on Tuesday said its profit and revenue grew on an adjusted basis, helped by strong growth in its wireless business.


Sports of The Times: Young Guy From Rice Is Last Man Standing for Overworked Mets

How did the Metsâ entire season come to depend so much on a young pitcher, Philip Humber, who had never started in the major leagues until Wednesday night?


ASIA/PAKISTAN - La Chiesa chiede unÂindagine trasparente sulla morte di Benazir Bhutto e prega per il futuro del paese Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - UnÂindagine credibile e neutrale: Ã¨ quanto chiede la Chiesa cattolica pakistana, allÂindomani dellÂomicidio della leader Benazir Bhutto, uccisa in un attacco esplosivo e con armi da fuoco il 27 dicembre 2007, dopo un comizio ...


Black leaders in Congress asked the federal government Tuesday to weigh in on the legality of a vote by the Cherokee Nation earlier this month to revoke citizenship from descendants of former tribal slaves.


Florida Sen. Bill Nelson plans to endorse Hillary Rodham Clinton, a major gain for the Democratic presidential candidate in a state that's at odds with the national party over its primary date yet remains a swing state in November's general election.


Federal air marshals charged a Seattle-area man with groping a female passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that the pilot diverted to Pittsburgh because of the disturbance.


Thereâs Cold and Then There Is Green Bay

With the temperature forecast for Sundayâs game in Green Bay falling, the Giants may want to rethink their decision to play in short sleeves.


Microsoft files new antitrust documents with EU

Microsoft Corp.  filed revised documents with the European Commission on Thursday aimed at complying with a landmark antitrust decision from 2004, the European Commission said.


Barack Obama Celebrates Landslide Senate Victory

com. Candidate for the US Senate Barack Obama (D-IL) and his daughter Malia (L), wife Michelle and youngest daughter Sasha (R) celebrate his victory with supporters over Repulican rival Alan Keyes November 2, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois.


Energy markets shuddered Monday with the approach of Hurricane Ivan, bidding up crude oil and natural gas prices as crews scrambled to evacuate production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.


A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.


U.S. stocks were seen opening  lower  on Thursday as rising oil prices and lackluster September sales  reports from retailers overshadowed a government report showing  a decline in weekly jobless claims.