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Aussie outfits take on best of British | LONDONERS are starting to realise there is more to Australian fashion than ugg boots. | Gli australiani sarebbero pronti a cedere la loro quota | Microsoft Corp. on Monday chided a private research outfit for releasing proof-of-concept code for three potentially serious flaws in the Windows operating system, warning that irresponsible disclosure was not in the best interest of consumers. | Recommendations made by independent inquiry are yet to be impleted, says British Fashion Council | We had world's biggest logo in 1965, mate Aliens take note: reader Gordon Milne has written in to point out that the Aussies actually created the world's biggest logo years before KFC decided it was a good idea to plonk a 65,000-square-foot Colonel Sanders mosaic in the Nevada desert.⦠| The pitches for the first two Tests of the India-Australia series have been accurately described as sheep in wolf's clothing. Now, with the caravan moving to Nagpur in central India, there is talk of a green top. | There are smart moves, and there are stupid moves. For some reason, IBM is selling ThinkPad, the best business notebook brand name, to some Far East discount outfit. That can't be a smart move. As a nonsmart counter-move, I figured I'd better break down and buy one of the darn things before none were left. So I did. | Diamonds are a girl's best friends, and Nicole Kidman only seems to reinforcing the idea in her new 12 million dollar ad campaign for Chanel No.5, which features herwearing custom-designed outfits by Karl Lagerfeld, and jewellery worth 42 million dollars including a special piece studded with 687 diamonds. | Purple tartan antlers, silver armor, and spears regaling models' heads were highlights of the theatrical shows of up-and-coming British designers on Wednesday. | Thousands of outfits were paraded on the runways of New York Fashion Week as top designers previewed their collections for spring. But what — if any — look will take off? | Stepping in the current James Bond, Pierce Brosnan's shoes, after he retires from the role of the suave double agent, might be every actor's dream but bookies are saying that Aussie actor Ewan McGregor is most likely to bag the coveted role. | British designer Jasper Conran sent models sashaying down the catwalk on Monday in sculpted dresses set off with bright emerald, clementine and pink carnation tights. | October 7, 2004. Paul Gascoigne has cut short his stay with Coca-Cola League Two outfit Boston United in favour of taking up a coaching course. | Influential Manchester United fans group Shareholders United believe they have found a âsilver bulletâ which could kill off Malcolm Glazerâs hopes of taking over the Old Trafford outfit. | India's famed top order batsmen put up a spineless display to allow a disciplined Australia to take a tight grip on the second day of the crucial third cricket test in Nagpur today. | Australia spin wizard Shane Warne believes England's squad for the Ashes series is better than the one which earnt England a series victory last year. |
Smith Set for Scotland Job | The SFA have tried to play down speculation Smith had been offered the job on Monday but his appointment would come as little surprise. | WALTER Smith is expected to be named as the new Scotland manager this week but the identity of his assistant remains unclear, with his long-term sidekick Archie Knox wanted by Richard Gough to be the No2 at Livingston. | Scotland manager Walter Smith is happy to see his strikers get among the goals in the demolition of the Faroe Islands. | Former Scotland manager Craig Brown feels Walter Smith is the right man to succeed Berti Vogts in charge of the national team. Brown, who held the post from 1993 to 2001, said: "It is a terrific appointment for Scotland. | Former Everton and Rangers manager Walter Smith will be confirmed as the new manager of Scotland on Thursday, according to the BBC. | The appointment of Walter Smith brings no guarantee of success on the international stage for Scotland. However, the former Rangers manager's arrival at Hampden Park should at least bring much-needed stability | GLASGOW - Former Everton and Rangers manager Walter Smith will be confirmed as the new manager of Scotland on Thursday, according to the BBC. | Glasgow, Scotland (Sports Network) - Former Rangers and Everton coach Walter Smith will be named the coach of Scotland later this week, according to broadcast reports. | By GRAEME SMITH THE level of opposition to the proposed coastal and marine national park for Scotland has "staggered" Ross Finnie, Minister for Environment and Rural Development. | Scotland manager Walter Smith believes France have not suffered from the loss of superstar Zinedine Zidane. | Sport: Mark McGhee and George Burley given permission to speak to SFA about vacant Scotland job | Britain's work and pensions minister Andrew Smith resigned, citing his wish to devote more time to his family and constituents, although recent press reports suggested he was about to face the axe. | Scotland caretaker manager Tommy Burns says he has not held any discussions about the possibility of taking on the job permanently. | Story in full MI5 , the domestic security service, is preparing to establish a permanent office in Scotland for the first time, The Scotsman can reveal. | Former Scotland international Stuart McCall believes Berti Vogts will finally earn the respect of the Scottish nation following his decision to walk away from the job. | The first minister concedes that job cuts are inevitable in efforts to cut public sector costs in Scotland. |
Trial area gives thumbs-up to digital | Media & professional: All 25,000 households in the lead area of Whitehaven are intending to convert to digital TV. | Sony has announced trials of a service that will offer downloadble albums that have no digital locks on them. | A recent little-noticed Russian thumbs-up to the Kyoto Protocol is destined to give Moscow a major leap forward in the global economy. | Forensic files: Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) on Thursday rolled out a seminal version of its new desktop tool, enabling users to scrutinize hard drives as they would Web sites. | What's the best way to provide digital driving directions to the likes of Google and Garmin? May the best map win. By Wilson Rothman from Wired magazine. | UPN has given the thumbs-up to critically acclaimed new dramas "Veronica Mars" and "Kevin Hill," giving both shows full-season pickups. | The widow and a daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy give a thumbs-up for "Bobby," an ensemble drama about the 1968 Kennedy assassination directed by Emilio Estevez and set for release next month. | Sony has announced trials of a service that will offer downloadble music tracks that have no digital locks on them. | Kevin Smith is giving a big thumbs-down to ABC's Good Morning America's mustachioed movie reviewer, Joel Siegel, after the latter reportedly stormed out of a New York press screening of Clerks II, upset about its lewd content. | System Center Configuration Manager 2007 also will be offered as a trial download for prerelease evaluation. | (InfoWorld) - Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the Internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT) labs said Tuesday. McAfee offered its take on the top security trends for 2007, at a press... | Sharman Networks, distributor of the software behind popular peer-to-peer service Kazaa, went on trial in Australia today, in the latest copyright battle between the music industry and file-sharing service providers. | StumbleUpon is becoming more and more popular by the day and has established itself as a dominant social network, site traffic builder and Internet navigational tool. By monitoring what sites users bookmark, share, approve of (by giving a thumbs up) and tag, StumbleUpon can build user and group profiles then serve and ... | In a broad discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show, U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin on Tuesday confirmed that the deadline for the country's switch to digital TV next year will not be postponed, explained the rationale behind the requirements for the current 700MHz auctio... | The appliance of science UK police are using digital fingerprint technology to speed up the detection of crime.⦠| Company will use technology from Digital Resolve that builds lists of Web sites and their legitimate IP address. |
"Pizzo", i commercianti parlano Presi membri del clan Mazzarella | Napoli, doppia operazione della polizia nel capoliuogoSgominata anche una banda che spacciava droga "Pizzo", i commercianti parlano Presi membri del clan Mazzarella Decisive le dichiarazioni della c... | Anche la squadra rosanero tra gli obiettivi del clan Lo PiccoloEcco come lavorava l'osservatore di Cosa Nostra Nel pizzino il sogno del boss "Il Palermo calcio è un affare" di FRANCESCO VIVIANO | Il mito della mafia italo-americana vacilla, vincono gli altri clanSono lontani i tempi in cui Lucky Luciano fondò il suo impero... Dai boss leggendari ai Soprano ascesa e declino di Cosa Nostra d... | Palermo, arrestati grazie alle denunce di quattro imprenditoriUsate registrazioni e intercettazioni per incastrarli La cimice nascosta nell'orologio smaschera due esattori del pizzo | In manette anche un figlio del boss, Calogero, che in assenza del padree del fratello che ne condivideva la latitanza era diventato il reggente del mandamento Mafia, 39 arresti nel clan Lo Piccolo Incastrati dai 'pizzini' e dai pentiti | Palermo, arrestati grazie alle denunce di quattro imprenditoriUsate registrazioni e intercettazioni per incastrarli La cimice nascosta nell'orologio smaschera due esattori del pizzo | Anche la squadra rosanero tra gli obiettivi del clan Lo PiccoloEcco come lavorava l'osservatore di Cosa Nostra Nel pizzino il sogno del boss "Il Palermo calcio è un affare" di FRANCESCO VIVIANO | Le indagini, coordinate dalla direzione distrettuale antimafiahanno accertato mandanti ed esecutori di sei omicidi Camorra, blitz contro i Sarno e i Panico A Napoli arrestati 70 membri dei clan | Nei pizzini del padrino era segnato con il misterioso "codice 60"Gaetano Lipari, di Altavilla (Palermo), è un consigliere comunale Arrestato l'infermiere di Provenzano Il boss gli scriveva: "Come si cura l'impotenza?" ... | Clamorosa iniziativa dei deputati del Carroccio, per protestare contro l'esecutivo e chiedere elezioniCondanna bipartisan dal mondo politico: Ulivo e Udc parlano di "comportamento squadrista" Bagarre a Montecitorio, la Lega occupa i banchi del governo ... | "Quando abbiamo iniziato non sapevamo neanche che volesse dire sovversivi". Parlano Trey Parker e Matt Stone i due creatori del cartone più pazzo della tv | Giuseppe Grigoli, gestore del marchio Despar per Palermo, Trapani ed Agrigentoper gli investigatori è "l'interfaccia economico del boss latitante di Cosa nostra" Mafia, imprenditore arrestato era vicino a Matteo Messina Denaro ... | AMERICA/CANADA - Appello dei membri del Consiglio canadese delle Chiese (CCC) ai governanti: "à giunto il momento per il Canada di raddoppiare gli sforzi nella lotta alla povertà  Ottawa (Agenzia Fides) - ÂLanciamo un appello ai nostri governanti affinché prendano misure immediate per elaborare e mettere in atto u... | Indagati anche Fazio, Fiorani, Consorte, Sacchetti, Gnutti | Il governatore: "Non è vero che tutti pagano il pizzo""Ora la gente dovrà fare uno sforzo per pagare il canone" Caso Sicilia, la Rai sconfessa Report di ALESSANDRA ZINITI | E' accaduto in una media del milanese, nel gruppo una 12enneDenunciati tre 15enni e un 14enne che frequentano altre scuole Allagano più volte la scuola presi dai carabinieri sei ragazzini |
China suspends condom handout despite AIDS crisis | China's top two universities have suspended a free handout of condoms, describing the plan as inappropriate. China is grappling with AIDS but the country's top two universities do not want their students touching condoms. | On the eve of World AIDS Day, construction workers at the building site of Beijing's CCTV tower put down tools and picked up condoms and brochures touting safe sex and HIV/AIDS prevention. | AIDS-aware Ugandans, who use about 250,000 condoms a day, face a shortage of the product after the government introduced new condom tests likely to cut supply over the festive season, the Health Ministry on Friday. | ELITE Peking University is calling off plans to hand out free condoms next week for World AIDS Day, saying it shouldn't be done so openly on campus. | LONDON, Nov 27 (IranMania) - Iran remained optimistic Saturday that a deal to avert a crisis over its nuclear plan could be reached despite its apparent insistence that certain key equipment should be exempted from an agreement on suspending uranium | PYRGOS, Greece - Greeks besieged banks on Thursday, clamoring for state handouts aimed at helping people hit by the country's worst wildfire disaster, with fires still raging a week into the crisis. | This Care Australia handout file photo taken in New York in Jan. 2003, shows Care Australia aid worker Margaret Hassan. AFP. BAGHDAD - Aid worker Margaret Hassan, who spent much of her life helping the | The numbers of HIV/AIDS cases in China and India are reaching crisis proportions and could threaten the world economy, a UN expert says. | China is to allow a critic of its HIV/Aids policy to receive an award in the US - a reversal of its earlier stance. | BEIJING, Aug 18 - China said on Wednesday it hoped all six parties taking part in talks on the North Korea nuclear crisis keep calm, remain flexible and continue negotiations despite inevitable difficulties. | A top Vatican cardinal says condom use to stop the spread of Aids can be justified in some cases. | BEIJING, Aug 18 - China said on Wednesday it hoped all six parties taking part in talks on the North Korea nuclear crisis would keep calm, remain flexible and continue negotiations despite inevitable difficulties. | China's HIV/AIDS epidemic has worsened and is now spreading dangerously into the general population, reported CCTV today, citing Chinese Ministry of Health and the United Nations AIDS office in China as the news source. | South Africa should promote condoms more widely to try and curb its AIDS epidemic, the head of the United Nations AIDS program said on Thursday. | China's president has publicly shaken hand an AIDS patient, in what is being described as a landmark moment. China officially has 840,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers, but experts believe many more people have the virus. | The Spanish Roman Catholic Church denied that it had condoned the use of condoms as a legitimate way of fighting HIV/AIDS. |
Powell Meets With Haiti Political Leaders | With bursts of Aristide in what is likely his last visit as the United States' top diplomat. The gunfire erupted shortly after Powell entered the National Palace | US secretary of state Colin Powell is holding talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders today, in a bid to revive Middle East diplomacy after the death of Yasser Arafat. | Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Saturday he hoped to meet Palestinian leaders soon as part of a harder U.S. push for peace in the region following the death of President Yasser Arafat. | Segretario Stato Usa Powell in arrivo a Phuket | Secretary of State Colin Powell travels to the Middle East next week for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on how to best facilitate upcoming Palestinian presidential elections and how | Latin American leaders wrapped up a two-day summit Friday with a pledge to help rid Haiti of political violence and grinding poverty, dispatching a top Brazilian diplomat to the country on a mission to form a rescue plan. | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Gunfire erupted near Haiti's National Palace on Wednesday as Secretary of State Colin Powell met with government officials but no one inside the palace grounds was hurt, witnesses said. | Secretary of State Colin L. Powell dived into an unusually rancorous rhetorical battle with Russian leaders over Ukraine and regional politics today, denying Russian suggestions that the United States and other ... | Gunfire erupted near Haiti's National Palace on Wednesday as Secretary of State Colin Powell met with government officials but no one inside the palace grounds was hurt, witnesses said. | China's top communist leaders today wind up a high level meeting, with expectations that a political reshuffle has taken place. | Il segretario di Stato USA Colin Powell e' giunto ieri sera a Tel Aviv per la sua ultima missione di rilancio delle trattative di pace in Medio Oriente prima di cedere il suo incarico a Condoleezza Rice. La | Jerusalem: US Secretary of State Colin Powell, on a fresh Middle East peace push, was due here Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders ahead of January's election of a successor to Yasser Arafat. | It was the first meeting between opposing political leaders since the elections that plunged the country into chaos. | Gunfire erupted outside the National Palace on Wednesday morning as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met inside with Haitian politicians, prompting gun battles | Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada urged Haitian leaders on Sunday to allow the political party of the deposed president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to take part in new elections. | Fierce shooting erupted today outside the palace where Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was holding talks in the Haitian capital when security guards exchanged |
Sharapovaâs shining year ends in triumph | LOS ANGELES: Maria Sharapovaâs shining year ended in style Monday as she rallied from four games down in the third set to beat an injured Serena Williams in the final of the WTA Tour Championships. | Maria Sharapova loves to shop, gossip with girlfriends, write and pore over photos in glossy fashion magazines. But that's where similarities with other 17-year-olds end. | Maria Sharapova just wanted it to end. Raindrops were falling, her opponent was complaining, and Sharapova suddenly encountered some trouble as she tried to close out her third-round match at Wimbledon. Showers wiped out most action at the All England Club on Saturday, and it was drizzling when 2004 champion Sharapova ... | Maria Sharapovaâs 7-5, 6-3 victory over Ana Ivanovic earned her a third Grand Slam singles title to go with those she won at Wimbledon in 2004 and the United States Open in 2006. | Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Wildly-popular Russian Maria Sharapova and American superstar Serena Williams will tangle in Monday night's blockbuster title match at the $3 million season-ending WTA Tour Championships. | Maria Sharapova's drive to win another Grand Slam title ended on Saturday when she lost to Mary Pierce 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the third round of the US Open. | MARIA Sharapova defeated an aching Serena Williams 4-6 6-2 6-4 yesterday to win the season-ending WTA Tour Championship in Los Angeles. | EVEN the Los Angeles Times, very much a newspaper of record, described her as a tennis player/sex symbol. That the impact of Maria Sharapovaâs victory early yesterday | Wednesdayâs program at the Joyce Theater ended with âShining Star,â a snazzy-looking, funny and sexy group dance that captures the sound and spirit of songs by Earth, Wind & Fire, to which it is set. | LOS ANGELES: Amelie Mauresmo and Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova qualified for the semi-finals in the WTA Championship, keeping alive Mauresmoâs bid to take away the number 1 ranking from Lindsay Davenport in season finale. | Wednesdayâs program at the Joyce Theater ended with âShining Star,â a snazzy-looking, funny and sexy group dance that captures the sound and spirit of songs by Earth, Wind & Fire, to which it is set. | Maria Sharapova will give top priority to the defense of her Wimbledon title this year after insisting the world number one ranking can wait. | Maria Sharapova began her quest to play catch-up at the rain-hit Birmingham Classic by winning back-to-back matches on Saturday to reach the semi-finals of the grasscourt championships. | The first hearing in the re-trial of former leaders of Peru's Shining Path guerrilla group has ended in chaos. The judge suspended the hearing after the group's founder, Abimael Guzman, and his 15 co-defendants | Nepal's communist insurgency has been flexing its muscles, with a successful blockade of the capital Kathmandu. Experts say the Maoists have modeled themselves on Peru's Shining Path, using violence to end Nepal's rigid caste system. | Maria Sharapova is delighted after beating Justine Henin-Hardenne to win the US Open title. |
Messy Kosovo breakaway stokes fear of partition | Serbia is telling Serbs in Kosovo to ignore an Albanian declaration of independence early next year, raising the prospect of an ethnic partition of the breakaway province that the West has long ruled out. | BRUSSELS, Jul 25 (IPS) - Top European Union politicians stated their determination to maintain a unified stance on Kosovo this week as they analysed the latest twists in the saga of the disputed territory. | Russia will accept a partition of Serbia's Kosovo province if that is the solution agreed by Belgrade and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. | PRISTINA, Dec 6 (IPS) - The Troika mediating between Serbia and its breakaway southern province Kosovo has had to acknowledge that its 120-day mediation period has really led nowhere. | A journey around Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province reveals its reliance on the outside world for aid and security, says Ray Furlong. | Serbian MPs vote to condemn any attempt by its troubled province of Kosovo to declare independence. | Russia will accept a partition of Serbia's Kosovo province if that is what both Belgrade and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority agree to, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. | International efforts to determine Kosovo's future suffered an apparent setback today as the province's Serb minority largely boycotted parliamentary elections. | Il premier, ineluttabile l'emancipazione del Kosovo | Serbia's leader says Kosovo independence will never be accepted, after seeing UN plans for a partial breakaway. | New talks to decide the future of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo got under way on Thursday with a conciliatory tone from both sides, but no breakthrough on their fundamental disagreement over its independence. | The leaders of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority urged Serbia on Thursday to stop trying to block independence for the breakaway province and instead look to a future of friendly relations between two sovereign states. | Reaction is mixed on the streets of Belgrade to UN plans for Kosovo's partial breakaway, says the BBC's Nick Hawton. | European Union states will seek to maintain a common front over the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo on Saturday, amid growing concern that it will declare independence unilaterally. | Serbia says Kosovo independence sets a dangerous precedent for other states with separatist movements. | NATO stepped up patrols in Kosovo on Thursday to head off possible violence as a decision nears on the fate of Serbia's breakaway province. |
Nursing home suit settled for $1.9 million | Abuse and neglect was so rampant at a South Side nursing home, two former employees dubbed it "the house of death, terror and filth," a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Monday alleged. | Tenet Healthcare Corp. agreed Thursday to pay $31 million to settle 106 individual lawsuits filed after heart surgery patients at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center developed severe bacterial infections. | Former Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne wrestled with a burglar at his rural English home before the intruder and an accomplice made off with up to one million pounds (1.4 million euros, 1.9 million dollars) of jewellery, police said. | The D.C. Department of Health failed to offer a home care option to frail or elderly residents receiving Medicaid, an option that could have saved $34 million in nursing home costs, according to a critical audit released yesterday. | Insulated from lawsuits by their corporate structures, large private investors in nursing homes have cut jobs and other expenses. | (InfoWorld) - Microsoft has agreed to settle a multimillion dollar lawsuit brought by thousands of Iowa consumers and businesses who say the company's anticompetitive practices forced them to pay inflated prices for software including Microsoft's Windows, Word and Excel. Seven years after it was filed, the class-action... | Increases in air and auto travel should push Thanksgiving travel volumes above pre-9/11 levels. It is estimated that 37.2 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this holiday, up 3.1 percent from last year's 36.1 million travelers. | Paul Hamm traded his warm-up suit for a real suit and shook hands with the man who wants to take away his gold medal. He then settled in for an 11 1 /2-hour hearing that will determine, once and for all, the | The University of California said on Friday that Lehman Brothers LEH.N has agreed to pay $222.5 million to settle a class action suit for the bank's role in the sale of Enron Corp. ENRNQ.PK securities to it and other plaintiffs. | WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Rehabilitation hospital operator HealthSouth will pay $325 million to settle charges that it improperly billed the government's Medicare system. | roundup Plus: WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million shares...BMC looks to simplify network operations...Data center firms settle cookie suit. | CBS and ABC shared the lead in the ratings on Sunday, with CBS averaging the most total viewers and ABC earning the highest ratings among adults 18 to 49. ABC got a lift in that demographic group from the nightâs top-rated show, a two-hour edition of âExtreme Makeover: Home Edition,â which averaged 13.6 million t... | The University of California said on Friday that Lehman Brothers (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to pay $222.5 million to settle a class action suit for the bank's role in the sale Enron Corp. | Insulated from lawsuits by their corporate structures, private investors in nursing homes have cut expenses and staff, sometimes below minimum requirements. | COCOA, Fla. - Hurricane Frances whipped off roofs, felled trees and cut power to 1.9 million homes and businesses in Florida on Sunday as the huge and powerful storm crawled over the state with ferocious winds and sheets of rain. | Boston Scientific Corp. will pay $195 million to settle a class-action suit against its Guidant division, ending a legal battle in which patients claimed Guidant Corp. knowingly hid defects in its implantable heart devices. |
Stocks Nudge Higher in Light Trade | US stocks closed slightly higher on Thursday amid mixed economic news and light trading as Wall Street headed home early for the Christmas holiday. | Stocks ended marginally higher on Monday as gains in technology shares such as Microsoft Corp. offset a sell-off in shares of energy and metals companies following a drop in commodity prices. | NEW YORK - A drop in oil prices and upbeat outlooks from Wal-Mart and Lowe's helped send stocks sharply higher Monday on Wall Street, with the swing exaggerated by thin late summer trading. The Dow Jones industrials surged nearly 130 points... | European shares nudged higher on Monday with technology stocks such as mobile phone giant Nokia and consumer electronics firm Philips rebounding after a poor start to 2005. | European shares nudged higher on Monday with technology stocks such as mobile phone giant Nokia and consumer electronics firm Philips rebounding after a poor start to 2005. | U.S. stock futures nudged higher on Wednesday with the Dow Jones industrial average within 100 points of a record high after marking its second-highest close ever in the last session. | NEW YORK - Stocks moved higher Monday in light Columbus Day trading as investors awaited the impending tide of third-quarter profit reports, hopeful the news would override worries about record oil prices and a sputtering recovery. With no major economic or earnings data to drive the market, investors appeared to be... | Stocks crept higher on Tuesday as a dip in benchmark Treasury bond yields tempered interest rate worries and a breakout in shares of General Electric lent strength to both the Dow Jones industrials and S&P 500. | Oil prices nudged higher for a second day on Monday, struggling to end their steepest slump in more than a decade amid robust winter fuel stocks and easing geopolitical and weather risks to oil supplies. | Stocks rose in light trading on Friday before a holiday, as Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.'s plan to buy a Nordic exchanges company restored enthusiasm about takeover activity. | NEW YORK - Stocks drifted lower in extremely light trading Monday as a disappointing consumer income report prompted investors to collect profits after two weeks of gains. While investors were cheered by the Commerce Department's report of a strong rise in consumer spending for July, growth in incomes was nearly fla... | NEW YORK - Investors sent stocks sharply higher Friday as new economic data showed strength in manufacturing and construction, and Wall Street greeted the departure of PeopleSoft Inc.'s chief executive by buying up technology shares. The Dow Jones industrials gained 100 points in morning trading... | European tobacco stocks were lifted by bid activity on Thursday which helped equity markets nudge higher, while interest rate decisions by both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank went as expected. | U.S. blue-chip stocks fell on Monday as oil prices nudged higher and as drug maker Pfizer Inc. PFE.N and aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. AA.N were hit by broker downgrades. | Stocks fell in early trading after the assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and after the U.S. government reported a weak increase in durable goods orders. | U.S. stocks looked to open higher on Monday, helped by lower oil prices, with a lightly staffed Wall Street hoping to extend a year-end rally. |
Mets 4, Braves 1: Delgado and Green Lead Mets in Game 1 | Carlos Delgado hit a tiebreaking home run off John Smoltz, and Shawn Green added his first homer with the Mets. | The waiting really was the hardest part for Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado , who had played in more regular-season games (1,711) than any other active player who had never been to the playoffs. | The Mets, behind an important two-run homer from David Wright and an encouraging outing by Oliver Pérez, defeated the Atlanta Braves for their ninth victory in 10 games. | Each team scored a run in the 12th inning in bizarre small-ball fashion, followed by Carlos Delgadoâs second home run of the game that sent the Mets to a victory. | The Mets wanted to fill their void at first base with slugger Carlos Delgado. Now they may have their sights set on Doug Mientkiewicz. | Gerald Williams and Eric Valent hit solo home runs to give the New York Mets a 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves in the first game of a doubleheader Tuesday. | The heart of the Mets order -- Carlos Delgado and David Wright -- delivered and the bullpen hung on to give New York a 6-5 victory over the Dodgers on Wednesday in the opener of their divisional playoff series. | Minus two top starters, the New York Mets got dynamic postseason debuts from Carlos Delgado and David Wright to jump ahead of the Dodgers. Back in the playoffs for the first time since losing the 2000 Subway Series, the Mets capitalized on a wild baserunning blunder by Los Angeles and a perfectly respectable performanc... | NEW YORK (Sports Network) - After losing the Carlos Delgado sweepstakes to Florida, the New York Mets have filled their vacant hole at first base with veteran Doug Mientkiewicz. | Carlos Delgado went 4 for 5 in his postseason debut, including a towering home run in the fourth inning and the go-ahead single in the seventh, to bolster a depleted pitching staff. | Even with Jake Peavy on the mound, the San Diego Padres were unable to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks to take the lead in the NL West. The Philadelphia Phillies were in perfect position to pick up a game on the New York Mets in the NL East, before a shocking comeback by the Atlanta Braves handed them a most deflating lo... | Behind contributions from Paul Lo Duca, Shawn Green and Guillermo Mota, the Mets stampeded to a victory against the Los Angeles Dodgers that completed a three-game sweep of their division series. | Shawn Green hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to lead the New York Mets to a 2-1 win and some measure of revenge over the St Louis Cardinals in National League play on Monday. | Veteran Tom Glavine threw six shutout innings to guide the New York Mets to a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, giving the Mets a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five playoff series. | Brian McCann delivered the slump-busting big hits the Atlanta Braves desperately needed. McCann's run-scoring single gave the Braves their first lead in a week, and he added a three-run homer to lift Atlanta to a 4-1 victory over the Washington Nationals on Monday night. | David Wright and Carlos Delgado each homer, Jorge Sosa wins for the sixth time and the Mets beat the Tigers, 3-0, Friday night. |
Nine evacuated as blaze spreads | Firefighters are at the scene of a blaze which spread from a caravan and forced the evacuation of nine people. | Firefighters were tackling a major blaze at London's trendy Camden Market, as police evacuated bars and clubs packed with young revellers on a busy Saturday night. | EDMONTON (CP) - Fire crews extinguished a blazing gas well Tuesday night that had burst into flame shortly after hundreds of people who had been evacuated returned to their homes. | A forest fire burned a large swath of a nature reserve in eastern Spain Friday, forcing the evacuation of 6,000 people in nearby villages. | The last evacuation orders have been lifted for hundreds of residents and firefighters were being sent home Monday after reaching 85 percent containment of a wildfire south of Casper. | A fire at a pork processing plant in southwest Missouri forced the evacuation of nearly 100 people from a neighboring town amid concerns of ammonia fumes released by the blaze. | Thousands of homes in Idaho are evacuated as a wildfire spreads quickly, threatening a US Air Force base. | OJAI, Calif. -- Firefighters lost ground Sunday against a large blaze in a national forest as gusty winds fanned the flames, shutting down highways and prompting officials to urge evacuations. | A fire swept through a nursing home Thursday and killed at least 10 people, the latest in a series of deadly fires, many of which were caused by rampant neglect of safety rules. | Forest fires ravaged swathes of southern Europe Friday with a multitude of blazes killing at least 15 people in Greece, while an 80-year-old man died in Sicily and hundreds were evacuated from their homes. | Firefighters battling 15 fires across Southern California got a break from slowing winds on Wednesday, but major blazes burned unchecked for a fourth day after forcing the largest evacuation in California's modern history. | By CLARA GARCIA Valencia County News-Bulletin AND MIGUEL NAVROT Journal Staff Writer BELEN -- Hundreds of Valencia County residents were evacuated from their homes Friday as fire swept through the bosque west of Rio Communities and as far south as Casa Colorada. | Wildfires Sunday charred parts of the exclusive seaside town of Malibu and forced evacuations of million-dollar homes of many top Hollywood stars, while a man was killed fighting another southern California blaze, authorities said. | Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes and an interstate was closed in two of the many wildfires that dotted the West on Friday. | At least nine wildfires stoked by gusting winds burned out of control in southern California on Sunday, killing one person in San Diego and forcing hundreds to evacuate the wealthy enclave of Malibu where five homes went up in flames. | A wildfire in an area peppered with property owned by celebrities nearly doubled in size Wednesday, prompting evacuation orders for about 325 homes. |
Papa-Islam, incontro a Castel Gandolfo con diplomatici e membri della Consulta | L'iniziativa parte da Benedetto XVI. L'appuntamento è lunedìalle 14. Ci sarà anche il direttore della Moschea di Roma Papa-Islam, incontro a Castel Gandolfo con diplomatici e membri della Consulta | A meeting with Muslim diplomats Monday was Pope Benedict XVI's latest effort to mend relations after remarks about Islam and violence that ignited the Vatican's most serious international crisis in decades. | VATICANO - Messaggio di Papa Benedetto XVI: ÂCon lo sguardo fisso sul CristoÂ
ciascun membro dellÂOrdine dei Fratelli della B.M.V. del Monte Carmelo si senta chiamato ad essere testimone credibile della dimensione spirituale propria di ogni essere umano Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - In questo mese di settembre... | VATICANO - Papa Benedetto XVI ai Vescovi del Malawi in visita Ad Limina: Âil sacerdote è chiamato a vivere per gli altri e non per se stesso, sullÂimitazione di Cristo Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI ha incontrato questa mattina i Vescovi della Conferenza Episcopale del Malawi, già ... | A landmark meeting between Catholic officials and Muslim scholars that aims to spur dialogue between Christianity and Islam is planned to take place in Rome this spring, a senior Vatican official said. | The Pope is to meet Muslim nations' envoys in an attempt to defuse a row between the Catholic Church and Islam. | VATICANO - ÂLa vita del pastore dÂanime deve essere una sintesi equilibrata di contemplazione e di azioneÂ
lÂesempio e lÂinsegnamento di san Gregorio Magno sia seguito dai Pastori della Chiesa e anche dai responsabili delle istituzioni civili auspica Benedetto XVI allÂAngelus Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - L... | VATICANO - Benedetto XVI allÂAngelus : ÂLÂemergenza della fame e quella ecologica stanno a denunciare, con crescente evidenza, che la logica del profitto, se prevalente, incrementa la sproporzione tra ricchi e poveri e un rovinoso sfruttamento del pianeta Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia Fides) - ÂLÂemergenza della fame... | VATICANO - Il Papa ai partecipanti al Congresso Internazionale sulle cellule staminali: ÂIl bene dell'uomo va ricercato non soltanto nelle finalità universalmente valide, ma anche nei metodi utilizzati per raggiungerle: il fine buono non può mai giustificare mezzi intrinsecamente illeciti Castel Gandolfo (Agenzia ... | VATICANO - AllÂinizio della Quaresima lÂincontro del Papa con parroci e clero della Diocesi di Roma - Tra i temi in discussione: diaconato, giovani, peccato e Novissimi, silenzio, dialogo e missione Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Giovedì 7 febbraio, nellÂAula delle Benedizioni, il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI h... | Pope Benedict XVI has invited representatives of Muslim countries to meet next week at his summer residence, the Vatican said Friday. | Pope Benedict visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Thursday, only the second Roman Catholic Pontiff to take such a step, in what was seen as another dramatic gesture of reconciliation to the Muslim world. | VATICANO - ÂNon solo parlare di Dio, ma portare Dio in séÂ: la validità dellÂinsegnamento di San Gregorio di Nissa ribadita allÂudienza generale da Papa Benedetto XVI, che ricorda la Beata Teresa di Calcutta e richiama lÂimpegno per la salvaguardia del creato Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Mercoledì 5 se... | VATICANO - Papa Benedetto XVI in Turchia - LÂincontro con S.S. Bartolomeo I: ÂQuesto incontro rafforzi il nostro mutuo affetto e rinnovi il nostro comune impegno a perseverare nell'itinerario che porta alla riconciliazione e alla pace delle Chiese Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Rientrato ad Instanbul, nel pomeriggio de... | Pope Benedict XVI calls for a dialogue between Muslims and Christians as he starts a four-day visit to Turkey. | VATICANO - AllÂinizio della Quaresima lÂincontro del Papa con parroci e clero della Diocesi di Roma (2) - Tra i temi in discussione: liturgia e partecipazione, obbedienza e libertà , educazione etica, scuola, dialogo Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Giovedì 7 febbraio, nellÂAula delle Benedizioni, il Santo Pad... |
U.S. Marines Change Policy on Disclosing Iraq Deaths | The U.S. Marine Corps said on Thursday it will again disclose the deaths of Marines as they occur in Iraq, reversing a policy that has made it difficult to track American casualties and the lethality of the insurgency. | TWO US Marines were killed in Iraq's Baghdad province, the marines said in a statement which gave no further details. The deaths followed the killing of eight marines over the weekend in the restive western Al-Anbar province. | Insurgents have killed a U.S. Marine in western Iraq, the U.S. military said on Friday. | Four U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed in attacks in Baghdad and Iraq's western Anbar province, the military said Monday. The five deaths took place in separate attacks Sunday, the military said in a statement. | The Marine who shot and apparently killed a wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in Fallujah on Saturday has been removed from the battlefield for questioning, and US commanders | U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a proposal to give American troops in Iraq more rest from battle, as Democrats renewed their attempts to change President George W. Bush's Iraq policy. | Insurgents have killed a U.S. Marine in western Iraq, the U.S. military said on Friday. | CAMP PENDLETON, California - A U.S. Marine testified on Thursday he shot to death two unarmed Iraqi men in the town of Haditha and watched members of his squad kill more civilians after a roadside bomb ripped apart a fellow Marine in November 2005. | The Navy is investigating claims that Camp Pendleton Marines killed between five and 10 unarmed captives during a fierce battle in Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004, current and former Marines told The Associated Press. | Leading Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged President Bush to consider changing the civilian leadership at the Pentagon, one week after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned against fascism and appeasement as he defended U.S. policies in Iraq. | WASHINGTON - A US Marine being investigated for allegedly killing an unarmed, wounded Iraqi was acting under extreme combat stress, comrades said yesterday. | Democratic leaders in Congress have decided to shift course and pursue modest bipartisan measures to alter U.S. military strategy in Iraq, hoping to use incremental changes instead of aggressive legislation to break the grip Republicans have held over the direction of war policy. | The Marines suffered more deaths in Iraq last month than the Army, even though the Army had at least three times as many troops there, Pentagon casualty records show. | Plans by President Bush to announce a withdrawal of up to 30,000 U.S. troops from Iraq by next summer drew sharp criticism yesterday from Democratic leaders and a handful of Republicans in Congress, who vowed to try again to force Bush to accept a more dramatic change of policy. | An investigating officer in the case against a U.S. Marine accused of murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, has recommended that charges against him be dropped, concluding that the government's allegations that the Marine executed a group of men are "unsupported and incredible." | Four U.S. Marines were killed in action Wednesday in western Iraq, the U.S. military said. |
Global Warming Treaty Gets Russia's OK | Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Andrey Denisov, left, shakes hands with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan while Kenyan Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai, right, look on after they signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. | Russia's cabinet said it supported the Kyoto Protocol, Interfax reported, in the first concrete sign that Moscow would ratify the pact and enable the UN's global warming treaty to enter into force. | Russia's ratification in November of the Kyoto protocol on climate change marked a high point for co-operation on the issue. The treaty could not have come into force without Russia's participation, which had been in doubt. | United States ought to be leading the parade to curb global warming, not just watching it. After years of delay, Russia appears poised to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty aimed at limiting | Russia was due to formally hand over its accession papers on the Kyoto protocol to the UN in Nairobi, ensuring the pact for developed countries to combat global warming becomes a full treaty in mid-February, UN sources said. | Russia's Cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol on global warming yesterday, clearing the way for the worldwide adoption of the pact -- despite US opposition -- once the Russian parliament ratifies it as expected. | Russia formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming on Thursday, clearing the way for the environment pact to come into force in February 2005. | President Vladimir V. Putin on Friday signed Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the Kremlin announced, clearing the way for the international | Russia's Cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol on global warming Thursday, clearing the way for the worldwide adoption of the pact — despite U.S. opposition — once the Russian parliament ratifies it as expected. | Russia's decisive support to the long-delayed climate change treaty should allow it to come into force worldwide. | NAIROBI, Kenya - Russia formally ratified on Thursday the Kyoto Protocol on global warning, clearing the way for the international environment accord aimed a curbing global warming to come into force early next year. | Russia formally notified the United Nations on Thursday of its acceptance of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, starting a three-month countdown for the long-debated 1997 pact on cutting greenhouse gas emissions to come into force. | Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill that marks Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, clearing the path for the United Nations environmental pact to be implemented next year. | The Russian government has approved the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, clearing the way for parliament to vote on ratification of the pact. | President Vladimir Putin gave his seal of approval for Russia's crucial backing of the Kyoto Protocol, clearing the way for the UN environment pact aimed at curbing global warming to come into force early next year. | Russia gave final approval to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming as President Vladimir Putin signed legislation ratifying the landmark environmental pact that seeks to slow global warming by reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, the Kremlin said Friday. |
Aziz elected Pak PM amid boycott by Oppn | President Pervez Musharraf's loyalist Shaukat Aziz was elected as Pakistan's Prime Minister in a National Assembly vote boycotted by the opposition in protest of the speaker' decision not to permit their jailed candidate Javed Hashmi to take part in the | KABUL, Afghanistan - Ballot boxes poured into counting centers Monday for a tally of the disputed presidential election in Afghanistan amid signs an opposition boycott was wavering after at least two candidates agreed to accept the ruling of an independent panel's inquiry. Election organizers hope their decision, an... | Pakistan's parliament elected former finance minister Shaukat Aziz, a close ally of President Pervez Musharraf, as prime minister yesterday after the opposition boycotted the vote, saying it was undemocratic. Aziz, 55, worked 30 years as a Citibank executive before becoming finance minister when Musharraf took power in... | Former finance minister Shaukat Aziz, an ally of President Pervez Musharraff, was elected Pakistan's prime minister yesterday in a rubber-stamp parliamentary vote boycotted by the entire opposition. | External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh has said that the atmosphere for continuing the Indo-Pak peace process is conducive, and added that he is looking forward to Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's three-day visit to India from November 23. | Pakistan's parliament elected Shaukat Aziz, the former finance minister and a close ally of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, as prime minister on Friday. The opposition boycotted the vote. | ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's new Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will be sworn in on Saturday, a day after he was elected by parliament during a session boycotted by the entire opposition. | More than 1,000 extra NATO troops have poured into Kosovo to secure Saturday's election but the Serb minority is insisting on a boycott amid simmering ethnic tensions. | Opposition parties in Pakistan are to boycott parliament in protest at President Musharraf's re-election plans. | Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz started a two-day visit to India on Tuesday amid signs of conciliation between the two nuclear-capable nations. | Banker-turned-politician Shaukat Aziz, a loyalist of President Pervez Musharraf, Saturday took over as Pakistan's prime minister and won the vote of confidence in the National Assembly with the entire Opposition boycotting the proceedings, charging that | Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Shaukat Aziz won by-elections in two constituencies of the National Assembly, parliament's lower house, making him eligible to take office as head of government next week, his party said. | NEW DELHI The prime minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz, will make his first visit to India this week for talks with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, amid renewed rancor over Kashmir. | Shaukat Aziz, the man chosen by President Pervez Musharraf to be Pakistan's next prime minister, was heading for victory in by-elections here, paving the way for him to take office next week. | Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is due to make his first visit to India this week for talks with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh amid renewed rancor between the nuclear rivals over Kashmir. | Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's prime minister-designate Shaukat Aziz won by-elections in two constituencies of the National Assembly, parliament's lower house, making him eligible to take office as head of government next week, his party said. |
Blood pressure linked to development of glaucoma | NEW YORK - Glaucoma is more likely to occur in people with an elevated pulse pressure -- the difference between the high blood pressure number (when the heart beats) and the low number (when the heart is relaxed) -- Dutch researchers report. | NEW YORK - Obese children who watch a lot of television are more likely to have high blood pressure than heavy children who don't spend as much time in front of the tube, the results of a new study shows. | A study in Australia has shown that changes occur in blood vessels in the eyes of heavier and obese children from as young as six, warning signs that might be linked to cardiovascular disease in later life. | Science & environment: People living around airports are 40% more likely to develop high blood pressure, says study | If you are short sighted and spend nine hours or more each day in front of your computer screen you are significantly increasing your chances of developing glaucoma - an eye disease which can eventually make you blind. | Researchers believe that staring at a computer screen can lead to progressive eye diseases, such as glaucoma. A study in Japan has found that staring at a screen could be related to glaucoma, which can lead to blindness. | Heavy computer use may be linked to glaucoma, especially among those who are short- sighted, fear researchers. | NEW YORK - Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes who maintain good control of their blood sugar levels during the second trimester are at decreased risk for developing preeclampsia, a potentially serious pregnancy complication involving high blood pressure and fluid retention, according to a report in the journal BJOG. | [Health India]: London, Nov 16 : A new research has found that constant use of computers may be linked to the development of a progressive eye disease, specially in shortsighted people, which eventually leads to blindness, according to a report published | Blood pressure drugs beta-blockers can help keep arteries from clogging up, researchers said on Monday in a report that helps explain how the drugs prevent heart attack and sudden heart death. | Obesity is related to poor blood flow, high blood pressure "and cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases," Dr. Deborah Gustafson, from Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Goteborg, said in a statement. | NEW YORK - There is some evidence that various types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure could hasten or impede the development of type 2 diabetes, but the latest findings don't support that idea. | CHICAGO -- More than 1 million U.S. youngsters have undiagnosed high blood pressure, leaving them at risk for developing organ damage down the road, a study suggests. | New evidence emerges of a link between the pregnancy disorder pre-eclampsia and heart disease. | Monthly eye injections of the drug Lucentis can dramatically improve sight in people with the "wet" form of macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, two studies showed on Wednesday. | A small amount of dark chocolate could reduce blood pressure, research from Germany suggests |
Big bank and broker in merger | LONDON JP Morgan Chase and Cazenove Group, a 181-year-old brokerage firm with close ties to some of Britain's most powerful executives, announced a long-awaited joint venture Friday that puts Cazenove in charge of all of JP Morgan's British investment | TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. has been talking to rival online brokers about potential deals, its CEO said the day after the company disclosed that two hedge funds had pushed it to pursue a merger. | Deutsche Bank believes that further mergers and takeovers will be seen in the European banking sector in the wake of the merger of Italian banks Intesa and San Paolo Imi, according to the head of Germany's biggest bank. | TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. has been talking to rival online brokers about potential deals, its CEO said the day after the company disclosed two hedge funds had pushed it to pursue a merger. | FRANK Lowy's Westfield Group dominates the listed property trust sector by size and remains a favoured stock among brokers. After the $27 billion merger of the three Westfield trusts earlier | The London Stock Exchange has been left with few options to defend itself from Nasdaq Stock Markets Inc.'s unwanted attentions after British financial markets broker ICAP's decision not to pursue fresh merger talks, analysts said on Tuesday. | Nigerian banks United Bank of Africa and Standard Trust announce plans to merge and create the biggest bank in West Africa. | The London Stock Exchange has been left with few options to defend itself from Nasdaq Stock Markets Inc.'s unwanted attentions after British financial markets broker ICAP's decision not to pursue fresh merger talks, analysts said on Tuesday. | Shares in British bank Barclays PLC pushed higher Monday on media reports that it has held merger talks with U.S. banking giant Wells Fargo & Co. | Nationwide, Britain's biggest mutually-owned bank, is to merge with smaller rival Portman, to create a new financial services group with more than 150 billion pounds (221 billion euros, 281 billion dollars) in assets. | A lawsuit seeks to discover how ticket brokers manage to snatch up a high proportion of tickets for big-name concerts to resell them at inflated prices. | Bank of Montreal, Canada's fifth- biggest bank, agreed to buy Mercantile Bancorp Inc., which has branches in northwestern Indiana, for $156. | Bank of America Corp. laid off an unspecified number of employees Wednesday at hundreds of Fleet Bank branches, a byproduct of the merger of the two banks, a company spokeswoman said. | The head of French bank Societe Generale has hired investment banks to advise on the possibility of a merger with larger domestic rival BNP Paribas , Les Echos newspaper reported on Friday. | NEW YORK - Political novelist Christopher Buckley's Wall Street satire "God Is My Broker" is following his tobacco tale "Thank You for Smoking" to the big screen. | Merger and acquisition activity involving UK banks set a new record before the crisis in the credit market. |
Dirrell Boosts American Title Hopes in Boxing | Middleweight Andre Dirrell boosted the United States' slim hopes of winning an Olympic boxing title by booking a place in the semi-finals with a narrow victory over Cuba's Yordani Despaigne Wednesday. | Ricky Hatton tries to ignore the taunts of World Boxing Council welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather, hoping to make a knockout statement in the ring at their December 8 title clash in Las Vegas. | In attesa di essere processato per possesso di droga, l'ex campione del mondo dei pesi massimi Mike ... | Heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko will make the first defense of his International Boxing Federation title against American Calvin Brock on November 11 at Madison Square Garden. | The Australian boxing champion has retained his IBF junior welterweight title after smashing American Sharmba Mitchell yesterday in a devastating combination of killer punches and ring smarts. | Tony Thompson, No. 1 in the World Boxing Association rankings, will face journeyman Cliff Couser while he waits for his title fight. | Before it's all over, the boos might boost him to a Olympic gold medal, America's first in boxing since the 1996 Games. "Yeah, I like it," Ward said. | Sebastian Loeb boosts hopes of a fourth straight world title after Championship leader Marcus Gronholm crashes out in Japan. | Britain's Danny Williams is to challenge Vitali Klitschko for his World Boxing Council heavyweight title in the United States in December. | LOS ANGELES - Boosted by hits like Billy Crystal's new one-man play "700 Sundays" as well as an upswing in theatergoers visiting from foreign countries, Broadway saw a 3.2% increase in box office receipts this year over that of 2003, according to the League of American Theatres and Producers Inc. | ATHENS -- Andre Ward knows what he's going to be hearing this afternoon and he's looking forward to it. The light heavyweight will be the only boxer at Peristeri Boxing Hall booed for trying to win a gold medal. Anti-American sentiment has been on the rise at many of the Olympic venues, most noticeably track and field ... | 13.09.04 - Three-division world champion and current #1 WBC heavyweight contender James Toney, deep into preparations for his September 23 bout with Rydell Booker at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California, is a man who doesnât mince | Incisive Media, a British business news provider, said Thursday it will pay about $630 million to buy the publisher of The American Lawyer and other titles as it seeks to boost its product range and strengthen its foothold in North America. | Lo statunitense Jermain Taylor ha conservato il titolo di campione WBC e WBO dei pesi medi battendo ... | After two weeks in limited release, the Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman comedy "The Bucket List" hopes to end the reign of "National Treasure: Book of Secrets" at the North American box office. | World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Britain's Danny Williams in New York on December 11, Williams's promoter said on Thursday. |
Milano, 12:35 - CALCIO, DIRITTI TV B; LOCATELLI: VOGLIAMO RISPETTO ACCORDI | A dispetto dell'iniziale atmosfera serena che si respirava nelle prime ore della mattinata all'ingre... | In vista dell'imminente riunione della Lega Calcio sui problemi per il mancato accordo sui diritti t... | Sportitalia ha ceduto a Mediaset una parte dei diritti sul digitale terrestre della serie B. I diri... | Accordo raggiunto tra Mediaset e la Lega sui diritti tv. Mediaset trasmetterà sul digitale te... | Accordo fatto tra Lega e Rai per la copertura televisiva delle prossima fasi (quarti, semifinali e f... | Diego Della Valle si lancia nella battaglia contro Galliani nellâambito della Lega Calcio e preferisce chiudere, di conseguenza, la vertenza sui diritti Tv con Sky, pur restando insoddisfatto delle condizioni proposte dalla società di Murdoch. | La serie B potrebbe slittare se non si troverà l'accordo per la cessione dei diritti tv. Lo h... | Si apre uno spiraglio per i diritti tv della B. "Abbiamo proposto a Sky, che è il nostro part... | Sky ha acquisito i diritti tv satellitari per le partite casalinghe di Catania, Fiorentina, Palermo,... | Il telegionale di Rai Uno continua a surclassare l'informazione dell'ammiraglia Mediaset. Riotta parla ai giovani e gli ascolti decollano. Di' la tua | ASIA/INDONESIA - ÂFranciscans InternationalÂ, lÂOng della Famiglia francescana, per il rispetto dei diritti umani nella Papua indonesiana e la lotta alla povertà a livello globale Giacarta (Agenzia Fides) - Il rispetto dei diritti umani nella Papua indonesiana è una questione urgente, che necessita dellÂattenzion... | Il centrocampista del Siena Paul Constantin Codrea non giocherà contro il Milan domenica pros... | ASIA/SRI LANKA - La comunità internazionale chiede al governo di Colombo di garantire il rispetto dei diritti umani, mentre infuria il conflitto civile Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Urge il rispetto dei diritti umani, anche nella dolorosa condizione di guerra civile che agita il paese: è quanto chiedono la Nazioni Unite ... | Il Milan non ha mai chiesto un occhio di riguardo agli arbitri. Lo ha detot l'amministratore delegat... | ASIA/INDIA - Dalit di religione cristiana, indù e buddista in corteo per chiedere il rispetto dei propri diritti e la fine di ingiustizie e discriminazioni New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Un corteo di un migliaio di dalit (gli ÂintoccabiliÂ) ha sfilato per le strade della capitale Delhi fino ai palazzi del governo e del... | Galliani blinda la serie B: «O saremo ventidue oppure non si parte neppure». Novità -spareggi. MILANO - Blindati, all'unanimità . O saranno in ventidue e allora giocheranno regolarmente dal 12 settembre il |
Informant: No drug buy | An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman's house denies buying drugs there, authorities say. Undercover officers raiding the 88-year-old woman's house shot her to death after she fired on them while they broke down her door in a high-crime neighborhood. Federal pr... | GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to disclose information on all clinical studies of its drugs to settle a lawsuit that accused it of withholding negative information about the antidepressant Paxil, the | WASHINGTON -- The Illinois governor's ambitious plan to help that state's residents buy prescription drugs from Britain also may permit drug imports from Europe's developing nations, the Food and Drug Administration fears. | IBM has offered to buy Telelogic, a Swedish developer of software development tools, in a cash deal valued at 5.2 billion Swedish krona, or about $745 million, the companies announced Monday.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management gl... | IBM said on Friday it has developed technology to help drug distributors, manufacturers and retailers prevent counterfeit drugs from making their way into the market. | The drugs giant settles accusations that it withheld information about anti-depressants by agreeing to publish all its drug trials online. | Huge supplies of a generic form of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s BMY.N best-selling drug in the market could hurt the company's earnings in 2006 and 2007, even after a U.S. judge halted new shipments of the copycat drug, analysts cautioned on Friday. | WASHINGTON Consumer Reports has launched its free Best Buy Drugs Web site, rating what it says are the best medicines at the lowest prices. | An author of last year's law creating Medicare prescription drug benefits says liberal groups are undermining the program by spreading false information about it, and he wants them to stop. But the organizations will have none of it. | Two television advertisements for Pfizer Inc.'s impotence drug Viagra should be withdrawn for claiming a return of sexual desire and omitting key information, the Food and Drug Administration said in a letter to the company released on Monday. | Importing cheaper drugs from up north isn't as simple as it seems | Merck & Co. said the US Food and Drug Administration has requested additional safety and efficacy information on its Vioxx successor, Arcoxia, before it considers granting US approval for the drug. | The Food and Drug Administration will establish a new independent Drug Safety Oversight Board to monitor FDA-approved medicines once they're on the market and update physicians and patients with emerging information on risks and benefits. | Importing cheaper prescription drugs should not come at the expense of safety, said a US government report issued on Tuesday that highlighted the problems of ensuring the medicines are equivalent to those in the United States. | German drug maker Bayer AG "mistakenly" failed to inform U.S. regulators about a study on the risks of heart-surgery drug Trasylol before an advisory panel met and ruled the side effects were acceptable, the company said on Friday. | CHICAGO - Ignoring a federal ban on prescription drug imports, Illinois' governor announced Tuesday that the state would have an online clearinghouse running within a month to help residents purchase drugs from Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The state won't import the drugs itself, but plans to contract wit... |
New Clinton economic message has echoes of Edwards | MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin - White House hopeful Hillary Clinton has a message for hairdressers in Wisconsin, postal workers in Ohio and autoworkers across the United States who are struggling financially: She cares. | At a key moment during a labor-sponsored debate in August, John Edwards laid down a marker against Hillary Rodham Clinton. | Democratic presidential contender John Edwards on Wednesday mounted an attack on excessive executive pay and soaring oil company profits, promising a series of moves that he said would "restore balance between America's corporations and America's working families." | With intensity that matched the heat, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards continued his scorching criticism of special interests Saturday, telling voters his trade policies would work for them, not big corporations. | Eight presidential candidates fought to make their points during a two-hour debate in New Hampshire Sunday. Former Sen. John Edwards blasted Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over their handling of a recent war spending bill. Clinton answered the charge and added, "The differences between us are minor. The differe... | Democrat John Edwards blamed Bill Clinton's administration Saturday for trade agreements unpopular with labor unions and warned against electing "corporate Democrats." | Democratic presidential contender John Edwards said on Thursday he would accept public financing of his primary campaign, reversing his earlier stance, and challenged rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to do the same. | Democrat John Edwards ends bid for the White House ... Giuliani, a contradiction within GOP, to bow out of presidential race ... Obama attacks Clinton as calculating and divisive figure who votes with the GOP ... Romney jokes about spending all his money in 2008 race ... Nader launches 2008 exploratory presidential bid... | Looking to shake up Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the Democratic presidential race, John Edwards is making an ardent push for voters to turn away from Washington insiders and what he condemns as a corrupt political system. | DES MOINES, Iowa - Voters in Iowa begin the process of choosing the next U.S. president on Thursday, and a new poll showed Barack Obama leading John Edwards in the Democratic nominating contest -- with Hillary Clinton falling to a potentially disastrous third. | John Edwards predicts his financial disadvantage against Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama would be quickly overcome if he were to pull off a victory in the Iowa presidential caucuses Thursday | Presidential hopeful John Edwards said Saturday he's raising enough money to compete in the early states and invoked Howard Dean's 2004 fundraising totals as a cautionary tale. | Research In Motion acknowledged an outage left users in the Americas without access to their BlackBerry e-mail service on Monday, but said no messages were lost during the incident.The outage started at around 3:30 p.m. Eastern time and lasted for about three hours, causing "intermittent delays" for... | John Edwards predicts his financial disadvantage against Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama would be quickly overcome if he were to pull off a victory in the Iowa presidential caucuses Thursday. | Toiling behind Hillary Rodham Clinton in most national polls, her two main rivals in the 2008 Democratic presidential field, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina senator John Edwards, are increasingly seeking to contrast themselves with the New York senator. | Former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) is hitting the airwaves in New Hampshire, the most tangible sign yet that his campaign is seeking to change the perception that he is pinning his presidential hopes almost solely on success in Iowa. |
Hammers open talks with Curbishley | Alan Curbishley was on the verge of a return to football as the new manager of West Ham after the London club opened talks with the former Charlton boss. | West Ham manager Alan Curbishley has insisted there are no problems with his relationship with Dean Ashton and hinted the striker could be recalled for Saturday's FA Cup clash with Manchester City. | Talks begin over the possible takeover of UK Coal's five opencast sites in the north-east of England. | Allied defence ministers with troops on the front line in southern Afghanistan held talks Friday on how to fill gaps in forces and hammer out a strategy for the next half a decade. | Two of Britain's big unions are to start talks which could lead to merger and a 2.5 million member 'super union'. | Secretary of State Colin Powell sought to hammer out a strategy with Japan on Sunday to persuade North Korea to return to six-party talks on scrapping its suspected nuclear weapons programs. | Secretary of State Colin Powell sought to hammer out a strategy with Japan on Sunday to persuade North Korea to return to six-party talks on scrapping its suspected nuclear weapons programs. | The European Union and Turkey reached a historic agreement Friday to begin talks next year aimed at bringing the populous Muslim nation into the EU after hammering out a compromise over Ankara's relationship with Cyprus. | Michael Howard calls on Tony Blair to scrap England's network of unelected regional chambers. | Walter Smith will open talks to take over as Scotland's manager after Wednesday's friendly against Sweden. | Bayer Leverkusen, losing finalists to Real Madrid in 2002, hammered the Spaniards, 3-0, yesterday, the most stunning upset in the opening rotation of the Champions League. | Lib Dem leader confirms private discussions with Gordon Brown. | LONDON, Sept. 16. - Bayer Leverkusen, losing finalists to Real Madrid in 2002, hammered the Spaniards 3-0, the most stunning upset in the opening rotation of the Champions League. | Former champion Serena Williams hammered Patty Schnyder 6-4 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open on Sunday and then said she was surprised to have the crowd on her side. | Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday opened talks in Japan on sealing a landmark security pact and a free trade deal between the Pacific powers, officials said. | Lo ha detto un portavoce dopo le critiche del Sunday Telegraph |
Consumer craze hits post-sanctions Libya | Freed from sanctions, Libyans are rushing to the shops. Goods long denied are flying off the shelves as pro-market reforms and a petrodollar windfall combine to turn those with sufficient savings into compulsive consumers. | Consumers, after a big spending spree in September, grew more cautious last month, with retail sales edging up just 0.2 percent, the government reported Friday. | US President George W. Bush removed most economic sanctions on Libya, clearing the way for huge compensation payments to the families of victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. | Two consumer products giants - Colgate-Palmolive (CL) and Unilever (UL)â warned Monday of disappointing outlooks as consumer goods firms across the world struggle with a slowdown in spending by shoppers. | President Bush on Monday signed an executive order lifting sanctions against Libya, rewarding the country for agreeing to dismantle its weapons programs. | Italy says it will lift anti-terror sanctions on Libya unilaterally if the rest of the EU fails to back the measure next week. | The UK consumer advice body saw complaints hit a record in 2007, notably about used cars sales, figures say. | The Bush Administration's announcement of the lifting of some US sanctions on Libya nudges Washington and Tripoli closer to resuming full diplomatic ties. | Consumatori hanno calcolato effetto provvedimenti | US consumers lost a little of their enthusiasm for auto purchases last month but spent like mad in a number of other areas including clothing and gasoline, the US Commerce Department reported Friday. | The British government said Tuesday that it was delighted that the United States has lifted the remaining sanctions on Libya. "We are delighted that, in delivering on the historic commitment made on Dec. | Two big consumer products companies issued profit warnings, underscoring an increasingly tough competitive landscape for makers of some of the world's best-known brands. | Italy will stop applying EU sanctions against Libya next week even if the measures are not lifted by the European Union, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu revealed. | Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu says Italy is ready to lift EU sanctions on Libya unilaterally if the whole EU fails to do so next week. | Retail sales edged up in August but they posted the biggest decline in almost a year when car sales were stripped out as consumer spending softened, a government report on Friday showed. | Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday warned of more sanctions if progress was not made at talks in Libya to end four years of violence in the western Sudanese region. |
Zambia demolition campaign begins | Police knock down some 250 houses in Zambia's capital at the start of a major demolition campaign. | AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Le Pontificie Opere Missionarie dello Zambia a convegno per studiare lo Statuto delle POM Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- Le Pontificie Opere Missionarie dello Zambia hanno tenuto il loro incontro nazionale a Lusaka, il 5 e il 6 febbraio, per studiare lo Statuto delle POM, secondo le informazioni inviate allÂA... | Zambia deployed armed police in the capital Lusaka on Sunday amid rising tension after President Levy Mwanawasa overtook the early lead of his populist opponent in the country's election. | Zambia LUSAKA -- Populist opposition leader Michael Sata took an early lead in vote-counting in Zambia yesterday, but the final result remained uncertain in the battle for control of the copper-rich country. The election yesterday pitted Sata's vows for a more equitable distribution of wealth against the policies of Pr... | Zambian police fired tear gas and arrested 70 opposition supporters in the capital on Sunday as President Levy Mwanawasa widened his lead in an election the main challenger has labeled a "conspiracy" to rig the vote. | A court rules that Zambia's ex-President Frederick Chiluba is not too ill to stand trial for corruption in Zambia. | Nationwide power outages shut down basic services across Zambia and Zimbabwe as anger mounted in South Africa over power cuts that have wreaked havoc in the continent's economic hub. | Zambia deployed armed police in the capital Lusaka on Sunday as incumbent Levy Mwanawasa widened his lead in the presidential election count, prompting charges of ballot rigging from challenger Michael Sata. | Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has warned that he may be forced to launch a campaign to clean-up his party's leadership for abusing authority to amass wealth and property. | WASHINGTON - An election lawyer for President Bush who also has been advising a veterans group running TV ads against Democrat John Kerry resigned Wednesday from Bush's campaign. "I cannot begin to express my sadness that my legal representations have become a distraction from the critical issues at hand in this elec... | Rafael Nadal begins his Wimbledon campaign with victory over Mardy Fish. | Twelve fans are killed in a stampede during a celebration at Zambia's Chililabombwe stadium. | Dean Macey begins his campaign for decathlon gold on day 10 in Athens. | Colombia's right-wing paramilitaries begin to demobilise to boost the peace process with the government. | AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Elezioni al via. La Chiesa: ÂScegliete candidati che abbiano il coraggio della verità , lÂattenzione alle problematiche della giustizia e della pace e si impegnino per il bene comune, con particolare attenzione alle esigenze dei poveri Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- Zambia al voto, oggi 28 settembre dove s... | Gli arbitri dello Zambia sono entrati in sciopero perché non ricevono lo stipendio da tre mesi. Ferm... |
Tory pay audit 'to tackle bias' | The Tories would force firms to carry out a "pay audit" of staff under plans to end sex discrimination. | Tory leader Michael Howard promises his party would tackle "things that matter" in its alternative Queen's Speech. | Tory plans to freeze Britainâs aid budget would not have to mean cuts in spending on issues such as tackling HIV/Aids, the party insisted today. | A tax rise on alcohol to help tackle binge drinking is among proposals put forward by a Tory policy group. | An inquiry has been opened into the charitable status of a think-tank following complaints from the Tories. | The Tories are set to unveil details of their tax cut proposals. Send us your reaction. | The Tories today published an eight-point plan to tackle the pensions crisis and ârestore our saving cultureâ. Shadow pensions secretary David Willetts published | THE Tories have announced an eight-point plan to tackle the pensions crisis and 'restore our saving culture'. Shadow Pensions Secretary David Willetts published his blueprint 24 hours before the Government's | Tory leader David Cameron delivers a sharp rebuke to those in his party calling for tax cuts. | George Osborne commits the Tories to matching Labour's public spending for the next three years. | Media & professional: · Audit follows salary leak and cries of foul by rivals · Inquiry into broadcaster's influence on market rates | Tory leader calls for less paperwork in an apparent attempt to upstage government announcement | PricewaterhouseCoopers, which audited Tyco International when it was run by executives who later went to prison, has agreed to pay $225 million to settle claims. | Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are to tell Labour members that Tory policies would cause economic failure. | A telephone company cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to pay its bill on time, according to a U.S. government audit released on Thursday. | Cameron questions Scots' 'generous' public funding after Tories challenge voting rights at Westminster. |
U.S. Perception of Terror Threat Down -Survey | Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Americans are feeling less vulnerable while remaining determined to fight terrorism, according to a survey released on Tuesday. | TOKYOâFrom submarines to soccer and sex, everything seems to bedevil Japan-China relations these days. And with growing perceptions in Tokyo and Beijing of a military threat from | A new National Intelligence Estimate raises concerns that the terrorist group is growing stronger. | After more than a decade hunting al-Qaida, U.S. counterterrorism agencies are reviewing their understanding of the terror group, which they strongly believe was behind the plot to blow up some 10 jetliners bound for the U.S. | Accra, Oct. 20, GNA - Ghana has improved slightly on this year's corruption perception list by scoring 3.6 as against 3.3 recorded last year, making it the 7th least corrupt among 36 African countries included in the survey. | LONDON - Spiders are more scary than terrorists - at least according to a survey of a thousand Britons released Monday. Household creepy crawlies frighten Britons more than terrorist attacks, or even death, the survey found... | Terrorism has overtaken weak job growth and the budget deficit as the biggest risk to the U.S. economy, and inflation fears are slowly building, a survey of American businesses out on Tuesday showed. | The U.S. Embassy warned Americans on Monday of a heightened terrorist threat against Westerners in Sudan. | Islamic militants waging a deadly insurgency against U.S.-led forces in Iraq pose an emerging international terrorism threat, CIA Director Porter Goss said on Wednesday. | Privacy groups assailed a federal data mining program that assigns secret terrorist ratings to millions of U.S. citizens and foreigners traveling to and from the U.S. | Al-Qaida has been threatening, and many people have expected, another terrorist attack against the United States before Tuesday's elections. | Islamic militants waging a deadly insurgency against U.S.-led forces in Iraq pose an emerging international terrorism threat, CIA Director Porter Goss said on Wednesday. | The U.S. government is better prepared to disrupt terrorist plots than it was six years ago, but the country continues to face a serious terrorism threat that could persist for a generation, top intelligence and counterterrorism officials testified yesterday. | Britain raised its assessment of the threat from terrorism to its highest level today after two men slammed a Jeep S.U.V. that caught fire into the departure doors at Glasgow Airport. | America's allies in the Persian Gulf are at least as worried about terrorism as the United States, spending billions of dollars on security fences in the desert, eye scanning machines at airports and other measures to keep out militants. | Part of a classified intelligence report that says the war in Iraq has increased the terrorist threat against the United States has fueled calls by congressional Democrats for a new direction in the nation's war on terrorism. |
Cheers, and Concern, for New Climate Pact | Delegates from more than 190 countries have gathered in Argentina to celebrate the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol. | The bargaining that produced a climate change agreement is only the beginning for Pacific Rim leaders if they want to stick to their declaration to chart a new international course on global warming. | NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Developing nations said they would resist "pressure and even threats" from some rich countries to step up the fight against climate change, as talks on a global climate pact went to the wire on Friday. | Russia's lower house of parliament ratified the Kyoto Protocol on Friday, clearing the way for the long-delayed climate change pact to come into force worldwide. | Russia's Duma ratified the Kyoto Protocol on Friday, clearing the way for the long-delayed climate change pact to come into force worldwide. | Russia's government approved the Kyoto Protocol on Thursday and sent the climate change pact to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, for ratification. | NUSA DUA, Indonesia - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore drew cheers at 190-nation talks by saying the United States was the main block to launching negotiations in Bali on a new global climate treaty. | A climate conference overcomes last-minute objections to approve a deal on future talks global warning. | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the final session of the World Economic Forum on Sunday that he wants an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal and a pact on climate change by the end of 2008. | Climate experts and politicians are discussing policies to extend the Kyoto Protocol and tackle global warming. The Protocol was established in 1997 and sets targets for industrialised countries to cut their | 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. | Australia's leader urged his Pacific Rim counterparts on Sunday to forge a new agreement on climate change — one that would reject binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions in favor of voluntary goals. | European Union leaders reached a broad agreement on an ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gases and switch to renewable energy sources as part of the fight against global warming.Comment | Gruelling talks on forging a new strategy against climate change resumed Saturday, with ministers poring over a proposed text that watered down previous draft commitments on tackling greenhouse gases. | Condoleezza Rice and others cite a new climate, but some say Friday's meeting has more to do with political motivations. | By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - New research is raising concerns that global warming may be triggering a self-perpetuating climate time bomb trapped in once-frozen permafrost. |
Kultur From That Other City of Lights | At Carnegie Hall, focusing on Berlin, with an accent on Weimar and the cityâs present-day vitality. | ATLANTA - During the American Civil War, General William T. Sherman burnt down the city of Atlanta. Thursday night in that same city, the Virginia Tech football team emulated Sherman, lighting up the scoreboard | âAngel-A,â filmed in ravishing black and white, is a valentine to Paris, the City of Light. | On Saturday evening, it's "Lights out San Francisco," where people will voluntary turn off lights for an hour. The aim is to raise awareness of light pollution and the energy wasted by lights left on. | Cutting costs and CO2 A city near Detroit is replacing all the bulbs in its street lighting with LEDs, following similar moves by a town in North Carolina and even Toronto.⦠| How many Ann Arbor city workers does it take to screw in a light bulb? | Revelers from Times Square to downtown Los Angeles welcomed 2005 amid elaborate celebrations that included dazzling fireworks, laser lights and music. | A Southern ground-hornbill sits on her nest, left, at Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City Friday. Right, Rusty Rusin holds a hornbill egg to a light, called "candling," to assess the unhatched chick's health. (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. | The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens, offered an especially appealing setting for a concert by the string quartet Gli Altri. | The stars were aligned in Chicago Wednesday, and they were there to talk about lighting the way for the nation's youth. | Arts & entertainment: Any self-respecting world city now needs outlandish buildings, but what about the past? Superstar architect Rem Koolhaas explains why even he gets nostalgic. | Producer-actress Rosario Dawson's violent date-rape drama "Descent" will be released domestically next spring by City Lights Pictures. | This deadpan fable of colliding cultures from the urban-lore cartoonist Ben Katchor blurs the line between two and three dimensions to the point that it creates its own spatial universe. | The lights at Athens' Olympic stadium turn red to signify the handover of the Paralympic Games to the host city, Beijing. Photo: AFP. | Amsterdam, famed for its red light prostitution district, on Wednesday gave escort services six weeks to apply for official city licenses. | Astronomers expect a spectacular display of the Northern Lights in Irish skies tonight. |
Google Courts Small YouTube Deals, and Very Soon, a Larger One | YouTube is set to announce a partnership with the BBC to create two entertainment channels and one news channel on YouTube. |  China watchers, get your scorecards out: Google's YouTube is blocked, Wikipedia is still blocked, but, for the moment, Google blog site Blogspot.com is available and some pictures from Yahoo's Flickr photos can once again be viewed.China-based users accessing YouTube since Wednesday afternoon began r... | US traffic growing strongly When Google paid $1.65bn for YouTube many questioned what the site's business model was and if it could continue to grow its audience.⦠| MTV owner Viacom Inc. said Tuesday it has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google Inc. in federal court for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than $1 billion in damages | Google & Intuit Alliance = Small Businesses Using Google If anyone can summarize the importance of the Google and Intuit partnership into a couple of sentences, Barry Schwartz has done so at the Search Engine Roundtable blog with the following statement: Google has a huge reach with small businesses, but guess who... | The case that will likely determine the future of the online video sharing industry at least, and the Internet media economy at most, has been filed. Viacom, one of the world's largest media rights holders, has sued Google in federal court in New York, seeking $1 billion in damages for an estimated 1.5 billion separate... | (InfoWorld) - People in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of time they spend watching videos online and Google's YouTube remains by far their preferred video site, according to a study. In July, almost 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched videos online, up from 71.4 percent in March, according to comScor... | In the few months since Google paid $1.65 billion to acquire YouTube, both companies have tried to come up with a formula to turn the hugely popular online video site into a moneymaking venture. | Jumps on Google bandwagon Electronics giant LG and search giant Google have announced a deal that will see "YouTube-enabled" LG mobile handsets hit the markets by the end of the year.⦠| LONDON -- The British Broadcasting Corp. said Friday that it has signed a deal with Google Inc.'s YouTube that will allow the popular Web site to show excerpts of the broadcaster's news and entertainment programs. | Microsoft's MSN Soapbox video-sharing site is unlikely to knock Google's (GOOG) YouTube off its pedestal anytime soon. Soapbox, which officially launched for public testing this month, has several interesting features and big brand backing. | Internet search leader Google Inc GOOG.O is in talks to buy popular Web video site YouTube Inc. for close to $1.6 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. | (InfoWorld) - Online video-sharing service YouTube is extending its reach beyond PCs to mobile phones through a deal with Verizon Wireless. Under the deal announced Tuesday, YouTube will offer a sampling of the most popular videos available through its service, which allows users to watch and share videos on the Web. U... | Web sites with user-generated content have an obligation to deploy "state of the art" filtering technology to prevent the unauthorized posting of copyright material, a group of large broadcasting and Web companies said Thursday.The companies, including Microsoft, MySpace, CBS, and video site Dailymotion, call... | Google Inc.'s YouTube has agreed to a breakthrough deal with major music label EMI Group Plc to give users of YouTube's video sharing site broad access to music videos by EMI artists. | Google may buy online video phenom YouTube for $1.6 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. |
Starbucks Aug. Same-Store Sales Up 8 Pct | Starbucks Corp., the world's largest coffee-shop chain, on Wednesday said sales at stores open at least a year rose 8 percent in August, the first time growth fell below double-digits in nine months. | Shares of Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) slipped last night in after-hours trading when the coffee champ reported same-store sales that were more lackluster than usual. | U.S. stocks rose on Thursday, with the Dow hitting fresh all-time closing and intraday highs, as stronger-than-expected sales at coffee chain Starbucks Corp. , and robust September sales at some department and clothing stores increased optimism about corporate profits. | Circuit City Stores Inc. said Tuesday that same-store sales for the quarter ended August 31 rose 2.9 percent at US stores open at least 12 months, and total sales rose 8.9 percent on improvements in store-level execution and growth in Web-based sales. | PRAGUE- Unemployment in the Czech Republic fell to 8.9 pct in October from September's 9.1 pct, and the number of jobless decreased by over 12,000 to 517,812, the Labour Ministry said. | Business & money: Department store group reports 8% jump in sales, while sales at Waitrose were 28.5% higher on the year | Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O on Wednesday said quarterly net profit rose 47 percent, helped by sales of new products like Frappuccino Light, aggressive store expansion, and an extra week. | Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O on Wednesday said sales at stores open at least 13 months rose 13 percent in November, helped by the coffee shop chain's early launch of holiday products like Christmas Blend coffee beans. | Wal-Mart Stores said Saturday that shopping traffic dropped in the past week as it estimated October same-store sales growth at 2.8 percent. | OTTAWA (CP) - Consumers pushed retail sales to a record $29.1 billion in August, says Statistics Canada. That was up 0.8 per cent from July when sales rose 0.4 per cent and also set a record at $28. | LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Whitbread (UK:WTB) , the FTSE 100 stock and UK pubs and hotels owner, said same-store sales rose 3.1 percent in the 24 weeks to Aug. 19, with comparable sales growth at Travel Inn and Marriott hotels leading the percentage gainers. | Circuit City Stores Inc. reported a gain of 2.9 percent in quarterly same-store sales Tuesday, but growth lagged estimates due to a calendar shift and reduced spending in August. | Thanks to an exclusive partnership between Apple and Starbucks, you can soon take a seat in a participating location andâusing an iPod touch, iPhone, or Mac or PC running iTunesâwirelessly browse, search for, preview, purchase, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks. No connection fee or ... | SEATTLE -- Beverage prices at Starbucks outlets in the United States and Canada are going up by an average 11 cents a cup next week, the coffee chain has announced. | Starbucks and Apple today announced the availability of the Starbucks Hear Music catalog on the iTunes Store. The new Starbucks Entertainment area within the iTunes Store features a variety of popular content as well as playlists created specifically for iTunes. | Starbucks Corp. SBUX.O said on Thursday that sales at its coffee shops open at least 13 months rose 5 percent, helped by sales of coffee drinks and additional food items. |
Dead animals left in dump truck for days | The bodies of more than a dozen dogs, cats and even a hawk were discovered in the back of a Huntington garbage truck, where animal control officials say they'd been left for days. | Gunmen stopped a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants, shot several and took the rest captive Thursday in an attack that left at least three men dead and two people wounded, authorities said. | LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A load of pig entrails sloshed out of a truck hauling the guts to a dog food plant, leaving the slop across a busy Little Rock intersection... | Dozens of trucks and vans formed numerous queues in Colombo as tragedy-struck Sri Lankans offered aid to help fellow citizens hard hit by the tsunami that left 12,000 dead on the island. | · 31 animals found dead in field · Charities describe scene of unprecedented cruelty | BAGHDAD -- Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a US ammunition dump near Tikrit yesterday, killing 17 and raising the toll from three days of intensified insurgent attacks to at least 70 Iraqis dead and dozens wounded. | BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a US ammo dump near Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 and raising the toll from three days of intensified and bloody insurgent attacks to at least 70 Iraqi dead and dozens wounded. | Tre i cani gia' morti, due in gravi condizioni | A rural tradition as old as pickup trucks themselves claimed the lives of two southwestern Virginia teenagers over the Labor Day weekend. They were illegally riding in the bed of the truck when it crashed near Hillsville. A third passenger also died. | Two dogs found buried at a home belonging to DMX had serious wounds, said authorities investigating animal neglect allegations. | Four children were taken to an area hospital this morning with minor injuries after the school bus they were riding in collided with a dump truck in Montgomery County. | ENCAMPMENT, Wyo. - Around 60 rotting wild game and domestic livestock carcasses were removed from an abandoned meat-processing plant and buried in the Saratoga landfill. | BAGHDAD, July 1 -- A dump truck laden with explosives detonated on a bridge over the Euphrates River on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Iraq's bridge network. | A lion and a tiger kept as exotic pets on the roof of a Mexican meat processing plant killed a man feeding them on Monday, Mexican media said. | Wildlife workers have begun a program to poison thousands of prairie dogs in the grasslands of South Dakota to stop them from moving onto private ranch land parched by drought, a federal official said on Tuesday. | A school bus carrying 14 people collided with a dump truck Wednesday and rescue workers called in ambulances and three medical helicopters, emergency officials said. |
Mexico Nets Second Arrest in 'Dirty War' Probe | A former Mexican policeman accused in the 1975 kidnapping and disappearance of a young revolutionary was arrested on Friday, a second detention in a probe of state atrocities committed three decades ago. | Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers. | Wal-Mart de Mexico SA, the country's largest retailer, reported a 7 percent increase in second-quarter net profit after inflation, even as sales at its established stores grew less than 1 percent due in part to a slowdown in consumption. | A Mexican judge re-instates an arrest warrant for ex-President Luis Echeverria, who is accused of genocide. | A Mexican judge has dismissed charges against a former domestic security chief accused in the disappearance of six reputed guerrillas at the height of the government's "dirty war" against insurgents. | MEXICO CITY, Nov. 29 -- A Mexican court reinstated an arrest warrant for former president Luis Echeverr?a on Wednesday, just four months after a federal judge had dismissed the same charges of genocide in connection with a 1968 student massacre. | CUETZALAN, Mexico - From cutting the umbilical chord to post-natal surgery, giving birth in the remote Sierra Norte mountains of central Mexico used to be a dirty and dangerous experience. | A Mexican court reinstated an arrest warrant for former President Luis Echeverria on Wednesday, just four months after a federal judge had dismissed the same charges of genocide in connection with a 1968 student massacre. | Iraq said on Sunday it had arrested the second most senior figure in al Qaeda, "severely wounding" an organization the U.S. military says is intent on plunging the country into sectarian civil war. | A former police investigator was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in connection with the disappearance of six people during Argentina's so-called "Dirty War" against political dissent. | Spanish prosecutors played a tape recording Wednesday of a former Argentine naval officer describing scenes of torture during the so-called "dirty war" waged against dissidents by his country's former military ... | Dozens of people accused of working for a Mexican drug cartel were arrested Wednesday in a multistate bust that has netted more than $45 million in cash | Iraq said on Sunday it had arrested the country's second most senior figure in al Qaeda, "severely wounding" an organization the U.S. military says is spreading sectarian violence that could bring civil war. | A Spanish court is to try an ex-soldier accused of killing dissidents during Argentina's "Dirty War". | Mexico's government is probing a report that drug cartels may have access to anti-aircraft missiles, which could be used to assassinate President Vicente Fox, officials said on Saturday. | BOSNIA'S foreign minister resigned today, becoming the second Bosnian Serb official to quit in as many days after the international community imposed sanctions to punish Bosnian Serb authorities for failing to arrest war-crimes suspects wanted by a UN |
Osos Developer Denied Job on County Water Panel | By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. Feb. 12--Los Osos developer Jeff Edwards will not get his wish to join a key county water panel as an environmentalist, but he could reapply in coming weeks if the committee creates a new slot for builders. | By THOMAS CONTENT and LEE BERGQUIST In a setback for the state's largest utility, a Dane County circuit judge has ruled that a water permit for the $2.2 billion power plant under construction in Oak Creek does not comply with a recent federal appeals court decision. | NASA's plan to send a robot to do an astronaut's job is too expensive, technically risky and too time-consuming to develop, said a scientific panel that | Aaron Devinney hasn't worked since February, when the waste recycling company that employed him for a year and a half laid him off. Oscar Willard's been unemployed for more than three years. Both told Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards on Sunday they just want jobs. | To the editor: In response to the Wednesday story, "Commission OKs water rate increase": No, your pants aren't on fire, it's just our elected county officials blowing smoke as they squeeze us to ensure developers' continued profits. | By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Jun. 13--Despite repeated warnings from the state, a prominent Clackamas County real estate developer allowed his herd of water buffalo to foul a creek with fecal bacteria, stir up sediment and destroy streamside vegetation. | DYER, Nev., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- A new residential development has opened in Esmeralda County, Nevada, just down the road from Nevada Land and Ranches' current ongoing 10-acre and larger ranch property, Mountain Water Ranch. | By Gene Crider, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, S.C. Feb. 2--The S.C. Department of Transportation won't appeal the rejection of its state water quality permit for the Briggs-DeLaine-Pearson Connector, the department announced Thursday. | By BARBARA WILLIAMS, STAFF WRITER WEST MILFORD The developer of a proposed 288-unit town-house project has asked to monitor 39 homeowners' wells to see if there is enough water for the development. K. | By Sharif Durhams, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Jun. 3--Residents in nearby Union County face fines now if they water their lawns on the wrong day. Mecklenburg County officials have asked residents to cut back on water use. | The United States Patent Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for Patent Protection for a groundbreaking seawater desalination process developed by Long Beach Water Department engineers. | By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash. Jun. 2--There's not enough water on Squalicum Mountain to serve a substantial number of homes, and drilling more wells for new houses may rob existing houses of water, a Whatcom County geologist told county officials. | The former head of pipeline-corrosion monitoring for BP in Alaska refused to testify under oath Thursday as outraged lawmakers grilled company officials over the causes of a massive oil spill earlier this year. | Why has Deepika Padukone forgotten that she has acted down South, even as she calls OSO her debut? Oh wait, it's Bollywood tradition. | Tap water supply resumes in central China county after arsenide pollution CHANGSHA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The tap water supply for 80,000 residents in Yueyang County of central China's Hunan Province resumed on Tuesday evening after being suspended for four days due to arsenide pollution. | CEO quits to collaborate Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has declared a change in priorities, deciding to focus less on employment and more on legal issues.⦠|
Germania, costo lavoro +0,5% | Nel terzo trimestre 2006, rispetto a quello 2005 | La Germania ha battuto San Marino 6-0 (1-0) in un incontro valido per il Gruppo D delle qualificazio... | German insurer Allianz SE said Friday it had reached a new labor deal that avoids any near-term compulsory layoffs but still foresees some 5,700 jobs cut by the end of 2008. | German drugmaker Schering AG said Tuesday it plans to cut 1,250 jobs globally by the end of 2005 as part of a plan to increase efficiency. | Il costo delle importazioni nel 2007 aumentera' del 5% | Ania, ragazze piu' prudenti, in media costo sinistri 5.700 | German drugs firm Bayer announces 6,100 job cuts worldwide as part of a major cost-cutting drive. | The number of people looking for work in Germany rose in August, as the modest economic recovery was not enough to create any new jobs in the eurozone's biggest economy, official data showed. | La Germania ha battuto San marino 13-0 in un incontro valido per le qualificazioni agli Europei del ... | La Thailandia è in vantaggio sulla Germania 1-0 nella sfida di Coppa Davis valida per la perm... | Germany's powerful IG Metall labour union called on Monday for wage increases this year of 6.5 percent for the 3.4 million workers in the German engineering and metal-working sector. | Germany's economy minister gives an upbeat assessment of the economy, forecasting growth of up 2.5%. | Le stime di Nomisma Energia annunciano una crescita dell'1,9% sulle tariffe elettricheConsola il prezzo della benzina verde (-5 cent a litro), ma salirà il costo del vino (+20%) Prezzi, aumenta luce e gas La bolletta cresce di 23 euro | Germanyâs unemployment rate slipped to 8.8 percent in June, from 9.1 percent in May, in a sign of better times for the countryâs economy. The number of unemployed people fell to 3.687 million from 3.812 million in May, according to the state jobs agency. The agency said that 711,000 fewer people were jobless compar... | Complice il costo del barile di petrolio, sale anche il prezzo alla pompaNel giro di 12 mesi i carburanti al consumatore registrano un più 15%, oltre 5 volte l'inflazione Benzina a 1,4 euro al litro E' quasi record storico ... | La Germania ha battuto la Serbia 16-5 nella finale valida per il settimo posto degli Europei femmini... |
Violazione della privacy telefonica blitz della Finanza nei call center | Fiamme Gialle al lavoro per verificare il rispetto delle norme imposte dal GaranteIspezioni e controlli in oltre ottanta uffici di tutti i gestori della telefonia fissa e mobile Violazione della privacy telefonica blitz della Finanza nei call center | Paga 14,5 mln per intercettazioni e violazione privacy | Feriti in modo lieve tre iracheni. Questa notte rapiti due dipendenti egiziani della compagnia telefonica Iraqna "Alcuni Rpg sono esplosi intorno alle 8.10 locali (le 6.10 in Italia) nei pressi dell'ambasciata | Cingular Wireless LLC, the nation's largest cell phone provider, on Friday sued a private eye caught up in the scandal over the Hewlett-Packard Co. leak investigation, seeking to make him pay for allegedly obtaining customer call records under false pretenses. | Restituire la fiducia smarrita ai piccoli risparmiatori coinvolti nei vari scandali degli ultimi due anni della finanza italiana. Dalla Cirio alla Giacomelli, fino alla Parmalat, lâelenco è lungo e nel | The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem paying its phone bills on time, according to audit results released yesterday. | Medico nei guai dopo un blitz della trasmissione televisiva âStriscia la notiziaâ in uno studio di un nutrizionista di Rimini. La denuncia ha fatto partire un'inchiesta giudiziaria sull'uso di anabolizzanti. | Feds slap $2.825 million in fees on Sprint Nextel, Alltel and U.S. Cellular in a move designed to demonstrate the importance of location-sensitive phones for mobile subscribers. | (InfoWorld) - The U.S. needs new medical privacy rules as the country moves toward greater use of IT to store health records, a group of health-care experts said Wednesday. "Thousands" of databases that contain U.S. residents' health records exist, and patients don't have any way to keep their personal information from... | Bankrupt Adelphia Communications has offered $300 million to settle long-running federal investigations, and it indicated that potential proceeds from a lawsuit against | Un secondo boom del digitale, sta scuotendo i mercati e il mondo del lavoro. Ecco come diventerà la Rete nei prossimi anni. E come diventaremo noi. Su Affari e Finanza | (InfoWorld) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law this year, allowing consumers to control how their personal information is used. Gates repeated past Microsoft calls for a wide-ranging privacy law during a speech at advocacy group the Center for Democracy and Techn... | Cyber crime experts yesterday expressed their shock at a "basic" security flaw at internet bank Cahoot that could allow hackers to view private account details. | Payout strengthens anti-stalker law A bank which purchased the names and addresses of more than 650,000 people in the US has been ordered to pay a $50m fine. The case was brought by a Florida resident against Fidelity Bank and also included the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.⦠| Roma, 22 dic. (Adnkronos) - Nei primi undici mesi del 2004 la Guardia di finanza ha scoperto più di 7.500 evasori fiscali. Di questi, 6.869 sono evasori totali, cioè completamente sconosciuti al fisco, e 715 evasori paratotali. | Nei primi undici mesi del 2004 la Guardia di finanza ha scoperto più di 7.500 evasori fiscali. Di questi, 6.869 sono evasori totali, cioè completamente sconosciuti al fisco, e 715 evasori paratotali. Nel 2003 erano stati rispettivamente 5.943 e 1.130. |
Donors Sweetened Directorâs Pay at MoMA | For more than eight years, Glenn D. Lowryâs income was higher than the museum reported in its tax forms. | Senator John McCainâs campaign may be paying the price for a career of positions alienating traditional big donors. | The $461 million performing arts center in Miami, entering its second year and struggling financially, has received a $30 million infusion. | About 70 percent of the money from international donors will pay public salaries, while 30 percent is expected to be used for development, food relief, and other assistance. | Rocker Bono and artist Damien Hirst sent the mother of all Valentines to Africa Thursday night - raising more than $40 million for AIDS relief. Queen Noor, Michael Stipe, Dennis Hopper, Martha Stewart, Christy Turlington, Ed Burns, Q-Tip, Helena Ch... | Authorities are finding new ways to encourage organ donation, including indirectly compensating donors and families. Charles H. Patrick, director of the Alabama Organ Center, said 11 states have passed laws | Kidney donor Samuel Robert Smitty intends to turn himself in to Tennessee authorities to address an arrest warrant alleging failure to pay child support. | The Paramount Motion Picture Group said it had created a $300 million production fund with Dresdner Kleinwort to make 30 movies. | Gary L. Pilgrim and Harold J. Baxter, founders of a tech-based mutual fund that blazed and then fizzled in the 1990s, agreed yesterday to pay $160 million to settle | The new Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman education building at MoMA  a taut composition of floating planes and elegant lines  has a cool, self-confident air. | The company accepted a Harvard professorâs proposal that the chief executiveâs pay be subject to approval by three-quarters of the independent directors. | The name and location are the same, but it's no longer your grandmother's Museum of Modern Art. With completion of a $425 million expansion and renovation of its longtime home, MoMa returns to Midtown Manhattan | By Bloomberg News. Edward D. Jones & Company said yesterday that it had agreed to pay $75 million to settle regulators' accusations that it did not disclose hidden marketing deals with mutual funds. | A woman in Milwaukee and her ex-boyfriend are under orders to pay thousands to the recording industry. A man in California refinanced his home to pay an $11,000 settlement... | BERLIN, GERMANY.- Marie-Luise Dietrich, the one-millionth visitor of the MoMA in Berlin-exposition, stands in front of Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night, 01 September 2004 in Berlin. | A record 1.2 million people flocked to see an exhibition of masterpieces from New York's Museum of Modern Art(MoMA) in Berlin, which closed its doors on Sunday after a triumphant seven-month run. |
Goals From Elias and Parise Fuel Devilsâ Shootout Victory | Patrik Elias and Zach Parise scored shootout goals in the Devilsâ 3-2 victory at Buffalo on Saturday, extending the Sabresâ winless streak to nine games. | Zach Parise scored 37 seconds into overtime to cap a furious late rally and lift the New Jersey Devils to a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday night that created a three-way tie atop the Atlantic Division. | Patrik Elias and Sergei Brylin scored two goals each to help the New Jersey Devils thrash the reeling New York Rangers 6-1 on Sunday. | Zach Parise scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period, Martin Brodeur made 35 saves, and the New Jersey Devils beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Tuesday night. | Patrik Elias and Sergei Brylin each scored two goals and Martin Brodeur made 35 saves to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 6-1 victory over the Rangers last night at Madison Square Garden, New York's second embarrassing loss in two days. | Patrik Elias scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and Martin Brodeur made 20 saves in the New Jersey Devils' 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night. | Marian Hossa delivered the decisive goal in a shootout as the Atlanta Thrashers edged the visiting New Jersey Devils, 5-4, last night in a matchup of division leaders. | Marian Hossa scores two short-handed goals, then connects in the shootout to help the Atlanta Thrashers end a season-high five-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night. | St. Etienne striker Frederic Piquionne fired his second goal of the evening near the death to earn the esteemed risers a 2-2 draw at Paris St. | Many of the fans left before the end of the first game at the Prudential Center, as the Devils let up three third-period goals to the team that eliminated them from the playoffs six months ago. | Sergei Samsonov forced overtime when he scored with 47.1 seconds to play in regulation, and Saku Koivu's shootout goal helped the Montreal Canadiens rally for a 6-5 shootout victory over the Nashville Predators on Thursday night. | John Madden scored two goals and Martin Brodeur made 29 saves, including a game-turning penalty shot stop, to lead the New Jersey Devils to a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday. | Dustin Penner scored the tying goal early in the third period and Teemu Selanne got the deciding goal in a shootout, leading the Anaheim Ducks to a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Sunday night. | Philippe Boucher scored the tying goal with 2.2 seconds left, and Mike Ribeiro added the winning shootout goal to his regulation score in the Dallas Stars' 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night. | Buffalo's Ales Kotalik scored the only shootout goal and the Sabres beat the Flyers, 6-5, last night in Philadelphia to extend their season-high winning streak to six games. | Alexander Radulov scores the only shootout goal in the Predators' 4-3 victory over the Blue Jackets on Sunday. |
Judge says ex-cop lied at mob trial | The judge who presided over Chicago's biggest mob trial in years expressed doubts Wednesday about setting bond for a retired policeman convicted in the case, saying his testimony was unbelievable. | Jurors deliberating in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby asked for the judge's advice about how to interpret one of five counts in the case, which charges that the vice president's former chief of staff lied to the FBI about his conversation with former Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper, according to a not... | An ex-defense attorney for Phil Spector was declared in contempt of court Monday after she tearfully refused to testify that she saw a defense expert in the murder case pick up possible evidence. | A judge in the nation's deadliest human-smuggling attempt said she will tell jurors that prosecutors ignored her order to show why they are seeking the death penalty for the man accused of driving and abandoning the tractor-trailer. | Ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic asks judges to subpoena world leaders at his trial in The Hague. | The judge in the Phil Spector trial threatens to jail an ex-lawyer for the music producer over refusing to testify. | ST. GEORGE, Utah - Attorneys for polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, on trial as an accomplice to rape, said on Friday "religion was on trial" and the state had overstepped its bounds in bringing the case. | A judge on Thursday rejected a defense bid to remove the district attorney trying pop star Michael Jackson on child molestation charges and said there was no proof he had acted improperly or overzealously. | It was a sensational case that seemed wrapped up when guilty verdicts and life sentences were announced earlier this year against two former police detectives accused of being hit men for the mob. | ORLANDO, Florida - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak no longer has to wear an electronic ankle bracelet before her trial next month on charges she attacked a romantic rival when a love triangle with a fellow ex-astronaut unraveled in February, a Florida judge ordered on Thursday. | ORLANDO, Florida - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak no longer has to wear an electronic ankle bracelet ahead of her trial next month on charges she attacked a romantic rival when a love triangle with a fellow ex-astronaut unraveled in February, a Florida judge ordered on Thursday. | ST. GEORGE, Utah - Attorneys for polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is on trial as an accomplice to rape, said on Friday that "religion was on trial" and the state had overstepped its bounds in bringing the case. | A judge dismissed an indictment Friday against convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, ruling that the state waited too long to try him for capital murder in the shooting death of Linda Franklin. | Special prosecutors in Colorado said Friday that DNA found on a murder victim does not match the man convicted for her murder. Tim Masters should be freed immediately while he awaits a new trial, they added. The case of the horrific 1987 killing and 1999 trial has pitted cop against cop and raised many questions about ... | A British soldier on trial for alleged abuse of detained Iraqis denied in emotional testimony Friday that he made two detainees simulate sexual acts, saying a subordinate who brought the accusation was lying. | Days before actor Robert Blake goes on trial for murder, prosecutors on Wednesday won the right to use a television interview in which they say he lied about his relationship with his wife so people would think he had no reason to kill her. |
Putting their heads together | The NHL's general managers, some of the sport's greatest minds, gathered here yesterday prior to Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals to discuss a variety of issues, including what the league should do, if anything, regarding hits to the head. | Joe Klein on how Bush quietly put together the most diverse Cabinet in American history | BALTIMORE Sept. 16, 2004 - One of the year-old conjoined twin girls who underwent surgery to separate their heads died shortly after the procedure was completed, a spokeswoman for the Johns Hopkins Children's Center said early Thursday. | After six years of deteriorating relations, the best the two leaders can do now is put on a smiley face | Ben Casnocha put together a thriving tech business in his teens ... and learned some valuable lessons along the way. | The top two executives of the New York Times Co. met on Friday with officials from a hedge fund group that wants to kick out four of the embattled media company's directors, according to financial filings. | SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board considered on three occasions whether to break up the company, but each time directors unanimously concluded it would be best to keep HP together, chief executive and chairman Carly Fiorina said yesterday. | Deal puts together SecureWorks' expertise in fighting off external attacks and Lurqh's background in identifying internal threats. | A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer. Four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, successfully moved a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes. | In a major management shake-up Marks & Spencer have announced that three members of the board are to go, along with a number of senior executives. | Put together the mixed and mashed art of Scott Pagano and the multifarious music of Jochem Paap and you get something the likes of which youâve never experienced before. | Karen Abbott writes with frankness about the particulars of prostitution in Chicago back in 1900, in a book that is assiduously researched and well put together. | A report says Google is putting together a group to lay a data cable under the Pacific to reduce costs and increase capacity. | In its third game of the seaon, Navy displays a dominance that had not been present earlier in the season as they put together both a strong offensive and defensive performance. | Online journals, or weblogs, have put together a series of developments which suggest that the search engine is developing new web tools. | Oracle CEO says rival company raised the idea, but talks foundered over who'd lead the conjoined company. |
Australian bushfires leave grisly trail of environmental damage | Tens of thousands of iconic Australian creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Australia this week, environmentalists say. | Honduran gangs had killed before, leaving dismembered bodies and grisly messages in defiance of President Ricardo Maduro's no-tolerance campaign against them. | A livestock trailer carrying goats tipped over, leaving more than 240 of the animals dead and creating a grisly scene that shook onlookers and officials alike. | Thousands of firefighters rushed to contain more than a dozen wildfires burning across southern Australia on Friday amid fears that high temperatures and gusty winds forecast this weekend could further stoke the blazes, threatening farms and towns. | China sets up first environmental damage evaluation center BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China has recently set up its first national environmental damage evaluation center, which is expected to open to the public with professional assessment services. | Fires raging in the Australian state of Victoria have destroyed more than 20 homes and some blazes merged in a new threat to townships. The fires have burned about 2,000 square miles of northeast Victoria and the Gippsland area further south. | A diverse group of organizations has started a long-term project to monitor the Appalachian Trail for environmental problems. | More than 3,000 firefighters are battling some of Australia's worst wildfires in 70 years, as flames fanned by strong winds and searing temperatures destroyed one home and threatened dozens more. | Environmental damage, past over-fishing drove Md.'s 2007 harvest to second-lowest on record. | FIREFIGHTERS will backburn this afternoon in an attempt to gain control of a bushfire in rugged country in the Grampians National Park in Victoria's west. | Science & environment: Governments should have secured 'robust' measures to prevent environmental damage, MPs say | A firestorm razed up to 15 houses and led to the death of a man as bushfires raging across thousands of square kilometers of Australia began overrunning country hamlets, officials said. | There is little hope of peace in Sudan unless it addresses environmental damage, a UN study finds. | Two adults and one child are killed as bushfires engulf a convoy of trucks in Western Australia. | Firefighters brought Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years under control on Wednesday after nine people died in the blazes. | A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling. |
EBay to Drop Support for Microsoft's Passport | Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that eBay Inc. will soon drop support for its Passport service, originally intended to make the world's biggest software maker the gatekeeper of Web identities. | Microsoft has developed a convenient solution for replacing all those passwords with something you don't have to worry about forgetting: your fingerprint. | Denies print register drop report The Identity and Passport Service has denied that fingerprints could be dropped from the National Identity Register.⦠| eBay has announced that its users no longer will be able to sign in to its Web sites using Passort, Microsoft's identity-management technology. | EBay and PayPal, once the primary lures used by phishers to trick e-mail users into giving up personal information, aren't as popular as they used to be.According to security vendor Sophos, which monitors spam and phishing e-mails to catch new blasts and determine trends, the number of messages pretending... | After dropping support for Microsoft's Sender ID antispam technology last month, AOL announced this week that it's once again supporting the technology, thanks to some changes Microsoft recently made. | Microsoft on Thursday rushed to put the kibosh on talk that it was abandoning the single sign-on Passport identity management service. | Microsoft has updated its Office Live Small Business hosted service with new e-commerce and marketing tools to help small businesses sell their products and services online.The new version of Microsoft's service to help small businesses build a Web presence, unveiled Monday, now includes Store Manager, a tool aimed... | Microsoft is now shipping System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, which provides recovery from disk and archive to tape. | Citing user concerns, eBay has dropped plans to close its Half.com unit in mid-October and move the online used merchandise store's buyers and sellers onto eBay's main site. | com. With Windows NT 4.0 Server support due to end on December 31, Microsoft is prodding customers to migrate as soon as possible, but also extending its custom support plan for another year to get them through the move. | As we suggested on Friday, two mainstays of Windows Longhorn will be 'decoupled' from the 2006 release, with Microsoft dropping the WinFS storage and query system. | Microsoft's new Mobile Device Manager faces a shortcoming because it is exclusive to Windows Mobile devices, but that might change, an executive said on Tuesday.Scott Horn, general manager at Microsoft's mobile and embedded device group, left the door open to potential future support for non-Windows Mobile devi... | India is ready to drop its call for passengers to carry passports on a proposed bus service linking Indian and Pakistani Kashmir, removing a key hurdle to the service's launch, a media report said. | (InfoWorld) - Google has formed a political action committee to exert pressure on the U.S. Congress and promote legislation that benefits the company. The group, called Google NetPAC, saw the light on Thursday, when Google registered it with the U.S. Federal Election Commission, a Google spokesman confirmed via e-mail.... | The concert tour is supported by the Spanish government who has secured Spanish diplomatic passports for all the members of the orchestra. |
Russia calls off major UK art loan | Moscow calls off planned show of art masterpieces at Royal Academy in London as relations chill | American International Group Inc. AIG.N, which faces a possible lawsuit by U.S. securities regulators over helping a major banking client hide bad loans, said on Monday regulators may also sue it for what they called "false and misleading" statements made to investors. | A leading English art body is offering interest free loans to cash-strapped art lovers in the hope of enticing them to dabble in the market. | Russian authorities cancel a London exhibition of paintings because Britain failed to guarantee the art would be returned. | UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says he supports Russia's call for the United Nations Security Council to compose a list of wanted terrorists, in a resolution that would ease the extradition | Russia's gymnastics chief Leonid Arkayev has added his voice to a chorus of public opinion calling for major reforms in his sport, saying Olympic gymnasts are powerless against what he called "judging mafia." | Once-daily treatment with a drug called solifenacin improves all the major symptoms of overactive bladder, according to a UK study. | NEW YORK - Once-daily treatment with a drug called solifenacin improves all the major symptoms of overactive bladder, according to a UK study. | The US sub-prime loan crisis may push up UK mortgage rates, a former Bank of England adviser warns. | Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing the art could be seized to settle private legal claims, a museum official said Wednesday. | UK Mortgage borrowing in September posted its smallest monthly increase in a year and a half, while approvals for home loans dropped to a four-year low, according to figures released yesterday | Barclays, the UK's third-biggest bank, has said that interim net profits soared 25.3 percent, with strong investment banking offsetting a jump in bad consumer-loan write-offs. | The British government's cultural arm, caught in a political row between London and Moscow, said on Thursday its Russian regional offices had halted work because local staff were being interviewed by Russia's security service. | Some of Britain's best known contemporary artists have given or have promised major works to the Tate Gallery, to plug the gaping holes in the collections caused by years of standstill in government funding. | Standard Chartered Plc, a UK lender that makes two-thirds its profit in Asia, said it fired 200 people, or 5 percent of its employees, in Hong Kong where it's making less money on home loans. | Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said late Monday that he believed Eli Broadâs decision to keep his art collection in a private foundation that makes loans to museums is a positive development because it means none of the artworks will be sold, an act that would limit access to the... |
''Sarà una gara di altissimo livello, sono fiducioso'' | MILANO - "Milan-Barcellona sarà una gara di altissimo livello, io sono fiducioso". Queste le parole di Carlo Ancelotti, tecnico del Milan, alla vigilia del match di Champions contro il Barcellona. "Generalmente | (ASCA) - Roma, 24 ago - ''Uno spettacolare esercizio''. Cosi' il presidente della Repubblica Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ha definito, in un messaggio al presidente del Coni Gianni Petrucci, la prova alla Sbarra di | "Per me sarà una sfida affascinante scendere in pista con la Toyota," ha detto martedì il compagno di squadra 2005 di Ralf Schumacher. "Mi sento particolarmente motivato per questo 'debutto', nella gara di casa del mio nuovo team". | Nei turni infrasettimanali di ottobre, novembre e febbraio si giocherà una gara anche di giovedì. Prima del fischio d'inizio strette di mano a centrocampo tra le due squadre accompagnate da una musica. Galliani, intanto, pensa di ricandidarsi. | Felipe Massa è fiducioso nonostante l'altalenante andamento delle prime due sessioni di prove... | Questo, almeno, e' quanto emerge da una ricerca condotta dal portale internet Msn a livello mondiale, che ha coinvolto quasi 50.000 persone. E sono gli uomini a praticarlo di più. Se un tempo si flirtava davanti | Champions - Domani sera l'Inter ospita il Basilea partendo dall'1-1 dell'andata. Stankovic incita i tifosi. L'Inter domani sera non può e non deve permettersi di sbagliare: «Contro il Basilea sarà una gara particolare, fondamentale. | LE SCELTE DEI PARTITI. Il leader Dl: speroin più candidati, magari con appoggi trasversali "Sarà una sfida delle idee il Pd cambierà l'Italia" Rutelli: una gara vera, in gioco anche le future all... | Quattro minorenni sono stati denunciati dai carabinieri di Monza perchè questa mattina, alle 9.30, avevano incastrato una poltrona con la base in ferro tra i binari della ferrovia in via Osculati, nei pressi di un passaggio a livello, nella città | E' l'attuale presidente il candidato di AeB: "Sarò neutrale con tutti". Galliani: "Ora la minoranza si adegui". Corioni: "Un voto per chi rovina il calcio". Eâ Franco Carraro il candidato designato dall | L'ex ct, presentato oggi, fra entusiasmo e certezze: "Fiducia al tecnico, giocatori eccellenti, sono ottimista, a patto di non giocare come ieri con il Siviglia". MADRID, 23 dicembre 2004 - Arrigo Sacchi si | Usa, secondo una ricercatrice l'NPY è responsabile dell'aumento del girovita"Agisce a livello dei nervi periferici che innervano il tessuto adiposo" Cibo, ormone, stress e la pancia cresce Scoperte le cause dell'ingrassamento ... | "Il terzo posto in campionato dell'anno scorso non è un fallimento, tante grandi squadre non riescono a raggiungerlo. Quest'anno? E' molto soddisfacente, specie se si pensa che quest'estate piovevano critiche da tutte le parti. | "Sono sempre rimasto ottimista, e dopo l'ultimo incontro di un paio di mesi fa con Ecclestone ero fiducioso sul futuro di Imola". Federico Bendinelli, presidente della Sagis, la società che gestisce l' autodromo | Per Alessandro Budel quella di domenica contro il Milan, sarà una gara dal sapore particolare... | "Ho sfruttato il potenziale Ferrari - dice Barrichello -. La gara? Stavolta sono pronto". Schumi: "Non me l'aspettavo". Montoya: "Stiamo crescendo". MONZA (Milano), 11 settembre 2004 - Per lui è la seconda pole della stagione. |
PvP, Perry Bible Fellowship, and PHD get washpost props | 5 Web Comics That Will Make You Ditch Your Newspaper “Thatâs why comics connoisseurs have been turning to the Internet, where artists can create and publish works that are a little edgier, a little quirkier, and much, much funnier. Here are five favorites” Quite an honor and nice company to be in. Big tha... | With 13,000 worshipers, a $93 million campus and multimillion-dollar budget, can McLean Bible Church -- the Christian colossus in Tysons Corner -- possibly get any bigger? | Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:The Bakery: Six New Articles/Tutorials PostedEvert Pot's Blog: PHP: Arrays vs. ObjectsDevArticles: Learning AJAXInternet Super Hero: PHP: mysqli_fetch_all()David Coallier's Blog: PHP Namespaces (Part 1: Basic usage & gotchas)I/O Reader: 15 Cool Things & 12 Things to... | Children from political families may get tired of campaigning, but Philip Perry isn't bored yet. | Greg Beaver points out today that the sample chapter [pdf] of the "PEAR Installer Manifesto" has been posted by Packt Publishing. Packt has put up a sample chapter, Chapter 5 "PEAR Channels: releasing to the world" up at http://www.packtpub.com/files/SampleChapter-The-PEAR-Installer-Manifesto.pdf. Check it out to see... | In a new post Richard Heyes links to a replacement for the popular PEAR::DB package: PEAR::DB is all well and good if you want to connect to multiple databases (I assume, I've never actually used it with anything other than mysql) but it is somewhat hefty on the bad side of 60k. Not a good thing if you're not using s... | Across the Bible Belt this Halloween, some little ghosts and goblins might get shooed away by the neighbors — and some youngsters will not be allowed to go trick-or-treating at all — because the holiday falls on a Sunday this year. | If you're thinking about getting a cat -- or want to know more about the one you've got -- the new book The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know is an excellent place to start. Author Tracie Hotchner shares some secrets | In a quick post to his blog, Rob Richards shares two scripts he's created for working with WS-Addressing in PHP. It's not very difficult to implement, but I threw together a library for anyone else that might need to leverage it. WS-Addressing Library: soap-wsa.php WS-Addressing Example: soap-wsa-example.php The ... | One of the world's favorite cult writers, Philip K. Dick, is being canonized. | It’s been a long time that people have been asking me to make a tee shirt with nothing BUT the PvP logo on it. And for some reason I’ve resisted the idea for a long time despite the demand. Kris and I were discussing it the other day and we both agreed it feels a [...] | By Jeffrey Weiss, The Dallas Morning News Sep. 16--SOUTH MIAMI -- On most Sundays, the Rev. Ed Young takes the stage at Fellowship Church in Grapevine. And at Fellowship churches in Plano, downtown Dallas and Justin. And in South Miami, Fla. He's live in Grapevine. | Greg Beaver talks about a big push that he's making towards PEAR2 by working hard on an integral piece of the puzzle - the Pyrus installer. I'm churning out code to turn its installer, Pyrus, from vaporware into actual code. Along these lines, there has been significant progress. The code has been developed on PHP 5... | I haven’t talked about the PvP comic book for a while and there’s a reason for that: I’ve been avoiding the subject. I made a lot of extra work for myself last year what with the animated series, moving into a new office, bringing my store in house, etc. Because of that, I got behind on [...] | Pádraic Brady has followed up his last post on PEAR. This time he's covered the method to package and distribute source code using the PEAR installer. All right then! You read the last blog entry advocating PEAR (or found it during the week ;-)) and you want to know all about packaging code so your users can install ... | I had an exciting talk with Ryan Sohmer last week about the future of Animated PvP. We sat down and went over our plans for the year and tried to come up with the smartest plan of attack for moving forward. Working on the animated series has been one of the toughest and most rewarding creative [...] |
Protesters converge on German port for G8 demo | ROSTOCK, Germany - Anti-globalization protesters converged on the Baltic port of Rostock on Saturday to demonstrate against the policies of the world's leading industrial countries ahead of a Group of Eight summit next week. | PROTESTERS aiming to disrupt the G8 summit at Gleneagles are being offered specially tailored short-break packages by a Scottish tourist board. | HUNDREDS of anti-Iraq war protesters took to the streets of Glasgow at the weekend. The demo was led by the parents of two British soldiers killed in Iraq. | Feriti e arrestati durante il corteo promosso dagli oppositori alla riunione degli Otto GrandiRostock città sotto assedio: 13mila agenti antisommossa, filo spinato ed elicotteri Germania, contestazioni antiG8 La polizia carica i manifestanti | Tony Blair is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss aid and climate change ahead of the G8 summit. | HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police, injuring eight, as they tried to blockade routes to a Group of Eight summit in northern Germany. police said. | Stamattina sessione plenaria degli Otto Grandi a HeiligendammProseguono le proteste. La polizia: "Nessun buco nella rete di protezione" G8, il clima nell'agenda del vertice Bush: "Avremo un ruolo guida" ... | Tony Blair meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss aid and climate change ahead of the G8 summit. | Anti-globalization and far-left activists from across Italy were converging on the capital Saturday to protest against President Bush during his visit to Rome and the Vatican. | Nearly 40,000 people in Germany took part in protests over US auto giant General Motors' plans to axe 12,000 jobs, about one-fifth of its European workforce. | HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Leaders of the world's major powers gather on Germany's Baltic coast on Wednesday for a G8 summit likely to be dominated by U.S.-Russia tensions and wrangling over global warming. | The Enterprise Communications division of German conglomerate Siemens AG is to unveil a fixed-mobile convergence offering for organizations to run themselves, rather than relying on a carrier to provide it as a service. | A protest by French fishermen which blocked the port of Calais leaving ferry passengers stranded comes to an end. | Nearly 40,000 people in Germany, backed by expressions of support elsewhere in Europe, took to the streets to protest plans by US auto giant General Motors to axe about one-fifth of its European workforce and possibly even close a plant. | Tens of thousands of people converged yesterday on this small city in the Veneto region of northern Italy for a peaceful protest against the planned expansion of a U.S. military base here.Comment | JOHANNESBURG, Jun 5 (IPS) - In the final hours before this week's Group of Eight (G8) summit gets underway in Germany, activists have underscored the need for progress with both climate change and poverty alleviation -- key items on the meeting's agenda -- for there to be real improvement in Africa's living condit... |
Leisure Group Whitbread Announces Sales | British leisure group Whitbread PLC said Thursday it plans to raise more than 800 million pounds ($1.5 billion) by selling assets including half its Marriott hotels and its historic former headquarters in London. | Retailer Woolworths raised its bid Thursday for Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group (ALH) by 15 percent to Aust. $1.11 billion ($795 million), topping an offer by private equity firm Newbridge Capital. | Directors of takeover target Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group said that if the offer by Woolworths-led Bruandwo Pty Ltd reaches $3. | Global brewer and winemaker Foster's Group has sold its remaining 10 per cent stake in former subsidiary Australian Leisure & Hospitality into the Woolworths takeover offer. | British leisure group Rank said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its Hard Rock Cafe business to the Seminole Tribe of Florida for $965 million. | The Takeovers Panel said today the Woolworths bidding group had offered two undertakings on its proposed $1.2 billion bid for Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group that resolved concerns from rival bidders. | MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--US private equity group Newbridge Capital Inc. (NBG.XX) said Wednesday it plans to expand Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group Ltd. | FOSTER'S Group chief executive Trevor O'Hoy has defended the handling of last year's sale of Australian Leisure & Hospitality ahead of likely attacks on the Foster's board at today's annual meeting in Melbourne. | Leisure company Rank Group agrees to sell its Hard Rock Cafe chain to the Seminole tribe of Florida for $965m. | Giant retailer Coles Myer has lifted its bid for pubs group Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) to Aust. $1.32 billion ($978 million) in an attempt to secure a knockout victory over arch-rival Woolworths. | Shares of Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group, the nation's biggest pubs owner, may rise after Coles Myer Ltd. increased its takeover offer to A$1. | Woolworths Ltd., Australia's biggest grocer, increased its offer for Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group to A$1.2 billion ($877 million) to stop rival bidder Coles Myer Ltd. | WOOLWORTHS and joint venture partner Victorian pubs owner Bruce Mathieson have until 7pm today to withdraw or extend their bid for Australian Leisure and Hospitality. | Leisure group Hilton offered further encouraging signs from its hotels arm today but warned it was still too early to celebrate a full recovery. | Internet-based holiday company Ebookers confirms it is in talks over a possible sale, sending its shares 22% higher. | Woolworths Ltd., Australia's biggest grocer, increased its stake in takeover target Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group to 16. |
Nigeria militia warns foreigners despite ceasefire | afrol News, 30 September - A truce was yesterday reached between the Niger Delta militia and the federal government of Nigeria after talks between the militia leader and President Olusegun Obasanjo. | PORT HARCOURT, 28 Sep 2004 (IRIN) - An ethnic militia group in Nigeria's southeastern oil region vowed on Tuesday to attack oil workers there unless their companies shut down operations within three days. | The Nigerian military said they would maintain a tough stance on hostage-takers despite the killing of a British hostage caught in the crossfire between the kidnappers and their rescuers. | Oil should continue to flow from Nigeria, the world's seventh largest exporter, despite a rebel threat to attack foreign oil workers in an "all-out war" due to start on Friday, multinational energy companies said. | Militia fighters wounded two U.N. soldiers Sunday when they fired on peacekeeping troops sent to investigate a reported mass grave of militia victims, including child combatants, in northeast Ituri province, a U.N. spokesman said. | The leader of a militia group from the southern oil-rich region of Nigeria says talks between government officials and rebels continued in Abuja late into the evening on Thursday. | Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has vowed to defeat militia across Iraq who refused to disarm, after calm returned to the holy city of Najaf following a ceasefire between militia and US-backed forces. | KHARTOUM, Sudan - A U.S.-backed United Nations resolution threatening oil sanctions for the violence in Sudan's Darfur region will only make it harder for the government to calm the insurrection there, a Sudanese official said Sunday. Despite his criticism, the foreign ministry official, Mutrif Sideeq, said his gove... | Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will decide within days whether to extend or scrap his Mehdi Army militia ceasefire, a move that will have big repercussions for security in Iraq. | The killing by Nigerian security forces of a British oil worker during an attempt to free seven foreigners held hostage in the Niger Delta, has drawn widespread condemnation and focused attention on the deteriorating security situation in the nation's oil hub. | Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his Mehdi Army militia to maintain its six-month ceasefire, Sadr's spokesman said on Thursday, while his militiamen clashed with Iraqi and U.S. soldiers. | A rebel leader who had threatened to attack multinational oil interests in Nigeria says he and President Olusegun Obasanjo have agreed that rebel and government troops will stop firing on each other immediately. | Militants in the oil-rich south of Nigeria free 12 foreigners, whom they had been holding hostage. | Congolese Tutsi rebels and Mai Mai militia clashed on Monday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, breaking a ceasefire signed last week aimed at ending a long-running conflict, the two factions said. | ABUJA, Nigeria - Talks aimed at averting an explosion of fighting in Nigeria's oil production hub were salvaged Friday when the government called off gunships and helicopters sent to attack rebel militia. | ABUJA, Nigeria - Sudanese rebels insisted on Tuesday that the government disarm its militias in Darfur before they would sign a deal to bring aid to 1.5 million civilians displaced by violence. |
Pacers Won't Comply With Police Request | The Indiana Pacers have told law enforcement officials in Michigan that Pacers players will not submit to interviews as part of the investigation into the brawl that | Patriots coach Bill Belichick will comply with the NFL's latest request in its spying investigation and provide any notes or tapes made from video recordings similar to those that drew a stiff penalty against him and the team. | It's official, the notorious brawl last month between the Indiana Pacers, Detroit Pistons and some fans has resulted in criminal charges. | INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and teammates Marquis Daniels and Keith McLeod were involved in a fight with a bar manager after a home loss to Golden State early Tuesday, police said. No one was immediately arrested or charged. Police are still investigating the fight. | Police viewed videotapes from last week's basketball brawl between Indiana Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans seeking evidence on the eve of another Indiana-Detroit sports showdown. | After the brawl in Detroit and the unprecedented suspensions, some Pacers fans are starting to consider this the stolen season. | BRUSSELS -- Microsoft Corp. will be ready to comply with the European Commission's demands for changes to its Windows operating systems if a European court rejects its request for the measures to be suspended, a spokesman for the company said Monday. | Following a second round of talks in as many days between interim PA leader Abu Mazen and representatives of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations, the terrorists exclaimed they are unwilling to comply with requests to halt | (Sports Network) - The Indiana Pacers' continued to struggle on Wednesday, as they dropped a 102-90 decision to the Philadelphia 76ers at Conseco Fieldhouse. | DETROIT -- Police in Michigan are talking to witnesses and reviewing videotape after a Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers game ended in a fight between players and fans. | Indiana Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and teammates Marquis Daniels and Keith McLeod were involved in a fight with a bar manager after a home loss to Golden State early Tuesday, police said. | Police are trying to identify more fans who were caught on camera throwing food or drinks or walking onto the court during the brawl at November's Detroit Pistons-Indiana Pacers game. | The recommendations include a requirement that all officers comply with breathalyzer analyses following any instance in which a civilian is killed or wounded by police action. | Our position is: The prosecutor acted fairly in charging players and fans involved in brawl. Charges leveled against players and fans involved in a brawl at the Nov. 19 Pacers-Pistons mark the necessary next | The Detroit Pistons plan to have more police and unarmed security personnel at games following the Indiana Pacers' brawl with fans at The Palace on Friday night. | Five Indiana Pacers players, including Ron Artest and Jermaine O'Neal, and five fans were charged with misdemeanor assault for fighting during a National Basketball Association game in suburban Detroit last month. |
Hotels, Union End Talks, Prepare for Strike | Negotiators for 14 major District hotels walked out of contract talks with the union that represents 3,800 employees yesterday afternoon, raising the prospect of a work stoppage as early as today at the city's largest hotels. | Ten San Francisco hotels locked out union workers on Friday in response to a strike at four others hotels that are part of the same bargaining unit, raising the stakes in a confrontation that could spread to other cities around the | A union representing 10,000 striking casino-hotel workers tentatively agreed to a new contract late Monday, ending a bitter month-old walkout that disrupted casino operations, made gamblers sleep in unmade beds and put rank-and-file workers onto noisy | There are signs of progress in talks today to avert a strike at some of Washington's top hotels. | Hotel workers, seeking to bolster their bargaining stance, authorized their union leaders to call a strike if labor negotiations break down with nine major Los Angeles hotels. | Both hotel executives and union officials said they remain optimistic that a deal can be struck before the old contract expires Wednesday, but the strike raises the possibility of a work stoppage in the city's tourism industry. | More than 2,000 union workers prepared for a high-profile strike at Chile's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, starting on Monday after talks for a new wage contract failed despite 11th-hour government mediation. | Local leaders with the United Auto Workers union on Thursday began preparing to walk picket lines as soon as Friday if contract talks with General Motors Corp. break down after the UAW singled out the No. 1 U.S. automaker as its strike target. | Negotiators met past a midnight contract deadline as unions across the country prepared for a possible strike. | Thousands of South Korean union workers went on strike on Wednesday demanding laws to protect labor and an end to talks on a free trade deal with the United States, labor leaders said. | Thousands of South Korean unionized workers went on strike on Wednesday demanding laws to protect labor and an end to talks on a free trade deal with the United States, labor leaders said. | The US writers' strike could soon end with union leaders ready to put a deal to members, reports say. | The Teamsters union said it had reached a tentative contract deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway and a strike by 3,200 maintenance workers in Canada should end soon. No details of the proposed three-year contract are being released before a ratification vote. The workers have been off the job since May 15. After mon... | Negotiators for the U.A.W. and G.M. met here today ahead of a midnight contract deadline as workers at local unions across the country prepared for a possible strike. | Labor experts say Unite Here, the newly merged union that is representing the D.C. hotel workers in their current contract dispute, is one of the most outspoken and toughest unions under the AFL-CIO umbrella. | LOS ANGELES - Thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles voted to authorize a strike, their union said Tuesday, joining in an effort that could lead to walkouts in three cities. About three-fourths of the 3,000 housekeepers, bellmen and other workers at nine prominent Los Angeles hotels took part in the vote Monday, ... |
Mr.Prezzi: inflazione preoccupa | Abbassare prezzi a febbraio e marzo per effetto virtuoso | Si tratta del tasso più basso dal settembre 1999. Si registra anche un aumento mensile dei prezzi dello 0,1%. ROMA - L'inflazione in novembre è scesa all'1,9% dal 2% di ottobre, con un aumento mensile dei prezzi dello 0,1%. Lo ha reso noto l'Istat. | Federal Reserve policy-makers on Friday indicated they are still wary about the potential upside risks to inflation despite signs that price pressures may be abating. | Quotazioni crollate negli ultimi cinque anni a causa della sovrapproduzione dell'Afghanistan"L'offerta sta per superare la domanda". Italia al terzo posto per consumo di cocaina Droghe low cost, è allarme In Europa prezzi mai così bassi ... | Confermata dall'Istituto di Statistica la stima preliminareSi tratta dell'aumento più alto dei prezzi dall'ottobre 2003 Inflazione a dicembre al 2,6% e per il 2008 'eredità ' dell'1,3% | Su base mensile incremento dello 0,2 per cento. Nell'eurozona: +1,8%Indice armonizzato dei prezzi al consumo: riduzione dell'0,2 sul mese e +1,7% sull'anno Istat, i prezzi sostanzialmente fermi "Ad agosto inflazione stabile all'1,6%" ... | Plainly spelling out the risks, Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke said last week that inflation remained Âuncomfortably high. | Federal Reserve policy-makers on Friday indicated they are still wary about the potential upside risks to inflation despite signs that price pressures may be abating. | Francoforte, la Bce decide di lasciare invariati i tassi"Prezzi a rischio di aumento. Attenzioni ai conti pubblici" Trichet: "Prospettive incerte nella Ue" L'Euro scivola giù, male le Borse | Trichet spiega la decisione, in linea con le attese dei mercati,con i rischi sul fronte inflazione e si mostra fiducioso nella ripresa La Bce alza i tassi al 3,25% e non esclude nuovi rialzi | L'Istat conferma i dati delle città campioneA spingere i prezzi soprattutto gasolio, trasporti e tabacchi Inflazione al 2% a dicembre Nel 2004 carovita al 2,2% Si tratta della variazione media annu... | Pubblicate le stime preliminari dell'IstatSu base mensile, i prezzi sono rimasti invariati Inflazione all'1,9% a gennaio in calo dal 2% di dicembre Eurostat: nella zona euro,... | A pesare anche la crescente inflazione e il supereuro | L'Istat conferma la sua stima preliminare. In rialzo i generi alimentarie anche le tariffe (ma quelle aeree sono in controtendenza) Inflazione in crescita a settembre Antitrust: istruttoria sui prezzi del pane ... | Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, warns of the continuing pressures of inflation on the world's largest economy. | Inflazione al +2% annuo ad ottobre. L'Istat conferma le stime provvisorie diffuse lo scorso 29 ottobre. Nel mese di ottobre l'indice dei prezzi al consumo per l'intera collettivita' comprensivo dei tabacchi |
Pagliarini aderisce a La destra | Ex ministro leghista e' consigliere comunale a Milano | AMERICA/ARGENTINA - L'Argentina aderisce al Protocollo CEDAW: secondo i Vescovi così si apre la porta alla depenalizzazione dell'aborto e si mette a rischio la sovranità del paese Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - La Camera dei Deputati Argentina ha approvato venerdì 17 novembre l'adesione al Protocollo Facoltativo del... | Il senatore ha deciso di abbandonare il partito di Antonio Di Pietro"Lavorerò a una grande coalizione alla tedesca. Altri sono con me" De Gregorio: Italia dei Valori addio "Ma non confluisco nella Cdl" ... | Il senatore ha deciso di abbandonare il partito di Antonio Di Pietro"Lavorerò a una grande coalizione alla tedesca. Altri sono con me" De Gregorio: Italia dei Valori addio "Ma non confluisco nella Cdl" ... | Prende il via la Settimana Europea contro il cancro e fino al 15 ottobre l'Europa si mobilita contro il fumo. L'Italia aderisce con l'iniziativa 'per favore, fammi respirare', promossa dalla Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro i Tumori. | Tommaso Ghirardi, presidente del Parma, è stato eletto sesto consigliere di Lega per la serie... | AMERICA/REPUBBLICA DOMINICANA - La Chiesa dominicana aderisce allÂappello per la Grande Missione Continentale: Âuna buona occasione per risvegliare la nostra Chiesa ed un momento forte di animazione pastorale Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - La Conferenza Episcopale Dominicana ha diffuso una Lettera Pastorale per la... | Dopo il "sì" del senato alla fiducia, il Cavaliere attacca"Si può votare anche così". E stoppa i sistemi tedesco e francese Berlusconi, subito un "no" a Prodi "Riforma elettorale? Un falso problema" ... | Niente più quote per colf e badanti. Torna lo sponsor. La riforma Amato-Ferreropunta a ridurre al massimo gli ingressi clandestini Immigrati, cambia la legge in arrivo il diritto di voto di V... | All'inglese della McLaren cede la ruota anteriore destra: schiantocontro la barriera di protezione. Sotto shock ma niente fratture Gp d'Europa, paura per Hamilton Rakkonen pole, poi Alonso e Massa | Leggera apertura del Cavaliere sul ddl del governo sulle unioni civiliGià Fini aveva invitato la Cdl a "deporre la spada dell'integralismo" Coppie di fatto, Berlusconi per la "libertà di coscienza" | Cgil, Cisl e Uil dopo l'incontro con Prodi: "Chiediamo di fermare la Finanziaria"."Insensibilità degna di un governo di destra". La polemica con Padoa Schioppa "Una manovra da macelleria sociale" La scuola verso lo sciopero generale | Niente più quote per colf e badanti. Torna lo sponsor. La riforma Amato-Ferreropunta a ridurre al massimo gli ingressi clandestini Immigrati, cambia la legge in arrivo il diritto di voto di VLADIM... | Oggi a Gemonio, a casa del Senatur, l'incontro con il leader di AnIeri nella tarda serata, intesa ad Arcore tra i vertici di Lega e FI Legge elettorale, grandi manovre nella Cdl Bossi vede Fini dopo l'accordo con Berlusconi | Il segretario della federazione dei metalmeccanici incontra a Padova i delegatiFuori dalla sala volantini del centro sociale Gramigna: "Libertà agli operai in galera" Rinaldini, Fiom: "Altri avvisi di garanzia Contro il terrorismo uno sciopero generale" | La Louis Vuitton cup nel clou. Il team italiano ha vinto il sorteggio per l'ordine di partenza: nella prima regata avrà la destra e il diritto di rotta |
Fannie Mae to report 2005 earnings by September | WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Fannie Mae, the top U.S. mortgage-finance company that is trying to move on from one of the nation's largest accounting scandals, will deliver a long-overdue report on its 2005 earnings by next September, the company's chief executive said on Thursday. | Fannie Mae has been ordered to restate its earnings for the past four years after an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into the mortgage finance company's accounting practices. | Fannie Mae, the biggest source of money for US home mortgages, may have to restate earnings by as much as $9 billion after the Securities and Exchange Commission said it broke accounting rules. | Federal regulators have found evidence suggesting that mortgage giant Fannie Mae manipulated earnings to facilitate bigger bonuses to executives | The Securities and Exchange Commission is months away from deciding whether Washington mortgage giant Fannie Mae will need to restate its earnings in the aftermath of a sharply critical report on its accounting practices, according to government and company officials. | Fannie Mae's accounting crisis has taken a turn with its outside auditor KPMG refusing to sign off on its third-quarter earnings report, causing the mortgage giant to miss a regulatory deadline for filing it. | The S.E.C. has ordered Fannie Mae to restate its earnings for the last four years after concluding that it had violated accounting rules. | A review by the Securities and Exchange Commission has found that Fannie Mae violated accounting rules, buttressing earlier determinations by another federal regulator and amplifying the prospect of an earnings restatement by the | Fannie Mae's chief executive on Wednesday defended accounting practices at the embattled mortgage company and disputed allegations that earnings were manipulated. | Federal regulators on Tuesday are expected to say Fannie Mae will pay $400 million for using bad accounting to manage earnings and trigger bonuses, according to sources briefed on the plan. | Shares of U.S. mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae FNM.N tumbled on Thursday after the Securities and Exchange Commission said the company must restate earnings because of accounting problems. | The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday said Fannie Mae misapplied accounting principles and called on the mortgage finance company to restate earnings. | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday said Fannie Mae misapplied accounting principles and called on the mortgage finance company to restate earnings. | Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. home funding company, said on Wednesday it may privately sell up to $4 billion of preferred stock this week, which could help it meet higher capitalization standards it faces after regulators found it broke accounting rules. | Confidence in Fannie Mae debt rose after a management shake-up on Tuesday triggered by accounting errors and an enormous earnings restatement mandated by regulators, investors and analysts said on Wednesday. | As it struggles with an accounting crisis, Fannie Mae faces a Monday deadline to file its third-quarter financial results - and investors are eager to learn whether the mortgage giant will be forced to restate earnings. |
New Zealand Builds a Nest Big Enough to Save Kiwis | Kiwi numbers have declined rapidly over the past century, as populations struggled with the twin threats of shrinking habitat and expanding legions of new predators. | Travel: The best way to immerse yourself in New Zealand's deep scenery is to stay simply. Kiwi native Sarah Bourn shows you the way | WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--New Zealand's Carter Holt Harvey Ltd. (CAH.NZ) has identified 9,500 hectares of its forest estate in the central North Island for conversion to dairying, according to industry sources | Most Americans have enough difficulty building up a nest egg, and cracking it prematurely could mean living on cat food (slang for Social Security) later. | It seems simple enough. When it comes time to live off your retirement savings, it would seem to make sense to spend without chipping away at the nest egg itself. Instead, you would want to switch your portfolio to income-producing investments and live off the income. That way you would have mone... | A strong earthquake rattled the east coast of New Zealand's North Island on Thursday, causing some power outages and minor damage but no casualties. | Australia plans to strengthen its coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia. | Ricky Ponting may have ruffled Kiwi feathers this week when he bluntly dismissed as myth the theory that New Zealand was a constant menace for its trans-Tasman rivals. | New Zealand win the IRB Sevens in Los Angeles for the third year in succession. | AUSTRALIA have beaten New Zealand by 213 runs to win the second cricket Test just after lunch on the last day at Adelaide Oval. Australia mopped up the remaining five Kiwi wickets to claim a series clean sweep | New Zealand fishermen have caught what is expected to be a world-record-breaking colossal squid. | Kiwi 'Keystone Cops' uncloaked A New Zealand man under covert electronic surveillance by police turned the tables on his snoopers by attempting to sell tracking kit he found in his car.⦠| Australia delayed announcing its squad for the first cricket Test against New Zealand next week and Kiwi skipper Stephen Fleming delayed his arrival in Sydney due to illness. | New Zealand Cricket (NZC) hopes to donate more than one million New Zealand (698,000 US) dollars to tsunami relief from the World XI series starting here as Sri Lanka's stars appealed for more assistance for their stricken country. | An angry Yao Ming took his frustrations out on New Zealand at the Olympic men's basketball tournament on Tuesday, pouring in 39 points as China beat the Kiwis 69-62. | An angry Yao Ming took his frustrations out on New Zealand at the Olympic men's basketball tournament on Tuesday, pouring in 39 points as China beat the Kiwis 69-62. |
Speciale: dimissioni accettate | Padoa-Schioppa: il governo si riserva di valutare ricorso | Secondo le autorità ai beni culturali è andato distrutto il 18% dei tesoriResta da vedere se tutto il governo accetterà : il turismo è la prima industria Egitto, allarme degli archeologi "Troppi turisti, chiudiamo Luxor" ... | Chieste dimissioni ministro per condotta illegittima | Occhetto,le mie dimissioni per risultato negativo coalizione | Inchiesta a Roma per presunte pressioni su generale Speciale | Il segretario della Cgil in diretta a Repubblica-Tv: dallo scalone ai coefficienti passando per i precari"Ho chiesto a Rifondazione di lasciarci lavorare ". Ingiusto equiparare le pensioni tra uomini e donne Epifani: "I sindacati vogliono fare l'accordo Ora aspettiamo la mossa... | Premier Siniora e ministri rifiutano le dimissioni | Robert Blackwill, uomo di punta dell' amministrazione del presidente George Bush per l'Iraq, ha inaspettatamente annunciato ieri le sue dimissioni. Lo riferisce il Washington Post nella sua edizione online. | Illegittime dimissioni insegnante che voleva maniere forti | La folla a Budapest chiede le dimissioni del premier | Manifestazione a Palermo per le dimissioni del governatore | Silvio Berlusconi si è dimesso dalla presidenza del Milan. Lo ha annunciato la società rossonera con un comunicato. Negli ambienti Mediaset non trova conferma l'ipotesi circa un possibile passaggio della | Il presidente della Repubblica Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ha accettato le dimissioni del ministro Luigi Mazzella e ha nominato, su proposta del presidente del Consiglio, Marco Follini e Mario Baccini ministri senza portafoglio. | 'Italia sembra repubblica banane dopo dimissioni Tronchetti' | Si dice che le sue annunciate dimissioni dovrebbero essere ritirate. Per ora Francesco Saverio Borel... | Approvato da CdM, entro breve poteri speciali a sindaco |
UK Terror Suspects Were Building Dirty Bomb - Time | British terror suspects arrested in August were trying to construct a dirty bomb and planned to attack targets in London, including the Heathrow Express airport rail line, Time magazine reported. | A Pakistani judge drops terrorism charges against a key suspect in an alleged airline bomb plot in the UK. | Police are given more time to quiz five people being held over the suspected UK car bombing attempts. | LONDON - British police charged eight terrorist suspects Tuesday of conspiring to commit murder and use radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals or explosives to cause "fear or injury" in a case involving an alleged top al-Qaida operative at the center of a U.S. terror alert this month... | Convicted terrorism conspirator was once accused of plotting a "dirty bomb" attack in a major city. | Australian police seek more time to investigate an Indian doctor over the suspected UK bomb attempts. | LONDON - British police charged eight terrorist suspects Tuesday with conspiring to commit murder and use radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals or explosives to cause "fear or injury" in a case involving an alleged top al-Qaida operative at the center of a U.S. terror alert this month... | Australian police seek more time to hold an Indian doctor over the suspected UK bomb attempts. | The country remained on high alert for a terror attack Wednesday as reports emerged that some of the suspects in custody in connection with failed car bombings in London and Glasgow were known associates of those under surveillance. | The GAO set out to procure enough radioactive material to build a dirty bomb. Suppliers were only too happy to help. How the agency did it. | Radiation detectors set up to alert authorities to potential dirty bombs are sounding the alarm about some unlikely suspects: patients who have had tests or treatments using radioactive medicines. | Nine people became the first terror suspects to be held in British jails without being charged for longer than 14 days after a court granted police more time to quiz them as the investigation into a foiled alleged plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets continued. | Eight alleged terrorists were charged in Britain this week. One was caught with detailed plans of several US buildings. | Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations. | Britain charged eight terrorism suspects Tuesday with conspiracy to commit murder and said one had plans that could be used in striking U.S. buildings that were the focus of security scares this month. | Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations |
Pampling finishes with flourish to lead Memorial | Rod Pampling finished the storm-delayed third round of the Memorial with a flourish yesterday in Dublin, Ohio, holing a 40-foot birdie putt on No. 14 to take the lead and hitting a terrific fairway bunker shot that led to a birdie on 18 that capped a 4-under-par 68, giving him a three-shot lead. | With the score tied at 3 going into the third period, Catholic Memorial used a pair of power-play goals to earn a 6-4 win over Catholic Conference rival Malden Catholic yesterday at Dedham Ice Arena. | Rod Pampling charged clear of the field at the end of the second round of the Australian Open in Sydney. Pampling fired a four-under-par 67 for a halfway total of 138. | ROD Pampling struggled on the back nine to slip six strokes behind runaway leader Stewart Cink after the third round at the $US7 million ($9. | Australia's Rod Pampling took a four-stroke lead in the 100th Australian Open on Friday, shooting his second straight 4-under 67. | This is what happens when Bode Miller fails to finish with a flourish. | QUEENSLANDER Rod Pampling made four birdies on the front nine to grab the outright lead in the second round of the Australian Open in Sydney. | Many of the column footings that still outline the perimeters of the twin towers will be part of the memorial, as will a section of the original slurry wall. | South African David Frost continued to flourish on the European Tour when the 47-year-old moved to within two strokes of the early second round lead in the Wales Open on Friday. | After several months of training Paul Hamm finally gets to compete in front of a crowd and a scoreboard. | Biotech crops are flourishing in the United States, but they're also taking root across the globe, accounting for about $44 billion in crops in five leading countries, according to a report Wednesday by an industry group. | With Affection comes from off the pace to pass tiring leaders and gallop to an easy victory Saturday in the $50,000 Japan Racing Association Handicap on the turf at Pimlico. | Jimmy Walker would love to have a fairy-tale finish at the Sony Open. Given the bad memories from this place, he was thrilled Thursday with the first chapter. | The appointment would put the mayor in a position to re-energize the memorial's fund-raising campaign. | Despite the controversy surrounding his gold medal in the all-around, Paul Hamm has a chance to win two more golds Sunday. The American will compete in the finals of the pommel | Since finishing third in last year's Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash, Gators N Bears has developed into one of the fastest horses on the east coast. |
Home re-sales fall as inventories soar | The pace of sales of pre-owned homes fell slightly in July but the inventory of unsold properties soared to the highest level in over 15 years as troubles in the subprime mortgage market continued to wreak havoc on the housing sector. | The pace of existing home sales in the United States fell in June to a lower-than-expected 5.75 million unit annual rate while prices and inventories showed signs of stabilizing, the National Association of Realtors said in a report Wednesday. | Sales fall and losses double at home decor retailer. | Sales of new single-family U.S. homes fell 8.3 percent in August to a 795,000 annual sales pace, its slowest rate in over seven years, while the inventory of homes dropped, a Commerce Department report showed on Thursday. | General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. launched new U.S. sales incentives on Friday as both automakers struggle with falling market share and high inventories of unsold vehicles. | Sales of new homes unexpectedly rose 2.8 percent to an 870,000 annual sales pace in July, reversing two months of declines, and inventories eased, a Commerce Department report showed on Friday. | Sales of new single-family U.S. homes fell 8.3 percent in August to a 795,000 annual sales pace, its slowest rate in over seven years, while the inventory of homes dropped, a Commerce Department report showed on Thursday. | Sales of new U.S. homes dipped in October and inventories rose, but builders boosted prices by over $30,000 per unit after a sharp decline in home prices a month earlier, a government report showed Wednesday. | Sliding home prices are bringing out buyers in Greater Boston, increasing sales, reducing inventories, and even reviving bidding wars in some communities. | LOS ANGELES -- KB Home, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter loss ballooned as home sales slowed, prompting the company to book charges to write down unsold inventory and for a tax allowance. Its shares dropped almost 2 percent in premarket trading. | Sales of existing homes dropped for a fifth straight month in July, falling to the slowest pace in nearly five years, while home prices fell for a record 12th consecutive month. | The pace of existing home sales in July fell slightly to a 5.75 million unit annual rate and the supply of unsold single-family homes hit its highest since 1991, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on Monday. | The homebuilder said its fourth-quarter loss ballooned to $772.7 million as home sales slowed, prompting it to book charges to write down unsold inventory and for a tax allowance. | WASHINGTON -- Sales of existing homes fell more than expected in April while prices slid for a record ninth consecutive month, indicating further troubles ahead for the housing market. | WASHINGTON -- Sales of existing homes fell for the fifth consecutive month in August as the once-booming housing market slowed further. | Motorola's mobile-phone business continued to lose its signal in the fourth quarter, dragging the company's revenue and profit down.The Schaumburg, Illinois, company has had trouble coming up with a phone to match the success of its original Razr, which is now several years old and does little for the company&#... |
The allure of a snap election is laced with cowardice | Comment is free: Julian Glover: A prime minister who had faith in his own character would resist the temptations of going to the country early. | The US election went down to the wire last night in a tight race that lacked the controversy of the 2000 nail-biter but suggested a deeply polarized electorate wary of abandoning their commander-in-chief in a time of war. | Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili won a snap presidential election with 52.8 percent of the vote, election officials said on Sunday. | Locked in a pitched battle for a too-close-to-call election, the leading presidential candidates are accusing each other of being unfit to lead Americans. | Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili won a snap presidential election outright with 52.8 percent of the vote, election officials said on Sunday. | There is a danger that if the coming election becomes David Geffenâs full-time hobby, his precision ruthlessness will distort the public process. | Prime Minister Tony Blair, betting that successful Iraqi elections in January will boost his popularity, has ordered his closest aides to draw up plans for a snap general election | Gordon Brown refuses to rule out a snap general election insisting he was simply "getting on with the job". | In Vice President Cheney's final push before next Tuesday's election, talk of nuclear annihilation and escalating war rhetoric have blended with balloon drops, confetti cannons and the other trappings of modern campaigning with such ferocity that it is sometimes tough to tell just who the enemy is. | Gordon Brown is set to be pressed on plans for a snap election during his second prime ministerial news conference. | A bitter campaign marked by predictions of vote fraud culminates in an election that all Western observers call seriously flawed. | The Liberal Democrats make changes to their front bench, in readiness for a possible snap general election in 2007. | You have to admire one thing about Dick Cheney: Heâs unabashedly direct. When the Vice President told Iowa voters last week, âif we make the wrong choice [in this election] then the danger | A junior coalition partner is to stay in Poland's conservative government, making a snap election less likely. | Gordon Brown refuses to rule out a snap election as he prepares for his first Labour conference speech as leader. | Candidates are confronting an electorate deeply unsettled about the United Statesâ ability to control its own destiny. |
Lockheed gets $144 million deal for Pakistan F-16s | The U.S. Air Force is awarding Lockheed Martin Corp. a $144.1 million contract for materials that will be used in advanced F-16 fighter aircraft bound for Pakistan, the U.S. Defense Department said on Tuesday. | Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday he discussed with US President George W. Bush a potential purchase of US F-16 fighter jets to upgrade the defense capability of his country. | U.S. antitrust authorities on Tuesday approved the planned merger of the government rocket launch units of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. , a deal the companies say will save taxpayers $150 million annually in satellite launching costs. | BAQUBAH, Iraq -- Hundreds of US and Iraqi troops, under cover of F-16s, fought their way into three neighborhoods of besieged Baqubah yesterday to help clear Diyala Province of entrenched insurgents. To the north of the city, American airstrikes killed 17 Al Qaeda gunmen trying to sneak past a checkpoint. | Lockheed Martin won a follow-on contract from the Army worth $311 million for a fourth delivery of Arrowhead electronic optical targeting and night-vision systems for the AH-64 Apache combat helicopters. | The Pentagon's top weapons buyer on Thursday cleared Lockheed Martin Corp.'s LMT.N continued development of its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the biggest warplane project ever and one valued at more than $245 billion, the Defense Department said. | Alltel Corp. on Tuesday said it has completed its $144 million summer deal with US Cellular and TDS Telecom, only days after announcing it plans to acquire wireless properties | Lockheed Martin Corp. defended itself Friday against criticism it was moving too slowly in investing $6 billion in Poland - a commitment that helped win the US company an order for 48 F-16 fighter jets over its European competitors. | The Bush administration's nuclear accord with India seems on track to easy passage in Congress, as the White House also proceeds with plans to equip Pakistan with F-16 fighter jets. | Richard A. Grasso, the former chairman and chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange, received $144 million to $156 million in excessive compensation. | WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is struggling to get congressional approval for millions of dollars in aid to a tribal paramilitary group in the semiautonomous region of Pakistan where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have gained such a foothold that they have been able to launch destabilizing attacks on both Afghanistan... | MANHASSET, NY - Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) reported net earnings of $144.5 million on sales of $435.1 million in its first fiscal 2005 quarter ended Sept. | India plans to buy 40 Hawk trainer jets for its air force from British Aerospace (BAe) in addition to 66 purchased for 1.45 billion dollars in 2004, officials said Wednesday. | The UN atomic watchdog opens a general conference of its 144 member states Monday, with the crisis over Iran's possibly seeking nuclear weapons getting ever more serious. | On the campaign trail today, President Bush stressed that the economy "is strong and getting stronger," after the Labor Department released data showing that the economy gained 144,000 jobs in August. | Boeing Co. said yesterday that it will take a $615 million pretax charge for its work on a defunct deal to lease then sell refueling tanker planes to the Air Force and for the closing of its 717 aircraft production line. |
DuPont: utili in calo a 545 mln dlr | Nel quarto trimestre, ricavi in crescita dell'11% | Utile netto di 559 mln di dlr con un incremento del 91% | Dow +0,51%, Nasdaq +0,82% Euro in calo a 1,3103 dlr | DuPont Co , one of the largest U.S. chemical makers, said on Tuesday that third-quarter profit rose more than 8 percent on strong sales from its agriculture and nutrition segment, coupled with overseas growth. | A New York apre a 61,85 dlr, in calo dello 0,6% | Dow Jones +0.31%, Nasdaq +0,48%, euro in calo a 1,3612 dlr | Dow Jones -1,07%, Nasdaq -1,02%.Euro in calo a 1,3408 dlr | Oneri per 136 mln dlr, trimestrale gruppo diffusa domani | Dow Jones +0,54%, Nasdaq +0,49%.Euro in calo a 1,2671 dlr | Dow Jones -0,22%, Nasdaq -0,38%.Euro in calo a 1,2964 dlr | DuPont Co. DD.N posted a quarterly profit on Tuesday but warned that high energy prices will dampen global economic growth for the rest of the year. | - DuPont said it would add more than 400 positions mainly in research and development in its Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. unit, as it executes a $100 million reinvestment plan to accelerate new seed products. | Dow Jones +0,24%, Nasdaq +0,40, euro in calo a 1,3204 dlr | Dow Jones +0,56%, Nasdaq +0,55%.Euro in calo, a 1,3133 dlr | DuPont agreed to pay as much as $343 million Thursday to settle allegations the chemical giant contaminated drinking water in West Virginia and Ohio with a key ingredient used in its Teflon products. | Dow Jones -0,45%, Nasdaq -1,16%.Euro in calo, a 1,3006 usd |
Lisbona, 16:01 - CALCIO, PORTOGALLO: GIL VICENTE INSISTE SU GIUSTIZIA ORDINARIA | Il Gil Vicente non demorde, e proseguirà la propria battaglia nelle sedi legali fuiori dal mo... | Tutti i lunedì sarà in diretta in una trasmissione su TelelombardiaInibito per 5 anni dalla giustizia sportiva dopo lo scandalo calcio La nuova vita di Luciano Moggi opinionista in una tv privata | EUROPA/PORTOGALLO - Oltre lÂ80 per cento dei medici dichiara l'obiezione di coscienza all'entrata in vigore della nuova legge di depenalizzazione dell'aborto Lisbona (Agenzia Fides) - La nuova legge sulla depenalizzazione dell'aborto in Portogallo è entrata in vigore il 15 luglio. La depenalizzazione dell'aborto è ... | Manuel Galrinho Bento, portiere storico del Portogallo tra gli anni 70 e gli anni 90, è morto... | A tre giorni dal blitz contro il gruppo terroristico il ministro degli Interni legge un'informativaParole preoccupate: "Ancora qualcosa si agita attorno alla cellula terroristica" Amato alla Camera sulle nuove br "Meno isolate del gruppo Lioce" ... | L'ordinanza del gip milanese Forleo non è ancora giunta alla CameraQuando arriverà sarà inviata alla giunta competente e seguirà l'iter Bertinotti bacchetta il Gip Forleo "La fuga di notizie è un problema" | EUROPA/PORTOGALLO - Giornata Missionaria Mondiale: Âtutti i cristiani vivano intensamente il mese missionario e facciano di tutto l'anno un tempo forte di missione senza frontiere" Lisbona (Agenzia Fides) - Le POM del Portogallo hanno pubblicato una Guida per lÂOttobre Missionario 2007 preparata insieme a diversi Is... | Il segretario della Cgil: ci stanno usando come copertura per poi colpirci. Ma gli anni di piombo non torneranno "E' ora di alzare la guardia nelle fabbriche del Nord" di ROBERTO MANIA | Portavoce,era previsto e in accordo con autorita' portoghesi | LISBON, May 18 (IPS) - Never before has the Portuguese idiom "para o inglês ver" (literally: for the English to see), which means putting on a front to impress outsiders and ward off criticism, been so apt as today in Portugal, when the entire country has its attention riveted on the case of a four-year-old Britis... | Mexico's current first lady became tabloid fodder after insisting on a very untraditional political role alongside her husband, President Vicente Fox. The women most likely to replace her say they want a much lower profile — more like Laura Bush's role in the United States. | Giornata di tensione per il guardasigilli.Prodi in allarme chiama Di PietroMarini: "Niente fiducia, la Cdl non sta facendo ostruzionismo" La via crucis di Clemente tra i ribelli "Non mi faccio impiccare dalle toghe" ... | Giornata di tensione per il guardasigilli.Prodi in allarme chiama Di PietroMarini: "Niente fiducia, la Cdl non sta facendo ostruzionismo" La via crucis di Clemente tra i ribelli "Non mi faccio impiccare dalle toghe" ... | EUROPA/PORTOGALLO - ÂIl futuro della Missione Ad Gentes - prospettive per il secolo XXI è stato il tema delle Giornate Missionarie 2007 che hanno lanciato il Congresso Missionario Nazionale, che si celebrerà nel 2008 a Fatima Fátima (Agenzia Fides) - "Il futuro della Missione Ad Gentes - prospettive per il secolo... | Mattia Pasini su Aprilia partirà in pole position nel Gp del Portogallo, classe 125. Pasini h... | Giuseppe Gibilisco è giunto alla Procura del Coni per essere sentito dal procuratore Ettore T... |
U.S. urges Brazil to crack down on pirated goods | Brazil, the world's fourth biggest market for pirated goods, must do more to fight piracy of international products which cost companies billions of dollars annually, the U.S. Attorney General said on Friday. | Brazil should end the year at the top of the list of countries with the highest rate of pirated personal computers in its market, outranking China for the first time, according to a study released on Thursday. | U S Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson confronted mixed signals as he arrived in China yesterday for trade talks, with Beijing disclosing a renewed crackdown on pirated goods but also running up a record trade surplus with the United States. | Shrimpers from Brazil, India, Thailand and Ecuador dumped their product illegally on the American market and must pay tariffs if they want to keep selling to the United States, the Commerce Department ruled Monday. | The US considers complaining to the WTO about what it says is Chinese intellectual piracy. | A senior U.S. military commander urged Pakistan yesterday to crack down on an entrenched network of senior Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, training camps and recruiting grounds -- a sanctuary from which fighters have tripled cross-border attacks since September and are preparing an anticipated major spring offensive in s... | Pirated goods are costing the global economy billions of dollars and putting human health at risk, the UN warns. | By Joe McDonald Associated Press BEIJING -- China has promised to pursue product pirates identified by U.S. authorities in a new effort to stamp out its thriving counterfeit industry, the head of the U.S. Customs agency said Friday. | RIO DE JANEIRO. Otto pirati informatici (gli hacker) su dieci del pianeta si trovano in Brasile così come vi vengono creati due terzi dei siti di pedofilia su internet, in base a stime della polizia federale brasiliana. | Brazil will break patents on some foreign AIDS drugs next year to escape the control of multinational firms holding developing countries "hostage," the government said on Tuesday. | Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said.The SIIA believes it is necessary to file the lawsuits becaus... | BRASILIA, Brazil - Transactions worldwide by organized crime reach $2 trillion every year, and about half that amount goes toward corruption and bribes, the United Nations drugs and crime watchdog said on Wednesday. | It wasn't supposed to be released until Thursday, but for weeks already, pirated copies of the feature film "Elite Squad" — about the shady workings of Rio's Special Operations Police Battalion — has been a best-seller at street stalls across Brazil. | SAO PAULO, Brazil - A spree of "pirate" raids onvacation homes around the chic Brazilian beach resort of Angrados Reis has led police to mount air and sea patrols over theholiday season, a security official said on Thursday. | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company hopes to squeeze more revenue from countries where software piracy is rampant by dialing up anti-piracy technology in Vista. | U.S. officials are expected to announce on Monday a coordinated crackdown on the theft of U.S. intellectual property such as pirated compact discs and knockoff auto parts, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, |
The Crying Game, and the Political Herd | Social scientists say that linking emotional breakdowns to ballots cannot be dismissed easily. | When it comes down to a choice between good politics and good policy, which usually wins? Let's put it this way: We don't call it the political Play of the Week for nothing. | ATLANTA - A woman is crying "Foul Ball!" about the way her ex-husband is distributing their behind-home-plate tickets to Atlanta Braves games. H. Elizabeth King, a psychologist, accuses her ex, Charles Center, a lawyer, of breaking their 2002 divorce agreement on how to divide the tickets. | CHARLOTTE, NC -- The release of a video game a recreating the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy has caught the attention of local authorities who say such things desensitize people to violence. | Lleyton Hewitt beat Juan Ignacio Chela in an Australian Open match full of spit and venom. Chela became angry Saturday when he thought Hewitt's loud cry of "Come on!" was a bit too much celebration for an unforced error that resulted in triple break point in the fifth game of the fourth set. | The video game industry intends to establish a political action committee to donate money to game-friendly politicians and candidates. | Rulon Gardner finally let his emotions out after trading Olympic gold for bronze, and the tears he cried weren't of sadness. Gardner, so poised and dispassionate hours before, following the biggest loss of his life, became teary-eyed Wednesday after one of the most surprising gold medalists in Olympic history settled f... | Want to know how elections are really won and lost? Check out The Redistricting Game, which lets you screw around with Congressional districts just like real-life politicians. | In a startlingly bad piece of political theater, John Kerry sent his supporter Max Cleland to hand-deliver a letter to President Bush at his ranch in Texas. | A herd of fossilised infant dinosaurs killed in a volcanic mudflow are found in China. | By Gardner Chris Herd manager Craig Crampton reckons there's always more to learn. | Social networking sites have changed the game for political candidates. | The assassination jolted a nation already paralyzed by political conflict that threatens to topple the government. | An infection sweeping through herds of Italian water buffalo is threatening mozzarella production. | This wrenching political thriller lends a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West. | A contagious infection sweeping through herds of Italian water buffalo threatens mozzarella production. |
Deal to Sell Clear Channel for $19 Billion Is Approved | The $19.5 billion sale of Clear Channel Communications to two private-equity firms cleared its final regulatory hurdle. | A federal bankruptcy court judge on Tuesday approved a $117 million bid from Southwest Airlines for assets of ATA Holdings Corp. , clearing the way for a deal that allows the airlines to sell tickets on some of each other's flights. | Akzo Nobel NV on Friday won EU approval for its $17.1 billion acquisition of Imperial Chemicals Industries PLC, but it must sell off Britain's Crown Paints and an adhesive business to clear antitrust concerns. | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it has conditionally approved Cingular Wireless' $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AWE.N, clearing the last big hurdle for the deal. | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday it has conditionally approved Cingular Wireless' $41 billion cash acquisition of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. , clearing the last big hurdle for the deal. | Clear Channel Communications Inc. radio division is signing a multi-year deal to use Arbitron Inc.'s new technology to track listener habits in its top 50 markets, according to a source familiar with the matter. | A federal bankruptcy court judge on Tuesday approved a $117 million bid from Southwest Airlines LUV.N for assets of ATA Holdings Corp. ATAHQ.PK, clearing the way for a deal that allows the airlines to sell tickets on some of each other's flights. | Clear Channel Communications Inc. , which has agreed to be acquired by two private equity firms and the company's founding Mays family, posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Friday as radio broadcasting revenue and outdoor advertising revenue rose. | U.S. regulators are set on Monday to give Cingular Wireless final approval for its $41 billion purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AWE.N, on the condition it sell assets, including wireless airwaves in more than 16 markets, according to a source close to the deal. | Clear Channel Communications Inc.'s third-quarter profit fell nearly 60 percent from the same period in 2003, which had been inflated by the nation's largest radio station operator's sale of its stake in a Spanish-language broadcasting network. | U.S. regulators are set to give Cingular Wireless final approval for its $41 billion purchase of AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AWE.N on Monday, on condition that it sells assets including wireless airwaves in more than 16 markets, according to a source close to the deal. | Media and marketing company Arbitron Inc. on Monday said it agreed to provide Clear Channel Radio with ratings and software services through the fall of 2008. | (InfoWorld) - The U.S.'s two satellite radio operators, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio Holdings announced Monday they plan to merge, pending a potentially difficult approval process. The all-stock deal will see XM shareholders receiving 4.6 shares of Sirius stock for each XM share they own. The new comp... | (InfoWorld) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is moving fast to complete a planned acquisition of ATI Technologies Inc., offering US$1.7 million in salary and bonuses to hire the graphics card vendor's chief executive officer, David Orton. Retaining Orton could help AMD to reach its stated goal of building a single p... | Regulators cleared the way for Verizon Communications to sell its phone lines in three New England states for $2.7 billion to FairPoint Communications Inc. | Cable firm NTL today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its broadcast business for £1.27bn. A consortium led by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group and other third |
Violence Breaks Out at Holy Site | HUNDREDS of angry worshippers attacked police with stones today over contentious Israeli renovation work at a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City. | Le immagini della violenza sono finite su internet | Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on Islam and holy war that have angered much of the Muslim world are in line with his efforts to spare religion from violence and extremism. | Citing Iraq and the Holy Land, Pope John Paul II on Saturday urged the world to stop turning to violence in times of dispute, saying the only way to find peace is through negotiation. | Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British counterpart Tony Blair issued a cautionary statement to their US ally George W. Bush and the new Iraqi government to resolve the conflict in the Shiite holy city of Najaf without damaging its Muslim holy site. | U.S. soldiers have seen a sudden lull in violence in a neighorhood that has been a hotbed of sectarian attacks. Now the unnerving question is: Where is the enemy? | The ongoing violence in Iraq "encourages terrorism," has created instability and has pushed some French youths toward holy war, France's defense minister said in an interview with The Associated Press. | Violent clashes broke out Sunday between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in the capital, leaving one man dead from gunshot wounds and 21 others injured at a time when tensions throughout Lebanon threaten the country's fragile sectarian and political balance. | Police scuffled on Friday with Muslims protesting Israeli construction outside a disputed Jerusalem holy site, but the scattered clashes were quickly contained and no one was seriously hurt, police said. | Suspected Islamic militants decapitated three soldiers in Algeria in an upsurge of violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, reports said Wednesday. Security forces killed seven alleged militants in an ensuing operation. | Ma secondo alcune fonti la violenza a ottobre e' calata | Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem over building work being done at disputed holy site. | Rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his fighters to lay down arms and leave the holy city of Najaf. It follows a deal brokered by Iraq's top Shiite cleric that ended weeks of violence. | An investigation starts into the collapse of seating at a religious festival that injured more than a dozen people. | Police in Haiti detained a priest on suspicion of links to violence, while ex-soldiers who carried out a bloody revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said reinforcements were headed for the capital to help put down clashes that have killed at least 48 people. | KERBALA, Iraq - Four people were killed and 18 wounded in a fresh outbreak of violence in the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims gathered on Tuesday for a major ritual, police said. |
HMRC self-assessment online gets awards nod | Steps up for gong, trips on way down UK taxpayers will have been spluttering into their keyboards today to see HMRC's self-assesment website praised to the skies by the judges of an e-government awards ceremony.⦠| NI nurses are to receive the full pay award recommended by the Independent Pay Review Body | TORONTO (Billboard) - Celine Dion leads the Juno Award nominations, announced Tuesday, with six nods, while punk pop queen Avril Lavigne, crooner Michael Buble and the eclectic Feist each received five shots at awards. | No Country For Old Men heads the Academy Awards list with eight nods, along with drama There Will Be Blood. | HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is to press private banks to hand over details of their offshore accounts. | No Country For Old Men heads the Academy Awards with eight nods, along with thriller Michael Clayton. | The BBC News website scoops a prestigious prize at Hollywood's Online News Association awards . | · Systems failure on busiest day of the tax year· Self-assessment deadline extended by one day | Postal workers are on course for an £800 bonus after the Royal Mail today reported a huge improvement in its finances and more reliable deliveries. | As the awards season approaches, it's time again to hand out the prizes for executive incompetence. | Kate Winslet will be competing with herself at Britain's film awards next month, winning two nominations for best actress, but Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" led the way with 14 nods in a pre-Oscar boost. | Wilderness drama "Into the Wild," directed by Sean Penn and starring newcomer Emile Hirsch, topped the list of Screen Actors Guild award nominees on Thursday with four nods, including best ensemble cast. | Medals and money... The Association of Computing Machinery has awarded the $250,000 A.M Turing Prize to three men who created an automated way to find design errors in hardware or software.⦠| Ukrainians see themselves as the most miserable people in Europe, according to a worldwide survey, a dismal self-assessment ahead of Sunday's presidential election. | Money owed to HM Revenue and Customs could be taken automatically from bank accounts, under new plans. | IFC said Wednesday that it will initially add the movies that it received a nomination for the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards to the iTunes Movie Store, of which six have gained that nod. Another seven will also be added, which have been nominated in previous years. |
Judges consider Berlusconi ruling | Judges in the four-year corruption trial against Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi retire to consider their verdict. | Judges in the corruption trial of Silvio Berlusconi withdrew yesterday to decide their verdict and the prime minister said he was confident he would not be convicted. | The judge in the Scott Peterson case ruled Friday that the jury will be allowed to consider a lesser murder charge that would spare the former fertilizer salesman a possible death sentence if convicted. | An Italian court quashed corruption charges against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after a four-year trial for bribing judges. | Italy's billionaire Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, faces the most testing judgment of his political life today, when three judges in Milan are expected to decide whether he is guilty of corruption. | Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he is confident a court will not convict him on charges of bribing judges. "I don't think there will be a conviction," he said at the presentation | A look at some of the major cases against Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi: | A court cleared Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial yesterday, sparing Italy the embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges. | MILAN - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was acquitted of corruption charges in a Milan court Friday, after a decade-long legal battle. | A Milan court on Friday acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges - a major victory in the billionaire media baron's decade-long battle with legal woes he blamed on left-wing ... | (InfoWorld) - A U.S. appeals court has ordered that a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for a wiretapping program be dismissed because the plaintiffs haven't been hurt by the agency's actions. A divided three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday that the law... | Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was acquitted of corruption charges in a Milan court Friday, after a decade-long legal battle. | A Milan court today acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges - a major victory in the billionaire business baronâs decade-long battle with legal woes he blamed on left-wing prosecutors. | (InfoWorld) - A judge in a San Diego court late Thursday dismissed one of several patent claims Alcatel-Lucent has made against Microsoft in several high-profile cases against the vendor, but that does not mean the software company is out of the woods yet. According to Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans, a judge in the U.... | US bankruptcy judge agrees to consider airline's motion to cancel pact, save $725 million a year. CHICAGO - A federal bankruptcy judge agreed Friday to consider a motion by United Airlines to cancel | Prosecutors press a Milan court to sentence Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in jail for alleged corruption. |
Soccer Players Come Home With Opened Eyes | Clare Greenberg's opportunity to make a difference in South Africa arrived as an unsolicited page of white notebook paper folded up and passed to her on the day before she was to leave Port Elizabeth. | When English soccer fans take to the terraces next season, there's every chance they won't just be watching the game, they'll be being watched watching the game too. | Shoppers come to this upscale brick strip mall to pick up bouquets of cookies decorated like soccer players, or $39.99 bottles of Chateauneuf du Pape. Soon, they'll be able to get emergency contraception, too. | When English soccer fans take to the terraces next season, there's every chance they won't just be watching the game, they'll be being watched watching the game too. | Australian coach Frank Farina has named English Premier League players Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka in his final 20-man soccer squad to play the Solomon Islands in the home-and-away Oceania Nations Cup final series. | David Beckham, ready to start his much trumpeted American adventure, was formally introduced as a Los Angeles Galaxy player at the Major League Soccer (MLS) side's home stadium on Friday. | Leading Socceroo players are at odds with coach Graham Arnold's claims that some of them don't have their heart in being at the Asian Cup. | The Revolution's Clint Dempsey could become the next Major League Soccer player to make the jump directly to England's Premiership when the transfer window opens Jan. 1. | Because their delayed flight home from Detroit didn't land until 4 am CT on Tuesday, the bleary-eyed Twins were admittedly dragging entering their series opener with the White Sox. | (InfoWorld) - Microsoft's Zune digital media player will ship in the U.S. on Nov. 14 for $249.99, the company said Thursday, in line with the price of video iPods already available from Apple Computer. Microsoft announced its Zune player and the accompanying music store, called Zune Marketplace, earlier this month, b... | Two famous UK soccer teams make a tour of the U.S. | Open source software for an extra £20 Pssst, pass it on⦠Dell is selling Linux-based home PCs and laptops to its UK customers, but youâll need a very good eye and probably a magnifying glass to find the systems on the direct seller's website.⦠| Another page in the saga of American soccer is turned tonight when the US women's team plays Mexico at Home Depot Center (11 pm ET, ESPN Classic) in | Nobody heard the American players exhale when the buzzer sounded to end a 77-71 victory, because 12,000 delirious fans saluted Greece, the home team that had come close. | PARIS: Soccer superstars Michael Owen and Alessandro Del Piero were hailed as players reborn as they put their critics firmly in their place with match-winning performances at the weekend. | While David Beckham is the headliner, players like Juan Pablo Angel and Juan Toja could be every bit as important to the future of soccer in America. The two Colombians, who came to the States this season to play in the MLS, each scored goals Thursday night to lift the MLS All-Stars to a 2-0 victory over Celtic FC. |
Conrad Black's secretary comes to his defense | Conrad Black's long-time secretary testified on Thursday that the former media kingpin did not even look inside a number of boxes she had packed and he later removed from their Canadian office in what prosecutors have depicted as a move by Black to hide important evidence. | TORONTO (CP) - Conrad Black, under pressure to resign from his remaining positions in the newspaper empire he built, has offered to put his Hollinger Inc. | Disgraced newspaper baron Conrad Black is calling it quits. Black is set to step down from the chairman's post of his newspaper empire Hollinger Inc. | US authorities are working on a ``back-door'' prosecution of Conrad Black, former Hollinger International Inc. CEO, the Sunday Times reported, citing unidentified legal experts. | Conrad Black, who once presided over one of the world's largest media empires, goes to court on Wednesday to determine if he and his associates stole millions of dollars as his conglomerate crumbled. | Between 1997 and 2003, Conrad Black and his associates personally received in cash up to 92.5 percent of Hollinger's entire adjusted net income -- much of it to keep the various Black households | Deposed media baron Lord Conrad Black is finally going to have his day in criminal court to protest accusations that he treated his vast newspaper empire like a personal fiefdom which he raided for both massive bonuses and petty cash. | MEDIA baron Conrad Black yesterday announced plans to file a $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against Hollinger International's special committee over a report accusing Mr Black of "looting" the Chicago-based newspaper company. | Hollinger International Inc.'s special committee's report that details the apparent abuse by senior executives at the company, primarily Conrad Black and David Radler, is the latest in a series of scandals that have shocked corporate boardrooms across the | Conrad Black enlisted Donald Trump to show up at a meeting of rebellious shareholders in the former media baron's company in a bid to put down dissent, jurors at Black's criminal fraud trial were told on Wednesday. | Annunciata ufficialmente la formazione della nazionale neozelandese che sabato al Flaminio di Roma affronta l'Italia in un attesissimo test-match. Tra gli 'All Blacks' esordiranno Conrad Smith (centro del | The judge presiding over Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial refused a request from his lawyers on Wednesday to bring back to the stand and try to further discredit the star witness against the former media baron. | Former media baron Conrad Black says he is confident a jury will clear him of fraud at his upcoming trial in the United States. | Hollinger Inc., th'e Toronto-based holding company controlled by disgraced media baron Conrad Black, lost an independent director Tuesday when a former general in Canada's armed forces resigned from its board. | Hollinger International's legal fight against its disgraced former CEO Conrad Black is far from over. Less than a week after a judge dismissed racketeering claims brought | Conrad Black's legal woes piled up yesterday when the United States' financial watchdog filed a civil lawsuit against him, alleging that the former Daily Telegraph tycoon used the company, Hollinger International, as a "personal piggybank". |
'No payout' for cot death mother | A mother who was wrongly convicted of the murder of two of her children will get no compensation, she says. | Cassazione, non esime il marito dal pagare il mantenimento | US baby furniture supplier Simplicity recalls one million Chinese-made cots linked to two infant deaths. | A baby killed when a heating system exploded above her cot would not have died had the government informed her landlord of a similar event in 2002. | Science & environment: Tissue samples that might help discover causes of cot death are being needlessly destroyed, say experts | A man killed his mother because she was blocking a £2.4m property development, it is claimed in court. | Scott Peterson's mother withdrew $20,000 in cash in the days before her son was arrested and gave him thousands of dollars in exchange for his pickup truck, she told jurors in his double murder trial Monday. | The $25,000 a month in child support and household expenses that rapper 50 Cent pays to the mother of his 10-year-old son is not enough, says the boy's mother, Shaniqua Tompkins. | The mother of a young British soldier killed in Iraq plans to sue the government for breaching its duty of care to her son by not supplying key defensive equipment, the Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. | SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. -- The 17-year-old granddaughter of Jack Whittaker, winner of the nation's biggest undivided lottery jackpot, was found dead Monday near her boyfriend's home, more than two weeks after she disappeared. The cause of death was under investigation. | · Mother and two teenagers bludgeoned to death · Sought man was woman's boyfriend, neighbours say | A County Antrim man who stabbed a mother-of-five to death is sent to a secure hospital in Scotland. | A mother tells a murder trial about the daughter she lost more than 27 years ago in Dundee. | A murder victim's mother makes legal history as the first to address a Welsh court on the impact her death caused. | The mother of a young British soldier killed in Iraq plans to sue the government for breaching its duty of care to her son by not supplying key defensive equipment, the Guardian newspaper reported on Monday. | A studioâs sale and a motherâs death were just two troubles afflicting John Turturroâs âRomance & Cigarettes.â |
Man with knife kills eight at Chinese high school | Beijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) - A man with a knife killed eight people and injured four others at a high school Friday, in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said. | Eight people are stabbed to death at a high school in central China - the latest in a series of knife attacks. | An attacker breaks into a Chinese school and stabs eight boys to death - the latest in a series of knife attacks. | A man armed with a knife has gone on the rampage and killed eight people at a school in central China, state media is reporting. The attack happened overnight in Ruzhou, a city in Henan province, the Xinhua news agency said. | Chinese police began the hunt for a child-killer yesterday after a man broke into a school dormitory and stabbed eight pupils to death as they slept in their beds. | Chinese police have arrested a 21-year-old man suspected of stabbing eight teenagers to death as they slept in a school dormitory, the latest in a wave of school attacks in China, state media say. | Chinese police have detained a man who they say murdered eight teenagers and injured four others in a school dormitory overnight, state press said. | A student slashed eight schoolmates with a knife Wednesday at Valparaiso High School, inflicting severe cuts, authorities said. | Eight Valparaiso, Ind., high school students were injured Wednesday when a fellow student pulled two knives and began slashing at them. | Refused cash for cybercafe A southern Chinese teenager killed his mother with a kitchen knife after being refused cash to go to a net cafe, Reuters reports.⦠| Apparent tornadoes killed at least 13 people in Alabama on Thursday, including eight at a high school where students were trapped under a collapsed roof, state officials said. State Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Yasamie Richardson said eight fatalities "are in relation to the high school but whether they are ... | The unexplained attack is the latest and most serious in a series of such knifings that have alarmed the Chinese public and led police to reinforce security at schools and day-care centers. | A Chinese bus driver slashed 25 primary school students with a knife and kidnapped a young girl in east China's Shandong province before being captured by police, reported the state media. | Eight dead in shooting that came hours after killer posted YouTube video predicting school massacre. | A mystery attacker stabbed eight teenagers to death as they slept and injured four others after breaking into a school dormitory yesterday morning, in the latest grisly attack on children in China. | Residents of this city devastated by a tornado that killed eight high school students paused from recovery efforts Sunday to mourn at church services, where some lined up to hug and offer words of encouragement for the school superintendent. |
Paci, 18:58 - CALCIO, PARMA: VENERDI' INTERVENTO ALLA MASCELLA PER PACI | Doppia seduta di allenamento per il Parma di Di Carlo, domenica impegnato in casa dell'Inter di Robe... | Rappresentiamo moderati, com Mastella si puo' discutere | La Juve ha chiesto alla Lega Calcio di posticipare al 18 ottobre la sfida di campionato con il Bresc... | La Fiorentina è tornata a lavoro per preparare la sfida di mercoledì contro il Parma. Prandel... | After their matches, interviews and massages, players take their aches and pains to Pier Francesco Parra, who treats them with his three-laser healing machine. | 06.11: Calcio. C'è posto soltanto per due italiane nella fase a gironi di Coppa Uefa. Superano il primo turno Lazio e Parma, bocciata l'Udinese. All'Olimpico i biancocelesti hanno bissato il 3-0 ottenuto all'andata con gli ucraini del Metalurg. | Un gruppo di emittenti vicine a Telecom chiederà alla Legal'esclusiva per il calcio in diretta per la stagione 2005-'06 Diritti-radio, offerta in arrivo Rai, a rischio "Tutto il calcio..." | Il Palermo continua la preparazione in vista dell'importante match in chiave Champions di mercoledì ... | L'Inter è in silenzio stampa dopo le polemiche arbitrali post Parma. Una decisione che il pre... | Intervistato da Tv Parma a Salsomaggiore Terme, dve ha presenziato a uno stage di allenatori diletta... | Duro intervento del sottosegretario Letta: "Disagi agli utenti e alla trattativa per la privatizzazione"Contrasti tra i ministri di Economia e Trasporti sull'ipotesi di vendere l'intera quota della compagnia Alitalia, il governo: "Ieri fatti molto gravi" Tensione tra Bianchi e P... | Il tecnico del Parma, Stefano Pioli ha deciso di aggiungere alla lista dei convocati per la gara di ... | L'intervento di inserimento di un pacemaker al presidente della repubblica Carlo Azeglio Ciampi è stato effettuatto alla clinica Pio XI di Roma, sulla via Aurelia. Secondo alcune indiscrezioni Ciampi si trova | Questo l'elenco dei 18 calciatori convocati dal tecnico Stefano Pioli per la partita Parma-Osasuna, ... | 22/10/2004 - Un gol per tempo condanna il Parma alla prima sconfitta europea della stagione. Non sono servite buona volontà e grinta per portare a casa un risultato utile. Baldini a fine partita ha comunque | Audizione alla Camera del presidente dell'Autorità per le comunicazioni"Serve un intervento legislativo. La tv determina il voto elettorale" Calabrò: "Ok al tetto della pubblicità Ma solo se non è permanente" |
'She dresses food like Picasso' | Life & style: Under Gordon Ramsay and his executive chef Mark Askew, Clare Smyth is making a name for herself | At the Metropolitan Museum, a fine masterpiece sampler in ÂCézanne to Picasso, but the real star of the show is not any of the artists. | Madrid's Reina Sofia museum is about to open one of the most extensive Picasso exhibitions as it hosts works on loan from the National Picasso Museum in Paris to add to those already on view in the Spanish capital. | Several Picasso paintings and drawings have been stolen from the artist's granddaughter's house in Paris, the director of the city's Picasso Museum said Wednesday. | Madrid's Reina Sofia museum is about to open one of the most extensive Picasso exhibitions as it hosts works on loan from the National Picasso Museum in Paris to add to those already on view in the Spanish capital. | California passed like a Duck, tackled like a Duck and even dressed like a Duck — and the Golden Bears did it all much better than Oregon. | Mary-Louise Parker came to the Luca Luca fashion show to see the cocktail dresses. | Wearing a floor-length cocktail dress, her hair up, Nelly Furtado looked like the Audrey Hepburn of modern pop midway through her sold-out show Wednesday night at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. | THE ADVENTURE: Whooping cranes are making their migration from Wisconsin to Florida, guided by an ultralight plane and pilots dressed to look like cranes. | A British beauty queen says she was told to pack on pounds for the upcoming Miss World competition  an unexpected request, considering she's not rail-thin. | Two Picasso paintings worth some 50 million euros ($66.10 million) were stolen this week from the Paris home of a grand-daughter of the Spanish painter, police said on Wednesday. | Dressed casually and smiling as he emerged into the warm autumn sunlight with his daughter, Thaksin Shinawatra looked like any other well-heeled visitor to London. | Two Picasso paintings worth 50 million euros are stolen from the home of the artist's granddaughter in Paris. | Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and sporting unkempt graying hair, Larry Hryb looks like just another guy in Microsoft's corporate headquarters. | The only thing that showed up Wednesday night at the big ball park in the Bronx was Dracula, dressed like Johnny Damon, and he sucked the life right out of the Yankees. | Businesswoman elegantissima e testarda, apripista della moda made in Italy. Oggi, a 85 anni, Firenze la omaggia con una mostra a Palazzo Pitti. Noi l'abbiamo incontrata a Parigi |
Putin says United States trying to isolate, destabilize Russia | Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced suspicion Thursday the United States might be behind efforts to isolate Russia and destabilize it. | Why the charm of Vladimir Putin and the increasing isolation of the United States are bad news for Chicago's 2016 Olympic hopes. | President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia and the United States remain partners and had warm words for President Bush, but he said that he would like to know whether the United States was intentionally ... | Mr Putin suggested on Thursday that Poland was working with the West to isolate Russia, after the election crisis in Ukraine. | MUNICH, Germany - Russian President Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the United States on Saturday for what he said was an attempt to force its will on the world. | TEHRAN (International Herald Tribune) - President Vladimir Putin of Russia told a meeting of five Caspian Sea nations in Iran on Tuesday that any use of military force in the region was unacceptable and in a declaration the countries agreed that none of them would allow their territories to be used as a base for launch... | HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the United States and Russia would have no difficulties if they work together openly on the divisive issue of missile defence. | Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the United States was seeking ways to resolve differences over a planned missile shield, but warned that Moscow could re-deploy weapons if its concerns were not heeded. | President Vladimir Putin's warning that Russia would aim missiles at Europe if the United States pursued its plan for a missile defense shield near Russia's borders is "not helpful," a senior U.S. official said on Monday. | President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dropped all diplomatic gloss and accused the United States of provoking a new nuclear arms race. | US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Washington and its allies cannot be divided on their mutual defense as a bitter row escalated over a proposed US missile defence shield in eastern Europe. | MOSCOW. Feb. 8 -- President Vladimir Putin said Friday that "a new arms race has been unleashed in the world" as the United States moves forward with a missile defense system in Central Europe. And he dismissed American assurances that the system was not directed against Russia as nothing more than... | Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted the United States Saturday for the "almost uncontained" use of force in the world, and for encouraging other countries to acquire nuclear weapons. | WASHINGTON -- A debate is brewing at the highest levels of the Bush administration over whether to adopt a tougher stance toward Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, who has systematically rolled back democratic freedoms and tried to snuff out democracy in weak neighboring states with little American opposition, a... | Russia has curtly told the United States to stay out of its business after US criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir Putin's plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power. | Russia curtly told the United States to stay out of its business Wednesday after U.S. criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir Putin's plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power. |
Britain held back information from OECD in fraud probe: official | Britain did not give full evidence to the world's main anti-bribery watchdog because of national security concerns after Britain dropped a probe into a multi-billion pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia, a spokesman for the attorney-general told The Guardian on Friday. | The government is spending more on tracking benefit fraud as it is getting back, a report says. | A major fraud involving criminals preying on people from new EU states wanting work in the UK is uncovered by a BBC investigation. | Afghanistan's protracted election vote count finally drew to a close with President Hamid Karzai the landslide victor, but an official declaration of his win still awaited the verdict of a fraud probe. | Most Britons are taking precautions against identity fraud, a new survey has found. | EU investigation closes in The Bank of England told HM Treasury about the secret US surveillance of international banking transactions as long as five years ago.⦠| KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai was officially declared Afghanistan's first-ever popularly elected president today after a weeks-long fraud probe found no reason to overturn his landslide victory. | KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan election officials agreed Sunday to create an independent commission to probe opposition charges of fraud in this nationâs first-ever presidential poll, while ballot-boxes stuffed with the aspirations of the people of this | Britain's ill-fated Beagle 2 Mars probe should never have been given the go-ahead by the European Space Agency, an official report claims. | Identify fraud has risen by 400 percent in the last 5 years but the majority of Britons would not know who to contact. | GlaxoSmithKline Plc and AstraZeneca Plc said on Sunday Britain's Serious Fraud Office has asked them to hand over confidential documents, following allegations bribes were paid to win contracts in Iraq. | The recent financial markets chaos which plagued banking group Northern Rock could put the brakes on Britain's economic growth, the OECD warned Thursday. | Aides of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and officials of his governing Labour Party are under investigation for obstructing the "cash-for-honours" probe, The Times reported. | An inquiry into whether officials leaked classified information to Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is part of a larger counterintelligence probe disclosed last week. | The U.S. justice department has launched a corruption probe into Britain's BAE Systems Plc, a potential headache for Gordon Brown just hours before he succeeds Tony Blair as British Prime Minister. | The recent financial markets chaos which plagued banking group Northern Rock could put the brakes on Britain's economic growth, the OECD research institute warned Thursday. |
Egitto: italiani morti e feriti | Erano su un bus insieme con altri connazionali,tutti turisti | (Asca-Afp) - Taba (Egitto), 8 ott - Sono saliti a 26 i morti nell'attentato di ieri sulla costa egiziana del Mar Rosso, dove diverse autobombe sono esplose nei pressi di alberghi frequentati da turisti israeliani. | E' esplosa vicino al mercato, 4 morti e 17 feriti | JERUSALEM - Twenty-three Israelis and five Egyptians were killed in bomb attacks in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, an Israeli army general said yesterday, stressing that the toll may rise. | 168 tra morti e feriti 2006, peggio solo Germania e Polonia | Code e incidenti, il piu' grave su A1 con 2 morti e 7 feriti | Gunmen abducted four Egyptian workers Sunday and militants threantened to kill an Italian journalist unless Italy withdraws it's troops from Iraq. | 11.09: Un'autobomba è esplosa a Bagdad provocando cinque morti e sei feriti. Il bilancio delle vittime, fornito dalla tv Al Arabia, contrasta con i dati del ministero dell'interno che parla di dieci feriti. | Five Egyptians were killed on Monday when a 12-storey residential building collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a security source said. | Morti e feriti a causa di una bomba in un mercato | 23 morti e 10 feriti, Merkel sul luogo sciagura | TABA, Egypt : At least 30 people were killed and 120 wounded when car bombs exploded at resorts packed with Israeli holidaymakers on the Red Sea coast of Egypt's Sinai desert in attacks claimed by a group saying it belongs to Al-Qaeda. | At least 27 people are reported dead from a string of bombings that hit Egyptian resorts popular with Israelis, including a hotel where a ten-story wing collapsed. | ASIA/PAKISTAN - Stato dÂemergenza nella città di Karachi per la violenta tempesta di pioggia e vento. Sale a 228 il numero dei morti, tra cui 8 bambini e 15 donne Roma(Agenzia Fides) - LÂarea di bassa pressione proveniente dal Mare arabico e in movimento lungo la costa del Pakistan e della vicina India ha causato ne... | Thirty-three people have been killed and 14 injured after a minibus and a truck collided on a desert road in southern Egypt on Sunday, police sources say. | Almeno 35 morti e circa 200 i feriti nel tempio a Teheran |
Owen hails his best week at Real Madrid | Michael Owen hailed his best week so far at Real Madrid after scoring his third goal in as many games in Tuesday's 2-1 King's Cup victory over third division Leganes. | Michael Owen scored his second goal in two games to earn Real Madrid a morale-boosting 1-0 win at home to champions Valencia in the Primera Liga on Saturday. | Real Madrid forward Michael Owen was in the mood to celebrate after his midweek goal against Leganes completed a rare seven day hat trick of scoring La Liga, Champions League and Copa del Rey winners. | ENGLAND striker Michael Owen scored his third goal in three matches for Real Madrid today. Owen scored Real's second as they cruised to a 2-1 victory over Third Division Leganes in the first round of the Spanish Cup. | Michael Owen scores but Real Madrid slip out against Real Valladolid. | Michael Owen has made a winning start to his Real Madrid debut, playing a key role in their 1-0 win over Mallorca. Owen failed to make Real's starting 11 as coach Jose Antonio Camacho opted to deploy strikers Raul and Ronaldo. | England striker Michael Owen finally found the net in a Real Madrid shirt as he got the only goal in Real's 1-0 win over Dynamo Kiev in their Champions League group B match in Madrid this morning. | MICHAEL Owen rescued Real Madrid once again as they struggled to overcome a defiant Getafe in the lesser-known Madrid derby at the Bernabeu. | MADRID, Spain, Oct. 20 - England striker Michael Owen scored the only goal as Real Madrid hung on to beat Dynamo Kiev in the UEFA Champions League Group B match on Tuesday evening. | Michael Owenâs first goal for Real Madrid helped him hit back at his critics - but those with faith in the striker see it as the start of a new era. | Out-of-favour Real Madrid striker Michael Owen is confident he will retain his place in the England side. | England coach Sven-Goran was not surprised to see Michael Owen finally get on the scoresheet for Real Madrid. The England striker's first-half strike - a close-range effort from Ronaldo's cross - earned Madrid | It was Michael Owen's night as the Real Madrid striker netted his first goal in the win over Dinamo Kiev. Owen turned in Ronaldo's cross on 35 minutes to claim what proved the decisive goal, but not long before Figo had been taken off clutching his thigh. | Michael Owen continued his goal-scoring run as Real Madrid beat Primera Liga newcomers Getafe 2-0 at Bernabeu Stadium Sunday to rise to third in the Spanish standings. | Mallorca, Spain (Sports Network) - Michael Owen made an immediate impact in his first game with Real Madrid, setting up Ronaldo's game winner as Real shut out Mallorca, 1-0. | Michael Owen shrugged off the disappointment of not marking his Real Madrid debut with a goal by insisting he was pleased with his first game in the famous white shirt. |
Quake survivors afraid to return | Thousands of Indonesians spend the night outdoors after a powerful earthquake which kills at least 70. | Without security, a generation may remain trapped in congested camps, afraid to return to their homes. | : A US carrier battle group steamed toward Indonesia's Sumatra island Friday to spearhead an unprecedented multinational military effort to assist the survivors of last weekend's quake and tsunamis. | Marines in Fallujah with loved ones back home in California find that the dangers have been reversed | Terrified survivors were yesterday fleeing the northeast Philippines as a new typhoon bore down on the stricken area where flooding and landslides have left over 400 people dead and 150 missing. | : An Indian archipelago was jolted Tuesday by aftershocks from the massive weekend quake, as emergency aid reached survivors of the tsunami waves that killed 4,413 people and left 8,000 missing, many of them probably dead. | CFB TRENTON (CP) - About 80 DART personnel returning from Sri Lanka after a month of tending to tsunami survivors arrived late Monday at this eastern Ontario base. | BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Survivors of last month's quake and tsunami in Indonesia still face the risk of deadly disease outbreaks such as cholera, but epidemics could be controlled, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday. | OJIYA, Japan - Rescuers who saved a toddler buried for four days by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a decade were unable to pull off a second miracle for his sister on Thursday, but some small signs of normal life returned to the quake-hit region. | ABC's "Desperate Housewives" returned Sunday after taking a break last week to beat CBS' "Survivor" primetime finale. | Nordic countries are praising Thailand as survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami return home with tales of the compassion and generosity shown to holidaymakers after the disaster. | Thousands of evacuees return to their California homes, some of which are wrecked, as wildfires subside. | NEW YORK - ABC's "Desperate Housewives" returned Sunday after taking a break last week to beat CBS' "Survivor" primetime finale. | Nordic countries are praising Thailand as survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami return home with tales of the compassion and generosity shown to holidaymakers after the disaster. | Desperate relatives searched rubble for survivors Saturday after a powerful earthquake flattened nearly all the buildings in this rice-farming town while residents slept, killing more than 3,500 people on Indonesia's densely populated Java island. | THURSDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- For cancer survivors, exercising and maintaining a healthy weight are important factors in preventing malignancy's return, at least for some forms of the disease. |
Assassin strikes at rally | Bhutto dies from gunshots or shrapnelSuicide bomber also kills 14 othersMusharraf holds emergency meetingPakistanis told to stay home, expect riots | A number of people are killed after shooting at an anti-French rally in Ivory Coast's commercial capital. | Three-time Dakar Rally winner Richard Sainct has been killed in an accident during the fourth stage of the Rally of the Pharoahs in Egypt. | Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running mate survived an assassination attempt when a bomb killed two people in a convoy carrying him to an election rally, a government official said. | MULTAN, Pakistan - At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Pakistan on Thursday when a car bomb exploded at a rally to commemorate an assassinated militant religious leader, police said. | At least 39 people were killed and more than 80 wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded at a rally for an assassinated militant religious leader in central Pakistan early Thursday, police said. | BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 -- Gunmen killed a prominent Shiite politician Saturday in what police and others said appeared to have been a sectarian assassination. | MULTAN, Pakistan - At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a car bomb exploded at a rally to commemorate an assassinated militant religious leader in central Pakistan early Thursday, police said. | RIYADH: Saudi police today continued their hunt for suspects in the strikes on the kingdomâs security apparatus last night, that killed 10 militants and one bystander. | Bangladesh's opposition supporters staged their fourth strike within a week in the capital, Dhaka, in protest at an attack on a political rally that killed 20 people, Agence France-Presse reported from the city. | Gold rallied to a 7-week high on Monday and close to a record high of $850 on speculative buying driven by a weak U.S. dollar and tensions in Pakistan following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. | The government of Pakistan yesterday moved to ban all religious gatherings, except those at mosques, after bombs planted in a car and on a motorcycle exploded at a rally commemorating the death of an assassinated Sunni Muslim radical, killing at least 40 | ROME : French motorcyclist Richard Sainct was killed in an accident during the fourth stage of the Rally of the Pharoahs in Egypt, race organiser Massimo Garbaccio told AFP from his Rome office. | RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec. 27 -- Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday at a political rally, two months after she returned from eight years of exile to attempt a political comeback, officials said. | Malaysian authorities drop attempted murder charges against 31 ethnic Indians arrested at a rally. | Bomb blasts killed three people on commuter buses Tuesday and lawmakers blamed Syria, stirring fears of clashes between Hezbollah and government supporters at a massive rally planned to mark the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister. |
Boxing: Calzaghe 'will KO Kessler' | Joe Calzaghe says he has the right style to knock out WBC and WBA champion Mikkel Kessler. | World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Britain's Danny Williams in Las Vegas, promoters said on Tuesday. | Tony Thompson, No. 1 in the World Boxing Association rankings, will face journeyman Cliff Couser while he waits for his title fight. | Il ciclista tedesco della Astana, Matthias Kessler, è risultato positivo al testosterone in u... | World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Britain's Danny Williams in New York on December 11, Williams's promoter said on Thursday. | LAS VEGAS - KIEV, Dec.12-13 â-mmediately after defending his WBC heavyweight title in the fight against Danny Williams in Las Vegas Saturday night, Vitali Klitschko headed to his native Ukraine to joint another battle â - fight for freedom in the | Il corridore tedesco della Astana, Matthias Kessler, sarebbe stato trovato positivo al testosterone... | David Kessler, dean of the University of California at San Francisco medical school, says he was fired for questioning the school's finances. | By Michelle Kessler SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Second Life doesn't scare Jim McCann. Sure, the CEO of 1-800-Flowers.com knew almost nothing about Second Life's virtual world until a young employee pointed it out. | Danny Williams' world heavyweight title fight against Vitali Klitschko will take place in Las Vegas. It was confirmed today that the fight will be held at the Mandalay Bay Casino on 11 December. | Chelsea's William Gallas believes they will battle it out with Arsenal for the Premiership in the coming months. "It'll be a two-horse race all the way to the end of the season because | By Michelle Kessler SAN FRANCISCO -- Business computer-maker Dell today plans to start aggressively courting consumers -- in part with new laptops colored flamingo pink. The No. 2 PC maker has always offered some consumer computers. | COLOGNE, Germany - Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko retained his IBF world heavyweight title with a technical knockout after six rounds against challenger Lamon Brewster on Saturday. | Apple Inc. (AAPL; $122.34) Reiterates 4 STARS [buy] Analyst: Scott Kessler Apple announces service plans for the iPhone that all include unlimited Internet access, visual voice-mail, 200 text messages, and roll-over minutes. | NEW YORK: Lennox Lewis was the main topic here when it was announced that Vitali Klitschko, the World Boxing Council No. 1 heavyweight contender, will fight Kirk Johnson over 12 rounds at Madison Square Garden on December 6. | By Michelle Kessler SAN FRANCISCO -- Is your PC clogged with digital photos, songs and home video? Stash them online. Tech giants AOL, Microsoft, EMC and Amazon are among more than two dozen companies developing services to allow people to store data in cyberspace. |
Usa. Si dimette il direttore della sezione antiterrorismo del ... | Joseph Cofer Black, direttore della sezione antiterrorismo del Dipartimento di Stato Usa, ha annunciato che si dimetterà entro le prossime settimane, ponendo fine a una carriera trentennale trascorsa in gran parte nell'uffico operativo della Cia. | Michael Scheuer, the author and former chief of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, announced Thursday that he had resigned from the agency so he could speak openly about terrorism and what he sees as the government's failure to understand the threat from al Qaeda. | Diretto da Gavin Hood, è di scena nella sezione Premiere. La storia di un egiziano che vive in Americarapito illegalmente e seviziato. Ma per lui si battono la moglie incinta e un agente segreto dubbioso... Così la Cia sequestra e tortura Piace "Rendition", film-denuncia Usa ... | An American man describing himself as a member of al Qaida threatened a new wave of terror attacks against the United States in a videotape broadcast by ABC News on Thursday night. | Il 30 ottobre la presentazione del Dizionario Biblico della Vocazione: uno strumento per acquisire una visione unitaria e integrata dellÂazione pastorale a favore delle vocazioni Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Martedì 30 ottobre 2007, alle 16.30, si terrà la presentazione del Dizionario Biblico della Vocazione edito da Roga... | WASHINGTON Sept. 1, 2004 - The Justice Department is asking a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, a dramatic setback for the administration's | ROMA - Il presidente della Roma, Franco Sensi, ha respinto le dimissioni del direttore sportivo Franco Baldini. Lo si legge in un comunicato pubblicato sul sito della societa' giallorossa. "L'AS Roma SpA nella persona del Suo Presidente cav. | A Syrian director who received death threats after a Ramadan television series on suicide bombers is back for this year's holiday: This time, he condemns terrorism by Islamic extremists as a global threat that hurts Muslims. | Il leader Udc attacca il ministro dell'Interno Amato, che aveva sottolineatol'importanza della cittadinanza come strumento per integrare gli extracomunitari Casini: "In troppe moschee si fa propaganda di terrorismo" | Il film di e con Robert Davi, una delle più note facce da cattivo Usa, di scena nella sezione PremiereDue ex celebrità musicali (l'altra è Chazz Palminteri) si improvvisano criminali da strapazzo Sorrisi, canzoni e "I soliti ignoti" La Festa si diverte con "The Dukes" ... | Why European counter-terror officials share U.S. concerns of an imminent threat | Legislation to create a director of national intelligence, with responsibility to improve cooperation among US intelligence agencies in the hope of preventing terrorist | Il presidente della Federal Reserve si mostra fiducioso sulle prospettive del PaeseIn un'audizione al Senato, spiega: "L'inflazione dovrebbe moderare" Fed, Bernanke: "L'economia Usa riprenderà quota entro il 2008" ... | Via libera del direttore Rai, ma Staderini precisa: "L'ultima parola spetta al cda"Slitta la messa in onda: Santoro vuole approfondire meglio alcuni aspetti Documentario Bbc, Cappon sblocca l'acquisto Betori: "No a censura, ma si denuncino falsità " ... | Il presidente del Consiglio commenta l'allarme terrorismoAbu Omar: "Su estradizione rispettiamo le regole". Di Pietro lo critica Prodi: "Le Br ci sono ancora I sindacati sorveglino di più" | The secretary of defense signaled he favors a slower, more cautious approach to revamping U.S. intelligence than the Sept. 11 commission does. |
Microsoft holds firm on Xbox 360 pricing | SANTA MONICA, California - Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it will hold firm on pricing for its Xbox 360 game console, defying widespread expectations that it would respond to a price cut by rival Sony Corp. for the PlayStation 3. | U.S. sales of video games and hardware jumped 46 percent in August from a year earlier, with Microsoft Corp seeing sales of its Xbox 360 console shoot up after a price cut. | SEATTLE/NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Monday said it will pay $536 million to its smaller rival Novell Inc. NOVL.O to settle an antitrust suit and resolved a 10-year dispute with a computer trade group. | Microsoft has decided to sell the Core Xbox 360 System in Japan at a price lower than it's US counterpart, but also with two games included. Does Redmond's move signal a better deal soon for American consumers? | Microsoft will incur pretax costs of as much as $1.15 billion related to repairing Xbox 360 video-game consoles and said yesterday that sales of the machines missed its forecast for the fiscal year that ended June 30. | (InfoWorld) - Microsoft expects to take an earnings charge of more than $1 billion for the quarter that ended in June related to expenses it will incur fixing faulty Xbox 360 machines. On Thursday, Microsoft said it will expand its warranty coverage to Xbox 360 customers who have a certain type of hardware failure. The... | Microsoft Corp. will sell its Xbox 360 Elite games console and offer Xbox Live video downloads in Europe starting later this year, a company executive announced at the E3 Media & Business Summit. | Microsoft has forged an agreement with Disney to offer the studio's movies for rental via Xbox Live. High-definition films will cost 480 Microsoft points, while those in standard-definition run 320 points. Older films are priced at 360 points and 240 points. All films can be watched for 24 hours after downloading befor... | PC Magazine - Microsoft Corp. sold 294,000 Xbox 360 video game consoles in January, a company executive said on Tuesday, citing preliminary research data. | Nintendo's runaway surprise hit, the Wii gaming console, continued its strong performance last month, particularly in the Far East. According to Reuters, research by the marketing firm Enterbrain showed that the Wii outsold the high-end Sony PlayStation 3 by a ratio of more than six to one. In the four weeks ending... | Microsoft has paid $536 million to rival Novell as part of its ongoing programme to settle legal disputes that have formed the cornerstone of European regulators' action against the software giant. | The U.S. sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console during its first 13 months in stores were 6 percent higher than comparable sales of the original Xbox, market research group NPD said on Thursday. | Microsoft will sell its Xbox 360 Elite games console and offer Xbox Live video downloads in Europe starting later this year. | Microsoft Corp sold 4.3 million Xbox 360 video game consoles in the last three months of 2007, helped by hit titles such as "Halo 3" and "Mass Effect", according to company data released on Thursday. | As the holiday season approaches, imagine the whole family gathered around an Xbox 360. That picture of domestic gaming bliss is undoubtedly in Microsoft's mind, with its release Monday of the Xbox 360 Arcade for families. | Microsoft roiled the gaming world Thursday by taking a $1 billion charge to take care of problems with its Xbox 360. NEWSWEEK's N'gai Croal talks to Xbox chief Peter Moore about the decision. |
Sony, BMG refile merger request with EU | Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG have refiled a request for EU regulators to clear a 2004 deal merging their music units, the European Commission said Thursday. | Sony has embarked on a potential collision course with music groups, including its own Sony BMG joint venture, over MP3 digital song files. | including its own Sony BMG venture - over the MP3 song format. Sony is considering manufacturing devices that play digital | The world's second biggest record label, Sony BMG, talks to online file-sharing firm Grokster about possible collaboration. | Two of the World's largest Record companies have formed an alliance on new digital products. EMI and Sony BMG, which between them control more than 30% of the global music market, said the ground-breaking | Music companies Sony BMG and EMI Music Publishing have entered into an alliance to introduce new digital products in the US and Canada. | The EU launches a probe into Universal Music's proposed $2.1bn takeover of music publishing rival BMG. | Sony BMG is the last major record company to do away with the programs, which prevent illegal copying and distribution of songs on the Internet. | In a bold move to pave the way for more widespread licensing of music publishing rights, EMI Music Publishing and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have entered an umbrella | Sony BMG is suing the company that designed its controversial CD anti-piracy software. | The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday Sony BMG agreed to settle charges that it secretly embedded potentially damaging anti-piracy software in some of its CDs. | WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators said Tuesday that Sony BMG Music Entertainment agreed to reimburse consumers up to $150 for damage to their computers from CDs with hidden anti-piracy software. | It's the end of an era Amazon.com has now secured the right to sell DRM-free music from all four major labels, snagging Sony BMG.⦠| Sony BMG Music Entertainment will crack open the door to its music vaults on Jan. 15, taking the DRM copy-prevention wrapper off a limited selection of downloadable tracks.The tracks will be offered in MP3 format, without DRM (digital rights management), from Jan. 15 in the U.S. and from late January in Canada.The move... | The European Union's executive commission announced an in-depth investigation into Universal Music Publishing proposed takeover of BMG's music publishing business, delaying the process by months. | Trying to recoup its losses as a result of placing anti-piracy software on its music CDs, Sony BMG sued the company responsible for the technology, it said on Thursday. |
"Dr. Death" Kevorkian leaves prison | Jack Kevorkian, the U.S. assisted suicide advocate dubbed "Dr. Death," stepped free from a Michigan prison on Friday with few words but plans for a media blitz to support his cause. | Jack Kevorkian, a fiery assisted suicide advocate, will be released from a Michigan prison in June after serving eight years for murder and vowing never to help the terminally ill take their own lives again, state officials said on Wednesday. | For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves. | Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian will be paroled and released from a Michigan prison in June, a state official said on Wednesday. | A frail Jack Kevorkian will be paroled in June after promising he won't assist in any more suicides, a prison spokesman said Wednesday. | Jack Kevorkian had few words but a broad smile as he walked out of prison Friday, ending eight years behind bars for helping end the life of a man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. | Jack Kevorkian has promised to never help another person in an assisted suicide, but that hasn't dimmed the attention focused on his release from prison. | An attorney for Jack Kevorkian asked the state parole board Monday to recommend that the assisted suicide advocate be released from prison for health reasons. | In an exclusive interview with TIME, his last before a three-month leave, the Archbishop Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, describes the Anglican Communion as "very fragile" -- and explains how he hopes to reconcile its bitter factions | WARSAW, Poland - Prosecutors have charged two doctors and two ambulance workers with murder for letting patients die or killing them outright in order to collect kickbacks from funeral homes, officials said Wednesday. | ACTOR Noah Wyle - who plays Dr John Carter in ER - is to quit the hit TV show. Wyle, 33, will leave at the end of this year, the show's 11th season. | A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row. | Derrick Todd Lee got a life sentence for the murder of Geralyn DeSoto. Now the man authorities say is a serial killer faces another trial that could put him on death row. | Dr. Bennett Leventhal, a well known child psychiatrist and autism specialist, has been removed as chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago after 26 years with the school and will also leave his job as a | PARIS -- Can a woman have a Napoleonic complex? I'm not familiar with Dr. Freud's thoughts on the subject. Nor did Napoleon himself, that militant little dude, leave any guidelines at his opulent tomb that is only a few miles from the Roland Garros tennis parlor. | The doctor behind the "Body Worlds" exhibits that show cadavers in different poses says he has stopped using bodies from China for fear that some of them may be executed prisoners, ABC News reported on Friday. |
Soupy Sales Gets Star on Hollywood Walk | Comedian Soupy Sales, who once said a pie in the eye was worth two in the sky, saw his proclivity for pie-tossing pay off Friday with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. | With the wave of a wand, the makeup artist whips up sales with the promise of a new you and a celebrity moment. | Comedian Jerry Stiller and his wife Anne Meara each receive stars on the Hollywood walk of fame. | Journey, the power ballad rock group that dominated the charts in the 1980s, stopped traffic on a stretch of Hollywood when hundreds of fans turned out to see the band unveil its own Hollywood Walk of Fame star. | By Bruce Horovitz For all the hoopla about Super Bowl marketers and the gazillions of Web hits they were expecting off their pricey ads, reality appears to have stepped smack in the way. | Shark Tale proves that a good animated movie needs more than a star-studded cast to completely win us over. Story is everything and Shark's is rather thin and soupy, despite the | LOS ANGELES - Sony Pictures Entertainment said Thursday that it has reached $3 billion in worldwide box office sales this year, a marker hit by only two other studios in movie history. | Japan's most famous movie monster, Godzilla, has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The pre-historic lizard joins other characters like Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker on Hollywood Boulevard. | Blockbuster Inc. has raised its bid for rival movie-rental chain Hollywood Entertainment Corp., launching a hostile cash and stock offer valued at $1.3 billion that it hopes will derail Hollywood's pending sale to Movie Gallery Inc. | Star di Hollywood arrivato con la moglie a Salsomaggiore | Veteran US TV personality Barbara Walters is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. | Shares of Hollywood Entertainment Corp. (HLYW.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose sharply on Friday on mounting speculation that the No. | Academy award winner Jamie Foxx is to be honoured with the 2,347th star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. | Oscar-winning actor Kevin Kline becomes the latest star to be honoured on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. | Chaos erupted on the Paris catwalk on Friday as Hollywood star Nicole Kidman arrived to launch her promotional campaign for Chanel's legendary No 5 perfume, setting off a paparazzi stampede. | Hollywood notched its first $4 billion summer as teen geeks helped Hollywood end the season in record fashion. Sony's "Superbad," the comedy about three dorky high-schoolers trying to score booze for a party, was the No. 1 movie for a second st... |
World's top swimmers tackle Olympic distances in shorter pools | The temporary pool set up for the World Short Course Championships is, well, short. Swimmers dive in and a few breaths later, they reach the wall at the other end. | Doesn't it seem as though Michael Phelps just got out of the pool at the Olympics in Athens? He has barely had enough time to dry off, let alone spend any quality time at his usual haunts in suburban Baltimore | (CP) - After the pressure of the Olympic Games, training for the world short course swim championships was a challenge for Victoria's Rick Say. | Michael Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on opening night Thursday, giving the world's best swimmer a chance to equal the six gold medals he won at the Athens Olympics. | The 31-year-old swimmer, who owns an American-best career total of 12 Olympic medals, will retire after the World Short Course Championships in Indianapolis, the same city where her international career began in 1987. | ATHENS, Greece - Top American sprinters Jason Lezak and Ian Crocker missed the cut in the Olympic 100-meter freestyle preliminaries Tuesday, a stunning blow for a country that had always done well in the event. Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands and Australian Ian Thorpe advanced to the evening semifinal a... | Olympic heroes have topped the Queen's New Year's Honours List, with four-time gold medallist Matthew Pinsent being knighted and middle-distance runner Kelly Holmes being made a dame. | ATHENS, Greece - Top American sprinters Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak missed the cut in the Olympic 100-meter freestyle preliminaries Tuesday, a stunning blow for a country that had always done well in the event. Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands and Australian Ian Thorpe advanced to the evening semifinal a... | BEIJING, Aug.18(Xinhuanet) -- Australian Ian Thorpe has beaten archrival Michael Phelps in a nail-biting Olympic men¡¯s 200-meter freestyle final between the four fastest swimmers in history, Shenzhen Daily reported Wednesday. | By the AAP. Olympic finalist Lara Carroll is the fastest qualifier for the 200 metres individual medley final on day four of the world short course swimming championships at Indianapolis. | SALISBURY, Md. -- A trial date has been set in Salisbury for Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. He's scheduled to appear in District Court on Dec. 29. | ATHENS - American swimmer Michael Phelps collected two more gold medals Tuesday, but even he knew he wasn't the story of the day from the Summer Olympics in Athens. | ATHENS, Aug. 17 -- Rarely has a huge lead disappeared so quickly. Largely unheralded US swimmer Klete Keller jumped in the pool for the final leg of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay a second-and-a-half ahead of Australian legend Ian Thorpe. | Salisbury, MD (Sports Network) - Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps was sentenced to 18 months' probation after pleading guilty to drunken driving on Wednesday. | Such stars as Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett are taking a post-Olympic break, but a new set of Australian swimmers are making their first splashes toward the 2008 Beijing Games. | The United States outtouched Australia to win the men's 800-meter freestyle relay after Michael Phelps withdrew from the World Short Course Championships because of a back injury Friday night. |
Australia to act on whaling row | Australia says it will send a ship to collect two activists from a whaling vessel, in a bid to end a two-day stand-off. | Japan expressed outrage on Friday after anti-whaling activists poured acid on the decks of a whaling ship in the Southern Ocean and slightly injured two crew members, terming their activities "piratical, terrorist acts." | A SENIOR Japanese official has dismissed Australia's Southern Ocean whale sanctuary as legally baseless and insisted that his country will continue taking minke whales in the area. | Japan expressed outrage on Friday after anti-whaling activists poured acid on the decks of a whaling ship in the Southern Ocean and slightly injured two crew members, terming their activities "piratical, terrorist acts". | Australia will send planes and a ship to conduct surveillance of Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica, the government announced Wednesday. | Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel from a rubber boat in Antarctic waters, offering a solution to a tense, two-day standoff on the high seas. | The video accuses Australia of opposing Japanâs whaling practices because of its âprejudice and racism.â | Military exercises planned by Australia and the United States next month off the Australian coast could result in large-scale whale deaths or injuries, the International Whaling Commission said. | Wildlilfe authorities in Australia are concerned by the beaching of dozens of whales in two separate incidents in waters off the state of Tasmania. | Police will grill the hardcore activists who docked in Australia on Saturday amid pressure from Japan for Canberra to take stronger action over recent anti-whaling protests in icy waters near Antarctica. | HOBART, Australia : Rescuers succeeded in saving most of the whales still stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of increased beachings. | An international animal welfare group vowed to pursue a lawsuit accusing Japanese whalers of killing hundreds of whales within an Australian sanctuary despite Canberra's own reluctance. | Killer whales in the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound should be protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, government scientists said on Thursday. | Australia welcomed Saturday Japan's backdown on plans to hunt humpbacks but said it had still lodged a formal protest with Tokyo calling for an end to all whaling. | More than 100 whales and dolphins die in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia. | A high-seas standoff between Japanese whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the Antarctic drew the governments of Australia and Japan into the fray Wednesday. |
Siena, 17:12 - CALCIO, FIGC; DE LUCA: SODDISFATTO, MA SERVONO ELEZIONI | Il presidente del Siena Paolo De Luca commenta le nomine di Luca Pancalli e Gigi Riva ai vertici del... | "Ora la situazione è risolta. Taddei può giocare e andarsene quando vuole, anche a gennaio": è toccato al presidente del Siena, Paolo De Luca, chiudere definitivamente la questione legata al centrocampista | Rodrigo Taddei è ormai prossimo a tornare un calciatore a tutti gli effetti: ieri il Presidente del Siena Paolo De Luca ha infatti annunciato che il giocatore è stato reintegrato nella rosa e sarà a disposizione del tecnico Gigi Simoni per la trasferta | Il centrosinistra verso quota 162 con Pallaro e quattro senatori a vita sicuri. Da valutare la scelta di Andreotti e Pininfarina Follini sceglierà l'Unione ecco il sudoku della fiducia di CAR... | In attesa di capire se, dopo quella di C, anche la Lega di AeB intende candidare Giancarlo Abete quale presidente della Figc (elezioni fissate al 20 dicembre, con scadenza per le candidature il 12 a mezzogiorno), alcuni presidenti si sono già pronunciati | Buone notizie per l'allenatore Beretta dopo la doppia seduta che il siena ha sostenuto in vista del ... | La Nazionale Italiana di calcio giocherà un'amichevole contro la Finlandia mercoledì 17 novembre. La sede el'orario della gara con la Finlandia saranno definiti nei prossimi giorni. Lo ha reso noto oggi la Figc. | Il Siena si è allenato oggi senza Bertotto, costretto a fermarsi per una influenza. L'ex udin... | Gianni Rivera vedrebbe benissimo Luca Pancalli, attuale commissario straordinario della Figc, alla g... | Fermo richiamo alla correttezza da parte del commissario straordinario della Figc, Luca Pancalli, do... | Lucarelli al 52', Suazo al 62' su rigore, chiude Bianchi | Luca Pancalli, commissario straordinario della Figc, ha nominato Gianmichele Corona e Giorgio Riccia... | Andrea Mandorlini è il nuovo allenatore del Siena. L'ex tecnico del Padova prende il posto di... | C'è anche il commissario straordinario della Figc Luca Pancalli a Fiumicino, dove è in... | "Il pareggio di Siena è un risultato importantissimo anche perché eravamo reduci dalla trasfe... | Kakà non è stato convocato per la partita Siena-Milan di domani. Oltre a lui assente a... |
Several Killed in Dubai Airport Collapse | A wall has collapsed at Dubai's airport construction site, killing at least five workers and injuring many more. Workers said they saw up to 40 casualties being taken away on Monday, but the toll could not be confirmed. | A crane smashed into a wall during construction of an unfinished terminal at Dubai's airport Monday, and witnesses reported at least eight workers were killed. | A steel mesh wall collapsed on workers building a multi-billion-dollar extension to Dubai's international airport, killing five and injuring many others. | A large wall in a building under construction at Dubai airport collapsed Monday, killing more than eight people and injuring many more, a contractor said. | At least four workers die as a site under construction at Dubai airport collapses, trapping workers. | The fatal collapse of a terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport last year is blamed on structural faults. | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A terminal under construction at Dubai International Airport collapsed Monday, a Dubai Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said. | A wall of a building under construction at Dubai airport collapsed Monday, killing at least eight workers and injuring 12 others, Al Arabiya TV channel reported. | A 16-story building collapsed while under construction in Azerbaijan's capital, killing eight people, authorities said Wednesday. | A plane carrying 21 people has crashed on takeoff from Armenia's capital, but there were no deaths reported, the head of the country's civil aviation authority said. | The board of Auckland International Airport backs a bid from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise. | The head of Liverpool's main supporters group voiced dismay over the collapse of talks on a takeover of the club by Dubai International Capital. | A Iranian military aircraft crashed today at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran immediately after takeoff, killing 39 people. | Dubai International Capital (DIC)'s planned takeover of Liverpool collapsed because the board was not prepared to accept "bullying" from the investment arm of the Gulf Emirate, the club's chief executive Rick Parry claimed. | At least one person dies and three are injured in a suicide bomb attack on the airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul. | DJ Aqeel was detained on Tuesday at Dubai airport after reportedly being caught with drugs. |
FBI Seizes Counterfeit Software | Eleven charged in 'Digital Marauder' case that could hit $87 million. | The FBI has seized equipment as part of the first copyright action taken against file-sharing networks. | LOS ANGELES -- Four Southern California residents pleaded innocent to conspiring to distribute more than $30 million in counterfeit computer software and products, authorities said. | A Gardena man is among 11 people charged in a federal investigation that led to the seizure of $87 million in counterfeit computer software, prosecutors announced Thursday. | Federal and local authorities are trying to stop the sale of counterfeit Super Bowl merchandise in the days leading up to the game by seizing fakes. | Microsoft on Thursday filed lawsuits against 23 companies in California and Florida, alleging distribution of counterfeit software. | The FBI said on Thursday it may have to scrap a new $170 million computer program designed to allow agents to share information instantly and fix a main problem identified after the Sept. 11 attacks. | The world's largest computer software manufacturer filed suit Tuesday in US District Court against a local software retailer it claims is selling and distributing counterfeit software labels. | Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations by seducing employees with fake job-listings on ads and e-mail, a computer security firm said on Monday. | TBILISI, Georgia -- The U.S. Secret Service and Georgian police are investigating an international counterfeiting operation that stretches from a separatist enclave in this former Soviet republic to Maryland, where fake $100 bills have been seized, according to senior officials and investigators... | Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings on advertisements and e-mail, a computer security firm said. | The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists. | (InfoWorld) - Microsoft on Thursday filed lawsuits against 23 companies in California and Florida, alleging distribution of counterfeit software. The lawsuits were filed in various U.S. District Courts in the two states and seek to halt the distribution of pirated software by the companies named as defendants, Microsof... | The FBI's failure to roll out an expanded computer system that would help agents investigate criminals and terrorists is the latest in a series of costly technology blunders by government over more than a decade. | Hackers stole information from the Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations by seducing employees with fake job-listings on ads and e-mail, a computer security firm said on Monday. | Servers seized by the FBI from the Indymedia alternative media network have been returned. |
Vietnam vets back troubled unit | CUMBERLAND, Md. -- When Army reservists from the 372d Military Police Company are welcomed home Friday at a belated public ceremony, the loudest cheers will probably come from the local chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America, who say they're heeding their vow to never again let one generation of veterans be shunned by ... | Some current and retired members of the National Guard and other military services say they aren't bothered by newly revealed memos that indicate President Bush got preferential treatment in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, while others say they are troubling. | John F. Kerryâs service in Vietnam and his postwar testimonials have been targeted all summer by Republican-funded critics and veterans groups - so much so that for several months they have obscured George W. Bushâs much-criticized Vietnam-era | The only teenager on the U.S. women's soccer team gave the old vets a chance to leave with one last gold. Minutes after missing a wide-open net, Heather O'Reilly scored in the ninth minute of overtime Monday to give the United States a 2-1 victory over World Cup champion Germany and a place in Thursday's gold-medal gam... | The Bush administration said on Tuesday problems in the treatment of wounded U.S. war veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan need to be fixed, after reports that many face neglect in the Army's medical system. | ALBANY, Ga. - Some current and retired members of the National Guard and other military services say they aren't bothered by newly revealed memos that indicate President Bush got preferential treatment in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, while others say they are troubling... | Vietnam veteran who had served with Senator John Kerry in a Swift boat group broke a 35-year silence this weekend to back Mr. Kerry's version of events from their mission together, and to | NEW YORK Less than seven weeks before Election Day, Senator John Kerry faces strong obstacles in his bid to unseat President George W. Bush, with many voters saying that they are troubled by attacks on Kerry's Vietnam war record and that he has not laid | South Korean veterans of the Vietnam War held a vigil in front of the White House to demand compensation for their exposure to the toxic Agent Orange defoliant used by the US military during the conflict. | Description: United Airlines begins the first American direct commercial flights to Vietnam. Commentator Andrew Lam, who was on the last cargo plane out of Vietnam at the end of the war 30 years ago, boards | Late on Friday, an United Airlines plane will arrive in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, marking the first time that a commercial American airliner will be landing in the country since the Vietnam War. | The remains of an Australian soldier killed during the Vietnam War were returned home to a ceremonial welcome on Wednesday, 36 years after his helicopter was shot down by enemy fire. | Department of Veterans Affairs doctors are furious over a recent decision by the Pentagon to block their access to medical information needed to treat severely injured troops arriving at VA hospitals from Iraq and Afghanistan. | United Airlines Thursday launched the first scheduled flight of a US airline to Vietnam in almost 30 years. "Today's launch of direct service to Vietnam marks an historic step in the relationship between the | A UAL Corp. United Airlines flight touched down in Ho Chi Minh City tonight, the first US passenger carrier to fly into Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War almost three decades ago. | The nation's gaze may have shifted to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But for the homeless men milling through the lobby of the VA Medical Center in Washington yesterday, memories of Vietnam hung as heavily as the smell of nicotine. |
Terremoto. Oms: rischio di catastrofe sanitaria, subito medicine e ... | Le malattie potrebbero fare altrettanti morti di quanti ne ha fatti il disastroso maremoto che ha colpito domenica l'Asia meridionale. Lo ha detto oggi l'Organizzazione mondiale della sanità (Onu). Un esperto | Continuano a crescere le dimensioni della catastrofe naturale che ha colpito il sudest asiatico. All'indomani del maremoto, scatenato dal terremoto al nono grado della scala Richter con epicentro al largo | GENEVA - Respiratory and water-borne diseases could break out in areas affected by southern Asia's tsunami disaster "in the next few days," a UN official warned Wednesday. | Documenti consegnati solo a 370 mila stranieri: le questure a rischio collassoIl sottosegretario Lucidi: situazione inaccettabile, subito la nuova legge permessi Immigrati, burocrazia in tilt un milione di permessi fermi ... | The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the region around the Indian Ocean last week may be driven much higher by disease, American health experts say. | The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that disease in the aftermath of southern Asia's tsunami disaster could kill as many people as the deadly waves and earthquake have. | Documenti consegnati solo a 370 mila stranieri: le questure a rischio collassoIl sottosegretario Lucidi: situazione inaccettabile, subito la nuova legge permessi Immigrati, burocrazia in tilt un milione di permessi fermi ... | ASIA/INDONESIA - Terremoto a Sumatra, torna lÂincubo tsunami Giacarta (Agenzia Fides) - La popolazione indonesiana di Sumatra è ancora scossa e terrorizzata, dopo il terremoto che ha colpito lÂisola nella giornata di ieri, 12 settembre, e dopo che l'Agenzia meteorologica indonesiana ha comunicato di aver alza... | ROMA, 27 NOVEMBRE 2004 - La proroga di due rate del condono edilizio al maggio e settembre 2005; alcune norme per fare cassa con versamenti di banche, poste e assicurazioni; fondi alle farmacie per l' utilizzo della nuova tessera sanitaria elettronica e | Bocciate per opportunità di carriera offerte, formazione permanente e assistenza medico-sanitaria. I risultati di un'indagine su 2500 aziende europee | Formula for disaster? The Department of Homeland Security busts out the math to assess risks. In 27B Stroke 6. | ROMA - Si allarga di ora in ora il grande "mantello solidale" che tenta, come può, di soccorrere le ferite e lenire il dolore accecante per lo sterminio di vite umane provocato dalla catastrofe asiatica. | J'accuse dell'autore di Gomorra: la tragediaè che Napoli si sta rassegnando all'avvelenamento Imprese, politici e camorra ecco i colpevoli della peste Gli ultimi dati dell'Oms parlano di un aumento... | Countries at risk from disasters like the Asian tsunami must invest in educating people about the threats and not just in technologies such as warning systems, the world's largest relief agency said on Wednesday. | ANCONA - L'Associazione Regionale Emergenze Sanitarie e Sociali sarà presente con tre medici e tre infermieri. Stanno per imbarcarsi a Roma, alla volta dell'area asiatica devastata dal maremoto, in particolare | Dalla pesante crosta di fango e detriti lasciata dallâonda killer continuano ad emergere corpi rigonfi di acqua, ormai irriconoscibili. A cinque giorni dalla catastrofe, le coste dei Paesi colpiti dallo |
Pensioni: Damiano,chiudere a giugno | Prodi: al lavoro per equilibrio di lungo periodo | La Fia chiuderà l'indagine sulla McLaren prima del Gp del Canada del prossimo 10 giugno. La f... | In Italia bene lavoro e pensioni, resta nodo conti pubblici | Il piano del premier al consiglio dei ministri, si tratta sulle quoteIl ministro del Lavoro: i tempi per l'accordo sono maturi Spiraglio sulle pensioni oggi il "patto" di Prodi Previste finest... | Ministro Damiano ha consegnato ai sindacati proposta governo | Crisi dello stato sociale, pensioni basse e sfratti | Il piano del premier al consiglio dei ministri, si tratta sulle quoteIl ministro del Lavoro: i tempi per l'accordo sono maturi Spiraglio sulle pensioni oggi il "patto" di Prodi Previste finestre per... | Dopo il 'dodecalogo' di Prodi e le indiscrezioni sulla riforma previdenzialele prese di posizioni di Cisl, Uil e Fiom: "In disaccordo sui coefficienti" Pensioni, muro dei sindacati "No a soluzioni inaccettabili" ... | OGGI SU INTERNET/ITALIA - Comunità di SantÂEgidio: E una brutta pagina, da chiudere in frettaÂ
Roma (Agenzia Fides) - EÂ una brutta pagina, da chiudere in fretta sotto il segno della tolleranza e del superamento di ogni strumentale estremismo ideologico, che rischia di mettere in angolo le grandi tradizioni reli... | Finanziaria poco incisiva, bene riforma pensioni | Su pensioni svolta radicale, si punta sulla volontarieta' | Il presidente del Senato: "Il Paese ha bisogno di essere governato"Ottimista sulla trattativa relativa all'innalzamento delle pensioni minime Pensioni, Marini: "Serve l'accordo Non si trascuri il futuro dei giovani" | Nel settore edile, secondo ministro Lavoro Damiano | ROMA Drastico calo delle domande presentate all'Inps per la pensione di anzianità. Nei primi sei mesi del 2004 l'istituto ne ha ricevute il 9,5% in meno rispetto allo stesso periodo del 2003, molte meno del previsto. E il dato fa ben sperare per il ... | Antitrust: decisione per chiudere procedimento | Ma bisogna chiudere rapidamente i contratti di lavoro |
Amazon.com, balzo utili trimestrale | Impennata di vendite, ma timori per risultati di fine anno | Amazon.com Inc.'s second-quarter profit more than tripled, boosted by strong sales of books, music and electronics worldwide. The Web retailer's stock soared 11.3 percent in after-hours trading. | Amazon.com has officially entered into the search engine market with the launch of A9.com, a search engine that Amazon claims will make organizing and managing search results easier. | Amazon.com Inc. AMZN.O on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that missed Wall Street estimates and it unveiled a costly new shipping program that heightened concern about falling margins, sending its shares tumbling 14 percent. | The Amazon Web Services (AWS) division of online retail giant Amazon.com yesterday released Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0 and the beta version of Alexa Web Information Service. | Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that missed Wall Street estimates and it unveiled a costly new shipping program that heightened concern about falling margins, sending its shares tumbling 14 percent. | Amazon's independent A9 unit is ready to officially unveil its customized search engine, which debuted in preview form last April. A9.com combines Web and image searches from Google, movie and book searches from Amazon and reference materials from GuruNet into an interface that can be custom tailored for each user. A9 ... | Leave it to Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN). Apparently, the holiday season could be a rich opportunity to addict more users to Amazon's A9. | Amazon.com and Pepsi toay announced a new promotion where consumers buying Pepsi products will be able to download DRM-free digital music from Amazon MP3. | Online superstore Amazon.com (Quote, Chart) has expanded its Web Services platform for developers, adding a new service for access to the Alexa database and increased access to the Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0. | Amazon is attempting to drum up interest among developers for its Web Services offering by sponsoring a contest which looks for the best business venture that makes use of its technologies. | Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings. | Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have filed several lawsuits in various Seattle courts aimed at computer spammers and "phishers" who use a look-alike Amazon. | Amazon.com's download service will be available to about 1.5 million TiVo users, a third of the total, who have set-top boxes that can accept high-speed Net connections. | Seattle-area neighbors Amazon.com and Microsoft today announced the filing of several lawsuits in connection with spoofing and phishing scams that deceive consumers and misuse Amazon's brand name. | Amazon.com has reported fourth quarter sales of $3.99 billion, up significantly on the $2.98 billion it achieved a year previously. Although revenue growth continues to be fast despite Amazon's large size and relative maturity, profits are a different story. |
Protests, parties after Pinochet's death | SANTIAGO, Chile - The body of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose government killed thousands during his 17-year-rule, was taken to a military college in the capital Santiago on Monday after his death sparked violence, tears and celebration. | SANTIAGO, Chile - Thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on Monday, praying, crying and paying their respects to a man who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life. | SANTIAGO -- About 5,000 supporters of Augusto Pinochet mourned yesterday at the funeral of the former Chilean dictator whose repressive 17-year rule made him infamous worldwide for human rights abuses. | Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile's democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died Sunday, dashing hopes of victims of his regime's abuses that he would be brought to justice. He was 91. | Chile's Supreme Court on Thursday morning stripped former leader August Pinochet of immunity from prosecution for the deaths of political opponents during his 1973-1990 rule. | Following the death of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, Britain paid tribute to the progress made by the South American country in the years since he left power. | Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule, died yesterday at a Santiago military hospital of complications from a heart attack, leaving incomplete numerous court cases that had sought to bring him to... | The White House on Sunday marked the death of former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet by calling his rule a "difficult period" and commending the country for establishing a free society. | Buddhist workers in southern Thailand in revenge for the October deaths of 85 Muslim protesters, police say. to families of the dead protesters, most of whom died of suffocation in army custody. | SANTIAGO, Chile - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, accused of murdering and kidnapping political opponents during his 17 years in power, suffered a heart attack on Sunday, a hospital source said. | Security has been markedly stepped up in Tiananmen Square, amid fears of protests related to the death of deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, who opposed a crackdown on 1989 democracy protests in the square. | Gen. Augusto Pinochet took full responsibility for the first time Saturday for the actions of his 1973-90 dictatorship, which carried out thousands of political killings and is blamed for widespread torture and illegal imprisonment. | Police in Kosovo raided the ethnic Albanian political movement behind a weekend protest that ended in clashes with police and the deaths of two protesters, United Nations police said on Monday. | SANTIAGO, Chile - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was fighting for survival in a Santiago hospital on Monday as a small group of supporters continued their vigil outside, willing him to live. | Protests erupted in this city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday as anger mounted over the death of a teenager killed when police fired on a crowd protesting alleged human rights violations, officials said. | SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 25 -- Gen. Augusto Pinochet took full responsibility for the first time Saturday for the actions of his 1973-90 dictatorship, which carried out thousands of political killings and is blamed for widespread torture and illegal imprisonment. |
Pedro now a BoSox sideshow | There's nothing like the stretch run in baseball. We've got unbelievable races for the AL West and the NL wild card going on. | Prime-time TV seems more and more like a carnival. It's not so much a schedule of shows as, well, a sideshow hawking reality fare. | Dustin Pedroia drove in five runs to help the Red Sox advance to their second World Series in four years. | He is gone, and that is unfortunate, but it is not tragic or disastrous or catastrophic. Pedro Martinez was worth every cent the Red Sox paid him and he | The once-fanciful concept of Pedro Martinez as a Met moved closer to reality yesterday, as the free-agent right-hander confirmed that he would be leaving the Boston Red Sox to sign with the Mets. | Barry Bondsâs threat to Hank Aaronâs career record of 755 home runs couldnât generate more of a sideshow, which includes a possible indictment. | CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The Boston Red Sox have reportedly made a bid to lure free-agent pitcher Pedro Martinez back to the World Series champions. | (InfoWorld) - Asustek Computer has prepared one of the first notebook PCs to use SideShow, a small display on the outside of the case that works with Windows Vista to allow users to scan e-mails and other information without booting up the laptop. Dubbed the Asus W5Fe, it could be a hit with users who need to check so... | Asus has produced the first laptop with a Windows Vista SideShow screen Review Weâve already teased you about the Asus W5Fe and now weâve got our hands on an engineering sample of this innovative Windows Vista laptop.⦠| As Republicans and Democrats snipe at each other a day before the New Hampshire primary, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is starring at a bipartisan sideshow where the underlying message is that he could launch his own independent run for the White House. | Much was made of the fact that in hitting a home run to lead off the game for the Red Sox in the World Series opener Wednesday, Dustin Pedroia duplicated a feat last accomplished by former Red Sox star Johnny Damon in Game 4 of the 2004 Series off the Cardinals' Jason Marquis . But it turns out that a ... | When you sit down with your kids or grandkids 20 years from now, and they ask you when you saw that old Red Sox legend Pedro Martinez at his | Pedro Martinez told close friends he was "very happy" after meeting at the airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, yesterday morning with Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry and CEO Larry Lucchino, and publicly, at least, the Sox brass pronounced a similar measure of satisfaction with their exchange w... | Circling fighter jets were just a sideshow Monday to the blitz of new orders for Airbus on the first day of the Paris Air Show, as the European plane maker scrambled to repair its battered image. | A novel about conjoined twins just doesn't sound all that appealing. But Lori Lansens' The Girls isn't some freaky sideshow story. It's a tale of kindness, love and the odd things life throws at us, no matter our circumstances. | Don't question Pedro Martinez anymore. Fame and fortune already his, Martinez finally made it to the World Series on Tuesday night. And when he got there, he shut down the St. Louis Cardinals, putting the Boston Red Sox within one victory of the World Series title that has eluded them since 1918. |
Democrats ready to confirm defender of torture as new US attorney ... | President George Bush announced Wednesday his nomination of current White House Legal Counsel Alberto Gonzales to replace Attorney General John Ashcroft, who submitted his resignation on Tuesday. | Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel criticized for calling parts of the Geneva Conventions on prisoner treatment "obsolete," will promise to abide by anti-torture treaties if he is confirmed as attorney general, according to a statement obtained on Wednesday. | Senate Democrats are backing a bill that would grant new rights to terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including access to a lawyer regardless of whether the prisoners are put on trial. | Senate Democrats seeking the presidency said Tuesday they will vote against Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey unless he says unequivocally that waterboarding amounts to torture. | Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel criticized for calling parts of the Geneva Conventions on prisoner treatment "obsolete," will promise to live by anti-torture treaties if he is confirmed as attorney general, according to a statement obtained on Wednesday. | U.S. Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales faced blistering criticism on Thursday for his role in shaping administration policies blamed for contributing to the torture of terror suspects, which Democrats said had put Americans at greater risk. | President Bush has selected retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as his new attorney general, sources said yesterday, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department while hoping to avoid a confirmation fight with Senate Democrats. | U.S. attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales faced blistering criticism on Thursday for his role in shaping administration policies blamed for contributing to the torture of terror suspects, which Democrats said had put Americans at greater risk. | The attorney general nominee declined to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques to be torture. | The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee urged fellow lawmakers not to allow confirmation hearings on a new CIA director to derail efforts to overhaul US spy agencies. | Federal judge Michael Chertoff, who testified against torture and preached the need to protect civil liberties, won unanimous Senate confirmation on Tuesday to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department. | The expected key Minnesota matchup between Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Democratic political veteran Mike Hatch, the state attorney general, was confirmed Tuesday, as both easily fended off primary challenges. | Federal judge Michael Chertoff, who testified against torture and preached the need to protect civil liberties, won Senate confirmation on Tuesday to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department. | Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, picked by President Bush to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, appears unlikely to face a bruising confirmation battle in the Democratic-controlled Senate. | The next attorney general must carry enough stature to push White House anti-terrorism policies, combined with the charm and credibility to win over congressional Democrats, a former Justice Department official said. | Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers Monday urged President Bush to nominate a replacement for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who can restore confidence in the Justice Department. Members of both parties were critical of Gonzales' tenure Monday, but a few voices did defend him. |
IBM Offers Software to Avert Public Health Crises | IBM on Monday will unveil software it developed in coordination with U.S. health agencies and private hospitals that makes it easier for health care workers to exchange clinical data in a medical crisis. | (InfoWorld) - Microsoft has appointed an executive to lead its controversial efforts to make its software more interoperable with Novell's Suse Linux. The company has named Tom Hanrahan to the new position of director of Linux interoperability, reporting to Sam Ramji, director of platform technology strategy. Ramji run... | IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Duke Medicine has teamed with IBM to develop and launch a single, unified health portal site where patients can securely and easily access data and services, including personal health profiles; clinical content; account billing and insurance information. | IBM launched a broad-based drive Tuesday to use the world's untapped computer and Internet capacity to help cure AIDS and meet other healthcare challenges. | (InfoWorld) - It's been a busy Monday for Hewlett-Packard as the company announced not one, but two proposed purchases. Somewhat overshadowed by the $1.6 billion HP is forking over to acquire datacenter automation specialist Opsware, is the $241 million the vendor is offering for Neoware. Publicly traded Neoware pr... | IBM Corp is to release a tool that catalogs patterns of suspicious events, or what it terms 'symptoms,' that might indicate a looming data center outage. The ulterior goal is getting a web services standard for providing a common format for symptoms reporting. | (InfoWorld) - IBM reported on Mar. 2 that it has signed American Airlines as its latest major human resources outsourcing customer, announcing a $217 million deal to take over much of the airline's personnel operations. The technology services giant reported that it will support HR functions including training, recrui... | InfoWorld - IBM Corp. is releasing more software to make it easier to program, manage and administer its mainframes in an ongoing bid to attract more customers to purchase its big iron hardware instead of high-end servers. | (InfoWorld) - IBM is making another move to strengthen ties with global IT startups and their venture capital backers, providing special access to the technical experts and products housed in IBM Innovation Centers. The vendor is due to make the announcement Thursday at its Venture Capital Symposium at IBM's T.J. Wats... | IBM and several of the world's leading scientific and philanthropic groups this week launched a project that would put millions of PCs to work on research problems ranging from Alzheimer's to disaster forecasting. | 'It's in the interests of NPfIT' CSC insists its blocking of the takeover of key health provider iSoft is in the best interests of the "successful delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT".⦠| (InfoWorld) - The City of Chicago is developing a futuristic video surveillance system designed to scan city streets looking for everything from bombs to traffic jams. For the past few years Chicago has been rolling out thousands of video surveillance cameras linked by fiber-optic cables. This Operation Virtual Shield ... | (InfoWorld) - Oracle is making content and records management tools available to users of its database in a bid to gain share in the base-level content management software market. Released Wednesday, Content Database (Content DB) and Records Database (Records DB) are optional add-ons to Oracle Database 10g Enterprise E... | E-mail archiving software helped recover e-mails from health care workers tracking TB patient Andrew Speaker. | IBM and networking provider Alcatel-Lucent are teaming up to take Microsoft head-on in the unified communications market.Through the partnership, announced in Boston at the Fall VON conference Tuesday, Alcatel-Lucent is offering integration of its OmniTouch audioconferencing feature into IBM Lotus Sametime, the compani... | IBM and the University of Florida are working on technology that lets doctors remotely monitor patient health. |
The Giants May Rest, but the Debate Will Not | With his teamâs position in the playoffs locked, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin must choose whether the best strategy is to rest key players or to take a serious stab at upsetting the Patriots. | New York Giants free safety Omar Stoutmire is going to miss the rest of the season with a knee injury. | The Giants are winning games and are scoring less, and no one seems sure why. With a chance to clinch a playoff berth on Sunday, Coach Tom Coughlin is concerned. | There will be no more quarterback changes for the Giants this season. Barring injury, Eli Manning will sink or swim with the rest of the team's sputtering offense. | WASHINGTON - Legislation extending three popular middle-class tax cuts for the rest of the decade sailed through Congress by lopsided votes in both the House and Senate, giving President Bush a major legislative victory on his signature economic issue, tax relief. Many Democrats complained during debate Thursday tha... | The Giants might as well let Eli Manning start again next Saturday because they are not going anywhere anyway. | The issues that plagued the Giantsâ defense late in 2006 haunt this yearâs version: a high completion percentage for quarterbacks, few sacks, and difficulty making a stop on third down. | Barry Bonds rested Sunday, staying out of the starting lineup in the San Francisco Giants' series finale against the San Diego Padres. | Itâsa good thing Tom Coughlin ended the debate and named Kurt Warner the Giantsâ starting quarterback when the regular season begins on Sept. | There were some skeptics wondering if Giants manager Felipe Alou was making the right decision by putting veteran Kirk Rueter on the hill in literally the biggest game | Tim Carter, the Giants' speedy but injury-bedeviled wide receiver, fractured his hip in Sunday's victory over the Cowboys and is expected to miss the rest of the season. | To make a bad loss even worse, there is fear among the Giants that Michael Strahan, their Pro Bowl defensive end, could be lost, possibly for the season, with a torn pectoral muscle. | Banking giant UBS was cautious over prospects for the rest of the year after a lull in trading hurt its third-quarter profit, despite a strong showing by its blockbuster wealth management operation. | Tom Coughlin will not bear the brunt of the Giants' failure. The team is looking to the players that span two coaching staffs and two unbearable seasons. | Banking giant UBS is cautious over prospects for the rest of the year after a lull in trading hurt its third-quarter profit, despite a strong showing by its blockbuster wealth management operation. | After MondayÂs loss to the Jaguars, the Giants (6-4) are battered on defense, ineffective on offense and muddled in a standings quagmire. |
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