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Olympic Notes Costs for the Athens Olympics are climbing again, expected to top \$8.5 billion US because of the massive security and overruns in the last-minute scramble to get venues ready, a | 0 |
Russia, NASA OK Space Station #39;s Next Crew MOSCOW - Russia #39;s Federal Space Agency and NASA (news - web sites) have approved the crew of the next mission to the international | 0 |
DRC will not accept further #39;aggression #39;: Kabila KISANGANI, DR Congo (AFP) - The Democratic Republic of Congo, which is emerging from five years of bloody warfare, quot;will allow no further aggression, | 0 |
CEO of American Airlines warns of more job cuts DALLAS - American Airlines, struggling to compete with lower-overhead carriers, will cut more jobs to reduce costs, chief executive Gerard Arpey said Wednesday. | 0 |
Revenge takes root in the ashes BESLAN: On the charred planks of the gymnasium of School Number One, amid soot-covered children #39;s sneakers and shell casings, Beslan #39;s aggrieved citizens debated fighting | 0 |
How Global Warming Can Lead to a Big Chill (Reuters) Reuters - Global warming could lead to a big\chill in the North Atlantic, at least if history is anything to\go by, researchers | 0 |
Twins shrug off #39;David vs. Goliath #39; NEW YORK -- The David and Goliath storyline is not holding up for Game 1 of this American League Division Series. True, when the Minnesota | 0 |
Ask Vic: Another victory for Patriots Which do you think is the more impressive feat? The Pats winning 20 in a row -- including playoff games and the Super Bowl -- or | 0 |
Amazon.com has sluggish Monday SEATTLE Amazon-dot-com says things are running normally again on its Web site after a sometimes sluggish Monday. A spokeswoman says the world #39;s largest Internet retailer began experiencing | 0 |
Trade Your Wallet for Wireless If calling, text messaging, web browsing and video filming aren't enough for you, your cell phone may soon be able to perform another function as well: paying | 0 |
Musharraf formula is casual: Union Home Minister Octroi Post Near The International Border, Nov 7 (UNI) Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today said the graph of infiltration had come down in Jammu | 0 |
Lockheed Martin Team in Postal Pact Lockheed Martin Corp. said Monday that the Postal Service selected a team led by the company to provide managed network services across its 37,000 locations under | 0 |
Memo Appealed for Ways To Break Iraqi Detainees A memo issued last summer by a U.S. Army military intelligence officer appealed for suggestions on how to extract information from prisoners in Iraq | 0 |
Mexico City Mayor Delivers Fourth Address (AP) AP - Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a spirited defense of his administration and dismissed looming scandals as political vendettas Friday during | 0 |
IBM scores \$1B in Danish contracts IBM (Profile, Products, Articles) said Wednesday that it has sewn up outsourcing deals with two Danish companies valued at more than \$1 billion over 10 years, | 0 |
Thatcher lawyers mull Equatorial Guinea interview request South African lawyers acting for Mark Thatcher will meet on Tuesday to discuss a request from Equatorial Guinea to question their client on suspicion that | 0 |
DaimlerChrysler Facing SEC Investigation DaimlerChrysler AG said Thursday it had been notified that it was under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission over alleged violations of a federal anti-bribery statute | 0 |
Iraqi group threatens to kill missing journalist BAGHDAD - A militant group has released a video saying it kidnapped a missing journalist in Iraq and would kill him unless US forces left | 0 |
Redskins blue after loss to Browns Maybe it is time for the Redskins to hit the panic button. After all they just suffered their third straight loss and it came to the | 0 |
Russia's Gazprom to bid for Yukos unit The nascent petroleum division of natural gas giant Gazprom will bid for the crown jewels of the battered Yukos oil empire, its chief said yesterday | 0 |
Lowe #39;s Builds High Expectations Either there is a reliable crystal ball somewhere in Lowe #39;s (NYSE: LOW) corporate boardroom, or management of the home improvement retailer feels quite confident about its | 0 |
J J Warns of Blood Cancer Risk in Arthritis Drug NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson Johnson is warning doctors that patients taking its rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade may have a higher risk | 0 |
Haiti devastated by floods: Action Against Hunger deploys <b>...</b> Following the political crisis at the beginning of the year and torrential rains in May, Haiti has now been ravaged by tropical storm | 0 |
Tennessee has an edge on Florida Lee, what #39;s your take on the Florida-Tennesse game this weekend? Will the quarterbacks for both teams - Chris Leak of Florida, Erik Ainge and Brent | 0 |
REGION: UNSC shouldnt take up Iran nuclear issue MOSCOW: Russia is against bringing up Irans nuclear programme at the UN Security Council and thinks the issue should be handled by the bodys | 0 |
UPDATE 1-IMF says markets resilient, calm after rate rises The global financial system is at its most resilient since the equity bubble burst in 2001, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, | 0 |
E-mail authentication: Cost, standards remain problems WASHINGTON - E-mail authentication can help fight the growing spam e-mail problem, but vendors need to come up with a single, open standard to avoid confusion | 0 |
MSN Ends Hotmail #39;s Free Outlook Access Citing a rise in spam abuse, Microsoft Corp. #39;s MSN division has ended free access to its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service through the Outlook and | 0 |
Israel #39;s Gaza pull outplan Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might feel relieved at the support of his party members and largely his opponents in the parliament to the controversial Gaza pullout | 0 |
US to ease loan goals for Fannie, Freddie - WSJ The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will propose an easing of rules that will require Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, | 0 |
Two More IE Holes Surface Security researchers are warning of another pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp. #39;s Internet Explorer browser affecting users on fully patched Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems. | 0 |
As the seasons change, these tips will help you deal with wind After a season of near misses in golf #39;s major championships, Ernie Els fired back Sunday to tame the difficult | 0 |
Automakers Challenge CA CO 2 Regulation in Court As expected, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has joined a group of automobile dealers in Californias Central Valley to file suit against Californias new | 0 |
IAEA Leader #39;s Phone Tapped The Bush administration has dozens of intercepts of Mohamed ElBaradei #39;s phone calls with Iranian diplomats and is scrutinizing them in search of ammunition to oust him | 0 |
Judge halts patent suits against Columbia A federal judge in Boston dismissed patent claims filed by large biotechnology companies against Columbia University that alleged the New York school was improperly trying to | 0 |
Hamm gets to keep gold medal US gymnast Paul Hamm can keep the gold medal he won in the men #39;s all-around event at the Athens Olympics, a sports tribunal ruled Thursday | 0 |
Aides on Way to See Arafat Despite Wife's Fury PARIS (Reuters) - Palestinian leaders headed to Paris on Monday to see critically ill President Yasser Arafat at a French military hospital, despite | 0 |
All-Star Game canceled The NHL yesterday canceled the 2005 All-Star Game in Atlanta, an aggressive step toward canceling the 2004-05 season. The move was made 49 days into this year #39;s lockout, | 0 |
Pistons persevere, knock off Knicks The Pistons trailed almost the entire game. They led for only 42.6 seconds. They were down by 16 at halftime, down by five in the fourth quarter, | 0 |
Airbus gets go-ahead for A350 jet European plane maker Airbus won approval from its shareholders on Friday to start a fresh marketing battle against rival Boeing by seeking customers for a new | 0 |
Powell Wants Mideast Foes to Smooth Way to Election Secretary of State Colin Powell on Monday will invest US prestige in a new Middle East peace drive, pressing Israeli and Palestinian leaders | 0 |
Weakened Arafat Heads for France, Cancer Suspected RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, weakened by what doctors think may be leukemia, flew for treatment in France on Friday from | 0 |
PeopleSoft, IBM strike middleware alliance PeopleSoft said it will work with IBM to optimize its apps for use with IBM's WebSphere middleware and development tools, and plans to begin selling WebSphere products | 0 |
Gaza Plan May Bring Palestinian State-Sharon Aide JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chief of staff on Thursday called a Gaza withdrawal plan a possible step toward a Palestinian state, | 0 |
Yahoo acquires another e-mail start-up NEW YORK Yahoo appears to be moving a step closer to challenging Google after making a purchase of a start-up company that has developed a promising e-mail | 0 |
Canada Routs Slovakia in World Cup of Hockey MONTREAL (Reuters) - Ryan Smyth scored twice and Martin St Louis had a goal and an assist for the second straight game as Canada | 0 |
Bush and Kerry Offer Competing Visions of the Future The president was in New Hampshire, the only state in the Northeast that he carried in 2000, while his Democratic challenger was in | 0 |
Raptors to trade Carter to Nets CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Vince Carter will be showing off his basketball moves on a court in New Jersey soon, according to one report. The Toronto | 0 |
Human Right group condemns US The group "Human Rights Watch" has issued a detailed report outlining allegations of torture, abuse and violence against prisoners. Prisoners who have been made to "vanish" by | 0 |
2-Year-Old Boy Rescued After Japan Quake TOKYO Oct 27, 2004 - In a dramatic rescue shown on live TV, a 2-year-old boy was pulled out alive Tuesday after four days trapped inside | 0 |
Arsenal Football Club and Manchester United Football Club hold <b>...</b> The top brass at Arsenal Football Club and Manchester United Football Club have met in the wake of Sundays game at Old | 0 |
ARM buys US tech firm Artisan Semiconductor designer ARM Holdings ARM.L has agreed to buy US technology firm Artisan ARTI.O for \$913 million (503.3 million pounds), to boost its product range, but | 0 |
Sportsview: Effort Benefits Steelers (AP) AP - All the Buffalo Bills had to do to make the playoffs was beat a Pittsburgh team playing Brian St. Pierre at quarterback, Willie Parker at | 0 |
Singh on top of the world, and he got there quietly THOUSAND OAKS -- Anonymity is only a problem if you want it to be, and it is obvious Vijay Singh doesn | 0 |
Investors Are Losing Ground as Insurance Inquiries Expand The disastrous decline in Marsh amp; McLennan #39;s stock that has followed Eliot Spitzer #39;s lawsuit of last week has injured a broad array | 0 |
Arms Dealer Linked to Thatcher Escaped Death Sentence South African arms dealer Nick du Toit, who has been linked to Sir Mark Thatcher, was jailed for 34 years in Equatorial Guinea today | 0 |
Drug Study It #39;s one more blow to patients who suffer from arthritis. Pfizer, the maker of Celebrex, says it #39;s painkiller poses an increased risk of heart attacks to patients using | 0 |
Australian train derails injuring 100 A high-speed passenger train has derailed on Australia #39;s tropical north coast, sending carriages and passengers flying through the air and injuring 128 people, five of them | 0 |
PACKERS: Defense bends, doesn #39;t break GREEN BAY - Ahmad Carroll and Joey Thomas knew they were going to be targeted by the St. Louis Rams #39; pass- happy offense Monday night. | 0 |
Syria, PLO mend ties, seek coordination on Israel Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organisation opened a new chapter in their often turbulent ties today, saying they wanted to coordinate their efforts to | 0 |
Siemens wins 2.7-bln-euro services contract from BBC German electronics giant Siemens said that its Siemens Business Services unit had signed a 2.7-billion-euro (3.3-billion-dollar) contract to supply technology services to the British Broadcasting | 0 |
Dollar Loses More Ground, Hits 8-Mth Low TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar tumbled to fresh eight-month lows against the euro on Tuesday, down for a 10th straight day as traders sold more | 0 |
MS moves to can more spammers Microsoft announced today that it has filed seven lawsuits against spammers who failed to label their junk mail as sexually explicit - in contravention of the | 0 |
EU To Persist in Case Against Microsoft The European Commission says it will go forward with its antitrust case against Microsoft, despite the software giant #39;s recent settlements, which led to Novell | 0 |
Flatley returns to Wallaby team for England match Morgan Turinui will start as centre and Elton Flatley returns as fly half for Australia #39;s rugby match against England at Twickenham on Saturday | 0 |
Sharon Wins Cabinet Vote on Gaza, New Raid Mounted JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won cabinet backing on Sunday for a bill on the nuts and bolts of a Gaza | 0 |
Notes: Bed pains Wood #39;s back Kerry Wood returned to Chicago on Wednesday to be examined by a doctor because of back problems that nearly forced the Cubs pitcher to miss Tuesday | 0 |
Microsoft XP SP2 Update And Spyware Conflict If you have spyware installed on your computer system and you update your operating system with the latest Windows XP Service pack 2 (SP2) update, | 0 |
Greenspan says economy shows #39;some traction #39; WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said yesterday the economy has quot;regained some traction quot; after a late spring slowdown caused largely by high | 0 |
USC, Okla. Go Wire-To-Wire Atop AP Poll (AP) AP - Southern California and Oklahoma ended the regular season the same way they began it in The Associated Press Top 25: The Trojans | 0 |
College Basketball Wrap: Illinois Beats Oregon, 83-66 CHICAGO (Sports Network) - Luther Head scored 23 points on 8-of-10 shooting to lead top-ranked Illinois to an 83-66 victory over Oregon at the United | 0 |
Sprint near deal to buy Nextel for \$35 billion Sprint is close to an agreement to buy Nextel for more than \$35 billion in a mostly stock deal, sources familiar with the | 0 |
UK ; Last Rites Sounded for Life-Changing Video Format quot;We are now entering the digital age and the new DVD technology available represents a step-change in picture quality and convenience, quot; said | 0 |
Trend Micro offers new mobile security for PDA and smartphones Trend Micro, Inc. has announced the Trend Micro Mobile Security, an antivirus and anti-spam protection for SMS messaging customers using smartphones and | 0 |
Wayne Rooney enters Man U folklore with hat trick in debut Yet none made the breathtaking impact in his Man U debut as 18-year-old Wayne Rooney did Tuesday night. Support your favorite | 0 |
Greek Albanians #39; woes fester The Athens bus hostage drama involving two armed Albanians has thrown the spotlight on Greece #39;s Albanians, who form the country #39;s largest minority, estimated at nearly | 0 |
Pats #39; Weis Accepts Top Notre Dame Job BOSTON -- The University of Notre Dame has officially announced the appointment of its new head coach, New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis. | 0 |
Afghan Poll Crisis Subsides as Karzai Rivals Back Off KABUL (Reuters) - The crisis surrounding Afghanistan's historic presidential election appeared to end on Monday as President Hamid Karzai's chief rival said he | 0 |
Dinner in Geneva Led to Rumble in the Jungle KINSHASA (Reuters) - When a guest at a plush dinner in Geneva asked where Kinshasa was, she set off a chain of events | 0 |
At 3-0, Mora #39;s Falcons Get Tested Sunday The seven new head coaches hired around the league this past offseason included a Hall of Famer (Joe Gibbs), a two-time AFC championship game | 0 |
Microsoft to Share Code With Governments Government officials have sought greater access to the program's technical details to ensure the software is compatible with other applications and is hiding no obvious security | 0 |
The Ballad of Shaikh Ahmed THE guy exudes an aura of sure-fire confidence - the confidence that is based on his burning desire to excel. Shaikh Ahmed Mohammed Hasher Al Maktoum expects | 0 |
ETA Bombs Put Radical Basque Party in Tight Spot (Reuters) Reuters - The armed Basque separatist group ETA\showed it was not a spent force with Friday's coordinated\attacks at five Madrid petrol stations, | 0 |
Climate change claims flawed, says study A team of scientists has condemned claims of climate catastrophe as quot;fatally flawed quot; in a report released today. The study appears on the same day | 0 |
Oil inventory rise less than forecast NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - US stockpiles of crude oil rose by 1.1 million barrels last week, the government reported Wednesday, coming in at half of what | 0 |
The Wal-Mart Holiday Shopping Song: Online and Off According to data from Nielsen//NetRatings #39;, Holiday eShopping Index, which tracks shopping activity at over 100 retail and shopping Web sites across ten categories, | 0 |
1st lawsuit filed against instant-message spam WASHINGTON, Washington, United States of America -- The first known lawsuit against instant-message spam, sometimes called spim, was announced by America Online as part of a | 0 |
Lycos Strikes Back At Spammers With Screensaver com. Lycos Europe is taking the fight to the enemy, launching a screensaver that conducts a group denial-of-service attack against sites marketing products via spam. | 0 |
Intel lays deeper Indian foundations Chipmaker Intel will spend \$40m to expand in the southern Indian city of Bangalore over the next two years. Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett on Friday laid | 0 |
Quick look at Ryder Cup #39;s key holes A capsule look at the first day of Ryder Cup matches Friday at Oakland Hills Country Club: Padraig Harrington and Colin Montgomerie, Europe, def. | 0 |
App-Firewall Vendors Challenge Rivals to a Test Saying that they #39;re fed up with some security vendors claiming that their products protect against application-level attacks, a group of application-firewall vendors on Tuesday | 0 |
Deion Sanders Out for Ravens Baltimore Ravens cornerback Deion Sanders was inactive for Sunday #39;s game against the New York Jets with a toe injury, while Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis also | 0 |
Lockheed Must Pay for Failed Dump Cleanup Firm to Take \$110 <b>...</b> Lockheed Martin Corp. said yesterday it will take a \$110 million charge in the fourth quarter after losing a six-year | 0 |
FleetCenter renaming talks stall Bank of America Corp. has told executives at the FleetCenter that it is no longer interested in putting its own name on the building, and even raised the | 0 |
Circulation Scandal Costs Tribune Co More NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newspaper publisher Tribune Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TRB.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TRB.N</A>, embroiled in a scandal over inflated circulation figures, on Friday further cut circulation numbers at | 0 |
Izenberg: Twins shouldn #39;t be fooled by near miss It #39;s a morality play as old as Ruth, Joe D. and the Mick. Who among the bit players has not come to | 0 |
Sony Begins Mass Production of OLED Displays Sony announced today that they will start mass production of a full-color Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display. The new displayed will be first used | 0 |
Guantnamo Prisoners Getting Their Day, but Hardly in Court Each day, detainees in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, argue before anonymous military officers that they should not be there. The hearings have come under | 0 |
Logitech launches laser-tracking mouse SAN FRANCISCO - Logitech Inc. was set Wednesday to introduce a new mouse that uses a laser beam to track the movements of the device. The mouse, which | 0 |
Tropical Storm Kills at Least 90 in Haiti GONAIVES, Haiti - Tropical Storm Jeanne brought raging floodwaters to Haiti, killing at least 90 people in the battered nation and leaving dozens of | 0 |
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