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Cycling's Hamilton Fired After Doping Test (AP)AP - Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was fired by his cycling team two months after testing positive for blood doping. | 1 |
In Iraq, Courtesy Call Takes Poise and PatienceStaff Sgt. Chris Fritz set out for a meeting with the mayor of Musayyib to discuss the needs of the city in a convoy of nine armored trucks equipped with .50-caliber machine guns and Mark 19 automatic grenade launchers. He was protected by three dozen Marines wearing full ... | 0 |
NFL: Dolphins go nowhereFrom sending running back Travis Minor out wide on the game #39;s first play to new tailback Lamar Gordon being forced into action, the Dolphins exhausted their playbook with futile results. | 1 |
Olympics-Athletics-Invincible Sanchez storms to goldRed-hot favourite Felix Sanchez made history for the Dominican Republic when he streaked to victory in the men #39;s Olympic 400 metres hurdles final. | 1 |
Arafat family bickers over medical records of Palestinian leaderPARIS Getting to the bottom of what killed Yassar Arafat could shape up to be an ugly family tug-of-war. Arafat #39;s half-brother and nephew want copies of Arafat #39;s medical records from the suburban Paris hospital | 0 |
Sharon, now a dear old softy, can only detract from Palestinian <b>...</b>Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not known for a kindly disposition toward the Palestinians, nor for a gentle approach to the issue of a Palestinian state. | 0 |
Nowitzki Breaks OutDirk Nowitzki sets a Mavericks franchise record with 53 points to lead host Dallas to a 113-106 overtime victory against Houston. | 1 |
Yahoo buys start-up to boost mobileYahoo on Tuesday confirmed it acquired a start-up last month called Wuf Networks that produces technology to let people transfer digital files onto mobile devices. | 3 |
Last-minute haggling as EU prepares Turkish green lightThe EU sought Wednesday to keep pressure on Turkey over its bid to start talks on joining the bloc, as last-minute haggling seemed set to go down to the wire at a summit poised to give a green light to Ankara. | 0 |
Office Depot Cuts OutlookOffice Depot Inc. lowered its earnings expectations for the third quarter and for the year, citing lower sales because of hurricane disruptions and soft European business. The price of its stock fell more than 7 percent on the news. | 2 |
Fourteen Times the Earth - Smallest Ever Extra-Solar Planet <b>...</b>This discovery was made possible by the unprecedented accuracy of the HARPS spectrograph on ESO #39;s 3.6-m telescope at La Silla, which allows radial velocities to be measured with a precision better than 1 m/s. | 3 |
Mourinho #39;s Chelsea off to a flyer as champions Porto drawCoach Jose Mourinho began his quest for a second successive Champions League title in the best way possible when his Chelsea side beat Paris St Germain 3-0 in their opening Group H match on Tuesday. | 1 |
Perk a flight of fancyIn a world where enticements and incentives are abundant, it was stunning to hear players at the PGA Championship talk about the latest perk that took them by surprise. How about six free first-class, round-trip tickets to Ireland? | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Fed #39;s Bies upbeat on US economy, stern on spendingThe US economy has pulled out of a midyear pause and should grow well for the rest of 2004, Federal Reserve Governor Susan Bies said on Saturday, adding that | 2 |
Candidates Preach Oil Independence to Unconverted PublicBoth major candidates for president want the country to be less dependent on foreign oil. But whoever is elected will face many of the same challenges that defeated | 2 |
MP3 Player Sales To Hit \$58 billion By 2008SAN FRANCISCO - In one of those good news, bad news stories, think tank IDC said sales will explode for Apple Computers extremely popular iPod music player this decade, but the huge market is attracting several portable jukeboxes based on 1-inch or | 3 |
Squeezing jello in IraqThe much-anticipated US-led offensive to seize the Iraqi city of Falluja from anti-American Iraqi fighters has begun. Meeting resistance that, while stiff at times, was much less than had been | 0 |
AZ finds itself on the sick listSHARES in drugs giant AstraZeneca bounced back having slumped to a 19-month low earlier today as US regulators formally blocked the launch of its new blood-thinning treatment Exanta. | 2 |
Scientists: Biological Weapons Pose Major Threat (Reuters)Reuters - Biological weapons that can wipe out\whole populations pose one of the biggest threats to the world\today yet remain almost completely uncontrolled, the British\Medical Association said Monday. | 3 |
World digestPATTANI, Thailand - Fresh violence erupted Thursday with the bombing of a bar in Thailand #39;s mostly Muslim south, while villagers held a mass burial for some of the 78 protesters who suffocated while in army custody this week. | 0 |
Personal Technology Entertainment goes digital with armchair ease quot;There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. quot;. | 3 |
Sony warning on Christmas salesSony warns that it does not expect profits at its home electronics business to recover in the normally busy Christmas season. | 3 |
Today's NFL gamesPITTSBURGH at NY GIANTS Time: 1:30 p.m. Line: Steelers by 10. Records: Steelers 12-1, Giants 5-8. Vs. spread: Steelers 10-1-2, Giants 5-8. Series: Giants lead, 43-27-3. Comments: Think the Giants knew Ben Roethlisberger was available on draft day when they broke the bank and traded for Eli Manning? . .... | 1 |
106 mainland enterprises listed outside mainland marketBy the end of August 2004, a total of 106 Chinese mainland enterprises had been listed on stockmarkets outside the mainland, an official from China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) said here Friday. | 0 |
Contact Centers Await Next-Generation Speech (NewsFactor)NewsFactor - IBM's (NYSE: IBM) donation of some US #36;10 million worth of software to the open-source community to help developers build speech applications was, of course, not completely altruistic. | 3 |
Champ takes Oscar #39;s body and soulBOXING has long been starved of magic and stardust, at least since Lennox Lewis put an end to the myth of Mike Tyson two years ago. | 1 |
Bay Bridge Paving Flaw a PuzzlerMaryland officials said yesterday that they are baffled about why a special type of concrete used on other bridge projects failed on a recently repaved section of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a problem that could cost \$7 million to fix and promises to delay traffic for months. | 3 |
US pension agencys deficit jumps to \$23bWASHINGTON: The deficit at the federal agency that rescues failed US corporate pensions more than doubled to \$23.3 billion in fiscal year 2004, officials said on Monday, with analysts largely blaming bankrupt airlines. | 2 |
Dell Elevates SuSE LinuxDell will expand its Linux offerings by preinstalling SuSE Linux on its servers starting later this year. By Larry Greenemeier. The same day Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer issued an E-mail to customers promoting | 3 |
Update 2: Two Firms Cleared of Swapping ViolationsThe makers of two leading file-sharing programs are not legally liable for the songs, movies and other copyright works swapped online by their users, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a stinging blow to the entertainment industry. | 2 |
India Rethinks Plan to Send Man to Moon (AP)AP - India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday. | 3 |
Stocks Finish Lower, Retail Sector Weighs NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday, after data indicated that the critical holiday shopping season got off to a sluggish start for retailers. | 2 |
White House: Patients Save With Medicare (AP)AP - The Bush administration said Wednesday that extra money it is paying Medicare managed care plans is leading to lower costs and better services for patients. | 0 |
Attacks On Foreigners In Saudi Arabia Since 1995RIYADH, Sept 26 (AFP) - A Frenchman who was shot dead in the port city of Jeddah early Sunday is the latest victim in a series of militant attacks in Saudi Arabia. | 0 |
TSMC files another patent suit against SMICTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has expanded its patent-infringement fight against rival contract chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. | 3 |
Phelps #39; gold haul dream not so badBEIJING, Aug.19 (Xinhuanet) -- Michael Phelps has taken his haul of gold medals at the Athens Olympics to three after winning the 200 meters butterfly and helping the United States beat Australia in the 4x200 freestyle relay, Shenzhen Daily reported ... | 1 |
Durable Goods Orders Up; Homes Sales Down WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orders for U.S. durable goods posted a larger-than-expected rise in July, but new home sales showed signs of buckling under the weight of higher interest rates, two government reports showed on Wednesday. | 2 |
Merck Withdraws Arthritis Drug Vioxx (Reuters)Reuters - Merck Co. said on Thursday\withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx globally after a colon cancer\trial confirmed long-standing concerns the drug raises the risk\of heart attack and stroke. | 2 |
Roma coach steps down, Voller eyes jobROME: Cesare Prandelli has stepped down as coach of Italian top flight side AS Roma, according to reports here yesterday which also said that former Germany coach Rudi Voller is ready to step in. | 1 |
A Le MondesThe editor of France's most prestigious daily exits, but the paper's troubles aren't going away soon | 0 |
PeopleSoft Investors Split Votes on Deal PHILADELPHIA/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two major PeopleSoft Inc.<A HREF=""http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PSFT.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote"">PSFT.O</A> shareholders on Tuesday indicated they would split their votes on whether to accep... | 2 |
Relief in Chicago: No More 'Frankenfish' (AP)AP - An anxious search Tuesday of a Chicago harbor turned up no more northern snakeheads, a voracious alien fish that can devastate freshwater ecosystems by gobbling up food and native fish. | 3 |
CU at epicenter of efforts to help fight quake damageInside a University of Colorado lab, simulated earthquakes rattle steel beams. Frequently, the beams shatter, mortar walls crumble and welds break. | 3 |
China welcomes Russian approval of Kyoto ProtocolChina welcomed on Thursday Russia #39;s ratification of the Kyoto climate change protocol and urged countries that have not done so to follow suit. | 0 |
FDA Approves Use of Chip in Patients (AP)AP - Privacy advocates are concerned that an implantable microchip designed to help doctors tap into a patient's medical records could undermine confidentiality or could even be used to track the patient's movements. | 3 |
NFL Still Barring WilliamsThe NFL #39;s position on Ricky Williams #39;s playing status didn #39;t change following Thursday #39;s meeting in the Los Angeles area with attorney David Cornwell, who represents the retired Miami Dolphins tailback. | 1 |
Cisco property-to-be sniffs out spam 'zombies'P-Cube, soon to be acquired by the networking giant, adds feature to help broadband service providers fight ""zombie"" e-mail attacks. | 3 |
Omar escapes bid on life, one killedSrinagar, October 24: National Conference president Omar Abdullah on Sunday escaped an attempt on his life when militants triggered a powerful blast as he reached a graveyard in Anantnag district to attend a ceremony for slain party leader. | 0 |
Bradley suspended for remainder of seasonLos Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley was suspended for the remainder of the regular season by the league on Wednesday for his actions during Tuesday #39;s win against Colorado. | 1 |
Japan #39;s navy gives chase to suspicious subThe government ordered the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) to chase an unidentified submarine that was spotted in Japan #39;s territorial waters around southwestern Okinawa Prefecture Wednesday morning, a government spokesman said. | 0 |
House Passes Tough Computer Anti-Spyware Bill WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to crack down on deceptive ""spyware"" that hides in users' computers and secretly monitors their activities. | 3 |
Dollar Falls as Deficit Worries Mount LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar fell within half a cent of last week's record low against the euro on Thursday after capital inflows data added to worries the United States may struggle to fund its current account deficit. | 2 |
Tracy wins pole at Surfers ParadiseCanada #39;s Paul Tracy overcame a damaged nosecone in practice to claim the pole position for the Lexmark Indy 300 on Friday, breaking up a battle between teammates Sebastien Bourdais and Bruno Junqueira. | 1 |
Burma junta frees top dissidentBurma #39;s military junta has freed a top dissident - second only to Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi - as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners. | 0 |
Huskies face history against Cal, TedfordThe Husky football team can accomplish something Saturday that only two other squads in the school #39;s 115-year football history has done -- lose nine games. | 1 |
Astros can clinch last playoff berth SundayBRISTOL, Connecticut (Ticker) -- It would be fitting for the Houston Astros to clinch a playoff spot at Minute Maid Park, but they will have to do it without Roger Clemens. | 1 |
Bush Mocks Kerry for 'Changing Positions' on Iraq (Reuters)Reuters - President Bush on Monday\mocked his Democratic rival John Kerry for shifting his\positions on Iraq so many times he could ""debate himself"" in\this week's face-off between the two candidates. | 0 |
BioVeris Still May Lose Its Investment BioVeris Corp. stands to lose most or all of its \$41.2 million investment in a joint venture with its chief executive's son if he doesn't raise money to keep it operating, the company said yesterday in its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. | 3 |
Oracle takes a giant step, wins 61pc of PeopleSoft sharesAfter nearly 18 months of stuggle, and a quot;final offer quot; deadline that expired at midnight, Oracle now owns of 61 per cent of PeopleSoft -- a giant, but not quite final, step toward winning control of the company. | 2 |
Militant Chechen Rebel Leader to Go on Trial for Masterminding <b>...</b>Chechnya #39;s rebel leader says militant Shamil Basayev will go on trial for masterminding the hostage siege in Beslan after fighting in the breakaway Russian republic comes to an end. | 0 |
Banks freeze Gazprom loanAn international banking consortium has decided to suspend approval for the 10 billion (6.9bn) loan to Gazprom that would have financed the state-controlled company #39;s acquisition of Yukos #39;s most important oil production plant. | 2 |
Jayasuriya hits back for Sri LankaKARACHI, Pakistan -- Sri Lanka staged a spirited fightback to finish the third day of the second test against Pakistan in Karachi trailing by 136 runs with nine second-innings wickets standing. | 1 |
Bush taps top Latino execWASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday nominated Carlos Gutierrez, among the most prominent Hispanic business executives in the United States, to be his new Commerce secretary, as the president continued with what Republicans said would be a broad overhaul | 2 |
Leeds holds board meeting to discuss takeover of troubled soccer <b>...</b>Leeds United called a board meeting Thursday to consider a 25-million-pound (\$55.7 million Cdn) takeover by a British-American consortium. | 1 |
Red Cross volunteer joins Florida effortsJohn Souza, a volunteer with the Boone County chapter of the American Red Cross, is the second Columbia resident to join efforts to assist people who were affected by Tropical Storm Bonnie and Hurricane Charley. | 2 |
Yahoo to Buy Musicmatch Web Service for \$160 Million (Update4)Yahoo! Inc., owner of the world #39;s most-visited Internet site, will buy Musicmatch Inc. for \$160 million to spur sales of music downloads and compete with rivals including Apple Computer Inc. | 3 |
BB amp;N kicks away Middlesex streakOn homecoming day, there is always added incentive for the home team to outperform the visitors. That incentive is not lost when the visiting team happens to be riding a 15-game winning streak. | 1 |
RSS gets down to businessCalendar application is one of the first non-blogging uses of the standard. | 3 |
Apple Sues to Halt OS X Release on NetApple Computer has sued three software developers, contending they distributed versions of its OS X computer operating system on the Internet. | 3 |
Bonds remains shy of 700, but Giants still win bigBonds sent the first pitch he saw to the right-field warning track Wednesday night, then didn #39;t come close again in San Francisco #39;s 8-1 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers. | 1 |
Raptors Carter Hurt; Pistons Roll in OTAUBURN HILLS, Mich., Dec. 8 (Ticker) -- Richard Hamilton scored 19 points, including six in overtime, as the Detroit Pistons outlasted the Toronto Raptors, 90-86. | 1 |
Canadian police search Imperial Tobacco officesPolice have searched the Montreal headquarters of Imperial Tobacco Canada as part of an investigation into cigarette smuggling in the 1990s, the company says. | 2 |
Astros short hopsCarlos Beltran, Jeff Bagwell and the Astros slugged their way into the postseason record book at Turner Field on Monday night. Powering the Astros to their first-ever postseason | 1 |
Fleming double tonCAPTAIN Stephen Fleming struck a fine double-century as New Zealand looked on their way to notching up another win over Bangladesh in the second and final Test in Chittagong today. | 1 |
New Rojo Build - Tags, Comments, Photos\\Wednesday we pushed a new build of Rojo which introduced a few new and\important features:\\* Tags *\\Chris does a good job of explaining tags so I'll start there:\\""Feeling taggy? Some prominent bloggers have been talking about tags and there\have been some fascinating discu... | 3 |
Make inheritance tax fairer, urges thinktankTony Blair and Gordon Brown will today be urged to risk the wrath of wealthier voters by reforming the tax laws on inheritance so as to close loopholes on gifts that allow the better-off to escape the Treasury #39;s grip. | 2 |
#39;Boro, Magpies notch UEFA group winsLONDON -- Boudewijn Zenden scored twice as European rookie Middlesbrough beat Lazio 2-0 in the group stage of the UEFA Cup yesterday. | 1 |
Aid worker feared killed in Iraq: family (AFP)AFP - British-Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped by militants in Iraq last month, has most probably been killed by her captors, her family said in a statement. | 0 |
Australian Taliban and bin Laden bodyguards to face US military justice (AFP)AFP - The United States will this week start controversial military proceedings against an Australian Taliban fighter and three bodyguards for Osama bin Laden. | 0 |
Iraq's Sadr Prepares to Hand Over Najaf Shrine (Reuters)Reuters - A radical cleric prepared to hand\control of a shrine at the heart of a Shi'ite uprising in Iraq\to religious authorities on Friday, but still rejected demands\by the interim prime minister to disband his militia. | 0 |
UN Court Formally Appoints Defense Lawyers for MilosevicThe UN War Crimes Tribunal has named two lawyers to defend former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, despite his adamant objections. | 0 |
Oracle Mulls Dropping PeopleSoft Lawsuit (AP)AP - An attorney for Oracle Corp. says the company will abandon its legal challenge to PeopleSoft Inc.'s antitakeover protections if shareholders fail to tender a majority of their shares by a Nov. 19 deadline. | 3 |
AMD demos first dual-core processorAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has demonstrated the company's first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin, Texas, office, the company said Tuesday. | 3 |
Army Captain Sues U.S. To Block Iraq Deployment NEW YORK, Oct. 23 -- An Army captain sued the government Friday to block his pending deployment to Iraq, saying he resigned in June after completing eight years of service in the Army and Army Reserve. | 0 |
New Year, New Scraps for Sun's Feisty ChiefDespite a recent antitrust settlement, Scott McNealy says Sun Microsystems shaking hands with Microsoft is like two boxers tapping gloves. | 3 |
Romanian ruling party lead shrinksRomania #39;s ruling ex-communists scored a wafer-thin victory over opposition centrists in Sunday #39;s parliamentary vote, according to partial official results. | 0 |
Cracked rock points to more martian waterA cracked rock called Escher is helping NASA scientists reconstruct the history of water on Mars. They say that the crater currently being explored by the Opportunity rover may have been shaped by a second | 3 |
Campbell agrees new deal at HighburySol Campbell today revealed he has agreed to sign a new long-term contract at Arsenal. The England defender expects to tie up a few loose ends over the next couple of weeks before making an official announcement | 1 |
Hughes picks up where he left off at MastersPlay has begun in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale in Melbourne with around half the field of 120 players completing their first rounds. | 1 |
Roh, Bush agree to early six-party talksPresident Roh Moo-hyun and US President George W. Bush agreed to the early resumption of the six-party talks to end North Korea #39;s nuclear weapons program, Cheong Wa Dae said yesterday. | 0 |
Indians decline option on long-time shortstop VizquelCLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Indians declined to pick up Omar Vizquel #39;s \$5 million contract option for next season, making him eligible to become a free agent when the World Series ends. | 1 |
Ballet Flats? Walking Shoes? Nah. It's Round Toes and High Heels.A noticeable trend this fall is the full-fledged arrival of round-toed, high-heeled shoes like the ones Ginger Rogers wore when she danced with Fred Astaire - only higher. | 2 |
Microsoft: 2005 #39;Breakout Year #39; For Windows Servercom. Labeling 2005 a quot;breakout year quot; for its server operating-system line, Microsoft on Monday laid out a revised road map for Windows Server 2003 that promised the release of the second edition in the last half and a service pack in the first. | 3 |
Lowe's Reports 18 Pct. Hike in Profits ATLANTA (Reuters) - Lowe's Cos. <A HREF=""http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=LOW.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote"">LOW.N</A>, the world's No. 2 home improvement retailer, on Monday reported an 18 percent increase in second-quarter profit and s... | 2 |
Halo 2; Donkey KongaThe first Halo game sold quite a few Xboxes (we know a few Xbox owners who don #39;t appear to play any other titles on their consoles), and Halo 2 has already clocked \$125 million in sales -- on its first day in stores. | 3 |
Federer Tries for Third Major Title of '04NEW YORK - In heat or wind, before a crowd for or against him, facing Andre Agassi's baseline bashing or Tim Henman's get-to-the-net style: When Roger Federer is on his game, it doesn't seem to matter what he has to deal with. Now Lleyton Hewitt will try to disrupt him... | 0 |
Clock ticks down for Iraq hostagesBAGHDAD : Britain joined Iraq #39;s US-backed government in facing down a chilling ultimatum to execute a British and two American hostages, as Islamists claimed the gruesome beheading of three Kurds. | 0 |
Group frees US journalist hostage in Iraqfiance who spent three months with me in Nassiriya, quot; Garen told Arab satellite television Al Jazeera by telephone. He was speaking from the Nassiriya office of rebel Shi #39;ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. | 0 |
China Party Chief Rules Out Multi-Party Democracy BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao ruled out multi-party democracy on Wednesday on the eve of a key meeting aimed at tightening the party's grip on power. | 0 |
Westwood grabs lead in Nedbank Golf ChallengeSUN CITY, South Africa (AFP) - Lee Westwood recovered from three bogeys in the first four holes to post a one-under-par 71 and take the lead after the third round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge. | 1 |
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