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VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States, the EU and Russia urged Iran Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's demand that it halt all activities linked to uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to build an atom bomb. | 13World |
A Cuban television news anchor read a letter on air Monday that was reportedly written by Fidel Castro promising he would not "cling to office" or be an impediment to rising young leaders. | 10Top News |
AFP - A local employee of aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF - Doctors Without Borders) was killed last week in an attack by government troops in Sudan's Darfur region, MSF said, further highlighting the risks faced by humanitarian workers there. | 13World |
British Black Watch troops in central Iraq come under rocket attack for the second time in 24 hours. | 10Top News |
Want to conquer a contest with cool movie prizes? Then enter to win unique items in WXII12.com Entertainment's giveaway in conjunction with the Warner Bros. | 1Entertainment |
The increasing popularity of laptop computers, together with evidence that elevated scrotal temperature can result in sperm damage, has prompted researchers from the State University of New York to undertake the first study into the effect of heat from | 11Top Stories |
The iconic apparel retailer keeps cranking out new concepts. | 0Business |
There is nothing unusual about year-end stock-market rallies. But there is something strange about this latest surge. | 0Business |
When hospital workers walk off the job early Monday morning, the rotating strike will start with one clear target: Premier Bernard Lord. | 3Health |
In a divided ruling, justices strike down portions of federal guidelines, forcing a redrawing of the sentencing system. | 12U.S. |
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Health Ministry said on Wednesday that at least one person had been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February but that there was no chance that this person would infect others. | 3Health |
continue," said Socialist leader Oleksander Moroz. "(Yushchenko's) Our Ukraine bloc is trying to find a way. east, the heartland of his Moscow-backed rival for the presidency, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. | 11Top Stories |
Thousands of British tourists are stranded in south and east Asia after an earthquake sent massive waves flooding across the region. | 13World |
AP - YouTube viewers hoping to get a free look at Michael Moore's newest film, "Sicko," were out of luck Monday after the site pulled links to pirated versions of the health care documentary that surfaced on the video-sharing Web site over the weekend. | 1Entertainment |
NEW YORK - Jay Leno's takeover as host of NBC's "Tonight" show in 1992 was fraught with drama and bad feelings, but he's assured the next transition will be as smooth as his nightly sign-off: "Stay tuned for Conan." The comedian and NBC on Monday chose the 50th anniversary of the first "Tonight" show to set a special... | 13World |
Polish and Czech leaders are to discuss a US missile shield, with Warsaw voicing concerns. | 2Europe |
AP - Details of two new television ads from Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to begin airing this weekend: | 12U.S. |
Training can be draining - on your budget, on your time and on your personnel. And the longer the training process takes, the bigger the drain. That's why we've come up with "Seven Steps for Streamlining Online Training," based on our own extensive experience with training customers on our products and on feedback we'v... | 6Sci/Tech |
Courtney Love will stand trial on a felony assault charge, a judge ruled Wednesday during a preliminary hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom. | 1Entertainment |
La quiete dopo la tempesta. Dopo giorni e giorni di inarrestabile ascesa, il costo del greggio sembra essersi momentaneamente stabilizzato. Complici le buone notizie provenienti dalla Norvegia, dove la produzione | 4Italia |
MySpace's explosive growth pushes News Corp.'s web properties to the top of the pageviews-per-site heap. In Monkey Bites. | 6Sci/Tech |
( InfoWorld ) - After making a series of decisions that frustrated some merchants, eBay is wooing store owners.
If a speech from Bill Cobb, president of eBay North America, hints at future relationships between the company and its sellers, the message is to keep your doors open. During a Thursday keynote at eBay's ann... | 6Sci/Tech |
A mosquito-borne virus from Africa has been decimating Austria's blackbirds for the last three years and is threatening to spread to bird populations in central Europe, Austrian scientists have warned. | 2Europe |
NEW YORK - Stocks rose for a second straight session Tuesday as a drop in consumer prices allowed investors to put aside worries about inflation, at least for the short term. With gasoline prices falling to eight-month lows, the Consumer Price Index registered a small drop in July, giving consumers a respite from so... | 13World |
Year 2005 can be interesting for the world economies. While America is busy in Iraq, Vladimir Putin is positioned to take control of the world as another superpower. | 1Entertainment |
A top North Korean official is visiting China for talks expected to focus on nuclear arms, as well as the North's economy. | 2Europe |
Mercato ancora limitato rispetto al picco di ordini | 4Italia |
Marion Jones pleaded guilty in October to lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs. | 8Sports |
PARIS France says a satellite placed in orbit today gives it new abilities to spy worldwide. The Helios Two-A military satellite was launched from French Guiana and put in orbit along with six smaller scientific ones about an hour later. | 1Entertainment |
Police held 175 refugees after a recent raid in Bangkok, pushing this year's total past 400, up from just 80 in 2005. | 13World |
AP - A giant sinkhole swallowed several homes and at least one truck early Friday in Guatemala City, and officials said at least three people had been reported missing. | 13World |
Deep inside the Library of Congress, 500 researchers pound out the secret intelligence Congress uses to make law. | 10Top News |
AP - Listen up! Tony Kornheiser had to be better than the short-lived sitcom loosely based on his life. And he was. Much better. And that's even putting aside such a low standard as the Washington Post columnist and ESPN personality's 2004 show "Listen Up." | 8Sports |
AP - State wildlife officials are investigating the deaths of dozens of sea birds being found along Florida's east coast. | 6Sci/Tech |
AP - The German government will allow the makers of a movie starring Tom Cruise as the country's most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed. | 1Entertainment |
ATHENS -- Unfortunately for the United States, the Olympic boxing tournament has gone just about as expected. | 8Sports |
La commissione di vigilanza sulla Rai ha approvato lo Statuto della nuova societa', nata dalla fusione di Spa e Holding, non apportando al testo alcuna modifica. Il documento firmato da Forza Italia, An e | 4Italia |
AP - The transfer of confidential banking records by a Belgium-based company to U.S. authorities for use in anti-terrorism investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy rules, top government officials said Thursday. | 13World |
AP - Anna Nicole Smith frantically tried to revive her stricken son and had to be sedated after he died, her attorney said Wednesday. Authorities termed the death "suspicious" and said criminal charges could be filed. | 1Entertainment |
The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to a health insurance bill for 10 million children, clearing the measure for President Bush, who said he would veto it. | 3Health |
AFP - Troops and helicopters were deployed to India's northern desert state of Rajasthan to rescue trapped residents as monsoon rains flooded yet another district, officials said. | 6Sci/Tech |
Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions. | 13World |
Police in central China have rescued 217 people, including 29 children, who had been forced to work as slaves at brick kilns, official media reported yesterday. More than 35,000 officers were mobilized to raid 7,500 kilns in Henan province during a three-day campaign that ended Tuesday, the Xinhua News Agency reported.... | 13World |
German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG has signed a $2 billion deal to provide Russia's national railway with 60 high speed trains, the company's chief executive said Tuesday. | 1Entertainment |
The Anaheim Angels will again try to grab a share of the division lead and further hinder the Texas Rangersâ chances of winning the West when the teams continue their four-game series at Ameriquest Field in Arlington. | 8Sports |
AP - Talk about bad timing. At the start of a media blitz to support her new album, "A Public Affair," Jessica Simpson is on vocal rest. | 1Entertainment |
(ASCA) - Roma, 24 ago - Il 92% delle acque delle coste italiane e' pulito. A Basilicata, Molise e Sardegna spetta il podio delle regioni con il mare piu' cristallino, mentre la maglia nera va a Campania, Calabria e Sicilia. | 4Italia |
Retail prices for the greater New York area climbed 0.7% higher in October, with higher costs for housing, transportation, food and apparel offsetting a seasonal decline in electricity prices, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor | 11Top Stories |
At half a billion years old, the fossils represent the oldest jellyfish ever found and push back the known existence of jellies 205 million years, scientists say. | 6Sci/Tech |
ANAHEIM, Calif. Manny Ramirez collected two RBI's and sparked a four-run ninth as the Boston Red Sox beat Anaheim 5-to-3 to take a two-games-to-none lead in the AL Division Series. | 11Top Stories |
AFP - British bank Abbey National said that its share of Britain's mortgage-lending market slipped in the third quarter, blaming the drop on distraction due to its looming takeover by Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH). | 2Europe |
GAZA (Reuters) - The Israeli army killed eight Palestinians in Gaza Friday as it poured tanks and soldiers into the coastal strip, expanding a ground offensive intended to root out militants firing rockets into Israeli towns. | 13World |
Smoking killed almost 5 million people around the world in 2000, researchers have calculated. | 3Health |
Marathon Technologies Corporation, the leading provider of high availability software for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) environments, announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with PC-PLUS Technologies, a complete technology solutions provider based in Auburn, MA. | 6Sci/Tech |
The company whose stores include Albertsons, Jewell and Osco Drugs said Thursday it earned $110 million, or 29 cents a share in the August-October period compared with $92 million, 25 cents a share, a year ago. | 0Business |
BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China's largest oil company, China National Petroleum Corp., is reportedly planning to file a lawsuit against OAO Yukos (YUKO. | 0Business |
The Evolve Wireless Sound System by Griffin Technology is an iPod speaker system that aims to deliver a truly cable-free experience. | 6Sci/Tech |
A British Airways plane flying from Berlin to London was diverted to Amsterdam airport today after the airline received "a specific threat to the aircraft". | 1Entertainment |
Long player
Now that Apple's got its new, video-playing iPod Nano launched here comes SanDisk with an alternative it hopes will win over buyers with its sleeker lines and higher storage capacity.⊠| 6Sci/Tech |
Second outage in a year
BlackBerry users got some time yesterday to smell the flowers and talk to their families and friends - the company's email servers went down just after 3pm Eastern Standard Time.⊠| 6Sci/Tech |
Environmentalists cheered when a conservancy acquired 161,000 acres, but not all the land will be preserved. | 6Sci/Tech |
Even after being on the market for less than half a year, more iPhones sold in the fourth quarter than Windows Mobile phones in the U.S., according to research from Canalys. | 6Sci/Tech |
The Bush administrationâs plan to build a commercial-scale coal-fire plant that would emit no carbon dioxide â also known as the FutureGen project â was scratched. | 6Sci/Tech |
AFP - Sudan's government and its rebel foes returned to the negotiating table as African Union-led attempts to reach a deal on ending Darfur's humanitarian crisis were overshadowed by kidnapping claims. | 13World |
By Ian Watson, The Business, London Dec. 14--Safi Qureshey, a pioneer of personal computers, has come up with a microchip capable of transferring all types of internet video to TV, which has been developed by Quartics, his new company. | 6Sci/Tech |
AP - A teenage boy and two men were found dead Wednesday in an apparent homicide in a house not far from the governor's mansion, police said. | 12U.S. |
Investor's Business Daily - IBM on Wednesday took the wraps off a new design it has developed for faster memory on chips, which should make video games peppier and networks zippier. | 6Sci/Tech |
A few economists and money managers have begun to warn that the rumbling gravy train is about to derail. | 0Business |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia won the right on Friday to route a major gas supply route to Europe through its ally Serbia, a move analysts described as marking a Kremlin victory in a "pipeline war" with the European Union. | 13World |
LONDON (Reuters) - British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has been diagnosed with breast cancer but expects to make a full recovery, her publicist said on Thursday. | 1Entertainment |
Web users are just recovering from the recently discovered Santy worm, which defaced a large number of phpBB based bulletin boards. | 6Sci/Tech |
AP - A church in central Jerusalem was set on fire before dawn Wednesday and suffered extensive damage, police said. | 13World |
Research In Motion and Vodafone have released the BlackBerry 7100v, available exclusively for Vodafoneâs subscribers. Like the 7100t launched earlier this month with T-Mobile USA Inc. | 6Sci/Tech |
AFP - David Bentley insists he loved every minute of his England debut despite his torrid reception from the Wembley crowd. | 2Europe |
Mikkel Aaland's guide to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is good for newbies and beyond--but you'd better act fast if you're interested in a book on the software. | 6Sci/Tech |
AP - Film critic Roger Ebert, who has battled cancer in recent years, was in serious but stable condition Sunday following an emergency operation to repair complications from a previous cancer surgery. | 1Entertainment |
AP - EBay Inc.'s Skype division has let down eBay executives, but they're confident they can reorganize the troubled Internet phone unit and make it more useful to people outside of the online marketplace. | 6Sci/Tech |
Il Milan inizierà il raduno lunedì 23 luglio a Milanello. Nell'occasione saranno presentati a... | 4Italia |
Cosi' l'Ad di Immobiliare Lombarda azionista di Igli | 4Italia |
BEREA, Ohio (Ticker) - One day after admitting that his shaky job status was a "distraction" to his players, Butch Davis resigned as coach of the Cleveland Browns on Tuesday. | 8Sports |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans had their home loan applications turned down in 2006 than a year earlier, although the majority continued to be approved, according to a report issued on Wednesday by financial sector regulators. | 0Business |
Growing up in Camden, Herbert Johnson Jr. always heard about Thelma. She was the older sister he had never seen, the daughter born to his dad during Army service in Germany back in 1953. | 2Europe |
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three Sunni Muslim mosques were torched and mortar bombs hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday, police said, despite curfews imposed after suspected al Qaeda militants hit a revered Shi'ite shrine. | 10Top News |
La conferma arriva dalle associazioni dei consumatori | 4Italia |
A court in Turkey sentences seven people to life in jail for the 2003 Istanbul bombings that killed 58 people. | 2Europe |
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces can repel an expected spring offensive by the Taliban, and circumstances have turned less favorable for the insurgents in the past 18 months, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said on Monday. | 13World |
People stand around a burning supply truck that was a part of a US military convoy which came under roadside bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday Dec. 26 2004. | 13World |
AP - Mexico City's leftist mayor led more than 150,000 demonstrators in a march Sunday to protest efforts to impeach him, an issue his supporters say threatens Mexico's political stability and pits "those on the bottom" against "those on top." | 13World |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Equity Office Properties Trust shareholders on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to approve Blackstone Group's bid of $23 billion plus the assumption of debt. | 0Business |
Rivoluzione low cost per le ferrovie italiane. A partire dalla metà del prossimo mese di dicembre Trenitalia metterà a disposizione dei passeggeri, sull'esempio di quanto fanno le compagnie aeree a basso | 4Italia |
What do the New York Times/About.com, Citicards and Passages drug treatment center have in common? You guessed it, a Vice President of Search, the hottest new title in town. | 6Sci/Tech |
Il Blackburn si è qualificato per la semifinale di Fa Cup inglese superando nei quarti 2-0 i... | 4Italia |
Reuters - Hundreds of hopefuls have stepped
forward to claim the throne of England after a worldwide quest
by genealogists to find a rightful heir. | 2Europe |
The notion that the failure of even one big bond insurer might touch off a chain reaction of losses across the financial world has unnerved Wall Street. | 0Business |
Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. | 2Europe |
With three weeks until Nov. 2, Ohio has become the epicenter of lawsuits over an election that has yet to be held. Officials there are trying to fend off court challenges about provisional | 1Entertainment |
AP - Dwyane Wade scored 20 points and LeBron James added 19 in his most impressive performance of the world championships, leading the United States to a 114-95 victory over Slovenia on Tuesday night. | 8Sports |
An international commission will help resolve the issue of Romanian orphans left hanging when their country issued a moratorium on international adoptions, said a Stratham woman who has been asked to be a ... | 2Europe |
Apoorva Lakhia's film is a disappointment. | 1Entertainment |
Bloggers are creating a massive chronicle of daily life, filled with stories and, of course, rants. | 6Sci/Tech |
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