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India's central bank keeps interest rates on hold, saying inflation is still the main threat.
0Business
If Yasser Arafat's death does improve the prospects of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, here's what the United States should do about it: Nothing.
1Entertainment
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who simultaneously attempt to stop smoking, reduce their sodium intake and increase exercise may be more successful than those who try to change these lifestyle factors one at a time, Texas-based researchers report.
3Health
The two Lib Dem MPs to put themselves forward for next party leader are going head to head at a conference.
13World
Pro-whaling countries meet in Japan to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.
2Europe
It appears that Vijay Singh will have to be content with nine wins this year. The world's No. 1 player had another nondescript day at East Lake, shooting an even-par 70 that left him 11 strokes behind co-leaders
1Entertainment
A senior officer's suggestion of mitigating circumstances for drink driving are described as "absolutely obscene".
2Europe
Ronaldo scored two goals Sunday to help Real Madrid trounce lowly Albacete 6-1 and move into second place in the Spanish standings.
8Sports
Manchester United defender Jonny Evans has been released on bail by police who questioned him after an alleged rape at the club's Christmas party
10Top News
Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and the effects of violence in Darfur camps despite a big international aid effort, the World Health Organization said Monday.
11Top Stories
Excel 2007 has troubles with multiplication when the result is 65,535--a number familiar to those who've dealt with binary numbers.
6Sci/Tech
AP - Voters began casting ballots Monday in Florida, encountering long lines at the polls and a few ballot box glitches four years after the 2000 presidential election fiasco.
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We are, in the eyes of America, a bunch of geeks in cheap clothing -- a grotesque procession of uncoordinated oafs utterly unqualified to comment upon the nation's most graceful athletes.
8Sports
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters headed for the polls on Thursday uncertain who will take charge of their flourishing economy after one of the closest election battles in living memory.
10Top News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co.'s Chief Executive Stan O'Neal broached the idea of merging with Wachovia Corp. without first getting board approval, angering some members so much that they considered replacements for O'Neal, the New York Times reported on Friday.
0Business
Reuters - Applying public pressure to persuade Dow Jones & Co.'s family owners to sell the media company to Rupert Murdoch may do more harm than good, one institutional shareholder said on Thursday.
0Business
It was a rare moment of vulnerability; a natural reaction for a someone lying flat on his back. With 1:20 left in the first half, Jazz guard Matt Harpring threw his hands over his head to avoid being trampled
8Sports
AFP - Eight days before a UN Security Council deadline for Khartoum to rein in state-sponsored Arab militias in Darfur, Interior Minister Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein said in comments that they would be disarmed only gradually.
13World
AP - Gordon Brown's rise to become British prime minister is the culmination of a 24-year political career, much of it spent in partnership with his friend — and rival — Tony Blair.
2Europe
AFP - Andy Murray has pulled out of the Wimbledon tennis championships, which start on Monday, having failed to recover from a wrist injury.
2Europe
ASIA/COREA DEL SUD - All’Università di Daegu la conferenza annuale dell’Associazione delle Università Cattoliche del Sudest Asiatico Seul (Agenzia Fides) - Rappresentanti, docenti e studenti di oltre 51 fra Università e collegi in sette paesi della regione Asia-Pacifico si sono incontrati di recente all’Universit...
4Italia
It was not until four minutes to midnight local time that Leyton Hewitt finally gave fans, and himself, the best emotional release that a tennis match can offer.
8Sports
Upcoming device will be the first audio player to use Toshiba's 60GB hard drive.
6Sci/Tech
ROMA, 11 NOVEMBRE 2004 - Si riscatta la Benetton Treviso che, dopo la sconfitta all'esordio, al Palaverde ha battuto oggi per 93-60 (17-8, 35-25, 57-38) i tedeschi dell'Opel Skyliners Francoforte in un match della seconda giornata del Gruppo C della prima
4Italia
At least 29 people die in a series of shootings and car bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.
2Europe
(October 26, 2004) - Barb Babiarz's love affair with the Boston Red Sox began in 1967, the year Carl Yastrzemski led an unsung team to the American League pennant.
8Sports
Frank Kleine has posted a release announcement about the latest version of his XJConf to hit the web - XJConf for PHP 0.2.0. Some minutes ago I released version 0.2.0 of XJConf for PHP . XJConf allows to create simple to complex object structures from XML configuration files. [...] If you are already using versio...
7Software and Developement
AFP - At least four skiers died in avalanches in the French Alps as hopes faded for a Canadian couple missing since Sunday while snowboarding in Switzerland, emergency services said.
13World
Cinergy has a venture with Current Communications to market BPL systems to municipally-owned and rural cooperative utilities. Their plan so far has not been slowed by regulatory uncertainty
6Sci/Tech
Silicon Alley Insider says software maker might be interested in Limelight, a player in the content delivery network arena.
6Sci/Tech
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Young women's clothing retailer Charlotte Russe Holding Inc. CHIC.O on Thursday slashed its quarterly earnings and sales forecast after a disappointing back-to-school season, sending its stock down 21 percent.
0Business
AP - What would you do if you had a room key that could unlock any door, then lead you almost anywhere once the door was open?
1Entertainment
Ferrara, fuga di gas nell'appartamento Muore un bimbo di nove mesi (12:39 14/06/2007)
4Italia
AFP - The hunt for evidence of life on Mars will go underground next year when a NASA probe digs beneath the surface of the red planet's arctic northern plains, US scientists revealed Monday.
6Sci/Tech
Kenyan MPs vote to give themselves a $22,000 bonus each, despite public condemnation.
2Europe
SYDNEY: Australian regulators have lifted objections to a proposed alliance between Qantas Airways and Air New Zealand, although New Zealand authorities remain a stumbling block to the trans-Tasman deal.
0Business
AP - Sitting at a folding table under fluorescent lights, Republican Lloyd Haskins Sr. held up ballots for Democrat Carl Brownstein to see, and they both marked their running totals on white scrap paper.
13World
Rafael Nadal cruised to victory over Carlos Moya in the quarterfinals, improving his career record at the French Open to an impressive 19-0.
13World
Reuters - Plaxo, which makes software for PC users to keep address books up-to-date, said on Sunday it is helping millions of members open up their online datebooks to build social networks like MySpace or Facebook.
6Sci/Tech
Four suspected al Qaeda terrorists will face military trials this week at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in historic legal proceedings that have not been conducted by the US government
11Top Stories
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ryder System Inc. R.N on Friday reported quarterly profit jumped 59 percent, beating Wall Street forecasts, on strong demand for commercial truck rentals.
0Business
KIEV - Ukraine’s hotly contested presidential election Monday headed into a second-round showdown between a pro-West candidate and his pro-Russia rival following an inconclusive first-round vote slammed by international observers.
11Top Stories
Physically active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes, according to new research that offers a fundamental new clue into how exercise may help stave off aging.
3Health
2004 in review Market booms, busts - all in one year
6Sci/Tech
Gigi Cagni ha parlato dei prossimi impegni dell'Empoli a Radio Goal su Kiss Kiss Napoli. ''In questi...
4Italia
The Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas said on Wednesday it would boycott a Jan. 9 presidential election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
1Entertainment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden, in a U.S. transcript of a newly released video, said President George W. Bush was repeating the mistakes of Soviet leaders by refusing to acknowledge losses in Iraq.
10Top News
(Sports Network) - Just over two months ago, the Houston Astros were being written off as the biggest disappointment in baseball. Now they are within a victory of their first World Series appearance in the 43-year history of the franchise.
11Top Stories
AP - Patricia Cornwell is donating $1 million to a top criminal justice college for a new academy to teach CSI techniques.
1Entertainment
Internet Initiative Japan Inc. ("IIJ", NASDAQ: IIJI), one of Japan's leading Internet-access and comprehensive network solutions providers, today announced that the following corporate officer of IIJ Technology Inc.
6Sci/Tech
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian gunman overnight near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and militants said Thursday. The army said it killed an armed Palestinian after he shot and wounded four Israeli soldiers and a civilian in a roadside ambush.
10Top News
DAKAR (Reuters) - Brush your teeth every day, dentists say. In Africa, that can mean keeping your toothbrush in your mouth all day long.
1Entertainment
Shares of Delta Air Lines Inc. jumped on Thursday after the company and its pilots union reached a tentative contract that will save the cash-strapped carrier $1 billion a year.
11Top Stories
CHENARI, Afghanistan -- Security forces yesterday turned back relatives trying to get to a freezing mountain where NATO soldiers found human remains but no survivors in the wreckage of an Afghan airliner four days after it struck a snowbound peak with 104 people on board.
13World
Israel should take up a Syrian offer to renew peace talks, Israeli President Moshe Katsav said Thursday, rejecting claims by Israeli officials that the gesture is not significant.
13World
CHICAGO Chicago police say they're still trying to determine if criminal charges will be filed in connection with the dumping of waste on a tour boat filled with passengers.
1Entertainment
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Manny Ramirez belted his league-leading 43rd homer and Johnny Damon hit a three-run shot as the Boston Red Sox clinched a playoff spot with a 7-3 win over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in St Petersburg on Monday.
8Sports
Saranno decorati da artisti italiani invitati all'iniziativa
4Italia
AP - A judge on Thursday denied a jail transfer request for a pizzeria manager accused of kidnapping two boys, rejecting defense claims that a reporter's jailhouse interview with the suspect amounted to a security breach.
12U.S.
Pioneering research is to test if stem cells can repair heart muscle damaged by a heart attack.
10Top News
Three former BEA Systems Inc. executives who left earlier this year have resurfaced as founders of a Seattle startup that plans to begin integrating and supporting a variety of open source server software next year.
6Sci/Tech
The Food and Drug Administration approved Boston Scientific 's carotid stent filter; Biogen asked the FDA to approve Tysabri as a treatment for Crohn's disease.
0Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Friday it was not U.S. policy to threaten Pakistan after the September 11 attacks despite Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's complaint that Washington warned it would bomb his country.
10Top News
Everyone who skis must have found themselves at some time poised at the start of a race course looking down at the gates, trying to size up a strategy, and finally settling for just getting it over with.
8Sports
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — The union representing Hollywood directors said Friday it will begin contract talks Saturday with studios in a move that could affect the ongoing strike by writers.
1Entertainment
BOSTON - New York Yankees manager Joe Torre entered the postgame interview room Monday night, sat down and said, "Is this `Groundhog Day'?
1Entertainment
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama expanded his lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire to 13 points as voting began in the state's critical presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
10Top News
AFP - With growth flagging in the 12-nation eurozone, pressure is building in European financial circles for central bank intervention to curb a surge in the euro against the dollar.
2Europe
Manpower Inc. (MAN.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world's second-largest staffing company, on Tuesday said third-quarter earnings nearly doubled on stronger currency
0Business
Valencia maintained their place at the top of the Primera Liga as they had to settle for a share of the spoils against Real Betis but by the end of the weekend they may be toppled from the summit.
8Sports
Charlotte County faces a half-billion in damages from Hurricane Charley, Budget Director Ann Navan announced Wednesday.
12U.S.
The center of Hurricane Ivan passed to the south of the Cayman Islands, and appears headed for a direct strike on Cuba. The storm has killed more than 50 people as it passes through the Caribbean.
1Entertainment
Lo riferisce il capogruppo Udeur al Senato
4Italia
Delta Air Lines and its pilots union recessed today without reaching an agreement on pay cuts that are key to the carrier's efforts to avoid bankruptcy.
0Business
AP - Researchers with the Henry Doorly Zoo have discovered two new species of lemurs, one of the most primitive and endangered primates in the world, the zoo announced Wednesday.
6Sci/Tech
Oltre a Pratali e Buscè, anche Saudati è in dubbio per la gara con la Lazio. Il centra...
4Italia
The firefighter, Daniel F. Pujdak, 23, was fighting a blaze in an old warehouse ignited by a cigarette.
13World
In a matchup of college basketball's two winningest coaches, Tennessee's Pat Summitt gets career win No. 922 in a 67-46 win over Texas on Sunday.
8Sports
AP - The ruling Hamas group will not join the planned coalition government with the rival Fatah party if recognizing Israel is a condition, a close aide to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday.
13World
Reuters - Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, star of "Babel" and "The Motorcycle Diaries," said he is not tempted to work in Hollywood, despite receiving many invitations.
1Entertainment
All the action as Europe chase the singles points they need to win the Ryder Cup. Latest: USA 5-11 Europe.
2Europe
AFRICA/NIGERIA - Dimissioni dell’Arcivescovo di Benin City Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) - Il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI, in data 21 novembre 2006, ha accettato la rinuncia al governo pastorale dell’Arcidiocesi di Benin City (Nigeria), presentata da Sua Ecc. Mons. Patrick Ebosele Ekpu, in conformità al c...
4Italia
Abu Mazen scioglie Consiglio di sicurezza nazionale
4Italia
Reuters - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton insisted on Tuesday the momentum is shifting to her in Iowa and rival Barack Obama fought back against Clinton's claims that he lacks experience.
12U.S.
MILLAU, France (Reuters) - President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
13World
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian passenger plane with 155 people on board disappeared over the Amazon jungle on Friday after colliding with a small plane, the company and news reports said.
10Top News
LONDON: The British Government has detailed a range of new measures to fight global terrorism and organised crime, as the Queen set out its new law-making agenda ahead of expected elections next year.
13World
L'iniziativa ha già ottenuto un ok di massima dell'ufficio di presidenza L'idea Ú quella di uno spazio interconfessionale, come al Bundestag Alla Camera la stanza per meditare via al progetto Bertinotti-Portoghesi di ALESSANDRA LONGO (08:38 03/03/2007)
4Italia
A lower-order fightback was not enough to save New Zealand as Australia levelled the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series after a thrilling 17-run win in Sydney.
8Sports
The expansion of the Schengen passport-free zone brings hopes and fears to a former frontier post where three EU states meet.
2Europe
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10Top News
KABUL (Reuters) - With a threatened boycott of its historic presidential election firmly relegated to the background, Afghanistan took first steps on Tuesday to begin counting votes.
10Top News
The Kerrang! Radio Sessions - EP (Acoustic) by Black Stone Cherry
5Music Feeds
Dow Jones +1,55%, Nasdaq +1,94%. Euro sale a 1,4321 dollari
4Italia
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Friday invited the opposition Labor Party to begin talks to form a unity government, a move that would avoid early elections and pave the way for a withdrawal from Gaza.
1Entertainment
House Republicans showed their loyalty to Majority Leader Tom DeLay yesterday, changing a party rule that would have cost him his leadership post if he were indicted by a Texas grand jury that has indicted three of his associates.
11Top Stories
The Bank of England is widely tipped to keep interest rates on hold at 5.25% on Thursday.
2Europe
GAZA - At least 25 people died in the northern Gaza Strip as violence erupted yesterday between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians.
11Top Stories
AFP - Thailand is to consider creating a new "royal province" to honor the nation's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the government's spokesman said.
13World
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tough choices tempt kids at every turn -- whether it is soda in school, junk food ads on TV or the fast-food chain around the corner -- and school policies limiting physical activity only make matters worse, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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