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Francesco Totti è contento di avere trovato il Real Madrid nel sorteggio per gli ottavii di C...
4Italia
A wide-ranging package of new formula one technical rules has been announced by the FIA, motor racing's international governing body, to slow the cars in the interests of safety.
8Sports
JAKARTA (AFP) - A strong earthquake has rocked the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, with residents reporting collapsed buildings and possible casualties.
11Top Stories
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson was in stable condition and under observation on Wednesday at the California hospital where he was taken after suffering flu-like symptoms that suspended his child-molestation trial, a hospital spokesman said.
1Entertainment
A 32-year-old is detained indefinitely after admitting the manslaughter of three people he killed with a 4x4 vehicle.
2Europe
The DUP says that it is getting impatient with the IRA over the issue of decommissioning.
10Top News
Sellers worry that their costs will rise and they will have less protection against malicious buyers.
6Sci/Tech
Chad Pennington signed a contract extension Wednesday that is believed to include one of the largest bonuses given to a player in the N.F.L.
8Sports
The central bank doubled the amount of emergency loans made available to British banks caught short in the global credit squeeze.
0Business
Sollecitata apertura confronto su liberalizzazione
4Italia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday recalled its ambassador to Syria for urgent consultations to show its deep displeasure with Damascus following the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
13World
AP - All-Star center fielder Vernon Wells and the Toronto Blue Jays are close to agreement on a $126 million, seven-year contract extension that would be the sixth-largest deal in baseball history.
8Sports
AP - A small plane crashed into a home near a southern Indiana airport Monday, killing at least one person on the plane, authorities said.
12U.S.
The controversial attempt to attack spammers by bombarding their web sites with traffic from thousands of individual PCs is over. After a week of heavy criticism of the company's plan to launch denial-of-service
6Sci/Tech
Due persone a bordo sono state portate via dalla polizia
4Italia
Soupy fog made it impossible to see the ball. And the way Tom Lehman is playing at the Buick Invitational, it might be hard for the rest of the field to find him.
8Sports
“Saw IV” is bloody proof that Jigsaw may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry.
1Entertainment
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- When he was named US Ryder Cup captain almost two years ago, Hal Sutton considered one of his biggest missions to get Tiger Woods fired up for the matches.
11Top Stories
Much of the most interesting and enterprising theater in New York starts Off Broadway, even if it doesn’t necessarily stay there.
1Entertainment
Japanese stocks may rise after oil prices fell by the most in three months, allaying concern higher fuel costs will slow global economic growth.
0Business
Tycho: I'm aware of Spore, but it's not a game I look around for in an active mode. Here is a preview of the game, for example, but I haven't read it so I don't know if it's good or not. I'm especially disinclined to read previews in particular, because I think it's a game that is likely to preview well. You aren't...
9Toons
AP - A state appeals court upheld California's ban on gay marriage Thursday, a critical defeat for a movement hungry for a win after similar losses in two other states.
12U.S.
Two score and one year ago, Navy defeated Notre Dame on the football field. It hasn't happened since. Today at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, an undefeated Navy squad seeks to break that
8Sports
Michael Phelps wins his fourth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday, leading the entire race.
8Sports
AP - Smooth, smiling John Edwards is sounding more like the traditional vice presidential candidate, calling President Bush a con artist and Vice President Dick Cheney a hypocrite, and all but labeling both Republicans liars.
13World
Sufferers of electromagnetic field sensitivity claim that the growing pervasiveness of wireless networks only exacerbates their condition. Skeptics discount their fears -- and their symptoms -- and the battle is joined. By Rob Beschizza.
0Business
AFP - Leading UK shares closed mixed, following three days of decline, and were well off highs, after a rally on Wall Street faded.
2Europe
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Nov 30 (SADA) - Pakistan conducted a test of its nuclear- capable ballistic missile on Monday as part of efforts to boost its defenses, the state-run television reported.
13World
Nursing their vocal chords and trying to keep up their energy levels, President Bush and Senator John Kerry sprinted through several battleground states on the eve of Election Day, even though
1Entertainment
Reuters - "Don't Tase Me, Bro", a phrase that swept the nation after a college student used it seeking to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, was named on Wednesday as the most memorable quote of 2007.
2Europe
Chalk it up as one last youthful indiscretion for Dale Earnhardt Jr. Now he just has to hope it's not one of the most costly mistakes of his career.
8Sports
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt -- Iraqi officials rejected Arab criticism of US actions in their country, as an international conference on Iraq's future opened Monday.
13World
AFP - India will not pull out of their bitter tour of Australia even if they lose their appeal over the three-match ban slapped on Harbhajan Singh, reports said Saturday.
13World
So, did Robin Van Persie deserve to get a red card for his tussle with Kieran Richardson? After viewing the incident a number of times from a series of different angles and hearing the views from a raft of
8Sports
Up on Monday morning. Down later Monday morning. Up on Tuesday morning. But there might not be another down anytime soon.
8Sports
At least six people die in fighting as Somalia's transitional government takes control of Baidoa airport.
10Top News
Ukraine's political crisis has virtually paralyzed the country, brought hundreds of thousands of protesters into the streets and threatened to erupt into civil war.
1Entertainment
Austrian downhiller Johann Grugger won his first World Cup race yesterday on the course in Bormio, Italy, the site of next month's world championships, while overall Cup leader Bode Miller came in 14th.
8Sports
ATHENS (Reuters) - Michael Phelps won his fifth gold medal at the Athens Olympics Friday to claim a place alongside Mark Spitz as one of the greatest swimmers in Olympic history.
8Sports
Universal Serial Bus will be overhauled with optical data links for a tenfold bandwidth increase, Intel promises. The spec is due in 2008.
6Sci/Tech
AP - When Apple Computer Inc. opens its newest store Friday on the same New York shopping strip as Prada, Tiffany & Co. and Saks Fifth Avenue, it'll mark five years of a distinctive retail style that both reinforces the company's brand cachet and pays off handsomely.
6Sci/Tech
Andy Pettitte's father obtained the human growth hormone he supplied his son from a trainer who attended high school with the New York Yankees pitcher.
8Sports
British historian David Irving has his conviction for denying the Holocaust upheld by the Austrian Supreme Court.
2Europe
Court of appeal quashes conviction of Royal Navy rating jailed for rape of female colleague.
10Top News
Ministro dei Trasporti visita nuova aerostazione a Catania
4Italia
New Orleans coach Jim Haslett downplayed an altercation between quarterback Aaron Brooks and defensive end Charles Grant that took place on the team plane back from Arizona.
8Sports
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Discovery soared into space on Saturday on a column of fire that briefly dispelled the darkness over the Kennedy Space Center in NASA's first night launch since the Columbia disaster.
10Top News
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10Top News
The efforts to secure the release of two Chinese engineers failed for second time on Wednesday as leaders of the militants, holding hostages in Pakistan tribal region, have
13World
AP - First lady Laura Bush helped launch a screening facility in Saudi Arabia Tuesday as part of a U.S.-Saudi initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in the kingdom where doctors struggle to break long-held taboos about the disease.
13World
ESTRIERE, Italy - World Cup leader Bode Miller won a slalom yesterday to join Marc Girardelli as the only men to win races in all four disciplines in a season.
8Sports
By Lee Randall REGULAR readers know I'm a great fan of the internet. I'm continually astounded by the wealth of data stored there and especially love the way one thing leads to another. It's a Mecca for anyone who enjoys meandering.
6Sci/Tech
Happy Mondays dancer Bez is favourite to win the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, which began on Thursday.
10Top News
Reuters - Efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to regulate indecency on broadcast TV have drawn sharp criticism from network entertainment chiefs.
1Entertainment
Tranne uno in localita' di Tufara Valle
4Italia
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad on Tuesday killed four guardsmen and wounded 80 others, the U.S. military said...
13World
One of the factors in Boston College's game at Virginia Tech next Thursday night will be the noise.
8Sports
Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee that ended yesterday.
1Entertainment
TABA, Egypt Oct. 8, 2004 - Rescuers Friday dug through the debris of a luxury hotel for victims of a series of bombs at resorts in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that are popular with Israelis.
1Entertainment
Astronauts prepared the shuttle Atlantis for the ride home, wrapping up "arguably one of the most successful docked missions we've had," according to one manager.
6Sci/Tech
By Lisa Sokolowski, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Dec. 12--In a world that is dominated by the Internet, Wyoming Seminary's Kat Sharkey was thankful she didn't have to use it on Monday.
6Sci/Tech
A Dutch ship has caused ripples in Portugal's abortion debate
13World
Reuters - The Walt Disney Co's ABC television network and Warner Bros announced an experimental deal on Thursday for four Warner-produced ABC shows to appear on ABC's Web-based broadband media player.
1Entertainment
which the United Nations says is now host to 37.2 million adults around the world -- by recognizing World AIDS Day in Hawai'i.
3Health
AFP - Snubbed Danish golfer Thomas Bjorn has been fined a "substantial sum" by the European Tour after a scathing attack on European Ryder Cup captain Ian Woosnam.
2Europe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats must gain six seats in the November 7 election to recapture U.S. Senate control, and they lead in three of the seven most vulnerable Republican-held states, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.
10Top News
Blog: In what appears to be the first such occurrence, the recording industry must pay more than $68,000 in attorneys fees to an Oklahoma woman whose case was dismissed last summer.
6Sci/Tech
Exchanging business cards is a rudimentary form of networking (the people, not the server kind). However, to get the most out of the exchange, you need a card that attracts attention and reflects the image or values you want to project. read more
7Software and Developement
Critics of a building boom in Austin fear it will alter the character of the city, a place often prized by residents for its offbeat small-town vibe.
0Business
Chelsea are held to a 1-1 draw by Norwegian underdogs Rosenborg at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League.
10Top News
AFP - South Africa went on a batting rampage to set up a comprehensive 164-run win over Pakistan in the first one-day international at Centurion Park.
13World
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Record-setting Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre achieved another NFL milestone when he became the league's career leader in yards passing in the Green Bay Packers' 33-14 road victory over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday.
8Sports
Il tecnico della Fiorentina, Cesare Prandelli, ha convocato 20 giocatori per la gara di domani a Pal...
4Italia
ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - A helicopter on a firefighting mission has crashed in northern Mongolia, killing 14 people and critically injuring four of the eight survivors, the Mongolian government said on Monday.
13World
PC World - IBM on Thursday provided more details of its robust fourth-quarter and 2007 financial performance, following an early preview of the figures on Monday.
6Sci/Tech
Per ritardi commercializzazione nuove vetture.Titolo giu'
4Italia
TRIPOLI, Libya -- A settlement has been reached to resolve the crisis over five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus, a foundation headed by the Libyan leader's son said yesterday .
13World
New York's mayor says he will support the city's police chief, after officers shot dead an unarmed black man.
2Europe
Kevin Garnett jumper with 8.3 seconds remaining lifts the Timberwolves to a 96-91 win over the Rockets on Thursday. Garnett finished with 20 points, 17 rebounds and nine assists.
8Sports
Protesters were able to disrupt Tony Blair's conference speech despite a multi-million-pound security operation aimed at preventing a terrorist attack.
13World
The 35-year-old conductor Vladimir Jurowski has features similiar to Rudolf Nureyev, and conveys his intentions with balletic fluency, applying accents that are minimal and precise.
1Entertainment
In dolce attesa anche la coppia Nistri - Montezemolo
4Italia
By Jamar Younger, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Feb. 1--Even though Marana resident Don Winfield knows a lot about computers, you won't find him trying to impress people with his vast technical knowledge.
6Sci/Tech
L'olandese del Real Madrid, Arjen Robben, dovrà rimanere fermo per sei settimane a causa di u...
4Italia
Il testo dei cattedratici riaccende il dibattito sull'interruzione di gravidanza Angius: "Profondo sdegno per l'aggressione a una legge giusta" Aborto, il documento dei medici riapre lo scontro sulla 194 (18:29 03/02/2008)
4Italia
AP - The leader of an unrecognized American Indian tribe was charged Friday with scheming to sell tribal memberships to immigrants by falsely claiming the documents would make them U.S. citizens, a federal prosecutor said.
12U.S.
(IsraelNN.com) Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a short ago announced he would not be implementing his ultimatum which would lead to his resignation from the cabinet.
13World
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A torrent of toy recalls this year is due in part to U.S. trade agreements encouraging American toymakers to cut costs by shifting production overseas, the watchdog group Public Citizen said on Wednesday.
12U.S.
Fini al decennale di Alleanza Nazionale "Non lavoriamo al partito unico" (14:11 30/01/2005)
4Italia
New Jersey Nets guard Zoran Planinic had surgery on his broken left hand Thursday and will be out indefinitely. Planinic broke his hand in Wednesday's game against the Washington Wizards.
8Sports
When a balky and slow search system bogged down work at a California law firm, it checked out options from Google, Yahoo and others before settling on a solution from Recommind Inc.
6Sci/Tech
New and improved Handset manufacturer HTC has redesigned its existing Advantage device, upping the storage capacity to 16GB, overhauling the keyboard’s responsiveness and updating the UMPC's software.

7Software and Developement
Reuters - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China plans to raise as much as US$19 billion in what would be the world's largest share sale, valuing the country's top lender at a discount to its largest rivals, a source familiar with the deal said on Sunday.
0Business
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes struck some 70 Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Monday in the latest in a series of strikes, the General Staff said.
13World
A central bank adviser quoted as saying the government had cut its holdings of US Treasurys backtracked Friday after the speculation helped push the euro to a new all-time peak.
0Business
KINGSTON (Reuters) - A handful of voters lined up early when polls opened for Jamaica's national elections on Monday as the Caribbean island heals from one hurricane, warily eyes another and frets over recent political violence.
13World
GORDON BROWN faces having to raise taxes or cut spending to curb burgeoning public borrowing, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said yesterday.
1Entertainment
Apple's new iPod Nano has competition: The SanDisk SansaView plays video, displays photos, and receives FM radio signals.
6Sci/Tech
'Un-Islamic' verses Indian Muslim clerics have condemned the use of verses from the Koran as mobile ringtones, Yahoo! reports.

7Software and Developement
Investors in the biotechnology company Biogen Idec announced Wednesday that it had not received any definitive offers after putting itself up for sale two months ago.
0Business