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Canadian Press - MONTREAL (CP) - Guy Clouthier, a giant of the Quebec entertainment industry who pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges, apologized Wednesday, saying, "I acknowledge my crimes."
13World
FIVE Turkish security guards were killed in an ambush as they were travelling by car through Iraq to Baghdad, the Turkish foreign ministry said today.
13World
Jon Olstik spent last week at Cisco System's annual analyst event and came away with some ideas of what the company will focus on in the future.
6Sci/Tech
MIAMI (Reuters) - Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning has probably played his last game in the NBA after suffering a serious knee injury in what is his final season with the team.
8Sports
Troops surround and attacked a stronghold of a leading militant in the district of Swat in northern Pakistan, local police say.
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The US secretary of state meets union leaders in Colombia on a trip aimed at promoting free trade.
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Women who continue having children late in life may live longer than those who have their kids young, research finds.
2Europe
ATLANTA Jamaal Tinsley scored a season-high 29 points and Fred Jones added 21 as Indiana outlasted Atlanta 108-to-97 in overtime. The Hawks led by 12 points early in the fourth quarter before the Pacers snapped a seven-game losing streak.
8Sports
Israel's opposition Labour party began talks with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party yesterday about joining its coalition - a partnership aimed at promoting a military withdrawal from Gaza.
13World
AFP - The government defended Wednesday an "experiment" under which two prisons have been converted into foreigner-only jails, saying they could help speed up deportation procedures.
2Europe
com / Dec. 15, 2004. Knicks game notes, taken live during the game in Madison Square Garden, raw and completely unedited. Overnight we'll trim this down, but for now, skim the whole thing.
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Venduta ad Abacus Invest per 75 milioni
4Italia
The Seattle Times said a business columnist and associate editor, Stephen H. Dunphy, had resigned after admitting he plagiarized the work of others.
0Business
Genzyme Corp. said it completed its $345 million acquisition of Bioenvision Inc. despite complaints by some Bioenvision shareholders the price the Cambridge biotech offered was too low. Genzyme initially tried to take control of the New York biotech through a tender offer, but managed to acquire only 22 percent of shar...
0Business
Reuters - "The Phantom of the Opera," already the longest-running musical in Broadway history, will mark its 20th anniversary in New York on Saturday with two performances.
1Entertainment
Guidant, the maker of implanted heart devices, settled a fraud suit over its recalled defibrillator for an undisclosed amount.
3Health
AP - Consumer electronics aren't exactly easy on the environment — they consume electricity that contributes to global warming, and toxins leach out of them when they end up in landfills.
6Sci/Tech
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The last four years, Dale Jarrett had to watch helplessly as the Daytona 500, NASCAR's crown jewel event, was dominated by the kingpins of restrictor-plate racing at Dale Earnhardt Inc., winners of the last two 500s and three of the last four.
8Sports
Japan’s inflation rose at the fastest pace in more than nine years in November while industrial production and household spending declined.
0Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc. said on Wednesday it launched iTunes Plus, a new copy protection-free music download service featuring artists with EMI Group including Coldplay, The Rolling Stones and Joss Stone.
6Sci/Tech
Justin Gatlin ran the race of his life, barely holding off the fastest Olympic 100 field ever. Francis Obikwelu of Portugal took silver, and Maurice Greene won bronze.
8Sports
Ethiopia said Thursday it accepted "in principle" an independent commission's ruling on its border with former foe Eritrea, possibly signaling an end to a dispute that has simmered since their 1998-2000 war.
1Entertainment
The number of dead as a result of the 9.0 earthquake that occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometers under the Indian Ocean, has reached 30,000.
13World
Oltre alle gare di Parma e Livorno ecco il quadro completo delle gare di ritorno dei 16' di finale (...
4Italia
The Scottish Executive pledges a further £9m to help some of the world's poorest people, it is announced.
2Europe
Tra gli imputati Pollari, Mancini e 26 agenti Cia
4Italia
Bradway is in his fourth season with the Jets and first as executive VP. He has 19 years of NFL experience. Prior to this season, Bradway oversaw a productive draft for the Jets (7-3), added key free agents
8Sports
A murder investigation is launched after a man is found dead in a house in Antrim, police say.
10Top News
Walking With Strangers by The Birthday Massacre
5Music Feeds
AP - President Vladimir Putin's likely successor suggested in an interview published Monday that the British Council and foreign NGOs spy on Russia, echoing accusations that have strained ties between Moscow and the West — in particular Britain.
13World
Ministro, previsti anche aiuti per le famiglie
4Italia
Anche Maurizio Zamparini sbatte la porta: ''Ho detto al signor Matarrese che lui ha tradito il suo p...
4Italia
AFP - A couple's chances of receiving IVF treatment on the NHS are down to a "postcode lottery", according to a report.
2Europe
The IT industry winners and losers, as voted by you Reg Tech Panel 

7Software and Developement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are poised for U.S. Senate gains in the November 7 election, but face an uphill battle to pick up the six seats they need for control, according to Reuters/Zogby polls released on Thursday.
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Mibtel -0,80%, SP -0,72%, All Stars -0,85%
4Italia
Police in the North are carrying out forensic tests on a car found burnt out in a forest park in Co Down to determine if it had any link with this week's multi-million pound bank heist in Belfast.
1Entertainment
For the third time since he took office in 2001, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has made changes to his Cabinet. The premier installed a team of ministers and top party officials whom he expects will back his key reform efforts.
11Top Stories
Ukraine's women's quadruple sculls crew lose their bronze medal after one of the crew fails a drugs test.
2Europe
AP - Bill Clinton says Sen. Barack Obama is a highly ambitious, political prodigy who is asking voters to "roll the dice" and elect him president.
13World
Capigruppo Prc chiedono intervento del ministro D'Alema
4Italia
Roy Ganor-Shwaartz (Team Leader at Zend for the PDT/Zend Studio for Eclipse projects) dropped us a line to let us know that he'll be speaking at this year's EclipseCon (2008). It seems that PHP developers have attracted much attention from the Eclipse community. In the next EclipseCon conference I am going to make...
7Software and Developement
Toshiba, whose tiny hard drives power Apple's hit iPod music players, announced that it has produced an 80GB model. The company said in a statement late on Monday that it will begin mass production in mid-2005
6Sci/Tech
Reuters - Nickelodeon is investing $100 million in the expansion of online casual gaming ventures, the company said Wednesday.
6Sci/Tech
Lost in Notre Dame's disappointing 20-17 loss to Brigham Young last week was the surprise start of sophomore Tom Zbikowski at strong safety.
8Sports
E' balzato di sei punti raggiungendo il 6,79%
4Italia
Reuters - Both Sudan's government and Darfur rebels criticized a U.N. report which accused Khartoum and allied militias of atrocities in the country's western region but stopped short of calling the violence genocide.
13World
Hopes are fading that Pyongyang will attend a fourth round of talks on ending its nuclear weapons programs, following revelations about South Korean nuclear tests.
1Entertainment
Danish police say they have arrested nearly 600 people in three days of protests over the eviction of squatters.
10Top News
POIANA BRASOV, Romania (Reuters) - France and Germany rejected any merger of the NATO and U.S-led missions in Afghanistan on Wednesday after Washington urged the alliance to study taking command of all military operations there.
13World
Music critics of The New York Times review the year’s most notable new holiday albums.
1Entertainment
The missing tape affects 230 retailers, whose customers may be vulnerable to data fraud.
6Sci/Tech
Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday said his administration has found even more flu vaccine from European suppliers and pressed federal officials for permission to ship the doses to Illinois amid a national shortage.
3Health
Il Napoli ha effettuato una seduta pomeridiana di allenamento a Varcaturo. Tutti presenti agli ordin...
4Italia
Resistance dwindled in the last rebel redoubt in Falluja on Sunday, US officers said, but explosions still shook the smoke-wreathed city as an Iraqi
11Top Stories
The Cubs traded embattled catcher Michael Barrett and cash to the Padres for backup catcher Rob Bowen and a minor leaguer.
8Sports
BOSTON (Reuters) - Computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. said on Monday that Chief Financial Officer Bob Wayman will retire as CFO at the end of the month, ending a 37-year career with the company.
0Business
The billions in international aid pledged towards the post-tsunami cleanup could polish America's poor image in the world's most populous Muslim nation and overhaul economic ties between big donors and ...
2Europe
LOS ANGELES - Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that m...
13World
African countries have announced a continent-wide plan to slash ivory trading in their domestic markets.
10Top News
The US says it is worried about Iranian support for insurgents in Iraq. Separately, the IAEA reported that Iran's progress on nuclear enrichment is slow.
13World
The thousands of runners who step up to the starting lines of marathons each year may be following in the footsteps of our earliest human ancestors.
6Sci/Tech
Canadian Press - LONDON (AP) - Shares in Abbey National PLC, Britain's sixth-biggest bank and second-biggest mortgage lender, traded for the last time Friday ahead of the completion of its $15.6 billion US acquisition by Santander Central Hispano SA, Spain's biggest bank.
2Europe
NEW Zealand trailed by 314 to be 5-149 in its second innings at stumps on day four of the second Test against Australia at Adelaide Oval today.
8Sports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House-backed bill to revamp immigration laws stalled in the Senate on Thursday, handing President George W. Bush a major legislative setback
10Top News
Purdue Research Foundation has licensed a technology to Bio Processing Technology Inc. for the development of a new environmentally friendly method to produce ethanol that also costs less than current methods.
6Sci/Tech
Security researcher Christopher Soghoian reflects on the hard work that comes after finding a vulnerability.
6Sci/Tech
The EU suspends a complaint to the World Trade Organization about India's import tariffs on beer, wine and spirits.
13World
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's lawyers have gone to court to have a California district attorney removed from prosecuting the pop star on child molestation charges, court papers showed on Tuesday.
1Entertainment
AP - Comedian Jim Belushi is being sued by the 78-year-old father of his former driver, who accuses him of selling a used 2001 Land Rover that turned out to be a lemon.
1Entertainment
He is particularly angry at the idea that the raid was in its final planning stages at the moment he was telephoning Mr Adams during last year s Leeds Castle talks, trying to nudge him towards a deal during the ...
2Europe
This company has just started using some new RF guns in its warehouse. Workers use the handheld terminals to scan RFID tags on the conveyor -- or at least they're supposed to.
6Sci/Tech
Like flights that pass in the night, Expedia goes this way, Travelzoo goes that way.
0Business
Reuters - DaimlerChrysler (DCXGn.DE) may communicate its future strategy for loss-making U.S. arm only in weeks or months, the world's fifth-biggest carmaker said on Thursday.
0Business
By PIPPA GREENWOOD FRIED green or red and juicy, tomatoes are nutritious, tasty, versatile and low in calories. And none is more delicious than those you've grown yourself. You don't need much room.
6Sci/Tech
The coach of the Bay State Breakers has taken up yoga. You can't believe how much this has helped. When you invest most of your years skating as if your life depended on it, your quadriceps tend to become overdeveloped, while your hamstrings go the other way, and that leaves your body decidedly out of whack. The bottom...
8Sports
Reuters - Impoverished North Korea's first steps to take apart its nuclear arms program may reap the reward of food aid from the South when the two hold their first high-level meeting in months on Tuesday.
13World
There was a bizarre feeling to events yesterday, hearing two Wales coaches talking about New Zealand looking for a victory, but then, it is an unprecedented situation.
8Sports
By Zach Lowe, The Stamford Advocate, Conn. Jun. 8--STAMFORD -- The city is doing blood tests on most active police officers after finding unusually high levels of lead and copper in the water at headquarters, officials said yesterday.
6Sci/Tech
Is the desktop metaphor dead? Or is Vista just really bad?
6Sci/Tech
Mibtel +0,34% e SP/Mib +0,49%, positive le europee
4Italia
Reuters - MSNBC will stake its claim to political coverage with a special blitz of all-day coverage Wednesday on the 2006 midterm elections.
1Entertainment
A French court convicted Congolese world music star Papa Wemba Tuesday of smuggling people into France but the King of Rhumba Rock walked free because he has already served four months in jail.
13World
General Motors gave away $7.7 million worth of Pontiac G6s -- 276 of them -- Monday during the season-opening Oprah Winfrey show. The public relations value for the automaker may be incalculable.
1Entertainment
AP - What do Mia Hamm, Terry Bradshaw, William Shatner and Lindsay Lohan have in common? The answer: ketchup.
1Entertainment
Ukraine’s outgoing President Leonid Kuchma today accused the opposition of reneging on compromise agreements and called for quick foreign mediation of his nation’s post-election political crisis.
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PC World - Network operator O2 (UK) Ltd. will sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone in the U.K. from Nov. 9 for #269 (US$538), the companies announced Tuesday, marking the start of the iPhone's move into Europe.
6Sci/Tech
Eric O'Neill, the former FBI agent who helped bring down notorious spy Robert Hanssen, examines fact versus fiction.
1Entertainment
Sir Alex Ferguson criticises the Old Trafford atmosphere after Manchester United's win over Birmingham City.
10Top News
Amazon is selling the folding Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard, which works with most PDAs and smartphones, for just $29.99 shipped. Regular price: $149.99.
6Sci/Tech
Look up the Wright Brothers' airplane drawings or investigate Tesla's electrical innovation proposals and Tom Edison's incandescent patents. Send us results of your favorite searches. In Gear Factor.
6Sci/Tech
AFP - At least 50,000 supporters of the outgoing Bangladesh government rallied in a show of strength to counter opposition threats to boycott next month's national elections.
13World
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Ticker) Brian Billick preferred to call it "a step," but the maturation of Kyle Boller may have instead been a notable leap forward.
8Sports
KABUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Taliban fighters could abandon their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
13World
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lawyers for Phil Spector called their first witness on Tuesday in his murder trial, a forensic expert who told jurors that an actress the pioneering rock producer is accused of shooting dead probably committed suicide instead.
1Entertainment
A new species of flightless bird has been discovered on Calayan, a remote island in the Philippines, by an Anglo Filipino expedition.
6Sci/Tech
Il Censis, nell’ambito della ricerca condotta per l’Agenzia per i Servizi Sanitari Regionali, ha intervistato un campione di italiani sopra i 65 anni. I risultati di tale ricerca sono stati pubblicati
4Italia
AP - Residents of the Maldives want to say "hello" to newlyweds Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
1Entertainment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scrambling to answer an outcry over shoddy health care for U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq, the White House announced on Friday that President George W. Bush will appoint a bipartisan commission to review health care for military veterans.
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