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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp.'s ORCL.O hostile bid for rival PeopleSoft Corp. PSFT.O was strengthened on Friday as U.S. antitrust regulators dropped their case against the merger and PeopleSoft fired its chief executive, Craig Conway, who had led the fight against Oracle. | 0Business |
AFP - Leading shares finished the day slightly higher following early lows with ITV firmer amid rumours that BSkyB had sold its stake in the commercial station to RTL, dealers said. | 2Europe |
La vittima aveva avuto gravi problemi di alcol | 4Italia |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Exorcist: The Beginning," a film that had to be re-shot with a new director because the first version was not scary enough, led the North American box office over the weekend, as moviegoers once again flocked to the resurrection of an aging franchise. | 12U.S. |
AFP - Mighty China dominated Asian Games swimming, clinching five out of six gold medals and delivering a heavy blow to Japan in the process. | 13World |
Reuters - Fierce fighting broke out in the
holy Iraqi city of Najaf Monday, with numerous explosions and
gunfire echoing around a sacred shrine held by followers of a
radical Shi'ite cleric, Reuters witnesses said. | 13World |
NEW YORK -- It was a day of traditions and new visitors in New York this Thanksgiving Day. Old favorites Charlie Brown and Sesame Street's Grover cruised over Manhattan in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, along | 1Entertainment |
AFGHANISTAN'S first democratically elected president was sworn in yesterday - vowing to crack down on drug traffickers and the last of the Taliban. | 13World |
Reuters - Would one expect anything less than
a double album from the Cure on the occasion of its 13th studio
release? | 1Entertainment |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Novartis AG won U.S. approval to promote the drug Femara for women who have finished standard therapy for early-stage breast cancer and run out of options, the company said on Friday. | 3Health |
Eliseo prevede mantenere invariato obiettivo crescita 2-2,5% | 4Italia |
AP - Sienna Miller felt hunted by a group of paparazzi as they chased her car across London in an attempt to find out where she lived, the 26-year-old actress told a British court Monday. | 1Entertainment |
The aid agency which Margaret Hassan worked for before she was kidnapped has closed down all its Iraqi operations and pleaded for her release. | 11Top Stories |
Weekend: In these days of divorce, what does it take to keep a couple together? Melanie McFadyean talks to partners who prove the power of enduring love. | 10Top News |
AP - Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday. | 6Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. posted a better-than-expected 17 percent rise in quarterly profit Wednesday on increased apparel sales in Europe and the United States, but shares fell 4 percent in premarket trading on its adjusted 2008 forecast. | 0Business |
A sparsely populated western state best known for potatoes is becoming a magnet for tech entrepreneurs. The slow pace, absence of traffic and low-rise landscape has helped lure 800 tech companies to the state. | 0Business |
BEIJING (Reuters) - A team of international inspectors will travel to a North Korean nuclear reactor on Saturday, ahead of a planned shutdown as part of a nuclear disarmament agreement. | 10Top News |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental adviser said his mission to change federal policy on global warming by getting vast regions of the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions will start with states on the Mexican border. | 12U.S. |
NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Protests erupted in western Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after scores of people were killed in ethnic violence, complicating mediation by former U.N. boss Kofi Annan. | 10Top News |
Gordon Brown kick-starts a campaign to build national health systems in some of the world's poorest countries. | 13World |
Il tecnico dell'Udinese Marino insiste sul modulo 3-4-3 anhe per la gara contro la Reggina. Non ci ... | 4Italia |
A UN aid agency operating in North Korea left itself open to exploitation, a US Senate probe concludes. | 2Europe |
The Boston Redevelopment Authority and a New York developer yesterday reached an agreement that should speed construction of housing and a marina at the Charlestown Navy Yard. | 0Business |
Ma ancora cancellazioni di voli a Fiumicino | 4Italia |
The Utah Utes are taking this bowl business seriously. Brian Johnson threw for one touchdown and ran for another, and Utah opened the bowl season with a wild 35-32 victory over the Navy Midshipmen in the Poinsettia Bowl last night. | 8Sports |
Large sections of the Genesis Sample Return Capsule that survived the hard impact landing in the Utah desert Sept. 8 were shipped to Lockheed Martin's facilities in Denver, Colo. | 6Sci/Tech |
Thousands of leaflets carrying a personal appeal for help from the family of British hostage Ken Bigley have been distributed in Baghdad. | 13World |
BREAKING NEWS - In the clearest sign to date that not all is well in the state of Redmond, Microsoft cheerfully announced this morning that the release date for Windows Server 2008 is being pushed back to Q1 2008. | 7Software and Developement |
If you're into those pay-per-view Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments, you might want to check out the World Championship Fighting event tonight at the Aleppo Shriners Auditorium. You'll see 15 fights, featuring East Coast talent such as Justin Homsey and John Franchi. You'll also see some Ultimate Fighting pers... | 8Sports |
Since the Skulls virus hit, people are starting to become aware of the fact that cell phones are just as vulnerable to attacks as computers. | 6Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK - A disappointing retail sales report and the threat of oil prices reaching $53 per barrel sent stocks lower Thursday in early trading. A lack of consumer confidence and rising gasoline prices were blamed for slow retail sales in September, usually a robust month for shoppers... | 13World |
Finland's Matti Nykaenen, arguably the best ski jumper of all times, was sentenced to two years and two months in prison for assaulting a friend with a knife during a drunken brawl last summer. | 2Europe |
Reuters - An Italian prosecutor dashed talk of
exhuming the body of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on
Tuesday when he said he expected to dismiss a legal request to
investigate Il Duce's death. | 2Europe |
By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Jun. 8--The Case Vander Eyk Jr. Dairy in Pixley has lost its certification to sell organic milk after being targeted by a Wisconsin-based organics watchdog organization that accused the megadairy of skimping on pasture requirements. | 6Sci/Tech |
L'allenatore del Cagliari, Franco Colomba, ha convocato 19 giocatori per la trasferta di domani a Mi... | 4Italia |
After an exhaustive search that netted a bevy of candidates, the Redskins hire Jim Zorn, 54, to be their new head coach Saturday. He will be introduced Sunday at 3 p.m. | 8Sports |
NEW YORK - The Boston Red Sox are to send hobbled star Curt Schilling to the mound Tuesday night against the New York Yankees, whose 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven AL championship series is down to 3-2 after back-to-back marathon games. But rain in the forecast could make for another long night of delays or earn both te... | 13World |
Just days after the launch of open-source browser Firefox 1.0, Microsoft executives defended Internet Explorer, saying it is no less secure than any other browser and doesn't lack any important features. | 11Top Stories |
Reuters - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers on
Tuesday released wide receiver Bill Schroeder and kicker Martin
Gramatica, and activated offensive guard Matt O'Dwyer from the
physically unable to perform list. | 8Sports |
AP - Another small television audience watched Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals. | 1Entertainment |
Game 1 of the World Series was won by the Red Sox. But it belonged to Taco Bell, which is not related to Cool Papa, Buddy or Gus. | 8Sports |
It now feels amazing how we have lived without this particular feature since ages now. Google introduced desktop searching to the world in spite of the fact lesser-known products existed since a long time. | 11Top Stories |
US crude prices fall back from Thursday's $53-a-barrel high overnight in Asia, but concerns over tight supplies persist. | 13World |
Bono writes that the former Vice President, now a Nobel laureate, has become America's environmental conscience | 10Top News |
The presidential debates present both opportunity and peril for the two top candidates, with Sen. John Kerry hoping a strong performance spurs a decisive rally and President Bush aiming to seal his re-election. | 1Entertainment |
The price of the Pentium 4 560 is now priced at $417 from $637, while prices of other desktop Pentium 4 chips are cut by 18 percent to 33 percent. | 6Sci/Tech |
On CNN | 10Top News |
2007 top science developments, tech flops, and vaporware...Szulik's parting words as Red Hat CEO...Sony Alpha A700 review...copyright tidbits...Toshiba 32nm deal with IBM | 6Sci/Tech |
Roma, 19 nov. (Adnkronos) - L'Antitrust sanziona Telecom per una cifra di 152 milioni di euro ''per aver abusato della propria posizione dominante sui mercati dei servizi di telecomunicazioni su rete fissa all'utenza affari''. | 4Italia |
Il Cavaliere deluso per le defezioni. Storace: "La mattina tentiamo le spallate, la sera torniamo a casa con una gomitata in faccia"
Berlusconi: "Così andiamo noi in crisi" Accuse e veleni nel centrodestra
Schifani: "Se non caricassi i miei gli assenti sarebbero 20"
(07:29 24/11/2006) | 4Italia |
Leading faith groups, trade unions and charities in Britain have warned against any possible military action against Iran and urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to put pressure on the US to enter talks with ... Comment | 2Europe |
The Justice Department has been asked to review documents related to a proposed Boeing Co. tanker deal, including communications from Air Force Secretary James G. Roche, to address questions of potential conflict of interest, according to a source familiar with the case. | 0Business |
Reuters - Nice people don't crane
their necks to see the aftermath of a train wreck. They don't
chase ambulances, don't goggle or giggle when some poor victim
is carried away on a stretcher. They say nice things even when
they're thinking mean ones. They keep a civil tongue. | 1Entertainment |
AP - Finally, the Pittsburgh Pirates walked off with a win. Freddy Sanchez led off the ninth inning with a home run and the Pirates rallied to end a 13-game losing streak, their longest since 1900, by beating the Chicago White Sox 7-6 Thursday. | 8Sports |
Weeks before the Lakers' latest soap opera episode, the fourth member of what had been the team's famed and fatalistic Fab Four sounded off about the quartet's remaining member in Los Angeles. | 8Sports |
L'incidente Ú avvenuto intorno alle 23:30. Complesso il lavoro dei vigili del fuoco, ancora in corso
Autocisterna a fuoco tra A1 e A14 autostrade chiuse tutta la giornata
(07:36 17/02/2005) | 4Italia |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - Last year's bumper crop of shooter video games, such as "BioShock", "Halo 3" and "Call of Duty 4", were notable for coupling bone-jarring realism with finely crafted epic stories. | 1Entertainment |
Thousands of rare books are believed to have been damaged or destroyed in a fire at a German library. | 2Europe |
Loading worried families onto the last two jumbo jets, France concluded one of the largest evacuations in post-independence Africa yesterday - an airlift that flew more than 5,000 Westerners away from violence pitting France against its former prize West | 11Top Stories |
AP - Dallas wide receiver Terry Glenn and Green Bay safety Darren Sharper were injured in the first half Sunday and taken to the locker room. | 8Sports |
Six foreign medics sentenced to death for spreading HIV in Libya, deny making false torture claims. | 3Health |
Scientists have found a way of treating potentially fatal diseases by switching off harmful genes. In what is described as one of the most important breakthroughs in decades | 3Health |
L'incidente sfiorato ieri nello scalo tedesco. L'ente di controllo ha aperto un'inchiesta La compagnia italiana: "Non c'Ú stata alcuna situazione di pericolo"
Dusseldorf, aereo Alitalia in pista prima dell'ok "collisione rischiata con un volo Lufthansa"
L'Embraer italiano (con venti persone a bordo), appena atterrato... | 4Italia |
AP - 1. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (Dutton) | 1Entertainment |
Fashion Wire Daily - One of Italy's most dynamic brands, Car Shoe, has opened a tony new Milan flagship, underlining the ambitions of its owner, the Prada Group, for the label. | 1Entertainment |
AP - NASA will wait two years longer than planned and spend another $40 million to launch a half-billion-dollar probe to Mars because of an unspecified conflict of interest in the purchasing process, officials said Friday. | 6Sci/Tech |
MADRID (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through a train station at Lutxana in Spain's Basque region in the early hours of Monday, blowing out doors and windows but injuring no one, police said. | 13World |
NEW YORK -- The New York Times Co.'s Sulzberger family plans to resist investor pressure to drop the dual-class stock structure that gives it control of the newspaper publisher, chief executive Janet Robinson said. | 0Business |
Read full story for latest details. | 10Top News |
Positive, as the name suggests, is all about a good Âframe of mind. | 1Entertainment |
NEW YORK: Like children following the Pied Piper, tens of thousands of New Yorkers flocked to the streets of Manhattan yesterday as super group U2 played an unannounced travelling concert. | 11Top Stories |
Sidney H. Radner, a retired rug salesman, owns one of the world's biggest and most valuable collections of Harry Houdini artifacts. | 13World |
E 4 denunce in operazione a Roma e Viterbo | 4Italia |
C'e' una bozza d'accordo.Stop riarmo in cambio di petrolio | 4Italia |
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents threatened to behead two Americans and a Briton captured in Baghdad on Saturday and launched a suicide car bomb attack on Iraqi security forces in the northern city of Kirkuk that killed at least 23 people. | 13World |
Mark Crispin, IMAP's outspoken creator, says Google's implementation of his mail protocol is half-baked. Flawed as it is, others see IMAP as a necessary step forward as the wireless age increases our need for multi-device e-mail connectivity. | 6Sci/Tech |
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today expressed sympathy with parents and children in the Russian school siege saying âtheir suffering is our sufferingâ. | 13World |
Tha's wanting a top up lass?
In between sulking with Nokia and billing customers for imaginary debts, Orange UK has changed the voice used for its menus and automated systems, opting for something a little more matey and a little less BBC.⊠| 7Software and Developement |
AP - An all-out Republican push to get out the vote in presidential battleground states could end up hurting the party's candidates — like Paul Goetzke — who are running for local offices in Democratic states. | 13World |
The sex scandal that forced Gov. James E. McGreevey to announce his resignation now involves everyone on New Jersey's A-List of political stars, its back-room advisers and political bosses. | 1Entertainment |
St. Andrews, Scotland (Sports Network) - Luke Donald shot a four-under 68 on Saturday to move into the lead after the third round of the dunhill links championship. | 11Top Stories |
By Mark Kellner, The Washington Times Sep. 20--It's axiomatic that Washington runs on forms. And Adobe System's Acrobat Professional software is one of the most important tools a form creator or user can have in his or her arsenal. Acrobat Professional 8, announced Sept. | 6Sci/Tech |
The most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in nearly a decade killed at least 15 people including a Canadian, damaged 90 per cent of its homes and destroyed a prison, leaving | 11Top Stories |
Blog: Shareholder advisory firms urge shareholders to protest Yahoo CEO's $71 million salary package by voting against re-election of three board members. | 6Sci/Tech |
AP - The Houston Dynamo set an MLS record with their seventh straight shutout by tying Toronto FC 0-0 Sunday. | 8Sports |
AP - Steelers running back Duce Staley unexpectedly missed a fourth consecutive game with a sore hamstring when he was scratched for Sunday's game against Washington. | 8Sports |
Nearly an hour after knocking out Oscar De La Hoya in the ninth round Saturday night in the MGM Grand Garden Arena, undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins | 8Sports |
Johnson has totaled at least 50-plus yards receiving in a career-high five straight games...Coleman's touchdown was the longest play in Texans' history...Domanick Davis had only 12 rushing yards on 10 carries for Houston...Okoye previously had the most | 8Sports |
Luciano Moggi sarà l'opinionista di punta della trasmissione 'Lunedì di Rigore', in onda da l... | 4Italia |
BOSTON (Sports Network) - Paul Pierce nailed a jumper at the buzzer to give the Boston Celtics a 90-88 victory over Portland at the FleetCenter. | 8Sports |
Rupert Murdoch has won a key vote allowing his News Corporation media empire to move its headquarters away from his native Australia and into the US. | 1Entertainment |
Havant & Waterlooville secure a dream FA Cup fourth-round tie against Liverpool after beating Swansea in a thrilling third-round replay. | 2Europe |
VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog called on Iran on Saturday to immediately halt activities related to uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to make atomic weapons. | 13World |
NEW DELHI: Rescue workers pulled corpses from canals and waterlogged fields on Tuesday, as Government warned the death toll of almost 9,400 from a tsunami that lashed the country's southern coastal areas, would rise further. | 13World |
AP - A letter written by President Lincoln's assassin two months before the 1865 slaying sold at auction Sunday for a record $68,000. | 12U.S. |
Delta Chief Customer Service Officer Vicki Escarra will retire on Oct. 1 after 31 years with the Atlanta-based airline. Escarra said she wanted to spend more time with family. | 0Business |
A 24-year-old Romanian cheats a California computer equipment distributor out of $10 million. An Australian teenager causes a release of raw sewage by hacking into a treatment plantâs system. | 6Sci/Tech |
Think less. Earn more. | 0Business |
Reuters - Six South Koreans died and four were
missing in South Korea on Sunday after a typhoon hit the
country's southern coast, an official from the government
emergency agency said. | 13World |
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