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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily October 22, 2004 - MOSCOW - Russian Fashion Week kicked off in new digs Friday morning in Moscow, though one could be forgiven from the first collection by Vitali Azarov of thinking that this was Miami not Moscow.
1Entertainment
At least one person has died and another is missing after an Australian Black Hawk crashed into the sea near Fiji.
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Coming next month, apparently
7Software and Developement
Microsoft chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has acknowledged Linux as the "only game in town" when it comes to competing with the proprietary software heavyweight's offerings, Australia's peak open source body claims.
6Sci/Tech
Florence, Italy (Sports Network) - Fiorentina fired coach Emiliano Mondonico after a slow start to the Serie A season. Mondonico took over midway through last season, and led Fiorentina to promotion.
8Sports
UK scientists uncover a vital clue to stopping cancers spreading around the body, according to research.
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Europa Press, conferma tempi e fiducia che si andra' avanti
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TONY JONES: Well, there's been more violence in northern Iraq and the Sunni triangle, even as US troops continue their clean-up operations in Fallujah.
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AP - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after undergoing surgery in Germany on a key artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain, his foundation said Wednesday.
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Ovidio Messa Ú il nuovo ct della nazionale boliviana in sostituzione del dimissionario Ramiro Blacut...
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AP - Each day at 4 p.m., the trawlers come back, alive with giant bass, mackerel and squirming eels, at the end of a food chain that links family dinner tables to poisons in the sea. Besides mercury which can damage the brains of fetuses and young children and can affect healthy adults, there are PCBs, dioxins and flam...
3Health
AFP - German retail and distribution giant Metro said that the strong performance of its overseas activities enabled it to lift earnings in the third quarter despite weak consumer demand in its home market of Germany.
13World
AP - Talk about cold comfort. Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Thursday, won a straw poll of conservative activists on Saturday, edging out likely nominee John McCain.
12U.S.
Pushes the blue elephant EnterpriseDB, the opens source database company, aims to capitalize on the uncertainty around MySQL's purchase by Sun Microsystems, and is wooing developers with improved capabilities and services.

7Software and Developement
His team won only twice in Athens, but one of those victories was pure hoop ambrosia for Del Harris. And this is a man who has coached basketball at various locales for 44 years, guiding the likes of Moses Malone, Shaquille O'Neal, and Sidney Moncrief along the way.
8Sports
Alla Gadieyeva fears the dark. She cannot sleep most nights, she rarely leaves her apartment, and she cannot remember what she was told moments earlier.
13World
Shares of Google, the most-used Internet search engine, which went public this summer, surged 17 percent Friday after quarterly profit more than doubled and the company said the market for Internet advertising was showing no signs of slowing.
0Business
PONTIAC, Mich. - Five members of the Indiana Pacers and seven Detroit Pistons fans were criminally charged yesterday because of their roles in the Pistons-Pacers brawl last month - a fight that captured national attention.
8Sports
North Korea has demanded bilateral talks with the United States to defuse tension created by its announcement that it is a nuclear power, the communist state's U.N. envoy said in a South Korean newspaper interview published Friday.
13World
"Si, Ú vero, ho preso parte alla banda armata già da prima del 1999". Cinzia Banelli, tra gli arrestati nell'ottobre dello scorso anno nell'ambito delle indagini sulle nuove Br, ha ammesso la sua partecipazione
4Italia
The stripped-down clothier reveals all to Wall Street.
0Business
AFP - The government faced pressure Tuesday to learn lessons from its handling of the seizure of 15 sailors by Iran, which sparked a major diplomatic crisis and an embarrassing row after their release.
2Europe
Bernhard Langer, Europe's latest 'Captain Fantastic', is not totally ruling out staying in charge for Ireland's first-ever staging of the Ryder Cup in two years' time.
1Entertainment
Burnin' (Remastered) by Bob Marley & The Wailers
5Music Feeds
Wants to 'maximise shareholder value'
6Sci/Tech
A testing firm says that Apple's Safari browser is faster than rival browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla.
6Sci/Tech
PHILADELPHIA - Gangster rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced to a year in federal prison Friday on a gun-possession charge stemming from a traffic stop. Sigel, 30, could have received more than three years, but the judge cited the rapper's charity work and drug abuse treatment in taking leniency...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Defending Super Bowl champions Pittsburgh Steelers needed two fourth-quarter touchdowns to see off the Miami Dolphins 28-17 in the NFL season opener on Thursday.
8Sports
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Islam is growing fast among African Americans, who are undeterred by increased scrutiny of Muslims in the United States since the September 11 attacks, according to imams and experts.
1Entertainment
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrives in Pakistan for talks on issues including nuclear arms and trade.
2Europe
LONDON/NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The most popular global sporting event of the year kicks off in two weeks, and no, it's not the 2007 NFL season or any soccer competition. It's the Rugby World Cup.
8Sports
European shares edged higher as oil prices fell to seven-week lows easing pressure on companies' margins, but activity was muted ahead of the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates later Wednesday.
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Atene, 21 SETTEMBRE 2004 - Pronto riscatto dell'Italia del basket in carrozzina alle Paraolimpiadi e qualificazione per i quarti di finale. Dopo la sconfitta con il Canada nel secondo turno, gli azzurri hanno
4Italia
Repaid In Full - The Paid In Full Remixes by Eric B. & Rakim
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(andPOP) - The millions of Harry Potter fans around the world will be excited to learn that the sixth novel in the series by JK Rowling will be released in June.
1Entertainment
The Bofra worm was released Monday--one day before the software giant's monthly patch update.
6Sci/Tech
Oakville, ON (Sports Network) - Canada's own Mike Weir fired a six-under 65 on Friday to take the lead during round two of the Canadian Open.
8Sports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A co-author of a U.S. Senate bill that would raise taxes on private equity firms going public said on Wednesday he was open to discussing shortening a built-in transition period that cushions any potential tax hit on Blackstone Group LP.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa (Reuters) - The African National Congress (ANC) holds a hotly contested election on Monday that could clear the way for the controversial Jacob Zuma to assume South Africa's presidency.
13World
Defending champions England aim to seal a miraculous recovery with victory over favourites South Africa in Saturday's World Cup final.
2Europe
AFP - Britain has stockpiled enough plutonium to replicate the nuclear bomb attacks on Japan in 1945 thousands of times over, the country's top science academy said Friday.
2Europe
Nigeria's umbrella union on Wednesday hailed a high court rule on the ongoing warning strike against rising domestic fuel prices, saying the government has failed to stop the strike using the court.
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Ha lasciato l'ospedale, "Thank you italian people"
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PASADENA, Calif. NASA scientists have now ruled out the possibility that a recently discovered asteroid could hit Earth 25 years from now.
6Sci/Tech
Il leader di Forza Italia torna a casa dopo 3 giorni di ricovero al San Raffaele "Sabato ci vediamo in piazza". Un mazzo di fiori rossi e bianchi da Gheddafi Berlusconi, oggi sarà dimesso Il cardiologo: "Deve ridurre il lavoro" (10:15 29/11/2006)
4Italia
If you're ready to give video editing and movie making a try now that you know about Kino, here are some tips to get you up and running.
7Software and Developement
The trade deadline passed and Jason Blake was relieved to still be a member of the New York Islanders. He celebrated with a hat trick a few hours later.
8Sports
Per verificare disattivazione centrale atomica Yongbyon
4Italia
AP - At Barnard College in New York, administrators read over lifestyle surveys and even a student essay in their efforts to make a successful freshman roommate match. At Michigan, they separate the smokers but leave the rest to chance. The University of Utah lets freshmen find their own roommates from anonymous profil...
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AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday he does not know when the United States will have trained enough Iraqis so they can adequately secure the country and begin replacing American troops now helping provide protection.
13World
AFP - A Greek airliner forced to divert to Britain after a major security alert on board has been given the all-clear to resume its flight to the United States, British police said.
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By KELLY OLSEN SEOUL, South Korea - Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that U.S. regulatory approval of his company's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick will not be hindered by concerns over privacy.
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Reuters - Hours before President George W. Bush visited Italy, 26 U.S. citizens went on trial in absentia in Milan on Friday accused of carrying out one of Washington's most controversial policies in its war on terrorism.
2Europe
Notre Dame's search for a football coach appears to have turned from Utah eastward toward Kentucky, where sources familiar with the process said the Irish are focusing on University of Louisville coach Bobby Petrino.
8Sports
The AARP bulletined its 35 million members last week that President Bush's plan to make personal investment accounts part of Social Security was the "wrong direction
1Entertainment
European Union president Finland warned Turkey that it faces at least a partial suspension of its EU membership talks if Ankara fails to ratify a customs agreement with Brussels.
2Europe
You know you need to step in and manage a parent's finances. Now what?
0Business
A Libyan court dismisses defamation charges against foreign medics already sentenced to die in another case.
2Europe
MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 8 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton narrowly won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday night, a surprise victory for the onetime front-runner that revived her sagging fortunes and reshaped yet again the fight for the party's nomination.
10Top News
PADRAIG HARRINGTON presented skipper Bernhard Langer with the perfect Ryder Cup send-off when he won the German Masters in Cologne by three strokes.
8Sports
Discounting fears that contraceptive pills adversely affect the health of women, a new research claims that the tablets, on the contrary, reduce chances of heart attacks.
3Health
AP - The enormous wealth gap between white families and blacks and Hispanics grew larger after the most recent recession, a private analysis of government data finds.
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Music industry's piracy claims rile critics
6Sci/Tech
Reuters - "Beauty and the Geek" struck out with viewers during its fourth-season premiere on the CW Tuesday.
1Entertainment
AP - INDIANAPOLIS — Scholars and critics worldwide are demanding that the U.S. government explain why it revoked the work visa of a Muslim scholar hired at the University of Notre Dame, saying the action threatens academic freedoms.
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Reuters - Democratic U.S. senators from the electoral battleground states of West Virginia and Arkansas slammed the Republican National Committee on Thursday for a pamphlet that suggested liberals would ban the Bible.
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A man is jailed for life after admitting murdering a young Chinese woman in Belfast in June 2004.
2Europe
TORONTO, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Saving the galaxy from annihilation has to be emotional, according to a Canadian video game developer who wants players of action role playing title "Mass Effect" to weigh their choices carefully as they fight for the future.
6Sci/Tech
Got more than the PS2 he was expecting A 16-year-old Norfolk lad got more than he bargained for when he successfully bid £95 for a PS2 on eBay - the console plus €65,400 (£44k) in cash, the BBC reports.

6Sci/Tech
On a day of World Cup qualifying matches around the globe, most of the soccer world's attention was focused on three exhibition games in Europe that featured top contenders for the 2006 tournament.
8Sports
AFP - The 25-member European Union must keep its doors open to future members after Bulgaria and Romania join the bloc in January 2007, Europe Minister Geoff Hoon has said in an interview with a Portuguese newspaper.
2Europe
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stormed to a re-election victory in Sunday's vote, handing him an ample mandate to broaden his promised socialist revolution and challenge Washington's influence in Latin America.
10Top News
( InfoWorld ) - In Martin Scorsese's hit movie "The Departed," actor Matt Damon plays the part of a mole -- someone who helps his connected mob friends stay a step ahead of the cops by becoming one of the very law enforcement officials assigned to stop them. A new report published by anti-fraud software maker Actimize ...
6Sci/Tech
Premier alla Camera, fischi da opposizione, seduta sospesa
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair will stay in power for another year, a close ally said on Tuesday, while a leaked memo detailed plans for a "farewell tour" that would see Blair take his leave like a "star."
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The transition to a new economy is over. Do our candidates know it?
0Business
AP - China said Tuesday its food and drug safety procedures were not satisfactory and vowed to improve them.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops and armor crossed into the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing seven Palestinian militants, including six from the Islamist Hamas group that controls the coastal territory.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stress tests aimed at detecting blocked arteries in patients may miss more than half the cases of early heart disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
3Health
Aston Villa manager David O'Leary has given up hope of signing Southampton striker James Beattie before the transfer window closes on August 31.
8Sports
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is offering a 1.57 percent shopping discount to registered users of its new A9 Web search service as a way to increase
1Entertainment
As a teenager growing up in India, director Mira Nair spent her days and nights voraciously reading her favorite novel, "Vanity Fair.
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'Si possono immaginare caute aperture in qualche ambito'
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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - At least seven car bombings rattled the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing four civilians and wounding 37 others across the oil-rich city, police sources said.
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Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Michael Eisner said company President Robert Iger is his "preferred choice" to succeed him in running the entertainment
0Business
Shares of Ultimate Electronics (ULTE:Nasdaq - news - research) were among the Nasdaq's losers Monday, falling 55% after the company warned that it is mulling a possible reorganization.
0Business
AP - Consumer spending was weak for a fourth straight month in June as rising gasoline prices left Americans with little to spend on other items. A key measure of inflation rose at the fastest pace in more than a decade.
0Business
Italian Stefano Baldini has won the men's marathon in a time of 2:10:54. Naturalized American Meb Keflezighi was a surprise runnerup with Brazil's Vanderlei Lima finishing third.
1Entertainment
She was cited for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa. Professor Wangari is the seventh African to win the prize, worth $1.
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The frequency and strength of small earthquakes occurring near Washington state's Mount St. Helens accelerated for a second day, raising expectations that the volcano may erupt for the first time in almost 20 years.
1Entertainment
Reuters - Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Sunday jostled for dominance in a tightening race for the Republican presidential nomination that could hinge on competing messages on the Iraq war and the flagging U.S. economy.
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Formula One's governing body is to launch an anti-racism campaign in the wake of the abuse suffered by Lewis Hamilton.
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(AGI) - Londra, 21 set. - Un appello ad "accontentare le richieste dei rapitori" e' stato lanciato a Tony Blair da Craig Bigley, figlio di Kenneth, ostaggio da martedi' scorso del gruppo di guerriglieri iracheni che fa capo ad al Zarqawi.
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Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group can take part in Missouri's "Adopt-A-Highway" program in which volunteers pick up trash along the road and the state puts up a sign thanking the group.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremonies in Greece because of the "press of business" including crises in Iraq and Sudan, US officials said Saturday.
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Il meglio dalle riviste della settimana: l'inchiesta sui compensi delle star dello spettacolo, lo shopping della signora Berlusconi. E ancora baci, figli e litigi al buio
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Reuters - British soul singer Amy Winehouse, who this week appeared in video footage allegedly showing her smoking crack cocaine, has entered a rehab clinic, her record company said on Thursday.
1Entertainment