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AP - "Hustle & Flow" director Craig Brewer says he and Terrence Howard are working on a movie biography of country singer Charley Pride.
1Entertainment
The UN renews the mandate for peacekeeping forces in Ivory Coast, which has been split in two since 2002.
13World
Canadair e elicottero in azione nelle alture di Chiavari
4Italia
Digital - EP by The Draft
5Music Feeds
Ukraine's Supreme Court agrees to hear a final appeal by Viktor Yanukovych over the re-run presidential poll.
10Top News
Stocks in Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong continue to fall, after two days of heavy world losses.
10Top News
Police arrest three people in connection with the November 2000 murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor.
2Europe
Jaguar did not have the financial clout to be major Formula One players and they should have quit last year, according to the sport's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
8Sports
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai pleaded with Canada on Tuesday not to withdraw its 2,500 troops when their mission ends in early 2009, saying to do so would only help deliver his country back to the Taliban, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported.
13World
Crude oil futures rose on concern Hurricane Ivan may disrupt production, refining and the arrival of shipments as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico, where a quarter of US oil and natural gas is pumped.
0Business
Reuters - The United Nations investigator on racism on Friday condemned a rising trend of Islamaphobia, especially in Europe, where he said it was being exploited by some right-wing political parties.
13World
GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas vowed on Friday to hit back hard for Israel's assassination of the "Father of the Qassam" rocket, a weapon symbolizing Palestinian militants' defiance of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his plan to quit Gaza.
10Top News
As the international voting to name the new seven wonders of the world draws to a close, Brazilians are doing their part to see Rio's famous Christ statue on the list.
10Top News
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Brazilian music producer who was a leading nominee at the Latin Grammy awards was killed in a motorcycle crash in Los Angeles early on Thursday, hours after leaving the show, police and his record label said.
1Entertainment
Australia's ace spinner Shane Warne on Tuesday was ruled out of the fourth and final Test match against India after fracturing his right thumb during batting practice.
8Sports
Reuters - Estranged Hollywood couple Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, whose bitter divorce battle titillated the tabloids for months, have amicably settled most of their differences, their lawyers said.
1Entertainment
Now that he has taken over as chief executive officer of the company he co-founded, Jerry Yang has plenty of problems to fix. The new CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO) isn't going to find any quick Google-(GOOG)slayer.
6Sci/Tech
Soaring fuel costs continued to cast a shadow over British Airways today, despite better-than-expected half-year results from the airline.
0Business
Grid architecture aims to protect corporate networks from interior security threats.
6Sci/Tech
ATHENS (Reuters) - Officials had to separate the U.S. and Spanish coaches when an argument erupted at the end of the game as the United States beat Spain 102-94 in the Olympic men's basketball quarter-finals Thursday.
8Sports
AP - Who's bigger in Bollywood, icon Amitabh Bachchan or younger rival Shah Rukh Khan?
1Entertainment
KABUL (Reuters) - Seven Afghan policemen were killed when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle outside the southern city of Kandahar on Monday, police said.
13World
Al colosso spagnolo 12,8 miliardi di euro
4Italia
Dal mondo del calcio ''verrà una pressione perché lo spettacolo continui, perché le entrate d...
4Italia
By THEODORE BALE "The Barber of Seville" was a hot new opera nearly 200 years ago. In the 21st century, what's hot is contemporary flamenco from Seville.
6Sci/Tech
TRENTON, NJ - Verizon Wireless is buying wireless-spectrum licenses covering 23 US markets from bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. for $3 billion.
0Business
Hundreds of thousands turn out to back the main opposition candidate for the Venezuelan presidency.
13World
Participants at a day's seminar organized by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre have blamed the high numbers of women living with HIV/AIDS on gender inequities and the lack of adequate legislations on women's rights.
11Top Stories
By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Sep. 15--STOCKTON -- Army 1st Sgt. Ray Wheat still has the prosthetic leg that one of his ROTC students plucked out of a dry ditch in Old Mormon Slough last year.
6Sci/Tech
LONDON (Reuters) - Vivendi's Universal Music, the world's largest seller of recorded music, is vaulting to the top spot in music publishing, too, after agreeing to buy BMG Music Publishing for 1.63 billion euros ($2.1 billion).
0Business
SEVEN LAKES ---- Patricia Frances Anderson, 77, passed away Monday, February 19, 2007. A memorial service will be held at a later date at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Exeter, RI. Arrangements by Boles Funeral Home, Seven Lakes.
6Sci/Tech
Con la web-cam vede amico star male e chiama carabinieri
4Italia
Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, accused Iran today of seeking to "create a Hezbollah-like force" in Iraq to exert Tehran's influence there, but denied that he was preparing the ground for a U.S. attack on Iran.
13World
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fourteen U.S. states need $745 million of federal aid for children's health insurance by October or they might have to stop coverage, starting with families who are the least impoverished, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine said Wednesday.
3Health
TV channel Five is following several expectant mothers in the hope that one of them will give birth live on-air.
1Entertainment
Elevator and escalator manufacturer Kone Corp. said Monday that a Nokia executive was appointed as its new chief executive.
2Europe
Ski champion Anja Paerson was honored Monday as Sweden's Female Athlete of the Year, beating out golfer Annika Sorenstam.
2Europe
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. CCE.N , the world's largest bottler of Coca-Cola drinks, on Wednesday lowered its earnings forecast for the year, citing lower-than expected volume in North America and Europe.
0Business
LONDON Oct. 6, 2004 - Maurice Wilkins, a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of DNA research, has died. He was 88. Wilkins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with the two scientists credited
1Entertainment
Tecnici aumentano di un punto la possibile riduzione
4Italia
A court denies singer Britney Spears' latest bid to regain the right to visit her two children.
2Europe
In the beginning there was silence, and it was good.
3Health
Un imam salafista ha emesso oggi una fatwa (editto religioso) in cui chiede ai rapitori dei due giornalisti francesi sequestrati in Iraq di liberarli immediatamente. "Abbiamo emesso una fatwa che chiede allEsercito
4Italia
AFP - From the murderous rule of Idi Amin to Beatle John Lennon's 1960s peacenik stunts, the line-up for London's annual film fest was unveiled with reality-based movies providing many of the highlights.
2Europe
Bertinotti e Chiti dispiaciuti chiedono di ripensarci
4Italia
Travel: 2008 marks Quebec City's 400th anniversary and New Year's Eve will kick off a whole year of celebrations, says Vicky Baker
10Top News
A Spanish woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her newborn son by throwing him out the window of a third-storey apartment, police said Monday.
2Europe
AP - Republican Mitt Romney, the wealthiest candidate in the presidential field, won't have to reveal details of his financial holdings until mid-August, under an extension obtained from the Office of Government Ethics.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pop star Britney Spears got ready for the weekend by shearing all her hair off and dropping by a Los Angeles tattoo parlor, where she quickly drew a crowd.
12U.S.
Around 130 Bernard Matthews workers face being temporarily laid off in the wake of the bird flu outbreak, a union says.
2Europe
Schizophrenia patients do as well, or perhaps even better, on older psychiatric drugs compared with newer and far costlier medications, according to a study published yesterday that overturns conventional wisdom about antipsychotic drugs, which cost the United States $10 billion a year.
3Health
La Lazio ha sostenuto oggi una doppia seduta di allenamento in vista della partita di domenica contr...
4Italia
Chiesto stanziamento di risorse per contratti in Finanziaria
4Italia
The senior leadership of House Democrats, citing three rebukes of Rep. Tom DeLay by the House ethics committee in a week, called Thursday for him to be ousted as majority leader.
11Top Stories
By Jia Hepeng Ten scientists have won the top award, of 5 million yuan ($649,350) 4.5 million yuan ($584,400) for research and 500,000 yuan ($64,900) as personal reward for their efforts, since China started giving the National Supreme Scientific and Technological Award since 1999.
6Sci/Tech
Telecom Italia will use cash for a larger-than-expected chunk of a 20 billion-euro ($26.69 billion) buyout of mobile unit TIM it is likely to announce on Tuesday, a source close to the deal told Reuters.
0Business
One of the longest and most vicious presidential campaigns in the annals of the republic finally lurches to a close Tuesday as Americans head to the polls, perhaps in record numbers, to choose the next leader of a deeply divided country.
1Entertainment
Brendon McCullum produced an outstanding 143 as New Zealand moved into a commanding position on day three of the first Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka.
8Sports
AOL's new photo sharing and storage site, BlueString, borrows a lot of its technology from XDrive. That's a good thing.
6Sci/Tech
US socialite Paris Hilton is doing well after her first night in a Los Angeles prison, according to her lawyer.
1Entertainment
"Alcuni dirigenti della mia attuale squadra mi hanno fatto sapere che il Newcastle è intere...
4Italia
Outgoing US Secretary of State Collin Powell arrived in Israel late Sunday as part of the international efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process amid continued violence in the region.
13World
Azioni conferite a Schematrentaquattro
4Italia
Rabbia e talento: la Serbia campione del mondo strappa con i denti la seconda gara del torneo olimpico all'Italia. Una partita alla quale l'Italia si presentava dopo la vittoria sulla Nuova Zelanda, i serbi dopo una sconfitta con l'Argentina. Alla ...
4Italia
John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, has been denied parole for the third time. In explaining their decision to Chapman on Tuesday, the New York State Division of Parole wrote that it "was based
1Entertainment
Marini, giusto dare piu' tempo al dibattito
4Italia
Bush's decision to commute the prison sentence of Cheney's former aide could pose a challenge for GOP candidates.
12U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An ambitious plan to turn millions of desktop computers into hubs of wireless Internet access has been shelved after PC makers balked at the price of the feature, Intel Corp. INTC.O said on Monday.
6Sci/Tech
Software maker SAP AG announced Wednesday that it had acquired a Texas-based maintenance firm for PeopleSoft platforms in a move to attract customers from its main competitor, Oracle Corp.
6Sci/Tech
In a new post today, Mike Naberezny talks about some updates that have been made to the XML-RPC client included with the Zend Framework, spotlighting three items in particular. A few weeks ago, I rewrote the Zend XML-RPC client as part of a customer project at Maintainable . After fixing a fair number of bugs and writing a test suite, I made some enhancements and usability improvements. You can learn more about the new XML-RPC client from its documentation . The three new updates to the package deal with: Calling remote methods (a new call() method) Server proxy objects have been added Faults are thrown as PHP exceptions Get more details on this package from its page on the Zend Framework's website.
7Software and Developement
Last weekend's disclosure of an alleged security vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, exploited by a new version of an old worm, is raising questions over what constitutes the severity of an exploit. Is it the degree to which we know about it, or the number of systems out there it could possibly hurt?
7Software and Developement
AFRICA/COSTA D'AVORIO - L'Unione Africana favorevole al referendum sulla Costituzione ivoriana. "I ribelli sono però contrari e non sembrano intenzionati a unificare il paese" dicono fonti di Fides
4Italia
Jet Propulsion Lab -- Thirty days before its historic return to Earth with NASA's first samples from space since the Apollo missions, the Genesis spacecraft successfully completed its twentieth trajectory maneuver. At 12:00 Universal Time (5:00 a.m...
6Sci/Tech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. panel of nutrition experts on Friday proposed new federal dietary guidelines that acknowledged a link between soft drinks and weight gain, but stopped short of recommending that overweight Americans eat less sugar.
3Health
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) - Hurricane Ivan lashed the tiny Cayman Islands with ferocious winds and driving rain on Sunday after devastating Jamaica and Grenada in a deadly trek through the Caribbean.
10Top News
By Katisha Hayes, High Point Enterprise, N.C. Feb. 6--GUILFORD COUNTY -- The school system's best science projects will be on display this week in High Point, highlighting the work of some of the district's youngest scientists.
6Sci/Tech
The immediate future of the computer industry -- and its biggest players -- took center stage Tuesday after IBM announced it is selling its PC business to a Chinese technology giant.
11Top Stories
Lo riferiscono fonti locali, soldati entrati in un villaggio
4Italia
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The local government in Iraq's northern region of Kurdistan said it had yet to see a draft hydrocarbon law approved by the cabinet in Baghdad, possibly complicating passage of the landmark legislation.
10Top News
Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has acquired the mysterious buyer of Yukos' most important production unit, Russian news agencies reported.
0Business
AP - Justin Gatlin's coach could face a two-year ban if the Olympic and world champion sprinter is found guilty of a second doping violation, the sport's international governing body said Monday.
8Sports
England host France at Twickenham on Sunday hoping to bounce back from their record Six Nations defeat to Ireland.
13World
Tony Blair says the next election will be a "tough, tough fight" adding he does not know when it will be.
10Top News
Tempesta tropicale minaccia isole Antille olandesi
4Italia
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washingtonpost.com - It's amazing to see what an entrenched monopolist will do when it finally meets real competition.
6Sci/Tech
AP - The Venezuelan government rejected comments by a senior U.S. official who called President Hugo Chavez a threat to democracy, saying they revealed that Washington's overtures for rapprochement were insincere.
13World
Reuters - European Union citizens are overwhelmingly happy with life -- and that's official.
2Europe
Even though it's been withdrawn, the Lycos anti-spam screensaver is not forgotten. Rollie Hawk writes "And with this, the 'What's Good for the Goose...' award goes to all those people trying to install that
6Sci/Tech
An Indian court granted bail on Tuesday to the head of a popular online auction site who was arrested in connection with the sale of a video showing a girl and boy having oral sex.
0Business
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10Top News
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Robert A. Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, received a compensation package in the 2007 fiscal year valued by the company at $27.7 million, according to an analysis of documents filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
0Business
China has issued a national defence policy to crush "the vicious rise" of Taiwan independence forces at its core. It is the first time such a policy has been issued since President Hu Jintao became military chief.
1Entertainment
InfoWorld - A controversial update to the GNU GPL (General Public License) is set to be released Friday by the Free Software Foundation, a representative of the organization said on Tuesday.
6Sci/Tech
The same computer systems that crashed on space station are also incorporated into Europe's Columbus laboratory and its new cargo ship.
10Top News
Australia struggle chasing a target of 211 from 33 overs in the second one-day final.
13World
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Tuesday, as investors snapped up shares in sectors seen likely to withstand a slowdown in growth following reports pointing to further weakness in housing.
0Business
ATHENS, Sep 7 (IPS) - The small black device that Panagiotis Vovos holds in his hands can measure the voltage produced by mobile phone network transmission antennas. It can detect voltages up to 7(Volt/metre).
2Europe
Primo volo diretto Roma-New Delhi, titolo sospeso per rialzo
4Italia
AFP - India's Tata Steel would not comment on whether it was staying in the race for Corus Group after investors allied to Brazilian steelmaker CSN were reported to have scaled up their combined stake in the Anglo-Dutch company to more than 15 percent.
2Europe