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AP - An anti-union group is urging the Federal Election Commission to investigate one of the largest unions in the country, claiming the Service Employees International Union unlawfully spent workers' dues to elect Democrats in last week's election. | 0World |
MADRID International Business Machines presented the Spanish government on Friday with what it called the most powerful computer in Europe, saying it would open a new era in scientific research in Spain. | 3Sci/Tech |
Israel's Labour Party lashed out Wednesday at a Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's aide who said the Gaza pullout plan was aimed at freezing the peace process. | 0World |
From The Fugitive to The Prisoner
Police in Nambia have arrested Jacob 'Kobi' Alexander, the ex-CEO of Comverse Technology, the voicemail software maker, who fled the US he was charged with fraud over backdated stock options.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
(Article Central) Apple has quietly updated its iPod software to prevent songs purchased on RealNetworks' online music store from being played on some of its popular MP3 players. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Brazilian government released federal budget figures Friday showing an unprecedented primary budget surplus of 10.9 billion reals ($3.8 billion) in August, putting Brazil well ahead of performance targets set in a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund. | 2Business |
Reuters - Lennar Corp., the second largest U.S.
home builder, on Tuesday reported a quarterly loss, citing
charges related to land values and declining demand related to
the subprime-mortgage meltdown. | 2Business |
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - World number one and defending champion Vijay Singh was stalking joint leaders Tom Lehman and Briny Baird after the third round of the $4.2 million Funai Classic at the Walt Disney Resort on Saturday. | 1Sports |
LONDON (Reuters) - European shares firmed on Tuesday as oil slipped further toward $54 a barrel, while the dollar's tumble came to a temporary halt after it touched another 8-month low against the euro. | 2Business |
AFP - On-target Justine Henin would regain a huge dose of confidence were she to win her first title at home in Belgium on Sunday at the WTA Diamond Games. | 1Sports |
SINGAPORE -- Philippine authorities said yesterday that they were seeking four members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic gang with long-standing ties to Al Qaeda, in the February sinking of a ferry that left at least 118 people dead. | 0World |
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced on Monday that it has formed a new division within its Enterprise Storage and Servers Group chartered with unifying the company's blade system development efforts. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Wall Street was set to rally on
Wednesday as forecast-beating results from tech bellwether
Intel Corp boosted the outlook for chip makers, while
U.S. trade data will set direction for the dollar. | 2Business |
Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - The Pittsburgh Steelers placed tight end Jay Riemersma on injured reserve on Tuesday. Riemersma has a ruptured Achilles which he suffered in Sunday's game against Jacksonville. | 1Sports |
There's an adage around the racetrack that goes like this: When betting a major stakes race, always pick the shipper who arrives on the grounds first. That tip is based on the premise that the trainer has devoted full attention to acclimating the invader to unfamiliar circumstances, and it does have a ring of truth to ... | 1Sports |
Optimism has been tempered by years of negotiations and legislative delays; many Cambodians lost hope long ago. | 0World |
BAGHDAD -- Gunmen stormed the compound of a Saudi company in a fashionable Baghdad neighbourhood yesterday, seizing an American, a Nepalese and four Iraqis after a gun battle in which a guard and one of the assailants were killed, police said. | 0World |
AP - Ravens kick returner B.J. Sams broke a bone in his lower right leg during the second quarter against Cincinnati on Thursday night. | 1Sports |
CD burners, jukebox programs and Wi-Fi routers are just a few of the technologies that could be threatened under a new version of the Induce Act, critics say. | 3Sci/Tech |
Philippe Dauman knows he needs to bump up Internet revenue, but he can't do it via a purchase. | 2Business |
Sun's acquisition of MySQL has broad implications for the software industry. | 3Sci/Tech |
First, roaches. Now, second-hand smoke. It's more litigation by residents at the Ansonia, the majestic Beaux-Arts building on the Upper West Side. | 0World |
With small caps, one indicator above all others bodes well for future performance. | 2Business |
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan government troops have forced Taliban insurgents out of a southern Afghan district after a two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of militants were killed. | 0World |
Durham, N.C., is working with private developers to use history as a teaching experience while rebuilding a commercial district. | 2Business |
AFP - US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said the United States' huge current account deficit cannot be indefinitely financed by foreign countries and investors. | 2Business |
Keeping California safe - but not yet
California is to ban the use of cell phones by drivers in a moving vehicle unless they are using a hands-free device.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
NEW ORLEANS Aaron Brooks accounted for two touchdowns and New Orleans kept its playoff hopes alive with a 26-to-13 win over Atlanta. | 1Sports |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc has hit its stride with a strategy that focuses on Web search, advertising and applications, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday, as he downplayed possible threats. | 2Business |
Winning is neither everything nor the only thing in soccer. Teams often play for a certain result. During the regular season, a tie away from home can be rewarding. In Major League Soccer's playoffs, goal differential will likely determine who advances in two-game series. | 1Sports |
LONDON (Reuters) - Belgium's Kim Clijsters and Australian Lleyton Hewitt, the golden couple of tennis, will marry next February in Australia. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp. is exploring new options for funding its wireless broadband network to soothe investor concerns about the cost, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Wednesday. | 2Business |
Could your small-cap fund be in danger? | 2Business |
LONDON (Reuters) - Markets will find a way to solve the subprime debt crisis, allowing most homeowners affected to stay in their homes, White House economic advisor Ed Lazear said in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper on Monday. | 2Business |
AP - Marco Baghdatis reached his first final since the Australian Open, defeating Thailand's Paradorn Srichaphan 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 Saturday to advance to the title match of the China Open. | 1Sports |
AP - The proposed move of the Montreal Expos to Washington is set to be approved when baseball owners meet Thursday in Chicago. | 1Sports |
AFP - Dietmar Hamann has been rewarded for his role in Manchester City's revival under Sven-Goran Eriksson this season with a new one-year deal at the Premier League club. | 1Sports |
AP - In a seesaw campaign, President Bush has opened a lead over John Kerry in their drive to White House victory by making gains in the Midwest and solidifying his Southern base. | 0World |
Skype, GoogleTalk, MSN, and Twitter all in one client
Symbian VoIP and messaging client Fring has launched a version for Windows Mobile 5 and 6, connecting them to multiple VoIP and messaging services from a single client for free.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Iran defied the United Nations today by announcing that it had begun converting tons of uranium into the gas needed to turn the radioactive element into nuclear fuel. | 0World |
After a 13-month journey, a tiny spacecraft the size of a washing machine, driven by "Star Trek" technology, will begin to orbit the moon on Monday night. | 3Sci/Tech |
America's two largest automakers said they would reduce production in the first quarter of 2005 after reporting weak November sales. | 2Business |
Now at the helm of the Tribune Company, Samuel Zell declared that the troubled operation would aim to raise revenue more than cut spending. | 2Business |
Inter emerged as the winners over Anderlecht in Brussels to claim the first spot in the Champions League Group G. The nerazzurri took the lead nearly immediately when Adriano from the left served a low powerful | 1Sports |
A pressure group is formed to urge Hong Kong's government to act on air quality amid warnings over costs to the economy. | 0World |
Bode Miller added another triumph to his sparkling season on Monday, claiming his sixth World Cup win of the campaign in a slalom and a new entry in the record books. | 1Sports |
Plus, more changes at McDonald's, and tough times for TiVo? | 2Business |
AP - Mike Huckabee's first day as Arkansas governor is remembered most for the Four Hour Crisis. | 0World |
AP - China's economy will grow by 9.3 percent this year, the government forecast Thursday, amid signs that efforts to tame the economic boom may be failing to cap inflation. | 0World |
Arsenal hold off West Ham comfortably to maintain their two-point lead at the top of the Premier League table. | 0World |
Chancellor Gordon Brown is in danger of breaking his economic "golden rule" because forecasts for tax revenues are too optimistic, a report says. | 2Business |
BAGHDAD - One of Turkey's richest businessmen has been reported kidnapped, appearing in a video Saturday along with a weeping employee saying they were being held hostage. | 0World |
Warsaw, Poland - Poland envisions a withdrawal of its troops from Iraq by the end of next year, Polish leaders said Monday. It was the first time the key US ally has indicated a timeframe for pulling its soldiers out of the war-torn nation. | 0World |
The Baltimore Ravens locked up another key piece of their franchise, signing Pro Bowl left tackle Jonathan Ogden to a seven-year contract Thursday. | 1Sports |
Maxjet Airways, which flew between London and three United States cities, took what it called a âdrastic measureâ because of soaring fuel prices and the deteriorating credit market. | 2Business |
NIR YAFE, Israel -- It seems a far-fetched scheme for this farm village: With outside investors, community leaders want to build a track for horse racing, although Israelis hardly know the sport and two of the principal promoters acknowledge that they have never seen thoroughbreds thunder around a dirt oval. | 0World |
For three weeks, Italians across the country marched, held vigils and lit candles, and politicians united to promote freedom for a pair of humanitarian aid workers held captive in Iraq. | 0World |
By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil made progress in itsambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, butstill fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealthinequality, government data released on Wednesday show. | 0World |
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - The judge in Scott Peterson's double murder trial dismissed the jurors for the day Wednesday, saying, "There's been a potential development in this case." Judge Alfred A... | 0World |
AP - T.O. is almost a go. Terrell Owens, the Philadelphia Eagles' All-Pro receiver, practiced Monday for the first time since injuring his ankle last month, moving closer toward returning for the Super Bowl. | 1Sports |
Now, anybody has the chance to say he or she had Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball, if only for a moment in cyberspace. The ball will go on sale in a nine-day Internet auction starting Monday, said the attorney | 1Sports |
For U.S. companies concerned about manufacturing work heading offshore, high-performance computing could offer a competitive edge. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Six-time champion jockey Kieren Fallon appeared in court Monday on race-fixing charges. The 41-year-old Irishman appeared with 10 others, including fellow jockeys Fergal Lynch and Darren Williams, on charges of conspiracy to defraud. | 1Sports |
VIENNA: Iran said on Wednesday it had processed several tonnes of raw "yellowcake" uranium to prepare it for enrichment - a process that can be used to make atomic weapons â-n defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog. | 0World |
From the Tokyo auto show another member of the German automaker's 'new small family' line of concept cars debuts. | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gillette Co. G.N on Thursday said fourth-quarter profit climbed 13 percent as consumers traded up to high-end products such as its M3Power razor and Oral-B Sonic Complete toothbrush. | 2Business |
CLEVELAND (CP) - Chad Johnson better still have a few bottles of that pink stomach medicine. His Cincinnati Bengals look pretty sick. | 1Sports |
The time for redemption is at hand for the North Carolina State football team, and if the Wolfpack don't follow through, a once-promising season will end with the program's first losing record since 1996. | 1Sports |
The Jordan team has vowed to bounce back from its latest crisis, despite likening Ford's recent decision to cease all of its Formula One activities to a . | 1Sports |
NEW YORK - Skype Technologies made a name for itself providing a free Internet telephone program to users around the world. Now it's time to cash in. | 3Sci/Tech |
The tentacles of Hurricane Jeanne spread across the Atlantic yesterday when Vijay Singh finally decided to miss the American Express World Golf Championship which starts tomorrow here at Mount Juliet. | 1Sports |
Reuters - The head of Peru's Congress on
Wednesday urged the region's top rights court not to order the
freedom of a New Yorker jailed for collaboration with leftist
rebels, saying it had to realize "this lady is a terrorist." | 0World |
Japanâs current account surplus widened in May as a weaker yen increased the value of overseas investments and exports. The surplus expanded 31 percent, to 2.13 trillion yen ($17.5 billion), from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance said. | 2Business |
KABUL, Afghanistan - A bomb attack in southern Afghanistan killed two American soldiers and wounded three others, the U.S. military said Saturday... | 0World |
Omaha billionaire offers to back up municipal bond insurance to save investors pain. | 2Business |
The Swiss bank reported its first quarterly loss in five years after hefty writedowns on subprime-related investments, but said it expects a group profit in the last quarter. | 2Business |
Sure, they faced the sobering reality of joining ranks with Clemson, Maryland, Duke, and Georgia Tech, higher-seeded teams who were unceremoniously shown the exit of St. Pete Times Forum in Thursday's frenzied first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. | 1Sports |
New Jersey Nets coach Lawrence Frank was given a four-year, $10 million contract extension, the team announced Thursday. The deal was made public about 12 hours after the Nets suffered | 1Sports |
The Bush administration will propose sweeping reductions in payments to pharmacies as a way to save money for Medicaid. | 0World |
LONDON -- Prince William supported the oft-criticized behaviour of his brother, Prince Harry, and also stuck up for his father, Prince Charles, in a rare interview with the British news media published yesterday. | 0World |
Catching up with the proliferation of school lockdowns and high school football players rallying around an embattled coach. | 0World |
AP - Pakistan on Monday played down comments by a top U.S. counterterrorism official that progress has been made recently in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. | 0World |
MOSCOW -- The intense US-led assault on Fallujah could undermine Iraq's upcoming elections, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned yesterday, and the UN refugee agency expressed concern about the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the besieged city. | 0World |
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O will start testing on Tuesday an Internet video-sharing service called Soapbox, the software company's answer to Web sensation YouTube. | 3Sci/Tech |
Ziff Davis - Airbus makes it possible to make in-flight cell phone calls. Is it a real technology advancement, or does it work like my anti-lion powder? | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Vikram Kumar is hardly your typical tech chief executive. He shares a two-bedroom apartment with a sister and a nephew and gets around town by bicycle or in a 20-year-old Mercedes Benz. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Bears were losing 14-0 against the New York Giants after just 12 minutes Sunday, and a great many people in Giants Stadium had to believe the game was over at that point. | 1Sports |
BIRMINGHAM - There was double joy for Pakistan yesterday at the Champions Trophy, when captain Inzamam-ul-Haq became the second player to score 10,000 runs in one-day internationals as they beat arch rivals India to enter the semi-finals. | 1Sports |
(Reuters) - Citigroup expects a $15 billion fourth-quarter write-down at Merrill Lynch & Co Inc and said CDO/subprime exposures will decline by 50 percent to 70 percent in aggregate. | 2Business |
The deficit at the federal agency that rescues failed US corporate pensions more than doubled to $23.3 billion in fiscal year 2004, officials said on Monday, with analysts largely blaming bankrupt airlines. | 2Business |
The business software maker delivered a fiscal first-quarter performance that topped analyst expectations. | 3Sci/Tech |
A New Jersey company, MaxMd, recently acquired near-exclusive rights to market the ".md" domain, which technically belongs to Moldova. | 3Sci/Tech |
Group launches ninth wave of "prelitigation" letters, offering students and personnel the chance to settle copyright infringement claims out of court "at a discounted rate." | 3Sci/Tech |
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two heavyweights of Kenya's post-independence politics square off in a presidential vote on Thursday after a campaign that has overshadowed Christmas and seen the opposition holding a small lead in opinion polls. | 0World |
AFP - US stocks regulators intend to file civil charges in a Dow Jones Co. insider-trading case against Hong Kong banker and Dow Jones board member David Li, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. | 2Business |
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican issued a new guide to saint making on Monday that it hopes will clarify and streamline the process of singling out souls for Catholicism's highest honor. | 0World |
Craig Barrett couldn't improve on his efforts of four years ago as he ended more than four hours of hot toil with a 29th placing in the Olympic Games 50km walk here today. | 1Sports |
AFP - Britain's largest trade union for academics voted Wednesday to back calls for a boycott of universities in Israel in protest at the nation's treatment of Palestinians. | 0World |
The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, says a United Nations survey, which credits dropping prices for the robot boom. | 2Business |
By Bangkok Post, Thailand Mar. 1--True Corp, the country's largest private fixed-line telephone operator, reported a worse-than-expected 2006 net loss yesterday, hit by rising operating expenses and higher interest costs. | 3Sci/Tech |
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