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Sweden's Supreme Court hears evidence from six doctors on the mental health of politician Anna Lindh's killer. | 0World |
AP - Hiram L. Fong, an immigrant's son who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American elected to the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday. He was 97. | 0World |
Microsoft and Cisco Systems have announced that the two companies have entered into a pact to share security and network health technologies, to better stop, isolate and eliminate viruses and other malicious codes on Windows-based networks. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. , said
on Friday that quarterly earnings fell due to restructuring
charges and lower tire demand and said it has increased its
target for long term cost-cuts. | 2Business |
AP - The stars may be aligning for John McCain. The question is whether the Republican presidential candidate can hitch a ride to success. | 0World |
AP - Tony Parker, Tony Soprano. One's going to get hacked, the other might get whacked. At roughly the same time the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs take the floor for Game 2 of the NBA finals on Sunday night, the final episode of "The Sopranos," HBO's series about a dysfunctional New Jersey mafia family, wil... | 1Sports |
Investors are running back into mutual funds. | 2Business |
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear work is nearing a "peak", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, while the U.N. atomic watchdog chief said Tehran was probably at least three years from making atom bombs even if it chose to do so. | 0World |
Reuters - Viacom Inc.'s (VIAb.N) MTV Networks on
Thursday said it has begun selling more of its shows at Apple
Computer Inc.'s iTunes digital media store. | 3Sci/Tech |
BAGHDAD - A suicide attack and roadside bombings killed six American soldiers, the US command said Wednesday, as US and Iraqi troops staged raids in Ramadi and Baqouba, stepping up pressure on Sunni insurgents before this week's start of the Islamic | 0World |
Roger Clemens and Brad Lidge give the Houston Astros two reasons to think they will finally punch their ticket to a World Series. Clemens has gone 3-0 against the Cardinals this | 1Sports |
Epiphanny Prince scored a career-high 33 points, including 27 in the decisive second half, to lead Rutgers to a 73-71 victory Tuesday over top-ranked and previously unbeaten Connecticut. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley , the second-largest U.S. investment bank, on Wednesday posted a fourth-quarter loss after recording bigger-than-expected write-downs on assets hit by the credit crunch, and said it sold a $5 billion stake to China Investment Corp to boost capital. | 2Business |
Port Elizabeth - Graeme Smith hailed his team's performance after they fought their way back into the first Test against England at St George's Park ON Sunday. | 1Sports |
Reuters - Pakistan opposition leader
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber on
Thursday, plunging the nuclear-armed country into chaos ahead
of a general election she hoped to win. | 0World |
Is ultimate growth investing for you? Find out. | 2Business |
BAGHDAD Insurgents drove a car bomb up to the Ministry of Education headquarters in northwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least six people in a powerful blast and wounding dozens more, an Iraqi official said. | 0World |
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has blocked an octogenarian doctor instrumental in exposing China's HIV/AIDS crisis from collecting an award from a U.S.-based advocacy group, a fellow AIDS activist said on Monday. | 0World |
Just asking isn't enough
A bill has been introduced in Parliament which would force online retailers to check customers' ages before selling goods that cannot be sold to children.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
WASHINGTON -- Millions of $40 government coupons become available Tuesday to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Scientists are trying to figure out why the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests has declined significantly over the past seven years. | 3Sci/Tech |
By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe Feb. | 3Sci/Tech |
Instead of the fireworks and all night partying that usually accompanies such an event, it was a scaled back closing ceremony for the Athens Paralympics in tribute to seven teenagers killed in a bus crash on their way to the Games. | 1Sports |
A senior-level database administrator stole records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information. | 3Sci/Tech |
Crystal Langhorne scores 14 points and grabs 12 rebounds as sixth-ranked Maryland defeats Florida State 74-60 on Thursday night in Tallahassee. | 1Sports |
The RHQ project tackles IT infrastructure management issues and will be available under the GPL v2 license. | 3Sci/Tech |
TORRANCE, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Technology Council of Southern California today announced the finalists for the 2007 Technology Industry Awards. | 3Sci/Tech |
The only full brother that Barbaro had, yet to be named, carries high expectations, potential disappointment and a permanent soft spot in the hearts of the many who became drawn to Barbaroâs story. | 1Sports |
Winning robot for iRobot Create contest does many things you wish the company already offered in a home robot. | 3Sci/Tech |
COMPUTER and printer maker Hewlett-Packard has reported record revenues in every business and every region, with quarterly profit up 27 per cent. | 2Business |
With plans to enter Europe by the end of the year, Apple could be ready to announce who gets to carry the iPhone. | 3Sci/Tech |
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Wednesday fined CBS a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," which exposed the singer's breast during this year's Super Bowl halftime show. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to slap each of the 20 CBS-owned television stations with the max... | 0World |
He logged 20 minutes of ice time. That was progress. He logged it in isolation. That was the problem. | 1Sports |
By S. SRINIVASAN BANGALORE, India (AP) -- India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday... | 3Sci/Tech |
Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging. | 3Sci/Tech |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Pfizer Inc. that television and print advertisements for its painkillers Celebrex and Bextra misled consumers, according to a letter made public on Wednesday. | 2Business |
KHIYAM, Lebanon (Reuters) - A car bomb, "most likely" driven by a suicide bomber, killed six U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Sunday, a police source said. | 0World |
Easily overcoming a somewhat sub-par game by Duncan, the Spurs rolled to their fourth straight win, a 99-81 victory over the Knicks. | 1Sports |
Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling called on Roger Clemens to give up the four Cy Young Awards heâs won since 1997 if he canât clear his name from allegations that he used steroids. | 1Sports |
The Padres, still down two games to one in this N.L. division series, forced Game 4 on Sunday at Busch Stadium, with Woody Williams starting for San Diego and Chris Carpenter for St. Louis. | 1Sports |
A report released in Brussels on Friday showed a slowdown of economic growth in the 12-nation eurozone due to record high oil prices and the euro's sharp rise against the US dollar. | 2Business |
United Arab Emirates President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nayhan died Tuesday, official television reports. He was 86. | 0World |
AP - Suspected Muslim insurgents exploded more than 40 bombs in attacks on government offices across Thailand's restive south on Thursday, killing at least two people as the deputy prime minister visited the region, officials said. | 0World |
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet giant Yahoo Inc.'s third-quarter profit nearly quadrupled, reflecting a continued boom in online advertising. The Sunnyvale-based company said Tuesday that it earned $253.3 million, or 17 cents per share, for the three months ended in September, up from net income of $65.3 million, or 5 cent... | 0World |
Japan's Cabinet on Monday endorsed a draft 82.18 trillion yen ($788.7 billion) national budget for fiscal 2005, increasing overall spending to care for an aging population but trimming general and defense outlays. | 0World |
The American swimmer, who won eight medals in Athens this year, was stopped by police after he sped through a stop sign. A state trooper in Salisbury, Maryland, saw signs of intoxication in the 19-year-old | 1Sports |
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks are seen slightly lower at the open Friday as oil's latest push into record territory continues to unnerve investors... | 0World |
The companies are rumored to be in talks to upgrade an Iraqi petrochemical plant. | 2Business |
AP - Sen. John Kerry and running mate John Edwards rarely campaign together, but they talk daily, swapping ideas on everything from policy to strategy to staffing. Kerry insists on it, aides say, even if it puts his campaign behind schedule. | 0World |
The 1.2 pound Sony Vaio U is powered by a 1.1GHz Intel Pentium M 733 processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 20GB, 1.8-inch hard drive. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - A defiant Iran kept on enriching uranium in advance of the U.N. Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, U.N. and European officials said. | 0World |
For the first 56 minutes of last night's game at Virginia Tech, it appeared Boston College's dreams of dancing to Bourbon Street for a shot at the national championship were going to die. | 1Sports |
Felix Trinidad returned to the ring after more than two years to score a thrilling eighth-round stoppage of Ricardo Mayorga at New York's Madison Square Garden in a non- title bout being described as one of the fights of the year. | 1Sports |
Champion jockey Kieren Fallon is among 16 people arrested as part of a police probe into suspicions of corruption and race-fixing. | 1Sports |
SINGAPORE : The US dollar moved in a narrow range against the yen and euro in Asia on Monday as investors awaited US economic data and a speech by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan later this week. | 2Business |
Attempt to put Roger Federerâs deepening rivalry with Rafael Nadal into historical perspective, and it is striking how few great rivalries tennis has had to choose from of late. | 0World |
Reuters - The Boston Celtics will hit the new year
with the NBA's best record and a belief that more is still to
come. "We haven't played our best basketball and I think most
of the guys in this locker room will say that," veteran guard
Ray Allen said recently after his team's home victory over the
Orlando Magic. | 1Sports |
The Recording Industry Association of America has reached a $10 million legal settlement with a Spanish company that briefly offered MP3s online for just pennies a song. | 3Sci/Tech |
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Eamon Sullivan broke Alexander Popov's eight-year-old world record for 50 meters freestyle on Sunday, instantly inheriting the title as the fastest swimmer in history. | 1Sports |
Researchers at Vertex Pharmaceuticals use Macs to discover small molecules that have the potential of solving big problems. Having phased out their aging SGI workstations in favor of Macs, they’ve streamlined their workflow by unifying all of their tasks on a single platform. | 3Sci/Tech |
The US trade deficit narrowed by nearly 9 percent in July, the Commerce Department reported yesterday -- but at $50.1 billion, the gap was still the second-largest on record. | 2Business |
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Dustin Pedroia drove in five runs to help the Red Sox advance to their second World Series in four years. | 1Sports |
"Star Wars: Battlefront" is the right game at the right time. | 2Business |
What the players and owners need to do now. | 0World |
As hardware gets more powerful, Sun expects the desktop version of Java to gradually replace the stripped-down mobile version. Will it un-fragment Java for gadgets? | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - LSI Logic Corp. , a maker of chips found in DVD recorders and hard drives, said on Monday it would buy Agere Systems Inc. for about $4 billion in stock, broadening LSI's reach into the market for mobile phone chips. | 2Business |
AP - Four Israeli missiles slammed into a refrigerated warehouse where farm workers were loading vegetables Friday near the Lebanon-Syria border and at least 28 people were killed, officials said. | 0World |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said on Friday it
plans to participate in an upcoming government auction of
airwaves in the 700-Megahertz spectrum band, but it is still
deciding whether to bid for a portion of the spectrum reserved
for open access. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - A powerful typhoon in southern Japan caused landslides and floods, left tens of thousands without power, and injured at least 23 people Monday. In the western part of the country, strong aftershocks rattled a region hours after two earthquakes injured 43. | 0World |
The PC maker expands its retail presence by offering a range of products at the office superstore. | 3Sci/Tech |
Supermarket group Sainsbury's is to create 3,000 in-store jobs in a bid to get more stock on the shelves. The plan is expected to form a key part of a strategy by chief executive Justin King to halt the group's decline. | 2Business |
The trial of Slobodan Milosevic on war crimes charges has resumed in The Hague with the former Yugoslav president launching a spirited defense. | 0World |
By Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Dec. 19--BI | 3Sci/Tech |
The bureau adds video clips to its Web site, puts up billboards and arranges for international outreach, but it seems that somebody forgot to call in the Web designers. | 3Sci/Tech |
Mark Prior did not experience pain in his surgically repaired right shoulder during his first spring workout with the San Diego Padres in Peoria, Ariz. | 1Sports |
The Bolton Evening News can oblige
Thanks very much to reader Neil for pointing us in the direction of his local rag The Bolton Evening News , which is offering readers the chance to buy a snap of this poor bloke:⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Having accomplished so much with what generally was thought to be the NL Central's third-best roster entering the season, the St. | 1Sports |
Yet another communications-infrastructure player reports promising results. | 2Business |
Several notable ventures have launched or raised money this year to create local news sites online in which readers contribute all or most of the news. -Leslie Walker | 3Sci/Tech |
LEMONT, Illinois (Reuters) - Tiger Woods celebrated his 60th career title on Sunday and is showing no signs of slowing down. | 1Sports |
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Seattle Mariners have signed Japanese center fielder Ichiro Suzuki to a five-year contract extension reported to be worth more than $100 million. | 1Sports |
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii game
console outsold Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 (PS3) by
nearly three to one in January, Japan's largest video game
magazine publisher, Enterbrain, said on Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
KIEV (Reuters) - A new Ukrainian poll of some sort looks increasingly likely once again on Thursday as parliament and the Supreme Court press ahead with efforts to resolve a national crisis over a disputed presidential election. | 0World |
( InfoWorld ) - AMD will delay its launch of the Barcelona quad-core Opteron server chip from its expected date in July until October, setting the company back in its effort to compete with new processors from Intel, according to analyst reports.
Processor companies make more money selling server chips than desktop or ... | 3Sci/Tech |
At six o'clock yesterday morning, Kieren Fallon should have been thundering along the scenic gallops above Newmarket at the start of another ordinary but enriching day at the peak of British horse racing. | 1Sports |
AFP - Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has invited Maoist rebels to resume negotiations that broke down over a year ago but said he would only offer a key concession if the guerrillas agreed to talk. | 0World |
The case of China's former FDA leader highlights the issues facing the country's pharmaceutical industry. | 2Business |
AP - Google Inc. appealed on Thursday a federal judge's order to turn over information on users of the company's Orkut social-networking service. | 3Sci/Tech |
Huntsville engineers are hoping bad weather won't put off the launch today of a satellite that could lead to completely automatic spaceflight and docking. | 3Sci/Tech |
Pulling the plug
Cut-rate internet host UK2.net has become the subject of a hacking attack, leaving customers temporarily unable to access their email.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Federal investigators overstepped constitutional bounds by searching stored e-mails without a warrant in a fraud investigation, a federal appeals court ruled yester day. | 2Business |
AP - Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp. edged past General
Motors Corp. to become the world's biggest automaker by sales
volume in 2006, leading industry paper Automotive News said. | 2Business |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Miguel Cotto retained his WBA welterweight championship with an 11th-round stoppage of Zab Judah in front of a capacity crowd of more than 20,000 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. | 1Sports |
CAMBRIDGE -- Kyle Van Den Berghe could sense it. The second-year Bishop Feehan swimming coach felt his troops needed a boost in morale as the back-and-forth battle for first place with BC High waged on, so 10 minutes before his 400-yard freestyle relay team hit the pool for the final race of the day, he flip-flopped th... | 1Sports |
Tom Kite, his round highlighted by an eagle at the 16th, fired an 8-under 64 Thursday to lead after one round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. | 1Sports |
Cornell won the first game of its weekend road trip by erasing a 5-point deficit in the waning moments, beating Harvard 72-71. | 1Sports |
New England linebacker Tedy Bruschi figures the defending Super Bowl champs were starting from scratch in the NFL season opener. "No one cares about last year," Bruschi said. | 1Sports |
European Union officials this week will aim to reduce corporate influence and make polluting more expensive. | 2Business |
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