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Tim Herron birdied three of his last four holes to take a one-stroke lead at the U.S. Bank Championship yesterday in Milwaukee.Herron shot a 65 and was at 12-under-par 198 for the tournament. Tim Clark, who matched Herron shot for shot until the last hole, carded a 66. He was tied for second, with Joe Ogilvie, the lead... | 1Sports |
wo former top executives of Computer Associates International pleaded not guilty yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn to charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice, one day after they were indicted. | 2Business |
UEFA Champions League, Nov 3 -- Chelsea have lodged an official complaint with European soccer's governing body UEFA after up to 50 Chelsea fans possessing tickets were not allowed to enter the stadium for Tuesday's Champions League game at CSKA Moscow. | 1Sports |
Mystery surrounded Sir Clive Woodward's future as England coach tonight after he left Twickenham following a four-hour meeting with senior Rugby Football Union figures. | 1Sports |
ATHENS -- Attention, ladies and gentlemen. For his next act, Michael Phelps will break an Olympic record, hurry to the warm-down pool for a swim, run to the locker room, pull on a warm-up suit, walk out to the pool deck and take part in ... | 1Sports |
AP - For all of Roger Federer's titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the Australian Open — and there are 10, and counting — his career very well may be defined eventually by how he fared at the French Open. | 1Sports |
Being No. 2 doesn't limit its opportunity for profits. | 2Business |
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed about 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle following an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday. | 0World |
MANILA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (WTO) Chief Pascal Lamy said on Thursday that all leading WTO member states had signaled flexibility for a re-start of global trade talks, but it was not yet clear if they were ready to negotiate. | 2Business |
Fast facts the Fool way. | 2Business |
William S. Lerach, who has been embroiled in a seven-year federal investigation into possible kickbacks to plaintiffs for their testimony, is retiring from his firm. | 2Business |
The online brokerage lowered its full-year forecast, sending shares plummeting 8.5 percent in extended trade. | 3Sci/Tech |
If there's something positive that can be taken from a golfer's disappointment, it's that it might inspire motivation for future success -- especially if one knows the course well enough. | 1Sports |
They say home is where the heart is but in the case of the Houston Astros a few wins would do just as nicely. Trailing 2-0 in the NLCS against the mighty St. | 1Sports |
The women gymnasts are favored to make history and win gold Tuesday - a Wheaties box moment waiting to happen. | 0World |
A new site, Do The Right Thing, allows users to make submissions criticizing industries and companies, which are then voted on by readers. | 3Sci/Tech |
Jose Pekerman emerged as favourite to take over as Argentina coach on Wednesday after original first choice Carlos Bianchi turned down the job, Argentina Football Association president Julio Grondona said. | 1Sports |
Jeremy Bonderman halted his six-game losing streak as the Detroit Tigers avoided a sweep with a 6-1 victory against the host Kansas City Royals. | 1Sports |
BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - A prominent doctor negotiated on Thursday with gunmen holding hundreds of children, parents and teachers for a second day under threat of death in a school near Russia's rebel Chechnya region. | 0World |
Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns wrestle with the subprime problems, turning in disappointing earnings results. | 2Business |
Merck & Company said it had signed a deal for an authorized generic form of its blockbuster osteoporosis drug Fosamax to become available in February. | 2Business |
Technology company Pegasus Wireless announced an unusual plan for investors to receive what the company described as a stock warrant for every 10 shares of stock. But there was a catch. But there was a catch. | 2Business |
InfoWorld - One week after hackers stole personal information from millions of people who had posted their resumes to the job-searching site Monster.com, the company has warned its users to be vigilant about online fraud because the breach was not an isolated incident. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Gold was hit by further selling on
Friday as investors continued to reduce their exposure to the
metal after heavy losses in stock markets this week. | 2Business |
AP - BRUSSELS, Belgium — A penny saved may no longer be a penny earned in parts of Europe. Following the lead of Finland, Belgium and the Netherlands have moved to ditch their one- and two-cent coins, whose purchasing power and size been deemed untenably tiny. | 0World |
LOS ANGELES - Howard Stern's move to Sirius Satellite Radio will unlock the one key regulatory advantage possessed by the satellite radio industry: Stern can finally say exactly what he wants on the air. | 2Business |
The Mets lost for the sixth time in eight games, but that seems to be irrelevant. There are two goals for the rest of the regular season: avoid injuries and nurse players like Pedro MartÃnez back to full strength. | 1Sports |
BANGALORE, India : Hosts India braced themselves for a harrowing chase on a wearing wicket in the first Test after Australia declined to enforce the follow-on here. | 1Sports |
Management optimism gives the stock price a boost. Can it last? | 2Business |
GB athletics chief Max Jones defends Paula Radcliffe after she pulls out of the 10,000m final. | 1Sports |
TORONTO (CP) - Alonzo Mourning, the most recognizable name in Toronto's blockbuster trade, may never slip on a Raptors jersey. | 1Sports |
Vertex announces development plans for its lead drug. | 2Business |
Slate writer Nick Douglas will be online to discuss the YouTube phenomena; with one Web site taking a monopoly over the online video, Douglas questions to what extent the Internet is still a equal publishing playing field, and what implications YouTube's domination over the online video world will hold. | 3Sci/Tech |
German business confidence is at its highest level since 1991, a leading survey finds. | 0World |
LONDON -- Arsenal's 100 per cent record in the Premier League was ended Saturday with Henrik Pedersen's late strike allowing Bolton to draw 2-2. | 1Sports |
InfoWorld - Apple has released its first security updates of the new year, fixing bugs in its QuickTime media player and iPhone and iPod touch devices. | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK -- Warner Music Group is "actively" considering making a new offer to buy rival EMI Group, which accepted a buyout bid for $4.8 billion from Terra Firma Capital Partners last month. | 2Business |
Australia bowled out India for 246 on day three of the first cricket Test at Bangalore to establish a 228-run lead. Captain Adam Gilchrist's decision to extend the lead suffered an early | 1Sports |
Why isn't my stock fund doing better this year? Have you heard that lately? True, recent memory will remind you things could be a lot worse. But at this late stage of the year, a few broad stock-fund trends stick out: Value is beating growth, and small is outrunning large when it comes to the size of the companies a ..... | 2Business |
AP - Stewart Cink doesn't know why so many top Americans turned down a chance to play in this year's World Cup. He's just thrilled they did — it gave him another chance to represent his country. | 1Sports |
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The U.N. Secretary-General said on Sunday he was encouraged by the "credible progress" he felt had been made towards peace in Darfur during an Africa tour, but it was too early to talk of tangible results. | 0World |
WASHINGTON - Oil costing roughly $53 a barrel is a major drag on the U.S. economy, and Arab finance ministers have told the Bush administration they are committed to bringing the price down, Treasury Secretary John Snow said Sunday... | 0World |
This week's intra-holiday sessions will likely be quiet as many people take a break before the New Year. There are a few economic reports of interest. | 2Business |
GameSpot got to spend some quality time with the newly redesigned PSP at last week's E3 show. From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Apple Inc and China Mobile
have called off talks to launch the U.S. firm's popular iPhones
in China, dashing investor speculation that the device will hit
store shelves soon and sending China Mobile shares down. | 2Business |
AP - Usually out front in force, national Democrats expressed outrage over the Mark Foley scandal and its aftermath but largely let their candidates and allied groups do the tough talking. | 0World |
Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month. | 2Business |
Reuters - LSU head coach Nick
Saban met with Miami Dolphins officials on Tuesday to discuss
the NFL team's head coaching position. | 1Sports |
The electronics giant belatedly decides to support the popular digital music format on its hard-drive players. Watch out, Apple. Ah, remember the '80s. | 3Sci/Tech |
The television business has about $60 billion a year in advertising revenue that is based on the ratings provided by Nielsen. | 2Business |
AP - The only Indonesian official to be punished for violence that killed up to 2,000 East Timorese in 1999 has been released from prison, following a court decision that overturned his conviction, officials said. | 0World |
AP - Worldwide use of DSL broadband technology for Internet access rose 38 percent to 164 million users in the 12 months ended June 30, boosted by strong growth in the European Union, an industry trade group said Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
AFP - The US envoy to the stalled North Korean disarmament talks called on the Stalinist state Thursday to close its main nuclear reactor, saying the two sides should be able to trust each other. | 0World |
Tim Wakefield, the knuckleball pitcher who has the longest tenure of any player on the Red Sox, was excluded Tuesday from the World Series roster because an inflamed right shoulder. | 1Sports |
AP - Umpires are livid that Major League Baseball has sent investigators to their hometowns, asking neighbors a series of questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan. | 1Sports |
MANNHEIM, Germany Aug. 23, 2004 - An Army reservist charged with abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison said Monday he will plead guilty to some offenses, acknowledging he broke the law and saying he accepts responsibility for his actions. | 0World |
US FCC spills beans
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website has revealed some technical specs for an upcoming O2 XDA handset, the Denim. The 3G slider is manufactured by Gigabyte and, despite the absence of a Levis red tab , incorporates a 2.6in touchscreen and two-megapixel main camera.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Thousands in Hong Kong held a candlelight vigil Friday for ousted Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, who died Monday in his 15th year under house arrest for sympathizing with the Tiananmen pro-democracy protesters. | 0World |
Juan Francisco Fresno, the cardinal who played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, has died, Roman Catholic Church authorities said. He was 90. | 0World |
DETROIT - Five Indiana Pacers players were charged today with assault and battery in a brawl that broke out on the court last month and spilled into the stands at The Palace of Auburn Hills. | 1Sports |
BMX champion Tara Llanes had a violent headfirst crash on Sept. 1 that left her paralyzed below the waist, a condition her doctors say is probably permanent. | 1Sports |
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Boston's Josh Beckett dazzled on the mound to help the Red Sox stay alive in the American League Championship Series with a 7-1 road victory over the Cleveland Indians in Game Five on Thursday. | 1Sports |
The software maker offers a new service to add digital signatures to PDF documents. | 3Sci/Tech |
A miner survived is examined at a hospital in Fushun, city of northeast China's Liangning Province, Oct. 30, 2004. A sudden poisonous gas gushed at an operation platform of the Xilutian Mine of Fushun Coal Industry Corp. | 0World |
Palace doctors believe Japan's Crown Princess Masako, who has spent the past eight months in seclusion fighting a stress-induced illness, will not likely resume her royal duties until sometime next year, officials said Monday. | 0World |
Yesterday's market is today's moneymaking road map. | 2Business |
A Senate bill that would propose allowing documents to be self- authenticated without being notarized passed a House committee Tuesday and was placed on the consent calendar. SB154, sponsored by Sen. | 3Sci/Tech |
We asked them to speak their minds in our language. | 3Sci/Tech |
How the world adapts to slowing US growth is a key issue for the global economy, the IMF says. | 2Business |
WHILE Zimbabwe's international playing future hangs in the balance, the Zimbabwe Cricket Union has been cleared of racism by the International Cricket Council. | 1Sports |
When Republican Jim Ogonowski launched his long-shot bid for Congress, he prepared for an upbeat campaign in his Democratic, working-class district of Massachusetts, based on a winning rÿsumÿ: affable hay farmer, former Air Force lieutenant colonel, and brother of an American Airlines pilot whose... | 2Business |
An investor's guide to service-oriented architecture | 2Business |
Reg Hardware Daily Draw Register Hardware and Epson have got seven brand spanking new Stylus D120 colour inkjet printers to give away... one every day this week.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Spotting the clues to buy before stocks rise. | 2Business |
Tehran, August 23 (NNN): Even as Iran said it has delayed plans to start up its first nuclear reactor by a year, Tehran disclosed that it was planning to build more nuclear power plants with Russian help, ignoring US concerns that by-products from the | 0World |
AP - Fred Whitfield, a close friend, confidante and business partner of Bobcats co-owner Michael Jordan for more than 25 years, has inherited the challenge of selling the team to Charlotte. | 1Sports |
The Texans kept Peyton Manning from setting a season touchdown pass record and even slowed the Colts' explosive offense but couldn't keep Indianapolis from winning a second straight AFC South title. | 1Sports |
LONDON As Wayne Rooney, the world's most expensive teenage soccer player, prepared for his debut in the Champions League on Tuesday night, his new club Manchester United disclosed the true cost of paying middlemen to smooth the path between clubs who buy | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Bud Selig signed a three-year contract extension on Thursday and will remain at the helm as the sport tries to weather the controversy over steroids. | 1Sports |
JAKARTA - Backed by the Nationhood Coalition of political parties, a senior politician of Indonesia's largest Golkar Party was elected speaker of the House of Representatives early Saturday. | 0World |
Few real estate specialists expected the highly regarded Archstone-Smith to be a potential aquisition target. | 2Business |
Blog: Newsweek has the story, and there's two games in the works. | 3Sci/Tech |
DUBAI (Reuters) - Militants from a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said they had killed five men and warned those who work with the U.S.-backed government they faced the same fate. | 0World |
DEVASTATED Sydney Roosters lock Luke Ricketson this morning will meet club officials to formalise a defence against a striking charge which, if unsuccessful, will see him miss Sunday's grand final. | 1Sports |
Pay-as-you-go computer power could soon be helping computer animators finish films faster. | 3Sci/Tech |
LOCAL favourite Iroga Tulyaganova of Uzbekistan produced a major upset today, eliminating top-seeded Marion Bartoli of France 6-4 6-4 in the first round of the $US140,000 ($191,048) Tashkent Open tennis tournament. | 1Sports |
By JOE MACALUSO Cool morns, rain, fall signal change Enjoyed the cool mornings, didn't you? Well they're gone until next week when another cold front is due in here. Between now and then we'll see the roughest weather along the coast since the middle of the summer. | 3Sci/Tech |
McDonald's investors yesterday shrugged off the resignation of Charlie Bell as chief executive, deciding the fast food giant's turnround would continue under its new leadership team, sending the shares ahead. | 2Business |
AFP - Ghana need only a draw against Morocco on Monday to guarantee their quarter-final berth at the African Nations Cup after Nottingham Forest striker Junior Agogo earned the hosts a 1-0 win over Namibia on Thursday. | 0World |
LONDON: Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney and Sol Campbell returned to the England fold as coach Sven-Goran Eriksson named his squad on Sunday for World Cup qualifiers against Wales and Azerbaijan. | 1Sports |
British authorities have arrested a man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems in May, a spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed Friday. | 3Sci/Tech |
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Sunday that EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran had weeks rather than months to agree an agenda for talks about Tehran's nuclear programme. | 0World |
SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately developed spaceship, is fueled and ready to embark this morning on a flight into space in a bid to claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize. | 3Sci/Tech |
Research In Motion Ltd. announced its first dual-mode BlackBerry, which provides wireless voice and data access over both cellular and Wi-Fi wireless networks. | 3Sci/Tech |
If Roger Clemensâs lawyers thought last weekâs hearing would resurrect his reputation, they made an expensive mistake. | 1Sports |
Merrill Lynchâs directors may be weighing E. Stanley OâNealâs future, but one thing is already guaranteed: at least a $159 million payday if he steps down. | 2Business |
AP - Iran's judiciary has launched new investigations into the cases of two detained Iranian-Americans charged with endangering national security, citing fresh evidence, a spokesman said Tuesday. | 0World |
AP - The players' association filed an unfair labor practice charge Friday against the NBA over its issues with the new ball and the league's crackdown on player complaints. | 1Sports |
Minneapolis-based Target Corp.'s decision this fall to stop allowing Salvation Army bell ringers at its stores has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the Lake County Salvation Army. | 2Business |
SAN FRANCISCO - Toshiba Corp.'s new desktop-replacement multimedia notebooks, introduced on Tuesday, are further evidence that U.S. consumers still have yet to embrace the mobility offered by Intel Corp.'s newer mobile processors. | 3Sci/Tech |
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