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AP - Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's presumed next president, criticized Russia's "legal nihilism" and called for stepping up the fight against corruption, opening his campaign Tuesday with a careful speech before a Kremlin-organized forum. | 0World |
In Japan, that is. The game player's surprising pricing there may indicate what the U.S. market can expect. | 3Sci/Tech |
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Pedro Martinez pitched seven shutout innings and Manny Ramirez hit a home run as the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 Tuesday, moving to the brink of their first World Series title since 1918. | 1Sports |
AP - Iraqi authorities will try to contact some former Baath Party figures who fled the country after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, but will not meet with those believed to be playing a key role in the insurgency, a senior official said Thursday. | 0World |
The selloff in crude oil futures continued for a fourth straight day Friday, with prices skidding below $43 a barrel to roughly 14 percent below where they were at the beginning of the week. | 2Business |
Shares of Atherogenics Inc. (AGIX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) leaped 82 percent in electronic trading before the market opened on Tuesday following the release of data showing | 2Business |
Reporting a staggering fourth-quarter loss of $9.83 billion, Citigroup also issued a sobering forecast that the housing market and economy have not yet bottomed out. | 0World |
Fast facts the Fool way. | 2Business |
AT&T posted a higher quarterly profit as strength in its wireless business offset weakness in traditional consumer services. | 2Business |
European ski resorts are hoping for sudden snowfalls to rescue the start of their season. | 0World |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia tennis player Anna Chakvetadze escaped unharmed after several men broke into her house in southwest Moscow early on Tuesday, police said. | 1Sports |
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian militants near the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Palestinian security sources said. | 0World |
If D. Wayne Lukas, Bob Baffert, Bobby Frankel, Jerry Bailey and Pat Day are at the same track on the same day, it must be the Breeders' Cup. | 1Sports |
AP - Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit climbed 64 percent on lower costs despite a drop in revenue. | 2Business |
By Jordan Robertson PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co. shoved Chairwoman Patricia Dunn off its board Friday, severing its ties to the leader whose efforts to plug a media leak metamorphosed into a spying scandal that has spawned criminal and congressional investigations. | 3Sci/Tech |
A special installment of the media blog's 'Pier Screenings' series, uprooted from San Francisco, will take place in Chelsea. | 3Sci/Tech |
MEGA MILLIONS, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mega Millions jackpot is gaining momentum and creating excitement from coast to coast. A total of 868,448 tickets were winners in the Friday, September 8 drawing. | 3Sci/Tech |
( InfoWorld ) - If a cell network goes down in an emergency, satellites could be used to send a distress call. Spot Inc.'s Spot messaging device uses satellites to send rescue alerts to emergency responders or to family members via SMS (Short Message Service) or e-mail. A more earthly gadget is Iogear's Digital Scribe,... | 3Sci/Tech |
AFP - Second Life on Tuesday began cracking down on banking in the popular online virtual world to protect residents from unstable financial institutions and outright scams. | 3Sci/Tech |
Palm used to dominate the market with the best gadget. What went wrong? Mike Elgan gives his views. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - The slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi purportedly believed that Iraq's Shiite Muslims were more dangerous than U.S. forces and more evil than dictator Saddam Hussein, according to a posthumous interview published Friday on the Internet. | 0World |
From his 17th-floor Seattle apartment overlooking Puget Sound, Robert A. Soloway allegedly ran an illicit network of computers around the world, secretly commandeering the machines of thousands of unsuspecting bystanders. Prosecutors say Internet users who clicked on infected e-mails and Web sites... | 2Business |
Veteran financier Carl Icahn said it was "reprehensible and insulting" that the board of drug maker Mylan Laboratories Inc. | 2Business |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Calls made on cell phones do not
affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said on
Friday, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart
devices misfire. | 3Sci/Tech |
LMOST on a daily basis during the six years he served as acting commissioner, Bud Selig said he did not want to be commissioner. Few believed him. | 1Sports |
Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee stuck to their contradictory accounts of illegal drug in a dramatic showdown. | 0World |
AP - Maria Sharapova just keeps getting better at the Australian Open. Two days after ending top-ranked Justine Henin's 32-match winning streak in the quarterfinals, Sharapova outclassed Jelena Jankovic 6-3, 6-1 on Thursday to advance to the final Saturday and a bid for her third Grand Slam singles title. | 1Sports |
Too many tax dollars at stake
NASA is under increasing pressure from government auditors to rein in its budget for getting astronauts back to the moon.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Deanna Nolan scores seven points in a key third-quarter run as Detroit comes from behind for a 77-74 victory over Connecticut on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N fell as much as 5 percent on Thursday after a newspaper report indicated that Chief Executive Mark Hurd may be linked to a controversial internal investigation of boardroom media leaks. | 2Business |
AP - On the eve of her scheduled inauguration, Democrat Christine Gregoire was certified by legislators as winner of the election for governor while her supporters traded jeers with protesters outside the Capitol. | 0World |
Terry Ryan resigned Thursday as general manager of the Minnesota Twins, effective at the end of the season. | 1Sports |
The sounds of tinkling bells could be heard above the bustle of the Farmers Market on the Long Beach Promenade, leading shoppers to a row of bright red tin kettles dotting a pathway Friday. | 2Business |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer electronics maker Toshiba
Corp said on Monday it is slashing prices of its HD
DVD format players by between 40 to 50 percent as major
Hollywood studios move to embrace Sony Corp's Blu-ray
format high definition DVDs. | 3Sci/Tech |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD Inc.'s) 90-nanometer notebook processors are on their way to customers, according to a research note published by Goldman Sachs & Co. Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT Introducing IBM eServer p5 systems. Powered by IBMâs most advanced 64-bit microprocessor (POWER5(tm)), p5 systems can run UNI... | 3Sci/Tech |
CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Canada's Jacques Villeneuve is getting back into a Formula One driver's seat. The former world champion from Iberville, Que. | 1Sports |
AP - Pakistan arrested a former Taliban defense minister regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, considered a key associate of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be arrested sinc... | 0World |
ball compared to last year. His most crucial INT last Sunday came early in the. to all but end any chance of a comeback. Torry Holt (8 receptions, 90 yards). | 1Sports |
AP - Jason Giambi returned to the New York Yankees' lineup Tuesday night for the first time since July 23, batting sixth against the Kansas City Royals. | 1Sports |
Amazon.com is taking orders for Symantec's Norton 360, a consumer all-in-one security suite meant to compete with Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - They showed up as favorites, endured their share of failures and found a way to stay at the front of the Daytona 500. | 1Sports |
ATLANTA -- The Tour Championship suddenly is loaded with optimism for Jay Haas and Tiger Woods. Haas, who turns 51 next month, showed no signs of slowing down. | 1Sports |
Palestinian resistance fighters killed at least four Israeli soldiers on Sunday when they blew up an army post on the Gaza-Egypt border. | 0World |
A new free new tool lets people easily set up personal journals, often called blogs, on the World Wide Web. MSN Spaces, which debuts in test form Thursday, is aimed at home users who want to share things such | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK -- Michael G. Cherkasky, the longtime prosecutor now running embattled financial services giant Marsh & McLennan Cos., says he has figured out the main difference between investigating corporate wrongdoing and taking charge of a company targeted by a white-collar probe: | 2Business |
AP - Nigeria's main militant group said Thursday it fired on six oil industry ships and threatened an attack that will cause an "economic tsunami" in the world's oil market. | 0World |
AP - Defending champion Dominik Hrbaty reached the second round of the Heineken Tennis Open when Rafael Nadal withdrew from their first round match Tuesday with chest pains. | 1Sports |
TORONTO (Reuters) - The National Hockey League appeared to be one day away from cancelling its season due to a labor dispute after owners rejected a salary cap proposal from locked-out players. | 1Sports |
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber posing as a taxi driver killed three people near the headquarters of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party in Baghdad on Monday as insurgents pressed a bloody campaign to disrupt a Jan. 30 election. | 0World |
AP - NFL great Reggie White may have died because of a respiratory disease combined with other health problems, a preliminary autopsy report said Monday. | 1Sports |
Problems with computers lead the fire engine maker to file for bankruptcy protection. | 2Business |
COMPUTER software which gives children a chance to create their own comic strips is proving a hit with pupils at Frederick Bird Primary School. Shefateur Rhaman and Alamin Hussain, both 11, brought in toys from home and took pictures of them with a digital camera. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - The government is taking steps to preserve data and biological specimens from a quarter-century investigation into the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans, having found an elevated risk for diabetes but no clear links to cancer from the soon-to-end study. | 0World |
President Bush said he acted to protect the U.S., while John Kerry said Mr. Bush had made a "colossal error" of judgment in Iraq. | 0World |
The volatile cleric was praised when he said he was freezing his militia. But U.S. officers on the ground are doubtful it will make much difference on the streets | 0World |
Forbes.com - This past summer 25,000 consumers, aged 18 to 24, received short text messages on their cell phones alerting them to numbers on 225 million bottle caps of Snapple iced tea, pink lemonade and the like. People holding a winning number, announced by text message and traditional media, landed overseas trips an... | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Floods that swept across North Korea earlier this month killed at least 600 people, double the previously known toll, the country's official news agency said Saturday. | 0World |
AP - Larry Walker waited a long time for this chance. Playing in the World Series for the first time in his 16-year major league career, he made it count. | 1Sports |
A Shia cleric known for his stance against Wahhabism, a strict version of Sunni Islam, is killed in south-western Iran. | 0World |
Fourteen die in a gunfight between a militia and the army in Ituri in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. | 0World |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - RadioShack Corp. RSH.N , the No. 3 U.S. consumer electronics chain, on Thursday said fourth-quarter sales at stores open at least a year rose 3 percent, and said its president, David Edmondson, would become chief executive. | 2Business |
The Chechen separatist leader, Aslan Maskhadov, tried to distance himself from extremists in the independence movement yesterday by declaring that his former commander-in-chief Shamil Basayev would one day stand trial for ordering the Beslan school siege. | 0World |
Since early adolescence, I've had a dream. OK, two dreams. But I should probably stick to talking about the one that doesn't involve Elle MacPherson. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK -- Troy Glaus has been out of touch with the Anaheim Angels since having right shoulder surgery May 21. That will change this week, when the club might determine whether the third baseman will play in September. | 1Sports |
Sprint and Nextel's plans for a "merger of equals" will recast the US wireless competitive landscape, creating a new number-three player that could have far reaching effects | 2Business |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday as a tentative labor accord at General Motors Corp lifted a cloud over Detroit's automakers and more weak economic data bolstered expectations for a further cut in interest rates. | 2Business |
One billion dollars is no longer enough to get into America's most exclusive club. | 2Business |
A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds. | 2Business |
AP - Akzo Nobel NV on Friday won EU approval for its $17.1 billion acquisition of Imperial Chemicals Industries PLC, but it must sell off Britain's Crown Paints and an adhesive business to clear antitrust concerns. | 0World |
Reuters - A fall in U.S. house prices would hurt
spending across the board, but companies catering to Americans'
necessities and vices would do better than others. | 2Business |
T-Mobile International also will launch a number of new "community" services. | 3Sci/Tech |
OPEC agreed today to increase its crude output by 500,000 barrels a day in an effort to calm jittery markets. | 0World |
Blog: AT&T and Apple are both banking on the iPhone, but will people switch subscribers to get it? | 3Sci/Tech |
AFP - Prominent Australian right-to-die campaigner Philip Nitschke has announced he will run for parliament against a legislator who helped overturn the world's first voluntary euthanasia law. | 0World |
So the New York Jets won their first two games. Big deal, right? For this franchise, it is huge. The Jets are 2-0 for just the eighth time since the team's inception in 1960. | 1Sports |
Russia is considering an early repayment of its debt to the Paris Club group of rich lending nations. | 2Business |
JJ Arrington ran for 188 yards and a touchdown on 30 carries as the California Golden Bears shut out Arizona State, 27-0, in Berkeley, Calif. | 1Sports |
Company is readying security software or cell phones and handheld devices. | 3Sci/Tech |
The good news for Maryland is that it will enter the men's basketball season with a No. 15 ranking in the Associated Press preseason top 25. The bad news: Four ACC teams were rated higher. | 1Sports |
MONTREAL -- The buzzards, now bored, are once again circling Olympic Stadium, waiting for the hammer, not cement, to fall on the unloved Expos. | 1Sports |
GAZA CITY, Feb. 3 -- Egyptian construction workers in blue hard hats rolled barbed wire across the last breaches of the Gaza Strip's border wall with Egypt on Sunday, reasserting Egyptian control of the frontier after Palestinian guerrillas used explosives and machinery to knock down the barrier. | 0World |
French wine and spirits producer Remy Cointreau said it was on track for profit growth after strong sales. | 2Business |
This is not what the Detroit Lions or Charles Rogers had in mind when the wide receiver was drafted second overall three years ago. | 1Sports |
AP - Prominent Haitian intellectual and politician Gerard Pierre-Charles has died of heart failure in Cuba, where he was receiving emergency treatment for a lung infection, friends and colleagues said Monday. He was 68. | 0World |
A provisional 2005 calendar was doing the rounds in Belgium. It features nineteen races, one more than this year, with all 2004 events still in place, joined by a new race in Turkey. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Formula One world champion Jacques Villeneuve finished 21st on his NASCAR truck debut on Saturday after a minor collision left him two laps off the lead. | 1Sports |
LONDONâRarely has a politician looked as beleaguered as Tony Blair, yet still poised for victory. Branded a liar by a majority of voters, detested by many in his Labour party and dogged by rumours of his | 0World |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Producer prices surged at a 34-year high rate of 3.2 percent in November on a record rise in gasoline prices, the Labor Department said on Thursday. | 2Business |
Reuters - The Texas Rangers have signed Japanese
pitcher Kazuo Fukumori on two-year, $3 million contract, the
Major League Baseball team said on Friday. | 1Sports |
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (AFP) - A former top Enron official responsible for investor relations pleaded guilty Wednesday to securities fraud as part of a plea agreement, under which he has agreed to cooperate fully with the government's ongoing criminal | 2Business |
AFP - One of Britain's most glamorous couples, actor Hugh Grant and socialite Jemima Khan, have decided to go their separate ways, the US website People.com has reported. | 0World |
InfoWorld - The Grails 1.0 open source Web application development framework was announced this week by G2One, which specializes in Groovy and Grails technology, and the Grails development team. | 3Sci/Tech |
Cadbury Schweppes is to set out plans for a major overhaul of its business amid speculation of substantial job cuts. | 2Business |
MADRID: Atletico Madrid is close to signing Denmark's Jesper Gronkjaer (pic) from Birmingham City, the Spanish club's president said on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
AP - Brett Myers' first complete game in 13 months boosted the Philadelphia Phillies into a tie with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the NL wild-card lead. | 1Sports |
AP - Kansas City defender Jimmy Conrad agreed to a four-year contract with Major League Soccer and will be the Wizards' captain. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co. said on Wednesday it had completed a deal to buy Philippine firm San Miguel Corp.'s stake in a soft drink venture for $590 million. | 2Business |
Rebel and government militia in Ivory Coast are due to start disarming formally, five years on from the civil war. | 0World |
In a sign the United States is taking a more aggressive stance in a long-running dispute over Canadian lumber imports, a US trade official Thursday accused Canada of failing to negotiate in good faith. | 2Business |
What happened before CJ arrived in Los Santos? Check these screens, details, and exclusive movie to find out. November 19, 2004 - Did you ever wonder what was happening in Los Santos prior to the events of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? | 3Sci/Tech |
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